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| US12086630B2 |
Method and system for generating and managing smart contract
Methods of and systems for generating and managing a smart contract may include obtaining contents related to a contract at user request timing in a dialogue environment between users, generating at least one condition associated with the contract, generating a smart contract for the contents related to the contract and the generated condition, and storing the smart contract in a blockchain. |
| US12086629B1 |
Geospatial data workflow platform
Executing geospatial data workflows includes receiving a representation of a first workflow. It further includes receiving a request to execute a second workflow, the second workflow including a reference to the first workflow. At least one of the first workflow and the second workflow comprises at least one geospatial transformation operation. It further includes determining that the first workflow referenced by the second workflow is permitted to be accessed. It further includes, based at least in part on determining that the first workflow is permitted to be accessed, executing the second workflow, including executing the representation of the first workflow comprising the at least one geospatial transformation operation. |
| US12086628B2 |
Electronic apparatus and control method
An electronic apparatus includes: a memory which temporarily stores a program of a system; a first processor which executes the program to implement functions of the system; a second processor which detects a face area with a face captured therein from an image captured by an imaging unit; and a third processor which switches between and executes first processing in which, when the face area is detected by the second processor, first information is output, while when the face area is not detected, second information is output, and second processing to output the first information despite detection of the face area by the second processor. When there is no operation input by a user over a certain period of time, the first processor restricts use of at least some of the functions of the system. |
| US12086627B2 |
Techniques for executing serverless functions on media items
In various embodiments, a serverless function agent determines that a client stub function has been invoked with a first set of arguments in a first execution environment. The serverless function agent then performs one or more operations on a media item that is associated with a first argument included in the first set of arguments to generate a second argument included in a second set of arguments. Notably, the first argument has a first data type and the second argument has a second data type. Subsequently, the serverless function agent invokes a function with the second set of arguments in a second execution environment. Advantageously, because the serverless function agent automatically performs operations on the media item, the overall amount of technical know-how and manual effort required to enable the function to successfully execute on a wide range of media items can be reduced. |
| US12086626B2 |
Automated tuning of data processing rules based on region-specific requirements
There are provided systems and methods for automated tuning of data processing rules based on region-specific requirements. A service provider, such as an electronic transaction processor for digital transactions, may utilize different decision services that implement rules for decision-making of data including real-time data in production computing environments. Rules may correspond to coded statements that perform an automated decision-making service for the computing services and platforms of the service provider. When writing rules, different variables and conditions may be utilized, where each variable and condition may cause a rule output or action. However, conditions and other components of rules may be different for different regions and thus, regional policies may have requirements for rules. The service provider may determine the regional policies when a rule is to be deployed in a region. Thereafter, the service provider may adjust rules specifically for each region. |
| US12086625B2 |
Multiple top-of-rack (TOR) switches connected to a network virtualization device
A method for providing a dedicated region cloud at customer is provided. A first physical port of a network virtualization device (NVD) included in a datacenter is communicatively coupled to a first top-of-rack (TOR) switch and a second TOR switch. A second physical port of the NVD is communicatively coupled with a network interface card (NIC) associated with a host machine. The second physical port provided a first logical port and a second logical port for communications between the NVD and the NIC. The NVD receives a packet from the host machine via the first logical port or the second logical port. Upon receiving the packet, the NVD determines a particular TOR, from a group including the first TOR and the second TOR, for communicating the packet. The NVD transmits the packet to the particular TOR to facilitate communication of the packet to a destination host machine. |
| US12086622B2 |
Optimizing virtual machine scheduling on non-uniform cache access (NUCA) systems
Techniques for optimizing virtual machine (VM) scheduling on a non-uniform cache access (NUCA) system are provided. In one set of embodiments, a hypervisor of the NUCA system can partition the virtual CPUs of each VM running on the system into logical constructs referred to as last level cache (LLC) groups, where each LLC group is sized to match (or at least not exceed) the LLC domain size of the system. The hypervisor can then place/load balance the virtual CPUs of each VM on the system's cores in a manner that attempts to keep virtual CPUs which are part of the same LLC group within the same LLC domain, subject to various factors such as compute load, cache contention, and so on. |
| US12086618B2 |
Service virtualization platform
A service virtualization platform can associate different virtual service rules with different team identifiers. Software applications can be configured to submit service requests to the service virtualization platform that identify corresponding team identifiers. The service virtualization platform can respond to a service request based on a virtual service rule that is associated with a team identifier indicated in the service request, and thereby avoid responding with data defined by a different virtual service rule associated with a different team identifier. The service virtualization platform can accordingly avoid conflicts between teams that configure software applications to interact with the same type of virtual service. |
| US12086615B2 |
Serial NAND flash with XIP capability
Based on power on of an electronic device, a location of first data in a NAND flash memory of an electronic device is determined. The first data is transmitted to a shadow RAM of the electronic device, outputting the first data is output from the shadow RAM to a host device of the electronic device through a serial peripheral interface (SPI) when accessing the location of the first data in the NAND Flash memory. |
| US12086614B2 |
System replication method in hybrid cloud environment
Example implementations described herein include an innovative method for copying a first virtual machine accessing a primary volume in a hybrid cloud environment, the copy of the first virtual machine accessing a secondary volume in the hybrid cloud environment. The method may include creating the secondary volume. The method may further include creating an image of the first virtual machine and launching, from the image, the copy of the first virtual machine by (1) disabling a set of connection ports for connecting to the primary volume, (2) updating the set of connection ports for connecting to the secondary volume, and (3) enabling the set of connection ports. |
| US12086613B2 |
Sensor broker for plug-ins
A device receives a sensor payload at a sensor service. The sensor payload includes a data field that comprises a first value that corresponds to a reading by a sensor device. The device sends the sensor payload to a broker process that is separate from the sensor service and that hosts plug-in logic. The device receives a sensor payload update from the broker process. The sensor payload update includes a second value for the data field that is different from the first value. The second value was determined by the plug-in logic. The device creates a modified sensor payload from the sensor payload, including updating the data field to comprise the second value. The device initiates an operating system action based on the modified sensor payload. |
| US12086612B2 |
Multitenancy hierarchical update campaigns
Disclosed are various embodiments for separating creation of and executing of updated campaigns in multitenancy environments. For example, an organization can have a hierarchical structure such that a root organization includes multiple sub-organizations. A root organization administrator may create an update campaign for enforcing software policies on devices that are included in the sub-organizations. A sub-organization administrator can approve and define the execution schedule for when the devices included in the sub-organization can execute the update campaign. |
| US12086610B2 |
Cloud deployment boot image electronic device, and boot image cloud deployment system and method
A boot image cloud deployment system and method are provided. The system includes an electronic device and a server. The server includes a storage medium and a control circuit. The electronic device is configured to issue a request instruction. The storage medium is configured to store a plurality of boot images. Each boot image includes a plurality of object files, and a combination sequence of the object files of each boot image is different from a combination sequence of the object files of the other boot images. The control circuit is configured to send back one of the boot images to the electronic device according to the request instruction. The electronic device executes the received boot image. |
| US12086602B2 |
Scheduling of threads for execution utilizing load balancing of thread groups
An apparatus to facilitate thread scheduling is disclosed. The apparatus includes logic to store barrier usage data based on a magnitude of barrier messages in an application kernel and a scheduler to schedule execution of threads across a plurality of multiprocessors based on the barrier usage data. |
| US12086601B2 |
Dynamic insights extraction and trend prediction
Techniques for process execution trend prediction and visualization are disclosed. The disclosed system receives a process execution request to be executed on a set of targets. The request may include request characteristics, such as a request type and computations to be performed during execution. The system analyzes the request characteristics to determine the computations to execute and for initiates request execution on the targets. Based on the analysis, the system generates predictions regarding the execution, including an estimated completion time. During execution, the system displays various attributes of the execution in a dynamically updating visualization. The system also provides real-time recommendations on how the process can be optimized, such as to reduce execution time and errors. |
| US12086600B2 |
Branch target buffer with shared target bits
Embodiments of the present disclosure include techniques for branch prediction. A branch predictor may be included in a front end of a processor. The branch predictor may store branch targets in a branch target buffer. The branch target buffer includes shared bits, which may be combined with branch target bits to specify branch target destination addresses. Shared bits may result in more efficient memory usage in the processor, for example. |
| US12086599B2 |
Accelerator, method of operating the accelerator, and device including the accelerator
A method of operating an accelerator includes receiving, from a central processing unit (CPU), commands for the accelerator and a peripheral device of the accelerator, processing the received commands according to a subject of performance of each of the commands, and transmitting a completion message indicating that performance of the commands is completed to the CPU after the performance of the commands is completed. |
| US12086598B2 |
Fixed-size pool storage for handling out-of order receipt of data
The present disclosure provides new and innovative systems and methods for processing out-of-order events. In an example, a computer-implemented method includes obtaining data, committing the obtained data to a fixed-size storage pool, the fixed-size storage pool including a plurality of slots and a pool index including a fixed-length array, by acquiring a slot in the plurality of slots, locking the acquired slot, storing the obtained data in the acquired slot, updating the pool index for the storage pool by updating an element in the array corresponding to the acquired slot, the element storing an indication of the obtained data, and unlocking the acquired slot, and transmitting an indication that the data is available. |
| US12086597B2 |
Array processor using programmable per-dimension size values and programmable per-dimension stride values for memory configuration
An apparatus includes an array processor to process at least one array. The apparatus further includes a memory coupled to the array processor. The at least one array is stored in memory with programmable per-dimension size and stride values. |
| US12086591B2 |
Device, method and system to predict an address collision by a load and a store
Techniques and mechanisms for determining a relative order in which a load instruction and a store instruction are to be executed. In an embodiment, a processor detects an address collision event wherein two instructions, corresponding to different respective instruction pointer values, target the same memory address. Based on the address collision event, the processor identifies respective instruction types of the two instructions as an aliasing instruction type pair. The processor further determines a count of decisions each to forego a reversal of an order of execution of instructions. Each decision represented in the count is based on instructions which are each of a different respective instruction type of the aliasing instruction type pair. In another embodiment, the processor determines, based on the count of decisions, whether a later load instruction is to be advanced in an order of instruction execution. |
| US12086589B2 |
Code migration framework
In one aspect, an example methodology implementing the disclosed techniques includes, by a computing device, determining a source platform code for migration from a source platform to a target platform and determining one or more attributes of the source platform code. The method also includes determining, using a machine learning (ML) model, one or more existing templates based on the one or more attributes of the source platform code, and recommending the one or more existing templates for use in generating a template for migration of the source platform code to the target platform. The template for the source platform code is configured to convert the source platform code to a target platform code suitable for the target platform. The one or more existing template can then be used to generate a template for migrating the source platform code to a target platform code suitable for the target platform. |
| US12086588B2 |
Application module version management
Versions of an application are managed by receiving a request for a version of an application, retrieving, responsive to the received request, a version of a master application component based at least in part on version data that associates a version of the master application component with the version of the application, retrieving a relationship operable to relate the version of the master application component with a corresponding version of a first component on which the master application component depends for a function of the application, retrieving the corresponding version of the first component, responsive to the retrieving of the relationship, assembling the version of the application based at least in part on the retrieved version of the master component, the retrieved relationship, and the retrieved first component, and providing for an execution of the assembled version of the application. |
| US12086585B2 |
Program update system, vehicle control device, and program update method
Updating of a program is realized even with a small-sized temporary storage area. A program update system distributes an update program from an update program distributing unit to a vehicle control device. The update program distributing unit encrypts an update program by a predetermined unit of encryption, and transmits the update program, which has been encrypted, by a predetermined unit of transfer to the vehicle control device to be updated, the vehicle control device decrypts the received update program by the unit of encryption, and stores the update program, which has been decrypted, by a predetermined unit of writing in a program storage unit, and the unit of writing is an integral multiple of the unit of encryption. |
| US12086582B2 |
Vehicle controller, updated program, program updating system, and writing device
A vehicle controller with improved usability related to updating of a control program is provided. The vehicle controller is capable of updating a stored control program, based on update contents provided by a writing device. The control program includes a control code, and control data that is referred to when the control code is executed. The vehicle controller includes a nonvolatile memory that allows a first memory area and a second memory area to be switched and used alternately, the first memory area and the second memory area each storing both the control code and the control data, and an updating request determining unit that determines whether an updating request from the writing device requests updating of both the control code and the control data or requests updating of the control data only. When determining that updating of the control data only is requested, the updating request determining unit writes received control data to any given memory area in which a currently active control program is stored. |
| US12086580B2 |
Information processing device, delivery server, and function execution method
An information processing device 10 accesses a first region 110 for recording software that implements a plurality of functions and a second region 120 for recording an update file for each of the functions of the software. If an update file for a function to be executed of the software is recorded in the second region 120, a function executor 102 is configured to execute the update file. |
| US12086579B2 |
Deriving a container from a package set
Deriving a container from a package set is disclosed. Package set metadata that identifies a plurality of packages to be included in a container image based on a package set is accessed. A container configuration file referencing the plurality of packages is generated based at least in part on the package set metadata. The container configuration file includes one or more commands complying with a container builder syntax that are implementable by a container builder to generate a container image including the plurality of packages. The container configuration file is stored in a memory of a computer system. |
| US12086576B2 |
Method for mitigating memory access conflicts in a multi-core graph compiler
A multi-core architecture in some examples may have hundreds of “cores”, each core comprising a digital signal processor (DSP) and various functional computing units. A method of implementing a multi-core graph compiler for a system-on-chip (SOC) having a data processing engine (DPE) array is disclosed herein. An Adaptive Intelligence Engine (AIE) compiler is one example of a multi-core graph compiler. An compiler is used to mitigate performance degradation due to memory stalls (collisions) when executing an AIE compiler-accelerated application on an AI Engine. The method disclosed here addresses phase order issues to mitigate the memory collisions. |
| US12086573B2 |
Automatic containerization of operating system distributions
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to containerizing the packages of an operating system. More specifically, a dependency level of each of a plurality of packages included in an operating system may be determined and a container is generated in view of the dependency level. |
| US12086569B2 |
Method and device for quantum division operation with precision
A method and device for quantum division operation with precision. The method includes: obtaining dividend data and divisor data to be operated, transforming the dividend data into a first target quantum state, and transforming the divisor data into a second target quantum state; for the first target quantum state and the second target quantum state, iteratively executing quantum state evolution corresponding to a subtraction operation, counting the number of executions of the subtraction operation until the dividend data is reduced to a negative number, and outputting a finally obtained counting result as integer part of a quotient of dividing the dividend data by the divisor data; for a current first target quantum state and a current second target quantum state, iteratively executing quantum state evolution corresponding to fractional part operation of the quotient; and outputting a finally obtained quantum state on a qubit with preset precision bits. |
| US12086567B1 |
Computation system using a spherical arrangement of gates
A natural result of the different quantities of inputs and outputs in computational elements such as logic gates is a triangular shape when embedded in a material. The duplication of this shape while reducing empty space produces a curved structure, which taken to its ultimate expression is spherical. The inputs of the gates create a surface which is larger than the surface created by the outputs. In its spherical expression the input surface is the outside surface of the sphere, while the output is an inside surface of this sphere. Computation occurs as entropy transport from the outside surface, through layers, to an inside surface.Current digital logic designs are often composed of two-input, one output designs. Several logic functions including NAND, NOR, AND, OR, XNOR, XOR are characterized by multiple inputs and one output. Other types of computational functions such as those of neurons and artificial neurons also may take multiple inputs and fewer or singular outputs. Of these types of computation methods, the quantity of inputs is larger than the quantity of outputs.Implementation of logic gates in silicon by creating electronic transistors is constrained by the production process, by the material qualities of silicon, and by the shape of the input-output structure. Implementation of types of logic gates which operate on an optical basis, or chemical, momentum, entropy or other method, may vary in their material constraints but the constraints posed by input and output node size remain.It can then be posed that a fundamental constraint in the design of physical computation architectures is the quantity of inputs and outputs, and their structure.A design for a Computation System Using a Spherical Arrangement of Gates is submitted in this disclosure. For a logic gate structure which has a quantity of inputs, and an output, it is specified that the inputs are of the same physical size, and this size is to be the minimum possible size for the material and structure in which the gate is embodied.It is specified that the output is of the same size as an inputs in this design, and this size is the minimum possible using the chosen materials of construction.The quantity of inputs is higher than the quantity of outputs, while the size of each input is equal, and the size of an individual input is equal to the size of an output. A design which features two inputs is specified, the size of the inputs is approximately twice as large as the output. The following relationship is specified for a two-input, one output gate: the input surface area is twice that of the output surface area. Let this relationship be the assumption upon which we base subsequent disclosure.For our logic gate, the inputs require more surface area than the output. We can label the gate G1 and its inputs as i1 and i2, and the output as o1. If we position i1 and i2 as closely as possible, they will require twice the surface area that o1 requires. If we position together the inputs of a gate in a physically proximal sequence G1i1, G1i2 for gate 1, input 1 and input 2 are physically as close as possible. An individual gate results which is a triangular shape.If we position together the inputs of several gates in a sequence G1i1, G1i2 G2i1, G2i2 G3Gi1, G3i2 the inputs for the three gates 1 2 and 3 are all physically as close as possible. The physical surface area required is 3 gates multiplied by 2 inputs=6 surface area units. If we position together the outputs of these gates in a sequence G1o1 G2o2 G3o3 the outputs of the three gates 1 2 and 3 require (3 gates each having 1 output) a total of 3 surface area units. The input surface is larger than the output surface.A sequence of gates gathered as closely as possible in space forms a shape which is longer on one side (the input side) than it is on the other (the output side).If the pattern is continued, a circle is formed. Concentric circles of gates are to be arranged, with the output of gates on the outer circles being near the input of gates on the inner circles.By linking the output of a gate to the input(s) of other gates, logic can be performed by chains of gates, by selectively controlling the energy transmitted through individual links that span between outputs and inputs we can modify the logic process to produce different final outputs from initial inputs as desired. In the terminology of artificial neural networks, we can call the links weighted, and the logic gate can function as an artificial neuron's transfer function, and so the gate may behave as an artificial neuron.We can implement the concentric rings of gates in the transverse dimension to obtain concentric spheres, while leaving a passage open through the sphere so that final outputs at the center can be accessed from outside.The complete design is so disclosed, having a multitude of inputs which occupy the outside surface of a sphere, inside of which concentric spherical layers of gates are connected by weighted links, with the center of the sphere containing the final outputs of the logical process carried out by chains of gates arranged in concentric spheres. The total number of concentric spheres may vary as a computation process requires and constrained by material requirements. |
| US12086558B2 |
Systems and methods for generating multi-language media content with automatic selection of matching voices
A method and system for automated voice casting compares candidate voices samples from candidate speakers in a target language with a primary voice sample from a primary speaker in a primary language. Utterances in the audio samples of the candidates speakers and the primary speaker are identified and typed and voice samples generated that meet applicable utterance type criteria. A neural network is used to generate an embedding for the voice samples. A voice sample can include groups of different utterance types and embeddings generated for each utterance group in the voice sample and then combined in a weighted form wherein the resulting embedding emphasizes selected utterance types. Similarities between embeddings for the candidate voice samples relative to the primary voice sample are evaluated and used to select a candidate speaker that is a vocal match. |
| US12086556B2 |
Method, apparatus, device and medium for generating recruitment position description text
A method, an apparatus, a device and a medium for generating a recruitment position description text are provided. The method may include: obtaining the original text related to the target position; and generating a target recruitment position description text corresponding to the target position based on the original text and a pre-trained deep neural network model. |
| US12086555B2 |
Method for generating dialogue, electronic device, and storage medium
The disclosure provides a method for generating a dialogue. The method includes: obtaining an input sentence; determining a type of a task-based response sentence that is to be generated, by updating a current dialogue state based on the input sentence; generating the task-based response sentence by inputting the input sentence into a task-based dialogue response generator; and determining the task-based response sentence as a target response sentence in response to the type of the task-based response sentence being a designated type. |
| US12086552B2 |
Generating semantic vector representation of natural language data
A computer-implemented method for automatically generating a semantic vector representation of a relation between a specific set of entities in natural language text is provided. The method may include, in response to receiving a text segment comprising a set of entities, automatically parsing the text segment into an abstract meaning representation (AMR) graph comprising nodes representing the set of entities. The method may further include extracting a number of minimum Steiner trees from the AMR graph, and wherein each Steiner tree comprises a minimum amount of edges between the nodes corresponding to a first entity and at least one second entity. The method may further include using a trained graph neural network (GNN) to determine vector embeddings for the minimum Steiner trees. The method may further include aggregating the vector embeddings to generate the semantic vector representation of the relation between the specific set of entities. |
| US12086551B2 |
Semantic difference characterization for documents
A computer implemented method determines differences between documents. The method includes parsing a first document and a second document into respective distinct instances of content. The distinct instances of content are classified into different categories. Category specific matching algorithms are applied to each of the respective instances of content to determine a similarity score for each of the respective instances of content. Semantic differences between the first document and the second document are analyzed as a function of the similarity scores. A characterization of the semantic differences is generated. |
| US12086549B2 |
Automatic generation of scientific article metadata
Examples of the disclosure are directed to systems and methods of using natural language processing techniques to automatically assign metadata to articles as they are published. The automatically-assigned metadata can then feed into the algorithms that calculate updated causation scores for agent-outcome hypotheses, powering live visualizations of the data that update automatically as new scientific articles become available. |
| US12086539B2 |
System and method for natural language processing using neural network with cross-task training
A method for using a neural network model for natural language processing (NLP) includes receiving training data associated with a source domain and a target domain; and generating one or more query batches. Each query batch includes one or more source tasks associated with the source domain and one or more target tasks associated with the target domain. For each query batch, class representations are generated for each class in the source domain and the target domain. A query batch loss for the query batch is generated based on the corresponding class representations. An optimization is performed on the neural network model by adjusting its network parameters based on the query batch loss. The optimized neural network model is used to perform one or more new NLP tasks. |
| US12086538B2 |
Method for generating online report using form structure definition DB, and computer program for same
A method for generating an online report using a form structure definition DB, and a computer program for the same are proposed. The method for generating the online report using the form structure definition DB, and the computer program for the same are configured to register input form setting information of a report into a form structure definition DB through an administrator client, store input information for each item input through an input form from a user client into a report result DB, and for the report requested to be output, generate and output the report in a form that the input information for each item stored in the report result DB is combined with a preset output form. |
| US12086535B2 |
Systems and methods of a script generation engine
A template built by a user may be converted by a Server Script Generation Engine (SSGE) into script code. In converting, the SSGE may load and parse a framework file containing static script syntax to locate insertion points, each associated with an iteration number, and may iteratively parse the template, utilizing the iteration number to resolve, in order, tags and sub-tags contained in the template. If a tag is set to respond to the iteration number, a function of the tag is invoked to process any related sub-tags and return a script associated therewith at the appropriate insertion point. The framework file (with the appropriate script code inserted) is compiled and stored in a compiled script object which can be run multiple times to perform all of the output functions expected by the user in lieu of the need to reconvert the template. |
| US12086534B2 |
Multi-component abstract association and fusion method and apparatus in page design
The present disclosure discloses a multi-component abstract association and fusion method and apparatus in page design. The method includes the following steps: step S1: a construction demand is acquired, and the construction demand is analyzed through a speech recognition method to obtain a natural language text; step S2: an abstract model is constructed by predefining a component library, a rule library and a relationship library, and the abstract model performs components fusion to obtain a JSON structure of a fused component; step S3: the JSON structure of the fused component is escaped into a virtual DOM by using a rendering function, and attributes and events of a virtual DOM node are mapped to obtain a fused component drawing result; and step S4: a real DOM structure is created and interpolated into a real DOM node, so as to realize display of the fused component on a view. |
| US12086533B1 |
Overlay rule integration for document migration
Documents are often generated using a customer communication management (CCM) application that utilizes rules to select and/or modify certain fragments of a document. By analyzing the rules and content that produced a certain fragment, a second CCM application may be automatically provided with the rules, such as when the first set of rules are not available for porting to a second system. Accordingly, a server may access a rule comprising a condition, a document fragment, and a rule identifier. A server may generate a first document to comprise visible content and hidden content. Generating the first document may comprise evaluating the rule and, when the rule is true, including the document fragment as a portion of the visible content and including the rule identifier as a portion of hidden content. A server may provide the first document to a destination. |
| US12086532B2 |
Generating cascaded text formatting for electronic documents and displays
Various examples of approaches for using and implementing cascaded text formatting within electronic publishing and display mediums are described herein. In an example, a method for analyzing and re-formatting a stream of text, includes: obtaining a stream of human-readable text in a natural language processing (NLP) parser to identify parts-of-speech and key phrases in a proper sentence; tagging the identified parts-of-speech according to the respective parts and key phrases; generating a text cascade arrangement for a display of the proper sentence by applying predefined rules to the part-of-speech and key phrases, where such a display of the proper sentence provides breaks and cascading, including indentations, according to the pre-defined rules; and outputting an electronic display of the proper sentence which includes the text cascade arrangement. Other examples of methods of converting text, formatting text, and displaying text, with such text cascade arrangements and related formats, are also disclosed. |
| US12086531B2 |
Method and system for automatic formatting of presentation slides
Various embodiments provided herein relate to a method and system for automatic formatting of presentation slides. In at least one embodiment, the method comprises receiving an input slide, the input slide comprising one or more objects having a first slide layout configuration; determining metadata associated with the input slide, the determined metadata corresponding to property features of the one or more objects; analyzing the metadata to classify the one or more objects; identifying one or more slide layout functional objectives; based on the one or more slide layout functional objectives, applying one or more transformations to the detected objects, wherein each transformation comprises adjusting the metadata corresponding to the one or more detected objects to generate one or more adjusted objects; and generating a modified slide, the modified slide comprising one or more adjusted objects having a second slide layout configuration. |
| US12086530B1 |
Apparatus and a method for the generation of a collaboration score
An apparatus for the generation of a collaboration score is disclosed. The apparatus includes at least a processor and a memory communicatively connected to the at least a processor. The memory instructs the processor to receive a plurality of entity profiles from a plurality of entities, wherein each of the plurality of entity profiles includes entity data. The memory instructs the processor to identify a plurality of opportunity data as a function of the plurality of entity profiles. The memory instructs the processor to generate collaboration data as a function of the plurality of opportunity data. The memory instructs the processor to determine a collaboration score as a function of the collaboration data. The memory instructs the processor to draft a collaboration report as a function of the collaboration score and the collaboration data. The memory instructs the processor to display the collaboration report using a display device. |
| US12086519B2 |
Method and apparatus for setting wafer script, device and storage medium
The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for setting wafer script, a device, and a storage medium. In response to the demand unit determining that the execution necessary condition of the script to be executed satisfies the business requirement based on the parameter information, the platform unit acquires the lot identification of the script to be executed and the corresponding production information. In response to the demand unit determining that the script to be executed is executed for the wafers corresponding to the script to be executed for the first time, the platform unit detects whether the first production information corresponding to the first wafers satisfies the execution necessary condition. If satisfied, the platform unit sets parameter information and assignment information for the first wafers, and synchronizes the first wafers with the set information to the material execution unit such that the material execution unit performs corresponding operation. |
| US12086518B2 |
Programmable integrated circuit underlay
A method for implementing a programmable device is provided. The method may include extracting an underlay from an existing routing network on the programmable device and then mapping a user design to the extracted underlay. The underlay may represent a subset of fast routing wires satisfying predetermined constraints. The underlay may be composed of multiple repeating adjacent logic blocks, each implementing some datapath reduction operation. Implementing circuit designs in this way can dramatically improve circuit performance while cutting down compile times by more than half. |
| US12086515B2 |
Well planning based on hazard predictive models
A method to design well trajectories includes determining dogleg severity as a function of inclination, and a corresponding rate of penetration performance of the tool by a hybrid model including physical modelling and machine learning correction. The method includes solving for optimal steering parameters to predict a dogleg severity as close as possible to a desired dogleg severity at a given inclination of the trajectory, which is repeated for dogleg severity and inclination combinations of interest. The rate of penetration for feasible points is also determined and a rate of penetration (or time-to-target) map can be produced. Potential trajectories are then evaluated relative to the map to estimate drilling time-to-target, and an optimal trajectory can be selected that has a lowest time-to-target while also being feasible for the tool and optionally avoiding risks or downhole obstacles. |
| US12086505B2 |
Method of manufacturing semiconductor fabrication system
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor fabrication system may include preparing a first vacuum pipe, preparing a second vacuum pipe, connecting a first process chamber to a first pump through the first vacuum pipe, and connecting a second process chamber, which is spaced apart from the first process chamber, to a second pump through the second vacuum pipe. The preparing of the first vacuum pipe may include connecting a plurality of first unit pipes to form the first vacuum pipe and calculating a first conductance, which is a total conductance of the first vacuum pipe. The preparing of the second vacuum pipe may include forming the second vacuum pipe by connecting a plurality of second unit pipes such that the second conductance, which is a total conductance of the second vacuum pipe, is equal to the first conductance. |
| US12086493B2 |
Image forming system to which multiple image forming devices that output image data are connected via a network
An image forming system in which a plurality of image forming devices that each output image data are connected via a network includes an operation acceptor that accepts an operation, a network communicator that performs communication via the network, a terminal communicator that communicates with a mobile terminal, an information acquirer that acquires, as connection information, a communication status between the mobile terminal and the plurality of image forming devices, and an output-destination specifier that specifies an output destination of the image data on the basis of the connection information. The output-destination specifier specifies, as the output destination of the image data, of the plurality of image forming devices communicating with the mobile terminal, an image forming device accepted by the operation acceptor. |
| US12086485B2 |
Display device, image processing apparatus, and display screen display method for controlling screen display of device setting item
A display device includes a display capable of displaying a first display screen, a second display screen different from the first display screen, and a device setting item displayed together with the first display screen or the second display screen, and a controller that controls a screen display on the display, wherein the controller determines a display mode of the device setting item on the second display screen in accordance with a display setting of the device setting item on the first display screen. |
| US12086480B2 |
Information processing apparatus and method, and storage medium storing program
An information processing apparatus incudes at least one memory and at least one processor configured to cause a display device to display an image indicated by image data; accept a change in an original size of the image displayed on the display device; in a case where a change from a first original size to a second original size that is different from the first original size in an aspect ratio has been accepted as the change, change a layout of an object included in the image data based on the second original size; and cause the display device to display the image in the second original size based on the object whose layout has been changed. |
| US12086478B2 |
Information processing apparatus controlling a printer capable of two-sided printing, control method therefor, and storage medium storing control program therefor
An information processing apparatus controls a printer capable of printing on a sheet-shaped recording medium. The apparatus includes a memory containing instructions and a processor for executing the instructions to set, as a print setting for a first print process, a two-sided print setting or a one-sided print setting. In addition, a controller controls whether to execute control for discharging a recording medium printed by the first print process in a face-up manner or a face-down manner based on at least one of whether the two-sided print setting is set for a second print process executed before the first print process and whether the second print process is for printing pages, when the two-sided print setting is set for the first print process that prints one page. |
| US12086477B2 |
Printing device modifying display mode for cumulative value of printing count
A printing device includes a display and a controller. The controller performs a counting process to increment a cumulative value of a printing count each time printing is performed by the printing device. The controller performs a first display control process to display on the display the cumulative value of the printing count which is incremented in the counting process. The controller performs a display mode modification process to modify a display mode for the cumulative value of the printing count displayed on the display when a printing agreement is established for a subscription. The printing agreement is for charging fees depending on a printing count within a specific interval. |
| US12086476B2 |
Printing method and apparatus, and electronic device
Provided are a printing method and apparatus, and an electronic device. The method includes: receiving, in an interface where a first application runs, a printing request initiated by a user for a target file displayed in the interface; running, according to the printing request and in the interface where the first application runs, a preset printing application embedded in the first application; and transmitting the target file to a cloud printing server by using the preset printing application, and instructing the cloud printing server to send the target file to a printing device upon receiving an acquisition request from the printing device, to cause the printing device to print the target file. |
| US12086471B2 |
Tiering data strategy for a distributed storage system
A plurality of computing devices are communicatively coupled to each other via a network, and each of the plurality of computing devices is operably coupled to one or more of a plurality of storage devices. The storage devices may be assigned to one of a plurality of memory tiers, and the data in a storage device may be reassigned to another storage device in a different memory tier. |
| US12086464B2 |
Storage policy change usage estimation
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to storage policy change usage estimation. In examples, a base storage utilization is generated for a storage object according to a current storage policy. The current storage policy may comprise a RAID (“redundant array of independent disks”) level and/or a fault tolerance level with which the storage object is stored. An estimated storage utilization may then be generated for the storage object based on the base storage utilization and a new storage policy accordingly. Thus, the base storage utilization may omit or otherwise account for overhead associated with the RAID level and/or fault tolerance level indicated by the current storage policy, while the resulting estimated storage utilization may indicate an estimated physical storage utilization for the storage object if the new storage policy is implemented in place of the current storage policy. |
| US12086463B2 |
Abort handling by host controller for storage device
A host system coupled to a storage system provides hardware support for command abort. The host system includes a host controller, which detects that a host driver has disabled an enable indicator of a submission queue (SQ). In response to the detection, the host controller stops further fetching from the SQ. The host controller sends all entries that have been fetched from the SQ to the storage device, and sets a status indicator of the SQ to indicate stopped fetching of the SQ. |
| US12086458B2 |
Programming content addressable memory
A memory system includes a memory device comprising a programming buffer and a content addressable memory (CAM) block. The memory system further includes a processing device that receives a plurality of data entries to be stored at the memory device and stores the plurality of data entries in a plurality of pages of the programming buffer, each of the plurality of pages of the programming buffer comprising a respective subset of the plurality of data entries. The processing device further initiates a conversion operation to copy the plurality of data entries from the programming buffer to the CAM block. The conversion operation includes reading respective portions of each data entry in each respective subset of the plurality of data entries from the plurality of pages of the programming buffer, and writing the respective portions to respective CAM pages of the CAM block. |
| US12086454B2 |
Data processing systems including a data encoder that reads in data from and returns data to an external memory system
A data processing system includes an external memory system, a processor and an internal memory system. The internal memory system includes an internal memory that stores data for use by the processor when performing data processing operations. The internal memory system also includes a data encoder associated with the internal memory. The data encoder reads data from the external memory system to the data encoder and returns the data to the external memory system from the data encoder, without storing the data in the internal memory. |
