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US12175148B2	Printing device and print management system A printing device includes a print engine and a controller. The print engine is configured to perform printing until an allowed printing amount reaches a first threshold value. The allowed printing amount is decreased from an initial value as printing proceeds, while increased in accordance with a particular guaranteed printing amount guaranteed by a printing privilege given to a user. The controller is configured to obtain a print job, detect that the allowed printing amount reaches the first threshold value, interrupt the print job when the allowed printing amount reaches the first threshold value, and determine whether a particular condition is satisfied when the allowed printing amount reaches the first threshold value. When the particular condition is not satisfied, the controller deactivates an unprocessed part of the print job. When the particular condition is satisfied, the unprocessed part of the print job is retained so as to be resumed.
US12175147B2	Server, printing system, information processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium A server is connected to a first printing service system and a second printing service system that is connected to an image processing device. The server includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a job state of printing processing executed by the image processing device from the second printing service system, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the job state to the first printing service system when the job state is acquired from the second printing service system.
US12175145B2	Image-forming device and system including image-forming device group including first and second image-forming devices, server, and management terminal An image-forming device includes: a main casing to which a consumable having a consumable memory is attachable; a main memory; a communication interface; and a controller. The main memory is capable of storing: common identification information representing an image-forming device group including the image-forming device and another image-forming device; and settings information including a setting related to an operation of the image-forming device. The controller is configured to perform: in response to determining that the common identification information is stored in the main memory, an acquisition process; and a storage process. In the acquisition process, the controller acquires, from an external device via the communication interface, settings information stored in a main memory of the other image-forming device included in the image-forming device group corresponding to the common identification information. In the storage process, the controller stores the settings information in the main memory of the image-forming device.
US12175144B2	Information processing apparatus that displays information indicating whether different functions are available in different regions of a selection screen, control method, and storage medium A technique for increasing user convenience is provided. An information processing apparatus includes a determination unit configured to determine whether a predetermined function of the information processing apparatus has a use limitation, a setting unit configured to set information indicating a state relating to use of the predetermined function, and a display unit configured to display, on a display portion of the information processing apparatus, the information indicating the state relating to use of the predetermined function set by the setting unit, wherein in a case where it is determined by the determination unit that the predetermined function has a use limitation, the setting unit makes a setting such that the information indicating the state relating to use of the predetermined function includes information indicating that the predetermined function has a use limitation.
US12175137B2	Image forming apparatus and control method for excellent usability for users using print data An image forming apparatus using an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet and a display unit configured to display information includes at least one controller, the at least one controller configured to function as a management unit configured to manage print data in association with user information, the management unit configured to discriminably manage information about previously-printed print data and information about unprinted print data, and a unit configured to display on the display unit a user selection screen on which a plurality of selection objects corresponding to the user information is arrangeable and on which the selection object corresponding to the user information associated with the unprinted print data is arranged while no selection object corresponding to the user information associated with the previously-printed print data but not associated with the unprinted print data is arranged.
US12175134B2	Abort handling by host controller for storage device A host system operates to manage a storage device. The host system initiates an abort of a command when the command has been fetched from a submission queue (SQ) of the host system and the SQ entry has been fetched from the SQ and the host system has not received a corresponding command completion response from the storage device. The host system sends an abort request to the storage device, and issues a cleanup request to direct a host controller to reclaim host hardware resources allocated to the command. The host system adds a completion queue (CQ) entry to a CQ and sets an overall command status (OCS) value of the CQ entry to indicate completion of the abort request.
US12175133B2	Predictive media management for read disturb Methods, systems, and devices for predictive media management for read disturb are described. A read disturbance manager can monitor a bit error rate for a block of a memory die. The read disturbance manager can detect that a degradation of the bit error rate satisfies a degradation threshold specific to the memory die. In some cases, the read disturbance manager can perform a write operation to write data from the block of the memory die to a second block of the memory die based on detecting that the degradation of the bit error rate satisfies the degradation threshold.
US12175132B2	Control device and control method According to an embodiment, a control device executes control processing based on data stored in a first storage device and a second storage device while performing rewrite in the first storage device. The control device stores a memory image relating to the first storage device at a point of time, at which activation processing is terminated, in a non-limited storage area of the second storage device, the activation processing being based on the data stored in the limited storage area of the second storage device without being based on the data stored in the first storage device. The control device starts the control processing from the point of time, at which the activation processing is terminated, after loading the memory image stored in the non-limited storage area of the second storage device in the first storage device in the activation processing of the control processing.
US12175130B2	Computational storage and networked based system Methods, systems, and apparatuses related to computational storage are described. For example, storage accessible to an accelerator may be shared between and, accessible to either of, a host and the accelerator. A computational storage system may include storage providing a portion of a shared file system accessible by a host and by accelerator logic of the computational storage system. Host interface logic may be configured to receive a storage command from the host to store data on the storage at a time the data is created. The host interface logic may be further configured to receive a storage command from the host for the accelerator logic to perform a computational task using the stored data on the storage. The accelerator logic can perform the computational task using the stored data on the storage.
US12175125B2	Data storage devices, systems, and related methods for grouping commands of doorbell transactions from host devices Aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to data storage devices, systems, and related methods that group commands of doorbell transactions from host devices into a plurality of groupings. A controller of a data storage device is configured to receive a plurality of submission doorbell transactions comprising a plurality of commands from a host device. The controller is configured to group the plurality of commands of the plurality of submission doorbell transactions into a plurality of groupings having a grouping order. Each grouping of the plurality of groupings corresponds to a single doorbell transaction of the plurality of submission doorbell transactions. The controller is configured to send one or more completion doorbell transactions to the host device. Each completion doorbell transaction of the one or more completion doorbell transactions identifies a completed grouping of the plurality of groupings.
US12175115B2	Memory device and method for monitoring the performances of a memory device The present disclosure relates to method for checking the reading phase of a non-volatile memory device including at least an array of memory cells and with associated decoding and sensing circuitry and a memory controller, the method comprises: storing in a dummy row associated to said memory block at least internal block variables and a known pattern; performing a reading of said dummy row; comparing a result of the reading with the known pattern; trimming the parameters of the reading and/or swapping the used memory block based on the result of the comparing.
US12175113B2	Method, electronic device, and computer program product for flushing data In techniques for flushing data, based on a maturity level of a storage segment, the storage segment is inserted into a list to be flushed corresponding to the maturity level in a plurality of lists to be flushed, the plurality of lists to be flushed respectively correspond to different maturity levels, and the maturity level at least indicates a proportion of the number of data-written blocks to the total number of blocks of the storage segment; and the list to be flushed for the corresponding maturity level in the plurality of lists to be flushed is flushed to a disk array according to a descending order of the maturity levels. In this way, the bandwidth utilization of the disk array can be improved.
US12175111B2	Data migration techniques Methods, systems, and devices for data migration techniques are described. The memory system may receive a command associated with a write operation from a host device. The memory system may determine whether to use a data migration technique for writing data to the memory device based on receiving the command. In some cases, the memory system may select a tri-level write format instead of a quad-level write format for writing the data and write the data using the tri-level write format. The memory system may convert the data from the tri-level write format to the quad-level write format based on writing the data using the tri-level write format.
US12175110B2	Memory system and information processing system According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a non-volatile memory and a controller. The controller manages validity of data in the non-volatile memory using a data map. The data map includes first fragment tables. Each of the first fragment tables stores first and second information. The first information indicates the validity of each data having a predetermined size written in a range of physical address in the non-volatile memory allocated to the first fragment table. The second information indicates the validity of a plurality of data having a predetermined size in each of entries. The controller selects a write destination block based on a size of write data to be written to the non-volatile memory by a write command from a host.
US12175103B1	Systems and methods for mapping data structures to memory in multi-level memory hierarchies Systems and methods for analyzing memory architectures and for mapping data structures in software programs to appropriate memory to take advantage of the different memory architectures. A computer architecture having a processor connected to one or more first memories and one or more second memories is defined, wherein the first memories and the second memories are characterized by different performance profiles. An executable of a software program is instrumented to capture, during runtime, patterns of access to selected data structures of the executable. Based on an analysis of the patterns of access, allocation of the selected data structures between the first and second memories is determined.
US12175102B2	Dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) phase training update A phase training update circuit operates to perform a phase training update on individual bit lanes. The phase training update circuit adjusts a bit lane transmit phase offset forward a designated number of phase steps, transmits a training pattern, and determines a first number of errors in the transmission. It also adjusts the bit lane transmit phase offset backward the designated number of phase steps, transmits the training pattern, and determines a second number of errors in the transmission. Responsive to a difference between the first number of errors and the second number of errors, the phase training update circuits adjusts a center phase position for the bit lane transmit phase offset of the selected bit lane.
US12175099B2	Semiconductor memory device and memory system including the same A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array including a plurality of memory cell rows and a row hammer management circuit. The row hammer management circuit stores counted values in count cells of each of the plurality of memory cell rows as count data, and performs an internal read-update-write operation to read the count data from the count cells of a target memory cell row from among the plurality of memory cell rows, to update the count data that was read to obtain updated count data, and to write the updated count data in the count cells of the target memory cell row. The row hammer management circuit includes a hammer address queue. The row hammer management circuit changes the updated count data randomly, based on an event signal indicating a state change of the hammer address queue.
US12175098B2	Storage device According to one embodiment, a storage device includes a nonvolatile memory and a controller. The controller manages first user identification information and first authentication information including a hash value calculated from the first user identification information and a first device identification information of a first client device. The controller receives an access request to the nonvolatile memory, user identification information, and authentication information transmitted from an external device, and accepts the access request in a case where the user identification information received matches the first user identification information, and the authentication information received matches the first authentication information.
US12175097B2	Storage optimization for serverless functions An illustrative method includes a storage-aware serverless function management system determining a status of a serverless system that implements one or more serverless functions configured to access one or more components of a storage system, determining a utilization of the storage system, and requesting that the storage system adjust storage of data in the storage system based on the status of the serverless system and the utilization of the storage system.
US12175091B2	Supporting a stateless controller in a storage system Supporting a stateless controller in a storage system, including: sending, from a storage system controller to a storage device, a request for one or more locations of control information for the storage device, the storage system controller being external to the storage device; receiving, from the storage device, the one or more locations of one or more memory blocks that include the control information; and retrieving, from the storage device, the control information from the one or more memory blocks.
US12175084B2	Managing input/output (I/O) operations at a storage device based on resource capability of the storage device Managing input/output (I/O) operations at a storage device, including receiving, at storage device, a first set of input/output (I/O) operations at a first throughput; processing, at the storage device, the first set of I/O operations; determining, in response to processing the first set of I/O operations, that a resource capability of the storage device is below a threshold; setting, in response to determining that the resource capability of the storage device is below the threshold, a congestion bit associated with the storage device to a first value; receiving, at the storage device, a second set of I/O operations at a second throughput based on the first value of the congestion bit; determining that the second throughput of the second set of I/O operations is less than the first throughput of the first set of I/O operations, and in response, processing, at the storage device, the second set of I/O operations.
US12175083B2	Native pipeline element abstract support in storage system Techniques for supporting a native pipeline element abstract for use in processing and storing data objects in a storage environment. The techniques include providing a data object processing pipeline for execution on a storage system, ingesting, by the data object processing pipeline, data objects collected by a plurality of computerized devices coupled to the storage system, performing queuing and processing of the data objects at a series of processing elements of the data object processing pipeline, and providing the processed data objects from the storage system to a host computer for subsequent use or analysis. In this way, the number of storage requests needed to be handled by the storage system can be reduced. Moreover, because the data object processing pipeline can be implemented and executed on the storage system, the processing and storage of data objects in the storage environment can be performed more efficiently and optimized more easily.
US12175082B2	Method and apparatus for dynamically managing shared memory pool A method and an apparatus for dynamically managing a shared memory pool are provided, to determine, based on different service scenarios, a shared memory pool mechanism applicable to a current service scenario, and then dynamically adjust a memory pool mechanism based on the determined result. The method for dynamically managing a shared memory pool includes: determining a first shared memory pool mechanism for the shared memory pool, where the first shared memory pool mechanism is a fixed memory pool mechanism or a dynamic memory pool mechanism; determining a second shared memory pool mechanism suitable for a second service scenario based on the second service scenario, where the second shared memory pool mechanism is a fixed memory pool mechanism or a dynamic memory pool mechanism; and when the second shared memory pool mechanism is different from the first shared memory pool mechanism, adjusting the first shared memory pool mechanism to the second shared memory pool mechanism.
US12175080B2	Dynamic metro configuration using storage area network (SAN) response time hints from host computer Techniques for dynamically configuring a multi-site storage system such as a metro cluster using input/output (IO) response time (RT) hints from a host computer. The techniques include receiving IO RT hints at each storage appliance of the multi-site storage system from the host computer, which is initially identified as “local” or “remote” relative to a physical location of the storage appliance. The techniques further include modifying, by the storage appliance, an initial local or remote identification of the host computer relative to the physical location of the storage appliance based on the received IO RT hints, dynamically changing, by the storage appliance, states of IO paths between the host computer and nodes of the storage appliance based on the modified local or remote identification of the host computer, and providing, by the storage appliance, notification of the changed states of the IO paths to the host computer.
US12175077B2	Semiconductor storage device According to one embodiment, a semiconductor storage device includes a volatile memory, nonvolatile memory chips, channels, nonvolatile memory interfaces, and a bus arbiter. Each of the channels is connected to at least one nonvolatile memory chip of the nonvolatile memory chips. Each of the nonvolatile memory interfaces is connected to at least one channel of the channels and controls the at least one nonvolatile memory chip via the connected channel. The bus arbiter controls use of a bus in data transfer between the volatile memory and each of the nonvolatile memory chips in accordance with a bandwidth of the bus.
US12175075B2	Method for improving message storage efficiency of network chip, device, and storage medium A method for improving message storage efficiency of a network chip, a device, and a storage medium are provided. The method comprises: configuring a data memory, dividing the data memory into N small RAMs, and managing respective RAMs by means of a link list; in a case where a write data request is received on any input interface, parsing and acquiring a channel number corresponding to the input interface, accessing a channel write state memory according to the channel number to acquire channel write state information, in a case of determining, according to the channel write state information, that at least one RAM is null, writing data into the data memory; and in a case where a read-out scheduling request is received on any channel, recombining data according to memory information in a link list memory and reading the recombined data out.
US12175073B2	Reusing remote registers in processing in memory Systems, apparatuses, and methods for reusing remote registers in processing in memory (PIM) are disclosed. A system includes at least a host processor, a memory controller, and a PIM device. When the memory controller receives, from the host processor, an operation targeting the PIM device, the memory controller determines whether an optimization can be applied to the operation. The memory controller converts the operation into N PIM commands if the optimization is not applicable. Otherwise, the memory controller converts the operation into a N−1 PIM commands if the optimization is applicable. For example, if the operation involves reusing a constant value, a copy command can be omitted, resulting in memory bandwidth reduction and power consumption savings. In one scenario, the memory controller includes a constant-value cache, and the memory controller performs a lookup of the constant-value cache to determine if the optimization is applicable for a given operation.
US12175068B2	Electronic signatures over an online sharing session A document management system manages documents. The documents are managed such that the documents may be shared with one or more users during an online sharing session for electronic signing. During the online sharing session, one or more documents are collaboratively reviewed by one or more participants of the online sharing session. The one or more documents are e-signed at least one of the participants of the online sharing session.
US12175064B2	Device having a folding screen and its image processing method An image processing method, an electronic device, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are provided. The method is performed by an electronic device having a folding screen and includes: when a first image is displayed on the folding screen, receiving a first folding operation performed by a user on the folding screen. The method further includes processing the first image in response to the first folding operation, to obtain a target image. The method also includes displaying the target image on the folding screen.
US12175061B2	Apparatus and method of controlling image display Provided is an image display system displaying an image obtained from an image capturing device. A method of operating a terminal in the image display system includes displaying a first user interface (UI) screen including the image through a display, obtaining a first user input indicating a pointing position in the image, generating a first enlarged image of an enlargement target area corresponding to the pointing position, in response to the first user input, and displaying a second UI screen including the first enlarged image through the display, wherein an input time of the first user input is greater than or equal to a preset threshold time.
US12175060B2	Electronic device and controlling method of electronic device An electronic device and a controlling method thereof are provided. An electronic device includes a memory configured to store at least one instruction and a processor configured to execute the at least one instruction and operate as instructed by the at least one instruction. The processor is configured to: obtain a first image; based on receiving a first user command to correct the first image, obtain a second image by correcting the first image; based on the first image and the second image, train a neural network model; and based on receiving a second user command to correct a third image, obtain a fourth image by correcting the third image using the trained neural network model.
US12175059B2	Method and electronic device for navigating application screen Provided are an electronic device for navigating an application screen, and an operating method thereof. The method may include receiving a user input; determining, based on the user input, a user intent for controlling the electronic device; determining a command for performing a control operation corresponding to the user intent as a goal; identifying elements of a user interface on the screen of the application; determining, based on the user intent and the elements of the user interface, at least one sub-goal for executing the command; and executing the command by performing at least one task corresponding to the at least one sub-goal, wherein the at least one sub-goal is changeable based on a validation of an operation of navigating the application for executing the command, and the at least one task includes units of action for navigating the application.
US12175057B2	Switching multimedia content based on a respective act Provided herein are a method and apparatus for providing multimedia content, and device and storage medium. The method described herein includes: playing, within a first page, a first multimedia content of a first group of multimedia content, the first group of multimedia content including a plurality of multimedia content having at least the same multimedia property; receiving a first indication related to a first act; switching, within the first page, to play a second multimedia content adjacent to the first multimedia content in the first group of multimedia content, based on a first direction indicated by the first act; and if receiving a second indication related to a second act, switching, within the first page, to play a third multimedia content in a second group of multimedia content, wherein the second group of multimedia content is different from the first group of multimedia content and includes at least one multimedia content. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, an aggregated play of the plurality of multimedia can be provided, improving the efficiency of pushing the multimedia content.
US12175055B2	Display method, sample analyzer, and recording medium A display method according to one or more aspects may be a method used in a sample analyzer comprising holders configured to hold reagent containers of reagents used for an analysis of a sample. The display method may include: displaying, on a display unit, icons respectively associated with the holders; receiving selection of icons from the icons displayed on the display unit; and receiving an instruction for a predetermined operation relevant to the selected icons.
US12175054B2	Virtual user input controls in a mixed reality environment A wearable display system includes a mixed reality display for presenting a virtual image to a user, an outward-facing imaging system configured to image an environment of the user, and a hardware processor operably coupled to the mixed reality display and to the imaging system. The hardware processor is programmed to generate a virtual remote associated with a parent device, render the virtual remote and the virtual control element on the mixed reality display, determine when the user of the wearable system interacts with the virtual control element of the virtual remote, and perform certain functions in response to user interaction with a virtual control element of the virtual remote. These functions may include generation the virtual control element to move on the mixed reality display; and when movement of the virtual control element surpasses a threshold condition, generate a focus indicator for the virtual control element.
US12175051B2	Method and apparatus for finger input sensing A method and apparatus are provided for effecting an RFID-based finger input sensing system using a transmission line connected to at least two RFID tags, by analyzing a plurality of features relating to the number of spikes in the derivatives of the RSS, timing of maximum RSS and the spikes of the RSS derivatives, relative RSS magnitude between the at least two RFID tags, and increase/decrease trend of the RSS, thereby eliminating the need for calibration and training.
US12175050B2	Method of manufacturing conductive member for touch panel and conductive member for touch panel Provided are a conductive member for a touch panel and a manufacturing method thereof, the conductive member having a conductive layer including an opaque conductive material on a flexible transparent insulating substrate, such that damage of the conductive layer is prevented. The manufacturing method of the conductive member including a first conductive layer, an interlayer insulating layer, and a second conductive layer in this order on the flexible substrate, includes: 1) forming the first conductive layer on the substrate; 2) forming the interlayer insulating layer; and 3) forming the second conductive layer, in which each of the steps 1 and 3 includes forming a fine metal wire using a photolithography method, a thickness of the interlayer insulating layer is 1 to 5 μm, and the bend resistance obtained by measuring the conductive member using a cylindrical mandrel method according to JIS-K5600-5-1 is less than 5 mm.
US12175049B2	Touch panel and mobile terminal with improved writing reliability Provided is a touch panel and a mobile terminal. A touch layer of the touch panel comprises a touch electrode group located in a display area; a touch lead group located at least in a non-display area and electrically connected to the touch electrode group; and an extended electrode group overlapping at least a portion of the touch lead group located in the non-display area. The touch electrode group and the extended electrode group are electrically connected to a target function chip located in the non-display area to achieve a target function.
US12175046B2	Display panel and touch component A display panel is provided. The display panel includes: a touch electrode layer including a plurality of touch electrodes, each of the touch electrodes includes a plurality of first grid units; and a touch electrode lead layer including a plurality of touch electrode leads, each of the touch electrode leads includes a plurality of second grid units, and the second grid units are arranged in one-to-one correspondence with the first grid units; wherein ratios of an overlap area between each of the second grid units and a corresponding one of the first grid units to an area of the corresponding first grid unit and to an area of the second grid unit are both less than 1.
US12175043B2	Touch substrate, display apparatus and display system A touch substrate, a display apparatus and a display system are provided. The touch substrate includes a base substrate including a photosensitive region; a plurality of photosensitive pixels in an array in the photosensitive region, each photosensitive pixel includes one non-visible light sensor, and a ratio of a side length of each photosensitive pixel to a distance between the non-visible light sensors of two adjacent photosensitive pixels is in a range from 25:24 to 12:11; and a plurality of bias lines on a side of the plurality of non-visible light sensors away from the base substrate, the plurality of bias lines include a plurality of first bias lines and a plurality of second bias lines crossing with each other, and at least one of the plurality of first bias lines and the plurality of second bias lines is electrically connected to each non-visible light sensor.
US12175041B2	Display device with frame frequency synchronization A display device is provided. The display device includes a display unit, a touch unit, a display driver configured to drive the display unit and including a synchronization signal generator, and a touch driver configured to drive the touch unit and including a synchronization signal receiver and a touch signal adjuster, wherein the synchronization signal generator is configured to generate a first synchronization signal supporting a frequency of a display signal applied to the display unit based on input frame frequency information and a second synchronization signal supporting the frequency of the display signal and including the frame frequency information, based on the frame frequency information and the first synchronization signal, and wherein the synchronization signal receiver is configured to receive the horizontal synchronization signal.
US12175040B2	Ultrasonic sensing devices The present disclosure provides a device for ultrasonic sensing, which includes a driver circuit configured to generate an ultrasonic signal, a piezoelectric element having a first electrode and a second electrode, a blocking transistor configured to connect the piezoelectric element with the second electrode to a fixed bias voltage, and a source rectifier including a gate, a drain, and a source electrically connected to the piezoelectric element and the blocking transistor. The piezoelectric element is coupled with the driver circuit with the first electrode. The blocking transistor includes a gate for receiving a blocking control signal, a drain electrically connected to the second electrode of the piezoelectric element, and a source electrically connected to the fixed bias voltage, wherein, in response to the blocking signal, the blocking transistor is configured to be turned on within a transmission period and to be turned off within a receiving period.
US12175038B2	Proximity detection for touch input devices Sensors capable of detection of user objects within different detection zones can be used to reduce power consumption of a touch screen interface of an electronic device, even while the device is in a suspended or sleep state. At least one object sensor, such as a capacitive sensor, has a detection zone or range exceeding the range of a touch screen sensor, so the touch screen sensor can be placed into a low power state until the object sensor detects a user object in a position approaching the touch screen. The object sensor(s) are positioned around or within the perimeter of the interaction area of the touch screen. The object sensor(s) can have less power consumption than the touch screen sensors, so the electronic device can have extended standby battery life or other more energy efficient operation. Object sensors are also used to detect gestures or user object positioning.
US12175031B2	Electronic device An electronic device includes a light emitting structure, a light conversion structure and an electrode. The light conversion structure is disposed on the light emitting structure. The electrode forms a mesh structure, and the mesh structure surrounds the light conversion structure in a top view of the electronic device.
US12175030B1	Pen mouse A pen mouse is provided for controlling a movement of a cursor displayed on a monitor. The pen mouse includes a pen and an optical detection module assembled in the pen. The optical detection module includes a circuit board, two sensors, and a laser emitter, the latter two of which are assembled onto the circuit board. When the pen mouse is moved along a working surface to implement a mouse control motion, the two sensors receive a detection light emitted from the laser emitter and reflected by the working surface, so as to determine whether the mouse control motion is a pen-tilted motion or a pen-spinning motion, thereby compensating the movement of the cursor.
US12175018B2	Methods for determining if teleoperation should be disengaged based on the user's gaze A method for disengaging a surgical instrument of a surgical robotic system comprising receiving a gaze input from an eye tracker; determining, by one or more processors, whether the gaze input indicates the gaze of the user is outside or inside of the display; in response to determining the gaze input indicates the gaze of the user is outside of the display, determining an amount of time the gaze of the user is outside of the display; in response to determining the gaze of the user is outside of the display for less than a maximum amount of time, pause the surgical robotic system from a teleoperation mode; and in response to determining the gaze of the user is outside of the display for more than the maximum amount of time, disengage the surgical robotic system from the teleoperation mode.
US12175017B2	Eye center of rotation determination with one or more eye tracking cameras A display system can include a head-mounted display configured to project light to an eye of a user to display virtual image content at different amounts of divergence and collimation. The display system can include an inward-facing imaging system possibly comprising a plurality of cameras that image the user's eye and glints for thereon and processing electronics that are in communication with the inward-facing imaging system and that are configured to obtain an estimate of a center of rotation of the user's eye using cornea data derived from the glint images. The display system may render virtual image content with a render camera positioned at the determined position of the center of rotation of said eye.
US12175016B2	Image display device and image display system Provided is a head-mounted image display device 100 including an image acquisition unit 104 that acquires a positional relationship image from which a positional relationship between a pupil position of an eyeball of a user and a visually recognizable region of the user can be estimated and a projection system 103 onto which incident light is projected, and the visually recognizable region is a focal position of the projection system 103. Further, the image display device 100 includes an imaging element, and the imaging element acquires the three-dimensional positional relationship image.
US12175013B2	System and method for a blended reality user interface and gesture control system A blended reality user interface and gesture control system includes one or more sensors, a head-mounted display, and a blending engine. The blending engine is configured to receive a live reality and virtual reality feeds, track movement of a user using the sensors, detect a command based on the tracked movement, blend the live and virtual reality feeds into a blended view based on the detected command, and display the blended view on the head-mounted display. In some embodiments, the blending engine is further configured to detect an amount of head tilt of the user and adjust a blending factor controlling an amount of transparency of the live reality feed within the blended view based on the amount of head tilt. In some embodiments, the blending engine is further configured to detect manipulation of a controller by the user and adjust the blending factor based on the detected manipulation.
US12175011B1	Systems and methods for virtual artificial intelligence development and testing Systems and methods are provided to create training data, validate, deploy and test artificial intelligence (AI) systems in a virtual development environment, incorporating virtual spaces, objects, machinery, devices, subsystems, and actual human action and behavior.
US12175005B2	Restricting plug-in application recipes Techniques for restricting plug-in application recipes (“PIARs”) are disclosed. A PIAR management application receives a PIAR restriction via an authenticated user of the PIAR management application. The PIAR restriction is applicable to certain users of the PIAR management application. The PIAR restriction identifies functionality of the PIAR management application that would otherwise be available to a user of the PIAR management application if the user had an active account for a particular plug-in application that, once linked to that user in the PIAR management application and associated with a particular PIAR, would be capable of supplying at least part of the functionality. The PIAR management application stores the PIAR restriction, including information to block the restricted functionality. Based on the PIAR restriction, the PIAR management application blocks the restricted functionality. Many different types of functionality may be restricted, in various ways.
US12175003B1	Method and system for monitoring website interaction without use of third party cookies This patent document describes a method and system which enables website operators to classify the behaviors of website visitors using a measurement script, without the use of third party cookies. The method includes providing multiple user-behavior-classification rule sets, each rule set including user actions for a corresponding behavior class, and including the rule sets in a measurement script. The script is configured to cause each user electronic device on which it is installed to, in response to detecting device interaction that correspond with at least one predefined user action of a behavior class, store, in a first party cookie, identifiers corresponding to the behavior classes. The method further includes making the script available to multiple web servers, each of which serves a unique website including one or more pages that provide access to the script, wherein the network server is not provided access to the first party cookies.
US12175001B2	Methods and systems for generating multimedia content based on processed data with variable privacy concerns In some embodiments, native asset data of an asset corresponding to a cross-platform profile may be monitored, where the cross-platform profile includes a profile linked to an account, for a user, that is used across multiple assets. An incident of the user may be detected via a machine learning model based on telemetry data extracted from the native asset data, where the machine learning model is trained to detect known incidents in training data including labeled telemetry data. A status of the cross-platform profile may be updated based on the incident, and the status may be generated for presentation in a user interface for the account. In response to receiving a user request to provide reconstructed asset data based on the incident, the reconstructed asset data may be generated based on the incident for presentation in the user interface for the account.
US12174999B2	Method for anonymizing movement data A method for anonymizing movement data of road users equipped with a position detection device involves collecting movement data in the form of individual time- and position-related data records and transmitting the collected movement data to a backend server. At least some data records are transmitted indirectly via at least one other vehicle, or the position or time reference in at least some data records is made noisy prior to the transmission.
US12174998B2	Multi-controller opt out system and method A system and method for processing a multiple data controller workflow fully honors data subject opt-outs but nevertheless takes advantage of the synergy of the combined data from multiple controllers to improve the effectiveness of messaging. A data services provider performs data resolution processing against the data from each data controller. Using the results of the resolution processing, opt-out lists that are in different formats and that may track different sorts of data may all be used for the joint campaign. Metadata is added to the data so that the source data controller is tracked through the processing. The data is then combined, resulting in a master opt-out list. If a data subject has opted out with respect to any controller, then the opt-out is applied to the joint campaign.
