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| US11847517B2 |
Asset tag and methods and devices for restocking and asset tracking
An asset tag adapted to be mounted to an asset. The asset tag comprises a first component encoded with a first ID unique to the asset tag, the first component having a first wireless interface and transmitting first broadcast signals via said first wireless interface over a first range, the first broadcast signals including the first ID. The asset tag further comprises a user-actuatable button. The asset tag further comprises processing circuitry, coupled to the button and to at least the first wireless interface. The processing circuitry is configured for (i) determining whether a predetermined gesture has been performed by a user using the button and (ii) if the predetermined gesture has been performed, transmitting via the first wireless interface to a wireless access point a restock message, the restock message including the first ID and indicating that restocking is required of assets corresponding to the first ID. |
| US11847513B2 |
Systems and methods for separating objects using vacuum diverts with one or more object processing systems
A distribution system for use in an induction system with an object processing system. The distribution system provides dissimilar objects into one of a plurality of receiving units. The distribution system includes an air intake system with an opening that is a fixed distance from a conveyor section, said air intake system aiding in moving an object on the conveyor section from the conveyor section to one of a plurality of adjacent transport units. |
| US11847506B1 |
Burst datacenter capacity for hyperscale workloads
In some aspects, techniques may include monitoring a primary load of a datacenter and a reserve load of the datacenter. The primary load and reserve load can be monitored by a computing device. The primary load of the datacenter can be configured to be powered by one or more primary generator blocks having a primary capacity, and the reserve load of the datacenter can be configured to be powered by one or more reserve generator blocks having a reserve capacity. Also, the techniques may include detecting that the primary load of the datacenter exceeds the primary capacity. In addition, the techniques may include connecting the reserve generator blocks to at least one of the primary generator blocks and the primary load using a computing device switch. |
| US11847503B2 |
Execution of functions by clusters of computing nodes
Example techniques for execution of functions by clusters of computing nodes are described. In an example, if a cluster does not have resources available for executing a function for handling a service request, the cluster may request another cluster for executing the function. A result of execution of the function may be received by the cluster and used for handling the service request. |
| US11847502B2 |
Remotely managing execution of jobs in a cluster computing framework
A device, that provides serverless computing, receives a request to execute multiple jobs, and determines criteria for each of the plurality of jobs, wherein the criteria for each of the multiple jobs includes at least one of job posting criteria, job validation criteria, job retry criteria, or a disaster recovery criteria. The device stores information associated with the multiple jobs in a repository, wherein the information associated with the multiple jobs includes the criteria for each of the multiple jobs. The device provides a particular job, of the multiple jobs, to a cluster computing framework for execution, determines modified criteria for the particular job, and provides the modified criteria for the particular job to the cluster computing framework. The device receives, from the cluster computing framework, information indicating that execution of the particular job is complete, and validates a success of completion of the execution of the particular job. |
| US11847501B2 |
Method for data protection in a data processing cluster with partition
Systems and methods are disclosed for data protection in a cluster of data processing accelerators (DPAs) using a policy that determines a static partition of resources in each DPA in the cluster communicatively coupled to a host device. Each DPA has sensitive (secure) and non-sensitive (non-secure) resources. The host device and a DPA can access all resources of the DPA. Other DPAs can only access non-sensitive resources of a DPA. The partition of resources within a DPA is static and may be implemented in hardware or firmware. Resources include memory, one or more processing modules such as key generators and cryptographic modules, caches, registers, and storage. |
| US11847496B2 |
System and method for training and selecting equivalence class prediction modules for resource usage prediction
A digital environment includes multiple computing nodes and a scheduling system that assigns workloads to computing nodes. The scheduling system includes an equivalence-class-based resource usage prediction system that receives a workload request and predicts an equivalence class for that workload request based on resource usage over time by the workload request or metadata associated with the workload request. The scheduling system also includes a workload assignment system that assigns the workload request to one or more of the computing nodes based on the predicted equivalence class. The number of equivalence classes is small relative to the total number of workloads that are scheduled (as an example, 10 to 15 equivalence classes for a total number of workloads in the tens or hundreds of thousands). |
| US11847495B2 |
Systems and methods configured to enable an operating system for connected computing that supports user use of suitable to user purpose resources sourced from one or more resource ecospheres
Systems and methods for purposeful computing are disclosed that, among other things, include enabling an operating system for connected computing configured for identification, evaluation, selection, and/or use of suitable to user purposes' resources to produce outcomes optimized to such purposes' fulfillment. Such resources populate a distributed resource ecosphere and have associated attributes that inform regarding resource suitability. |
| US11847494B2 |
Allocating computing resources based on user intent
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for allocating computing resources. In one aspect, a method includes receiving intent data specifying one or more computing services to be hosted by a computing network, requested characteristics of computing resources for use in hosting the computing service, and a priority value for each requested characteristic. A budget constraint is identified for each computing service. Available resources data is identified that specifies a set of available computing resources. A resource allocation problem for allocating computing resources for the one or more computing resources is generated based on the intent data, each budget constraint, and the available resources data. At least a portion of the set of computing resources is allocated for the one or more computing services based on results of evaluating the resource allocation problem to meet a particular resource allocation objective. |
| US11847493B2 |
Highly efficient inexact computing storage device
A system may include a receiver to receive a task. The task may include a portion of an algorithm, and may include a task power level and a task precision. The system may also include a circuit including a circuit power level and a circuit precision. The system may include first software to identify the circuit, and second software to assign the task to the circuit to reduce total power. The circuit precision may be greater than the task precision. |
| US11847491B1 |
Low latency execution of a machine learning model
An apparatus for Machine Learning (ML) processing includes computational engines and a Central Processing Unit (CPU). The CPU is configured to receive a work plan for processing one or more samples in accordance with a ML model represented by a corresponding ML graph. The work plan specifies jobs required for executing at least a subgraph of the ML graph by the computational engines, the at least subgraph includes multiple inputs, and is executable independently of other parts of the ML graph when the inputs are valid. The CPU is further configured to pre-process only a partial subset of the jobs in the work plan corresponding to the at least subgraph, for producing a group of pre-processed jobs that are required for executing part of the at least subgraph based on the one or more samples, and to submit the pre-processed jobs in the group to the computational engines for execution. |
| US11847489B2 |
United states graphics processor techniques with split between workload distribution control data on shared control bus and corresponding graphics data on memory interfaces
Techniques are disclosed relating to a shared control bus for communicating between primary control circuitry and multiple distributed graphics processor units. In some embodiments, a set of multiple processor units includes first and second graphics processors, where the first and second graphics processors are coupled to access graphics data via respective memory interfaces. A shared workload distribution bus is used to transmit control data that specifies graphics work distribution to the multiple graphics processing units. The shared workload distribution bus may be arranged in a chain topology, e.g., to connect the workload distribution circuitry to the first graphics processor and connect the first graphics processor to the second graphics processor such that the workload distribution circuitry communicates with the second graphics processor via the shared workload distribution bus connection to the first graphics processor. Disclosed techniques may facilitate graphics work distribution for a scalable number of processors. |
| US11847481B2 |
Security in a computing environment by automatically defining the scope and services of components within the computing environment
A feature selection methodology is disclosed. In a computer-implemented method, components of a computing environment are automatically monitored, and have a feature selection analysis performed thereon. Provided the feature selection analysis determines that features of the components are well defined, a classification of the features is performed. Provided the feature selection analysis determines that features of the components are not well defined, a similarity analysis of the features is performed. Results of the feature selection methodology are generated. |
| US11847480B2 |
System for detecting impairment issues of distributed hosts
A notification of an event associated with a computing instance provided to customers of a computing resource service provider is obtained. Log information associated with the computing instance is obtained from a log of operations of the computing instance, with the log information indicating events associated with the computing instance. Pattern matching on the log information is performed to produce a pattern matching result. The computing instance is determined to be impaired based at least in part on the pattern matching result including indications of impairment. A mitigation operation is performed to the computing instance to mitigate the impairment. |
| US11847478B2 |
Real-time feedback associated with configuring virtual infrastructure objects using tags
An example method may include receiving a first GUI selection of a first management server corresponding to a first cluster of virtual infrastructure objects, receiving a second GUI selection of one or more first virtual infrastructure object tags to be assigned to at least one virtual infrastructure object from the first cluster of virtual infrastructure objects after a creation process of a first policy, wherein the first policy is configured to regulate the at least one virtual infrastructure object from the first cluster of virtual infrastructure objects with the one or more first virtual infrastructure object tags, receiving first real-time feedback associated with the first cluster of virtual infrastructure objects and the one or more first virtual infrastructure object tags from the first management server, and displaying a object count in a first GUI element supported by the configuration client. |
| US11847476B2 |
Spoofing CPUID for backwards compatibility
To facilitate backwards compatibility, a computing device may respond to a call from an application for information regarding a processor on the computing device by returning information regarding a different processor than the processor on the computing device, including one or more of processor model, processor family, cache capabilities, translation lookaside buffer capabilities, processor serial number, processor brand, processor manufacturer, thread/core topology, cache topology, extended features, virtual address size, or physical address size that differs when the processor determines that the application is a legacy device application. |
| US11847475B2 |
System and method for guiding a user to a goal in a user interface
A system for integrating a telephone system and a computing system is provided. The system includes an interactive voice response (IVR) platform configured to: obtain a computer-readable command based on user input; determine a goal in the web application associated with the computer-readable command; and obtain information indicating a shortest navigation path to the goal, relative to other navigational paths to the goal in the web application. The system includes a cobrowse client configured to receive a document object model (DOM) of a current state of the web application from a cobrowse session for a web server hosting the web application. The IVR platform is configured to, based on the DOM, determine a next navigation action along the shortest navigation path; generate a user prompt based on the next navigation action; and monitor user progress to reach the goal in the web application using one or more updated DOMs. |
| US11847474B2 |
Simultaneously sharing multiple windows via a collaboration application
Multiple windows can be simultaneously shared via a collaboration application. A multiple window sharing controller can be employed on an end user device to enable the user to create an aggregated window that includes windows of multiple applications running on the end user device. The multiple window sharing controller can cause this aggregated window to appear as an active window on the end user device. Therefore, when a collaboration application presents windows that the user can select to be shared during a meeting, the aggregated window will be included. |
| US11847473B1 |
Adaptive graphical user interfaces for synthesized time-windowed machine learning models
A computerized method of transforming an interactive graphical user interface according to machine learning includes generating a selectable user interface element corresponding to a persona. In response to a user selecting the user interface element, data structures related to the persona are extracted from a first data store. The data structures are transformed into a set of input variables at a data processing module and loaded at a model execution module. The model execution module generates a first output variable based on the set of input variables. An analysis module generates a second output variable based on the first input variable. The graphical user interface displays a first message, a second message, or a third message in response to conditions being met for the second output variable. |
| US11847466B2 |
Controlled thermal shutdown and recovery
In described examples, an integrated circuit (IC) includes a first temperature sensor, a processor, a second temperature sensor, and a reset module. The first sensor senses a first body temperature of the IC. The processor asserts a thermal shutdown signal if the first body temperature exceeds a first threshold. In response to the thermal shutdown signal, the second sensor asserts a reset request signal and senses a second body temperature of the IC. If the second body temperature is less than a second threshold, the second sensor asserts a reset end signal. The reset module outputs a system reset signal to the first sensor and the processor if the reset request signal is asserted, and outputs a system recovery signal if the reset end signal is asserted. The first sensor and the processor deactivate if the system reset signal is asserted, and activate if the system recovery signal is asserted. |
| US11847465B2 |
Parallel processor, address generator of parallel processor, and electronic device including parallel processor
Disclosed is a parallel processor. The parallel processor includes a processing element array including a plurality of processing elements arranged in rows and columns, a row memory group including row memories corresponding to rows of the processing elements, a column memory group including column memories corresponding to columns of the processing elements, and a controller to generate a first address and a second address, to send the first address to the row memory group, and to send the second address to the column memory group. The controller supports convolution operations having mutually different forms, by changing a scheme of generating the first address. |
| US11847464B2 |
Variable pipeline length in a barrel-multithreaded processor
Devices and techniques for variable pipeline length in a barrel-multithreaded processor are described herein. A completion time for an instruction can be determined prior to insertion into a pipeline of a processor. A conflict between the instruction and a different instruction based on the completion time can be detected. Here, the different instruction is already in the pipeline and the conflict detected when the completion time equals the previously determined completion time for the different instruction. A difference between the completion time and an unconflicted completion time can then be calculated and completion of the instruction delayed by the difference. |
| US11847463B2 |
Masked multi-lane instruction memory fault handling using fast and slow execution paths
A processor includes a load/store unit and an execution pipeline to execute an instruction that represents a single-instruction-multiple-data (SIMD) operation, and which references a memory block storing operand data for one or more lanes of a plurality of lanes and a mask vector indicating which lanes of a plurality of lanes are enabled and which are disabled for the operation. The execution pipeline executes an instruction in a first execution mode unless a memory fault is generated during execution of the instruction in the first execution mode. In response to the memory fault, the execution pipeline re-executes the instruction in a second execution mode. In the first execution mode, a single load operation is attempted to access the memory block via the load/store unit. In the second execution mode, a separate load operation is performed by the load/store unit for each enabled lane of the plurality of lanes prior to executing the SIMD operation. |
| US11847460B2 |
Adaptive load coalescing for spatially proximate load requests based on predicted load request coalescence based on handling of previous load requests
Apparatuses and methods for handling load requests are disclosed. In response to a load request specifying a data item to retrieve from memory, a series of data items comprising the data item identified by the load request are retrieved. Load requests are buffered prior to the load requests being carried out. Coalescing circuitry determines for the load request and a set of one or more other load requests buffered in the pending load buffer circuitry whether an address proximity condition is true. The address proximity condition is true when all data items identified by the set of one or more other load requests are comprised within the series of data items. When the address proximity condition is true, the set of one or more other load requests are suppressed. Coalescing prediction circuitry generates a coalescing prediction for each load request based on previous handling of load requests by the coalescing circuitry. |
| US11847456B2 |
Livelock recovery circuit for detecting illegal repetition of an instruction and transitioning to a known state
Livelock recovery circuits configured to detect livelock in a processor, and cause the processor to transition to a known safe state when livelock is detected. The livelock recovery circuits include detection logic configured to detect that the processor is in livelock when the processor has illegally repeated an instruction; and transition logic configured to cause the processor to transition to a safe state when livelock has been detected by the detection logic. |
| US11847441B2 |
Secure and flexible pipeline management tool
A secure and flexible pipeline management solution includes determining, based at least on an order in which files are received, a precedence for defining variables, and when a file has multiple definitions for a variable, the order of appearance of the definitions defines precedence. A configuration file is generated with controlling definitions, which are based on the precedences, and a continuous integration continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline is executed dependent upon the configuration file. Multiple inheritances and string interpolation are supported. An advantageous result is a significantly simplified CI/CD pipeline that is secure, flexible, and is agnostic to the target environment. Thus, adding a new environment may not require the conventional (burdensome) task of adding further logical dependencies into the pipeline itself. The disclosed solution thus enhances efficiency and reduces errors when maintaining code bases. |
| US11847440B2 |
Vehicle program update management system, reprogramming terminal, and vehicle program update management method
A vehicle program update management system includes a first server configured to manage a program configuration which is a combination of a plurality of programs, a second server configured to manage a plurality of update programs for the plurality of programs, and a reprogramming terminal which is a device that is wiredly connected to the plurality of control devices to perform information processing for updating the programs. |
| US11847438B2 |
Offline capabilities for live applications in a cloud collaboration platform
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for providing offline capabilities to customizable live applications in a cloud collaboration platform. The cloud collaboration platform may provide offline functions and a data application programming interface to devices connecting to the cloud collaboration platform. The offline capabilities allow devices to store data related to documents and customizable live applications in a local cache. The offline capabilities retrieve data from and store modifications to data within the local cache. The cloud collaboration platform may subsequently process the changes and determine if conflicts arise, resolving conflicts where appropriate and possible. The cloud collaboration platform may then determine a final state for a record, return the final state to the devices, and update the local caches. |
| US11847436B2 |
Machine learning (ML) model-based compiler
Systems and methods are provided for implementing a machine learning (ML) model based compiler, language translator, and/or a decompiler. For example, the system may receive a first source code in a first programming language, tokenize the first source code file forming tokenized code, generate a sequence vector of tokenized code, and provide the sequence vector of tokenized code as input to a trained ML model compiler. The output of the trained ML model compiler may create a second executable file or the source code in a second programming language. |
| US11847435B2 |
Feedback-directed pass pipeline optimization in static compilation
Feedback-directed pass pipeline optimization in static compilation includes receiving a set of source input of source code by a static compiler. The static compiler initiates a compilation operation on the source code in which, in a pass pipeline during the compilation operation that creates an intermediate representation (IR) representing the source code, a set of optimization diagnostics identified during a first pass of the pass pipeline is emitted into a side file. The pass pipeline is then optimized using the set of optimization diagnostics. |
| US11847433B2 |
Source code editing combining edit and continue with hot reload
A change to a first version of source code of an application that is running with a debugger attached is identified, resulting in a second version of the source code. It is determined whether the change occurred with corresponding software suspended or not. The change is applied to the software without restarting the software, based on applying the change using edit and continue (EnC) when the change occurred with the software suspended, or applying the change using hot reload when the change occurred with the software not suspended. Subsequently, the software is suspended, and debug state is presented. The presentation includes presenting the second version of the source code after EnC, or after hot reload and when the software is suspended in an updated memory entity; or presenting the first version of the source code after hot reload and when the software is suspended in a stale memory entity. |
| US11847432B2 |
System and method for generating accessible user experience design guidance materials
A system and method for generating accessible user experience (UX) design guidance materials for software products uses page elements that are optically extracted from an input UX prototype page image and automatically classified into predefined element types to find accessibility rules for at least some of the extracted page elements. At least one accessible UX design guidance material is generated for the input UX prototype page image that indicates the extracted page elements and the accessibility rules corresponding to at least some of the extracted page elements. |
| US11847431B2 |
Automatic container specification file generation for a codebase
Embodiments for providing an enhanced codebase in a computing environment by a processor. One or more container specification files may be automatically generated for a codebase based on one or more extracted attribute names and values. |
| US11847430B2 |
Non-volatile counter system, counter circuit and power management circuit with isolated dynamic boosted supply
Disclosed examples include non-volatile counter systems to generate and store a counter value according to a sensor pulse signal, and power circuits to generate first and second supply voltage signals to power first and second power domain circuits using power from the sensor pulse signal, including a switch connected between first and second power domain supply nodes, a boost circuit, and a control circuit to selectively cause the switch to disconnect the first and second power domain circuits from one another after the first supply voltage signal rises above a threshold voltage in a given pulse of the sensor pulse signal, and to cause the boost circuit to boost the second supply voltage signal after the regulator output is disconnected from the second power domain supply node in the given pulse. |
| US11847427B2 |
Load store circuit with dedicated single or dual bit shift circuit and opcodes for low power accelerator processor
Described examples include integrated circuits such as microcontrollers with a low energy accelerator processor circuit or other application specific integrated processor circuit including a load store circuit operative to perform load and store operations associated with at least one register and a low gate count shift circuit to selectively shift the data of the register by only an integer number of bits less than the register data width without using a barrel shifter for low power operation to support vector operations for FFT or filtering functions. |
| US11847425B2 |
Machine translation system for entertainment and media
A process receives, with a processor, audio corresponding to media content. Further, the process converts, with the processor, the audio to text. In addition, the process concatenates, with the processor, the text with one or more time codes. The process also parses, with the processor, the concatenated text into one or more text chunks according to one or more subtitle parameters. Further, the process automatically translates, with the processor, the parsed text from a first spoken language to a second spoken language. Moreover, the process determines, with the processor, if the language translation complies with the one or more subtitle parameters. Additionally, the process outputs, with the processor, the language translation to a display device for display of the one or more text chunks as one or more subtitles at one or more times corresponding to the one or more time codes. |
| US11847422B2 |
System and method for estimation of interlocutor intents and goals in turn-based electronic conversational flow
A system and method implemented on a computing device for analyzing a digital corpus of unstructured interlocutor conversations to discover intents, goals, or both intents and goals of one or more parties to the conversations, by grouping the conversation utterances according to semantic similarity clusters; selecting the best utterance(s) that mostly likely embody a party's stated goal or intent; creates a set of candidate intent names for each cluster based upon each intent utterance in each conversation in each cluster; rates each candidate intent (or goal) for each intent name; and selects the most likely candidate intent (or goal) name for the purposes of subsequent automation of future conversations such as, but not limited to, automated electronic responses using Artificial Intelligence and machine learning. |
| US11847420B2 |
Conversational explainability
Systems, devices, and methods discussed herein provide improved autonomous agent applications that are configured to provide explanations in response to user-submitted questions. A user query may be received and a classification (e.g., a general question, a specific question) for the user query may be determined based at least in part on a predefined rule set (or a classification model). A set of decision features (e.g., particular user data) associated with a decision generated by a machine-learning model may be identified. An explanation chain may be identified from a plurality of explanation chains based at least in part on the user query. The explanation chain may describe a logical chain of explanations associated with a decision making process related to the machine-learning model. A response to the user query may be provided based at least in part on the explanation chain and the set of decision features. |
| US11847415B2 |
Automated detection of safety signals for pharmacovigilance
An embodiment may involve obtaining a set of pre-defined features and a new document; extracting a subset of the pre-defined features from within new document; applying a natural language model to the new document, wherein the natural language model was pre-trained using scientific or medical literature and fine-tuned using a corpus of documents; applying a feature-based model to the subset of the pre-defined features extracted from the new document, wherein the feature-based model was trained with the pre-defined features and the respective labels of the documents; and applying an aggregation model to the classifications of the new document produced by the natural language model and the feature-based model, wherein the aggregation model was trained with prior classifications produced by the natural language model and the feature-based model so that the aggregation model produces a further classification of the new document representing its relevance to pharmacovigilance. |
| US11847414B2 |
Robustness to adversarial behavior for text classification models
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training a text classification machine learning model. One of the methods includes training a model having a plurality of parameters and configured to generate a classification of a text sample comprising a plurality of words by processing a model input that includes a combined feature representation of the plurality of words in the text sample, wherein the training comprises receiving a text sample and a target classification for the text sample; generating a plurality of perturbed combined feature representations; determining, based on the plurality of perturbed combined feature representations, a region in the embedding space; and determining an update to the parameters based on an adversarial objective that encourages the model to assign the target classification for the text sample for all of the combined feature representations in the region in the embedding space. |
| US11847411B2 |
Obtaining supported decision trees from text for medical health applications
Systems, devices, and methods discussed herein provide improved decision trees (e.g., supported decision trees). A supported decision tree can be generated by generating discourse trees from various documents associated with a subject. One or more decision chains can be generated from each discourse tree, each decision chain being a sequence of elements comprising a premise and a decision connected by rhetorical relationships. A supported decision tree can be generated from the various decision chains, where the nodes of the decision tree are identified from the elements of the plurality of decision chains and ordered based on a set of predefined priority rules. Subsequent input data can be received and the supported decision tree can be traversed to classify the input data. |
| US11847403B2 |
Change rendering for generated documents
Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer-readable storage mediums are described for rendering document changes. A first document is rendered in a client user interface (UI) based at least on a first intermediate format representation obtained from a server. A change initiator receives a request for a change to the first document and transmits information indicative of the change to the server. A client renderer selectively modifies a portion of the first intermediate format representation at the client based on the change and renders a modified first document in the UI based at least on the modified first intermediate format representation. The client renderer obtains a second intermediate format representation from the server, where the second intermediate format representation comprises an intermediate format representation generated through processing an updated document definition. The client renderer renders the second document in the UI based at least on the second intermediate format representation. |
| US11847397B1 |
Barycenter compact model to determine IR drop exact solution for circuit network
Any primitive cells or blocks can be represented physically by a Barycenter compact model (or Barycenter model), and any black box model can also be physically represented by a Barycenter compact model physically. A boundary condition between blocks is formulated by the Barycenter compact model. Boundary condition problems between blocks can be limited within two levels only if using the Barycenter compact model. |
| US11847396B1 |
Integrated circuit design using multi-bit combinational cells
Embodiments herein describe a techniques for identifying a first combinational cell 210 in a design for an integrated circuit, identifying a plurality of candidate combinational cells 205 to combine with the first combinational cell using a first criterion. The techniques also include combining the first combinational cell with at least one of the plurality of candidate combinational cells to form a multi-bit (MB) combinational cell 100. Upon determining the MB combinational cell satisfies a performance threshold, the first combinational cell and the at least one of the plurality of candidate combinational cells are replaced with the MB combinational cell in the design. |
| US11847392B1 |
Method, product, and system for dynamic design switching for high performance mixed signal simulation
An approach is disclosed herein for dynamic design switching for high performance mixed signal simulation. Disclosed herein is a new approach to simulation processes that allows for different segments of a design to be swapped out without requiring re-elaboration. This is an improvement over current techniques and decreases the amount of time need to simulate a design. In some embodiments, the technique illustrated herein is combined with an automated triggering mechanism that controls the selection of alternate representations for the same element base on those triggers. In some embodiments a new multiplexor structure is provided that is specifically tailored to solving the present issue. |
| US11847388B2 |
Systems and methods for reducing rigid body motion in simulated models
A system and method for automatically reducing rigid body motion in a digital simulated model of an object, where the simulated model represents a simulated build of the object using additive manufacturing. |
| US11847385B2 |
Variable system for simulating operation of autonomous vehicles
Embodiments of a variable system for simulating the operation of an autonomous system, such as an autonomous vehicle, are disclosed. A layered approach for defining variables can allow changing the specification of those variables under the rules of override and refinement, while leaving the software components that query those variables at runtime unaffected. The variable system can facilitate, among others, deterministic sampling of variables, simulation variations, noise injection, and realistic message timing. These applications can make the simulator more expressive and more powerful by virtue of being able to test the same scenario under many different conditions. As a result, more exhaustive testing can be performed without requiring user intervention and without having to change the individual software components of the simulator. |
| US11847382B2 |
Deck configuration system
A system for facilitating construction of a deck comprises a server, a client computer, and a database. A user inputs, through a graphical user interface on the display of the client computer, a configuration for the deck. The server receives the deck information from the client computer and determines, based on information in the database and the deck information, a parts list and instruction information. The instruction information includes information on the alterations to the parts needed to construct the deck. The parts list and the instruction information may be displayed on the user interface. |
| US11847377B2 |
Method and apparatus for audio mixing
Aspects of the disclosure include methods, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums for processing media streams. An apparatus includes processing circuitry that sends a message to a media aware network element that is configured to process a plurality of audio streams of a conference call. The message indicates that the plurality of audio streams is to be down mixed by the media aware network element. The processing circuitry receives the down mixed plurality of audio streams from the media aware network element and decodes the down mixed plurality of audio streams to receive the conference call. |
| US11847373B2 |
Server, control method, storage medium, and printing system
A server providing a cloud print service includes at least one processor that executes a set of instructions, when executed, causing the server to perform operations including acquiring attribute information indicating printing capabilities of a printing apparatus when the printing apparatus is registered as an output destination printer, registering output destination printer information by associating the acquired attribute information with information indicating an output destination, and transmitting, in a case where a request for acquiring capability information about the registered output destination printer is received, the attribute information about the registered output destination printer to a client terminal as a response to the request, wherein in the registering, even in a case where the acquired attribute information about the printing apparatus includes an attribute that is not supported by the cloud print service, the attribute information is registered as the output destination printer information without discarding the attribute information. |
| US11847372B2 |
System and method of controlling system
A system according to exemplary embodiments includes an information processing apparatus and a cloud print service (CPS) associated with a company tenant. The information processing apparatus determines whether a client terminal having received a print request performs remote connection, and transmits a result of determination and print job data corresponding to the print request to the CPS. The CPS causes another CPS that is associated with a public tenant and connected to the CPS via a network to hold the print job data transmitted from the information processing apparatus based on the result of the determination transmitted from the information processing apparatus. |
| US11847371B2 |
Image processing apparatus, control method for image processing apparatus, and storage medium
An image processing apparatus that performs print processing based on a job includes a reception unit configured to receive an operation performed by a user, a change unit configured to, in response to the reception unit receiving a predetermined operation, change a job on which the print processing is not yet completed to a suspended state, and a job control unit configured to, when detecting a logout event that causes a user who is logged into the image processing apparatus to log out of the image processing apparatus, resume at least one job and cancel a job or jobs that are not resumed by the job control unit selected from jobs changed by the change unit to be in the suspended state. |
| US11847369B2 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, printing system, and storage medium
An information processing apparatus generates a code for identifying images in imposition image data representing an image print region, determines candidate regions so that codes in print regions in pages represented by the imposition image data will not be printed at a same position, generates print data based on the imposition image data so that the code will be placed in at least one of the determined candidate regions. For the print data, up to a predetermined number of pages represented by pieces of the imposition image data, a print position of the code is same in a first page and a following second page. When a predetermined number of pages represented by the pieces of the imposition image data is reached, the print position of the code is different in the first page and the second page. The generated print data is output to a printing apparatus. |
| US11847368B2 |
Registered data editing method, registered data editing apparatus that edits all of a plurality of pieces of individual registered data which includes at least department data, and image processing apparatus
When a piece of management department data of target manager data is non-restriction data corresponding to all departments, a processor executes a first data editing process to edit all of a plurality of pieces of individual user data. When the piece of management department data of the target manager data is restriction data corresponding to a particular department, a processor executes a second data editing process to edit particular user data that is a part of the plurality of pieces of individual user data. The particular user data is one of the plurality of pieces of individual user data that includes a piece of belonging department data that indicates a department that has a predetermined correspondence relation with the particular department that corresponds to the piece of management department data of the target manager data. |
| US11847367B2 |
Printing system, method of controlling printing system, and storage medium comprising a projection unit that projects an image, accept a request to print a projected image, determining whether or not printing based on a captured image of the image projected is possible and restrict or permit printing based on the determination
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a printing system comprising accepting a request to print based on a capture image of an image projected by the projection unit; determining whether or not printing based on the capture image of the image projected by the projection unit is possible; in a case where it is determined that the printing of the image projected by the projection unit is possible, permitting the printer to print based on the capture image of the image projected by the projection unit on the basis of the request accepted; and in a case where it is determined that the printing of the image projected by the projection unit is not possible, restricting the printer from printing based on the capture image of the image projected by the projection unit on the basis of the print request accepted. |
| US11847361B2 |
Image forming control method, device, apparatus, system, and storage medium
An image forming control method is applied to an image forming apparatus. The method includes, after the image forming apparatus is connected to an image processing apparatus, sending information related to a halftone parameter of the image forming apparatus to the image processing apparatus for storage, obtaining halftone-processed intermediate data that is to be printed sent by the image processing apparatus, and outputting the halftone-processed intermediate data that is to be printed to an image generator to perform an image forming operation. |
| US11847360B2 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing system, method of controlling the information processing apparatus, and storage medium for connecting to predetermined network
An information processing apparatus has a plurality of communication units capable of communicating with an image processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus obtains information of an image processing apparatus connected via at least one communication unit of the plurality of communication units and is not connected to the Internet, and it determines whether it is necessary to connect the image processing apparatus to a predetermined network connected to the Internet based on the obtained information. In a case where it is determined that it is necessary to connect, the information processing apparatus causes the image processing apparatus to execute processing for connecting to the predetermined network via the at least one communication unit, and in a case that the processing for connecting completes, registers the image processing apparatus to a service intermediated by the predetermined network. |
| US11847355B2 |
Multistreaming in heterogeneous environments
A storage device is disclosed. The storage device may include storage to store data, which may include a first storage of a first type and a second storage of a second type. The storage device may support a number of device streams, some of which associated with the first storage and some associated with the second storage. The storage device may also include a streaming capabilities analyzer that may inventory the streaming capabilities for the storage device. Finally, the storage device may include a transmitter to transmit the streaming capabilities of the storage device to a storage manager. |
| US11847351B2 |
Automatic identification and ranking of migration candidate storage groups based on relative performance impact to current storage array components
Storage object groups uniquely associated with respective host applications are processed to model, for each host application, the relationship between current utilized storage capacity of each host application and greatest possible utilized storage capacity of each host application without exhausting either the storage capacity of the storage system or the performance capacity of the storage system. The modeled relationships may be used to calculate headroom and performance impact scores for each host application. Storage object groups that have insufficient headroom for growth, e.g., as indicated by performance impact score, are deemed to be associated with host application workloads that are candidates for migration to a different storage system. The candidates may be ranked and selected for migration based on performance impact scores. |
| US11847347B2 |
Method for optimizing VCRM transmission data optimization and apparatus therefor
The present invention relates to a VCRM data transmission optimizing method and an apparatus therefor, and a method of transmitting VCRM data in a vehicle terminal may include generating at least one data slot buffer, determining whether to perform buffer flush according to whether data is changed, and whether a buffer max size is reached, when new data is entered, and flushing data recorded in a corresponding data slot buffer according to the determination for performing the buffer flush to be transmitted to a server over a wireless network. |
| US11847345B2 |
Memory circuit including an array control inhibitor
