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| US11998904B2 |
Fluidized bed reactors for post-processing powdered carbon
A system for post-processing carbon powders includes a fluidized-bed reactor having an interior containing a fluidized-bed region. The system may include a gas feed source, a gas inlet value, a gas-solid separator, and an energy source coupled to the fluidized-bed reactor. Carbon nano-particulates may be loaded, in powder form, into the fluidized-bed region prior to operation. The gas feed source may output a gas-phase mixture into the interior of the fluidized-bed reactor, and the energy source may electromagnetically excite the gas-phase mixture and generate a plasma-phase mixture formed in a plasma region positioned adjacent to or within the interior of the fluidized-bed reactor. The energy source may be positioned at one or more positions relative to the gas inlet valve. |
| US11998901B2 |
Metal complex, method for producing same, and method for producing gamma-lactam compound using same
The present invention relates to a novel metal complex, a method for producing same, and a method for producing a gamma-lactam compound using same, and the metal complex according to the present invention is used as a catalyst for producing a gamma-lactam compound and can efficiently produce a gamma-lactam compound with an excellent yield and excellent selectivity. |
| US11998900B2 |
Immobilizing metal catalysts in a porous support via additive manufacturing and chemical vapor transformation
A method of immobilizing a metal catalyst in a porous support includes additively forming a precursor structure on a substrate from a metal catalyst and at least one of a metal oxide or a metal cluster compound; exposing the precursor structure to a vapor of an organic linker; and reacting the at least one of the metal oxide or the metal cluster compound in the precursor structure with the organic linker to form a porous support that immobilizes the metal catalyst. |
| US11998897B2 |
Molybdenum-vanadium-iron- and/or molybdenum-vanadium-aluminium-based oxidative dehydrogenation catalyst materials
This document relates to oxidative dehydrogenation catalyst materials that include molybdenum, vanadium, oxygen, and iron; oxidative dehydrogenation catalyst materials that include molybdenum, vanadium, oxygen, and aluminum; and oxidative dehydrogenation catalyst materials that include molybdenum, vanadium, oxygen, iron, and aluminum. |
| US11998895B2 |
Oxidative dehydrogenation catalyst compositions
Provided in this disclosure are catalyst compositions. The catalyst compositions include an oxidative dehydrogenation catalyst that includes a mixed metal oxide having the empirical formula: Mo1.0V0.12-0.49Te0.05-0.17Nb0.10-0.20AlcOd wherein c is from 0 to 2.0 and d is a number to satisfy the valence of the oxide. The compositions are at least 40 wt. % amorphous as measured by XRD. The disclosure also provides methods of making the compositions. |
| US11998891B2 |
Geotextile sediment cap with active media
Remediation geotextile device, including a geotextile mattress-like component, configured to contain an active granular material for filtering and treating contaminated groundwater and/or sediment porewater. The geotextile device including a six-sided, or substantially rectangular, mattress-like component, including an upper geotextile layer and a lower geotextile layer that are connected at intervals with sets of interior geotextile straps. |
| US11998890B2 |
Functionalised chromatography medium comprising polymer nanofibres and process of preparation thereof
Functionalised polymeric chromatography medium, comprising: at least one non-woven sheet comprising one or more polymeric nanofibers having a mean diameter of 10-1000 nm; one or more polymer chains grafted onto the one or more polymeric nanofibers, wherein the polymer chains are poly-glycerol chains comprising glycidol monomer residues or wherein the polymer chains comprise divinylsulfone monomer residues; and at least one ligand group bonded to the one or more polymer chains. |
| US11998887B2 |
Continuous flow photoreactor
Embodiments described herein relate generally to continuous flow photoreactors with easily replaceable and adjustable components. The photoreactor includes a reactor flow system, a lighting system, and a temperature control system. The reactor flow system includes a reactor inlet port, a reactor outlet port, and a length of reactor tubing fluidically coupled to the reactor inlet port and reactor outlet port. The lighting system includes a light emitting apparatus (e.g., a plurality of LEDs) configured to emit light in a defined wavelength range toward the length of reactor tubing. The temperature control system includes an inlet port, an outlet port, and a length of temperature control tubing fluidically coupled to the inlet port and the outlet port. In some embodiments, the temperature control system can be configured to circulate a fluid to cool the lighting system. |
| US11998886B2 |
Regenerative cooling method and apparatus
A method of cooling a liner in a plasma chamber. A recycle gas is contacted with or passed through the liner to cool the liner and pre-heat the recycle gas. The pre-heated gas is then recycled through the plasma chamber to become part of the plasma forming process. The method further comprises the liner is graphite, the recycle gas passes through at least one cooling channel present in the liner, at least one of the cooling channels are covered with at least one removable liner/channel cover, carbon deposits are formed from the presence of hydrocarbons in the recycle gas, at least one channel is formed in a spiral cooling channel pattern, at least one channel is formed in a substantially straight cooling channel pattern, and a plenum to aid in the production of an even distribution of cooling gas in the channels. |
| US11998881B2 |
Stirring and defoaming device
A stirring and defoaming device is a stirring and defoaming device of a revolution and rotation type, wherein a vacuum unit for sucking air in each container to bring the inside of each container into a vacuum state includes sealing bodies that seal respective containers, a vacuum generation source, a suction path running toward a revolution center with each container as a starting end, passing through the revolution center to go outside the system, and reaching the vacuum generation source placed outside the system, at least part of the suction path being an independent path from the starting end in association with each container, and at least two or more vacuum measurement units, each provided in an independent path. |
| US11998880B2 |
Collapsible agitator assembly for a bioprocessing system
A mixing system includes a container for containing a fluid, and an agitator assembly disposable in the container for mixing the fluid. The agitator includes an extensible shaft and at least one impeller connected to the extensible shaft. |
| US11998878B2 |
Composite hollow fiber and related methods and products
Described are composite hollow fibers filter membranes that include a porous polymeric hollow fiber support and a filter layer; methods of making the composite hollow fibers and using the composite hollow fibers as a filter membrane; methods of making a filter component or filter from the composite hollow fiber; and filter components and filters that contain the composite hollow fibers as filter membranes. |
| US11998877B2 |
Method of preparation of new super-hydrophobic membranes and membranes obtained by said method
A method for preparing a super-hydrophobic membrane by cleaning a metal mesh by immersion in an organic solvent; subjecting the cleaned metal mesh to a surface modification treatment to increase its hydrophilicity; coating the treated metal mesh with a hydrophobic organic substance; and drying the metal coated mesh for obtaining the super-hydrophobic membrane. The super-hydrophobic membrane obtained thereby. |
| US11998876B2 |
Diagnostic methods and apparatus for electrodialysis
The present disclosure is directed to ion-exchange systems and devices that can monitor key parameters related to the performance of the ion-exchange device. Specifically, the ion-exchange systems and devices disclosed herein can provide real time voltage drop across groups of membrane pairs using diagnostic spacer borders between the pairs. In addition, the ion-exchange systems and devices disclosed herein can monitor the compression force applied by the compression plates holding the ion-exchange systems and devices together. |
| US11998875B2 |
System and method for electrochemical ocean alkalinity enhancement
The disclosure relates to enhancing alkalinity of brine, e.g. seawater, using bipolar membrane electrodialysis (BPMED) without removing divalent cations that otherwise cause scaling. In one embodiment, a BPMED is employed wherein the brine volumetric flow rate through a basification compartment is greater at a given current density than that through a brine compartment which increases the pH of the brine output while keeping it below the precipitation pH. In one embodiment, the spacer located in the basification compartment is thicker than spacers elsewhere in the BPMED so as resist membrane distortion due to the increased hydrostatic pressure in the basification compartment given the greater volumetric flow. The brine output having increased alkalinity can be returned to the ocean to mitigate acidification and enable capture of atmospheric carbon dioxide. |
| US11998874B2 |
Metallic base material for exhaust purging, and exhaust purging device using same
A perforated metallic base material for purging exhaust is obtained by laminating a wavy foil having pores and a flat foil having pores and forming the same into a cylindrical shape, wherein the wavy foil and/or the flat foil has axially perforated portions having pores throughout the axial direction of the cylindrical shape and axially non-perforated portions not having pores overall in the axial direction of the cylindrical form. |
| US11998872B2 |
Biogas upgrading apparatus and process
A biogas upgrading system can include a multiple stage membrane system that is configured to remove oxygen so that the biogas is upgraded to have a higher concentration of methane, a pre-selected oxygen (O2) concentration (e.g. less than or equal to 0.2 mol %, etc.), and a pre-selected carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration (e.g. less than or equal to 5 mol %, etc.). The membrane system can be configured to reject O2 by utilizing a low CO2/O2 selectivity that is within a pre-determined range (e.g. less than 5 or less than 4.5). In some embodiments, the upgraded biogas that is output from the system can be entirely made up of methane, carbon dioxide, and oxygen. In other embodiments, the biogas can be almost entirely composed of these components along with a small amount of nitrogen and a trace amount (e.g. less than or equal to 0.2%-0.1%, etc.) of other components. |
| US11998869B2 |
Filter element
The subject matter of the invention is a filter element (13) for insertion into a vacuum cleaner, with an upper side (14), a lower side (15) which lies opposite the upper side (14), a filter body (19) which extends from the upper side (14) to the lower side (15) and which forms a wall (26) of a clean air space which is situated between the upper side and the lower side, and with a conveying opening (17) which is arranged on the upper side (14), opens into the clean air space, and through which an air flow which is driven by way of the vacuum cleaner can be conveyed. According to the invention, a deflecting surface (20) which extends in the direction of the lower side (15) is arranged in the clean air space below the conveying opening (17), which deflecting surface (20) is configured to deflect an air flow which is introduced through the conveying opening (17) in the direction of the wall (26) of the clean air space. The filter element (13) according to the invention can be relieved of filter cakes in a simple and effective way. |
| US11998852B2 |
Multi-player gaming system with synchronization periods and associated synchronization methods
Multi-player games in which players cooperate and/or compete with one another over the course of several rounds of the game are disclosed. A controller may synchronize gaming devices used by the players during the multi-player games. The controller may send sync commands to the gaming devices. In response to the sync commands, the gaming devices may start a sync timer which defines a window in which certain guarded operations may be accepted by the gaming devices. The controller may send periodic sync update commands to the gaming devices which cause the gaming devices to update their respect sync timers to a time remaining of a master sync timer or window maintained by the controller. The controller may ensure that play of the multi-player game proceeds in a relatively lock-step manner across the gaming devices. |
| US11998847B2 |
Video game with reward based on use of new character
A non-transitory computer readable medium stores instructions for executing a game in which a certain quest becomes executable upon a version upgrade of the game, and a new character becomes available upon the version upgrade of the game. The instructions cause a computer to select, based on a user input, a playable character to be used in one quest that is the certain quest, execute the one quest based on a parameter of the playable character, and grant a reward to a player in response to satisfying a clearance condition in the executed one quest. The more new characters that become available as the playable character, the lower an amount of the granted reward. |
| US11998845B2 |
Information processing system, information processing method and information processing program
An information processing system is disclosed that includes a drawing portion that draws a display image for a terminal including at least one display medium positioned in a virtual space, an acquisition portion that acquires input from a user, and a position update portion that changes a position of the display medium associated with one user in the virtual space based on a first input from the one user acquired by the acquisition portion. The drawing portion draws guidance information indicating a positional relationship between a first display medium associate with the one user and a second display medium associated with another user, associating the guidance information with the first display medium. |
| US11998830B2 |
Swimming timer
A swimming timer including a fluid container, a fluid channel, a fluid sensor, a control circuit board and a display device. The fluid channel is connected to the fluid container and the fluid sensor, and the control circuit board is wired with the fluid sensor and the display device. The fluid container is installed and mounted on a side-wall of a swimming lane. When a swimmer starts, turns and stops, the fluid container will be touched and compressed forcing the fluid inside to flow into the fluid channel. The fluid sensor detects the fluid flow and generates electronic signals accordingly for the control circuit board and the built-in timing and stopwatch program to use as the input commands of start, lap and stop to compute the swimming time and the number of swimming laps. The display device is to show the results for the swimmer reference. |
| US11998829B2 |
Golf event management system with scoring and location tracking
A score tracking system may include a tracking module, companion device, and location system. The tracking module may be configured to be carried by a player competing in a golf tournament. The companion device may be configured to receive an input corresponding to a stroke event and that includes a time stamp corresponding to an occurrence of the stoke event. The location system may collect or receive location data, which comprises or is used by the location system to generate a plurality of sets of location coordinates. Each set of location coordinates may correspond to a location of the tracking module at a specified time. The location system may pair the time stamp with a set of the location coordinates corresponding to the location of the tracking module at the occurrence of the stroke event. |
| US11998823B1 |
System and method to identify impact locations
A golf club comprising a golf club head having a face wall, an inertial motion unit (IMU) positioned within the body, and a transceiver in communication with the IMU, a shaft attached to the golf club head, and a grip attached to the shaft is disclosed herein. The IMU identifies an impact location with a golf ball. |
| US11998820B2 |
Basketball performance monitoring system
A system for creating and viewing indexed video snippets of a series of shots toward a goal comprising at least one sensor directly connected to a microprocessor, the microprocessor configured to trigger responsive to a ball-shooting detection of at least one of the series of shots toward the goal; electronic times that represent the accurate timing of a triggering event related to the ball-shooting detection; one or more video recordings captured by at least one recording source; wherein the electronic times are utilized to associate portions of the one or more video recordings with corresponding shots toward the goal; the associated portions are stored as separate video snippets; and the video snippets are indexed by the corresponding shots toward the goal. |
| US11998819B2 |
Virtual environment construction apparatus, video presentation apparatus, model learning apparatus, optimal depth decision apparatus, methods for the same, and program
A virtual reality system is provided that includes a video presentation apparatus, the virtual reality system comprising: the video presentation apparatus which includes circuitry configured to: obtain as input a video sequence composed of a plurality of frames and mask information specifying a complementation target region in the video sequence; separate a frame into a foreground region and a background region based on binary images representing differences between the plurality of frames included in the video sequence; determine either one of patch-search-based completion and paste synthesis as a complementation method for the complementation target region based on a number of pixels belonging to the foreground region and located within a given distance from a periphery of the complementation target region; and complement the complementation target region in accordance with the complementation method; and a virtual reality head mounted display which presents the complemented video sequence to the user. |
| US11998816B2 |
Golf club head with vibrational damping system
Embodiments of an iron-type golf club head comprising a high moment of inertia and a damping system. The damping system includes an insert covering a lower portion of the back face and a badge covering an upper portion of the back face. The damping system covers a large proportion of the back face and provides a club head with desirable sound and feel characteristics. |
| US11998814B2 |
Fairway wood golf club head with low CG
The present invention is directed to a fairway-type golf club head combing (or comprising) features selected from the group consisting of lightweight crown inserts, main body of weight reducing features, a high density sole insert, a removable, adjustable, interchangeable rear weight assembly, or a combination thereof to enable a low center of gravity of the club head thereby increasing forgiveness, reducing spin, and positioning the center of gravity at or near the force line impact point axis of the fairway-type golf club head. |
| US11998813B2 |
Adjustable golf club
Various embodiments of a golf club are described that has a removable face weight to dramatically alter the weight of the head of the golf club and change the dynamics of the golf club by simply changing the face weight. The golf club is also configured to receive one or more weights to allow the weight of the head to be varied and permit a change in the weight distribution of the head. |
| US11998808B2 |
Traveling collector
To provide a highly reliable, cost-effective traveling collector that can determine the positions of fallen objects, such as balls, on the ground using a simple method, or determine the correct positions of fallen objects, such as balls, on the ground only by improving software and without the need for significant changes to hardware. The traveling collector includes a count sensor as a sensor for detecting the position of each collected ball at a position detected by a satellite positioning system, for example. A controller determines a position, which is obtained by reflecting, based on the positional information on the ball collector at a time point when the ball was counted by touching the count sensor, the movement distance of the ball collector from the time each ball was picked up from the ground by a ball collection wheel till the ball was counted by touching the count sensor in a direction opposite to the traveling direction of the ball collector at that time, as the actual position where each ball was picked up. |
| US11998805B2 |
Filtering control signals
An exercise system includes an exercise machine and an exercise handle coupled to the exercise machine via a cable, the exercise handle comprising a set of sensors. The set of sensors is used to detect a location of a portion of a user's hand on the exercise handle. |
| US11998803B2 |
Stick patterns in a sporting event
A system and method of tracking and classifying an athlete's stick techniques used during a sporting event are disclosed, which includes measuring detailed motions and position of at least one stick object being used in sports, producing relevant stick technique patterns and classifying those patterns in a relevant manner. Classified stick pattern data is used to improve the accuracy and clarity of sporting event metrics, the ability to quantify athlete's skill and the ability to develop athletes based on their game situation techniques. The method used allows for accurate, near real-time discovery of stick patterns during live sporting events without altering or impacting the game or an athlete's ability to perform. |
| US11998802B2 |
Method and apparatus for assessing acclimatization to environmental conditions and to assess fitness level taking into account the environmental conditions and the level of acclimatization
A system of estimating acclimatization to environmental conditions, and providing a corrected fitness level estimates based on said acclimatization level. The environmental conditions are particularly related to heat and altitude. At first previous training history is provided including a plurality of day records, where each day record includes a date stamp and information regarding altitude and optionally temperature and humidity and training history including timestamp and training load data from executed exercises in stored records. |
| US11998801B2 |
Systems and methods for verifying physical activities of users
Systems and methods are described for verifying physical activities of users. The systems and methods can include tags having tag identifiers, where the tags are affixed to articles of manufacture to be worn or used by the user during physical activity. The tag identifiers can be associated with the articles and can be used by the system and methods for verifying the physical activities of the user via one or more verification procedures. |
| US11998799B2 |
Methods and systems for improving athletic performance by tracking objects hit or thrown at an electronic display
The present disclosure relates to effective, efficient, and economical methods and systems for improving athletic performance by tracking objects typically thrown or hit by athletes. In particular, the present disclosure relates to a unique configuration of technology wherein an electronic display is located at or behind the target and one or more cameras are positioned to observe the target. Once an object is thrown or hit, one or more cameras may observe and track the object. Further, an electronic display may be used to provide targeting information to an athlete and also to determine the athlete's accuracy. |
| US11998794B2 |
Portable foldable surface
A foldable surface for supporting a user relative to a support surface during an activity includes a plurality of surface panels that are movably coupled to one another with panel connectors. The plurality of surface panels include a first surface panel having a first shape, and a second surface panel having a second shape that is different than the first shape. Each of the surface panels has a first surface and an opposing second surface. The surface panels are movable between an open configuration wherein the first surfaces of the plurality of surface panels cooperate to form a substantially planar surface that is adapted to be positioned adjacent to the support surface, and a stacked configuration wherein the surface panels are positioned substantially side-by-side with the first surface of one surface panel directly facing the first surface of an adjacent surface panel. |
| US11998791B2 |
Barbell clamping assembly
The invention relates to the field of barbell clamping technologies and particularly to a barbell clamping assembly including a barbell clamping body. A replaceable core is inserted into the barbell clamping body. Press blocks are inserted into the replaceable core. The replaceable core is connected to the press blocks through first springs. A hexagon bolt is inserted into the barbell clamping body. A rotating rod is inserted into the hexagon bolt. A handle is sleeved onto the rotating rod. A fixing block is disposed on a side of the handle. A clamping structure is inserted into the barbell clamping body and includes first and second clamping blocks inserted into the barbell clamping body. The first and seconds clamping blocks are connected to the barbell clamping body by second springs, and an arc fixing groove is disposed in the barbell clamping body and between the first and second clamping blocks. |
| US11998789B2 |
Resistance band assembly
A adjustable resistance band assembly for providing resistive force during the performance of an exercise. The adjustable resistance band assembly includes a first end, a second end, and a longitudinal axis extending therebetween. First and second resilient members are provided. An adjustment assembly enables a user to selectively engage the first or first and second resilient members to adjust the resistive force provided for performance of an exercise. |
| US11998787B2 |
Exercise bar carriage locking mechanism
An exercise apparatus comprising: a frame; first and second vertical guides coupled to the frame; first and second carriages carried on the respective first and second vertical guides, each of the first and second carriages having an upper carriage portion, a lower carriage portion and a carriage locking mechanism operable to lock and release the lower carriage portion to a selected vertical position along the first and second vertical guides; and an exercise bar coupled to the upper carriage portion of the first and second carriages, the exercise bar operable to translate or rotate to actuate the carriage locking mechanism. |
| US11998786B2 |
Multi-functional fitness device
A multi-functional fitness device comprises a first supporting seat, a second supporting seat and a sphere. The first supporting seat and the second supporting seat are respectively provided with a first concave spherical surface and a second concave spherical surface matched with an outline of the sphere, and are oppositely arranged, with the sphere supported therebetween, two sides of the sphere are partially fitted and embedded into the first concave spherical surface and the second concave spherical surface respectively, at least one of the first supporting seat and the second supporting seat is movably connected to a surface of the sphere through the corresponding first concave spherical surface or second concave spherical surface, and adhered to the surface of the sphere to move, and an elastic member is connected between at least one opposite side edges of the first supporting seat and the second supporting seat. |
| US11998784B1 |
Mixture and method for fire suppression and prevention
A method for creating a mixture for fire prevention and suppression, comprising introducing phosphoric acid and anhydrous ammonia gas into a reactor, then introducing urea into the reactor in a controlled rate to achieve a pH of the mixture is 7+/−0.1. Next amino functionalized siloxane is introduced into the mixture, and then powdered volcanic ash (pumice) is introduced. The powdered volcanic ash is introduced into the mixture by means of a turbo-shear high performance mixer. The resulting URAP can be sprayed as fire prevention coating onto vegetation, structural buildings, lumber material and/or other combustible structures. The URAP mixture performs as a fire suppressant by coating substrates and starving combustion's necessary oxygen access. |
| US11998781B2 |
Flexible dry sprinkler having a differential pressure controller
A dry fire protection sprinkler in which, when a ratio of a pressure P1 of a pressurized fluid in a flexible tube to a pressure P3 of the fluid in a fluid supply line is less than a predetermined ratio of at least 3 to 1, a differential pressure controller sends a signal to a control valve to open, in order to allow the pressurized fluid in a pressurized fluid source at a pressure of P2 to enter the flexible tube, and, when the ratio of the pressure P1 of the pressurized fluid in the flexible tube to the pressure P3 of the fluid in the fluid supply line equals the predetermined ratio, the differential pressure controller sends a signal to the control valve to close. |
| US11998780B2 |
Fire-fighting control system
A fire-fighting system includes a pump, a nozzle for directing fluid flow from the pump to a target area, a discharge valve controlling fluid flow between the pump and the nozzle, a sensor coupled to the nozzle, and a controller communicatively coupled to the sensor. The sensor detects movement of the nozzle and generates a signal indicative of the detected movement. The controller communicatively coupled is configured to receive the signal from the sensor, and control at least one of the discharge valve, the pump, and the nozzle based on the detected movement of the nozzle. |
| US11998779B2 |
Main valve for drawing straightway deluge valve
A main valve for a straightway deluge valve includes a valve body (1), a valve cover (2), a diaphragm (3), a drawing piston (4), a diaphragm pressure plate (5), a drawing link (6), a valve body link (7), a valve plate link (8), a rotatable lip and a mounting hole cover (13). A piston guide is provided at a side part of the valve body (1). The drawing piston (4) is provided slidably in the piston guide along a left-right direction. When the drawing piston (4) slides along the piston guide, the rotatable lip can contact with or separate from the inner sealing end surface. The main valve for drawing the straightway deluge valve, after the valve plate (9) is opened, enables the flow passage to be close to a straightway passage, thereby reducing flow loss. |
| US11998776B2 |
Rope based fall protection device
A rope based fall protection device including a rotation unit, a brake unit, and a rope. A first end of the rope is connected to the rotation unit. The rope includes a first rope loop and a second rope loop that are wound around the rotation unit. A first retaining portion of a retaining ring is sleeved on the first rope loop and a second retaining portion thereof is sleeved on the second rope loop, such that the rope forms a rope section which has a fixed length between the second retaining portion and the first end and is wound around the rotation unit. When a free end of the rope is pulled by an external force to release the rope wound around the rotation unit in a direction away from the rotation unit, the retaining ring is broken to release the rope section of the rope. The external force is greater than or equal to a pulling force generated by a user's free fall. By releasing the rope section of the rope, the rotation unit rotates and simultaneously drives the brake unit to rotate to slow down or stop the rotation of the rotation unit. |
| US11998774B2 |
Face mask with improved face seal
A reusable face mask with a foam face seal to protect against transmission of airborne pathogens. The face mask uses an easily interchangeable, readily available, non-proprietary, standard filter. It has a section specifically designed to mitigate the fogging of glasses, and has a user-interchangeable strap/harness system. |
| US11998772B2 |
Receptacle device
There is provided a receptacle device for a mask, the receptacle device comprising: a valve; a body portion surrounding the valve; and an anchor portion; wherein the body portion and the anchor portion are integrally formed; and wherein the anchor portion and the body portion define a channel therebetween, and the channel is configured to releasably engage the mask. A method of manufacturing a mask assembly or retrofitting a receptacle device to a workpiece mask is also provided which comprises a mask and said receptacle device. |
| US11998770B2 |
Respirator assembly and method of using the same
Various embodiments are directed to a method for operating a blower so as to generate an at least substantially consistent output flowrate comprising programmatically determining an optimized motor speed based at least in part on blower motor data and a blower characterization curve, wherein the blower characterization curve defines a correlation between motor speed and motor voltage of a blower motor configured to generate a desired respirator output flowrate; and programmatically adjusting a motor voltage based at least in part on a comparison of measured motor speed data to the optimized motor speed, wherein the blower characterization curve is defined by one or more blower characterization equations derived based at least in part on a plurality of motor output calibration points. Various embodiments are directed to a respirator apparatus configured to generate an at least substantially consistent respirator output airflow. |
| US11998769B2 |
Mask apparatus
A mask apparatus includes: a mask body including an air duct disposed at a front surface of the mask body, a fan module disposed at the front surface of the mask body to correspond to a suction hole of the air duct, and configured to suction external air to supply the suctioned air to the air duct, and a mask body cover that is coupled to the front surface of the mask body and that covers the fan module and the air duct. An air passage through which air suctioned by the fan module flows is provided in the air duct, and an embossed portion is disposed on at least a portion of a surface of the air duct that is configured to be in contact with the air flowing through the air passage. |
| US11998758B2 |
Phototherapeutic light for treatment of pathogens
Methods and related devices for impinging light on tissue, for example within a body of a patient, to induce various biological effects are disclosed. Biological effects may include at least one of inactivating and/or inhibiting growth of one or more pathogens, upregulating a local immune response, stimulating enzymatic generation of nitric oxide to increase endogenous stores of nitric oxide, releasing nitric oxide from endogenous stores of nitric oxide, and inducing an anti-inflammatory effect. Wavelengths of light are selected based on intended biological effects for one or more of targeted tissue types and targeted pathogens. Light treatments may provide multiple pathogenic biological effects, either with light of a single wavelength or with light having multiple wavelengths. Devices and methods for light treatments are disclosed that provide light doses for inducing biological effects on various targeted pathogens and targeted tissues with increased efficacy and reduced cytotoxicity. |
| US11998756B2 |
Apparatus and methods for determining a property of a tissue
An apparatus for determining a thermal property of tissue includes a base unit with one or more energy source and at least two, preferably detachable, leads. The distal end of each lead, which is introduced into the tissue to be treated, has at least two longitudinally spaced temperature measuring elements to measure surrounding tissue temperature and at least two longitudinally spaced electrode surfaces for applying current to the tissue. Each distal end is also provided with an element which uses energy emitted by the sources of energy to heat up the surrounding tissue. The base unit has computing elements, current generating elements for generating an alternating current, and conductance determining elements for determining the tissue conductance between pairs of electrode surfaces based on the alternating current applied by the current generating elements to the tissue. Methods for using the device and leads for use in the device are also described. |
| US11998752B2 |
Wearable cardioverter defibrillator with a non-invasive blood pressure monitor
A wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD) system comprises a plurality of patient parameter electrodes and a plurality of defibrillator electrodes to contact a patient's skin when the WCD is delivering therapy to the patient, a processor to receive one or more patient parameters from the one or more patient parameter electrodes, an energy storage device to store a charge to provide electrical therapy to the patient via the plurality of defibrillator electrodes, and a non-invasive blood pressure (NIBP) monitor to obtain a blood pressure measurement of the patient and to provide the blood pressure measurement to the processor. The processor is to determine whether to provide electrical therapy to the patient based on the one or more patient parameters during an episode, and to obtain the blood pressure measurement from the NIBP monitor during the episode. |
| US11998750B2 |
Implantable medical device and method for determining his bundle pacing capture
An implantable medical device system receives a cardiac electrical signal produced by a patient's heart and comprising atrial P-waves and delivers a His bundle pacing pulse to the patient's heart via a His pacing electrode vector. The system determines a timing of a sensed atrial P-wave relative to the His bundle pacing pulse and determines a type of capture of the His bundle pacing pulse in response to the determined timing of the atrial P-wave. |
| US11998743B2 |
Systems and methods for using electrospinogram signals for closed loop control in Spinal Cord Stimulation therapy
Methods and systems for providing closed loop control of stimulation provided by an implantable stimulator device are disclosed herein. The disclosed methods and systems use a neural feature prediction model to predict a neural feature, which is used as a feedback control variable for adjusting stimulation. The predicted neural feature is determined based on one or more stimulation artifact features. The disclosed methods and systems can be used to provide closed loop feedback in situations, such as sub-perception therapy, when neural features cannot be readily directly measured. |
| US11998740B2 |
Systems and methods for providing personalized targeted non-invasive stimulation to a brain network
Disclosed herein are devices, systems, and methods for ameliorating or treating or preventing Alzheimer's Disease and related dementias. Methods may include using individual patients' data to identify the optimal treatment target(s) as well as the stimulation intensity, frequency, or waveform, or any combination thereof, for transcranial electromagnetic induction delivered via a device as in the case of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. Systems and methods include a platform or infrastructure for treatment delivery and data processing. In some embodiments, methods are applied to restore cognitive function, ameliorate clinical symptoms, modify altered mechanisms of plasticity, modulate cortical excitability and reactivity, or induce changes in local brain metabolism. |
| US11998739B2 |
Monolithic component for an implantable medical device
A monolithic implantable medical device component includes multiple portions on a single substrate. The portions can be electrically connected to an electronics module, which may include output connectors and input connectors to and from the various portions of the substrate. A portion of the monolithic component to be disposed within, attached to, embedded in, or otherwise combined with a magnet retention feature, such as a plate. |
| US11998734B2 |
Ring electrode with intermediate diffusion layer
One aspect relates to a method for producing a ring electrode, including providing an outer element including an outer tube; providing a first inner element, including a first inner tube having a first core made of a sacrificial material, a material of the outer element and a material of the first inner element having a similar microstructure to each other; providing a second inner element, including a second core made of a sacrificial material; forming a composite tube by arranging the first inner element and the second inner element inside the outer element, the first inner element and the second inner element being arranged eccentrically; drawing the composite tube in a longitudinal direction of the composite tube, the material of the outer element and the material of the first inner element retaining a similar microstructure; separating a composite tube disk from the composite tube; removing the sacrificial material of the first core; and removing the sacrificial material of the second core to obtain a contacting opening in the ring electrode. |
| US11998730B2 |
Adaptive speed control algorithms and controllers for optimizing flow in ventricular assist devices
Method and systems control a rotational speed of a blood pump during ventricular diastole. A method includes controlling a blood pump in accordance with a first segment operational mode. A controller monitors the blood flow rate through the blood pump. The controller determines, based on the blood flow rate, whether continued controlling of the blood pump per the first segment operational mode would result in the blood flow rate through the blood pump being less than a target minimum blood flow rate. In response to a determination that continued controlling of the blood pump per the first segment operational mode would result in the blood flow rate through the blood pump being less than the target minimum blood flow rate, the controller controls the rotational speed of the blood pump so that the blood flow rate through the blood pump is approximate to the target minimum blood flow rate. |
| US11998729B2 |
Motor assembly with heat exchanger for catheter pump
A catheter pump is disclosed. The catheter pump can include an impeller and a catheter body having a lumen therethrough. The catheter pump can also include a drive shaft disposed inside the catheter body. A motor assembly can include a chamber. The motor assembly can include a rotor disposed in the at least a portion of the chamber, the rotor mechanically coupled with a proximal portion of the drive shaft such that rotation of the rotor causes the drive shaft to rotate. The motor assembly can also comprise a stator assembly disposed about the rotor. The motor assembly can also include a heat exchanger disposed about the stator assembly, the heat exchanger may be configured to direct heat radially outward away from the stator assembly, the rotor, and the chamber. |
| US11998725B2 |
Auto injector with automatic rigid needle shield remover
An auto injector for delivery of a medicament is disclosed. The auto injector comprises a housing, a syringe holder configured to receive a syringe; a first drive module adapted to move the syringe holder relatively to the housing; and a rigid needle shield remover comprising a first part adapted for separating a rigid needle shield from the syringe. |
| US11998723B2 |
Vented syringe
Vented syringes are described herein. A vented syringe includes a syringe body and a plunger body. The syringe body defines a syringe cavity. The plunger body is at least partially disposed within the syringe cavity. The plunger body includes an air intake channel defined within the plunger body. The vented syringe further includes a plunger seal that is sealingly engaged with the syringe cavity to cooperatively define a syringe volume. The vented syringe further includes a one-way valve in fluid communication with the air intake channel and the syringe volume, wherein the one-way valve is configured to prevent fluid flow from the syringe volume to the air intake channel and permit fluid flow from the air intake channel to the syringe volume. |
| US11998720B2 |
Liquid medicine injection device