US12174997B2	Data obfuscation The present invention relates to a computer-implemented method for obscuring sensitive data. The method comprises: acquiring, by a processor, image data; extracting, by the processor, structured data from the image data, the structured data being sensitive data and having a defined functional format and a defined visual format; generating, by the processor, artificial data that is different from the structured data, the artificial data having the same functional format as the structured data; generating, by the processor, artificial image data based on the image data in which the structured data is replaced with the artificial data, the artificial data being based on the visual format of the structured data; and outputting, by the processor, the artificial image data.
US12174995B2	Method and apparatus for removing privacy sensitive objects in an augmented reality system A method includes receiving, at an intermediary layer, from a camera of a head mounted display (HMD), image data of a real-world operating environment of the HMD at a first time. The method further includes identifying, at the intermediary layer, one or more objects in the image data, determining, at the intermediary layer, coordinates of a region comprising the one or more identified objects, determining a display permission for the one or more identified objects, modifying the image data in the region comprising the one or more identified objects according to the display permission and outputting the modified image data to an application executing outside of the intermediary layer.
US12174994B2	User data collection privacy using probabilistic data structures A method of collecting user device data includes receiving a probabilistic cardinality estimator data structure in the user device from a server, the probabilistic cardinality estimator data structure associated with a survey question. An answer to the survey question associated with the probabilistic cardinality estimator data structure is determined, and one or more elements are selectively added to the probabilistic cardinality estimator data structure based on the determined answer to the survey question. The probabilistic cardinality estimator data structure is sent back to the server, which calculates the survey result from the probabilistic cardinality estimator data structure.
US12174993B1	Systems and methods for advanced privacy protection of personal information A server device is provided for protecting personal information. The server device includes a transceiver configured for operable communication with at least one client over a communication network, and a processor including a memory configured to store computer-executable instructions. When executed by the processor, the instructions cause the server device to store a database including one or more fields of personally identifiable information (PII), generate a query for the database to request access a first field of the one or more fields of PII, wherein the query includes a use for the requested field of PII, query the database to determine if the use for the requested field of PII is valid, and when the use for the request field of PII is valid, provide access to the requested field of PII data.
US12174991B2	Systems and methods for data access control of personal user data using a short-range transceiver Systems and methods for controlling data access through the interaction of a short-range transceiver, such as a contactless card, with a client device are presented. An exemplary system and method may include establishing a database storing identifiers and keys for users and service providers, receiving from a client device of the service provider, via a network, a service provider token and a request for a data access key, the request generated in response to a tap action between a contactless card associated with a user and the client device, verifying the service provider is authorized to receive access to personal user data encrypted and stored on the contactless card, generating a data access key based on a user key, and transmitting to the service provider client device, via the network, the data access key, such that the client device may decrypt the personal user data obtained from the contactless card.
US12174984B2	Application access logger The subject technology provides systems and methods for logging data access by applications. A first process executing on an electronic device may receive an access request from a second process executing on the electronic device. The access request may include a request to access data corresponding to a protected data category. Subsequent to receiving the access request, the first process may determine whether the second process is authorized to access the data. In response to determining that the second process is authorized to access the data, the first process may grant the second process access to the data, and then generate and store log data corresponding to the access of the data by the second process.
US12174983B2	System and method for managing material non-public information for financial industry A system for managing and publishing material non-public information (MNPI) over a communications network includes a database including a restricted area configured for storing MNPI documents, the restricted area located on an overlay network that requires special credentials to access, a web server for receiving the plurality of MNPI documents over the communications network, encrypting MNPI documents and storing the MNPI documents that were encrypted in the restricted area, at a predetermined time, unencrypting the MNPI documents and storing the MNPI documents that were unencrypted in an area of the database that is not restricted, generating and publishing a web page that is publicly available over the communications network, wherein the web page includes a separate link to each MNPI document that was unencrypted and wherein the web page is located on a web site of a company.
US12174982B2	Distributed and blockchain-based student academic ledger systems and methods Techniques for generating and maintaining a student academic ledger are disclosed. In some embodiments, student data is received from a first set of one or more members of a blockchain network. In response, one or more distributed ledgers are updated in the blockchain network. The distributed ledgers are accessible to a student member of the blockchain network using a private key. The blockchain network receives requests from the student member to initiate a transaction with a second set of one or more members that requires access to at least a subset of the student data. Responsive to the request, the second set of one or more members are granted access to at least the subset of the student data from at least one distributed ledger.
US12174978B2	Systems and methods to provide temporary document access for secure file sharing Techniques for providing temporary document access for secure file sharing are disclosed. An example method includes receiving a request from a first user to share a file, and generating, by an encryption module, a secure access link corresponding to the file that does not indicate a storage platform or a file name. The example method also includes transmitting the secure access link to a second user, and receiving an input from the second user during the accessibility duration corresponding to the secure access link. Responsive to receiving the input, the example method includes validating the access key to determine whether or not the second user should be granted access to the file; and responsive to determining that the user should be granted access to the file, retrieving an updated version of the file from the storage platform, and transmitting the updated version of the file to the second user.
US12174975B2	Database management using sort keys Techniques are disclosed for storing and retrieving large amounts of data in a non-relational database using sort keys. A server computer system may receive a request for raw data specifying a start timestamp and an end timestamp. The server determines a start key and an end key for performing a query on a distributed non-relational database storing key-value pairs, where the determining is based on the start timestamp and the end timestamp. The server may compare the start key and the end key to a sort key included in row keys of key-value pairs stored in the non-relational database. Based on the comparing, the server retrieves one or more rows of raw data from the non-relational database. The server generates a graphical representation of the one or more rows of raw data retrieved from the non-relational database. The disclosed techniques may advantageously improve the efficiency of a database management system.
US12174973B2	Processing system and corresponding method of operation A master device issues memory burst transaction requests via an interconnection bus to fetch data from a slave device. A cipher engine is coupled to the interconnection bus and decrypts the fetched data to produce plaintext data for the master device. The cipher engine selectively operates according to a stream cipher operation mode, or a block cipher operation mode. The cipher engine is configured to stall a read data channel of the interconnection bus between the slave device and the master device in response to the cipher engine switching from the block cipher operation mode to the stream cipher operation mode. The read data channel is reactivated in response to a last beat of a read burst of the plaintext data produced by the cryptographic engine.
US12174969B2	Continuous risk assessment for electronic protected health information Methods and systems for continuously and quantitatively assessing the risk to data confidentiality, integrity, and availability on identified on endpoints, servers, medical devices, and “Internet of things” devices in a networked healthcare environment monitor resource requests by user applications running on the various device. A map of resource usage by each application may be generated. Based on the map and a risk model (e.g., the contents of a risk database), application events associated with risks are detected and resources vulnerable to the risk may be identified.
US12174964B2	Dynamic account risk assessment from heterogeneous events Embodiments described herein provide for performing a risk assessment. A computer identifies and stores heterogeneous events between a user and a provider system in which the user interacts with an account. The computer may store the heterogeneous events in a table. The stored event information normalizes the events associated with an account. The computer may determine static risk contributions associated with the event information of the account and store the static risk contributions in the table. The computer groups the static risk contributions into predetermined groups. The static risk contributions in each group are converted into dynamic risk contributions. The dynamic risk contributions of each group are aggregated, and the aggregate value of the dynamic risk contributions are fed to a machine learning model. The machine learning model determines a risk score associated with the account.
US12174958B2	Apparatus for processing cyber threat information, method for processing cyber threat information, and medium for storing a program processing cyber threat information The disclosed embodiments relate to a cyber threat information processing apparatus, a cyber threat information processing method, and a storage medium storing a cyber threat information processing program. A disclosed embodiment provides a cyber threat information processing method including: a step to classify at least one executable file into a set of code blocks corresponding to at least one malware by performing conversion of such executable file and provide the classified set of block codes; a step to select one or more code blocks included in the classified set of code blocks and generate a new set of code blocks by combining such selected code blocks; and a step to predict new malware based on the set of code blocks generated as above and provide information about the new malware predicted.
US12174953B1	Systems and methods of detecting malicious powershell scripts Disclosed herein are systems and methods of executing scanning software, such an executable software program or script (e.g., PowerShell script), by a computing device of an enterprise, such as a security server, may instruct the computing device to search all or a subset of computing devices in an enterprise network. The scanning software may identify PowerShell scripts containing particular malware attributes, according to a malicious-code dataset. The computing system executing the scanning software may scan through the identified PowerShell scripts to identify particular strings, values, or code-portions, and take a remedial action according to the scanning software programming.
US12174951B2	Level estimation device, level estimation method, and level estimation program A level estimation apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to receive event logs of events detected by a device or software, and calculate degrees of similarity among the events indicated by the event logs with use of the event logs, and estimate a level of a predetermined event based on the calculated degrees of similarity among the events and a level of at least one of the events, wherein in the calculation of the degrees of similarity among the events, when a degree of similarity between events detected by different devices or items of software is calculated, a degree of similarity to a common event is used, the common event being an event that has been detected mutually by the different devices or items of software.
US12174942B2	Protection method, computer program product and associated systems A method for protecting the execution of a software module having at least one protected function, the method including: obtaining a digital identifier of the electronic controller; calculating, by way of a calculation function contained in the software module, a digital signature on the basis of the digital identifier; comparing the calculated digital signature with a predefined signature stored in the software module; authorizing the execution of the protected function if the calculated digital signature corresponds to the predefined digital signature, and declining to execute the protected function if the calculated digital signature does not correspond to the predefined digital signature.
US12174940B2	Application-level sandboxing on devices Execution of an application in an application-level sandbox is disclosed. A request to launch an application is received by an operating system executing on a device. A determination is made that a stored copy of the application should be executed within an application-level sandbox. The stored copy of the application is executed in the application-level sandbox.
US12174939B2	Method for the execution of a binary code of a computer program by a microprocessor A method for the execution of a binary code defining a data structure including a particular field to be read using a pointer, this method including writing, to the main memory, the value of the particular field associated with a first identifier of a pointer that points directly to this particular field, this identifier being determined from an identifier of the particular field that differs for all of the fields of the data structure that are adjacent to the particular field, and then constructing a pointer that points directly to this particular field, this construction including determining an identifier of this constructed pointer, and then checking that the identifier constructed in step b) corresponds to the identifier associated with this particular field in step a), and when these pointer identifiers do not match, triggering the signaling of an execution fault.
US12174937B2	Systems and methods for detecting anomalous post-authentication behavior with respect to a user identity Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer-readable storage mediums described herein are configured to detect anomalous post-authentication behavior with respect to a user identity. For example, one or more audit logs that specify a plurality of actions performed with respect to the user identity of a platform-based identity service, while the user identity is authenticated with the platform-based identity service, are analyzed. The audit log(s) are analyzed via an anomaly prediction model that generates an anomaly score indicating a probability whether a particular sequence of actions of the plurality of actions is indicative of anomalous behavior. A determination is made that an anomalous behavior has occurred based on the anomaly score. In response to determining that anomalous behavior has occurred, a mitigation action may be performed that mitigates the anomalous behavior.
US12174936B2	Remote programming of unique and secure supply tags A method for providing remote programming of a supply tag of a print supply used with an authorized entity's card personalization system is provided. The method includes an issuance server authenticating remote programming of the supply tag, receiving first supply tag data of the print supply including a first digital signature, updating the first supply tag data to obtain second supply tag data, and issuing a second digital signature based on the second supply tag data. The second digital signature secures the second supply tag data.
US12174931B2	Device access using a head-mounted device A head-mounted device (HMD) may be used to determine an access request for accessing a device. An identifier identifying the device may be received at the HMD and from the device. By verifying receipt of the identifier at the HMD, and that access rights associated with the HMD enable granting of the access request, the access request may be granted.
US12174930B2	Biometric ticketing In biometric ticketing, physical token-less ticketing system using biometrics, a person may be identified using a digital representation of a biometric. Ticketing information may be ascertained based on the identification. The ticketing information may be provided, actions may be performed using the ticketing information, and so on. In some implementations, a checkpoint device receives biometric data from a person. A digital representation of the biometric data is used to obtain an identifier from an identification system. The digital representation of the biometric data may not be included in the identifier. The identifier is used by to obtain ticketing information from a ticketing system. The person may be allowed or denied entry into a ticketed area based on the ticketing information.
US12174922B2	Method, computer program, computer program product and system for representing visual information The present disclosure relates to a computer implemented method for representing a data set comprising at least one n dimensional data element representing visual information, said method comprising obtaining (210) said data set, obtaining (220) a dictionary ensemble comprising a plurality of dictionaries each comprising at least one basis function (102), assigning (230) each at least one data element to a dictionary, wherein a set of basis functions represents an m dimensional transformation domain, transforming (240) the at least one data element with the corresponding dictionary of basis functions to the transformation domain wherein each data element is defined by an associated coefficient set, sparsifying (250) the coefficient sets, forming (260) the representation of the visual information comprising a coefficient data set and the corresponding dictionaries.
US12174921B2	Multimodal sentiment classification Sentiment classification can be implemented by an entity-level multimodal sentiment classification neural network. The neural network can include left, right, and target entity subnetworks. The neural network can further include an image network that generates representation data that is combined and weighted with data output by the left, right, and target entity subnetworks to output a sentiment classification for an entity included in a network post.
US12174918B2	Information processing apparatus and system, and model adaptation method and non-transitory computer readable medium storing program A model adapted to a predetermined system is adapted to another system with an environment or an agent similar to that of the predetermined system. Specifically, a first model adapted to a first system that is operated based on a first condition including a specific environment and a specific agent is corrected using a correction model to generate a second model. The second model is adapted to a second system that is operated based on a second condition, where the second condition is partially different from the first condition.
US12174917B2	Data processing method A data processing method is provided. The method includes: obtaining a sample data set for modeling; selecting a first sample data from the sample data set; generating, in response to determining that a similarity between a first semantic vector corresponding to a first feature dimension and a second semantic vector corresponding, to a second feature dimension meets a preset condition, a second sample data based on the first sample data; and adding the second sample data to the sample data set.
US12174916B2	Method and apparatus for contract analysis A method is provided comprising: obtaining a counterparty contract, the counterparty contract including a contract that is being proposed by a counterparty to a user; performing a segmentation of the counterparty contract to identify a plurality of sentence clusters, each of the sentence clusters corresponding to a different provision in the counterparty contract; generating a plurality of counterparty provision vectors based on the counterparty contract, each of the counterparty provision vectors being generated based on a different one of the plurality of sentence clusters; retrieving a user provision vector, the user provision vector corresponding to a user provision; calculating a plurality of similarity scores for the user provision vector; detecting whether the plurality of similarity scores satisfies a condition that is associated with the user provision; and outputting a notification associated with the user provision when the condition is satisfied.
US12174912B2	Quantum computation for cost optimization problems Methods, systems, and apparatus for solving cost optimization problems. In one aspect, a method includes receiving data representing a cost optimization problem in a network, wherein i) the network is represented as a graph of nodes and edges, and ii) each edge comprises an associated cost; mapping the data representing the cost optimization problem in a network to a quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) formulation of the cost optimization problem, the QUBO formulation comprising multiple variables with values determined by states of respective qubits, wherein each qubit corresponds to a respective edge of the graph of nodes and edges; obtaining data representing a solution to the cost optimization problem from a quantum computing resource; and initiating an action based on the obtained data representing a solution to the cost optimization problem.
US12174907B2	Graph convolutional networks with motif-based attention Various embodiments describe techniques for making inferences from graph-structured data using graph convolutional networks (GCNs). The GCNs use various pre-defined motifs to filter and select adjacent nodes for graph convolution at individual nodes, rather than merely using edge-defined immediate-neighbor adjacency for information integration at each node. In certain embodiments, the graph convolutional networks use attention mechanisms to select a motif from multiple motifs and select a step size for each respective node in a graph, in order to capture information from the most relevant neighborhood of the respective node.
US12174906B1	Utilizing a query response to automate a task associated with a webpage A query that includes one or more variables is received. The one or more variables correspond to one or more specific web elements associated with a webpage. Webpage content associated with the webpage that identifies a plurality of web elements associated with the webpage is processed. A script utilizing a query response that maps the one or more variables to a subset of the plurality of web elements associated with the webpage is generated.
US12174904B2	User-selectable link including multiple routing links A non-transitory computer-readable medium includes computer-executable instructions that cause a processing unit of a user device to receive a multi-link uniform resource locator (URL), wherein the multi-link URL is associated with a plurality of routing link URLs configured to route the user device to a plurality of corresponding application pages. The executable instructions cause the processing unit to receive user selection of the multi-link URL and rank the routing link URLs based on application installation data stored on the user device, wherein the application installation data indicates whether applications for the routing link URLs are installed on the user device. The executable instructions cause the processing unit to select a final routing link URL based on the ranking of the routing link URLs and access an application page associated with the final routing link URL.
US12174903B1	Search system and method having quality scoring A search system and method generates a quality score and/or a political lean score for a piece of content and returns the one or more scores to the user when returning search results from a query to the user. In one embodiment, the system and method may use artificial intelligence/machine learning to determine the one or more scores for each piece of content.
US12174901B2	Methods and systems for searching utilizing acoustical context Systems, controllers and methods for contextual-based searching are provided. A system includes one or more devices configured to collect at least one audio stream and a contextual search system. The contextual search system includes a data analyzer and a search engine. The data analyzer is configured to receive the at least one audio stream from among the one or more devices and to determine contextual information from the received at least one audio stream. The search engine is configured to perform a search of at least one search term using the contextual information, to produce a search result.
US12174900B2	Automatic updates to instruction documents using crowdsourcing In some implementations, an instruction management system may receive, from a plurality of user devices, a set of feedback associated with the instruction document. The instruction management system may identify a compliance activity associated with the instruction document and identify at least one location in the instruction document based on the set of feedback. The instruction management system may trigger an instruction to a tracking system to open a ticket associated with the compliance activity and the at least one location.
US12174896B2	Data structure visualization and management for real-time data Techniques and architectures for managing one or more data structures and/or distributing real-time data associated with the one or more data structures are discussed herein. For example, the techniques and architectures may implement data structures to manage data associated with one or more data-streaming events. The techniques and architectures may provide visualizations to view aspects of the data structures, the one or more data-streaming events, and/or other data associated with the data structures. The techniques and architectures may also facilitate control access to the data structures and/or data associated therewith.
US12174895B2	Systems and methods for social matching with partial, conditional image reveal Systems and methods for social matching with partial, conditional picture reveal are disclosed. A method may include: (1) receiving a profile and a picture from a plurality of users; (2) identifying a potential match between two users based on the profiles; (3) presenting an obscured or covered picture of the users to each other; (4) presenting a first question to the users; (5) receiving responses to the first question from the users; (6) determining, by the computer program, that the responses to the first question match; and (7) revealing, by the computer program, a first portion of the pictures to the users, wherein a first remaining portion of the pictures remains obscured or covered.
US12174893B2	Flexible baselines in a forecasting system In an embodiment, the a method is provided. The method includes receiving forecast data in a database with an associated window value. The method also includes accessing data based on associated window values. The method further includes comparing the data accessed based on associated window values to other data.
US12174892B2	Computerized system and method for extracting entity information from text communications and displaying content based therefrom Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content providing, searching and/or hosting systems supported by or configured with devices, servers and/or platforms. The disclosed systems and methods provide a novel framework for analyzing messages shared over a network and identifying information in them referencing entities based on a determined context of the messages. Once the entity information is identified, the disclosed framework segregates them based on the context, and then presents them in contextual views as content cards within or as part of generated, content-specific interfaces. The disclosed framework enables users to continue messaging while pivoting between different views of the generated interfaces, which enables the retrieval of additional information related to the entity information included on the content cards.
US12174891B2	Natural language query handling in multi-domain systems Systems and methods for responding to a natural language query are disclosed herein. A query for an entity associated with a plurality of content types is received via a user interface of a computing device. A determination is made as to whether the query specifies any one or more of the plurality of content types. In response to determining that the query specifies one or more of the plurality of content types, a response to the query is generated for visible or audible presentation via the computing device, with the response comprising results from the one or more specified content types. In response to determining that the query lacks specification of any one or more of the plurality of content types, a response to the query is generated for visible or audible presentation via the computing device, with the response comprising results from each of the plurality of content types.
US12174886B1	Interfaces and techniques for audio content access and playback A controller device is configured to (1) transmit, to a first remote computing device associated with a first music service, a request for a session token that is to be used for identifying an audio playback system with the first music service, (2) receive a first token for authenticating communications from the audio playback system to the first music service, (3) receive first user input indicating a query, (4) transmit a request comprising the first token to the first remote computing device to perform a search in accordance with the query, (5) present indications of music content provided by the first music service, (6) receive second user input indicating selection of given music content provided by the first music service, and (6) based on the second user input and a respective identifier for the given music content, cause at least one playback device to play back the given music content.
US12174885B2	Image selection apparatus, image selection method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium A query acquisition unit (610) acquires pose information (hereinafter, described as query pose information) that is information to be a query and indicates a pose of a person. A search information acquisition unit (620) acquires a plurality of pieces of search pose information. The search pose information is pose information about an image (hereinafter, described as a target image) to be a search target, and is stored in a database by a plurality of target images. A selection unit (630) selects, from among the plurality of pieces of search pose information, two or more pieces of the search pose information whose degree of similarity to the query pose information satisfies a reference. The selection processing becomes substantially processing of selecting a target image similar to an image (hereinafter, described as a query image) associated with the query pose information.
US12174884B2	Textual and image based search Described is a system and method for enabling visual search for information. With each selection of an object included in an image, additional images that include visually similar objects are determined and presented to the user.
US12174883B1	Retrieval and push method based on fine art image tag, and use thereof The present disclosure provides a retrieval and push method based on a fine art image tag, including the following steps: establishing a tag model database: training different tag contents with training samples of different subjects and different categories, and categorizing the training samples in the database according to knowledge point tags to obtain the tag model database; retrieval and push: uploading fine art work image samples to the trained tag model database, then extracting knowledge point tags of the fine art work image samples, retrieving associated fine art works, and then pushing the associated fine art works; real-time updating: recording knowledge point tags of input fine art work image samples by the tag model database in real time, and establishing a common tag and a model, and subsequently increasingly pushing contents relevant to the common tag; and generating a user portrait.
US12174878B2	Log provider recommendation using machine learning A method comprises receiving a request to log at least one operation of a plurality operations, wherein the request includes one or more features of the at least one operation. The one or more features are analyzed using one or more machine learning algorithms. The method further comprises selecting, based at least in part on the analyzing, a log provider of a plurality of log providers to log the at least one operation, and interfacing with the log provider to enable logging of the at least one operation.
US12174877B1	System and method for data gathering and visualization A system and method for measuring the quality of data reporting in a given medical study is presented. The instant innovation abstracts all relevant medical literature pertaining to a particular disease and categorizes the data and the study for quality and/or completeness. In an embodiment the instant innovation provides a system for study intake, permits user-determined search optimization, and provides for study data tagging. The innovation automates term inclusion and exclusion, automatically removing duplicates of previously collected study metadata, and then subjects the terms to a real-time sorting algorithm. Statistical analysis is performed upon included and excluded terms, and a representation of geometrical closeness from central tendency of any given data element is computed. The data elements and computed tendencies are reduced to a 2D visual representation and delivered to a user. The user may interact with the 2D visual representation using a device.
US12174875B2	Processes and systems for decentralization of data produced at the edge of a distributed computing system Computer-implemented processes and systems described herein are directed to reducing volumes of data sent from edge devices to a data center. Each edge device runs an agent that collects event information generated by event sources of the edge device in a runtime interval. Each agent reduces the event information to relevant event information at the edge device in accordance with instructions received from a controller server of the data center. The relevant event information contains less information than the event information. Each agent forwards the relevant event information over the internet to external services executed at the data center, where the relevant event information is stored in a data storage device of the data center.
US12174872B2	Method, apparatus, and computer program product for classification and tagging of textual data Provided herein are systems, methods and computer readable media for classification and tagging of textual data. An example method may include accessing a corpus comprising a plurality of documents, each document having one or more labels indicative of services offered by a merchant, generating a query based on extracted features and the documents, generating a precision score for at least a portion of the generated query and selecting a subset of the generated queries based on an assigned precision score satisfying a precision score threshold, the selected subset of the generated queries configured to provide an indication of one or more labels to be applied to machine readable text. A second example method, utilized for tagging machine readable text with unknown labels, may include assigning a label to textual portions of the machine readable text based on results of the application of the queries.
US12174869B2	Automated natural language generation and selection A method, system, and computer program product for implementing machine learning natural language digital package generation and selection is provided. The method includes receiving from hardware and software sources, factual data associated with an event. In response, natural language digital templates comprising natural language phrase variants for each portion of the factual data is generated. Factual data phrases are generated and packaged into digital packages including at least one natural language phrase variant with respect to each portion of factual data. An initial package is selected by minimizing a number of repetitions of the factual data phrases across the digital packages and digital summaries are extracted. Alignment attributes associated with the digital summaries are determined with respect to the initial package and a final package is selected. A hardware device is enabled for presenting a video stream including the final package with respect to the event.
US12174868B2	Methods and systems for displaying refreshment outlooks A system for displaying refreshment outlooks the system comprising a computing device, the computing device designed and configured to retrieve a user profile from a profile database; determine a refreshment position using the user profile; select current refreshment possibilities contained within the refreshment position; output a refreshment target, using the user profile; compare current refreshment possibilities and the refreshment target; and generate a refreshment outlook.
US12174863B2	Structuring of unstructured web posting Provided are systems and methods for improving understanding and access of unstructured text-based web postings. In one example, a method may include receiving a web posting comprising unstructured text, identifying one or more explicit attributes of an activity based on text expressly recited in the unstructured text, determining one or more hidden attributes of the activity not recited in the unstructured text based on a pattern of words included in the unstructured text, converting the unstructured text into a structured object format comprising the one or more explicit attributes and the one or more determined hidden attributes, and outputting the web posting with the structured object format for display via a user interface.
US12174862B2	Generating textual summary about physical location based on computing interactions pertaining to physical location Methods and apparatus for determining aspects of locations based on computing interactions of users that pertain to the locations. In some implementations, an aspect of a location may be determined based on comparing a first computing interaction measure for the location to a second measure. The first computing interaction measure may be determined based on a first group of computing interactions that pertain to the location. In some implementations, the second measure may be determined based on a second group of addition computing interactions. In some implementations, a textual summary may be generated automatically based on the first and/or second computing interaction measure, and/or based on the determined aspect.
US12174858B1	Device and method for data reuse-based resizing Provided are a device and a method for data reuse-based resizing. The device includes a memory that stores at least one process for performing data reuse-based resizing, and a processor that performs an operation according to the process. The processor resizes input data of (a×b) to output data of (a′×b′) (a and b being a natural number) and selects input data from the input data of (a×b) as much as a preset number necessary to output each output data, based on a reuse mode preset to each output data.
US12174856B2	Database group management A system and method include receiving request to create a database group, receiving selection of a database server virtual machine on which to create the database group, receiving selection of at least one database from a list of databases that are not part of another database group to add to the database group, receiving selection of a Service Level Agreement (“SLA”) and a protection schedule, and creating the database group on the database server virtual machine, including associating the database group with the SLA and the protection schedule and adding the at least one database to the database group. Each of the at least one database is protected using the same SLA and the protection schedule that is associated with the database group.
US12174855B2	Interrupted synchronization detection and recovery An example computer implemented method for updating a first version of a content item on a client device. The example method includes recording an indicator that the first version is going to be updated to a second version of the content item. The computer can then begin updating the first version of the content item to the second version of the content item. Next, the computer can determine that the updating of the content item was interrupted. The computer can then determine if the second version of the content item is the same version as a current version of the content item. The computer can then change a description in a cache and the indicator accordingly.
US12174852B1	Modeling of a non-relational database as a normalized relational database A system and method are disclosed for modeling a non-relational database as a normalized relational database. In one embodiment, the system identifies a column having a first type in a column-oriented, non-relational database; determines whether the column-oriented, non-relational database includes at least one column having a second type and identifies the one or more columns having the second type; virtually divides the column-oriented, non-relational database based on column type; and generates a normalized, relational model based on the virtual division of the column-oriented, non-relational database, the normalized, relational model including catalog information representing a parent table including the column having the first type and, when the column-oriented, non-relational database includes at least one column having the second type, catalogue information representing a child table, the parent table and child table both represented as relational tables.
US12174851B1	Correcting errors of a running extract, transform, load (ETL) process A method, system, and computer program product are configured to: receive, from a user device of a user, input indicating that a first extract, transform, and load (ETL) flow is incorrect and that a second ETL flow is correct; in response to receiving the input, determine whether a change made by the first ETL flow is reversible; in response to determining the change made by the first ETL flow is reversible, generate a corrective ETL flow that is configured to reverse the change made by the first ETL flow; and in response to determining the change made by the first ETL flow is not reversible, notify a user that the change made by the first ETL flow is not reversible, and inform the user which records have been changed such that they can do a manual correction.
US12174850B2	Generic data staging and loading using enhanced metadata and associated method A system and method is disclosed for providing data staging and loading through a master data management (MDM) system coupled with one or more business entities. The system is operable to invoke batch data loading of data associated with one or more source systems associated with the one or more business entities, into an input staging area. The system is further operable to load the data from the input staging area into a master repository and subsequently load the data from the master repository into an output staging area.
US12174849B2	Validation of ETL pipeline using assert data A computing system is provided, which is configured to instantiate a testing environment, define an extract, transform, load (ETL) pipeline within the testing environment, generate a test data set to be inputted into the ETL pipeline, generate assert data predicting an output of the ETL pipeline based on the generated test data set, input the test data set into the ETL pipeline to generate output data, compare the assert data to the output data, and validate the output data using the assert data to generate validation data.
US12174848B2	Automated extract, transform, and load process A computer-implemented method is provided for an automated extract, transform, and load process for a target database comprising linked data. During the data transformation phase linked data elements are added as data to a data set.