Systems and method are provided for operating a multi-array memory that includes a left memory array and a right memory array of a memory bank. A command is received at memory input pins. A signal representative of the command is propagated to an array control inhibitor. An array inhibit command is received on one or more other pins of the memory and provided to the array control inhibitor. The array control inhibitor is used to prevent arrival of the command to one of the left memory array and the right memory array based on the array inhibit command. |
| US11847344B2 |
Base die, memory system, and semiconductor structure
A base die is configured to receive a first data and a first encoded data in a writing phase, where the first encoded data is obtained by performing a first error correction code (ECC) encoding processing on the first data, perform a second ECC encoding processing on the first data to generate a second encoded data, and transmit a second data to a memory die in the writing phase, where the second data includes the first data, the first encoded data, and the second encoded data. The base die is further configured to receive the second data from the memory die in a reading phase, perform a first error checking and correction processing on the first data and the second encoded data, and transmit a third data in the reading phase. |
| US11847340B2 |
Host, memory system communicating with the host, and computing system including the host and memory system
A memory system includes a semiconductor memory device including a plurality of memory cells, and a controller configured to control an operation of the semiconductor memory device and communicate with a host. The controller includes a condition storage, a condition monitor, and a host interface. The condition storage stores at least one condition related to an internal state of the memory system. The condition monitor monitors whether the at least one condition is satisfied, and outputs a confirmation signal when the at least one condition is satisfied. The host interface outputs a condition confirmation message indicating that the at least one condition is satisfied to the host, in response to the confirmation signal. |
| US11847335B2 |
Latent read disturb mitigation in memory devices
A trigger condition associated with latent read disturb in a memory device is detected. In response to detecting the trigger condition associated with latent read disturb, one or more blocks in the memory device that are impacted by the trigger condition are placed in a stable state to mitigate latent read disturb in the one or more blocks. |
| US11847334B2 |
Method or apparatus to integrate physical file verification and garbage collection (GC) by tracking special segments
Methods and systems for managing data in a distributed system are disclosed. The distributed system may include devices used by users (e.g., clients) and devices in which data is stored for future accessibility (e.g., storage providers). A data storage system may manage the data for the clients. To manage the data efficiently, the data storage system may perform an integrated process of both verifying that segments of files believed to be stored are actually stored and segments of files that no longer need to be stored are removed. The process may not be performed in real-time as files that no longer need to be stored are identified (e.g., as deletion requests are received). Rather, the integrated process may employ a garbage collection process where deletion conditions for segments are checked intermittently over time, and files are verified. |
| US11847333B2 |
System and method for sub-block deduplication with search for identical sectors inside a candidate block
A method, computer program product, and computer system for identifying duplicate sectors in a block of a plurality of blocks. The duplicate sectors in the block may be zeroed out. A data reduction operation may be performed on the block after the duplicate sectors are zeroed out. |
| US11847331B2 |
Budgeting open blocks of a storage unit based on power loss prevention
A storage unit has one or more processing devices, a solid-state drive and an open blocks cache memory. The open blocks cache memory holds open blocks of data or metadata and holds closed blocks of data or metadata pending writing to the solid-state drive. Closed blocks of data or metadata are written to the solid-state drive and open blocks of data or metadata are written to the open blocks cache memory. Values for open blocks in the open blocks cache memory are tracked. The values are adjusted in a first direction when an open block is written to the open blocks cache memory, and the values are adjusted in a second direction when an open block in the open blocks cache memory is closed and written from the open blocks cache memory to the solid-state drive. |
| US11847323B1 |
Data storage device and method for host buffer management
A data storage device and method for host buffer management are provided. In one embodiment, a data storage device is provided comprising a non-volatile memory and a controller. The controller is configured to receive a read command from a host; read data from the non-volatile memory; identify a location in a host memory buffer (HMB) in the host that is available to store the data; write the data to the location in the HMB; and inform the host of the location in the HMB that stores the data. Other embodiments are possible, and each of the embodiments can be used alone or together in combination. |
| US11847322B2 |
Archiving operations for compressed data using file layout
A method comprises retrieving a layout of a file on a storage device, wherein the layout identifies a plurality of locations on the storage device where a plurality of compressed blocks of data are stored. In the method, the plurality of compressed blocks of data are retrieved from the plurality of locations identified in the layout for transmission to and storage in a cloud storage platform. |
| US11847320B2 |
Reassignment of requests for high availability
A method of operating a storage system is disclosed. The method includes determining a storage cluster among storage arrays of the storage system. Each storage array includes at least two controllers and at least one storage shelf. The at least two controllers are configured to function as both a primary controller for a first storage array and a secondary controller for a second storage array. |
| US11847318B2 |
Memory system for controlling nonvolatile memory
According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a nonvolatile memory including physical blocks, and a controller. The controller manages namespaces. The namespaces include at least a first namespace for storing a first type of data, and a second namespace for storing a second type of data having a lower update frequency than the first type of data. The controller allocates a first number of physical blocks as a physical resource for the first namespace, and allocates a second number of physical blocks as a physical resource for the second namespace, based on a request from a host device specifying an amount of physical resources to be secured for each of the namespaces. |
| US11847314B2 |
Machine translation method and electronic device
A machine translation method includes: an electronic device displays a first user interface, where source text content is displayed in the first user interface; after detecting an operation of triggering scrolling screenshot taking by a user, the electronic device automatically starts to take a scrolling screenshot; the electronic device obtains a first picture through scrolling screenshot taking; the electronic device obtains translation content corresponding to the source text content displayed on the first picture; and the electronic device automatically displays a second user interface, where a part or all of the translation content is displayed in the second user interface. |
| US11847311B2 |
Characterization of a venting state or other system parameter that affects the characterization of a force applied to a device
An electronic device includes a pressure sensor and a processor. The pressure sensor is disposed within an interior volume of the electronic device and configured to generate a time-dependent sequence of measurements related to a force applied to the electronic device. The processor is configured to characterize, using at least the time-dependent sequence of measurements, a venting state of the interior volume. In some embodiments, the electronic device may also include a capacitive force sensor disposed to detect distortion of the interior volume. A second time-dependent sequence of measurements related to the force may be generated by the capacitive force sensor, and used by the processor to characterize the venting state of the interior volume. |
| US11847307B2 |
Intelligent content display for network-based communications
Disclosed in some examples are devices, methods, systems, and machine-readable mediums for enhanced meeting room solutions to provide increased inclusiveness for both remote and in-room participants for network-based communication sessions, such as hybrid network-based communication sessions. Content of a first type is placed in a location exclusive of a discontinuity in a display device and content of a second type is placed in a location inclusive of the discontinuity of the display device. |
| US11847305B1 |
Page display method, electronic device and storage medium
A page display method includes: determining a target sub-page to be switched into a freeform window mode from a plurality of sub-pages of a target application in an activity-embedding mode in response to a first operation; obtaining first display configuration information of a first display window for displaying the target sub-page in the activity-embedding mode; obtaining second display configuration information in the freeform window mode by modifying the first display configuration information according to the freeform window mode; and displaying the target sub-page in a second display window in the freeform window mode according to the second display configuration information. |
| US11847304B1 |
Techniques for media album display and management
Techniques for media album display and management are described. An apparatus may comprise a messaging component operative to receive a plurality of messaging packages from a messaging server and determine a plurality of visual media items referenced by the plurality of messaging packages; a media layout component operative to determine a visual media item layout; and a display component operative to display the plurality of visual media items based on the visual media item layout Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| US11847303B1 |
User interface for depicting informational elements for selectable items
A computing device (e.g., a server, a cloud-based device, a network device, an item analysis device, etc.) may receive location information indicating a geographic location of a user device and image data captured by the user device of a listing (e.g., a menu, an event ticket, a content source, etc.) for a selectable item. The computing device may determine an entity offering the selectable item based on the location information. An intent indicator for the selectable item may be determined based on the entity and the information for the selectable item. An instruction to the user device may cause modification of the image data to indicate the intent indicator based on the intent indicator satisfying an intent threshold that defines a level at which an intent is classified as a positive intent. |
| US11847300B2 |
Electronic information hierarchy
Aspects of the disclosure relate to systems and methods for providing and displaying a hierarchy of selectable data items. |
| US11847297B2 |
Method of providing real-time VR service through avatar
Disclosed is a real time virtual reality (VR) service provision method including registering a client profile in an application management server by a client device, the client profile including information on a VR image that the client device wants to request, by the client device, registering avatar profiles in the application management server by a plurality of avatar devices, the avatar profiles including information on a VR image to be requested by the avatar device, comparing the client profile and the avatar profiles with each other to search for an avatar profile, at least one piece of information of which is matched with the client profile, and providing a first searching result to the client device, by the application management server, receiving input of the client device, for selecting a specific avatar device in the first search result, by the application management server, matching the client device and the specific client device with each other by the application management server, and receiving a VR image from the matched avatar device by the client device. |
| US11847296B2 |
Method for inputting and sharing of observation information on the object, and a computer-readable storage medium
This invention relates to a method for providing the inputting and sharing service of the observation information on an arbitrary object, and a computer-readable storage medium to save the instructions for executing the method. |
| US11847290B2 |
Touch display device
Embodiments of the present disclosure are related to a touch display device. By differentiating a cutting shape of a boundary of a portion constituting a touch electrode or a touch routing line and a cutting shape of a boundary of a portion constituting a dummy electrode, a repair of a touch sensor structure can be performed easily in a process implementing the touch sensor structure in a display panel. |
| US11847289B2 |
Pressing force detection device
A pressing sensor is provided that generates an output voltage of a first polarity by deforming with an operation plate when a part of a user's body touches the operation plate, and generates the output voltage of a second polarity by deforming with the operation plate when the part of the user's body is moved away from the operation plate. Moreover, a calculation unit calculates an electrical parameter integral value by time-integrating an electrical parameter that changes with the output voltage generated by the pressing sensor. The electrical parameter has a third polarity when the output voltage has the first polarity and has a fourth polarity when the output voltage has the second polarity. The calculation unit calculates a subtraction electrical parameter integral value obtained by subtracting a predetermined value having the third polarity per unit time from the electrical parameter integral value. |
| US11847286B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a display panel including unit pixel areas and an input sensor including first-line elements and second-line elements defining crossing areas with the first-line elements. First group elements among the first-line elements and the second-line elements are electrically connected to each other to define a first electrode. Second group elements among the first-line elements and the second-line elements are electrically connected to each other to define a second electrode, and the second electrode is insulated from the first electrode while crossing the first electrode. A first angle defined by a first direction and a second direction and a second angle defined in the crossing areas by the first-line elements and the second-line elements to correspond to the first angle are different from each other. |
| US11847285B2 |
Display device and position input system including the same
A display device includes a pixel having a plurality of emission areas, a plurality of touch electrodes disposed between the plurality of emission areas to sense a touch, a plurality of position code patterns covering a partial front surface of at least one of the plurality of touch electrodes in a preset code shape, and a light blocking pattern disposed on front surfaces of the plurality of touch electrodes on which the plurality of position code patterns are not formed. A width or size of the plurality of position code patterns is greater than a width or size of the light blocking pattern. |
| US11847281B2 |
Electrostatic-capacitance detection sensor
A self-capacitance-system electrostatic-capacitance detection sensor includes a first electrode and a second electrode, one of the first and second electrodes being set as a sense electrode, and the other of the first and second electrodes being set as a drive electrode; a sense-signal generating unit that generates a sense signal to be applied to the sense electrode; a detecting unit that detects, as a detection value, an amount of charge movement corresponding to an electrostatic capacitance of the sense electrode; and a determining unit that determines whether or not a detection target is in close proximity to both the first and second electrodes, based on a subtraction difference between detection values detected by the detecting unit when a first drive signal is applied to the drive electrode and when a second drive signal having the same frequency and a different phase is applied to the drive electrode. |
| US11847280B2 |
Touch panel and touch detection circuit thereof
The present invention provides a touch panel and the touch detection circuit thereof, which comprise a gate driving circuit, a source driving circuit, and a detection circuit. The gate driving circuit is coupled to a plurality of gate lines of a display panel, outputs a plurality of gate signals to the plurality of gate lines, and controls state transition of the plurality of gate signals. The source driving circuit is coupled to a plurality of source lines of the display panel. The detection circuit is coupled to the plurality of source lines or to a portion of the plurality of source lines. The detection circuit detects the levels of the plurality of signals on the coupled source lines when the gate signals change states and generates a plurality of detection signals. |
| US11847279B2 |
Display system, control device, and control method
A display device includes a plurality of common electrodes. A second drive circuit supplies a touch drive signal to each of the plurality of common electrodes. A touch detection circuit performs detection of a touch by an object to the display device, based on a touch detection signal received from each of the plurality of common electrodes in one or more touch detection periods. A length of the one or more touch detection periods is a detection time. The touch detection circuit detects a noise at a frequency of the touch drive signal based on the touch detection signal. When the noise is detected, the control circuit changes the frequency of the touch drive signal to be lower than the frequency used when the noise is not detected and changes the detection time to be longer than the detection time used when the noise is not detected. |
| US11847276B2 |
Touch substrate and touch display device
The present disclosure provides a touch substrate and a touch display device. The touch substrate includes a base substrate, and a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer laminated one on another on the base substrate. The first electrode layer includes first channel patterns and first dummy electrode patterns, the second electrode layer includes second channel patterns and second dummy electrode patterns, the first channel pattern and the second channel pattern are insulated from each other and arranged in such a manner as to cross each other, and the second channel pattern is insulated from the second dummy electrode pattern. Each first dummy electrode pattern includes a first dummy electrode sub-pattern, each second dummy electrode pattern includes a second dummy electrode sub-pattern, and the first dummy electrode sub-pattern is electrically coupled to the first channel pattern and the second dummy electrode sub-pattern. |
| US11847275B2 |
Display device
Provided is a display device which includes a display panel that includes an active area and a peripheral area and an input sensing layer that includes a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer. The first conductive layer includes first trace lines and second trace lines. The second conductive layer includes first sensing electrodes and second sensing electrodes. The first trace lines extend in a second direction, are disposed apart from each other in a first direction, and are electrically connected to the first sensing electrodes, respectively. The second trace lines extend in the second direction, are disposed apart from each other in the first direction, and are electrically connected to the second sensing electrodes, respectively. The first conductive layer and the second conductive layer overlap the active area of the display panel. |
| US11847272B2 |
Touch display device
A touch electrode line is divided in the active area in a structure in which touch routing lines are coupled to both sides of the touch electrode line, so that resistance and parasitic capacitance may be reduced due to the touch electrode line and the touch routing line. In addition, a dummy pattern is disposed between the divided touch electrode lines, so that it is possible to easily implement an arrangement structure of the touch electrode line with improved touch sensing performance by preventing a short circuit defect between the divided touch electrode lines due to static electricity. |
| US11847268B2 |
Reprogramable multi-host, multi-character set keyboard
A system having a keyboard capable of supporting multiple hosts and changing character sets. A first host processor communicates with a display. A keyboard has a plurality of independently moveable physical keys with each letter of an entire alphabet accessible by a single strike actuation of one of the plurality of keys. The keyboard uses twelve or fewer keys provide single strike access to the entire alphabet. A map defining functions of the keys appears on the display responsive to a prompting action of a user's hand without requiring any finger to leave the keys that provide access to the alphabet. The map defines the spatial relationship of each function relative to a home position of a finger. |
| US11847260B2 |
System and method for embedded cognitive state metric system
An embodiment of a method for enabling content personalization for a user based on a cognitive state of the user includes providing an interface configured to enable a third party to request cognitive state data of the user as the user interacts with a content-providing source; establishing bioelectrical contact between a biosignal detector and the user; automatically collecting a dataset from the user; generating a cognitive state metric; receiving a request from the third party for cognitive state data; transmitting the cognitive state data to the third party device; and automatically collecting a dataset from the user as the user engaged tailored content. |
| US11847259B1 |
Map-aided inertial odometry with neural network for augmented reality devices
Techniques of providing continual augmented reality navigation include combining first and second 6DoF poses from, respectively, a localization from a map in a vicinity of a location to an image and from predicted 6DoF poses based on IMU data. |
| US11847256B2 |
Presenting and aligning laser projected virtual interfaces
Systems, methods, devices and non-transitory, computer-readable storage mediums are disclosed for a wearable multimedia device and cloud computing platform with an application ecosystem for processing multimedia data captured by the wearable multimedia device. In an embodiment, a wearable multimedia device determines a projection area of a laser projector, the projection area having an inner region and a border region at least partially enclosing the inner region. Further, the device projects, using the laser projector, a virtual interface (VI) on a surface. In particular, the device determines, based on sensor data from a camera and/or a depth sensor, a position of the surface relative to the projection area. Further, the device projects the VI on the surface based on the position of the surface. Further, the device determines that a portion of the VI coincides with the border region, and in response, modifies a visual appearance of that portion. |
| US11847252B2 |
Feature access control in a digital transaction management platform
An online document system manages access to features within the online document system. The online document system may receive and fulfill a request from a first entity to sponsor a feature for a second entity. The online document system may determine an access policy to restrict access to the sponsored feature. For example, the access policy may include a requirement that the second entity only use the sponsored feature with the first entity. The first entity may provide a second access policy to the online document system to enforce. If the second entity satisfies requirements of the access policies, the online document system may then provide access to the second entity to use the sponsored feature. |
| US11847248B2 |
Automated viewpoint detection and screen obfuscation of secure content
A smart mirror system includes a screen configured to generate a display for viewing by a user, a mirror positioned in front of the screen, a near-field-communication (NFC) card reader located behind the mirror, a network interface for communicating with a remote health data server, memory configured to store computer-executable instructions, and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions. The instructions include selectively detecting, by the NFC card reader, an NFC chip of a member card placed in proximity to the NFC card reader. The instructions include, in response to detecting the NFC chip, obtaining member information from the detected NFC chip, and authenticating the user to the remote health data server, via the network interface, according, at least in part, to the obtained member information. |
| US11847237B1 |
Secure data protection and encryption techniques for computing devices and information storage
A system for secure data protection and encryption for computing devices. The present invention includes a fast encryption technique for quickly ensuring that the correct binding parameters are used for an encrypted data file. The encrypted file is used in two ways. Because unsecure data could pass through a peripheral device to gain access to a secure computing environment, a dongle housing encryption and decryption subsystems is placed in between the unsecure sources and the peripheral that can encrypt and decrypt data intended for the secure computing environment. The firmware of the computing device can be updated by dividing the update file into encrypted segments that are verified on the device and placed into non-volatile memory. When all parts have been received, decrypted, and written into memory, the device reboots using the updated firmware. |
| US11847233B2 |
Token state synchronization
Techniques for managing an application token may include providing, by a first service provider application on a communication device to a first service provider computer, a first request for a first application token, receiving, by an account management application on the communication device from a token service computer in communication with the first service provider computer, the first application token, and storing the first application token in a token container in the account management application. |
| US11847232B2 |
Secure cloud processing
Methods and systems are provided for performing operations comprising: generating, on a publicly accessible server, a secure enclave, the secure enclave having isolated memory and processing resources of the server; installing, on the secure enclave, a virtual machine comprising a guest operating system of a first entity; installing, by the virtual machine, one or more cryptographic processes associated with the first entity; and encrypting and decrypting cryptographic keys associated with the first entity using the one or more cryptographic processes. |
| US11847230B2 |
Learning device estimating apparatus, learning device estimating method, risk evaluation apparatus, risk evaluation method, and program
A learning device estimating apparatus aims at a learning device as an attack target, and comprises a recording part, an inquiring part, a capturing part and a learning part. A predetermined plurality of pieces of observation data are recorded. The inquiring part inquires of the attack target learning device for each of the pieces of observation data recorded in the recording part to acquire label data and records the acquired label data to the recording part in association with observation data. The capturing part inputs the observation data and the label data associated with the observation data that have been recorded to the recording part, to the learning part. The learning part is characterized by using an activation function that outputs a predetermined ambiguous value in a process for determining a classification prediction result, and the learning part performs learning using the inputted observation data and label data. |
| US11847226B1 |
Baseboard Management Controller (BMC)-based security processor
Technologies are described herein for providing a Baseboard Management Controller (“BMC”)-based security processor. The disclosed BMC-based security processor can provide a hardware Root of Trust (“RoT”) for a computing platform without the addition of specialized silicon to the platform and while minimizing the number of attack points. The disclosed BMC-based security processor can also provide functionality for securely filtering requests made on certain buses in a computing platform. Through implementations of the features identified briefly above, and others described herein, various technical benefits can be achieved such as, but not limited to, increased security as compared to previous computing systems that utilize a BMC to provide a hardware RoT and reduced complexity and cost as compared to previous computing systems that utilize a separate hardware device, such as a Field Programmable Gate Array (“FPGA”) or a microcontroller, to provide a hardware RoT. |
| US11847224B2 |
Passive monitoring and prevention of unauthorized firmware or software upgrades between computing devices
An apparatus for preventing unauthorized software or firmware upgrades between two or more computing devices connected on a data bus includes a cryptographic engine, memory, and at least one processor coupled with the cryptographic engine and memory. The cryptographic engine stores cryptographic metadata for authorized upgrade images for updating at least one target computing device coupled to the data bus. The cryptographic metadata includes a manifest list of upgrade images. The processor is configured to monitor the data bus for transmissions of striped update hashes from a maintenance device, to receive signed striped hashes corresponding to an upgrade image file transmitted by the maintenance device, to validate the striped update hashes using information in the manifest list, to log that an unauthorized upload has been attempted when at least one of the striped update hashes fails validation, and to perform a mitigation action(s) in response to the attempted unauthorized upload. |
| US11847217B2 |
Methods and apparatus to provide and monitor efficacy of artificial intelligence models
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to provide and monitor efficacy of artificial intelligence models are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a model trainer to train an artificial intelligence (AI) model to classify malware using first training data; an interface to deploy the AI model to a processing device; a model implementor to locally apply second training data to the AI model to generate output classifications, the second training data generated after generation of the first training data; and a report generator to generate a report including an efficacy of the AI model based on the output classifications. |
| US11847212B2 |
Method to prevent root level access attack and measurable SLA security and compliance platform
A management system detects a change at the target device. The management system transmits a request message to authorization devices of the authorization users of the multi-user authorization pool to from the authorization users an indication of whether the detected change is approved. The management system receives a plurality of response messages from authorization devices of the multi-user authorization pool indicating whether the detected change is approved by the corresponding authorization user, and based on at least three of the plurality of response messages indicating a disapproval, that the detected change is disapproved. In response to the determination that the change is disapproved, an instruction message is sent to a target managed device to instruct the target managed device to rollback to an earlier state. |
| US11847205B1 |
Trusted 5G network function virtualization of virtual network function elements embedded on a system-on-chip
A communication device. The communication device comprises a transceiver comprising an antenna; and a system-on-chip. The system-on-chip comprises a central processing unit (CPU) and a non-transitory memory comprising a micro-kernel of a fifth generation (5G) core network that when executed by the CPU, causes the micro-kernel to begin executing instructions of the micro-kernel in a trusted security zone (TSZ) execution mode, create virtualized network functions (VNFs) of a core network in the TSZ execution mode, wherein the virtualized network functions are associated with a 5G core network, instantiate a 5G communication network using the antenna and the 5G core network in response to creating the VNFs of the core network, receive requests from subscribers of the 5G communication network, and connect the subscribers to the 5G communication network in response to receiving the requests from subscribers of the 5G communication network. |
| US11847200B2 |
Methods and apparatus for system identification
A method of identifying a system, the method comprising: obtaining an indication of background noise present at the system; generating a probe signal based on the indication; applying the probe signal to the system; estimating a response of the system to the probe signal; and identifying the system based on the measured response and the probe signal, wherein the probe signal comprises a whitening component configured to whiten noise in the estimated response due to the background noise present at the system. |
| US11847196B2 |
Device, user, or server registration and verification
The present disclosure provides systems, devices, methods, and computer-readable media for user, device, or server authentication. A device can include processing circuitry to perform operations comprising generating, by a transducer, biometric data of the user in response to detection of the user performing a non-authentication operation with the device, providing the biometric data to an authentication server for user verification, wherein the authentication server is registered with and verified by the device and the device is registered with and verified by the authentication server, permitting the user access to functionality of the device in response to a results communication from the authentication server indicating the user verification passed, and denying the user access to functionality of the device in response to the results communication from the authentication server indicating that the user verification failed. |
| US11847195B2 |
Authentication system and method for recording unlocking history using authentication system
A novel authentication system is provided. In addition, a method for recording an unlocking history is provided. The authentication system includes an arithmetic device and an input/output device. The arithmetic device supplies first control data and second control data, and is supplied with a sensor signal. The input/output device includes an electric lock and a reading portion, and the electric lock is unlocked on the basis of the second control data. The reading portion is supplied with the first control data, supplies the sensor signal, and includes a light-emitting element and a pixel array. The light-emitting element emits light including infrared rays, the pixel array includes pixels, the pixels each include an imaging circuit and a photoelectric conversion element, the imaging circuit is electrically connected to the photoelectric conversion element, the imaging circuit includes a transistor, and the transistor includes an oxide semiconductor film. |
| US11847194B2 |
Scheduling method and apparatus, device and storage medium
A scheduling method and apparatus, a device and a storage medium, which relate to fields of big data, cloud computation, artificial intelligence, intelligent authentication and intelligent scheduling. A specific implementation includes: acquiring an authentication request that indicates to-be-authenticated information; determining an authentication strategy group required by an authentication processing procedure of the to-be-authenticated information, wherein the authentication strategy group is determined based on an authentication dependency relationship between authentication strategies and comprises at least two authentication strategies; and calling the authentication strategies in the authentication strategy group in parallel, and performing authentication processing on the to-be-authenticated information in parallel, to obtain an authentication processing result corresponding to the authentication strategy group. |
| US11847191B2 |
Non-transitory computer readable medium storing electronic musical instrument program, method for musical sound generation process and electronic musical instrument
An electronic musical instrument, method for a musical sound generation process and a non-transitory computer readable medium that stores an electronic musical instrument program are provided. The program causes a computer provided with a storage part to execute a musical sound generation process using sound data. The program causes the computer to execute: acquiring, from the storage part, first sound data and first user identification information indicating a user who has acquired the first sound data from a distribution server; acquiring second user identification information indicating a user who causes the musical sound generation process to be executed using the first sound data; determining whether or not the first user identification information matches the second user identification information; and inhibiting execution of the musical sound generation process using the first sound data in a case when the first user identification information does not match the second user identification information. |
| US11847183B2 |
Methods and apparatus for checking the results of characterized memory searches
Methods and apparatus for using characterized devices such as memories. In one embodiment, characterized memories are associated with a range of performances over a range of operational parameters. The characterized memories can be used in conjunction with a solution density function to optimize memory searching. In one exemplary embodiment, a cryptocurrency miner can utilize characterized memories to generate memory hard proof-of-work (POW). The results may be further validated against general compute memories; such that only valid solutions are broadcasted to the mining community. In one embodiment, the validation mechanism is implemented for a plurality of searching apparatus in parallel to provide a more distributed and efficient approach. Various other applications for characterized memories are also described in greater detail herein (e.g., blockchain, social media, machine learning, probabilistic applications and other error-tolerant applications). |
| US11847182B2 |
Data processing consent capture systems and related methods
In various embodiments, a data processing consent capture system may be configured to prompt the data subject to consent to one or more types of data processing (e.g., to provide a desired consent) in response to identifying particular cookies (e.g., or types of data processing) that a data subject has not consented to. The system may, for example, substantially automatically prompt the data subject to consent for one or more particular types of data processing in response to determining that the user (e.g., data subject) has requested that a website or other system perform one or more functions that are not possible without a particular type of consent from the data subject. The system may, for example, prompt the user to consent in time for a certain interaction with the website, application, etc. |
| US11847180B2 |
Method and system for recommending location-based digital content
A method and a system for recommending a location-based digital content are provided. The system includes a serving system having a database that stores a plurality of location-based digital contents and relevant hashtags. The system provides a browser program executed in a user device. The browser program is used to connect to the serving system for browsing the location-based digital contents provided by the serving system. In the method, the serving system receives position information from the user device so as to determine a geographic range. After querying the database, location-based digital contents within the geographic range can be obtained. The hashtags associated to the location-based digital contents within the geographic range can be obtained and displayed on the user interface for recommending the location-based digital contents within the geographic range to the user. |
| US11847179B2 |
Curated result finder
A method is provided. The method includes one or more of obtaining client device data including a plurality of facts from a client device, limiting the client device data according to selection criteria, comparing, using a neural network, the limited client device data to categorized historical data, determining, using the neural network, one or more closest matches between the limited client device data and the categorized historical data, and selecting, on the client device, content of interest from the one or more closest matches. Each fact includes an entity, an observation, and an object. Limiting the client device data includes reviewing the entity, observation, and object for each fact and one or more of eliminating facts having an entity, observation, or object that does not meet the selection criteria and removing data from entities, observations, or objects that uniquely identifies a user associated with the client device. |
| US11847176B1 |
Generating context-based spell corrections of entity names
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for correcting entity names. One method includes receiving texts and deriving a plurality of name-context pairs from the texts. The method further includes calculating a context consistency measure for each name-context pair and storing context-entity name data representing the name-context pairs. Another method includes identifying an entity name and one or more context terms from a query and generating candidate names for the entity name. The method further includes determining a score for each of the candidate names, selecting a number of top scoring candidate names, and using the selected candidate names to respond to the query. |
| US11847175B2 |
Table row identification using machine learning
Techniques for table row identification using machine learning are disclosed herein. For example, a method can include detecting a table body in a document by processing the document using a machine learning (ML)-based table body model; predicting an initial table row index for one or more words among a plurality of words obtained in the document, wherein the one or more words are determined to be within the table body; and determining a table row index for the one or more words using an ML-based table row model that is trained based on the predicted initial table row index for the one or more words. |
| US11847171B2 |
Facilitating blockchain transactions with an Internet of Things (IoT) device
A system and method for facilitation transactions between an Internet of Things (IoT) system and a blockchain peer without the use of a smart phone are disclosed. The system may have security, a channel manager, a message formatter, parameter enumerator and formatter, a final formatter, a notifier, a monitor and an integrator. The system may accept blockchain queries from the IoT device and may reformat the blockchain queries and alter parameters into a format and parameter framework which is operable by a blockchain peer. The system may also accept responses from the blockchain peer and may reformat the response and alter parameters into a format and parameter framework which is operable by the IoT device. The system may send the reformatted response to the IoT device for display. |
| US11847168B2 |
Training model with model-provided candidate action
A method of training a conversational computing system. The method includes providing an initial query to a machine learning model previously trained to generate actions for responding to a query. Based on the initial query, a plurality of candidate actions are received from the machine learning model and presented via a training interface. Based on input provided by the human annotator, a selected candidate action is recognized and associated with the initial query in a labeled data example. |
| US11847165B2 |
Integration of video conferencing applications with on-demand database services
A computing platform may be configurable to cause receiving a request from a video conferencing application while a video conference is in session, the request comprising one or more user parameters identifying one or more participants in the video conference session. The computing platform is also configurable to cause implementing a query of a database system, the query being configured to retrieve one or more user data objects associated with at least one participant, wherein the at least one participant is different from a user of the client device. The computing platform is further configurable to cause generating, a result object based, at least in part, on the retrieved one or more user data objects, the result object being configured to cause display, at a user interface of the video conferencing application, visual information about the at least one participant, and sending the result object to the video conferencing application. |
| US11847164B2 |
Method, electronic device and storage medium for generating information
A method, electronic device and storage medium for generating information are disclosed. The method includes: acquiring a plurality of tag entity words from a target video, the tag entity words including a person entity word, a work entity word, a video category entity word, and a video core entity word, the video core entity word including an entity word for characterizing a content related to the target video; linking, for a tag entity word among the plurality of tag entity words, the tag entity word to a node of a preset knowledge graph; determining semantic information of the target video based on a linking result of each of the tag entity words; and structuring the semantic information of the target video based on a relationship between the node and an edge of the knowledge graph, to obtain structured semantic information of the target video. |
| US11847162B2 |
Methods and systems for dynamically selecting and providing web resources
Methods and systems for selecting and presenting web resources (e.g. videos) are provided, the method includes: transmitting a first video to be played by a device associated with a user account; and during playback of the first video at the device: detecting an update to configuration data associated with the user account; determining, based on the update to the configuration data associated with the user account, a next video recommendation for the user account; and causing an indication of the next video recommendation to be displayed on the device. |
| US11847160B2 |
User identification and tracking system
Disclosed is a system for tracking user activities with a user identification tag stored at the user's Internet-capable device. For example, the system can store a pixel having a color scheme that identifies the user but that is hidden to the user and identifiable by an external computer. The pixel can be stored in the user device's cache for later identification of the user. |
| US11847149B1 |
Message processing for job title extraction
Message processing for job title extraction includes receiving a job title query for a message in a message inbox of a communications application and parsing the message into a corpus of text. Message processing for job title extraction further includes identifying a sender of the message from a header in the corpus of text and locating below the header within the corpus of text of a name of the identified sender. Message processing for job title extraction yet further includes constructing a set of n-grams from a portion of the corpus of text positionally adjacent to the located name and mapping the set of n-grams to an index of job titles in order to identify a best matching one of the job titles. Finally, message processing for job title extraction includes responding to the job title query with the matching one of the job titles. |
| US11847146B2 |