A medical liquid infusion apparatus includes: a housing provided such that an interior thereof is at least partially open at a first time point and is sealed at a second time point later than the first time point; a needle assembly located in the housing and provided such that at least a portion thereof is discharged to an outside of the housing at a third time point later than the second time point by a user's operation; a reservoir that is sealed in the housing after the second time point, receives a medical liquid, and is fluidly connected to the needle assembly; a driving module that is sealed in the housing after the second time point, interposed between the needle assembly and the reservoir, and generates a driving force for discharging the medical liquid after the third time point; a battery module sealed in the housing after the second time point; and a control module that is sealed in the housing after the second time point, and electrically connected to a transmission module and the battery module after the third time point so as to control the driving module. |
| US11998715B2 |
Strip package for antiseptic cap
A syringe assembly includes (1) a syringe barrel defining a chamber; (2) a plunger mounted in the chamber and moveable with respect to the barrel; and (3) a cap assembly containing a cap and an absorbent material is removably attached to the plunger. A strip package includes at least two cap assemblies. Each of the cap assemblies includes a cap holder and an antiseptic cap positioned in the cap holder. The antiseptic cap includes a sidewall defining a chamber and an antiseptic substance within the chamber. A strip extends over at least two cap assemblies. The strip includes a first seal engaged to the cap holder and a second seal engaged to the antiseptic cap. |
| US11998712B2 |
Protective release sheet for microneedle patch
Provided is a microneedle patch which is easily to be applied on a skin surface. One or more holes are provided inside a protective sheet of the microneedle patch, and one or more cutting lines running from an outer edge of the protective sheet toward the holes are also provided. The cutting lines may be symmetrically arranged on both sides of the hole. Providing an incision on the outer edge of the cutting lines of the protective release sheet facilitates cutting along the cutting lines. In the use of the microneedle patch, both sides of the cutting line of the protective release sheet are held and torn so as to bring out a microneedle array adhesive sheet and apply it on a skin. Then the microneedle array surface is slightly compressed, thereby the microneedle is inserted into the stratum corneum. |
| US11998710B2 |
Applicator for delivery of a product therethrough
The present disclosure provides applicators adapted to or configured to deliver a product therefrom. The applicators can be particularly designed for delivery to certain body parts of the human body, such as to the vaginal area. The applicator can comprise a housing formed of a substantially continuous wall extending along a longitudinal housing axis between a base end and an application end, the substantially continuous wall defining: a base segment extending from the base end toward the applicator end; a delivery segment extending from the applicator end toward the base end; and a compression segment interconnecting the base segment and the delivery segment. The housing can define a substantially hollow interior configured for retaining a product for delivery through the delivery segment. |
| US11998709B2 |
Sheath stepwise dilation
A sheath assembly includes a first sheath, a second sheath, and an attachment mechanism. The first sheath includes a first sheath inner surface defining a first sheath lumen extending along a first sheath central longitudinal axis between a first sheath first end portion and a first sheath second end portion. The second sheath includes a second sheath inner surface defining a second sheath lumen extending along a second sheath longitudinal axis between a second sheath first end portion and a second sheath second end portion. The attachment mechanism couples the second sheath to the first sheath. The attachment mechanism includes an attachment mechanism step-up dilation. At least a portion of the attachment mechanism is asymmetrical, at the attachment mechanism step-up dilation, about the first sheath central longitudinal axis. |
| US11998707B2 |
Flow control stent
The present disclosure relates generally to the field of medical devices and establishing fluid communication between body lumens. In particular, the present disclosure relates to devices and methods for establishing a controlled flow or access passage between body lumens. For example, a device may include an elongate tubular body defining a lumen along a length thereof. The elongate tubular body may have an unexpanded configuration and an expanded configuration. In the expanded configuration, a proximal portion of the elongate tubular body may expand into a proximal retention member and a distal portion of the elongate tubular body may expand into a distal retention member, leaving a cylindrical saddle region extending therebetween. The cylindrical saddle region may include a constricted portion configured to move between a first diameter configuration and a second diameter configuration larger than the first diameter configuration. |
| US11998706B2 |
Integrated catheter assembly
An integrated catheter assembly includes a housing member, an outer lumen member extending from the housing member, and a needle member having a needle slidably or movably coupled to the housing member, wherein the needle can be extended beyond the outer lumen. Once a flash of blood is confirmed the needle member is uncoupled from the housing member and removed from within the patient's vein or artery. A non-removable inner lumen member is connected to the housing member. The distal end of the outer lumen is sealed against the distal end of the inner lumen and includes at having at least one aperture to transfer blood out of the patient to the dialysis machine. The integrated catheter assembly therefore receives and delivers blood through a single injection site. |
| US11998701B2 |
Apparatus for treating a respiratory disorder in a patient
An apparatus for treating a respiratory disorder in a patient includes a blower configured to generate a supply of pressurized respiratory air to the patient via an air delivery tube leading to a patient interface; a dock with a heater plate; and a reservoir comprising a conductive portion configured to thermally engage the heater plate. |
| US11998700B2 |
Ventilation assembly including respiratory device and mechanical ventilator
A ventilator adaptor for switching between ventilator devices while maintaining respiratory support to a patient is described. The ventilator adaptor has a first movable element with a first inlet and a second inlet, and a second movable element movably attached to the first movable element and with an outlet. The outlet has an inner diameter of 14.5-15.5 mm, preferably 15 mm, and the first inlet and the second inlet have an outer diameter of 14.5-15.5 mm, preferably 15 mm. The outlet is in fluid communication with the first inlet in a first position or with the second inlet in a second position by moving the second movable element relative to the first movable element thereby aligning the outlet with the first inlet or the second inlet. The outlet may be attached to an endotracheal tube in order to form a ventilation assembly. |
| US11998699B2 |
Tracheal tube apparatus and methods
A tracheal tube (e.g., an endotracheal tube) includes an inserting cannula (that may be able to swivel), and wherein the inserting cannula is connected to an elbow adaptor through a Bayonet Neill-Concelman (BNC) connection. The BNC connection may provide more secure connection of the corresponding components and may be able to withstand greater amounts of force exerted on them without becoming detached from each other. The elbow adapter may further be coupled to a pressure release valve that will alleviate pressure buildup within the tracheal tube. |
| US11998696B2 |
Patient interface and components thereof
The present technology relates to one or more of the screening, diagnosis, monitoring, treatment, prevention and amelioration of respiratory-related disorders. The present technology also relates to medical devices or apparatus, and their use. The present technology also relates to components formed from nonwoven composites for use in medical devices or apparatus. |
| US11998694B2 |
Facemask seal
The present disclosure relates to an improved sealing element for a facemask. The sealing element includes three primary faces: a facemask attachment face; a skin contact face; and a third face. The skin contact face is the longest of the three primary faces when the sealing element is viewed in cross-section. The third face extends from a plane defined by an attachment surface of a corresponding facemask. When the sealing element is viewed in cross-section, the third face has a length that is less than 90% of a length of the skin contact face. Moreover, an entirety of the third face is configured to form a portion of the corresponding facemask's chamber when the facemask is worn by a user. |
| US11998691B2 |
Ventilator arrangement and method for controlling a ventilator arrangement
A method for controlling a ventilator arrangement might be suitable for maintaining or achieving a desired end expiratory lung volume, EELV, of a subject when an external manoeuvre is performed on the subject ventilated by the ventilator arrangement. The ventilator arrangement applies a set positive end-expiratory pressure, PEEP, level for performing the ventilation. |
| US11998687B2 |
Micropump for an aerosol delivery device
An aerosol delivery device includes a housing enclosing a reservoir retaining an aerosol precursor composition. A first power-source terminal connects a power source to the aerosol delivery device. A heating element is configured to vaporize components of the aerosol precursor composition. A switch is coupled between the first power-source terminal and the heating element. A micro pump is arranged between the reservoir and the heating element to deliver aerosol precursor composition from the reservoir to the heating element. A driver circuit is coupled between the first power-source terminal and the micro pump, to drive the micro pump. A control component includes processing circuitry configured to switchably control the driver circuit to drive the micro pump, and switchably control the switch to connect the power source to the heating element and thereby power the heating element to vaporize components of the aerosol precursor composition. |
| US11998686B2 |
Contained liquid system for refilling aerosol delivery devices
A contained liquid system for use with a refillable aerosol delivery device is provided. The contained liquid system includes an aerosol delivery device having an adapter therein for receiving aerosol precursor composition within a reservoir of the aerosol delivery device, and a container of aerosol precursor composition having a corresponding adapter therein for transferring aerosol precursor composition from the container. The adapter and the corresponding adapter are removably, sealably connectable for refilling the aerosol delivery device with aerosol precursor composition. The adapter engages a valve of the corresponding adapter and includes a body defining separate and distinct filling airflow ports. The filling port transfers aerosol precursor composition from the container into the aerosol delivery device. The airflow port enables a flow of air through at least the portion of the aerosol delivery device when the adapter and valve are disengaged. |
| US11998685B2 |
Spray device, spray unit and spray cartridge
The invention relates to a spray device having a spray nozzle unit and at least one further spray nozzle unit. Each spray nozzle unit has at least one spray nozzle body, wherein at least one spray nozzle body comprises a chamber for receiving a pressurized fluid. The chamber is bound by a spray wall having at least one spray orifice that extends through the spray wall and opens to an external environment. Each of at least one orifice in a spray wall has a substantially identical predetermined size lying in a predetermined range and releases a mono disperse spray jet of the pressurized fluid fed from the associated reservoir. The range within the first spray nozzle unit differs from the range within at least one further spray nozzle unit; particularly, the ranges do not overlap. |
| US11998682B2 |
Aerosol-generating system including an aerosol-generating article, and an electrically operated aerosol-generating device
The aerosol-generating system includes an aerosol-generating article with an aerosol-forming substrate, the aerosol-generating article having an outlet end and a distal end upstream from the outlet end. The system also includes an electrically operated aerosol-generating device including a housing having a cavity configured to receive the distal end of the aerosol-generating article, an electric heating element, and a heat diffuser including a non-combustible porous body for absorbing heat from the electric heating element such that, in use, air drawn through the aerosol-generating article from the distal end to the outlet end is heated by the heat absorbed in the porous body. |
| US11998679B2 |
Emission device
An emission device includes an emission unit, and a controller. The emission unit emits a useful substance to a space where a target person is present. The controller controls the emission unit based on a circadian rhythm of the target person. The controller determines which one of a sympathetic nerve or a parasympathetic nerve is dominant in an autonomic nerve system of the target person, estimates the circadian rhythm of the target person in the autonomic nerve system from a result of the determination, determines a time to start emitting the useful substance based on the circadian rhythm estimated, and emits the useful substance from the emission unit when the time to start the emitting has come. |
| US11998668B2 |
Workpiece retention mechanism for oral care device
A connection mechanism (18) for connecting a workpiece (12) to a handle assembly (14) of an oral care device (10). A collet (30) has an axially extending beam (32) and a radially extending protrusion (34). The protrusion has a latching surface (44) that prevents disengagement of the workpiece from the handle assembly when in a locked configuration. A cam feature (40) is configured to convert an axial force exerted on the collet into radial deflection of the beam to transition the connection mechanism to an unlocked configuration in which the latching surface is disengaged from the corresponding surface of the workpiece. The beam is configured to return to the default position after the axial force is released due to strain energy in the beam resulting from the radial deflection. |
| US11998667B2 |
Air purification device
A multichannel air purification device comprising a plurality of adjacent air channels in fluid communication with one another having a UV-C light source illuminate at least one air flow chamber, an air input means for allowing air into the channels, an air output means for allowing the air to exit the channels, openings between the channels for allowing air to pass from one channel to another channel, and a fan for drawing air through the device. |
| US11998656B2 |
Hemostatic compositions and methods of making thereof
The present invention is directed to hemostatic compositions comprising at least partially integrated agglomerated ORC fibers, fibrinogen, and thrombin and methods of forming a powdered hemostatic composition, comprising the steps of: forming a suspension of a mixture comprising particles of fibrinogen, thrombin, ORC fibers in a non-aqueous low boiling solvent; spraying the suspension through a nozzle onto a substrate, allowing the non-aqueous solvent to evaporate; separating from the substrate and sieving the composition. |
| US11998653B2 |
Method for treating active bleeding by sequentially applying a biocompatible hemostatic composition and a sealant composition
The present specification describes a biocompatible hemostatic composition and a biocompatible tissue sealant, which when used in combination provides a safe and effective method of achieving hemostasis. The biocompatible composition and sealant may be applied either on a surface of the patient's body, or inside the body cavity. The combination may be used to control bleeding from external wounds and internal injuries, as well as to minimize bleeding during surgical procedures. |
| US11998652B2 |
Fogger disinfectant device
This present invention relates to a portable fogger disinfectant device which is used to disperse a novel disinfecting and sanitizing solution and related propellant to disinfect a room or other enclosed space. The spray material is stored in a pressure-activated cylinder with a nozzle, a sensor and a timer. In one embodiment, the disinfecting and sanitizing solution is comprised of an ethanol, an alkyl comprised of C14, C12, and C16, water as a base for other ingredients, fragrance oils, ethanolamine, a propellant and an ammonium hydroxide. |
| US11998651B2 |
Skin preparation applicator
Fluid applicators with precise volume dispensing control for dispensing fluids such as a disinfectant in a controlled manner. Such fluid applicators may include a barrel including a sidewall having an inside surface defining a chamber for retaining a fluid, an end press, a push rod disposed within the chamber, the push rod having a push button and a piercing tip, a cap attached to a port via a hinge to cover a hydrophobic filter disposed on the sidewall of the chamber, a one-way valve disposed on the outlet on a distal end of the barrel, a disinfectant disposed within the chamber; a housing having a base and an open proximal end; and a fluid applicator sponge disposed in the base of the housing. An alternate fluid may include a deformable end press, a plurality of volume scale markings on an outer surface of the barrel, a push rod, a one-way valve and applicator sponge. |
| US11998650B2 |
Method of limiting the spread of norovirus within a cruise ship
A method of limiting the spread of the norovirus within a cruise ship comprising: identifying a surface within a common area of a cruise ship that passengers are likely to touch; and applying a silane quaternary ammonium ion or salt thereof to the surface. The common area can be an elevator and the surface an elevator button. The common area can be a stairway and the surface a handrail. The common area can be a casino. The common area can be a dining room. The common area can be a walkway and the surface a handrail. The silane quaternary ammonium ion or salt thereof can be 3-(trimethoxysilyl)propyldimethyloctadecyl ammonium ion, 3-(trimethoxysilyl)propyldimethyloctadecyl ammonium chloride, 3-(trihydroxysilyl)propyldimethyloctadecyl ammonium ion, or 3-(trihydroxysilyl)propyldimethyloctadecyl ammonium chloride. Applying the silane quaternary ammonium ion or salt thereof to the surface comprises applying a solution including the silane quaternary ammonium ion or salt thereof and a solvent. |
| US11998649B2 |
Antimicrobial, push button switch assembly for use at a self-service, dispensing or charging station
An antimicrobial, push button switch assembly for use at a self-service, dispensing or charging station is provided. The assembly includes a housing and a selection button supported for bi-directional movement within an opening in the housing. The selection button includes a plastic substrate and a plastic film sheet bonded to the substrate in a molding process. The film sheet has an outer touch surface configured to be pressed by a customer to initiate a dispensing or charging transaction. The film sheet is configured to allow at least one of germicidal light and antimicrobial agents to travel therethrough to the outer touch surface to disinfect the outer touch surface of pathogenic microorganisms. |
| US11998647B2 |
Ultraviolet and misting disinfecting unit
A disinfecting unit and method of operating the same includes a cabinet having a vertical axis, a first lamp coupled to the cabinet directing light in a generally radial direction relative to the vertical axis, a second lamp coupled to the cabinet directing light in at least a partially axial direction relative to the vertical axis and a nebulizer that dispenses disinfecting fluid therethrough. |
| US11998641B2 |
Modified release coated capsules
Herein described is a modified release coated capsule and a process to obtain that capsule. |
| US11998639B2 |
Formulations of (R)-2-amino-3-phenylpropyl carbamate
The present invention relates to immediate release formulations of (R)-2-amino-3-phenylpropyl carbamate and methods of using the same to treat disorders. |
| US11998635B2 |
Targeted extracellular vesicles comprising membrane proteins with engineered glycosylation sites
Disclosed are extracellular vesicles comprising an engineered targeting protein for targeting the extracellular vesicles to target cells. The targeting protein is a fusion protein that includes a ligand, an engineered glycosylation site, and an exosome-targeting domain. Exemplary extracellular vesicles may include but are not limited to exosomes. |
| US11998633B2 |
Topical sol-gel composition for the treatment of dermatitis
One aspect of the present disclosure relates to a sol-gel composition enabling reversible sol-gel transition and, more specifically, to a sol-gel composition of which the viscosity changes by external physical force so that reversible sol-gel transition is performed. |
| US11998631B2 |
Dry shampoo mousse composition for hair
A dry shampoo composition is provided that is highly absorbent and light weight. The water-based composition may be formulated as an aerosol mousse. The aerosol mousse may be formed by combining a propellant and a mousse concentrate, and dispensing the combination from an aerosol dispenser. The dry shampoo mousse concentrate may include at least one sebum-absorbing powder, at least one cleansing surfactant, at least one anti-caking agent, at least one plasticizer, and at least a minimum amount of an aqueous solvent. |
| US11998626B2 |
Alcohol containing non-antimicrobial cleansing composition
A non-antimicrobial cleansing composition is disclosed comprising from about 10.0 wt. % to less than about 40 wt. % of one or more C1-C8 alcohols; about 0.5 wt. % to about 10.0 wt. % of at least one primary surfactant; 0 wt. % to about 10.0 wt. % of at least one secondary surfactant, with the primary and secondary surfactants having an HLB value greater than 8; a pH adjusting agent; and water. The composition does not achieve a microbial kill level greater than 2.0 log. |
| US11998624B2 |
Anhydrous antiperspirant aerosol composition
Anhydrous antiperspirant aerosol compositions comprising antiperspirant active, urea, non-ethanolic carrier oil and volatile propellant, said compositions delivering good perspiration reduction and humectancy, without valve blockage of associated hardware. |
| US11998622B2 |
Dental cement compositions and methods of use
Provided herein are dental compositions and methods for use in dental cementation applications. |
| US11998619B2 |
Compound, antiinflammatory drug comprising the compound and cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitor comprising the compound
A compound is disclosed that can be used as an anti-inflammatory agent, a cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitor, a therapeutic agent for brain diseases, or a MRI contrast medium. The compound can have the structure represented by chemical formula 1. |
| US11998616B2 |
Nanoparticles for crossing the blood brain barrier and methods of treatment using the same
The present application discloses nanoparticles carrying therapeutic agents, including chemotherapeutic agents, and targeting ligands suitable for delivering these therapeutic agents through the blood brain barrier and methods of using these patients on those patients in need of such treatment. |
| US11998615B2 |
Functionalized nanoparticles and their use in treating bacterial infections
Compositions, methods, and kits are provided for treating bacterial infections with nanoparticles comprising a thiol-binding metallic core conjugated to a fluoroquinolone antibiotic. Recalcitrant infections are often difficult to treat because of the presence of persister cells, a subpopulation of bacterial cells that is highly tolerant of traditional antibiotics. Persister cells are dormant, which makes them less susceptible to many antibiotics, which are designed to kill growing cells. Administration of nanoparticles comprising a thiol-binding metallic core conjugated to fluoroquinolone antibiotics was found to be highly efficacious in eradicating persister cells and for treating infections for a broad range of bacterial species, including Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. Such treatment was effective not only in eradicating planktonic bacteria but also bacteria in biofilms. |
| US11998610B2 |
Conjugates and methods of using the same
Disclosed are conjugates including a recognition element covalently bonded to or linked through a linker to a payload. The payload is a pharmaceutical agent (e.g., an antineoplastic agent, anti-infective agent, or anti-inflammatory agent) or a diagnostic agent. Also disclosed are methods of using the conjugates. |
| US11998607B2 |
T cell receptors and immune therapy using the same
The present invention pertains to antigen recognizing constructs against tumor associated antigens (MAGEA1). The invention in particular provides novel T cell receptor (TCR) based molecules which are selective and specific for the tumor expressed antigen of the invention. The TCR of the invention, and TAA binding fragments derived therefrom, are of use for the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of TAA expressing cancerous diseases. Further provided are nucleic acids encoding the antigen recognizing constructs of the invention, vectors comprising these nucleic acids, recombinant cells expressing the antigen recognizing constructs and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds of the invention. |
| US11998601B2 |
Messenger RNA therapy for treatment of articular disease
The present invention provides, among other things, a method of intra-articular delivery of messenger RNA (mRNA), comprising administering into a joint of a subject in need of delivery a composition comprising an mRNA encoding a protein, such that the administering of the composition results in expression of the protein encoded by the mRNA in the joint. |
| US11998600B2 |
Enhancing the therapeutic activity of an immune checkpoint inhibitor
The present invention provides antagonists and methods of use thereof in the treatment of cancer and abnormal immune suppression diseases. |
| US11998599B2 |
Polypeptide-antigen conjugates with non-natural amino acids
Methods for the production of immunogenic compositions containing a non-natural amino acid are disclosed. The non-natural amino acid can be a site for attachment of antigens, such as bacterial capsular polysaccharides, to make immunogenic conjugates. Bio-orthogonal attachment chemistry incorporated into the non-natural amino acids allows for more efficient and potent antigen presentation to the immune system, simplified purification, and more well-defined structure of these semi-synthetic immunogens. |
| US11998596B2 |
Immunogenic compositions and vaccines comprising African swine fever virus peptides and proteins and uses thereof
The present invention relates to African swine fever virus (ASFV) peptides and/or polypeptides as well as immunogenic fragments thereof, corresponding encoding AFSV oligonucleotides and/or polynucleotides as well as immunogenic fragments thereof, immunogenic compositions, vaccines and uses thereof. |
| US11998593B2 |
Combination vaccine devices and methods of killing cancer cells
The present invention comprises compositions, methods, and devices for enhancing an endogenous immune response against a cancer. Devices and methods provide therapeutic immunity to subjects against cancer. |
| US11998592B2 |
Methods of treating acid sphingomyelinase deficiency
The present disclosure provides methods of screening, diagnosing, monitoring and/or treating acid sphingomyelinase (ASM) disorders such as Niemann-Pick disease. In particular, the methods encompass techniques for improved diagnosis and/or treatment of an ASM disorder, for example using enzyme replacement therapy. |
| US11998590B2 |
Use of Mullerian inhibiting substance (MIS) proteins for contraception and ovarian reserve preservation
One aspect of the invention provides a method of contraception by administering to a female subject a composition comprising Mullerian inhibiting substance (MIS). The MIS can be produced endogenously in the subject by a vector, where the vector comprises a polynucletide encoding a recombinant MIS protein. In some embodiments, the contraception is permanent and only requires administration of the composition once. Another aspect of the invention relates to a method of preserving an ovarian reserve, the method comprising administering to a female subject a composition comprising MIS or an inducible vector that comprises a polynucleotide encoding a recombinant MIS protein. |
| US11998587B2 |
Lipoprotein complexes and manufacturing and uses thereof
The present disclosure relates to lipoprotein complexes and lipoprotein populations and their use in the treatment and/or prevention of dyslipidemic diseases, disorders, and/or conditions. The disclosure further relates to recombinant expression of apolipoproteins, purification of apolipoproteins, and production of lipoprotein complexes using thermal cycling-based methods. |
| US11998579B2 |
Immunogenic composition
The present invention discloses a recombinant bacteriophage comprising a phage genome polynucleotide including a gene encoding a heterologous antigen protein(s) and a killing gene encoding a protein that is capable of killing a host bacterium. Such a recombinant bacteriophage is designed to prime a subject's immune response and to kill the bacterium that it infects such that the “prime and kill” bacteriophage provides two lines of protection against infectious disease. |
| US11998577B2 |
Methods for increasing growth of beneficial bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract
Disclosed are nutritional compositions including 2′-fucosyllactose (2′-FL) in combination with lutein and RRR-alpha-tocopherol. The nutritional compositions are useful for improving at least one of gut function, health, and development in an individual. In certain embodiments, the nutritional compositions can improve growth or maturation of the gut, as well as promote a healthy balance of beneficial bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract thereby treating and/or preventing formula intolerance or other gastrointestinal diseases and/or disorders resulting from suboptimal gastrointestinal flora population/balance. |
| US11998576B2 |
Direct-fed microbials
The invention relates to direct-fed microbials for use in E. coli inhibition in animals. More particularly, the invention relates to isolated Bacillus strains 101, 235, 77, 177, and 102 and strains having all of the identifying characteristics of these strains, for a use comprising the above-mentioned use. The invention can also be used for treatment of plants and in food processing. |
| US11998575B2 |
Sanitizer composition with probiotic/prebiotic active ingredient
A topical sanitizing composition for restoring skin's natural balance of bacteria is provided. The topical sanitizing composition includes about 0.02 wt. % to 10.0 wt. % of an active ingredient, at least about 40 wt. % of one or more C1-6 alcohols; and water. The active ingredient comprises one or more of a probiotic, probiotic derivative, and a prebiotic. |
| US11998574B2 |
Method and system for modulating an individual's skin microbiome
Compositions, systems and methods of improving the health of the microbiome of an individual's skin relate to the provision of skin contacting formulations containing beneficial bacteria, postbiotics, metabolites and other microbe components to foster the growth and maintenance of a healthy skin microbiome. One embodiment includes a topical application of Lactobacillus crispatus to ameliorate skin barrier damage and inflammation using unique combinations of probiotics, prebiotics, postbiotics, and other skin-beneficial ingredients, effectively treating inflammatory skin diseases, such as atopic dermatitis, psoriasis and acne, through the production of tryptophan metabolites that act as AHR agonists. |
| US11998572B2 |
Method for treating nociceptive pain and burns with brazilian green propolis alcohol extract
A method for treating or preventing nociceptive pain by administering an ethanol extract of Brazilian green propolis and compositions comprising this extract to a site subject to or at risk of thermal injury or a burn. |
| US11998570B2 |
Mammalian lung spheroids and lung spheroid cells and uses thereof
Using lung tissues as a source, mammalian lung progenitor cells lung spheroids and lung spheroid cells (LSCs) were prepared. In one embodiment mammalian LSCs were prepared by (i) culturing mammalian lung tissue explant cells under adherent culture conditions to form a first lung cell outgrowth culture; (ii) culturing the first lung cell outgrowth culture under low-adherence conditions to form lung spheroids; and (iii) culturing the lung spheroids under adherent culture conditions so as to form LSCs. The low-adherence conditions may be a cell culture or suspension. The lung spheroids or LSCs may be formulated into pharmaceutical compositions. Uses such as treatment of lung diseases or diagnostics are also provided. Lung spheroids and LSCs represents a simple and highly reproducible method to generate therapeutic lung cells. |
| US11998569B2 |
Method of transporting mesenchymal stem cells by means of a transporting solution and a method of administering stem cells to wounds
The present invention relates to a method of transporting a stem cell population, the method comprising transporting the stem cell population contacted with a liquid carrier. In addition, the present invention concerns a method of treating a subject having a disease, the method comprising topically administering a defined mesenchymal stem cell population to the subject, wherein the mesenchymal stem cell population is administered within about 96 hours from the time point the mesenchymal stem cell population has been harvested. Also concerned is a unit dosage comprising about 20 million cells, of about 15 million cells, of about 10 million cells, of about 5 million cells, of about 4 million cells, of about 3 million cells, of about 2 million cells, of about 1 million cells, of about 0.5 million cells, of about 0.25 million cells or of less than 0.25 million cells of a defined mesenchymal stem cell population. |
| US11998568B2 |
Processes for production of tumor infiltrating lymphocytes and uses of same in immunotherapy
The present invention provides improved and/or shortened methods for expanding TILs and producing therapeutic populations of TILs, including novel methods for expanding TIL populations in a closed system that lead to improved efficacy, improved phenotype, and increased metabolic health of the TILs in a shorter time period, while allowing for reduced microbial contamination as well as decreased costs. Such TILs find use in therapeutic treatment regimens. |
| US11998567B2 |
Engineered chimeric guide RNA and uses thereof
The present invention relates to engineered chimeric guide RNAs and their uses in systems and methods for gene expression perturbation in eukaryotic cells. Furthermore, the invention also relates to methods for generating a modified T cell using the engineered chimeric guide RNAs of the present application, and to the obtained modified T cell. Also included are methods and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the modified T cell for adoptive therapy and treating a condition, such as cancer, infections or autoimmune diseases. |
| US11998564B2 |
Stable cardioplegic solution for cardiac surgery
The present invention is a cardioplegic solution that demonstrates better stability in pH, particulate matter formation and osmolality but at the same time demonstrates superior ability to preserve heart functions than currently available cardioplegic solutions. The cardioplegic solution comprises potassium (K+), magnesium (Mg2+), sodium (Na+), chloride (Cl−), gluconate, acetate, sulfate (SO42−), THAM and mannitol dissolved in water. |
| US11998562B2 |
Ophthalmological formulations for the prevention of a coronavirus infection
The present disclosure provides for an ophthalmological composition comprising remdesivir and an ophthalmologically suitable carrier, and the use thereof for treating and preventing a coronavirus infection and treating conjunctivitis. |
| US11998560B2 |
Potentiation of β-lactam antibiotics and β-lactam/β-lactamase inhibitor combinations against multidrug and extensively drug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa using non-ribosomal tobramycin-cyclam conjugates
Herein, we describe the development of non-β-lactam-based potentiator molecules that synergize with β-lactam antibiotics and β-lactam-β-lactamase inhibitor combinations against MDR/XDR P. aeruginosa phenotypes. The compound comprises a chemical structure or chemical formula of Formula (A) or a suitable salt form thereof, wherein “n” is a carbon tether having a length of between about 2-18 carbons. |
| US11998556B2 |
Methods of treating parkinson's disease and/or lewy body disease or disorder(s)
The present disclosure relates to a method of treating Parkinson's Disease and/or Lewy body disease or disorder(s), including Parkinson's disease dementia and dementia with Lewy bodies, comprising administering to a subject ATH-1017. |
| US11998554B2 |
Composition comprising lipoic acid and vitamin D for the prevention and the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases and peripheral neuropathies
The present invention regards a composition comprising lipoic acid, or an acceptable pharmaceutical or food grade salt thereof or a derivative thereof, and a vitamin D, preferably vitamin D3 and/or vitamin D2, for use in a method for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases and/or for the treatment of peripheral neuropathies. |
| US11998553B2 |
Certain (2S)-N-[(1S)-1-cyano-2-phenylethyl]-1,4-oxazepane-2-carboxamides for treating lupus nephritis
The present disclosure relates to methods for treating lupus nephritis with compositions comprising an effective amount of certain (2S)-N-[(1S)-1-cyano-2-phenylethyl]-1,4-oxazepane-2-carboxamide compounds of Formula (I), including pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, that inhibit dipeptidyl peptidase 1 (DPP1) activity. In one embodiment, the compound of Formula (I) is (2S)-N-{(1S)-1-cyano-2-[4-(3-methyl-2-oxo-2,3-dihydro-1,3-benzoxazol-5-yl)phenyl]ethyl}-1,4-oxazepane-2-carboxamide (INS1007). |
| US11998549B2 |
Methods of treating a vascular leakage-associated disease or disorder
The present disclosure relates generally to treatment and diagnosis of diseases, disorders or conditions characterized by vascular leakage. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to methods for treating a vascular leakage-associated disease or disorder in a subject; for reducing vascular leakage in a subject; for reducing reactive oxygen species production in a subject; for inducing apoptosis of neutrophils in a subject; and for increasing survival of a subject having a vascular leakage-associated disease or disorder. The methods comprise administering a G9a and/or G9a-like protein (GLP) methyltransferase inhibitor to the subject. The present disclosure further relates to methods for developing a treatment plan for a subject with a vascular leakage-associated disease, disorder or condition, and for identifying a subject as a candidate for treatment of a vascular leakage-associated disease or disorder. The present disclosure relates to use of G9a and/or G9a-like protein (GLP) methyltransferase inhibitor in the treatment of vascular leakage-associated disease, disorder or condition. |
| US11998546B2 |
Pharmaceutical combinations comprising a histone deacetylase inhibitor and epothilone and methods of use thereof
The present disclosure relates to a pharmaceutical combination comprising (a) a histone deacetylase 6 inhibitor and (b) an epothilone, including combined preparations and pharmaceutical compositions thereof; uses of such combination in the treatment or prevention of cancer; and methods of treating or preventing cancer in a subject comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of such combination. |
| US11998545B2 |
Substituted pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyridine compounds as RET kinase inhibitors
Provided herein are compounds of the Formula I: and stereoisomers and pharmaceutically acceptable salts or solvates thereof, in which A, B, X1, X2, X3, X4, Ring D, and E have the meanings given in the specification, which are inhibitors of RET kinase and are useful in the treatment and prevention of diseases which can be treated with a RET kinase inhibitor, including RET-associated diseases and disorders. |
| US11998542B2 |
Compositions and methods for reducing major adverse cardiovascular events
The present application relates to compositions, kits, uses, systems and methods of using naltrexone and bupropion, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, for reducing the risk of adverse cardiovascular outcomes or events, including Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events (MACE) in subjects, preferably those at increased risk of adverse cardiovascular outcomes or MACE, that may be overweight or obese. The present application also relates to compositions, kits, uses, systems and methods of using naltrexone and bupropion or pharmaceutically acceptable alts thereof for treatment of overweight or obesity in subjects, preferably at increased risk of adverse cardiovasular outcomes or MACE, wherein the treatment reduce, the risk of MACE. |
| US11998536B2 |
Decreasing expression level of proteasome subunit genes by treating a human subject with a nitroxide
Some embodiments disclosed herein include a method for decreasing gene expression of a gene. The methods can include identifying a human subject over the age of 35 and having an increase expression level of a gene associated with proteasome activity; and administering to the human subject an effective amount of a nitroxide antioxidant, whereby expression level of the gene is decreased. |
| US11998534B2 |
GPX4 inhibitor in combination with anticancer agent for treating proliferative disease
Provided herein is a method of treating, preventing, or ameliorating one or more symptoms of a GPX4-mediated disorder, disease, or condition in a subject with a GPX4 inhibitor and an anticancer agent. Also provided herein are methods of inducing ferroptosis in a cell or inhibiting the growth of a cell with a GPX4 inhibitor and an anticancer agent. |
| US11998532B1 |
Substituted 1,3,4-oxadiazole derivatives as anti-tubercular agents
Compounds for treating tuberculosis and, particularly, anti-tubercular compounds that are substituted 1,3,4-oxadiazole derivatives and their use as anti-tubercular agents are provided. |
| US11998522B2 |
Penetrating topical pain relief compositions and methods of use
Topical pain relief compositions include a cannabinoid, terpenoid, and skin penetration system that includes dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) and at least one compatibilizer. The composition may be in the form of an emulsion that contains water and at least one fatty component. The composition can be used to reduce or eliminate pain by direct topical application to an affected part or region of the body. A method of treating pain may include direct topical application of the composition to a joint, ligament, muscle, tendon, or disk. The composition penetrates through the skin to provide localized pain relief where applied and provides a quantity of cannabinoid in the region of the pain instead of distributing the cannabinoid systemically and/or to the brain or central nervous system. The composition may be applied by rubbing or massaging at the treatment site and/or by a bandage, patch or other barrier layer. |
| US11998521B2 |
Use of an RXR agonist in treating drug resistant HER2+ cancers
The present specification provides combinations of active agents for the improved treatment of Her2+ cancers and associated methods of treatments. The combinations comprise an RXR agonist and a Her2-targeted therapeutic agent and may optionally further comprise thyroid hormone. |
| US11998520B2 |
Methods for decreasing injuries associated with intraoperative hypotension
The present disclosures provides methods for decreasing injuries associated with intraoperative hypotension by intravenously administering to a subject a therapeutically effective amount of a fat emulsion, following a period of intraoperative hypotension and after the subject's mean arterial blood pressure has recovered. The disclosure also provides methods for preventing injuries associated with intraoperative hypotension, particularly for surgical candidates that have an increased risk for intraoperative hypotension. Non-limiting examples of injuries contemplated herein include myocardial injury, myocardial infarction, and acute kidney injury. |
| US11998517B2 |
Antimicrobial composition
The invention relates to a composition having antimicrobial and hygroscopic properties and the composition comprises a carboxylic acid compound as well as at least one C3-C6 diol and at least one C8-C12 diol. The composition of the invention may be used for cleansing, disinfection, surface treatment, impregnation and for antimicrobial treatment. The composition is particularly useful for treatment of fungal infections of the nail (onychomycosis). |