| US12086453B2 |
Memory for an artificial neural network accelerator
A memory for an artificial neural network (ANN) accelerator is provided. The memory includes a first bank, a second bank and a bank selector. Each bank includes at least two word lines and a plurality of write word selectors. Each word line stores a plurality of words, and each word has a plurality of bytes. Each write word selector has an input port and a plurality of output ports, is coupled to a corresponding word in each word line, and is configured to select a byte of the corresponding word of a selected word line based on a byte select signal. The bank selector is coupled to the write word selectors of the first bank and the second bank, and configured to select a combination of write word selectors from at least one of the first bank and the second bank based on a bank select signal. |
| US12086450B1 |
Synchronous get copy for asynchronous storage
A system receives a request to retrieve a data object from a data storage device associated with an asynchronous-access data storage service. For data object retrieval, the system identifies the data storage device and creates a job corresponding to the data object retrieval. Once the job is executed, the data object is retrieved to satisfy the request without having to restore the data object and further provided to a data storage device associated with a synchronous-access data storage service to satisfy subsequent requests synchronously. |
| US12086449B1 |
Repair operation techniques
Methods, systems, and devices for repair operation techniques are described. A memory device may detect a failure of a read operation associated with a physical row address of a memory die. The memory device may store information associated with the physical row address before performing a media management operation and after detecting the failure. Additionally or alternatively, the memory device may initiate a counter based on detecting the failure and may increment a value of the counter for each media management operation performed after detecting the failure. The memory device may send a command or other information to perform a repair operation for the physical row address. The memory device may determine the physical row address for the repair operation (e.g., despite media management operations) based on the stored information or the value of the counter, and may perform the repair operation on the physical row address. |
| US12086448B2 |
Deploying microservices into virtualized computing systems
Methods, systems and computer program products for configuring microservices platforms in one or more computing clusters. In one of the computing clusters, a request to instantiate a microservice platform is received, wherein the request is received in a computing cluster having a first node and a second node, and wherein the first node and second node comprise a first virtualized storage controller and a second virtualized storage controller, respectively. The storage controllers each manage their respective storage pools comprising local storage devices. A first microservice manager is deployed on the first node and a second microservice manager is deployed on the second node. The first virtualized storage controller on the first node performs storage management operations for a first microservice instantiated by the first microservice manager, and the second virtualized storage controller on the second node performs storage management operations for a second microservice instantiated by the second microservice manager. |
| US12086447B2 |
Systems and methods for reducing instruction code memory footprint for multiple processes executed at a coprocessor
A processing system includes a first processor couplable to a first memory and a second memory. In response to a page migration trigger for a page in the first memory, the first processor is configured to, responsive to the page being a read-only page storing code for execution, initiate migration of the page to a code cache portion of a second memory associated with a second processor and shared by multiple processes executing at the second processor, and to configure each process of a set of processes executing at the second processor to access and execute the code from the code cache portion. |
| US12086445B1 |
Maintaining partition-level parity data for improved volume durability
A data storage system stores a plurality of partitions for a volume and at least one parity partition for the volume. The parity partition includes erasure encoded data that enables any one of the partitions to be reconstructed using the erasure encoded data of the parity partition. Additionally, the data storage system is configured to generate parity data updates in response to modifications to the volume and store updated parity data in the parity partition, such that a current state of any of the partitions of the volume can be re-created in response to a loss of one of the partitions. |
| US12086440B2 |
Virtual binning in a memory device
A first memory resource is configured to store a data structure. The first memory resource is coupled to a second memory resource that is configured to store a plurality of data structures. A processing device is coupled to the first memory resource, the second memory resource, and a third memory resource. The processing device writes data entries to the data structure within the first memory resource, determine that the data structure within the first memory resource includes a threshold quantity of data entries, and write the contents of the data structure within the first memory resource to a data structure within the second memory resource. The processing resource is further configured to move the contents of the contents of the data structure in the second memory resource to the third memory resource by readdressing the entries written within the second memory resource to virtual addresses associated with the third memory resource. |
| US12086438B2 |
Management of thermal shutdown in data storage devices
Methods and apparatus for management of thermal shutdown in data storage devices are provided. One such data storage device includes a non-volatile memory (NVM) including a thermal shutdown temperature indicative of a maximum temperature at which the NVM will retain data stored therein; and a processor coupled to the NVM, the processor configured to: determine whether a temperature at the NVM exceeds the thermal shutdown temperature; start, responsive to the determination that the temperature at the NVM exceeds the thermal shutdown temperature, a timer; determine, responsive to the timer reaching a preselected duration, whether the temperature at the NVM still exceeds the thermal shutdown temperature; cause, responsive to the determination that the temperature at the NVM still exceeds the thermal shutdown temperature, the NVM to be powered off; and maintain power to components of the data storage device other than the NVM. |
| US12086431B1 |
Selective communication protocol layering for synchronous replication
Selective communication protocol layering for synchronous replication, including: initiating, by a first storage system issuing a command in accordance with a first communication protocol, a connection specifying the first storage system to be a target of storage content from a second storage system; receiving, from the second storage system by the first storage system, a connection request in accordance with the first communication protocol, wherein the connection request specifies the first storage system to be a source of storage content to the second storage system; and based on both initiating the connection and receiving the connection request in accordance with the first communication protocol: establishing, by the first storage system and in accordance with a second communication protocol, both a connection for receiving storage content from the second storage system and a connection for sending storage content to the second storage system. |
| US12086430B2 |
Mirrored memory configuration method and apparatus, and computer storage medium
This application discloses a mirrored memory configuration method and apparatus, and a computer storage medium, and belongs to the field of information processing technologies. The method includes the following: After a computer apparatus is started, if the computer apparatus is currently in an OS state and obtains a mirrored memory establishment request, the computer apparatus may switch from the OS state to a BIOS state through system interruption. Then the computer apparatus configures a mirroring relationship in the BIOS state, and switches to the OS state again after configuring the mirroring relationship, to reconfigure a mirrored memory. |
| US12086429B2 |
Memory system and controlling method
According to one embodiment, the controller periodically executes a first operation. The controller selects a first mode or a second mode in the first operation. In a case where the first mode is selected, the controller reads pieces of data that are stored in contiguous memory locations, respectively, that are included in a first physical page or a second physical page. The first physical page is included in a first physical block of a first die. The second physical page is included in a second physical block of a second die. In a case where the second mode is selected, the controller reads first data stored in one memory location of the first physical page and second data stored in one memory location of the second physical page. |
| US12086426B2 |
Memory system, information processing system, and host device
A memory system may be connected to a host device. The memory system includes a nonvolatile memory and a controller configured to control the nonvolatile memory to reduce an amount of power consumption of the memory system based on a first instruction received from a host device connected to the memory system. |
| US12086423B1 |
Memory for performing counting operation, memory system, and operation method of memory
An operation method of memory may include activating a first row that is selected in a first bank, activating a second row that is selected in a second bank, receiving an all-bank counting command, reading a first access count from memory cells of specific columns of the first row in response to the all-bank counting command, increasing the first access count, writing the increased first access count in the memory cells of the specific columns of the first row, reading a second access count from memory cells of specific columns of the second row in response to the all-bank counting command, increasing the second access count, and writing the increased second access count in the memory cells of the specific columns of the second row. |
| US12086412B2 |
Balancing performance between interface ports in a memory sub-system
A system includes a memory device, a first interface port and a second interface port operatively coupled with the memory device, and a processing device, operatively coupled with the memory device, to perform operations including: detecting a triggering event associated with the first interface port; responsive to detecting the triggering event, sending an interrupt message to a firmware component of the memory device; receiving, from the firmware component, a configuration setting based on the interrupt message; and allocating, by the processing device, one or more resources to the first interface port according to the configuration setting. |
| US12086410B1 |
Ferroelectric memory chiplet in a multi-dimensional packaging with I/O switch embedded in a substrate or interposer
A ferroelectric memory chiplet in a multi-dimensional packaging. The multi-dimensional packaging includes a first die comprising a switch and a first plurality of input-output transceivers. The multi-dimensional packaging includes a second die comprising a processor, wherein the second die includes a second plurality of input-output transceivers coupled to the first plurality of input-output transceivers. The multi-dimensional packaging includes a third die comprising a coherent cache or memory-side buffer, wherein the coherent cache or memory-side buffer comprises ferroelectric memory cells, wherein the coherent cache or memory-side buffer is coupled to the second die via I/Os. The dies are wafer-to-wafer bonded or coupled via micro-bumps, copper-to-copper hybrid bond, or wire bond, Flip-chip ball grid array routing, chip-on-wafer substrate, or embedded multi-die interconnect bridge. |
| US12086406B2 |
Control method and device and electronic device
A control method. The control method includes controlling a first display area of an electronic device to display a display interface of a first object; controlling the electronic device to enter a first state or a second state in response to a first trigger event; in the first state, performing an operation associated with the first object in response to a first operation on the display interface of the first object; and in the second state, performing an operation associated with a second object in response to a second operation on the display interface of the first object. |
| US12086402B2 |
Split-screen display implementation in computing device
Introduced here are split-screen implementation techniques that can allow a user to view and interact with the user interfaces of two or more applications simultaneously. Each of the two or more applications can be displayed within its own portion of two or more portions. A split-screen mode can be activated by a user by opening a split-screen application and selecting the applications to be used. Once within the split-screen mode, the user can customize the layout by adjusting the size of each portion and/or moving the application between the portions. Further, when within the split-screen mode, the user can share content from one application to another by selecting and dragging the content. The split-screen mode can also be implemented on a foldable device. The folding of the device can be used as a trigger to initiate split screen mode and the folding line can be used a border between portions. |
| US12086400B2 |
Method, electronic device, and storage medium for displaying shortcut identification card and application identification card
Information processing method and apparatus, electronic device, and storage medium are provided. The method includes obtaining a trigger operation; responding to the triggering operation and calling the multitasking manager; and displaying the multitasking manager. The multitasking manager includes at least one identification card obtained based on a target strategy. Each identification card includes at least one operation button. An operation button of the at least one operation button generates a control instruction for an application program corresponding to the identification card including the operation button to respond. |
| US12086399B2 |
Device, method, and graphical user interface for media playback
In accordance with some embodiments, a method is performed at a device with one or more processors, non-transitory memory, a display, and an input device. The method includes displaying, on the display, a playback status indicator regarding playback of a media item. The method includes displaying, on the display, an image associated with the media item. The method includes detecting an input interacting with the image. In response to a first portion of the input, the method includes adjusting the appearance of the image on the display in accordance with the first portion of the input. In response to a second portion of the input, the method includes changing playback of media items on the device in accordance with the input in accordance with the second portion of the input. |
| US12086394B2 |
Image processing component and image processing method for editing operations, and electronic device and storage medium
An image processing component includes: a display control configured to display a to-be-edited image on a first area in a display area or display a target image after performing an adjustment operation on the to-be-edited image; an image scale adjustment control configured to display, in response to a first control instruction, an image scale adjustment interface on an area in the display area other than the first area, and display a scale touch area and a first overlay function touch area in the image scale adjustment interface; and an image rotation control configured to display, in response to a second control instruction, an image rotation adjustment interface on an area in the display area other than the first area, and display a rotation touch area and a second overlay function touch area in the image rotation adjustment interface. |
| US12086391B2 |
Radiotherapy methods, systems, and workflow-oriented graphical user interfaces
Disclosed herein are radiotherapy systems and methods that can display a workflow-oriented graphical user interface(s). In an embodiment, a system comprises a first display in communication with a server, the first display configured to display a first graphical user interface; a second display in communication with the server, the second display configured to display a second graphical user interface, wherein the server is configured to: present the first graphical user interface for displaying on the first display, wherein the first graphical user interface contains one or more pages corresponding to one or more stages of a radiotherapy treatment, wherein the server transitions from a first page of the one or more pages representing a first stage to a second page of the one or more pages representing a second stage responsive to an indication that at least a predetermined portion of tasks associated with the first stage has been satisfied. |
| US12086390B2 |
Method for sharing a console variable setting of an application and the electronic device and system
A method for sharing a console variable setting of an application and the electronic device and system is provided. The sharing method includes: capturing a display frame of a first electronic device to obtain a set coding image by a second electronic device; transforming the set coding image into a meta file by the second electronic device, wherein the meta file comprises a set of setting parameters for a plurality of first setting options of a first application of the first electronic device; and setting a plurality of second setting options of a second application of the second electronic device as the set of setting parameters for the plurality of first setting options according to the meta file, wherein the second application is the same as the first application. |
| US12086389B2 |
Immersive, multi-state uni-card
Systems and methods for providing a uni-card interface can provide for an interactive dynamic interface for providing information to a user. The uni-card interface may include a multi-state interface that can provide increasingly more detailed information upon each interaction. For example, the uni-card interface can provide a first state with condensed information, a second state with expanded information, and a third state with immersive information. |
| US12086386B2 |
Interface display for infusion module
A medication delivery module is mounted to a patient care device, and a first graphic representative of the first medication delivery module is displayed on a display screen of the device, wherein the first graphic includes an information display area for display of infusion information associated with the first medication delivery module, and a status indicator for display of status information associated with the medication delivery module. Responsive to the indication, the status indicator is dynamically orienting such that the status indicator is displayed on a side of the first graphic nearest the coupling of the first medication delivery module. Infusion information from the first medication delivery module is displayed within the display area of the first graphic. |
| US12086384B2 |
Multimodal decision support system using augmented reality
An augmented reality (AR) system and method that provides multimodal decision support for users engaged in safety critical missions. A system includes a wearable device having a first lens configured for a first eye of a user and a second lens configured for a second eye of the user; and a computing platform integrated into the wearable device that includes: a communication manager configured to receive and process communication feeds from a plurality of data sources; and a display manager configured to display image-based data on the first lens and text-based data on the second lens, wherein the image-based data includes a set of user-selectable views and the text-based data includes a set of user-selectable pages, and wherein only one of the image-based data or text-based data is displayable for the user at a time. |
| US12086378B2 |
Moving a digital representation of a video conference participant to a new location in a virtual environment
Digital representations of video conference participants are displayed in a virtual environment. A user input indicative of a virtual location of the virtual environment is received with respect to one of the digital representations. The one of the digital representations is moved to a new location in the virtual environment based on the user input. A video stream is updated to display the virtual environment from the new location. In an example, an interactive view of the virtual environment that is capable of receiving user input is provided. A third person view of the one of the digital representations is provided in the interactive view at the new location. |
| US12086376B2 |
Defining, displaying and interacting with tags in a three-dimensional model
This application generally relates to defining, displaying and interacting with tags in a 3D model. In an embodiment, a method includes generating, by a system including a processor, a three-dimensional model of an environment based on sets of aligned three-dimensional data captured from the environment, and associating tags with defined locations of the three-dimensional model, wherein the tags are respectively represented by tag icons that are spatially aligned with the defined locations of the three-dimensional model as included in different representations of the three-dimensional model rendered via an interface of a device, wherein the different representations correspond to different perspectives of the three-dimensional model, and wherein selection of the tag icons causes the tags respectively associated therewith to be rendered at the device. |
| US12086368B2 |
Touch display device
A touch display device is disclosed. By making at least one of a thickness or an angle of inclination of an insulating layer disposed on an area where a touch routing line is disposed on a non-active area of a display panel and an area that lacks the touch routing line to be different from each other, a short circuit between touch routing lines due to a defect in a process arranging the touch routing lines can be reduced. |
| US12086366B1 |
Multi-color stylus for mutual capacitance touch screen devices
A stylus, in accordance with one embodiment, includes an elongated body having an input mechanism for receiving user selection of a color to be output upon interaction of the stylus with a computing device. The stylus also includes a nib functional as a transmitting unit to publish the selected color to a receiver of the computing device when the nib is in contact and/or near contact with the receiver. A computer-implemented method for synchronizing a stylus having color selection to a computing device, in accordance with one embodiment, includes outputting a request to a user to select a color on the stylus and touch the stylus to a receiver of the computing device. Touch of the stylus to the receiver of the computing device is detected. A capacitance of the stylus is calculated. The capacitance of the stylus is stored in association with the color. |
| US12086365B2 |
Display device and touch sensing unit therein
A display device includes a base layer, a circuit element layer, a display element layer, a thin film encapsulation layer, and a touch sensing layer. The base layer includes a display area and a non-display area bordering the display area. The circuit element layer includes first driving circuits and second driving circuits disposed in the non-display area of the base layer, and a pixel driving circuit disposed in the display area of the base layer. The display element layer in the display area of the base layer includes display elements provided on the circuit element layer. The touch sensing layer includes a plurality of touch electrodes that receive a touch sensing signal from the second driving circuit to eliminate being routed to a pad area to supply touch sensing signals to the touch electrodes. |
| US12086362B2 |
Optical component
A touch sensing apparatus is provided comprising: a light transmissive panel that defines a touch surface, a plurality of light emitters and detectors arranged along a perimeter of the light transmissive panel, a plurality of optical components arranged along the perimeter of the light transmissive panel, wherein the light emitters are arranged to emit a respective beam of emitted light and the optical components are configured to direct the emitted light to a path across the light transmissive panel. Optionally, optical components comprise a light guide arranged to receive light from the light emitters through a first surface and couple out light travelling in the light guide to the touch surface through a second surface. The second surface may be diffusively transmissive. The light guide may further comprise a reflective surface configured to internally reflect light travelling in the light guide from the first surface to the diffusive surface. The reflective surface may be diffusely reflective, partially diffusely reflective, or specularly reflective. |
| US12086361B2 |
Touch screen controller, touch screen driving circuit including the same and touch screen system
A touch screen controller, a touch screen driving circuit and a touch screen system are provided. The touch screen driving circuit configured to drive a touch screen includes an analog driving circuit configured to provide driving signals to a display panel and a touch panel of the touch screen, and generate a touch sensing value based on a touch sensing signal from the touch panel; a display noise table (DNT) comprising display noise information indicating display noise that varies according to a driving state of the touch screen and image data; a feature extractor configured to extract a plurality of feature values from the driving state and the image data; and a touch processor configured to read a display noise value mapped to the plurality of feature values from the DNT, subtract the display noise value from the touch sensing value and generate a touch value. |
| US12086350B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a display panel, and an input sensor disposed on the display panel. The input sensor includes a detection electrode in an active area of the input sensor, a signal line connected to the detection electrode, a slave chip connected to the signal line and overlapping a non-active area adjacent to the active area, a master chip overlapping the non-active area, and a plurality of connection lines connecting the master chip and the slave chip so that a sensed signal of the detection electrode is delivered to the master chip through the slave chip. |
| US12086348B2 |
Display apparatus
A display apparatus includes a display panel configured to display an image and a touch antenna array disposed on the display panel. The touch antenna array may include a touch electrode, a touch wiring electrically connected to the touch electrode, an antenna electrode including a plurality of antenna elements, a feeder electrically connected to the antenna electrode, and a shielding electrode disposed between the touch wiring and the feeder. |
| US12086346B2 |
Touch operation detection device and touch operation detection method for improving operability of a touch operation on a display panel
This display device includes: a grouping processing unit that groups a plurality of drive lines into a plurality of groups each having a set grouped number of adjacent drive lines; a setting processing unit that sets a display magnification of a display screen according to the grouped number; a display processing unit that causes a display panel to display the display screen in the display magnification; and a determination processing unit that determines, in a state where the display screen is displayed on the display panel in the display magnification, a position of a touch operation on the display screen that is displayed in the display magnification based on an output signal that is output from a plurality of sense lines in response to an input signal that is input to each of the grouped number of drive lines. |
| US12086343B2 |
Touch display device
A touch display device includes a touch planarization film. The touch planarization film may be disposed on an inclined portion of an encapsulation layer in a non-active area of a display panel, and a touch routing line may be disposed on the planarized area of the touch planarization film, so that it is possible to reduce parasitic capacitance between the touch routing line and a display signal line located under the encapsulation layer without increasing dimensions of the non-active area. Therefore, it is possible to easily adjust a width of the touch routing line and reduce the parasitic capacitance deviation between the touch routing lines, thereby improving the performance of the touch sensing. |
| US12086342B2 |
Display device having shaped sealing member
A display device includes a first substrate having a light-emitting element. A second substrate is disposed over the first substrate. A sealing member is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The sealing member couples the first substrate and the second substrate together. The sealing member includes a first linear portion extending in a first direction, and a second linear portion extending in a second direction different from the first direction. A maximum width of the first linear portion is greater than a maximum width of the second linear portion. |
| US12086341B2 |
Touch display apparatus
A touch display apparatus is provided. The touch display apparatus may include a touch sensor on an encapsulating unit covering light-emitting devices. The touch sensor may include touch electrodes and bridge electrodes electrically connecting between the touch electrodes. Each of the touch electrodes may be electrically connected to the corresponding touch pad by one of touch routing lines. A guard line may be disposed between the touch electrodes and each touch routing line. A signal applied to the guard line may be different from a signal applied to adjacent touch routing line. Thus, in the touch display apparatus, a reduction in touch sensitivity due to a touch driving signal or a touch sensing signal applied by the touch routing lines may be prevented or at least reduced. |
| US12086337B2 |
Electromechanical slip ring configurations for a foldable display device
A foldable touch screen display device made up of flexible segments that can be folded from a compact state to an expanded state which also includes electromechanical slip rings. The form factor of the compact state is roughly the size of a typical handheld phone or smaller. The form factor of the expanded state is roughly the size of a larger phone or tablet computer, which may also have the size and mechanical functionality of a laptop. The device form factor may also be a flip phone configuration. Both folded states may include an integrated speaker and microphone. The electromechanical slip rings are utilized to provide multiple electrical connections between the device's display segments and their respective support structures. The device may further include sensors to indicate the position of each display segment. In one embodiment, a module attached to, situated within, or otherwise associated with at least one segment of the flexible display or rigid display may contain all or substantially all processing and memory, along with a communications system, which may be used in any folded state. |
| US12086335B2 |
Device, method and program for generating multidimensional reaction-type image, and method and program for reproducing multidimensional reaction-type image
The present disclosure related to a method for playing a multidimensional reaction-type image. The method includes at least: receiving, by a computer, input manipulation to an object from a user; and extracting, by the computer, an image frame matched to a detailed cell corresponding to location information and depth information in a reaction-type image, depending on the location information and the depth information of the input manipulation received at each playback time point. The depth information is information about pressure strength of the input manipulation applied to the reaction-type image or time length to which the input manipulation is applied. The location information is information about a location of a two-dimensional space in which the input manipulation is applied to the reaction-type image. |
| US12086332B2 |
Position input device and position input system including the same
A position input device includes: a communication circuit receiving slope angle information of a display panel; a code detector detecting a pattern shape image of position code patterns of the display panel by emitting infrared light to the display panel and receiving infrared light reflected from the display panel; a light emitting driver controlling an infrared light emitting operation of the code detector; a slope detector detecting slope angle information of the position input device; and a code processor modulating infrared light emitting characteristics of the code detector or modulating pattern shape image data in response to an arrangement angle information between the display panel and the position input device. |
| US12086331B2 |
Capacitive gap sensor ring for an input device
An input mechanism for a portable electronic device includes a rotational manipulation mechanism, such as a cap or shaft. The input mechanism also includes a sensor having first capacitive elements coupled to the manipulation mechanism, second capacitive elements, and a dielectric positioned between the first and second capacitive elements. Movement of the manipulation mechanism alters the positions of the first and second capacitive elements with respect to each other and is determinable based on capacitance changes resulting therefrom. In some implementations, the second capacitive elements may be part of an inner ring or partial ring nested at least partially within an outer ring or partial ring. |
| US12086328B2 |
User-defined virtual interaction space and manipulation of virtual cameras with vectors
The technology disclosed relates to creating user-defined interaction spaces and modalities in a three dimensional (3D) sensor space in response to control gestures. It also relates to controlling virtual cameras in the 3D sensor space using control gestures and manipulating controls of the virtual cameras through the control gestures. In particular, it relates to defining one or more spatial attributes of the interaction spaces and modalities in response to one or more gesture parameters of the control gesture. It also particularly relates to defining one or more visual parameters of a virtual camera in response to one or more gesture parameters of the control gesture. |
| US12086325B2 |
Wearable device and screen wake-up method thereof, and readable storage medium
A screen wake-up method, which is applied to a wearable device. The method includes: when a screen of a wearable device is in a turned-off state, performing an illuminance monitoring operation on a set position of the wearable device to obtain illuminance data (S10); identifying a contact operation corresponding to the set position according to the illuminance data (S20); and when the contact operation satisfies the set contact condition corresponding to screen wake-up, controlling the screen to be switched to a turned-on state (S30). Further disclosed are a wearable device and a readable storage medium, which may improve the endurance capabilities of the wearable device. |
| US12086324B2 |
Micro hand gestures for controlling virtual and graphical elements
Example systems, devices, media, and methods are described for controlling virtual elements or graphical elements on a display in response to hand gestures detected by an eyewear device that is capturing frames of video data with its camera system. An image processing system detects a series of hand shapes in the video data and determines whether it matches a predefined series of hand gestures. Each predefined series of hand gestures is associated with an action. The system controls movement of the virtual element, relative to the display, in accordance with the associated action. In an example hand shape that includes a thumb sliding along an extended finger, the system establishes a finger scale along the extended finger, calibrates a graphical scale with the finger scale, and controls movement of an interactive graphical element, such as a slider, according to the current thumb position relative to the calibrated graphical scale. |
| US12086318B2 |
Operating device having active and passive haptics and steering device having such an operating device
An operating device includes a touchpad having an operating surface for detecting touch inputs, which operating surface has multiple regions which are delimited from each other at least in part by one or more structural elements, each structural element being designed to have a first haptic effect on a finger when the finger swipes over the structural element; and a haptic actuator which is designed to have a second haptic effect which enhances the first haptic effect on the finger when the finger touches or swipes over a structural element. The operating device has a first operating mode in which the actuator is activated to produce the second haptic effect on the finger when the finger touches or swipes over a structural element, and a second operating mode in which the actuator is deactivated when the finger touches or swipes over a structural element. |
| US12086314B2 |
Systems and methods that involve BCI (brain computer interface), extended reality and/or eye-tracking devices, detect mind/brain activity, generate and/or process saliency maps, eye-tracking information and/or various control(s) or instructions, implement mind-based selection of UI elements and/or perform other features and functionality
Systems and methods associated with mind/brain-computer interfaces are disclosed. Certain implementations may include or involve processes of collecting and processing brain activity data, such as those associated with the use of a brain-computer interface that enables, for example, decoding and/or encoding a user's brain functioning, neural activities, and/or activity patterns associated with thoughts, including sensory-based thoughts.Consistent with various aspects of the disclosed technology, systems and methods herein include functionality whereby a user can hands-free select or click UI elements in a mixed reality environment or on a 2D computer, phone or other such screen. In some embodiments, the disclosed technology may involve a brain-interface that can decode where the user is looking (i.e., determine their visual attention) and also decode their intention to select or ‘click’ the UI element desired. The user's intention to select or ‘click’ the UI element (the 2nd step) can be achieved through an imagined movement or an imagined word. |
| US12086313B2 |
Motion detection system
A communication unit transmits, to a server, motion information that is detected by a motion detection unit for detecting motion information about a mounted body by using a motion detection member mounted on the mounted body, and a motion determination unit determines what kind of motion is indicated by the motion information. |
| US12086307B2 |
Integrated gaze tracker and operation method thereof
An integrated gaze tracker includes a pixel array configured to capture an image to provide an output signal comprising the image; a memory configured to store an image data unit to be read out in units of lines based on the output signal of the pixel array; and a processor configured to generate a gaze vector based on partial image data comprising the image data unit, among entire image data included in the output signal. |
| US12086303B2 |
Electronic apparatus and mode control program
[Object] To achieve the high performance of an electronic apparatus and ensure the safety of a user at the same time.[Solving Means] An electronic apparatus includes a temperature sensor that detects a temperature of a specified portion of the electronic apparatus; and a mode controller that turns on an endurance mode that is a mode that permits a surface temperature of the electronic apparatus to be increased to a second upper limit when the electronic apparatus is used out of contact with a human body, the surface temperature being calculated on the basis of the temperature detected by the temperature sensor, the second upper limit being higher than a first upper limit that is an upper limit of a temperature in a normal mode. |
| US12086302B2 |
Information processing apparatus, method, program, and information processing system for remote user interaction
An information processing apparatus of the present invention includes an acquisition unit that acquires space information indicative of a position of a physical object in a first space around a first user, a space construction unit that constructs, on the basis of the space information, a shared space that is shared by the first user and a second user who exists in a second space different from the first space and in which the position of the physical object in the first space is reflected, and a determination unit that determines a position of the second user in the shared space. |
| US12086300B2 |
Adjustment of display orientation based on context and location of user in multi-user environment
In one aspect, a device includes at least one processor, a display accessible to the at least one processor, and storage accessible to the at least one processor. The storage includes instructions executable by the at least one processor to identify a context associated with a user, identify a location of the user, and adjust the orientation of the display to direct the display toward the location of the user based on the context associated with the user and the location of the user. |
| US12086295B2 |
Nuts: eNcrypted userdata transit and storage
A lock node for storing data and a protected storage unit. The lock node includes an input section which provides a plurality of key maps, each corresponding to one of a plurality of primary keys, respectively, applied to the input section, each key map including at least one main key, a variable lock section producing a derived key from a logical operation on the main keys corresponding to the primary keys applied to the input section, and an output section producing the data in response to the derived key. |
| US12086289B2 |
Secure data backup method, secure data restoration method, and electronic device
This application provides a data encryption method, a data decryption method, a secure data backup method, a secure data restoration method, and an electronic device. Different types of data packets in the card data are separately encrypted by using a secure element SE and a trusted execution environment TEE. In the encryption process, a user and a third-party card data provider are introduced, and are separately responsible for generation, storage, and delivery of one of key factors. Then, a real backup key is generated with reference to a key factor provided by a mobile phone party. After being encrypted in the SE and the TEE by using the backup key, the card data is uploaded to a cloud server for backup. The application can ensures data backup security in the SE and the TEE. |
| US12086286B2 |
Anonymization protocols
An example system may include a processor and a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium storing instructions executable by the processor to determine a type of data to be added to a log file; determine a selected anonymization protocol for the type of the data; and anonymize the data according to the anonymization protocol as the data is added to the log file. |
| US12086285B1 |
Data subject request tiering
A method of providing a data disclosure to a requester can include: receiving a data subject request from a requester, the data subject request including a request for stored personal data; categorizing the element data into one of a plurality of tiers based on a sensitivity level of the element data; assigning an assigned tier to the element data and associated data values; determining a level of detail of the associated data values for each of the element data to provide based on the assigned tier; and providing a data disclosure report to the requester, wherein the data disclosure report includes the level of detail of data values for each of the element data based on the assigned tier. |
| US12086280B2 |
Document management system
[Problem] To ensure security in document management in small-scale organizations without using expensive servers by establishing peer-to-peer connection of a plurality of PCs, and to enable mutual non-tampering certification among connected organizations.[Solution] Provided is a document management system in which is formed a PC group in which a plurality of small electronic computers for creating, recording, and viewing a document are connected via a communication channel, said system comprising i) an in-PC cluster document synchronization means which causes a document recorded on one PC to be incorporated in recordings of other PCs belonging to a cluster, (ii) a document hash value generation means which generates a hash value of the document, and (iii) a blockchain generation means which assembles a plurality of the generated hash values and forms a block, connects the block to the existing blocks and forms a blockchain, and synchronizes and records same on the PCs within the PC cluster. |
| US12086276B2 |
Collection folder for collecting file submissions in response to a public file request
A content management system for collecting files from one or more submitters in a collection folder. A collector, who generates the collection folder, can invite one or more submitters to submit one or more files to the collection folder in response to a public file request. The one or more submitters have limited rights to the collection folder. The limited rights can include uploading rights and prohibiting a submitter from viewing files that other submitters associated with the collection folder submitted. Thus, the collection folder is able to store files from the one or more submitters, but prevent them from viewing other's submissions. |
| US12086273B2 |
Electronic system for identifying faulty code and vulnerabilities in software programs using linked evaluation tools
Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for dynamically generating linked security tests. The present invention may be configured to perform security tests on an application, generate, based on the results of the security tests, security test sequences that include at least one security test that the application failed, perform the security test sequences on the application, and, iteratively and until the application passes each security test sequence in an iteration, generate additional security test sequences. The present invention may be further configured to provide results of the security tests and security test sequences to one or more machine learning models to generate supplementary security test sequences and determine probabilities of the application failing the supplementary security test sequences. |
| US12086267B2 |
Industrial cyberattack simulation system
A system is provided for simulating a cyberattack as a simulated cyberattack on a real industrial control facility that includes reals sensor devices. The system generates simulated sensor signals that are representative of sensor signals generated by a sensor of a real sensor device that is the target of the simulated cyberattack. The system injects the simulated sensor signals into the real sensor device so that the real sensor device generates an output based on the simulated sensor signals. The system monitors the response of a personnel of the industrial control facility. The system then generates an assessment of the response based on a target response. The system may rerun the simulated cyberattack based on the assessment. |
| US12086266B2 |
Techniques for identifying and validating security control steps in software development pipelines
Systems and methods for identifying security control steps in software development pipelines. A method includes enumerating a plurality of steps in a software development infrastructure by analyzing software development pipeline data of the software development infrastructure, wherein each step includes a set of computer instructions for performing at least one task; identifying a plurality of step properties for each of the plurality of steps in step data of the step; and classifying at least one of the plurality of steps as a security control step based on the plurality of step properties identified for each of the plurality of steps, wherein each step classified as a security control step includes instructions for at least analyzing code in order to determine whether at least one security requirement is met. |
| US12086263B2 |
Utilizing federation relationship settings among different systems
A computer-implemented method, according to one embodiment, includes: determining, for each pair of HCI systems where each pair includes a first HCI system coupled to another HCI system, a federation relationship setting that corresponds to each pair. The federation relationship settings are used to control a flow of data, as well as to control a flow of workload scheduling, between the first HCI system and the other HCI systems in the respective pairs. Moreover, determining a federation relationship setting that corresponds to a pair includes: determining whether a risk score which corresponds to the pair is outside a predetermined range. In response to determining that the risk score is outside the predetermined range, a restrictive federation relationship setting is assigned to the pair, and in response to determining that the risk score is not outside the predetermined range, a permissive federation relationship setting is assigned to the pair. |
| US12086261B2 |