System and method for identifying locations with lifestyle preferences
A method and system provide areas with lifestyle preferences selected by a user. Generally, a computing device receives a selection of one or more lifestyle preferences from the user. In response to the selected lifestyle preferences, a visual display of one or more areas of a geographic map that includes one or more of the lifestyle preferences that favorably compare to the lifestyle preferences of the user is presented to the user via a user interface of the computing device. Additionally, the user may submit a review of the lifestyle preferences available in a particular location. |
| US11847145B2 |
Aliased data retrieval for key-value stores
Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for aliased data insertions/retrieval for key-value stores. In aspects, a data set comprising a primary key, one or more secondary keys (“aliases”), and data values may be received by a data storage system. The system may allocate an internal identifier to the primary key and store the internal identifier and the primary key in a first table. Each of the secondary keys may be used to create a key-value pair comprising the secondary key and the internal identifier. The key-value pair(s) may be stored in the first table with the corresponding primary key. The internal identifier and the data values may be stored in a second table. Subsequently, the primary or secondary key may be used to interrogate the first table for the internal identifier. The internal identifier may then be used to interrogate the second table for the data values. |
| US11847144B2 |
Systems and methods of correlating database entries for automated metric computation
A system includes instructions for execution by at least one processor, including, in response to an event, obtaining a first set of alerts stored in the alert database corresponding to a first scenario of a set of scenarios and selecting a first model of a set of models corresponding to the first scenario and identifying a first set of features stored in the features database corresponding to the first scenario. The instructions include, for each alert of the first set of alerts, identifying a first identifier included in the alert, retrieving the first set of features of the first identifier from the parameter database, determining a score using the first model based on the retrieved first set of features, and adding the alert and the score to a result list. The instructions include displaying, on a user device, the result list including the first set of alerts and corresponding scores. |
| US11847139B1 |
Methods and systems for data resynchronization in a replication environment
Methods, computer program products, computer systems, and the like are disclosed that provide for scalable deduplication in an efficient and effective manner. For example, such methods, computer program products, and computer systems can include determining, at a source site, whether metadata has been received from a target site, and, in response to a determination that the metadata has been received at the source site, retrieving the at least one unit of the source data from the source data store using the metadata and sending, from the source site, the at least one unit of source data to the target site. |
| US11847138B2 |
Reflection database architecture with state driven synchronization
Embodiments include systems and method for performing state driven bi-directional synchronization in a reflection database architecture. A set of changes to a series of data fields can be received at a first database, the set of changes being part of a first process flow. The first database can be a reflection of a second database over a partition. State driven synchronization can be performed by a bi-directional synchronization engine for at least a portion of the series of data fields between the first database and the second database. The bi-directional synchronization engine can be configured to bi-directionally synchronize data between the first database and the second database based at least in part on detecting a boundary state at one or more of the first database and the second database. |
| US11847135B2 |
Blockchain node and transaction method
A transaction method and a node design in a blockchain system, where a client initiates a transaction using a Structured Query Language (SQL) write command including transaction data or queries transaction data using an SQL query command. A node parses an SQL command, executes a simulated transaction, and checks block data based on a transaction result of the simulated transaction after obtaining the block data. After the check succeeds, the node converts the block data into an SQL write command that writes the block data, thereby writing the block data to a relational database (RDB). |
| US11847134B2 |
Computerized system for programmatic mapping of record lineage based on data flow through data storage components
An apparatus includes processing circuitry and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processing circuitry, cause the apparatus to identify a plurality of components and a data flow that interconnects the plurality of components. The instructions cause the apparatus to determine a lineage of a record generated by the plurality of components based on the data flow. The lineage indicates the data flow from a first component to a second component of the plurality of components to generate the record. The instructions cause the apparatus to present, to a user, a visual depiction of the lineage of the record. The visual depiction indicates the data flow of a query through at least the first component and the second component of the plurality of the components to generate the record. |
| US11847132B2 |
Visualization and exploration of probabilistic models
Embodiments facilitating data exploration in a computing environment by a processor. A multidimensional dataset may be received. The multidimensional dataset may be processed according to booting operation parameters. A visualization and exploration of an interactive representation of one or more probabilistic models using multidimensional dataset. |
| US11847129B2 |
System and method for managing cognate specifications of goods
A cognate specification system manages and enforces digital, canonical representations of entities that are added to and in the system by creating a composite entity key (“EntityKey”) that uniquely and immutably identifies each entity within the system, and that is created based upon the attributes of the entity rather than being arbitrarily assigned. Entities may be organized into various types or cognates, each associated with distinct sets of attributes. A physical or digital referent may be added to the system as an entity by specifying attributes. In such a system, any entity, whether a physical or digital referent, a process, or other type, is uniquely and verifiably identifiable, and may be linked to or associated with other entities, allowing users of the system to produce and access specification granularity beyond traditional approaches focused on systems interoperability. |
| US11847117B2 |
Filter class for querying operations
A data model identifying a first and second table may be stored, the first table comprising a first and second attribute, the second table comprising a third attribute. A first filter parameter of a first filter and a second filter parameter of a second filter may be obtained. A first tag value may be associated with the first and second filters. A set of filters including the first and second filters may be determined in response to a determination that the first and second filters are associated with the first tag value. An argument indicating the first and second filter parameters may be generated based on the set of filters. A call to the first table may be executed based on the argument, the execution of the call causing values of the first and second attributes to be obtained based on the first and second filter parameters. |
| US11847109B2 |
In-memory database for multi-tenancy
An in-memory database server hosting a tenant of a multi-tenant software architecture can receive a definition of a custom data field that is unique to an organization having isolated access to the tenant. The custom data field can extend a standard table defined by central metadata stored at a system tenant of the multi-tenant software architecture. Tenant private metadata that includes the definition can be stored in memory accessible only to the tenant. A tenant-dependent table that includes the custom data field can be formed, for example by retrieving central metadata defining the standard table from the system tenant and adding the custom data field using the definition. The tenant-dependent table can be presented for access via a database client at the organization. Related systems, articles of manufacture, and computer-implemented methods are disclosed. |
| US11847105B1 |
Association-rule based data outlier detection and record completion system and method
The present disclosure comprises systems and methods to mine association rules from a dataset provided in the input. This comprises methodologies for optimizing the dataset for efficient computation of association rules, other than methodologies for handling partially true data. Moreover, it includes methodologies for evaluating the mining process automatically and removing uninteresting rules. In addition, it includes methodologies for integrating experts in the evaluation of the rules. Finally, methodologies to automatically detect outliers, correct outliers, update truth values and complete missing data in the original dataset. The overall methodology is completely automated and provides numerous tuning parameters to fit most of the use cases, including a default value for each of the tuning parameters to simplify its usage. |
| US11847103B2 |
Data migration using customizable database consolidation rules
Embodiments include systems and methods for performing data migration using database consolidation. Information and parameters about a plurality of source databases from a source system can be stored, the parameters including a location, a security zone, and processor information for the source databases. Each of the plurality of source databases can be classified to one of a plurality of predetermined database sizes based on the stored information and parameters, wherein the classifying is at least based on the processor information. The classified source databases can be mapped to target database hardware based on the classified sizes and the stored parameters, wherein the target database hardware is segmented into containers that are defined by one or more of the parameters. Data from the source databases can be migrated to the target database hardware based on the mappings. |
| US11847094B2 |
Medical device and data management method for same
Disclosed are a medical device and a data management method therefor. The data management method includes: receiving an instruction for selecting a locking rule to determine a target locking rule, wherein the target locking rule is used for screening monitoring data so as to carry out locking; under the trigger of a first trigger condition, screening the monitoring data according to the target locking rule, and locking the screened monitoring data; and under the trigger of a second trigger condition, selectively deleting monitoring data that is not locked. An operator can selectively lock the monitoring data by selecting the locking rule, thereby avoiding the deletion of monitoring data needing to be retained, and facilitating the management of the monitoring data. |
| US11847090B1 |
SPI bus synchronization
A method for Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) operating-mode synchronization between an SPI host and an SPI device, which communicate over an SPI bus, includes predefining, in the SPI device, one or more values on the SPI bus as indicative of lack of synchronization of an SPI operating mode between the SPI host and the SPI device. Re-synchronization of the SPI operating mode is initiated in response to receiving any of the predefined values in the SPI device. |
| US11847087B2 |
Systems and methods for chip operation using serial peripheral interface (SPI) with reduced pin options
Systems and methods for chip operation using serial peripheral interface (SPI) with reduced pin options contemplate eliminating the chip select pins, interrupt pins and/or reset pins for host (also referred to as master)-to-device (also referred to as slave) communication links, while preserving the possibility of backward compatibility for legacy devices if desired. The communication link may include a clock line, a host-to-device line, and a device-to-host line. The host may use specific sequences of signals on the clock and host-to-device line to provide start and stop sequence commands, interrupts, or reset commands. By consolidating these commands onto the clock and host-to-device line, pin count may be reduced for portions of the host and slave circuits. Likewise, fewer (or at least shorter potentially) conductive traces may be needed to interconnect the host to the device. Such changes may save cost, make layout design easier, and/or save space within a computing device. |
| US11847086B2 |
Method and apparatus for configuring MMIOH base address of server system
Please amend the abstract of the specification as follows:Disclosed is a method for configuring an MMIOH base address of a server system. The method includes: when the server system is performing a power-on self-test, detecting a total capacity of all memories in the server system, and determining a minimum MMIOH base address of the server system according to an MMIO specification and the total capacity; if a target MMIOH base address range corresponding to a target PCIE device configured in the server system might be calculated according to a whitelist, and the minimum MMIOH base address is within the target MMIOH base address range, determining that the base address is the MMIOH base address of the server system, and storing the base address in a BIOS of the server system. |
| US11847084B2 |
Circuits and methods for enabling redundancy in an electronic system employing cold-sparing
CMOS output stages, electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuits and input bus-keeper functions are provided that block dc and ac leakage paths within inactive powered-down integrated circuits used in redundant high-reliability system configurations employing cold-sparing to provide backup circuitry. These circuits and methods avoid both undesirable power consumption in a cold-spared backup unit and loading of connected active units when powered down, without compromising performance or functionality of the backup unit when in its active powered state. Inputs and outputs using an analog majority voting principle to implement in-circuit redundancy for on-chip fault tolerance are also provided, incorporating the low-leakage principles of the invention for low power dissipation when powered down. Such on-chip redundancy can harden an IC against various faults, such as single-event effects in high-radiation environments, while maintaining the other advantages in a cold-sparing system. |
| US11847083B2 |
Daisy-chain SPI integrated circuit and operation method thereof
The disclosure provides a daisy-chain serial peripheral interface (SPI) integrated circuit (IC) and an operation method thereof. The daisy-chain SPI IC includes a first MISO interface circuit, a second MISO interface circuit, a first data enable (DE) interface circuit, and a second DE interface circuit. When the daisy-chain SPI IC is a target slave circuit selected by a masterIC for reading target data, the first DE interface circuit outputs a DE signal to the master IC, and the first MISO interface circuit sends back the target data to the master IC based on the timing of the DE signal. When the daisy-chain SPI IC is not the target slave circuit, the signal received by the second DE interface circuit is transmitted to the first DE interface circuit, and the data received by the second MISO interface circuit is transmitted to the first MISO interface circuit. |
| US11847081B2 |
Smart network interface controller (SmartNIC) storage non-disruptive update
Traditionally, servers are interconnected inside a data center using regular network cards. It is desired that high-available network-attached storage arrays have the feature of non-disruptive upgrade (NDU) for software and firmware, while one or more applications are still running IO. With the emergence of SmartNICs, there are many functions available now to SmartNIC that may enhance server and entire solution capabilities. Since SmartNIC is a new emerging technology, there are no adequate solutions currently for NDU while running I/O. The present patent document discloses embodiments for upgrading the SmartNIC software without disruption to the host applications. A shared namespace may be implemented inside an emulated NVMe/PCIe device, such as a data processing unit (DPU) or infrastructure processing unit (IPU), such that multiple instances may be enabled to run both old and new target emulation SPDK-based software together using multiple paths to achieve SmartNIC storage NDU. |
| US11847078B2 |
Semiconductor device and method for protecting bus
The master interface generates copy data by copying the first data, and generates an error detection code based on the copy data. The protocol conversion unit generates the second data by converting the first data from the first protocol to the second protocol. The slave interface detects errors in the copy data based on the error detection code. The slave interface also generates the first verification data by performing a conversion from one of the first protocol or the second protocol to the other for one of the second data or copy data. In addition, the slave interface compares the second verification data with the first verification data, using the other of the second data or copy as the second verification data. |
| US11847077B2 |
Serial peripheral interface integrated circuit and operation method thereof
A serial peripheral interface (SPI) integrated circuit (IC) and an operation method thereof are provided. A SPI architecture includes a master IC and a slave IC. When the SPI IC is a master IC, the SPI IC generates first command information for a slave IC, generates first debugging information corresponding to the first command information, and sends the first command information and the first debugging information to the slave IC through a SPI channel. When the SPI IC is the slave IC, the SPI IC receives second command information and second debugging information sent by the master IC through the SPI channel and checks the second command information by using the second debugging information. When the SPI IC is a target slave circuit selected by the master IC, the SPI IC executes the second command information under a condition that the second command information is checked and is correct. |
| US11847076B2 |
Pre-processing of waveform data using autonomous waveform circuitry and related apparatuses and methods
Waveform circuitry and related apparatuses and methods are disclosed. An apparatus includes a memory device to store waveform data corresponding to a waveform, a processor, and a waveform circuitry to autonomously pre-process the waveform data independently from the processor and provide the pre-processed waveform data to one or more peripheral devices. A pre-processed waveform corresponding to the pre-processed waveform is data different from the waveform. |
| US11847073B2 |
Data path interface circuit, memory and memory system
A data path interface circuit includes: a writing path module, connected to an internal port and an external port and configured to transmit stored data to the internal port from the external port; a reading path module, connected to the internal port and external port respectively and configured to transmit the stored data to the external port from the internal port; a first delay module, connected to the external port and internal port respectively, and configured to obtain the stored data from the external port or internal port, perform delay processing on the stored data, and transmit the delayed stored data to the writing path module and/or reading path module; and a delay control module, connected to the first delay module and configured to receive a signal instruction from external and control delay time for the first delay module to perform the delay processing according to the signal instruction. |
| US11847069B2 |
Granular access control for secure memory
A secure processing system includes a memory having a secure partition and a non-secure partition, a neural network processing unit (NPU) configured to initiate transactions with the memory, and a memory protection unit (MPU) configured to filter the transactions. Each of the transactions includes at least an address of the memory to be accessed, one of a plurality of first master identifiers (IDs) associated with the NPU, and security information indicating whether the NPU is in a secure state or a non-secure state when the transaction is initiated. The MPU is to selectively deny access to the secure partition of the memory based at least in part on the memory address, the first master ID, and the security information associated with each of the transactions. |
| US11847068B2 |
Ethernet-attached SSD for automotive applications
A data storage device includes: a housing integrating a control logic, a data protection logic, and a non-volatile storage; and a network interface connector integrated to the housing and is configured to be directly inserted into a network switch. The control logic is configured to store a vehicle data including a video stream in the non-volatile storage. The video stream is received from a video camera that is connected to the network switch. The data protection logic is configured to detect a vehicle event and change an operating mode of the data storage device to a read-only mode prohibiting the vehicle data stored in the non-volatile storage from being erased or tampered. |
| US11847064B2 |
Buffer and methods for address translations in a processor
A method and system of translating addresses is disclosed that includes receiving an effective address for translation, providing a processor and a translation buffer where the translation buffer has a plurality of entries, wherein each entry contains a mapping of an effective address directly to a corresponding real address, and information on a corresponding intermediate virtual address. The method and system further include determining whether the translation buffer has an entry matching the effective address, and in response to the translation buffer having an entry with a matching effective address, providing the real address translation from the entry having the matching effective address. |
| US11847062B2 |
Re-fetching data for L3 cache data evictions into a last-level cache
In response to eviction of a first clean data block from an intermediate level of cache in a multi-cache hierarchy of a processing system, a cache controller accesses an address of the first clean data block. The controller initiates a fetch of the first clean data block from a system memory into a last-level cache using the accessed address. |
| US11847056B1 |
Technique for controlling use of a cache to store prefetcher metadata
An apparatus comprises prefetch circuitry, and a cache having a plurality of entries to store data for access by processing circuitry and blocks of metadata for reference by the prefetch circuitry. The prefetch circuitry can detect one or more access sequences in dependence on training inputs derived from demand accesses processed by the cache in response to memory access operations performed by the processing circuitry. On detecting a given access sequence, this causes an associated given block of metadata providing information indicative of the given access sequence to be stored in a selected entry of the cache. Eviction control circuitry, responsive to a victimisation event, performs an operation to select a victim entry in the cache, the victim entry being selected from one or more candidate victim entries. Each entry has an associated age indication value used to determine whether that entry is allowed to be a candidate victim entry, and the eviction control circuitry is arranged to perform a dynamic ageing operation to determine an ageing control value used to control updating of the associated age indication value for any entry storing a block of metadata. The dynamic ageing operation is arranged to determine the ageing control value in dependence on at least a training rate indication for the prefetch circuitry, where the training rate indication is indicative of a number of training inputs per memory access operation performed by the processing circuitry. |
| US11847054B2 |
Providing data values using asynchronous operations and based on timing of occurrence of requests for the data values
A processing system server and methods for performing asynchronous data store operations. The server includes a processor which maintains a cache of objects in memory of the server. The processor executes an asynchronous computation to determine the value of an object. In response to receiving a request for the object occurring before the asynchronous computation has determined the value of the object, a value of the object is returned from the cache. In response to receiving a request for the object occurring after the asynchronous computation has determined the value of the object, a value of the object determined by the asynchronous computation is returned. The asynchronous computation may comprise at least one future, such as a ListenableFuture, or a process or thread. The asynchronous computation may determine the value of the object by querying at least one additional server. |
| US11847047B2 |
Movable platform and actuating attachment
Disclosed herein is a movable platform (MP) for moving freight during cross-dock operations. The MP comprises a mechanical actuation assembly used to deploy a plurality of roller assemblies used for moving the MP. Also disclosed is an actuating attachment used to deploy the mechanical actuation assembly of the MP. The actuating attachment can be attached to a conveyance vehicle, such as a forklift, or built in to an automated guided vehicle. |
| US11847038B1 |
System and method for automatically recommending logs for low-cost tier storage
A system and method for managing logs from computing environments uses a rate change in a rate of occurrence of same event type logs from a base time window to a current time window for each of the event types to identify candidate event types for a particular tier log storage. The rate changes of the event types are checked against a threshold rate change range to identify the candidate event types. In response to selection of some of the candidate event types, the logs in the selected candidate event types are transferred to the particular tier log storage. |
| US11847032B2 |
Solid state drive, electronic device including solid state drive, and method of managing solid state drive
An electronic device includes: a power supply to supply a first power and a second power; a first solid state drive (SSD) backplane and a second SSD backplane to receive the first power from the power supply, each of the first solid state drive (SSD) backplane and the second SSD backplane including two or more SSDs; and a baseboard to receive the second power from the power supply, to independently power on and power off the first SSD backplane and the second SSD backplane, and to access the SSDs of an SSD backplane that is in a power-on state from among the first SSD backplane and the second SSD backplane. In response to an increase in temperature of an SSD backplane that is in a power-off state, at least one SSD of the SSD backplane that is in the power-off state may be powered on. |
| US11847031B2 |
Database recovery and database recovery testing
A method of database recovery includes starting a first database server, starting a second database server, starting a third database server, and starting an application server after starting the first database server, the second database server, and the third. The first, second, and third database servers are configured to store data according to first, second, and third database management systems, respectively, and the application server is configured to run application modules of a set of application modules. The method of database recovery further includes starting a search module, starting a product catalog management module, starting a web connectivity module after starting the search module, starting a graphical user interface module after starting the web connectivity module, and starting at least one business operations module. |
| US11847027B2 |
Automated configuration conflict resolution and lightweight restoration
An automated toolset performs configuration conflict resolution for virtual machines (VMs) providing services in a networked cloud computing system by determining a set of changes to be committed through a series of automated actions. The toolset resolves conflicts among multiple possible configurations that could result in an incorrect VM state and merges configurations in view of inputs from internal and external systems. The toolset operates to identify only a subset of changes that differ between current and new configurations that are loaded into the system to streamline configuration loading and provide for lightweight restoration by rolling back only those differences. Further efficiencies are achieved using an automated test suite environment that is specially adapted to test and validate new configurations to ensure correct loading and avoid system failures. |
| US11847025B2 |
Storage system parity based on system characteristics
Providing for increased flexibility for large scale parity, the including: writing data to a storage system, including utilizing a first data protection scheme; identifying, for storage media in the storage system, characteristics of the storage media; identifying, in dependence up the characteristics for the storage media, a second data protection scheme to use for the data; and writing the data to the to the storage system utilizing the second data protection scheme. |
| US11847024B2 |
Memory controller, memory system including the same, and method of operating the memory controller
A memory controller for controlling a memory operation of a memory device includes: an error correction code (ECC) circuit configured to detect an error of first read data read from the memory device and correct the error; an error type detection logic configured to write first write data to the memory device, compare second read data with the first write data, detect an error bit of the second read data based on a result of the comparing, and output information about an error type identified by the error bit; and a data patterning logic configured to change a bit pattern of input data to reduce an error of the second read data based on the information about the error type. |
| US11847022B2 |
Computation and placement of error correcting codes (ECC) in a computing system data cache
Computation, placement, and accessing of error correcting codes (ECC) in a computer system data cache enabling partial reads and writes to each line of data in the cache. For storing multiple compressed blocks, received at differing time periods, in a single cache line, the ECC for the first compressed block is stored in the ECC field of the cache and the ECC for the second and subsequently received compressed blocks is appended to the compressed data. Additionally, an auxiliary ECC cache may be constructed for temporarily holding a partial ECC for a partial read/write, and a new ECC for the partial read/write is computed using the partial ECC. |
| US11847010B2 |
Appliance and methods for operating same in a safety-critical operation
An appliance and methods for operating the appliance in a safety-critical operation are provided. The appliance and methods for operating the appliance include features that provide safe and intuitive ways to initiate and cancel safety-critical operations performed by the appliance. |
| US11847007B2 |
Data center total resource utilization efficiency (TRUE) system and method
Embodiments disclosed include methods and systems that adaptively, in real-time, evaluate data center performance, assess data center efficiency, data center sustainability, data center availability, compute performance, storage performance and provide data center customers with an overall data center performance rating, presented as a Total Resource Utilization Efficiency or TRUE score. Other embodiments of this aspect include corresponding computer systems, apparatus, and computer programs recorded on one or more computer storage devices, each configured to perform the actions of the methods. Other embodiments of the methods or systems include addition of newly defined metrics as categories or sub-categories to be used to calculate data center TRUE score. |
| US11847006B2 |
Integrated circuit with debugger and arbitration interface
An integrated circuit includes: a debugger; and an interface coupled to the debugger. The interface has: arbitration logic coupled to the debugger; a power processor coupled to the arbitration logic; and a power management network coupled to the power processor. The integrated circuit also includes subsystems coupled to the interface. The debugger is configured to perform debugging operations of the subsystems via the interface. |
| US11847005B2 |
Compact USB-C based multiport power supply device and method of operation thereof
A multiport universal serial bus (USB)-C based power supply device including a USB type-C port configured to supply power to a connected type-C external device, at least one USB type-A port configured to supply power to at least one connected type-A external sink device, a configurable power source and a controller operatively coupled with the configurable power source, the USB type-C port and at least one of the USB type-A port. The controller is configured to generate, based on the generated type-C and type-A power profile, at least one of a digital communication signal and a feedback control signal, which correspond to a power value to be supplied, based on the generated power profile, to the type-C port and the at least one type-A port respectively. Operation of the multiport USB-C based power supply device by a single controller facilitates compact construction of the multiport USB-C based power supply device. |
| US11847004B2 |
Electronic device system including a plurality of electronic devices and a control device connected to the plurality of electronic devices addressing variations due to clock variations in each electronic device
An electronic device includes a hold circuit and a microcomputer. The hold circuit is connected to a power control line from a control device. The microcomputer starts measuring the time of a second state when the power control line transitions from a first state to the second state due to the control device. The microcomputer controls a power supply circuit to turn on power when the second state continues for a first predetermined time, and operates the hold circuit to maintain the power control line in the second state for a second predetermined time after the first predetermined time has elapsed. |
| US11847003B2 |
Folding device and heat dissipation apparatus
A folding device and a heat dissipation apparatus, where the folding device includes a heat collection element, including a heat collection plate and a first shaft sleeve, where a first end of the heat collection plate is in contact with a heat source in a first folding part, and a second end of the heat collection plate is coupled to an outer wall of the first shaft sleeve, the first shaft sleeve is sleeved on a rotating shaft, and a third end of the cooling element is in contact with the rotating shaft, and a fourth end of the cooling element is in contact with a heat dissipation device in a second folding part. |
| US11847002B2 |
Expelling air from a computer enclosure
In an example implementation, a computer assembly includes a computer enclosure, a motherboard with an inset edge section that forms a motherboard air gap between the motherboard and a rear wall of the enclosure when the motherboard is installed in the enclosure, a vent opening formed in the enclosure below the motherboard, and an air mover to draw air from above the motherboard, through the air gap, and below the motherboard, and to expel the air drawn below the motherboard from the enclosure through the vent opening. |
| US11847001B2 |
Antenna package and image display device including the same
An antenna package according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes an antenna device including an antenna unit that includes a first radiator, and an intermediate circuit board coupled to the antenna device to be electrically connected to the antenna unit. The intermediate circuit board includes a core layer, a first feeding wiring formed on one surface of the core layer and electrically connected to the antenna unit, and a second radiator formed on the one surface of the core layer. A radiation coverage is expanded using an antenna included in the intermediate circuit board. |
| US11846993B2 |
Mobile device with flexible display and housing
A mobile device including various components in communication with one another, the mobile device comprising a flexible housing, flexible display device mounted in the housing, a deformation sensor mounted in the housing and a device controller configured to operate the mobile device responsive to receipt of data input from the flexible display device, wherein the device controller automatically deactivates the processing of at least a portion of data input received of the plurality of data input received from the display device responsive to receiving communication from the deformation sensor detecting a threshold level of deformation of the housing. |
| US11846987B2 |
Portable electronic device having biaxial hinge structure
A portable electronic device including a first body, a second body, a stand, and a hinge structure is provided. The stand has a first pivot part and a second pivot part opposite to the first pivot part, wherein the first pivot part is pivotally connected to the first body, and the second body is pivotally connected to the second pivot part. The hinge structure includes a first bracket secured to the second body, a second bracket secured to the second pivot part of the stand, a first movable base, a first shaft secured to the first bracket and pivoted to the first movable base, a second movable base, a second shaft secured to the first movable base and pivoted to the second movable base, and a sliding shaft fixed to the second movable base and slidably connected to the second bracket. |
| US11846982B1 |
Laptop case and collapsible shade system
A laptop case and shade component system. The clamshell style laptop case provides a lid and a base connected via a case hinge which joins the lid and the base along their corresponding rear edges. The lid and base, respectively, each have a front edge portion and left and right side edge portions. Two gussets interconnect the lid to the base along their respective two side edge portions. A shade component can be attached to a portion of the front edge and left and right side edge portions of the lid to shield a laptop device placed within the opened laptop case from direct sunlight. The shade component can be moved to its collapsed position via a hinge at its bottommost point, detached from the lid, and retained along the interior surface of the case's lid for storage purposes. |
| US11846980B2 |
Real-time detection of system threats
Some examples relate generally to managing and storing data, and more specifically to the real-time detection of ransomware, system (or insider) threats, or the misappropriation of credentials by using file system audit events. |
| US11846979B1 |
Anomaly detection and diagnostics based on multivariate analysis
Anomalies in a target object can be detected and diagnosed using improved Mahalanobis-Taguchi system (MTS) techniques. For example, an anomaly detection and diagnosis (ADD) system can receive a set of measurements associated with attributes of a target object. A Mahalanobis distance (MD) can be determined using a generalized inverse matrix. An abnormal condition can be detected when the MD is greater than a predetermined threshold value. The ADD system can determine an importance score for each measurement of a corresponding attribute. The attribute whose measurement has the highest importance score can be determined to be responsible for the abnormal condition. |
| US11846977B1 |
Data aggregator graphical user interface
Systems and methods for generating a data aggregator interactive graphical user interface. An interactive graphical user interface (GUI) includes a selectable symbol region, a query region and a data results region. The selectable symbol region displays predefined symbols. The query region displays user input fields for generating queries. The system receives user input associated with the user input fields of the query region to form a filter set. The data results region is automatically updated responsive to the user input, to display one or more data values from among one or more databases associated with the filter set. The system receives a subscription request to save the filter set as a user-customized query. A custom symbol is created responsive to the subscription request that is associated with the filter set. The the selectable symbol region is updated to display the custom symbol together with the predefined symbols. |
| US11846976B2 |
Techniques for stateful persisted service resource reduction
A data processing system implements techniques for provisioning and operating databases including receiving a request to provision a new database that includes multiple replicas. The data processing system provisions the new database including the plurality of replicas. The plurality of replicas includes a primary replica, one or more secondary replicas, and one or more delta replicas. The primary replica is configured to handle read and write operations. The one or more secondary replicas include a copy of data and transactional log information of the primary replica and are unable to handle write operations. The one or more delta replicas are a copy of the transactional log information of the primary replica and are unable to handle read operations or write operations. |
| US11846973B1 |
Systems and methods for context-dependent multicore interrupt facilitation
A multicore processor may include a plurality of cores including at least a first core and a second core, a shared peripheral comprising a plurality of interrupt register banks including at least a first interrupt register bank dedicated to the first core and a second interrupt register bank dedicated to the second core, and a plurality of communications bridges, including at least a first bridge interfaced between the first core and the shared peripheral and at least a second bridge interfaced between the second core and the shared peripheral. The first core may be configured to program the first interrupt register bank via the first bridge to configure the shared peripheral for access by the first core. The second core may be configured to program the second interrupt register bank via the second bridge to configure the shared peripheral for access by the second core. |
| US11846967B1 |
System and method for creating at least one step for providing digital guidance to an underlying application
A system and method to create at least one step for providing digital guidance to an underlying application is disclosed. The system comprising one or more user devices in communication with a server, the user device comprising a processor configured to: scan the underlying application for identifying one or more elements; select at least one target element; determine neighbouring element in proximity of the target element; analyse elements to determine attributes including unique attributes; classify as a pillar element depending upon presence of unique attributes; determine an intersection element between the target element and the pillar element; and determine path of the intersection element, store path of the intersection element, the path of the intersection element enables identification of the intersection element and based on the intersection element, the pillar element and the target element associated with the intersection element can be identified. |
| US11846966B2 |
Electronic device
An electronic device includes: a display layer; a sensor layer on the display layer and comprising an active area and a peripheral area, the sensor layer being configured to operate in a first mode and a second mode different from the first mode; and a sensor controller configured to control the sensor layer, wherein the first mode comprises a first operation period, the second mode comprises a plurality of second operation periods and a third operation period, and the sensor controller is configured to sense a first input generated by a touch in the first operation period, to sense a second input generated by an input device in one of the second operation periods, to sense a third input generated by a touch different from the touch generating the first input in a portion of the active area in the third operation period, and to calculate a first sensing value. |
| US11846962B2 |
Bandgap reference circuit
A bandgap reference circuit includes a bandgap reference core circuit that includes a first bipolar transistor having a first emitter current density and a first base-emitter voltage, a second bipolar transistor having a second emitter current density that is smaller than the first emitter current density and having a second base-emitter voltage, a resistor that is connected to the emitter of the second bipolar transistor, and a differential amplifier circuit that is configured to control first and second emitter currents through the first and second bipolar transistors, respectively, such that a sum of the second base-emitter voltage and a voltage drop across the resistor approximates the first base-emitter voltage. The bandgap reference circuit further includes a first replica bipolar transistor that emulates an operating point of the first bipolar transistor and a second replica bipolar transistor that emulates an operating point of the second bipolar transistor. |
| US11846960B2 |
Systems and methods for creating load peaks and valleys
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for shaping the load of a building for more efficient sizing and/or economics of an energy storage and/or microgrid system. Shaping the load of a building can include identifying a plurality of core hours of a time period increasing a load of the building, a plurality of different increase instances, by interfacing with a BAS and an ESS during the plurality of core hours, and decreasing the load of the building, a plurality of different decrease instances, by interfacing with the BAS and the ESS during the plurality of core hours, wherein each increase instance from the plurality of different increase instances of the load profile is followed by a decrease instance from the plurality of decrease instances of the load profile. |
| US11846959B2 |
Household energy management system utilizing multiple scales of time
An electricity management system for a residential setting includes a controller that is coupled with a plurality of appliances. A plurality of sensors are coupled with the controller and respectively coupled to the plurality of appliances. The controller cooperates with the sensors and the appliances to generate a demand response plan for delivering electrical power to the plurality of appliances. The demand response plan includes a shifting strategy that regulates a delivery of electrical power based upon a regional pattern of electrical consumption, a shedding strategy that maintains a household consumption of electrical power below a household upper consumption limit and a modulating strategy based upon the respective operating cycles of the plurality of appliances that prevents a simultaneous peak electrical event within more than one appliance of the plurality of appliances. The shifting strategy, the shedding strategy and the modulating strategy are implemented contemporaneously. |
| US11846957B1 |
Signal driver circuit
One example discloses a signal driver circuit, including: an input configured to receive an input signal; an output configured to transmit an output signal; a low drop-out voltage regulator (LDO) having a regulated voltage output; a set of voltage-modulated amplifiers having a first input coupled to the regulated voltage output, and a second input configured to receive the input signal; wherein the voltage-modulated amplifier is configured to amplify the input signal and transmit an amplified input signal on the output of the signal driver circuit; a de-emphasis controller, including a set of de-emphasis levels; wherein the de-emphasis controller is configured to selectively switch-on a first subset of the set of voltage-modulated amplifiers and switch-off a second subset of the set of voltage-modulated amplifiers based on the de-emphasis levels. |
| US11846956B2 |
Linear voltage regulator with stability compensation