| US11998516B2 |
Methods and compositions for treating depression using cyclobenzaprine
The present invention relates to methods for the treatment or prevention of depression, and related pharmaceutical compositions. Of particular interest are pharmaceutical compositions comprising cyclobenzaprine, alone, or in combination with an antidepressant drug. |
| US11998515B1 |
Enhancement of curcumin plasma levels using eucalyptol co-administration
Compositions and methods for co-administering curcumin and eucalyptol to a subject. Through the combined administration with eucalyptol, the plasma levels of curcumin will increase over the current baseline, thereby increasing the medicinal activity of the polyphenol and contributing to the reduction of an effective dose thereof, thereby also decreasing the incidence of side effects. |
| US11998514B2 |
Cannabidiol and active delivery systems
A cannabidiol (CBD) gelled delivery system comprising: a rheology modifier; an emollient; and one or more cannabidiols selected from the group consisting of a cannabidiol broad spectrum oil, a cannabidiol full spectrum oil, or a cannabidiol isolate. A CBD emulsified delivery system comprising: a rheology modifier; an emollient; a polyglyceryl ester surfactant; and one or more cannabidiols selected from the group consisting of a cannabidiol broad spectrum oil, a cannabidiol full spectrum oil, or a cannabidiol isolate. For such delivery systems, the cannabidiols contain less than 0.3 wt. % of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) or the cannabidiols are substantially free of THC. An active gelled delivery system a rheology modifier; an emollient; and one or more actives. An active emulsified delivery system comprising: a rheology modifier; an emollient; a polyglyceryl ester surfactant; and one or more actives. |
| US11998513B2 |
Two-part nitric oxide generating topical compositions
A two-part topical composition includes a first composition including a S-nitrosothiol nitric oxide donor and a carrier, and a second composition including zinc oxide. The second composition is to be mixed with the first composition. The zinc oxide reacts with the S-nitrosothiol nitric oxide donor at a temperature ranging from about 20° C. to about 40° C. to enhance a rate of release of nitric oxide from a mixture of the first composition and the second composition. |
| US11998512B1 |
Medicine cup apparatus with ring attachment
A medicine cup apparatus that includes a cup having a side wall, bottom panel, open top, and an interior for holding a selected medicine. A ring is affixed to the cup that can fit around a user's finger, allowing the user to more easily hold the medicine cup and administer medicine orally. The ring is affixed to the cup bottom panel permanently or removably. |
| US11998508B2 |
Massager controlling apparatus and method thereof
A massager controlling apparatus and a method thereof are provided. The massager controlling apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a setting part configured to set a massage mode and a control part configured to control a moving speed of a driving module performing massage to adjust at least one of an operation time of a corresponding massage pattern and massage strength according to the massage mode set by the setting part and a body shape of a user. |
| US11998507B2 |
Method and device for relieving back, pelvic, and/or sacral pain during contractions, labor, and childbirth
A method and device are provided for relieving back, pelvic, and/or sacral pain during labor, contractions, and/or childbirth, the device and method applying pressure to the pelvic and/or lower back areas of a pregnant woman to relieve the pain caused by contractions, labor, and/or childbirth, and the device can be used by the pregnant woman or a healthcare provider. |
| US11998506B2 |
Sliding type massage apparatus
Disclosed is a sliding type massage apparatus. In more detail, the sliding type massage apparatus is configured so that an auxiliary portion supporting a lower body of a user slidably moves from a body portion supporting an upper body of the user and thus the auxiliary portion maintains horizontality while moving. To this end, there is provided a sliding type massage apparatus including a body portion configured to support an upper body of a user and an auxiliary portion connected to the body portion to be slidable in a longitudinal direction to support a lower body of the user. Here, the body portion includes first support members which are rotatable to support a bottom surface of the auxiliary portion when the auxiliary portion slides. |
| US11998502B2 |
Stimulation devices and methods of use
Stimulation devices and methods of use are described herein. An example stimulation device configured to stimulate a portion of a body of a user comprises a housing that includes a casing and a covering. The casing includes a nozzle, a motor disposed within the casing configured to generate stimulation patterns, a drive shaft connected to the motor, a sensor configured to detect changes in the rotation of the draft shaft, a controller, and a battery. The covering covers a portion of the casing. |
| US11998501B2 |
Systems for promoting sexual well-being in males
Systems for promoting sexual well-being in males and for treating erectile dysfunction using acoustic energy. |
| US11998498B2 |
Remote control for sickbed
A remote control for a sickbed contains: a body, a calling assembly, an operational panel, and a switch. The body includes a power supply set, a microcontroller, a calling knob, and a wireless communication module. The operational panel includes multiple buttons so that when pressing any one of the multiple buttons, the microcontroller starts the transmission mechanism to actuate the sickbed to lift or descend. The switch is arranged on the body and moves close to or away from the calling knob. When the switch is pushed to abut against the calling knob, the calling knob is maintained on a locking position and does not generate a calling signal. When the switch is pushed to move away from the calling knob, the calling knob is maintained on a starting position and is pressed to conduct the power and to send the calling signal. |
| US11998497B2 |
Device for supporting a body part
A method of supporting a body part (16), comprising providing a device (100) comprising: a first portion (105) configured to support a body part, wherein, in use, the body part applies a first pressure to the first portion in a first direction; means for detecting the first pressure; and a second portion (115) having means (212) for applying a second pressure to the body part in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction; detecting the first pressure; determining the second pressure based on a user parameter; and applying the second pressure to the body part in the second direction at a pre-determined ratio relative to the first pressure using said means for applying the second pressure. |
| US11998493B2 |
Motor vehicle for a person with reduced mobility, which is easier to get into/out of
The invention relates to a motor vehicle (1) comprising a chassis frame (2), a platform (5) and at least one folding side (6) movable between a raised position and a lowered position. The platform (5) comprises a stationary portion (50) and at least one lateral movable portion (51) vertically movable between a high position, in which it is flush with the stationary portion (50), and a low position, in which it has been lowered, there being provided means (7) for controlling the vertical movement of the at least one movable portion (51). The or each folding side (6) is connected to a respective movable portion (51) in such a way that they are vertically movable in one piece while the folding side (6) is in the lowered position. |
| US11998490B2 |
Arm support apparatus
An apparatus for supporting an arm of a human patient during a medical procedure can include a base, an arm pad, and barriers for shielding scatter radiation. A medial portion of the base can lie between the human patient and a table on which the human patient is supported. The arm pad can be positioned on a lateral portion of the base. A first barrier can be mounted to the base and can be positioned laterally intermediate the medial and lateral portions, the first barrier extending upwardly from the base to above the arm pad. A second barrier can be mounted to the lateral portion of the base and extend downwardly. The arm pad can include a radiopaque panel that is horizontal. |
| US11998489B2 |
Goggle systems and methods
Goggles and eyewear with various features may be described herein. Such goggles and eyewear may include lenses that allow for the installation of larger roll-off films, adjustable nose sections to increase comfort of a wearer, sweat management systems that include a permeable gasket and a gutter, lens attachment systems, and co-molded frames of multiple different materials. |
| US11998487B2 |
Opthalmological imaging and laser delivery device, system and methods
An ophthalmological device and system is described that allows the simultaneous imaging of an eye using both scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (SLO) and optical coherence tomography (OCT). Further the device and system is capable of targeting and delivering a femtosecond treatment laser for treatment of an eye condition. The system further includes a machine learning algorithm to provide a suggested treatment procedure. |
| US11998486B2 |
Apparatus for patterned plasma-mediated laser ophthalmic surgery
A system for ophthalmic surgery on an eye includes: a pulsed laser which produces a treatment beam; an OCT imaging assembly capable of creating a continuous depth profile of the eye; an optical scanning system configured to position a focal zone of the treatment beam to a targeted location in three dimensions in one or more floaters in the posterior pole. The system also includes one or more controllers programmed to automatically scan tissues of the patient's eye with the imaging assembly; identify one or more boundaries of the one or more floaters based at least in part on the image data; iii. identify one or more treatment regions based upon the boundaries; and operate the optical scanning system with the pulsed laser to produce a treatment beam directed in a pattern based on the one or more treatment regions. |
| US11998485B2 |
Ophthalmic surgical apparatus
An ophthalmic surgical apparatus includes: a support provided with an electrical path, and a probe including a conductive material, the probe including a first section coupled to the support and a second section formed integrally with and connected to the first section, the entire surface of the second section being exposed to the outside of the support. |
| US11998484B2 |
Dynamic support for ophthalmic device
A small gauge surgical instrument is shown with advantages such as diminished “play” at the tip. A surgical instrument assembly is also shown with support along a length of the instrument that can be selected by the surgeon. Devices and method described provide adjustability of the instrument without protruding into a gripping surface of the instrument. |
| US11998483B2 |
Adjustable stiffener for surgical instruments
The present disclosure generally relates to microsurgical instruments having variable stiffness such as microsurgical instruments having variable stiffness for ophthalmic surgical procedures. In one embodiment, a surgical instrument includes a probe and a stiffener assembly. The stiffener assembly further includes a stiffener formed of a hollow tubular member substantially surrounding at least a portion of a length of the probe. Actuation of the stiffener along the length of the probe adjusts the stiffness of the probe, thus providing a user better control of the surgical instrument. |
| US11998481B2 |
Methods and compositions for iontophoretic drug delivery to the eye
In one aspect, the disclosure relates to drug delivery devices for the ionophoretic delivery of a therapeutic agent(s) to the eye. In some aspects, the disclosed ionophoretic ocular delivery device is configured for delivery of a therapeutic agent to the anterior portion of the eye. In various aspects, the present disclosure provides methods for treatment of an ophthalmological disorder, disease, or clinical condition by delivering a therapeutic agent(s) to the eye using a disclosed ionophoretic ocular delivery device. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present disclosure. |
| US11998480B2 |
Self-heating compress for moist heat delivery
A system for delivering thermal therapy to a treated body portion of a subject. The system preferably includes a therapy compress having at least one pocket or retainer, and at least one self-heating element configured for removable insertion within the at least one pocket of the therapy compress. In some example embodiments the therapy compress is in the form of an eye mask having first and second eye-covering lobes, each eye-covering lobe having a pocket for receiving a self-heating element. In some example embodiments the at least one self-heating element is air or oxygen activated, for example including a zinc-based self-heating material. |
| US11998479B2 |
Method and system for addressing adverse effects on the oral microbiome and restoring gingival health caused by sodium lauryl sulphate exposure
A method and system to address the adverse effects on an individual's oral microbiome with the objective of restoring gingival health caused by exposure to sodium lauryl sulfate. Certain embodiments of the present invention facilitate the growth of desired bacteria in a human's mouth to reduce the likelihood of dental caries, halitosis, canker sores, and other oral diseases. Probiotic bacterial, bioactive flavonoid, xylitol and zinc compound compositions, provide effective prevention and treatment options, especially while precluding the use of sodium lauryl sulfate so as to reduce adverse consequences it has on gingival health. |
| US11998477B2 |
Oral appliance device
An oral appliance device for use within a human mouth, the human mouth including a tongue, includes an appliance member and a first tongue positioner. The appliance member selectively engages teeth within the human mouth. The first tongue positioner is configured to adjust positioning of the tongue, the first tongue positioner being removably secured to the appliance member. The oral appliance device can further include a second tongue positioner that is configured to adjust positioning of the tongue, the second tongue positioner being alternatively, removably secured to the appliance member. Additionally, the first tongue positioner can have a first size, and the second tongue positioner can have a second size that is different than the first size. |
| US11998470B2 |
Removable oral devices for use in weight management and other applications
Certain configurations of removable oral devices are described. In some instances, the removable oral device includes a palatal element. In certain configurations, the palatal element may comprise a variable hardness at different areas, e.g., edges can be softer than other areas of the removable oral device. In other instances, the removable oral device may comprise two or more individual palatal elements which together can form the palatal element and permit user adjustment of the oral volume. Various materials used in the palatal element are described. Sensors and other on-board devices are also described. |
| US11998463B2 |
Endoluminal device
The present invention relates to an endoluminal device for implantation in a body lumen, such as a pancreatic duct. The device is provided with a distal end region having greater flexibility than that of a medial region of the device. |
| US11998460B2 |
Systems and methods for approximating musculoskeletal dynamics
A system and method for controlling a device, such as a virtual reality (VR) and/or a prosthetic limb are provided. A biomimetic controller of the system comprises a signal processor and a musculoskeletal model. The signal processor processes M biological signals received from a residual limb to transform the M biological signals into N activation signals, where M and N are integers and M is less than N. The musculoskeletal model transforms the N activation signals into intended motion signals. A prosthesis controller transforms the intended motion signals into three or more control signals that are outputted from an output port of the prosthesis controller. A controlled device receives the control signals and performs one or more tasks in accordance with the control signals. |
| US11998459B2 |
Gait assistance apparatus and operating method thereof
A gait assistance apparatus including at least one sensor configured to sense a step motion of a user, and an operator configured to determine assistance forces of a right step and a left step of the user based on step motion information of the user and adjust the assistance force for at least one of the right step or the left step of the user based on a result of proportionally adding together the assistance forces of the right step and the left step based on a variable ratio may be provided. |
| US11998448B2 |
Intravascular introducer devices
Disclosed embodiments of introducer devices provide hemostatic sealing and allow a delivery catheter to be inserted through the introducer seals without the use of a separate loader device that covers a medical device that is mounted on the catheter. Some disclosed introducers comprise a housing, a distal sheath extending distally from the housing and adapted to be inserted into a patient's vasculature, a distal hemostatic seal mounted within the housing and a proximal hemostatic seal mounted within the housing, and a slidable tube positioned within the housing that is movable longitudinally relative to the distal hemostatic seal between a proximal position and a distal position, wherein in the proximal position a distal end of the tube is positioned proximal to the distal hemostatic seal with the distal hemostatic seal closed, and wherein in the distal position the distal end of the tube extends through the distal hemostatic seal. |
| US11998445B2 |
Viscoelastic soft tip plunger
Systems, methods, and devices for inserting an intraocular lens (IOL) assembly into an eye may be provided. An apparatus for delivery of a lens component into an eye may include a housing. The apparatus may further include a plunger at least partially disposed in the housing, wherein the housing comprises an elongated portion and a viscoelastic soft tip at a distal end of the elongated portion, wherein the viscoelastic soft tip has a storage modulus of about 1 megapascal (MPa) to about 300 MPa and a loss module of about 1 MPa to about 300 MPa. The apparatus may further include a drive mechanism operatively coupled to plunger and configured to cause the plunger to translate in the housing. The apparatus may further include a nozzle operatively coupled to the housing through which the plunger delivers the lens component into the eye. |
| US11998443B2 |
Method for stimulating retinal cells and treating vision loss
Protein-based subretinal implants offer a new approach to restoring vision for patients blinded by conditions such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and retinitis pigmentosa (RP). The present invention relates to bacteriorhodopsin-based (BR-based) retinal implants that can be implanted in a subretinal position to replace degenerated photoreceptor cells. |
| US11998439B2 |
Biodegradable vascular grafts
A method of fabricating a vascular graft that includes preparing a biodegradable polyester electrospun tubular core; applying an adhesive composition comprising poly(lactide) copolymer to an outer surface of the biodegradable polyester electrospun tubular core; and surrounding the adhesive-applied biodegradable polyester electrospun tubular core with a polyester sheath. |
| US11998437B2 |
Methods for lengthening tubular organs
Described herein are methods for lengthening tubular organs using expandable implants. The expandable implants may be secured along a length of a tubular organ by forming a plication at each end of the implant. Securing the expandable implants in this manner may be used to treat short bowel syndrome. Methods for selecting and implanting an expandable implant suitable for lengthening a tubular organ according to predetermined patient parameters are further described herein. |
| US11998436B2 |
System for treating embolism and associated devices and methods
Systems and methods for the intravascular treatment of clot material within a blood vessel of a human patient are disclosed herein. A method in accordance with embodiments of the present technology can include, for example, positioning a distal portion of a catheter proximate to the clot material within the blood vessel. The method can further include coupling a pressure source to the catheter via a tubing subsystem including a valve or other fluid control device and, while the valve is closed, activating the pressure source to charge a vacuum. The valve can then be opened to apply the vacuum to the catheter to thereby aspirate at least a portion of the clot material from the blood vessel and into the catheter. |
| US11998434B2 |
Absorbent core cover for super-absorbing absorbent cores of sanitary products
The present invention relates to an absorbent core for sanitary products with an absorption matrix which comprises a high proportion of super-absorbing particles, and an absorbent core cover for enveloping the absorption matrix, wherein the absorbent core cover comprises at least one upper side sheet and one bottom side sheet, and the absorbent core cover comprises at least one connection region spaced apart from the edge of the absorbent core in which the upper side sheet and the bottom side sheet are connected to each other. Here, at least the upper side sheet of the absorbent core cover is embodied as a fleece composite with a fixing layer with a low permeability to retain the particles in the absorption matrix, and a transfer layer for acquiring fluid. Moreover, the invention relates to a sanitary product having such an absorbent core, the use of a fleece composite as an absorbent core cover, and a method for manufacturing a fleece composite for the upper side sheet of the absorbent core cover. |
| US11998432B2 |
Method of manufacturing a foam and fiber composite
The foam and fiber composite can provide an absorbent article with improved dryness and an improved liquid distribution capability. The foam and fiber composite can be formed from at least two materials. The first material is an open cell foam material and the second material is a fibrous material. A plurality of the fibers forming the fibrous material can be fluid inserted into the open cell foam material thereby forming the foam and fiber composite. In various embodiments, the foam and fiber composite can be incorporated into an absorbent article as a component of an absorbent system located between a topsheet layer and a backsheet layer of the absorbent article. |
| US11998431B2 |
Patterned apertured webs
A patterned apertured web is disclosed. The patterned apertured web includes a plurality of land areas in the patterned apertured web and a plurality of apertures defined in the patterned apertured web. At least some land areas of the plurality of land areas surround at least some apertures of the plurality of apertures. The patterned apertured web has an Effective Open Area in the range of about 3% to about 30%, according to the Aperture Test herein. The patterned apertured web has a plurality of Interaperture Distances, according to the Aperture Test herein. The Interaperture Distances have a distribution having a median and a mean. |
| US11998430B2 |
Incorporation of apertured area into an absorbent article
An absorbent article having improved handling of body exudates. The absorbent article can minimize the amount of body exudates in contact with a wearer's skin and can minimize the incidence of leakage of body exudates from the absorbent article. The benefits of the absorbent article are achieved, in part, by a body facing material having features that help minimize contact of body exudates with the wearer's skin while also being constructed so that the body facing material does not stick to the wearer's skin in use. The body facing material includes a plurality of hollow projections, a plurality of apertures and bonded areas. The bonded areas may be formed with adhesive or by mechanical bonds. |
| US11998429B1 |
Reusable menstrual pad
Apparatuses of reusable menstrual pad and methods for manufacturing the same are provided. In one embodiment, a menstrual pad includes an interior layer includes an excretion area, where the excretion area includes an opening configured to drain menstrual fluid of a user away from the interior layer; a middle layer configured to house a menstrual fluid collection unit, where the menstrual fluid collection unit is configured to sanitize the menstrual fluid drained from the interior layer and to store the sanitized menstrual fluid to one or more menstrual napkins in the middle layer; an exterior layer configured to conceal and prevent leakage from the middle layer of the menstrual pad; and a support frame configured to hold the interior layer, the middle layer and the exterior layer of the menstrual pad together. |
| US11998421B2 |
Orthodontic modeling filler material and method
An improved dough-like filler material for use in dental and orthodontic modelling and the manufacturing methods that may be used to produce such improved dough-like filler material. |
| US11998415B2 |
System and method of forming a custom bleaching tray with trench and material reservoirs
A custom bleaching tray or device with trench and material pocket/reservoir is disclosed. The device comprises a trench to avoid leakage of bleaching material onto the gingiva and a reservoir to precisely hold the bleaching material on the surface of the tooth. A method for forming a 3D-printed custom bleaching tray may include: providing or accessing teeth scan data associated with a patent's mouth; generating a digital model of the patient's mouth based on the teeth scan data, including manipulating the teeth scan data to form: a trench between one or more teeth and a gingiva region of the teeth scan data, and a bleaching material reservoir on a surface of each of the one or more teeth of the teeth scan data; and 3D-printing, based on the digital model, a 3D-printed bleaching tray. A thermoforming process may be applied to the 3D-printed bleaching tray. |
| US11998414B2 |
Dental treatment appliance
A dental cleaning appliance includes a handle, a fluid reservoir for storing a working fluid, and a fluid delivery system. A motorised drive unit drives movement of a bristle carrier relative to the handle. At least part of an inlet conduit of the fluid delivery system lies adjacent to the external surface of the motor, and at least part of an outlet conduit of the fluid delivery system extends through the motor. |
| US11998412B2 |
Brush head assembly and electric toothbrush
Provided are a brush head assembly and an electric toothbrush. The brush head assembly comprises a brush head body, a linking component and a locking cylinder; wherein a component assembly cavity is arranged at the tail end of the brush head body, the linking component is installed in the component assembly cavity, and a deformable locking cylinder including a fulcrum force-receiving part and a force applying part with elastic forces at both ends is embedded; the locking cylinder makes most of the strokes of the drive shaft in the insertion process smooth and convenient, only until the two force applying parts are both in contact with the drive shaft, will force be generated to lock the drive shaft, and the locking effect achieved by this elastic force can be maintained for a long time. Thus ensuring the capabilities of torque transmission and axial retention. |
| US11998407B2 |
Methods of producing removable oral devices
Certain configurations of methods which can be used to produce removable oral devices are described. In some instances, the removable oral devices can be produced using molding, digital scanning, on demand printing and/or other processes. In certain examples, the produced removable oral device can be used in weight management, athletic performance or in other applications. |
| US11998402B2 |
Methods and apparatuses for positioning a camera of a surgical robotic system to capture images inside a body cavity of a patient during a medical procedure
Methods and apparatuses for positioning a camera of a surgical robotic system to capture images inside a body cavity of a patient during a medical procedure are disclosed. In some embodiments, the method involves receiving location information at a controller of a surgical robotic system performing the medical procedure, the location information defining a location of at least one tool with respect to a body cavity frame of reference, and in response to receiving an align command signal at the controller, causing the controller to produce positioning signals operable to cause the camera to be positioned within the body cavity frame of reference to capture images of the at least one tool for display to an operator of the surgical robotic system. |
| US11998399B2 |
Systems and methods for detection and illumination of regions of interest
An illumination system for a lighting assembly comprises a light assembly configured to selectively illuminate an operating region in a surgical suite and a plurality of light sources positioned within the light assembly and configured to emit light. The system further comprises at least one imager configured to capture image data and a controller. The controller is configured to scan the image data in at least one region of interest for a shaded region and identify a location of the shaded region within the region of interest. The controller is further configured to control the light assembly to activate at least one of the light sources to emit light impinging on the shaded region within the region of interest. |
| US11998397B2 |
Thermal conductive layer for transducer face temperature reduction
A method and apparatus are disclosed herein for a thermally conductive layer for transducer face temperature reduction in an ultrasound transducer assembly. In one embodiment, the ultrasound transducer assembly comprises: a transducer layer configured to emit ultrasound energy; one or more matching layers overlaying the transducer layer; a thermally conductive layer overlaying the one or more matching layers; and a lens overlaying the thermally conductive layer. |
| US11998393B2 |
System and method of signal processing for ultrasound arrays with mechanically adjustable transducer shapes
A deployable ultrasound imaging device is operably connected to an ultrasound imaging system including a processing unit configured to operate the transducer and the individual segments in order to emit ultrasound signals from the segments and to receive ultrasound signals from the structures surrounding the segments. The ultrasound imaging system/processing unit can process the transmitted and received signals by beamforming to direct the ultrasound signals emitted from the segments in order to provide data for an ultrasound image of the desired structure(s). The ultrasound imaging system/processing unit mechanically or acoustically determines the position of the individual segments with regard to one another to determine the angular position of the segments with regard to one another. Using the angular position, the ultrasound imaging system/processing unit can apply a beamforming correction to the ultrasound signals emitted from and/or received by the segments in order to produce an accurate ultrasound image. |
| US11998388B2 |
Imaging probe with rotatable core
The present disclosure provides for an imaging probe with a rotatable core which allows for rotating imaging assembly that is larger in diameter than the lumen in which the rotatable core resides, as well as methods to construct said probes. The imaging probes are generally elongate flexible imaging catheters for use in cardiovascular procedures. The ability to have a smaller lumen to hold the rotatable core simplifies the inclusion of other functional components to the catheter and may improve the quality of the images produced. |
| US11998384B2 |
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for conveying implements through a narrow passage in a body
Disclosed embodiments include apparatuses, systems, and methods for conveying implements through a narrow passage in a body. In an illustrative embodiment, an insertion tube defines therein lumens and is configured to slide through an orifice and into a passageway to a target tissue. A first probe is connectable to a power source, is slidably receivable through one of the lumens, and has a distal end insertable into the target tissue. An imaging probe is connectable to an imaging device configured to collect imaging data at a distal end, is slidable through one of the lumens not receiving the first probe, and is positionable to collect imaging data at a distal end of the insertion tube. A second probe is connectable to the power source, is slidably receivable through one of the lumens not receiving the first probe, and has a distal end insertable into the target tissue. |
| US11998373B2 |
Line scanner imaging device, system, and methods
An imaging system is disclosed to include an elongate member supported by a plurality of wheels, where the elongate member is extendable in a horizontal axis such that a distance between two of the plurality of wheels is increased when the elongate member is extended in the horizontal axis; a trolley slidably secured to the elongate member, where the trolley includes a base portion and an upper portion. The base portion moves in the horizontal axis along the elongate member and the upper portion is rotatably mounted to the base portion, where the upper portion is configured to rotate at least 90 degrees relative to the base portion and elongate member. |
| US11998371B2 |
Breast compression and imaging systems and methods
A compression paddle with a plurality of markers is advanced towards a patient's breast which has been positioned on a support platform for an imaging procedure. An initial position of the compression paddle is detected relative to the support platform when a portion of the breast is contacted. An initial marker is identified which is associated with a feature of the breast when the compression paddle is in the initial position. A compression target marker is based at least in part on the initial position and the initial marker. |
| US11998366B2 |
Generating a breathing alert
For generating a breathing alert is disclosed, a method receives a video stream of a subject. The method further estimates a breathing signal from the video stream. The method determines one of a large-scale motion and/or a breathing event of the subject based on the breathing signal. The method generates an alert if both no breathing event is identified and no large-scale motion of the subject is identified within an event time interval. |
| US11998365B2 |
System and method for diagnostic analysis of human body systems, organs, and cells
A system and method for providing diagnostic analysis of a physical condition of a human body. A signal generator, an emitter, a receiver, and processor(s) generate a baseline signal. In some implementations, the emitter may emit the baseline signal through cells of the human body over scanning points for a predetermined amount of time, and a receiver detects reflected signals that have propagated through the cells of the human body. Some implementations include determining, by the one or more processors, a power spectrum density (PSD) of the reflected baseline signal and a spectral variance in the PSD of the reflected baseline signal relative to the baseline signal. Some implementations may compare the spectral variance to one or more predetermined spectral variances corresponding to one or more conditions of the human body and determine the condition of the human body, based on the comparison. |
| US11998351B2 |
Testing for neurovascular uncoupling in multiple sclerosis using sequential gas delivery versus fixed inspired CO2
An apparatus and method for assessing vascular compliance in subjects with multiple sclerosis using sequential gas delivery is provided. The apparatus includes a gas delivery device and a processor. The processor controls the gas delivery device to deliver a first and second gas during a single inspiration. The first gas contains a mixture of oxygen and carbon dioxide necessary to target an end-tidal concentration of the two gases. The second gas includes a concentration of carbon dioxide equal to the target end-tidal concentration of carbon dioxide. |
| US11998347B2 |
Sleep apnea detection system and method
A method and system for detecting sleep apnea involves determining the sleep stage, and detecting an apnea event based on a physiological sensor signal using selection of a detection algorithm which is dependent on the determined sleep stage. By taking account of the sleep stage when performing an automated apnea detection process, the accuracy of the apnea detection is improved. |
| US11998346B2 |
Electronic device and method for determining sleep-related information
An electronic device according to various embodiments comprises: a bio-signal detection sensor configured to acquire first and second biometric information on an object outside the electronic device; and a processor, wherein the processor can be configured to: acquire the first and second biometric information by using the bio-signal detection sensor; configure a first variance, in which the first biometric information is changed, and a second variance, in which the second biometric information is changed; determining a state of the object related to the sleep on the basis of at least a part of the first variance and the second variance; and estimate a sleep latency related to the object on the basis of at least a part of the state. |
| US11998345B2 |
Sensing device and method for processing sensing data
The present disclosure relates to a sensing device and a method for processing sensing data. |
| US11998343B2 |
Annotation of slow electrophysiological (EP) cardiac paths related to ventricular tachycardia (VT)
A method for evaluation of electrical propagation in the heart includes receiving a pacing signal applied to a heart of a patient, the pacing signal including a sequence of normal and shorter, abnormal, pacing stimuli. A responsive cardiac signal is received, that is sensed by electrodes at a location in the heart and on the body surface of the patient. A model response is found and annotated from evoked potentials caused by the normal pacing stimuli. A correlation is made between the model response along the different signal sections to find and calculate a normal and decremental time delays between the pacing stimuli and respectively resulting evoked potentials at a tissue location. A time difference is calculated, between the normal time delay and the decremental time delay. An EP map of at least a portion of the heart is presented to a user, with a graphical indication of the time difference presented at the tissue location. |
| US11998341B2 |
Apparatus, method, and computer-readable recording medium for measuring size of electrocardiography signal using electrocardiography signal using Hilbert transform
An apparatus for measuring the size of an electrocardiography signal using a Hilbert transform, according to one embodiment of the present invention, may comprise: a receiving unit for receiving a measured electrocardiography signal; a transform unit for Hilbert-transforming the received electrocardiography signal; and a measurement unit for obtaining the size of the electrocardiography signal on the basis of the Hilbert-transformed electrocardiography signal. |
| US11998338B2 |
Systems and methods for dynamically switching output port cathode and anode designations
The present specification discloses an intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring (IONM) system including a computing device capable of executing an IONM software engine, a stimulation module having multiple ports and various stimulation components and recording electrodes. The system is used to implement transcranial electrical stimulation and motor evoked potential monitoring by positioning at least one recording electrode on a patient, connecting the stimulation components to at least one port on the stimulation module, positioning the stimulation components on a patient's head, activating, using the IONM software engine, at least one port, delivering stimulation to the patient; and recording a stimulatory response on the patient. |
| US11998337B2 |
Remote control module for instruments
A monitoring system may include a processor and display system for displaying results from the monitoring. A user may be in a sterile field away from the processor and display system and selected input devices. A controller may be physically connected to the monitoring system from the sterile field to allow the user to control the monitoring system. |
| US11998335B2 |
Systems and methods of capturing eye-gaze data
Systems and methods are provided for collecting eye-gaze data for training an eye-gaze prediction model. The collecting includes selecting a scan path that passes through a series of regions of a grid on a screen of a computing device, moving a symbol as an eye-gaze target along the scan path, and receiving facial images at eye-gaze points. The eye-gaze points are uniformly distributed within the respective regions. Areas of the regions that are adjacent to edges and corners of the screen are smaller than other regions. The difference in areas shifts centers of the regions toward the edges, density of data closer to the edges. The scan path passes through locations in proximity to the edges and corners of the screen for capturing more eye-gaze points in the proximity. The methods interactively enhance variations of facial images by displaying instructions to the user to make specific actions associated with the face. |
| US11998334B2 |
Devices, systems and methods for gravity-enhanced microfluidic collection, handling and transferring of fluids
The disclosed apparatus, systems and methods relate to the collection of bodily fluids through the use of gravity and microfluidic properties by way of a collector. The collector can make use of microfluidic networks connected to collection sites on the skin of a subject to gather and shuttle blood into a reservoir by a combination of capillary action and gravitational forces. The collected fluid is moved through the microfluidic networks and into the reservoir by a variety of approaches. |
| US11998333B2 |
Device and system for preserving analytes in blood samples during storage and transportation
Freshly obtained blood samples are deposited into a device that contains blood sample carriers, each of the carriers is designed to hold a fixed amount of blood and allow excess blood sample to flow through and be discarded. A desiccant within the blood sample carrier aids with the drying of the blood and the discarding of the excess sample blood. The device is stored/transported within a modified atmosphere package comprised of an impermeable sealable bag and an oxygen scavenger compound for removing oxygen from the bag. |
| US11998332B2 |
Fluid diversion mechanism for bodily-fluid sampling
An apparatus includes a housing, a fluid reservoir, a flow control mechanism, and an actuator. The housing defines an inner volume and has an inlet port that can be fluidically coupled to a patient and an outlet port. The fluid reservoir is disposed in the inner volume to receive and isolate a first volume of a bodily-fluid. The flow control mechanism is rotatable in the housing from a first configuration, in which a first lumen places the inlet port is in fluid communication with the fluid reservoir, and a second configuration, in which a second lumen places the inlet port in fluid communication with the outlet port. The actuator is configured to create a negative pressure in the fluid reservoir and is configured to rotate the flow control mechanism from the first configuration to the second configuration after the first volume of bodily-fluid is received in the fluid reservoir. |
| US11998330B2 |
Interference rejection membranes useful with analyte sensors
Embodiments of the invention provide amperometric analyte sensors having optimized elements such as interference rejection membranes, and associated architectures, as well as methods for making and using such sensors. While embodiments of the innovation can be used in a variety of contexts, typical embodiments of the invention include glucose sensors used in the management of diabetes. |
| US11998318B2 |
System and method of using visually-descriptive words to diagnose ear pathology
Disclosed herein are systems and methods to detect a wide range of eardrum conditions by using visually-descriptive words of a tympanic membrane of a subject. |
| US11998310B2 |
Medical device with multi-core fiber for optical sensing