Displaying cyber threat data in a narrative-like format
A mechanism is provided in a data processing system for displaying cyber threat data in a narrative format. The mechanism receives a cyber threat information file that comprises cyber threat data in a serialized format. The mechanism generates a user interface presenting the cyber threat data in a narrative format. The user interface presents objects in the cyber threat data in a hierarchical format indicative of relationships between parent objects and child objects and presents context information for each object. The mechanism presents the user interface to an analyst. |
| US12086259B2 |
Secure over-the-air firmware upgrade
Methods, systems, devices, and apparatuses for securely providing an over-the-air firmware upgrade. The system includes an embedded device configured to receive the firmware upgrade. The system includes a server having a memory configured to store a first key encryption key, the firmware upgrade and a firmware key and having a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to obtain the firmware upgrade, the firmware key and the first key encryption key. The processor is configured to encrypt the firmware upgrade using the firmware key. The processor is configured to encrypt the firmware key with the first key encryption key and transmit the encrypted firmware upgrade and the encrypted firmware key to the embedded device. |
| US12086258B1 |
Firmware attestation on system reset
Technologies are described for performing firmware attestation on system reset. When a managed computing system is reset, a baseboard management controller (“BMC”) generates a notification that the managed computing system has been reset and transmits the notification to an event listener executing in a management system by way of an out-of-band (“OOB”) network. The event listener receives the notification that the managed computing system has been reset and, in turn, causes a security manager executing in the management system to transmit a request for firmware attestation data to a platform security agent executing on the managed computing system. The security manager receives the firmware attestation data from the platform security agent by way of an in-band network and stores the firmware attestation data in a database for exposure to other program components for use in evaluating the trustworthiness of the firmware executing on the managed computing system. |
| US12086257B2 |
Trusted firmware verification
Disclosed are various examples for verification and management of firmware for client devices enrolled with a management service of an enterprise. The firmware verification includes a verification process using multiple checkpoints for determining whether status responses associated with firmware installed on and received from a managed client device can be trusted. The multiple checkpoints can include verifying certificate data, signature data, and an exit code included in status responses received from managed devices. In the event that one of the verification steps fails, the device can be considered compromised and subject to various compliance actions. The compliance actions can include limiting access to enterprise data, limiting access to one or more applications, wiping a device clean to reset the devices to the original factory settings, sending a notification to an enterprise administrator providing an indication of the detected compromise, and other types of compliance actions. |
| US12086255B2 |
Edge day zero secure infrastructure identification and attestation
Self-provisioning a computer system is illustrated. Code in a secure base activation image implements an auto-connection service at the computer system. The auto-connection service attempts to perform a local activation by attempting to determine that a private port is open and using the private port, initiating an identification and attestation process with an activation service. The auto-connection service performs a remote activation by determining that the private port is closed, defaulting activation to a public port, and using the public port, initiating an identification and attestation process with the activation service. Code in the base activation image implements service(s) which execute an identification process, using a cryptographically created identifier included in the base activation image, with the activation service to confirm an identity of the computer system, confirming system integrity of the computer system with the activation service, unlocking the computer system for load installation. |
| US12086252B2 |
System and method for preserving forensic computer data
A system and method preserve forensic computer data to remediate data attacks on a computer system. The method includes receiving evidentiary data from a data source, wherein the evidentiary data is related to the processing of information by a computer system, storing the evidentiary data as forensic data in a protected hardware-based forensic data reserve, and detecting a data attack on the computer system. In the event of the data attack having occurred, the method retrieves the stored forensic data from the forensic data reserve, and remediates the data attack including restoring deleted data using the retrieved forensic data, wherein the deleted data were removed from the computer system during the data attack. The system implements the method. |
| US12086251B2 |
IoT device and method for detecting and removing malware by use of server resource
The present disclosure provides an IoT device which comprise a user application module; an OS API module; a kernel API module; a file system driver module; a file filter driver module; and a network filter driver module. The user application module generates read/write event when an external file is received. The OS API module calls the kernel API module when the event is generated. The kernel API module transmits the read/write event to the file system driver module. The file system driver module generates the read/write operation command and transmits the command to the file filter driver module. The file filter driver module transmits the read/write operation command to the network filter driver module. The network filter driver module generates a exclusive packet including the read/write operation command and transmits the packet to a packet processing application module of a remote server. |
| US12086246B2 |
Method for protecting a machine learning model from a side channel attack
A method is provided for protecting a machine learning (ML) model from a side channel attack (SCA). The method is executed by a processor in a data processing system. The method includes generating a first random bit. A first weighted sum is computed for a first connection between a node of a first layer and a node of a second layer of the ML model. The first weighted sum for the first connection is equal to a multiplication of the weight of the first connection multiplied by an input to the selected node. In the multiplication, one of the weight or the input is negated conditioned on a value of the random bit. A first output including the computed first weighted sum is provided to one or more nodes of a second layer of the plurality of layers. |
| US12086245B1 |
Processor that prevents speculative execution across translation context change boundaries to mitigate side channel attacks
A processor for mitigating side channel attacks includes units that perform fetch, decode, and execution of instructions and pipeline control logic. The processor performs speculative and out-of-order execution of the instructions. The units detect and notify the control unit of events that cause a change from a first translation context (TC) to a second TC. In response, the pipeline control logic prevents speculative execution of instructions that are dependent in their execution on the change to the second TC until all instructions that are dependent on the first TC have completed execution, which may involve stalling their dispatch until all first-TC-dependent instructions have at least completed execution, or by tagging them and dispatching them to execution schedulers but preventing them from starting execution until all first-TC-dependent instructions have at least completed execution. The processor may also in response prevent speculative instruction fetching and/or perform speculative instruction flushing. |
| US12086244B2 |
Onboard information processing device, information processing method, and non-transitory recording medium
A processor is configured to determine whether or not target data, this being data that a first application is attempting to access, is permitted data based on a correspondence relationship list, and to permit the first application to access the target data in cases in which the processor has determined the target data to be the permitted data, and not to permit the first application to access the target data in cases in which the processor has determined the target data not to be the permitted data. |
| US12086243B2 |
Systems and methods for detecting usage anomalies based on environmental sensor data
Disclosed herein are systems and method for detecting usage anomalies based on environmental sensor data. A method may include: receiving a physical user input at a computing device located in an environment; determining whether the physical user input was received from an authorized user of the computing device by: retrieving environmental sensor data from at least one sensor located in the environment; identifying a window of time during which the physical user input was received; and verifying a presence of the authorized user at the environment during the window of time based on the environmental sensor data; and in response to determining that the authorized user was not present in the environment during the window of time, detecting a usage anomaly and not executing the physical user input. |
| US12086242B2 |
Storage device and method for protecting against virus/malware thereof and computing system having the same
Disclosed is an operating method of a storage device, which includes detecting virus/malware, performing an authentication operation with a host device when the virus/malware is detected, and entering a recovery mode when the authentication operation indicates that authentication is successful. |
| US12086241B2 |
Event visualization device for generating hierarchical directed acyclic graph and related computer program product
The present invention provides an event visualization device configured to generate one or more directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) that can be used as a basis for diagnosing whether a target network system has been hacked according to a plurality of activities records. The plurality of activities records pertain to an event cluster associated with a suspicious event category. The event visualization device performs a graph generating operation on the plurality of activities records in a recursive manner to generate a hierarchical directed acyclic graph (HDAG). The graph generating operation includes: interpreting an activities record into a target DAG, and performing a hierarchical partial order alignment (HPOA) operation on the target DAG and a reference DAG to obtain a merging condition of each node; and merging the target DAG and the reference DAG into the HDAG according to the merging condition. |
| US12086240B2 |
Electronic device and attack detection method of electronic device
Malware infection or an abnormal operation caused by a malicious attack is detected in real time, even in an electronic device with relatively inferior processing capacity. An electronic device includes an executable code identification unit configured to receive an executable code string output from a processor, and identify at least an execution address in a user program region of an operating system (OS), and an execution address in a kernel region, and a determination unit configured to check a predetermined feature value obtained at a predetermined timing from an identification result obtained by the executable code identification unit, against a predetermined expected value, and determine that an attack happens, in a case where a difference is equal to or larger than a predetermined difference, and the determination unit notifies the processor of a predetermined abnormality notification signal if the determination unit determines that an attack happens. |
| US12086237B2 |
Securely redirecting system service routines
Securely redirecting a system service routine via a provider service table. A service call provider is loaded within an operating system executing in a lower trust security zone. The service call provider comprises metadata indicating a system service routine to be redirected to the service call provider. Based on the metadata, a provider service table is built within a higher trust security zone. The service table redirects the system service routine to the service call provider. Memory page(s) associated with the provider service table are hardware protected, and a read-only view is exposed to the operating system. The provider service table is associated with a user-mode process. A service call for a particular system service routine is received by the operation system from the user-mode process and, based on the provider service table being associated with the user-mode process, the service call is directed to the service call provider. |
| US12086236B2 |
System and method for identifying a cryptor that encodes files of a computer system
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for identifying a cryptor that encodes files of a computer system. An exemplary method comprises, identifying one or more files into which a data entry is performed by a suspect process; for each identified file, determining characteristics of the identified file, identifying classes of file modifications using a trained machine learning model and respective characteristics of the identified file, identifying a suspect process as being associated with the cryptor based on the identified classes of file modification of the file, and protecting the computer system from the cryptor. |
| US12086235B2 |
Early exit dynamic analysis of a virtual machine
Techniques for early exit dynamic analysis of a virtual machine are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system/process/computer program product for early exit dynamic analysis of a virtual machine includes initiating a dynamic analysis of a malware sample by executing the malware sample in a virtual computing environment; monitoring activities of the malware sample during execution of the malware sample in the virtual computing environment; and determining when to exit the dynamic analysis before a predetermined period of time. |
| US12086233B2 |
Lifecycle management of secrets on serverless platform
An orchestration engine intermittently scans secrets, of different secret types, to identify secrets that are to be rotated. The orchestration engine calls an application programming interface (API) exposed by a serverless management system and wakes up the serverless management system. The serverless management system generates a new secret, stores the new secret for rotation, and interacts with a dependent system in order to revoke an old secret and implement the new secret. Once the secret is rotated, and the new secret is implemented, the orchestration engine stores the new secret in a secret store. |
| US12086232B2 |
Apparatus, method, and program product for selecting an authentication medium
Apparatuses, methods, and program products are disclosed for selecting an authentication medium. One apparatus includes at least one processor and a memory that stores code executable by the at least one processor. The code is executable by the processor to receive, by use of the at least one processor, an indication to authenticate a user. The code is executable by the processor to, in response to receiving the indication to authenticate the user, detect a physical availability of a preferred authentication medium of a list of authentication mediums. The code is executable by the processor to, in response to detecting that the preferred authentication medium is physically unavailable, select a physically available authentication medium from the list of authentication mediums to authenticate the user. |
| US12086229B2 |
System and method for registration of card keys for multifunction peripheral operation
A system and method for PIN authentication issuance from a MFP QR Code includes a QR code presented on an authentication screen of multifunction peripheral display. A user requiring a personal information number to access a multifunction peripheral printing system managed by a print server scans the QR code with their secure smartphone or tablet. The scanned QR code opens a web portal to the sever on the user's device where they can select a new PIN. The new PIN is stored on the server for the user' account and access to the MFP is then granted when the user enters their new PIN. |
| US12086228B2 |
Login token management
Techniques for securing user data in a healthcare data management system are described. A client system receives a request to authenticate a user. A login token relating to an authenticated user is maintained at the client system. A role is selected for the user, and an authorization token relating to the selected role is maintained at the client system. A session for the user is initiated. This includes generating an encrypted session cookie relating to the user and the session, storing the encrypted session cookie at the client system, and periodically updating a timestamp for the session cookie. |
| US12086227B2 |
Verification system
A device includes memory and a processor. The device receives biometric information. The device receives location information. The device analyzes the received biometric information with stored biometric information. The device analyzes the received location information with stored location information. The device determines whether the received biometric information matches the stored biometric information. The device determines whether the received location information matches the stored location information. The device sends an electronic communication that indicates whether the received biometric information matches the stored biometric information and whether the received local information matches the stored location information. |
| US12086226B2 |
Apparatus and method
Disclosed herein is a pixel structure comprising a plurality of layers for providing a touch sensitive pixel of a sensing array. The pixel comprises: a thin film transistor, a capacitive sensing electrode, and a reference capacitor comprising a first plate and a second plate. The capacitive sensing electrode and the second plate of the reference capacitor are connected to a gate region of the thin film transistor. Methods of manufacturing such a touch sensitive pixel are also disclosed herein. |
| US12086223B2 |
Linear sketch system, apparatus, authentication method, program, and recording medium
A generation apparatus converts a received key to an encoded key by using an encoding function of an error correcting code, and generates a sketch by applying a first composite transformation on received fuzzy data and the encoded key. A reconstruction apparatus receives a first sketch and a second sketch, generates a composite sketch by applying second composite transformation on the first and second sketches, and reconstruction calculates difference between the two keys used to generate the first and second sketches based on the composite sketch. |
| US12086221B2 |
Multi-factor authentication for virtual reality
Authenticating for a virtual reality (VR) system using a plurality of factors of authentication, including: collecting a password entered into a virtual keyboard for a first factor of the plurality of factors of authentication, wherein the password is entered by a user selecting a series of data including numbers, letters, or images on the virtual keyboard displayed on a display of the VR system; and collecting a biometric fingerprint from movements of the VR system for a second factor of the plurality of factors of authentication. |
| US12086220B1 |
Systems and methods for remote server authentication of physical access tokens
In certain embodiments, a physical network access token at a network access terminal may be authenticated for modification of records at a remote server system. In some embodiments, a set of records and counterpart records having the same record identifiers and resource amounts may be stored independently on a physical token or user device and the remote server system. When a connection is established between an access terminal and the physical token (e.g., for authenticating a modification of record(s)), the access terminal may transmit input data to the token, which may use the input data with the records stored on the token to generate authentication data, which may be used by the remote server to authenticate a network action requested via the token. |
| US12086210B2 |
State determination apparatus and image analysis apparatus
According to one embodiment, a state determination apparatus includes a processor. The processor acquires a targeted image. The processor acquires a question concerning the targeted image and an expected answer to the question. The processor generates an estimated answer estimated with respect to the question concerning the targeted image using a trained model trained to estimate an answer based on a question concerning an image. The processor determines a state of a target for determination in accordance with a similarity between the expected answer and the estimated answer. |
| US12086206B2 |
Matrix multiplier and operation method thereof
A matrix multiplier and an operation method thereof are provided. The matrix multiplier includes a plurality of first input lines, a plurality of second input lines and a computing array. The computing array includes a plurality of multiplication accumulation (MAC) cells. A first MAC cell of the plurality of MAC cells is coupled to a first corresponding input line of the plurality of first input lines and a second corresponding input line of the plurality of second input lines to receive a first input value and a second input value to perform a multiplication accumulation operation. When at least one of the first input value and the second input value is a specified value, the multiplication accumulation operation of the first MAC cell is disabled. |
| US12086205B2 |
Random sparsity handling in a systolic array
Matrix multiply units can take advantage of input sparsity by zero gating ALUs, which saves power consumption, but compute throughput does not increase. To improve compute throughput from sparsity, processing resources in a matrix accelerator can skip computation with zero involved in input or output. If zeros in input can be skipped, the processing units can focus calculations on generating meaningful non-zero output. |
| US12086200B2 |
Attribute-based positioning of bookmarks in a 3D virtual space
An embodiment includes determining semantic attributes of a bookmark. The embodiment also includes determining respective attribute values for each of the semantic attributes of the bookmark. The embodiment also includes rendering a three-dimensional (3D) virtual space for display to a user, where the virtual space is defined by three orthogonal axes, each associated with a respective one of the semantic attributes. The embodiment also includes displaying a symbol representative of the bookmark in the virtual space. The symbol is positioned in the virtual space at an intersection of perpendicular projections from locations on the three axes corresponding with respective attribute values of the attributes associated with the respective axes. |
| US12086197B2 |
Methods and apparatus for processing, searching and displaying PDF documents using a browser
Methods and apparatus for retrieving PDF documents, performing text extraction operations on portions or all of a retrieved document and supporting search operations in a manner that allows search results to be quickly provided for at least portions of a PDF document being viewed are described. The methods and apparatus are particularly useful in applications, such as many applications executed by a browser, where the application is limited to a single processing thread and thus must perform all or many processing operations sequentially. By prioritizing document pages which are being viewed for text extraction even before a search is initiated and by performing text extraction in small periods of time and storing the results, in many cases a user can be provided with text search results for a page being viewed in relatively little time and without the program, e.g., java script browser application, appearing non-responsive. |
| US12086196B2 |
Intelligent selection and presentation of people highlights on a computing device
Technology is disclosed for selecting at least one people highlight, with respect to a person of interest, to be shown on one or more user devices. The user device is monitored to determine a user interest in a person of interest. A set of possible people highlights, with respect to the person of interest is determined. A determination is made as to whether any of the possible people highlights should be suppressed and not presented to the user on the user device. Any people highlights that were determined to be people highlights that should be suppressed and not presented are removed to create a remaining set of possible people highlights. At least one of the remaining set of possible people highlights are presented on the user device. |
| US12086193B2 |
Identifying similar documents in a file repository using unique document signatures
Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable storage media are disclosed for determining clusters of similar digital documents using unique document signatures. Specifically, the disclosed system processes digital text in a digital document to tokenize character strings (e.g., words) in the digital document by combining a subset of character values and string lengths in the character strings. Additionally, the disclosed system generates a document signature for the digital document by combining subsets of tokens generated for the digital document into a token sequence indicative of the digital text in the digital document. The disclosed system determines a cluster of similar digital documents including the digital document by comparing the document signature of the digital document to document signatures corresponding to a plurality of digital documents. |
| US12086191B2 |
System and method for topic extraction and opinion mining
Methods, apparatus, and systems to determine a niche market of items or services, the first phase of which identifies a gap between demand and supply for a set of items. Session logs may be evaluated to compare transactions involving a specific item to those of a larger group of items. The resultant information identifies areas of high demand, but with low availability. The niche market information may be provided as direct merchandising items for sellers. In one example, the method generates niche market item web pages in specific categories. Additional methods, apparatus, and systems are disclosed. |
| US12086190B2 |
Metadata propagation method for graph structure data
A method for determining metadata propagation generated by an Extract, Transfer, Load (ETL) process. The method may include categorizing metadata given to data sources to generalize the metadata and categorizing the ETL process to generalize the ETL process; defining propagation rules for the generalized metadata and generalized ETL process; and generating metadata for ETL-converted data based on the categorization of the generalized metadata and generalized ETL process, and corresponding ones of the propagation rules. |
| US12086187B2 |
Asynchronous context communication for speech services
A remote personal assistant server/service is configured with a plurality of different state machines for supporting asynchronous communications with the front-end interfaces of personal assistants and for supporting the interfacing with a plurality of proprietary back-end intelligence bots, which are independently controlled and separate from the remote personal assistant service/server. |
| US12086184B2 |
Transaction exchange platform having configurable microservices
Aspects described herein may relate to a transaction exchange platform using a streaming data platform (SDP) and microservices to process transactions according to review and approval workflows. The transaction exchange platform may receive transactions from origination sources, which may be added to the SDP as transaction objects. Microservices on the transaction exchange platform may interact with the transaction objects based on configured workflows associated with the transactions. Processing on the transaction exchange platform may facilitate clearing and settlement of transactions. Some aspects may provide for dynamic and flexible reconfiguration of workflows and/or microservices. Other aspects may provide for data snapshots and workflow tracking, allowing for monitoring, quality control, and auditability of transactions on the transaction exchange platform. |
| US12086180B2 |
Rapid video search system and method of using the same
A method for searching a digital video recording is disclosed. The method includes receiving a video portion count associated with the digital video recording. The method further includes displaying in a graphical user interface (GUI) a number of sequential digital video images from the digital video recording in response to the video portion count to obtain displayed digital video images. The number of sequential digital video images is associated with a number of sequential portions of the digital video recording. |
| US12086176B2 |
Information processing apparatus, and information processing method
An information processing apparatus including processing circuitry configured to acquire a base group that is a set of documents concerning a prescribed intellectual property right based on a prescribed search query and evaluate, for each document included in the base group, a value that is calculated based on a parameter concerning the document and a first weight linked to patenting of the document, as a first index indicating a relative strength of right of the document in the base group. |
| US12086172B2 |
Determining named entities associated with aspect terms extracted from documents having unstructured text data
An apparatus comprises at least one processing device configured to receive a query to determine associations between named entities and aspect terms for a document, to generate, utilizing a first machine learning model, a first set of encodings classifying words of the document as being aspect or non-aspect terms, to generate, utilizing a second machine learning model, a second set of encodings classifying associations of the words, and to determine, for a given aspect term, attention weights for a given subset of the words surrounding the given aspect term. The processing device is also configured to generate, utilizing a third machine learning model, predictions of association between the given aspect term and named entities recognized in the given subset of the words, and to provide a response to the query comprising at least one of the predicted associations. |
| US12086165B2 |
Cloud-based vehicle fault diagnosis method, apparatus, and system
A cloud-based vehicle fault diagnosis method includes receiving monitoring data uploaded by a vehicle; extracting eigenvectors of the monitoring data from the monitoring data; storing the eigenvectors of the monitoring data based on classification using, as a label, a part or a functional system of the vehicle from which the monitoring data comes; and performing, based on a support vector machine algorithm, fault diagnosis in parallel on the eigenvectors stored based on the classification. |
| US12086160B2 |
Analyzing performance of resource systems that process requests for particular datasets
Techniques for managing dataset resource instance performance via a data-centric approach are disclosed. A system determines an aggregated level of service demands placed on individual dataset resource instances that may be in a distributed computing system. The system may identify portions of a dataset that are associated with high levels of service demands. Once identified, the system may provide an administrator with the service demand information. The administrator may relocate these high demand dataset portions to other dataset resource instances that are better able to respond to the high levels of demand without impaired performance. |
| US12086159B1 |
Techniques for adding and removing storage objects from groups
Techniques can include: establishing synchronous replication configurations between first and second sites for a group of stretched resources and a stretched resource; and performing processing that adds the stretched resource to the group. While both the group and stretched resource are in an active-active state and replicating data, existing replication session objects associated with stretched resource on both sites can be deleted while retaining remaining portions of layered services stacks corresponding to the stretched resource on both sites. A first remaining portion can be added to a first replication session object corresponding to the group on the first site. A second remaining portion can be added to a second replication session object corresponding to the group on the second site. Even though the existing replication session objects associated with the stretched resource may be deleted, the existing configuration corresponding to the stretched object can be retained. |
| US12086158B2 |
Hybrid cloud asynchronous data synchronization
In some examples, a computing device may communicate with a plurality of network storage systems, such as a first network storage system provided by a first service provider employing a first storage protocol and a second network storage system provided by a second service provider employing a second storage protocol different from the first storage protocol. The computing device receives a first object, and determines, for the first object, a first remote bucket at the first network storage system and a second remote bucket at the second network storage system. The computing device may add a synchronization event to a queue for replicating the first object to the first remote bucket and the second remote bucket. Based on consuming the synchronization event from the queue, the computing device replicates data and metadata of the first object to the first remote bucket and the second remote bucket. |
| US12086156B2 |
Method and device for storing data in a distributed database
A method and device for storing data in a distributed database according to a row storage mode and a column storage mode, respectively, the method including: when a change is detected in the data in the row storage mode, obtaining the target row data that has changed based on a preset synchronization policy; determining the number of original data copies and the number of redundant data copies based on the attribute information and the number of failure-resistant nodes of the target row in which the target row data is located; coding the target row data in accordance with a predetermined corrective coding algorithm based on the number of original data copies and the number of redundant data copies, generating coded data; and distributing each copy of the coded data equally by column or group of columns to different nodes in the distributed database for storage. |
| US12086155B2 |
SGX based flow control for distributed ledgers
Various embodiments are generally directed to an apparatus, system, and other techniques for shared, trusted token generation for a token-bucket flow control policy implemented in a distributed ledger. Tokens may be generated by blocks in the distributed ledger, which may be a blockchain system. Trusted execution hardware may be used as a proof algorithm to ensure that a token exists, and that client has legitimately acquired or accumulated the token prior to using it to submit a transaction. |
| US12086154B1 |
Columnar cache in hybrid transactional/analytical processing (HTAP) workloads
The subject technology receives a query, the query including a query range for processing the query. The subject technology sends a request to a key-value store for blob metadata and a set of recent writes for the query range. The subject technology receives the blob metadata, the blob metadata including information related to a set of blob files. The subject technology determines whether the set of blob files is stored in a local cache. The subject technology, in response to at least one blob file being missing from the set of blob files, sends a request to a blob store to retrieve the at least one blob file of the set of blob files. The subject technology transforms the retrieved at least one blob file to a column file format. The subject technology stores the transformed at least one blob file in the local cache. |
| US12086150B2 |
Generating files for visualizing query results
Systems and methods are disclosed for generating one or more files to visualize query results. The systems and methods can include parsing one or more files that include one or more queries and computer-executable instructions for displaying results of the one or more queries. The one or more queries can identify a set of data to be processed and a manner of processing the set of data. The systems and methods can further include generating one or more files that include the results of the queries and computer-executable instructions for displaying one or more visualizations of the results. |
| US12086141B1 |
Coordination of services using PartiQL queries
Systems and methods are described for service coordination using a PartiQL query. For instance, a method may include selecting a recipe from a plurality of recipes in response to a request from a user device, wherein the recipe includes a plurality of operations to provide a complex function, each of the plurality of operations corresponding to a service of a plurality of services; determining a PartiQL query for an operation of the plurality of operations; executing the PartiQL query to obtain a result; transmitting a call to a service of the plurality of services that corresponds to the operation based on the result; receiving a response from the service; and after all operations of the plurality of operations are called, transmitting a response to the request to the user device. |
| US12086137B2 |
Responding to similarity queries using vector dimensionality reduction
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for determining similarities between businesses. One example method generally includes receiving a similarity query and receiving transaction data associated with a plurality of businesses for comparing the plurality of businesses. The method further includes generating a set of vectors representing the plurality of businesses based on the transaction data and generating a set of compact vectors based on the vectors by applying a dimensionality reduction technique. The method further includes generating based on the set of compact vectors, a similarity index and determining a response to the similarity query using the similarity index. |
| US12086130B1 |
Object transaction system for a resource-constrained system
Aspects related to a resource-constrained system are described herein that can provide object storage services after a service interruption is resolved, even if all of the transactions that were pending and incomplete prior to the service interruption have not yet been recovered and/or executed. For example, file systems implemented by computing systems of the resource-constrained system may treat each file or directory as a separate object. Thus, a transaction directed to one file may not affect the file's directory or other files in the directory. As a result, the resource-constrained system can achieve read-after-write consistency without first recovering and executing the pending, incomplete transactions. Instead, read-after-write consistency for an object can be achieved simply by completing any pending, incomplete transaction directed to that object. Accordingly, the resource-constrained system can provide object storage services to user devices immediately after the service interruption is resolved, thereby resulting in fast crash recovery times. |
| US12086129B2 |
Distributed data processing
Data is handled in a distributed computing environment comprising at least one server and a plurality of clients comprising at least a first client and a second client. The first client sends a first request for data to the second client, receives a first response from the second client as a response to the first quest, determines a probability of validity of the data requested based on a validity indication included in the first response indicating a probability that the data requested from the second client is invalid. The first client determines that the data requested by the first request and available from the second client is likely invalid, sends a second request to the server to obtain the data from the server and receives the data from the server. |
| US12086128B2 |
Mechanisms for serializing triples of a database store
Techniques are disclosed relating to the serialization of data of a database. A computer system may maintain a database that stores data as a plurality of triples. A triple may include a first data entity that is connected to a second data entity via an edge, and triples of the plurality of triples may be connected to form graphs. The computer system may store metadata defining types of edges between data entities. An edge's type may indicate a procedure for serializing a target data entity connected to that edge's type. The computer system may receive a request to access a data entity associated with a plurality of descendant data entities connected to the data entity via edges. The computer system may generate an output having the data entity and one or more of the plurality of descendant data entities that are serialized according to the types of edges. |
| US12086117B2 |
Combining user feedback with an automated entity-resolution process executed on a computer system
One example described herein involves a system that can receive a set of data records and execute an automated entity resolution (AER) process configured to assign the set of data records to a set of entities. For each entity in the set of entities, the system can generate a respective consistency score for the entity, generate a respective confidence score for the entity based on the respective consistency score for the entity, and determine a respective visual indicator based on the respective confidence score for the entity. The respective visual indicator can indicate a risk of record misassignment to a user. The system can then generate a graphical user interface that includes the respective visual indicator for each of the entities. |
| US12086116B2 |
Object and sequence number management
Techniques are provided for orphan object detection, invalid sequence number detection, and asynchronous object cleanup. A storage system may store data within one or more tiers of storage, such as a storage tier (e.g., solid state storage and disks maintained by the storage system), a remote object store (e.g., storage provided by a third party storage provider), and/or other storage tiers. Orphan objects, within the remote object store, that are no longer used by the storage system may be detected and/or deleted. When an aggregate of volumes is deleted, corresponding objects, within the remote object store, may be identified and/or deleted. Invalid sequence numbers (e.g., lost or corrupt sequence numbers locally maintained in a metafile) assigned to objects within the remote object store may be identified, deleted, and/or fixed. |
| US12086115B1 |
Automated data retrieval and providing alerts for outdated data
This disclosure describes a data dependency and monitoring service that includes a database module (data dictionary) that contains information about database entities, for example, reports, tables, views, dashboards, etc. The information may include, for example, description, ownership, location, refresh cadence, etc. The data dependency and monitoring system provides a data dependency module that lists upstream data sources behind the data entities and also illustrates other entities and table dashboards that use the data entities downstream. The data dependency monitoring system provides a data monitoring and alert module that triggers alerts when data within a data entity is not refreshed by a predefined refresh cadence, e.g., a predetermined amount of time, thereby causing the corresponding data to be stale or out of date. |
| US12086112B2 |
Processing large machine learning datasets
Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, computer program products, and systems. Embodiments of the present invention can receive, by a computing device, a request to access a datapoint of a machine learning dataset contained in a database. Embodiments of the present invention can access, by the computing device, a virtual data frame that includes a schema which represents a structure of the machine learning dataset in the database. Embodiments of the present invention can retrieve, by the computing device, the datapoint of the machine learning utilizing the virtual data frame and return, by the computing device, the retrieved datapoint in response to the request. |
| US12086110B1 |
Systems and methods for data input, collection, and verification using distributed ledger technologies
Embodiments are described herein for data input, collection, and verification using information stored on a distributed ledger, such as a blockchain. A distributed ledger may securely store data relating to an insurance claim, for example. Use of a distributed ledger may provide an immutable, readily auditable record of the history of the insurance claim. |
| US12086109B2 |
Sharing and synchronizing electronically stored files
A method of sharing and synchronizing a plurality of electronically stored resources between a cloud file system and a client file system is provided. The method includes receiving one or more change events wherein each change event indicates an independent change to one or more electronically stored files in a first client file system, holding the received change events for a period of time, and determining whether any of the held change events are combinable with other held change events indicating one or more independent changes to one or more electronically stored files in one or more client file systems comprising the first client file system. The method further includes combining the combinable change events into an aggregate change event, and dispatching the aggregate change event for processing after it is held for a predetermined period of time, wherein the processing of the dispatched change event effects a synchronization of the one or more electronically stored files between the one or more client file systems and a cloud file system. |
| US12086104B2 |
Data management system, data management method, and computer-readable medium
A data management system includes: an input control unit (110) that adds measurement data uploaded by designating a theme that is a unit of access control and acquired by a measurement system, to a dataset classified based on metadata included in the measurement data, within the theme; a management control unit (120) that associates the dataset with a chapter that is a unit of status management and is provided within the theme; and a display control unit (130) that displays information managed by the data management system. |
| US12086102B2 |
Usage correction in a file system
A data management system may maintain a total-size counter for the file system. The total-size counter represents a sum of data size related to snapshots backed up to the file system. The data management system may perform data operation cycles to the file system. Each data operation cycle corresponds to a snapshot that includes files. Each data operation cycle may include incrementing the total-size counter by the data size of the files in the snapshot exchanged with the file system and adding, to a snapshot record, the amount of increment in incrementing the total-size counter as an increment-size counter. A data management system may perform a correction operation to correct the total-size counter. The correction operation may change the total-size counter by a difference between the total of the increment-size counters in the snapshot records and the total data size of file data exchanged with the file system. |
| US12086094B2 |
Apparatus and method for communication on a serial bus
The present disclosure relates to a method of communication via serial bus, comprising: the conveyance by the serial bus of a frame comprising at least two consecutive cycles of a dominant state followed by a recessive state, the recessive states and dominant states having durations comprised between 2 and 5 times the duration of a data bit conveyed by the serial bus, and preferably above 1.8 μs; and the detection by one or more circuits coupled to the serial bus of at least a part of the frame for triggering the passage from a sleep state to a wake state of the one or more circuits. |
| US12086092B2 |
Multichip system having command transfer mechanism and address generating method
A multichip system includes a transmitter-end chip and a receiver-end chip. The transmitter-end chip includes a first port. The receiver-end chip includes a second port. The first port is connected to the second port, and an operating mode of the first port is different from an operating mode of the second port. When the transmitter-end chip is coupled to the receiver-end chip without through another chip, the transmitter-end chip determines a first target address of the receiver-end chip with respect to the transmitter-end chip according to the operating mode of the first port, and transfers a command to the receiver-end chip according to the first target address, such that the receiver-end chip executes the command. |
| US12086090B2 |
Uniform virtual bus for system-to-system connectivity in an autonomous driving vehicle
A distributed computing system in an autonomous driving vehicle (ADV) includes a main compute system and multiple subsystems, and a bus structure that connect the main compute system and the multiple subsystems. The bus structure provides uniform system-to-system connectivity. A host field-programmable gate array (FPGA) agent coupled to the main compute system can communicate with slave FPGA agents on the subsystems via multiple pairs of bus interface protocols of a particular type. The bus interfaces on the FPGA agents supports the uniform system-to-system connectivity. |