US12174847B2	Systems and method for processing timeseries data In some implementations, events measured at various points in time may be organized in a data structure that defines an event represented by a document. In particular, events can be organized in columns of documents referred to as buckets. These buckets may be indexed using B-trees by addressing metadata values or value ranges. Buckets may be defined by periods of time. Documents may also be geoindexed and stored in one or more locations in a distributed computer network. One or more secondary indexes may be created based on time and/or metadata values within documents.
US12174846B2	Scalable implementations of exact distinct counts and multiple exact distinct counts in distributed query processing systems Scalable implementations of exact distinct counts and multiple exact distinct counts in distributed query processing systems are implemented via systems and devices. Distinct counts and multiple exact distinct counts for identifiers/values are performed based on keys. For distinct counts, datasets including data fields are sorted by values of fields and divided into balanced partitions in distributed servers. Subsets of fields with the same value are partitioned together. Key presence is determined for subsets on each partition, and the number of instances for the key are aggregated for exact distinct counts of values. For multiple distinct counts, fields of a dataset are combined by un-pivoting field columns. Compound keys are generated for combined fields from field identifiers of the combined fields and values of another field. Totals of unique values of the combined fields are determined for values in the counted field based on the compound keys.
US12174842B2	System and method for record identification There is provided computer-based record identification method, comprising, at a computing device, receiving one or more witness statements relating to an incident, each of the one or more witness statements having a respective first plurality of attributes, each attribute of the first plurality of attributes having a confidence value associated therewith, querying, using the one or more witness statements and the confidence value associated with each of the first plurality of attributes of the one or more witness statements, at least one database having a plurality of event occurrence records stored therein to identify at least one of the plurality of event occurrence records that matches the one or more witness statements, and outputting the at least one of the plurality of event occurrence records.
US12174841B2	Automatic media asset suggestions for presentations of selected user media items Techniques for suggesting media assets, the technique including: requesting a set of candidate media assets for a set of user media items based on a knowledge graph metadata network describing the set of user media items; receiving metadata for the set of candidate media assets; determining one or more sets of ranked media assets based on the received metadata; and outputting the determined one or more sets of ranked media assets.
US12174840B2	Optimizing the response time of data profiling in interactive sessions Techniques for providing intelligent data profiling services are disclosed. A distributed computing system can include a data profiling service and a data recommender service. During an interactive data session, a user can select a data column of a data entity and request data profiling information for the data column. The data profiling service can compute the requested profile. The data recommender service can then determine a priority rank for the data columns of the data entity. Based on the priority rank, the data profiling service can compute a second data profile for a second data column of the data entity. The second data profile can be stored in a cache for rapid retrieval when the user requests the second data profile.
US12174835B2	Offloading graph components to persistent storage for reducing resident memory in distributed graph processing A storage manager for offloading graph components to persistent storage for reducing resident memory in a distributed graph processing engine is provided. The storage manager identifies a set of graph components required to execute a graph processing operation on a graph in a graph processing engine of a database system and reserves an amount of memory needed to load the set of graph components into memory. The storage manager loads the set of graph components into memory and initiates execution of the graph processing operation using the set of graph components in memory. The storage manager evicts one or more unused graph components from memory in response to receiving a request to free a requested amount of memory from memory.
US12174832B1	Intelligent data simulator for performance testing An apparatus comprises at least one processing device comprising a processor coupled to a memory. The at least one processing device is configured to simulate a first data set stored in a first database to create a second data set, wherein the second data set maintains one or more query impacting characteristics of the first data set such that performing a query on the second data set yields a performance result similar to another performance result that would occur when the query is performed on the first data set. The at least one processing device is further configured to load the second data set into a second database, and then perform the query on the second data set stored in the second database to obtain the performance result.
US12174831B2	Scouting queries for improving query planning in distributed asynchronous graph queries A graph processing system is provided for executing scouting queries for improving query planning. A query planner creates a plurality of scouting queries, each scouting query in the plurality of scouting queries corresponding to a query plan for a graph query and having an associated confidence value. A graph processing system performs limited execution of the plurality of scouting queries and determines a metric value for each scouting query in the plurality of scouting queries based on execution of the scouting query. The system determines a score for each scouting query in the plurality of scouting queries based on its metric value and the confidence value of the corresponding query plan and selects a query plan based on the scores of the plurality of scouting queries. The system executes the graph query based on the selected query plan.
US12174830B2	Statistics update of a database having a primary side and a standby side Computer technology for use in a computer system including a database system including a database management sub-system, a primary database and a secondary database, with the secondary database being maintained at least approximately in synchronization with the primary database over time as changes are made to data of the primary database (for example, a database system that includes disaster recovery (DR) features). A statistics update is performed first on a standby database to determine whether query efficiency and/or query optimization really will be substantially improved by performance of the statistics update. If not, then statistics update on the primary database is postponed until a future time.
US12174825B2	Cascading family of blockchains A system, method, and computer-readable storage medium is provided for creating first and second blockchain instances, each comprising representative blocks corresponding to steps in first and second multistep processes, respectively; performing a linking operation to link a block in the first blockchain instance to a block in the second blockchain instance; receiving change evidence data pertaining to steps in one of the first and second multi-step processes; and performing an update operation comprising updating one of the first and second blockchain instances based on said change evidence data.
US12174820B2	Data management system with tamper-evidence A node system of a second computer system executes processing of updating a state of a target specified in a request from a first computer system, and in the executing, adds an object to an asset for the target in an asset set. The object is data that represents the state of the target. The asset is assigned to each target and is a time series of objects. The asset set is a set of assets and has a DAG structure. A node is the object and an edge represents a relationship between objects. The added object is a terminal object. The node system outputs a proof of existence that is the terminal object or a summary thereof, and the proof of existence is saved in an external system managed by a management entity different from a management entity for the node system.
US12174819B2	Compacted table data files validation A first replay log is replayed to generate a first replay result. Replaying the first replay log includes replacing, in the first replay result, a first value of a first field included in a first command in the first replay log with a first hash value responsive to a determination that the first field is not utilized as a condition in at least one command included in the first replay log. A second replay log is replayed to generate a second replay result. The first replay result and the second replay result are compared to verify that the first replay log and the second replay log are equivalent.
US12174817B2	Processing user-defined functions (UDFs) using multiple execution environments A method includes detecting, by at least one hardware processor, an upload of a user application within a database system. The user application includes user-defined function (UDF) code. A plurality of dependencies of the user application is determined by the at least one hardware processor. A plurality of execution environments corresponding to the plurality of dependencies is generated by the at least one hardware processor. The plurality of execution environments is associated with a corresponding plurality of data types of the UDF. A database query is decoded. The database query specifies database data of a data type of the plurality of data types of the UDF. The database query is processed using at least one of the plurality of execution environments to generate results data. The at least one of the plurality of execution environments corresponds to the data type of the plurality of data types of the UDF.
US12174816B2	Method and system for utilizing a de-normalized master table structure for the processing of subscriptions A method for utilizing a master table is provided. The method includes: receiving a subscription table that includes at least one subscription record of at least one subscription that, upon satisfaction of at least one condition of the subscription(s), provides, to a subscriber, a notification of the at least one condition; generating the master table; and generating a mapping table that maps fields of the subscription table to fields of the master table. The master table consolidates each subscription record and stores, as a string value, each of the at least one condition.
US12174814B2	Aggregates index The disclosed technology addresses the need in the art for a content management system that can be highly flexible to the needs of its subjects. The present technology permits any object to be shared by providing a robust and flexible access control list mechanism. The present technology utilizes a data structure that is highly efficient that both minimizes the amount of information that needs to be written into any database, but also allows for fast reads and writes of information from authoritative tables that are a source of truth for the content management system, while allowing for maintenance of indexes containing more refined data that allow for efficient retrieval of certain information that would normally need to be calculated when it is needed.
US12174812B2	Searchable investigation history for event data store A processing device receives a first query comprising a first field value and a first time period. The processing device performs a first search of a data store to identify a first plurality of events having the first time period and at least one field that comprises the first field value. The processing device generates a first search object comprising the first field value. The processing device generates a search event comprising the first field value and a reference to the first search object. An event entry for the first search event is then written to the data store. Future searches may return both the first search event and other events.
US12174811B2	Adaptive message retention time based on user interaction Embodiments of the present invention provide computer-implemented methods, computer program products, and computer systems. Specifically, embodiments of the present invention can dynamically adjust individual message retention times in a messaging system is disclosed. Embodiments of the present invention can then receive a plurality of messages, store the plurality of messages in a storage system, determine continuously, by the messaging system, interactions with messages stored by the messaging system, and determine dynamically, by the messaging system, a retention score value for selected messages based on a sum of weighted interactions type count values of the determined interactions. Finally, embodiments of the present invention can delete by the messaging system, messages for which the retention score value is below a predetermined retention threshold value.
US12174809B1	System and method for determining application degradation using advanced computational models for data analysis and automated decision-making Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for determining application degradation using advanced computational models for data analysis and automated decision-making. The present disclosure is configured to receive one or more applications, wherein the one or more applications comprise one or more access paths; update the one or more access paths, wherein updating the one or more access paths comprises reconfiguring details associated with the access paths; create, in response to updating the one or more access paths, updated access paths; determine that the one or more updated access paths experience one or more application degradations; and implement one or more degradation solutions for the one or more application degradations to an artificial intelligence model.
US12174807B2	Outlier detection for streaming data Random cut trees are generated with respective to respective samples of a baseline set of data records of a data set for which outlier detection is to be performed. To construct a particular random cut tree, an iterative splitting technique is used, in which the attribute along which a given set of data records is split is selected based on its value range. With respect to a newly-received data record of the stream, an outlier score is determined based at least partly on a potential insertion location of a node representing the data record in a particular random cut tree, without necessarily modifying the random cut tree.
US12174800B2	Model object management and storage system A model management system provides a centralized repository for storing and accessing models. The model management system receives an input to store a model object in a first model state generated based on a first set of known variables. The model management system generates a first file including a first set of functions defining the first model state and associates the first file with a model key identifying the model object. The model management system receives an input to store the model object in a second model state having been generated based on the first model state and a second set of known variables. The model management system generates a second file including a second set of functions defining the second model state and associates the second file with the model key. The model management system identifies available versions of the model object based on the model key.
US12174799B2	Cloud-native global file system with data exporter A cloud-native global file system is augmented to include a file exporter (or, more generally, a file export tool) that facilitates an enterprise customer's use of a cloud-native tool that would otherwise be unable to operate against the global file system's underlying file system representation. In a typical use case, the file exporter is configured to extract in a native object format and to an unencrypted target all or a portion of a volume's data from the underlying file system representation. In this manner, the exporter creates a copy of the data set that the enterprise user can then leverage against the desired cloud-native tool or other cloud services that are not under the management or control of the global file system service provider.
US12174791B2	Methods and procedures for timestamp-based indexing of items in real-time storage A method for storing time-based data streams in a high-capacity network is provided. A time-based data storage request is received from an application. The data storage request is associated with one or more data streams. Each of the data streams includes a plurality of time-ordered items having a header. The header includes two or more timestamps representing a time interval associated with each of the plurality of time-ordered items. The received data storage request is processed to accumulate time-ordered data items in a plurality of data files and to identify time-based information and corresponding virtual offset information related to the accumulated data items. The identified time-based information and the virtual offset information related to the accumulated data items are stored in a data repository. A determination is made whether adjustment is necessary for sorting the stored data in the repository. The sorting adjustment is selectively performed responsive to the determination.
US12174789B2	Sibling object generation for storing results of operations performed upon base objects Techniques are provided for on-demand creation and/or utilization of containers and/or serverless threads for hosting data connector components. The data connector components can be used to perform integrity checking, anomaly detection, and file system metadata analysis associated with objects stored within an object store. The data connector components may be configured to execute machine learning functionality to perform operations and tasks. The data connector components can perform full scans or incremental scans. The data connector components may be stateless, and thus may be offlined, upgraded, onlined, and/or have tasks transferred between data connector components. Results of operations performed by the data connector components upon base objects may be stored within sibling objects.
US12174786B2	Method and system for prefetching backup data for application recoveries Techniques described herein relate to a method for performing data protection of file system data on a host. The method includes identifying, by a data protection agent, a backup access event associated with a backup of a file system stored on a backup storage; in response to identifying the backup access event: obtaining backup metadata associated with the backup from a data protection manager; generating a placeholder file system using the backup metadata and storing the placeholder file system in virtual hard disk file; loading the virtual hard disk file on a target application; performing, after the loading, prefetching of backup data using the virtual hard disk file and the backup metadata to store the backup data in a cache; and performing backup access services using the virtual hard disk file, the backup metadata, and the cache.
US12174777B2	Controller, image forming apparatus, and access arbitration method A controller includes a plurality of communication interfaces, a first arbiter, and a second arbiter. The first arbiter arbitrates access to a memory. The second arbiter is disposed between the plurality of communication interfaces and the first arbiter. In response to reception of a plurality of outstanding read requests to the memory from one of the plurality of communication interfaces, the second arbiter limits the number of outstanding read requests to transmit to the first arbiter.
US12174775B1	Apparatuses, systems, and methods for multi-lane data bus inversion The disclosed computer-implemented method for multi-lane data bus inversion can include receiving data for transmission via a plurality of data lanes, each data lane corresponding to one of a plurality of inversion bits, and, for each data lane within the plurality of data lanes, applying the corresponding inversion bit to each bit within the data lane. Various other methods, apparatuses, and systems are also disclosed.
US12174768B2	PCI-E bus standard compliant multifunctional interface board A PCI-E bus standard compliant multifunctional interface board includes a substrate, a PCI-E connector, a storage device, a non-storage device and a signal dispatch device. The PCI-E connector is provided on the substrate and is configured to be electrically connected to a host. The storage device and the non-storage device are provided on the substrate. The signal dispatch device is provided on the substrate and includes: an upstream port, a downstream port and an I/O controller. The upstream port is electrically connected to the PCI-E connector. The downstream port is electrically connected to the storage device and/or the non-storage device. The I/O controller is electrically connected to the upstream port and the downstream port to control an electrical connection relationship between the host and the storage device and/or the non-storage device.
US12174767B2	Methods, devices, systems and computer program products for sensor systems The invention relates to sensor system arrangements and configurations. In particular, the invention provides methods, devices, systems and computer program products for implementing master-slave based or controller-sensor based configurations, which enable sensor devices to be readily added, substituted, swapped or hot-swapped into or out of a controller-sensor device arrangement. In an embodiment, the sensor system of the present invention includes an interface adaptor configured to enable the above.
US12174766B2	Data moving method for direct memory access apparatus A data moving method for a direct memory access apparatus is disclosed, and the data moving method for the direct memory access apparatus includes: receiving an object data moving instruction and decoding the object data moving instruction, by the direct memory access apparatus, in which the object data moving instruction includes an address domain and a control domain, the address domain of the object data moving instruction indicates address information of a segment of consecutive data in a plurality of segments of consecutive data, and the control domain of the object data moving instruction indicates control information for the address information of the segment of consecutive data; and executing, by the direct memory access apparatus, moving of the plurality of segments of consecutive data, according to the address information of the segment of consecutive data and the control information of the segment of consecutive data.
US12174764B2	Activity and compressibility based data compression One or more aspects of the present disclosure relate to increasing the performance of a storage array using activity and compressibility-based data compression. In embodiments, an input/output (IO) workload is received at a storage array. Additionally, at least one address space of at least one logical storage device with an IO activity corresponding to an activity characteristic and compressibility corresponding to a compressibility characteristic is identified. Further, if a data reduction requirement (DRR) of the storage array is unsatisfied, IO write requests of the IO workload targeting the identified address spaces of each logical device are compressed.
US12174763B2	Memory training method, memory controller, processor, and electronic device This application provides a memory training method, a memory controller, a processor, and an electronic device. The memory controller keeps transmission delays of N DQs unchanged, adjusts a transmission delay of a DQS, and determines a maximum DQS transmission delay and/or a minimum DQS transmission delay of the DQS when all data carried in the N DQs is correctly transmitted. The memory controller adjusts the transmission delay of the DQS to a target DQS transmission delay between the maximum DQS transmission delay and the minimum DQS transmission delay. The method helps quickly align relative timing positions between the DQS and the N DQs. Therefore, memory training may be repeatedly performed in a working process of the processor, so that the N DQs keep long enough timing margins.
US12174761B2	Operation method of an accelerator and system including the same An accelerator, an operation method of the accelerator, and an accelerator system including the accelerator are disclosed. The operation method includes receiving one or more workloads assigned on an accelerator, determining reuse data of the workloads based on hardware resource information and/or a memory access cost of the accelerator when a plurality of processing units included in the accelerator performs the workloads, and providing a result of performing the workloads.
US12174757B1	Apparatus and methods for reducing latencies associated with link state transitions within die interconnect architectures Methods and apparatuses are provided to reduce latencies associated with state transitions in die-to-die interconnect architectures. In one example, a physical layer of a die detects a first event indicating a transition to a lower power state. In response to the first event, the physical layer transitions to a lower power state where one or more clock configuration values are read from registers and stored in memory. The physical layer then detects a second event indicating a transition to an active state. In response to the second event, the physical layer reads the clock configuration values from the memory, and writes the clock configuration values to the registers. The physical layer then transitions to a power stabilization state, and remains in the power stabilization state for an amount of time to allow clocks to stabilize. The physical layer then transitions to a training state.
US12174756B2	Caching system and method for a workspace environment Embodiments of systems and methods for managing an Information Handling System (IHS) using a workspace orchestration system are described. In an illustrative, non-limiting embodiment, an IHS may include computer-executable instructions to, upon a request to instantiate a workspace on the IHS, receive a user identity of a user of the workspace. Using the user identity of the user, the instructions may further cause the IHS to obtain, from a database, one or more policies associated with the user, and instantiate the workspace using the obtained policies. The policies identify one or more applications to be implemented in the workspace, application settings to be applied to each of the applications, or workspace settings to be applied to the workspace.
US12174753B2	Methods and apparatus for transferring data within hierarchical cache circuitry Aspects of the present disclosure relate to an apparatus comprising processing circuitry, first cache circuitry and second cache circuitry, wherein the second cache circuitry has an access latency higher than an access latency of the first cache circuitry. The second cache circuitry is responsive to receiving a request for data stored within the second cache circuitry to identify said data as pseudo-invalid data and provide said data to the first cache circuitry. The second cache circuitry is responsive to receiving an eviction indication, indicating that the first cache circuitry is to evict said data, to, responsive to determining that said data has not been modified since said data was provided to the first cache circuitry, identify said pseudo-invalid data as valid data.
US12174752B2	Bin-less metadata pages allocator for storage cluster with log-structured metadata Techniques for providing a “bin-less” metadata page allocator for clustered systems with log-structured metadata storage. The techniques include providing a mapping structure in memory of a storage node of a clustered system. The mapping structure can have multiple layers configured to map logical addresses of metadata pages to physical addresses of storage drives within a storage array. The techniques include providing a translation table configured to translate logical addresses of metadata pages to corresponding current physical addresses of storage drives within the storage array. The techniques include, in response to an allocated logical address of a metadata page no longer being in-use, replacing its corresponding current physical address with a predefined value in the translation table, freeing the logical address, and inserting the freed logical address into a free logical address array. The techniques include allocating the freed logical address from the free logical address array.
US12174751B2	Method and system for direct memory access A computing system receives a data packet comprising data to be written to the computing system and address data comprising an address in a set of addresses of a first address space of the computing system. An address is determined in a second address space of the computing system identified with the address of the data packet and writing the data to the computing system on the basis of the determination. A first subset and a second subset of the set is identified and the first subset of addresses of the second address space is associated with a region of memory of the computing system and the second subset of addresses of the second address space is associated with a region of a data storage area.
US12174750B2	Validating address space context switches by loading an alternative address space from an address translation independent location A method for performing an address translation context switch includes initializing a computer processor to a first context by storing information identifying the first context in a control register of the computer processor. The first context specifies a mapping of virtual addresses of instructions to physical memory addresses in a first memory area. Information identifying a second context is stored in a memory address translation independent storage, where the second context specifies mapping of virtual addresses of instructions to physical memory addresses in a second memory area. The information identifying the second context is written to the control register of the computer processor.
US12174749B2	Page table manager The creation, maintenance, and accessing of page tables is done by a virtual machine monitor running on a computing system rather than the guest operating systems. This allows page table walks to be completed in fewer memory accesses when compared to the guest operating system's maintenance of the page tables. In addition, the virtual machine monitor may utilize additional resources to offload page table access and maintenance functions from the CPU to another device, such as a page table management device or page table management node. Offloading some or all page table access and maintenance functions to a specialized device or node enables the CPU to perform other tasks during page table walks and/or other page table maintenance functions.
US12174744B2	Centralized, scalable cache for containerized applications in a virtualized environment The disclosure provides a method for caching data. The method generally includes receiving, from an application running in a first container, an I/O to write data in a storage virtual disk to a block associated with an LBA, determining a cache is assigned to the first container and the storage virtual disk using a container mapping table comprising a first container mapping table entry mapping the first container and the disk to the cache and a second container mapping table entry mapping a second container and the disk to the cache, writing the data to the block in the storage virtual disk and to a cache block in the cache, computing a hash of the data, adding an entry that maps the LBA to the hash in an LBA table, and adding an entry that maps the hash to the cache block and to the disk in a hash table.
US12174735B2	Storage controller deallocating memory block, method of operating the same, and method of operating storage device including the same Disclosed is a method of operating a storage controller, the storage controller communicating with a host and a non-volatile memory device. The method includes receiving a first erase request from the host, the first erase request being for a first zone of a plurality of zones of the non-volatile memory device, loading first allocation list information of the first zone from an allocation list table based on the first erase request, deallocating memory blocks allocated to the first zone based on the first allocation list information, wherein sequential physical page numbers of the memory blocks are respectively mapped onto sequential logical page numbers, and providing the non-volatile memory device with a physical erase request for the deallocated memory blocks of the first zone.
US12174734B2	Code synthesis model evaluation harnessing real-world code repositories A computer system identifies a code synthesis model and a set of software repositories, each comprising corresponding source code and corresponding tests for testing the corresponding source code. The computer system tests a plurality of generated source code predictions using the set of software repositories. The testing includes, for each software repository in the set of software repositories, identifying a portion of the corresponding source code of the software repository that is covered by the corresponding tests of the software repository, using the code synthesis model to generate a source code prediction for the portion of the corresponding source code, and using the corresponding tests of the software repository to test the source code prediction that was generated using the code synthesis model. Based on testing the plurality of generated source code predictions using the set of software repositories, the computer system generates an evaluation of the code synthesis model.
US12174731B2	Method and system for an automated virtual assistant testing framework A method for providing an automated virtual assistant testing framework to test one or more components associated with a virtual assistant (VA) is disclosed. The method includes integrating, one or more VA test suites with a continuous integration and continuous deployment (CICD) pipeline, wherein the one or more VA test suites comprises test case(s); receiving in a repository, a commit command; triggering, the CICD pipeline based on the commit command; executing, the one or more VA test suites based on the triggering of the CICD pipeline; and testing, the one or more components associated with the VA using a VA skills and intent training data, wherein the one or more components comprises custom UI(s), skill(s), integration(s) and/or one or more natural language processing (NLP) capabilities, and wherein the testing is based on the execution of the one or more virtual assistant (VA) test suites.
US12174729B2	Systems with software engines configured for detection of high impact scenarios with machine learning-based simulation and methods of use thereof Systems and methods for scenario planning include using specially programmed software engines to simulate and detect particular feature variations leading to particular outcomes based on modeling with machine learning techniques. The systems and methods improve model debugging, simulation efficiency and accuracy, model explainability, identification of high risk or high reward scenarios, among other improvements and combinations thereof. The systems and methods implement computerized optimization techniques applied via variation generation across a dataset of test input records to optimize for feature variation along with outcome variation. Moreover, the systems and methods may provide and/or realize a minimized variation to input data that correspond to a point of transition from one state to another state in an outcome that results from the input data, where the transition to another state is termed a “significant” variation to the output data.
US12174728B2	System for implementing a code debugger platform in a virtual environment Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for implementing a code debugger platform in a virtual environment. The system is configured to authenticate a plurality of users via an authentication portal and initialize an instance of a virtual environment for each of the plurality of users. The system is configured to extract a plurality of computer instructions, and display, in the virtual environment, a debugging platform of an integrated development environment, the debugging platform configured to receive the plurality of computer instructions and receive input from at least one of the plurality of users, and initiate a debugging protocol. The debugging protocol may include a breakpoint in at least one of the plurality of computer instructions, wherein the breakpoint is received as an input from the at least one of the plurality of users.
US12174727B1	Method and apparatus for correlating high-level code with low-level instructions for machine learning applications A new approach is proposed to support correlating high-level code with low-level instructions of an application running on a hardware. A compiler that compiles a high-level function in the high-level code of the application into a set of low-level instructions to be executed on the hardware is configured to utilize one or more reserved fields of the set of low-level instructions to incorporate one or more IDs and an actionable item. The IDs are mapped to the high-level function, wherein such mapping is programmable by the compiler. Based on the mapped IDs and the actionable item incorporated in the set of the low-level instructions, the runtime performance of the application on the hardware can be monitored and profiled and issues related to the high-level code of the application can be identified for debugging purposes.
US12174725B2	Systems and methods for non-human account tracking Systems and methods for non-human account tracking are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method may include: retrieving, by a tracing tool computer program executed by a computer processor, a plurality of records for a computer application from an application database, the plurality of records comprising a computer application name, one or more Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) associated with the computer application, and an identification of a plurality of non-human accounts that have access to the computer application; storing, by the tracing tool computer program, the plurality of records as raw data in a relational database; determining, by the tracing tool computer program, that each of the retrieved plurality of non-human accounts is in an account vault; associating, by the tracing tool computer program, the non-human accounts with the retrieved one or more APIs; and storing, by the tracing tool computer program, the association in a relational database.
US12174724B2	Method, recording medium, and apparatus for outputting information regarding printing interruption A method for outputting information in a printing process, includes: acquiring, from an image forming apparatus, a log including a piece of interruption information for each of a plurality of interruption factors; aggregating, for each of the interruption factors, a plurality of pieces of the interruption information; and outputting the interruption information aggregated for each of the interruption factors.
US12174721B2	Method, electronic device, and computer program product for exporting log Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, an electronic device, and a computer program product that involve exporting a log. The method includes acquiring a first set of attributes indicating a target asset among assets protected by a data protection product, a second set of attributes indicating target tasks executed on the target asset, and a third set of attributes indicating a computing resource running the data protection product. The method further includes determining an export time consumed to export a log of the target asset based on the first set of attributes, the second set of attributes, and the third set of attributes. With the embodiments of the present disclosure, the time required for exporting a log can be accurately estimated while the log is exported.
US12174716B2	Accelerator scheduling based on cooling characteristics An information handling system may include at least one central processing unit (CPU); and a plurality of special-purpose processing units. The information handling system may be configured to: receive information regarding cooling characteristics of the plurality of special-purpose processing units; and assign identification (ID) numbers to each of the plurality of special-purpose processing units in an order that is determined based at least in part on the cooling characteristics.
US12174711B2	Method, device, and computer program product for determining data recovery duration Technique for determining a data recovery duration involve determining a plurality of phases of data recovery. Such techniques further involve determining, based on a metadata metric set of a phase in the plurality of phases, a recovery duration of the phase, the recovery duration of the phase representing a duration required for recovery of the phase. Such techniques further involve determining the data recovery duration based on the recovery duration of the phase. Accordingly, a data recovery duration can be accurately predicted, and a user can know in advance how long data unavailability will last, which helps the user make a decision to schedule the data recovery in an appropriate time period, thereby being more effective and efficient for the user.
US12174709B2	Reducing bandwidth during synthetic restores from a deduplication file system During a current backup of a file system of a client, a determination is that a file in the current backup includes first data regions found in a file from a previous backup, and second data regions that are new. A virtual synthetic file is generated by writing the second data regions, and synthesizing the first data regions by referencing the file from the previous backup. A request received to restore the particular file includes identifications of other files still present at client. A determination is that the particular file corresponds to the virtual synthetic file and that the other files still present at client include the file from the previous backup. The second data regions are read to send to client. A complete version of the particular file is assembled at client using the file from the previous backup, still present at client, and the second data regions.
US12174706B2	System and method for automating formation and execution of a backup strategy Disclosed herein are systems and method for forming and executing a backup strategy. In one aspect, an exemplary method comprises forming a respective backup strategy for each respective file of a plurality of files stored in a data source based on a frequency of occurrence, a desired recovery time, and a criticality of data loss for the respective file. The method further comprises executing the respective backup strategy for the respective file.
US12174703B2	System and method for managing recovery of management controllers Methods and systems for managing operation of data processing systems are disclosed. To manage operation of the data processing systems, the data processing systems may host management controllers that manage the operation of the data processing systems. The management controllers may be programmable, and may initiate recoveries for the management controllers when operation management software becomes corrupted or is unavailable for other reasons. During the recoveries, new copies of the operation management software may be obtained and used to initiate desired operation of the management controllers.
US12174696B2	Storage device with data quality metric and selectable data recovery scheme A storage device is disclosed. The storage device may include storage for data. A controller may manage writing the data to the storage and reading the data from the storage. A data quality metric table may map a first number of errors to a first data quality metric and map a second number of errors to a second data quality metric. A transmitter may return the data quality metric table to a host.
US12174693B2	Safeguarding a system against false negatives A computer-implemented method for safeguarding a system against false negatives. The method includes: receiving a time series of a criticality, the system including a functionality that is triggered when the criticality meets a first predetermined criterion; computing a time series of a reference, the reference being a comparison criticality for triggering the functionality; computing a time series of an error measure based on the time series of the criticality and the time series of the reference, a non-triggering of the functionality being classified as a false negative when a portion of the time series of the error measure meets a second predetermined criterion; and identifying at least one near-false negative, a non-triggering of the functionality of the system being classified as a near-false negative when a portion of the time series of the error measure meets a third predetermined criterion, but not the second predetermined criterion.