A linear voltage regulator includes a transistor, an error amplifier, a feedback circuit and a compensation circuit. The transistor has a first terminal for receiving an input voltage, a second terminal for providing an output voltage, and a control terminal. The error amplifier has a first input terminal, a second input terminal and an output terminal, wherein the first input terminal receives a reference voltage, and the output terminal is coupled to the control terminal of the transistor. The feedback circuit receives the output voltage and generates a feedback voltage lower than the output voltage. The compensation circuit is configured to receive the feedback voltage and generate a compensation voltage at the second input terminal of the error amplifier. The compensation circuit includes a compensation capacitor for introducing a zero point into an open-loop transfer function of the linear voltage regulator to improve system stability. |
| US11846950B2 |
Mobile robot and control method thereof
The present invention relates to a moving robot and a control method thereof, and includes a sensor unit configured to detect an obstacle located in a traveling direction; a camera configured to photograph the obstacle, when the obstacle is detected by the sensor unit; a controller configured to control a certain operation to be performed in accordance with the obstacle. The controller analyzes a plurality of image data of the obstacle inputted from the camera to determine whether the obstacle can be identified and filters the image data, transmits the filtered image data among the plurality of image data to the server through the communication unit, and controls the traveling unit in accordance with obstacle information received from the server. Hence, by transmitting only recognizable image, unnecessary data transmission is reduced, and accordingly, transmission traffic is reduced and the load of image processing of the server is reduced. As the load of the server decreases, the obstacle can be quickly determined, and accordingly, the moving robot can recognize the obstacle in a short time and determine the type of the obstacle to cope with, thereby performing the operation suitable for the feature of the obstacle, the cleaning area, or the surrounding environment. |
| US11846946B2 |
System and method for mapping and building database for harvesting-dilution tasks using aerial drones
The present invention provides a computerized system for mapping an orchard, and a method for producing precise map and database with high resolution and accuracy of all trees in an orchard. |
| US11846942B2 |
System for monitoring the landing zone of an electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft
A system for monitoring the landing zone of an electric aircraft, the system including an electric aircraft wherein the electric aircraft includes at least a sensor configured to measure a plurality of data of regarding a first potential landing zone and transmit the plurality of data to at least a flight controller. The flight controller is designed and configured to receive the plurality of data from at least a sensor, determine a landing safety datum as a function of the plurality of data and at least a safety parameter range, and transmit the landing safety datum to an output device. The output device is designed and configured to receive the plurality of data from the flight controller, and display, to the pilot, the landing safety datum and a locator component designed and configured to capture a second potential landing zone that is distinct from the first potential landing zone. |
| US11846941B2 |
Drone graphical user interface
A monitoring system that is configured to monitor a property is disclosed. The monitoring system includes a sensor that is configured to generate sensor data that reflects an attribute of a property. The monitoring system further includes a drone that generates image data, location data, and orientation data. The monitoring system further includes a monitor control unit. The monitor control unit is configured to receive the sensor data, the location data, and the orientation data. The monitor control unit is configured to determine that an event has occurred at the property and a location of the event within the property. The monitor control unit is configured to generate a graphical overlay based on the event, the location data, and the orientation data. The monitor control unit is configured to generate a graphical interface. The monitor control unit is configured to output the graphical interface. |
| US11846933B2 |
Apparatus, system and method for developing industrial process solutions using artificial intelligence
An apparatus, system and method of providing industrial analytics. The apparatus, system and method include at least a plurality of sensors sensing performance indicators for an industrial process across multiple nodes, wherein ones of the multiple nodes are remote from each other; at least one machine learning module comprising non-transitory computing code executed by a processor. When executed by the processor, the code causes the steps of: receiving user input regarding at least the industrial process and a data set; selecting a model based on at least the user input, wherein the selected model comprises a plurality of learnings based on the performance indicators sensed by multiple sensors across at least multiple ones of the multiple nodes; applying the selected model to the data set; assessing at least the performance indicators for the data set upon application of the selected model; and outputting the assessed performance indicator. |
| US11846931B2 |
Industrial internet of things, control method, and medium for regulating multi-type of working parameters
The present disclosure discloses an Industrial Internet of Things, a control method, and a medium for regulating multi-type of working parameters. The Industrial Internet of Things may include a user platform, a service platform, a management platform, a sensor network platform and an object platform that interact in turn. The service platform, the management platform and the sensor network platform may be all arranged in a front sub-platform layout. The control method may be applied to the Industrial Internet of Things. The optimal value of the working parameter may be obtained based on the product manufacturing data, and the optimal selection of the parameter may be realized under the condition of ensuring the production, and then the working parameters of all the manufacturing devices may be further regulated or determined. |
| US11846928B2 |
Method for irradiating a powder layer in additive production using continuously defined production parameters
A method for providing data for selectively irradiating a powder layer in additive production, the method includes: providing a predefined component geometry for a component; dividing the component geometry into at least one first component layer and an overlying second component layer for additive production, wherein a contour of the second component layer is incongruent with a contour of the first component layer; and continuously defining at least one production parameter for additively producing the second component layer in region of a molten bath of a contour of the first component layer. A corresponding component is produced and a computer program product implements the method. |
| US11846925B2 |
Systems and methods for supporting multiple automated workflows
Systems and methods for automated workflow comprise assigning a set of first targets to an uncompiled first workflow. The uncompiled first workflow specifies a first set of process modules. Each such module is associated with a subset of unit operations. Each unit operation includes a time interval and specifies an instrument. For each target in the set of first targets, the uncompiled workflow is translated into an instance of a compiled first workflow comprising a linear temporal order of unit operations, each including execution instructions for an addressed instrument. A set of second targets is obtained and assigned a second uncompiled workflow. Compilation of the second uncompiled workflow for each second target produces a different instance of a compiled second workflow. Each second compiled workflow comprises a linear temporal order of unit operations, with each unit operation including execution instructions for an addressed instrument and specifying a time interval. |
| US11846921B2 |
Feedback loop driven end-to-end state control of complex data-analytic systems
A system provides feedback driven end-to-end state control of a data model. A data model may be used to model the behavior of a petrochemical refinery to predict future events. The system may be used to ensure proper operation of the data model. Contingency data models may be executed when a failure is detected. Further, when the system detects accuracy that is out of tolerance, the system may initiate retraining of the data model being currently used. |
| US11846920B2 |
Integrated detection scheme for fast blood flow measurement
Disclosed are various embodiments for integrated diffuse correlation spectroscopy. A first control signal can be sent to a switch to cause an integrator to integrate a current from a photodiode. An integrated current can be received from the integrator, and a data signal can be sent to a computing device based at least in part on the integrated current. A second control signal can be sent to a switch to cause the integrator to cease integrating the current from the photodiode. |
| US11846918B1 |
Data driven digital twins for industrial automation device operation enhancement
An industrial automation system may include a first computing device that may receive operational technology (OT) data from industrial automation devices of an industrial automation system, determine identities of the industrial automation devices based on the OT data, determine that the OT data includes data attributes having variations as compared to additional OT data, transmit the identifiers and the data attributes to a second computing device in response to determining that the data attributions have the variations, receive containers including updated digital representations of the industrial automation devices from the second computing device, execute the containers to output additional data attributes, and send commands to the industrial automation devices to modify processes based the additional data attributes. |
| US11846917B2 |
Systems and methods for enhanced wafer manufacturing
A computer device includes at least one processor in communication with at least one memory device. The at least one processor is programmed to store, in the at least one memory device, a model for simulating a portion of an assembly line and receive scan data of a first inspection of a product being assembled, execute the model using the scan data as inputs to generate a final profile of the product, compare the final profile to one or more thresholds, determine if the final profile exceeds at least one of the one or more thresholds, and adjust the first device if the determination is that the final profile exceeds at least one of the one or more thresholds. |
| US11846916B2 |
System architecture for safety applications
Control systems for industrial machinery (e.g., robots) or other devices such as medical devices utilize a safety processor (SP) designed for integration into safety applications and computational components that are not necessarily safety-rated. The SP monitors performance of the non-safety computational components, including latency checks and verification of identical outputs. One or more sensors send data to the non-safety computational components for sophisticated processing and analysis that the SP cannot not perform, but the results of this processing are sent to the SP, which then generates safety-rated signals to the machinery or device being controlled by the SP. As a result, the system may qualify for a safety rating despite the ability to perform complex operations beyond the scope of safety-rated components. |
| US11846915B2 |
Timepiece comprising a mechanical oscillator associated with a regulation system
A timepiece includes a mechanical oscillator and an electromechanical transducer formed by an electromagnetic assembly including a coil and a magnet mounted on the balance of the mechanical oscillator. The induced voltage signal, produced by the electromagnetic transducer during each oscillation, exhibits, in a first half-alternation between the oscillator passes via the neutral position thereof, a first lobe of maximum amplitude having a first polarity and, in a second half-alternation following a passage via the neutral position, a second lobe of maximum amplitude having a second polarity opposite the first. An electric converter includes two power supply capacitors and a device for regulating the medium frequency of the mechanical oscillator. The first power supply capacitor is charged merely with a positive voltage whereas the second capacitor is charged merely with a negative voltage. A load pump is arranged to transfer electric loads between the two capacitors according to a time drift of the mechanical oscillator relative to a time base. |
| US11846914B2 |
Watch
A watch is a watch including a watch case, a cover glass attached to the watch case, and a decorative body attached to the watch case, wherein the watch case includes a holding wall portion provided along an outer periphery of the cover glass, a first column portion provided outside the holding wall portion, a second column portion provided outside the holding wall portion, and provided at a distance from the first column portion, and an inclined portion including an inner end portion formed from between the first and second column portions to the holding wall portion, and is connected with the holding wall portion, and an outer end portion is connected with an outer surface of the watch case and provided at a position close to a rear surface of the watch case, and the decorative body is held by the holding wall portion, the first, and second column portions. |
| US11846909B2 |
Image forming apparatus provided with contacting-separating member capable of moving developing roller relative to photosensitive drum
An image forming apparatus includes: a main casing; a drum cartridge; and a developing cartridge. The drum cartridge includes a photosensitive drum having a rotational axis. The drum cartridge is drawable from the main casing in a first direction where the axis of the photosensitive drum extends. The developing cartridge is drawable from the main casing in the first direction. The developing cartridge includes: a developing roller; a front wall; and a first developing-device frame. The front wall is disposed at a downstream end of the developing cartridge in the first direction. The front wall has a first hole. The first developing-device frame supports the developing roller. The first developing-device frame includes a first boss extending in the first direction. The first boss goes through the first hole of the front wall. |
| US11846908B2 |
Image forming apparatus with liquid guides and liquid outlet ports
An image forming apparatus having an image forming apparatus and a first housing is provided. The first housing has a top cover, a front cover, a side cover, a first guide, and a second guide. The front cover has a front wall having a first outlet port and a first upper wall. The side cover has a first side wall having a second outlet port and a second upper wall. The first guide guides liquid entering the first housing to the first outlet port and is connected to the front wall. The second guide guides the liquid entering the first housing to the second outlet port and is connected to the first side wall. |
| US11846907B2 |
Image forming apparatus having power supply harness
An image forming apparatus includes a fixing device, a power supply, a toner container, a cover, a first harness, and a second harness. The power supply supplies power to the fixing device. The toner container compartment is between the fixing device and the power supply and receives a toner container. The cover is on the toner container compartment and moves into the toner container compartment. The first harness is coupled to the power supply, and the second harness is coupled to the fixing device. The second harness is detachably coupled to the first harness above the cover. |
| US11846901B2 |
Temperature sensor placement for heater substrate in fuser
An example fuser includes a flexible fixing belt, a backup member to form a fixing nip with the fixing belt, a heater substrate for heating the fixing belt at the fixing nip and having a first surface comprising a heating element pattern, a common terminal and a driving power supply terminal for supplying power to the heating element pattern, and a second surface in contact with the fixing belt, and a temperature sensor sheet comprising a temperature sensor, a sensing terminal and an electric wire connecting the temperature sensor to the sensing terminal, wherein the temperature sensor sheet is in contact with the first surface of the heater substrate such that the sensing terminal and the electrical wire do not overlap the common terminal and the driving power supply terminal. |
| US11846897B2 |
Image forming apparatus having toner replenishment
An image forming apparatus having a detachable replenishment container includes an image bearing member, a developer container, a developing bearing member to develop an electrostatic latent image formed on the image bearing member into a toner image by using toner accommodated in the developer container, and a replenishment port through which the developer container can be replenished with toner from the replenishment container. A restriction member transitions between an allowance state in which the replenishment container and the replenishment port communicate with each and a restriction state in which the replenishment container and the replenishment port are not made to communicate with one another. |
| US11846896B2 |
Toner cartridge including movable shutter provided with protrusion on which electrical contact surface is provided
A toner cartridge includes: a casing extending in a first direction; a toner conveying unit; a first cover; a shutter; a memory; and an electrical contact surface electrically connected to the memory. The casing includes a first toner accommodating portion having an opening. The first cover and the shutter are positioned at one end portion of the first toner accommodating portion in the first direction. The first cover has a discharge opening. The shutter has a shutter opening and a first protrusion extending in the first direction and positioned farther from the one end portion of the first toner accommodating portion than the first cover is in the first direction. When the toner cartridge is mounted to a developing device, the first protrusion is fixed in position relative to the developing device and the casing is pivotable together with the first cover relative to the developing device. |
| US11846895B2 |
Cartridge, supply container, and image forming apparatus
A cartridge is configured to be attachable to a main body of an image forming apparatus and configured to receive toner supplied from a supply container. The cartridge includes a supply port configured to receive the toner supplied from the supply container, a shutter member configured to cover the supply port, and a locking member. The locking member is moved from a lock position to an unlock position to allow movement of the shutter member by using electric power supplied from the main body. |
| US11846894B2 |
Image forming apparatus and image forming system
An image forming apparatus includes a developer container to accommodate developer containing toner, a developer bearing member to rotate while bearing the developer accommodated in the developer container and develop the electrostatic latent image borne on an image bearing member into a developer image, a detection portion to output remainder amount information corresponding to an amount of the developer accommodated in the developer container, and a notification portion capable of notifying a first state indicating that a remainder amount of the developer accommodated in the developer container is a first amount or more and a second state indicating that the remainder amount of the developer accommodated in the developer container is less than the first amount. The notification portion notifies one of a plurality of states including the first state and the second state on a basis of the remainder amount information output from the detection portion. |
| US11846889B2 |
Method and apparatus for diffraction pattern guided source mask optimization
A diffraction pattern guided source mask optimization (SMO) method that includes determining a source variable region from a diffraction pattern. The source variable region corresponds to one or more areas of a diffraction pattern in a pupil for which one or more pupil variables are to be adjusted. The source variable region in the diffraction pattern includes a plurality of pixels in an image of a selected region of interest in the diffraction pattern. Determining the source variable region can include binarization of the plurality of pixels in the image such that individual pixels are either included in the source variable region or excluded from the source variable region. The method can include adjusting the one or more pupil variables for the one or more areas of the pupil that correspond to the source variable region; and rendering a final pupil based on the adjusted one or more pupil variables. |
| US11846886B2 |
Photoacid generator
The present invention relates to a novel photoacid generator compound cation, comprising an element having for 92 eV photons (extreme ultraviolet (EUV)) an absorption cross section of at least 0.5×107·cm2/mol; having at least two stable oxidation states; and selected from the elements of group 1 to group 15 of the periodic table of the elements. Additionally, the present invention relates to a photoacid generator comprising said photoacid generator compound cation and an anion. Furthermore, the present invention aims to provide a photoresist composition comprising said photoacid generator and an acid labile polymer. Finally, the present invention relates to a method of generating an acid using the photoresist composition and a method of forming a patterned materials feature on a substrate. |
| US11846881B2 |
EUV photomask
A reflective mask includes a substrate, a reflective multilayer disposed on the substrate, a capping layer disposed on the reflective multilayer, a photo catalytic layer disposed on the capping layer, and an absorber layer disposed on the photo catalytic layer and carrying circuit patterns having openings. Part of the photo catalytic layer is exposed at the openings of the absorber layer, and the photo catalytic layer includes one selected from the group consisting of titanium oxide (TiO2), tin oxide (SnO), zinc oxide (ZnO) and cadmium sulfide (CdS). |
| US11846880B2 |
Extreme ultraviolet mask and method for forming the same
A photolithography mask includes a substrate, a reflective multilayer structure over the substrate, an adhesion layer over the reflective multilayer structure, a capping layer over the adhesion layer, and a patterned absorber layer over the capping layer. The capping layer includes a non-crystalline conductive material. |
| US11846879B2 |
Method of unloading an object from a support table
A method of unloading an object from a support table, the object clamped to the support table during an exposure process by: applying a first pressure to a central region of the support table under a central portion of the object; and applying a second pressure to a peripheral region of the support table under a peripheral portion of the object, wherein during clamping the first pressure and the second pressure are controlled such that liquid is retained between the object and a seal member that is positioned radially between the central region and the peripheral region at an upper surface of the support table and protrudes towards the object, the method including: increasing the first pressure towards ambient pressure; removing at least some of the liquid retained between the object and the seal member by decreasing the second pressure; and increasing the second pressure towards the ambient pressure. |
| US11846875B1 |
Light valve module and projector having the same
The disclosure provides a light valve module comprising a main casing, a light valve element, a heat dissipation structure and a supporting component. The light valve element is connected to the main casing. The heat dissipation structure is connected to the main casing and is in contact with the light valve element. The supporting component comprises an extending portion and a supporting portion. An end of the extending portion is connected to the main casing. The supporting portion is formed on another end of the extending portion. A part of the heat dissipation structure is suspended above the extending portion and adapted to be supported by the supporting portion. |
| US11846873B2 |
Aperture stop for camera with folded optics
Various embodiments include an aperture stop for a camera with folded optics. In some examples, a folded optics arrangement of the camera may include one or more lens elements and one or more light path folding elements (e.g., a prism or a mirror). The aperture stop may be an elongated aperture stop. According to various examples, one or more prisms of the folded optics arrangement may have an elongated dimension in the same direction as an elongated dimension of the elongated aperture stop. In some embodiments, the aperture stop may be located between a prism and a lens group of the folded optics arrangement. In some embodiments, the aperture stop may be located proximate an optical element that optically powers a prism of the folded optics arrangement. |
| US11846872B2 |
Night vision preserving case for use in association with an electronic device
A case for use in association with an electronic device having a camera system with a flash that can serve as a flashlight, including: (a) a case body, wherein the case body is adapted to releasably retain the electronic device; and (b) a cover member, wherein the cover member is adapted to enable a person to use the flash of the camera system as a flashlight while simultaneously preserving his/her night vision. |
| US11846870B2 |
Removable camera lens cover
A camera is configured for use with a removable camera lens cover, which can be secured to or removed from the camera by a user without the use of a tool set. The mechanism which allows the lens cover to be secured to and removed from the camera includes a set of wires embedded into the lens cover and a set of wedges protruding from the lens wall of the camera. To secure the lens cover to the camera, the lens cover is placed onto the front of the camera and rotated until the wires align with corresponding wedges, securing the wires underneath the tapered surface of the wedges. To remove the lens cover from the camera, a force is applied outward and normal to the lens cover, causing the wires to flex outward and enabling the rotation and removal of the lens cover from the camera. |
| US11846868B2 |
Projection apparatus with heat dissipation
A projection apparatus (projector) includes a light source apparatus, an image generation unit that generates image light from the light from the light source apparatus, a projection optical system that projects the image light, a reflective optical element (reflection mirror) that forms the projection optical system, deflects back the image light, and causes the deflected image light to exit, a projection optics enclosure that accommodates the projection optical system, and a first opening section formed in the projection optics enclosure so as to open in the position of the reflective optical element (reflection mirror). |
| US11846867B2 |
Hollow-core photonic crystal fiber based broadband radiation generator
A broadband radiation source device configured for generating a broadband output radiation upon receiving pump radiation, the device including: a hollow-core photonic crystal fiber (HC-PCF) including at least one structurally varied portion having at least one structural parameter of the HC-PCF varied with respect to one or more main portions of the HC-PCF, wherein the at least one structurally varied portion includes at least a structurally varied portion located downstream of a position along the length of the HC-PCF where the pump radiation will be spectrally expanded by a modulation instability dominated nonlinear optical process, and wherein the at least one structurally varied portion is configured and located such that the broadband output radiation includes wavelengths in the ultraviolet region. |
| US11846865B1 |
Two-dimensional metasurface beam forming systems and methods
A metasurface may include a substrate layer and a two-dimensional array of metallic optical pillars arranged in parallel rows extending vertically relative to the substrate layer. Gaps between adjacent pillars form optical resonators and a tunable dielectric material is positioned in the optical resonators between the pillars. A reflective layer positioned between the substrate layer and the two-dimensional array of pillars may include a two-dimensional array of elongated rectangular reflector patches arranged in parallel rows with an electrical isolation gap between adjacent rows of reflector patches. The plurality of reflector patches may be arranged lengthwise within each row with an off-resonance gap between adjacent reflector patches. The reflector patches in adjacent rows may be offset with respect to one another, such that the off-resonance gaps between adjacent reflector patches in one row are not aligned with the off-resonance gaps between adjacent reflector patches in an adjacent row. |
| US11846862B1 |
Front lighting structure of electronic paper display
A lighting structure includes a surface cover plate, a lighting module, a light adjustment layer, an optical adhesive layer and an electronic paper display module. The surface cover plate has a visible area and a black bezel. The lighting module has a light guide plate and point light sources. The light adjustment layer has an optical thinning region and a frame-shaped adhesive. The optical thinning region is less than the light guide plate in refractive index. The surface cover plate and the lighting module are adhered by the frame-shaped adhesive. The optical thinning region is disposed on an upper surface of the light guide plate. The optical adhesive layer has a refractive index equal to or greater than a refractive index of the light guide plate. The electronic paper display module is disposed under the lighting module. |
| US11846860B2 |
Display device and semiconductor device
A display device including: a substrate; a first thin film transistor of polysilicon semiconductor, a second thin film transistor of oxide semiconductor; a first light shading film opposing to the polysilicon semiconductor, and a second light shading film opposing to the oxide semiconductor; a first insulating film, a second insulating film which is constituted from plural insulating films, and a third insulating film superposed in this order; a first through hole penetrating the second insulating film and not penetrating the first insulating film and the third insulating film; a second through hole penetrating the first insulating film and the third insulating film; the first light shading film connects with a first conductive component, a part of the first conductive component exists on the third insulating film, through the second through hole. |
| US11846856B2 |
Array substrate and display device
An array substrate has a plurality of sub-pixel regions. The array substrate includes a base substrate, gate lines disposed on a side of the base substrate and extending in a first direction, pixel electrodes each disposed in a respective one of the sub-pixel regions, and common electrodes disposed on a side, facing away from the base substrate, of the pixel electrodes and the gate lines. An orthographic projection of at least one common electrode on the base substrate at least partially overlaps with an orthographic projection of at least one gate line adjacent to the at least one common electrode on the base substrate, or a border of an orthographic projection of at least one common electrode on the base substrate partially overlaps with a border of an orthographic projection of at least one gate line adjacent to the at least one common electrode on the base substrate. |
| US11846853B2 |
Display unit and display apparatus
Provided are a display unit and a display apparatus, the display unit includes a back plate and a print circuit board disposed on the back plate, wherein the print circuit board is connected to the back plate through a screw, and is provided with a first electrostatic discharge region and a first electrostatic discharge unit; the first electrostatic discharge region is connected to the back plate through the screw to form a first electrostatic discharge channel, and the first electrostatic discharge unit is connected to the back plate to form a second electrostatic discharge channel. |
| US11846848B2 |
Backlight assembly and display apparatus
A display apparatus includes: a display panel; a backlight assembly including a light source; and an optical film group including: a functional material layer; wherein: the light source is configured to emit a white light; and the functional material layer is configured to absorb light in at least one of a range of 480 nm-520 nm or a range of 575 nm-600 nm to thereby reshape the white light to have blue, red, and green peaks; and the display apparatus further includes a polarizer (POL) including one or more polarizer sub-layers, wherein the functional material layer and one of the one or more polarizer sub-layers are configured as one same layer. |
| US11846844B2 |
Transmissive liquid crystal panel
A transmissive liquid crystal panel includes a pixel region where a plurality of pixels are arrayed, a liquid crystal layer configured to modulate light for each of the pixels, an incident section configured to make the light incident on the liquid crystal layer, an emission section configured to emit, as image light, the light modulated by the liquid crystal layer, and a vapor chamber including an opening section corresponding to the pixel region, a heat receiving section around the opening section, and a heat radiating section configured to radiate heat received by heat receiving section, the vapor chamber vaporizing, with the heat received, a coolant in a liquid phase encapsulated on an inside of the vapor chamber and radiating, with the heat radiating section, heat of the coolant in a gas phase to thereby condense the coolant in the gas phase into the coolant in the liquid phase. |
| US11846837B1 |
Display device
The present invention provides a display device, including a display panel provided with an electromagnetic induction layer and a backlight module provided with a quantum dot film The quantum dot film contains a plurality of second-color quantum dots, a plurality of third-color quantum dots, and a plurality of magnetic particles. The electromagnetic induction layer is configured to generate a directional magnetic field to make the magnetic particles move directionally in the quantum dot film, and to make a density of the second-color quantum dots and the third-color quantum dots located in an edge area of the quantum dot film greater than a density of the second-color quantum dots and the third-color quantum dots located in a central area of the quantum dot film. |
| US11846832B2 |
Presbyopia correction with individual performance optimization
A presbyopia correcting system includes a test lens assembly, a controller and a dynamic lens assembly. The test lens assembly is disposed within or on an eye of a patient and includes measuring device, a transmitter and a first supporting member. The measuring device measures a pressure exerted by an ocular element of the eye and then transmits the data to the controller. A medical provider can then select an appropriate dynamic lens assembly to replace the test lens assembly. The dynamic lens assembly includes a presbyopia correcting optical element configured to change a focus with the pressure exerted by the ocular element of the eye. The dynamic lens assembly also has a second supporting member that is identical to the first supporting member. Replacing the test lens assembly with the dynamic lens assembly then corrects the presbyopia condition of or provide low vision magnification for the patient. |
| US11846831B2 |
Eyeglasses
The present disclosure provides eyeglasses including: an eyeglass rim; an eyeglass temple, the eyeglass temple comprising a control circuit or a battery; a rotating shaft, the rotating shaft being configured to connect the eyeglass rim and the eyeglass temple, so that the eyeglass rim and the eyeglass temple are relatively rotated around the rotating shaft, and the rotating shaft being disposed with a rotating shaft wiring channel along an axial direction; a connection wire, the connection wire passing through the rotating shaft wiring channel and extending to the eyeglass rim and the eyeglass temple, respectively; and a loud speaking component, the loud speaking component comprising an earphone core, the loud speaking component being connected to the eyeglass temple, the control circuit or battery in the eyeglass temple driving the earphone core to vibrate to generate a sound through the connection wire, and the sound comprising at least two formants. In the present disclosure, a wiring approach in a speaker may be simplified through a flexible circuit board. The eyeglass rim and the eyeglass temple may be connected through a rotating shaft, thereby protecting the connection wire in the eyeglasses and extending the life of the connection wire. |
| US11846829B2 |
Adjustable vanity mirror with hanger bracket and suction cup
The invention comprises a hands-free, adjustable telescoping magnifying mirror. The mirror may have a first reflective surface and a second reflective surface and can be secured to a horizontal or vertical surface using a suction cup base or can be hung over a door or ledge using a retractable hanger bracket. A telescoping rod is attached to the suction cup base. The mirror may be extended from the base by extending the telescoping rod and the mirror assembly can stand freely without falling over, whether the suction cup base is engaged or not. Additionally, one or more light sources may be disposed at a periphery of the first reflective surface or second reflective surface. |
| US11846828B2 |
Kinematic optical mount with stabilizing locking clamp
A stabilizing locking clamp for a kinematic optical mount includes a clamp plate configured for optical access and a plurality of clamp actuators affixed to the clamp plate. The clamp actuators are positioned such that each clamp actuator exerts a force on a front plate of the kinematic optical mount in a push-push configuration. A stabilizing kinematic optical mount includes a kinematic optical mount and a plurality of clamp arms, each clamp arm including a clamp actuator positioned to exert a force on a front plate of the kinematic optical mount in a push-push configuration. The stabilizing locking clamp and stabilizing kinematic optical mount reduce temperature-dependent and vibration-induced changes in pitch and yaw, thereby improving pointing stability for optical setups that rely on critical beam alignment. |
| US11846826B2 |
Imaging lens assembly module, camera module and electronic device
An imaging lens assembly module includes an imaging lens element set, a lens carrier and a light blocking structure. The imaging lens element set has an optical axis. At least one lens element of the lens elements is disposed in the lens carrier. The light blocking structure includes a light blocking opening. The optical axis passes through the light blocking opening, and the light blocking opening includes at least two arc portions and a shrinking portion. Each of the arc portions has a first curvature radius for defining a maximum diameter of the light blocking opening. The shrinking portion is connected to the arc portions for forming the light blocking opening into a non-circular shape. The shrinking portion includes at least one protruding arc which extends and shrinks gradually from the shrinking portion to the optical axis, and the protruding arc has a second curvature radius. |
| US11846825B2 |
Interlock arrangement for attaching a lens barrel to a lens carrier
Various embodiments include an interlock arrangement that may be used to attach a lens barrel to a lens carrier of a camera. In some embodiments, the interlock arrangement may restrict movement of the lens barrel relative to the lens carrier along at least an optical axis. In various examples, the interlock arrangement may include one or more grooves and one or more protrusions. For instance, a groove may be defined by the lens barrel or the lens carrier, and a protrusion may extend from the lens barrel or the lens carrier to at least partially into the groove. In some cases, the interlock arrangement may include an adhesive that at least partially fills gaps within the interlock arrangement between the lens barrel and the lens carrier. According to some embodiments, the interlock arrangement may include one or more recesses that provide inlets for the adhesive to be introduced to the gaps within the interlock arrangement. |
| US11846823B2 |
Optical system with at least one aligned optical cell and associated method
The optical system includes a base having a groove and an adjacent slot therein. The system also includes at least one optical cell slidably alignable along the groove, and at least one clamp comprising a lower end and an upper end. The lower end is slidably alignable along the slot and is secured at a set location so that the upper end secures the at least one optical cell along the groove. The slot may extend parallel to the groove. The clamp may include at least one preloaded fastener arrangement securing the lower end of the clamp to the base. The preloaded fastener may include a bolt, a spring biasing the bolt, and a threaded backing plate within the slot and receiving the bolt. |
| US11846821B2 |
Adapter block assembly
An adapter block assembly includes two housing pieces that cooperate to hold one or more adapters therebetween. The two housing pieces are removably latched together. Labels can be placed over the latches. Certain types of adapter block assemblies are configured to receive multi-fiber plug connectors. Certain types of adapter block assemblies include securement arrangements at opposite ends thereof to aid in mounting the adapter block assemblies to frames, trays, chassis, or other such structures. |
| US11846820B2 |
Telecommunications distribution elements
A fiber optic telecommunications device (2302/2402/2502) includes a first fiber optic connection location (2308) defined on the telecommunications device (2302/2402/2502), wherein a plurality of optical fibers (2307) extends into the telecommunications device (2302/2402/2502) from the first fiber optic connection location (2308). A plurality of second fiber optic connection locations (2309) are movably disposed on the telecommunications device (2302/2402/2502). A flexible substrate (2306/2506) is positioned between the first fiber optic connection location (2308) and the plurality of second fiber optic connection locations (2309), the flexible substrate (2306/2506) rigidly supporting the plurality of optical fibers (2307) and relaying the plurality of fibers (2307) from the first fiber optic connection location (2308) to each of the second fiber optic connection locations (2309). |
| US11846819B2 |
Closure with partition to facilitate draining flood water away from optical fiber connection
An object is to provide a closure with a structure having a drainage function to eliminate water immersion into a coated optical fiber against temporary flooding and to prevent water from continuously contacting the coated optical fiber. Another object is to provide a closure with improved workability for opening and closing.A closure according to the present invention protects a connection part that connects a coated optical fiber enclosed in a optical fiber cable with a coated optical fiber enclosed in a optical fiber cable. The closure includes a coated optical fiber housing that divides an interior of the closure into a first space that is on a side of a road and has a main body cable insertion hole for inserting the optical fiber cables from an exterior and a second space that is on an opposite side of the road and includes the connection part. The coated optical fiber housing has a frustum shape with two bases each open and a base with a smaller area of the two bases protruding toward the side of the road. The base with the smaller area of the two bases is a cable insertion hole for inserting the optical fiber cable from the first space into the second space and is not in contact with a bottom surface of the first space on the side of the road. |
| US11846817B2 |
Armored coupling system for optical fibers
A protective covering system for optical cables includes a plurality of links which may be coupled together to form a two-layer barrier to protect optical fiber positioned with the coupled links. Each link includes a first portion and a wider second portion. The first portion of a first link is insertable in the second portion of a second link such that the first portion of the first link and the second portion of the second link overlap one another radially. The ends of each portion include oppositely extending flanges, at least one of which is temporarily deformable when the first link is inserted into the second link. When the first and second links are secured to one another, the coupled links are free to move axially and to tilt relative to each other. |
| US11846815B2 |
Assembly for transceiver module of fiber-optic communication network
A planar lightwave circuit (PLC) assembly is used for a transceiver module that includes a circuit board having photodetectors mounted at a spacing from one another. A transmitter mounted on the circuit board is configured to transmit optical signals for a network. The PLC assembly includes at least one PLC chip and at least one fiber array. The PCL chip mounts on the transmitter and is configured to receive optical signals for the network. The fiber array has optical fibers connecting between the PLC chip and the photodetectors. The array's first end connected to the PLC chip has a first pitch between the optical fibers, while the array's second end has at least one connector connected adjacent the photodetectors and having a second fiber pitch, which is greater than the first pitch and is configured to the spacing of the photodetectors. |
| US11846814B2 |
Hologram display device
A hologram display device includes a light source unit, a light guide plate, a spatial light modulator, a sensing unit, and a light source driving unit. The light source unit includes a plurality of light sources and emits light when at least one of the plurality of light sources is turned on. The light guide plate converts the light emitted thereto from the light source unit to a planar light beam. The spatial light modulator spatially modulates the planar light beam to produce a hologram image. The sensing unit senses a position of a user watching the hologram image, and the light source driving unit turns on the at least one of the plurality of light sources, based on information on the position of the user obtained by the sensing unit. |
| US11846813B2 |
Mini duplex connector with push-pull polarity mechanism and carrier with latch and rail
A new fiber optic connector provides a smaller form factor by including two ferrule assemblies in a housing. The housing accepts a push-pull mechanism that allows for insertion and removal from a carrier as well as an adapter. The push-pull mechanism may also include a flexure member to return the push-pull mechanism. Polarity of the fiber optic connector may also be selected by use of the push-pull mechanism. |
| US11846812B2 |
Easy-to-unlock optical module
The present disclosure relates to an easy-to-unlock optical module. The easy-to-unlock optical module includes an optical module body and a mechanism of a pull ring for unlocking or locking connection between the optical module body and a metal cage. The mechanism of the pull ring includes a cover plate and the pull ring arranged on the optical module body. A pivot part for pivotally connecting the optical module body, and a first rotating arm and a second rotating arm respectively located on front and rear sides of the pivot part are arranged on the cover plate, and a lock head protrusion for matching with a spring lock groove on the metal cage is formed in the first rotating arm. The pull ring is pivotally connected to the optical module body, an unlocking contact surface and a locking contact surface are formed in the pull ring. |
| US11846807B2 |
Mid-infrared optical fibers with enhanced OH-diffusion resistance
Mid-infrared-transparent optical fiber products with enhanced resistance to OH diffusion are disclosed, which may be used fiber laser oscillator and amplifiers systems. In one embodiment, an optical fiber product may include optical fiber configured for propagation of mid-infrared radiation toward a light-radiating endface of or coupled to the optical fiber, and a diffusion barrier disposed on the light-radiating endface and configured for allowing the mid-infrared radiation emanating from the light-radiating endface to pass therethrough and for preventing OH diffusion therethrough toward the light-radiating endface. In another embodiment, an optical fiber product may include an optical fiber for propagation of mid-infrared radiation and an endcap coupled to the optical fiber for receiving therefrom the mid-infrared radiation and radiating out the mid-infrared radiation, the endcap being made of an endcap material that has no or a low amount of fluoride and that is less permeable to OH diffusion than the fiber-optic material. |