| US12086088B2 |
Multichip package with protocol-configurable data paths
Integrated circuit packages with multiple integrated circuit dies are provided. A multichip package may include a substrate, a main die that is mounted on the substrate, and multiple transceiver daughter dies that are mounted on the substrate and that are coupled to the main die via corresponding Embedded Multi-die Interconnect Bridge (EMIB) interconnects formed in the substrate. Each of the main die and the daughter dies may include configurable adapter circuitry for interfacing with the EMIB interconnects. The adapter circuitry may include FIFO buffer circuits operable in a 1× mode or 2× mode and configurable in a phase-compensation mode, a clock-compensation mode, an elastic mode, and a register bypass mode to help support a variety of communications protocols with different data width and clocking requirements. The adapter circuitry may also include boundary alignment circuitry for reconstructing (de)compressed data streams. |
| US12086087B2 |
Methods and apparatus for network interface fabric operations
Methods and apparatus for improved send/receive operations in network interface fabrics. In one exemplary embodiment, mechanisms and protocols for enhanced inter-process (and inter-endpoint) communication, including within very large scale topologies involving e.g., hundreds or even thousands of nodes or endpoints, such as a large-scale high-performance compute or network fabric, are described. In one implementation, the methods and apparatus avoid frequent kernel transitions (and the performance penalties associated therewith) associated with prior approaches through use of UMCs (user message contexts) are created, which contain TX and RX queues that can be read and written directly from user space. A KMC (kernel message context) is also used, in which TX queues are written from the kernel such that access can be arbitrated between unrelated processes. These functions allow for, among other things, significant portions of the foregoing kernel accesses to be obviated. |
| US12086085B2 |
Motor driver and control method thereof and motor driving system
A motor driver, a control method of the motor driver, and a motor driving system are provided. The motor driver includes a rotation information pin, an analog detecting circuit and a mode switching circuit. The rotation information pin is configured to receive a reference signal. The analog detecting circuit and the mode switching circuit are respectively and electrically connected to the rotation information pin and the analog detecting circuit. The analog detecting circuit determines whether the reference signal is an analog signal, and the motor driver is maintained in a master mode when the reference signal does not belong to the analog signal. The mode switching circuit determines whether the reference signal is a noise when the reference signal is the analog signal. The mode switching circuit switches the motor driver from the master mode to a slave mode when the reference signal is not the noise. |
| US12086079B2 |
Generating messages with priorities in a storage network
A storage system operates by generating system messages, in accordance with the system-level message processing parameters, the system messages including status information, performance information and alarms, each having one of a plurality of priorities. The generating includes: generating a first message of the system messages corresponding to a first of the storage nodes based on the system-level message processing parameters, the first message including a first alarm of the alarms having a first message priority of the plurality of priorities; and generating a second message of the system messages corresponding to a second of the storage nodes based on the system-level message processing parameters, the second message including a second alarm of the alarms having a second message priority of the plurality of priorities. Wherein the system further operates by sending the first message of the system messages in accordance with the first message priority; and ending the second message of the system messages in accordance with the second message priority. |
| US12086078B2 |
Memory chip having an integrated data mover
A memory chip having a first set of pins configured to allow the memory chip to be coupled to a first microchip or device via first wiring. The memory chip also having a second set of pins configured to allow the memory chip to be coupled to a second microchip or device via second wiring that is separate from the first wiring. The memory chip also having a data mover configured to facilitate access to the second microchip or device, via the second set of pins, to read data from the second microchip or device and write data to the second microchip or device. Also, a system having the memory chip, the first microchip or device, and the second microchip or device. |
| US12086077B2 |
Increased efficiency obfuscated logical-to-physical map management
Devices and techniques for efficient obfuscated logical-to-physical mapping are described herein. For example, activity corresponding to obfuscated regions of an L2P map for a memory device can be tracked. A record of discontinuity between the obfuscated regions and L2P mappings resulting from the activity can be updated. The obfuscated regions can be ordered based on a level of discontinuity from the record of discontinuity. When an idle period is identified, an obfuscated region from the obfuscated regions is selected and refreshed based on the ordering. |
| US12086076B2 |
Computing devices for encryption and decryption of data
A computing device is disclosed. The computing device includes a central processing unit and a mass storage bus. The central processing unit includes an application processing unit and an immutable encryption key for use with the encryption of data and the decryption of data. The application processing unit includes an instruction set to perform an encryption of data and a decryption of data stored via the mass storage bus. The immutable encryption key stored in the central processing unit and inaccessible from outside of the instruction set. |
| US12086064B2 |
Aliased mode for cache controller
An apparatus includes first CPU and second CPU cores, a L1 cache subsystem coupled to the first CPU core and comprising a L1 controller, and a L2 cache subsystem coupled to the L1 cache subsystem and to the second CPU core. The L2 cache subsystem includes a L2 memory and a L2 controller configured to operate in an aliased mode in response to a value in a memory map control register being asserted. In the aliased mode, the L2 controller receives a first request from the first CPU core directed to a virtual address in the L2 memory, receives a second request from the second CPU core directed to the virtual address in the L2 memory, directs the first request to a physical address A in the L2 memory, and directs the second request to a physical address B in the L2 memory. |
| US12086063B2 |
Physical address proxy reuse management
Each load/store queue entry holds a load/store physical address proxy (PAP) for use as a proxy for a load/store physical memory line address (PMLA). The load/store PAP comprises a set index and a way that uniquely identifies an L2 cache entry holding a memory line at the load/store PMLA when an L1 cache provides the load/store PAP during the load/store instruction execution. The microprocessor removes a line at a removal PMLA from an L2 entry, forms a removal PAP as a proxy for the removal PMLA that comprises a set index and a way, snoops the load/store queue with the removal PAP to determine whether the removal PAP is being used as a proxy for the removal PMLA, fills the removed entry with a line at a fill PMLA, and prevents the removal PAP from being used as a proxy for the removal PMLA and the fill PMLA concurrently. |
| US12086055B2 |
Method for automatically pruning search space of symbolic execution via machine learning
A symbolic execution device, a symbolic execution method, and a probability distribution update method for symbolic execution are provided. The symbolic execution device includes a storage unit for storing at least one of a first probability distribution and a second probability distribution and a processor for sampling and obtaining a weight vector from the first probability distribution, for sampling and obtaining a removal rate from the second probability distribution, for adding the weight vector to at least one feature vector obtained from at least one candidate state to obtain a score for each of the at least one candidate state, and for selecting a state to be removed from among the at least one candidate state by using the score of each of the at least one candidate state and the removal rate. |
| US12086054B1 |
Model validation as a service
This disclosure describes techniques that include validation or other assessments of digital systems, such as machine learning models and other statistical models. In one example, this disclosure describes a method that includes receiving, by a validation computing system and from a development system, a request to perform a test on a model configured to execute on the development system; outputting, by the validation computing system to the development system and in response to the request, an instruction; enabling the development system to process the instruction; receiving, by the validation computing system, test response data; evaluating, by the validation system, the test response data. |
| US12086053B1 |
Model validation as a service
This disclosure describes techniques that include validation or other assessments of digital systems, such as machine learning models and other statistical models. In one example, this disclosure describes a method that includes receiving, by a validation computing system and from a development system, a request to perform a test on a model configured to execute on the development system; outputting, by the validation computing system to the development system and in response to the request, an instruction; enabling the development system to process the instruction; receiving, by the validation computing system, test response data; evaluating, by the validation system, the test response data. |
| US12086051B2 |
Automated application testing system
Methods and apparatus are described by which a rich, time-correlated information set is captured during automated testing of an application in a way that allows the application developer to understand the state of the application under test (AUT), the browser interacting with the AUT, and/or the device interacting with the AUT, as it/they changed over time. Mechanisms or features associated with browsers and/or device operating systems are exploited to capture such information, not only for the purpose of better understanding individual test runs, but also to enable the use of analytics over data sets. |
| US12086049B2 |
Resource capacity management in computing systems
Techniques for capacity management in computing systems are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method includes analyzing data representing a number of enabled users or a number of provisioned users to determine whether the analyzed data represents an anomaly based on historical data. The method can also include upon determining that the data represents an anomaly, determining a conversion rate between a change in the number of enabled users or the number of provisioned users and a change in a number of active users of the computing service and deriving a future value of the number of active users of the computing service based on both the detected anomaly and the determined conversion rate. The method can further include allocating and provisioning an amount of the computing resource in the distributed computing system in accordance with the determined future value of the active users of the computing resource. |
| US12086047B2 |
Automated application program interface testing
Various examples are directed to systems and methods for evaluating an Application Program Interface (API) for interfacing an application to a database through a data model. A computing system may access a first view data structure associated with a first API call. The computing system may use a first view data structure to select a first table from the one or more tables, the first table being associated with the first API call, where the data model is described by a plurality of view data structures based on one or more tables at a database, including the first view data structure. The computing system may measure the API against a standard of performance for the API using a first performance double view data structure and a first performance double table. |
| US12086045B1 |
Systems and methods for machine-learning based alert grouping
A computerized method is disclosed for grouping alerts through machine learning. The method including receiving an alert to be assigned to any of a plurality of existing issues or to a newly created issue, wherein an issue is a grouping of alerts, determining a temporal distance between the alert and each of the existing issues, determining either of (i) a numerical distance between the alert and each of the existing issues for a particular numerical field, or (ii) a categorical distance between the alert and each of the existing issues for a particular categorical field, determining an overall distance between the alert and each of the existing issues, and assigning the alert to either (i) an existing issue having a shortest overall distance to the alert that satisfies one or more time constraints, or (ii) the newly created issue. |
| US12086043B1 |
Virtual private cloud resource activity management
The technology disclosed relates to resource activity management in a cloud environment. A computer-implemented method includes detecting a plurality of virtual networks in the cloud environment and deploying a plurality of sensors in the plurality of virtual networks using an orchestration engine of the cloud environment. Each sensor, of the plurality of sensors, includes an executable package configured to execute in a respective virtual network, of the plurality of virtual networks, independent of other sensors, of the plurality of sensors, to manage activities in the respective virtual network. The method includes identifying an activity management task to be performed in a particular virtual network of the plurality of virtual networks, sending a task command representing the activity management task to the sensor deployed in the particular virtual network, and receiving an execution result representing execution of the activity management task by the sensor deployed in the particular virtual network. |
| US12086042B2 |
Tracing circuit, semiconductor device, tracer, and tracing system
A tracing circuit is integrated in a semiconductor device along with a microprocessor including an m-bit program counter, and externally outputs a tracing clock along with an n-bit tracing data (where 2≤n≤m). The tracing circuit, when the program counter remains unchanged, synchronously with the tracing clock sets the tracing data to a first output value; when the program counter is incremented, synchronously with the tracing clock sets the tracing data to a second output value; and when the program counter is loaded, synchronously with the tracing clock sets the tracing data to a third output value, and then suspends the state machine in the microprocessor and split-outputs, as the tracing data, the branch destination address or interrupt destination address loaded in the program counter. |
| US12086035B2 |
Recovery mechanism with selective ordering and concurrent operations
Techniques are provided for a recovery process with selective ordering and concurrent operations in order to recover from a failure. Representations of active log structures are rebuilt within memory according to ordering values assigned to I/O operations logged within the active log structures. Representation of certain active log structures may be concurrently rebuilt based upon the active log structures comprising I/O operations that are non-overlapping within a distributed file system, have no dependencies, relate to different services, and/or target independent files. Representation of stale log structures are concurrently rebuilt within memory. While rebuilding the log structures and executing the I/O operations, a key value map is concurrently rebuilt within the memory for locating data of the I/O operations. Concurrent operations during the recovery process reduces the time to complete the recovery process, and thus reduces client downtime during the recovery process. |
| US12086034B2 |
Meta-data driven classifications of backup copies
In general, one or more embodiments of the invention relates to systems and methods for performing a backup and later determining a level or percentage of corruption of the resulting backup set. By having a cyber-security module analyze the backup data periodically, corruption of backup data both caused by cyber-attacks or by hardware failures may be detected and characterized. By knowing how corrupted a particular corrupted backup data set is, an informed decision may be made with regards to purging the backup data set and/or using the backup data set or portion thereof in any further restorations. By making these determinations, a quick identification of possible ransomware attacks may be made, and additional degradation of a user's data may be avoided. |
| US12086032B2 |
Workflows for automated operations management
Techniques are disclosed relating to automated operations management. In various embodiments, a computer system accesses operational information that defines commands for an operational scenario and accesses blueprints that describe operational entities in a target computer environment related to the operational scenario. The computer system implements the operational scenario for the target computer environment. The implementing may include executing a hierarchy of controller modules that include an orchestrator controller module at top level of the hierarchy that is executable to carry out the commands by issuing instructions to controller modules at a next level. The controller modules may be executable to manage the operational entities according to the blueprints to complete the operational scenario. In various embodiments, the computer system includes additional features such as an application programming interface (API), a remote routing engine, a workflow engine, a reasoning engine, a security engine, and a testing engine. |
| US12086031B2 |
Check requests in a storage network
A method includes receiving, by a storage unit of a storage network, a check request message from a computing device of the storage network, where the check request message includes a group of slice names of a plurality of sets of slice names associated with a plurality of sets of encoded data slices, where a plurality of data segments are dispersed storage error encoded into the plurality of sets of encoded data slices. The method further includes determining, by the storage unit, whether an error condition exists for an encoded data slice associated with the group of slice names. When no, the method includes sending, by the storage unit, a check response message to the computing device, where the check response message includes a group of slice information regarding the group of slice names. When yes, the method includes disregarding sending the check response message. |
| US12086028B2 |
Reduction of errors in data retrieved from a memory device to apply an error correction code of a predetermined code rate
A memory device to use added known data as part of data written to memory cells with redundant data generated according to an error correction code (ECC). The code rate of the ECC may limit its capability to recover from excessive errors in the stored data. To reduce the errors, the added data retrieved from the memory cells can be corrected without using the ECC. Subsequently, remaining errors can be corrected via the ECC. Optionally, the added data can be configured to be the same as the data represented by an erased state of a subset of the memory cells such that when the subset is used to store the added data, the subset remains in the erased state to reduce wearing. Different subsets can be used to store added data for different write operations to distribute the benefit of reduced wearing. |
| US12086024B2 |
Method and apparatus for repairing fail location
Embodiments provide a method and an apparatus for repairing a fail location. When repairing a fail location of a wafer, a fail bit in a wafer to be processed may be first determined, and a target potential fail bit associated with the fail bit may be determined based on a potential mining rule included in a mining rule library. |
| US12086019B2 |
Method for decreasing probability of undetected errors on large messages over a black channel
A method includes: receiving a message, via a communication link, including sensor data in a data stream from a sensor device and first reference data based on a deterministic function and a seed value; extracting the first reference data from the message; generating second reference data based on the deterministic function and the seed value; calculating a first quantity of bit errors in the first reference data based on the second reference data; calculating a bit error rate of the communication link based on the first quantity of bit errors; in response to the bit error rate exceeding a bit error rate threshold for the data stream, generating a second message representing a fault; and transmitting the second message to a second device. |
| US12086015B2 |
Low power state implementation in a power management circuit
A power management circuit that has multiple sets of circuits to provide certain same power management functionalities in different power modes, such as voltage, current and temperature sensing and/or measuring, generating of reference states or biases to effectuate circuit protection in various conditions, such as under voltages, over voltages, etc. One set of circuits is configured to operate during a normal mode and is optimized for performance, speed and/or accuracy. Another set of circuits is configured to operate during a sleep mode and is optimized for reduced power consumption where the performance, speed and/or accuracy may be inferior to the circuits for the normal mode but the functionality is maintained within the low power consumption constraint. |
| US12086010B2 |
Using dynamic bursts to support frequency-agile memory interfaces
The disclosed embodiments relate to a system that supports dynamic bursts to facilitate frequency-agile communication between a memory controller and a memory device. During operation, the system monitors a reference clock signal received at an interface between the memory device and the memory controller. Upon detecting a frequency change in the reference clock signal from a fullrate to a subrate, the interface operates in a burst mode, wherein data is communicated through bursts separated by intervening low-power intervals during which portions of the interface are powered down. |
| US12086007B2 |
Control method and control apparatus for power supply apparatus in data center
This application provides a power supply method for a data center. The data center includes a first device and at least one second device, an importance of a first service in the first device is higher than an importance of a second service in the at least one second device, and the second service in the at least one second device is transferable. A power supply apparatus includes a first uninterruptible power supply UPS and a second UPS, the first UPS is configured to control a first power source and a first energy storage apparatus to supply power to the first device, and the second UPS is configured to control the first power source and a second energy storage apparatus to supply power to the at least one second device. |
| US12086001B2 |
System and method for proactively controlling an environmental condition in a server rack of a data center based at least in part on server load
One or more environmental conditions within each of a plurality of server racks are received over time. One or more IT parameters representative of server load are received over time. A model is constructed that models how one or more of the environmental conditions within at least one of the server racks of the plurality of server racks responds to changes in one or more of the IT parameters. A future value of one or more environmental conditions within one or more of the plurality of server racks is predicted based at least in part on the model and the one or more subsequent received IT parameters. At least some of the environmental control equipment of the data center is proactively controlled based at least in part on the predicted future value of one or more of the environmental conditions within the one or more server racks. |
| US12086000B1 |
Forecasting device usage using motifs of univariate time-series dataset and combined modeling
Systems and methods are provided for compressing a time-series dataset from a monitored device into a compressed dataset representation. Using an unsupervised machine learning model, the system may group a contiguous set of datapoints of the time-series dataset and group, using a distance algorithm, the first cluster to a first motif. Many motifs can be generated to identify different data signatures in the time-series dataset. The plurality of motifs can be used to generate a data definition, motif sequence graph, directed graph, or other combinations of datapoints. These datapoints can be combined through a summation process with other datapoints generated by a second machine learning model. The output of the summation process can be used to forecast device usage of a monitored device in a data center. |
| US12085990B2 |
Chip-on-film package, display module including same, and electronic device including same
A chip-on-film (COF) package includes a film including a reinforcement area, a bending area and a chip mounting area, a conductive pattern layer disposed on the film in the reinforcement area and in the bending area, and at least partially in the chip mounting area, a chip mounted on a portion of the conductive pattern layer in the chip mounting area, a first insulating layer having a first elastic modulus and extending over the conductive pattern layer in the reinforcement area, and a second insulating layer having a second elastic modulus and extending over the conductive pattern layer in the bending area, wherein the first elastic modulus is greater than the second elastic modulus, and the film is intact in the chip mounting area. |
| US12085984B2 |
Smart wearables and non-wearable devices with embedded NFC (near field communication), vital health sensors, ultra violet germicidal irradiation (UVGI) and artificial intelligence/mobile/cloud based virtual assistant platform/technologies
A system with plurality of smart wearable and non-wearable having embedded NFC (Near Field Communication) tags, vital health sensors and UV-C germicidal irradiation sources; a computer mobile/cloud implemented platform with an artificial intelligence or machine learning powered virtual assistant; and a central cloud server is provided for prevention of spread of pathogens and for monitoring and/prediction of infection and timely intervention assistance for better health outcomes to the user, taking into account the underlying conditions of the user. The system includes a plurality of body wearables including, but not limited to, a hand glove, a footwear, a vest, a full body suit, a face mask, a footwear cover or a smart portables and at least one non-wearable portable smart device, and all of them with re-programmable NFC tags and UVGI source embedded within them, to dis-infect any surface the user desire, and to avoid touching any surfaces, and the same—each device of which having a plethora of various body health and viral monitoring sensors, embedded within them to transmit and upload data to mobile/cloud platform, to predict probability of infection and take necessary actions to provide better personalized health outcomes. |
| US12085975B2 |
Flexible limiting mechanism
A limiting mechanism is provided, including: a base; a first bearing; a turntable; and a limiting assembly. The base includes a base body and a through hole passing through the base body and having a circle shape. The first bearing is mounted in the through hole and forming a fixing connection with the base body. The turntable includes a turntable body and a shifting lever. The shifting lever rotates to the limiting portion until the limiting portion is pressed against and the limiting portion is driven to move, so that the limiting portion abuts against the limiting surface on the corresponding side to realize limiting. The limiting mechanism not only has fewer actions and has a simple structure, but also occupies a small space, has high reliability, and can reduce generation of noise. |
| US12085974B1 |
System and method for lever with three dimensional log spiral mechanism for repeating leverage
A system and method for a lever that is formed by a rod gripped with a three dimensional log spiral structure that applies alternating downward rotational force at two points along the rod, producing rhythmic applications of leverage around its fulcrum. As one end of the spiral rotates down with application of force, the other is rotated up via segmental action of the components of the log spiral component and positioned for a subsequent downstroke. |
| US12085971B2 |
MOS-based current mirror circuit with push-pull amplifier
The present disclosure provides an electronic circuit having one reference current terminal arranged to connect to a reference current generator, an MOS current mirror stage, an MOS push-pull amplifier stage operatively coupled to the current mirror stage and the current mode amplifier stage. |
| US12085970B1 |
High-voltage IO drivers
A voltage driver for supplying a supply voltage includes multiple PMOS transistors, multiple NMOS transistors, a pad, impedance divider circuits, NMOS clampers, and PMOS clampers. A maximum of the supply voltage is N times a maximum of the drain-source voltage of each transistor. The pad is configured to receive a voltage signal for dynamically controlling gates of a subset of the NMOS transistors and a subset of the PMOS transistors. The impedance divider circuits are configured to generate limited voltage signals, each of which is a fraction of voltage between the pad and supply voltage or between the pad and ground. The NMOS clampers and PMOS clampers configured to receive reference voltages and limited voltage signals to generate output, which is in turn input into gate terminals of the subset of NMOS or PMOS transistors. |
| US12085968B2 |
Apparatus for controlling gas flow rates at multi-ports
Provided is a multi-port gas flow rate control apparatus. The multi-port gas flow rate control apparatus includes a gas supply chamber configured to supply a measurement gas input through one gas inflow channel while allowing the measurement gas to diverge into a plurality of flows, a plurality of gas divergence flow channels each having one side connected to the gas supply chamber and configured to transfer the measurement gas flowing through the gas supply chamber to a plurality of gas sensors, respectively, and a gas measurement chamber configured to accommodate the plurality of gas sensors, including the plurality of gas divergence flow channels configured to connect to the gas supply chamber to the plurality of gas sensors to transfer a gas outflow diverging through the gas supply chamber to the plurality of accommodated gas sensors, and configured to discharge the gas outflow sensed by the plurality of gas sensors. |
| US12085966B2 |
Predictive open loop pre-heating of electronic devices in cold environments
Embodiments of the invention may provide an improved method for pre-heating an electronic device such as an information handling system, when internal temperatures are below safe operating ranges. To do so, the system selectively heats the entire device or select zones of the electronic device for a predetermined amount of time when the system is restarted after a period of time sufficient to bring the system to ambient temperatures. The predetermined amount of time is determined based on measured ambient temperatures. Using a table that corresponds the ambient temperatures to a time that a component needs to heat up to a nominal temperature in a zone, the predetermined time can be calculated. |
| US12085964B2 |
Smart pressure regulator for emergency evacuation inflation system
A valve arrangement for a pressurized fluid source includes a regulating valve poppet configured to translate along a longitudinal axis of a valve housing, and a linear stepper motor configured to control a position of the regulating valve poppet. The linear stepper motor is controlled by a closed loop control system based upon temperature and pressure feedback signals to actively control the position and stroke rate of the regulating valve poppet. |
| US12085954B2 |
Steering method for an agricultural machine
In a steering method for an agricultural machine, the agricultural machine is steered by track steering action independent of GNSS position data along an initial travel track in a working region until a headland adjoining the working region is reached at an exit point of the initial travel track. The agricultural machine is automatically steered by turn steering action, steering it based on an actual position determined based exclusively on GNSS position data, through the headland until an entry point of a target travel track in the working region is reached. The agricultural machine is steered by track steering action along the target travel track. The agricultural machine automatically detects a transition from a travel track of the working region into the headland and/or a transition from the headland into a travel track of the working region and switches accordingly between turn steering action and track steering action. |
| US12085953B2 |
Installation and relocation of mobile stocker
A mobile stocker described herein is configured to be easily installed and relocated to various locations in a semiconductor fabrication facility. The mobile stocker is capable of being programmed with, and/or autonomously learning, the layout of a semiconductor fabrication facility, and automatically relocating to a new location based on the layout using a navigation system. Accordingly, the mobile stocker is capable of being flexibly relocated in the semiconductor fabrication facility to dynamically support changes in demand and production capacity. Moreover, the capability to quickly assign a location identifier to the mobile stocker and to automatically interface with transport systems in the semiconductor fabrication facility reduces downtime of the mobile stocker, which increases productivity in the semiconductor fabrication facility. |
| US12085949B2 |
Autonomous mobile robot, method for docking autonomous mobile robot, control device and smart cleaning system
In some examples, a robot includes: a machine body; a driving system, configured to drive the machine body and elements disposed in the machine body to move across a surface; a signal receiver, configured to receive a signal from a charging station; a control system, disposed in the machine body, and configured to build a simultaneous map of an environment in which the robot locates, and navigate the robot based on the simultaneous map; wherein, in a process of docking the robot, the signal receiver determines whether the robot is in a coverage region of the signal from the charging station; in response to determining that the robot is not in the coverage region of the signal from the charging station, the control system controls the driving system to drive the robot to move toward an open region based on the simultaneous map. |
| US12085944B2 |
Moving path planning apparatus and method for robot
A moving path planning apparatus and method for a robot according to the exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure determine an actual moving path using a robot parameter set in advance on the basis of a moving path pattern acquired for every sub region of the map to determine an actual moving path of the robot in consideration of the turning radius of the robot. |
| US12085943B2 |
Independently actuated wheel sets for large autonomous self-driving vehicles
The technology relates to fine maneuver control of large autonomous vehicles that employ multiple sets of independently actuated wheels. The control is able to optimize the turning radius, effectively negotiate curves, turns, and clear static objects of varying heights. Each wheel or wheel set is configured to adjust individually via control of an on-board computer system. Received sensor data and a physical model of the vehicle can be used for route planning and selecting maneuver operations in accordance with the additional degrees of freedom provided by the independently actuated wheels. This can include making turns, moving into or out of parking spaces, driving along narrow or congested roads, construction zones, loading docks, etc. A given maneuver may include maintaining a minimum threshold distance from a neighboring vehicle or other object. |
| US12085939B2 |
System and method of operating automated guided vehicle
A system and a method of operating an automated guided vehicle includes: an Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) which is loaded with a component and transfers the component along a set travelling path in a vehicle production factory; a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) which is provided in a process line and each of a plurality of nodes existing on the travelling path and controls a peripheral automation facility; and an operation server which is configured to control an operation of the AGV and each automation facility through the PLC, and sets a PLC control condition for controlling each automation facility for each section by collecting PLC memory data from the PLC and inquiring the PLC memory data based on a movement position of the AGV when the travelling path is set. |
| US12085934B2 |
Autonomous vehicle sensor security system
Example methods and systems are disclosed to provide autonomous vehicle sensor security. An example method may include generating, by a first autonomous vehicle, a first map instance of a physical environment using first environmental information generated by a first sensor of a first autonomous vehicle. A second map instance from at least one of a second autonomous vehicle located in the physical environment is received. The first map instance may be correlated with the second map instance. In response to a discrepancy between the first map instance and the second map instance, a secure sensor may be activated to generate a third map instance. In response to the third map instance verifying that the discrepancy accurately describes the physical environment, the first environmental information including the discrepancy is used to navigate the first autonomous vehicle. |
| US12085931B1 |
Automated adjustable delivery table device and system
A smart automated, motorized and adjustable table delivery device and system including an artificial intelligence technology, sensors, motor, telescopic support leg and mobile communication device app that adjusts in height and automatically traverses a building structure, such as a home, restaurant, hospital or office, to designated locations within the structure to make available or deliver items, such as drinks, food or other requested items, based on voice or app commands, wherein the automated delivery table device may be automatically controlled for movement around a desired area and height adjustment, the table device having a base with wheels, table top, a plurality of linear threaded rail supports corresponding to the number of elevation levels, microprocessor or CPU with a receiver or transceiver to receive wireless signals or transmissions for remotely controlling movement of the device in a designated area and height adjustment of the table top, depth sensors for sensing impending contact with walls or furniture, lift plates corresponding to the number of table tiers and threadably receiving the threaded rail supports for adjusting the height of the table top, lifting motors for spinning the leg or rail supports, telescopic walls engaged to the table tiers that extend and retract when raised and lowered, respectively, drive motor in communication with at least one wheel for facilitating traversing movement and bumpers around the base. |
| US12085929B2 |
Machine learning based direct method of determining status of facility control loop components
A trained machine learning algorithm processes time series production data. The time series production data are representative of a control process within a facility control loop. The machine learning training algorithm is trained using positive training data that are representative of a normal operation of components within the facility control loop and negative training data that are representative of an abnormal operation of components within the facility control loop. Output of the trained machine learning algorithm identifies abnormalities in the facility control loop. |
| US12085923B2 |
Identifying and managing equipment within an operational environment
Embodiments are directed to apparatuses and methods for managing and producing equipment within an operational environment. In one scenario, a method is performed that includes generating an organizational database structure that maintains information associated with equipment that is part of an operational environment. The organizational database structure includes information indicating which packable items are associated with the piece of equipment. The method further includes accessing the generated organizational database structure to identify physical operational environment factors that affect which pieces of equipment are to be currently produced within the operational environment. The method then evaluates the identified physical operational environment factors to determine whether the specified piece of equipment is to be currently produced within the operational environment and, upon determining that the specified piece of equipment is to be currently processed within the operational environment, the specified piece of equipment is produced and provided to the operational environment. |
| US12085921B2 |
Managing firmware and software updates within a secure deployment system
A method may include receiving, via a secure deployment management (SDM) system, a notification indicative of a change in configuration data associated with an industrial device from a secure deployment management (SDM) node associated with the industrial device. The notification is received via a secure communication channel established by the SDM system with the SDM node and one or more security protocols. The method also includes retrieving, via the SDM system, the configuration data associated with the industrial device from a data source in response to receiving the notification and sending, via the SDM system, the configuration data to the SDM node via the secure communication channel. The industrial device may receive the configuration data from the SDM node without performing one or more security operations on the configuration data. |
| US12085915B2 |
Safety in dynamic 3D healthcare environment
The present invention relates to safety in a dynamic 3D healthcare environment. The invention in particular relates to a medical safety-system for dynamic 3D healthcare environments, a medical examination system with motorized equipment, an image acquisition arrangement, and a method for providing safe movements in dynamic 3D healthcare environments. In order to provide improved safety in dynamic 3D healthcare environments with a facilitated adaptability, a medical safety-system (10) for dynamic 3D healthcare environments is provided, comprising a detection system (12), a processing unit (14), and an interface unit (16). The detection system comprises at least one sensor arrangement (18) adapted to provide depth information of at least a part of an observed scene (22). The processing unit comprises a correlation unit (24) adapted to correlate the depth information. The processing unit comprises a generation unit (26) adapted to generate a 3D free space model (32). The interface unit is adapted to provide the 3D free space model. |
| US12085911B2 |
Method, computer program and apparatus for analysing a programmable logic controller program
It is disclosed a PLC Program analysis method where a program (PROG) is translated (TRANS) into a model (MOD) in a logical framework, from which properties (Prop) are determined. Said properties coupled with user specifications (IntProp) are verified by an automated solver (SMT). If contraposition of a property (Prop) is satisfiable, counter-examples (PROOF NOK) representative of model inputs and internal memory values is provided. Counter-examples (PROOF NOK) are translated into error initial configurations (IniConf) of said model. Execution of the model is simulated (EXE) with said model error initial configurations (IniConf), and error intermediary configurations (AST-IntConf) of said model simulation are recorded up to said property violation. Error initial and intermediary configurations (Lad-IniConf, Lad-IntConf) of said original program (PROG) are derived from error initial configurations (IniConf) of said model and error intermediary configurations (AST-IntConf) of said model simulation and displayed. An apparatus for executing said method is provided. |
| US12085910B2 |
Model asset library and recommendation engine for industrial automation environments
Various embodiments of the present technology generally relate to solutions for improving industrial automation programming and data science capabilities with machine learning. More specifically, embodiments of the present technology include systems and methods for implementing machine learning engines within industrial programming and data science environments to improve performance, increase productivity, and add functionality. In an embodiment, a system comprises a machine learning-based recommendation engine configured to, an industrial programming environment, generate a recommendation to add a component to control logic based on an existing portion of the control logic. A notification component is configured to surface the recommendation in the programming environment. A programming component is configured to, in the programming environment, add the component to the control logic. A configuration component is configured to configure the component based at least in part on the existing portion of the control logic. |
| US12085902B2 |
Mapping devices to representations in a model
Apparatuses (1) for mapping devices (21-29) to representations (31-39) of the devices (21-29) in models comprise displays (11) for displaying representations (31-39), memories (12) for storing triggering information defining triggering procedures for triggering the devices (21-29), inputs (16) for receiving identifying information comprising identifiers from devices (21-29) that have been triggered, and processors (14) for linking the identifiers and the representations (31-39) at the hand of the triggering procedures. The commissioning of devices (21-29) is done faster and more user-friendly. The triggering procedures may define the devices (21-29) to be triggered in a sequence. The processor (14) can then link the identifiers and the representations (31-39) via the sequence. Alternatively the triggering procedures may define unique codes to be allocated to the representations (31-39) and to be provided to the devices (21-29), with the identifying information further comprising the codes. The processor (14) can then link the identifiers and the representations (31-39) via the codes. |
| US12085901B2 |
Bot management framework for robotic process automation systems
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, a using a bot management framework to provide bot management solutions for software bots deployed in a robotic process automation (RPA) system. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving, from a RPA system, information regarding a software bot deployed within the RPA system to perform an assigned task, the information including incident data from an anomaly in the RPA system while the software bot performed the assigned task; mapping the received incident data according to a common data model; determining a resolution for the anomaly based an analysis through a trained artificial intelligence model of the mapped incident data; and executing the determined resolution. |
| US12085900B2 |
Cascaded systems and methods for controlling energy use during a demand limiting period
A system includes a processing circuit configured to provide an energy use setpoint based on energy data including an energy characteristic and subject to a constraint based on a variable condition of a building. The processing circuit is configured to estimate a value for the energy use setpoint that will result in the variable condition of the building satisfying the constraint and provide a control signal for equipment based on a difference between the energy use setpoint and a measured energy use. |
| US12085898B2 |
Illuminated time-passage indicator
A time-passage indicator device can comprise a housing, a plurality of light elements coupled to the housing, a window comprising an inner surface and an outer surface, and a processor that controls the plurality of light elements. The window can be attached to the housing and diffuse or scatter light emitted from the plurality of light elements. The light elements can emit the light through the window to form an illuminated region. The processor can control the light elements such that the illuminated region changes to indicate the passage of time. The illuminated region can have a minimum viewing angle from 0 degrees to 20 degrees, where the minimum viewing angle of 0 degrees is measured from a plane of the base surface. |
| US12085897B2 |
Subtractive manufacturing of an oversized MIM blank
Each type of metal component part for two or more watch designs can be derived from instances of that corresponding type of MIM blank for that component part, which is formed from a same injection molding tool (respectively for each type of component part). An example instance of the MIM blank formed for a type of component part then has at least a portion of the instance of the MIM blank subtracted through a CNC milling process to form an interim shape and geometry of an instance of the type of component part for a given watch design. The CNC milling process can be applied to the MIM blank for that component part when the MIM blank is in its interim shape and geometry and has not yet been hardened to a finished shape and geometry of an instance of that type of component part for the watch design. |