US12174690B2	Information processing device, method, product, and system for calculation of reliability of estimation value of number of present objects with high accuracy An information processing device is disclosed. In the information processing device, a derivation unit derives, for each of sensors, a constraint expression obtained by substituting an observation value for a term of an observation value variable in an error model. The observation value indicates the number of present objects observed by the sensors. The error model represents correspondence between: the number of present objects in an observation range represented by the observation value variable and an error term related to an assumed detection error range of the sensor, and the number of present objects in an observation range represented by a variable indicating the number of present objects in an observation unit space. A range calculation unit calculates a possible range of the number of present objects. A reliability calculation unit calculates reliability of an estimation value of the number of present objects for each of the areas.
US12174688B2	Method of controlling specified function and electronic device supporting same According to various embodiments, a first electronic device may include: a body including at least one sensor, a temple connected to the body, a hinge connecting the body and the temple and configured to allow the temple connected to the body to be folded in a specified direction within a specified angle, and a processor functionally connected to the at least one sensor, wherein the processor is configured to: determine whether the first electronic device is in a first state of being mounted in a second electronic device, identify whether the first electronic device is in a second state of being worn, through the at least one sensor, and execute a specified function of the first electronic device, based on at least one of the first state and/or the second state.
US12174687B2	Image recognition device and image recognition method An image recognition device capable of reducing power, a calculation amount, a memory occupancy amount, and a bus band occupancy amount and maintaining high recognition accuracy is provided. An image recognition device includes a plurality of signal processing modules that connects a plurality of image sensors having different functions, performs signal processing on the basis of image signals output from connected image sensors and including an object within an imaging visual field, and is each capable of being controlled for power source supply, a recognition processing unit that selectively performs recognition processing of the object by an output signal of one signal processing module and recognition processing of the object with fusion of corresponding output signals of the plurality of signal processing modules, and a control unit that supplies a power source to at least one signal processing module, causes the recognition processing unit to perform recognition processing of the object without fusion, determines reliability of a recognition processing result, and performs power source supply control of another signal processing module on the basis of a determination result.
US12174676B2	Modular liquid cooling architecture for liquid cooling A heat exchanger includes a first manifold having an inlet opening and a second manifold having an outlet opening. A group of conduits fluidly connect the first manifold and the second manifold to one another such that a flow path is established for liquid to flow from the inlet opening to the outlet opening. The flow path includes a select portion that extends through all conduits within the group of conduits. Valves are located in the first manifold and the second manifold. The valves are operable to change the select portion of the flow path from between a first state, wherein the conduits within group of conduits are fluidly connected in parallel with one another, and a second state, wherein the conduits within the group of conduits are fluidly connected in series with one another.
US12174673B2	Cosmetic co-removal of material for electronic device surfaces This is directed to providing a cosmetic finish on a component constructed by connecting several elements. A single manufacturing process, such as machining or grinding, can be applied to the connected elements to remove material from some or all of the elements and to form a smooth and continuous surface across interfaces between the individual elements of the component. In some cases, settings of the material removal process can be adjusted based on the material of the component elements. For example, the settings can be adjusted based on the manufacturing or mechanical properties of each element material.
US12174672B2	Method and apparatus to optimize rollable devices An electronic device, method, and computer program product enable a space saving rollable display device to extend automatically in a power efficient manner. While a blade assembly is in a retracted position, a controller of the electronic device determines whether a user notification opportunity exists based on a transition between contextual states of one of stationary and changing from unattended to attended by the user; and stowed on-body of the user changing to held by the user. In response, the controller actuates a translation mechanism to slide a blade assembly, which includes a blade and flexible display, relative to a device housing of an electronic device from a retracted position to at least a partially extended position. The actuation prepares the flexible display to present user notification(s) and generates a physical indication to a user that the user notification(s) is available to be presented when the flexible display is active.
US12174670B2	Flexible display and electronic device having same An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a flexible display including a plurality of layers and a support member having the flexible display mounted thereon. The flexible display includes a first region having a first flexibility and a second region having a second flexibility different from the first flexibility and extending from the first region in a first direction. At least one of the plurality of layers has a first structure in the first region and has a second structure different from the first structure in the second region. The support member includes a first portion that supports the first region such that at least part of the first region remains flat and a second portion that supports the second region such that at least part of the second region is bent and then unfolded.
US12174663B2	Docking display with a built-in hub A docking display has a multi-stream transmission (MST) port, an MST controller, a display panel, a control circuit, a hub, a first video output port, and a second video output port. The MST port is used for inputting at least one video stream. The MST controller is used for processing the at least one video stream. The control circuit is used for outputting a first video stream of the at least one video stream to the display panel to drive the display panel to display images according to the first video stream. When the at least one video stream has a plurality of video streams, the hub outputs a second video stream of the video streams from a first output port of the hub to the first video output port, or from a second output port of the hub through the MST controller to the second video output port.
US12174658B2	Method and apparatus for early detection of signal excursion out of frequency range An example device comprising: first clock divider circuitry to be coupled to a first clock; first counter circuitry configured to be coupled to the first clock divider circuitry, the first counter circuitry configured to increment based on the first clock and a second clock; second clock divider circuitry to be coupled to a third clock; second counter circuitry configured to be coupled to the second clock divider circuitry, the second counter circuitry configured to increment based on the third clock and the second clock; and comparison circuitry coupled to the first and second counter circuitry.
US12174654B2	Operation device for inproving accuracy of value of output signal indicating a neutral position An operation device includes a lever configured to be tiltable; a substrate; a first resistor disposed on the substrate to extend in a first direction; a first actuator configured to rotate in accordance with tilting of the lever; and a first holder configured to hold a first slider and cause the first slider to slide on the first resistor by moving in the first direction via a first drive transmission part in accordance with rotation of the first actuator. The first drive transmission part includes a first protrusion integrated with the first holder and protruding in a second direction, and a first engagement portion integrated with the first actuator and including a pair of holding pieces configured to hold the first protrusion from both sides in the first direction. A first holding piece of the holding pieces is more elastic than a second holding piece of the holding pieces.
US12174651B1	Capacitor-less linear low drop out voltage regulating system and method with enhanced PSR, line-transient and load-transient responses A capacitor-less linear Low Drop Out (LDO) Voltage Regulating (VR) system and method with enhanced Power Supply Rejection (PSR), line transient response, and load transient response is disclosed. The system includes a current-summing amplifier to refine input voltage and error signals from an error amplifier circuit, improving regulation accuracy. Further, the system includes a Dynamic Current Bleeder (DCB) circuit to manage current flow, optimizing efficiency. Furthermore, a strategically placed compensation capacitor ensures stable voltage delivery despite load or input changes. To further enhance performance, a boost and reduce amplifier circuit continuously monitors and adjusts current of the error amplifier circuit, minimizing output voltage variations. The system effectively manages applications demanding highly regulated and stable voltage supplies.
US12174650B2	Fault communication in voltage regulator systems A system may include a voltage regulator controller and a driver. The voltage regulator controller may be configured to maintain a phase voltage. The driver may be associated with the phase voltage. The driver may include a first signal line that may be communicatively coupled to the voltage regulator controller. The driver may be configured to transmit a multiplexed signal on the first signal line to the voltage regulator controller.
US12174649B2	Electronic device In a conventional electronic device, it is difficult to passively diagnose disconnection of an external capacitor added to an output terminal of a regulator circuit. An electronic device in this embodiment includes a regulator circuit 2 that outputs a constant voltage while external power supplied from the outside is input thereto, an external capacitor 3 connected to an output terminal of the regulator circuit 2 as an external component, an oscillation detector 4 that detects an oscillating state of the output voltage of the regulator circuit 2, and a failure determination unit 5 that outputs a failure signal when the oscillation detector 4 detects the oscillating state of the regulator circuit.
US12174647B2	Flow rate control device The flow rate control device 10 includes a control valve 11, a restriction part 12 provided downstream of the control valve 11, an upstream pressure sensor 13 for measuring a pressure P1 between the control valve 11 and the restriction part 12, a differential pressure sensor 20 for measuring a differential pressure ΔP between the upstream and the downstream of the restriction part 12, and an arithmetic control circuit 16 connected to the control valve 11, the upstream pressure sensor 13, and the differential pressure sensor 20.
US12174645B2	Method and apparatus for planning an obstacle-free measurement trajectory of a coordinate measuring machine, and computer program A method and an apparatus for planning an obstacle-free measurement trajectory of a coordinate measuring machine, and a computer program are provided. An original measurement trajectory is determined, all compact obstacles along the original measurement trajectory are determined, an obstacle entrance pose on the original measurement trajectory and an obstacle exit pose on the original measurement trajectory are determined for each compact obstacle, and at least one obstacle-free alternative measurement trajectory is determined for each compact obstacle.
US12174636B2	Asphalt compactor pass planning A system for controlling a compactor machine can include a first GPS receiver on one side of a screed of a paver machine and a second GPS receiver on a second side of the screed, the first and second GPS receivers configured to communicate location information of the first and second sides of the screed, respectively, to a compactor machine; and a controller configured to receive the location information from screed and define a pass pattern for the compactor machine in view of the location information.
US12174635B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and non-transitory storage medium storing program for generating route based on event and a deposit point of a baggage or a pick-up point of the baggage An abnormality is more quickly resolved when the abnormality occurs in a storage device. An information processing apparatus is provided which includes a controller configured to control a vehicle with the storage device mounted thereon in which a user is able to deposit or pick up baggage, wherein the controller generates a route for the vehicle before an occurrence of a predetermined event so that the route passes through a deposit point of the baggage or a pick-up point of the baggage and a predetermined area including a predetermined location where the predetermined event is able to be resolved if the predetermined event related to storage of the baggage occurs in the storage device.
US12174630B2	Display device and route display program A display device includes a display unit, and a control unit that displays a flight route of a flying object flying while photographing surroundings of a crane on the display unit. The control unit is configured to display the crane and the flight route on the display unit, and to display the flight route in a display mode viewed from at least two different directions.
US12174629B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing method, program, and information processing system An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes an acquisition unit, an image generation unit, and a presentation unit. The acquisition unit acquires image data relating to a predetermined region on a map. The image generation unit generates a predicted image on the basis of the image data, the predicted image being predicted to be acquired when imaging is performed within the predetermined region. The presentation unit presents the predicted image on the basis of an instruction relating to generation of plan information relating to movement and imaging of a mobile body having an imaging function within the predetermined region.
US12174628B2	System and method for controlling a self-guided vehicle A system for directing the motion of a vehicle, comprising receiving commands in natural language using a processor, the commands specifying a relative path to be taken by the vehicle with respect to other objects in the environment; and determining an absolute path for the vehicle to follow based on the relative path using the processor, the absolute path comprising a series of coordinates in the environment; and directing the vehicle along the absolute path. Also provided is a system for training a lexicon of a natural language processing system, comprising receiving a data set containing a corpus of absolute paths driven by a vehicle annotated with natural language descriptions of the absolute paths using a processor, and determining parameters of the lexicon based on the data set.
US12174626B2	Artificial intelligence system for vehicle in-seat advertising An artificial intelligence system for vehicle in-seat advertising includes a first portion of the artificial intelligence system that determines an operating state of the vehicle by processing inputs relating to at least one parameter of the vehicle. A second portion of the artificial intelligence system determines a state of a rider of the vehicle by processing inputs relating to at least one parameter of the rider. A third portion of the artificial intelligence system determines at least one of a price, classification, content and location of an advertisement to be delivered within an interface of the vehicle to a rider in a seat in the vehicle based on the vehicle state and the rider state.
US12174625B2	Non-transitory computer readable medium storing program for manipulating manipulation target device A program manipulates a device compatible with all sizes of devices such as a touch panel used for manipulation. The program is for manipulating a manipulation target device. The program causes a computer, that includes a display device that accepts a contact manipulation by an instruction object, to generate manipulation information, for manipulating the manipulation target device on the basis of a contact manipulation by the instruction object on the display device, to hold the manipulation information even when the instruction object is not touching the display device, and to manipulate the manipulation target device by transmitting the held manipulation information to the manipulation target device. The computer restarts generation of the manipulation information on the basis of the held current manipulation information when a contact on the display device is made again.
US12174623B2	Plant monitoring device, method and program using a corrected Mahalanobis distance to determine plant abnormality A plant monitoring device (20) is provided with: a state quantity acquiring unit (211) which acquires state quantities for each of a plurality of characteristic items relating to a plant; an abnormality degree calculating unit (212) which calculates a degree of abnormality representing a degree of approach toward an abnormal side relative to a limit value that is predetermined for each characteristic item, for the state quantities acquired at a plant monitoring timing; a distance calculating unit (213) which uses a statistical technique to calculate distances representing the degrees of separation, from the normal operating state of the plant, of the state quantity and the degree of abnormality acquired at the monitoring timing; and a determining unit (214) which determines the operating state of the plant on the basis of the calculated distances.
US12174622B2	System of industrial internet of things (IoT) for operation management of automated guided vehicle (AGV), method, and medium thereof The present disclosure provides a system of an industrial Internet of Things (IoT) for operation management of an automated guided vehicle (AGV), a method, and a medium. The method includes: obtaining an AGV circuit layout, and adding pre-planned paths of all AGVs to form an AGV operation model; obtaining a feeding time of each material end point within a preset period; assigning an operation speed to each AGV of the all AGVs, calculating an operation track of the each AGV; determining that a current operation process is unqualified when any two of operation tracks reach a same node at a same time; determining a target operation speed combination; recalculating the operation tracks based on the target operating speed combination until the operation process is qualified; and controlling an operation of the each AGV and sending the operation track of the each AGV of the qualified operation process to a user.
US12174621B2	Quantitative diagnostic method for quality of manufacturing equipment The present invention relates to a method for quantifying and diagnosing the quality of manufacturing equipment, that is, to a quantitative diagnostic method for the quality of manufacturing equipment. It is possible to quantify the quality of manufacturing equipment having a plurality of production elements and diagnose same in a single attempt.
US12174620B2	Information presentation method of an identifier managed by a welding system An information presentation method is an information presentation method of an identifier managed by a welding system. The information presentation method includes: selecting, from information on identifiers assigned to a plurality of original workpieces, information on an identifier of a welded workpiece to be produced by a welding process using the plurality of original workpieces; and after the selecting, outputting an alert in a case in which, among identification signs on which information on identifiers arranged in the plurality of original workpieces are readable, an identification sign corresponding to an identifier that has not been selected is read by a reading device, and presenting the information on the identifier that has been selected in a case in which an identification sign corresponding to the identifier that has been selected is read by the reading device.
US12174611B2	Method of controlling an industrial system, control system and industrial system A method of controlling an industrial system including at least one agent, the method including providing a representation of the industrial system as a finite state machine, the state machine including a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges, where each node represents a discrete system state of the industrial system, each edge represents an action for a state transition between system states represented by two of the nodes, and at least one execution value is associated with at least one of the edges; executing at least one action by the at least one agent, the at least one action being represented by at least one of the edges; and modifying at least one execution value associated with at least one of the edges representing the at least one executed action, based on an outcome of the at least one executed action.
US12174610B2	Processing program creation device and processing program creation method A topology database generates topology data of a plurality of parts. The topology database acquires processing information including a tool name of a use tool and a processing order from a bending processing program of each part, and stores the processing information in association with the topology data. A processing information acquisition unit searches for a similar part with the same topology data as topology data of a processing target part, and acquires the processing information of the similar part. A tool determination unit calculates a range of a tool length which is able to bend each bending line using a tool with a tool name included in the processing information and which does not interfere with the part, and determines the tool with the tool name and a tool length within a range of the tool length as the use tool.
US12174608B2	Information processing apparatus, method of controlling information processing apparatus, production system, method of manufacturing article, and recording medium Provided is an information processing apparatus for displaying a state of a machine facility including a plurality of devices, on a display unit. An operation time for an operation of one predetermined device among the plurality of devices and signals relating to the operation are displayed on the display unit.
US12174602B2	Intelligent server-level testing of datacenter cooling systems A thermal load system for testing a datacenter liquid cooling system is disclosed. The system includes a server box having at least one thermal feature associated with at least one cooling feature and at least one flow controller, where the at least one thermal feature and the at least one flow controller are adjustable to cause cooling stress on the datacenter liquid cooling system.
US12174600B1	Power bus bar and swivelable user interface for spa control system A modular spa control system includes a first printed circuit board (PCB) and a second PCB. A bus bar, formed of a conductive material and being secured to each of the first PCB and the second PCB, creates an electrically conductive path along a length of the bus bar between the first PCB and the second PCB. A user interface has a housing formed of a bottom housing portion and a top housing portion. At least one of the first PCB and the second PCB is disposed in the housing, and a display is disposed on a top surface of the top housing portion. Controls are also disposed on the top surface of the top housing portion, in proximity to the display. An interface is mountable within a wall shell of a spa unit, so that the display and the controls are disposed on a top portion of the spa wall. Additionally, a pivot member is rotatably supported within the wall shell and configured to support the top housing portion so that it may be swiveled between upright vertical or side orientations.
US12174589B2	Electronic watch having a date indicator between a battery and a movement An electronic watch includes a hand configured to indicate time, a dial having a through hole through which a hand shaft configured to rotate the hand passes, a movement including a motor configured to rotate the hand shaft, a battery configured to supply power to the motor, and a solar panel configured to supply power to the battery, wherein the movement, the battery, the solar panel, and the dial are disposed in this order, the battery has a first opening through which the hand shaft passes, and the solar panel has a second opening through which the hand shaft passes.
US12174586B2	Timepiece comprising a display with a moiré effect A timepiece has a watch movement including a complication of the chronograph or countdown type, a fixed body (10) and a display (20) with moiré effect for displaying a time information associated with the chronograph or the countdown. The display has a mobile disc (22) with an indicator (24) of the time information. The mobile disc (22) is connected to an axis (23) in engagement with the watch movement and arranged to rotate above or below the fixed body (10). One of the mobile disc (22) and the fixed body (10) has a plurality of apertures (26) arranged over 360°. The other of the mobile disc (22) and the fixed body (10) includes a marking with a repetition of patterns including a first set of patterns having a first visual appearance (27) and a second set of patterns having a second visual appearance (28).
US12174585B2	System and method for real-time in-situ holographic microscopy A holographic imaging system comprises an imaging light source defining an imaging light path, an active light source defining an active light path directed at a target, and a polarizer configured to modify the polarization of the active light path. The system further comprises a polarization beam splitter positioned in the active light path and the imaging light path, configured to separate the active light path and the imaging light path, and a photodetector positioned at a terminus of the active light path. The photodetector is configured to measure a reflection of the active light source. A method of holographic imaging is also described.
US12174583B2	Electrostatic charge image developing carrier, electrostatic charge image developer, process cartridge, image forming apparatus and image forming method An electrostatic charge image developing carrier includes a magnetic particle and a coating resin layer that covers the magnetic particle and contains a silica particle, and a ratio of Si on a surface of the coating resin layer, determined by an X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), is 6 atom % or more and 12 atom % or less.
US12174581B2	Image-forming device having guide to guide drawer supporting developing units in main casing An image-forming device includes a main casing, a belt accommodated in the main casing, developing units arranged along the belt, a drawer configured to detachably support the developing units, the drawer configured to move to a position inside the main casing and to a position outside the main casing, and the drawer having a leading end and a trailing end in a pulling direction from the inside position to the outside position; and a guide configured to guide the drawer and to move between a first position and a second position when the drawer is at the inside position, the second position being farther from the belt than the first position from the belt. When the guide is at the second position, the guide is configured to be tilted downward relative to a horizontal direction such that the leading end is lower than the trailing end.
US12174575B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form an image on a recoding medium, side plates extending on one end and another end of the image forming unit in a vertical direction thereof and configured to support the image forming unit, a main board including an element on a first board and fixed to the side plate on the one end such that the first board vertically extends on an outer side of the side plate, a sub-board including an element on a second board and electrically connected to the main board, a top surface member arranged above the image forming unit and including a sheet discharge tray, and a holding member configured to support the sub-board below the top surface member such that the second board extends in a direction intersecting with a plane on which the first board of the main board extends.
US12174574B2	Detection device and image forming apparatus A detection device includes: a transport unit that stops transportation of a medium on which a first image is formed, the transport unit restarting the transportation of the medium toward an image forming unit after the medium has been in a stopped state, the image forming unit forming a second image on the medium; and a detection unit that detects an edge portion of the medium while the medium is in the stopped state.
US12174570B2	Fixing unit A fixing unit includes a heater including a substrate and a resistance heating element disposed on the substrate, an endless belt configured to move about the heater and having an inner peripheral surface in contact with the heater, and a holder holding the heater in a hole of the holder, a metal sheet in contact with the substrate and a temperature sensor configured to detect a temperature of the heater. The temperature sensor is in contact with the metal sheet through the hole, and an end portion of the metal sheet in a lateral direction of the substrate is inserted into the hole so that the metal sheet is positioned with respect to the heater in the lateral direction.
US12174568B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a conveyor configured to convey a printing medium, an image forming station that forms an image on the printing medium, a fixing device including a fixing roller, a pressurizing roller positioned opposite the fixing roller, and a heater configured to heat a paper passing region between the fixing roller and the pressurizing roller, a temperature sensor that detects a temperature of a first region, the first region including an end of the paper passing region in a paper width direction, and a controller. The controller is configured to lower a set temperature of the heater in response to a determination that (a) a determination condition is satisfied, the determination condition relating to a start of the conveyance of the printing medium to the fixing device by the conveyor and (b) the temperature detected by the temperature sensor is higher than a threshold temperature.
US12174567B2	Image forming apparatus and control method thereof, and electronic apparatus for performing idling Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a control method of an image forming apparatus, an image forming apparatus, and an electronic apparatus. The control method includes detecting whether the image forming apparatus currently satisfies a condition for performing idling; and when the condition for performing the idling is satisfied and before the image forming apparatus starts image formation, enabling the image forming apparatus to perform the idling until a preset time duration is reached for the idling. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, the image forming apparatus is enabled to perform idling for a time duration before starting image formation to mix the moist toner with the non-moist toner, thereby reducing the background gray of printed images and avoiding reduced image quality problem when the moist toner is used to perform printing.
US12174564B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a first rotatable member, a second rotatable member, an air nozzle, and a pipe. The pipe includes a portion provided in a range overlapping with the first rotatable member and making one reciprocation or more in a case that when a direction crossing a feeding direction of a recording material fed in a nip is a widthwise direction of the first rotatable member, the pipe is viewed in a direction perpendicular to the widthwise direction.
US12174562B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes an intermediate transfer member, a cleaning member, and an image forming unit having a developer carrier. During an image forming job, when a ratio of an amount of toner consumed to a distance that the developer carrier is rotationally driven is greater than a threshold value, the image forming unit forms a first toner supply image for supplying toner to the cleaning member in a predetermined period that is from a time at which a first toner image is transferred to the intermediate transfer member to a time at which a second toner image is transferred to the intermediate transfer member. When the ratio is less than the threshold value, the image forming unit forms a second toner supply image for supplying toner to the cleaning member in the predetermined period and having a density that is higher than a first toner supply image density.
US12174558B2	Developer replenishment device and image forming apparatus A developer cartridge includes accommodating container, a pump that is variable in volume, a feeding path member of which one end is connected to the pump and the other end is provided with a discharge outlet, the feeding path member being configured to form a path for feeding developer between the pump and the discharge outlet, and a transporting member configured to communicate the developer and the accommodating container and to transport the developer from the accommodating container to the feeding path member. The transporting member includes a moving mechanism configured to move a holding member between a first position where the holding member is capable of being filled with the developer from the accommodating container by accommodating the container and the holding member and a second position where the holding member and the feeding path member communicate with each other.
US12174556B2	Toner refill control of image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus and method for determining whether a toner refill apparatus is available are provided. The image forming apparatus includes a print engine to carry out a print job using a toner from a toner cartridge, a communication apparatus to communicate with a memory chip attached to a toner refill apparatus for refilling a toner in the toner cartridge, and a processor to identify whether the toner refill apparatus is available based on information stored in the memory chip of the toner refill apparatus.
US12174554B2	Image forming apparatus with repositionable shutter assembly An image forming apparatus includes a photoconductor, an exposure device, and a shutter assembly. The exposure device includes a light source configured to expose the photoconductor. The light source is repositionable between a proximity position at a first distance from the photoconductor and a separation position at a second distance from the photoconductor. The first distance is less than the second distance. The shutter assembly is configured to move away from the light source in response to the light source moving toward the proximity position. The shutter assembly is configured to move to cover the optical path of the light source in response to the light source moving toward the separation position.
US12174547B2	Non-telecentric light guide elements The present disclosure relates to systems and methods relating to the fabrication of light guide elements. An example system includes an optical component configured to direct light emitted by a light source to illuminate a photoresist material at one or more desired angles so as to expose an angled structure in the photoresist material. The photoresist material overlays at least a portion of a first surface of a substrate. The optical component includes a container containing a light-coupling material that is selected based in part on the one or more desired angles. The system also includes a reflective surface arranged to reflect at least a first portion of the emitted light to illuminate the photoresist material at the one or more desired angles.
US12174539B2	Negative photosensitive resin composition, production method for polyimide, production method for cured relief pattern, and semiconductor device To provide a negative photosensitive resin composition which exhibits satisfactory resolution even when shifts occur in focus depth, and which has satisfactory adhesion to a mold resin and exhibits a low dielectric constant; a method for producing a polyimide using the photosensitive resin composition; a method for producing a cured relief pattern; and a semiconductor device including the cured relief pattern.Disclosed is a negative photosensitive resin composition including a polyimide precursor having a structure represented by general formula (A1), (B) a photopolymerization initiator, and (C) a solvent.
US12174534B2	Fast fluidic assembly method for nanoscale and microscale printing A scalable printing process capable of printing microscale and nanoscale features for additively manufacturing electronics is provided. This fast, directed assembly-based approach selectively prints microscale and nanoscale features on both rigid and flexible substrates. The printing speed is much faster than state-of-the-art inkjet and flexographic printing, and the resolution is two orders of magnitude higher, with minimum feature size of 100 nm. Feature patterns can be printed over large areas and require no special limitations on the assembled materials. Hydrophilic/hydrophobic patterns are used to direct deposition of nanomaterials to specific regions or to selectively assemble polymer blends to desired sites in a one-step process with high specificity and selectively. The selective deposition can be based on electrostatic forces, hydrogen bonding, or hydrophobic interactions. The methods and nanoscale patterned substrates can be used with polyelectrolytes, conductive polymers, colloids, and nanoparticles for application in electronics, sensors, energy, medical devices, and structural materials.
US12174531B2	Imprint apparatus, imprint method, and method of manufacturing article The present invention provides an imprint apparatus that forms an imprint material on a substrate using a mold, comprising: a light irradiator configured to irradiate the substrate with light that changes a viscosity of the imprint material without curing the imprint material; a supplier configured to supply the imprint material onto the substrate; and a controller configured to, after controlling a supply process of supplying the imprint material to a plurality of shot regions in the substrate, control a forming process of forming the imprint material using the mold and curing the imprint material for each shot region, wherein the supply process includes first processing of sequentially supplying the imprint material to the plurality of shot regions by the supplier, and second processing of irradiating, with the light, a shot region to which the imprint material has been supplied.
US12174524B2	Camera module and electronic device A camera module, which may be included in an electronic device includes a camera lens, a variable aperture, and a photosensitive element. A quantity of apertures of the camera lens is F1 when a clear aperture of the variable aperture is adjusted to a first clear aperture, and the photosensitive element is configured to: enable the camera lens to perform imaging in a full area of a photosensitive area, and adjust angular resolution of the full area to δ. A quantity of apertures of the camera lens is F2 when a clear aperture of the variable aperture is adjusted to a second clear aperture, where F1≥F2, and the photosensitive element is configured to: enable the camera lens to perform imaging in a partial area of the photosensitive area, and adjust angular resolution of the partial area to nδ, where 1≤n≤3.
US12174523B2	Camera module and optical device comprising same An embodiment comprises: a lens module; a first optical path change part including an incident surface and an emitting surface, and reflecting light, which is incident onto the incident surface, to emit the light via the emitting surface; and a second optical path change part including a first surface which faces the emitting surface in an optical axial direction of the lens module and a second surface which is an opposite surface to the first surface, wherein, in order to change the path of light emitted via the emitting surface, the first optical path change part is tilted or rotated about a first axis perpendicular to the optical axial direction, and, in order to change the path of light emitted from the second surface, the second optical path change part is tilted or rotated about a second axis perpendicular to the optical axial direction and the first axis.
US12174518B2	Radiator and photographic light A radiator and a photographic light. The radiator includes a coolant tank, a support frame, a heat-absorbing assembly and a driving pump. The coolant tank has a heat exchange pipe for a coolant to circulate, and the heat exchange pipe has a first liquid inlet and a first liquid outlet; the support frame is arranged around the coolant tank, the support frame and the coolant tank enclose a heat exchange space for exchanging heat with the heat exchange pipe; the heat-absorbing assembly has a heat dissipation channel, and the heat dissipation channel has a second liquid inlet and a second liquid outlet; the driving pump is configured to drive the coolant to circulate along the heat exchange pipe, the first liquid outlet, the second liquid inlet, the heat dissipation channel, the second liquid outlet and the first liquid inlet in sequence.
US12174515B2	Doped amorphous silicon carbide Amorphous silicon carbide may be doped with one or more ions such as vanadium and these ions may radiate light if excited, for example, using optical or electrical pumping. A single photon light source may be formed from a single such ion that is pumped or from a plurality of ions that are pumped if light from only one ion is collected, e.g., using an aperture or pin hole. Such single photon sources may possibly be use in quantum computing, quantum sensing and/or quantum telecommunications.