| US11846806B2 |
Stress compensating pick-up tool
A stress compensating pick-up tool for aligning a companion chip with a host chip includes a tool tip and an actuator. The tool tip holds the companion chip, and includes a first tip portion and a second tip portion. The actuator applies a force to the tool tip, wherein the force causes the first tip portion and the second tip portion to rotate in opposite directions with respect to one another to optically align a portion of the companion chip with a corresponding portion of the host chip. |
| US11846802B2 |
Semiconductor structure
A structure adapted to optical coupled to an optical fiber includes a photoelectric integrated circuit die, an electric integrated circuit die, a waveguide die and an insulating encapsulant. The electric integrated circuit die is over and electrically connected to the photoelectric integrated circuit die. The waveguide die is over and optically coupled to the photoelectric integrated circuit die, wherein the waveguide die includes a plurality of semiconductor pillar portions extending from the optical fiber to the photoelectric integrated circuit die. The insulating encapsulant laterally encapsulates the electric integrated circuit die and the waveguide die. |
| US11846801B2 |
Backlight module and display device
A backlight module and a display device are disclosed. The backlight module includes a back plate and a plurality of light plate assemblies arranged on the back plate, and there is a seam between every two adjacent light plate assemblies. The backlight module further includes at least one light guide plate and at least one side light source. The light guide plate is arranged at the seam. The side light source corresponds to the light guide plate, is located on the side of the light guide plate, and provides a light source for the light guide plate. |
| US11846800B2 |
Multiview display and method having shifted color sub-pixels
A multiview display includes an array of light valves having rows of a repeating plurality of color sub-pixels and arranged as a plurality of multiview pixels configured to modulate directional light beams as color pixels of views of a multiview image. A first row of the repeating plurality of color sub-pixels is offset from a second row of the repeating plurality of color sub-pixels in a row direction by an integer multiple of a width of a color sub-pixel. The offset of the first and second rows is configured to provide corresponding color sub-pixels in adjacent multiview pixels having different colors to mitigate color fringing associated with the color pixel of the multiview image. |
| US11846796B1 |
Backlight module
A backlight module includes a glass substrate, a light-outputting sheet, a light guide plate, and a reflective sheet. The light-outputting sheet is disposed under the glass substrate and has a light-outputting region and a light-shielding region. The light-outputting region is disposed corresponding to the glass substrate. The light-shielding region is disposed corresponding to an outer periphery of the glass substrate. The light guide plate is disposed under the light-outputting sheet and has a light guide region and a light mixing region. The light guide region is disposed corresponding to the light-outputting region. The light mixing region is configured to receive light of a light-emitting element and guide the light to the light guide region. The light leaves the light guide region and then sequentially propagates through the light-outputting region and the glass substrate. The reflective sheet is disposed under the light guide plate. |
| US11846792B2 |
High contrast optical film and devices including the same
Optical films are disclosed that include a plurality of interference layers. Each interference layer reflects or transmits light primarily by optical interference. The total number of the interference layers is less than about 1000. For a substantially normally incident light in a predetermined wavelength range, the plurality of interference layers has an average optical transmittance greater than about 85% for a first polarization state, an average optical reflectance greater than about 80% for an orthogonal second polarization state, and an average optical transmittance less than about 0.2% for the second polarization state. |
| US11846790B2 |
Optical method and system for light field displays having light-steering layers and periodic optical layer
A light-emitting layer of an apparatus includes an addressable array of light-emitting elements including a first light-emitting element and a periodic optical layer overlaying the light-emitting layer. The periodic optical layer includes at least a first periodic optical feature having a first optical power and a second periodic optical feature having a different optical power. A first controllable light-steering layer is disposed between the light-emitting layer and the periodic optical layer. The first controllable light-steering layer is switchable between directing light from the first light-emitting element through the first periodic optical feature and directing light from the first light-emitting element through the second periodic optical feature. |
| US11846787B2 |
Diffractive waveguide element and diffractive waveguide display
A diffractive waveguide element for a personal display device includes a display waveguide extending in a waveguide plane, an in-coupling diffractive optical element arranged onto or into the display waveguide for diffractively coupling light rays into the display waveguide, and an out-coupling diffractive optical element arranged onto or into the display waveguide for coupling the diffractively coupled light rays out of the display waveguide. In addition, there is provided a ray multiplier element optically upstream of the out-coupling diffractive optical element, the ray multiplier element being capable of splitting a light ray incoming to the in-coupling grating into a plurality of parallel rays spatially displaced in the waveguide plane before they enter the out-coupling diffractive optical element. A waveguide display device is also provided. |
| US11846780B2 |
Head-mounted electronic vision aid device and automatic image magnification method thereof
Disclosed in the present invention is a head-mounted electronic vision aid device and an image magnification method thereof. The head-mounted electronic vision aid device comprising a memory unit, a processing unit, an image zooming unit, and at least one ranging unit; the ranging unit being configured to obtain distance data between a target object of interest to a user and the device and/or three-dimensional profile data of the object and output the data to the processing unit; the memory unit stores a correspondence table between the distance data and the magnification of the image zooming unit; the processing unit confirms the target object of interest to the user, performs operations on the distance data and/or the three-dimensional profile data of the object, and outputs an magnification matching the distance data to the image zooming unit according to the correspondence table; and the image zooming unit can automatically adjust to the matching magnification. For visually impaired users, accurate, intuitive and rapid automatic magnification of the target objects of interest can be realized on demand. Compared with the prior art, the repeated and tedious manual adjustment is avoided, and the user experience is greatly improved. |
| US11846778B2 |
System for providing illumination of the eye
A thin transparent layer can be integrated in a head mounted display device and disposed in front of the eye of a wearer. The thin transparent layer may be configured to output light such that light is directed onto the eye to create reflections therefrom that can be used, for example, for glint based tracking. The thin transparent layer can be configured to reduced obstructions in the field of the view of the user. |
| US11846777B2 |
Interference-free waveguide display
The invention relates to a diffractive waveguide display device comprising an image projector capable of emitting laser rays at one or more wavelengths, a waveguide body having a first surface and an opposite second surface and adapted to guide said laser rays from the image projector between the first surface and the second surface, an out-coupling diffractive optical element on said first surface for coupling said laser rays out of the waveguide body, and an anti-interference coating (35) arranged on the second surface of the waveguide body aligned with the out-coupling diffractive optical element. |
| US11846776B2 |
Head-up display apparatus
An object of the present invention is to provide a head-up display apparatus further reduced in size, the head-up display apparatus having: an image display apparatus including a light source and a display element; and a virtual image optical system in which light emitted from the image display apparatus is reflected by a windshield or a combiner of the vehicle so that a virtual image is displayed in front of the vehicle, wherein the virtual image optical system has a concave mirror and a distortion correcting lens, and the distortion correcting lens is disposed between the image display apparatus and the concave mirror, the concave mirror is disposed in a housing including an outer case along a shape of an effective light path area of the image light from the image display apparatus, and the image display apparatus is attached to part of an outer periphery of the housing. |
| US11846775B2 |
Head-up display
A head-up display arranged to form a virtual image viewable from an eye-box area. The head-up display is arranged to received picture content within a sub-region of a substantially quadrilateral display area. The head-up display further comprises an optical relay system arranged to relay the received picture content to an eye-box of the head-up display such that a virtual image of the picture content is visible therefrom. The optical relay system comprises at least one optical component shaped in correspondence with the shape of the sub-region. The shape of the eye-box area is non-rectangular such as a corner-cropped rectangular shape or elliptical shape. |
| US11846774B2 |
Eye tracking with switchable gratings
A pupil-replicating lightguide includes a slab of transparent material, a switchable out-coupling grating for out-coupling portions of image light to propagate towards an eyebox, and a switchable tracking grating for redirecting tracking light carrying an eye image towards an eye tracking camera. One of the two gratings may be turned ON while the other is turned OFF, in a time-sequential manner, allowing the combined use of the pupil-replicating lightguide for carrying image light and eye tracking light. |
| US11846773B2 |
Optical system
Optical systems including a reflective polarizer are described. The reflective polarizer includes first and second reflection zones, such that for light substantially normally incident on the reflective polarizer, the first zone substantially reflects light in a first wavelength range and substantially transmits light in a different non-overlapping second wavelength range, and the second zone substantially reflects light in the second wavelength range and substantially transmits light in the first wavelength range. The first and second reflection zones have first and second thicknesses having corresponding first and second mid-points separated by a distance d. In some embodiments, a longitudinal chromatic aberration of the optical imaging system of the first wavelength range to the second wavelength range caused when reducing d so that the first and second reflection zones are immediately adjacent is a distance h where 0.3h |
| US11846772B2 |
Optical design methods for imaging systems and optical systems designed therewith
Methods to design centered imaging systems by solving differential equations derived from Fermat's principle consist of a sequence of (moveable or fixed) spherical or aspherical surfaces, or combinations thereof. The power series solution approach allow calculating of a predefined number of surfaces parameters equal to a number of selected aberration terms to vanish nominally. The methods provide mapping functions coefficients that allow describing exactly where arbitrary rays intersect each individual surface. |
| US11846771B2 |
Camera module
A camera module is disclosed, the camera module including a PCB (Printed Circuit Board), a base arranged at an upper surface of the PCB, a holder member arranged at an upper surface of the base and formed with a plurality of magnet reception portions, a surface of which facing the base is opened, and a plurality of magnets coupled to the magnet reception portions, wherein the base is formed with a protrusion configured to support a bottom surface of the magnet by being protrusively formed at a position corresponding to an opening of the magnet reception portions. |
| US11846768B2 |
Reflective display devices and components
Exemplary reflective display components are described. These reflective display components may include a microwell layer having a first and a second quantum dot well that each include a plurality of nanoparticles configured to emit a color of light. The microwell layer further has a third well. The reflective display components further include an electrowetting layer positioned above the microwell layer, where the electrowetting layer is operable to independently adjust an intensity of light emitted from the first and second quantum dot wells and the third well in the microwell layer. |
| US11846766B2 |
Medical borescopes and related tip assemblies
Medical borescopes, such as laparoscopes. In some embodiments, a medical borescope may comprise a handle and a tube extending from the handle, which tube may be configured to reduce electromagnetic interference within the tube. The borescope may further comprise a tip assembly positioned at a distal end of the tube, which may comprise an image sensor configured to take images through the distal end of the tube. The borescope may further comprise a dongle comprising an image processor configured to receive image data from the image sensor. The dongle may be removably coupleable with the medical borescope such that the dongle can be coupled with a plurality of distinct medical borescopes. |
| US11846764B2 |
Zoom lens, imaging optical device, and digital apparatus
A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side: a first lens group having positive power; a second lens group having negative power; a third lens group having positive power; a fourth lens group having positive power; a fifth lens group having negative power; and a sixth lens group having positive power. The fourth lens group includes at least one positive lens that satisfies a conditional formula of vdp≥65. A conditional formula of 1.19≤f3/ft≤4.15 and a conditional formula of 0.51≤f4/ft≤1.50 are satisfied. |
| US11846758B2 |
Imaging lens and camera device equipped with imaging lens
An imaging lens may be a retrofocus type imaging optical system including, in order from an object side, a first lens group, an aperture and a second lens group. The first lens group may include, from the object side, a meniscus as a first lens in which a convex surface is formed on the object side, and a meniscus lens as a second lens in which a convex surface is formed on the object side. The second lens group may include a convex lens as a third lens, a biconvex lens as a fourth lens, a biconvex lens as a fifth lens and a sixth lens, and the fifth lens and the sixth lens may be joined to each other. The imaging lens may be constructed with 6 elements and 5 groups including the first lens group and the second lens group. |
| US11846757B2 |
Optical imaging lens assembly
The present disclosure discloses an optical imaging lens assembly including, sequentially from an object side to an image side along an optical axis, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens. The first lens has a positive refractive power, both of an object-side surface and an image-side surface thereof are convex surfaces; the second lens has a negative refractive power; the third lens has a negative refractive power, and an image-side surface thereof is a concave surface; the fourth lens has a refractive power; the fifth lens has a refractive power, and an image-side surface thereof is a convex surface; the sixth lens has a refractive power, and an object-side surface thereof is a concave surface. Half of a maximal field-of-view HFOV of the optical imaging lens assembly satisfies HFOV<30°. |
| US11846756B2 |
Camera lens assembly
The present disclosure discloses a camera lens assembly comprising, sequentially from an object side to an image side along an optical axis, a stop; a first lens having a positive refractive power with an object-side surface thereof being a convex surface; a second lens having a positive refractive power; a third lens; a fourth lens; a fifth lens having a positive refractive power; a sixth lens having a negative refractive power with an object-side surface thereof being a concave surface; and wherein, a distance Ts along the optical axis from the stop to the object-side surface of the first lens satisfies: 0 |
| US11846753B2 |
Broadband absorbers via nanostructures
The document discloses transferrable hyperbolic metamaterial particles (THMMP) that display broadband, selective, omnidirectional absorption and can be transferred to secondary substrates, allowing enhanced flexibility and selective transmission. A device having metamaterial nanostructures includes a substrate and metamaterial nanostructures engaged to the substrate to form an optical layer to interact with light incident to the optical layer to exhibit optical reflection or absorption or transmission that is substantially uniform over a spectral range of different optical wavelengths associated with materials and structural features of the metamaterial nanostructures, each metamaterial nanostructure including different material layers that are interleaved to form a multi-layer nanostructure. |
| US11846740B2 |
First break picking for full wavefield travel-time inversion
A method for picking first breaks on a synthetic seismic dataset for a full wavefield travel-time inversion is provided. This method includes obtaining a synthetic seismic dataset and for each synthetic trace, determining a plurality of synthetic trace amplitude maxima and minima, determining a modified energy ratio trace, and forming a trace mask based at least in part, on an amplitude of the synthetic trace and on an amplitude of the modified energy ratio trace. The method further includes determining for each synthetic trace, a positive estimated first break based on the plurality of synthetic trace amplitude maxima and the trace mask and a negative estimated first bread based on the plurality of synthetic trace amplitude minima and the trace mask. The method concludes with determining a predicted first break for each synthetic trace from the positive estimate first break and the negative estimate first break. |
| US11846738B2 |
Radiation detection systems and methods
A method of forming a radiation detector includes forming a stack including a plurality of arrays of radiation detection devices. Forming an array of the plurality of arrays includes forming a polysilicon layer over an interlayer dielectric layer of another array of the plurality of arrays; forming charge storage layers over the polysilicon layer; forming a second polysilicon layer over the charge storage layers; etching the second polysilicon layer to form gate stacks; and depositing an interlayer dielectric disposed on at least three sides of the gate stacks, the interlayer dielectric including a radiation reactive material. |
| US11846735B2 |
Sub-pixel time skew correction for positron emission tomography (PET)
The present invention relates to a calibration method for a gamma ray detector (100) including a pixelated scintillator array (110) for emitting scintillation photons at photo conversion positions (94) in response to incident gamma rays (90), and a pixelated photodetector array (120) for determining a spatial intensity distribution of the scintillation photons. The present invention bases on the idea that using the concept of optical light sharing of scintillation photons, which are emitted in one element, i.e., one scintillator pixel (112) of the scintillator array (110) and distributed over multiple photodetector pixels (122) of the pixelated photodetector army (120), allows obtaining an estimate for the time skew between adjacent photodetector pixels (122). The present invention further relates to a calibration module (200) for a gamma ray detector (100) including a recorder (210) and a processing module (220) for performing the function of the above-explained method. Still further, the present invention relates to a gamma my detector (100) as well as to a medical imaging device (50) comprising this gamma my detector (100). |
| US11846734B2 |
Bracket for holding universal transducer for use with a fishing boat
A bracket for holding a universal transducer for use with a fishing or other boat, including a transducer assembly, having a transducer shaft, which brackets a transducer at its bottom end, while its upper end is connected either to the side of the boat, or onto the upper portions, such as the gear box, of the associated trolling motor, to provide the means for scoping the underwater typography through usage of a universal transducer, as available in the art. The upper end of the transducer shaft connects to a bracket, applied onto the bracket is a geared motor, such as a reversing motor, that can pivot the transducer in an approximate 360-degree direction. The identified bracket mount can secure directly to the side of the boat, in which case the mount separates, for removal of the transducer assembly, or its application therein, in preparation for usage, or the bracket mount may secure to the underside of the trolling motor gear box or housing, and be simultaneously operative in conjunction with the maneuvering of the trolling motor, during its usage, or when positioned into a nonusage location upon the surface of the associated boat. |
| US11846731B2 |
Distance detection device and imaging apparatus
Provided is a distance detection device attached to a position at which it surrounds a camera lens device. The distance detection device has a light emitting element configured to irradiate a target region with irradiation light and a light receiving element configured to receive reflected light of the irradiation light from a target in the target region. The distance detection device acquires distance information indicating a distance to the target on the basis of a time until the light receiving element receives the reflected light after the light emitting element performs irradiation with the irradiation light and communicates the distance information. |
| US11846723B2 |
Calibrating a target simulator for an active environment detection system
A method for calibrating a target simulator for an active environment detection system includes: calibrating a complete signal path comprising a first signal path and a second signal path by determining a first deviation of a first value of at least one signal parameter from a first reference value of the at least one signal parameter; calibrating one of the first signal path and the second signal path by determining a second deviation of a second value of the at least one signal parameter from a second reference value of the at least one signal parameter; and calibrating the other of the first signal path and the second signal path by offsetting of the first deviation with the second deviation. |
| US11846718B2 |
Location measuring system
This application relates to a location measuring system including a driving-type working device. In one aspect, the system includes a data receiving unit that receives marking data about a working surface, a marking unit that executes a marking operation with respect to the working surface corresponding to the marking data, and a scanning unit that scans a target space. The system may also include a scan condition setting unit that sets a movement path of the driving-type working device corresponding to the marking data, sets a scanning position for scanning the target space in consideration of space map data corresponding to the target space, and sets a scan angle of the scanning unit at the scanning position. The system may further include a position detecting unit that compares scan data acquired via the scanning unit with the space map data to detect a position of the driving-type working device. |
| US11846717B2 |
Systems and methods of angle-of-arrival determination in wireless devices
Systems and methods for angle of arrival determination in wireless devices include one or more processors which determine a first angle of arrival (AoA) and a first distance between a user device and an anchor device at a first time instance, according to first measurements between a single ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna of the user device and a plurality of UWB antennas of the anchor device. The processor(s) may determine a second AoA and a second distance between the user device and the anchor device at a second time instance, according to second measurements between the single UWB antenna of the user device and the plurality of UWB antennas of the anchor device. The processor(s) may determine a direction of movement of the user device relative to the anchor device, according to the first AoA, the first distance, the second AoA, and the second distance. |
| US11846716B2 |
System and method for position determination in a building
A system for determining a position of a user in a building includes a control device, a plurality of stationary radio signal transmission devices, a radio signal receiving device, and a signal processing device. The signal processing device determines primary channel impulse responses based on the radio signals received by the receiving device. The signal processing device also determines a secondary channel impulse response based on a secondary radio signal received by the receiving device from a mobile device of a user. The channel impulse responses are evaluated to determine degrees of similarity that indicate how similar a first primary channel impulse response and the secondary channel impulse response are to one another. For each degree of similarity, a distance of the mobile device from the transmission device corresponding to the degree of similarity is determined. A position of the mobile device is determined based on the distances. |
| US11846714B2 |
Precise point positioning (PPP) with modified satellite and clock error mitigation
Embodiments described herein provide for enabling a mobile device comprising a GNSS receiver to implement a modified PPP technique that utilizes orbit and clock information of a satellite that is broadcast from the satellite. In particular, embodiments may utilize a positioning engine to perform PPP error mitigation with respect to various error sources (e.g., troposphere, ionosphere, phase windup, etc.). With regard to errors stemming from satellite orbit and satellite clock, embodiments may utilize orbit and clock information from broadcast ephemeris data rather than obtaining precise orbit and clock information (e.g., from a third party provider). Further, embodiments may account for errors in this broadcast information by adjusting the ambiguity dynamic and/or ambiguity estimate term used by the positioning engine. This can enable the positioning engine to determine a solution more accurate than traditional GNSS without resetting. |
| US11846713B2 |
Self-assisted fast acquisition and first fix for a standalone GNSS receiver
A Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) positioning techniques is provided. A method to improve the time required to compute a position measurement in a GNSS receiver, and the time required to make this position measurement accurate is also provided. The method comprises computing a snapshot PVT (Position Velocity and Time) measurement, and use it to reduce the time required to acquire new signals to compute a conventional PVT measurement. A receiver implementing the method is further provided. |
| US11846712B2 |
Microservices architecture for cloud-scale global navigation satellite system
A system can include a producer device to receive reference data from a reference station. The system can include a queue device to store a reference message, corresponding to the reference data, in a message queue. The system can include a mapping device to store mapping information indicating that the message queue is associated with the reference station. The system can include a consumer device to identify the message queue as being associated with a microservice to be provided to a client device based on a microservice request. The message queue can be identified based on the mapping information. The consumer device can obtain the reference message from the message queue, generate corrections data associated with the client device, and provide the corrections data. |
| US11846709B2 |
Distance measuring device
A distance measuring device comprising an optical transmitter channel for transmitting laser light along a transmitter path and an optical reception channel for receiving laser light along a reception path. At least one optical element including a glass part with a coated surface is positioned in the optical transmitter channel or in the optical reception channel. The glass part includes a glass pane with a thickness below 0.3 mm, with a peripheral edge and with a coating on at least one of the two surfaces, and a ring element. The glass pane is adhesively connected to an end face of the ring element. This distance measuring device shows reduced measuring artefacts and/or reduced optical aberration effects and/or a reduced weight. |
| US11846704B2 |
Acoustic doppler system and method
A survey system including a multibeam echo sounder having a projector array and a hydrophone array uses a multi-component message to ensonify one or more fans to estimate a Doppler velocity. |
| US11846703B2 |
Hyperspectral sonar
A sonar survey system and method excites reflectors using a broadband message that excites all frequencies within the band providing for selection and evaluation of frequencies of interest after the survey is completed. |
| US11846699B2 |
Method for monopulse single beam phased array tracking for communications using beam jitter
A need exists for a method to do monopulse tracking with a single beam phased array antenna. With a monopulse tracker antenna, the satellite, or moving target, will have a beacon signal that the tracker can acquire. The beacon signal may be a preamble in the transmitted signal from the satellite. The monopulse tracker antennas are scanned over the volume, minimizing the error signal. When the error signal is minimal, the antenna is pointed in the direction of the satellite or moving target. Because the tracker needs to know direction offsets in both azimuth and elevation planes, error signals from both planes are needed. The monopulse tracker antenna maintains a radio frequency link to the beacon signal, causing the antenna to lock in the direction of the satellite when the error signal is minimized to zero. |
| US11846695B2 |
Radio frequency distance determination
A method of determining a distance between a radio frequency device and a target is disclosed in which the radio frequency device receives a radio frequency signal from the target. The method comprises determining a time domain channel response from the received radio frequency signal, determining an amplitude of a largest peak in the time domain channel response, determining an amplitude of a second, earlier, peak in the time domain channel response, comparing the second peak amplitude to a threshold based on the largest peak amplitude, identifying the largest peak as a shortest path peak if the second peak amplitude is less than the threshold, identifying the second peak as a shortest path peak if the second peak amplitude is greater than the threshold, and calculating the distance between the radio frequency device and the target based on a time corresponding to the shortest path peak. |
| US11846693B2 |
Magnetic field calibration device and method of calibrating magnetism measurement device using the same
A magnetic field calibration device is used to calibrate a magnetism measurement device having a plurality of magnetic sensors and includes a first holder having a first holding surface, a second holder having a second holding surface having a fixed relative positional relation with the first holding surface, and magnetism generating parts fixed to the first holding surface and the second holding surface. Thus, calibration can be completed with a single operation by assigning the first and second holding surfaces of the magnetic field calibration device respectively to the first and second measurement surfaces of the magnetism measurement device. In addition, since the relative positional relation between the first and second holding surfaces is fixed, measurement results obtained from the individual measurement surfaces match each other. |
| US11846691B2 |
Systems and methods for performing magnetic resonance imaging with reduced operator interaction
Techniques are provided for imaging a subject. A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system may use at least one RF coil to generate an initial MR data set for an initial image of the subject. The MRI system may use the initial MR image to determine a difference in orientation between a current orientation of the subject in the initial MR image and a target orientation of the subject. The MRI system may use the determined difference in orientation to determine an adjustment to a gradient pulse sequence for controlling at least one gradient coil. The MRI system may apply the determined adjustment to the gradient pulse sequence to obtain an adjusted gradient pulse sequence. The MRI system may generate an adjusted MR data set using the adjusted gradient pulse sequence, and a second MR image of the subject using the adjusted MR data set. |
| US11846688B2 |
Operating state monitoring device for monitoring a connecting cable and operating state controlling method for monitoring an operating state of a conducting connecting cable
An operating state monitoring device for monitoring a connecting cable, the device may include a connecting cable and at least two Hall sensors. The connecting cable may have at least two electroconductive conductors that extend along a longitudinal central axis, and through each of the conductors current flows or currant can flow by forming a magnetic field. The at least two Hall sensors may be configured to detect magnetic fields and output measuring signals based on detected magnetic fields. The device may have a number of Hall sensors that is identical to the number of conductions. A single Hall sensor may be arranged proximate each conductor via direct contract or indirect contact. |
| US11846687B2 |
Devices and methods for measuring a magnetic field gradient
A method of determining a gradient of a magnetic field, includes the steps of: biasing a first/second magnetic sensor with a first/second biasing signal; measuring and amplifying a first/second magnetic sensor signal; measuring a temperature and/or a stress difference; adjusting at least one of: the second biasing signal, the second amplifier gain, the amplified and digitized second sensor value using a predefined function f(T) or f(T, ΔΣ) or f(ΔΣ) of the measured temperature and/or the measured differential stress before determining a difference between the first/second signal/value derived from the first/second sensor signal. A magnetic sensor device is configured for performing this method, as well as a current sensor device, and a position sensor device. |
| US11846682B2 |
Method and device for avoiding abnormal signal oscillation in UVLO test
A method and device for avoiding abnormal signal oscillation in UVLO test, applied to a power supply module, includes: a voltage detection module (301) detecting a voltage of an enable terminal of the power supply module during an under voltage lock out UVLO test; a difference calculation module (302) calculating a difference value between a detected voltage and a voltage trigger threshold of the enable terminal; upon a control module (303) determining that the difference value is below a preset first threshold, the control module increasing the voltage of the enable terminal during UVLO test via a voltage adjustment module. The application of the above solution of the present application can avoid abnormal signal oscillation in UVLO test. |
| US11846676B2 |
Method and apparatus for predicting remaining charging time and storage medium
A method for predicting remaining charging time, including: obtaining a current state of charge; determining a reference remaining time and a delay time according to the current state of charge; and determining a current remaining charging time according to the reference remaining time and the delay time. |
| US11846674B2 |
Circuit simulation test method and apparatus, device, and medium
The present application relates to a circuit simulation test method and apparatus, a device, and a medium. The method includes: creating a parametric data model, wherein the parametric data model is configured to generate preset write data based on a preset parameter; creating a test platform, wherein the test platform is configured to generate a test result based on the preset write data; creating an eye diagram generation module, wherein the eye diagram generation module is configured to generate a data eye diagram based on the test result; and conducting a simulation test, inputting the preset write data to the test platform and obtaining the test result, and generating the data eye diagram by using the eye diagram generation module. |
| US11846672B2 |
Method and device for testing system-on-chip, electronic device using method, and computer readable storage medium
A method for testing systems on a chip during manufacture obtains basic function information of intellectual property cores and relevant information of network on chip and generates one or more test names according to the basic function information, and the relevant information of the network on chip. The method invokes a pre-prepared integral script to construct a running environment configured to invoke basic function scripts of to-be-tested intellectual property cores one by one, according to each of the test names which are generated. The method also generates the results of testing. A related electronic device and a non-transitory storage medium are also disclosed. |
| US11846668B2 |
Method for assessing the thermal loading of a converter
A method for assessing the state of damage of a semiconductor module that is subject to operational loading, in particular a semiconductor module of a drive system converter, that includes at least one semiconductor component arranged on or in a support structure. It is possible not only to estimate a spent service life for the entire semiconductor module, but also to detect unexpected or undesirable loading states and thus a premature reduction of the remaining service life of the semiconductor module. Continuous load assessments are thus possible already during the operation of the semiconductor module and allow interventions to be made in good time. |
| US11846663B1 |
Remote multiport modular vector analyzer system and method of use
Systems and methods for incorporating multiple single-port vector network analyzer modules where the modules can be located at significant distances from each other. Systems and methods are provided for synchronizing source signals with remote receivers, calibration, operation, bandwidth reduction, high isolation, and reliable solar power or remote sites whereby the VNA module s may be used for characterization of a DUT as if they were incorporated into a single vector network analyzer chassis with access to a common clock. |
| US11846657B2 |
Current detection apparatus, current detection method, current control apparatus, and current control method
A current detection apparatus includes first current detection circuitry configured to detect a current flowing through a conductive wire with a shunt resistor connected to the conductive wire to obtain a first detected current value; second current detection circuitry configured to detect the current with a Hall element to obtain a second detected current value; a storage configured to store a first probability distribution information of the first current detection circuitry and a second probability distribution information of the second current detection circuitry; synthesis circuitry configured to convert the first and second detected current values into first and second probability distributions based on the first and second probability distribution information, respectively, and to synthesize the first and second probability distributions to obtain a synthesized distribution; and estimation circuitry configured to obtain an estimated current value via a maximum likelihood estimation based on the synthesized distribution. |
| US11846653B2 |
Scanning probe microscope and method for resonance-enhanced detection using a range of modulation frequencies
A scanning probe microscope and method for resonance-enhanced detection using the scanning probe microscope uses a light source that is modulated in a range of frequencies to irradiate an interface between a probe tip of the microscope and a sample with modulated electromagnetic radiation from the light source. The vibrational response of the driven cantilever in response to the modulated electromagnetic radiation at the interface between the probe tip and the sample is then detected. The amplitude of the vibrational response of the cantilever over the entire range of modulation frequencies is measured to derive a photo-induced force microscope (PiFM) value. |
| US11846650B2 |
Acceleration detection device, work machine, and acceleration detection method
An acceleration detection device includes a first acceleration acquisition unit configured to acquire a first acceleration from a mechanical acceleration sensor a second acceleration acquisition unit configured to acquire a second acceleration from a non-mechanical acceleration sensor and a correction value calculation unit configured to calculate a correction value for correcting the first acceleration using the second acceleration. |
| US11846648B2 |
Low stress overtravel stop
A microelectromechanical system device is described. The microelectromechanical system device can comprise: a proof mass coupled to an anchor via a spring, wherein the proof mass moves in response to an imposition of an external load to the proof mass, and an overtravel stop comprising a first portion and a second portion. |
| US11846640B2 |
Identification of anticoagulants in a sample
The present invention is directed to a novel method of determining inhibitors of proteolytically active coagulation factors, referred to herein as anticoagulants, in a sample, in particular the qualitative detection of direct thrombin and factor Xa inhibitors in a sample. The method of the present invention allows a qualitative determination of the nature anticoagulants present in a sample. This can be achieved with only one coagulation-based test. The method can be used in a test kit, including a point-of-care (POC) system. |
| US11846639B2 |
Ligand discovery for T cell receptors
Compositions and methods are provided for the identification of peptide sequences that are ligands for a T cell receptor (TCR) of interest, in a given MHC context. |
| US11846636B2 |
Diagnosis of systemic lupus erythematosus using oligonucleotides antigens
Methods and kits for diagnosing systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in a subject are provided. Particularly, the present invention relates to specific oligonucleotide antibody reactivities useful in diagnosing SLE in a subject. |
| US11846626B2 |
Electrochemical detection of microbial stress
The present invention is directed to a method of detecting microbial stress. The method comprises the following: providing an electrochemical device having at least one reference electrode and one working electrode wherein the electrochemical device also contains a fermenting microbe, setting an electrochemical potential, providing a source of electrical energy electrically connected to the at least one working electrode, detecting a transfer of electrons from the working electrode to the fermenting microbe, wherein the detection is an indication of microbial stress, and providing a remedial action in response to the indication of microbial stress. |
| US11846618B2 |
Method and apparatus for automatically maintaining a desired level of oxygen in a refuge
An apparatus for controlling a level of oxygen in a closed environment from an oxygen supply having an oxygen sensor for detecting the level of oxygen in the closed environment. The apparatus has a plurality of relays in communication with the sensor. The apparatus has a valve in communication with the relays and the oxygen supply which is automatically opened with the relays without human interaction, monitoring and adjustment to release oxygen from the oxygen supply into the environment when the level of oxygen in the environment goes below a first predetermined level and which is automatically closed with the relays without human interaction, monitoring and adjustment to stop oxygen from being released from the oxygen supply into the environment when the level of oxygen in the environment goes above a second predetermined level. A method for controlling a level of oxygen in a closed environment from an oxygen supply. A refuge chamber. |
| US11846613B2 |
Strain testing rig and method of evaluating strain characteristics of specimen
A strain testing rig for testing an elongate specimen has at least three restraints arranged to be spaced apart along the elongate specimen. Each restraint engages the elongate specimen at a respective contact location such that the strain testing rig defines an independent strain zone between each pair of adjacent contact locations. A drive mechanism moves the at least three restraints to stretch each independent strain zone such that the length of each independent strain zone increases independent of strain in the other zones. The restraints can be pivotably connected end-to-end as a chain linkage. The drive mechanism drives the chain linkage from a first position in which a forward facing side of the chain linkage which opposes the specimen is substantially straight to a second position in which the forward facing side of the chain linkage is convexly curved. |
| US11846606B2 |
Transducer assembly
A dual element time-of-flight diffraction (TOFD) transducer assembly (10) for use in detecting an anomaly (78) in a test piece (70), the transducer assembly (10) comprising: a first transducer element (35) a configured to transmit ultrasonic signals (85a) to the test piece (70), and a second transducer element (35b) configured to receive diffracted ultrasonic signals (85b) from the test piece, wherein the first and second transducer elements (35a, 35b) are housed within a common housing (15), the housing (15) also forming part of the transducer assembly (10). |
| US11846594B2 |
Single-crystal X-ray structure analysis apparatus and sample holder
It is enabled to surely attach a sample holder to a goniometer head with good reproducibility in a relatively easy manner, the sample holder holding a porous complex crystal where a single-crystal is soaked. There is provided a single-crystal X-ray structure analysis apparatus that performs a structure analysis of a material, the apparatus comprising a goniometer having a goniometer head 514 to which a sample holder 310 is attached, the sample holder holding a porous complex crystal where a sample is soaked; an X-ray irradiation section that irradiates the X-rays to the porous complex crystal whose position is adjusted with the goniometer head 514, wherein a positioning portion for positioning the sample holder 310 to be attached is formed on a surface of the goniometer head 514, the sample holder 310 being attached onto the surface. |
| US11846585B2 |
Droplet sensor with a protective film
A droplet sensor includes an optical cover having a curved surface that forms a part of a spheroid, a protective film that covers the curved surface of the optical cover, a light source provided at a first focal point of an ellipse facing the curved surface, and a photodetector provided at a second focal point of the ellipse. The refractive index of the protective film is greater than the refractive index of a liquid to be detected. A sensing region is determined by a range of an incident angle at which a light beam emitted from the light source and incident onto the curved surface is totally reflected at the interface between the protective film and a gas, and is not totally reflected at the interface between the protective film and the liquid to be detected. |
| US11846581B2 |
Instrument networking for optical particle counters