A medical device, system, and method having a flexible shaft and a multi-core fiber within the flexible shaft. The multi-core fiber includes a plurality of optical cores dedicated for shape sensing sensors, and a plurality of optical cores dedicated for force sensing sensors. A medical device flexing structure assembly can comprise a multi-core fiber comprising a plurality of cores, and a flexing structure comprising at least one slot. Each of the plurality of cores can comprise a fiber Bragg grating, and the flexing structure can be configured to bend in response to a force imparted on the flexing structure. |
| US11998306B2 |
Probe for determining magnetic marker locations
A probe including a first sensor having a first magnetometer and a first accelerometer and a second sensor having a second magnetometer and a second accelerometer is configured for determining the distance and direction to a marker. The marker may be magnetic and may be surgically inserted into a patient's body to mark a specific location. The probe may be used to locate the marker, thus identifying the location. The probe may include a microprocessor that receives an output from the first sensor and an output from the second sensor and determines the distance and direction to the marker. |
| US11998303B2 |
Sensing respiration parameters based on an impedance signal
This disclosure is directed to devices, systems, and techniques for identifying a respiration rate based on an impedance signal. In some examples, a medical device system includes a medical device including a plurality of electrodes. The medical device is configured to perform, using the plurality of electrodes, an impedance measurement to collect a set of impedance values, where the set of impedance values is indicative of a respiration pattern of a patient. Additionally, the medical device system includes processing circuitry configured to identify a set of positive zero crossings based on the set of impedance values, identify a set of negative zero crossings based on the set of impedance values, and determine, for the impedance measurement, a value of a respiration metric using both the set of negative zero crossings and the set of positive zero crossings. |
| US11998302B2 |
Thermographic device for measurement of differential temperatures in tissue
A thermographic sensing device for measuring temperatures at one or more regions of the human body, particularly the breast, utilizes a thermographic composition deposited into linear arrays of recesses formed in the lobes of a conformable medium which is disposable against the skin. The thermographic composition includes a binary solvent system and at least one colorant, wherein the compositions in each array are formulated to melt at precise temperatures, within a diagnostically temperature relevant range, to change from a first visible color to a second visible color. |
| US11998301B2 |
Systems and methods for analysis of temperature signals from an Abreu brain thermal tunnel and treatment of human conditions via the Abreu brain thermal tunnel
Systems configured to acquire temperature signals from an Abreu Brain Thermal Tunnel (ABTT), to analyze the temperatures signals, and to determine a condition of a human body from the analysis, and a method for doing the same, are described. In addition, systems for application of thermal signals to the ABTT for treatment of conditions are described. |
| US11998295B2 |
Instrument for surgery
Provided is an instrument for surgery and, more specifically, to an instrument for surgery which can be manually operated in order to be used for laparoscopic surgery or various types of surgery. |
| US11998294B2 |
Slave-end apparatus for interventional robot
A slave-end apparatus for an interventional robot includes: a body, and a front clamper, a first drive mechanism, a second drive mechanism and a third drive mechanism that are mounted on the body; wherein in a case that the first guide wire runs into the second catheter, the second catheter runs into the first catheter, and the first guide wire, the second catheter and the first catheter are moved along on the body to a desired position, the front clamper and the second drive mechanism take over to clamp the first catheter and the second catheter, the third catheter is caused to run into the second catheter and the second guide wire is caused to run into the third catheter, and the third catheter and the second guide wire are respectively clamped by the second drive mechanism and the third drive mechanism and move on the body. |
| US11998281B1 |
Extended-reality operating room for robotic surgery
Methods, apparatuses, and systems for performing robotic surgery in an extended reality (XR) collaborative customizable virtual operating room are disclosed. The disclosed systems provide a virtual environment in which a surgical robot network receives medical images of a patient and creates a digital twin from a patient's medical images. The surgical robot network allows a first user to create a virtual environment to perform a surgical procedure, select workflow objects, and perform actions on the digital twin. The data of the workflow objects and actions in relation to the digital twin is stored. The first user invites a second user to join the virtual environment who may collaborate with the first user on the workflow objects and actions performed to adjust the workflow, workflow objects, and actions performed. The workflow, workflow objects, actions in relation to the digital twin are sent to a surgical robot. |
| US11998280B2 |
Patient-specific instrumentation for implant revision surgery
A system for creating at least one model of a bone and implanted implant comprises a processing unit; and a non-transitory computer-readable memory communicatively coupled to the processing unit and comprising computer-readable program instructions executable by the processing unit for: obtaining at least one image of at least part of a bone and of an implanted implant on the bone, the at least one image being patient specific, obtaining a virtual model of the implanted implant using an identity of the implanted implant, overlaying the virtual model of the implanted implant on the at least one image to determine a relative orientation of the implanted implant relative to the bone in the at least one image, and generating and outputting a current bone and implant model using the at least one image, the virtual model of the implanted implant and the overlaying. |
| US11998279B2 |
Method and system of tracking patient position in operation
Embodiments of the present invention set forth a method to update an operation pathway for a robotic arm assembly in response to a movement of a patient. The method includes processing a two-dimensional image associated with a tag having a spatial relationship with the patient. A corresponding movement of the tag in response to the movement of the patient is determined based on the spatial relationship. The tag includes a first point and a second point and the two-dimensional image includes a first point image and a second point image. The method also includes associating the first point image with the first point and the second point image with the second point and updating the operation pathway based on a conversion matrix of the first point and the second point, and the first point image and the second point image. |
| US11998270B2 |
System for detecting micro-neuromas and methods of use thereof
The invention provides methods of diagnosing neuropathic corneal pain by the detection of neuromas, such as micro-neuromas, on the cornea. The invention also features systems for detecting the presence of anatomical features located on an ocular tissue surface that may be a marker for neuropathic corneal pain. The systems feature an in vivo confocal microscope and a computer N programmed with a neural network to automate the analysis of the microscope images. The invention provides methods of using the system to identify a micro-neuroma in images collected of an ocular surface and methods of diagnosing neuropathic corneal pain and monitoring treatment of neuropathic corneal pain using a system of the invention. The invention further provides a non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon, wherein the instructions, when executed by a processor, perform a method for automatically determining the presence of at least one neuroma on a plurality of images of an ocular surface of a patient. |
| US11998264B2 |
Medical catheters, systems including medical catheters, and methods of positioning medical catheters
A method of navigating a catheter to a target location in an anatomical structure of a patient includes inserting a portion of a catheter into the patient. The catheter includes an elongate shaft having a proximal and a distal end, and a loop subassembly coupled to the distal end. The loop subassembly includes a loop coupled to the distal end and positioned parallel to the elongate shaft, and electrodes disposed on the loop. The method includes positioning one of a portion of the loop subassembly and a portion of the distal end of the elongate shaft in contact with a surface of the anatomical structure a distance from the target location, and translating the loop subassembly toward the target location with the one of the portion of the loop subassembly and the portion of the distal end of the elongate shaft in contact with the surface of the anatomical structure. |
| US11998263B2 |
Methods and devices for treating pelvic conditions
An ablation instrument comprises an elongate shaft having a cannula channel and a scope channel, and an electrode disposed in the cannula channel. The electrode is slidable between a first position in which a distal end of the electrode is contained within the cannula channel, and a second position in which the distal end of the electrode extends out of a distal opening of the cannula channel. The ablation instrument further comprises a distal head coupled to the elongate shaft and configured for contacting solid tissue. |
| US11998262B1 |
Systems and methods for improving sleep with therapeutic nasal treatment
The invention generally relates to systems and methods for improving sleep by treating at least one of rhinitis, congestion, and/or rhinorrhea to thereby reduce or eliminate symptoms associated therewith, including, but not limited to, nasal congestion, coughing, sneezing, and nasal or throat irritation and itching. |
| US11998260B2 |
Low-power tissue sealing device and method
An electrosurgical instrument has a power supply operatively coupled to an end effector. The end effector has a pair of jaws for effectuating an action on tissue positioned therebetween. The power supply is configured to input a first signal and a second signal to a buck-boost converter. The buck-boost converter is configured to transmit an output to an H-bridge circuit. The H-bridge circuit is configured to pass a signal to a resonant LC transformer circuit. The power supply is configured to transmit a power signal. The pair of jaws are operatively coupled to the power supply to receive the power signal, the power having no more than 80 Volts RMS, and less than 2 Amps RMS. The power is configured to seal the tissue positioned between the pair of jaws in 3 seconds or less. |
| US11998258B2 |
Energy module for driving multiple energy modalities
An energy module for driving electrosurgical and/or ultrasonic surgical instruments is disclosed. The energy module can include an amplifier assembly that is configured to drive a variety of different energy modalities for one or more surgical instruments connected thereto. The energy module can further include a relay assembly for selectively coupling one or more of the amplifiers to different ports to which the surgical instruments are connectable. The amplifier assembly can include amplifiers for driving ultrasonic, bipolar, and/or monopolar energy. |
| US11998254B2 |
Accessory for bone surgery, advantageously for operative arthroscopy
Disclosed is an accessory for bone surgery, advantageously for operative arthroscopy, suitable for positioning and attaching a bone fragment on a target bone surface. This accessory includes a body of a sighting body including at least one sighting hole which opens on the two end faces, and a feeler member, extending in protrusion from the front end face of the sighting body. A front end face of the sighting body and a lower face of the feeler member together form a dihedral receiving surface against which the bone fragment is intended to bear. This accessory also includes pressing element capable of temporarily maintaining the bone fragment bearing against the dihedral receiving surface. |
| US11998248B2 |
Multipoint angled fixation implants for multiple screws and related methods
Bone anchor assemblies and related methods are disclosed herein that can provide for improved fixation of a primary bone anchor. A bone anchor assembly can include a wing with a distal portion that can define a plurality of auxiliary bone anchor openings. Each auxiliary bone anchor opening can receive an auxiliary bone anchor that can augment fixation of a primary bone anchor of the bone anchor assembly. The plurality of auxiliary bone anchor openings can be oriented such that, when the wing is coupled to a primary bone anchor assembly of a vertebral level in a first configuration, at least one auxiliary bone anchor can be driven to extend across a facet plane of the vertebral level and, when coupled in a second configuration, each auxiliary bone anchor received within the wing can be driven to conform to the vertebral level. |
| US11998247B2 |
Method of assembling a pivotal bone anchor assembly using insert tool deployment
A method of assembling a pivotal bone anchor assembly with tooling includes applying the tooling to a receiver assembly that includes a receiver having a central bore, and a retainer and a pressure insert secured within the central bore. The method also includes uploading a capture portion of a bone anchor through a bottom opening and into the retainer to cause the retainer to first widen within an expansion portion of the central bore to receive the capture portion and then to close around and secure the capture portion while providing for pivotal motion of the bone anchor relative to the receiver. The method further includes downwardly displacing the pressure insert within the central bore with the tooling until an outer surface of the pressure insert comes into forced interference engagement with interference wedging surfaces of the central bore, with the pressure insert thereafter being inhibited from moving back up within the receiver. |
| US11998244B2 |
Minimally invasive surgery add on screw system
A system, medical devices, and methods for use in surgical procedures, such as spinal surgeries. The system, medical devices, and methods are designed to provide a surgeon the ability to add a screw connector, or screw head such as a tulip, to pre-existing implanted bone, such as pedicle, facet, lateral mass, etc., screw system without having to remove the previously implanted screws and/or rods already existing in a patient. |
| US11998242B2 |
Systems and methods for planning, performing, and assessing spinal correction during surgery
A system for use during a surgical procedure includes a control unit configured to obtain a horizontal pelvic line (HPL) and a central sacral vertical line (CSVL); obtain a horizontal shoulder line (HSL) and an orthogonal midline (OM); compare the HPL and the CSVL with the HSL and the OM; determine an angle between the HPL and the HSL; and convert the angle to a patient position. |
| US11998236B2 |
Enhanced guide extension system for the efficient delivery of leads
Intravascular delivery system is designed for a safe and efficient access to secondary and tertiary vascular structures, such as the branches of the coronary sinus, to enhance the delivery and deployment of various catheters, such as, for example, pacemaker electrical leads. The over-the-wire system features a straight, or alternatively shaped, micro-catheter distal tip of an inner catheter that seamlessly cooperates with a peel-away reinforced outer catheter. The inner catheter and the peel-away reinforced outer catheter are advanced in their engaged mode of operation towards (or beyond) the target site. Subsequently, the inner and outer catheters are disengaged, and the inner catheter is removed from the outer catheter. A pacemaker lead may be advanced over the wire inside the outer catheter to the target site for deployment. Subsequently, the outer catheter is easily split and may be rapidly removed from the blood vessel. |
| US11998233B2 |
Directional device for epidural needle
A device is described for marking a path on a skin surface for inserting an epidural needle into an epidural space. The device includes a first arm having one or more holes spaced apart along the length of the first arm. A pin is attached at the proximal end of the first arm. A second arm has a proximal end attached to the pin allowing the first and second arms to rotate about the pin to adjust an angle separating the first and second arms. The second arm has one or more holes spaced apart along the length of the second arm. The holes on the first and second arms provide locations for marking the path on the skin surface to insert the epidural needle. |
| US11998229B2 |
Ultrasonic device for cutting and coagulating
An ultrasonic surgical system is disclosed comprising a surgical instrument and a wrench assembly. The surgical instrument comprises a handle assembly and a body member pivotably coupled to the handle assembly. The handle assembly comprises a first finger grip, an ultrasonic blade, and a waveguide extending proximally from the ultrasonic blade. The body member comprises a second finger grip, a clamp arm movable relative to the ultrasonic blade to capture tissue therebetween, a first body surface defined on a first side of the body member, and a second body surface defined on a second side of the body member. The wrench assembly comprises a wrench and an adapter operably coupled to the wrench. The adapter comprises a first wrench surface configured to engage the first body surface and a second wrench surface configured to engage the second body surface. |
| US11998228B2 |
Ultrasonic surgical instrument with a carrier kart and reusable stage
A surgical instrument includes an end effector, a shaft assembly, a carrier, and a support structure. Shaft assembly extends proximally from the end effector. The shaft assembly defines a longitudinal axis. The carrier is configured to translate the end effector along the longitudinal axis. The carrier includes a carriage, an actuation driver, and an actuation assembly. The actuation driver is configured to rotate along an axis parallel to the longitudinal axis. The actuation assembly is operatively coupled with the actuation driver and the carriage. The support structure includes a supporting portion. The supporting portion is configured to reduce torsional forces exerted on the carriage as the actuation assembly transfers the rotation of the actuation driver into translation of a portion of the shaft assembly to actuate the end effector. |
| US11998226B2 |
Method of operating a rongeur for cutting and removing tissue
A rongeur cutting system and method of operating said system. The rongeur cutting system may comprise a cutting unit that includes an outer tube and a cutting implement capable of both oscillation and longitudinal movement within the outer tube. The rongeur cutting system may also comprise a handpiece including a power source and spindle for actuating the cutting implement. The method of operating the rongeur cutting system may comprise operating the rongeur cutting system in a manual mode and/or operating the rongeur cutting system in a power mode. The manual mode includes moving the cutting implement longitudinally within the outer tube to manually cut tissue without utilizing the power source, and the power mode includes actuating a motor to manipulate the cutting implement within the outer tube while moving the cutting implement longitudinally within the cutting tube. |
| US11998222B2 |
Minimally invasive systems for and methods of preparing and fusing a sacroiliac joint during interventional procedures
A system for performing a minimally invasive interventional fusion procedure on a sacroiliac joint of a patient. The system may include a disposable sterile packed implant and kit including access, bone cutting, accessory and extraction instruments. |
| US11998220B2 |
Systems and devices for endoscopic procedure analysis
Endoscopic image analysis, endoscopic procedure analysis, and/or component control systems, methods and techniques are disclosed that can analyze images of an endoscopic system and/or affect an endoscopic system to enhance operation, user and patient experience, and usability of image data and other case data. |
| US11998217B2 |
Compressive cryo-hemostatic device
This is a device, belonging to the medical and hospital artifacts industry, developed to accelerate the hemostatic process for patients undergoing radial punctures, partially compressing the artery subjected to treatment; said cryo-hemostatic device is essentially presented in the form of a wristband (1), providing end bands (2) providing velcro-based closing, interconnected by an intermediate band (3) below which a first cryogenic reservoir pad is located (4), which can be filled with a saline substance by the action of a syringe connected to the first connection nipple (5) attached to the first tube (6), flanked by the second external reservoir pad (7), also provided with a second connection nipple (8), attached to the second tube (9). |
| US11998208B2 |
Anastomotic coupler
An anastomotic coupler is provided. A ring can include a plurality of receiving portions. A fixation device includes a cartridge. The cartridge includes a plurality of fasteners. The ring is aligned with the cartridge such that the receiving portions are aligned with the fasteners. Upon actuation of the fixation device, the fasteners puncture the tubular structure and are received by the receiving portions such that the tubular structure is coupled with the ring. |
| US11998205B2 |
Gastrointestinal tissue approximation clip (GI TAC) system
A gastrointestinal tissue approximation clip (“GI TAC”) system for approximating tissue defects, the GI TAC system including an applicator that is sized to travel through an instrument channel of an endoscope; a plurality of tissue approximation clips that are transported to a plurality of locations about a tissue defect by the applicator; a suture coupled to at least one of the tissue approximation clips; and a clip approximation means for approximating the tissue approximation clips. The clip approximation means and the tissue approximation clips are sized respectively to travel through the instrument channel, and the tissue approximation clips are adapted to be detachably coupled to the applicator. |
| US11998204B2 |
Compressible adjunct for surgical stapler
An adjunct configured for use with a surgical stapler end effector includes an adjunct body configured to overlie and directly contact a stapling surface of a surgical stapler end effector, and a plurality of resiliently compressible members coupled with the adjunct body. Each resiliently compressible member extends away from the adjunct body in a first plane that intersects the adjunct body and along which the resiliently compressible member is configured to receive a respective staple of the surgical stapler end effector. In response to closure of the surgical stapler end effector, each resiliently compressible member is configured to resiliently compress within the first plane without deforming in a second plane that perpendicularly intersects the first plane. |
| US11998203B2 |
Manual drive functions for surgical tool having carriage architecture
A method of manually operating a surgical tool includes arranging the surgical tool adjacent a patient, the surgical tool including a drive housing having opposing first and second ends, a spline extending between the first and second ends and being rotatably coupled to a drive input at the first end, a drive gear coupled to and rotatable with the spline, a carriage movably mounted to the spline and housing an activating mechanism operatively coupled to the drive gear such that rotation of the spline actuates the activating mechanism, and a bailout mechanism arranged at the second end and including a lever engageable with the spline. The lever is movable relative to the spline to engage the lever allow the lever to be manually rotated to rotate the spline and the drive gear to manually actuate the activating mechanism. |
| US11998198B2 |
Surgical stapling instrument incorporating a two-piece E-beam firing mechanism
A surgical stapling instrument comprising an end effector is disclosed. The end effector comprises an anvil and a cartridge jaw comprising a channel, wherein the channel comprises a lockout recess defined therein. A staple cartridge is replaceably seated in the channel. A firing member is configured to distally advance a sled during a staple firing stroke. The firing member comprises a first portion configured to engage the anvil, a second portion configured to engage the cartridge jaw, and a lockout portion positioned between the first portion and the second portion. The lockout portion is configured to engage the lockout recess when the sled is not in a proximal position prior to the staple firing stroke. The surgical stapling instrument is unable to perform the staple firing stroke when the lockout portion engages the lockout recess. |
| US11998194B2 |
Surgical stapling assembly comprising an adjunct applicator
A piece of buttress material and an end-effector of a surgical instrument including features which can aid a surgeon in properly and quickly attaching the piece of buttress material to the end-effector. In various embodiments, a piece of buttress material can include retention features which can be engaged with portions of an end-effector to releasably retain the piece of buttress material to at least a portion of the end-effector. Similarly, an end-effector can include features configured to engage portions of a piece of buttress material to releasably retain the piece of buttress material to the end-effector. In at least one embodiment, more than one piece of buttress material can be releasably retained to an end-effector. |
| US11998192B2 |
Adaptive control of surgical stapling instrument based on staple cartridge type
A method and apparatus of adaptively controlling a surgical stapling instrument are disclose. The method includes identifying a staple cartridge type, configuring the surgical stapling instrument based on the identified staple cartridge, and adaptively controlling, by a control circuit, operation/functionality of the surgical stapling instrument based on the configuration of the surgical stapling instrument loaded with the identified staple cartridge type. The apparatus includes a control circuit including a microcontroller and a memory coupled to the microcontroller. The memory stores machine executable instructions that when executed by the microcontroller cause the microcontroller to execute the above method. |
| US11998187B2 |
Suture method
A suture method includes a first arrangement step of using a first treatment device including first/second grasping pieces to hook the first grasping piece to a first position of peripheral tissues of a lesion; a second arrangement step of hooking the second grasping piece to a second position of the peripheral tissues; a grasping step of grasping the first position and the second position while pressing the first position and the second position to the peripheral tissues; a retracting step of retracting the lesion site toward a proximal end side of the first treatment device while drawing the first position and the second position grasped by the first treatment device; and a suturing step of suturing a first suturing position at an external side of the first position and a second suturing position at an external side of the second position in the peripheral tissues. |
| US11998185B2 |
Method and apparatus for coupling soft tissue to a bone
A method and apparatus for coupling a soft tissue implant into a locking cavity formed within a bone is disclosed. The apparatus includes a member to pull the soft tissue implant into a femoral tunnel. The member includes a suture having first and second ends which are passed through first and second openings associated with the longitudinal passage to form a pair of loops. Portions of the suture lay parallel to each other within the suture. Application of tension onto the suture construction causes retraction of the soft tissue implant into the femoral tunnel. |
| US11998180B2 |
System and method for activating a surgical instrument, and foot switch assembly for controlling a surgical instrument
System (20) with a safety lock (21), the safety lock (21) being configured to at least partially prevent use of a surgical instrument (22). A foot switch assembly (1) is operably configured to control the surgical instrument (22), and has multiple switches (4; 10; 14; 15; 16). A memory (26) is present for storing a predetermined switch sequence associated with the switches (4; 10; 14; 15; 16) of the foot switch assembly (1), as well as a control unit (25) configured to determine whether a series of input switch actuations from the foot switch assembly (1) corresponds to the predetermined switch sequence, and if so, deactivating the safety lock (21) in response to the series of input switch actuations corresponding to the predetermined switch sequence. The invention also relates to various embodiments of a foot switch assembly for controlling a surgical instrument. |
| US11998177B2 |
Scope
A scope (1) for examining or surgically treating ears comprising at least one camera (6), a light source (7), and a stabilizer (2) for supporting the camera (7) in or on the stabilizer (2), the stabilizer (2) being integral with the camera (7) and being configured to stabilize the scope (1) in an ear canal. |
| US11998175B2 |
Modular capsule endoscope reconfigurable in digestive organ
The present invention relates to a capsule-type endoscope assembly which can be assembled or disassembled in a digestive organ of an examinee, and a capsule-type endoscope system using the same. A capsule-type endoscope of the present invention can be actively operated by the application of an external magnetic field. In addition, according to the present invention, after an examinee has separately swallowed various diagnosis and treatment devices modularized according to a purpose of diagnosis and treatment, the diagnosis and treatment devices can be assembled in a digestive organ of the examinee. Therefore, a function of a capsule-type endoscope can be extended to various diagnosis and treatment areas conventionally covered by a conventional general endoscope. |
| US11998173B1 |
Imaging system and method
An imaging connector includes a proximal side and a distal side. The proximal side includes a light input opening and an image output opening. The distal side includes a light output opening and an image input opening. The imaging connector is operable to (i) transmit light from the light input opening to the light output opening, and (ii) transmit an image from the image input opening to the image output opening. |
| US11998163B2 |
Vacuum cleaner
A vacuum cleaner includes a vacuum motor configured to draw air through the vacuum cleaner; a battery configured to supply electricity to the vacuum motor; and a control system configured to control the supply of electricity from the battery to the vacuum motor. The control system is configured to switch the vacuum cleaner between a first power mode in which electricity is delivered from the battery to the vacuum motor at a first power level, and at least a second power mode in which electricity is delivered from the battery to the vacuum motor at a second power level which is lower than the first power level. The control system is configured to monitor the extent of operation of the vacuum cleaner in the different power modes, and to provide an alert if usage of the vacuum cleaner in the first power mode exceeds a threshold. |
| US11998162B2 |
Support device of cleaner and cleaner unit
A support device of the cleaner includes a charging stand body provided with a charging port for charging the cleaner and a plurality of fixing parts disposed to be spaced apart from each other on the charging stand body and each having a fixing groove in which a fixing protrusion provided on the cleaner is accommodated. |
| US11998154B1 |
Interchangeable cleaning implement system and storage arrangement therefor
An arrangement for interchangeably storing cleaning implements, includes a plurality of cleaning implements, each having a cleaning head and a handle attached to the cleaning head, a base adapted to be secured to a wall, and a plurality of cleaning implement attachments for securement to the base in a desired orientation, each cleaning implement attachment including a base securing section for securing the cleaning implement attachment to the base, and an implement securing section fixed to the base securing section for removably engaging with one handle to removably secure each cleaning implement to the base, the implement securing section having a first section with a spring biased button and the handle having a hollow section for sliding over the first section and having an opening in a side wall thereof, for receiving the spring biased button when the second hollow section is slid over the first section. |
| US11998144B2 |
Systems and methods for a mixing container
A disposable mixing system includes a lid having an opening and configured to hold contents within a container, a strainer configured to couple with the container and the lid in a position between the container and the lid, where the strainer mixes the contents responsive to shaking the container, and a cap configured to cover the opening of the lid, where at least the lid and the strainer are formed in a unified piece. The system may be manufactured from a single sheet of plastic using thermoforming. The strainer may use flat surfaces and large triangular orifices for efficient mixing and manufacture, while the lid may have a spout sized to prevent clogging and pressure build-up. |
| US11998142B2 |
Portable drink holder
A portable drink holder for a drinkable liquid having a first removable reservoir for storing the liquid at a first end of the holder, a second removable reservoir at a second end of the holder for receiving the liquid and a cooling cartridge having a plurality of passageways for selectively transporting liquid from the first reservoir to the second reservoir. The cooling cartridge including a cooling medium so that the liquid transitions to a second temperature lower than the first temperature as it flows from the first reservoir to the second reservoir. |
| US11998141B2 |
Pellet-fired cooking apparatus
A cooking apparatus, having a body defining an interior cooking chamber for cooking food, a pellet supply portion coupled to the body and including a hopper for storing fuel, a combustion chamber for burning the fuel and heating the cooking chamber, a feeding mechanism for supplying fuel from the hopper to the combustion chamber, and a removable collection receptacle located below the combustion chamber. The apparatus also includes an ash-shaker located between the collection receptacle and the combustion chamber, the ash-shaker including an external actuator that controls one or more moving elements located in the combustion chamber, wherein movement of the moving elements encourages unburned debris in the combustion chamber to fall into the receptacle, after which the collection receptacle can be removed and the unburned debris discarded. |
| US11998139B2 |
System for preparing and presenting food
A system for presenting and preparing foodstuffs that include a plurality of individual foodstuff blocks provided formed into basic shapes comprises a heating device including a heatable cooking receptacle for one or more foodstuff blocks with a heatable grill surface and at least one heating mandrel projecting from the grill surface; wherein the heating mandrel is insertable into a passage opening provided in each respective foodstuff block and is adapted to the contour of the passage opening so as to avoid an air gap between the wall of the passage opening and the heating mandrel. |
| US11998133B2 |
Cooking device having a cooking vessel and a ceramic heater
A cooking vessel according to one example embodiment includes a food receptacle for holding food during cooking. The cooking vessel includes an inner shell and an outer shell. An outside surface of the inner shell forms the food receptacle. A portion of an inside surface of the inner shell is spaced from a portion of an inside surface of the outer shell forming a sealed volume between the inner shell and the outer shell. A heat pipe is positioned within the sealed volume between the inner shell and the outer shell for distributing heat through the sealed volume between the inner shell and the outer shell. Embodiments include those wherein each of the inner shell and the outer shell includes a respective bottom wall and a respective side wall. |
| US11998129B2 |
Coolie beverage holder with light
A beverage holder with an insulating sleeve holds a beverage container and a light mount with a light. The light mount comprises an exterior housing located outside the insulating sleeve and on a lateral wall of the insulating sleeve. A light is carried by the exterior housing and located outside of the insulating sleeve. An interior backing is located on an interior of the insulating sleeve and fastened to the exterior housing through the insulating sleeve. The exterior housing and the interior backing sandwich a portion of the lateral wall of the insulating sleeve. |
| US11998126B2 |
Dish stacker and holder, systems and methods
An innovative dish stacker and holder. The dish stacker and holder includes a ring and legs connected to the ring, the legs extending downwardly from the ring. The legs are operative to stand flush on a floor surface of a dish below the stacker and holder, and the ring is operative to receive a downwardly extending base of a dish above the stacker. A ledge connected to ring extends below and overlaps a portion of an area circumscribed by the ring. The ledge is operative to engage and support a bottom side of a dish base inserted through an opening in the area circumscribed by the ring. |
| US11998125B2 |
Retail merchandise shelving system
Shelve brackets and shelf arrangements are provided. First and second brackets are provided. Each bracket has a support section, a mounting section and a transition section. The mounting section is laterally offset from the support section. The support section includes a vertical, top and bottom flange portions. The top and bottom flange portions are vertically spaced and extend from a first side of vertical flange portion in a direction the support section is offset from the mounting section. The transition section of the first bracket offsets the support section of the first bracket towards the second bracket and the transition section of the second bracket offsetting the support section of the second bracket towards the first bracket. |
| US11998124B2 |
Pusher tray with front stop having product support projection
A retail merchandise tray including a front stop having a product support surface. The product support surface is located between mounting features that attach the front stop to the rest of the retail merchandise tray. The front stop itself is an embodiment as well. |
| US11998123B2 |
Infant care apparatus
An infant care apparatus includes a base; a drive mechanism disposed on the base; a controller electronically coupled to the drive mechanism; and a support device coupled to the drive mechanism. The support device is configured to be moved in both a horizontal and vertical direction relative to the base by the drive mechanism. The drive mechanism is controlled by the controller to move the support device in a plurality of motion profiles relative to the base. |
| US11998118B2 |
Chair having a leaf spring in contact with a linkage to provide a resistance to tilting of a backrest of the chair relative to a column of the chair
A chair, comprising, a backrest, a seat coupled with the backrest, a column coupled with the seat, a linkage statically attached to the backrest and rotatably attached below the seat, a leaf spring statically attached at one end and in contact with the linkage to provide a resistance to tilting of the backrest relative to the column, a first structure. A portion of the first structure has an arc shape that includes one or more teeth, and a second structure in contact with the first structure. The chair is configured such that, when a weight is applied to the seat, one or more teeth of the second structure move along the one or more teeth of the first structure to provide an increased resistance to tilting of the backrest relative to the column. |
| US11998117B2 |
Silent air pump box and intelligent adjustment mattress
The present disclosure discloses a silent air pump box comprising a box body, an upper cover, a supporting platform, an air pump, an air valve, an air pipe and a silencing pipe. The present disclosure further provides an intelligent adjustment mattress, which comprises the silent air pump box and an airbag layer, wherein the silent air pump box is provided at the tail of the mattress. |
| US11998107B2 |
Quick detach belt loop
In embodiments, a belt clamp includes an inboard plate and an outboard plate that are pivotally coupled at their upper ends. The belt clamp may also include a spring biased locking mechanism that selectively and releasably connects the lower end of the inboard plate to the lower end of the outboard plate by way of locking posts in the inboard plate that are displaced upwardly from the lower edge of said plate. The outboard locking plate may have latch members that are entirely contained (except for opposing actuation buttons) within a compartment formed by two portions of the outboard plate connected by a living hinge. The opposing actuation buttons require a motion in a first direction, such as upwardly, to allow motion in a second direction, such as inwardly, to rotate the latching members inwardly to release the locking posts. |
| US11998096B2 |
Systems, devices and methods for storage of, and rapid access to items
Rapid access storage devices and systems are provided herein, which allow a user to quickly retrieve items stored behind, to the side of, or otherwise out of a comfortable reach range of the user. The devices comprise a housing, and at least one carriage retractable from the housing via a retraction assembly. Rapid access storage systems may comprise a wearable item, including hanging items, that include or are coupled to one or more rapid access storage devices. |
| US11998095B2 |
Handmade handbag
The present invention relates to a handmade handbag that can be carried in a state in which portable items is stored therein, the handmade handbag configured to comprise a first handy storage part and a second handy storage part that are positioned on an outer portion of a storage part where the portable items are stored and that are mesh type partitioned structures for separately storing an item of the portable items that needs personal privacy protection and frequent taking out. The handmade handbag of the present invention provides a combination of a pattern type hiding cover and a through hole in the first and the second handy storage part to ensure air breathability inside, thereby preventing deterioration of a stored item and providing a beautiful appearance. |
| US11998091B2 |
Watch band with braided strands
A stretchable watch band can include braided strands that provide a comfortable fit around the wrist of the user. The watch band can stretch and conform to the user based on the elasticity within each strand and based on the ability of the strands to move relative to each other. End sections of the watch band can include attachment elements that securely connect the watch band to a housing of the watch. The end sections can be configured to releasable connect to the housing in a manner that is reliable and easy for a user. Additionally, the watch band can provide a smooth transition from the size and/or shape of the housing to a size and/or shape of a continuous section of the watch band. Additionally, the watch band can conceal portions thereof other than the braided strands when connected to the housing of the watch. |
| US11998089B2 |
Clasp and method of retaining garment
A clasp for a garment such as a bandana is described. The clasp consists of two distinct portions, each of which can be different or identical. Each portion includes three or more passages that allow the ends of a bandana or other garment to be threaded through each. The complementary portions are then connected to each other. |
| US11998087B2 |
String adjustment device
The present invention discloses a string adjuster that can adjust the length of a string by winding the string. A string adjuster of the present invention includes a fixed unit and a rotation unit, in which a knob of the rotation unit includes a first extension having a counter-anti-separator formed on the interior circumferential surface and preventing separation from a housing, a second extension having a winding determination protrusion formed on the interior circumferential surface and determining winding and releasing modes, and a spacing groove formed between the first extension and the second extension. |