US12174512B2	Device for forming an outgoing electromagnetic wave from an incident electromagnetic wave An optical device forming an outgoing electromagnetic wave from an incident electromagnetic wave is disclosed. Such a device comprises at least one unit cell comprising:—at least two optical elements, an optical element being characterized by a type of optical response to said incident electromagnetic wave;—selection means enabling selective excitation of at least one optical element among the at least two optical elements, in response to said incident electromagnetic wave as a function of a wavelength of said incident electromagnetic wave, wherein said selection means comprise at one nanojet-based dielectric deflector compound of at least two dielectric material having different refractive indexes, and wherein said optical elements are placed at a distance from said nanojet-based dielectric deflector.
US12174508B2	Electrochromic multi-layer devices with spatially coordinated switching A multi-layer device comprising a first substrate and a first electrically conductive layer on a surface thereof, the first electrically conductive layer having a sheet resistance to the flow of electrical current through the first electrically conductive layer that varies as a function of position.
US12174507B2	Flexible variable emissivity electrochromic device and preparation method A flexible variable emissivity electrochromic device and a preparation method thereof are disclosed. The device includes a working electrode, a gel electrolyte layer, and a counter electrode sequentially from top to bottom. The working electrode includes a flexible polymer film and a metal film, the flexible polymer film is a surface-modified film and/or a film with a transition layer plated on a lower side thereof, and the metal film is deposited on the surface-modified film or the transition layer. The electrolyte layer includes a porous membrane and an electrolyte. The electrolyte is infiltrated in the porous membrane. The electrolyte includes an electrochromic material containing metal ions and a solvent, the metal ions enable reversible electrodeposition and dissolution, and metal of the metal ions is different from that used in the metal film. The preparation method includes preparing and assembling a working electrode, a gel electrolyte layer and a counter electrode.
US12174504B2	Optical stack for switchable directional display A privacy display comprises a spatial light modulator and a compensated switchable guest-host liquid crystal retarder arranged between first and second polarisers arranged in series with the spatial light modulator. In a privacy mode of operation, on-axis light from the spatial light modulator is directed without loss, whereas off-axis light has reduced luminance. The visibility of the display to off-axis snoopers is reduced by means of luminance reduction over a wide polar field. In a wide angle mode of operation, the switchable liquid crystal retardance is adjusted so that off-axis luminance is substantially unmodified.
US12174502B2	Active-matrix substrate, display device and touch panel A touch panel includes a first portion extending in a first direction within a pixel region, a source driving circuit, an inspection circuit, an input terminal region, and an inspection line extending in the first direction within a frame region. The inspection line is formed in a layer different from a layer where the first portion is formed. The inspection line is connected to the first portion and a second portion via a contact hole between a touch-detecting electrode and the source driving circuit. The second portion crosses the source driving circuit and the inspection circuit in a direction intersecting the first direction.
US12174501B2	Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device includes a display area having a plurality of first areas and a plurality of second areas arranged in a matrix in a row direction and a column direction, a plurality of first TFTs each located in one of the plurality of first areas, a plurality of pixel electrodes each located in one of the plurality of first areas, a plurality of transparent electrodes each located in one of the plurality of second areas, a plurality of gate bus lines extending in the row direction and being connected to the plurality of first TFTs, a plurality of source bus lines extending in the column direction and being connected to the plurality of first TFTs, and a plurality of dummy source bus lines each extending in the column direction and being connected to one of the plurality of gate bus lines.
US12174499B2	Display panel and display device Display panel and display device are provided. The display panel includes a substrate and an array layer arranged on a side of the substrate. The array layer includes a first metal layer, an active layer, and a second metal layer. Along a first direction, the first metal layer and the second metal layer are on two sides of the active layer, and the first direction is perpendicular to the substrate. The array layer includes at least one first transistor including a first sub-transistor and a second sub-transistor connected in series, and the first sub-transistor includes a first active layer in the active layer, the second sub-transistor includes a second active layer in the active layer, the first active layer is connected to the second active layer. Along the first direction, the first metal layer overlaps both the first active layer and the second active layer.
US12174497B2	Display panel and display device A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel has a first area, a second area, and a third area arranged in sequence. The display panel includes a substrate, a plurality of first wirings, and a plurality of second wirings. The first wirings extend from the first area to the second area. The second wirings extend from the second area to the third area. The first wirings and the second wirings are arranged in different layers. The first wirings and the second wirings are connected in a one-to-one correspondence through via holes. The via holes are staggered in the second area.
US12174495B2	Display device comprising a first common electrode physically separated from a second common electrode by a first slit overlapping a first image signal line and a first metal line According to one embodiment, a display device comprises image signal lines, scanning signal lines, pixels, a display area, pixel electrodes, and common electrodes. The common electrodes are configured to detect an object and to display an image in the display area. The common electrodes include first and second common electrodes which are arranged in a first direction. A first slit is provided between the first and second common electrodes. The first and second common electrodes are supplied a signal different from each other. A second slit is provided in the first common electrode. Each of the first slit and the second slit overlaps one of the image signal lines and extends in an extension direction in which the image signal line extends.
US12174494B2	Light control member and light control device A light control member and a light control device in which a non-electrode region is less visible. A light control film is a light control member having controllable transmissivity and includes: an undivided first common electrode; divided first electrodes; a first liquid-crystal layer disposed between the first common electrode and the first electrodes; an undivided second common electrode; divided second electrodes; and a second liquid-crystal layer disposed between the second common electrode and the second electrodes. First non-electrode lines dividing the first electrodes and second non-electrode lines dividing the second electrodes are arranged at positions not overlapping one another when viewed in the direction normal to the light control film.
US12174493B2	Liquid crystal light control device A liquid crystal light control device in an embodiment according to the present invention includes a first liquid crystal cell, and a second liquid crystal cell overlapping the first liquid crystal cell. Each of the first liquid crystal cell and the second liquid crystal cell includes a first substrate arranged with a first electrode having a strip pattern, a second substrate arranged with a second electrode having a strip pattern, and a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate. A longitudinal direction of the strip pattern of the first electrode and a longitudinal direction of the strip pattern of the second electrode are arranged to intersect at an angle in the range of 45 degrees±10 degrees.
US12174483B2	Optical element and display device Provided is an optical element including, sequentially from a viewing surface side toward a back surface side: a first polarizer; a negative C plate; a phase difference layer; and a second polarizer. A transmission axis of the first polarizer is parallel to a transmission axis of the second polarizer. The phase difference layer contains anisotropic molecules. In the phase difference layer, a tilt angle of the anisotropic molecules on a viewing surface side in the phase difference layer and a tilt angle of the anisotropic molecules on a back surface side in the phase difference layer are the same as each other and greater than 0°. A slow axis of the phase difference layer, in a case of lying in a tilt direction of the anisotropic molecules, is parallel to or perpendicular to the transmission axis of the first polarizer.
US12174480B2	Display panel and splicing display panel An embodiment of the present application discloses a display panel and a splicing display panel. The display panel includes a display panel main body and a light grating layer. The light grating layer is formed on the display panel main body. The light grating layer includes a plurality of light gratings, and the light gratings are arranged at intervals along a first direction. The light gratings are arranged at intervals along a second direction, and the first direction intersects the second direction.
US12174479B2	Light modulating device A light modulating device including: a light transmissive plate having a curved surface; a light modulating cell; and an optically transparent adhesive film which is disposed between the curved surface of the light transmissive plate and the light modulating cell and attaches one side of the light modulating cell to the curved surface of the light transmissive plate.
US12174478B2	Display panel, display module and display device A display panel relates to the field of display technology, and includes: a first base substrate and a second base substrate arranged oppositely; a liquid crystal layer and a plurality of conductive layers, wherein the liquid crystal layer and the plurality of conductive layers are located between the first base substrate and the second base substrate; and a plurality of heating elements, wherein the plurality of heating elements are distributed in at least one of the conductive layers.
US12174477B2	Touch display panel with touch electrode multiplexed as common electrode The present application discloses a touch display panel including a first substrate, a liquid crystal, and a second substrate, wherein the first substrate is located on a light-exiting side of the touch display panel. The first substrate includes a first underlayer, a touch structure layer, a thin film transistor layer, and a pixel electrode layer. The touch structure layer and the thin film transistor layer are disposed on a side of the first underlayer close to the liquid crystal, and the pixel electrode layer is disposed on the thin film transistor layer. The touch structure layer includes a touch electrode, which is multiplexed as a common electrode.
US12174474B2	Display module and medical spliced display system The present disclosure provides a display module and a medical spliced display system. The display module includes: a display panel; a back plate including a bottom wall and a side frame connected to each other to define an accommodating space; and a frame including a retaining wall and a supporting platform and an insert on the retaining wall; at least a portion of the retaining wall surrounds the side frame; the supporting platform extends toward the inside of the accommodating space for supporting the display panel; the insert is on a side of the side frame facing the accommodating space, to embed the side frame between the retaining wall and the insert.
US12174472B2	Display device A display device including a display panel; an optical layer behind the display panel; and a frame behind the optical layer. Further, the frame includes a flange supporting a portion of a back surface of the optical layer; a first rib extended from the flange and configured to contact and support a side surface of the optical layer, and a second rib extended from the flange and positioned to be spaced apart from the side surface of the optical layer.
US12174469B2	Display device Provided is a display device including a backlight; a first liquid crystal panel; a display panel; and a second liquid crystal panel. The first liquid crystal panel includes a first substrate, a first liquid crystal layer containing first liquid crystal molecules, and a second substrate. The second liquid crystal panel includes a third substrate, a second liquid crystal layer containing second liquid crystal molecules, and a fourth substrate. The display device satisfies the following formula: \|φ3−φ1\|≥50°, wherein φ1 represents an azimuthal angle of a director of the first liquid crystal molecules near the first substrate with no voltage applied to the first liquid crystal layer, and 43 represents an azimuthal angle of a director of the second liquid crystal molecules near the third substrate with no voltage applied to the second liquid crystal layer.
US12174468B2	Method, apparatus and system for limited-range impedance tuning for silicon photonics devices There is provided an optical communication device having a silicon photonics (SiPh) component configured to perform an optical communication function; a complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) drive circuit coupled to the SiPh device for operation thereof; and one or more controllably adjustable CMOS impedance circuits coupled to the SiPh component and the electrical drive circuit. In the optical communication device, impedances of each of the CMOS impedance circuits can be adjustable over a respective limited range. The limited range may be designed and configured based at least in part on an anticipated amount of variation in electrical characteristics of the SiPh component, the CMOS electrical drive circuit, or a combination thereof. Such variation may be anticipated due to manufacturing variability.
US12174466B2	Ophthalmic lens having anti-reflective and electrochromic functions Disclosed is an ophthalmic lens including a transparent substrate with a front main face and a rear main face, at least one of the main faces being coated with a multilayered interferential stack (IF stack), including at least one HI layer having a refractive index higher than or equal 1.55 and at least one LI layer having a refractive index lower than 1.55, characterized in that an electrochromic stack (EC stack): is part of the multilayered interferential stack; or is directly deposited onto the multilayered interferential stack, so as to form a multilayered interferential coating (IF coating).
US12174454B2	Optical system and image capturing apparatus including the same An optical system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit having a negative refractive power, an intermediate unit including one or more lens units, and a final lens unit having a negative refractive power. The second lens unit is moved toward an image plane, and a lens unit closest to the image plane in the one or more lens units included in the intermediate unit is moved toward the object in focusing from infinity to a short distance. The second lens unit satisfies a predetermined inequality.
US12174453B2	Image sensor and electronic apparatus including the image sensor An image sensor includes a sensor substrate including first, second, third, and fourth pixels, and a color separating lens array, wherein each of the first pixels includes a first focusing signal region and a second focusing signal region that independently generate focusing signals, and the first focusing signal region and the second focusing signal region are arranged to be adjacent to each other in the first pixel in a first direction, and each of the fourth pixels includes a third focusing signal region and a fourth focusing signal region that independently generate focusing signals, and the third focusing signal region and the fourth focusing signal region are arranged to be adjacent to each other in the fourth pixel in a second direction that is different from the first direction.
US12174452B2	Mirror support mechanism and optical device A mirror support mechanism includes three first supporting members and three second supporting members. Each first supporting member includes a mirror supporting portion that is in contact with and support a corresponding one of three supported surfaces provided on the supported portion with rotational symmetry of 120 degrees around an optical axis, and two first beam portions connected to both sides of the mirror supporting portion. Each second supporting member includes a supporting portion to which ends of two first beam portions adjacent to each other are connected, the ends being not connected to the mirror supporting portion, and two second beam portions connected to both sides of the supporting portion, an end of the second beam portion not connected to the supporting portion being supported by a structure member provided on the rear side of the reflecting mirror.
US12174451B2	Imaging lens assembly module, camera module and electronic device An imaging lens assembly module includes an imaging lens element set, a lens carrier and a light blocking structure. The imaging lens element set has an optical axis. At least one lens element of the lens elements is disposed in the lens carrier. The light blocking structure includes a light blocking opening. The optical axis passes through the light blocking opening, and the light blocking opening includes at least two arc portions and a shrinking portion. Each of the arc portions has a first curvature radius for defining a maximum diameter of the light blocking opening. The shrinking portion is connected to the arc portions for forming the light blocking opening into a non-circular shape. The shrinking portion includes at least one protruding arc which extends and shrinks gradually from the shrinking portion to the optical axis, and the protruding arc has a second curvature radius.
US12174450B2	Lens moving apparatus with a bobbin comprising a groove and elastic members and camera module including the same A lens moving apparatus, including a bobbin; a first coil mounted at an outer circumference of the bobbin; a first magnet moving the bobbin in a first direction parallel to an optical axis by interaction with the first coil; a housing supporting the first magnet; an upper elastic member disposed at a top surface of the bobbin and at a top surface of the housing; a lower elastic member disposed at a bottom surface of the bobbin and at a bottom surface of the housing; and first and second winding protrusions disposed with being opposite to each other, the first coil being wound on the first and second winding protrusions.
US12174449B2	Optical member driving mechanism An optical member driving mechanism is provided. The optical member driving mechanism includes a first movable portion, a fixed portion, a first driving assembly, and a plurality of second guiding members. The first movable portion is configured to connect an optical member. The optical member is used for adjusting a direction of a light from an incident direction to an outgoing direction. The first movable portion can move relative to the fixed portion. The first driving assembly is configured to drive the first movable portion to move relative to the fixed portion. The second guiding members include a first ball, a second ball, and a third ball. The first ball, the second ball, and the third ball are disposed in a plane that is perpendicular to the incident direction.
US12174446B2	Sensor lens assembly having non-soldering configuration A sensor lens assembly having a non-soldering configuration is provided. The sensor lens assembly includes a circuit board, an optical module fixed on the circuit board, a sensor chip assembled to the circuit board, a plurality of wires electrically coupled to the sensor chip and the circuit board, and a cover that overcovers the sensor chip and the wires. The cover includes a light-permeable sheet and an opaque frame. The light-permeable sheet has a ring-shaped notch recessed in an edge of an inner surface thereof. The opaque frame is formed on the ring-shaped notch and is disposed on the circuit board, the light-permeable sheet and the sensor chip are spaced apart from each other, and the sensor chip and the wires are arranged in a space that is defined by the light-permeable sheet and the opaque frame.
US12174444B2	Optical element driving mechanism An optical element driving mechanism is provided. The optical element driving mechanism includes a fixed portion, a movable portion, a first driving assembly, and a positioning element. The movable portion is movably disposed on the fixed portion and comprising an optical element. The optical element moves in a first direction. The first driving assembly is at least partially disposed on the fixed portion. The positioning element is rotatably disposed on the fixed portion or the movable portion. When the first driving assembly is not activated, the positioning element is used to limit the position of the movable portion relative to the fixed portion to a limit position, and the positioning element comprises a main body and a limiting portion extending from the main body in a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction. The limiting portion passes through the optical element.
US12174443B2	Cable termination units for optical fiber distribution elements A cable fixation structure for fixing at least a portion of a fiber optic cable to a telecommunications fixture against strain relief includes a base portion configured to be mounted to the telecommunications fixture and a removable cable holder portion that is slidably inserted into the base portion, wherein the cable holder portion is configured for fixing the at least a portion of the fiber optic cable.
US12174437B2	Optical module with slotted laser assembly box An optical module includes a shell, a circuit board, a base, a laser assembly and a silicon optical chip. The circuit board is disposed between an upper shell and a lower shell of the shell. The base is located on the circuit board or in a through hole of the circuit board. The laser assembly and the silicon optical chip are located on the base. An upper box of the laser assembly and the base are combined to provide a cavity. Conductive substrates of the laser assembly are at least partially located in the cavity. Laser chips of the laser assembly are located on the conductive substrates. An opening of the cavity is located in an optical path where light emitted by the laser chips is emitted to the silicon optical chip, and a slot of the cavity allows the conductive substrates or wires to extend out of the cavity.
US12174435B2	Integrated boot for a protected cable connector assembly The present disclosure talks about an integrated boot for use with a connector. The connector is connected to an inner optical fibre cable. The integrated boot includes a boot part and an elf part. The elf part is integral to the boot part. The boot part holds the connector with the inner optical fibre cable. The boot part connects a first end of the inner optical fibre cable to the connector. The elf part is capable of engaging with a transport tube when the elf part is pushed into the transport tube. The inner optical fibre cable passes through the transport tube.
US12174427B2	Optical device A device includes a first lens), a second lens, and an adjustment platform. The first lens is arranged between a first end surface and a second end surface, and enlarges the mode field diameter of light that is guided through a first optical waveguide and is emitted from the first end surface. The second lens is arranged between the first lens and a second end surface, and collects light that has passed through the first lens. The first lens is mounted on the adjustment platform. The distance between the optical axis of the first optical waveguide and the principal point of the first lens is adjusted on a plane orthogonal to the optical axis of the first optical waveguide using the adjustment platform.
US12174421B2	Loopback waveguide A structure for, and method of, forming a first optoelectronic circuitry that generates an optical signal, a second optoelectronic circuitry that receives an optical signal, and a loopback waveguide that connects the output from the first optoelectronic circuitry to the second optoelectronic circuitry on an interposer substrate are described. The connected circuits, together comprising a photonic integrated circuit, are electrically tested using electrical signals that are provided via probing contact pads on the PIC die. Electrical activation of the optoelectrical sending devices and the subsequent detection and measurement of the optical signals in the receiving devices, in embodiments, provides information on the operability or functionality of the PIC on the die at the wafer level, prior to die separation or singulation, using the electrical and optical components of the PIC circuit.
US12174416B2	Photonic integrated circuit platform and optical phase array device using the same A photonic integrated circuit platform includes a substrate, a first oxide layer disposed on the substrate and including an insulating transparent oxide, and a first optical element layer disposed on the first oxide layer and including a semiconductor material. The photonic integrated circuit platform further includes a second optical element layer disposed on the first optical element layer and including an insulating material different from the insulating transparent oxide of the first oxide layer, the second optical element layer further including a compound semiconductor material different from the semiconductor material of the first optical element layer, a second oxide layer disposed on the second optical element layer and including an insulating transparent oxide, and a plurality of optical elements formed by patterning the first optical element layer or the second optical element layer.
US12174412B2	Multi-core fiber, multi-core fiber ribbon, method of manufacturing multi-core fiber, and method of processing multi-core fiber A multi-core fiber includes: a plurality of core portions each including a central core portion, an intermediate layer formed on an outer periphery of the central core portion, and a trench layer formed on an outer periphery of the intermediate layer; and a cladding portion formed on an outer periphery of the plurality of core portions, wherein in each of the plurality of core portions, Δ1>Δ2>Δ3 and 0%>Δ3>−0.3% are satisfied, where Δ1 is an average maximum relative refractive-index difference of the central core portion, Δ2 is an average relative refractive-index difference of the intermediate layer, and Δ3 is an average relative refractive-index difference of the trench layer, with respect to the cladding portion.
US12174411B2	Display panel and display device The present application provides a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a frame. The frame includes a light-facing portion and a backlight portion, wherein the backlight portion faces a light-shielding region and is provided as a light to guide the lights emitted from the side light source toward the frame to the light-shielding region. The backlight portion of the frame is provided as a light guide to guide the lights to the light-shielding region to improve the brightness of the light-shielding region on the display screen, so that the overall brightness of the display screen is more uniform and the display effect is improved.
US12174409B2	Backlight module and display device A backlight module and a display device are disclosed. The backlight module includes a back plate, a first light source assembly, and a second light source assembly. The first light source assembly includes a first light plate and a plurality of first light beads. The second light source assembly includes a second light plate and a plurality of second light beads. An edge of the first light plate and an edge of the second light plate are adjacent to form a groove portion. The backlight module further includes at least one third light bead and a reflective layer which are arranged in the groove portion. The reflective layer is disposed on a bottom and/or a side wall of the groove portion, and reflects outwards the light irradiated into the gap between the first light plate and the second light plate.
US12174408B2	Anti-reflective film, polarizing plate, and display apparatus The present disclosure relates to an anti-reflective film capable of realizing high scratch resistance and anti-fouling property simultaneously while having low reflectance and high light transmittance deviation, and further capable of enhancing screen sharpness of a display apparatus, a polarizing plate and a display apparatus including the same.
US12174406B2	Infrared shielding film and infrared shielding material An infrared shielding film is an infrared shielding film including: an organic binder; and a plurality of tin-doped indium oxide particles (ITO particles) dispersed in the organic binder, in which the average center-to-center distance between adjacent particles of the ITO particles is in a range of 9 nm or more and 36 nm or less, the ratio of the average center-to-center distance between the adjacent particles to the average primary particle diameter of the ITO particles is in a range of 1.05 or more and 1.20 or less, and a roughness Ra of a film surface is in a range of 4 nm or more and 50 nm or less.
US12174402B2	Grating and display device A gating and a display device are provided. The grating includes a first substrate and a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate; a grating electrode layer including a plurality of grating electrodes and disposed on the first substrate, and a supporting structure including a plurality of first supporting pillars. An extension direction of the plurality of grating electrodes is a first direction; a size L11 of a first supporting pillar of the plurality of first supporting pillars along the first direction is greater than a size W11 of the supporting pillar along a second direction; the first direction and the second direction are both parallel to a plane where the first substrate is located; and the first direction is perpendicular to the second direction.
US12174401B2	Optical lens An optical lens including a light-shielding sheet and a spacer sequentially arranged along an optical axis from a first side to a second side is provided. No other element is disposed between the light-shielding sheet and the spacer. A second side surface of the light-shielding sheet includes a first surface. A first side surface of the spacer includes an abutting surface and a connecting surface connected to each other, and the connecting surface has a protrusion portion. A cross-sectional line of the abutting surface of the spacer in a radial direction is a straight line and abuts against the first surface of the light-shielding sheet, and an abutment between the abutting surface and the first surface falls on a first reference plane. The light-shielding sheet and a most protruding portion of the protrusion portion are located on a same side of the first reference plane.
US12174400B2	Multi-perspective three-dimensional floating image display A system for generating a centrally located floating three-dimensional image display for a plurality of passengers positioned within a vehicle includes a display adapted to project a multiplexed hologram comprising a plurality of three-dimensional holographic images, and a plurality of beam splitters, one beam splitter individually associated with each one of the plurality of passengers, each beam splitter adapted to receive one of the plurality of holographic images from the display and to reflect the one of the plurality of holographic images to the associated one of the plurality of passengers, wherein, each of the plurality of passengers perceives one of the plurality of three-dimensional holographic images floating at a central location within the vehicle.
US12174399B2	Optical component and method of manufacturing optical component An optical component includes: a first layer made of a first material having a first refractive index, the first layer including a first principal surface and a second principal surface opposite to the first principal surface; and a second layer made of a second material having a second refractive index different from the first refractive index, the second layer including a third principal surface and a fourth principal surface opposite to the third principal surface, and the first layer and the second layer are stacked such that the second principal surface and the third principal surface are in contact. A lens is formed on the first principal surface of the first layer, and a vortex profile is formed on the third principal surface of the second layer.
US12174396B2	Object localization system Fiducial patterns that produce 2D Barker code-like diffraction patterns at a camera sensor are etched or otherwise provided on a cover glass in front of a camera. 2D Barker code kernels, when cross-correlated with the diffraction patterns captured in images by the camera, provide sharp cross-correlation peaks. Misalignment of the cover glass with respect to the camera can be derived by detecting shifts in the location of the detected peaks with respect to calibrated locations. Devices that include multiple cameras behind a cover glass with one or more fiducials on the cover glass in front of each camera are also described. The diffraction patterns caused by the fiducials at the various cameras may be analyzed to detect movement or distortion of the cover glass in multiple degrees of freedom.
US12174394B2	Method for providing augmented reality content in vehicle, and wearable device and electronic device performing the same A method of providing an augmented reality (AR) content in a vehicle, and/or a wearable AR device and an electronic device for performing a method. The wearable AR device may include a processor and a memory storing instructions to be executed by the processor, and when the instructions are executed by the processor, the processor is configured to: determine whether the wearable AR device is in a space of the vehicle based on at least one of information received from the vehicle or a value measured using at least one sensor of the wearable AR device; when it is determined that the wearable AR device is not in the space of the vehicle, output an AR content corresponding to a space around the wearable AR device based on the value measured using the at least one sensor of the wearable AR device; when it is determined that the wearable AR device is in the space of the vehicle, determine whether there are anchor devices of the vehicle capable of communicating with the wearable AR device; and when it is determined that there are the anchor devices capable of communication, output an AR content corresponding to a space of the vehicle around the wearable AR device by communicating with the anchor devices.
US12174393B2	Modular systems for head-worn computers Aspects of the present disclosure relate to modular expansion systems for use in head-worn computing systems. In an head-worn computer, an electrical connector is adapted to electrically connect with a modular expansion module, wherein the modular expansion module adds a capability to the head-worn computer and is removeably mounted to the head-worn computer, and a mount is adapted to physically secure the modular expansion module to the head-worn computer.
US12174391B2	Electronic devices with deformation sensors A head-mounted device may have head-mounted support structures configured to be worn on a head of a user. The head-mounted device may have stereo optical components such as left and right cameras or left and right display systems. The optical components may have respective left and right pointing vectors. Deformation of the support structures may cause the camera pointing vectors and/or the display system pointing vectors to become misaligned. Sensor circuitry such as strain gauge circuitry may measure pointing vector misalignment. Control circuitry may control the cameras and/or the display systems to compensate for measured changes in pointing vector misalignment.
US12174386B2	Display device including a first lens and a second lens having shapes asymmetric about a semi-transparent mirror, and head-mounted display A display device includes a display panel, a linearly polarizing plate, and a first polarized light-selective reflector disposed sequentially toward a viewer; a first phase difference plate and a first lens disposed closer to the viewer relative to the first polarized light-selective reflector and facing each other; a semi-transparent mirror disposed closer to the viewer relative to the first phase difference plate and the first lens; a second lens and a second phase difference plate disposed closer to the viewer relative to the semi-transparent mirror and facing each other; and a second polarized light-selective reflector disposed closer to the viewer relative to the second lens and the second phase difference plate. The first lens and the second lens have shapes asymmetric about the semi-transparent mirror as a plane of symmetry in a cross-sectional view in a direction from the display panel toward the second polarized light-selective reflector.
US12174382B2	Head-mounted display A head-mounted display according to an embodiment includes a combiner configured to combine display light for forming a display image and outside light from in front of a user wearing the head-mounted display, and a divider part arranged between a space in front of a left eye of the user and a space in front of a right eye, and configured to diffusely reflect the display light.
US12174380B2	Display module, assembly method for display module, and virtual image display apparatus A display module includes a display element, a light-guiding optical system forming an exit pupil, and an optical member including a light incidence surface and a light emission surface. The light-guiding optical system is an eccentric optical system, and includes first and second incidence areas on which the image light emitted from the light emission surface is incident. The optical member is disposed, correcting an inclination of the light emission surface with respect to the light-guiding optical system such that an variation amount in an incidence angle of the image light with respect to the first incidence area, before and after the light emission surface is inclined, is greater than an variation amount in an incidence angle of the image light with respect to the second incidence area.
US12174379B2	Dual system on a chip eyewear Eyewear device that includes two SoCs that share processing workload. Instead of using a single SoC located either on the left or right side of the eyewear device, the two SoCs have different assigned responsibilities to operate different devices and perform different processes to balance workload. In one example, the eyewear device utilizes a first SoC to operate all peripheral components, and a second SoC performing computational tasks. This is a low-risk architecture since the second SoC is not required to operate any of the peripherals, and it has low standby power since the second SoC can be fully shutdown in a low-power mode. The second SoC does not have any direct access to camera data, so an interprocessor communication bus continuously transmits camera buffer data for most augmented reality (AR) compute tasks. This configuration provides organized logistics to efficiently operate various features, and balanced power consumption.
US12174378B2	External user interface for head worn computing Aspects of the present invention relate to external user interfaces used in connection with head-worn computers (HWC).
US12174377B2	Image processing method and apparatus for head-mounted display device as well as electronic device Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose an image processing method for a head-mounted display device, an apparatus and an electronic device. The method includes: acquiring a to-be-processed image and eyeball-tracking information; determining a first region of interest of an eyeball on the to-be-processed image according to the eyeball-tracking information; assigning a weight value to each pixel point in the to-be-processed image, wherein weight values of pixel points located in the first region of interest are higher than weight values of pixel points located in other regions which are regions other than the first region of interest; adjusting a pixel value of each pixel point according to the weight value corresponding thereto so as to obtain a processed image.
US12174376B2	Optical system, illumination system, and display system An optical system. A light source component generates a light beam. A light adjustment component adjusts a ratio of the S-polarized light and a ratio of the P-polarized light in the light beam. A first polarization beamsplitter mirror component splits a light beam adjusted by the light adjustment component into a first light beam and a second light beam, where the first light beam is a light beam of the S-polarized light, and the second light beam is a light beam of the P-polarized light. The first lens component projects the first light beam or a modulated first light beam to a first region. The second lens component projects the second light beam or a modulated second light beam to a second region.