An airborne or liquid particle sensor with a number of advanced features is disclosed. The sensor includes an output channel generating an electrical signal for a particle passing through the sensor, where the electrical signal includes information related to the pulse. The information is processed by the sensor to determine a value that indicates a more accurate particle mass for a sample period than the average mass. |
| US11846575B2 |
Sampling arrangement
A sampling arrangement includes a sample concentration element configured to trap at least one analyte of interest by freezing; and a sample release arrangement configured to provide a flow of gas, at room temperature on or around the sample concentration element in order to change the temperature thereof; wherein the sample release arrangement further includes a release gas preprocessing element; and a pump element configured to provide the gas flow on or around the sample concentration element. |
| US11846574B2 |
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for sample capture and extraction
Methods, apparatuses, and systems associated with aerosol collection devices (such as, but not limited to, breath-aerosol collector devices, breathalyzers) are provided. An example aerosol collection device includes a sample transfer adapter configured to receive a sample and a device body connected to the sample transfer adapter. In some examples, the device body defines a flow channel that guides the sample to a filter component, and the filter component contains a buffer solution. |
| US11846570B2 |
Flow diverting wind tunnel
A wind tunnel device is provided herein that enables the wind tunnel to transform between two modes of operation and/or to refresh/recondition air within the tunnel. The wind tunnel device may provide selective diversion of airflow within the wind tunnel. The diversion of airflow may enable the wind tunnel device to include a multi-configurable wind tunnel that can be operated as either an open-return wind tunnel or a closed-return wind tunnel. Additionally, or alternatively, the diversion of airflow may enable the wind tunnel device to recondition air within a closed-return wind tunnel. |
| US11846564B2 |
Optical systems and methods for locating query symbols in a reference sequence
A system includes at least one waveguide with optical interaction portions that represent a sequence of reference symbols based on the order of the optical interaction portions in the at least one waveguide. At least one light source sends photons of one or more predetermined wavelengths into the at least one waveguide representing a string of query symbols. A detector detects photons received from the at least one waveguide that result from optical interactions between photons sent into the at least one waveguide and one or more corresponding optical interaction portions with an interaction between photons and an optical interaction portion indicating a match between a query symbol and a reference symbol. An analyzer determines one or more respective relative locations of the one or more corresponding optical interaction portions indicating one or more relative locations of the string of query symbols in the reference sequence. |
| US11846562B2 |
MTF testing apparatus
An MTF testing apparatus including a plurality of telescopic cameras each mounted at a fixed predetermined position on a camera holder, each camera receiving an image projected by at least one lens of a single device under test. A processor is coupled to the telescopic cameras. is the processor configured to receive image data from every telescopic camera and perform a plurality of MTF measurements, the telescopic cameras are mounted on the camera holder such that every telescopic camera captures image data resulting in an MTF measurement at a different field position of the lens. The camera holder comprises a holding structure and at least two brackets elongated elements projecting between first and second end portions, the end portions being releasably mounted on the holding structure, and at least two cameras are mounted on every bracket and the brackets are individually detachable from the holding structure. |
| US11846557B2 |
Torque and force transducer
A six-axis Force Torque Transducer (FTT) including a hub and at least one flexural beam disposed on the hub and extending outwardly from the hub. Each of the at least one flexural beams including a U-beam having a substantially U-shaped cross section and at least one beam plate attached to the U-beam at a portion of the U-beam that is remote from the hub. A first strain gauge carrier, including at least one strain gauge, is mounted on an exterior surface of the at least one U-beam. A second strain gauge carrier, including at least one strain gauge, is mounted on an exterior surface of the at least one beam plate. A connection element electrically connects the strain gauges of the first strain gauge carrier and the strain gauges of the second strain gauge carrier in a bridge configuration. |
| US11846554B2 |
Installation structure for oil pressure sensor
There is provided an installation structure for an oil pressure sensor, including: a crankcase in which a main gallery that extends in one direction is formed; and the oil pressure sensor detachably installed on an outer surface of the crankcase. The oil pressure sensor is configured to detect an oil pressure of a branch passage branching from one end of the main gallery. In a bottom view of a vehicle, a connector of the oil pressure sensor is oriented to an outside of the vehicle, and the connector of the oil pressure sensor overlaps with the crankcase. |
| US11846547B2 |
Tubular wire shielding for an exhaust gas temperature sensor arrangement, exhaust gas temperature sensor arrangement and method for assembling an exhaust gas temperature sensor arrangement
The present invention relates to a tubular wire shielding (9) for an exhaust gas temperature sensor arrangement (1), the tubular wire shielding (9) comprising a first shielding tube (13) comprising one or more through channels for accommodating one or more wires (6a, 6b, 8a, 8b, 11a, 11b) and/or for accommodating one or more temperature measurement sensors (7), the tubular wire shielding (9) furthermore comprising a second shielding tube (14) radially surrounding the first shielding tube (14). It is an object of the invention to provide a tubular wire shielding (9) and an exhaust temperature sensor arrangement (1) which are of good mechanical stability. The object is solved in that the tubular wire shielding (9) comprises a first tube adhesive layer (15) arranged interposed between the first shielding tube (13) and the second shielding tube (14), the first tube adhesive layer (15) fixing the first shielding tube to the second shielding tube (14). Furthermore, the object is solved by an exhaust gas temperature sensor arrangement (1), preferably comprising such a wire shielding (9), and a method for assembling the exhaust gas temperature sensor arrangement (1). |
| US11846545B2 |
Device and method for the spectroscopic analysis of Brillouin scattered light
Spectrometer for analyzing the spectrum of a Brillouin scattered light including input means receiving the scattered light, and selecting means for selecting and separating specific multiple frequency components of the scattered light. The selecting means has at least one main input, and at least an optical detector is coupled to the selecting means for measuring the intensity of the different frequency components and reconstructing the spectrum profile of the scattered light. The selecting means include an optical integrated circuit having at least one optical ring resonator of a first type having an input waveguide for receiving the light from the input means, a closed loop waveguide having an effective refractive index neff, and an output waveguide. The selecting means further have at least a modulator element of the effective refractive index neff coupled to the closed loop waveguide of the optical ring resonator of the first type. |
| US11846543B2 |
Single photon counting detectors in strip or pixel design having digital inter-pixel communication logic comprising a physical area of each photo-detector diode being subdivided into a plurality of smaller sections representing a plurality of virtual channels
A system counts photon interactions in an array of photosensitive diodes and addresses the issue of improving position resolution. Every photo-detector diode of the array is connected to a readout unit cell containing a high-gain charge-to-voltage amplifier, a shaper, at least two comparators with independent thresholds and at least one interpixel communication logic, receiving as input signals from comparator outputs of the same readout unit cell and of the neighboring readout unit cells. This logic is then connected to at least one counter, each counter followed by a counter readout. By means of the digital interpixel communication logic and the set of comparators with different thresholds in every readout unit cell, it is possible to determine the photon hit position in the detector with a higher position resolution than the physical photo-detector size including the removal of the corner effect in pixel detectors. |
| US11846542B2 |
Photoelectric conversion apparatus using avalanche photodiodes with different sensitivity to light
A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a pixel and a counter circuit. The pixel includes a first avalanche photodiode and a second avalanche photodiode having different sensitivity to light. The counter circuit is configured to count a first signal based on charges generated in the first avalanche photodiode, and a second signal based on charges generated in the second avalanche photodiode. Processing on the count value is different between a case where a count value output from the counter circuit is larger than a threshold value and a case where the count value output from the counter circuit is smaller than the threshold value. |
| US11846540B2 |
Method for adjusting sleep time based on sensing data and electronic device
A method for adjusting sleep time based on sensing data and an electronic device are provided. In the method, a sensor is disabled in a sleep duration of the ith operation cycle, and the sensor is enabled in a detection duration of the ith operation cycle. Multiple sensing data corresponding to the ith operation cycle are obtained from the sensor. A detection duration and a sleep duration of the i+1th operation cycle are determined based on the sensing data obtained in the detection duration of the ith operation cycle. |
| US11846539B2 |
Method and system for measuring interference in a checkweighing device
A method and a system measure interfering influences on a checkweighing device. In the method, external interference data are obtained, as are interference data from the checkweighing device itself and interference data from an object being weighed, by calculating or mapping the weighing error data in the stationary state, in the operating state, and in the weighing state. The system for measuring the interference uses a meter and a processing apparatus. The meter and the processing apparatus perform an interference measurement and a compensation method. The amount of interference in the checkweighing device in each state and the amount of influence of the interference on the weighing performance is obtained, thereby facilitating the production, debugging, maintenance, and use of a checkweighing device. |
| US11846535B2 |
Radar level gauge with sealing dielectric filling member and structurally reinforced element
A radar level gauge comprising a signal propagation device, a dielectric filling member arranged in the signal propagation device, and a sealing arrangement for preventing tank content from escaping into the outside environment, wherein the dielectric filling member comprises a main body and a sealing arrangement comprising a first sealing portion. The radar level gauge further comprises a structural reinforcement element positioned above the first sealing portion. |
| US11846531B2 |
Ultrasonic flow meter with inner and outer flow channels
A flow meter is shown. The flow meter includes a housing extending along an axis and defining an interior volume, the interior volume extending between an inlet port and an outlet port. The flow meter further includes an insert positioned within the interior volume and spaced apart from the housing, the insert extending along the axis. A first region between at least part of the insert and the housing along the axis defines a first flow pathway, and a second region within the insert and along the axis defines a second flow pathway. |
| US11846530B2 |
Method and device for monitoring, displaying and remote reporting of homogeneous and non-homogeneous turbulent material flow streams in confined channels and pipes
A method and device for accurately monitoring, displaying, and remote reporting of turbulent material flow streams in confined channels and pipes is provided. The device can have multiple cams coupled to an obstruction, and a spring. The multiple cams can have a cam profile, and the cam profile and the spring may be selected to linearize a rotation of the obstruction over a range of fluid flow velocities. The obstruction can include have multiple obstructions each in a different area of a cross-section of a pipe, improving the accuracy of the device. |
| US11846528B2 |
Systems and methods for identifying points of interest in pipes or drain lines
Systems and methods for identifying one or more points of interest in pipes or drain lines are described. Examples of points of interest include blockages caused by debris in the pipe or drain line. The systems are incorporated into drain cleaning machines. Also described are drain cleaning machines utilizing the systems. |
| US11846526B2 |
Sensor system
Described are systems and methods to provide agnostic sensor data obtained from a sensor and transmitted to a central database by a transmitter device. In one aspect, a value sensed by a sensor component is converted at the transmitter device to an agnostic value defined by a dimensionless universal scale and offset. The agnostic value is then sent to a data acquisition database where it is converted back to the original value. This is accomplished by first providing the data acquisition database with a sensor definition of a scale and offset used to convert the sensor values in addition to any sensor indicia and other parameters to display the data acquired at the data acquisition database. The wireless sensors database and user interface are also automatically updated when a new sensor type is attached to the network utilizing configuration data that resides in the new sensor that is sent to the database on its first connection. |
| US11846520B2 |
Method and device for determining a vehicle position
The present disclosure describes a method and an apparatus for determining a corrected position of a vehicle based on a stable landmark. The method includes determining a last known position vector of the vehicle; capturing an image within a vicinity of a vehicle using an imaging device; identifying a stable landmark within the captured image based on a previously constructed reference map of the vicinity of the vehicle; determining a correction for a position of the vehicle based on the determined last known position vector of the vehicle and the identified stable landmark; and determining an updated position of the vehicle based on the determined correction. |
| US11846513B2 |
Method for defining a path
A path is defined to be followed by a vehicle in an environment represented by a graph of nodes connected by edges. Each node represents the vehicle's position. Each edge between two nodes indicates a transition cost between the two nodes. An instance of the graph, which is represented by a start node, a destination node and mandatory nodes through which the vehicle must pass, is obtained. An initial order of travel through the mandatory nodes is obtained by applying a procedure, using a graph convolutional neural network, adapted to the graph, to the instance. A procedure of local optimisation of the mandatory nodes is executed in order to obtain an optimised order. A path for the instance is defined to be resolved: from the optimised order and for each pair of nodes of the instance to be resolved, from a shortest path between the nodes of the pair. |
| US11846512B1 |
Driver feedback and rerouting in response to adverse driving conditions
A system and method for monitoring driving conditions and reacting to the driving conditions is disclosed. The system includes a risk monitoring system that can detect adverse road conditions. The method includes performing rerouting when hazardous road conditions are detected. The vehicle may be routed along a different route that lacks the hazardous road condition. The method also includes providing feedback to the driver when adverse driver behavior, such as a drowsy driver, is detected. |
| US11846508B2 |
Gyroscope with mass pairs
A microelectromechanical gyroscope comprising first, second, third and fourth Coriolis masses, arranged in that order on an x-axis. In the primary oscillation mode, the Coriolis masses are configured to oscillate so that the second and third Coriolis masses move in linear translation along the x-axis away from a center point when the first and fourth Coriolis masses move in linear translation along the x-axis towards the first center point, and vice versa. When the gyroscope undergoes rotation about a y-axis which is perpendicular to the x-axis, the Coriolis masses are configured to oscillate so that the first, second, third and fourth Coriolis masses undergo vertical motion in a z-direction, wherein the first and third Coriolis masses move up when the second and fourth Coriolis masses move down, and vice versa. |
| US11846504B2 |
Tape measure with compact retraction system
A tool, such as a tape measure, including a spring-based retraction system is shown. Various spring-based retraction system embodiments are configured to decrease the size occupied by the spring within the tape measure housing, which consequently reduces tape measure housing size providing a more compact tape measure. Various spring-based retraction system embodiments are configured to control retraction of the tape measure in a manner that reduces whip or otherwise controls tape blade retraction. Some retraction system embodiments utilize a reduction gear train, and others utilize a compression spring and a transmission system that converts rotational movement of the tape reel to axial movement, which compresses the spring. |
| US11846492B2 |
Motion activated bow sight light
A bow sight light mounting kit for illuminating an archery bow includes a bow sight light control unit that includes a power source, a motion sensor, and a customizable timer; an LED light, the LED light adapted for being attached to the bow sight light control unit; and a first mounting plate, the first mounting plate attaching the bow sigh light control unit to the archery bow. The motion sensor detects a movement of the archery bow and sends a signal to the customizable timer; wherein the customizable timer adjusts the LED light to mode-1 after receiving the signal and keeps the LED light on mode-1 for a pre-set time period; the customizable timer adjusts the LED light to mode-2 after the pre-set time period; and the mode-1 and mode-2 are pre-set by a user to control a brightness and a blinking frequency of the LED light. |
| US11846489B2 |
Reticle for an optical sighting device to engage targets from multiple ranges
Rangefinding methods are described herein, and more particularly to shapes superimposed on an image that enable measurement of distances with a sighting device. A reticle for an optical sight, including but not limited to a holographic sight, which allows the user to near instantaneously engage targets from multiple ranges, is described herein. |
| US11846486B2 |
Pneumatic sequential injection rifle
An air gun configured to propel a projectile without the use of combustion at a preselected velocity is provided. The air gun includes at least one first valve disposed between a chamber and a source of compressed gas, and at least one enhancement mechanism to improve the efficiency of the compressed gas to propel the projectile at a preselected velocity. |
| US11846482B2 |
Ejection port cover with multifunctional pin
Systems, methods, and apparatus for an ejection port cover with a multifunctional pin. In one embodiment, a fixed pin and a spring-loaded pin both mate with hinge openings at ends of the ejection port. The spring-loaded pin can be longitudinally biased by a spring, such as a torsion spring. This same spring can perform biasing of the ejection port cover toward an open position as well as biasing of a flag extending from the spring-loaded pin into a locked position when the ejection port cover is not installed. |
| US11846477B2 |
Smart firearm safety device
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, are described for implementing a smart firearm safety device. The safety device attaches to a firearm having a trigger and a slot for receiving a magazine. The safety device includes a locking mechanism that attaches to the trigger to preclude depressing a trigger of the firearm and a sensor that determines an orientation of the firearm or a relative motion of the firearm to indicate detected movement of the firearm. The safety device also includes a radio device that receives parameter signals from the sensor indicating movement of the firearm. The radio device communicates with a component of a property monitoring system to receive a command to engage the locking mechanism to preclude depressing the trigger of the firearm based on parameter signals indicating a particular type of detected movement of the firearm. |
| US11846476B2 |
Ejector for firearm
An ejector mechanism for a firearm includes an ejector disposed at a forward face of a bolt. The ejector includes a hole designed to provide clearance for the firing pin to pass at least partially through the ejector. The hole may include a counterbore on a rear side of the ejector. |
| US11846473B2 |
Thermostat valve for a coolant circuit
Methods and systems are provided for a valve. In one example, a system may include a cooling arrangement including the valve, wherein the valve is configured to variably adjust coolant flow rates in response to one or more of a coolant temperature and a charge air pressure. The valve includes a transmission pin which may be acted upon via an expansion element and/or a pressure actuator. |
| US11846471B2 |
Shell and tube heat exchanger with compound tubesheet
Disclosed is a shell-and-tube heat exchanger assembly, having: a first tubesheet configured for being secured to a shell of the shell-and-tube heat exchanger assembly, the first tubesheet including: a first section and a second section; the second section configured to be secured to a first shell end of the shell; and the first section including a plurality of holes configured to support a respective plurality of aluminum tubes extending through the shell, wherein the first section is configured to limit a galvanic response of the plurality of aluminum tubes when exposed to a chiller water. |
| US11846467B2 |
Apparatus for the rapid cooling of packaged beverages
An apparatus for the rapid cooling of packaged beverages that includes a thermally insulated immersion tank capable of containing a liquid refrigerant and an evaporator coil placed within the tank, where the container will be submerged while held by gripping means connected to a vertical rotation axis mounted on a vertically movable cart, both driven by driving means under the control of a control unit that commands a series of sequential steps such as driving the rotation of said axial rotation axis within a predetermined speed range and period of time followed by slowing down of the rotation of said axial rotation axis at a predetermined speed with a simultaneous vertical reciprocating movement of the container by means of the vertically movable cart for a predetermined period of time as many times as established by the control unit. |
| US11846466B2 |
Rapidly cooling food and drinks
Systems and methods have demonstrated the capability of rapidly cooling the contents of pods containing the ingredients for food and drinks. |
| US11846465B2 |
Product transport containers
Product transport containers are disclosed. Such containers can provide one or more advantages compared to existing containers. For example, product transport containers described herein can maintain a product at a desired temperature for an extended period of time, including without the use of an active heating or cooling component. Such product transport containers described herein may also provide improved breathability, thermal insulation, and/or mechanical strength or dimensional stability. Such containers can include a plurality of walls defining an interior volume and a selectively openable side permitting movement of the product into and out of the interior volume of the container. The walls can be formed from a thermoformed non-woven fabric. |
| US11846464B2 |
Refrigerator
A refrigerator includes a cabinet, a door opening/closing the cabinet and having an opening that is penetrated in a front/rear direction, a transparent panel assembly mounted to cover the opening and through which the inside of the refrigerant is seen, and a lighting member provided in the door or the cabinet to brighten a rear side of the transparent panel assembly. The transparent panel assembly includes a front panel defining an outer appearance of a front surface, a rear panel defining an outer appearance of a rear surface, a spacer made of a metal material and disposed between the front panel and the rear panel to define a periphery of the transparent panel assembly. A heater mounting part on which a heater is mounted is disposed on the spacer, and when the heater generates heat, one side of the front panel, which comes into contact with the spacer, is heated. |
| US11846460B2 |
Refrigerator
A refrigerator includes: a storage chamber; a cooler to cool the storage chamber; a first tray assembly and a second tray assembly configured to define an ice making cell; a heater disposed adjacent to at least one of the first tray assembly or the second tray assembly; and a controller configured to control the heater, wherein the controller controls the heater to be turned on to make transparent ice from water within the ice making cell, and the controller controls the heater so that when a heat transfer amount between the storage chamber and the water of the ice making cell increases, the heating amount of the heater increases, and when the heat transfer amount between the storage chamber and the water of the ice making cell decreases, the heating amount of the heater decreases. |
| US11846457B2 |
Transportation refrigeration modular unit
A transportation refrigeration assembly includes a modular heat exchanger unit that includes at least one absorption heat exchanger and at least one expansion device. A frame supports the modular heat exchanger unit. A first cooling air outlet is in fluid communication with the modular heat exchanger unit. A second cooling air outlet is in fluid communication with the modular heat exchanger unit. |
| US11846455B2 |
Valve needle assembly and electronic expansion valve having the valve needle assembly
A valve needle assembly includes a valve stem, a valve needle, an elastic element, and a stop structure. The valve needle is connected to the valve stem and axially movable relative to the valve stem. The elastic element is provided between the valve stem and the valve needle. The stop structure is configured to limit axial movement of the valve needle relative to the valve stem so as to prevent the valve needle from prematurely opening the valve hole of the electronic expansion valve under the force of fluid. The electronic expansion valve includes the valve needle assembly. |
| US11846454B2 |
Heat pump utilizing thermal energy storage
A heat pump system for the use of cooling or heating comprising at least one TES (3), wherein the TES comprises thermal energy storage. The TES is placed downstream of a heat exchanger (2) and generally placed upstream of a pressure changing device (4) or regenerator (40), wherein the TES exchanges heat energy with a fluid (14) of the heat pump, and wherein the heat pump system exchanges heat energy between an enclosed space (6) and an ambient heat source outside the enclosed space. The TES is generally charged with thermal energy, which may be cool or heat energy, during favorable times of a daily temperature cycle. The TES then transfers the stored thermal energy to assist in cooling or heating the enclosed space. |
| US11846453B2 |
Evaporator assemblies and heat pump systems including the same
Disclosed herein are evaporator assemblies for heat pump systems. The evaporator units can comprise a housing defining an interior chamber, an air inlet and an air outlet. The air inlet and the air outlet can form an air flow path through the interior chamber, and an evaporator unit can be positioned within the interior chamber such that the air flow path contacts the evaporator unit. The air inlet having a semi-circular cross section through which air flows into the interior chamber, the semi-circular cross section having a straight edge and a curved edge. A velocity magnitude of the air flowing from the air inlet into contact with the evaporator unit can deviate less than 0.1 m/s from the average air velocity across the surface area of the evaporator. |
| US11846452B2 |
Food conditioning device with temperature control
A compact device for the temperature conditioning of foods while allowing the food to be visible and using little physical space. The device features both heating and cooling functions, but is preferably used for cooling fruits, vegetables, accessory fruits, roots and others. The device is compact, having a translucent cover, thus offering better visibility and increasing food consumption. Preferably developed with polymeric material, the body has the function of protecting all the internal constituents of the device. The base of the device is responsible for thermal stability, keeping low or high temperature in the compartment for longer periods. The bowl of the device is responsible for holding food within the cooled or heated area and the food conditioning cover is made of a translucent material, with the function of keeping thermal stability. |
| US11846450B2 |
Tankless electric water heater
A tankless electric water heater system including a heating chamber having an inlet at a first end and an outlet at a second end, a heating element connected to the heating chamber, a first temperature sensor disposed near the first end of the heating chamber, a second temperature sensor disposed near the second end of the heating chamber, a flow sensor configured to detect a flow of water and disposed near the heating chamber, and a controller connected to the first and second temperature sensors, the flow sensor, and the heating element. The controller is configured to have a set point temperature, to detect temperature and flow data from the first and second temperature sensors, and the flow sensor, and to provide as output a power setting to the heating element. |
| US11846449B2 |
Combustion systems with ease of serviceability
The disclosed technology includes a combustion system providing ease of access to components of the combustion system and optimal placement of a burner such that efficient combustion and heat transfer can occur. The combustion system can include an inner tube having a first end and a second end, the second end having a flange with a sensor port, and an outer tube having a first end and a second end. The inner tube can be disposed within the outer tube. The inner tube can have an outer diameter less than an inner diameter of the outer tube, creating a gap between the outer tube and inner tube. An ignitor assembly and a flame sensor assembly can extend through the sensor port and the gap and be positioned proximate a burner. |
| US11846445B2 |
Air conditioner
Disclosed is an air conditioner, including an air compressor intended to compress the air to cool, an air-liquid thermal exchanger designed to transfer heat from the compressed air to a liquid placed in a tank, an air-to-air thermal exchanger designed to further lower the temperature of the air to be cooled which, at this stage, is still kept in the compressed air state, a compressed air engine to provide an expansion of the compressed air, which naturally lowers its temperature and provides cooled air, and an envelope, with good thermal insulation properties and intended to contain all the constituent elements of the air conditioner; it will then not be necessary to provide for a hot air evacuation as on most air conditioners known in the state of the art. |
| US11846440B2 |
Dynamic ventilation control for a building
Appropriate ventilation for a building space while maintaining building comfort includes tracking one or more interior environmental conditions within the building space and one or more exterior environmental conditions outside of the building space during operation of the HVAC system. An environmental model for the building space is learned over time based at least in part on these tracked environmental conditions, where the environmental model predicts an environmental state of the building space in response to operation of the HVAC system under various interior and exterior environmental conditions. A maximum allowed ventilation rate that can be achieved without causing the HVAC system to compromise on any of one or more comfort conditions of the building space is predicted using the environmental model. The outdoor air ventilation damper of the HVAC system is then controlled to provide an appropriate ventilation up to or at the predicted maximum allowed ventilation rate. |
| US11846436B2 |
Floor-standing air conditioner
A floor-standing air conditioner includes a first member that opens or closes a first flow path, a second member that opens or closes a second flow path, and a control unit that controls a fan, the first member, and the second member. The control unit is configured to perform a first blowing process of blowing out air from the first blow-out port with the first flow path opened by the first member and the second flow path closed by the second member, a second blowing process of blowing out air from the second blow-out port with the first flow path closed by the first member and the second flow path opened by the second member, and a blow-out port switching process of blowing out air from both the first blow-out port and the second blow-out port during switching between the first blowing process and the second blowing process. |
| US11846431B2 |
Cooking apparatus
Provided is a cooking apparatus. The cooking apparatus has a structure in which cooking modules different from each other are selectively mounted with a free arrangement structure on a top surface of the cooking apparatus. |
| US11846427B2 |
Gas turbine combustor with fuel nozzles shaped with a diameter decreasing and increasing toward a rear side thereof
A combustor includes an outer can into which fuel is introduced, an outer head disposed on a front side of the outer can, an inner can disposed inside of the outer can and having a combustion chamber in which a fuel-air mixture is combusted, and an inner head disposed to mix the fuel and the compressed air and supply the mixture into the inner can. The inner head includes a head plate covering a front side of the inner can, and nozzle assemblies disposed to mix the fuel and the compressed air and supply the mixture rearwards. The nozzle assembly includes a nozzle head into which fuel is introduced and nozzles. The nozzles each is coupled between the nozzle head and the head plate to mix the fuel and the compressed air and supply the mixture rearwards. The nozzles each has a shape with a diameter decreasing and increasing toward the rear side thereof. |
| US11846426B2 |
Gas turbine combustor having secondary fuel nozzles with plural passages for injecting a diluent and a fuel
A gas turbine engine including a compressor section, a combustor for combusting a fuel, and a turbine. Compressed air flows through a combustion liner of the combustor in a bulk airflow direction. The combustor includes a primary fuel nozzle and a secondary fuel nozzle. The secondary fuel nozzle is downstream of the primary fuel nozzle in the bulk airflow direction. The primary fuel nozzle is configured to inject a primary portion of the fuel into a primary combustion zone, and the secondary fuel nozzle is configured to inject a secondary portion of the fuel into a secondary combustion zone. The secondary combustion zone is located downstream of the primary combustion zone in the bulk airflow direction. The fuel may be one of diatomic hydrogen fuel and a hydrogen enriched fuel. |
| US11846423B2 |
Mixer assembly for gas turbine engine combustor
A mixer assembly having a plurality of mixer vanes, each of the plurality of mixer vanes having a first end, a second end, and a body portion extending between the first end and the second end, the body portion having a length, a width, a thickness, a cross-sectional area, a curvature, and a twist, wherein each of the plurality of mixer vanes has a 3-dimensional shape defined by the length, width, thickness, cross-sectional area, curvature, and twist of the body portion, and wherein at least one of the plurality of mixer vanes has a non-uniform 3-dimensional shape. |
| US11846418B2 |
Protective material for fuel system
A downhole torch system and method of use includes a cylindrical housing, a protective material provided on at least one of the cylindrical housing and the fuel load, and a fuel load located within the cylindrical housing. The protective material is provided between the fuel load and the cylindrical housing to protect the cylindrical housing from adverse effects caused by the reaction of the burning fuel and/or the subsequent production of combustion products for cutting and/or perforating processes during operation of the torch system. The protective material significantly improves the cutting and/or perforating performance of the torch system. |
| US11846416B2 |
Device and method for selecting optimal boiler combustion model
A device and method select an optimal boiler combustion model from among a plurality of boiler combustion models for boiler combustion to update a memory in which the boiler combustion models are stored. The device includes a memory configured to store first boiler combustion models that are derived in advance and second boiler combustion models that are derived in advance; and a processor configured to select an optimal boiler combustion model from among the first and second boiler combustion models and to update the memory according to characteristics of the selected optimal boiler combustion model. The processor may further generate a third boiler combustion model for the combustion of the boiler to select the optimal boiler combustion model from among the first to third boiler combustion models and verification data for model verification through the latest data measured in the boiler and data on basic characteristics of the measured data. |
| US11846413B2 |
Illumination device light collector and converging optical system
There is presented a light fixture (200) comprising an nation device (244) comprising a plurality of light sources (103) emitting light along an optical axis (247); an optical gate (242) arranged along the optical axis; a light collector (241) placed between the plurality of light sources (103) emitting and the optical gate (242) and adapted to collect light from the light sources and adapted to project at least a part of said light along said optical axis (247); and one or more color filters (251, 253), such as color filters for subtractive color mixing, such as dichroic filters or color gels or the like, such as arranged to be traversed by the optical axis (247), placed between the light collector (241) and the optical gate (242), and a converging optical component (263), such as a first converging optical component (263), placed between the one or more color filters (251, 253) and the optical gate (242) and further comprising an optical projecting system (243) placed on the opposite side of the optical gate (242) with respect to the plurality of light sources (103) and adapted to collect at least a part of the light emittable from the illumination device and adapted to project at least a part of said light along said optical axis (247). |
| US11846410B2 |
Support assembly and illumination system
A support accessory is provided for an LED lamp, and the support accessory includes a frame and a supporting leg. The frame is configured to be detachably coupled to the LED lamp, and the supporting leg is configured for supporting the frame on at least one certain support surface when the LED lamp is installed. Wherein, in a first state, the supporting leg is fixed to the frame, and in a second state, the supporting leg is slidably coupled to the frame and can slide relative to the frame to adjust length of the supporting leg between the frame and the at least one certain support surface. |
| US11846409B2 |
Field configurable flagpole truck system and device
A flagpole truck system includes a flag pole truck device, including an enclosure body with a blocking protrusion, first and second pulley mounts, first and second halyard apertures, and internally mounted pulley assembly, a mounting stem assembly with first and second pin apertures, first and second blocking pins; a flagpole; a flag; a halyard; and a flag pole finial; such that the flag pole truck device is configurable in a first configuration for external halyard mounting and in a second configuration for partially internal halyard mounting; and such that the flag pole truck device is configurable for free rotation, restricted rotation, and blocked rotation. |
| US11846407B2 |
Bare optical fiber manufacturing method
A bare optical fiber manufacturing method includes applying an ultraviolet curable resin applied around an optical fiber; and irradiating the ultraviolet curable resin with ultraviolet light emitted from semiconductor ultraviolet light emitting elements, by use of an ultraviolet irradiation device having plural ultraviolet irradiation units each having plural positions where the ultraviolet light is emitted toward the ultraviolet curable resin, the plural positions being arranged on the same circle, the plural ultraviolet irradiation units being arranged in a traveling direction of the optical fiber such that the optical fiber passes centers of the circles, at least two of the plural ultraviolet irradiation units being differently arranged with respect to circumferential direction angles thereof around an axis that is the traveling direction of the optical fiber. |
| US11846406B1 |
Small-sized aperture assembly and stage light fixture having same
A small-sized aperture assembly includes a base plate, an optical shutter fixed to the base plate, a motor providing a driving force, a linkage mechanism with one end connected to the motor, and a transition gear located between the linkage mechanism and the optical shutter. A periphery of the optical shutter is provided with a sawtooth segment meshed with the transition gear, and the other end of the linkage mechanism is hinged to the transition gear, so that the linkage mechanism drives the transition gear to move under the driving of the motor, and enables the optical shutter to switch between a closed state and an open state. |
| US11846404B1 |
Outdoor security multi-head lamp using hybrid lighting sources
The invention relates to the technical field of lighting lamps, in particular to an outdoor security multi-head lamp using hybrid lighting sources, comprising: a lamp holder, a main control board, a power module and a lamp head assembly. The lamp head assembly is provided with a movable mount and multiple lamp head structures and at least two lighting sources are installed on the lamp head assembly. Hybrid lighting sources are used to realize diversified functions and control modes, such that the lamp can be used for atmosphere creation, building decoration, light modeling, light beautification of courtyard landscapes and other environments. |
| US11846403B1 |
Lighting element
A lighting element configured to be mounted on a mounting surface. The lighting element comprises a base member, at least one forward member, and at least one base-illuminating light source. The base member is adjacent the mounting surface when mounted and has a base member front surface positioned to face away from the mounting surface when mounted. The at least one forward member has a front surface and a rear surface opposite the front surface. The rear surface is spaced from and in face-to-face relationship with the base member front surface. The at least one base-illuminating light source is adjacent the forward member rear surface, is adapted to emit light, and is positioned to project light toward the base member front surface and such that no portion of the at least one base-illuminating light source extends beyond the forward member front surface nor rearward beyond the forward member rear surface. |
| US11846400B2 |
Vehicle lamp
A vehicle lamp includes: a first light source and a second light source having light emission colors different from each other; and a light guide body that receives and emits light from the first light source and the second light source. The light guide body includes an incident portion on which the light is incident, a reflecting portion that reflects the light incident from the incident portion, and an emitting portion that emits the light reflected by the reflecting portion. The reflecting portion includes a plurality of first light distribution control surfaces that reflects the light from the first light source toward a predetermined direction and a plurality of second light distribution control surfaces that reflects the light from the second light source toward the predetermined direction. The plurality of first and second light distribution control surfaces are alternately arranged. |
| US11846399B2 |
Lighting device comprising a movable signaling module and a movable lighting module
The invention includes a lighting device with a signaling module that can move in at least a first direction and a lighting module that can move in a second direction different from the first direction. The movable lighting module being able to take a position that is invisible and a position that is visible from outside the lighting device. The lighting device further including a controller designed to control a movement of the lighting module such that: in a first mode, called daytime mode, the lighting module assumes the invisible position; in a second mode, called nighttime mode, the lighting module assumes the visible position. The controller moves of the signaling module such that at least one part of the signaling module moves in the first direction in order to authorize a movement of the lighting module in the second direction from the invisible position to the visible position. |
| US11846392B1 |
Intra-Dewar structure
A system including an optical system having at least one refractive or reflective element, the optical system configured to substantially receive electromagnetic radiation emanating from a source, the optical system being located within a Dewar, a support structure, support structure being mechanically disposed between the optical system and a surface of the Dewar, the support structure having substantially low thermal conductance, a cold source; the cold source being located within the Dewar, a thermal link, the thermal link being mechanically disposed between the optical system and the cold source, the thermal link being substantially flexible and having substantially high thermal conductance. |
| US11846389B2 |
Quick-release anchoring apparatus with self-mounted anchor member
A quick-release anchoring apparatus includes an anchor member having a flexible base seal member that engages an external reference surface and forms a substantially airtight seal therewith to define a controlled pressure zone. The anchor member includes a central stem extending through an opening of a first auxiliary component. The anchor member is rigidly self-mounted to the first auxiliary component without discrete retainers or fasteners. A vent port extends through the anchor member. A vent port upper end is centered within a stem landing zone on the stem upper end. A second auxiliary component is slidably mounted to the first auxiliary component for guided movement between a vent port closure position wherein the second auxiliary component engages the stem landing zone and blocks the vent port, a vent port open position wherein the second auxiliary component is out of engagement with the stem landing zone and unblocks the vent port. |
| US11846388B2 |
Slide and glide drum mounting system
A slide and glide drum mount system has a first coupling that is configured for removable, fixed attachment to a support post. The first coupling has a stub extending outwardly from a surface of the first coupling. A second coupling that is configured for removable, fixed attachment to a drum. The second coupling having a hole through a surface of the second coupling. The first coupling and the second coupling are removably and slidably connected with the stub disposed in the hole and with the surface of the first coupling and the surface of the second coupling engaged in contact, thereby mounting the drum to support post. |
| US11846381B2 |
Method of restoring a tubular assembly