| US11998081B2 |
Foot support systems including tiltable forefoot components
Sole structures, foot support systems, articles of footwear, and/or other foot-receiving devices include: (a) a first footwear component having a ground-facing surface, wherein a forefoot portion of the ground-facing surface includes arched medial and lateral surfaces and (b) a second footwear component having an upper-facing surface, wherein a forefoot portion of the upper-facing surface includes arched medial and lateral surfaces that face (and optionally contact) the respective arched medial and lateral surfaces of the first footwear component. The first and second footwear components are movably engaged together such that: (a) the arched medial surface of the first footwear component moves with respect to and along the arched medial surface of the second footwear component and (b) the arched lateral surface of the first footwear component moves with respect to and along the arched lateral surface of the second footwear component. |
| US11998080B2 |
Textiles and articles and processes for making the same
Films, fibers, filaments, yarns and textiles including thermoplastic elastomeric compositions are described, as are methods of making the films, fibers, filaments, yarns and textiles. These films, fibers, filaments, yarns and textiles can be used to make articles of apparel, footwear, and sporting equipment. When thermoformed, the thermoplastic elastomeric compositions can impart abrasion resistance, traction, and other advantageous properties to the articles. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present disclosure. |
| US11998075B2 |
Prosthetic eyelash holder
The invention features a holder for prosthetic eyelashes comprising a clamp having two jaws and a closure linkage designed to retain and convey the two jaws in and between an open conformation and a closed conformation. Each jaw has one or more articulated linkages, with the articulated linkages being designed to permit adjustment of a jaw curvature conforming to a desired curvature of a prosthetic eyelash. The two jaws provide rigidity in a dimension for permitting an application of clamping force against the prosthetic eyelash. A spring is fixedly attached to each of the two jaws, and the spring is biased to urge the jaws into the closed conformation. A stand may be attached to the spring, with the stand being designed to hold the clamp in a working position for retention of the prosthetic eyelash for preparation of application to a human eyelid. |
| US11998074B2 |
Multi-layer swimwear fitment apparatus
Apparatus and associated methods relate to a garment having adjustable closure modules to reduce unwanted exposure. In an illustrative example, a continuous one-piece swimsuit may include at least one distributed tension closure system (DTCS) at each side of the swimsuit. The DTCS, for example, may include an elastic layer disposed underneath a longitudinally adjustable tension member coupled to opposing lateral edges of the DTCS. For example, when the swimsuit is donned by a wearer and lengths of the adjustable tension members are individually adjusted to a corresponding desired tension, each adjustable tension members urges the opposing lateral edges together by the corresponding desired tension such that an aperture of the hip openings is adjusted to reduce unwanted exposure of a body of the wearer. Various embodiments may advantageously provide modest fittings while maintaining a substantially smooth layer fitting comfortably to the wearer. |
| US11998066B2 |
Kigurumi staging support apparatus, kigurumi staging support system, and kigurumi staging support method
A kigurumi staging support apparatus to be worn by a performer of kigurumi. The kigurumi staging support apparatus acquires environmental information of surroundings of the kigurumi, stores staging information of the kigurumi, and outputs, based on the staging information, staging of the kigurumi in accordance with the environmental information. |
| US11998062B2 |
Connectivity intermediary
A connectivity dongle for providing connectivity between an aerosol delivery device and a management service. The connectivity dongle comprises a wireless connectivity interface configured to establish a wireless data connection to an aerosol delivery device to receive data from the aerosol delivery device; and a data connectivity interface configured to establish a network connection to the management service and to pass data received from a connected aerosol delivery device to the management service via the network connection. In some embodiments, each aerosol delivery device may comprise an electronic nicotine delivery “END” device. |
| US11998061B2 |
Aerosol generating apparatus for controlling power of heater and operation method thereof
Provided is an aerosol generating apparatus including: a heater configured to heat an aerosol generating article inserted into an accommodation space of the aerosol generating apparatus; a sensing module including at least one of an inductive sensor configured to detect a change in an inductance of the accommodation space or a temperature sensor configured to detect a change in a temperature of the heater; and a processor configured to: detect, via the sensing module, whether the aerosol generating article that is inserted into the accommodation space is at least partially moved from the accommodation space; and based on detecting that the aerosol generating article is at least partially moved from the accommodation space, control a power supply to the heater, based on at least one of the change in the inductance or the change in the temperature acquired via the sensing module. |
| US11998058B2 |
Aerosol-generating device comprising a cover element sensor
An aerosol-generating device is provided, including: a housing; a cavity to receive an aerosol-generating article; an aperture at least partially defined by the housing and disposed at an end of the cavity for insertion of the article through the aperture; a cover element to move relative to the housing between a closed position and an open position; a sensor to provide an electrical signal indicative of a position of the cover element with respect to the aperture and including an optical sensor; and an indicator element to move relative to the sensor when the cover element is moved between the closed and the open positions and including an optical surface, the signal being determined by a position of the indicator element relative to the sensor, and the optical surface being configured to move relative to the optical sensor when the cover element moves between the closed and the open positions. |
| US11998057B2 |
Apparatus for generation aerosol from an aerosolizable medium, an article of aerosolizable medium and a method of operating an aerosol generating apparatus
An apparatus for generating aerosol from an aerosolizable medium is disclosed. The apparatus includes a housing; a chamber for receiving an article, a sensor and a cover system. The article includes an aerosolizable medium and a detectable element provided in association with the article. The sensor is configured to sense the detectable element when an article is received within the chamber. The cover system can be configured in at least a first configuration to substantially cover the sensor, and a second configuration, in which a field of view of the sensor is substantially without obstruction. |
| US11998054B2 |
Electronic smoking device
An electronic smoking device is provided comprising a power supply, a liquid reservoir storing a liquid therein and having a liquid reservoir opening, and an atomizer adapted to atomize the liquid stored in the liquid reservoir when operated by the power supply. Further provided are at least two plates provided with an adjustable spacing therebetween, wherein a liquid flow passage is formed between the at least two plates extending from the liquid reservoir opening to the atomizer. |
| US11998050B2 |
Capsules with internal channels, heat-not-burn (HNB) aerosol-generating devices, and methods of generating an aerosol
A capsule for an aerosol-generating device may include a housing defining inlet openings, outlet openings, and internal channels between the inlet openings and the outlet openings. The internal channels are configured to hold an aerosol-forming substrate. The housing is configured to facilitate a heating of the aerosol-forming substrate via conduction and/or convection so as to generate an aerosol. |
| US11998048B2 |
Aerosol-generating article having rod with multiple longitudinal elongate elements of non-tobacco material
A heatable aerosol-generating article for producing an inhalable aerosol is provided, the article including: a rod of aerosol-generating substrate including from about 20 to about 200 strands of non-tobacco material including and configured to release at least one aerosol former, each strand having an equivalent diameter of at least about 0.1 millimetre, the strands being assembled such that the strands extend in a longitudinal direction; and a wrapper circumscribing the strands. A method of making a rod for an aerosol-generating substrate in an aerosol-generating article, and a rod for an aerosol-generating substrate in an aerosol-generating article, are also provided. |
| US11998045B2 |
Adapter device for supporting a screen member relative to the smoke inlet tube of a water pipe
A screen adapter device supports a screen member relative to a smoke inlet tube of a water pipe that has a water container coupled between a drawtube and the smoke inlet tube. The screen adapter device has an adapter plate with a screen aperture supporting the screen member releasably therein. The adapter plate has an outer diameter which is greater than an inner diameter of the smoke inlet tube to be supported spanning across the inlet end of the smoke inlet tube. The device is easily disassembled for ease of cleaning or replacing the screen. Optionally, a resilient support body is joined to the adapter plate assists in securing the adapter plate on the smoke inlet tube. |
| US11998044B2 |
Inhalation apparatus for particulate filtration
An apparatus for use as a water pipe configured to be disassembled and assembled. |
| US11998042B2 |
Water pipe with accurate fit for a capsule
A water pipe (1) comprises a receptacle (3) and a heating chamber (4) communicating therewith, said heating chamber (4) having a receiving portion (5) for a capsule (10) which holds a smoking medium, said receiving portion at the same time being a heating element for the capsule (10). The receiving portion (5) accurately fits the capsule (10). |
| US11998031B2 |
Stabilization of enzyme treated royal jelly
Disclosed are an enzyme-treated royal jelly composition comprising carrageenan and enzyme-treated royal jelly treated with a peptidase; an enzyme-treated royal jelly composition comprising at least one member selected from the group consisting of galactomannan, galactomannan-containing polysaccharides, and xanthan gum, at least one member selected from the group consisting of carrageenan, dextrin, and pullulan, and enzyme-treated royal jelly treated with a peptidase; and an enzyme-treated royal jelly composition comprising dextrin, at least one member selected from the group consisting of carrageenan and pullulan, and enzyme-treated royal jelly treated with a peptidase. |
| US11998028B2 |
Polypeptide for hydrolytic cleavage of zearalenone and/or zearalenone derivatives, isolated polynucleotide thereof as well as a polypeptide containing an additive, use of same as well as a process
The invention relates to a polypeptide for the hydrolytic cleavage of zearalenone and/or at least one zearalenone derivative, said polypeptide being a hydrolase having an amino acid sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO: 1-15 or a functional variant thereof, wherein the sequence of the functional variant is at least 40% identical to at least one of the amino acid sequences. The invention also relates to: an additive containing the polypeptide; an isolated polynucleotide that encodes the polypeptide; and a method for the hydrolytic cleavage of zearalenone and/or of at least one zearalenone derivative using the polypeptide. |
| US11998025B2 |
System and method for automatically cleaning and washing ice cream or yogurt machine
A system for automatically cleaning and washing an ice cream machines includes a liquid container for storing raw materials; a freezing cylinder connected with the liquid container through a cleaning pathway; a water tank for storing rinse water to rinse the freezing cylinder and the cleaning pathway; a detergent tank for storing detergents to clean and wash the freezing cylinder and the cleaning pathway; a pump arranged on the cleaning pathway to selectively pump the raw material, the rinse water or the detergent; and a control panel adapted to control an on/off and cleaning. |
| US11998017B2 |
Bio-pesticide for Japanese beetles
A pesticide compositionally comprising one or more carrier oils; one or more repellent oils; and an effective amount of quisqualic acid, wherein the pesticide composition is an emulsion for spray application to foliage and wherein physical contact with the pesticide is sufficient to kill a Japanese beetle. |
| US11998009B2 |
Biostimulant concentrate and methods thereof
A biostimulant concentrate for direct application to agricultural crops comprising purified water and a solubilizer, triacontanol in a concentration of between 500-4000 milligrams per liter (mg/l), brassinolide in a concentration of between 30-120 milligrams per liter (mg/l), and a stabilizer is selected from the group consisting of nano silver, nano copper, and combinations thereof. |
| US11998006B2 |
Method of tissue preservation
A process of preserving tissue from one or more plant, fungus or algae species is provided. The process comprises treating such tissue by subsequent steps of (i) incubation with a weak acid solution; (ii) removal of excess acid; (iii) incubation with an aqueous sugar alcohol solution; (iv) removal of excess sugar alcohol; and (v) drying. Also provided is a textile material having a sheet like structure, and characterized in having an average thickness of about 0.2-5 mm and comprising about 2% to about 20% sugar alcohol. |
| US11998002B2 |
Cryopreserving processes
The present invention relates to processes for producing compositions for the cryopreservation of biological materials, e.g. cells and proteins. The compositions comprise a polyampholyte polymer. The invention also provides certain cryopreserving compositions comprising the polyampholyte polymer. |
| US11998001B2 |
Perfusion device for normothermic, ex vivo preservation of a mammalian brain
The invention provides a system for normothermic, ex vivo restoration and preservation of an intact mammalian brain, and other organs. In certain aspects, the system is capable of preserving a brain as well as other organs, maintaining cellular integrity and cellular function for hours post mortem or after global ischemia. The invention also provides synthetic brain perfusate formulations, including a novel brain perfusion medium (BPM), which are able to reduce reperfusion injury, stimulate recovery from hypoxia, prevent edema and metabolically support the energy needs of brain function. |
| US11997983B2 |
Storage apparatus for companion animal
Provide is a storage apparatus for a companion animal, including a first storage part in which a companion animal is seated, a second storage part connected to an edge of the first storage part and configured to surround the companion animal, and a third storage part coupled to the second storage part, wherein the third storage part surrounds the first storage part or is turned over to cover an upper side of the second storage part, thereby allowing the companion animal to be stored in the storage apparatus having a house or bag form. |
| US11997982B2 |
Spraying system, methods of making and using the same, and computer-readable medium for controlling the same
A sprayer system including a wand, a rotary arm, a motor, a housing, a support, and a controller or control panel. The wand has a nozzle at one end. The rotary arm rotates around a first axle, and is connected at a distal end through a bearing to an opposite end of the wand. The housing covers or encloses a part of the wand, the rotary arm, and a rotatable ring through which the wand passes. The motor drives rotation of the rotary arm. The support mechanically supports the housing. The controller/control panel controls rotation of the rotary arm. The wand, the rotary arm and the ring are configured so that rotation of the rotary arm causes the nozzle to move in a circular, elliptical and/or oval pattern. Methods of making and using the sprayer system and software for controlling the system are also disclosed. |
| US11997981B2 |
Sprayer with articulated arm and sensor system
A teat sprayer for use in dairy applications is described that uses an articulated arm and system to deliver a spray to a teat and move between multiple dairy animals.In one aspect the dairy animal teat treatment apparatus, comprises a spray inlet, a spray nozzle, a flow path extending between the spray inlet and the spray nozzle, and an articulated arm conveying the spray nozzle, movement of the articulated arm driven by an actuator. Articulated arm movement may be between a retracted position in which the spray nozzle and articulated arm are retracted and an extended position in which at least part of the articulated arm and spray nozzle thereon is extended, moving the spray nozzle to a position configured to be about an animal's udder.In a further aspect, the apparatus, comprises an animal sensor positioned generally above and behind an animal bail and directed generally downwards configured to sense the presence of an animal in the animal bail; and a controller configured to actuate spraying of the animal's teats from spray nozzle extension and retraction in response to a signal received from the sensor.The apparatus may act to reduce cost through reduced numbers of treatment apparatus and/or lower labour costs and expenses; increase accuracy/efficiency through automation and speed of treatment; address issues associated with the inconvenience/space constraints in dairy platform configurations; and minimise the number of sensors required and position these sensors away from the animal bail. |
| US11997979B2 |
Soybean cultivar 05250624
A soybean cultivar designated 05250624 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 05250624, to the plants of soybean cultivar 05250624, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 05250624, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 05250624. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 05250624. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 05250624, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 05250624 with another soybean cultivar. |
| US11997975B2 |
Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH011174
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH011174. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH011174, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH011174 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH011174. |
| US11997972B2 |
Plants and seeds of corn variety CV398787
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV398787. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV398787, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV398787 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV398787 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV398787. |
| US11997971B2 |
Plants and seeds of corn variety CV521044
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV521044. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV521044, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV521044 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV521044 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV521044. |
| US11997968B2 |
Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH011014
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH011014. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH011014, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH011014 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH011014. |
| US11997963B1 |
Trays for plant cultivation
Plant support trays each have a plant-supporting surface and a series of grooves or channels extending below the pot-supporting surface. The plant support trays have integral water runoff troughs that receive runoff water from the grooves or channels. The plant support trays may be configured to provide gravity-based drainage while supported on a horizontal frame or rack or platform, or may be configured to provide drainage while supported on an angled frame or rack or platform. |
| US11997962B2 |
Automated growing systems
An automated growing system comprises a plurality of vegetative production lines for moving a plurality of planted growing channels from a first end to a second end of a growing area, a plurality of flowering production lines for moving the channels from the second end to the first end, and a first conveyor belt for moving planted growing channels from the plurality of vegetative production lines to the plurality of flowering production lines. Each production line may comprise a frame, a conveyor assembly configured to receive growing channels, a fertigation delivery line comprising a plurality of regulators spaced therealong for depositing fluid into the growing channels, a drainage trough, and an air supply duct positioned under the conveyor assembly, the air supply duct comprising a plurality of openings therein for delivering conditioned air to plants growing in the growing channels. Each growing channel may comprise a trough having a first end higher than a second end, a flange extending laterally from each of a pair of opposed lateral edges of the trough and having a plurality of leach lines on an upper surface thereof extending a different predetermined distance from the first end toward the second end, and a fertigation receiving structure attached to the first end of the trough and configured to direct fluid falling therein into the leach lines of each flange. |
| US11997961B2 |
System and method for array of passive solar aquaponics structures with mushroom cultivation
An array system of passive solar aquaponic and mushroom production structures, each having a glazing on a sun facing side to maximize winter sunlight; a plant growing area; a mushroom growing area; a water wall thermal mass integrated and disposed between the plant and mushroom growing areas; a fish tank; a saltwater basin under the plant growing holding saltwater; a natural air ventilation system providing misted air to the mushroom growing area and receiving O2 from the plant growing provided to the mushroom growing area, and CO2 generated by the mushroom growing area provided to the plant growing area; and saltwater channels delivering saltwater to the saltwater basins from a saltwater source, and which is evaporated by solar heat generated by the plant growing areas in order to generate freshwater. |
| US11997960B2 |
Hand-guided gardening, forestry and/or construction processing device and method for operating a hand-guided gardening, forestry and/or construction processing device
A hand-guided gardening, forestry and/or construction processing device includes a processing tool, an electric motor drive system, wherein the electric motor drive system is designed to drive the processing tool, a user-adjustable operating element, and a control device. The control device is designed to control a target slope rate of a rotational speed of the electric motor drive system in dependence on a position of the operating element according to at least one allocation in such a way that maximum target slope rates of the rotational speed differ for different positions. |
| US11997953B2 |
Grain separating apparatus for a combine harvester and a method for separating grain from straw material
A grain separating apparatus (1) for a combine harvester (2). The grain separating apparatus (1) has at least a first walker-sieve (3) and a second walker-sieve (4) arranged side by side, wherein the first walker-sieve (3) and the second walker-sieve (4) are suspended in at least two suspension points (5,6) in the combine harvester (2) and wherein at least one of the two suspension points (5,6) is arranged to describe a rotational motion. A rotational motion drive (7) is arranged to drive the rotational motion of the first walker-sieve (3) out of phase with the rotational motion of the second walker-sieve (4), wherein each of the at least two walker-sieves (3,4) include a straw walker (8) comprising drivers (9) for conveying a straw material (10) and wherein grain (11) and debris (12) are separated from the straw material (10) through walker apertures (13) arranged in the straw walker (8). Furthermore, the straw walker (8) is arranged on top of at least one sieve (14,15) which is arranged to separate grain (11) from the debris (12) and wherein the straw walker (8) and the at least one sieve (14,15) are rigidly connected. Furthermore, a method for separating grain (11) from straw material (10) in a combine harvester (2) by a grain separating apparatus (1) as described above. |
| US11997951B2 |
Lawn mower and control system determining whether ground is lawn
The configuration includes: a motor for driving a driving wheel (rear wheel) provided to a body; a slip ratio calculating section for calculating a slip ratio while the lawn mower is traveling; a friction coefficient calculating section for calculating a friction coefficient of a ground on which the lawn mower is traveling; a determination section for determining whether the ground on which the lawn mower is traveling is a lawn based on a relationship between the slip ratio and the friction coefficient and a drive controlling section for controlling the motor based on a determination result from the determination section. This configuration allows suitable driving operability for both of a case where the ground on which a lawn mowers traveling is a lawn and a case where the ground is other than a lawn. |
| US11997941B2 |
Agricultural seed sensing and control system
An agricultural machine includes a metering system comprising one or more meters configured to meter particulate material into a first material distribution line and a second material distribution line, a first sensor configured to generate a first sensor signal indicative of a first measure of a flow of the particulate material in the first material distribution line, a second sensor configured to generate a second sensor signal indicative of a second measure of the flow of the particulate material in the first material distribution line, and a control system. The control system is configured to receive an indication of a sensed flow rate of the particulate material in the second material distribution line, obtain an adjusted flow rate indication by applying, to the sensed flow rate, a rate offset based on the first and second sensor signals, and control the metering system based on the adjusted flow rate indication. |
| US12004436B2 |
RRAM with high work function cap
Embodiments of present invention provide a resistive random-access memory (RRAM) cell. The RRAM cell includes a bottom electrode; a metal oxide layer, the metal oxide layer having a central portion that is in direct contact with the bottom electrode, a peripheral portion that is nonplanar with the central portion, and a vertical portion between the central portion and the peripheral portion; and a top electrode directly above the metal oxide layer. A method of manufacturing the RRAM cell is also provided. |
| US12004435B2 |
Tunable resistive random access memory cell
A method of manufacturing an RRAM cell includes forming a first wire, forming an insulator on the first wire, the insulator having a pore and an insulator surface, and forming a first electrode layer on the first wire and the insulator, the first electrode having an electrode surface. The method further includes recessing the first electrode layer such that the electrode surface is recessed toward the first wire from the insulator surface, forming a switching layer on the insulator and the first electrode, and forming a second electrode on the switching layer. |
| US12004434B2 |
Fill-in confined cell PCM devices
A method for manufacturing a phase-change memory device includes providing a substrate including a plurality of bottom electrodes, patterning the substrate to form a plurality of pores in the substrate extending from a surface of the substrate to the bottom electrodes, depositing a phase-change material over the substrate, implanting one or more of a Ge, Sb and Te in the phase-change material to amorphize at least a portion of the phase-change material inside the pore, planarizing the device to exposed the surface of the substrate, and forming a plurality of top electrodes over the pores, in contact with the phase-change material. |
| US12004431B2 |
Structure and method for MRAM devices
A semiconductor device includes a bottom electrode; a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) element over the bottom electrode; a top electrode over the MTJ element; and a sidewall spacer abutting the MTJ element, wherein at least one of the bottom electrode, the top electrode, and the sidewall spacer includes a magnetic material. |
| US12004430B2 |
Piezoelectric valve and method of manufacturing the piezoelectric valve
Provided is a piezoelectric valve in which the valve is opened/closed utilizing a displacement of a laminated piezoelectric element, including: a valve main body having a gas pressure chamber that receives compressed gas supplied externally; and an actuator having a valving element, the laminated piezoelectric element that generates a driving force required for operating the valving element as the displacement, and a displacement enlarging mechanism that enlarges the displacement of the laminated piezoelectric element to be acted on the valving element, the actuator being disposed in the valve main body, in which a surface of the laminated piezoelectric element is coated with silicone in a state in which the laminated piezoelectric element is integrated into the actuator. |
| US12004428B2 |
Oscillator frequency modulation method and oscillator piezoelectric structure
An oscillator frequency modulation method includes: providing a piezoelectric material having a surface and an interior; and performing a pattern process on the piezoelectric material by a laser. A patterned processing zone is formed on the surface and/or in the interior of the piezoelectric material. The pattern process may be a material removal and/or a material modification. Therefore, without changing the appearance of the piezoelectric material, the pattern process on the piezoelectric material through the laser can accurately adjust the frequency of the oscillator and block unnecessary mode at the same time. An oscillator piezoelectric structure with frequency modulation is also provided. |
| US12004424B2 |
Flexible thermoelectric device
The present disclosure relates to a method of fabricating a thermoelectric device. The method includes disposing a metal layer on a dielectric layer to form a sub-assembly, forming patterned circuits on the metal layer, forming blind vias in the dielectric layer, fabricating first thermoelectric elements in a first series of blind vias, and fabricating second thermoelectric elements in a second series of blind vias to form thermoelectric units with the first thermoelectric elements and the patterned circuits. The sub-assembly is configured to be joined to an adjacent sub-assembly along a first direction, and the first and second thermoelectric elements of each thermoelectric unit are aligned in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction. The present disclosure further relates to a thermoelectric device which includes a plurality of thermoelectric units forming a strip extending in a first direction. |
| US12004422B2 |
Heterocyclic compound and organic light-emitting device including the same
Provided are a heterocyclic compound represented by a certain formula and an organic light-emitting device including the same. |
| US12004420B2 |
Organic electroluminescent compound and organic electroluminescent device comprising the same
The present disclosure relates to an organic electroluminescent compound and an organic electroluminescent device comprising the same. By comprising the organic electroluminescent compound, an organic electroluminescent device having a low driving voltage and/or a high luminous efficiency and/or a long lifespan can be provided. |
| US12004418B2 |
Luminescent film, preparation method thereof, and electroluminescent device
The disclosure relates to the technical field of display, in particular to a luminescent film, a preparation method thereof, and an electroluminescent device. The luminescent film comprises: a crystallized blue-light perovskite material, and halogenated amine ligand materials grafted on the crystallized blue-light perovskite material, wherein the crystallized blue-light perovskite material comprises 3D perovskite nano-crystals; and the halogenated amine ligand materials comprise a first halogenated amine ligand material and a second halogenated amine ligand material, and the first halogenated amine ligand material is different from the second halogenated amine ligand material. The disclosure is suitable for manufacturing luminescent films and electroluminescent devices. |
| US12004415B2 |
Display device including cushion layer and drive chip
A display device includes a substrate including a first region, a second region, and a bending region between the first region and the second region, a protective substrate disposed below the substrate in the first region, the second region, and the bending region, a cushion layer disposed below the protective substrate in the first region and the second region, a pixel layer disposed on the substrate in the second region, and a drive chip disposed on the substrate in the first region. The substrate is bent at the bending region such that the first region overlaps the second region. |
| US12004409B2 |
Display panel and display device
A display panel includes a display area (DA) and a peripheral area (PA) surrounding the display area (DA). The display area (DA) includes a second area and a first area that includes first pixel units disposed around holes, where the second area includes second pixel units and K data lines. The second pixel units include M columns*N rows of light emitting devices, M*N bottom drive circuits located at lower layers of the light emitting devices, and M*N anode leads connecting the light emitting devices to the bottom drive circuits. Intervals between some or all of the adjacent light emitting devices are greater than dimensions of the bottom drive circuits corresponding to the light emitting devices, and therefore there are gaps between the some or all of the second pixel units. |
| US12004407B2 |
Display panel including anti-crack structure within chamfered recess, manufacturing method thereof and display device
A display panel, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device are disclosed. For the display panel, an anti-crack structure is disposed in a chamfer between a driving circuit layer and a substrate. The anti-crack structure is in contact with a packaging layer to reduce an angle from the contact plane of the anti-crack structure and the packaging layer to the plane in which a light-emitting layer is located, so that the packaging layer is smoothly disposed, the risk of the fracture of the packaging layer is lowered, and the failure of the display panel is avoided. |
| US12004405B2 |
Display device and method of fabricating the same
A display device may include a display panel including a first substrate, a second substrate on the first substrate, and a light-emitting device between the first substrate and the second substrate, an input sensing portion including a sensing electrode on the second substrate and a first pad connected to the sensing electrode, a first circuit film near a side surface of the display panel adjacent to the first pad, the first circuit film including a first contact pad spaced from the first pad, a first conductive layer on the first pad, the first conductive layer being extended to the first contact pad to electrically connect the first pad to the first contact pad, and a protection layer on the first conductive layer. |
| US12004403B2 |
Display device and electronic apparatus
A display device according to an embodiment of the present technology includes an element substrate, a transparent substrate, a light shielding filter portion, and a transparent adhesive layer. The element substrate includes a first surface, an organic EL element that emits light from a display region of the first surface, and peripheral wiring disposed to overlap in plan view with a peripheral region surrounding the display region. The transparent substrate includes a second surface facing the first surface. The light shielding filter portion includes a first color filter disposed in the peripheral region of the first surface and a second color filter disposed on the second surface to face the first color filter, and shields the peripheral wiring from light. The transparent adhesive layer is provided between the first color filter and the second color filter and bonds the element substrate and the transparent substrate to each other. |
| US12004401B2 |
Display panel, display panel manufacturing method, and display screen
A display panel, a display panel manufacturing method, and a display screen are provided. The display panel includes: a substrate, the substrate including a plurality of sub-pixel regions, each of the sub-pixel regions including a first region and a second region, the first region being provided with the substrate, a buffer layer, and a pixel circuit layer, and the second region being provided with the substrate; and a first electrode disposed on the second region of each of the sub-pixel region and directly contacting the substrate. Each sub-pixel region is divided into the first region and the second region, the first region is provided with the substrate, the buffer layer and the pixel circuit layer, the second region is provided with the substrate and the first electrode directly contacting the substrate, and no inorganic film is provided between the first electrode and the substrate. |
| US12004398B2 |
Display panel and manufacturing method thereof
A display panel and a manufacturing method include a substrate divided into a transparent region, a wiring changing region, and a display region; a first signal conducting wire including a first line segment and a second line segment and disposed on a plurality of insulating layers; and a planarization layer disposed on the first line segment, the second line segment, and the plurality of insulating layers. The first signal conducting wire further includes a first anode wiring disposed on the planarization layer, is located in the wiring changing region, and is electrically connected to the first line segment and the second line segment. Using signal conducting wires and wirings of the anode wirings reduces manufacturing of a layer of the signal conducting wires and a layer of the planarization layer above. |
| US12004394B2 |
Display substrate and display device
The disclosure discloses a display substrate and a display device. The display substrate includes a base substrate, and a first wire layer, a first insulating layer, a transitional connection layer, a second insulating layer, a third insulating layer, and a second wire layer sequentially arranged on a wire changing region of the substrate; first wires of the first wire layer are electrically connected to electrical connection portions of the transitional connection layer through a first opening of the first insulating layer, and the electrical connection portions are electrically connected to second wires of the second wire layer through a second opening of the second insulating layer and a third opening of the third insulating layer; at least two of a projection of the first opening, a projection of the second opening, or a projection of the third opening on the substrate are staggered in positions. |
| US12004393B2 |
Foldable display device
A foldable display device includes a flexible display substrate having a folding area and non-folding areas on two sides of the folding area, and a plurality of scan lines disposed on the flexible substrate and extending in a specific direction. The scan lines disposed in the folding area include a first part and a second part which are disposed on different layers and which are formed of different materials. |
| US12004392B2 |
Display panel and display device
A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel comprises a substrate, a plurality of sub-pixels, a plurality of data lines, a plurality of wiring structures and a plurality of pads. The substrate comprises a display area and a non-display area comprising a bending area. The sub-pixels and data lines are in the display area and electrically connected with each other. The wiring structures are in the bending area and electrically connected with the data lines. At least one wiring structure comprises a plurality of hollow patterns connected successively, each hollow pattern comprises a first conductive part and a second conductive part connected with each other. The plurality of pads are in the non-display area and located on a side of the plurality of wiring structures away from the display area and electrically connected with the plurality of wiring structures. |
| US12004390B2 |
Display device including auxiliary pixel near through-hole
A display device includes: a substrate in which a main display area, a first non-display area inside the main display area, and an auxiliary display area between the main display area and the first non-display area are defined; and a display unit including an auxiliary display and a main display. The auxiliary display is disposed on the auxiliary display area and includes a plurality of first auxillary pixels, a plurality of second auxillary pixels, and a plurality of third auxillary pixels. The main display is disposed on the main display area and includes a plurality of main pixels. The plurality of first auxillary pixels is commonly driven by a first driving signal, the plurality of second auxiliary pixels is commonly driven by a second driving signal, and the plurality of third auxillary pixels is commonly driven by a third driving signal. |
| US12004387B2 |
Display substrate and manufacturing method thereof, and display device
A display substrate and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device are disclosed. The display substrate includes a base substrate, lead wires, a plurality of contact pads, a first insulation laminated layer, and a second insulation laminated layer. The base substrate includes a display region, a dam region at least partially surrounding the display region, a transition region on a side of the dam region away from the display region, and a first bonding region and a bonding peripheral region on a side of the transition region away from the dam region. The plurality of contact pads is in the first bonding region and configured to be electrically connected to the lead wires. The first insulation laminated layer is in the first bonding region. The second insulation laminated layer is in the bonding peripheral region. |
| US12004383B2 |
Optoelectronic device including light transmissive regions, with light diffraction characteristics
An opto-electronic device comprises light transmissive regions extending through it along a first axis to allow passage of light therethrough. The transmissive regions may be arranged along a plurality of transverse configuration axes. Emissive regions may lie between adjacent transmissive regions along a plurality of configuration axes to emit light from the device. Each transmissive region has a lateral closed boundary having a shape to alter at least one characteristic of a diffraction pattern exhibited when light is transmitted through the device to mitigate interference by such pattern. An opaque coating may comprise at least one aperture defining a corresponding transmissive region to preclude transmission of light therethrough other than through the transmissive region(s). The device can form a face of a user device having a body and housing a transceiver positioned to receive light along at least one light transmissive region. |
| US12004382B2 |
Display panel and electronic apparatus
A display panel includes a substrate, two pixels arranged on the substrate and spaced from each other with a transmission area therebetween, and a blocking layer between the substrate and the two pixels, the blocking layer including an opening corresponding to the transmission area. An edge of the opening includes a plurality of convex portions. |
| US12004380B2 |
Organic light-emitting diode display device and manufacturing method thereof