US12174372B2	Display system for transportation networks A display device controlled via a smart phone (preferably using an TNC App) to display content selected by a requesting rider (e.g., code, symbol, the rider name, or a photo) in a clear and visible way to the waiting rider is a convenient method to identify the rider's designated vehicle instead of trying to search through model, color, and license plates of approaching vehicles as they enter a pickup area (e.g., airport designated area). The selected content is displayed on a display unit on the designated vehicle, and is transmitted to the display unit via a server associated with the designated vehicle using a secure protocol.
US12174371B2	Foldable display device A foldable display device may include a display panel, first-set light control members, and second-set light control members. The display panel may include a first display portion, a second display portion, and a folding portion disposed between the first display portion and the second display portion. The first-set light control members may overlap the first display portion and may extend parallel to each other. The second-set light control members may overlap the second display portion and may extend parallel to each other.
US12174370B2	Synthesized aperiodic gratings and method of manufacture A synthesized grating is provided comprising a substrate/layer, and a plurality of alternating aperiodic non-uniform low and high index profiles on a surface of the substrate/layer defining a transmission/reflection spectrum for one of either single or multi-frequency operation of said grating in an optical cavity. A method is also provided for designing the synthesized grating, comprising determining a grating structure of given profiles through analysis of an optimized weighted sum and mapping the grating profile to said surface with the plurality of alternating non-uniform low and high index profiles. A distributed feedback laser is also provided having top, bottom and two sides, comprising a top electrode, a cladding layer disposed below the top electrode a bottom electrode, a substrate disposed above the bottom electrode, one of either an active or passive waveguide layer, a synthesized aperiodic grating layer providing distributed mirrors, and wherein the waveguide layer and synthesized aperiodic grating layer are disposed between said the substrate and cladding layer and are separated by a spacer layer.
US12174369B2	Optical scanning device for an image forming device An optical scanning device includes a light source, a photodetector, an optical element group, and a polygon mirror. The light source is configured to emit laser light. The photodetector is configured to detect a beam formed with the laser light. The optical element group is configured to guide the beam to the photodetector. The polygon mirror is configured to perform deflection scanning on the beam, which deflects the beam from a first end in one direction of a main scanning direction to a second end on a side opposite to the first end of the main scanning direction. The beam is incident on the same side of the photodetector when the beam is deflected toward the first end and the second end by the polygon mirror.
US12174366B2	Display apparatus and initial setting method for display apparatus A display device, a method, and a computer-readable medium. The display device includes a layer including a first region and a second region, wherein the first region and the second region are configured to be visible to a user of the display device; and circuitry configured: to control displaying a computer generated image on an optical device overlapping the layer and to control a first transmittance of the first region of the layer to be lower than a second transmittance of the second region of the layer such that: a visibility, through the first region, of the computer generated image is increased and a visibility, through the second region, of an environment opposite the user relative to the display device is higher than a visibility, through the first region, of the environment opposite the user relative to the display device.
US12174362B1	Microscopic imaging system and microscopic imaging method for sample angle recognition Discloses are a microscopic imaging system and a microscopic imaging method for sample angle recognition. Firstly, a polarization rotation device introduced in an optical path of an excitation light can polarize and modulate the excitation light so as to make a polarization-modulated excitation light to rotate in a preset angle range; secondly, the polarization-modulated excitation light can be splitted into two parts via a beam splitting device, one for sample imaging, and the other for detection of polarization; and finally, a plurality of model characteristic curves can be obtained by a polarization detection device, each of the model characteristic curves corresponding to one angle, thus determining an angle information about an object to be analyzed in the sample.
US12174361B2	Method and system for mapping objects on unknown specimens A method and system for mapping fluid objects on a substrate using a microscope inspection system that includes a light source, imaging device, stage for moving a substrate disposed on the stage, and a control module. A computer analysis system includes an object identification module that identifies for each of the objects on the substrate, an object position on the substrate including a set of X, Y, and θ coordinates using algorithms, networks, machines and systems including artificial intelligence and image processing algorithms. At least one of the objects is fluid and has shifted from a prior position or deformed from a prior size.
US12174357B2	Apparatus and method for light field microscopy An apparatus and method for light field microscopy. The apparatus has a light source for emitting excitation light, an excitation beam path for guiding the excitation light onto and into a sample, a two-dimensionally spatially resolving detector for detecting emission light emitted by the sample as a consequence of the irradiation by the excitation light, and a detection beam path having a microscope objective and a multi-lens array for guiding the emission light onto the two-dimensionally spatially resolving detector. The two-dimensionally spatially resolving detector being arranged in the focal plane of the multi-lens array or in a plane optically conjugate thereto, the excitation beam path being configured to illuminate only a portion of the sample in a field of view of the detection beam path with excitation light, with a device, in particular a scanner, being present for variable positioning of the illuminated portion of the sample in the field of view of the detection beam path and with a variable stop device being present. The variable stop device being configured to restrict an effective field of view of the detection beam path on the basis of the position of the illuminated portion in the field of view. The stop device is an electronic stop device and/or the stop device is arranged in an intermediate image plane of the detection beam path upstream of the multi-lens array.
US12174356B2	Zoom lens and image capturing apparatus including the same A zoom lens B0 includes a first lens unit B1 having negative refractive, a second lens unit B2 having positive refractive power, and a third lens unit B3 having negative refractive power in order from an object side to an image side. The first lens unit B1 moves during zooming. The first lens unit B1 includes a negative lens G1 disposed closest to the object side and at least one positive lens. Lenses included in the second lens unit B2 all have positive refractive power. The number of lenses included in the third lens unit B3 is two or less. The third lens unit B3 moves toward the image side during focusing from infinity to close range.
US12174352B2	Imaging system The disclosure relates to an imaging system, including a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a diaphragm, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens and a seventh lens arranged in sequence from an object side to an image side along an optical axis, wherein the first lens, the second lens, the third lens and the sixth lens all have refractive powers, the fourth lens has a negative refractive power, the fifth lens has a positive refractive power, and the seventh lens has a negative refractive power. The imaging system of the disclosure has excellent characteristics such as ultra-wide angle, thereby being able to satisfy more photography demands.
US12174346B2	Optical imaging lens An optical imaging lens is provided. The optical imaging lens includes a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element, a seventh lens element and an eighth lens element sequentially arranged along an optical axis from an object side to an image side. Each of the first lens element to the eighth lens element comprises an object-side surface facing the object side and allowing imaging rays to pass through and an image-side surface facing the image side and allowing the imaging rays to pass through. The second lens element has negative refracting power. The fifth lens element has positive refracting power. An optical axis region of the image-side surface of the seventh lens element is convex. Lens elements of the optical imaging lens are only the eight lens elements described above.
US12174338B2	Real-time weather forecasting Improved mechanisms for collecting information from a diverse suite of sensors and systems, calculating the current precipitation, atmospheric water vapor, atmospheric liquid water content, or precipitable water and other atmospheric-based phenomena, for example presence and intensity of fog, based upon these sensor readings, predicting future precipitation and atmospheric-based phenomena, and estimating effects of the atmospheric-based phenomena on visibility, for example by calculating runway visible range (RVR) estimates and forecasts based on the atmospheric-based phenomena.
US12174335B2	Absolute gravimeter and measurement method based on vacuum optical tweezers An absolute gravimeter and a measurement method based on vacuum optical tweezers. The micro-nano particle releasing device is equipped with micro-nano particles, and is located above laser optical tweezers, and the laser optical tweezers have two capturing beams which pass through the respective convergent lenses and then converge at an intersection. An area where the intersection is located serves as an optical trap capturing region, and the micro-nano particles are stably captured by the two capturing beams in the optical trap capturing region. The optical interferometer is electrically connected to the signal processing device, the optical interferometer measures a displacement of the micro-nano particles in real time at the beginning of a free fall process from the optical trap capturing region and sends the displacement signal to the signal processing device. The signal processing device obtains a measured value of an absolute gravitational acceleration.
US12174328B2	Methods and systems for real-time modifications to seismic acquisition operations A method and system for forming a seismic image of a subterranean region are disclosed. The method includes determining an initial plan for a seismic survey with a value for each member of a set of acquisition parameters and acquiring a first seismic dataset from a first portion of the seismic survey based on the initial plan. The method further includes transmitting the first seismic dataset to a seismic processor, determining a first seismic image from the first seismic dataset by performing expedited seismic processing and determining a first updated plan for the seismic survey based on the first seismic image and acquiring a second seismic dataset from a second portion of the seismic survey based on the first updated plan. The method still further includes transmitting the second seismic dataset to the seismic processor and determining the seismic based on the first seismic dataset and the second seismic dataset.
US12174326B2	Acoustic vector sensor A horizontal acoustic vector sensor system described herein includes a housing which has a gimbal assembly therein which is attached to a sensor assembly which has multiple pairs of seismometers that arranged orthogonally to one or more neighboring pairs of seismometers, along an approximately horizontal axis. The gimbal assembly with sensor assembly are enclosed within the housing by an endcap which includes an electronics assembly. The multiple pairs of seismometers are wired to the electronics assembly through a slip-ring which allows for movement of the gimbal assembly without entangling the wires. The horizontal acoustic vector sensor system further includes at least one omni-directional hydrophone integrated into the endcap.
US12174325B2	Method and apparatus for performing efficient modeling of extended-duration moving seismic sources Methods include receiving a set of seismic data including a seismic signal generated over the course of a set period of time as a time scale, partitioning the seismic signal into a predetermined integer number greater than one of partitioned seismic signals each associated with a respective fixed position associated with a respective time interval as a portion of the time scale, applying a pulse compression technique to each partitioned seismic signal of the predetermined number of partitioned seismic signals to generate a compressed partitioned seismic signal corresponding to each partitioned seismic signal of the predetermined number of partitioned seismic signals, and inserting the compressed partitioned seismic signal corresponding to each partitioned seismic signal of the predetermined number of partitioned seismic signals in parallel into a velocity model builder. In addition, the methods include summing generated results therefrom to model the seismic signal for the time scale.
US12174324B2	In-situ sensor calibration for autonomous vehicles Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for using naturally collected data in sensor calibration. One of the methods includes obtaining, using a first, calibrated sensor, a first plurality of raw sensor measurements of an environment; determining, from the first plurality of raw sensor measurements, a Truncated Signed Distance Field (TSDF)-based model of surfaces in the environment; obtaining, using a second sensor, a second plurality of raw sensor measurements of the environment; determining a multi-dimensional point cloud representation of the environment; and determining refined values of the set of calibration parameters of the second sensor based on a difference between, for each data point, (i) the multiple values that define the data point and (ii) multiple values that define a target data point derived from the TSDF-based model of surfaces in the environment.
US12174322B2	F-P sensor probe, absolute distance measurement device, and absolute distance measurement method Provided are an F-P sensor probe, an absolute distance measurement device, and an absolute distance measurement method, which relate to the field of non-contact absolute distance measurement technologies. This structure includes a first N+1-core multimode optical fiber probe (9), an optical fiber sleeve (10), an imaging lens group (11), and a reference lens (12), wherein: the first N+1-core multimode optical fiber probe (9), the imaging lens group (11), and the reference lens (12) are sequentially fixed inside the optical fiber sleeve (10) along a direction of the F-P sensor probe toward a sample (8); and the first N+1-core multimode optical fiber probe (9) includes N first multimode optical fibers (16) and one second multimode optical fiber (17), where N≥2, and the N first multimode optical fibers (16) are arranged around the second multimode optical fiber (17).
US12174317B2	Distance measuring device A distance measuring device includes a measuring unit, a controlling unit, and an accessory part. The measuring unit includes an applying unit that applies a transmission wave and a detector that detects a reflected wave resulting from the transmission wave. The controlling unit is configured to perform a measurement, by using the measuring unit, a distance to an object to which the transmission wave is applied. The accessory part is attached to the measuring unit and configured to operate when energized. The controlling unit is configured to control energization of the accessory part in accordance with a state of the measurement of the distance performed by using the measuring unit.
US12174314B2	Generation of non-semantic reference data for positioning a motor vehicle A computer-implemented method for generating non-semantic reference data for determining the position of a motor vehicle involves a set of raw data points being provided that models a stipulated surrounding area. A stipulated descriptor characterizing a property of the surrounding area is determined for each of the raw data points. At least one point cluster is generated by grouping the raw data points on the basis of their descriptors. A characteristic number relating to an information gain for determining the position of the motor vehicle is assigned to a first point cluster on the basis of the descriptors of the raw data points. The characteristic number is taken as a basis for storing feature information of the first point cluster on a memory unit as non-semantic reference data for determining the position.
US12174312B2	Ordered-statistics ratio (OSR) constant false alarm rate (CFAR) detection with empirical data fitting Empirical data fitting with Ordered Statistic Constant False Alarm Rate (CFAR) detection is described. An empirical approach is used to derive data for indicated expected target responses to provide a CFAR in a variety of different noise distributions. Multiple (e.g., at least two) ordered-statistics are extracted from radar data, which are then used identify a ratio for mapping to an appropriate CFAR multiplier of quantile function for a distribution at hand. Empirical data fitting evaluates an ordered-statistic ration (OSR) against expected OSR values. From evaluating the expected OSR values derived from multiple test frames, a mapping between measured OSR values and their appropriate CFAR multiplier is derived. Through this empirical data fitting, a radar system can perform CFAR detection to account for shape shifts or other variations in a noise distribution beyond just fluctuations in noise strength.
US12174307B2	Method and system for radiofrequency localization of transmitting devices via a mesh network A method including, at each node in each pair of nodes in a network: transmitting an outbound synchronization signal; generating a self-receive signal based on the outbound synchronization signal; detecting the self-receive signal at a self-receive TOA; detecting an inbound synchronization signal; based on the pair of self-receive TOAs and the pair of synchronization TOAs, for each pair of nodes in the network: calculating a pairwise time offset and distance; for each node in the network: based on the set of pairwise distances, calculating a location and a time bias of the node. The method also includes: at each node in the network, detecting a localization signal, transmitted by a device, at a localization TOA; and calculating a location of the device based on, for each node in the network, the localization signal detected at the node, and the time bias and the relative location of the node.
US12174303B2	Methods for indication of reference station GNSS RTK integer ambiguity level According to one aspect of the disclosure, a location node configured to communicate with a wireless device is provided. The location node includes processing circuitry configured to: receive spatial information; determine the wireless device relationship between a first reference station and a second reference station based at least in part on the spatial information; compare a first integer ambiguity level of the first reference station with a second integer ambiguity level of the second reference station, the second reference station corresponding to a current reference station of the wireless device; and transmit an indication of an applicability of the first integer ambiguity level of the first reference station to the second integer ambiguity level of the second reference station for position estimation, the indication being based on the comparison of the first integer ambiguity level with the second integer ambiguity level.
US12174299B1	Glare detection in sensor data Techniques for determining a distance to an object in an environment based on sensor data are discussed herein. The sensor data can be captured by a sensor, and the sensor data can be based on laser pulses emitted from emitters being differently spaced apart from the sensor. The sensor data can be utilized to determine distance data associated with an object. A difference between the distance data can be used to determine whether the distance data is associated with a retroreflector. If the difference in distance data is above a threshold, a confidence level of sensor data can be adjusted or the sensor data can be discarded or omitted from subsequent processing.
US12174294B2	Method and apparatus for detecting object An apparatus includes a drive signal generator that selectively outputs, as a drive signal, one of a first drive signal and a second drive signal. The first drive signal has a first temporal frequency change within a first frequency band that is defined from a first lowest frequency to a first highest frequency inclusive. The second drive signal has a second temporal frequency change within a second frequency band that is defined from a second lowest frequency to a second highest frequency inclusive. Each of the first and second frequency bands has a corresponding one of first and second intermediate frequencies that is defined as one of a center frequency and an average frequency of the corresponding one of the first and second frequency bands. The second intermediate frequency is different from the first intermediate frequency. The second frequency band is partially overlapped with the first frequency band.
US12174291B2	Object determination apparatus In an object determination apparatus, a same-object determiner is configured to make a same-object determination as to whether a first object ahead of a subject vehicle that is a vehicle carrying the object determination apparatus, detected by an electromagnetic wave sensor, and a second object ahead of the subject vehicle, detected by an image sensor, are the same object. A candidate-object identifier is configured to identify a candidate for the first object, between which and the second object the same-object determination is to be made, as a candidate object. A candidate-object selector is configured to, in response to there being a plurality of the candidate objects, preferentially select, from the plurality of candidate objects, a candidate object whose likelihood for the identified object type of the second object is higher than a predetermined likelihood threshold, as a candidate object to be subjected to the same-object determination.
US12174290B2	Techniques for generating motion information for videos This disclosure describes, in part, techniques for generating location information associated with a video. For instance, an electronic device may use a radar sensor to generate radar data. The electronic device may then analyze the radar data in order to determine a location associated with an object. In some instances, the location may correspond to at least a first coordinate along a first axis and a second coordinate along a second axis. The electronic device may also generate image data using the imaging device. Additionally, the electronic device may analyze the image data in order to determine that the image data represents an object and/or a type of object. The electronic device may then generate location data representing an identifier for the object and the location. Next, the electronic device may send the image data and the location data to one or more computing devices.
US12174288B2	System and method for determining angle of arrival in a radar based point cloud generation According to an aspect, a method of determining two dimensional (2D) angle of arrival (AoA) in a radar system comprising determining one dimensional (1D) AoA to generate a first set of (AoA), selecting a set of valid 1D AoA angles from the first set AoA, and determining the 2D AoA from the set of valid 1D AoA. Wherein the 1D AoA is determined on a first set of data received over a first uniform linear antenna array arranged in the first axis and the 2D AoA is determined on a second set data received over the first and the second MIMO antenna array arranged in the second axis and the set of valid 1D AoA in the first axis. Wherein the second antenna array need not be orthogonal to the first linear antenna array.
US12174287B2	Electronic device for performing ranging through ultra-wide band (UWB), and method for operating electronic device Provided is a method for stably and flexibly performing ranging between a plurality of devices. According to an embodiment, a method of operating a first device for performing ranging by using ultra-wide band (UWB) may include: transmitting a first ranging control (RC) frame to a second device; performing ranging with the second device for a number of ranging rounds determined based on the first RC frame; changing at least one ranging parameter based on a change request received from the second device; and transmitting a second RC frame including the changed at least one ranging parameter.
US12174286B2	System for multistatic radar communication This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for multistatic radar communications. In one aspect, a wireless communication device may determine a distance and direction of one or more receiving devices. The wireless communication device may transmit, to the one or more receiving devices, timing information indicating a timing relationship between a codeword sequence and one or more pulses. The wireless communication device may transmit a respective codeword of the codeword sequence in the direction of each of the one or more receiving devices. The wireless communication device may further transmit the one or more pulses in a plurality of directions. The wireless communication device may receive feedback from at least one of the one or more receiving devices and determine ranging information about an object based on the feedback and the distance or direction of at least one receiving device.
US12174277B1	Magnetic particle imaging device based on parallel scanning of multiple magnetic field free lines An MPI device based on parallel scanning of multiple magnetic field free lines (FFLs) is provided. The MPI device includes a first coil, a second coil, an excitation coil, and a receiving coil; the first coil is configured to receive a first-frequency current and generate a plurality of FFLs; the second coil is configured to receive the first-frequency current and drive the FFLs to rotate under a joint action with the first coil; the excitation coil is configured to receive a second-frequency current and drive the FFLs to scan fast; the receiving coil receives a particle signal scanned by the FFLs at each time point; and the first coil, the second coil, the excitation coil and the receiving coil are provided in longitudinal symmetry along the center of the imaging field of view.
US12174276B2	Magnetoresistive element for a 2D magnetic sensor having a reduced hysteresis response A magnetoresistive element for a 2D magnetic sensor, the magnetoresistive element including a tunnel barrier layer included between a reference layer having a reference magnetization and a sense layer having a sense magnetization. The sense layer includes a sense synthetic antiferromagnetic structure including a first sense sublayer in contact with the tunnel barrier layer and separated from a second sense sublayer by a first non-magnetic spacer layer such that the first sense sublayer is antiferromagnetically coupled to the second sense sublayer. The sense layer is configured such that a sense magnetic ratio ΔM defined as: Δ ⁢ M = M ⁢ s F ⁢ M ⁢ 2 ⁢ t F ⁢ M ⁢ 2 - M ⁢ s F ⁢ M ⁢ 1 ⁢ t F ⁢ M ⁢ 1 M ⁢ s F ⁢ M ⁢ 2 ⁢ t F ⁢ M ⁢ 2 + M ⁢ s F ⁢ M ⁢ 1 ⁢ t F ⁢ M ⁢ 1 wherein MSFM1 and MSFM2 are the spontaneous magnetizations of the first and second sense sublayers and tFM1 and tFM2 are the thicknesses of the first and second sense sublayers; and wherein the sense magnetic ratio is between 0.1 and 0.25.
US12174275B2	Magnetic field closed loop sensors with offset reduction Magnetic field closed loop sensors including offset reduction circuitry to reduce undesired baseband components attributable to offset associated with magnetoresistance elements are described. A superimposed signal including a main signal portion indicative of a parameter of a target and an offset reduced signal portion is coupled to feedback circuitry. The feedback circuitry generates a feedback signal to drive a feedback coil. Main processing circuitry is operative to extract the main signal portion from the superimposed signal and produce a sensor output signal based on the main signal portion. Example offset reduction circuitry can take the form of AC coupling circuitry or a ripple reduction loop.
US12174274B2	Optical fiber sensing system having glass distributed diamond particles with nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers and related methods An optical fiber distributed sensing system may include an optical fiber for distributed sensing. The optical fiber may include a core including glass and diamond particles with nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers distributed within the glass. The optical fiber may also include at least one glass layer surrounding the core. An optical source may be coupled to the optical fiber and operable from an end thereof. An optical detector may be coupled to the optical fiber to detect fluorescence therefrom.
US12174271B2	Adaptive switching frequency selection A method is provided for use in a sensor, the method comprising: selecting a switching cycle for the sensor; transitioning the sensor into a state in which at least one component of the sensor is periodically turned on and off in accordance with the switching cycle; sampling an analog signal to generate a sampled signal, the analog signal being generated by at least one sensing element, the analog signal being sampled only during periods in which the at least one component of the sensor is turned on; and generating an output signal based, at least in part, on the sampled signal and outputting the output signal.
US12174269B2	Current sensing in a wireless power transfer system A current sensing method measures a fractional current through a coil having a plurality of coil windings by using a current sensing resistor to measure a current through a subset of the plurality of coil windings and using a voltage sensor to measure a voltage drop across the current sensing resistor. The measured current and voltage values are provided to a processor to determine the fractional current and phase of the coil. For example, the fractional current and phase of the coil may be determined by calculating a total current of the coil as I=n(V/Rx), where n is the number of coil windings of the coil, V is the measured voltage, and Rx is the impedance of the current sensing resistor. The coil may be a secondary winding used in a wireless power transfer system.
US12174266B2	Leakage current detection circuit for semiconductor A circuit for detecting a leakage current in a semiconductor element includes a setting circuit and a detector. The semiconductor element includes a first terminal at a high-potential-side of the semiconductor element, a second terminal at a low-potential-side of the semiconductor element, and a control terminal. The control terminal receives a signal for controlling a conduction state between the first terminal and the second terminal. The setting circuit sets a duration during which a charging current flows to the control terminal as an undetectable duration, in response to turning on the semiconductor element. The detector outputs a detected signal based on a condition that the leakage current flowing from the control terminal to the second terminal, after the undetectable duration has been elapsed.
US12174265B2	Fault isolation analysis method and computer-readable storage medium A fault isolation analysis method includes: providing a package structure in which there is an electrical fault; detecting whether the electrical fault is in interconnecting wires, and if the electrical fault is in the interconnecting wires, determining that the electrical fault is caused by the interconnecting wire; and if the electrical fault is not in the interconnecting wires, breaking the interconnecting wires to electrically isolate the chip structure from the substrate, then detecting whether the electrical fault is in the structure, and if the electrical fault is able to be detected, determining that the electrical fault is caused by the substrate, or if the electrical fault is not able to be detected, determining that the electrical fault is caused by the chip structure.
US12174263B2	Battery inspection method and battery inspection system The battery inspection method includes the following. Self-discharging the battery to be inspected until a predetermined time elapses from the start of self-discharging. Detecting a voltage, a current, a temperature of the battery and an ambient temperature when the predetermined time elapses. Perform a preliminary step prior to self-discharge of the battery. Obtain preliminary step information representing the execution conditions of the preliminary step. Calculating the current convergence value from the acquired preliminary step information, the detected voltage, current, and temperature, and the detected ambient temperature by referring to a predetermined correspondence between the preliminary step information, the voltage, current, and temperature of the battery at the time when the predetermined time elapses, the ambient temperature, and the current convergence value. Determining whether a short circuit failure of the battery has occurred based on the calculated current convergence value.
US12174262B2	Battery management apparatus A battery management apparatus for changing a control condition according to a degradation pattern in a charge situation of a battery cell. Since not only the degradation degree of the battery cell but also the degradation acceleration degree of the battery cell is estimated, the present degradation state of the battery cell may be more accurately estimated, and the future degradation state of the battery cell may also be predicted more accurately.
US12174261B2	Battery protection chip, polling detection circuit and method based on battery protection chip A battery protection chip, a polling detection method and a polling detection circuit based on a battery protection chip are provided. The circuit includes: a polling signal generator generating first and second selection signals based on a basic clock signal, a plurality of state signals and a priority of a plurality of detection items. An input array selector selects one of a plurality of reference signals and one of a plurality of feedback signals to output to a comparator based on the first selection signal; the comparator compares the feedback reference signals and outputs an indication signal. An output sampler samples the indication signal according to the second selection signal and updates the plurality of state signals according to a sampling result.
US12174259B1	Laser-based method and system for triggering thermal runaway of a battery A method for testing a battery cell includes directing a laser radiation from a laser at a radiation-receiving location on a can of the battery cell to trigger a thermal runaway event. A power, a wavelength, and a beam size of the laser radiation are selected based on a test stability of the battery cell when triggering the thermal runaway event. The test stability includes a likelihood that the can will breach in response to triggering the thermal runaway event. The method also includes ceasing to contact the radiation-receiving location with the laser radiation in response to the thermal runaway event.
US12174256B2	Device monitoring device and device monitoring method The purpose of the present invention is to provide a device monitoring technique having little restriction even on application to an already-existing device or facilitating monitoring even when a device to be monitored is in variable speed operation or under load variation. One of the representative device monitoring devices of the present invention monitors a device system using, as a power source, an AC electric motor driven by an inverter and is provided with a torque current estimation unit and a state estimation unit. The torque current estimation unit acquires information about AC currents of at least two phases and excitation current of the AC electric motor and calculates a torque current estimated value of the AC electric motor on the basis of the AC currents and the excitation current. The state estimation unit estimates the state of the device system from information including at least one of the feature amounts extracted from the torque current estimated value.
US12174252B2	Circuit arrangement for validation of operation of a logic module in a multipower logic architecture and corresponding validation method A first circuit is coupled to a second circuit via a communication link. The first circuit generates a first validation signal, a second validation signal, and control signals, and transmits the first and second validation signals to the second circuit via the communication link. The second circuit validates the control signals based on the first and second binary validation signals. The validating includes: verifying that when the first validation signal has a first value, the second validation signal has a second value different from the first value; verifying that when the second validation signal has the first value, the first validation signal has the second value; verifying detection of a transition edge of the first validation signal within a threshold number of clock cycles; and verifying detection of a transition edge of the second validation signal within the threshold number of clock cycles.
US12174251B2	System testing using partitioned and controlled noise A system comprises a plurality of regions, wherein ones of the plurality of regions are partitioned from others of the plurality of regions and at least one of the plurality of regions is a region under test. The system comprises at least one noise generator configured to generate noise in at least the region under test, and at least one noise monitor configured to monitor one or more effects of the noise generated in the region under test. The system comprises a test controller configured to: cause the at least one noise generator to generate the noise in at least the region under test; receive information from the at least one noise monitor indicative of the one or more effects of the noise generated in the region under test; and determine one or more conditions based on at least a portion of the received information.
US12174248B2	Ergonomic loading for a test interface board (TIB) / burn-in-board (BIB) in a slot-based test system A testing apparatus includes a tester rack with a plurality of slots where at least one slot in the tester rack is a dedicated slot operable to receive a test interface board (TIB) from a back of the tester rack, where the back of the tester rack is opposite a front of a tester rack, and where the front of the tester rack faces a handler and a front-facing elevator. The apparatus also includes a handler operable to load devices under test (DUTs) onto the TIB and a front-facing elevator move the TIB from the dedicated slot to an available slot in the tester rack, wherein the available slot includes power electronics operable to connect to the TIB to test devices under test (DUT) disposed on the TIB.
US12174245B2	Recipe information presentation system and recipe error inference system An objective of the present invention is to provide a system which can infer the cause of a recipe error and present a correction candidate for the recipe error. A recipe information presentation system or recipe error inference system according to the present invention: causes a learner to learn a correspondence between a recipe and an error originating from the recipe; and acquires from the learner an inference result as to whether the error occurs when a new recipe is used (refer to FIG. 1).
US12174244B2	Device under test simulation equipment Device under test (DUT) simulation equipment includes: a first circuit board including a first field programmable gate array (FPGA); a second circuit board including a processor; and a power distribution board, wherein the first circuit board is connected to the power distribution board, and the power of the first circuit board is supplied by the power distribution board, wherein the second circuit board is connected to the power distribution board, and the power of the second circuit board is supplied by the power distribution board, wherein when the DUT simulation equipment is connected to a tester to perform testing, the DUT simulation equipment simulates the performance of a DUT providing a response signal after receiving a test signal from the tester, and wherein, in the DUT simulation equipment, only the first circuit board receives the test signal from the tester, and the second circuit board controls the first circuit board by means of a control signal.