A method of restoring a tubular assembly having a plurality of coupled tubular bodies includes the steps of inserting a first tubular element and a second tubular element inside the tubular assembly, the first tubular element having a first free end facing a second free end of the second tubular element, and of pushing at least one of the first or second tubular element against the other so as to bring the first free end and the second free end into contact. Before the step of inserting, there is a step of producing a collar on at least the first free end of the first tubular element. |
| US11846378B2 |
Heated pipeline with high heating efficiency
The heated pipeline comprises an inner pipe intended to convey a fluid, and an outer coating made of a thermal insulating material and covering the inner pipe. The outer coating comprises at least one duct delimited, in a transverse plane, by a closed outline entirely defined in the thermal insulating material, each duct housing a respective heating element. |
| US11846376B2 |
Swage connector device, assembly and method
Embodiments of a swage connector device and assembly include one or more of a sealing ring, a fastening ring spreader, a retainer grip ring, a cap member and a fastener push ring. The fastener push ring moves axially and engages the fastening ring spreader in order to securely maintain a piping element held within the fitting. |
| US11846374B2 |
Pipe joint with conductive seal
A pipe joint with a socket, and a pipe fitted into the socket. An annular seal is compressed between the socket and the pipe. The seal is electrically conductive and resiliently flexible. The socket or the pipe has a recess which houses the seal. The recess has a ridge in a base of the recess and the seal has a groove which extends around a radial periphery of the seal. The ridge fits into the groove to fool proof the installation, such that a standard non-conductive O-ring seal is more difficult to install in error. |
| US11846373B2 |
Profiled clamp
A profiled clamp with a profiled strip and an annular seal element. The profiled strip has two clamping heads which are connected together via a clamping element. The profiled strip has at least one radially outer positioning aid which has a spring elastic contact section for adapting to a shape characteristic of a line end that can be coupled to the profiled clamp, the aid being arranged in an axially offset manner to the profiled strip. |
| US11846372B2 |
Hose line for transporting abrasive media and method and device for production thereof
The present invention relates to a hose line (1) for transporting abrasive media with an electrically conductive reinforcing element (5) running in or on the hose wall (2) and extending in the hose direction (6), wherein an insert (7) made of electrically conducting material is at least partially embedded in the hose wall (2) and extends in the hose direction (6) at a distance from the reinforcing element (5). |
| US11846367B2 |
Mixer faucet
A mixer faucet having a left-right clicking mechanism and configured to increase a degree of freedom of the faucet is provided. The mixer faucet includes a lever handle and a valve assembly. The valve assembly includes: a tilting lever that is configured to move in conjunction with a movement of the lever handle, turn forward and rearward, and also turn leftward and rightward; a lower case; an upper case; a lower sealing member; an inner sealing member; and a click rotary member. The click rotary member is exposed to the outside of the valve assembly. The click rotary member is rotated leftward and rightward by a rotation force applied from the tilting lever. The click rotary member includes a first click engaging portion. The upper case includes a second click engaging portion. An engagement between the first click engaging portion and the second click engaging portion generates a left-right click. |
| US11846365B2 |
Solenoid valve
A valve portion has a sleeve and a valve body inserted into the sleeve. A solenoid portion includes a stator core having a magnetic attraction core, a sliding core, a magnetic flux passage suppressing portion, a yoke having a bottom portion, a side surface portion, and a thin wall portion, a coil portion, a plunger, and a magnetic tubular base portion. The base portion has a first tubular portion in which a first outer peripheral surface of the sleeve is press-fitted into inside and fastened to the first outer peripheral surface, a flange portion that has an outer diameter larger than the outer diameter of the first tubular portion, is arranged on an outer side in a radial direction of a second outer peripheral surface of the magnetic attraction core, and is caulked and fixed to the thin wall portion while being in contact with the yoke inside the yoke. |
| US11846363B2 |
Valve for an airbag system for a motor vehicle and airbag system for a motor vehicle
Valve for an airbag system for a motor vehicle and airbag system for a motor vehicleThe invention relates to a valve for an airbag system for a motor vehicle, having: a housing (20) which extends along a longitudinal axis (21) and surrounds a cavity (22) having a taper (17) and surrounds a control chamber; an electrically switchable pilot valve (15) which selectively seals or releases a pilot opening (6) of the control chamber (5); a piston (3) which is arranged in the cavity (22) and can be displaced along the longitudinal axis (21) relative to the housing (20); an equalization line (4, 18) which connects an inlet (1) of the valve (100) to the control chamber (5) for fluid communication, wherein: a sealing seat (2) is formed at the taper (17) in order to block a gas flow from the inlet (1) to an outlet (14) of the valve (100) in a closed position, in which the piston (3) is in contact with the sealing seat (2), and to release said gas flow in further positions; the control chamber (5) is arranged on a first side (24) of the piston (3) facing away from the sealing seat (2); and the piston (3) has a first diameter on a side (23) facing the sealing seat (2) and a second diameter (26) on the first side (24), the first diameter (25) being less than the second diameter (26). |
| US11846362B2 |
Solenoid valve
The disclosure relates to a solenoid valve comprising a housing body made of a thermoplastic, a coil, and a metal yoke which is at least partly arranged about the coil, wherein the housing body is designed as an injection molded part which surrounds the coil, and electrically insulating additives are added to the thermoplastic in order to increase the thermal conductivity thereof. The housing body is formed with grooves on the housing body exterior, and the metal yoke is designed as a component which partly surrounds the housing body and is mechanically connected to same. |
| US11846358B1 |
Low-profile proportional coolant valve
A rotary valve includes a rotary valve body defining a passageway from a first passageway port at an axial end surface of the rotary valve body to a second passageway port at an outer circumferential surface thereof. A valve housing has an inner surface defining each of an opening rotatably receiving the rotary valve body therein, a first housing port through which a fluid flows transverse to the axis of rotation of the rotary valve body, and a second housing port through which the fluid flows transverse to the axis of rotation of the rotary valve body. A flow path is formed between the inner surface of the valve housing and the outer surface of the rotary valve body with the flow path providing fluid communication between the first housing port of the valve housing and the first passageway port of the rotary valve housing. |
| US11846349B2 |
Brake transmission shift interlock assembly
A brake transmission shift interlock (BTSI) assembly is provided. The BTSI assembly may include an armature assembly and a flux collector. The armature assembly may include an armature component, a shaft, and a pin. The armature component may include a central through-hole defining a central axis and include a first end defining a first angle surface. The shaft may be disposed within the central through-hole and the pin mounted to the shaft. The flux collector may be mounted to the shaft and includes a second end defining a second angle surface. The armature component and the flux collector may be arranged with one another such that a first plane defined by the first angle surface is substantially parallel to a second plane defined by the second angle surface. |
| US11846344B1 |
Torque converter having floating hub
A torque converter is provided that includes a front cover arranged to receive a torque, an impeller having an impeller shell non-rotatably connected to the cover, and a turbine in fluid communication with the impeller and including a turbine shell. An output element is disposed axially between the front cover and the turbine shell and arranged to connect to a transmission input shaft. The output element includes a flange and a neck extending axially from the flange towards the front cover. A lock-up clutch includes a piston. A floating hub is disposed axially between the front cover and the flange and is sealed to the piston and the transmission input shaft. The floating hub is non-rotatably connected to the neck of the output element. |
| US11846342B2 |
Six-speed front-transverse double-clutch transmission with third counter shaft
A transmission where a first shaft is rotationally fixable to a third shaft and to a second shaft, the second and third shafts are rotationally connectable to a fourth shaft, the second shaft is rotationally connectable to a fifth shaft, the fourth shaft is rotationally connectable to the fifth shaft, the third shaft is rotationally connectable to the fifth shaft, fixed gears of the fourth and fifth shafts are rotationally connected to a drive output, a first gearwheel of the sixth shaft meshes with a fixed gear of the second shaft, and a second gearwheel of the sixth shaft meshes with a fixed gear of the third shaft. Moreover, a first gearwheel of the sixth shaft is an idler gear and a second gearwheel of the sixth shaft is a fixed gear, or vice versa. Additionally, the idler gear of the sixth shaft is rotationally fixable to the sixth shaft. |
| US11846341B2 |
Drive unit and maintenance method for the same
A drive unit includes an actuator from which an output rod protrudes at one end of a cylinder and being coupled to a flap of an aircraft, an attachment disposed on the other side of the cylinder, a reaction link coupled to the flap at one end and to the attachment at the other end, and a connection-disconnection section allowing the cylinder and the attachment to be coupled to and separated from each other. |
| US11846334B2 |
Braking band of a disc for disc brake of ventilated type
A braking band has a first plate and an opposite second plate having inner surfaces delimiting a gap, outer surfaces forming braking surfaces, and a plate body. The plates are joined by connecting elements. At least one plate has at least one ridge projecting into the gap without reaching the opposite plate. The ridge extends from a first connecting element to an adjacent connecting element, and along a circumferential direction, the connecting elements and the ridge being groupable in modules circumferentially distributed along the gap. A first module has three adjacent connecting elements connected by two ridges projecting from the first plate into the gap without reaching the second plate. A second module has three adjacent connecting elements connected by two ridges projecting from the second plate into the gap without reaching the first plate. A third module has at least one connecting element free of ridge connection. |
| US11846333B2 |
Radial mounting torque plate for heavy-duty vehicles
A radial mounting torque plate for mounting a disk brake component for heavy-duty vehicles, the torque plate comprising an annular portion and a pair of mounting arms. The annular portion is formed with an opening for receiving an axle of the heavy-duty vehicle. The mounting arms are integrally formed with and extend longitudinally outward in opposite directions from the annular portion and have a T-shaped cross-section. |
| US11846332B2 |
Open-ended, spring applied, hydraulically released brake with full alignment of components
A spring applied, hydraulically released brake includes a housing having an open end adapted to align with a vehicle surface and an internal ring extending from an inner perimeter of the housing; a piston; a disc stack including a thicker stationary disc including a tab with a hole therethrough, the hole receiving a slotted spring pin, the slotted spring pin slidably receiving a pin spring over a portion thereof; and a spring assembly adapted to urge the piston into contact with the thicker stationary disc to establish a default position of the brake; where, in a released position of the brake, the piston is not in contact with the thicker stationary disc, and the pin spring urges the thicker stationary disc into contact with the internal ring of the housing to thereby prevent the thicker stationary disc from free floating. |
| US11846327B2 |
Hub assembly, hybrid module comprising the hub assembly, and method for mounting the hub assembly
A hub assembly for a hybrid module having a first and a second connection partner arranged coaxially with one another, the first connection partner has a first bearing portion and the second connection partner has a second bearing portion, and a plurality of connecting elements. The first and the second bearing portion have receiving openings for receiving the connecting elements. The first and the second connection partner are prepositioned with respect to one another via a form-fitting connection such that the receiving openings in the first and the second bearing portion are each oriented in pairs in a positionally correct manner with respect to one another in the circumferential direction about the main axis H. |
| US11846320B2 |
Cage segment for a rolling-element bearing cage
A cage segment defines a single pocket of a multipart rolling-element bearing cage and includes first and second circumferentially spaced side walls connected by first and second end walls. The first and second side walls and the first and second end walls are formed by at least one sheet metal segment connected at at least one joint. |
| US11846316B2 |
Rolling bearing for high speeds equipped with an optimized cage to reduce noise at low speeds
A rolling bearing including an outer ring, an inner ring, rolling elements interposed between the outer ring and the inner ring and a cage for retaining the rolling elements and provided with radial seats or pockets for housing the rolling elements. The cage is guided supportingly on the outer ring with which a first clearance (G1) is defined, while between the pockets and the rolling elements there is a second clearance (G2) such that they have a relative ratio of between about 0.4 and 1. The rolling elements may be balls and the pockets may be formed by radial through-holes, which are circular or square in shape. |
| US11846315B2 |
Control element
The invention relates to a control element, in particular for a vehicle seat, comprising a second element which is arranged to be movable relative to a first element, wherein the second element is connected to a Bowden cable and is lockable relative to the first element, wherein the control element comprises a spring element, on which a first latching element is provided, wherein the first latching element presses against a second latching element through the spring force of the spring element, whereby the first latching element and the second latching element latch, wherein the first element and the spring element are formed in one piece and the second latching element is arranged on the second element, or the second element and the spring element are formed in one piece and the second latching element is arranged on the first element. |
| US11846313B2 |
Tamper resistant system, tamper resistant assembly and detaching tool
A tamper resistant assembly applied to a tamper resistant system includes a tamper resistant screw, a housing, a lock member, a nut and a cover. The tamper resistant screw includes a head, a thread, a groove and a tip. The lock member is disposed in the housing. The lock member includes a plurality of locking blocks, wherein a deformable opening is formed between the locking blocks. The nut is disposed in the housing and covers the deformable opening. The cover is disposed in the housing. The nut is located between the lock member and the cover. When the tip of the tamper resistant screw passes through the cover and the nut sequentially and enters the deformable opening, the nut is separated from the deformable opening and the locking blocks engage with the groove. Furthermore, a detaching tool is provided to detach the tamper resistant assembly. |
| US11846312B2 |
Cage nut fastener and methods for tool-less installation of same
A method of installing a cage nut fastener against a frame member without the aid of tools includes: providing a cage nut fastener having a spring cage and a nut prevented from rotation within the spring cage, wherein the spring cage includes first and second lever arms arranged at opposite sides thereof, each lever arm extending in a rearward direction behind a back wall of the spring cage; applying a compression force upon at least one of the lever arms, without the aid of tools, to manipulate the spring cage to a compressed state; positioning a distal end of each of the lever arms through an aperture of the frame member; and releasing the compression force so that a portion of each of the lever arms presses against an edge of the aperture, thereby securing the cage nut fastener against the frame member. |
| US11846311B2 |
External thread member
An external thread member capable of preventing oblique entry or insertion by a short screw tip shape is provided including, in its shank portion (20), a normal thread area (22), a guide thread area (24) provided at a tip side of the shank portion with respect to the normal thread area (22) and in which a guide screw thread (23) is formed, and a rising area (26) in which a transition screw thread (25) gradually rising from the guide screw thread (23) to the complete screw thread (21) is formed. A tapered guide portion (30) is provided at a tip end side of the normal thread area (22) and includes at least the guide thread area (24). The guide screw thread (23) is formed on an outer periphery of the tapered guide portion (30) which has a maximum diameter equal to or smaller than an inner diameter of an internal thread. |
| US11846309B2 |
Grommet for attaching cover and cover
The concave part includes an open end portion having an inner diameter greater than an outer diameter of a tip end portion of a ball stud, a fitting portion which is connected to the open end portion and has an inlet smaller than the outer diameter of the tip end portion and in which the tip end portion is housed, and a plurality of slits which are formed in a fitting direction of the ball stud from the open end portion and arranged at a predetermined interval along the circumference of the concave part. The pull-out prevention part includes a plurality of first ribs located on extensions of the respective slits. |
| US11846300B2 |
Fluid pumps
In accordance with at least one aspect of this disclosure, embodiments of fluid pumps, pump cases, valve bodies, and volutes are disclosed herein. Embodiments of methods for manufacturing fluid pumps, pump cases, valve bodies, and volutes are also disclosed herein. Embodiments can include additive manufacturing, for example. Certain embodiments can include additively manufacturing a pump case in a tilted orientation, utilizing only coincidental support structure having a unique shape, and with teardrop shaped volute and/or valve body. |
| US11846297B2 |
Process fluid lubricated pump
A process fluid lubricated pump includes a pump having a pump shaft extending from a drive end to a non-drive end, first and last stage impellers, a drive unit exerting torque on the drive end to rotate the pump shaft, a balance drum connected to the pump shaft between the pump and the drive end, the balance drum defining a drum front side facing the pump and a drum back side, a relief passage between the balance drum and a first stationary part configured to be stationary with respect to a housing, the relief passage extending from the drum front side to the drum back side, the pump shaft radially supported in a non-contacting manner during operation of the pump, and a hydrodynamic radial pump bearing supporting the pump shaft, the radial pump bearing arranged at the non-drive end or at the drive end of the pump shaft. |
| US11846290B2 |
System for pumping a fluid and method for its operation
A method of operating a system (16) for pumping a fluid, which system comprises a pump (17) comprising a suction side (18) and a discharge side (19); a motor (20) for driving the pump, which motor is drivingly connected to the pump via a shaft; a recirculation conduit (23) providing a fluid path for the fluid from the discharge side to the suction side of the pump; and a control valve controlling the flow of the fluid through the recirculation conduit, which method comprises the steps of: mapping a plurality of minimum torque diagrams for the pump, where each minimum torque diagram identifies the minimum allowable torque of the pump as a function of an operational parameter of the pump, e.g. the differential pressure over the pump; from said plurality of minimum torque diagrams, identifying the minimum torque diagram best representing the current operation of the pump; monitoring said operational parameter of the pump and, from the minimum torque diagram best representing the current operation of the pump, identifying a minimum allowable torque value corresponding to a monitored value of said operational parameter of the pump, e.g. a monitored differential pressure value; monitoring the torque of the pump and comparing a monitored torque value with the identified minimum allowable torque value; and regulating the control valve such that the monitored torque value does not fall below the minimum allowable torque value. A corresponding pumping system is also disclosed. |
| US11846288B2 |
Scroll compressor including silencer device containing silencing holes
A scroll compressor including a scroll assembly comprising an orbiting scroll and a non-orbiting scroll; and a silencing device provided above the scroll assembly and comprising a partition plate and a silencer. The partition plate is used to divide an interior space of the scroll compressor into a high-pressure chamber and a low-pressure chamber, and the partition plate has a central through-hole. The silencer is arranged above the gas outlet, the silencer is fixed to the central through-hole, and is independent from the scroll assembly. The silencing device of the scroll compressor can eliminate noise and seal the divided high-pressure and low-pressure chambers, and can be arranged flexibly without interfering with the scroll assembly. |
| US11846286B2 |
Scroll compressor
A scroll compressor includes fixed and movable scrolls including fixed and movable side end plates and fixed and movable side wraps. The fixed-side end plate includes a first fixed-side passage that communicates with a high-pressure space, and a second fixed-side passage to supply lubricating oil from the high-pressure space to a compression chamber formed between the scrolls. The movable-side end plate includes a movable-side groove that intermittently allows communication between the first fixed-side passage and the second fixed-side passage. The compression chamber includes a first compression chamber, and a second compression chamber located inside the first compression chamber. The second fixed-side passage includes a first fixed-side hole that intermittently communicates with the movable-side groove, and a second fixed-side hole that communicates with the first fixed-side hole and intermittently communicates with the second compression chamber. |
| US11846284B1 |
Sliding-pocket variable-displacement pump with compensation chambers
A sliding vane pump includes a fixed housing defining inlet and outlet ports and a sliding housing defining a cylindrical cavity and configured to slide within the fixed housing. The fixed housing and the sliding housing define a gap therebetween. A rotor is configured to rotate within the cylindrical cavity and has a plurality of vanes configured to seal against an inner circumferential wall of the cylindrical cavity to define a plurality of pumping chambers. A seal is located in the gap disposed between the fixed housing and the sliding housing to split the gap into first and second compensation chambers. The first chamber is fluidly connected to a first pumping chamber of the plurality of pumping chambers and the second chamber is connected to a second pumping chamber of the plurality of pumping chambers. |
| US11846281B2 |
Two-way pump selectable valve and bypass waste channel
A delivery system for a sensor chip includes a plurality of selectable ports and a two-way pump port selectively connectable to each of the selectable ports. The two-way pump port is configured to allow material to be drawn or delivered from or to the two-way pump port. The delivery system also includes a chamber and a bypass waste channel that is selectively connectable to the two-way pump port. The plurality of selectable ports includes a selectable chamber port connected to the chamber and the chamber has a chamber waste exit. Material may selectively flow through the chamber to a waste collection via the chamber waste exit or flow to the waste collection via the bypass waste channel that bypasses the chamber waste exit. |
| US11846278B2 |
Systems and methods for centralized optimization of reservoir production
Centrally optimizing production of a reservoir that has a plurality of wells comprises monitoring production of each well in the reservoir using one or more respective sensors at each well. Sensor data indicative of the monitored production of each well from the one or more respective sensors is input to a central processing device for processing to evaluate the production of each well. The production of each well is evaluated to identify opportunities for optimizing production by the plurality of wells in the reservoir. In addition, one or more actions are taken using the central processing device to optimize production by the plurality of wells based on the identified opportunities for optimizing production. |
| US11846273B1 |
Reactor rocket engine
A rocket configured to employ superheated water as a propellant, includes a photon reactor including a photon generator configured to generate UV light to superheat water. |
| US11846271B2 |
Nacelle for a wind turbine
A wind turbine nacelle configured for mounting on a wind turbine tower and for supporting a rotor-supporting assembly, the nacelle comprising a main unit, and at least one auxiliary unit. The auxiliary unit accommodates at least one operative component, e.g. a converter, a transformer, an electrolysis cell, or a battery. An operative component having a similar function is accommodated in another auxiliary unit which thereby facilitate shared operation, and easy and fast maintenance or replacement of the operative component. |
| US11846269B2 |
Drag cum lift based wind turbine system having adjustable blades
Invention relates to renewable Wind energy combining drag and lift forces into usable torque, having adjustable blades panels with sub blades. Its unique feature is to convert reverse drag into usable lift and combine the two forces in to one cohesive force. The system comprises output drive rotor arranged on a tower base, with its rotating arms with blade panel assemblies mounted rotatably. Each blade panel assembly comprises an auxiliary rotary shaft having sub-blade panels pivotable at one or more pivot points with primary or secondary control arrangements for blocking and/or allowing wind to pass through the blade panels partially or fully. The system further includes sensors to collect control information, coupled to Main Control Unit (MCU) and secondary control arrangements, configured to provide one or more energy forms. |
| US11846265B1 |
Pressure-regulating hydrodynamic pump and wave engine
A pressure-regulating buoyant hydrodynamic pump is disclosed that floats adjacent to a surface of a body of water over which waves tend to pass. In response to wave-induced movements of the device, water is drawn into a mouth at a lower end of an injection tube, and water is ejected from a mouth at an upper end of the injection tube. The ejected water is deposited into an interior of the hollow buoy thereby augmenting a water reservoir therein. And water flows from the water reservoir to and through a water turbine, thereby energizing a generator, power electronics, and an electrical load. A novel water-turbine effluent buffering tube, or chamber, smooths pressure variations felt across the water turbine. |
| US11846263B2 |
Hybrid renewable pumped storage hydropower energy storage system
A pumped storage hydroelectric system may include a reservoir system including an upper reservoir system and a lower reservoir system. At least one of the upper reservoir system and the lower reservoir system may include a modular reservoir arrangement. A penstock may be coupled with the upper reservoir system. A pump/turbine may be coupled with the penstock and with the lower reservoir system. The pump/turbine may be configured to receive water flowing from the upper reservoir system to the lower reservoir system for generating electrical power, and to pump water from the lower reservoir system to the upper reservoir system for storing energy. |
| US11846260B2 |
Retrofitting an operating vehicle fuel delivery system with a fuel-air separator
A method for retrofitting an operating fuel delivery system of a vehicle. The method includes obtaining a vehicle having an operating fuel delivery system, which includes an interconnected fuel tank, a fuel pump and an engine. Obtaining an air separator configured to be attached to the fuel delivery system at a connection point wherein the fuel pump and the engine are in direct fluidic communication and also obtaining attachment means for connecting the air separator to the fuel delivery system by fluidically mounting the air separator at the connection point wherein the fuel pump and the engine are secured in direct fluidic communication. |
| US11846259B2 |
Pressure regulator and fuel pump module having the same
Provided is a pressure regulator and a fuel pump module having the same, which may be easily assembled by including fewer components, the pressure regulator including: a first housing including a guide part positioned therein and guiding movement of a valve, and an outlet part communicating with an inner space thereof and discharging a fluid; a second housing coupled to the first housing, having a valve accommodating space, including a valve seating part, and including an inlet part introducing a fluid; a valve positioned in the valve accommodating space, and moved to thus open and close a fluid flow; and an elastic member interposed between the valve and the first housing to bring the valve into close contact with the valve seating part. |
| US11846257B2 |
Engine system with reversible exhaust gas recirculation pump for controlling bypass flow
An engine system includes an engine having piston-cylinder arrangements communicating with an intake manifold and an exhaust manifold, a turbocharger including a turbine in communication with the exhaust manifold and a compressor driven by the turbine and in communication with the intake manifold, and an EGR system including an EGR pump having an inlet side in communication with the exhaust manifold and an outlet side in communication with the intake manifold, and an EGR cooler that cools exhaust gas flowing through the EGR system. The engine system also includes a controller operably connected with the EGR pump and configured to selectively operate the EGR pump in a forward mode to flow exhaust gas therethrough in a first direction and in a reverse mode to substantially prevent flow of exhaust gas therethrough or provide a non-exhaust air flow therethrough in a second direction. |
| US11846253B2 |
Injector with injector elements in circumferential rows that alternate between counter-clockwise and clockwise swirl
An injector for a liquid rocket engine includes an array of injector elements. Each injector element includes a central passage and a plurality of peripheral transverse passages. The central passages are configured to provide axial injection flow and the peripheral transverse passages are configured to provide swirl injection flow about the axial injection flow. A portion of the injector elements are configured to provide the swirl injection flow in a clockwise direction and another portion of the injector elements are configured to provide the swirl injection flow in a counter-clockwise direction. The injector elements are arranged to form a plurality of circumferential rows. The injector elements of each individual circumferential row are either all of the clockwise direction or all of the counter-clockwise direction. At least one of the circumferential rows is of the clockwise direction and at least one of the circumferential rows is of the counter-clockwise direction. |
| US11846249B1 |
Gas turbine engine with integral bypass duct
A gas turbine engine is provided that includes an engine core and a bypass duct. The engine core includes a compressor section, a combustor section, a turbine section and a core flowpath. The compressor section includes a radial flow compressor rotor. The core flowpath extends through the compressor section, the combustor section and the turbine section from a core inlet to a core exhaust. The bypass duct includes a bypass flowpath that extends outside of the engine core from a bypass inlet to a bypass exhaust. The bypass inlet is disposed along the compressor section and fluidly coupled with core flowpath. |
| US11846246B2 |
Methods and systems for controlling engine inlet pressure via a fuel delivery system of a transport climate control system
A fuel delivery system for controlling an inlet pressure of a prime mover in a transport climate control system is provided. The fuel delivery system includes a fuel tank, a pressure regulator, a pump disposed downstream of the fuel tank, a first filter disposed downstream of the pump, and the prime mover disposed downstream of the first filter. The prime mover is located above the fuel tank in a vertical direction. The pump is configured to provide a first fuel flow through the first filter. The prime mover is configured to accept a first portion of the first fuel flow and is configured to provide a return fuel flow. The pressure regulator is disposed downstream of the first filter. The pressure regulator is configured to accept a second portion of the first fuel flow, and to accept a pressure of the return fuel flow as a reference pressure. |
| US11846243B2 |
Method for the model-based open-loop and closed-loop control of an internal combustion engine
A method for the model-based open-loop and closed-loop control of an internal combustion engine includes the steps of: during stationary operation, switching takes place cyclically from the normal operation to an exploration operation, wherein in the exploration operation, an exploration measure of quality (J/EXP) is calculated in accordance with combustion model and variance (VAR) thereof, wherein the exploration measure of quality (J/EXP) is set as essential for the operating point of the internal combustion engine, wherein on the basis of the operating variables of the internal combustion engine combustion model is adapted, and wherein switching back to normal operation takes place. |
| US11846239B2 |
Air supply device for an electrically heated catalyst and a method for controlling the same
An air supply device for an electrically heated catalyst is proposed. The device includes an electronic supercharger fluidly connected to an intake manifold, an intake valve fluidly connected to the electronic supercharger, an exhaust valve fluidly connected to an exhaust manifold of the engine, an electrically heated catalyst fluidly connected to the exhaust manifold and positioned in a front end of a catalyst part, and a controller configured to control driving of the electronic supercharger and an opening degree of each of the intake valve and the exhaust valve. The controller controls the electronic supercharger based on a door opening condition in a cold operation and switches the intake valve to an advance state and the exhaust valve to a retard state, thus heating the electrically heated catalyst. |
| US11846238B2 |
Gas turbine engine compressor arrangement
A turbofan gas turbine engine includes, among other things, a fan section, a core engine, a bypass passage, and a bypass ratio defined as the volume of air passing into the bypass passage compared to the volume of air passing into the core engine, the bypass ratio being greater than or equal to 10. A gear arrangement drives the fan section. A compressor section includes a low pressure compressor section and a high pressure compressor section. A turbine section drives the gear arrangement. An overall pressure ratio is provided by the combination of a pressure ratio across the low pressure compressor section and a pressure ratio across the high pressure compressor section, and greater than 40. The pressure ratio across the high pressure compressor section is between 7 and 15, and the pressure ratio across the low pressure compressor section is between 4 and 8. |
| US11846231B2 |
System and method for preventing icing in the combustion inlet air path of a gas turbine system
A system and method for preventing icing in the combustion inlet air path of a gas turbine system. An air intake system of the gas turbine system supplies intake air to a gas turbine engine. The air intake system includes an air filter inlet house to filter the intake air. The air filter inlet house includes at least one filter stage having an array of pulse filters, with each of the pulse filters being hydrophobic. A combustion inlet air path is in fluid communication with the air intake system and the gas turbine engine. The combustion inlet air path receives the filtered air from the air filter inlet house and supplies the filtered air as combustion inlet air to an inlet of the gas turbine engine. A surface of at least one component in the combustion inlet air path includes an anti-icing coating to prevent ice from forming thereon. |
| US11846225B2 |
Valve device for an internal combustion engine
A valve device for an internal combustion engine. The valve device includes an actuator which moves a valve rod, a housing with an inlet and an outlet, a valve closing member attached to the valve rod which is lowered onto and lifted off of a first valve seat, a non-return plate which is loaded via a spring force in a direction of a second valve seat, and a sealing lip which is formed on the second valve seat or on the non-return plate. The sealing lip extends from the second valve seat in a direction of the non-return plate or from the non-return plate in a direction of the second valve seat. The sealing lip is formed with a free end which is inclined in a direction of a side on which a higher pressure is applied when the non-return plate rests on the second valve seat. |
| US11846223B2 |
Diesel exhaust treatement apparatus and methods
A diesel exhaust treatment system for treating exhaust gas from a diesel engine comprising at least one diesel oxidation catalyst (DOC), at least one diesel particulate filter (DPF), at least one diesel exhaust fluid mixing chamber and at least one selective catalytic reduction converter (SCR). In one desirable embodiment, two DOCs, two DPFs, two SCRs, and two diesel exhaust fluid mixing chambers are arranged in parallel. The disclosed system is configured to reduce back pressure and increase urea vaporization while effectively using available space and providing improved access to components. The system can be coupled to a vehicle frame rail, such as the frame rail of a heavy duty truck. |
| US11846221B2 |
Evaporative fuel vapor emission control systems
An evaporative emission control canister system comprises an initial adsorbent volume having an effective incremental adsorption capacity at 25° C. of greater than 35 grams n-butane/L between vapor concentration of 5 vol % and 50 vol % n-butane, and at least one subsequent adsorbent volume having an effective incremental adsorption capacity at 25° C. of less than 35 grams n-butane/L between vapor concentration of 5 vol % and 50 vol % n-butane, an effective butane working capacity (BWC) of less than 3 g/dL, and a g-total BWC of between 2 grams and 6 grams. The evaporative emission control canister system has a two-day diurnal breathing loss (DBL) emissions of no more than 20 mg at no more than 210 liters of purge applied after the 40 g/hr butane loading step. |
| US11846220B2 |
Engine
An engine that suppresses damage on a support mechanism of a diesel particulate filter (DPF) due to vibration in the pitch direction, in which the DPF, which purifies exhaust gas from an exhaust manifold, is disposed in an orientation orthogonal or approximately orthogonal to a rotational axis of a crankshaft in a plan view. A support mechanism is provided, which enables a cylinder head, an intake manifold, and an intake collector to support the DPF. The support mechanism includes a first support position in which the cylinder head supports the DPF, a second support position in which the intake manifold supports the DPF, and a third support position in which the intake collector supports the DPF. The third support position deviates from the first support position and the second support position in a direction of the rotational axis of the crankshaft. |
| US11846219B2 |
Exhaust gas heater
An exhaust gas heater for an exhaust gas system of an internal combustion engine includes a carrier arrangement, a heating-conductor arrangement, carried on the carrier arrangement and having at least one heating conductor through which a current flows with at least one heating conductor being carried in an electrically insulated manner with respect to the carrier arrangement by at least one carrier-element supporting unit and/or with at least one heating conductor being carried in an electrically insulated manner with respect to a further heating conductor by at least one heating-conductor supporting unit. A connecting arrangement securely connects the heating-conductor arrangement to the carrier arrangement and also a length-compensating arrangement for compensating for different thermal expansions of components of the exhaust gas heater. |
| US11846211B2 |
HLA arrangement using cold formed plunger and manufacturing simplifications
A retainer clip can be used to restrict travel of a hydraulic lash adjuster body relative to a plunger of a hydraulic lash adjuster. A seating depth of the hydraulic lash adjuster can be controlled via a plunger cup in a hydraulic lash adjuster bore. The plunger cup can also restrict purge of lash oil from the hydraulic lash adjuster bore. A rocker arm can comprise a rocker arm body comprising a force-receiving end, a valve end, and a rocker shaft bore. An extension can connect the rocker shaft bore to the valve end. A hydraulic lash adjuster bore can be in the valve end. A plunger cup or an end socket profile can be included in the hydraulic lash adjuster bore for receiving a plunger of a hydraulic lash adjuster. |
| US11846210B2 |
System and method for maintaining electrical power continuity in a steam-based power plant
A system for maintaining electrical power continuity in a steam-based power plant is provided. The system includes a fossil fuel-fired power generation unit and an electrical power storage apparatus. The fossil fuel-fired power generation unit is operative to generate and provide electrical power to an electrical power grid. The electrical power storage apparatus is electrically coupled to the fossil fuel-fired power generation unit and operative to: receive and store electrical power from the fossil fuel-fired power generation unit during periods of surplus electrical power generation by the fossil fuel-fired power generation unit; and to provide electrical power to a component of the fossil fuel-fired power generation unit during periods of electrical power shortage by the electrical power grid. |
| US11846209B2 |
Turbine engine inducer assembly
An apparatus and method for assembling an inducer assembly for inducing a rotation on an airflow passing within a turbine engine. The inducer assembly can provide a volume of fluid from a compressor section to a turbine section of the engine. The inducer assembly can include the combination of separate segments to form an annular inducer. |
| US11846208B2 |
Apparatus for disassembling and assembling lower vane carrier and method for disassembling and assembling lower vane carrier using same
An apparatus for disassembling and assembling a lower vane carrier and a method for disassembling and assembling the lower vane carrier by using the apparatus are proposed. The apparatus includes a rolling jig that is mounted on the lower vane carrier mounted inside a lower turbine casing, a bolt member that passes through a region where the rolling jig and the lower vane carrier are in contact with each other, and a block member mounted adjacent to the bolt member and configured to prevent the bolt member from being separated. |
| US11846207B2 |
Nozzle assembly with alternating inserted vanes for a turbine engine
A nozzle assembly for a gas turbine engine and methods for assembling a nozzle assembly are provided. In one example aspect, the nozzle assembly includes an outer wall and an inner wall radially spaced from the outer wall. The outer wall defines a plurality of mounting openings spaced circumferentially from one another. The inner wall defines a plurality of mounting openings spaced circumferentially from one another. The mounting openings defined by the inner wall are positioned circumferentially between adjacent mounting openings defined by the outer wall. The nozzle assembly includes vanes that are inserted through the mounting openings of the outer wall in a radially inward direction and vanes that are inserted through the mounting openings of the inner wall in a radially outward direction in an alternating manner. |
| US11846206B2 |
Turbine vane provided with a recess for embrittlement of a frangible section
A turbine vane of a turbine engine is described. The turbine vane includes a blade and a root. The root includes a stilt having lateral flanks with a curvilinear profile. The stilt includes a frangible zone suitable for undergoing a breakage of the stilt if radial forces higher than a threshold are exerted on the vane, in particular centrifugal forces during an overspeed state of the turbine. The frangible zone includes at least one oblong frangibility recess formed on at least one of the lateral flanks of the stilt, the oblong recess extending in an axial direction of the stilt along a longitudinal axis parallel to or included in a minimum cross-sectional plane which contains a minimum cross-section of the stilt. |
| US11846201B2 |
Balancing weight entry port for turbine rotor
A turbine rotor includes a rotor body and a balancing weight slot defined in an exterior circumference of the body. The balancing weight slot has a first axial width and a first radially outward facing surface at a first radial distance from a rotor axis. The rotor also includes a balancing weight entry port defined in a portion of the exterior circumference of the rotor body and aligned with the balancing weight slot. The balancing weight entry port has a second axial width greater than the first axial width and a second radially outward facing surface at a second radial distance from the axis of the rotor body that is smaller than the first radial distance. A method may include machining the entry port into the rotor with a tool. The method may be applied to a new rotor, or to remove cracks initiating from a previous entry port. |
| US11846199B2 |
Rotor containment structure
A containment structure for a rotor includes a shroud and a shroud reinforcement. The shroud is coaxial with and partially surrounds the rotor and includes a tubular section, a transition section, and a flange section. The tubular section extends axially past a first side of the rotor. The transition section connects to the tubular section and is adjacent to a curved side of the rotor. The flange section connects to the transition section opposite the tubular section. The flange section extends radially past a radially outer side of the rotor. The shroud reinforcement is connected to a radially outer surface of the transition section. The shroud reinforcement encloses the transition section and includes a support scaffold and a reinforcing material. The support scaffold includes a series of geometric retaining features encircling a radially outer surface of the transition section. The reinforcing material couples to the support scaffold and restricts shroud radial expansion. |
| US11846191B2 |
Surface topology manipulation for performance enchancement of additively manufactured fluid-interacting components