The present invention provides an organic light-emitting diode display device and a manufacturing method thereof. An inorganic insulating layer covering a gate is formed, and an organic insulating layer is formed on the inorganic insulating layer, which prevents a problem of metal residue occurring in a subsequently formed metal layer during etching due to a steep slope. A groove is defined on a position of the organic insulating layer corresponding to the gate, and a metal component for forming a capacitor with the gate is formed in the groove and disposed corresponding to the gate. |
| US12004379B2 |
Display device
A display device can include a plurality of light emitting parts disposed to correspond to a plurality of pixel electrodes in a display area, a plurality of transmission parts, each transmission part among the plurality of transmission parts being disposed at a side of at least one of the plurality of light emitting parts; and a touch metal having a plurality of first touch metals extending in a first direction and a plurality of second touch metals extending in a second on the plurality of pixel electrodes. Also, each of the plurality of pixel electrodes includes a plurality of sub-pixel electrodes, and each of the plurality of sub-pixel electrodes is divided into a plurality of parts connected to each other by a sub-pixel connecting part narrower than each part among the plurality of parts, in which a portion of the first touch metals is disposed above the sub-pixel connecting part. |
| US12004375B2 |
Pixel defining layer, organic light-emitting diode display panel, and manufacturing method thereof
Provided is a pixel defining layer of an organic light-emitting diode display panel. The pixel defining layer includes: an insulating transparent cladding layer; and a reflecting layer in the transparent cladding layer, wherein the reflecting layer is configured to reflect light emitted from a light-emitting layer of the organic light-emitting diode display panel. Organic light-emitting diode display panels and methods for manufacturing an organic light-emitting diode display panel are also provided. |
| US12004371B2 |
Display apparatus
A display apparatus includes: a display layer including a plurality of organic light emitting elements, and defining a plurality of light emitting areas and a non-light emitting area surrounding the light emitting areas; and an input sensing layer on the display layer. The input sensing layer includes: a first conductive pattern on the display layer; an insulating layer on the first conductive pattern to cover the first conductive pattern, and defining a plurality of light collecting patterns overlapping with the light emitting areas in a plan view; a second conductive pattern on a top surface of the insulating layer; and an overcoat layer on the second conductive pattern to cover the insulating layer and the second conductive pattern. Each of the light collecting patterns is recessed downward from the top surface of the insulating layer. |
| US12004369B2 |
Light-emitting device
An object of one embodiment of the present invention is to provide a more convenient highly reliable light-emitting device which can be used for a variety of applications. Another object of one embodiment of the present invention is to manufacture, without complicating the process, a highly reliable light-emitting device having a shape suitable for its intended purpose. In a manufacturing process of a light-emitting device, a light-emitting panel is manufactured which is at least partly curved by processing the shape to be molded after the manufacture of an electrode layer and/or an element layer, and a protective film covering a surface of the light-emitting panel which is at least partly curved is formed, so that a light-emitting device using the light-emitting panel has a more useful function and higher reliability. |
| US12004366B2 |
Electronic apparatus including display module opening having cover patterned side surfaces
An electronic apparatus includes a window, a display module that includes a module hole, an optical member disposed between the window and the display module and in which a first opening that overlaps the module hole is formed, and a cover pattern disposed on an inner surface of the first opening of the optical member. |
| US12004364B2 |
Light-emitting device and apparatus including same
A light-emitting device and an apparatus including the same include a first electrode, a second electrode facing the first electrode; and an organic layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the organic layer includes m emission units and (m-1) charge generating units, each of the charge generating units being between the emission units that are adjacent to each other, m is a natural number of 2 or greater, at least one of the (m-1) charge generating units includes an n-type charge generating layer, a p-type charge generating layer, and a p-type hole injection layer, wherein the n-type charge generating layer includes an n-type organic compound and a metal material, and wherein the p-type charge generating layer and the p-type hole injection layer each independently include an inorganic semiconductor material. |
| US12004359B2 |
Light-emitting element, display device, electronic device, and lighting device
A light-emitting element including a fluorescent material as a light-emitting material and having high emission efficiency is provided. The light-emitting element includes a pair of electrodes and an EL layer provided between the pair of electrodes. The EL layer includes a host material and a guest material. The host material is capable of exhibiting thermally activated delayed fluorescence at room temperature. The guest material is capable of exhibiting fluorescence. The second triplet excitation energy level of the guest material is higher than or equal to the lowest singlet excitation energy level of the guest material. |
| US12004358B2 |
Dual color detection systems and methods
Techniques are disclosed for facilitating dual color detection. In one example, an imaging device includes a first pixel configured to detect first image data associated with a first waveband of electromagnetic radiation. The imaging device further includes a second pixel configured to detect second image data associated with a second waveband of the electromagnetic radiation, where at least a portion of the second waveband does not overlap the first waveband. The imaging device further includes a bias circuit configured to apply a first voltage between the first pixel and a first ground contact, and apply a second voltage between the second pixel and a second ground contact. The first voltage is different from the second voltage. Related methods are also provided. |
| US12004356B2 |
Cross-point magnetoresistive random memory array and method of making thereof using self-aligned patterning
A memory device includes a cross-point array of magnetoresistive memory cells. Each magnetoresistive memory cell includes a vertical stack of a selector-containing pillar structure and a magnetic tunnel junction pillar structure. The lateral spacing between neighboring pairs of magnetoresistive memory cells may be smaller along a first horizontal direction than along a second horizontal direction, and a dielectric spacer or a tapered etch process may be used to provide a pattern of an etch mask for patterning first electrically conductive lines underneath the magnetoresistive memory cells. Alternatively, a resist layer may be employed to pattern first electrically conductive lines underneath the cross-point array. Alternatively, a protective dielectric liner may be provided to protect selector-containing pillar structures during formation of the magnetic tunnel junction pillar structures. |
| US12004355B2 |
Magnetic tunnel junction element and magnetoresistive memory device
Provided is a magnetic tunnel junction element and a magnetoresistive memory device. The magnetic tunnel junction element includes a fixed layer maintaining a magnetization direction, an insulating layer, a free layer having a variable magnetization direction, and an antiferromagnetic oxide layer. The fixed layer, the free layer, and the antiferromagnetic oxide layer may be sequentially stacked. The free layer and the antiferromagnetic oxide layer may be in direct contact with each other. |
| US12004354B2 |
Memory arrays comprising vertically-alternating tiers of insulative material and memory cells and methods of forming a memory array comprising memory cells individually comprising a transistor and a capacitor
A memory array comprises vertically-alternating tiers of insulative material and memory cells, with the memory cells individually comprising a transistor comprising first and second source/drain regions having a channel region there-between and a gate operatively proximate the channel region. At least a portion of the channel region is horizontally-oriented for horizontal current flow in the portion between the first and second source/drain regions. A capacitor of the memory cell comprises first and second electrodes having a capacitor insulator there-between. The first electrode is electrically coupled to the first source/drain region. A horizontal longitudinally-elongated sense line is in individual of the memory-cell tiers. Individual of the second source/drain regions of individual of the transistors that are in the same memory-cell tier are electrically coupled to the horizontal longitudinally-elongated sense line in that individual tier of memory cells. A capacitor-electrode structure extends elevationally through the vertically-alternating tiers. Individual of the second electrodes of individual of the capacitors are electrically coupled to the elevationally-extending capacitor-electrode structure. An access-line pillar extends elevationally through the vertically-alternating tiers. The gate of individual of the transistors in different of the memory-cell tiers comprises a portion of the elevationally-extending access-line pillar. Other embodiments, including method, are disclosed. |
| US12004353B2 |
Semiconductor devices including a contact structure that contacts a dummy channel structure
Semiconductor devices are provided. A semiconductor device includes a substrate and a stacked structure in which a plurality of insulating layers and a plurality of electrode layers are alternately stacked on the substrate. The semiconductor device includes a plurality of dummy channel structures that pass through the stacked structure. Moreover, the semiconductor device includes a contact structure in contact with at least one of the plurality of dummy channel structures adjacent thereto, and in contact with one of the plurality of electrode layers. |
| US12004349B2 |
Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same
A semiconductor device includes: a first stacked film including first electrode layers; an insulating layer provided on the first stacked film; a second stacked film provided on the insulating layer and including second electrode layers; and a columnar portion extending through the first stacked film, the insulating layer, and the second stacked film. The columnar portion extending in the insulating layer includes a first portion having a first width in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and a second portion provided at a different location along the first direction and having a second width in the second direction. The columnar portion extending in the second stacked film includes a third portion having a third width along the second direction. The second width is larger than the first width and the third width. |
| US12004341B2 |
Recessed channel fin integration
A variety of applications can include apparatus having a recessed channel FinFET. The recessed channel FinFET can include one or more fin structures between the source region and the drain region, where the one or more fin structures are recessed from a top level of the source region and from a top level of the drain region. The recessed channel FinFET can include a gate recessed from the top level of a source region and a drain region, where the gate can be separated from tip regions of the fin structures by a gate dielectric defining a channel between the source region and the drain region. Recessed channel FinFETs can be structured in a periphery to an array of a memory device and can be fabricated in a process merged with forming access lines to the array. |
| US12004339B2 |
Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same
In one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a substrate, transistors on the substrate, and a stacked film provided above the transistors, including electrode layers separated from each other in a first direction, and including first, second and third regions. The device further includes plugs provided to the electrode layers in the first region, a first columnar portion in the second region, and a second columnar portion in the third region. At least one electrode layer among the electrode layers includes a first portion in the first region, a second portion in the second region, and a third portion in the third region, and is a continuous film from the second portion to the third portion via the first portion. The transistors include first, second and third transistors provided right under the first, second and third regions and electrically connected to first, second and third plugs among the plugs, respectively. |
| US12004338B2 |
Memory device having a diagonally opposite gate pair per memory cell
Implementations described herein relate to various structures, integrated assemblies, and memory devices. In some implementations, an integrated assembly includes a pillar having an upper source/drain, a middle source/drain, a lower source/drain, an upper channel between the upper source/drain and the middle source/drain, and a lower channel between the middle source/drain and the lower source/drain. The integrated assembly includes a gate pair that includes a first gate and a second gate. The first gate is positioned on a first side of the pillar at a first height, and the second gate is positioned on a second side of the pillar, that is opposite the first side, at a second height that is different from the first height. The integrated assembly includes a capacitor that is electrically coupled with the upper source/drain. Some implementations include methods of forming the various structures, integrated assemblies, and memory devices. |
| US12004337B2 |
Ultrathin conformal coatings for electrostatic dissipation in semiconductor process tools
Disclosed in some embodiments is a chamber component (such as an end effector body) coated with an ultrathin electrically-dissipative material to provide a dissipative path from the coating to the ground. The coating may be deposited via a chemical precursor deposition to provide a uniform, conformal, and porosity free coating in a cost effective manner. In an embodiment wherein the chamber component comprises an end effector body, the end effector body may further comprise replaceable contact pads for supporting a substrate and the contact surface of the contact pads head may also be coated with an electrically-dissipative material. |
| US12004336B2 |
System and method for thermal management and electromagnetic interference management
A data processing device includes an internal volume for housing electromagnetic interference emitting devices. The data processing device further includes a first electromagnetic radiation absorbing vent. The data processing device further includes a second electromagnetic radiation absorbing vent. The first electromagnetic radiation absorbing vent and the second electromagnetic radiation absorbing vent delineate a gas flow path through the internal volume. |
| US12004332B2 |
Cooling automotive power electronics
The present disclosure relates generally to methods and devices for the cooling (or removal of heat from) power electronics modules in automotive vehicles, wherein the cooling is done by positioning the power electronics module in a housing, directing a fluid into the housing, and impinging the fluid onto the power electronics module and/or an electrical connection in contact with the power electronics module. |
| US12004329B1 |
Data center refrigeration system
An apparatus includes a driver and both a pump and a compressor mechanically coupled to the driver. The driver includes a first driver chamber and a second driver chamber separated by a moveable driver barrier coupled to a mechanical link. The driver is configured to alternately expand and contract the first and second driver chambers in response to an alternating pressure differential of a gaseous first coolant between a first pressure and a second pressure of the first and second driver chambers and produce a mechanical force from the alternating pressure differential. The pump is configured to pump a liquid first coolant in response to the mechanical force from the driver. The compressor is configured to compress a second coolant in response to the mechanical force from the driver. |
| US12004325B2 |
Immersion liquid cooling tank assembly with fan
An immersion liquid cooling tank assembly includes a tank, a condenser, at least one cross-flow fan, an internal wall system, a top cover, and at least one sloping wall. The tank includes a base and at least one sidewall. The base is connected to the sidewall. The condenser is located within the tank. The condenser is adapted to transform vapor into liquid. The cross-flow fan is near the condenser. The cross-flow fan produces an airflow. The internal wall system is located adjacent to the cross-flow fan to assist in directing the airflow from the cross-flow fan. The top cover is located generally opposite to the base. The sloping wall is located between the top cover and the sidewall. The sloping wall provides a closed airflow loop for the airflow produced by the cross-flow fan. |
| US12004320B2 |
Thermal component and electronic device
A thermal system includes a system component, a working medium, a second-level thermal component, and a working medium transmission component. The system component includes a first-level thermal component and a working medium driver. The working medium driver is configured to drive the working medium to flow through a primary flow-through structure, a secondary flow-through structure, and a transmission channel in the working medium transmission component, and the thickness of the working medium driver is less than or equal to 5 mm. |
| US12004319B1 |
Rack interlock limiting the withdrawal of chassis
A system and method are provided for an interlock that limits the number of electronic devices that may extend from a rack system. In the system, sensors attached to the rack detect the extension of a rail from the rack. The sensors provide a controller with data from which the controller determines a number of rails that are extended from the rack. If the number of extended rails is determined by the controller to exceed a threshold number, the controller actuates a latch system that closes to lock the remaining devices within the rack. |
| US12004318B2 |
Data processing systems including optical communication modules
A system includes a housing and a first circuit board positioned inside the housing. The housing has top, bottom, left side, right side, front, and rear panels. The first circuit board has a length, a width, and a thickness, and the first circuit board has a first surface defined by the length and the width. The first surface of the first circuit board is substantially parallel to the front panel or at a second angle relative to the front panel in which the second angle is less than 60°. The system includes a first data processing module and a first optical interconnect module both electrically coupled to the first circuit board. The optical interconnect module is configured to receive first optical signals from a first optical link, convert the first optical signals to first electrical signals, and transmit the first electrical signals to the first data processing module. |
| US12004317B2 |
Computing system having a flexible filter assembly
Example implementations relate to a computing system having a flexible filter assembly. The computing system includes a chassis having an internal volume, a pair of guide rails, a flexible filter assembly, and a plurality of first electronic components. The pair of guide rails is disposed spaced apart from each other and coupled to the chassis. The flexible filter assembly is disposed within and connected to the chassis via the pair of guide rails. The flexible filter assembly splits the internal volume into first and second volume portions. The first volume portion is located downstream relative to flow of supply air. The flexible filter assembly slides into the chassis along the pair of guide rails to detachably connect to the chassis. The flexible filter assembly cleans the supply air and directs clean air towards the plurality of first electronic components disposed in the first volume portion and coupled to the chassis. |
| US12004312B2 |
Deformable display device with support structure
A display device including a deformable display unit according to an embodiment includes: a display panel that can display images in a first direction and a supporting part positioned under the display panel. The supporting part includes a plurality of springs that are arranged in a second direction and extend in a third direction, and are interwoven with each other. The first direction, second direction, and third direction are substantially orthogonal to each other. |
| US12004310B2 |
Display assemblies incorporating electric vehicle charging equipment
Electronic display assemblies with forced air cooling are provided. An open loop centrifugal fan forces ambient air through an open loop pathway extending through an electronic display subassembly. A closed loop centrifugal fan forces circulating gas through a closed loop airflow pathway including a rear compartment behind the electronic display subassembly. Electronic components for operating the display assembly and changing electric vehicles may be provided with the rear compartment. |
| US12004307B2 |
Short or near short etch rework
Embodiments are directed to short and/or near short etch rework. A microfluidic device is positioned on a portion of a circuit having a defect. The microfluidic device is caused to dispense etchant that removes the defect of the circuit, where a flow of the etchant is controlled to access the portion of the circuit having the defect to thereby etch away the defect, the flow of the etchant being obstructed from accessing other portions of the circuit. The microfluidic device is used to extract the etchant from the portion of the circuit such that the etchant avoids contact with the other portions of the circuit. The microfluidic device is removed from the circuit. |
| US12004301B2 |
Circuit board
A circuit board includes a base layer, an electrode layer formed on the base layer, a passivation layer formed on the electrode layer while opening a part of the electrode layer, and a surface treatment layer formed on the open surface of the electrode layer. The surface treatment layer may contain 70 to 40% of copper and 30 to 60% of nickel. |
| US12004295B2 |
Articles including metallized vias
An article includes a wafer having a body which defines a first surface and a second surface. The wafer defines a via having a via surface extending between the first and second surfaces through the body. An adhesion layer is positioned on the via surface. At least a portion of the via surface is free of the adhesion layer. A metallic component is positioned within the via and extends from the first surface to the second surface. |
| US12004294B2 |
Circuit board
A method of manufacturing a base plate includes the following steps: providing a first substrate, the first substrate including a first base layer, a first copper coating and a second copper coating covered on two sides of the first base layer; opening at least one first hole on the first substrate, the first hole penetrating the first base layer and the first copper; forming a first electroplated coating on the first copper coating, the first copper coating filling the first hole to form a first connecting portion; opening at least one second hole on the first connecting portion and the first electroplated coating to form a plurality of second connecting pins. |
| US12004290B2 |
Multilayer board
In a multilayer board, a transmission line includes layers including a first insulator layer, a first joining material layer in contact with a first surface of the first insulator layer, and a second joining material layer in contact with a second surface of the first insulator layer. A signal conductor of the transmission line is on the first surface of the first insulator layer, a relative permittivity of the second joining material layer is lower than a relative permittivity of the first joining material layer, and an adhesion strength between the first insulator layer and the first joining material layer is higher than an adhesion strength between the first insulator layer and the second joining material layer. |
| US12004284B2 |
Methods and systems for x-ray imaging
Various methods and systems are provided for medical imaging systems. In one example, an imaging system comprises: a C-shaped gantry; an x-ray tube coupled to a first end of the C-shaped gantry; an x-ray detector coupled to a second end of the C-shaped gantry, opposite to the x-ray tube; and a controller with computer readable instructions stored on non-transitory memory that when executed, cause the controller to: identify a reference image; determine a target electrical current based on the reference image; determine a corrected electrical current based on the target electrical current; and transition an electrical current provided to the x-ray tube to the target electrical current by commanding the electrical current to the corrected electrical current while maintaining a constant voltage provided to the x-ray tube. |
| US12004283B2 |
Electromagnetic wave reducing heaters and devices and saunas
Systems may include a heater including a plurality of heating elements that may include a first heating element configured to generate heat based on a first current, and a second heating element configured to generate heat based on a second current. Systems may further include an electromagnetic (EM) radiation reducing device configured to cancel electromagnetic emissions from the heater. The EM radiation reducing device may include a first EM radiation reduction element positioned adjacent to a first side of the heater, and a second EM radiation reduction element positioned adjacent to a second side of the heater, where the first and second EM radiation reduction elements have geometries configured based, at least in part, on the heater. |
| US12004271B2 |
Power control device and power control method
Provided is a power control device 100 comprising: a current detector 31 that measures a combined current value obtained by combining currents flowing through a plurality of loads 1-4; and an output calculation unit 11 that calculates a correction value obtained by dividing a total value of products of operation output values for the loads 1-4 and rated current values of the loads 1-4, respectively, by the combined current value obtained by the current detector 31, and that performs power supply control for the loads 1-4 on the basis of a corrected operation output value that is a product of the operation output value and the correction value for each of the loads 1-4, in which in a system that heats or cools a workpiece by means of a plurality of loads, heating control or cooling control can be performed in which an effect of a fluctuation in load characteristics is reduced. |
| US12004262B2 |
Wireless communication method using BSS identifier and wireless communication terminal using same
Provided is a wireless communication terminal that wirelessly communicates. The wireless communication terminal includes a transceiver configured to transmit and receive wireless signals; and a processor configured to process the wireless signals. The processor is configured to: generate a trigger frame for triggering uplink transmission based random access of at least one wireless communication terminal, and insert the trigger frame into a physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) to transmit the PPDU. |
| US12004261B2 |
Method and entity for checking port consistency of NIDD message
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and an entity for checking port consistency of NIDD message. A first aspect of the present disclosure provides a method performed at a first entity (100), comprising: receiving (S101), from a second entity, a non-internet protocol data delivery, NIDD, message including one or more RDS port numbers; and determining (S102) whether the one or more RDS port numbers are within a configured RDS port list. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, network resources for transmitting the invalid NIDD data may be saved, and undesired actions in the communication system may be avoided. |
| US12004260B2 |
Local software beacon for device management
A method for managing user interactions with multiple mobile devices is provided. The method includes receiving, at one of the mobile devices, a user input to associate the mobile device with the on-duty vehicle driver, such that all remaining mobile devices within range of an in-vehicle network beacon are passenger mobile devices. The method then includes transmitting, by the driver mobile device, one or more signals to the passenger mobile devices, the one or more signals including a unique identifier and indicating the association of the driver mobile device with the on-duty driver. In response to the one or more signals from the driver mobile device, the passenger mobile devices enforce a different device usage policy (or suspend enforcement of a device usage policy) while a device usage policy on the driver mobile device is enforced to restrict access to functionality on only that device. |
| US12004255B2 |
Discontinuous reception techniques with non-uniform cycle durations
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described for configuring discontinuous reception (DRX) cycles within a DRX time period at a user equipment (UE). DRX configurations may provide that different DRX cycles have non-uniform cycle durations within the DRX time period. Such non-uniform cycle durations may provide DRX ON-durations that are aligned with a periodicity of downlink traffic to the UE in which the downlink traffic may be unaligned with timing boundaries used for wireless communications between the UE and a base station, such as slot boundaries or symbol boundaries. |
| US12004252B2 |
Mobile communication system, user terminal, and base station
A user equipment, method, and chipset receive from a base station resource information indicating usable radio resources for data transmitted in the direct communication, detect a power when receiving a radio signal directly transmitted from another user terminal, and determine, based on the result of the process, a radio resource used to transmit the data from among the usable radio resources indicated by the resource information. |
| US12004245B2 |
Method and apparatus for establishing unicast connection based on sidelink
A method for establishing a unicast connection based on sidelink, performed by a first terminal, includes: broadcasting an access control parameter, wherein the access control parameter is configured to determine whether a second terminal is a target terminal allowed to establish the unicast connection with the first terminal; receiving a connection establishment request message transmitted by the second terminal in response to the second terminal being the target terminal; and establishing the unicast connection with the second terminal based on the connection establishment request message. |
| US12004244B2 |
Method and mobile terminal for controlling Bluetooth low energy device
A method of controlling, by using a mobile terminal, at least one Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) device is provided. The method includes searching for at least one BLE device, displaying a BLE device list, including the at least one searched for BLE device, on a display unit of the mobile terminal, receiving an input of selection of a BLE device from the BLE device list, receiving an input of user added information from a user regarding the selected BLE device, and mapping and storing property information and the user added information regarding the selected BLE device. |
| US12004239B2 |
Enhanced RACH (random access channel) design for 5G CIoT (cellular internet of things)
Techniques for random access (RA) in a cellular internet-of-things (CIOT) are discussed. An example apparatus configured to be employed within a User Equipment (UE), comprises a receiver circuitry, a processor, and transmitter circuitry. The receiver circuitry is configured to receive RA resource allocation information via one of a system information message or a downlink control information (DCI) message. The processor is operably coupled to the receiver circuitry and configured to: select a RA preamble sequence; generate a payload; and spread the payload via a spreading sequence. The transmitter circuitry is configured to transmit, based on the RA resource allocation information, a RA message comprising the RA preamble sequence and the payload, wherein the RA message is transmitted in a RA slot. The receiver circuitry is further configured to receive a response comprising a device identity of the UE and one of an uplink (UL) grant or a RA reject message. |
| US12004238B2 |
Low latency schemes for peer-to-peer (P2P) communications
This disclosure provides systems and methods for requesting wireless resources for peer-to-peer (P2P) communications. In some implementations, a wireless communication device transmits a frame over a wireless medium to an access point (AP), the frame including a medium access control (MAC) header carrying a request for the AP to allocate part of a transmission opportunity (TXOP) for P2P communications between the wireless communication device and a client device. The wireless communication device receives a trigger frame allocating a portion of the TXOP for the P2P communications, and transmits or receives P2P data to or from the client device over the wireless medium during the allocated portion of the TXOP. In some instances, the MAC header of the frame includes a Quality-of-Service (QoS) Control field carrying the request. In some other instances, the MAC header of the frame includes an Aggregated-Control (A-Control) subfield carrying the request. |
| US12004236B2 |
Random access procedures for satellite communications
Systems and methods are disclosed for random access in a wireless communication system such as, e.g., a wireless communication system having a non-terrestrial (e.g., satellite-based) radio access network. Embodiments of a method performed by a wireless device and corresponding embodiments of a wireless device are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method performed by a wireless device for random access comprises performing an open-loop timing advance estimation procedure to thereby determine an open-loop timing advance estimate for an uplink between the wireless device and a base station. The method further comprises transmitting a random access preamble using the open-loop timing advance estimate. In this manner, random access can be performed even in the presence of a long propagation delay such as that present in a satellite-based radio access network. Embodiments of a method performed by a base station and corresponding embodiments of a base station are also disclosed. |
| US12004235B2 |
Method whereby terminal transmits and receives signals for carrying out random access channel procedure in wireless communication system, and device therefor
The present disclosure provides a method whereby a terminal transmits and receives signals for carrying out a random access channel (RACH) procedure in a wireless communication system. In particular, the method comprises: receiving first information about a transform precoder related to a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmitted via message A; on the basis of the first information, transmitting message A including the PUSCH and a physical random access channel (PRACH); and in response to message A, receiving message B including contention resolution information, wherein the first information may be used to indicate transform precoding for the PUSCH on the basis that the PUSCH is transmitted via message A. |
| US12004232B2 |
Random access method, apparatus, and system
A random access method, an apparatus, and a system are disclosed. A terminal device receives, from a network device, information about a PRACH resource set and information about one or more PUSCH resources associated with each PRACH resource in the PRACH resource set. If a first PUSCH resource associated with a valid first PRACH resource in the PRACH resource set is valid, the terminal device sends a first preamble sequence to the network device on the first PRACH resource, and sends uplink data to the network device on the first PUSCH resource. The network device receives the first preamble sequence from the terminal device on the first PRACH resource, and receives the uplink data from the terminal device on the first PUSCH resource. The first preamble sequence is a preamble sequence set associated with the first PUSCH resource. |
| US12004230B2 |
Random access method and related device
Provided by the present disclosure are a random access method and a related device, the method comprises: sending a first message to a network-side device; receiving a response message sent by the network side device and carrying target configuration information; there is a correlation between at least part of the target configuration information and relevant parameters, and the relevant parameters are parameters that can be learned before a terminal device receives the response message; and obtaining, according to the correlation, configuration information, in the target configuration information, related with a target relevant parameter of the terminal device. |
| US12004229B2 |
Communication method and apparatus
Provided are a communication method, a terminal device and a network device. The terminal device receives configuration information sent by a network device, the configuration information being used for indicating one or more conditions for the terminal device to report random access-related information. The terminal device sends a successful handover report that does not contain the random access-related information to the network device in response to a random access of the terminal device not satisfying the one or more conditions for reporting the random access-related information. |
| US12004227B2 |
Uplink carrier selection based on power threshold and speed
A wireless device receives at least one power threshold for selecting one of a first uplink carrier or a second uplink carrier of a cell. The wireless device selects, based on the at least one power threshold and a speed of the wireless device, one of the first uplink carrier and the second uplink carrier as a selected uplink carrier. The wireless device transmits a random access preamble via the selected uplink carrier. |
| US12004226B2 |
Method and apparatus for switching between 2 step and 4 step random access (RA) procedures and contention resolutions
A communication method and system for converging a 5th generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of things (IoT) are provided. A method performed by a terminal in a wireless communication system is provided that includes transmitting, to a base station, a message A (MsgA) associated with a 2 step random access (RA) procedure, the MsgA including an RA preamble, receiving, from the base station, a message B (MsgB) as a response to the MsgA, identifying whether the 2 step RA procedure is successfully completed, and transmitting, to the base station, hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledge (ACK) information for a transport block (TB) associated with the MsgB, in case that the 2 step RA procedure is successfully completed. |
| US12004221B2 |
Truncated identification indicators for early user equipment (UE) capability retrieval
A base-station (BS) receiving a random access request from user equipment (a UE), followed by a connection request. The connection request contains UE identity information which may have one of multiple formats depending on whether the access request and/or the connection request indicate that the UE is operating as a bandwidth-limited (BL) UE, an enhanced coverage (CE) UE, or a UE that operates in neither the BL mode nor the CE mode. In the BL mode, the UE may transmit a truncated identifier that is sufficient for the BS to retrieve capability information for the UE prior to transmitting a resource grant to the UE. The BS may then configure the UE and BS to using a radio configuration optimized for the UE's capabilities and transmit the resource grant in accordance with the optimized configuration. |
| US12004218B2 |
Method and apparatus for intra-UE prioritization considering UL grant received in random access response
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The method includes identifying whether a medium access control (MAC) entity of the terminal is configured with a logical channel (LCH)-based prioritization, identifying whether a first uplink grant is associated with a random access, determining the first uplink grant to be a prioritized uplink grant, and transmitting an uplink signal based on the prioritized uplink grant. |
| US12004214B2 |
Channel access mechanism for random access channel in unlicensed spectrum
Method and devices are provided for a channel access mechanism for accessing a network on a random access channel (RACH). Methods involve defining a listen-before-talk (LBT) category to be used as part of a contention based procedure and how a contention window that is part of the LBT can be dynamically adjusted. |
| US12004211B2 |
Management and orchestration aided transparent of 3GPP network into TSN based industrial network
It is provided a method comprising monitoring if a reservation request is received from a controller, wherein the reservation request requests to reserve resources for a data session having a first quality of service; translating the reservation request into a request for providing a data session of a wireless network having a requested quality of service corresponding to the first quality of service if the reservation request is received; forwarding the request for providing the data session to the wireless network; translating an indication of a provided quality of service of the data session comprised in a response to the request for providing the data session received from the wireless network into an indication of a reserved quality of service corresponding to the provided quality of service; responding to the reservation request by a reservation response; wherein the reservation response comprises the indication of the reserved quality of service. |
| US12004206B2 |
Application time for non-serving cell reference signal update
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, an indication of an update associated with a non-serving cell reference signal. The UE may select a first application time duration based at least in part on a determination that the non-serving cell reference signal has been tracked by the UE or a second application time duration based at least in part on a determination that the non-serving cell reference signal has not been tracked by the UE, resulting in a selected application time duration. The UE may apply the update associated with the non-serving cell reference signal after the selected application time duration. Numerous other aspects are described. |
| US12004205B2 |
Sidelink communication method, network device, and terminal device
This application provides a sidelink communication method, a terminal device, and a network device. In the sidelink communication method, a network device determines downlink control information. The downlink control information carries first indication information. The first indication information is used to indicate slot formats respectively corresponding to the terminal devices in K terminal device pairs. A terminal device pair is two terminal devices performing sidelink communication between themselves. K is a positive integer. The network device sends the downlink control information. In the technical solutions provided in this application, the network device may configure a slot format for the terminal devices in the terminal device pairs. |
| US12004204B2 |
Method for transmitting and receiving uplink data by using PUR in wireless communication system, and device for same
The present specification provides a method for transmitting uplink data by using a preset uplink resource (PUR) in a wireless communication system. More specifically, the method, which is performed by a terminal, includes: a step for receiving setting information from a base station in an RRC connected state, the setting information being for transmitting uplink data by using the PUR in an RRC idle state; a step for transitioning from the RRC connected state to the RRC idle state; and a step for using the PUR to transmit the uplink data to the base station in the RRC idle state on the basis of the setting information. |