US12174243B2	Probe assembly, system and method for testing rf device of phased array antenna A method for manufacturing a first radio-frequency (RF) device, including: receiving a substrate having the first RF device, wherein the first RF device has a signal port for receiving or transmitting RF signals with an input impedance greater than ten times an input impedance of a testing tool; causing a probe assembly to connect to the signal port and the testing tool; and causing the probe assembly to connect to a first terminal of a resistive element having a resistance equal to the input impedance.
US12174240B2	Ball grid array current meter with a current sense wire Electrical current flow in a ball grid array (BGA) package can be measured by an apparatus including an integrated circuit (IC) electrically connected to the BGA package. Solder balls connect the BGA package to a printed circuit board (PCB) and are arranged to provide a contiguous channel for a current sense wire. A subset of solder balls is electrically connected to supply current from the PCB through the BGA package to the IC. The current sense wire is attached to the upper surface of the PCB, within the contiguous channel, and surrounds the subset of solder balls. An amplifier is electrically connected to the current sense wire ends to amplify a voltage induced on the current sense wire by current flow into the BGA package. A sensing analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is electrically connected to convert a voltage at the output of the amplifier into digital output signals.
US12174239B2	Thermal testing system having safety feature(s) and multiple independently controlled thermoelectric coolers Techniques are described herein that are capable of using variable voltage sources to control respective thermoelectric coolers independently in a thermal testing environment. The variable voltage sources create temperature differentials between first and second opposing surfaces of the thermoelectric coolers by applying input voltages to the respective thermoelectric coolers. Heat is transferred, by first heat exchanger(s), between a fluid and respective subset(s) of the thermoelectric coolers Heat is transferred, by second heat exchanger(s), between semiconductor device(s) and the subset(s) of the thermoelectric coolers.
US12174232B2	Apparatus, method, system and medium for measuring pulse signal width A apparatus, method, system and medium are provided. The apparatus includes: a buffer chain, including N first buffers connected end to end, N first AND gates with one input connected to a pulse signal and the other input connected to an output of a corresponding first buffer, and N flip-flops coupled with outputs of respective first AND gates; a path time delay adjustment circuit, with an input receiving a pulse signal, and an output connected to an input terminal of the first buffer; a control apparatus, controlling the time delay produced by the adjustment circuit to be reduced by at least one step from a preset time delay during each adjustment until an output of a Pth flip-flop flips; a measuring device measuring the pulse signal's width according to an output of each flip-flop, the time delay of each first buffer and the time delay of the adjustment circuit.
US12174229B2	Apparatus for measuring dynamic on-resistance of nitride-based semiconductor device An apparatus for measuring dynamic on-resistance of a device under test (DUT) is provided. The apparatus comprises a testing interface configured for coupling between the DUT and a measuring equipment; a first measuring circuit configured for sensing a drain-source voltage of the DUT and generating a first measuring signal proportional to the drain-source voltage; a current sensing circuit configured for sensing a drain current flowing from a drain to a source of the DUT and generating a current sensing signal; a second measuring circuit configured for receiving the current sensing signal and generating a second measuring signal proportional to the drain current; a first clamping circuit configured for eliminating overshoots in the first measuring signal; a second clamping circuit configured for eliminating overshoots in the second measuring signal. As the overshoot in the measuring voltage signals can be eliminated, the time required for the measuring signal to settle is shortened.
US12174228B2	Thermoelectric power meter An apparatus and a system measure electrical power with improved accuracy as a result of compensating for sources of thermal energy that are not caused by the electrical power of the electrical circuit under test. The apparatuses and systems provide a separate electrical signal source (e.g. RF electrical circuits under test) and DC sides. The apparatuses and systems include devices adapted to convert thermal energy into voltages having reversed polarities. The apparatuses and systems are adapted to compensate for temperature changes not caused by the electrical power of the electrical circuit under test (e.g., ambient temperature change and thermal energy transmitted through the signal transmission lines from sources in the electrical circuit).
US12174220B2	Heater substrate, probe card substrate, and probe card Provided is a heater substrate that includes an insulating substrate having a first surface and a second surface that is on an opposite side from the first surface, a heater wire located inside the insulating substrate, and an adjustment part that is electrically connected to the heater wire. The adjustment part includes a pair of adjustment terminals that are located on the second surface and are respectively electrically connected to two ends of a partial section of the heater wire, and an adjustment conductor that is located on the second surface and is connected to the pair of adjustment terminals. Also provided are a probe card substrate and a probe card that include the heater substrate.
US12174219B2	Universal mate-in cable interface system An assembly for interfacing an existing harness connector of an installed wiring harness to a test module. The assembly comprises: a harness-specific connector which is connectable to the existing harness connector, a test box connector module connected to the harness-specific connector, for connecting to a test module, and a unique identifier which is readable on the assembly and which is unique to the test box connector module; wherein the unique identifier is used to identify the test box connector module and to determine a configuration that corresponds to the identifier of the assembly, and to determine the correspondence between contacts of the test module to contacts of the existing harness connector.
US12174211B2	System for collecting liquid samples Systems and methods are described to determine whether a sample transmitted through a transfer line from a remote sampling system contains a suitable sample to analyze by an analysis system. A system embodiment includes, but is not limited to, a sample receiving line configured to receive a liquid segment a first detector configured to detect the liquid segment at a first location in the sample receiving line; a second detector configured to detect the liquid segment at a second location in the sample receiving line downstream from the first location; and a controller configured to register a continuous liquid segment in the sample receiving line when the first detector and the second detector match detection states prior to the controller registering a change of state of the first detector.
US12174208B2	Automated system for collecting tissue samples, and corresponding method and computer-readable medium A system for collecting tissue samples, such as meat tissues on carcasses, for example in the food industry. Also provided are methods for collecting tissue samples, and to a non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising program instructions to execute at least one step of the method for collecting tissue samples.
US12174204B2	Analysis method, analysis apparatus, and analysis program Excellent analysis of a coagulation characteristic of a blood sample is implemented. A method for analyzing a coagulation characteristic of a blood specimen according to the present invention includes: acquiring data for a coagulation reaction curve indicating a coagulation reaction amount of a mixed solution containing a blood sample and a reagent with respect to reaction time; calculating data for a differential curve obtained by differentiating the coagulation reaction curve; calculating information related to a center-of-gravity point of the differential curve; and evaluating the coagulation characteristic of the blood sample using the information related to the center-of-gravity point.
US12174203B2	Detection of vitamins a and e by tandem mass spectrometry Methods are described for measuring the amount of one or more of vitamin A, α-tocopherol, and the combination of β-tocopherol and γ-tocopherol in a sample. More specifically, mass spectrometric methods are described for detecting and quantifying one or more of vitamin A, α-tocopherol, and the combination of β-tocopherol and γ-tocopherol in a sample.
US12174195B2	Compositions and methods for assessing the risk of cancer occurrence The present invention provides a method for evaluating the risk of occurrence of cancer in an individual.
US12174193B2	Agents and methods for predicting response to therapy Disclosed are methods and agents for predicting responses to therapy. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to methods and agents for detecting different forms of Programmed Death Ligand-1 (PD-L1) in cancer cells, which are useful for detecting location of PD-L1 in a cellular compartment (e.g., nucleus, cytoplasm, cell membrane) of a cancer cell, for predicting the likelihood of response of a cancer cell to therapy including immunotherapy, for stratifying a cancer patient as a likely responder or non-responder to a therapy, for managing treatment of a cancer patient, and for predicting clinical outcomes.
US12174192B2	Methods for detecting and treating cancers having adenosine pathway activation This disclosure relates to methods for detecting a level of expression of one or more genes (or proteins) in a subject having or suspected of having cancer, and optionally treating the subject with an adenosine pathway antagonist, for example an adenosine A2A receptor (ADORA2A) antagonist, to treat the cancer. The genes (or proteins) include, without limitation, CD68, CD163, LBP, CCL2, CCL3, CCL7, CCL24, CCNE1, CD 14, CD300E, CD86, CD93, CLEC5A, CSF3, CXCL1, CXCL2, CXCL3, CXCL5, CXCL6, CXCL8, DFNA5, ECEL1, EPB41L3, EHF, FUT7, GALM, GBP6, GPR157, HAS1, IL1A, IE-1β, IL23, IL24, IL5, IL6, IL8, INHBA, LAP3, LAYN, LOC100505585, MRPL11, NID1, OST4, PADI2, PID1, PLAUR, PPBP, PTGS2, RHCG, SERPINB2, SLC11A1, SLC7A7, SPON1, ST6GALNAC2, TBX21, THBS1, C1R, C1S, C4BPA, CCL11, CCL20, CXCL16, CXCL2, HAMP, HSD11B1, IT GAM, LIF, SAA1, TFRC, TLR5, TNFSF14, TREM2, APP, ATG10, BCL2, CCL15, CD24, CD46, CD59, CREB5, CX3CL1, CXCL14, CYFIP2, DEFB1, DPP4, ECSIT, EPCAM, IFIT1, IGF1R, ITGA6, ITGB3, MAP2K4, MAPK1, MASP1, PPARG, RORC, SPA17, STAT5B, TOLLIP, AKT3, BMI1, CD 164, CD34, CDH5, CREB1, DOCK9, ENG, HMGB1, ITGA1, JAM3, MAF, MAPK3, MAPK8, MCAM, MFGE8, NOTCH1, NRP1, PRKCE, SMAD2, TAL1, THY1, TNFSF12, TRAF6, TXNIP, VEGFA, S100A8, and/or WDR830S.
US12174189B2	Diagnostic, prognostic, and monitoring methods for chronic lymphocytic leukemia The invention generally provides improved compositions and methods for detecting, diagnosing, prognosing, and monitoring multiple myeloma, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, or B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma in a subject. In particular, the invention provides methods for detecting BCMA in subjects to reliably diagnose, predict survival, or monitor multiple myeloma, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, or B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma in the subject.
US12174188B2	Methods of identifying subjects responsive to treatment for type 1 diabetes and compositions for treating the same The invention features methods of identifying a subject having an autoimmune disease, such as type 1 diabetes, as likely to respond to treatment with a tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) receptor II activator. The method involves measuring CD8 protein density on the surface of autoreactive CD8+ T cells and identifying the subject as likely to respond to the treatment if the CD8 protein density is reduced relative to a reference CD8+ T cell. For type 1 diabetes, the method may involve measuring C-peptide levels in an in vitro biological sample from the subject, identifying the subject as likely to respond to the treatment if the C-peptide levels are detectable, and identifying the subject as unlikely to respond to the treatment if the C-peptide are substantially undetectable. The invention also features pharmaceutical compositions of one or more TNFR2 activators for use in treating an autoimmune disease in a subject identified as likely to respond to the treatment prior to the treating by according to the methods of the invention.
US12174187B2	Methods for detecting multiple sclerosis (MS) diagnostic autoantibodies Methods for detecting Multiple Sclerosis (MS) diagnostic autoantibodies in a subject and generating a subject-specific, MS diagnostic autoantibody profile are described. The methods include contacting an immunoglobulin-containing biological sample from the subject with a system comprising antigens that form immunocomplexes with MS diagnostic autoantibodies, the antigens including general transcription factor II-I, splicing factor 1, and inducible T-cell co-stimulator (ICOS), to form a reaction mixture, under conditions that allow for formation in the reaction mixture of an immunocomplex between each antigen and its corresponding MS diagnostic autoantibody, if its corresponding MS diagnostic autoantibody is present in the sample; and detecting presence or absence of immunocomplexes in the reaction mixture, wherein formation of immunocomplexes between the antigens and their corresponding MS diagnostic autoantibodies indicates presence of the MS diagnostic autoantibodies in the biological sample.
US12174185B2	Compositions and methods for detecting autoantibodies The invention provides compositions and methods for detecting thyroid hormone blocking immunoglobulin (TBI). The invention's methods are sensitive and specific for TBI, and may be used for the dual detection of both TBI and TSI. The invention's compositions and methods are useful for the diagnosis of diseases that are associated with the presence of TBI and/or TSI, for monitoring the progress of disease and/or treatment regimens, therapeutics, vaccines, etc., and for assisting clinicians in making treatment decisions.
US12174184B2	Target interference suppressed anti-drug antibody assay Herein is reported an immunoassay for quantifying the amount of anti-drug antibody, which anti-drug antibody can specifically bind to a drug antibody, which drug antibody can specifically bind to a therapeutic target, in a serum or plasma sample comprising the steps of a) incubating the serum or plasma sample at a pH value that is about the pI value of the target, and optionally removing formed precipitate after the incubation, b) incubating the serum or plasma sample obtained in step a) at a pH value of about 2, and optionally centrifuging the incubated sample to remove formed precipitate, c) adjusting the pH value to about 7.4, adding capture antibody conjugated to a first member of a binding pair and tracer antibody conjugated to a detectable label to the serum or plasma sample obtained in step b) and incubating the mixture to form a capture antibody-anti-drug antibody-tracer antibody-complex, d) quantifying the complex formed in step c) and thereby quantifying the amount of anti-drug antibody in the serum or plasma sample.
US12174181B2	Nanocomposites and methods of making same A method of making a nanocomposite includes forming at least one gold nanorod; coating a silver layer on an outer surface of the gold nanorod; assembling a Raman reporter molecule layer on the coated silver layer; coating a pegylated layer on the assembled Raman reporter molecule layer; and conjugating the coated pegylated layer with an active layer, the active layer comprising at least one of a targeting molecule configured to bind to the target of interest and a functional molecule configured to interact with the target of interest.
US12174175B2	Performing measurements on a sample Apparatus and methods are described including placing a first portion of a biological sample into a source sample portion chamber of a sample carrier, and placing a second portion of the biological sample into a diluted sample portion chamber. The second portion of the biological sample is diluted with respect to the first portion of the biological sample. Using an optical measurement device, a bulk-level measurand of the sample that relates to a parameter of the biological sample as a whole is measured, by performing a measurement upon the first portion of the biological sample. Microscopic images of the second portion of the biological sample are acquired. Other applications are also described.
US12174172B2	Method for evaluating the efficacy of a composition in reducing the effects of cancer therapeutics on skin An epidermal tridimensional model exhibiting differentiating keratinocytes in a reconstituted stratum corneum model is disclosed. The model, which contains a cancer therapeutic at an amount effective to simulate chronic drug exposure, can be used to evaluate the potential of cancer therapeutics to produce skin related side effects. The method can also be used to evaluate the efficacy of a composition in reducing the effects of cancer therapeutics on skin.
US12174171B2	Nanopore device and methods of electrical array addressing and sensing A method of manufacturing and using a nanofluidic NAND transistor sensor array scheme including a plurality of nanopore channel pillars, a plurality of respective fluidic channels, a plurality of gate electrodes, a top chamber, and a bottom chamber includes placing a sensor substrate in an electrolyte solution comprising biomolecules and DNA. The method also includes placing first and second electrodes in the electrolyte solution (Vpp and Vss of the nanofluidic NAND transistor); forming the nanopore channel pillars; placing the gate electrodes and gate insulators in respective walls of the nanopore channel pillars; applying an electrophoretic bias in the first and second electrodes; applying a bias in the gate electrodes; detecting a change in an electrode current in the electrolyte solution caused by a change in a gate voltage; and detecting a change in a surface charge in nanopore channel electrodes in the respective fluidic channels.
US12174170B2	Biochip packaging structure A biochip packaging structure includes a chip packaging layer, a redistribution layer, and a microfluidic channel. The chip packaging layer includes a resin layer including a biochip and a conductive pillar located on each of two sides of the biochip. The biochip includes a first surface flush with and exposed out of a side of the resin layer. A first end of the conductive pillar is flush with a side of the resin layer opposite the biochip. A second end of the conductive pillar is flush with the first surface of the biochip. The redistribution layer includes a metal winding electrically coupled to the biochip and the adjacent conductive pillar. The metal winding includes a first winding portion coupled to the biochip and a second winding portion coupled between the first winding portion and the conductive pillar. The second winding portion is parallel to the first surface.
US12174168B2	Apparatus for microbial activity detection and inventory management, and process thereof A system and method for the real time determination of microbial growth in or on perishable products. The system can predict the extent of microbial growth, e.g., whether food is spoiled, in real time by measuring chemicals released, e.g., CO2, from the perishable product during microbial growth. The output from a sensor can be correlated to the extent of microbial growth, i.e., spoilage, and provide information about the extent of microbial growth to the user, for example, through their smart devices.
US12174167B2	Microstructurally engineered perovskite gas sensor A gas sensing device is provided. The gas sensing device includes a substrate, a sensing film deposited on the substrate, and a plurality of electrodes deposited on the sensing film. The sensing film comprising ReNiO3, wherein Re is a rare-earth cation wherein. At least one of the electrodes including platinum, palladium, or a combination thereof. The electrodes are spaced apart from each other for measurement of electrical resistance.
US12174163B2	Petroleum composition stitching using boiling curves Systems and methods include a computer-implemented method for analyzing petroleum samples. Different boiling curves are received that are calculated for a petroleum sample using different analytical speciation techniques. The boiling curves include: 1) a detailed hydrocarbon analysis (DHA) is used for a speciation of light-end components of the petroleum sample; 2) a comprehensive 2-dimensional (2D) gas chromatography (GCxGC) is used for a speciation of a middle distillates range of the petroleum sample; and 3) a high-resolution mass spectrometry is used for a speciation of heavy-end components of the petroleum sample. A compositional coverage of the different analytical speciation techniques for the petroleum samples is determined using the different boiling curves. Each of the different analytical speciation techniques covers a different boiling range and produces a compositional model modeling a breakdown of components in the petroleum sample by carbon number, aromatic ring family, and heteroatom class.
US12174161B2	Methods of measuring hydrophobicity of chromatographic resins In certain embodiments, the present invention provides a method of measuring the level of hydrophobicity of a chromatographic resin. In certain embodiments, the present invention provides a method of selecting a chromatographic resin condition for purifying a protein of interest from a mixture, wherein the protein of interest has low or no aggregation formation during chromatography. In certain embodiments, the present invention provides a method of selecting a chromatographic resin from a plurality of chromatographic resins for purifying a protein of interest from a mixture, wherein the protein of interest has low or no aggregation formation during chromatography.
US12174155B2	Rigidity characteristic measurement method and rigidity characteristic measurement device A stiffness characteristic measurement device holds a golf club head with a face surface facing upward, drops a collision rod vertically toward the face surface, and calculates the stiffness characteristic of the golf club head based on a detection value of an accelerometer attached to the collision rod. Every time the measurement point on the face surface is changed, a drop distance changing step of adjusting the drop distance of the collision rod is performed so that the collision velocity of the collision rod to the measurement point is substantially constant.
US12174152B2	Controlled environment composite testing system A test apparatus includes a first grip, a second grip movable relative to the first grip, a test specimen disposed to provide a load path between the first grip and the second grip, and a test chamber disposed to both substantially envelope the test specimen and move with one of the first grip and the second grip. The test chamber does not contact the test specimen. Another test apparatus includes, a first grip, a second grip movable relative to the first grip, a test specimen disposed to provide a load path between the first grip and the second grip, a first test chamber disposed to both substantially envelope the test specimen and move with one of the first grip and the second grip, and a second test chamber disposed to both substantially envelope both the test specimen and the first test chamber.
US12174151B2	Moving inspection device, moving inspection method, and method for manufacturing steel material A moving inspection device capable of realizing significant size reduction/weight reduction without affecting the inspection performance for an inspection target, a moving inspection method, and a method for manufacturing a steel material. A moving inspection device includes: a moving inspection device body configured to inspect an inspection target for defects while moving over a surface of the inspection target; and water supply devices separate from the body and configured to supply water required for the inspection onto the surface of the inspection target. The body is installed with a flow adjustment plate configured to push out the water supplied onto the surface of the inspection target from the water supply devices in the advancing direction and form streamlines for supplying the water between inspection sensors configured to inspect the inspection target for defects and the surface of the inspection target simultaneously with the movement of the body.
US12174149B2	Variable shape sensing element of a magnetostrictive oscillating ice detector sensor for improved ice collection efficiency using additive manufacturing A probe head of a magnetostrictive oscillator includes a base and a plurality of hollow protrusions extending from the base. Each protrusion of the plurality of hollow protrusions includes a first end and a second end opposite the first end. The second end is connected to the base. Each protrusion also includes an inner side and an outer side opposite the inner side.
US12174148B1	Method for determining the quality of diffusion welding by means of non-destructive testing A method for determining the quality of diffusion welding by means of non-destructive testing comprises the steps of determining a testing method, performing batch testing, establishing a relationship, performing a classification of the mechanical performance data of welded joints, performing a classification of quality levels of different welded interfaces, performing a classification of quality levels of the welded joints, and determining quality levels of the welded joints of to-be-tested workpieces.
US12174147B2	Chemical sensing systems and methods Disclosed herein is a chemical sensing system, comprising: a sensor configured to adsorb an analyte; an electronic circuit to operate the sensor; and a microcontroller in communication with the sensor and the electronic circuit. The microcontroller can also be configured to provide a real-time signal indicative of a concentration of the analyte. The sensor can comprise a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) resonator and a sensing film configured to adsorb the analyte, the sensing film coating at least a portion of the sensor. The MEMS resonator can comprise a second sensor, such as an impedimetric sensor to measure at least a second property of the sensing film. The electronic circuit can process signals stemming from at least two properties of the same sensing film, such as the changes in mass and dielectric constant of the same sensing film due to adsorption of analyte.
US12174142B2	Automated analysis of analytical gels and blots The present solution describes an automated system for analyzing analytical gels or blots, such as electrophoresis gels. The system can automatically detect the lanes within the gel and convert the lane into a feature vector that can be compared to reference datasets. Based on a comparison of the feature vector to the reference datasets, the system can automatically classify the feature vector (and the test sample in the lane) into a phenotype group.
US12174139B2	Gas sensor control device, gas sensor control system, and gas sensor system A gas sensor control device having a DA conversion circuit configured to supply a pump current having a magnitude corresponding to an inputted digital signal to the pump cell, a reference electric potential generating circuit configured to keep an electric potential of the first pump electrode at a reference electric potential, a diagnostic resistance connected to the pump cell parallel to the pump cell, and an output part configured to output a signal relating to voltage applied to the diagnostic resistance when inputting an arbitrary digital signal to the DA conversion circuit in a situation in which oxygen ion conductivity does not occur in the pump cell to an external device.
US12174137B2	Welding quality inspection device The present invention provides an apparatus for inspecting a welding state in a welded portion for an electronic or mechanical coupling in a lithium secondary battery, the apparatus including: a measuring unit configured to obtain data for deriving a resistance value of the welded portion by allowing a resistance measuring probe to contact the welded portion; and a controller configured to communicate with the measuring unit, determine the resistance value of the welded portion by receiving the data obtained from the measuring unit, and determine whether a weak welding was performed by comparing the determined resistance value with a threshold resistance value, in which the measuring unit is configured to allow the resistance measuring probe to contact one end and the other end of the welded portion.
US12174134B2	Thermographic inspection of electrical equipment A thermographic inspection system is provided for inspecting electrical equipment. The system may be used while the electrical equipment is energized to monitor active performance of the equipment. The system may be used to monitor temperature differences of various components in the equipment.
US12174132B2	Nitride semiconductor substrate, laminated structure, and method for manufacturing nitride semiconductor substrate A nitride semiconductor substrate that has a diameter of 2 inches or more and includes a main surface for which the closest low index crystal plane is a (0001) plane. The ratio of FWHM1{10-12} to FWHM2{10-12} is 80% or more.
US12174128B2	High resolution multispectral multi-field-of-view imaging system for wafer inspection An optical system and design can image objects under inspection in the ultraviolet (UV) and visible spectrums. This imaging can be used to detect both large defects in the visible spectrum and small defects in the UV spectrum in a single pass while reducing the time and cost of the inspection process. The optical system may include an off-axis reflective focusing system for aberration correction with a beamsplitter to separate the visible spectrum from the UV wavelengths. Cameras may then image visible and UV wavelengths.
US12174125B2	Flow cell system for optical fluid analysis and bioreactor system A flow cell system for an optical fluid analysis comprises a disposable flow cell having at least one flow chamber comprising a fluid pathway, and at least one pair of opposed light transmitting windows along the fluid pathway, an external flow cell holder for holding the flow cell, at least one light source, and an external detection device couplable with at least one of the flow cell holder and the flow cell for bringing the external detection device in optical communication with the flow cell, the device having at least one optical detection unit. The external detection device is configured to conduct optical measurements of the fluid that flows in the flow cell through at least one pair of windows from externally under illumination by the at least one light source.
US12174121B2	Application of raman spectroscopy for the manufacture of inhalation powders The present invention generally relates to improved methods for the manufacture of inhalation powders. More particularly, aspects of the disclosure relate to methods for in-line monitoring of powder blending by Raman spectroscopy.
US12174119B2	Device and method for luminescence analysis of multiple samples The invention relates to an apparatus for simultaneously analysing luminescence of a plurality of samples. The apparatus comprises a fibre-optic plate.
US12174116B2	Optical switching and information coding on femtosecond or sub-femtosecond time scale Methodology for optical switching and/or coding of information with attosecond time resolution and, in particular, binary encoding of data based on modulation of reflectivity or transmissivity of a target non-electrically-conducting material system in a strong light field.
US12174114B2	Terahertz device A terahertz device includes an antenna base including reflective films, wherein: the reflective films are curved to be recessed; the reflective film and the reflective film are arranged to be adjacent to each other in a y direction; and when viewed from a z direction, the sizes of the reflective film and the reflective film along an x direction are smaller than the sizes of the reflective film and the reflective film along the y direction.
US12174113B2	Photoresist characteristics analysis method and characteristics analysis device A terahertz-wave signal input unit 11 configured to input a terahertz-wave signal from a spectroscopic apparatus 200 for detecting a terahertz wave acting on a photoresist, and a terahertz-wave signal analysis unit 12 configured to analyze a terahertz-wave signal input by the terahertz-wave signal input unit 11 to acquire characteristic information of the photoresist are included, and spectroscopic processing using a terahertz wave is performed on a photoresist to acquire characteristic information of the photoresist (a characteristic value or a correlation characteristic indicating a relationship between a plurality of elements including the characteristic value). Even though the characteristics of the photoresist change depending on the light, since the characteristic change is not caused by the terahertz wave, it is possible to acquire characteristic information of the photoresist without changing the characteristics of the photoresist, and to properly evaluate the characteristics of the photoresist from the characteristic information.
US12174109B2	Optical calibration tool An optical calibration tool includes a first body, a light emitter, a light receiver, a second body, and a light reflecting member. The first body has a first engaging port and a second engaging port. The light emitter and the light receiver are disposed in the first body. The second body has a third engaging port and a channel communicated with each other. The third engaging port is configured to selectively engage one of the first engaging port and the second engaging port. When the third engaging port is engaged with the first engaging port, the light emitter is optically coupled to the light reflecting member. When the third engaging port is engaged with the second engaging port, the light receiver is optically coupled to the light reflecting member.
US12174108B2	System and method for corrosion and erosion monitoring of fixed equipment This disclosure relates to the monitoring and detection of corrosion and/or erosion of pipes, vessels, and other components in an industrial facility. The monitoring system may comprise of an arrangement of guided wave (GW) transducers and a longitudinal wave (LW) transducer affixed to the piping component to collectively measure for localized corrosion of the piping component without necessarily requiring a thickness map. The monitoring system may use an intelligent amplified multiplexer/switch to control the operation of the transducers that may be controlled and operated to generate waves in the kilohertz range and megahertz range with the same hardware.
US12174105B2	Photon signal processing for particle detection A system is described wherein a plurality of lasers are used to irradiate particles in a flow cytometer's flow stream. In certain embodiments, a light source having a plurality of lasers configured for irradiation of a flow stream are disclosed where discrete intervals of irradiation by one or more discretely activated lasers are triggered by irradiation of one or more particles in the flow stream with one or more continuously on lasers.
US12174104B2	Synthesis, post-modification and separation of biologics using acoustically confined substrates Disclosed herein is are methods for isolating mammalian cells under continuous flow conditions, enriching mammalian cells under continuous flow conditions, and enriching microorganisms under continuous flow conditions. The methods include providing and loading a plurality of mammalian cells or microorganisms into an acoustic separation device. The acoustic separation device includes: an inlet; an outlet; a channel coupled to the inlet and the outlet, wherein the channel defines a flow path between the inlet and the outlet; a standing acoustic wave generating device; and at least one pillar array comprising a plurality of pillars, wherein the at least one pillar array is situated within the flow path defined by the channel, wherein the at least one pillar array includes a first pillar array and a second pillar array, wherein the first pillar array is substantially parallel to the second pillar array, wherein the first pillar array and the second pillar array form an enrichment structure. The methods further include generating an augmented pressure field comprising locally augmenting, by the enrichment structure, a pressure field generated by the standing acoustic wave generating device.
US12174101B2	Testing for particulates A testing device (20, 120, 220, 290, 320, 420, 520, 620, 720, 820, 1020, 1120) is provided for testing for the presence of particulate in a liquid (22). The testing device (20, 120, 220, 290, 320, 420, 520, 620, 720, 820, 1020, 1120) includes a liquid container (30, 730) for containing the liquid (22); a filter (32, 132, 732), disposed in or downstream of the liquid container (30, 730); a liquid-pressure source (34, 734), which is arranged to apply pressure to drive the liquid (22) contained in the liquid container (30, 730) through the filter (32, 132, 732); and a filter chamber (36, 136, 236, 336, 736) that is (a) disposed downstream of the liquid container (30, 730), (b) shaped so as to define an inlet (38, 138, 238, 738, 838), and (c) in fluid communication with the filter (32, 132, 732). Other embodiments are also described.