Methods and systems for manipulating surface topology of additively manufactured fluid interacting structures, such as additively manufactured heat exchangers or airfoils, and associated additively manufactured articles, are disclosed. In one aspect, an article which interacts with a fluid is imparted with surface topology features which affect performance parameters related to the fluid flow. The topological features may be sequenced, combined, intermixed, and functionally varied in size and form to locally manipulate and co-optimize multiple performance parameters at each or selectable differential lengths along a flow path. The co-optimization method may uniquely prioritize selectable performance parameters at different points along the flow path to improve or enhance overall system performance. Topological features may include design features such as dimples, fins, boundary layer disruptors, and biomimicry surface textures, and manufacturing artefacts such as surface roughness and subsurface porosity distribution and morphology. |
| US11846189B2 |
Cutting assembly for a mining machine
A cutting assembly for a mining machine includes a central hub having at least one arm extending radially outwards from the central hub. The arm includes at least one cutting means carrier movably arranged for radial movement along the arm and a primary actuator configured to control the radial position of the cutting means carrier. The cutting assembly further includes a locking means movable between an unlocked and a locked position, wherein the locking means in its locked position locks the cutting means carrier to the arm such that radial movement of the cutting means carrier is prevented. The locking means includes at least one locking member provided on the arm such that the locking member is movable between an extended position and a withdrawn position. The locking member in the extended position extends to engage the cutting means carrier such that movement of the cutting means carrier is prevented. |
| US11846187B2 |
Mining pin retention system
Several embodiments of a drive pin retention system for mining chains comprise a drive pin, dowel pin, and retainer, wherein the dowel pin is fitted through the holes of a retainer aligned with the holes of the dowel pin and pressed with force so that the tolerance between the dowel pin and retainer is very close. In one embodiment, the retainer is tack welded and then the dowel pin is tack welded to further increase the tolerance and prevent loosening or movement of the retainer due to vibration. |
| US11846185B2 |
Lateral boreholes in an earth formation
A horseshoe lateral is drilled having two substantially parallel lateral sections connected with a horseshoe section. The horseshoe section may be obtained by steering a drill bit within a first plane over an in-plane angle of about 180°, and then continuing drilling along a straight path. A second lateral well system may drilled from a second borehole section, to create an additional lateral section interdigitally arranged between the previous two substantially parallel lateral sections. |
| US11846180B2 |
Diamondoids for monitoring and surveillance
A downhole monitoring system for continuously measuring in real-time a fluid produced from a reservoir includes a tubing extending into a wellbore, spaced apart packers forming annular seals between the tubing and a wall of the wellbore, isolated compartments formed between the spaced apart packers, each compartment having an opening in the tubing to allow fluid communication from the reservoir to surface equipment, and an ultraviolet spectrometer installed in each compartment. The ultraviolet spectrometer includes an ultra-violet source that excites diamondoids, a photomultiplier to quantify the excited diamondoids, and an electronic circuit that digitizes a response from the photomultiplier and sends the response to the surface of the wellbore. Additionally, a method includes continuously monitoring and in real-time a fluid produced from a reservoir and determining reservoir connectivity and reservoir profiling. |
| US11846178B2 |
Flow measurement
A method of determining an estimated flow rate for at least one phase of a multi-phase fluid flowing from a subsea well; a subsea well; and a system for determining an estimated flow rate for at least one phase of a multi-phase fluid flowing from a subsea well are disclosed. The method of determining an estimated flow rate for at least one phase of a multi-phase fluid flowing from a subsea well comprises determining a mass or volumetric flow rate of a fluid in a completion or production tree of a subsea well; determining a Water Liquid Ratio (WLR) of said a fluid via a water sampling device; determining an upstream fluid pressure and an upstream fluid temperature of said a fluid at a location upstream of a production choke valve in the subsea production tree via at least one pressure sensor element and at least one temperature sensor element of the subsea production tree; determining a downstream fluid pressure and a downstream fluid temperature of a fluid at a location downstream of the production choke valve via at least one pressure sensor element and at least one temperature sensor element of the subsea production tree; determining a downhole fluid pressure and a downhole fluid temperature of said a fluid via at least one pressure sensor element and at least one temperature sensor element located downhole in the completion; and providing each of the determined mass or volumetric flow rate, water liquid ratio, upstream fluid pressure, upstream fluid temperature, downstream fluid pressure, downstream fluid temperature, downhole fluid pressure and downhole fluid temperature as respective inputs for a statistical estimator unit and, via the statistical estimator unit, determining an estimated flow rate for each of at least one phase of fluid flowing downstream of the choke valve. |
| US11846173B2 |
Depth-based borehole trajectory control
Methods and apparatuses for controlling a trajectory of a borehole being drilled into the earth are provided. The apparatus includes a drilling system including a drill tubular, a disintegrating device, and a steering system coupled to the drill tubular configured to steer the drilling system, the drilling system configured to drill the borehole by receiving control outputs from at least one control unit for controlling parameters of the drilling system, the at least one control unit configured to provide the control outputs to the steering system, the at least one control unit being configured to provide a depth-based control output. |
| US11846163B2 |
Initiator assemblies for perforating gun systems
A perforating gun system includes an outer housing, a charge carrier assembly slidably receivable in the outer housing, wherein the charge carrier assembly includes a charge carrier having a central axis, a first endplate coupled to a first end of the charge carrier, and a second endplate coupled to a second end of the charge carrier, and an initiator assembly including an electrical switch, wherein the electrical switch has a maximum length extending in a direction parallel the central axis that is less than a maximum width of the electrical switch extending in an orthogonal direction relative to the central axis; wherein the electrical switch is configured to detonate a detonator of the perforating gun system in response to receiving a firing signal. |
| US11846160B2 |
Multilayer solid lubricant architecture for use in drilling tool applications
A coating architecture is disclosed that includes a substrate having a surface finish Ra of 0.3μ or finer, an intermediate layer overlying and in contact with the substrate; and a solid lubricant layer overlying and in contact with the intermediate layer. The test results of applying the coating architecture to a reciprocating hammer drill utilizing the coating is also disclosed. |
| US11846154B2 |
Portable foam injection system
A portable system is provided for foam injection. The system includes two or more tanks of foam-producing components; a pump associated with each of the two or more tanks; a length of modified conduit; a conduit interjector; and a wireline system. The conduit is pushable by the injector into cavities to be injected with foam and extractable therefrom. A method is further provided for foam injection at a remote location. The method includes the steps of transporting the portable system to the remote location; injecting the modified conduit into a distal end of a cavity to be foamed; pumping the foam-producing components from the two or more tanks via the pumps, each through a component line running through the modified conduit; forming and expansion of a foam by the foam-producing components exiting a nozzle of the modified conduit and contacting one another; and pulling the modified conduit from the distal end of the cavity to a proximal end of the cavity, while foaming the cavity from the distal end to the proximal end as the modified cavity is pulled. |
| US11846150B2 |
Section mill and method for abandoning a wellbore
A mill for use in a wellbore includes a tubular housing having a bore therethrough, a plurality of pockets formed in a wall thereof, and a blade disposed in each pocket. Each blade includes a body having a first side opposite a second side, wherein the first side faces in a direction of rotation of the mill. The blade also includes a blade portion disposed on the first side of the body, wherein the blade portion has a first cutting face stepped relative to a second cutting face. Each blade is movable between a retracted position and an extended position, wherein a portion of the first side and the second side protrude from the housing in the extended position. |
| US11846149B2 |
Core sampling and preservation system
A core sampling and preservation system comprises the following sequentially connected modules: a drive module (300), a preservation module (200) and a core sampling module (100). The core sampling module (100) comprises a core drilling tool and a core sample storage compartment. The preservation module (200) comprises a core sample preservation container. The drive module comprises a core drill having a liquid channel. The core sample preservation container comprises an inner core barrel (28), an outer core barrel (26) and an energy storage device (229). The outer core barrel (26) is sleeved onto the inner core barrel (28). An upper end of the inner core barrel (28) is in communication with a liquid nitrogen storage tank (225). The liquid nitrogen storage tank (225) is positioned inside the outer core barrel (26). The energy storage device (229) is in communication with the outer core barrel (26). The outer core barrel (26) is provided with a butterfly valve (23). The system facilitates preserving a core at in-situ conditions, and has an increased drilling speed, thereby enhancing core sampling efficiency. |
| US11846144B2 |
Handling loads in subsea operations
A method of lowering a discrete load from a pipelay vessel comprises holding a rigid rod on an upright launch axis where the rod extends through a hold-back system; coupling a lower end of the rod to the load; connecting a wire to the load either directly or indirectly via the rod; operating the hold-back system to advance the rod downwardly, hence submerging the load, while the weight of the load is suspended from the hold-back system via the rod; when the load is under mater and beneath the splash zone, transferring the weight of the load directly or indirectly from the hold-back system to the wire; and continuing to lower the load in the water, suspended directly or indirectly from the wire. The method may be reversed to recover a load from a subsea location, such as when lifting a wellhead or blowout preventer from the seabed. |
| US11846139B2 |
Carbon-swellable sealing element
Methods of capturing carbon dioxide in a wellbore can include installing a sealing element in the wellbore. The sealing element swells in the presence of carbon dioxide and can be used for capturing the carbon. The sealing element can include a carbon-swelling material, such as a carbon-swelling polymers, metal-based materials, or combinations of elastomeric polymers and metal-based materials. The sealing element can also include combinations of different carbon-swelling materials, fillers or other compounds, and materials that are not carbon swellable. The sealing element can create a seal, form an anchor, or create a seal and form an anchor in the wellbore after swelling. |
| US11846138B2 |
Hydraulic oscillation tool with variable stage, small pressure drop and strong impact based on radio frequency identification
A hydraulic oscillation tool with variable stage, small pressure drop and strong impact based on radio frequency identification is provided. It includes a conversion connector, a disc spring upper bracket, a disc spring housing, a disc spring group, a multi-stage piston shaft, an upper piston sleeve, a first radial sealing ring, a double-female-buckle piston sleeve, a double-male-buckle piston sleeve, a second radial sealing ring, a double-female-buckle lower piston sleeve, an end piston, an impacting connector, a power housing, a power shaft end cap, a high torque turbine, a power shaft, a lower connector, a rotating valve, a bearing supporting ring, and a turbine special bearing. The hydraulic oscillation tool realizes the low pressure drop and strong impact, and thus the problems that with the continuous increase of horizontal length, excessive pressure drop will make the annular pressure drop sharply, and drilling fluid circulation is difficult are solved. |
| US11846135B2 |
Vacuum glazing and method for manufacturing the same
A vacuum glazing includes a vacuum layer formed between a first glazing and a second glazing, a spacer provided in the vacuum layer, a frame provided at edge portions of the first and second glazings, and a sealant interposed between the frame and surfaces of the first and second glazings to perform sealing of the vacuum layer. The insulating performance of the vacuum glazing is improved. |
| US11846132B2 |
Smart hatch autonomous actuation systems for hatches windows and doors
Systems and methods described in this application are directed to hatch lid actuation systems. Actuation systems of the inventive subject matter are configured to effect the opening and closing of lids that are hingedly coupled with an opening. An embodiment featuring a rotational actuator, e.g., a motor, as well as an embodiment featuring a linear actuator are described. Embodiments having rotational actuators can additionally feature a gearbox. Embodiments of the inventive subject matter can also include sensor packages that can determine various hatch lid conditions (e.g., whether a lid is open, closed, wet, etc.). |
| US11846130B2 |
Integrated hinge structure for plastic boards
The present subject matter discloses an integrated hinge structure for plastic boards. The integrated hinge structure has a simplified design that is screw-free and convenient to assemble. It also has a relatively lower manufacturing cost. The integrated hinge structure can comprise a first board and a second board that can be coupled to each other. Furthermore, the first board is divided into a first turning portion and a second turning portion by an embedded groove hinge. The second turning portion is further detachably connected to the second board. The integrated hinge structure further comprises fixation features to render the constructed assembly stable and durable. |
| US11846127B2 |
Handle for a vehicle door
A handle for a vehicle door that includes a grip member, a primary actuation mechanism, and a secondary actuation mechanism. The grip member is movable between a flush position, an active position range, and an opening position. The grip member includes a grip return device configured to drive the grip member toward the flush position. The primary actuation mechanism is moveable between a primary activating position range and a primary rest position. The secondary actuation mechanism is moveable between a secondary activating position range and a secondary rest position. The secondary actuation mechanism is configured to bring the primary actuation mechanism to the primary rest position after a predetermined time period after reaching a predetermined activating position in the primary activation position range. |
| US11846125B2 |
Locking device for car doors
The invention relates to a locking device for car doors, especially for car doors without door handles, having an electronic control unit for the authorization of access, which is connected to one or more sensors for a first operating step, i.e. a proximity sensor, a touch sensor etc. and/or an antenna for a wireless communication, i.e. a NFC (near field communication) antenna for NFC-communication with a smart device like a smart card, a mobile phone, a smart watch, a smart key, etc., and a driven mechanical lock/or unlock unit including a latching element for latching the closed door end position.According to the invention, a latching element is provided to block an intermediate position 3 of the car door 1, wherein at least one sensor 5, 5′ is accessible and/or active in the intermediate position 3 of the car door 1 for a second operating step and not accessible and/or not, active in the closed end position 2 of the car door. |
| US11846120B2 |
Latch assembly with removable battery
A vertical door latch assembly includes a housing and a bolt movably attached to the housing having a catch portion. A drive motor is located within the housing and is configured to selectively move a lock assembly between a locked position preventing movement of the bolt and an unlocked position allowing movement of the bolt. A battery assembly is removable from the housing when the lock assembly is in first position and fixed to the housing when the lock assembly is in a second position. A controller is in electrical communication with the drive motor and is configured to direct the actuator lock assembly between the locked position and the unlocked position. |
| US11846117B2 |
Fluid current producing apparatus assembly
A fluid current producing apparatus assembly for use in a body of water includes at least one receptacle 2, current producing apparatus 3 and inflation and deflation apparatus 22c. Each receptacle 2 includes a body forming at least one enclosed inside space which further contains at least one independently inflatable and deflatable compartment 19 therein for receipt of a fluid to at least inflate at least a portion of the receptacle. Each receptacle includes a body having an inner surface 17b, outer surface 17a and at least one internal chamber 19 which is inflated by the inflation and deflation apparatus 22c which modifies the outward shape of receptacle 2. When the fluid is forced by current producing apparatus 3 over the outer 17a of each receptacle 2 or chamber from a front of the current producing apparatus 3 or away from the current producing apparatus 3, and fluid is drawn in predominantly from around the current producing apparatus 3 and the sides of the at least one receptacle 2 back to the current producing apparatus 3 in a circuit of flow, thereby creating different current or wave patterns for the water flowing over the outer surfaces 17a of, inflatable, chamber portions 30, 31. A method is also included. |
| US11846116B2 |
Theater having a modular auditorium and method for assembling a theater
A method for assembling a theater and a theater. The method includes assembling a modular auditorium on a surface within a building structure by providing a plurality of nominal inventory portions. Each nominal inventory portions includes a prefabricated base portion, and a prefabricated tier section for assembly to the base portion. The prefabricated base portion is positioned on a ground surface of a public performance space. The prefabricated tier section is fastened to the prefabricated base portion to form a self supporting structure that does not require lateral support from a building structure other than the ground surface. |
| US11846115B2 |
Modular fencing system with gated access
A modular, removable, and tool-free, user-installable fencing system includes modular, stand-alone bases that avoid the need to drill into or permanently modify expensive pool decks to secure the fence in place. The system includes fencing modules which include fence panels and a secure-access gate module that can be positioned and repositioned anywhere along the fence. The fence modules and gate modules are connected via hinge clips assembled onto the fence panels and poles inserted through the hinge clips and into the modular bases. The hinge clips allow rotation of the fence panels around the poles. |
| US11846114B1 |
Apparatus, system and method for a portable corral panel
An apparatus, system and method for a portable corral panel. A portable livestock corral fence system includes a gate panel and fence panels, each fence panel including a bottom rail, a lock tab and a leg socket coupled to the bottom horizontal rail, and a foldable base including a peg mateable to the leg socket, a foot coupled to the peg, and a chain, the peg mateable to the leg socket in two distinct positions: a standing position, wherein the foot extends perpendicularly to the bottom rail in the standing position, and a stacking position, wherein the foot folds flat into the stacking position such that the foot is parallel to the bottom horizontal rail, and wherein the chain wraps around the bottom rail and engages the lock tab to lock the foldable base into either one of the two distinct positions. |
| US11846112B2 |
Temporary shelter and mobile cart
Embodiments of the invention are generally related to a mobile shelter, and more particularly to a movable storage container that converts into a shelter adequate for protection of its occupants against the elements, and optionally converts into a collapsed configuration suitable for transportation. |
| US11846111B2 |
Systems for installing an elongated stake to a support post to provide sturdiness to the support post, and methods of use thereof
A system for providing sturdiness to a support post, that includes a stake that is configured to be inserted into the ground such that it is positioned parallel to a support post that is perpendicular to the ground and an insertion-assistance member that is configured to be removably attached to the stake. The insertion-assistance member includes a body, and a lip that extends in a direction that is perpendicular to the body such that a portion of the lip extends beyond the body in the direction that is perpendicular to the body. The lip is configured to receive force and then transmit the force to the stake to drive the stake into the ground. After driving the stake into the ground, the insertion-assistance member is configured to be removed from the stake and the stake is then secured to the support post to provide sturdiness to the support post. |
| US11846107B2 |
Collapsible utility scaffold
A utility scaffold is designed to be repeatedly broken down into straighter components to reduce the space requirement for storage and shipment. The scaffold has first and second ladder frames, each comprising a plurality of vertical supports, a plurality of horizontal supports, and a plurality of releasable connections. The horizontal supports are releasably connected to the vertical supports by the releasable connections to form a rigid ladder frame structure. The releasable connections include a male wedge protrusion and a female receiver configured to receive the male wedge protrusion. The female receiver has a passage therethrough, with the passage having a tapered interior surface. The male wedge protrusion and the tapered interior surface are configured to abut when the vertical support and the horizontal support are mounted together via the releasable connection. A fastener is optionally used to secure the releasable connection. |
| US11846099B2 |
Acoustic seal and a sound proof booth comprising the same
An acoustic seal comprising an extrusion, which comprises a body portion and a plurality of deformable protrusions that project from the body portion, the protrusions comprising a first protrusion and a second protrusion that are spaced from one another. A sound proof booth comprising the seal. |
| US11846097B2 |
Fiber products having temperature control additives
A fiber product is described which includes fibers, a binder and a temperature control additive. The fiber product has properties that make it useful for a variety of applications. The fibers may be glass fibers and the product may be a fiberglass insulation product for use in buildings, vehicles, or other structures for acoustic and/or thermal insulation. The fibers may be cellulosic fibers and the product may be a wood board product. The temperature control additive is incorporated into the uncured fiber product to prevent deleterious self-heating during or after binder curing. The temperature control additive undergoes an endothermic process that consumes at least a portion of the energy generated during the exothermic curing reaction. |
| US11846088B2 |
Automatic vehicle speed control system
An automatic vehicle speed control system for use in a vehicle having an implement is disclosed. The automatic vehicle speed control system includes: a controller configured to: set a speed of the vehicle to a creep setting; monitor one or more operating conditions of the implement; and automatically adjust the speed of the vehicle based on the one or more operating conditions of the implement. |
| US11846086B2 |
Hydraulic system and a method for controlling a hydraulic system of a working machine
A hydraulic system for a working machine, the system comprising: an electric machine connected to a first hydraulic machine and to a second hydraulic machine via a common axle, an output side of the second hydraulic machine being connected to an input side of the first hydraulic machine, wherein the first hydraulic machine is a variable displacement hydraulic machine with unidirectional flow; at least one hydraulic consumer hydraulically coupled to an output side of the first hydraulic machine via a supply line and configured to be powered by the first hydraulic machine; a first return line hydraulically coupling the hydraulic consumer to the input side of the first hydraulic machine. |
| US11846081B2 |
Trench shoring apparatus and its method of use
The trench shoring apparatus includes first and second side panels connected in a parallel spaced-apart configuration by a connecting rod pivotally connected to one end of one or more pairs of lateral arms. The other opposite end of the one or more pairs of lateral arms is hingedly connected to the side panels, such that translational movement of the connecting rod in a direction parallel to the side panels causes the spaced-apart panels to move between retracted and extended parallel spaced-apart configurations. |
| US11846077B2 |
Guardrail terminal
Guardrail, guardrail terminal, and support post designs that improve control of a vehicle during collisions are described. The disclosed designs also reduce the likelihood of intrusion into vehicle systems and the occupant compartment(s). Embodiments include folding and/or flattening of the guardrail and controlling the folded and flattened guardrail to avoid intrusion into the vehicle. Other embodiments include containing the guardrail in an impact head of a guardrail terminal, which also avoids vehicle intrusion. |
| US11846072B2 |
Process of making paper and paperboard products
The present invention is directed to products, such as paper and paperboard products, comprising a substrate containing a recycled cellulose-containing material and top ply comprising one or more inorganic particulate material; to methods of making such paper and paperboard products, and associated uses of such paper and paperboard products. The microfibrillated cellulose and inorganic particulate material are applied at a stage when the substrate comprising a wet web of pulp is in the process of being formed on the wire of a papermaking machine, thereby avoiding the additional cost of more extensive equipment and machinery as well as in separate drying of a coating. The microfibrillated cellulose facilitates the application of inorganic particulate onto the surface of a wet paper or paperboard substrate. |
| US11846071B2 |
Defibrating apparatus and fiber body manufacturing apparatus
In a defibrating apparatus, when a region, of a discharge path, including a discharge unit is a downstream discharge path, a region, of the discharge path, other than the downstream discharge path is an upstream discharge path, a region, of a screen, constituting the downstream discharge path is a downstream discharge screen, a region, of the screen, constituting the upstream discharge path is an upstream discharge screen, and a through-hole that causes a defibrating chamber to be in communication with the discharge path is a communication hole, the communication hole is provided on the screen such that the air is less likely to pass through the downstream screen than the upstream screen. |
| US11846066B2 |
Anti-pilling merino wool fabric, garments comprising thereof, and method of fabrication thereof
The present invention provides an anti-pilling wool fabric with a coating having pilling resistance and resistance to fiber loss from fabric surface. The coating is formed by a coating formulation including at least two diisocyanates, at least two catalyst, a water dispersing agent, a buffer and water, which provides a polycarbodiimide crosslinker reactive to the relative less reactive groups on polypeptide of the wool fabric and promotes crosslinking between polypeptides of the wool fabric under relatively mild processing conditions so as to enhance mechanical strength of the wool fabric whilst no significant effect of the original finish merino wool fabric and/or garment and fiber loss from fabric surface are observed, compared to conventional treatment methods on wool fabric. A corresponding coating formulation and method of fabricating the anti-pilling wool fabric are also provided. The present invention is applicable to finished wool fabric which fibers are already with colorant(s), and/or dye(s), and/or reactive dye(s). |
| US11846062B2 |
Constant force damping assembly for a washing machine
A constant damping system includes a damping body having a cap and a stem extending from the cap, a suspension rod accepted through the damping body, a damping fluid provided between the suspension rod and the stem of the damping body, the damping fluid configured to provide a constant damping force between the suspension rod and the stem, wherein the damping fluid is one of a hydro-carbon base or a silicon base, and an axial spring having a first end attached to the suspension rod and a second end contacting the cap of the damping body. |
| US11846061B2 |
Washing machine and vibration reduction apparatus thereof
A washing machine includes a cabinet, a tub disposed inside the cabinet, and a rotating tub rotatably disposed inside the tub. A suspension device connects the tub to the cabinet such that the tub is supported by the cabinet, and a vibration reduction apparatus is coupled between the tub and the suspension device to reduce vibration of the tub according to rotation of the rotating tub. The vibration reduction apparatus includes a first rod and a second rod rotatably coupled to the first rod. |
| US11846060B2 |
Laundry treatment apparatus and control method thereof
The present disclosure relates to a laundry treatment apparatus and a control method thereof. The laundry treatment apparatus includes a tub providing a space in which washing water is stored, a drum, a drain pump, a control unit controlling water supply and drain and determining a drain state, and a pump control unit changing and controlling an operation speed of the drain pump depending on the drain state and is configured to drain the washing water by repeating a process of decreasing and then increasing a speed of the drain pump depending on a speed set by the pump control unit, such that the wash water does not remain and may be effectively drained, and noise generated due to a flow of residual water and an operation of the drain pump may be eliminated. |
| US11846050B2 |
Fishing net products
A decorative article of manufacture has a specific region of fishing net, cut from a larger expanse of fishing net, the fishing net being a structure of a first plurality of first parallel lengths of cord proceeding in a first direction, overlying a plurality of second parallel lengths of cord proceeding in a second direction, with individual ones of the cords of the first plurality joined at intersections with individual ones of cords of the second plurality, forming individual quadrilateral cells each having opposite parallel sides, and one or more solid decorative elements attached to one or more sides of individual ones of the quadrilateral cells. |
| US11846049B2 |
Braiding apparatus for braiding broad tape
A braiding apparatus for forming braided tubing comprises a braiding wheel and a plurality of bobbins. The plurality of bobbins are configured to move circumferentially around the braiding wheel. Each bobbin includes a spool, a first pulley assembly, and a second pulley assembly. The spool is configured to hold a tow formed from a braiding material. The first pulley assembly is coupled to the spool at a first distance from the spool. The first pulley assembly is configured to facilitate passing the tow over a pulley of the first pulley assembly. The second pulley assembly is coupled to the spool at a second distance that is less than the first distance. The second pulley assembly is configured to facilitate receiving the tow from the first pulley assembly and passing the tow over a pulley of the second pulley assembly and towards a section of the braiding apparatus at which a plurality of tows come together to form the braided tubing. |
| US11846048B2 |
Upper for an article of footwear having two yarn types
An upper for an article of footwear may include a first area located on at least one of a lateral and a medial side of the upper and a second area located adjacent to the first area. In some aspects, the first area extends between the second area and a biteline. The first area may include a first knit courses, at least a majority which are at least partially formed by a first yarn, and the second area may include a plurality of second knit courses, at least a majority of the second knit courses are formed by a second yarn. A third yarn may form at least one loop in a course within the first knit courses and may extend inside a pocket between the first and second layers in the second area. In some aspects, a third yarn may have interlooped portions and exposed portions. |
| US11846044B2 |
Device and method for producing fancy yarns
The device (1) comprises a first roller (3) rotatable about a first rotation axis (3A) and a second roller (5) rotatable about a second rotation axis (5A), parallel to the first rotation axis (3A). The two are in mutual contact and define between them a yarn passage (7) and at least of them is motorized. The device further comprises 5 guide members (9) defining a feed path of at least a yarn (F; F1, F2, F3, F4), associated with the yarn passage (7) between the first roller (3) and the second roller (5). The guide members (9; 13) are movable with respect to the rollers (3, 5) in a direction substantially parallel to the first rotation axis (3A) and to the second rotation axis (5A), so as to take the yarn path temporarily outside the mutual contact 10 area between the rollers. |
| US11846041B2 |
Passivation of nanocrystals tailored to different facets, and its application to optoelectronic devices
The present disclosure provides a method for facet-selective passivation on each crystal facet of colloidal nanocrystals via solution-phase ligand exchange process, thereby providing highly-passivated and colloidally-stable nanocrystal inks. This ligand exchange strategy separately addresses polar and non-polar facets precluding from deleterious nanocrystal aggregation in the colloid. The method involves the introduction of alkali metal organic complexes during metal halide conventional solution exchanges, and one specific example is Na+·Ac−. Alkali metal ions stabilize and passivate non polar facets whereas polar facets are passivated through metal halides. This strategy leads to a significant decrease in nanocrystal aggregation during and after ligand exchange, and to improved photophysical properties stemming from this. The resulting nanocrystal solid films exhibit improved stability, retain their absorption features, and have a minimized Stokes shift. |
| US11846039B2 |
Vapor deposition device and method for manufacturing epitaxial silicon wafer
A vapor deposition apparatus includes a disc-shaped susceptor and a susceptor support member that supports and rotates the susceptor. The susceptor has a plurality of fitting grooves. The susceptor support member is provided with a plurality of support pins to be fitted in the respective plurality of fitting grooves. The fitting grooves each have an inclined portion that relatively moves the support pin with respect to the fitting groove in a circumferential direction of the susceptor with the support pin kept in contact by virtue of a self-weight of the susceptor and a positioning portion that positions the support pin relatively moved by the inclined portion at a specific position in the circumferential direction. The inclined portion and the positioning portion are formed continuously in a radial direction of the susceptor. |
| US11846037B2 |
Crystal manufacturing method, crystal manufacturing apparatus and single crystal
In a crystal manufacturing method, first, a feedstock including a tapered tip portion is disposed above a crystal growth region. Then, a side surface of the tip portion is selectively heated and melted by radiant heat traveling diagonally upward while a shape of the tip portion is maintained, and the side surface of the tip portion is physically connected to an upper surface of the crystal growth region by a material melted from the side surface. In a crystal manufacturing apparatus, the radiant heat for melting the feedstock is radiated from an electric resistance heater. |
| US11846036B2 |
Electrolyte for the cyanide-free deposition of silver
The present invention relates to an electrolyte and to a method for the electrolytic deposition of silver coatings and silver alloy coatings. The electrolyte according to the invention is cyanide-free, storage-stable and ensures the deposition of high-gloss, brilliant and white silver and silver alloy layers for technical and decorative applications. |
| US11846034B1 |
Carbon monoxide electrolyzers used with reverse water gas shift reactors for the conversion of carbon dioxide into added-value products
Methods and systems related to valorizing carbon dioxide are disclosed. A disclosed system includes a reverse water gas shift (RWGS) reactor, a carbon dioxide source connection fluidly connecting a carbon dioxide source to the RWGS reactor, an electrolyzer having an anode area and a cathode area, and a carbon monoxide source connection fluidly connecting the RWGS reactor to the cathode area. The RWGS reactor is configured to generate, using a volume of carbon dioxide from the carbon dioxide source connection, a volume of carbon monoxide in a RWGS reaction. The electrolyzer is configured to generate, using the electrolyzer and a reduction of the volume of carbon monoxide from the carbon monoxide source connection and an oxidation of an oxidation substrate, a volume of generated chemicals including hydrocarbons, organic acids, alcohol, olefins, or N-rich organic compounds. |
| US11846027B2 |
Hot stamped component
A hot stamped component, includes: a base material; and a Zn-based plating layer provided in contact with the base material as a layer above the base material and containing Zn. A base material side of the Zn-based plating layer is a Fe—Zn solid solution, and two or more twins exist in 10 crystal grains of the Fe—Zn solid solution adjacent to an interface between the base material and the Zn-based plating layer. |
| US11846023B2 |
Injector and substrate processing apparatus using the same, and substrate processing method
There is provided an injector that extends in a longitudinal direction, including: a gas introduction part having a circular or a regular polygonal shape in a cross section perpendicular to the longitudinal direction and having no discharge holes; and a gas supply part having a protruded portion in one direction in the cross section perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, and having a plurality of discharge holes formed in a leading end of the protruded portion along the longitudinal direction, wherein a first end of the gas supply part in the longitudinal direction is connected to the gas introduction portion. |
| US11846016B2 |
Medical device with plasma modified oxide layer and method of forming such a device
A method of modifying a surface of a medical device for implantation or disposition inside a patient is described. The medical device comprises a structure having at least one surface. The method includes the steps of: placing the medical device into a plasma chamber substantially free from contaminants and substantially sealing the plasma chamber from the atmosphere; removing at least an outermost layer of any oxide layer from the at least one surface of the structure by a plasma oxide-removal process, whilst maintaining the plasma chamber under seal from the atmosphere; and subsequently forming a new oxide layer at the least one surface of the structure by introducing at least one gas into the plasma chamber, whilst maintaining the plasma chamber under seal from the atmosphere. A medical device including a bulk material and an oxide layer disposed over at least one surface of the medical device. The oxide layer is substantially pure and free from contaminants. |
| US11846015B2 |
Sb—Te-based alloy sintered compact sputtering target
An Sb—Te-based alloy sintered compact sputtering target having Sb and Te as main components and which contains 0.1 to 30 at % of carbon or boron and comprises a uniform mixed structure of Sb—Te-based alloy particles and fine carbon (C) or boron (B) particles is provided. An average grain size of the Sb—Te-based alloy particles is 3 μm or less and a standard deviation thereof is less than 1.00. An average grain size of the C or B particles is 0.5 μm or less and a standard deviation thereof is less than 0.20. When the average grain size of the Sb—Te-based alloy particles is X and the average grain size of the carbon or boron particles is Y, Y/X is within a range of 0.1 to 0.5. This provides an improved Sb—Te-based alloy sputtering target that inhibits generation of cracks in the sintered target and prevents generation of arcing during sputtering. |
| US11846012B2 |
Cover window for display device and manufacturing method thereof
A cover window for a display device and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The cover window for a display device includes a light-transmitting substrate, a mold layer on at least a part of an edge of the light-transmitting substrate, and having an uneven pattern formed on a surface thereof, an inorganic material pattern layer on the mold layer and exposing a portion of the mold layer, and a print layer on the mold layer and covering the exposed portion of the mold layer. |
| US11846010B2 |
Aluminum alloy with additions of copper, lithium and at least one alkali or rare earth metal, and method of manufacturing the same
A method for making an aluminum alloy includes steps of (1) weighing out starting materials to achieve a mass of material having a composition that includes aluminum, about 1.8 to about 5.6 percent by weight copper, about 0.6 to about 2.6 percent by weight lithium, and at least one of lanthanum up to about 1.5 percent by weight, strontium up to about 1.5 percent by weight, cerium up to about 1.5 percent by weight, and praseodymium up to about 1.5 percent by weight; (2) loading said starting materials into a crucible; (3) inserting said crucible into a chamber; (4) evacuating said chamber to a predetermined vacuum level; (5) melting said starting materials to form a molten mass; and (6) casting said molten mass into a mold. |
| US11846005B2 |
Binder compositions and processes of preparing iron ore pellets
Binder compositions for agglomerating iron ore fines are provided, the compositions comprising: one or more types of modified starch and one or more types of synthetic dry polymers. A process for preparing iron ore pellets with the binder compositions is also provided, the process comprising: (i) adding a binder composition to particulate iron ore to form a mixture; and (ii) forming the mixture into pellets. |
| US11846004B2 |
Ultra-high strength weathering steel piles and structural foundations with bending resistance
Disclosed herein is a light-gauge, ultra-high strength weathering steel pile for use as a steel foundation in structures such as, for example, solar arrangements. The light-gauge, ultra-high strength weathering steel pile comprises a thickness of 2.5 mm or less that has been cold roll formed into a steel pile having a web and a pair of opposing flanges, each having discontinuities formed therein. The steel pile further comprises a yield strength of between 700 and 1600 MPa, a tensile strength of between 1000 and 2100 MPa, and an elongation of between 1% and 10%. |
| US11845996B2 |
Mycobacteria detection using bacteriophages
A method for testing for target Mycobacteria in a reaction mixture comprising the steps of: providing a reaction mixture; admixing a bacteriophage with the reaction mixture under conditions suitable to allow the bacteriophage to infect any target Mycobacteria present in the reaction mixture; allowing time for the bacteriophage to lyse infected live target Mycobacteria; and analysing in said reaction mixture DNA from the lysed Mycobacteria to identify a signature DNA sequence that occurs in the target Mycobacteriumspedes. |
| US11845995B2 |
Mutation detection assay
A method of sample analysis is provided. In certain embodiments, the method involves: a) amplifying a product from a sample that comprises both wild type copies of a genomic locus and mutant copies of the genomic locus that have a point mutation relative to said wild type copies of the genomic locus, to produce an amplified sample, where: i. the amplifying is done using a first primer and a second primer; and ii. the first primer comprises a 3′ terminal nucleotide that base pairs with the point mutation and also comprises a nucleotide sequence that is fully complementary to a sequence in the locus with the exception of a single base mismatch within 6 bases of the 3′ terminal nucleotide; and b) detecting the presence of said product in said amplified sample using a flap assay that employs an invasive oligonucleotide. A kit for performing the method is also provided. |
| US11845991B2 |
Fecal sample processing and analysis comprising detection of blood
A method of processing a fecal sample from a human subject comprising removing a portion of a collected fecal sample and adding the removed portion of the sample to a buffer that prevents denaturation or degradation of blood proteins found in the sample, and detecting the presence of human blood in the removed portion of the fecal sample. The method further comprises stabilizing the remaining portion of the fecal sample. |
| US11845986B2 |
Normalization of nucleic acid libraries
This disclosure provides methods and compositions for removing one or more high abundance species from a plurality of nucleic acid molecules. In some embodiments, the methods and compositions can be used for normalizing nucleic acid libraries. In some embodiments, molecular labels are used in conjunction with the methods and compositions disclosed herein to improve sequencing efficiency. |
| US11845983B1 |
Methods and systems for multiplexing of droplet based assays
Compositions, methods, and systems are provided for sample preparation techniques and sequencing of macromolecular constituents derived from a cell (i.e., a cell bead) in a multiplexed reaction. Using the compositions, systems, and methods disclosed herein, the association of the macromolecular constituents with the biological particle from which they are derived and the association of the cell bead with the cell bead sample from which they are derived is maintained. |
| US11845980B2 |
Emulsion compositions and methods of their use
Emulsion compositions are provided herein. Also provided herein are kits containing one or more emulsion compositions or components for making such emulsion compositions. Also provided herein are methods of using such emulsion compositions, such as for amplification of target nucleic acids in emulsion droplets. |
| US11845976B2 |
Systems and methods for performing antimicrobial susceptibility testing
Phenotypic antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST), the gold-standard diagnostic that indicates whether an antimicrobial will be clinically effective, often suffer the slowest times-to-result for the most resistant pathogens. Here we introduce novel assays to be performed in parallel with standard AST assays that provide additional resistance information and enable rapid, same-shift reporting of AST results for a plurality of pathogens. |
| US11845975B2 |
Extract from a body fluid comprising a micro RNA
The present disclosure provides a body fluid extract comprising micro RNA. |
| US11845974B2 |
Methods for continuous production of products from microorganisms
The present invention relates to improved methods for producing biosynthetic products in a cascade of bioreactors. In particular the present invention relates to methods and a cascade of bioreactor systems comprising at least two bioreactors and at least one concentration unit. |
| US11845965B2 |
Regulation of gene expression using engineered nucleases
The present disclosure is in the field of genome engineering, particularly targeted modification of the genome of a hematopoietic cell. |