| US12085895B2 |
Notification control device, watch, notification control method, and non-transitory recording medium
A notification control device acquires a plan of a subject, and causes a notifier to notify current day plan content information in a first notification mode and future plan content information in a second notification mode that differs from the first notification mode. The current day plan content information is information about the acquired plan of the subject for current day or is information about the acquired plan of the subject for a certain period including the current day. The future plan content information is information about the acquired plan of the subject for the future of the certain period or is information about the acquired plan of the subject for a certain future period not including the current day. |
| US12085887B2 |
Fixing device including shutter pivotable about axis positioned downstream of nipping region in sheet conveying direction
A fixing device includes a first rotatable body, a second rotatable body, a frame, and a shutter. The frame supports the first rotatable body and the second rotatable body. The first rotatable body and the second rotatable body provide a nipping region therebetween where a sheet is configured to be conveyed in a conveying direction. The sheet is configured to pass through an opening of the frame to be conveyed toward the nipping region. The shutter is pivotally movable about a first axis between a closed position where the shutter closes the opening and an open position where the shutter opens the opening. The first axis is positioned downstream of the nipping region in the conveying direction. |
| US12085886B2 |
Connection structure for coupling with toner cartridge
An example connection structure includes a connector and a connector support body. The connector is to engage with a coupler of a toner cartridge at a driving position when the toner cartridge is located at an operable position. The connector support body is rotatable about a rotation axis. The connector is also to support the connector to allow the connector to be inclined toward one side or another side with respect to the rotation axis while moving along the rotation axis with respect to the driving position. |
| US12085880B2 |
Image forming apparatus
An image forming apparatus includes a transfer portion to transfer a toner image to a recording material, a fixing portion having a heating unit and a cylindrical rotary member and to fix the toner image to the recording material, a fixing drive portion to drive the cylindrical rotary member, and a controller. In a case in which images are formed on a plurality of recording materials, the controller controls the fixing drive portion based on a time period from a time when a trailing edge of a preceding recording material passes through the fixing portion to a time when a leading edge of a subsequent recording material passes through the fixing portion so that a second rotation speed of the cylindrical rotary member when conveying the subsequent recording material becomes lower than a first rotation speed of the cylindrical rotary member when conveying the preceding recording material. |
| US12085878B2 |
Image forming system having a first mode for fixing an image and a second mode for not fixing the image to an object
An image forming system includes: a transporter that transports an object; a transfer unit that transfers an image onto the object transported by the transporter; a fixing unit that fixes, onto the object, the image transferred by the transfer unit; and a processor configured to: in a first mode, exert control to obtain the state in which the fixing unit enables an image to be fixed; and, in a second mode, exert control to obtain the state in which the fixing unit does not fix an image. |
| US12085877B2 |
Conveyance device and image forming apparatus
A conveyance device to convey a recording medium includes a heater, a first temperature detector, a second temperature detector, and a recording medium detector. The heater heats the recording medium. The first temperature detector and the second temperature detector detect a temperature of the heater. The recording medium detector detects the recording medium. The first temperature detector is disposed at a position farther from a center position of a heating region of the heater than the second temperature detector in a conveyance orthogonal direction. The conveyance orthogonal direction is along a surface of the recording medium and orthogonal to a direction in which the recording medium is conveyed. The recording medium detector is disposed on a side opposite to the first temperature detector with respect to the second temperature detector in the conveyance orthogonal direction. |
| US12085874B2 |
Edge regulating member, belt rotation device, and image forming device
An edge regulating member provided in a belt rotation device that tensions a belt via a belt tensioning roller and rotates the belt in a rotation direction includes a body that comes into contact with an inner surface of the belt and a regulating portion that extends, at a position adjacent to the body, further outward in a radial direction of the belt tensioning roller than the body, and comes into contact with an edge of the belt. Tension of the belt acting on the body while the inner surface of the belt is in contact with the body causes the regulating portion to tilt, turned outward in the rotation axis direction from a fold-back portion of the belt toward an upstream side in the rotation direction. |
| US12085873B2 |
Developing device and image forming apparatus capable of shortening time required to circulate developer in circulation path
A developing device includes a housing in which a circulation path is formed by a first path through which a developer passed to a developing roll flows, a second path disposed offset from the first path in a direction of gravity, a pair of connecting ports connecting the first path and the second path, and a transport member that operates in the housing. The transport member transports the developer in a determined direction, or a reverse direction to the determined direction, in the circulation path according to a load applied for driving the transport member. |
| US12085871B2 |
Image forming apparatus with suppression of light quality attenuation
An image forming apparatus includes a container to accommodate a developer, and a sensor to output an output signal depending on an amount of the developer in the container, wherein the sensor includes a light emitting element and a light receiving element which are provided outside the container, and a light guide provided on a wall surface of the container and configured to guide light, emitted by the light emitting element, toward the light receiving element through an inside space of the container. The light guide also includes projected portions configured such that light travels from outside of the container to the inside of the container in a direction intersecting with the direction of gravity. |
| US12085867B2 |
Lithography process monitoring method
A method of performing a lithography process includes providing a test pattern. The test pattern includes a first set of lines arranged at a first pitch, a second set of lines arranged at the first pitch, and further includes at least one reference line between the first set of lines and the second set of lines. The test pattern is exposed with a radiation source providing an asymmetric, monopole illumination profile to form a test pattern structure on a substrate. The test pattern structure is then measured and a measured distance correlated to an offset of a lithography parameter. A lithography process is adjusted based on the offset of the lithography parameter. |
| US12085861B2 |
Control of dynamic gas lock flow inlets of an intermediate focus cap
A control system includes a plurality of pressure sensors, each to detect a pressure in a respective dynamic gas lock (DGL) nozzle control region of a plurality of DGL nozzle control regions. Each DGL nozzle control region includes one or more DGL nozzles. The control system includes a plurality of mass flow controllers (MFCs). Each MFC of the plurality of MFCs is to control a flow velocity in a respective DGL nozzle control region of the plurality of DGL nozzle control regions. The control system includes a controller to selectively cause one or more MFCs of the plurality of MFCs to adjust flow velocities in one or more DGL nozzle control regions of the plurality of DGL nozzle control regions based on pressures detected by the plurality of pressure sensors in DGL nozzle control regions of the plurality of DGL nozzle control regions. |
| US12085860B2 |
System and method for monitoring and controlling extreme ultraviolet photolithography processes
A photolithography system utilizes tin droplets to generate extreme ultraviolet radiation for photolithography. The photolithography system irradiates the droplets with a laser. The droplets become a plasma and emit extreme ultraviolet radiation. An array of sensors sense the extreme ultraviolet radiation and charged particles emitted by the droplets. A control system analyses sensor signals from the sensors and adjusts plasma generation parameters responsive to the sensor signals. |
| US12085854B2 |
Photoresist compositions and pattern formation methods
A photoresist composition comprising a polymer, a photoacid generator, an additive comprising a tertiary carbon atom as a ring-forming atom of a lactone ring, and a solvent. |
| US12085853B2 |
Template, pattern forming method, and semiconductor device manufacturing method
A template includes a first region having a first face on a side opposite to a main face and a first pattern including a convex-concave portion provided on the first face, and a second region, provided around the first region, having a second face on the side opposite to the main face, a second pattern including a protruding portion protruding from the second face, and an optical layer provided on the second face and the second pattern, wherein the second face is positioned farther to the main surface side than a bottommost face of the irregular portion. |
| US12085851B2 |
Pressure sensor manifold with increased photocurable resistance
A pressure sensor manifold is provided that resolves issues caused by accumulated particles and bubbles to improve print head performance. The pressure sensor manifold includes a fluid inlet, a fluid outlet, and a dome-shape cavity connecting with both the fluid inlet and the fluid outlet. The fluid inlet has a first interior cross-section, and the fluid outlet has a second interior cross-section. The dome-shape cavity has an apex. A line that is tangential to the apex passes through a plurality of points on both the first interior cross-section of the fluid inlet and the second interior cross-section of the fluid outlet. |
| US12085848B2 |
Photomask cleaning tool
A photomask cleaning tool includes various components to automatically remove a particle from a pellicle, such as a multi-jet nozzle to standardize and control the use of a gas to remove the particle, an ultrasonic probe to loosen the particle from the surface of the pellicle, a plurality of multi-jet nozzles to direct gas toward the particle from different directions, a control system to control the automated blower for various sizes and shapes of photomasks and for optimized particle removal techniques, and/or the like. In this way, the photomask cleaning tool is capable of removing a particle from a pellicle of a photomask in a manner that increases the effectiveness of removing the particle and reduces the likelihood of damage to the pellicle, which would otherwise result in expensive and time-consuming photomask rework. |
| US12085840B2 |
Camera assembly and electronic device
A camera assembly is provided. The camera assembly includes an auxiliary mount, a rotatable camera module and a flexible heat conducting assembly, the rotatable camera module includes a rotatable mount and a camera function group disposed on the rotatable mount, the rotatable mount is rotatably connected to the auxiliary mount, the flexible heat conducting assembly is fixedly connected to one end of the camera function group, and the flexible heat conducting assembly is further configured to be connected to a non-rotatable camera module component, so that heat generated by the camera function group is transferred to the non-rotatable camera module component. A flexible heat conducting assembly performs a cross-region transfer of heat generated by the rotatable camera module, to help reduce an ambient temperature of the rotatable camera module, so as to improve photography quality of the camera module, and prolong a photography time period of the rotatable camera module. |
| US12085836B2 |
Optical amplifier
An optical amplifier of the present disclosure includes a Raman amplification unit and a parametric amplification unit that is configured of a second-order nonlinear element including a PPLN waveguide. In the optical amplifier, second harmonic lights are generated from a fundamental wave light having a wavelength that is slightly detuned to a shorter wavelength side with respect to a phase matching wavelength of the second-order nonlinear element, and is utilized as excitation light for the parametric amplification unit. By utilizing the excitation light based on the fundamental wave light of the wavelength detuned from the phase matching wavelength, a phase matching curve can be obtained in a wide band in a difference frequency generation (DFG) process of the second-order nonlinear element. The reduction in conversion efficiency of the wavelength near the excitation light in the parametric amplification unit is compensated by the Raman amplification unit. |
| US12085829B2 |
Methods for driving electro-optic displays
A method for driving electro-optic displays including a layer of electro-optic material disposed between a common electrode and a backplane including an array of pixel electrodes, each coupled to a pixel transistor. The method for driving includes apportioning a displayable region of the electro-optic display into N BRAID line groups, where each of the N BRAID line groups is associated with a frame buffer. The method also includes receiving first image data comprising optical state data for the entire displayable region of the electro-optic display, and sequentially writing subsets of the first image data to each of the N frame buffers, wherein each of the N frame buffers is written with data corresponding to the corresponding BRAID line group. The method also includes sequentially updating portions of the displayable region of the electro-optic display based on the data in each of the N frame buffers. |
| US12085827B2 |
Display panel and display device
A display panel and a display device are disclosed. The display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate includes a first base, a thin film transistor layer, and a plurality of pixel electrodes. The thin film transistor layer includes an insulating layer and a plurality of data lines. The data lines are divided into a plurality of first subsections corresponding to the pixel electrodes. A sum of thicknesses of the insulating layer and the first base corresponding to positions of the first subsections is less than a sum of thicknesses of the insulating layer and the first base corresponding to positions of the pixel electrodes. |
| US12085825B2 |
Display device and touch sensor having plurality of common electrodes
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first common electrode, a second common electrode spaced apart from the first common electrode, a first signal line overlapping the first common electrode and the second common electrode, a first metal line overlapping the first signal line and the first common electrode, and a second metal line overlapping the first signal line and the second common electrode and spaced apart from the first metal line. The first metal line includes an extension portion extending between the first common electrode and the second common electrode. |
| US12085821B2 |
Display panel and display terminal
A display panel and a display terminal are provided. The display panel includes a first base plate, a second base plate, and a frame sealing adhesive layer. An electrical connection component is disposed in the frame sealing adhesive layer. The first base plate includes a first type of signal line at least partially disposed in a non-display region and an elevated conductive part. The elevated conductive part is electrically connected to the first type of signal line. A first end of the electrical connection component is connected to the elevated conductive part, and a second end of the electrical connection component is connected to a common electrode layer of the second base plate. |
| US12085820B2 |
Electronic device including pripheral region having semiconductor layer and color filter
An electronic device including a first substrate, a semiconductor layer, a second substrate and a color filter is disclosed. The first substrate has a peripheral region. The semiconductor layer is disposed on the first substrate in the peripheral region. The second substrate is opposite to the first substrate. The color filter is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and in the peripheral region of the first substrate, and the color filter overlaps the semiconductor layer. |
| US12085819B1 |
Display module, driving method, and display device
A display module, a driving method and a display device are disclosed. The display module includes a light valve regulator, which includes a first regulating electrode layer, a light regulating layer, a second regulating electrode layer, and a light converting layer. The first regulating electrode layer is arranged on a side of the second polarizer facing away from the display panel. The light regulating layer is arranged on a side of the first regulating electrode layer facing away from the second polarizer. The light regulating layer includes a first liquid crystal layer and a second liquid crystal layer alternately arranged. The second regulating electrode layer is arranged on a side of the light regulating layer facing away from the first regulating electrode layer. The light converting layer is arranged on a side of the second regulating electrode layer facing away from the light regulating layer. |
| US12085816B2 |
Display panel and method for manufacturing same
The present application provides a display panel and a method for manufacturing the display panel. The display panel includes a driving circuit layer, a liquid crystal layer, and a frame glue layer. The driving circuit layer includes a driving unit sub-layer and a wire sub-layer; the wire sub-layer includes a plurality of metal wires disposed parallel to each other, a hollow section is disposed between any adjacent two metal wires, and in each of the hollow sections, a width of the hollow section near a boundary between the frame glue layer and the liquid crystal layer is greater than or equal to a width of any other hollow sections. |
| US12085811B2 |
Display substrate, manufacturing method, display motherboard, and display device
The present disclosure provides a display substrate, including an array substrate, a color filter substrate, and a liquid crystal layer and a sealant arranged therebetween. A sealing cavity for receiving the liquid crystal layer is defined by the sealant, the array substrate and the color filter substrate. The display substrate is provided with a bonding side surface bonded to a chip on film, the sealant at least includes a first portion including a first side surface and a second side surface flush with the bonding side surface. The array substrate includes a display region and a non-display region surrounding the display region. A bonding pin is provided in the non-display region, extends to a side surface of the display substrate, and is exposed to the outside. The present disclosure further provides a method for manufacturing the display substrate, a display motherboard, and a display device. |
| US12085807B2 |
Optical sheet laminate, backlight unit, liquid crystal display device, information equipment, and production method for backlight unit
An optical sheet laminate 100 to be incorporated into a backlight unit 40 includes a plurality of diffusion sheets 43 having a first surface 21a having a plurality of recesses 22 having a substantially inverted quadrangular pyramid shape, and a pair of prism sheets 44 and 45 having prism extending directions perpendicular to each other. An arrangement direction of the recesses 22 of one of the plurality of diffusion sheets 43 closest to the prism sheets 44 and 45 intersects with the prism extending directions at an angle of 0° or more and 20° or less, or 70° or more and 90° or less. |
| US12085806B2 |
Light guide plate and display module having transmissive part, and game machine having same
The present invention relates to a light guide plate including a plurality of cutting areas, the light guide plate capable of solving the problem of brightness degradation between the plurality of cutting areas by attaching a predetermined member, which is reactive to light, to at least one of the inner sides of the cutting areas. |
| US12085800B2 |
Focus-adjustable liquid crystal eyeglasses
Described are examples of adjustable focus glasses formed using liquid crystal. A pair of adjustable focus glasses can include a frame and two lenses arranged on the frame. In some examples, at least one of the two lenses is a lens assembly that includes a plano-concave lens, a Fresnel lens, and a liquid crystal layer between the plano-concave lens and the Fresnel lens. The plano-concave lens includes a planar surface and an opposing concave surface. The Fresnel lens includes a Fresnel surface and an opposing convex surface. The planar surface and the Fresnel surface face the liquid crystal layer. The focus position of the lens assembly can be adjusted through changing the refractive index of the liquid crystal layer, using appropriate control signals from an electronic controller. This conveniently allows the adjustable focus glasses to be multi-purpose and suitable for correcting both myopia and hyperopia. |
| US12085799B2 |
Electro-optical device and electronic apparatus
In a liquid crystal device serving as an electro-optical device, a liquid crystal layer as an electro-optical element is disposed between a base material 10s as a first substrate and a base material 20s as a second substrate which are disposed to face each other via a photo-curable type seal material, the substrate 10s and the substrate 20s are transmissive and include a plurality of light-shielding patterns disposed at intervals in a seal region of the substrate 10s where the seal material is disposed, and on the substrate 10s, a semiconductor layer of a transistor included in a driving circuit for driving the electro-optical element is disposed to overlap, in plan view, with at least one of the plurality of light-shielding patterns. |
| US12085797B2 |
Display panel and method for manufacturing the same
The present disclosure relates to a display panel. The display panel includes a display substrate, an opposite substrate, and a first adhesive layer and light guide layer located between the display substrate and the opposite substrate and stacked on each other. The first adhesive layer includes a photo-cured layer formed by curing a photocurable material layer. And the light guide layer is used to direct light to the photocurable material layer during the curing to form the cured layer. |
| US12085796B2 |
Display device
The present disclosure relates to a display device, in more detail, to a display device in which the size of the bezel is reduced while simply improving the assembly of components constituting the display device. |
| US12085793B2 |
Cholesteric liquid crystal display device
A cholesteric liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a solar cell, a shielding layer, a first electrode layer, a cholesteric liquid crystal layer, a second electrode layer and a second substrate stacked sequentially from bottom to top. The solar cell includes a metal wiring pattern layer. The shielding layer corresponds to the upper side of the metal wiring pattern layer, and is used to reduce the reflection of light from the metal circuit pattern layer. In this way, the cholesteric liquid crystal display device replaces the traditional black absorbing layer with the black material of the solar cell, which can not only absorb light, but also display the image with self-sustaining power. The cholesteric liquid crystal display device shields the arrangement of the metal wiring pattern layer through the shielding layer, which can ensure the image quality of the display panel. |
| US12085792B2 |
Molecular reorientation of liquid crystals using acoustic waves and fluid flow in confinement
Optofluidic devices configured confine liquid crystals within a fluidic channel under the application of acoustic waves and pressure-driven flow and related methods of use are described. |
| US12085790B2 |
Photonic bandgap phase modulator, optical filter bank, photonic computing system, and methods of use
A photonic computing system, preferably including an input module, a computation module, and/or control module. The photonic computing system can include one or more optical filter banks, such as in the computation module and/or any other suitable modules. Each optical filter bank preferably includes a plurality of photonic bandgap phase modulators. Each photonic bandgap phase modulator preferably includes a set of photonic crystal segments. The photonic crystal segments can preferably be controlled to transition light propagation between two or more photonic bands. |
| US12085789B2 |
Bias voltage generation in an optical measurement system
An exemplary optical measurement system described herein includes a control circuit configured to output a global bias voltage and a module communicatively coupled to the control circuit. The module includes a light source configured to emit light directed at a target. The module further includes a plurality of detectors configured to detect arrival times for photons of the light after the light is scattered by the target. The module further includes a module control circuit configured to receive the global bias voltage and output a plurality of detector bias voltages based on the global bias voltage. The plurality of detector bias voltages include a respective detector bias voltage for each detector of the plurality of detectors. |
| US12085784B2 |
Lens element
A lens element intended to be worn in front of an eye of a person including a refraction area having a first refractive power based on a prescription for correcting an abnormal refraction of said eye of the person and a second refractive power different from the first refractive power, and a plurality of at least three optical elements, at least one optical element having an optical function of not focusing an image on the retina of the eye so as to slow down the progression of the abnormal refraction of the eye. |
| US12085783B2 |
Eyewear affixable cushion
An eyewear affixable cushioning device may include a base member including a first area and a second area, a fastener disposed on at least one of the first area and the second area of the base member, and anon-slip surface being disposed on the base member. The base member may include a compressible material. Additional devices, systems, and methods are disclosed. |
| US12085782B2 |
Optical system, camera module, and electronic device
An optical system includes, successively in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens, an object side surface thereof being concave at a paraxial area, and an image side surface thereof being convex at the paraxial area thereof; a second lens having a positive refractive power, an object side surface thereof being convex at a paraxial area, and an image side surface thereof being concave at the paraxial area; a third lens having a positive refractive power, and an image side surface thereof being convex at a paraxial area; a fourth lens; a fifth lens; a sixth lens; a seventh lens; and an eighth lens having a negative refractive power, an object side surface thereof being convex at a paraxial area, and an image side surface thereof being concave at the paraxial area. |
| US12085781B2 |
Complex reflector device to generate arbitrary number of output beams in angular space through same exit pupil
A device for providing an output beam in a direction, the device including a plate including an exit pupil; a plurality of rows of optical elements disposed substantially in a first plane, each row of optical elements in the first plane including: at least one beam splitter; and a plurality of rows of optical elements disposed substantially in a second plane, the optical elements in the second plane include mirrors, wherein the second plane is disposed between the exit pupil and the first plane, wherein the at least one beam splitter at the first plane is configured to transmit an incident beam to one of a subsequent optical element at the first plane and a subsequent optical element at the second plane before being reflected to exit through the exit pupil. |
| US12085780B2 |
Optical system, heating arrangement, and method for heating an optical element in an optical system
An optical system includes at least one optical element which has an optically effective surface and which is designed for an operating wavelength of less than 30 nm. The optical system also includes a heating arrangement for heating this optical element and comprising a plurality of IR emitters for irradiating the optically effective surface with IR radiation. The IR emitters are activatable and deactivatable independently of each other to variably set different heating profiles in the optical element. The optical system further includes at least one beam shaping unit for shaping the beam of the IR radiation steered onto the optically effective surface by the IR emitters. The optical system also includes a multi-fiber head comprising a multi-fiber connector for connecting optical fibers. IR radiation from a respective one of the IR emitters is suppliable by way of each of these optical fibers. |
| US12085775B2 |
Liquid lens control device
A liquid lens control apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a liquid lens containing a first liquid and a second liquid that form an interface with a first electrode and a second electrode; a lens driver applying a voltage to the first electrode and the second electrode to control the interface, and including a plurality of switching elements; a temperature sensing unit sensing a temperature of the liquid lens; and a control unit controlling the lens driver so that the interface forms a target interface, wherein the control unit controls switching states of the plurality of switching elements of the lens driver to be maintained during a temperature sensing period in which the temperature sensing unit operates. |
| US12085774B2 |
System and deployment method for a fiber optic connector assembly having a blowable section and a non-blowable section
Systems, assemblies and methods for deploying an optical fiber through a duct to a customer premises. A blowable section of the optical fiber is blown through the duct. A non-blowable section of the optical fiber is coupled to a trail end of the duct. The non-blowable section can be terminated with a hardened or ruggedized connector. The optical fiber, including both the blowable and non-blowable sections, can be wound around a spool for easy payout of the blowable section. |
| US12085769B2 |
Integrated circuit device and method
An IC device includes a heat spreader, an electronic component over the heat spreader, an optical component over the electronic component, a multilayer structure over the optical component, and a redistribution structure over the multilayer structure. The multilayer structure includes a waveguide optically coupled to the optical component. The redistribution structure is electrically coupled to the electronic component by vias through the optical component and the multilayer structure. |
| US12085768B2 |
Optical module
The present disclosure provides an optical module. The optical module includes an optical component disposed in or on a carrier and configured to receive a first light. The optical component is further configured to transmit a second light to a first portion of the carrier and transmit a third light to a second portion of the carrier. |
| US12085764B2 |
Connection system for printed circuit board
A connection system for a printed circuit board employs either an inline or transverse board-mounted connector for holding board-mounted optical fibers. A plug-in connector can blind mate with the board-mounted connector. The plug-in connector has a plug-in connector body, a plug-in ferrule, and a plug-in ferrule holder. The plug-in holder latches with the plug-in connector body at either of two positions to selectively configure the plug-in connector for blind mating with either the inline or transverse board-mounted connector. The board-mounted fibers can be supported by a board-mounted ferrule assembly including a ferrule and a ferrule holder that is configured to selectively attach the board-mounted ferrule assembly to either of an inline board-mounted connector body and a transverse board-mounted connector body. |
| US12085749B2 |
Optical fiber evaluation device and optical fiber evaluation method
The purpose of the present invention is to provide an optical fiber evaluation equipment and an optical fiber evaluation method that evaluate the center of a cladding of an MCF and a deviation of the center of each core of the MCF from a design value with ease and high accuracy.The optical fiber evaluation equipment according to the present invention approximates the outside diameter of a cladding by a circle, based on a cross-sectional image of an MCF, and determines the center of the circle as the center of the cladding. In addition, the optical fiber evaluation equipment according to the present invention obtains the center coordinates of cores with an origin at the center of the circle, rotates the cross-sectional image so as to minimize a difference between the center coordinates and design coordinates of each core, and derives the minimum value thereof as the amount of deviation of the center of each core. |
| US12085748B2 |
Display apparatus
A display apparatus includes: a first substrate having a first front surface and a first back surface that is an opposite surface of the first front surface; a liquid crystal layer arranged on the first front surface of the first substrate; a light guide plate having a first main surface facing the first front surface, a second main surface that is an opposite surface of the first main surface and a side surface crossing the first main surface and the second main surface; and a light source unit including a plurality of light emitting elements arranged along a first direction at a position facing the side surface of the light guide plate, and a light emitting surface of the light source unit is arranged to have a different direction from a direction of the side surface of the light guide plate in a thickness direction of the light guide plate. |
| US12085747B2 |
Luminaire having a light guide with cladding
A luminaire module includes light-emitting elements (LEEs) arranged to provide light; a light guide including a receiving end and an opposing end, the receiving end arranged to receive light provided by the LEEs, a core including a first transparent material with a first refractive index, the core having a pair of opposing side surfaces extending along a length of the light guide between the receiving and opposing ends, and a cladding including a second material having a second smaller refractive index, the cladding extending across and being in contact with at least a portion of the opposing side surfaces forming a cladding-core interface. The cladding-core interface is optically smooth. Additionally, the luminaire module includes an optical extractor arranged to receive guided light from the opposing end of the light guide and configured to output into the ambient environment at least some of the received guided light. |
| US12085743B2 |
Polarizing plate, liquid crystal panel and display device
The present invention relates to a polarizing plate, a liquid crystal panel and a display device, and more specifically to a polarizing plate including a polarizer, and a hard coating layer having a thickness of 10 μm or less and a light-transmitting substrate which are positioned so as to face each other on the basis of the polarizer, and to a liquid crystal panel and a display device including the same. |
| US12085738B2 |
Watch with decorative display layer
An electronic device that includes a display assembly comprising a display, a texture layer, a transmissive and reflective layer, and a cover layer. The display includes an upper surface on which visual data is displayed and from which light is emitted. The texture layer includes a lower surface having a first texture with structural components and a second texture with structural components that are different from structural components of the first texture. The transmissive and reflective layer is positioned between the display and the texture layer and includes a first texture with structural components that are complementary to the structural components of the first texture of the texture layer and a second texture with structural components that are complementary to the structural components of the second texture of the texture layer. The cover layer is positioned above the texture layer and forms an upper surface of the display assembly. |
| US12085736B2 |
Privacy films for curved displays
A privacy film may have a light-blocking layer that is interposed between first and second transparent substrates. The light-blocking layer may have a plurality of opaque portions and a plurality of transparent portions. The opaque portions may be shaped to ensure light from the display is directed only to the primary viewer of the display. Each opaque portion of the light-blocking layer may extend along a respective longitudinal axis between the first and second transparent substrates. Privacy films used to cover curved displays may have opaque portions that extend along longitudinal axes that have different angles relative to the transparent substrates. Opaque portions in the edge of the privacy film may have longitudinal axes that are at non-perpendicular angles with respect to the transparent substrates. A privacy film for a curved display may also include a light-redirecting layer such as a prism layer or a liquid crystal layer. |
| US12085735B2 |
Black-coloured article
A black-colored article which is not a photovoltaic device. The device includes a substantially transparent substrate; a substantially transparent textured layer provided upon a first surface of the substrate, the textured layer having a textured surface oriented away from the substrate; and an absorption layer including a silicon-germanium alloy, the absorption layer being situated upon the textured surface of the textured layer. |
| US12085734B1 |
Electronic devices with low-reflectance coatings
A head-mounted device may have optical modules that present images to a user's left and right eyes. Each optical module may have a lens barrel with a low-reflectance coating, a display coupled to the lens barrel that generates a visible-light image, a lens mounted to the lens barrel through which the image is viewable from an eye box, an infrared light-emitting diode that emits infrared light that illuminates an eye box at an infrared wavelength through the lens, and an infrared camera that captures an image from the eye box at the infrared wavelength. The low-reflectance coating may be a low-visible-reflectance-and-low-infrared-reflectance coating that exhibits low-reflectance for visible light from the display and for infrared light at the infrared wavelength that is generated by the light-emitting diode. |
| US12085728B2 |
Optical device and electronic device
An optical device with less influence of stray light is provided. The optical device is thin and includes a half mirror, a first lens, a retardation plate, a reflective polarizing plate, and a second lens. In the optical device, a geometric phase lens which has negative and positive refractive power is used as the first lens, whereby images can be focused after magnified optically. Thus, the optical device can have a wide viewing angle. In the case where stray light occurs due to birefringence of an optical material, negative refractive power of the first lens can prevent the stray light from being focused on the eye direction. Accordingly, image degradation recognized due to stray light can be prevented. |
| US12085726B2 |
Information processing device and information processing method
An information processing device according to an embodiment includes a detection unit, a determination unit, and a display control unit. The detection unit detects a wearing state of a wearer with respect to a display device that has optical transparency and projects a plurality of content images duplicated from a single content image toward the eyeballs of the wearer. The determination unit determines whether or not the mounting misalignment is occurring with the wearer on the basis of the detection result of the wearing state detected by the detection unit. In a case where the determination unit determines that the mounting misalignment is occurring, the display control unit displays a notification regarding the mounting misalignment on the display device. |
| US12085721B2 |
Optical waveguide detection element, video laser module, and XR glasses
This optical waveguide detection element includes a substrate, an optical waveguide layer formed on the substrate, and a photodetector. The optical waveguide layer includes a first optical waveguide in which visible light having a wavelength of 380 nm to 800 nm propagates, a second optical waveguide in which near-infrared light having a wavelength of 801 nm to 2000 nm propagates, and a third optical waveguide in which light propagates to a light receiving surface of the photodetector. A visible light output port of the first optical waveguide from which the visible light is output, a near-infrared light output port of the second optical waveguide from which the near-infrared light is output, and a reflected light input port of the third optical waveguide to which the near-infrared light is reflected and returned are arranged on one end surface of the optical waveguide layer. |
| US12085719B2 |
Head mounted device with terahertz tracking
Terahertz sensing in this disclosure involves the use of at least one terahertz signal that is transmitted towards an object. At least one return terahertz signal is reflected from the object. The return terahertz signal(s) may be analyzed to determine one or more parameters, such as phase, frequency, amplitude, spectral profile, time of flight (TOF) etc. associated with the return terahertz signal(s). Based on the parameter(s), a portion of the object impinged upon by the transmit terahertz signal(s) and which reflected the return terahertz signal(s), and the state of the object/portion, can be identified. The identification of the portion and its state can be used in eye tracking implementations. |
| US12085718B2 |
Smart glasses, and interaction method and interaction apparatus thereof
Smart glasses, and an interaction method and an interaction apparatus thereof are provided. The interaction method includes: receiving a message sent by a communications device; displaying a prompt identifier of the message at an edge of a display area of the smart glasses; and performing, if the head of the user wearing the smart glasses rotates in the first direction, a screen sliding operation or page turning operation to display the detailed content of the message in the display area. |
| US12085716B2 |
Eye accommodation distance measuring device and method for head-mounted display, and head-mounted display
An eye accommodation distance determining device is provided. The eye accommodation distance determining device includes an interferometer configured to generate a plurality of frequency modulated laser beams in different directions and to generate a plurality of interferometric signals using laser beams reflected from eye reflecting surfaces, a signal processer configured to generate a signal spectrum using each of said plurality of interferometric signals, a distance determiner configured to determine distances to the eye reflecting surfaces for each of said plurality of frequency modulated laser beams, a point coordinates determiner configured to determine coordinates of points on each of the eye reflecting surfaces for each of the laser beams, a reconstructor configured to generate an eye inner structure model based on the determined coordinates of points, and an eye accommodation distance determiner configured to determine, based on said eye inner structure model, an eye accommodation distance. |
| US12085712B2 |
Display and method of producing display
A display with a plurality of display elements each composed of an uneven layer having an uneven structure and a multilayer film layer provided on the uneven structure. A pattern formed by convexities can be divided into shape elements each arranged in each of a plurality of virtual rectangles, when viewed from a direction facing the uneven layer, and each of the shape elements arranged in each of the virtual rectangles is inscribed in the rectangle in which the shape element is arranged. The plurality of virtual rectangles each have sides along a first direction and sides along a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and a length of the side along the first direction is less than or equal to a sub wavelength. |
| US12085711B2 |
Heating device
A heating device includes a housing, a primary induction coil, a controller circuit, and a secondary induction coil. The housing is configured to retain a camera lens. The primary induction coil is positioned proximate the housing and configured to generate a magnetic field in response to receiving electrical power from a power supply. The controller circuit is in electrical contact with the primary induction coil and is configured to control the electrical power delivered to the primary induction coil. The secondary induction coil overlays the primary induction coil and is configured to receive the magnetic field from the primary induction coil and generate heat. The secondary induction coil heats the camera lens when the primary induction coil receives the electrical power. |
| US12085707B2 |
Wide-angle optical system and image pickup apparatus using the same
A wide-angle optical system is a wide-angle optical system having a lens component, and includes in order from an object side, a first lens unit having a negative refractive power, a second lens unit having a negative refractive power, and a third lens unit having a positive refractive power. At the time of carrying out a focal-position adjustment from a far point to a near point, the second lens unit is moved from a first position toward a second position. The third lens unit includes not less than three lens components. Not less than three lens components include a first lens component and a second lens component. Each of the first lens component and the second lens component has a positive refractive power, and following conditional expression (1) is satisfied: 0.8 |
| US12085705B2 |
Adjustable digital microscope display
The present invention relates in general to microscopy systems. In particular, the present invention relates to microscopes rendering digital images of samples, with the capability to digitally control the focus of the microscope system, and the software used to control the operation of the digital microscope system. Further, the present invention relates to a microscope structure that allows for compact and multi-functional use of a microscope, providing for light shielding and control with samples that require specific light wavelength characteristics, such as fluorescence, for detection and imaging. The microscope is adjustable, with a structure that can move along range(s) of motion and degree(s) of freedom to allow for ease of access to samples, shielding of samples, and manipulation of a display apparatus. |
| US12085702B2 |
High throughput quantitative microscopy system
Methods and systems are provided for an imaging system. In one example, the imaging system includes a plurality of microscope assemblies arranged radially around a central axis of the imaging system, coupled to vertically oriented plates with a set of objectives arranged at tops of the plurality of microscope assemblies and wherein the plates are oriented to extend away from the central axis in a radial direction to form an x-shaped configuration. |
| US12085700B2 |
Imaging optical system, image capture device, and camera system
An imaging optical system includes: a first lens group having negative power; a second lens group having positive power; a third lens group having negative power; and a fourth lens group having power, which are arranged in this order such that the first lens group is located closest to an object and the fourth lens group is located closest to an optical image. The first lens group includes: a first negative lens; a second negative lens; and a third negative lens which is a meniscus lens having negative power and a convex surface facing the optical image, which are arranged in this order such that the first negative lens is located closest to the object and the third negative lens is located closest to the optical image. During focusing from an infinity focus point toward a close focus point, the third lens group moves along an optical axis. |
| US12085688B2 |
Dual detector with transverse coils
A dual detector includes a detection head having a platform and an inductive sensor that is mounted on the platform and includes a transmitter coil and a separate receiver coil. The transmitter coil and the receiver coil each form a loop, the loop of the transmitter coil at least partially overlapping the loop of the receiver coil so as to form a coupling region that is elongate in a first longitudinal direction defining a first axis, the arm extending on a plane that runs perpendicularly to the platform, and the first axis of the coupling region running transversely to the plane. |
| US12085687B2 |
Model-constrained multi-phase virtual flow metering and forecasting with machine learning