| US12004197B2 |
Method of and apparatus for transmitting multimedia broadcast multicast service reception status
The invention proposes a method of transmitting a multimedia broadcast multicast service reception status message, wherein a terminal receives a radio resource control message from a base station; determines whether the radio resource control message satisfies a predetermined condition; and if the radio resource control message satisfies the predetermined condition, then the terminal transmits the multimedia broadcast multicast service reception status message to the base station, wherein the multimedia broadcast multicast service reception status message is used for identifying a multimedia broadcast multicast service being received by the terminal With the technical solution of the invention, the base station can obtain a reception status message, transmitted by the terminal, of at least one multimedia broadcast multicast service at the terminal side to thereby count the number of broadcast or multicast receiving users of the multimedia broadcast multicast service in operation and perform other relevant processes. |
| US12004194B2 |
Transmission method and apparatus for MIMO system
A communication technique for convergence between an IoT technology and a 5th generation (5G) communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate beyond a 4th generation (4G) system, and a system thereof is provided. The method includes intelligence services (for example, smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, healthcare, digital education, retail businesses, security and safety related services, and the like.) On the basis of a 5G communication technology and an IoT-related technology. A method includes determining a scheduling-related parameter for at least one user, and transmitting scheduling information indicating the scheduling-related parameter to a radio unit (RU), wherein the scheduling information includes a first section extension field including information relating to a user equipment identifier (ueID) related to the at least one user, and a second section extension field including information relating to a number of ueIDs corresponding to each user. |
| US12004190B2 |
Method and device for performing uplink/downlink transmission in wireless communication system
A method for receiving downlink transmission by a terminal comprises the steps of: performing uplink transmission, which is related to channel occupancy shared between a base station and the terminal, to the base station; and receiving, from the base station, downlink transmission performed after a gap from a time point at which the base station has received the uplink transmission, wherein the downlink transmission is performed on the basis of channel access performed by the base station, the channel access is performed on the basis of the gap, and information included in the downlink transmission and a resource through which the downlink transmission is performed are determined on the basis of whether the base station has configured, for the terminal, a threshold value of energy detection for the channel occupancy. |
| US12004186B2 |
Physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) reliability using sidelink
Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a target user equipment (UE) receives, from a relay UE over a sidelink channel between the target UE and the relay UE, downlink control information (DCI) for a communication session between the target UE and a network entity, wherein the sidelink channel indicates search space information for a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) between the target UE and the network entity carrying the DCI, and communicates with the network entity using a resource allocation granted by the DCI for a physical downlink channel, a physical uplink channel, or both between the target UE and the network entity based on the DCI and the search space information. |
| US12004179B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting group downlink control information
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for transmitting group downlink control information (DCI), wherein the method includes: transmitting group DCI to a user side, wherein the group DCI includes N bit blocks, and each bit block carries indication information including at least one of: an identifier of a user to be fed back (UE-ID), an identifier of a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) process (HARQ-ID) of the user to be fed back, and a bitmap mapping of K HARQ processes of one user; and the indication information carried in each bit block of the group DCI is configured to indicate feedback information of the corresponding HARQ process. |
| US12004177B2 |
Group common full-duplex (FD) beam
The present disclosure relates to determining that a plurality of user equipments (UEs) correspond to a single group; and transmitting a common full-duplex (FD) beam indication via a downlink control information (DCI) to the plurality of UEs based on the determination that the plurality of UEs correspond to a single group. |
| US12004169B2 |
Radio scheduling method and apparatus
This application provides a radio scheduling method and apparatus. The radio scheduling method includes: receiving, by a terminal, a first message from a network device, where the first message indicates at least one index, each of the at least one index associated to an uplink grant resource corresponding to a logical channel; obtaining, by the terminal, a first uplink grant resource from the network device; determining, by the terminal, a first logical channel based on an index of the first uplink grant resource and the at least one index, wherein the at least one index comprises the index of the first uplink grant resource. The radio scheduling method in embodiments of this application helps ensure that the terminal selects an appropriate logical channel, thereby helping satisfy reliability requirements of different services. |
| US12004168B2 |
Frequency hopping for control information in downlink shared channel
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive at least one control message including an indication that frequency hopping for downlink control information (DCI) is activated for physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH). The UE may determine a frequency hopping configuration (e.g., a frequency hopping pattern) for the DCI, which may be applied for PDSCH occasions, for a group of PDSCH occasions, or until changed by another indication from the network. The UE may also receive a downlink reference according to the frequency hopping configuration. For example, if intra-occasion frequency hopping is activated, demodulation reference signals (DMRS) may be received in each hop of the DCI within a PDSCH occasion, and if inter-occasion frequency hopping is activated, DMRS may be received once per PDSCH occasion. |
| US12004167B2 |
Multi-stage downlink control information for downlink transmissions
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive a first downlink control information (DCI) message from a base station on a first downlink control channel. The first DCI message may indicate a first set of transmission parameters. The UE may transmit a first uplink control information (UCI) message to the base station on an uplink control channel based on the first DCI message. The first UCI message may include feedback and a channel state information (CSI) report. The UE may receive a second DCI message from the base station on a second downlink channel based on the first UCI message. The second DCI message may indicate a second set of transmission parameters that are different than the first set of transmission parameters. The UE may communicate with the base station using the second set of transmission parameters indicated by the second DCI message. |
| US12004166B2 |
Information transmission method and apparatus, device, and storage medium
The present application relates to the field of mobile communications, and discloses an information transmission method and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium. The method comprises: determining at least one piece of feedback information associated with a first time domain unit, the at least one piece of feedback information comprising unpostponed feedback information and postponed feedback information, the unpostponed feedback information comprising feedback information corresponding to a first SPS PDSCH, the postponed feedback information comprising feedback information that is not successfully transmitted in a second time domain unit, and the feedback information that is not successfully transmitted in the second time domain unit being feedback information corresponding to a second SPS PDSCH; determining at least one PUCCH resource according to the at least one piece of feedback information; and according to the at least one PUCCH resource, determining feedback information transmitted in the first time domain unit. |
| US12004165B2 |
FD mode dependent UCI multiplexing
Apparatus, methods, and computer program products for PHY priority for wireless communications are provided. An example apparatus may multiplex a first uplink control information transmission based on a first uplink control information resource and a second uplink control information transmission based on a second uplink control information resource that overlaps in time with the first uplink control information resource, at least one of the first uplink control information resource and the second uplink control information resource being for full-duplex communication. The example apparatus may determine, based on applying a multiplexing rule on the full-duplex communication, whether to use the first uplink control information resource associated with a first beam or the second uplink control information resource associated with a second beam. The example apparatus may transmit a multiplexed uplink control information transmission using a determined uplink control information resource based on the multiplexing rule. |
| US12004162B2 |
Techniques for modifying a spatial relationship of an uplink channel
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive signaling from a base station that schedules the UE to transmit a second uplink signal using a second spatial relationship following transmission of a first uplink signal using a first spatial relationship. The second uplink signal may be scheduled within a beam switching gap associated with switching from the first spatial relationship to the second spatial relationship. In some examples, the UE may transmit the second uplink signal using the first spatial relationship, rather than switching to using the second spatial relationship. In some examples, the UE may shorten the first uplink signal or the second uplink signal (or both) to accommodate the beam switching gap. |
| US12004161B2 |
Data transmission method and reception method for wireless communication system and device using same
A base station of a wireless communication system is disclosed. The base station of the wireless communication includes a communication module; and a processor configured to control the communication module. The processor receives a radio resource control (RRC) signal from a base station of the wireless communication system through the communication module and determines a time-frequency resource corresponding to at least one resource-set indicated by the RRC signal. The processor receives a physical control channel from the base station through the communication module, determines a time-frequency resource domain in which physical data channel reception of the terminal is scheduled by the physical control channel, and receives a physical data channel based on a time-frequency resource in which the physical data channel reception of the terminal is scheduled and a time-frequency resource in which the at least one resource-set overlap. The resource-set is a set of time-frequency resources. |
| US12004160B2 |
Rate matching on sidelink automatic gain control
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications at a user equipment (UE) are described. A UE may receive a signal indicating a configuration for a symbol reserved for automatic gain control. Based on the configuration for the symbol reserved for automatic gain control, the UE may multiplex assistance data with the symbol reserved for automatic gain control. In some examples, the UE may multiplex physical sidelink shared channel data or physical sidelink control channel data or both physical sidelink shared channel data and physical sidelink control channel data with the symbol reserved for automatic gain control. The UE may then transmit the multiplexed assistance data in the symbol reserved for automatic gain control. |
| US12004154B2 |
Method for performing uplink transmission in wireless communication system and apparatus therefor
The present disclosure provides a method for performing uplink transmission in a wireless communication system and an apparatus therefor. Specifically, a method for transmitting an uplink data channel by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication may comprise the steps of: receiving configuration information related to the uplink data channel; receiving control information for scheduling transmission of the uplink data channel; and transmitting the uplink data channel on the basis of the control information. Here, the configuration information may include one or more configurations including at least one of i) a transmission unit and ii) a beam, which are related to the transmission of the uplink data channel. In addition, on the basis of the one or more configurations, the control information may include information indicating a transmission unit and a beam to be applied to the transmission of the uplink data channel. |
| US12004152B2 |
Method and system for transmitting or receiving feedback in wireless communication system supporting NB-IoT
Provided is a method for receiving, by a user equipment (UE), a feedback from a base station in a wireless communication system supporting narrowband (NB)-internet of things (IoT). Specifically, the UE receives, from the base station, a preconfigured uplink (UL) resource (PUR) configuration via RRC signalling, transmits, to the base station, uplink data on the PUR when the UE is in an idle mode, and receive, from the base station, the feedback for the uplink data. The feedback is configured to be received on an NPDCCH after a specific time has passed from the PUR transmission. |
| US12004149B2 |
Communication system
A communication system is disclosed in which a communication device transmits, to a base station and using communication resources that may be used for grant-free uplink communications, uplink data and information from which the communication device can be identified, wherein the information from which the communication device can be identified comprises a Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) value that is encoded with identity information identifying the communication device (for example, a C-RNTI of the communication device). |
| US12004139B2 |
Method and apparatus for uplink implementation
A method performed by a user equipment (UE) for handling an uplink (UL) cancellation indication (CI) is provided. The method includes receiving a UL grant scheduling a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH), a frequency resource for the PUSCH being allocated within an active UL Bandwidth Part (BWP) of the UE; receiving the UL CI, the UL CI indicating a UL resource in a reference UL resource, the reference UL resource being allocated within a carrier including at least the active UL BWP; and defining a starting symbol of the reference UL resource. The method further includes in a case that the UL CI is received after the UL grant, determining whether the UL resource overlaps the PUSCH, and in a case that the UL resource overlaps the PUSCH, cancelling the PUSCH. |
| US12004136B2 |
Method for determining sidelink resource and device
A method for determining a sidelink resource and a device are provided. The method includes: determining, based on at least one of preset information and a preset parameter, a target sidelink SL resource for a target SL service from candidate SL resources; where the preset information includes either of related information of a resource used by a Uu interface of the terminal device and an attribute of a carrier carrying the target SL resource; and the preset parameter includes at least one of a utilization rate of the candidate SL resources and a communication quality parameter of the candidate SL resources. |
| US12004135B2 |
Information indication method, device and terminal
Provided in the embodiments of the present application are an information indication method, device and terminal. The method includes: determining, by a terminal according to first indication information, whether to release a mapping relationship between a first logical channel and a first physical carrier set, after receiving a first message used for indicating deactivation of a duplicate data transmission function. |
| US12004132B2 |
Communication methods and devices for sidelink
Communication methods and devices for a sidelink (SL) are provided. A communication method for an SL includes the following. A first terminal device obtains a first transmission resource. The first terminal device sends first feedback information to a second terminal device, by using the first transmission resource. A time unit in which the first transmission resource is located is not used for transmitting data by the first terminal device to at least one third terminal device or the second terminal device, where the first terminal device, the second terminal device, and the at least one third terminal device belong to a first group. |
| US12004128B2 |
Method and apparatus for supporting bandwidth part based operations in sidelink communication
Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for supporting BWP-based operations in sidelink communication. An operation method of a first terminal in a communication system may include receiving, from a base station, configuration information of a mapping relationship between an uplink (UL) bandwidth part (BWP) and a sidelink (SL) BWP; when a UL switching operation for the UL BWP is performed, performing an SL switching operation for the SL BWP mapped to the UL BWP based on the mapping relationship without separate signaling indicating execution of the SL switching operation; and performing sidelink communication with a second terminal in a switched SL BWP. |
| US12004127B2 |
Communication device, system and method for communication using feedback
Communication devices are provided that facilitate receiving information units and providing feedback to other communication devices. |
| US12004124B2 |
Resource allocation mode determining method, terminal and network device
The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a resource allocation mode determining method, a terminal and a network device. The method includes: obtaining resource allocation mode configuration information of a sidelink interface of a terminal; in the case that the resource allocation mode configuration information includes at least two resource allocation modes, determining one resource allocation mode allowed by the terminal on a preset frequency band at a preset time from the at least two resource allocation modes. |
| US12004122B2 |
Method and terminal for transmitting aperiodic signal in wireless communication terminal
One embodiment of the present disclosure provides a method for transmitting, by a receiving terminal, a feedback signal to a transmitting terminal in a wireless communication system, the method comprising a step of: receiving, by the receiving terminal, a reference signal from the transmitting terminal; and transmitting, by the receiving terminal, the feedback signal for the reference signal to the transmitting terminal, wherein the feedback signal is transmitted on the basis of compensation for a phase change that occurs when the reference signal is received. The UE is capable of communicating with at least one of another UE, a UE related to an autonomous driving vehicle, a base station or a network. |
| US12004121B2 |
Communication devices and methods for providing uplink and sidelink resource reservation schemes
The present disclosure relates to wireless communication devices, network devices, and wireless communication methods. One example wireless communication device selects and reserves a specific resource or a specific transmission pattern for a predetermined time period. The wireless communication device sends, to at least one User Equipment (UE), a sidelink control message using a determined sidelink resource, the sidelink control message indicating the specific resource or the specific transmission pattern. The wireless communication device transmits an uplink or sidelink data message using the specific resource or the specific transmission pattern. |
| US12004120B2 |
Paging opportunity monitoring
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatuses for wireless communication. A user equipment (UE) may acquire a triggering synchronization signal block (SSB), which enables the UE to monitor for a floating Type-2 physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) and to determine a subset of paging occasions (POs) to monitor. Or, the UE may monitor for a fixed Type-2 PDCCH, where the UE does not require a triggering signal to monitors POs. In another aspect, the UE may monitor for a paging transmission during a monitoring period. The UE may determine the monitoring period based on received signaling. The UE may receive the signaling, during the monitoring period, indicating that the monitoring period is to be ended before a scheduled end of the monitoring period. In this way, the UE may support a continuity requirement associated with downlink reference signaling (DRS) and may support reception of paging in a shared channel. |
| US12004119B2 |
System for accurate location estimation of a water vessel
A system and a method are disclosed for enabling accurate estimation of a location of a water vessel. In an embodiment, a rescue system transmits a Short Message Service (SMS) message to a user device on the water vessel, the SMS message comprising a selectable option that, when selected, causes a location of the user device to be shared. Based on a selection by a user of the user device of the selectable option, the system receives a plurality of location coordinates from the user device at a plurality of respective times, each respective location coordinate describing a respective location of the user device at its respective time. The system computes an estimated location of the water vessel based on the plurality of location coordinates and an elapsed time between a current time and a time at which a last-received location coordinate was received. The system transmits the estimated location to a responder device. |
| US12004114B2 |
Geolocation of wireless network users
A method includes selecting a first machine learning model from a plurality of machine learning models that are trained for use in performing geolocation, wherein the first machine learning model is selected to perform geolocation within a first cell of a plurality of cells of a wireless network, acquiring event data from a plurality of wireless devices within the first cell, grouping the event data into a plurality of records, wherein each record of the plurality of records contains event data that indicates a common wireless device of the plurality of wireless devices, a common cell of the plurality of cells, and a common timestamp, and generating a predicted location of a first wireless device of the plurality of wireless devices, using the first machine learning model, wherein the first machine learning model outputs the predicted location in response to an input of a record of the plurality of records. |
| US12004113B2 |
Method for processing a non-access stratum request, and network devices
A method for processing a Non-access stratum request and network devices are provided. The method includes: receiving the NAS request of a terminal device and at least two tracking area identities for the terminal device from a second network device and accepting the NAS request. |
| US12004111B2 |
Management of vehicle-to-everything PC5 capability in 5G systems
Some embodiments of this disclosure include apparatuses and methods for facilitating vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications with user equipment (UE). In some embodiments, processing circuitry a communication network system may receive a registration request message from a UE indicating a V2X Radio Access Technology (RAT) configuration supported by the UE. The processing circuitry may retrieve authorization information from a Unified Data Management (UDM) repository and apply a policy control function (PCF) to the authorization information and the V2X RAT configuration specified by the UE to determine whether the UE has been authorized to communicate using the indicated V2X RAT configuration. In response to determining that the UE is authorized to communicate using the indicated V2X RAT configuration, the processing circuitry may transmit V2X service authorization parameters corresponding to the indicated V2X RAT configuration to a Radio Access Network (RAN) base station servicing the UE. |
| US12004110B2 |
Automated detection of a radio node location change
A radio node that selectively performs a remedial action is described. During operation, the radio node detects a potential change in a location of the radio node relative to a predefined location. For example, the radio node may detect the potential change in the location based at least in part on a change in a network parameter of the radio node and/or by performing a scan of wireless signals in an environment of the radio node. Then, in response to detecting the potential change in the location, the radio node determines the location of the radio node (e.g., by using a positioning system). When there is at least a predefined change in the location of the radio node relative to the predefined location, the radio node selectively performs the remedial action. Notably, the remedial action may include: providing an alert or a notification, discontinuing transmissions, or re-register the radio node. |
| US12004106B2 |
Sidelink synchronization update
The example and non-limiting embodiments relate generally to synchronization and, more particularly, to a sidelink synchronization procedure. Exemplified embodiments are provided that may include determining a new synchronization source by a source user equipment, where the source user equipment is configured to provide synchronization to at least one receiving user equipment with use of a sidelink. The exemplified embodiments may further include transmitting by the source user equipment to the at least one receiving user equipment an indication that the source user equipment will update from a current synchronization source to the new synchronization source. The exemplified embodiments may further include transmitting synchronization signals and control signals from the source user equipment to the at least one receiving user equipment using an updated reference frequency corresponding to use of the new synchronization source by the source user equipment. |
| US12004104B2 |
Base station, terminal, random access preamble detection method and random access channel configuration method
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services.Disclosed are a base station and a random access preamble sequence detection method thereof, and a terminal and a random access channel configuration method thereof. |
| US12004101B2 |
Method and device for receiving information and transmitting information
A method and device for receiving information and transmitting information. The method includes a terminal device receiving indication information. The indication information indicates at least one of the following information for at least one target synchronization signal block (SSB): the at least one target SSB being a plurality of target SSBs, a number of candidate SSBs located in an interval between two adjacent target SSBs in the plurality of target SSBs; a number of the at least one target SSB; or a resource location of a first target SSB of the at least one target SSB. |
| US12004095B2 |
Communication method and communications device
This application provides a communication method and a communications device. The method includes: determining configuration information of a plurality of synchronization signal blocks located at different frequency domain positions on one carrier, where the configuration information indicates configuration parameters of the plurality of synchronization signal blocks, the configuration parameter comprises configuration pattern indication information, and the configuration pattern indication information indicates synchronization signal blocks actually sent; and sending the configuration information to a terminal device. |
| US12004094B2 |
Methods and apparatus for new radio initial synchronization and paging
An apparatus and method for synchronization between a WTRU and a gNB are disclosed. The WTRU may receive a multiple beam synchronization signal from the gNB during synchronization. For each beam received by the WTRU, of the multiple beam synchronization signal, the WTRU may compare a received energy of the beam against a first threshold. A multiple beam synchronization signal may include a first and second synchronization signal (SS). If one or more beams of the multiple beam synchronization signal meets or exceeds the first threshold, the WTRU may report an indication of pre-synchronization to the gNB. This pre-synchronization may indicate to the gNB that a WTRU exists in an area of a particular beam of the WTRU. In this way, a gNB may target the WTRU using transmissions directed towards the WTRU. |
| US12004092B2 |
Power control techniques for a communication system that includes a repeater
This disclosure generally relates to systems, devices, apparatuses, products, and methods for wireless communication. For example, a communication system may include a repeater that relays communications between communication devices. The repeater determines one or more power configuration parameters associated with the repeater and transmits the one or more power configuration parameters to a controlling node, such as a base station or other entity. The repeater receives, from the controlling node, gain configuration information determined based on the one or more power configuration parameters. A repeater may receive a communication, determine a gain value based on the gain configuration information, and apply the gain value to the received communication to create a gain adjusted communication for transmission to another device. |
| US12004083B2 |
Managing negotiation of power saving mode parameters between a user equipment and a core network device
The disclosed subject matter provides techniques for managing negotiation of power saving mode (PSM) parameters between a user equipment (UE) and core network device of a wireless communication network. In this regard, a method is provided that includes facilitating establishing, by a device comprising a processor, a wireless communication link with a network device of a wireless network. The method can further include, based on a determination that a power saving mode retry protocol for the device is enabled, determining, by the device, a number of times the network device previously instructed the device to use network values for power saving mode timers instead of device values for the power saving mode timers in association with the device operating in a power saving mode. |
| US12004082B2 |
Method for determining better power consumption for antenna panels
An antenna panel determination method, a user terminal and a computer readable storage medium. The method comprises: reporting measurement information to a base station, the measurement information comprising downlink measurement results corresponding to N antenna panels, wherein N is the total number of configured antenna panels, and N≥2; receiving instruction information issued by the base station, the indication information being obtained by the base station according to the measurement information and an uplink measurement result; obtaining, from within the instruction information, an antenna panel that is used for transmission and indicated by the base station; and using the antenna panel that is used for transmission to perform transmission. The solution above may reduce the power consumption of the user terminal. |
| US12004079B2 |
System and method for RAN power and environmental orchestration
A power and environmental orchestration (P&EO) system uses network utilization condition information to implement scenarios that partially or fully reduce power requirements for radio access network (RAN) elements. A network device obtains power orchestration scenarios for a RAN and evaluates utilization data of multiple components of the RAN against the power orchestration scenarios. The network device determines that the utilization data meets a threshold for one of the power orchestration scenarios and applies the one of the power orchestration scenarios to reconfigure the RAN for reduced power consumption. |
| US12004078B2 |
Automatic base station discovery, selection, and registration in 5G/6G
A searchable, portable network database of base station information can greatly simplify discovery, selection, and registration of user devices on a preferred cell in 5G or 6G. In addition, based on location, the user device can select the base station that is likely to provide the best signal. The network database can provide all of the static system information of the SSB message, which enables prospective user devices to receive downlink messages without searching for the SSB. In addition, the network database can provide all of the static system information contained in the SIB1 message, which enables prospective user devices to transmit uplink messages without searching for the SIB1. Initial synchronization can be obtained by receiving any broadcast from the base station, or by receiving timing signals from a navigation satellite, among other ways. The user device can thereby avoid most or all of the arduous prior-art cell discovery steps. |
| US12004077B2 |
Method, device and computer readable medium for service chain
A method, device and computer readable medium for service chain is provided. Dynamic service chain is achieved and the service chain request is transmitted from the application. The device determines the service chain based on a profile of the application. Further, implicit service chain subscribing is also achieved. Thus, a more flexible service chain is achieved. Further, management of service chain related to NF service is also achieved. |
| US12004076B2 |
Evaluating a hosting device for installation of a virtualized function within a network infrastructure
A method for determining a hosting device of a network infrastructure of an operator for the installation of a virtualized function. The virtualized function contributes to transmission and processing of at least one item of information relating to a service. The method is implemented by a management entity of the infrastructure and includes: transmitting to a virtualization entity a compatibility request including at least one datum relating to a test of a resource of the hosting device; receiving from the virtualization entity at least one first variable derived from the test, relating to the transmitted datum, executed on the resource; and determining an aptitude of the hosting device to accommodate the virtualized function as a function of the at least one first variable received. |
| US12004075B2 |
Physical cell identifier limit configuration
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may store configurations for candidate physical cell identifiers (PCIs) that the UE may select from for inter-cell mobility. A base station or a UE or both may identify a first configuration indicating a number of configured PCIs for inter-cell mobility operations. The base station or the UE or both may identify a second configuration indicating a number of selected PCIs for inter-cell mobility operations. In some cases, the selected PCIs may be a subset of the configured PCIs. Identifying the number of configured PCIs and the number of selected PCIs by the base station and UE may be based on a capability report configured by the UE. The UE and the base station may perform an inter-cell mobility operation based on stored cell configurations associated with the configured PCIs and the selected PCIs. |
| US12004071B2 |
User equipment Layer 2 buffer operation in IAB networks
A user equipment (UE) is configured to access a first base station in a network via an access link, wherein the first base station is an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) node in a first IAB network topology connected to a second base station via one or more backhaul links, wherein the second base station is an IAB-donor for the first base station, report, to the first base station, information for reducing a maximum data rate for the UE when the UE is deployed in one or more IAB network topologies and receive data packages with a reduced maximum data rate based on the reported information. |
| US12004068B2 |
Multipath IAB communication including multi-hop
A base station may configure a first node and at least one second node with an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) network with the multipath multi-hop transmission configuration. The first node and the at least one second node may communicate with the first node through a direct path and a multi-hop transmission including the base station. The first node and the at least one second node may detect transmission failure on the direct path and retransmit the data packet to the multi-hop transmission, on a set of physical resource blocks (PRBs) configured by the base station. The first node may transmit remote buffer state report (rBSR) to the base station, and the base station may configure the set of PRBs for retransmissions based on the rBSR. |
| US12004067B2 |
Wireless communication relay service over multiple network transceivers
A wireless communication relay tests data throughputs over a Fifth Generation New Radio (5GNR) network XCVR and a wireline network XCVR. The testing over the wireline network XCVR comprises a test of the data throughputs through a Local Break-Out (LBO) router or an N3 Interworking Function (N3IWF). The relay selects one of the 5GNR network XCVR and the wireline network XCVR based on the data throughput testing and indicates the selected network XCVR to a user XCVR. The user XCVR exchanges user data with the wireless UE and exchanges the user data with the selected one of the 5GNR network XCVR and the wireline network XCVR. The selected one of the 5GNR network XCVR and the wireline network XCVR exchanges the user data with one or more data communication networks. |
| US12004060B2 |
Pilot design for uplink (UL) narrow-band internet of things (NB-IoT)
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for pilot design for Narrow-Band Internet of Things (NB-IoT). In certain aspects, the method generally includes determining at least one binary code sequence to use as a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) for a channel transmitted across one or more subframes using one or more tones within a resource block (RB) allocated to the UE for narrowband communication, and transmitting the channel including the DMRS using the one or more tones and the determined binary code sequence. In certain aspects, the binary code sequence may be determined based on a binary random sequence, such as pseudo noise (PN) or Gold sequence. |
| US12004059B2 |
Enhanced identification in communication networks
According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method comprising receiving, by a network repository function, a request from a network function, wherein the request comprises a string associated with an instance identity of the network function, determining, by the network repository function, a type of the instance identity of the network function from a set of instance identity types, determining, by the network repository function, the instance identity of the network function based on the string associated with the instance identity of the network function and the type of the instance identity of the network function and transmitting, by the network repository function, a response to the network function, wherein the response depends on whether the instance identity of the network function was found in a list of network function instances registered at the network repository function. |
| US12004057B2 |
Methods, apparatus, and computer-readable media for discovery of application server and/or services for V2X communications
Embodiments include methods performed by a V2X user equipment (UE) for service discovery from a V2X application server (AS). Such methods include sending, to a first address associated with the V2X AS, a first request for further address information associated with the V2X AS. Such methods include receiving, from the first address via unicast signaling, a first response including the requested further address information, which facilitates UE discovery of V2X services available via unicast communication between the V2X UE and a radio access network (RAN). Other embodiments include complementary methods performed by a V2X AS, as well as V2X UE and V2X AS apparatus configured to perform such methods. |
| US12004056B2 |
Method and apparatus for configuring SL DRX pattern to solve the half-duplex problem in NR V2X
A method of operating a first apparatus 100 in a wireless communication system is proposed. The method may comprise: determining a time duration in which a first active time and a second active time overlap; performing SL transmission or SL reception of a service related to a smaller priority value among a first priority value and a second priority value, within the overlapping time duration; and performing SL transmission or SL reception of a service related to a greater priority value among the first priority value and the second priority value, outside the overlapping time duration. |
| US12004055B2 |
Transmission of sidelink-synchronization signal block of NR V2X
One embodiment of the present disclosure provides a method by which a first apparatus transmits a sidelink-synchronization signal block (SL-SSB). The method is characterized in comprising the steps of: determining a first resource considered that a first SL-SSB is transmittable; and transmitting the first SL-SSB to a second apparatus based on the first resource. Accordingly, apparatuses based on V2X communication in wireless communication system may efficiently relay or transmit and receive SL-SSB based on a slot format. |
| US12004053B2 |
Method and apparatus for group content delivery
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus for group content delivery. A method in a communication network which comprises the content provider node and a broadcast-multicast service node, wherein the content provider node needs to deliver a message to a group of user equipments via the broadcast multicast service node. The method comprises obtaining one or more group identifiers. The method further comprises sending the one or more group identifiers to the broadcast-multicast service node. |
| US12004050B2 |
Group cast with retries (GCR) in a multi-link WLAN system
Embodiments are disclosed for group cast with retries (GCR) in a multi-link wireless communications system. In some embodiments, an access point (AP) multi-link device (MLD) can exchange information with a non-AP MLD to establish a GCR-multi-link operation (MLO) agreement corresponding to a group address, wherein the information includes, but is not limited to: a GCR primary link or a GCR primary link set of the AP MLD, an association identifier (AID) that corresponds to the group address. In some embodiments, the AP MLD can transmit a GCR frame subject to the GCR-MLO agreement, where the GCR frame includes a sequence number assigned from sequence number space (SNS)_GCR_MLO defined at a MLD level, and generate a Group Temporal Key (GTK)_GCR_ML at the MLD level, where the GTK_GCR_ML enables encryption and decryption of the GCR frame. |
| US12004046B2 |
Object tracking based on UWB tags
In aspects of object tracking based on UWB tags, a system includes ultra-wideband (UWB) tags located for association with respective objects in an environment, where each UWB tag is identified with a digital label indicative of the association with one or more of the objects. A tracking service is implemented to receive initial location data for the objects from each of the UWB tags that are associated with the objects, and generate an object identity database in which each of the objects are identified by their respective initial location data. The tracking service can monitor for movement of an object that is identified by the initial location data based on subsequent positioning data associated with the object. The movement of an object is monitored for an unauthorized relocation of the object, for a cluster of multiple objects moving together, and/or for an abnormal proximity of multiple objects in the environment. |
| US12004043B2 |
Location-based note sharing
In one aspect, the present disclosure relates to a method that includes presenting a first user interface (UI) and a second UI on a mobile device. The first UI may include a map display and a control to compose a note. The method may include, in response to a user of the mobile device activating the control to compose the note, presenting a second UI including: an input to receive text for the note, one or more controls to select a picture for the note, and a control to save the note. The method may include, in response to the user activating the control to save the note: determining a location for the note using a geo-location sensor within the mobile device, sending the received text, the selected picture, and the location for the note to a server device, and displaying an indication of the note on the map display based on the location determined for the note. |
| US12004042B2 |
Device to device communication and wayfinding
Mobile device users navigate to each other by their mobile devices sharing location information, and then one or more of the mobile devices receiving or generating geographical directions for presentation to the mobile device's user to navigate to another of the mobile devices. Two mobile devices can provide geographical directions to enable their respective users to navigate toward each other, and a group of mobile devices can receive and provide or display geographical directions to variously enable their respective users to navigate to different mobile devices in the group. In one scenario, first and second mobile devices provide geographical directions to their respective locations and a third mobile device provides geographical directions to the first or second mobile device, and directions are dynamically updated as the mobile devices move. |
| US12004041B1 |
Systems and methods for processing geographical zones
Systems and methods for processing geographical zones are provided. The method involves operating at least one processor to: define a bounding box surrounding a geographical zone; iteratively partition the bounding box into a plurality of bounding boxes by, starting with the bounding box in the first iteration: determine whether the bounding box contains more than a predetermined maximum number of vertices; divide the bounding box into two additional bounding boxes if the bounding box contains more than the predetermined maximum number of vertices, repeat the steps of determining and dividing the bounding box for the additional bounding boxes in the next iteration until each additional bounding box does not contain more than the predetermined maximum number of vertices; generate a binary tree data structure representing the geographical zone; search the binary tree data structure to determine whether a vehicle is located within one of the bounding boxes. |
| US12004038B2 |
Handover procedure for vehicle based communications
A method of wireless communication includes transmitting, from a source communication node, a first message to a target communication node requesting a hand-over procedure for handing over one or more mobile devices from the source communication node to the target communication node. The first message indicates a traffic pattern or group information of the one or more mobile devices. The method also includes receiving, by the source communication node, a second message from the target communication node in response to the first message. |
| US12004035B2 |
Providing support to packet-data voice and video calls
To support packet-based call, a first base station (102, 104) receives, by processing hardware, an indication of whether a user device supports packet-based video over a certain RAT (2302). When the processing hardware at the first base station determines (2304), based on the received indication, that the first base station supports packet-based video over the certain RAT, the base station configures radio resources for establishing a new packet-based video call with the user device over the certain RAT (2306), or hands over an existing packet-based video call, established between the first base station and the user device, to a second base station that operates according to the certain RAT (2308). |
| US12004034B2 |
Handover method and apparatus
Provided are a handover method and apparatus. The method includes following steps: a UE receives an RRC reconfiguration message sent by a source base station, where the RRC reconfiguration message includes a list of target cells for performing a conditional handover by the UE, information of each target cell in the list of the target cells for performing the conditional handover includes at least one of the following: frequency information of the target cell, a physical cell identifier of the target cell, a conditional handover command of the target cell generated by the target cell, or at least one piece of measurement configuration identifier information, and the at least one piece of measurement configuration identifier information is used for instructing an execution condition for the UE to perform a conditional handover in the target cell; and the UE performs a handover according to the RRC reconfiguration message. |
| US12004029B2 |
Mobility condition change based on serving cell quality and connection release
A method and apparatus for mobility condition change based on serving cell quality and connection release in a wireless communication system is provided. A wireless device receives information on a first condition related to a conditional mobility to a target cell, detects a serving cell problem, performs the conditional mobility to the target cell based on a second condition related to a cell selection, and performs a connection release with the target cell. |
| US12004028B2 |
Distributed processing for determining network paths
Provided is a process including: advertising a plurality of values corresponding to computing components to peer nodes of a peer-to-peer network; storing the plurality of values in a tamper-evident, distributed ledger; determining a target data center in the distributed computing environment, wherein the target data center performs computations based on data sent from a mobile computing device, and wherein the target data center executes a peer node of the peer-to-peer network; determining a network path that is linked to the target data center based on a distance to the target data center; and transferring a packet from the target data center, wherein the packet traverses the network path and comprises one or more computation results from the target data center. |
| US12004022B2 |
Method and apparatus for improving voice service quality in wireless communication system
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. |
| US12004021B2 |
Communications method and apparatus
A communications method includes receiving, by a session management network element, a message for requesting to establish or modify a session, and determining, by the session management network element based on an access technology type corresponding to the session, whether to send a request message to an access management network element in the first communications network, where the request message requests the access management network element to allocate a connection identifier of a connection of the session in a second communications network. |
| US12004019B2 |
Techniques for improvement of voice over Wi-Fi to voice over cellular handovers
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine, during an active call on a first radio access technology (RAT), that a first condition for performing a handover from the first RAT to a second RAT is satisfied. The UE may determine that the second RAT would trigger a fallback to a third RAT after the handover from the first RAT to the second RAT and that a second condition for performing a handover from the third RAT to the first RAT is satisfied. The UE may refrain from performing the handover from the first RAT to the second RAT based at least in part on the determination that the second RAT would trigger the fallback and the determination that the second condition is satisfied. Numerous other aspects are provided. |
| US12004008B2 |
Methods and apparatus to determine virtual WiFi data rate
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to determine virtual WiFi data rate. An example disclosed herein includes a control frame receiver to capture control frames from a user device. The example disclosed herein further includes a bitrate calculator to calculate a bitrate for each control frame by dividing a bitmap of a control frame by an amount of time between the control frame and a previously captured control frame. The example disclosed herein further includes an interval timer to control a length of time that the control frames are captured before calculating the virtual bandwidth. The example disclosed herein further includes a virtual bandwidth calculator to calculate the virtual bandwidth after the length of time, the virtual bandwidth calculated by dividing an average bitrate from the control frames by the length of time. |
| US12004000B2 |
Capability management for concurrency mode control
A wireless communication device is described. The wireless communication device includes a processor configured to determine a switch between an independent mode and a concurrency mode. The wireless communication device also includes a transmitter configured to send a communication capability signal to a base station in response to the switch. The communication capability signal indicates a resource communication capability adjustment for a first service. |
| US12003998B2 |
Conditional radio resource management measurements
A method may include transmitting, by a base station to a wireless device, one or more radio resource control (RRC) messages including configuration parameters. The configuration parameters may include a first measurement object, of a carrier, indicating one or more first reference signals, one or more conditions to initiate, based on the first measurement object, a first measurement of a signal quality of the one or more first reference signals, a first threshold value indicating upperbound signal quality, and a second threshold value indicating lowerbound signal quality, wherein the first threshold value and the second threshold value are associated with skipping the first measurement based on the first measurement object. The method may include receiving, from the wireless device, the signal quality based on the configuration parameters. |
| US12003996B2 |
Measurement method, indication method, apparatus, terminal, network device, and medium
A measurement method includes: determining a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) of a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) used for radio resource management (RRM) measurement; and performing RRM measurement according to the DMRS. |
| US12003989B2 |
Sidelink multi-port transmission
A first wireless device receives, from a second wireless device and via a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH), sidelink control information that includes a number of demodulation reference signal (DMRS) antenna ports and resource assignment of a physical shared channel (PSSCH) received in one or more first resources. The first wireless device determines a second reference signal received power (RSRP) of the PSSCH based on a measurement of a first RSRP of the PSSCH and at least one of: the number of DMRS antenna ports or measurement of a channel busy ratio (CBR). The first wireless device transmits, via one or more second resources selected based on the second RSRP and that are for transmission within a set of candidate resources, one or more transport blocks via the one or more second resources. |
| US12003983B2 |
Activation of secondary cell group configuration upon master cell group failure detection
A method and apparatus for activation of secondary cell group (SCG) configuration upon master cell group (MCG) failure detection in a wireless communication system is provided. A wireless device delays activation of a SCG. When the wireless device detects a failure on a master cell group (MCG) while delaying the activation of the SCG, the wireless device activates the SCG, and performs a random access procedure on a cell of the SCG. |
| US12003982B2 |
Computer device, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for analyzing the impact of outage events in a wireless communications network
Systems and methods for analyzing the impact of outage events in a wireless communications network are disclosed. In some embodiments, the method includes obtaining outage data that indicates that an outage event occurred at a base station. A first set of either expected or real time connected user devices prior to the outage event are identified. A first subset of the first set of user devices that are wirelessly connected to any of the plurality of base stations other than the first base station during the outage event are identified. Furthermore, a second subset of the first set of user devices that are not connected to any of the plurality of base stations during the outage event are identified. In this manner, the impact of the outage event can be analyzed to allow for service providers to reduce the negative effects of future outage events. |
| US12003979B2 |
Methods and apparatus for base station signaling for interference estimation
Aspects of the present disclosure include methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media for receiving interference information relating to at least one of a scheduling granularity, a subcarrier spacing, a scheduler type, resource utilization, a number of active UEs, a number of active beams, an elevation and an azimuth angle of each of the number of active beams, a synchronization signal block index, or a semi-persistent scheduling configuration associated with at least one neighbor base station (BS), estimating or predicting, based on the interference information received, an interference power profile caused by the at least one neighbor BS, receiving at least one of data information or control information, and decoding the at least one of the data information or the control information based on the interference power profile. |
| US12003975B2 |
Channel state information (CSI) measurement and report for dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS) in a wireless wide area network (WWAN)
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for implementing a channel state information (CSI) measurement and reporting protocol for dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS) in a wireless communication network. In some aspects, a BS may transmit control messages periodically and aperiodically that configure a UE to perform signal quality measurements and transmit signal quality reports. When the UE receives a periodic control message, the UE may perform signal quality measurements on both a multimedia broadcast single frequency network (MBSFN) subframe and a non-MBSFN subframe of a frame received from the BS. When the UE receives an aperiodic control message, the UE may perform a signal quality measurement on either a MBSFN subframe or a non-MBSFN subframe. The UE may generate and transmit signal quality reports to the BS periodically and aperiodically corresponding to the received periodic and aperiodic control messages, respectively. |
| US12003973B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting C-OFDMA PPDU in wireless LAN system
Proposed is a method and apparatus for transmitting a C-OFDMA PPDU in a wireless LAN system. Specifically, a first AP transmits a C-OFDMA request frame to a second AP. The first AP receives a C-OFDMA response frame as a response to the COFDMA request frame from the second AP. The first AP transmits a first C-OFDMA PPDU to a first STA through a first channel. A second C-OFDMA PPDU is transmitted simultaneously together with the first PPDU through a second channel by the second AP. The C-OFDMA request frame includes first information indicating that using the second channel for the second AP is allowed. The first channel corresponds to a channel remaining after excluding a preamble-punctured channel from the entire channel, and the second channel corresponds to the preamble-punctured channel. |
| US12003972B2 |
Method and a node for allocating spectrum efficiently in clusters of nodes
There is provided a method in a controlling node to efficiently assign spectrum to nodes representing wireless base stations which are using/sharing the same block of spectrum. The nodes are organized in a graph where connections between nodes represent potential of interference. The nodes are grouped based on the ability to handle mutual interference. The method includes: determining recursively a plurality of clusters of nodes of increasing sizes; and assigning a bandwidth to nodes in each cluster, based on the size of the cluster. By so doing, the spectrum allocation can be optimized, allowing each node access to an increased amount of spectrum. |
| US12003963B2 |
Mobile provisioning of a data center asset in a data center connectivity management environment
A system, method, and computer-readable medium for performing a data center connectivity management operation. The connectivity management operation includes: providing a data center asset with a data center asset client module; establishing a connection between a mobile device application and a connectivity management system; submitting a request to the connectivity management system via the mobile device application to establish connectivity with the data center asset client module; establishing a connection between the data center asset client module and the connectivity management system based upon the request; and, exchanging information between the data center asset client module and the data connectivity management system via the secure communication channel between the data center asset client module and the connectivity management system. |
| US12003955B2 |
Display apparatus and control method thereof
A display apparatus and a method for controlling the display apparatus are disclosed. The display apparatus includes: a communication interface comprising communication circuitry, a display, a plurality of speakers, and a processor, and the processor is configured to: control the communication interface to receive an acoustic content corresponding to a sound signal of a plurality of channels corresponding to a specified frequency bandwidth, extend a frequency bandwidth of at least one channel of the plurality of channels based on a specified parametric equalizer (PEQ), perform correction of reducing a gain in middle frequency and high frequency bands of at least one channel of the plurality of channels with the extended frequency bandwidth, and output each sound signal of the plurality of corrected channels to the plurality of corresponding speakers so that a sound image of the sound signal is formed in a center area of the display. |
| US12003954B2 |
Audio system and method of determining audio filter based on device position
An audio system and a method of determining an audio filter based on a position of an audio device of the audio system, are described. The audio system receives an image of the audio device being worn by a user and determines, based on the image and a known geometric relationship between a datum on the audio device and an electroacoustic transducer of the audio device, a relative position between the electroacoustic transducer and an anatomical feature of the user. The audio filter is determined based on the relative position. The audio filter can be applied to an audio input signal to render spatialized sound to the user through the electroacoustic transducer, or the audio filter can be applied to a microphone input signal to capture speech of the user by the electroacoustic transducer. Other aspects are also described and claimed. |
| US12003948B1 |
Multi-device localization
A system configured to create a flexible home theater group using a variety of different devices. To enable synchronized audio output, the system performs device localization to generate map data representing locations of the devices. The system may generate the map data based on a listening position and/or location of a television, such that the map data is centered on the listening position with the television along a vertical axis. To generate the map data, the system processes measurement data representing relative directions between the devices and timing information that can be used to determine relative distances between the devices. Using the relative distances, the system determines relative positions of the devices (e.g., optimal arrangement). Knowing the relative directions and the relative positions, the system can determine an orientation of an individual device and use the orientation to determine the listening position and/or the location of the television. |
| US12003945B2 |
Audio reproduction device
To provide an audio reproduction device including: a signal processing circuit that generates multi-channel audio data; an attenuation amount control unit that is connected to the signal processing circuit and controls an attenuation amount of audio data of each channel; and a speaker device that is driven by a multi-channel audio signal from the attenuation amount control unit and has multi-channel speakers including a woofer, in which the attenuation amount control unit estimates, from an audio data value of each channel, a total value of currents flowing through the speaker device, and controls the attenuation amount in such a way that the estimated total value of currents does not exceed a predetermined value that has been set in advance, and the attenuation amount is controlled in accordance with a priority that has been set in advance in such a way that relationships between the channels are maintained. |
| US12003944B2 |
Systems and methods for enhancing attitude awareness in ambiguous environments
Systems and methods for using auditorily-induced vection (AIV) to enhance a person's attitude awareness are provided herein. In at least one embodiment, an auditory object is projected based on the orientation of the person or a vehicle and the projected auditory is provided to the person. By projecting the auditory object, the attitude of the person or the vehicle can be conveyed to the person to enhance the person's attitude awareness. |
| US12003943B2 |
Electroacoustic drivers and loudspeakers containing same
Electroacoustic drivers that can be utilized in loudspeaker systems that utilize drivers having a magnetic negative spring (MNS) (such as reluctance assist drivers (RAD) and permanent magnet crown (PMC) drivers). The electroacoustic drivers can be used at all audio frequencies, including subwoofer frequencies. The magnetic negative springs of the electroacoustic drivers can cancel, or partially cancel, the large pressure forces on a sound panel (of an audio speaker) so that substantial subwoofer notes can be efficiently and cost effectively produced in small/portable speakers. The electroacoustic drivers can include a stabilizing/centering mechanism to overcome the destabilizing forces of a MNS that are too large for a voice coil alone to produce. |
| US12003940B2 |
Electroacoustic drivers and loudspeakers containing same
Electroacoustic drivers that can be utilized in loudspeaker systems that utilize drivers having a magnetic negative spring (MNS) (such as reluctance assist drivers (RAD) and permanent magnet crown (PMC) drivers). The electroacoustic drivers can be used at all audio frequencies, including subwoofer frequencies. The magnetic negative springs of the electroacoustic drivers can cancel, or partially cancel, the large pressure forces on a sound panel (of an audio speaker) so that substantial subwoofer notes can be efficiently and cost effectively produced in small/portable speakers. The electroacoustic drivers can include a stabilizing/centering mechanism to overcome the destabilizing forces of a MNS that are too large for a voice coil alone to produce. |
| US12003937B2 |
Speaker
A speaker includes a frame, a vibration system, and a magnetic circuit system. The vibration system and the magnetic circuit system are respectively disposed on the frame. The vibration system includes a sound film, flexible circuit boards, a connecting rack, and a voice coil. The flexible circuit boards are disposed at intervals with the sound film. The connecting rack is connected with the sound film and the flexible circuit boards. The voice coil is fixed to the connecting rack. The voice coil includes a first voice coil and a second voice coil, and the second voice coil surrounds outside the first voice coil. The speaker of the present disclosure effectively solves the problem of supplying power to the first voice coil during the voice coil driving. The voice coil driving effectively improves the BL, provides a larger driving force, and improves sensitivity, so that performance of the speaker is better. |
| US12003932B2 |
Speaker system for slim profile display devices
Systems and methods for selecting crossover frequencies for 2.1 speaker systems integrated into electronic displays are described. In an embodiment, an electronic display may include: a left speaker coupled to a left side of an enclosure, a right speaker coupled to a right side of the enclosure, and a subwoofer coupled to the left or right side of the enclosure. In another embodiment, a method may include: determining a position of an asymmetric subwoofer integrated into a display, and selecting a crossover frequency between the asymmetric subwoofer and a set of stereo speakers integrated into the display based, at least in part, upon the position. |
| US12003929B1 |
Microphone cleaning and calibration
Techniques for cleaning and calibrating a microphone are discussed herein. For example, a computing device can implement a microphone component to operate a speaker adjacent to a microphone to cause removal of an obstruction (e.g., rain, mud, dirt, dust, snow, ice, animal droppings, etc.) on or near the microphone. The microphone component can also or instead cause the speaker to output a frequency for testing operation of the microphone. By implementing the cleaning and/or calibrating techniques described herein, foreign particle(s) of varying size and type can be dislodged from an area near the microphone to improve performance of the microphone. |
| US12003926B2 |
Hearing assist systems and methods for detecting a physiological attribute of a user
An exemplary hearing system that is configured to assist a user in hearing includes an in-the-ear (ITE) component configured to fit at least partially within an ear canal of the user while the hearing system is worn by the user, a first sensor electrode provided on a surface of the ITE component and configured to contact, while the hearing system is worn by the user, outer ear tissue of the user, and a second sensor electrode configured to be located, while the hearing system is worn by the user, at an entrance to or outside of the ear canal of the user. The first sensor electrode and the second sensor electrode may be configured to be used to detect a physiological attribute of the user while the hearing system is worn by the user. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed. |
| US12003925B2 |
Magnetic retention system
An external component of a medical device, including an actuator including a static magnetic flux path that reacts with a dynamic magnetic flux path to actuate the actuator, and a magnetic retention system configured to retain the external component to a recipient via interaction with a ferromagnetic component attached to a recipient, the magnetic retention system including a magnetic flux path that encircles the static magnetic flux path of the actuator. |
| US12003924B2 |
Piezoelectric transducer for tympanic membrane
The present disclosure provides a contact hearing device comprising a piezoelectric actuator. The attachment of the piezoelectric actuator to a tympanic membrane can vibrate the tympanic membrane based on a transmission received by the receiver assembly and produce perception of sounds. |
| US12003919B2 |
Speaker box
Provided is a speaker box, including: an upper cover, an upper steel sheet; a lower cover, a lower steel sheet; a receiving space, an acoustic unit; and an insert plate arranged in the rear cavity. Upper and lower sides of the insert plate abut against the upper steel sheet and the lower steel sheet, respectively, a position of at least one of the upper steel sheet or the lower steel sheet aligned with the insert plate is provided with a fixing groove passing therethrough, and the insert plate is fixed to at least one of the upper steel sheet or the lower steel sheet through glue injection in the fixing groove. The speaker has characteristics of convenient mounting, good anti-shell vibration effect, and reduced mounting space. |
| US12003918B2 |
Electronic musical instrument and electronic keyboard instrument
An electronic musical instrument according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes a loudspeaker which releases sounds in a first direction in accordance with an instrument playing operation, an internal component which includes a substrate, a case which houses the loudspeaker and the internal component and has a first region which faces a rear face of the loudspeaker and a second region which faces a rear face of the internal component and does not face the rear face of the loudspeaker, and a sound releasing member which is disposed on an installation face side and in the second region, and releases acoustics in an acoustic space which is formed around the loudspeaker in a second direction which is opposite to the first direction. |
| US12003916B1 |
Electronic devices with sound permeable fabric
A pair of headphones may include first and second ear cups that each contain one or more speakers. The speakers may emit audio through a sound-permeable warp knit spacer fabric that is coupled to each ear cup. The warp knit spacer fabric may include inner and outer fabric layers joined by a spacer layer. The outer fabric layer may have first and second regions with different fabric densities. The first region with the greater fabric density may be used to form a label such as an R-shape or L-shape to indicate which ear cup should cover the user's right ear and which ear cup should cover the user's left ear. The denser first region may have diamond-shaped openings of a first size and the less dense second region may have diamond-shaped openings of a second size that is greater than the first size. |
| US12003901B2 |
PON multi-channel binding transmission method, PON node and storage medium
Provided are a passive optical network (PON) multi-channel binding transmission method, a PON node and a storage medium. The PON multi-channel binding transmission method includes: determining a multi-channel transmission mode of to-be-sent data according to a data transmission efficiency and a preset data transmission efficiency threshold, where the data transmission efficiency for determining the multi-channel transmission mode is higher than or equal to the preset data transmission efficiency threshold; and transmitting the to-be-sent data on a data transmission channel binding combination of one or more data transmission channels according to the multi-channel transmission mode. |
| US12003891B2 |
Image recording apparatus, image recording method, and endoscope system
An image recording apparatus includes a processor. The processor records setting information corresponding to at least one of a procedure or a scene during the procedure, sets a color to be detected from a fluorescent image and a detection level based on the setting information, detects a level of the set color from the fluorescent image inputted, and outputs signals to start and stop recording of the inputted fluorescent image by comparing the detected level of the color with a threshold based on the detection level. |
| US12003883B2 |
Facial synthesis in overlaid augmented reality content
The subject technology receives at least one signal from a computing device, the at least one signal comprising at least one of a current time, battery power, sensor information, or location information. The subject technology generates a digital sticker, the digital sticker including graphical content indicating information based at least in part based on the at least one signal and media content including an image of a target face, the image of the target face being modified based on at least one of sets of source pose parameters to mimic at least one of positions of a head of a source actor and at least one of facial expressions of the source actor. The subject technology provides augmented reality content for display on a computing device, the augmented reality content including the digital sticker as an overlay on at least a portion of the augmented reality content. |
| US12003882B2 |
Information processing devices, methods, and computer-readable medium for performing information processing to output video content using video from multiple video sources including one or more pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ)-enabled network cameras
The present invention is an information processing device that performs information processing to output (produce and distribute) video content using video from multiple video sources including network cameras, the information processing device comprising: a switching means for performing switching based on video signals transferred by the transfer method used to transfer data without confirming reception by the receiving node with the transmitting node at the video source; and an information processing means that outputs (produces and distributes) video content based on information indicating which video source was switched at what time by the switching means and based on video data outputted from the video sources. |
| US12003873B2 |
Imaging apparatus and electronic device
A first and second pixel units that perform FD addition are provided. The first pixel unit includes: a first switch transistor of which one source/drain electrode is connected to an FD; and a reset transistor that is connected between another source/drain electrode of the first switch transistor and a power supply node. The second pixel unit includes: a second switch transistor of which one source/drain electrode is connected to an FD; a third switch transistor of which one source/drain electrode is connected to another source/drain electrode of the second switch transistor; and a capacitive element that is connected between another source/drain electrode of the third switch transistor and a reference potential node. The respective other source/drain electrodes of the first switch transistor and the second switch transistor are electrically connected with each other. |
| US12003872B2 |
Imaging device including photoelectric conversion layer
An imaging device including pixels each including a photoelectric converter that converts light into a signal charge; and controller, where the controller causes the pixels to perform global shutter operation in a first frame period and causes the pixels to perform rolling shatter operation in a second frame period different from the first frame period. |
| US12003870B2 |
Binning in hybrid pixel structure of image pixels and event vision sensor (EVS) pixels
Binning in a hybrid pixel structure of image pixels and event vision sensor (EVS) pixels. In one embodiment, the imaging sensor includes a pixel array including a plurality of pixel circuits and a plurality of binning transistors. A first portion of the plurality of pixel circuits individually includes an intensity photodiode. A second portion of the plurality of pixel circuits individually includes an event vision sensor (EVS) photodiode. The plurality of binning transistors is configured to bin together at least one of the first portion or the second portion. |
| US12003867B2 |
Electronic device and method for displaying image in electronic device
A method for displaying an image in an electronic device is provided. The method includes obtaining a first image including a plurality of subjects, setting a plurality of sub-regions respectively including the plurality of subjects, obtaining a distance between the plurality of sub-regions, when a distance between a first region and a second region, which are adjacent to each other, among the plurality of sub-regions is greater than or equal to a specified threshold distance, omitting at least a portion of a third region disposed between the first region and the second region in the first image, and displaying a second image obtained by resetting a size of each of the plurality of sub-regions and rearranging each of the plurality of sub-regions. |
| US12003866B2 |
Method for providing image and electronic device supporting the same
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display including a first region being capable of reciprocating, a camera configured to obtain an image using incident light through the first region, a driving part configured to reciprocate the first region, and at least one processor electrically connected to the display, the camera, and the driving part, wherein the at least one processor may be configured to control the driving part such that the first region reciprocates, obtain a plurality of first images through the camera while the first region reciprocates, and obtain a second image by synthesizing the plurality of first images. |
| US12003855B2 |
Optical image stabilization driver device for stable movement of image sensor, camera module and electronic device
An optical image stabilization driver device includes an image sensor, a fixed carrier, a circuit element, an elastic element and a driving element. The circuit element includes a fixed part disposed on the fixed carrier, a movable part and an electrical transmission part. The image sensor is disposed on the movable part. The electrical transmission part has conductive routes electrically connected to the movable part and the fixed part. The elastic element includes a first frame part corresponding to the fixed part, a second frame part corresponding to the movable part and an elastic connection part connected to the first frame part and the second frame part and providing the image sensor with a freedom of movement in a plane. The driving element is configured to drive the image sensor to move relative the fixed carrier in the plane. |
| US12003854B2 |
Imaging device, storage medium, and method of controlling imaging device
An imaging device includes a focus driving unit for driving a focus lens; a tilting driving unit for tilting at least one of an image sensor and an imaging optical system; a detection unit for detecting a subject in an image; a setting unit for setting a plurality of focus regions in the image based on positional information of the subject detected in the image; a determination unit for determining respective driving amounts for the focus driving unit and for the tilting driving unit based on the positional information and focal information of the plurality of focus regions so that the plurality of focus regions is in focus; and a control unit for controlling the focus driving unit and the tilting driving unit based on the determined respective driving amounts. |
| US12003848B2 |
Imaging apparatus mounted on moving object and moving object including imaging apparatus
An imaging apparatus provided in a moving object to capture an image of an area behind the moving object includes an imaging circuit and an optical system. The imaging circuit outputs an image based on an optical image input to a light-receiving surface. The optical system inputs the optical image to the imaging circuit. The optical system forms a first region at a first magnification and a second region at a second magnification lower than the first magnification. The second region is formed around the first region. The imaging apparatus is installed in the moving object so that, on the light-receiving surface of the imaging circuit, an axis passing through a center of the first region and extending in a direction from which the optical system receives light is inclined toward an upper side of the moving object with respect to a backward direction of the moving object. |
| US12003847B2 |
Camera, setting method of camera, and setting program of camera
Provided are a camera capable of preventing an erroneous operation with a compact configuration and has high operability, a setting method of the camera, and a setting program of the camera. A change in a setting value by the operation dial is switched between valid and invalid, and an operation by the operation dial becomes possible only in a case where the change in the setting value is valid. A setting value of an item to be set by the operation dial is displayed on a dial display provided on the operation dial. |
| US12003846B2 |
Method, computer program, and devices for image acquisition
There is provided an image acquisition controller for acquiring an adapted image. The image acquisition controller comprises an interface towards a first image sensor, the first image sensor being arranged to acquire an image, and an interface towards a gaze tracking unit, the gaze tracking unit comprising a second image sensor for registering a gaze position on a scene associated with the image acquired by the first image sensor. The image acquisition controller is arranged to periodically receive information over the interface towards the gaze tracking unit about at least a position on the scene associated with the image provided from the first image sensor where the scene represents a larger part of an image registered by the first image sensor than intended to be acquired as the adapted image. The image acquisition controller is arranged to provide information over the interface towards the first image sensor about a position on the first image sensor, a size of a sensor area associated with the position on the first image sensor and a frame rate for image acquisition within said area. The image acquisition controller is arranged to receive image data over the interface towards the first image sensor wherein the image data at least comprises image data with the size, the position on the first image sensor, and the frame rate for image acquisition within said area such that the received image data is stored. An image acquisition system or device comprising the controller, a communication device with corresponding image acquisition capabilities, a method of image acquisition, and a computer program for implementing the method are also disclosed. |
| US12003837B2 |
Dual-lens camera system with only one image sensor
A dual-lens camera system includes a first lens, a second lens, an image sensor corresponding to a position of the first lens, and a reflecting assembly. The reflecting assembly includes a first reflecting member and a second reflecting member corresponding to a position of the second lens. The first reflecting member is movable between a first position at which an optical path from the first lens to the image sensor is blocked but an optical path from the second reflecting member to the image sensor is not blocked, and a second position at which the optical path from the first lens to the image sensor is not blocked but the optical path from the second reflective member to the image sensor is blocked. Only one image sensor is used in the dual-lens camera system, which saves cost and takes up less internal space of the electronic device. |
| US12003835B2 |
Camera actuator
A camera actuator according to an embodiment includes a housing; a prism unit disposed in the housing; and a driving unit for tilting the prism unit, wherein a ball bearing and a pulling magnet for generating attractive force to each other are disposed in the prism unit and the housing, and wherein the prism unit is supported to the housing by the attractive force between the ball bearing and the pulling magnet. |
| US12003834B2 |
Camera actuator and camera module comprising same
An embodiment of the present invention discloses a camera actuator comprising: a housing; a mover disposed in the housing and including protrusions on one surface which protrude toward the housing; and a driving unit disposed in the housing and rotating the mover on the basis of a first direction or a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, wherein the protrusions comprise: a first protrusion disposed on the one surface; a second protrusion spaced apart from the first protrusion; and a third protrusion separated from the first protrusion by a distance greater than from the second protrusion, and wherein the housing comprises: a groove in which the first protrusion is seated on an inner surface corresponding to the one surface; a first hole through which the second protrusion passes; and a second hole through which the third protrusion passes, wherein a side surface of the second protrusion is spaced apart from the first hole, and the housing includes a protruding part disposed on a side of the second hole and extending toward the third protrusion. |