A computer-implemented method for constrained multi-phase virtual flow metering and forecasting is described. The method includes predicting instantaneous flow rates and forecasting future target flow rates and well dynamics. The method includes constructing a virtual sensing model trained using forecasted target flow rates and well dynamics. The method includes building a constrained forecasting model by combining unconstrained flow forecasting models, well dynamics models, and virtual sensing models, wherein the constrained forecasting model forecasts multi-phase flow rates. |
| US12085686B2 |
Seismic interference noise attenuation using DNN
Seismic exploration methods and data processing apparatuses employ a deep neural network to remove seismic interference (SI) noise. Training data is generated by combining an SI model extracted using a conventional model from a subset of the seismic data, with SI free shots and simulated random noise. The trained DNN is used to process the entire seismic data thereby generating an image of subsurface formation for detecting presence and/or location of sought-after natural resources. |
| US12085677B2 |
Avalanche diode based detection device
There is provided a detection device including a light source, an avalanche diode, a first counter, a second counter and a processor. The light source emits light within a first interval, and is turned off within a second interval, a third interval and a fourth interval. The avalanche diode detects photons corresponding to the first interval, second, third and fourth intervals to trigger avalanche events. The first counter performs up-counting on the avalanche events in the first interval and performs down-counting on the avalanche events in the third interval to generate a first count value. The second counter performs up-counting on the avalanche events in the second interval and performs down-counting on the avalanche events in the fourth interval to generate a second count value. The processor calculates a time-of-flight according to the first count value and the second count value. |
| US12085675B2 |
Automatic gain control for LIDAR for autonomous vehicles
A LIDAR system includes an emitter array configured to illuminate a field of view, a detector array configured to image the field of view, and a control circuit. The emitter array includes one or more emitter elements that are configured to emit respective optical signals responsive to respective emitter control signals. The detector array includes one or more detector elements configured to output respective detection signals responsive to light incident thereon. The control circuit is configured to generate the respective emitter control signals based on the respective detection signals and respective spatial correlations of the one or more emitter elements and the one or more detector elements with respect to the field of view. Related devices and methods of operation are also discussed. |
| US12085674B2 |
Semiconductor laser and optical amplifier photonic package
A light detection and ranging (LIDAR) device includes a first wafer layer, a laser assembly disposed on the first wafer layer, a capping layer, a second wafer layer, and a photonic integrated circuit (PIC). The capping layer is coupled to the first wafer layer and configured to seal the laser assembly. The second wafer layer is at least partially coupled to the first wafer layer. The PIC is formed on the second wafer layer. The second wafer includes an exit feature configured to outcouple laser light from the laser assembly. |
| US12085669B2 |
Method for adjusting laser radar, laser device and laser radar
A method for adjusting a laser radar that includes a laser device and a collimation lens, includes: providing a laser collimator and a target surface; setting a second distance according to wavelength of the invisible light of the laser device, the second distance being a distance between a lens of the laser collimator and the target surface; obtaining a test deviation value about the second distance according to the wavelength of the invisible light and the wavelength of the visible light of the laser device; adjusting the second distance according to the test deviation value to obtain a corrected second distance; and making the laser device output the visible light and adjusting a first distance until an area of a spot of the visible light on the target surface reaches a minimum value, the first distance being a distance between the laser device and the collimation lens. |
| US12085664B2 |
Switchable FMCW/PMCW radar transceiver
Automotive radar methods and systems for enhancing resistance to interference using a built-in self-test (BIST) module. In one illustrative embodiment, an automotive radar transceiver includes: a signal generator that generates a transmit signal; a modulator that derives a modulated signal from the transmit signal using at least one of phase and amplitude modulation; at least one receiver that mixes the transmit signal with a receive signal to produce a down-converted signal, the receive signal including the modulated signal during a built-in self-test (BIST) mode of operation; and at least one transmitter that drives a radar antenna with a selectable one of the transmit signal and the modulated signal. |
| US12085663B2 |
Method for determining a location of a user device in an industrial facility
The current disclosure discloses a method for determining a location of a user device in an industrial facility. The method includes: transmitting a localization request to a location controller via a first base station; receiving a response message at a second time instance from the first base station; transmitting a timing message to the first base station; transmitting a polling message to a second base station; receiving a second response message at a fifth time instance from the second base station; and transmitting a second timing message to the second base station. The location controller is configured to determine the location of the user device based on transmission time instances and reception time instances associated with the localization request, the polling message, the first and second response messages, and the first and second timing messages. |
| US12085659B2 |
Ranging by a network device during a beacon interval
Examples described herein provide ranging by a network device during a beacon interval. Examples described herein may discover, by a network device during a first beacon interval, a plurality of APs in a network that are capable of ranging and a received signal measurement of each of the plurality of APs. Examples described herein may select, by the network device, an AP with a strongest received signal measurement among the plurality of APs, determine, by the network device, whether the selected AP is available for ranging, and based on a determination that the selected AP is available for ranging, initiate, by the network device during a second beacon interval, ranging measurements with the selected AP to generate a ranging result. Examples described herein may, based on the ranging result, resolve locations of the plurality of APs. |
| US12085656B2 |
Method for finding signal direction using modal antenna
A method for obtaining the direction of a signal incoming to a communication device is provided using a modal antenna that has multiple modes corresponding to multiple radiation patterns with a single feed. |
| US12085655B2 |
Control device and storage medium
To provide a novel and improved control device and storage medium capable of performing control based on a positional relation with higher accuracy.A control device includes a control unit configured to perform control based on a presence area of a first communication device determined using a signal transmitted and received between the first communication device and at least one second communication device. The control unit performs control related to an operation of a controlled device in accordance with a second presence area when a first presence area determined based on a coordinate position of the first communication device on an arbitrary coordinate system associating the first communication device with the second communication device is inconsistent with the second presence area determined based on a distance between the first and second communication devices. |
| US12085650B2 |
System and method for rock mass structure detection and dangerous rock detection
A system and method for rock mass structure detection and dangerous rock detection including a rock mass structure automated detection device and a server. The rock mass structure automated detection device includes a three-dimensional laser scanning device and a two-dimensional image acquisition device for respectively acquiring three-dimensional laser point cloud data and a two-dimensional image of a tunnel construction region. The server communicates with the rock mass structure automated detection device and includes a block structure three-dimensional modeling module and a block structure geometric stability analysis module. By considering the influence of the same group of structural faces in a rock mass, the effect of a newly-generated structural face subjected to blasting disturbance, and the finite dimension of a structural face, blocks in shapes of polygonal pyramid and polygonal frustum can be constructed to comply with engineering practices, and the geometric stability of any polygonal pyramid can be rapidly analyzed. |
| US12085648B2 |
High dynamic range LiDAR
Systems and methods are provided to capture objects with different levels of reflectivity. In one embodiment, the LiDAR device can sequentially illuminate a scene with a high-reflectivity object and a low-reflectivity using laser pulses that differ by one or more order magnitude. The LiDAR device can use cross-correlation to combine the image frame with one or more image frames that each are captured at a reduced illumination to obtain a composite image frame. The composite image frame can show both the high-reflectivity object and the low-reflectivity object at their expected size with increased dynamic range. |
| US12085645B2 |
Ultrasonic sensor, ultrasonic image generating apparatus, and ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus
An ultrasonic sensor includes an ultrasonic transducer; a first voltage output circuit to output a transmission voltage signal that oscillates between a first high voltage and a first low voltage, supplied to a first terminal of the ultrasonic transducer; a reception circuit to detect a voltage signal generated at a second terminal of the ultrasonic transducer; and the second voltage output circuit to output a second high voltage smaller than the first high voltage. The first voltage output circuit includes a first switching unit to perform switching between supplying the transmission voltage signal in ultrasonic transmission; and fixing a potential of the first terminal in ultrasonic reception. The second voltage output circuit includes a second switching unit that performs switching between supplying the second high voltage to the second terminal in ultrasonic transmission; and electrically separating the second voltage output circuit from the second terminal in ultrasonic reception. |
| US12085644B2 |
Sonar beam shape controlling horn
A system for reforming sonar emissions from a sonar transducer element or an array of sonar transducer elements is provided. The system comprises the sonar transducer element or the array of sonar transducer elements. The sonar transducer element or the array of sonar transducer elements define an emitting face and are configured to transmit sonar signals along path(s). The system also comprises a horn comprising surface(s). Surface(s) are positioned adjacent to or in a spaced apart manner from the emitting face of the sonar transducer element or the array of sonar transducer elements so that the surface(s) are positioned at least partially in path(s) such that at least some of the sonar signals transmitted from the sonar transducer element or the array of sonar transducer elements are redirected based on interaction of the at least some of the sonar signals and surface(s). |
| US12085643B2 |
Transmission circuit and ultrasound diagnosis apparatus
A transmission circuit according to an embodiment includes: a plurality of constant current circuits, a plurality of switching elements, and controlling circuitry. The plurality of constant current circuits are connected in parallel to a power source line connected to a single power source and a transducer element. Each of the plurality of switching elements is connected to a different one of the plurality of constant current circuits and to the transducer element. The controlling circuitry is configured to control the plurality of switching elements on the basis of a waveform signal indicating a waveform of an ultrasound wave output from the transducer element. |
| US12085642B2 |
System and method for orbital collision screening
A method for orbital collision screening comprising, obtaining trajectory information of a plurality of objects moving on predictable paths. For each one of the plurality of objects, based upon respective trajectory information of the one of the plurality of objects, computing, a respective spatial descriptor of the path of the one of the plurality of objects, and storing the respective spatial descriptors of each of the plurality of objects in a data structure. Subsequently obtaining trajectory information of a further object, and based upon the trajectory information of the further object, computing a spatial descriptor of the path of the further object. Making first comparisons of the spatial descriptor of the further object against the respective spatial descriptors of each of the plurality of objects stored in the data structure to determine whether each of these first comparisons indicates a possible collision risk. Based upon each of the first comparisons, if the first comparison indicates a possible collision risk, determining a result of a close approach determination between the respective trajectory information of the respective one of the plurality of objects and the trajectory information of the further object, and taking an action based on result of the close approach determination satisfying a predetermined threshold. |
| US12085640B2 |
Fuzzy labeling of low-level electromagnetic sensor data
This document describes techniques and systems for fuzzy labeling of low-level electromagnetic sensor data. Sensor data in the form of an energy spectrum is obtained and the points within an estimated geographic boundary of a scatterer represented by the smear is labeled with a value of one. The remaining points of the energy spectrum are labeled with values between zero and one with the values decreasing the further away each respective remaining point is from the geographic boundary. The fuzzy labeling process may harness more in-depth information available from the distribution of the energy in the energy spectrum. A model can be trained to efficiently label an energy spectrum map in this manner. This may result in lower computational costs than other labeling methods. Additionally, false detections by the sensor may be reduced resulting in more accurate detection and tracking of objects. |
| US12085637B2 |
Method and apparatus for positioning terminal device
A method and an apparatus for positioning a terminal device. The method includes: generating, by a terminal device, a first message, where the first message includes one or more pieces of first time difference information, and the first time difference information includes a first time difference and information about a first positioning reference signal pair corresponding to the first time difference, where the first positioning reference signal pair includes a first uplink positioning reference signal and a first downlink positioning reference signal that have an association relationship, and the first time difference is a time difference between a sending time point of the first uplink positioning reference signal and a receiving time point of the first downlink positioning reference signal; and sending, by the terminal device, the first message to a network device. |
| US12085634B2 |
Method for capture in a radar system
A method for capture in a radar system having at least one receive antenna of a vehicle, wherein the following steps are carried out repeatedly: carrying out a capture of a sensor signal in each of the receive antennas of the radar system, wherein the sensor signal captured as a result is specific for a detection of raw targets by the radar system, and carrying out a comparison of the captured sensor signal or the captured sensor signals of different receive antennas for the provision in each case of a phase-adjusted sensor signal, wherein the phase-adjusted sensor signals from different repetitions of the steps are combined to provide a capture result. |
| US12085630B2 |
Quality control devices and methods for magnetic resonance imaging systems
The invention relates to quality control devices and methods for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems, more particularly for medical imaging applications. An example is stereotactic surgery where MRI images are combined with X-ray images to accurately locate a target in a subject. A test device (1), and an associated method using said test object, are used to easily detect a faulty calibration or a malfunction of an MRI device. The test device includes: a hermetically sealable hollow body (20) having a substantially cylindrical shape, a support frame (22) configured to be removably inserted in the hollow body and defining a target region (V22) having a substantially cylindrical shape; and a plurality of target objects (24) made of a material visible on X-ray images and MRI images said target objects being arranged in the target region and being attached to the support frame. |
| US12085622B2 |
Battery cell resistance measurement device and method
A battery cell resistance measurement device including: a carrier signal generation module configured to generate a carrier signal of a first frequency and a second frequency different from the first frequency; a resistance unit including a first resistor and a second resistor having a different resistance value from the first resistor; an impedance measurement unit configured to measure an impedance of both ends of a corresponding application target in a state where the carrier signal is applied to any one of the first resistor, the second resistor, and a battery cell; a switching unit configured to selectively connect any one of the first resistor, the second resistor, and the battery cell to the impedance measurement unit; and a control unit configured to calculate an internal resistance of the battery cell based on the impedance value measured by the impedance measurement unit. |
| US12085619B2 |
Method for estimating battery state of charge and battery management system applying the same
The present disclosure relates to a method for estimating a state of charge (SOC) of a battery and a battery management system applying the same. A method for estimating a SOC of a battery in a method for estimating a SOC of a battery module assembly including battery modules respectively including a plurality of battery cells includes: receiving a battery current from a current sensor; comparing the battery current and a threshold current, and selecting a method for estimating a first SOC or a method for estimating a second SOC according to a comparison result; estimating a SOC of the cells according to the selected method for estimating a state of charge; and estimating the SOC of the battery module assembly by combining the estimated SOC of the battery cells. |
| US12085617B2 |
Systems and methods for determining life of a motor using electrocardiogram (EKG) sensors
A method for measuring health of a motor includes: (a) measuring, by an electrocardiogram sensor, vibration of the motor to obtain at least two electrical signals with each of the at least two electrical signals representing a harmonic of the vibration of the motor; (b) comparing each of the at least two electrical signals with a corresponding baseline; (c) based on the comparison, determining whether any one of the at least two electrical signals includes one or more artifacts wherein an artifact in a respective one of the at least two electrical signals is a deviation from a respective one of the corresponding baseline; and (d) based on any one of the at least two electrical signals including the one or more artifacts, providing an estimated time to failure for the motor. |
| US12085616B2 |
System and method for managing monitoring equipment of a large electric machine
The method can include computing actions corresponding to the difference between a current local state of the managed devices and a target local state for the managed devices, said actions to be executed by the managed devices for bringing the current local state into compliance with the target local state; communicating the actions to the managed devices, via the local network, for execution; subsequently to said communicating instructions, monitoring current states of the managed devices, including detecting a change in the current states of the managed devices, the change reflecting the execution of at least one of the actions at the managed devices, and updating the current local state to reflect the change; computing updated actions corresponding to an updated difference between the current local state and the target local state, following said updating, said at least one executed action being absent from the updated actions; communicate the updated actions to the managed devices, via the local network. |
| US12085615B2 |
Method and arrangement for performing a shutdown test on an inverter
In order to be able to perform a shutdown test on an inverter with little expenditure, a trigger signal is modulated to the AC current or the AC voltage at a first moment, and the inverter is used at a second moment, which occurs a defined duration after the start of the trigger signal at the first moment, to generate an AC current or an AC voltage with a fault signal that is detected by the inverter and which triggers a shutdown of the inverter, and the shutdown moment of the AC current or the AC voltage is determined. A shutdown duration of the inverter is determined from the difference between the shutdown moment and the second moment. |
| US12085614B1 |
Digital sensor and monitoring system for switchgear protection, monitoring and control using Rogowski coil and capacitive voltage divider devices integrated into the switchgear's line or load, primary current paths
A device for protecting, controlling, and monitoring electrical medium range switchgear comprising use of a Rogowski coil embedded in the bottle of a switchgear and surrounding the Mains flow of voltage and current, a capacitive or similar voltage divider, also surrounding the Mains and extending around the bottle, and providing analog signals from those devices to an integrated circuit for conversion to digital signals, and then transmitting as output the digital signals to a data accumulator where the same are optionally time stamped and compared to one another, to a standard or to themselves at a different time. |
| US12085613B2 |
Systems and methods for storing calibration data of a test system for testing a device under test
Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for storing calibration data for a test system operable to test a device under test (DUT). The test system includes one or more channel modules and a device interface. A first part of the calibration data is stored on a non-volatile memory. The non-volatile memory can be disposed in different parts of the test system. The non-volatile memory is located on the device interface and can also be located on one or more of the channel modules, as well as an attachment of the test system. The non-volatile memory is associated with the one or more channel modules. The second part of the calibration data is stored on a non-volatile memory associated with the device-under-test interface. |
| US12085610B2 |
Methods and apparatus to identify faults in processors
An example device includes built in test observation controller circuitry configured to: obtain a test; send first instructions to the processor to begin to execute the test by modifying values stored in a plurality of memory circuits; send second instructions to the processor to stop execution of the test at a first simulation time, wherein one or more memory values that are unobservable during a second simulation time of the test execution are observable during the first simulation time; and enhanced chip access trace scan circuitry configured to select a subset of the values from the plurality of memory circuits while the test is stopped; and signature circuitry configured to: determine a logic signature based on the subset of the values; and provide the logic signature for comparison to an expected signature, wherein a difference between the logic signature and the expected signature corresponds to a fault in the processor. |
| US12085609B1 |
Thermal control wafer with integrated heating-sensing elements
Disclosed herein are systems and methods comprising a thermal control wafer (TCW) comprising a plurality of heater zones. A heater zone may comprise a heater-sensing element that generates heat during a heating mode and provides a resistance during a sensing mode. During testing, a wafer under test (WUT) may be placed on top of a chuck assembly. The TCW may be part of or separate from the chuck assembly. Controlling one or more heater zones on the TCW may control the temperatures of DUT(s) while being tested. The thermal controller may comprise a plurality of thermal control channel multiplexed to a plurality of heater zones. E.g., one or more first heater zones can be activated at a first time, one or more second heater zones can be activated at a second time, one or more third heater zones can be activated at a third time, etc. |
| US12085605B1 |
Systems and methods for adjusting input-output impedance for I/O interfaces
In one embodiment, a method includes generating, through a first transistor of an impedance trimming circuit, a precision current based on a reference voltage and an automatic test equipment (ATE) in a first phase of the impedance trimming circuit, wherein the ATE is coupled to the impedance trimming circuit to receive the precision current; mirroring the precision current into a second transistor and a first on-die resistor; sending a first internal voltage feedback at an internal node VFBINT to the ATE, wherein the internal node VFBINT is coupled to the second transistor and the first on-die resistor; and receiving a first trimming code to trim the first on-die resistor, wherein the first trimming code is based on a comparison of the first on-die resistor and a target on-die resistor by the ATE. |
| US12085603B2 |
Noise monitoring apparatus, noise monitoring system and a noise monitoring method
A noise monitoring apparatus includes a row selection circuit, a direct current (DC) cancellation circuit and an amplifier circuit. The row selection circuit selects a row of a DUT array to be a selected row during a readout period, wherein the selected row comprises a plurality of selected DUTs. The DC cancellation circuit is coupled to unselected DUTs of the DUT array during the readout period, generates a DC current signal based on bias current signals from a group of unselected DUTs and subtract the DC current signal from a first noise signal of the selected DUT to generate a second noise signal. The amplifier circuit is coupled to the plurality of selected DUTs of the selected row during the readout period, and amplifies the second noise signal from each of the selected DUTs to generate an output signal. |
| US12085602B2 |
Test circuit monitoring PBTI and operating method thereof
The test circuit monitoring positive bias temperature instability (PBTI) includes a PBTI monitoring unit driven according to a power voltage, the PBTI monitoring unit outputting an output voltage having a potential that is equal to or lower than a potential of the power voltage according to a PBTI degradation rate of an NMOS transistor; and a degradation determiner for determining the PBTI degradation rate by comparing the potential of the output voltage to the potential of the power voltage. |
| US12085600B1 |
Non-invasive online monitoring circuit for on-state saturation voltage of power semiconductor
Disclosed is a non-invasive online monitoring circuit for an on-state saturation voltage of a power semiconductor, including one or more basic units; each basic unit includes a normally-ON switching device, a diode, and a clamping voltage supply; a gate of the normally-ON switching device is connected to a positive electrode of the clamping voltage supply; the positive electrode of the diode is connected to a source of the normally-ON switching device, and a negative electrode of the diode is connected to the gate of the normally-ON switching device; the drain of the normally-ON switching device and the negative electrode of the clamping voltage supply serve as input terminals of the monitoring circuit for accessing the power semiconductor under test; and the source of the normally-ON switching device and the negative electrode of the clamping voltage supply serve as output terminals of the monitoring circuit. |
| US12085590B2 |
Swept parameter oscilloscope
A test and measurement instrument has a user interface configured to allow a user to provide one or more user inputs, a display to display results to the user, a memory, one or more processors configured to execute code to cause the one or more processors to receive a waveform array containing waveforms resulting from sweeping one or more parameters from a set of parameters, recover a clock signal from the waveform array, generate a waveform image for each waveform, render the waveform images into video frames to produce an image array of the video frames, select at least some of the video frames to form a video sequence, and play the video sequence on a display. A method of animating waveform data includes receiving a waveform array containing waveforms resulting from sweeping one or more parameters from a set of parameters, recovering a clock signal from the waveforms, generating a waveform image from each of the waveforms, rendering the waveform images into video frames to produce an image array of the video frames, selecting at least some of the video frames to play as a video sequence, and playing the video sequence on a display. |
| US12085585B2 |
Particle image velocimetry of extreme ultraviolet lithography systems
A method includes irradiating a target droplet in an extreme ultraviolet light source of an extreme ultraviolet lithography tool with light from a droplet illumination module. Light reflected and/or scattered by the target droplet is detected. Particle image velocimetry is performed to monitor one or more flow parameters inside the extreme ultraviolet light source. |
| US12085581B2 |
Automatic analyzer
The automatic analyzer includes a first storage device that stores sample information including a measurement result of a reaction solution for each sample and a second storage device that stores the sample information on at least a part of the samples among the sample information stored in the first storage device, in which when the automatic analyzer reaches a predetermined operation state, the control device performs a backup process of backing up the sample information on the samples satisfying a predetermined backup condition from the first storage device to the second storage device, and deleting the sample information on the backed up samples from the first storage device. |
| US12085579B2 |
Mobile connected autonomous refrigerator
A method and system for replenishing refrigerated consumables by a mobile connected autonomous refrigerator includes receiving a notification triggered by a laboratory instrument that a refrigerated consumable used by the laboratory instrument is depleted; autonomously navigating to a refrigerated storage; retrieving the refrigerated consumable and placing it in the mobile refrigerated unit: autonomously moving to the laboratory instrument that triggered the notification; and alerting an operator to retrieve the refrigerated consumable from mobile refrigerated unit and load it into the laboratory instrument. |
| US12085572B2 |
Protein capture membrane and method of use thereof
In one aspect, the invention provides a protein capture membrane comprising a first side and a second side and a plurality of interstices extending contiguously from the first side to the second side, wherein the interstices are coated with a protein-reactive coating; and the porous substrate comprises nanoporous alumina or porous glass. In another aspect the invention provides a method of detecting a protein of interest in a plurality of proteins. |
| US12085570B2 |
Biomarkers for lung cancer stem cells
Provided herein are methods and kits for analyzing a sample such as a biological sample obtained from a subject having, suspected of having, or being at risk for a cancer to assess presence of cancer stem cells in the sample, which is indicative of poor cancer prognosis. |
| US12085567B2 |
Methods for aiding in the hyperacute diagnosis and determination of traumatic brain injury using early biomarkers on at least two samples from the same human subject
Disclosed herein are methods that aid in the hyperacute diagnosis and evaluation of a human subject that has sustained or may have sustained an injury to the head, such as mild, moderate, severe, or moderate to severe traumatic brain injury (TBI), using an early biomarker, such as ubiquitin carboxy-terminal hydrolase L1 (UCH-L1), glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), or a combination thereof. Also disclosed here are methods that aid in the hyperacute determination of whether a human subject that has sustained an injury or may have sustained to the head would benefit from and thus receive a head computerized tomography (CT) scan based on the levels of UCH-L1. These methods involve detecting changes of levels of an early biomarker, such as ubiquitin carboxy-terminal hydrolase L1 (UCH-L1), glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), or a combination thereof, in samples taken from a human subject at a time point within about 2 hours, such as about 10, 12, or 20 minutes, after the subject has sustained or may have sustained an injury to the head and a second time point about 3 hours to about 6 hours after the first sample is taken. |
| US12085565B2 |
SNTF is a blood biomarker for the diagnosis and prognosis of sports-related concussion
The invention relates to methods for providing prognosis, diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of a mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) in a subject, including a sports-related concussion. The invention further relates to assessing the severity of brain damage resulting from mTBI in a subject, including in a subject who has not undergone a CT scan following the injury. For example, the methods of the invention can be used to determine the suitability for someone who has suffered a sports-related injury to return to play that sport. This invention also relates to methods of predicting risk for developing brain damage and long-term dysfunction in a subject having suffered mTBI. |
| US12085561B2 |
Biosensors for detecting biomarkers and methods of fabricating and using the same preliminary class
Biosensors capable of detecting certain biomarkers (e.g., platelet-derived growth factor-BB (PDGF-BB)), as well as methods of fabricating the same and methods of using the same, are provided. The biosensors can be disposable and/or label-free. Electrochemical bipolar exfoliation can be used to exfoliate, reduce, and deposit (in a single step) graphene nanosheets on a desired substrate (e.g., an electrode). Affinity aptamers can be immobilized on the graphene nanosheets disposed on the substrate. |
| US12085560B2 |
Biochemical reaction substrate with sloping flow passage to absorber and analyzer therefore
Provided is a biochemical reaction substrate which can achieve higher test sensitivity and shorter testing time in an allergy test, which can also reduce a required amount of blood or the like needed as a specimen and decrease the number of test steps, thereby facilitating performance of the test, and which is to be used in an allergy test in which infection risk of the test staff is reduced. A biochemical reaction substrate, including: a reaction plate; an absorber; a reaction plate storing portion for storing the reaction plate; an absorber storing portion for storing the absorber; a storage container having a heated portion; and a cover assembled to the storage container so as to cover at least a part of the reaction plate and the absorber stored in the storage container, wherein the reaction plate includes a reaction area in which a specific binding substance that specifically reacts with a substance to be tested in a specimen is immobilized, and a flow passage that connects the absorber and the reaction area, and wherein the cover includes an injection hole for injecting a specimen or the like into the reaction plate. |
| US12085559B2 |
Replaceable ground electrode for electrophysiology, electrode rejuvenating apparatus, and related methods and systems
A plenum assembly configured for electrophysiology assays, such as patch clamp techniques, includes one or more ground electrode assemblies. The ground electrode assemblies are individually removable from a plenum base of the plenum assembly in a non-destructive manner, and may be reinstalled in the plenum base in a manner that reestablishes electrical contact with ground circuitry without requiring soldering or other additional steps. A rejuvenating apparatus is provided for rejuvenating one or more ground electrode assemblies removed from the plenum base. |
| US12085554B2 |
Lost circulation material evaluation
A lost circulation material is placed in a cavity. The cavity is defined by an inner bore of a cylindrical wall, intermediate of a piston and a screen. A distance between the piston and the screen is defined as the height of the cavity, which is adjustable. The piston is slid longitudinally, such that the piston comes in contact with the lost circulation material. The lost circulation material is heated to a specified test temperature mimicking a downhole temperature. A compression test is performed on the lost circulation material. The compression test includes flowing a test fluid into the cavity and applying force on the piston to pressurize the test fluid to a specified test pressure mimicking a downhole pressure. The force on the piston is released. The pressure of the test fluid and the height of the cavity are measured throughout the compression test. |
| US12085550B2 |
Device for testing solubility of drugs in gastrointestinal tract
Provided is a device for testing solubility of drugs in gastrointestinal tract. The device for testing solubility includes: a plurality of vessels respectively corresponding to gastrointestinal tract of a living body; digestive juice supply devices supplying digestive juice to the vessel requiring the supply of the digestive juice; liquid delivery paths each being provided between the vessels and extending from an upstream-side vessel to a downstream-side vessel; delivery driving sources applying a fluid force to a mixed liquid of the digestive juice and an oral drug in the liquid delivery paths; and a control device controlling delivery speeds of the delivery driving sources according to a temporal change of a flow rate from an upstream side to a downstream side of the gastrointestinal tract of the living body. |
| US12085549B2 |
System and method for determining the sex and viability of poultry eggs prior to hatching
Volatile organic chemicals emitted by a shell egg embryo are used to identify the fertility, viability, and sex of the shell egg embryo. Shortly after the egg is laid, the egg is isolated in a vapor-tight compartment so that a vapor containing volatile organic chemicals emitted by the shell egg embryo collect in the headspace of the compartment. The chemicals in the vapor are analyzed to construct a chemical profile of the shell egg embryo, and then the chemical profile of the shell egg embryo vapor is loaded into a previously developed model. Based on the data generated by the model, the shell egg is embryo is predicted to be an alive male, an alive female, an infertile egg, or an egg containing a dead embryo. |
| US12085546B2 |
Method and system of ignition interlock device calibration and cleaning
A system and method of bio-cleaning an ignition interlock device (IID). The method comprises receiving a handheld unit of an IID in a fixtured arrangement with an IID calibration station, and applying, while maintaining the IID handheld unit in the fixtured arrangement, a bio-cleaning agent to at least one ingress port of the IID handheld unit in a consolidated IID bio-cleaning and IID calibration operation. |
| US12085544B2 |
Methods for simultaneous quantification of anions using ion chromatography and suppressed ion conductivity
Methods and systems for the detection and quantification of multiplicity of ionic analytes comprising CrO42−, AsO43−, SeO42−, and ClO4−, and optionally F−, Cl−, NO2−, NO3−, SO42−, using ion chromatography and suppressed ion conductivity. The method comprises loading a sample loop with a sample; injecting the sample from the sample loop into a column with an eluent, wherein the column comprises a guard column and an analytical column; separating, with the column, the injected sample at an effective separation temperature the injected sample in the presence of an organic modifier into a multiplicity of detectable ionic analytes; suppressing, with a suppressor, background signal; and detecting, with a detector, the multiplicity of ionic analytes. |
| US12085543B2 |
Chromatographic control device, chromatographic system, chromatographic control method, chromatographic control program and non-transitory computer readable medium
In a chromatograph, a mobile phase is supplied to any of a plurality of columns by a mobile phase supplier, and a sample is supplied to the column by a sample supplier. The sample that has passed through the column is detected by a detector. In a chromatographic control device, a flow rate of the mobile phase for the analysis with use of the column is registered by a flow rate registrar in association with column specifying information for specifying each column. The flow rate of the mobile phase registered in association with a selected column is acquired from registered content of the flow rate registrar. The chromatograph is controlled such that the analysis is performed by an analysis controller while the mobile phase is supplied to the selected column with use of the selected column and the flow rate of the mobile phase acquired by a flow rate acquirer. |
| US12085542B2 |
Method for measuring stool consistency and method for evaluating stool state using same
For providing a method capable of physically and objectively evaluating the consistency and state of a stool, provided is a method for measuring a stool consistency with a texture analyzer provided with a probe, the probe having a shape capable of measuring a consistency of a stool in a liquid form and in a solid form. |
| US12085539B1 |
Gas diaphragm driven rapid supercharging device based on diamond anvil cell
A gas diaphragm driven rapid supercharging device based on a diamond anvil cell is provided which includes a gas diaphragm, a diamond anvil cell press, a hard steel shell and a gas release component. The gas diaphragm and the diamond anvil cell press are positioned inside the hard steel shell, the gas diaphragm is positioned below the diamond anvil cell press, a first opening is formed in a top of the hard steel shell, and a second opening is formed in a bottom of the hard steel shell. The gas release component passes through the second opening of the hard steel shell to be connected with the gas diaphragm through a gas path, and the gas release component is configured for releasing gas at a first inflation speed in a standard pressure experiment, and inflating the gas diaphragm at different driving pressures to obtain a pressure calibration curve. |
| US12085538B2 |
Ultrasonic phased array detection device for flaw detection of parallel tubes
An ultrasonic phased array detection device sequentially performing flaw detection testing on a welded joint of tubes arranged in a row. The ultrasonic phased array detection device includes: a flaw detection testing unit inserted into a target tube targeted for flaw detection testing among the tubes, and performing flaw detection testing on the welded joint of the target tube; a drive mechanism rotating the flaw detection testing unit around an axis of the target tube; and a jig to be inserted and fixed in a tube different from the target tube. The flaw detection testing unit has a flaw detection part incorporating a phased array probe performing ultrasonic phased array method, and has a pressing mechanism pressing the flaw detection part against an inner surface of the target tube. |
| US12085537B2 |
Energy efficient simplified analogue phased array transducer for beam steering
The present invention relates in a first aspect to an energy efficient simplified analogue phased array transducer for ultrasound beam steering, in a second aspect to a product, such as a small wearable ultrasound device for signalling changes in a human or animal body, such as a liquid volume in a body cavity of a human or an animal, in a third aspect to a use of said device, and in a fourth aspect to a method of operating an ultrasound device. |
| US12085536B2 |
Utility pole monitoring system and device
A utility pole monitoring device comprising: a body adapted to couple to a utility pole, a vibration device arranged on the body and configured to generate vibrations on or in the utility pole, a sensor arranged on the body for measuring the vibrations within the utility pole generated by the vibration device, and a controller for providing an initialization signal to the vibration device, and receive measured data from the sensor. |
| US12085534B2 |
Multiplexable super-resolution force spectroscopy using ultrasound methods and magnetic detection
A method of measuring dissociation of the biomolecular bonds in one or multiple sample wells using super-resolution force spectroscopy (SURFS). SURFS utilizes precise ultrasound radiation to exert an acoustic radiation force on the biomolecular bonds labeled with magnetic particles. The force-induced dissociation of the protein bonds labeled with magnetic particles may be measured as a reduced magnetic signal by a magnetic sensor. The force resolution allows for differentiating biomolecular bonds with an extremely high level of precision. The biomolecular bonds include protein-protein, protein-nucleic acid, nucleic acid-nucleic acid, small molecule-protein, and small molecule-nucleic acid interactions. |
| US12085525B2 |
Gain and mismatch calibration for a phase detector used in an inductive sensor
A system may include a resonant sensor configured to sense a physical quantity, a measurement circuit communicatively coupled to the resonant sensor and configured to measure one or more resonance parameters associated with the resonant sensor and indicative of the physical quantity using an incident/quadrature detector having an incident channel and a quadrature channel and perform a calibration of a non-ideality between the incident channel and the quadrature channel of the system, the calibration comprising determining the non-ideality by controlling the sensor signal, an oscillation signal for the incident channel, and an oscillation signal for the quadrature channel; and correcting for the non-ideality. |
| US12085522B2 |
Sample rotation system and method
The present disclosure provides a sample rotation system and method. The sample rotation system includes a rotation device, and the rotation device includes: a first carrier connected to a sample; a drive portion connected to the first carrier, wherein the drive portion is configured to drive the first carrier to rotate; and the first carrier drives the sample to rotate from an initial position to a target position; an acquisition device, configured to acquire a rotation state of the sample; and a control unit, electrically connected to the drive portion, and configured to control operation of the drive portion. |
| US12085520B2 |
Quantum-limited extreme ultraviolet coherent diffraction imaging
Apparatus and methods for coherent diffraction imaging. This is accomplished by acquiring data in a CDI setup with a CMOS or similar detector. The object is illuminated with coherent light such as EUV light which may be pulsed. This generates diffraction patterns which are collected by the detector, either in frames or continuously (by recording the scan position during collection). Pixels in the CDI data are thresholded and set to zero photons if the pixel is below the threshold level. Pixels above the threshold may be set to a value indicating one photon, or multiple thresholds may be used to set pixels values to one photon, two photons, etc. In addition, multiple threshold values may be used to detect different photon energies for illumination at multiple wavelengths. |
| US12085519B2 |
Loosening detection structure and loosening detection method using said structure
A looseness detection structure includes: a structure (transducer) T which is formed on a surface of a cable; a screw which tightens and fixes the cable in contact with the structure T; and a terminal (detection unit) which transmits a transmission signal to the structure T, receives a reception signal returning after propagating through the structure T, and detects the loosening of the screw based on a change in the reception signal. |
| US12085518B2 |
Systems and methods for wafer bond monitoring
Systems and methods are provided for monitoring wafer bonding and for detecting or determining defects in a wafer bond formed between two semiconductor wafers. A wafer bonding system includes a camera configured to monitor bonding between two semiconductor wafers. Wafer bonding defect detection circuitry receives video data from the camera, and detects a bonding defect based on the received video data. |
| US12085516B2 |
Systems and methods of characterizing semiconductor materials
Systems and methods for non-contact characterization of semiconductor devices. Systems may include: an infrared radiation source directing radiation towards the semiconductor device; a radiation directing device positioned proximal the infrared radiation source to direct radiation towards an opposing side of the semiconductor device, the semiconductor device receivable between the radiation directing device and the infrared radiation source; and a radiation detector proximal to the infrared radiation source to sense radiation associated with a plurality of infrared wavebands from the semiconductor device for determining a dopant profile property of the semiconductor device. The sensed radiation may include radiation originating from the infrared radiation source reflected from the semiconductor device. The sensed radiation may include radiation originating from the radiation directing device and emerging from the semiconductor device. The dopant profile properties may be based on infrared reflectance or infrared transmittance associated with the plurality of respective infrared wavebands. |
| US12085511B2 |
Imaging assisted scanning spectroscopy for gem identification
Systems and methods here may be used for automated capturing and analyzing spectrometer data of multiple sample gemstones on a stage, including mapping digital camera image data of samples, applying a Raman Probe to a first sample gemstone under evaluation on the stage, receiving spectrometer data of the sample gemstone from the probe, automatically moving the stage to a second sample, using the image data, and analyzing the other samples. |
| US12085509B2 |
Submerged fluorometer with low excitation angle
The disclosure describes systems, methods, and apparatuses for monitoring fluorescent peaks using a fluorometer, where the fluorometer comprises an instrument assembly, a circuit assembly, a casing, and a window set into the casing, wherein at least a portion of the instrument assembly is submerged within a liquid and above an analyte workspace; a buoy assembly; one or more emission sources electrically coupled to the circuit assembly, the emission sources configured to emit light in one or more frequencies or wavelength bands; a prism arranged in contact with the window, the prism configured to direct emissions from the emission sources towards the analyte workspace, the prism including at least one angled surface; at least one photosensor positioned above the window and configured to detect fluorescence emissions of analytes in the analyte workspace; and a filter array positioned between the window and the photosensor. |
| US12085505B2 |
Spectroscopic method and apparatus for prediction of non-alcoholic and alcoholic beverages quality parameters and properties
Parameters of an alcoholic or non-alcoholic beverage can be determined through spectroscopic methods. In one example, the method includes obtaining a beverage sample and obtaining spectrographic data from the beverage. The spectroscopic data may be processed by a remote lab to determine a value range of the one or more beverage parameters, and a value of the one or more beverage parameters. The one or more beverage parameters may include one or more of beverage color, bitterness, Free Amino Nitrogen (FAN), yeast count and yeast viability. |
| US12085503B1 |
Spectral preprocessing method and device suitable for fruit near-infrared nondestructive detection, and computer-readable medium
The present disclosure discloses a spectral preprocessing method and device suitable for fruit near-infrared nondestructive detection, which includes the following steps: calculating overall noise distribution of spectral data; performing adaptive threshold segmentation on the spectral data to form a plurality of segmentation intervals, calculating noise of each interval in each segmentation interval, performing cyclic adaptive parameter SG filtering on each interval of an original spectrum to find optimal filtering parameters; performing sliding polynomial fitting on the spectral data within the respective intervals, deriving a derivative of a fitting polynomial of each point at a current point. |
| US12085496B2 |
Apparatus and method for high-accuracy optical particle measuring using laser power scanning
The present invention relates to particle measuring apparatus and a particle measuring method, whereby particle counts per size range can be measured with a high accuracy using a laser power scanning in which lasers of several powers are sequentially irradiated. First, minimum powered lasers capable of measuring particles having more than relevant size are irradiated to a particle measurement space for a predetermined time in response to plural counts of each mutually different particle size, and the counts of particles per size are measured by detecting a scattered light. Furthermore, the counts of particles belonging to each size range can be accurately calculated through an algorithm using the actually measured value. |
| US12085495B2 |
Calculating molar mass values of components of and molar mass concentration values of conjugate molecules/particles
The present disclosure describes a computer implemented method, a system, and a computer program product of calculating molar mass values of components of and molar concentration values of conjugate molecules/particles. |
| US12085489B2 |
Analytic plates with markable portions and methods of use
An analytic plate or other substrate having a permanent etchable, laserable, and/or developable marking surface coating (referred to herein as an “etchable coating” or as a “developable coating”) that is present on at least a portion of any side or surface thereof and is used to deposit a permanent indicium thereon, and a method of using the analytic plate or substrate. |
| US12085485B2 |
System and a method for analyzing the motions of a mechanical structure
A system and a method for analyzing the motions of a mechanical structure. The System includes (a) accelerometers provided as standard accelerometers to measurement-points of the mechanical structure, (b) at least three accelerometers provided as reference accelerometers to measurement-points of the mechanical structure, (c) at least one shaker being attached to the mechanical structure for moving the structure periodically within a first frequency range, and at least one data processing system being configured to: (d) receiving measurements from the accelerometers at the measurement-points when periodically moving the structure within the first frequency range by the at least one shaker. To provide accurate and quick calibration the at least one data processing system is further configured to calibrate the accelerometers' positions and orientations by the following steps: (e) determining from the measurements of the at least three reference accelerometers rigid body motions, (f) determining positions and orientations of reference accelerometers from the rigid body motions, and (g) determining positions and orientations of standard accelerometers from the rigid body motions. |
| US12085482B2 |
Method and apparatus for recognizing the presence of leakages from sealed containers
A method for recognizing the presence of leakages from sealed containers includes defining a detection zone in which a sealed container will be placed, putting the detection zone in communication with at least one gas sensor through at least one duct, introducing a flushing gas into the detection zone through the duct, placing a container in the detection zone; and sucking a gas flow from the detection zone through the duct and transferring it to a first sensor. The gas flow that reaches the first sensor is either transferred to a second sensor or to the first sensor for a second time. The signals generated by the two sensors, or the two signals generated by the same sensor, are processed for determining the presence of a gas leakage in the container. |
| US12085477B2 |
Device and method for measuring emissions with a linear arrangement of sensors
An emissions measurement system capable of providing an accurate, real-time measurement of an emissions sample is disclosed. The exhaust may be generated by an internal combustion engine, in which case the system may be sequentially connected to the exhaust from the internal combustion engine. The emissions measurement system can include a laser light opacity sensor, a light scattering sensor, and a particle ionization sensor. |
| US12085474B2 |
Apparatus and method for measuring micro-vibration influence of spatial orientation measuring instrument
A device and a method for determining a microvibration effect on a millisecond-level space optical sensor are provided. The device includes: a light source, a star simulator, an air flotation vibration isolation platform, a suspension system/air flotation system, a zero stiffness system, a supporting system, a six-degree-of-freedom microvibration simulator, a signal driving apparatus, and a data acquisition and processing system. In the device for determining a microvibration effect on a space pointing measurement apparatus, a free boundary condition and a zero gravity environment are simulated by using a suspension system and a zero stiffness system. A light source and a star simulator simulate a star at infinity. A six-degree-of-freedom microvibration simulator simulates an on-orbit microvibration mechanical environment which is used as an input of a test. Extremely high-precision sensors collect system response data. |
| US12085470B2 |
Bolt tightening torque management structure and method
A bolt tightening torque management structure for a bolt for fastening a component includes: the bolt including a plurality of projections of different heights on a bearing surface of a head; a non-conductive film that is formed on the surface of the component, has a shaft hole through which a shaft of the bolt extends, and has a predetermined size; and a conductive film that has the shaft hole and a plurality of grooves, through which the projections extend, is formed on the non-conductive film, and has the same planar shape as the non-conductive film. The projections other than the projection having the smallest height are configured to be in contact with the surface of the component when the tightening torque of the bolt is appropriate. The base of each projection has a width dimensioned to close the corresponding groove. |
| US12085458B2 |
Temperature sensor probe
A temperature sensor including a body made from a thermally and electrically conductive material, the body defined by a peripheral wall extending along a longitudinal axis from an open proximal end to a closed distal end. The proximal end defining an opening to an internal cavity of the body. A thermally responsive element including an outer surface, a temperature sensitive resistor electrically connected to a first lead, a second lead, and a connector block disposed substantially within the internal cavity. The inner surface of the peripheral wall defines the shape of a right circular cone at the distal end. The outer surface of the temperature sensitive resistor is in direct contact with the inner surface of the peripheral wall at the distal end. One of a thermally conductive and curable potting material and a thermally conductive grease disposed in the cavity and substantially surrounding the temperature responsive element. |
| US12085455B2 |
Measurement device and measurement system
In a device that measures biopotentials of cells in a solution, the solution is controlled at a constant temperature. A measurement device includes a substrate, a sensing control circuit, a temperature sensor, a front surface side heat radiating unit, a back surface side heat radiating unit, and a temperature control unit. A plurality of electrodes each detecting a potential in the solution is arranged on the front surface of the substrate. The sensing control circuit is arranged on the substrate and controls detection of potentials at the plurality of electrodes. The temperature sensor is arranged on the substrate and detects a temperature of the solution. The front surface side heat radiating unit is arranged on the front surface side of the substrate and radiates heat. The back surface side heat radiating unit is arranged on the back surface side that is a surface different from the front surface of the substrate, and radiates heat. The temperature control unit controls the temperature of the solution on the basis of the temperature detected by the temperature sensor. |
| US12085453B2 |
Continuously transposed cable with an integrated sensing device
A continuously transposed cable CTC, extending according to a longitudinal development direction (L) and having two opposite longitudinal ends, includes a plurality of strands arranged so to form at least a first and a second adjacent stacks, each extending along the longitudinal development direction (L), wherein said at least first and second stacks form a longitudinal interface therebetween. The CTC cable (1) further includes one or more optical fibers positioned at the interface between the first and the second stacks. A winding of an electromagnetic induction device, such as a transformer, can be obtained by winding said CTC cable. |
| US12085452B2 |
Temperature detection ink, temperature detection ink initialization method, temperature indicator, and article management system
It is possible to provide a temperature detection ink, which allows color initialization by a simple method and discolors with addition of time and temperature at a reaction temperature or higher. To solve the problem, the temperature detection ink according to the present invention includes a temperature detection material and a solvent. The temperature detection material has a structure in which a thermosensitive material containing a leuco dye, a color-developing agent, and a decolorant is contained in a microcapsule, or a structure in which a phase containing the thermosensitive material is phase-separated from a matrix material. The thermosensitive material is solidified while being decolored by cooling from a molten state to a glass transition temperature or lower at a predetermined rate or higher. The thermosensitive material has a glass transition temperature of −20 to 60° C., and a melting point that is 60 to 250° C. and lower than the boiling point of the solvent. |
| US12085451B2 |
Infrared thermopile sensor
An infrared thermopile sensor includes a silicon cover having an infrared lens, an infrared sensing chip having duo-thermopile sensing elements, and a microcontroller chip calculating a temperature of an object. The components are in a stacked 3D package to decrease the size of the infrared thermopile sensor. The infrared sensing chip and the microcontroller chip have metal layers to shield the thermal radiation. To measure object temperature accurately under acute change in environmental temperature, this disclosure uses the duo-thermopile sensing elements, that one is the active unit for measuring the object temperature and another one is the dummy unit for compensating the effect from the package structure. |
| US12085445B2 |
Absolute linear-in-k spectrometer
A detector system for Fourier spectroscopy such as a spectral domain optical coherence tomography instrument includes a diffractive optic for diffracting the interfering light into angularly dispersed wavenumbers, a prism for reduces a nonlinear angular dispersion among the wavenumbers, and a focusing optic for converting the angularly dispersed wavenumbers from the prism into spatially distributed wavenumbers along a detector having an array of pixels. A field lens between the focusing optic and the detector has a freeform surface for more evenly distributing the wavenumbers along the array of pixels. |
| US12085437B2 |
Level meter for level limit determination and for measuring an impedance of a filling material
A level measuring device for level and/or limit determination and for measuring an impedance of a filling material is provided. The level measuring device comprises a measuring probe, arranged for measuring the impedance of the filling material. Further comprising a signal generation unit, arranged for generating a first frequency signal with variable frequency, wherein the measuring probe is supplied with the first frequency signal and outputs a measuring signal. Further, a measurement converter arranged to convert the measurement signal into a mixed signal, wherein the mixed signal has a phase difference with respect to the first frequency signal. Furthermore, the level measuring device comprises a phase difference measuring unit, which is arranged to determine an amplitude-phase characteristic of the filling material measured by the measuring probe, by means of the phase and amplitude difference between the first frequency signal and the mixed signal. |
| US12085435B2 |
Portioning device for chemical granular material
A portioning device for chemical granular material, in particular fertilizer, having an inlet opening for granules, an outlet opening for discharging granule portions produced from the granules and at least one rotationally drivable conveying element which is designed to combine granules fed to the portioning device to give granule portions during a rotational movement. |
| US12085428B2 |
Methods and devices for measuring mass flow of gaseous fluids
A flowmeter for gaseous fluid includes a conduit composed of non-electrically conductive material for passage of an ionized flow of the gaseous fluid therethrough. The flowmeter further includes an electromagnetic sensor arranged to measure a magnetic field generated about the conduit by the passage of the ionized flow and generate a signal proportional to the magnetic field. |
| US12085426B2 |
Flip-out ramp for vehicle
A ramp assembly is provided comprising a ramp that is pivotally movable between a fold-in position and a fold-out position through a neutral position, a drive shaft spaced from an axis of pivot of the ramp in a direction perpendicular to the axis, a drive element transmitting rotational force from the drive shaft to the ramp such that rotation of the drive shaft causes movement of the ramp between the fold-in and fold-out positions, and a spring generating a biasing force by being rotationally tensioned, the spring biasing the drive shaft such that the ramp is biased toward the neutral position when the ramp is in the fold-out position and biased toward the neutral position when the ramp is in the fold-in position. A vehicle incorporating such ramp assembly is also contemplated. |
| US12085421B2 |
Optical-path folding-element with an extended two degree of freedom rotation range
Actuators for rotating an optical-path-folding-element with two, first and second, degrees of freedom in an extended rotation range around two respective rotation axes, folded cameras including such actuators and dual-cameras including a folded camera as above together with an upright camera. |
| US12085419B2 |
Monitoring method for monitoring a set of meters
A method of monitoring a set of meters that are connected to a common remote processor device, the method comprising both first steps performed in each meter for: acquiring primary measurements of a magnitude representative of the occurrence of an anomaly; selecting pertinent measurements from the primary measurements, the pertinent measurements satisfying a pertinence criterion; regularly transmitting the pertinent measurements to the remote processor device; and second steps performed in the remote processor device, for: comparing, for each meter, the pertinent measurements with a detection threshold common to all of the meters of the set of meters in order to attempt detecting an anomaly associated with said meter; and adjusting the detection threshold dynamically as a function of the percentage of meters detected as being associated with an anomaly. |
| US12085416B2 |
Universal sensor fitting for process applications
A universal fitting for in-line fluid measurement in a process application. The fitting includes an inlet and outlet port and also has a body with a fluid flow passage providing fluid communication between the ports. A sensor housing is provided that extends outwardly away from a wall of the body, wherein the housing is sized to receive a sensor assembly, which assembly measures at least one characteristic of the fluid. A base of each housing integrally formed with the wall and including a sensor seat for receiving a portion of the sensor assembly. A probe aperture receives a probe portion of the sensor assembly, each housing having the probe aperture disposed in the wall and extending from the fluid passage through its respective sensor seat. |
| US12085411B2 |
Multiple mode learning of absolute altitude of floors of a building
The absolute altitude of multiple floors of a building are determined using a multi-mode learning process. Processor(s) execute application program code to cause an apparatus to operate in an initial floor learning mode that includes capturing outdoor altitude estimates for the apparatus and determining, based in part on the outdoor altitude estimates, instant altitude estimates for an initial floor of the building. An absolute altitude estimate for the initial floor is determined based one the instant altitude estimates. After the absolute altitude estimate for the initial floor satisfies a first threshold certainty, the apparatus operates in a subsequent floor learning mode configured for determining respective absolute altitudes for floors of the building based on the absolute altitude estimate for the initial floor and a priori floor height information for the building, a sensor-based altitude change estimate, and/or a determined floor height for the building. |
| US12085408B2 |
Vehicle position estimation device, vehicle position estimation method, and non-transitory recording medium
The vehicle position estimation device includes a processor configured to estimate a vertical position of a vehicle based on an output of a vehicle state detection device, detect actual dividing lines at both left and right sides of the vehicle, compare a dividing line on a map at the vertical position of the vehicle and an actual dividing line and estimate a horizontal position of the vehicle, and determine a driving route of the vehicle. The processor is configured to calculate an amount of change of a horizontal position with respect to the driving route based on a map information for each of dividing lines of both left and right sides of the driving route in a predetermined range, and determine a dividing line on the map for comparison based on the amounts of change. |
| US12085400B2 |
Routing system that incorporates hours of service into time estimates
Techniques for notifying a driver of locations at which the driver can stop to comply with hours of service (HOS) rules are provided. In some examples, a navigation application compares the amount of time a driver has driven a vehicle to HOS rules to determine the remaining time the driver may drive before violating the rules, and identifies potential rest stops reachable within the remaining time and displays the rest stops to the driver. In some examples, the navigation application predicts an amount of time it will take a driver to drive a generated route and compares the predicted time to HOS rules to determine a number or frequency of rest stops needed for the driver to comply. Based on the number or frequency of rest stops, the navigation application identifies potential rest stops near the route and displays the rest stops to the driver without altering the route. |
| US12085392B2 |
Dynamic culling of matrix operations
An output of a first one of a plurality of layers within a neural network is identified. A bitmap is determined from the output, the bitmap including a binary matrix. A particular subset of operations for a second one of the plurality of layers is determined to be skipped based on the bitmap. Operations are performed for the second layer other than the particular subset of operations, while the particular subset of operations are skipped. |
| US12085390B2 |
Method for obtaining movement track of user and terminal
A method includes obtaining gravity data of a terminal, determining that the terminal is in a first posture in a first time period determining a movement direction of a user in the first time period based on the first posture and azimuth data, determining that the terminal is in an unstable state in a second time period, determining a movement direction of the user in the second time period based on the movement direction in the first time period, determining that the terminal is in a stable state in a third time period, determining, by the terminal, a movement direction of the user in the third time period based on the movement direction in the second time period and azimuth data, and determining, by the terminal, a movement track of the user based on the movement directions of the user in all the time periods. |
| US12085386B2 |
Capacitive distance sensor
A capacitive distance sensor for determining distances from an object, wherein the distance sensor has at least one sensor electrode and at least one compensation electrode. Deviations from an ideal parallel orientation of distance sensor and object and/or errors caused by capacitive edge effects can be compensated by means of the compensation electrode. |
| US12085385B2 |
Design-assisted large field of view metrology
A metrology system may receive design data including a layout of fabricated instances of a structure on a sample. The system may further receive detection signals from the metrology tool associated within a field of view including multiple of the fabricated instances of the structure. The system may further generate design-assisted composite data for the structure by combining detection signals from one or more common features of the structure associated with the fabricated instances of the structure within the field of view using the design data. The system may further generate one or more metrology measurements of the structure based on the design-assisted composite data. |
| US12085381B2 |
Calibration tool and method
The invention relates to a calibration tool and a method for calibrating a laser-triangulation measuring system, wherein the calibration tool comprises a tool body that defines a reference plane and that is rotatable relative to the measuring system about a rotation axis perpendicular to said reference plane, wherein the tool body is provided with one or more calibration surfaces that define a pattern of calibration positions, wherein the pattern comprises at least three columns extending in a radial direction away from the rotation axis and at least three rows extending in a circumferential direction about the rotation axis, wherein for each column the calibration positions within said respective column vary in height relative to the reference plane in a height direction perpendicular to said reference plane and wherein for each row the calibration positions within the respective row vary in height in the height direction relative to the reference plane. |
| US12085380B2 |
System and method for measuring using multiple modalities
A method measures an object using a CMM having a CMM accuracy. To that end, the method provides a jogbox with a 3D scanner having a scanner accuracy, positions the object on the CMM, and scans, using the 3D scanner, the object to produce scan data of the object. The method also measures a first portion of the object using the scan data, and a second portion of the object using the CMM. The CMM accuracy is more accurate than the scanner accuracy. |
| US12085378B2 |
Surveying system and auxiliary measuring device
An auxiliary measuring instrument, configured to form together with a ground-based surveying device having range-and-direction measuring functionality, a system for surveying or staking out object points, wherein the auxiliary measuring instrument including a handheld main body of a defined length, and a man-machine interface, wherein the auxiliary measuring instrument is designed in a pen-like form and size and is configured to aim at an object point to be surveyed or staked out in a one-handed manner with a first end of the auxiliary measuring instrument and wherein a body is attached at a second end of the auxiliary measuring instrument, wherein the body is designed for optical-image-based determination of the position of the auxiliary measuring instrument by the surveying device. |
| US12085373B2 |
Magnetic shotgun shell holder
A magnetic shotgun shell holder is disclosed, including a first half and a second half each configured to retain a plurality of shells therein. A magnetic member is disposed within each of the first half and the second half. The magnetic member retains each of the plurality of shells within the first half and the second half. The magnetic shotgun shell holder is configured to be worn by a user or retained on a shotgun or other object and protects the shells from damage during hunting, transportation, and other shooting activities. |
| US12085372B1 |
Multidirectional explosive disruption system
A multidirectional explosive disruptor system including a disruptor container cavity; a disruptor tube having an initiating explosive chamber extending from a disruptor tube open end to a disruptor tube shoulder and a primary explosive chamber extending from the disruptor tube shoulder to a disruptor tube bottom wall; a container cap having a aperture formed therethrough; and a strain relief connector having a body portion with external strain relief connector body threads, the body portion being at least partially insertable through the aperture such that at least a portion of the external strain relief connector body threads extend through the aperture, the external strain relief connector body threads formed so as to interact with internal disruptor tube threads to repeatably threadedly attached the strain relief connector to the disruptor tube. |
| US12085369B2 |
Ballistic-resistant garment
A ballistic-resistant garment having a tensioning fastening system, and methods of making and using such a ballistic-resistant garment, whereby the ballistic-resistant garment includes (i) a front panel having a front panel pocket configured to receive a first ballistic-resistant insert; (ii) a back panel having a back panel pocket configured to receive a second ballistic-resistant insert; (iii) a front panel elastic elongate member coupled to the front panel; (iv) a front panel first fastener coupled to a front panel elastic elongate member first end; (v) a front panel second fastener coupled to a front panel elastic elongate member second end; (vi) a back panel elastic elongate member coupled to the back panel; (vii) a back panel first fastener coupled to a back panel elastic elongate member first end; and (viii) a back panel second fastener coupled to a back panel elastic elongate member second end. |
| US12085368B2 |
Laser irradiation apparatus and storage medium storing laser irradiation program
A laser irradiation apparatus that efficiently carries out processes such as target detection. The laser irradiation apparatus (1) is provided with a laser array (10), a detector (20) and a controller (30). The laser array is provided with a plurality of laser oscillators including a first laser oscillator (11) that irradiates first detection laser light and a second laser oscillator (11) that irradiates second dealing laser light. The detector obtains detection information based on reflected light (503) that is the first detection laser light reflected by a target (2). The controller estimates a position of the target based on the detection information and generates a second dealing signal that instructs to irradiate the second dealing laser light to the estimated position of the target. The second laser oscillator irradiates dealing laser light to the estimated position of the target based on the second dealing signal. |
| US12085362B2 |
Viewing optic with round counter system
The disclosure relates to a viewing optic. In one embodiment, the disclosure relates to a display system for a viewing optic. In one embodiment, the disclosure relates to a viewing optic having a display system with multiple active displays for generating images that are projected into a first focal plane of an optical system. In one embodiment, the disclosure relates to a viewing optic with an active display and a round counter system. |
| US12085360B1 |
Cam locking and positioning structure
A cam locking and positioning structure is specifically designed form an M-LOK rail and mainly includes a main body for connection with various different devices, and a cam wrench and a tightening axle combinable with the main body. The main body has a through hole, and positioning portions raised from a top thereof. The cam wrench includes symmetrically arranged lugs, and a wrenching part extending from the lugs. The lugs include fixing holes, and rounded projection portions are formed on tops of the lugs. The tightening axle is of a T-shape having a vertical section having an elongated hole. The tightening axle is insertable into the through hole of the main bod, and a pin is inserted into the fixing holes of the lugs of the cam wrench and the elongated hole of the tightening axle to set the cam wrench in a pullable manner. |
| US12085357B2 |
Thumb rest anti-rotation pin for a firearm
An anti-rotation thumb rest providing advantages that allow for non-destructive and unobtrusive installation on firearms that would otherwise not be able to accommodate a thumb rests. The thumb rest may be constructed by attaching or manufacturing a long cylindrical pin onto the back side of a thumb rest, as to serve as a trigger pin, locking block pin, or other pin used for securing pistol components internally together, while also providing a typically rectangular, square, circular, or irregular shaped protrusion that serves as an anti-rotation stop for installation in a typically unused recess in the firearm's receiver, that was not expressly designed for installing components. |
| US12085355B2 |
Bowstring and power cable assembly for crossbow
A crossbow is provided with a reciprocating linear rack and a locking linear rack, wherein a traveler having a pawl for each linear rack is engaged by the reciprocating linear rack to move rearward relative to the locking rack, thereby moving the traveler to a drawn position. A cocking lever is hand operated by the user though a plurality of cycles to move the traveler, and captured bowstring to a fully drawn configuration. A trigger mechanism engage the traveler in the drawn configuration and selectively releases the bowstring from the traveler. A bow assembly is provided, wherein the bowstring wraps about a front edge of opposing rotatable members, to be longitudinally located in front of a portion of power cables. The bow assembly includes a power cable on each side of the stock, and thus the power cables do not cross a longitudinal axis of the crossbow. |
| US12085354B2 |
Ammunition carrier assembly and system for a machine gun
An ammunition carrier assembly includes a first plate having a first portion and a second portion, where the first plate is folded so that the second portion faces the first portion and the second portion extends from a fold along part of the first portion. A second plate is configured to be fixedly attached to the first plate. The second plate has a planar portion and a hub that extends away from a face of the planar portion. The hub defines openings in opposite sides of the hub. The first plate is sized and configured to be installed on a panel of an ammunition container such that the panel and part of the second plate is between the first and second portions of the first plate. The assembly can be part of a system that includes a magazine well attached to a machine gun. |
| US12085353B2 |
Firearm
An upper receiver is disclosed. The firearm contains a bolt carrier assembly positioned within the upper receiver, a recoil spring guide rod, wherein the bolt carrier assembly is configured to slide along the recoil spring guide rod between a locked position and an unlocked position, and a first recoil spring, wherein the recoil spring guide rod is positioned within the first recoil spring. |
| US12085352B2 |
Method and apparatus for converting an AR pattern rifle firearm into a bullpup configuration
A method for disassembling and converting a traditional AR-pattern firearm into a bullpup configuration of a semi-automatic rifle firearm assembly includes releasing and removing at least a firearm but stock and a standard bolt carrier group from the rifle firearm and then replacing the removed components with elements from a bullpup kit, namely a bullpup bolt carrier group that includes a bolt carrier and a spring assembly, the spring assembly having compression spring that is loaded when the bolt carrier recoils. |
| US12085351B2 |
Muzzle accessory mounting system
A locking firearm silencer mount or firearm muzzle accessory mount improvement system and method. The coupling device provides an internal thread and sealing taper, as well as an actively sprung locking collar with one or more locking positions. The muzzle device provides a thread and sealing taper operatively associated to the mount socket. The threads on the mount and muzzle accessory effectuate mating between the locking mount and the firearm muzzle accessory in a single axial orientation. |
| US12085349B2 |
Magazine catch body
A magazine catch body comprising a magazine and a magazine catch body comprising magazine catch buttons extended left and right, a magazine catch shaft connecting the magazine catch buttons to each other, and a magazine catch lever connected to the shaft for transmitting locking-releasing movements of the magazine catch buttons to the magazine to lock and release the magazine to the firearm, is disclosed. The magazine catch body comprises a spring around the shaft. The magazine catch buttons are substantially symmetrically located in respect of the firearm. The magazine catch buttons form the magazine catch body to one structural unity functionable as one mechanism. The magazine catch button extended left comprises a necked part pressing the lower receiver and receiving draw of the spring causing a holding force. In the necked part is an opening for a pin forming a turning axis of the magazine catch button extended left. |
| US12085346B2 |
Fluidized bed heat exchanger and method
An apparatus for the accumulation and transfer of thermal energy is disclosed including a thermal energy charging device having a bed of fluidizable solid particles received within a casing and acting as heat accumulation means by being exposed to a thermal energy source, heat exchange means operating in counter-current, configured for an exchange of thermal energy between a heated vector mass of the bed particles and an operative fluid, transport means configured for feeding the vector mass of the bed particles from the device to the heat exchange means and for returning part of the vector mass, downstream the heat exchange means, to the device, and a control unit associated with parameter detecting means arranged selected locations of the apparatus to control the flow of the vector mass within the apparatus. |
| US12085345B2 |
Loop heat pipe evaporator with dual top vapor outlets
An evaporator includes: a housing having a plurality of surfaces including a front surface and a back surface, at least one of the front and back surfaces having the largest area among the plurality of surfaces; and a heat-absorbing element disposed on at least one of the front and back surfaces and thermally connected to a heat source. The housing includes: at least one working fluid inlet located in a surface of the housing, the surface being other than a top surface of the housing; and at least one pair of working fluid outlets located respectively in opposite longitudinal end portions of the top surface. |
| US12085339B2 |
Apparatus for calcining secondary battery cathode material
An apparatus for calcining a secondary battery cathode material includes: a calcination furnace including an inner space that includes a temperature rising space, a temperature maintaining space, and a cooling space, which sequentially communicate; a plurality of rollers for transferring a sagger, in which a cathode material is accommodated, from the temperature rising space to the cooling space via the temperature maintaining space; a plurality of heaters arranged along the inner space; a plurality of gas feeding parts for feeding gas to the inner space; and a plurality of exhaust parts for exhausting gas from the inner space, wherein the cross-sectional area of the temperature maintaining space is smaller than the cross-sectional area of the temperature rising space and the cross-sectional area of the cooling space. |
| US12085337B2 |
Freeze-drying systems and methods
Devices, systems, and methods used to freeze dry a substance are disclosed. The devices and systems include a freeze dryer including a freeze-drying chamber, heating members, a refrigeration system, a vacuum pump, and a plurality of sensors disposed within the freeze-drying chamber. The freeze-drying methods include four main phases of freeze drying a substance: Phase 1—Freezing; Phase 2—Vacuum Freezing; Phase 3—Sublimation; Phase 3A—Sublimation Verification and Phase 4—Final Drying. Phase 3 can include cycling the heating members on and off between upper and lower humidity thresholds to increase the temperature of the freeze-drying chamber. |
| US12085336B2 |
Drying device, rotary valve and drying method
The invention relates to a drying device for drying a product comprising: a housing having a drying chamber, a product inlet at a first end and an product outlet at a second end; a drying rotor arranged rotatable within the drying chamber and having at least one helical groove at the outer surface thereof; a screw having a flight with a flight channel there between and arranged rotatable within the drying chamber and substantially parallel to the drying rotor; a driving mechanism configured for driving the screw in rotation around a screw axis; and a heater for providing thermal energy to the drying chamber, wherein the drying rotor and/or the screw at least are configured for moving the product from the first end to the second end, and such that the flight of the screw engages into the at least one helical groove of the drying rotor. |
| US12085335B2 |
Oven drying apparatus and coating device
The present application provides an oven drying apparatus and a coating device. The oven drying apparatus comprises an oven drying chamber and a heating assembly. The oven drying chamber is equipped with a first oven drying side having a plurality of first air inlet portions for fluid medium to enter the oven drying chamber. The heating assembly is disposed on the first oven drying side. The first oven drying side is further provided with at least one air return portion provided between two adjacent first air inlet portions, and the air return portion being configured for fluid medium in the oven drying chamber to be discharged from the oven drying chamber. The arrangement of an air return portion between two first air inlet portions can discharge fluid medium between the two first air inlet portions and take away the heat, thus avoiding accumulation of heat between the two first air inlet portions. |
| US12085332B2 |
Thermally controllable cupholder
A thermally controllable cupholder that is advantageously designed for marine and other outdoor implementations. The thermally controllable cupholder includes a beverage receptacle and a thermal control device configured to change a temperature of the beverage receptacle. In one embodiment, the cupholder includes a drain passageway and a drain hole that connects the beverage receptacle to the drain passageway. In one embodiment, the cupholder includes a perforated heat sink to promote the thermal conductivity of the thermal control device. |
| US12085326B2 |
Refrigerator with venturi duct between compartments
A refrigerator according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: a main body; a first storage chamber and a second storage chamber provided in the main body so that the front surfaces thereof are opened; an evaporator which is disposed inside the main body and which generates cold air; a first duct for supplying the cold air to the first storage chamber; a second duct for supplying the cold air to the second storage chamber; and a connecting duct for connecting the first duct and the second duct so as to allow the cold air generated by the evaporator to flow to the second duct, wherein the second duct includes a connecting port connected to the connecting duct, a discharge port through which the cold air is discharged, a discharge path for connecting the connecting port and the discharge port, and a connecting path for connecting the inside of the second storage chamber and the discharge path, the discharge path includes a minimum region in which the cross sectional area thereof in a vertical direction or a longitudinal direction is minimized, and the connecting path is provided to connect the inside of the second storage chamber and the minimum region. |
| US12085322B2 |
Method for optimizing the energetic consumption of a refrigerating machine and refrigerating machine implementing said method
Method for optimizing the energy consumption of a refrigeration unit, comprising: a step A: activating a driving device (14) of the compressor (13) by modulating the operating voltage Vout of the compressor (13) to an optimized value designed to activate the compressor (13) at an optimized speed determined by a thermodynamic optimization algorithm; a step B: regulating the driving device (14) which drives the AC/DC converter (17) so that the bus voltage is equal to the greater between a first threshold and a second threshold; wherein the first threshold is equal to the product of √2 by the value of the supply voltage and the second threshold is equal to the product of √2 by the value of the driving voltage; a step C: modifying the speed of each fan in order to minimize the value of an overall electrical consumption. |
| US12085320B2 |
Heat source unit and refrigeration apparatus
A heat source unit connected to a utilization unit includes a compressor, a first heat exchanger, a first expansion valve, and a receiver. The heat source unit further includes a first cooler and a second cooler. The first cooler cools a primary refrigerant flowing from the receiver toward the utilization unit. The second cooler cools the primary refrigerant flowing from the first heat exchanger functioning as a radiator toward the first expansion valve, using a coolant other than outdoor air. |
| US12085318B2 |
Refrigeration cycle apparatus
A refrigeration cycle apparatus includes a refrigerant and a refrigeration cycle circuit. The refrigeration cycle circuit includes a heat exchanger and a compressor, and circulates the refrigerant. The refrigerant is a single hydrofluoroolefin (HFO)-based refrigerant or a mixed refrigerant. In the mixed refrigerant, an HFO-based refrigerant is mixed at a mixing ratio of 10% by weight or more. The compressor includes a motor. The motor includes a resin component. The resin component includes a polyimide having a terminal blocked with a terminal group. |
| US12085314B2 |
Air conditioner/heat pump expansion function box and air conditioner/heat pump heat storage refrigeration system
The application relates to an air conditioner/heat pump expansion function box and an air conditioner/heat pump heat storage refrigeration system, and belongs to the technical field of air conditioner/heat pump systems. Two distribution pipelines are arranged in the air conditioner/heat pump expansion function box body; each distribution pipeline comprises a main pipeline and at least one branch pipeline; the two ends of each main path are provided with an outdoor unit nut head and an indoor unit nut head respectively. The end portion, far away from the main path, of each branch path is provided with a radiation assembly nut head; an outdoor unit nut head is connected with an outdoor unit, an indoor unit nut head is connected with an indoor unit, and a radiation assembly nut head is connected with a radiation assembly. Therefore, an air conditioner/heat pump heat storage refrigeration system is formed, reasonable distribution of water-free floor heating pipelines is achieved, the energy efficiency ratio of the air conditioner/heat pump system is increased, pipeline connection of a unit is achieved under the non-oxidation condition, it is guaranteed that no impurities exist in the system pipelines, the service life of the unit is long, the assembling efficiency is improved, no welding process exists on site, operation is easy, and the appearance is attractive. |
| US12085307B2 |
Off-ridge roof vent with internal and external water diverters
The off-ridge roof vent with internal and external water diverters includes a throat, a hood and the water diverters. The throat has a front throat wall, a rear throat wall and a pair of longitudinally opposed throat sidewalls. The throat has open upper and lower ends. The hood has an upper hood wall that is convex upward, a pair of longitudinally opposed hood sidewalls and a lower hood wall. A lower end of the hood has a front portion that is open, wherein a perforated grating mounted therein. An internal water diverter extends upwardly from the front edge of the lower hood wall and slopes above the grating and the external water diverter extends downwardly from the front face of the hood at its terminal end portion. |
| US12085305B2 |
Roof mountable evaporative cooling system
An indirect evaporative cooling system for cooling a space adjacent to or containing an ablution bay is described. The indirect evaporative cooling system includes a greywater source from the ablution bay and evaporative cooler apparatus located above the space to be cooled in a dome shaped housing. The evaporative cooler apparatus includes a wet channel, at least one spray nozzle, and a dry channel. The at least one spray nozzle is located at the top of the evaporative cooler apparatus and is fluidly connected to the greywater source and the wet channel. The wet channel is located directly above the dry channel. A first side of the dry channel is connected to a first opening with a fan and outside air. |
| US12085298B2 |
Environmental equipment control apparatus and environmental equipment control system
An environmental equipment control apparatus controls environmental equipment. The environmental equipment control apparatus includes a grasping unit that grasps physical-and-mental-state information about a physical and mental state of a user, a control unit that changes a control state of the environmental equipment in a case in which the physical-and-mental-state information satisfies a predetermined state condition, and a storage unit that stores correspondence information in which changes in the control state of the environmental equipment are associated with changes in the physical-and-mental-state information of the user grasped by the grasping unit in accordance with the changes in the control state of the environmental equipment. |
| US12085297B2 |
Advanced monitoring of an HVAC system
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for advanced monitoring of an HVAC system. In some implementations, a voltage measurement across at least two interface terminals of a thermostat that controls an HVAC system of a property is obtained. The voltage measurements are analyzed. A likely power cycling activity of a component of the HVAC system is determined based on analyzing the voltage measurements. Whether the HVAC system is operating properly is determined based on the likely power cycling activity of the component of the HVAC system. Data indicating whether the HVAC system is operating properly is generated and outputted based on determining whether the HVAC system is operating properly. |
| US12085290B2 |
Heat medium relay device
A heat medium relay device includes a valve block provided in a third space, and including a plurality of valves to allow a secondary heat medium subjected to the heat exchange at a first heat exchanger and a secondary heat medium subjected to the heat exchange at a second heat exchanger to flow to at least one indoor unit, the valve block being lighter in weight than each of the first heat exchanger, a first pump, the second heat exchanger, and a second pump. |
| US12085278B2 |
Systems and methods to prevent explosions in a tank using automated gas harvesting and purge safety devices
Provided is a flowback system and method. The flowback system, in one aspect, include a tank, a transfer pump, a low-pressure vent line coupled between a vent of the tank and a first flare tip, and a high-pressure gaseous hydrocarbon line coupled to a second flare tip. In accordance with yet one other aspect, the flowback system includes a control system including a sensor, a valve and a valve controller coupled to the valve, the valve of the control system coupled between the low-pressure vent line and the high-pressure gaseous hydrocarbon line, the control system configured to sense an unsafe system event and actuate the valve to supply high-pressure gaseous hydrocarbons from the high-pressure gaseous hydrocarbon line to the low-pressure vent line. |
| US12085276B2 |
Dry low NOx staged combustion system
A dry low NOX staged combustion system includes a fuel nozzle and a combustion compartment. The fuel nozzle includes a purge gas tube, a diffusion combustion fuel tube, an isolation gas tube, a premixed combustion fuel tube, a premixed combustion air tube. The purge gas tube is configured to feed a purge gas. The diffusion combustion fuel tube is fitted over the purge gas tube, and having an end provided with a diffusion combustion fuel swirler. The isolation gas tube is fitted over the diffusion combustion fuel tube. The premixed combustion fuel tube is fitted over the isolation gas tube. The premixed combustion air tube is fitted over the premixed combustion fuel tube. The combustion compartment is located downstream of the fuel nozzle. |
| US12085275B2 |
LED lighting device
A LED lighting device includes a seat having a baseplate and a sidewall, the sidewall forming a chamber with the baseplate. A light source disposed in the chamber and attached to a surface of the baseplate. An electric power source is disposed in the chamber and electrically connected to the light source and an optical assembly is disposed on the light source. The optical assembly includes an optical unit and an installing unit, the installing unit is connected to a periphery of the optical unit. The optical unit includes a plurality of first optical members and a plurality of second optical members, and the second optical members are interposed between two adjacent first optical members. The installing unit includes a wall portion surrounding the sidewall, and the wall portion includes a bending portion abutting against an end of the sidewall. |
| US12085272B2 |
Lighting system with vacuum intake
A lighting system with vacuum intake is provided, having a lighting structure including at least one light-emitting element dimensioned to illuminate a region, and a lighting support structure extending at a first end thereof from the lighting structure and enabling repositioning of the lighting structure relative to a second end of the lighting support structure. The lighting support structure hays an air conduit extending therealong and connectable or connected towards the second end of the lighting support structure to a vacuum system, the air conduit being in fluid communication with a vacuum intake positioned towards the lighting structure. |
| US12085271B2 |
Waterproof light head structure
A waterproof light head structure includes a main bracket, a front cover and a rear cover respectively arranged on the front side and the rear side of the main bracket, an upper plate arranged above the main bracket, a bottom plate arranged below the main bracket, a lens assembly arranged on the main bracket via the upper plate, and a light source arranged in the main bracket. The main bracket is arranged in a cavity formed by joining the front cover and the rear cover. The front cover and the rear cover are respectively in sealed connection with the upper plate and the bottom plate, and the side edges where the front cover and the rear cover are joined are in sealed connection to form an all-around waterproof structure. The waterproof light head according to the present invention is simple in structure, while the waterproof performance is guaranteed. |
| US12085267B2 |
System and method for controlling the humidity and pressure in a luminaire
A luminaire includes an enclosure, an air valve, and a chamber. The enclosure includes a sealed cover and light beam emitting components. The air valve is air coupled between the enclosure and the chamber. The chamber includes a drying agent and has an opening with a membrane completely covering the opening. The membrane passes air while reducing the passage of water droplets in the air. The air valve blocks air passage between the enclosure and the chamber when closed. A method for testing to determine adequate sealing of an enclosure of a luminaire includes closing an air valve to seal the enclosure from outside air, activating a heat-generating component, determining whether an air pressure in the enclosure increases by more than a threshold value, and sending a signal indicating a result of the determination. The method includes deactivating the heat-generating component and opening the air valve. |
| US12085266B1 |
Lamp including an algae-infused microbial fuel cell
A lamp with algae-infused microbial fuel cell includes a housing having light emitting diode (LED) bulbs along a surface of the housing and microbial fuel cell inside the housing. The microbial fuel cell can include a cathode chamber having a cathode and algae, an anode chamber having an anode and electroactive bacteria, and a separator separating the cathode chamber and the anode chamber. In an embodiment, the LED bulbs are connected to the cathode. |
| US12085264B1 |
Portable magnetic lighting fixture
The present disclosure discloses a portable magnetic lighting fixture having a housing, a light source component configured for emitting light, accommodated within the housing, a supporting base configured for supporting the housing, and a magnetic adjustment component having a first magnetic member and a second magnetic member for magnetically coupling with the first magnetic member on the housing for controlling the angular adjustment of the housing. The coordination of the first and second magnetic members enables relative rotation as the housing and supporting base rotate. The magnetic force between the first and second magnetic members allows for stable adjustment to any angle without the need for toothed engagement. The absence of collisions during the relative movement of the first and second magnetic members reduces noise generated during rotation. |
| US12085261B2 |
Luminaire
A luminaire includes a lamp barrel having a light source detachably connected with a lens assembly. The lens assembly includes a lens barrel detachably connected with the lamp barrel and a focusing member on the lens barrel. An adjusting assembly includes a rotatable focusing ring, a lens fixing ring and a lens. The focusing ring includes a spiral groove on an inner surface. The lens fixing ring includes a projected rail on an outer surface. The lens barrel includes a bar shaped through hole extending along an axial direction. The projected rail passes through the bar shaped through hole and is mated with the spiral groove by clearance fit. Rotation of the focusing ring acts on the projected rail through the spiral groove and drives the lens fixing ring and the lens forward and backward in the lens barrel to adjust a distance between the lens and the light source. |
| US12085258B2 |
Couplers for light fixtures
Disclosed is a junction device for joining adjacent housing sections of a light fixture housing assembly, having a junction body structure formed from at least one junction body segment. A plurality of coupling units, each with at least one first boundary including at least one male portion or at least one female portion. The male and/or female portions are configured to enable each corresponding portion a first of the coupling units to receive the male portion of a second of the coupling units. Each of at least two of the coupling units including a first segment formed with the at least one junction body segment at respective first boundaries with the corresponding male or female portions extending therefrom. Each of the male and female portions is configured to be associated with a first locking structure to lock the female and male portions together to form the assembled light fixture housing. |
| US12085257B1 |
Two-in-one wall lamp
A two-in-one wall lamp is disclosed, including a lamp body, a first lamp panel, a second lamp panel, a lens, and a lampshade. Bottom of the lamp body is configured with a first accommodating cavity having an opening downward, and the first accommodating cavity has a horizontal plane facing downward. A front side of the lamp body is configured with a second accommodating cavity having an opening forward, and the second accommodating cavity has an inclined plane facing lower forward. The first lamp panel is affixed to the horizontal plane for fixation and also located in the first accommodating cavity, and the second lamp panel is affixed to the inclined plane for fixation and also located in the second accommodating cavity. The two-in-one wall lamp can switch different angles of light output, which not only easy to operate and use, but also to meet lighting angle requirements. |
| US12085253B2 |
Headlamp device
A headlamp device includes a headlamp, an object detector, and a controller. The headlamp is mounted on a vehicle and includes a light emitting unit composed of multiple light emitting cells. The object detector detects an object around the vehicle and generates an object detection signal including object coordinates corresponding to a location of the detected object. The controller controls light of the headlamp based on information on the object coordinates. The controller may control the light emitting unit such that at least some light emitting cells are turned off according to an object detection signal. Each of multiple light emitting units includes a circuit board, the multiple light emitting cells separated from each other on the circuit board, a molding member formed between the light emitting structures, and a protective member formed on the molding member to surround sides of the multiple wavelength conversion members while filling a gap between the multiple wavelength conversion members |
| US12085252B2 |
Motor vehicle
The disclosure relates, inter alia, to a vehicle headlight (10), for example for a motor vehicle (1), wherein the vehicle headlight (10) comprises an illumination matrix (534) with a plurality of independently controllable illumination pixels for generating a (for example time-variant) illumination pattern, wherein the vehicle headlight (10) comprises an objective for imaging the illumination pattern, and wherein the objective comprises at least one objective lens. |
| US12085249B2 |
Vehicle lamp
A vehicle lamp is configured in such a manner as to project light from light-emitting elements (22 and 42) of a first and a second lamp unit (20 and 40) forward through lenses (30 and 50) in the lamp and accordingly form a low-beam light distribution pattern having a Z-shaped cut-off line. In addition, a part of a plurality of lens elements formed on a front surface (30a, 50a) of each of the lenses (30 and 50) is formed as a specific lens element (30aA3, 50sB3) having a freeform surface shape. It is configured in such a manner as to form an inclined portion of the Z-shaped cut-off line with light emitted from the specific lens elements (30sA3 and 50sB3). Consequently, the degree of flexibility in forming the Z-shaped cut-off line is increased. |
| US12085248B2 |
Vehicle lamp
A vehicle lamp includes a housing attached to a vehicle and including an opening, an outer lens covering the opening of the housing and including an inner surface subjected to an anti-fogging treatment, and a light source disposed in an internal space defined by the housing and the outer lens. The inner surface of the outer lens includes a first region and a second region adjacent to the first region and positioned below the first region. The inner surface of the outer lens is provided with a protrusion, a step, or a groove along a boundary between the first region and the second region. |
| US12085246B2 |
Vehicle headlamp and vehicle
A vehicle headlamp is provided, where a high beam module includes a primary optical element (2) and a primary light source (3) located on a back side of the primary optical element (2), and light emitted by the primary light source (3) forms a high beam light shape after passing through the primary optical element (2), where the high beam module is further provided with an auxiliary light source (4) beside the primary light source (3), light emitted by the auxiliary light source (4) forms an auxiliary light shape (6) after passing through the primary optical element (2), and when the low beam module is in a light-emitting state, the auxiliary light source (4) is in a light-emitting state. Beneficial effects: in a low beam lighting mode, a high beam part of the vehicle headlamp remains on, which improves the beauty of the overall appearance of the vehicle headlamp. Moreover, because the brightness of the auxiliary light source (4) is very weak, and does not affect the light intensity and uniformity of low beam light shapes (7 and 8) of a vehicle, other nearby vehicles would not be affected, and thus the driving safety of the vehicles would not be affected. |
| US12085245B2 |
Flexible LED light-emitting lamp strip
The present disclosure provides a flexible LED light-emitting lamp strip including a long strip-shaped flexible circuit substrate as well as a plurality of light-emitting units arranged in a length direction of the circuit substrate and welded to the circuit substrate. The plurality of light-emitting units are connected in parallel with one another, and each of the plurality of light-emitting units includes a front light-emitting LED lamp bead, a first side light-emitting LED lamp bead and a second side light-emitting LED lamp bead. A light-emitting direction of the front light-emitting LED lamp bead is perpendicular to the length direction of the circuit substrate, and a light-emitting direction of the first side light-emitting LED lamp bead and a light-emitting direction of the second side light-emitting LED lamp bead are parallel to a width direction of the circuit substrate and are opposite to each other, wherein the front light-emitting LED lamp bead, the first side light-emitting LED lamp bead and the second side light-emitting LED lamp bead are connected in series with one another. |
| US12085243B2 |
Electronic candle
Methods, systems and devices associated with an electronic candle are disclosed. One example includes an electronic candle includes an outer shell including a through-hole, a light-emitting assembly including a flame sheet configured to protrude through the through-hole, an inner shell positioned within the outer shell, and a self-locking device positioned within a cavity of the inner shell. The self-locking device is configured to operate in (1) a locked state when a switch locks a spring in a compressed state and (2) an unlocked state when the switch releases the spring to be in a relaxed state. The electronic candle also includes a bottom case such that the bottom case is enclosed within the outer shell when the self-locking device is in the locked state and the bottom case is exposed to an external environment beneath the outer shell when the self-locking device is in the unlocked state. |
| US12085231B2 |
Tank holding device
A tank holding device includes a band configured to tighten a hydrogen tank. The band includes a band-shaped base portion extending along an outer circumference of the hydrogen tank, a plurality of pressing portions projecting from both sides of the base portion in a width direction orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of the base portion and configured to apply a pressing force to an outer peripheral surface of the hydrogen tank by elastically deforming in abutment against the outer peripheral surface of the hydrogen tank, and a deformation limiting portion configured to limit deformation of the pressing portions to a specified amount. |
| US12085229B2 |
Four-lobe cargo tank for transporting and / or storage of liquified gases
A four-lobe cargo tank for transporting and/or storage of liquefied gases includes four main lobes, each with a cylinder sector outer shell and main lobe axis. The four main lobes are arranged with the four main lobe axis axial-parallel with and about a common main central axis, such that the four main lobes are joined by four web frames with four corresponding diagonally arranged perforated bulkheads directed outwardly from the main central axis. The tank includes a first and a second end cover. Each end cover includes four quarter spherical shell portions, each forming an end portion of the cylinder sector outer shell. The quarter spherical shell portions of the first and second end covers, respectively, are joined and closing toward the main central axis by a first and a second four diagonally arranged cylindrical 45-degree cut pipe portions, which are each arranged with its axis transverse to the main axis. |
| US12085223B1 |
Adjustable display panel rail connector
An adjustable connector for connecting a display panel to a rail is described. The adjustable connector includes a rail-coupling bracket and a display-coupling bracket. An upper adjustment carriage is positioned between the rail-coupling bracket and the display-coupling bracket at an upper end portion, and a lower adjustment carriage is positioned between the rail-coupling bracket and the display-coupling bracket at a lower end portion. An upper pin extends through a horizontal slot in the display-connecting bracket, an inclined slot in the upper adjustment carriage, and an opening in the display-connecting bracket. Rotating an upper hand-turnable knob adjusts a depth of the upper end portion of the display-coupling bracket relative to the rail-coupling bracket. A similar lower adjustment carriage and lower hand-turnable knob provides similar adjustment at the lower end portion. In some instances, the adjustable connector provides up to 15 mm of depth control to compensate for uneven wall surfaces. |
| US12085221B2 |
Display apparatus
A display apparatus includes a display module, a supporting device provided to support and turn the display module, and a holding device provided for a mobile device to be coupled to the display module. The supporting device rotatably supports the display module and includes a motor providing a driving force to turn the display module. The holding device supports a mobile device so that the mobile device may be coupled to the display module. The holding device comprises a mounting part provided to be mounted onto the display module and a holder rotatably coupled to the mounting part and provided to support the mobile device. |
| US12085218B2 |
Fixed quick-release apparatus
The present disclosure discloses a fixed quick-release apparatus. It includes: a gear turntable, configured to connect a cycling bracket, where a limiting gear ring is disposed on a top circle of the gear turntable; a housing, configured to mount the gear turntable; and a gear stand, mounted inside the housing, where a positioning gear ring that is opposite to the limiting gear ring is disposed on a bottom circle of the gear stand, an anti-rotation plate is disposed at a top of the gear stand, and a limiting spring, disposed at a bottom of the gear stand. Because the gear stand is driven to move by pressing the button, the positioning gear ring is engaged with the limiting gear ring, to limit rotation of the locking turntable and the unlocking of the anti-rotation plate on the terminal device. Because the spring steel beads abut against the arc-shaped groove, the terminal device can be adjusted and positioned by rotating 360°. |
| US12085217B2 |
Holder and method for holding an object
A holder secured to a vertical column by a cross support holds an object in a fixed position. The holder includes a tube that can be secured to the cross support. A movable clip at a first end of the tube is configured to hold the object, e.g., a probe held in a calibration bath. The movable clip includes an aperture. When the movable clip is in an extended position, an object can be inserted into the aperture. When the movable clip moves toward a retracted position, the object is held within the aperture. A cap at the second end of the tube is coupled to the movable clip by a spring inside the tube. The movable clip exerts an adjustable holding force on the object by adjusting a number of turns of the spring between the cap and the movable clip. A central holding device may support multiple holders. |
| US12085216B2 |
Multi-use fuel filler tube
A fuel tube filler neck includes a first thread is formed on an inner surface and a second thread formed on an outer surface. The first thread, second thread, and tube may be co-molded of thermoplastic (e.g., nylon) and the first and second thread may overlap one another. The outer surface includes a cylindrical portion and a recessed portion, the second thread being formed on the recessed portion. Attachment structures are secured to the fuel tube for mounting the fuel tube to a fuel tank. A first type of fuel cap is engaged with the first thread and a second type of fuel cap is engaged with the second thread. Vehicles with different types of fuel caps may be shipped to different geographic regions. |
| US12085215B2 |
Pipe assembly insulation and vapor barrier
An insulating cover for assemblies including pipe elements, pipe couplings, elbows, Tees and valves also acts as a vapor barrier. Cover portions are joined along a seam which provides for a continuous seal between both the cover portions and the pipe elements which extend through channels defined in the cover. The seam includes a furrow into which sealant is forced when the cover portions are joined around the assembly. The furrow is defined by an asymmetric tongue and groove joint. Canals in the channels, in communication with the grooves, also receive the sealant to provide the continuous seal. |
| US12085212B1 |
Pipeline support devices for preventing melting and sinking based on gas heat exchange
A pipeline support device for preventing melting and sinking based on gas heat exchange. The pipeline support device may be installed in a trench, and the pipeline support device may include a support frame and a gas heat exchange mechanism arranged on one side of the support frame. A bottom of the support frame may be fixed in the trench, a support partition may be fixed inside the support frame, the support partition separating the bottom of the support frame to form an upper chamber and a lower chamber. The gas heat exchange mechanism may include two groups of ventilation components, a group of air changing component and a group of control component. The control component may control opening and closing of ventilation openings of the ventilation pipes. |
| US12085209B2 |
Valve device with ball locks
A valve device (20) includes male and female housings (22, 24) that together define a fluid through-passage (28). The male and female housings have, respectively, exterior and interior annular channels (22a, 24a). The male housing is receivable into the female housing such that the exterior and interior annular channels together define a toroidal tube. First and second valve elements (30, 32) are disposed, respectively, in the male and female housings. Ball locks (36) are receivable into the toroidal tube and axially lock the male and female housings together. A lock (40) engageable when the first and second valve elements are in functional alignment and which when engaged rotationally locks the male and female housings. |
| US12085208B2 |
Fluid line for connection with a coupling
A fluid line for connection with an assembly of a motor vehicle includes a pipe and at least one connector. The connector is configured for insertion into a complementary coupling, and has a main body and a locking element for locking with the coupling. The locking element is mounted relative to the main body so that it can rotate around a rotational axis, and designed in such a way as to achieve a locking of the connector by rotating the locking element around the rotational axis. The locking element has at least one locking contour, and is designed in such a way that a force acting axially on the connector is exerted in the direction of the coupling by rotating the locking element during a locking process with a coupling. |
| US12085202B2 |
Articulating faucet
A water delivery device includes a first conduit section and a second conduit section rotatably coupled to the first conduit section by a magnetic joint. The magnetic joint includes a plurality of magnets that cooperatively define a plurality of rotational positions between the first conduit 5 section and the second conduit section. |
| US12085200B2 |
Clamp
A clamp has a structure including a band portion wrapping a circular member, such as a hose, a washer portion, a nut portion, and a connection portion and support portions that prevent the band portion from being deformed when a bolt is tightened, these portions being integrally formed with each other into a single portion. Therefore, reduction in the separate portions causes cost reduction, weight reduction, and reduction in risk of loss of the separate portions, and the performance problem in that the clamp rotates when the tightening work is performed by rotation of the bolt is improved. |
| US12085199B2 |
Sealing gasket for ductile iron pipe and method of manufacture
A sealing gasket is shown which is used to seal the belled end opening of a female ductile iron pipe to a mating male pipe having an interior surface and an exterior surface. The sealing gasket has an annular gasket body made of a resilient elastomeric material which is bonded to a hard plastic reinforcing band. The annular gasket body is installed within a raceway provided in the mouth region of the female ductile iron pipe so that an outer circumferential region forms a seal with the female pipe mouth region and an inner circumferential region forms a sealing surface for the exterior surface of the mating male pipe. The reinforcing band has a circumferential body which is made of a synthetic polymer which has a greater hardness than the elastomeric material of the remainder of the gasket body. |
| US12085188B2 |
T-handle ball valve lockout
A handle lockout device can be placed around a handle of a valve to prevent operation of the handle by rotation of the handle about a stem. The handle lockout device includes a housing and one or more adjustable slides. The housing has an internal cavity, in which the housing is bifurcated into two halves at a parting line with a stem opening positioned on the housing along the parting line. The two halves are movable relative to one another between an opened position in which the two halves are separated at the parting line to provide access to the internal cavity and a closed position in which the two halves are bought together at the parting line. The adjustable slide(s) are positioned adjacent to the stem opening, are slidable relative to the housing, and have an edge that can alter a size of the stem opening of the housing. |
| US12085187B1 |
Gas valve including timer
An improved gas valve including a timer includes: a valve body including a direction indicating mark; a timer arranged in an interior of the valve body; a rotary knob connected to the timer and including a protrusion, the rotary knob being provided, in a circumferentially arranged manner, with a closure region, a full opening region at one side of the closure region, and a time counting region at an opposite side of the closure region; a stop device mounted to the valve body, the stop device being subjected to an elastic effect to reciprocally move between a stop position and a passage position in such a way as to be normally set at the stop position as being acted upon by the elastic effect and located on a rotating path of the protrusion of the rotary knob. |
| US12085184B2 |
Valve bodies having wear resistant inner cores
Example valve bodies having resistant inner cores are disclosed herein. An example valve body comprises a metal core including a fluid inlet, a fluid outlet, and a fluid passageway extending between the fluid inlet and the fluid outlet, and an exterior shell overmolded with the metal core, the exterior shell bonded to the metal core, the exterior shell to provide a pressure-boundary of the valve body. |
| US12085180B2 |
Relief valve and pump cover
The invention suppresses hysteresis. A relief valve switching between whether to discharge oil through movement of a valve body includes: a first spacing part, in which the valve body moves; a second space part, connected with the first space part and having a diameter smaller than a diameter of the first space part; an elastic body, connected with the valve body; a seal part, disposed in a circumferential direction of the valve body; and a third space part, formed in the first space part. |
| US12085178B2 |
Non-return check valve and check valve apparatus for vacuum system
A vacuum system non-return valve includes a baffle for extending across a flow path in the vacuum system and a valve member. The baffle has an aperture, a perimeter of the aperture has a valve seat. The valve member has a curved sealing surface configured to mate with the valve seat. The valve member and aperture are configured such that the valve member obscures the aperture and seals with the valve seat to impede a flow of fluid in a closed position and is displaceable in use to move away from the valve seat and allow a fluid flow in an open position; at least a portion of the surface of the baffle surrounding the aperture slopes towards the inlet end of the valve such that the aperture is smaller at the inlet end than it is at the outlet end. |
| US12085176B2 |
Switching valve
A switching valve includes a base including a bottom wall and a side wall that extends from the bottom wall of the base along a circumferential direction of the bottom wall, a body that can couple to the base to define a cavity between a bottom plate of the body and the bottom wall and the side wall of the base, in which the bottom plate includes two through holes that are each fluidly coupled to the cavity, two sliders disposed within the cavity, and two driving rods each movably coupled to one of the two through holes of the body, in which each driving rod can move relative to the two through holes to block or unblock each respective through hole. Each slider can slide responsive to movement of one of the two driving rods such that only one through hole is unblocked at one time. |
| US12085174B1 |
Butterfly valve
This invention relates to a butterfly valve, which includes at least a valve body, a valve shaft, a seal member and a valve plate. Said valve body is provided with a first valve shaft hole, and a through hole is provided in the middle position of said valve body. A positioning ring is provided on the upper periphery of said valve shaft, said valve shaft is composed of an upper section, a middle section and a lower section, said upper section and lower section are cylindrical structures, and said middle section is a non-cylindrical structure; the outer diameter of said positioning ring is larger than the outer diameter of said upper section, a sliding washer is mounted on said valve shaft, and said sliding washer is arranged between the groove of said valve body and the positioning ring of said valve shaft; a fastening recess is provided below the lower section of said valve shaft, and a C-shaped buckle is mounted on said fastening recess. said seal member is provided with a second valve shaft hole, the inner side of said second valve shaft hole is provided with at least one annular flange; the inner side of said seal member is provided with a counterbore at the position of said second valve shaft hole, said counterbore is provided with a resistance-reducing element. Said valve plate is provided with a third valve shaft hole, and the shape of said third valve shaft hole corresponds to the shape of said middle section of said valve shaft. |
| US12085173B2 |
Waterproof and dustproof electric push rod
The present invention relates to the field of push rods, in particular to a waterproof and dustproof electric push rod, where a waterproof and dustproof module includes a single-lip oil seal, a first anti-swing ring, a piston oil seal and a second anti-swing ring, which are arranged in sequence in a retraction direction of an inner tube. When the inner tube retracts, since inner rings of the single-lip oil seal, the first anti-swing ring, the piston oil seal and the second anti-swing ring are tightly attached to an outer sidewall of the inner tube, the single-lip oil seal plays a role in scraping off dirt (dust, silts, etc.) on the surface of the inner tube, and the internal piston oil seal can be waterproof and dustproof. |
| US12085163B2 |
Transmission and method for operating a transmission
A transmission includes a first transmission stage, a feedthrough extending through the first transmission stage, and a first deflector designed to deflect a lubricant away from the feedthrough. |
| US12085162B2 |
Axle system with a planetary support structure
An axle system is provided herein. In one example, the axle system includes a gearbox housing at least partially enclosing a gearbox and a planetary gearset that is rotationally coupled to an output of the gearbox and positioned co-axial with a rotational axis of an axle shaft in a differential. The planetary gearset includes a ring gear grounded by a planetary support that is attached to the gearbox housing. |
| US12085158B2 |
Drive device
A drive device capable of suppressing the complication of the device configuration in order to realize a plurality of operation modes is provided.A drive device includes a drive source, a first differential mechanism, a second differential mechanism, a switching mechanism, and a casing. The differential mechanism includes a first side gear connected to a left wheel, a first case connected to the drive source, and a second side gear. The second differential mechanism includes a third side gear connected to a right wheel, a second case, and a fourth side gear connected to the second side gear. The switching mechanism switches the casing, the first case, the second side gear, and the fourth side gear to a connection state and a non-connection state. |
| US12085157B1 |
Variator and variator shaft
One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for a transmission variator. The variator receives input power from at least two power sources and provides variable speed output power paths for the transmission. A variator clutch assembly transfers input power to a variator shaft, which drives a planetary gear assembly, including a sun drive gear, planetary gears, and one or more ring gears. The ring gear(s) provide output power to a high output and low output gear assembly. A double reverse tapered spline between the sun drive gear and sun gear to provide forward thrust on the sun gear. A lubrication pin in the planetary gears can provide pressurized lubrication to the planetary gear assembly. A ring gear retention key can be disposed in a spur gear of the high output gear assembly, and ride in a groove in the underside of the ring gear to provide for alignment. |
| US12085156B2 |
Gearbox for electric vehicles
Provided is a gearbox for an electric vehicle. The gearbox for an electric vehicle includes a plenary gear revolving around a sun gear and adopts a differential planetary gear method of reducing a rotational speed by using a difference between the numbers of teeth of the planetary gear and the sun gear. |
| US12085151B2 |
Synchronic drive
A drive system comprising a rotatable input disc that receives an input rotational force and rotates about a longitudinal axis, where the input disc comprises driving features formed on its interior face. The drive system also comprises a rotatable output disc that rotates about the longitudinal axis and comprises driving features formed on its interior face, where the output disc provides an output rotational force. The drive system comprises a drive core between the interior face of the input disc and the interior face of the output disc to translate the input rotational force to the output rotational force. As the input disc is rotated by the input rotational force, engaging feature(s) of power disc(s) in the drive core engages the driving features of the input disc causing rotation of each power disc. As the power disc(s) is rotated, the engaging feature(s) of each power disc(s) engages the driving features of the output disc causing rotation of the output disc. |
| US12085147B2 |
Line guide with support chain for clean room applications and support chain thereof
A cable run arrangement for clean room applications, which is movable forming two strands and a deflecting bend. The cable run arrangement comprises: a flexible sleeve having a plurality of receiving channels, arranged alongside one another, for supply lines, and at least one support chain, which cooperates with the sleeve in order to support at least one associated receiving channel in a stretched position. According to the invention, the support chain forms a support surface, the width of which is greater than the corresponding dimension of the free cross section of the associated receiving channel. The invention also relates to a support chain per se, which forms a support surface, the width of which amounts to at least three times the distance of the support surface from the opposite side of the support chain. |
| US12085145B2 |
Universal tie-down apparatus and method of use
An apparatus for securely joining ropes for rope suspension or payload tie down. The apparatus includes a two substantially identical channel assemblies configured having a first bend to form a rope groove on one end and a second bend to form a cam channel on the other end, the cam channel having a rivet hole and a pin therethrough to enable a cam to rotate therein, and an attachment mechanism to secure the channel assemblies back-to-back thereto. By opening the cam of either assembly, a rope may be threaded through the rope grove, then again on the opposite assembly. The rope can be pulled from its end away from the assemblies to tighten prior to closing the cam(s) upon the ropes. The rope can further be secured by continuing to pull after the cam has been closed, or by using an optional tightening mechanism and method. A method of tying down cargo or rope suspension using the apparatus of the disclosure for uses such as general-purpose camping, hiking, and other general-purpose tie-down and/or suspension uses of ropes. A method of tightening one or more ropes using the tie-down apparatus disclosed. |
| US12085137B2 |
Suspension device
A suspension device includes: a hydraulic damper including a rod provided with a valve for generating a hydraulic pressure when the rod is displaced between a first liquid chamber and a second liquid chamber; an electric damper configured to electrically displace the rod by an actuator; and a communication passage that establishes communication between the first liquid chamber and the second liquid chamber while bypassing the valve during operation of the electric damper. |
| US12085136B2 |
Vibrational decoupling interface
A vibrational decoupling interface connects between handle shafts of power tools such as lawnmowers, line trimmers and the like. The interface has a housing coupled to one of the shafts and having a channel having a first magnet at a first end thereof and a second magnet at a second end thereof. The channel further has a travelling magnet travelling between the first and second magnets, the magnets arranged such that the travelling magnet is repelled from the first and second magnets and the travelling magnet is coupled to the other shaft to thereby reduce the transmission of vibration between the shafts. |
| US12085135B2 |
Decoupler for endless drive arrangement
In an aspect, a decoupler is provided for mounting to a shaft in an accessory drive between an engine and an accessory in a vehicle. The decoupler includes a pulley, a hub, a wrap spring clutch, an isolation spring, and a carrier that is positioned to hold an end of the wrap spring clutch and an end of the isolation spring. The carrier has a slot for holding the end of the wrap spring clutch and wherein the slot has a slot exit through which the wrap spring clutch exits from the slot to wrap around an exterior of the carrier. The carrier has a bridge configured to fail before the end wall fails. This permits the carrier to open radially so as to bring the end wall into abutment with a wall of the pulley reducing stress in the end wall. |
| US12085132B2 |
Modified vehicle transmission
A kit for modifying an OE vehicle transmission includes a replacement forward piston housing, forward clutch hub and a forward clutch and a replacement direct piston housing, direct clutch hub and a direct clutch. A drum extends between and operably connects the replacement forward piston housing and direct piston housing. The kit includes a replacement sprag shaft. The forward clutch hub and forward clutch and the direct clutch hub and direct clutch are positioned between the forward piston housing and the direct piston housing. At least a portion of the forward clutch and at least a portion of the direct clutch are operably mounted to the drum. The forward piston housing and direct piston housing do not counter rotate relative to one another. A power flow module for an OE vehicle automatic transmission is disclosed. |
| US12085131B2 |
System and method for determining degradation of rotating coupling using rotation sensors
A system and method utilize a first rotation sensor that provides a first signal indicative of a first rotation of a first end of a rotating coupling. The rotating coupling has an articulating member mechanically coupling the first end to a second end. A second rotation sensor provides a second signal indicative of a second rotation of the second end of the rotating coupling. A processor is coupled to the first and second rotation sensors and is operable to determine a relationship between the first and second rotations based on the first and second signals. Based on the relationship, the processor estimates at least one of a degradation of and a remaining useful life of the rotating coupling. |
| US12085127B2 |
Segmental bearing device comprising an interference region, and swivel level arrangement comprising the segmental bearing device
A segmental bearing device includes a plurality of rolling elements, a segmental cage for receiving the plurality of rolling elements, and a partial shell. The segmental cage has a first end region and a first interference region disposed in the first end region. The partial shell has a bearing race for the plurality of rolling elements, and first and second axial guide flanges for axially guiding the segmental cage. The first interference region lies against the first axial guide flange, axially clamping the segmental cage. The segmental cage may also include a second end region, axially opposite the first end region, and a second interference region disposed in the second end region. The second interference region lies against the second axial guide flange, axially clamping the segmental cage. |
| US12085125B2 |
Composite shaft
A filament wound composite fibre reinforced polymer shaft comprising helical wound fibres, the shaft having at least one hole perpendicular to an axis of the shaft; wherein fibre paths of the helical wound fibres divert around the hole. The hole can be used as an attachment point to connect the shaft to other parts, e.g. by means of a pin passed directly through the hole. The amount of metal used in this type of connection can be significantly reduced compared to using metal end fittings, thus greatly reducing cost and weight of the whole system. Fibres are diverted around the hole rather than the hole being cut through the fibres which would reduce the strength of the shaft as a whole. By diverting the fibres around the hole, the fibres retain their load bearing properties and the strength of the shaft is maintained even in the presence of the hole. |
| US12085123B2 |
Hinge assembly and electronic device
A hinge assembly includes: a fixed supporting piece; a rotating assembly, movably connected with the fixed supporting piece and including a first limiting portion; and a locking mechanism, disposed on the fixed supporting piece and including a limiting piece which includes a second limiting portion matched with the first limiting portion. The fixed supporting piece slides relative to the rotating assembly in a direction perpendicular to an axial direction of the rotating assembly in a rotation process of the rotating assembly, so that the first limiting portion is connected with the second limiting portion or the first limiting portion is separated from the second limiting portion; when the first limiting portion is connected with the second limiting portion, the two limiting portions are matched with each other to limit rotation of the rotating assembly; when separated, limiting of the rotating assembly is released. |
| US12085121B1 |
Latch improvement for overhead frame corners
Improved latches for overhead corners which reduce the susceptibility of bundled frame components becoming unlatched and separated due to insufficient torque of latch knobs or to repeated shock. The improved latches retain the prior art notched latches along with their strength and simplicity, but are capable of absorbing shock by accommodating a rotational dynamic present in a latch-to-strike connection rather than attempting to prevent it. One of two styles of moveable, pressure-actuated latch keepers is joined to a notched latch of an overhead frame. One style of keeper provides a barrier into the latch's notch, while another style of keeper provides a barrier relative to the strike's features. The latch keepers provide a predetermined amount of resistance to a radial force applied to the latch. This force retains the strike into the latch's notch in a fully-seated orientation, yet allows for the beneficial shock-absorbing rotational movement of the latch to the strike. This use of pressure-actuated keepers eliminates the need for the prior art latch knob and thus also eliminates the subjectivity associated with determining the proper degree of torque required to sufficiently secure the latch to the strike under a range of conditions. |
| US12085115B2 |
Locking carabiner
A climbing instrument that comprises a first ring, a second ring that is larger than and engaged with the first ring. The second ring may comprise a gate that traverses a portion of the second ring and a rotatable cylinder that is positioned opposite the first ring and integrated within the second ring. The climbing instrument may also comprise a plurality of curved protrusions connected to and extending out and away from at least one of the first ring and the second ring. |
| US12085114B2 |
Multifunction carabiner
The present invention extends to a carabiner intended for use as an adjustable anchor or a belay device. In general, implementations include a carabiner that includes a frame defining a hole and a gate. More specifically, implementations include a carabiner having a spine with an elongated slot portion having a first slot wall and a second slot wall that define a hole through the spine of the frame. Additionally, some implementations include a carabiner kit with a first carabiner having an elongated slot portion on the spine, a second carabiner, a pinching mechanism formed by linking the first and second carabiners together, and a rope that goes through the elongated slot portion, around the second carabiner, and back out the elongated slot portion of the first carabiner to enable the pinching mechanism to selectively pinch the rope for use as an adjustable anchor or a belay device. |
| US12085113B2 |
Wall anchors and assemblies for heavyweight objects
Wall anchors and assemblies of the present disclosure include a plate, one more prongs, and a load bearing structure. The prongs are typically integral with a side edge of the plate and are typically curved in an upward towards the top edge of the plate. |
| US12085112B2 |
Flat roof mounting device
A roof-mounting device for covering a roof penetration in a roof includes a base having an open top, an open bottom, and an outer perimeter structure. An internal reservoir of the device is in communication with the open top and the open bottom, and a mount plate is disposed in the internal reservoir extending between opposed ends of the outer perimeter structure. A bore is formed in the mount plate below the top of the base, the bore for receiving a fastener for fastening the mounting device at the roof penetration. When the bore receives the fastener therein, the internal reservoir is unsevered, remaining in communication with the open top and open bottom of the base. |
| US12085109B2 |
Single point actuation low-profile lock ring for a mechanical seal
A mechanical seal that employs a lock ring assembly having associated therewith a locking mechanism. The locking mechanism can include a nut element, such as a barrel nut, that allows an associated bolt element to adjust a tightening load and position while clamping occurs of the components of the mechanical seal. This adjustment flexibility removes or reduces unwanted bending stresses in the bolt element, thus allowing for more torque to translate directly to the lock ring. The barrel nut allows for more material to remain in the lock ring, thus providing for additional overall strength relative to a traditional locking element. The lock ring also includes a plurality of flex regions in the form of notches that allow the lock ring to flex when the main body is tightened about the shaft. |