US12174099B2	Tissue chamber The present invention relates to systems and methods for tissue processing and analysis. Tissue chambers are configured to allow single-container chemical processing, imaging, and wax embedding of tissue samples in a single container without manipulation between steps. Tissue chambers with features to support the tissue sample and allow fluid flow between the tissue sample and the tissue chamber surface are disclosed. The features may be index matched to sample structures of interest or dissolvable in clearing solution to allow for in-chamber imaging with minimal distortion. Specialized tissue processing and wax removal apparatuses are also disclosed including for use with tissue chambers having frangible portions to permit ease of wax removal.
US12174096B2	Agricultural sample preparation device An automated computer-controlled sampling system and related methods for collecting, processing, and analyzing agricultural samples for various chemical properties such as plant available nutrients. The sampling system allows multiple samples to be processed and analyzed for different analytes or chemical properties in a simultaneous concurrent or semi-concurrent manner. Advantageously, the system can process soil samples in the “as collected” condition without drying or grinding. The system generally includes a sample preparation sub-system which receives soil samples collected by a probe collection sub-system and produces a slurry (i.e. mixture of soil, vegetation, and/or manure and water), and a chemical analysis sub-system which processes the prepared slurry samples for quantifying multiple analytes and/or chemical properties of the sample. The sample preparation and chemical analysis sub-systems can be used to analyze soil, vegetation, and/or manure samples.
US12174095B2	Device for inspecting wedge looseness of rotary electric machine, system for inspecting wedge looseness of rotary electric machine, and method for inspecting wedge looseness of rotary electric machine This wedge looseness inspector for a rotary electric machine includes: an inspector including a wedge striker having a tap hammer for striking a wedge, and a wedge vibration detector for detecting vibration of the wedge; and attraction portions connected to the inspector via connection members and being attractable to an outer circumferential surface of a stepped-down portion, wherein the attraction portions have, on an inner side in the axial direction, first attachments that allow adjustment of the attached position in the axial direction of the attraction portions or replacement thereof.
US12174093B1	Systems and methods for detecting, reporting, and/or using information about a building foundation Cracks in foundations may be detected by sensing motion within the foundation. Depth sensors may be applied to a foundation, and the depths of the sensors may be read. At subsequent points in time the depths of the sensors may be read again. If the depths of the sensors are changing in a way that suggests that portions of the foundation are moving apart from each other, then it may be inferred that a crack is forming in the foundation. The formation of cracks may be used to take various actions. For example, the owner of the building that rests on the foundation may be information of the crack so that he or she may take remedial action.
US12174092B2	System and method for monitoring and reporting liquid nitrogen container level Exemplary embodiments disclosed herein are directed to systems and methods by which the contents of a container, such as the level of liquid nitrogen in one or more liquid nitrogen storage containers, can be locally and/or remotely monitored, and alerts can be generated if a leak is detected. The weight of the container, or a combination of the weight and the temperature of the container, may be monitored with respect to detecting a leak.
US12174088B2	Vehicle vibration device In a vehicle vibration device including a first shaft and a second shaft extending in a left-right direction at such a spacing that each of wheels of a vehicle to be inspected is sandwiched therebetween in a front-rear direction and a movement mechanism that moves the first shaft, the first shaft being moved in a front-rear and horizontal direction by the movement mechanism to excite the wheel to vibration in front-rear and up-down directions, a support member that supports the wheel from below is provided between the first shaft and the second shaft. As a result, a vibration force produced by a front-side shaft is effectively transmitted to the wheel over an entire vibration frequency range in a vibration test.
US12174087B2	Neck bracket design for anthropomorphic test device in multiple reclined seating postures An anthropomorphic test device includes a spine assembly defining a spinal axis; a neck assembly coupled to a head assembly; and a neck bracket assembly coupling the neck assembly to the spine assembly. The neck bracket assembly has a base secured to the spine assembly with a base plane transverse to the spinal axis and a mount secured to the neck assembly and coupled to the base with the spinal axis passing through said mount. A pivot mechanism is secured to the base and mount with the neck and head assemblies pivoting relative to the base and spine assembly in a plurality of head positions. The mount has upper and lower surfaces angled to each other with one of the upper and lower surfaces being positioned at an angle relative to the base plane in all of the plurality of head positions.
US12174086B2	Type-II AEBS test and evaluation device and method based on BeiDou space-time reference Disclosed are a Type-II Autonomous Emergency Braking System (AEBS) test and evaluation device and method based on a BeiDou space-time reference, where the device includes three parts: a roadside-end information acquisition module, a vehicle-end information acquisition module, and an integrated information processing module. The roadside-end information acquisition module can acquire accurate message sending time by means of a BeiDou time service unit: the vehicle-end information acquisition module can acquire accurate time of receiving a roadside-end message, information acquired by a combined inertial navigation unit, and audio/vibration information acquired by a Single Chip Microcomputer (SCM) embedded unit; and the integrated information processing module can implement accurate, quantitative test and evaluation of indexes such as a vehicle-road communication delay and warning signal sending time. The method of the present disclosure performs data analysis and processing based on a globally unified BeiDou space-time reference and by means of a Support Vector Machine (SVM)-based dynamic Hermite interpolation method, which has an accurate test and evaluation result. Further, the method does not have any requirements for a communication system of the type-II AEBS, thus achieving convenient testing and a wide range of application.
US12174085B2	Rolling bearing with integrated optical fiber sensor The rolling bearing provides a first ring, a second ring and at least one row of rolling elements arranged therebetween. Each of the first and second rings include an inner bore having an outer surface and at least one raceway for the row of rolling elements formed on one of the inner bore and outer surface. The first ring provides at least one part ring delimiting the raceway, and at least one sleeve secured to the part ring and delimiting at least partly the other of the inner bore and outer surface of the first ring. The rolling bearing further provides at least one optical fiber sensor mounted inside at least one circumferential groove formed on the first ring and passing through at least one optical fiber sensor passage opening into the circumferential groove.
US12174084B2	Anomaly detection system and anomaly detection method An anomaly detection system (1) according to an aspect of the present invention is an anomaly detection system (1) for detecting an anomaly in a reduction drive (10), the anomaly detection system (1) including: a sensor (11_1 to 11_3) attached to a housing of the reduction drive (10), the sensor (11_1 to 11_3) being configured to detect vibration on the surface of the housing of the reduction drive (10); a statistical analysis unit (12) configured to perform a statistical analysis on the vibration detected by the sensor (11_1 to 11_3); a frequency analysis unit (14) configured to perform a frequency analysis on the vibration detected by the sensor (11_1 to 11_3); and an anomaly determination unit (17) configured to perform anomaly determination on the reduction drive (10) based on a result of the statistical analysis and a result of the frequency analysis.
US12174079B2	Separating membrane, diaphragm seal with a separating membrane of said type, and pressure measuring unit with a diaphragm seal of said type A separating membrane includes: a planar edge region for the joining of the separating membrane to a diaphragm seal body; a working region offset in an axial direction relative to the edge region; and a transition region between the edge region and the working region, wherein the transition region extends over a radial region of not more than one quarter of an outer radius of the transition region, wherein the working region has a substantially planar center and an embossed pattern or undulation pattern between the center and an outer edge of the working region, wherein from the rest position to a point of deflection with a dimensionless pressure equivalent, the separating membrane has a characteristic curve in which, for a coefficient of determination R2 of a linear regression of the characteristic curve, the following applies: (1−R2)<1%.
US12174073B2	Method and device for identification of effect pigments in a target coating Disclosed herein is a computer-implemented method, a respective device, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium. The method includes: obtaining color values, texture values and digital images of a target coating, retrieving from a database one or more preliminary matching formulas based on the color and/or texture values obtained for the target coating, determining sparkle points within the respective obtained images and within the respective images associated with the one or more preliminary matching formulas, creating subimages of each sparkle point from the respective images, providing the created subimages to a convolutional neural network, the convolutional neural network being trained to correlate a respective subimage of a respective sparkle point with a pigment and/or pigment class, and determining, based on an output of the neural network, at least one of the one or more preliminary matching formulas as the formula(s) best matching the target coating.
US12174063B2	Sampling circuit, optical detection system, display apparatus and sampling method A sampling circuit, including a voltage divider circuit, a switch circuit and a comparator circuit; wherein first terminals of resistance voltage divider sub-circuits in the voltage divider circuit are electrically connected to voltage division output terminals, respectively, and the resistance voltage divider sub-circuits are configured to perform resistance voltage division processing according to the voltages at first and second input terminals and write divided voltages to the voltage division output terminals, respectively; the voltage division output terminals are electrically connected to the third input terminal through corresponding switch sub-circuits in the switch circuit, respectively, and each switch sub-circuit is configured to control connection/disconnection between a corresponding voltage division output terminal and the third input terminal; the comparator circuit is electrically connected to the sampling output terminal, and is configured to compare voltages at the third and fourth input terminals and provide comparison results to the sampling output terminal.
US12174062B2	Sensor element suspension An apparatus for suspending a sensor element is provided. The apparatus can include a housing including a cavity, an inner surface, and a first end cap integrally formed within a first end of the housing. The housing can include a sensor element therein. The first end cap can include a first plurality of suspension elements integrally formed within the first end cap and arranged to project from a surface of the first end cap toward the cavity. The inner surface of the housing and/or the first plurality of suspension elements can suspend the sensor element within the cavity as the sensor element translates within the cavity. Related systems and methods of manufacture are also described.
US12174059B2	Determination of RPM based on vibration spectral plots and speed range An apparatus is described that determines an estimated rotational speed of a rotating component of a machine in the absence of a reliable tachometer signal to indicate an actual rotational speed. The apparatus includes a processor that determines a range of rotational speeds for the machine based on historical data, generates a vibration spectrum based on measured digital vibration data, identifies vibration peaks in the spectrum, determines a maximum peak amplitude of the vibration peaks, determines candidate frequency values within the range of rotational speeds, for multiple harmonics identifies a nearest peak within a spectral peak frequency tolerance of each harmonic, determines an error value based on a difference between the candidate frequency value and the nearest peak frequency value, determines an error sum value for each candidate frequency value, which is an iterative sum of the error values determined for the harmonics, determines the estimated rotational speed of the machine based on the candidate frequency value having a largest error sum value, and analyzes the digital vibration data using the estimated rotational speed of the machine to determine an operational characteristic of the machine.
US12174057B2	Systems and methods for a user interface for calibrating a load cell A patient support apparatus includes a load cell, disposed between a base and a litter, that is configured to generate an output representative of a load acting on the patient support surface. The load cell is associated with a calibration reference symbol assigned to the load cell to define a calibration value for a parameter of the load cell. A user interface is configured to receive user input of a virtual symbol corresponding to the calibration reference symbol. A controller is configured to store a plurality of calibration reference symbols and a plurality of representative calibration values each associated with one of the plurality of calibration reference symbols, initiate a calibration procedure, determine a representative calibration value for each calibration reference symbol, calibrate the parameter of the load cell based on the representative calibration value determined based on the virtual symbol, and determine weight acting on the litter.
US12174056B2	Weight measurement device and method of using the same Various embodiments are directed to methods and apparatuses for determining a weight of one or more objects disposed about an area of the weight measurement device using a single force sensor to accurately measure a force generated by the one or more objects. In various embodiments, the apparatus comprises a housing, a receiving tray, a lever assembly configured to receive a weight force from the receiving tray and generate a collective lever force corresponding to the weight force, the lever assembly comprising a plurality of levers, wherein each lever of the plurality of levers being at least substantially fixed to the housing at a first lever location and configured to receive a partial weight force from the receiving tray at a second lever location, and a force sensor configured to define a fulcrum point along each of the plurality of levers.
US12174055B2	In or relating to field devices The invention provides a method of verifying the health of a liquid level detection device, preferably a vibrating fork level switch, while the device remains in situ. The method includes, independently of the device, verifying if the fork tines are fully wet or fully dry. This step can be carried out by a further, independent, level measuring apparatus.
US12174052B2	Radar measuring device A radar measuring device with a housing at least partially filled with a potting compound, a general-diffuse planar antenna arranged in the housing, at least one transmitter and at least one receiver that are connected to the planar antenna, and a lens arranged in a main emission direction of the planar antenna for radiation emitted from the planar antenna, wherein a separating apparatus is arranged in the housing and is designed and arranged in such a way that a penetration of the potting compound into an area within the separating apparatus and between the antenna and the lens is prevented.
US12174046B2	Capacitive sensor systems and method A capacitive sensor may include a stretchable substrate, a first conductor assembly disposed on the substrate, a second conductor assembly disposed on the substrate and above the first conductor, and a redundancy member coupled to the one of the conductor assemblies. A capacitive sensor may include a first serpentine conductor assembly disposed on the substrate and having first and second terminal ends coupled to the substrate, a second serpentine conductor assembly disposed above and overlapping the first conductor assembly and having first and second terminal ends coupled to the substrate, wherein each of the terminal ends of the first conductor assembly is offset from the corresponding terminal ends of the second conductor assemblies. A sensor system may include a stretchable sensor, an electronics module coupled to the stretchable sensor, and a strain relief member extending from the stretchable sensor and coupling to the electronics module.
US12174044B2	Linear position sensor Magnets are arranged at intervals along a stroke direction with an interposed space. Magnetic pole surfaces of adjacent ones of the magnets have opposite poles. A detector is arranged with a gap in a gap direction against a magnetic pole surface of each of the magnets and acquires a sine signal and a cosine signal as detection signals of phases corresponding to the positions of the magnets, based on a change in a magnetic field received from the magnets according to movement of the detector relative to the detection object in the stroke direction. A signal processor acquires the sine signal and the cosine signal from the detector, generates, based on the sine signal and the cosine signal, an arctangent signal corresponding to a stroke amount of the detection object relative to the detector, and acquires the arctangent signal as a position signal.
US12174043B2	Monitoring and predicting failures of specialty equipment including liquid gas storage systems A method and an apparatus and a computer program product are provided that can monitor thermal mass or thermal energy sources available at remotely-located equipment using wired or wirelessly connected sensors. The method may include to receiving measurements captured by one or more sensors coupled to the equipment, the measurements including measurements indicating remaining quantities of thermal mass or thermal energy sources available for use by the equipment, monitoring replenishment events in which the thermal mass or thermal energy sources are resupplied, generating a thermal efficiency and usage or characteristic describing thermal efficiency and a cycle of usage of the thermal mass or thermal energy sources based on historical measurements of thermal efficiency and quantities of thermal mass or thermal energy sources consumed and stored by the equipment and a history of replenishment events, and scheduling one or more replenishment events based on the usage characteristic.
US12174037B2	Location-based features for commute assistant Some embodiments provide a commute application that provides a first presentation of several stops along a route. The commute application also receives a selection of a stop from the several stops along the route. The commute application further provides a second presentation for displaying several different routes that traverse through the selected stop.
US12174032B2	Real-time lane-level traffic processing system and method System and methods for real-time lane level traffic processing. A lane level map matcher is used to map match probe data from probes to the lane level. A lane level travel time aggregator determines an optimal method to allocate travel-time per-link for a probe trajectory that traverses at least one lane. A lane aggregator aggregates the probe trajectories and probe-path speeds per-lane and obtain the representative speed for the lane.
US12174030B1	Local flight path navigation for drone deliveries A system and method for high-precision automated guidance of a drone via a local (on-site) computing device for delivery of items is disclosed. The drone navigates to a location in proximity to the recipient's home using standard navigation protocols. Once the UAV arrives at this local destination, communication between the UAV and an on-site computing device occurs. The on-site device serves as a micro air-traffic controller to the UAV's precise drop off target location. The on-site device can provide approach vectors, guidance around obstacles and navigation instructions to a final micro-destination.
US12174029B1	System and method for vehicle fuel management and trip optimization An artificial intelligence fuel management system and method that facilitates optimizing fuel management and vehicle service times for a variety of vehicle types through determining the remaining trip range for a vehicle and providing optimal routing and vehicle fueling options for a trip route involving autonomous vehicles, vehicle platoon management, and/or vehicular fuel management systems. The associated vehicles are fueled by at least one of a liquid fuel and an alternative fuel. The liquid fuel is either gasoline or diesel, and the alternative fuel is either electricity, bio-fuel, bio-alcohol, synthetic and paraffinic, steam, heat, vegetable and waste-derived oils, compressed air, liquid nitrogen, liquid petroleum gas, propane, hydrogen, ethanol, methanol, butanol, or natural gas.
US12174028B2	Parking assistance device A parking assistance device includes an obstacle detection unit configured to detect an obstacle around a vehicle, a boundary detection unit configured to detect a boundary of a parking section, and a target position determination unit configured to determine a target position of a movement route of the vehicle based on the detected boundary. The target position determination unit recognizes, as a wheel stopper, the obstacle detected in a detection area that is set at a position in the parking section on a back side of an entrance and exit of the parking section based on the detected boundary, regardless of a height of the obstacle.
US12174026B2	Systems and methods for detecting vehicle wheel slips The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for identifying a wheel slip condition. In one implementation, a processor may receive a plurality of image frames acquired by an image capture device of a vehicle. The processor may also determine based on analysis of the images one or more indicators of a motion of the vehicle; and determine a predicted wheel rotation corresponding to the motion of the vehicle. The processor may further receive sensor outputs indicative of measured wheel rotation associated with a wheel; and compare the predicted wheel rotation to the measured wheel rotation for the wheel. The processor may additionally detect a wheel slip condition wheel based on a discrepancy between the predicted wheel rotation and the measured wheel rotation; and initiate at least one navigational action in response to the detected wheel slip condition associated with the wheel.
US12174023B2	Method and system to validate road signs A system, a method, and a computer program product for validating a road sign are provided. The method comprises determining a transition location associated with the road sign using map data. The transition location is at least one of a map region start location or a map region end location. The method further comprises determining road sign data associated with the road sign using a sensor data cluster. The method further comprises determining a validity of the road sign based on the road sign data and the transition location.
US12174019B2	Laser device and laser beam detector for detecting light of a laser device The present invention relates to a laser device for supporting work on a construction site and a laser beam detector for detecting light of a laser beam rotating around a rotation axis of a laser device. There is a need that the detector is able to identify the laser device which emitted the light that the detector detects. This can be achieved by a laser device comprising a laser unit configured to emit a laser beam; an optical element arranged to rotate the laser beam around a rotation axis; and a transmitter configured to transmit a communication signal over an interface to a receiver of a laser beam detector, wherein the communication signal provides information about a rotation pattern of the rotating laser beam.
US12174018B2	Self-configuration and error correction in linear photonic circuits Component errors prevent linear photonic circuits from being scaled to large sizes. These errors can be compensated by programming the components in an order corresponding to nulling operations on a target matrix X through Givens rotations X→T†X, X→XT†. Nulling is implemented on hardware through measurements with feedback, in a way that builds up the target matrix even in the presence of hardware errors. This programming works with unknown errors and without internal sources or detectors in the circuit. Modifying the photonic circuit architecture can reduce the effect of errors still further, in some cases even rendering the hardware asymptotically perfect in the large-size limit. These modifications include adding a third directional coupler or crossing after each Mach-Zehnder interferometer in the circuit and a photonic implementation of the generalized FFT fractal. The configured photonic circuit can be used for machine learning, quantum photonics, prototyping, optical switching/multicast networks, microwave photonics, or signal processing.
US12174017B2	Composite measurement system for measuring nanometer displacement A composite measurement system for measuring nanometer displacement is provided. The system includes: a light source, a polarization beam splitting prism, a first phase change module, a second phase change module, a first right-angle prism, a second right-angle prism, a non-polarization beam splitting prism, a scalar interference light collection module, a vector interference light collection module and a displacement calculation module. In the present disclosure, a photodetector is configured to collect an intensity of scalar interference light of the object to be measured being moved, to obtain a periodic light intensity change curve; a CCD camera is configured to collect images of interference vortex light of the object being moved; and the displacement calculation unit is configured to calculate a displacement of the object according to integer periods of the light intensity change curve and angles of image changes of the interference vortex light.
US12174015B2	Frequency control of orthogonal polarisation modes in an optical cavity The application discloses an atom interferometer comprising an optical cavity and method of operation thereof. The atom interferometer includes a vacuum chamber, an optical cavity, a source for providing a cloud of atoms in the optical cavity in use, and one or more light sources. The one or more light sources are for generating, in the cavity, in use a first light beam having a first polarisation and at a first frequency for a two-photon interaction in the atoms; and a counterpropagating second light beam having a second polarisation orthogonal to the first polarisation and at a second frequency for the two-photon interaction in the atoms. The atom interferometer also includes an electro-optic element arranged in the cavity to be operable to simultaneously change; the resonant frequency of the cavity for light in the first polarisation to track changes in the frequency of the first light beam to compensate for the doppler shift of the falling atoms in use; and the resonant frequency of the cavity for light in the second polarisation to track changes in frequency of the counterpropagating second light beam to compensate for the doppler shift of the falling atoms in use.
US12174014B2	Canal hearing device sizer tools, systems and methods A hearing device sizer tool in accordance with at least one of the present inventions includes a shaft defining a medial end and a lateral end, and an in-the-canal (ITC) hearing device seal associated with the medial end of the shaft. A hearing device sizer tool system in accordance with at least one of the present inventions includes a plurality of hearing device sizer tools with differently sized ITC hearing device seals.
US12174010B2	In-mold solidified shell thickness estimation apparatus, in-mold solidified shell thickness estimation method, and continuous steel casting method An in-mold solidified shell thickness estimation apparatus includes: an input device; a model database configured to store a model formula and a parameter related to a solidification reaction of a molten steel inside a mold of a continuous casting facility; and a heat transfer model calculator configured to estimate an in-mold solidified shell thickness by calculating temperature distributions of the mold and of the molten steel inside the mold by solving a three-dimensional unsteady heat transfer equation. The heat transfer model calculator is configured to correct errors in a temperature of a mold copper plate and in an amount of heat removed from the mold, by correcting an overall heat transfer coefficient between the mold copper plate and the solidified shell.
US12174009B2	Scatterometry with high harmonic generation (HHG) sources A method for extending scatterometry measurements of periodic structures created on a substrate into the deep UV and soft X-ray regions of the electromagnetic spectrum is presented. The method comprises measuring the scattering of a high harmonic generated (HHG) beam, which is created by a driving laser, that is scattered from the structures on the substrate. The scattered HHG beam is measured by a spectrometer or a detector sensitive to HHG radiation. Also presented is a system for carrying out the method.
US12174008B2	Device and method for inspecting reflective surfaces A device for inspecting a surface of an object, in particular a reflective or transparent surface, including an illuminating apparatus with which the surface can be illuminated, a measuring apparatus which senses light reflected at the surface, and a vapor-application apparatus which is designed to apply vapor to the surface. To achieve an efficient application of vapor, it is provided that the vapor-application apparatus includes a nozzle, a vaporization chamber having an enclosure, and a heating apparatus. The nozzle protrudes into the vaporization chamber in order to introduce a liquid into the vaporization chamber, and the vaporization chamber includes a vapor outlet.
US12174005B2	Metrology system with position and orientation tracking utilizing light beams A metrology system is provided for use with a movement system that moves an end tool (e.g., a probe). The metrology system includes a sensor configuration, a light beam source configuration and a processing portion. The sensor configuration comprises a plurality of light beam sensors. The light beam source configuration directs light beams to the light beam sensors of the sensor configuration. One of the light beam source configuration or the sensor configuration is coupled to the end tool and/or an end tool mounting configuration of the movement system which moves the end tool. The light beams that are directed to the light beam sensors cause the light beam sensors to produce corresponding measurement signals. A processing portion processes the measurement signals from the light beam sensors which indicate the position and orientation of the end tool.
US12174004B2	Multi-configuration transportable demolition pouch Provided is a multi-configuration transportable demolition pouch that includes a cruciform shaped section of fabric with a central explosive containing area and four trimmable flaps, a fastener on each of the flaps, a strap accepting slit, a first and a second strap, a fabric lid and priming hole, and one or more energetic device that can be selected based on desired blast footprint. The pouch can be trimmed when using smaller quantities of explosives to reduce its footprint and facilitate ease of carrying and emplacement. The device has attachment features to aid in transport and to provide proper spacing and attachment points for demolitions and breeching techniques involving multiple charges. The pouch provides components to allow for blast footprint alteration and for water tamping to reduce blast effects to nearby personnel, as well as to increase the efficiency of the explosive charge.
US12174000B2	Jacketed archery arrow insert system for arrows A jacketed archery arrow insert system for an arrow includes a sleeve, a torque dissipation rod insert, and an arrow shaft. The torque dissipation rod insert includes a collar section, a first tail section, and a second tail section. The collar section and the second tail section are oppositely positioned of each other about the first tail section. The collar section is adjacently connected and concentrically positioned to the first tail section. The second tail section is adjacently connected and concentrically positioned to the first tail section. The second tail section is internally mounted to a shaft body of the arrow shaft as the first tail section and the collar section are externally positioned to the shaft body. The sleeve is externally mounted around the shaft body and the first tail section to protect the structural integrity of the torque dissipation rod insert and the arrow shaft.
US12173998B1	Active hazard mitigation device An active hazard mitigation device includes a reservoir containing thermal wax and a slider translatable from a safe position to an armed position. A conduit for flow of the thermal wax in a melted state extends from the thermal wax reservoir to a rear of the safe position of the slider. A BKNO3 pellet is disposed in a forward end of the slider. A lithium intermetallic thermal sensor is disposed adjacent the BKNO3 pellet when the slider is in an armed position. When the thermal wax expands, the slider moves from the safe position to the armed position under the lithium intermetallic thermal sensor. When the lithium intermetallic thermal sensor activates, heat from the lithium intermetallic thermal sensor ignites the BKNO3 pellet in the slider and thereby produces gas and heat that ignites energetic material disposed proximate to the BKNO3 pellet.
US12173995B2	Munitions and projectiles According to an aspect of the invention, there is provided a system for reducing water-entry shock for a projectile entering the water, the system comprising: a first component, the first component being moveable to a target region for which water-entry shock is to be reduced, and arranged to interact with the water, for reducing water-entry shock for a second component; a second component in the form of the projectile, arranged to enter the water in the region for which water-entry shock has been reduced by the first component, functionality of the second projectile component being triggered by the water.
US12173990B2	Electrode for a conducted electrical weapon A conducted electrical weapon (“CEW”) impedes locomotion of a human target by providing a stimulus signal through the target via one or more electrodes. A propulsion system provides a force that launches the one or more electrodes toward the target to deliver the stimulus signal. The electrodes may be mechanically and electrically coupled to a deployment unit by a filament. An electrode may cooperate with a winding machine to wind the filament into a winding. The winding may be positioned inside the body of the electrode for deployment during launch.
US12173986B2	Firearm foregrip with illuminator A firearm accessory and associated components and methods. The firearm accessory can include a foregrip and/or an illuminator (e.g., light and/or laser). The firearm accessory can include a support body selectively operatively connectable to a support body receiver in a first orientation and in a second orientation. The support body can include an actuator configured to change an operational state of the illuminator and/or a port configured to connect a remote actuator to the support body.
US12173983B2	Archery bow stand In some embodiments, a bow stand comprises a first body portion comprising a first cavity. A second body portion is moveable with respect to the first body portion. The second body portion comprises a second cavity. A third body portion is moveable with respect to the first body portion and comprises a third cavity. The first cavity, the second cavity and the third cavity form an engagement cavity arranged to engage a frame of an archery bow.
US12173982B2	Cam systems for compound archery bows A cam assembly for a compound archery bow includes a cam adjustable component. The cam adjustable component is operable to move with respect to the base by rotating a drive mechanism. The cam adjustable component may be a draw module, cable stop, and/or limb stop. When the cam adjustable component is the draw module, the cable stop and/or limb stop may be operatively connected to the draw module such that movement of the draw module simultaneously moves the cable stop and/or limb stop.
US12173978B2	Trigger guide A firearm attachment is disclosed including a first side wall, a second side wall, and a bottom wall extending between the first side wall and the second side wall. The bottom wall spaces the first side wall from the second side wall to define a space therebetween for receiving a trigger guard of a firearm. The firearm attachment further includes a first attachment protrusion extending from the first side wall toward the second side wall for engaging the trigger guard of the firearm and a second attachment protrusion extending from the second side wall toward the first side wall for engaging the trigger guard of the firearm.
US12173976B1	Firearms suppressor Disclosed herein are improved firearms suppressor designs that use interior baffles and bypass channels to direct gas discharged from a firearm so as to reduce the cone shock produced by the expanding discharged gas and therefore also reduce the sound produced by that firearm.
US12173972B2	Multi-coil microchannel heat exchangers and air conditioning units A multi-coil microchannel heat exchanger includes a first coil including a first inlet header, a first outlet header and first microchannel tubes; a second coil including a second inlet header, a second outlet header and second microchannel tubes; a first inlet connector fluidly connected to the first inlet header; a first outlet connector fluidly connected to the first outlet header; a second inlet connector fluidly connected to the second inlet header; and a second outlet connector fluidly connected to the second outlet header. The first coil and the second coil are arranged successively along the length direction of the multi-coil microchannel heat exchanger. The multi-coil microchannel heat exchanger includes a first side and a second side along the length direction, the first inlet connector, the first outlet connector, the second inlet connector and the second outlet connector are all located at the first side.
US12173971B2	Helical fractal heat exchanger A helical fractal heat exchanger comprises a heat exchanger core defining a plurality of helical, first fluid conduits arranged in a two-dimensional grid configuration, and plurality of helical, second fluid conduits in thermal communication with the first fluid conduits. A first fluid inlet structure splits a first fluid from a first fluid inlet of the heat exchanger and supplies it to each of the plurality of first fluid conduits, and a first fluid outlet structure recombines the first fluid from the plurality of first fluid conduits and conveys it to a first fluid outlet of the heat exchanger. The first fluid inlet and outlet structures are each fractal structures comprising at least two multi-furcation stages in which a parent channel divides into two or more sub-channels that diverge away from each other.
US12173967B2	Heat pipe with improved performance under diverse thermal load distributions A heat pipe includes an extruded profile body, with a hollow body closed at the ends, filled with a predefined volume of diphasic working fluid. A plurality of longitudinal channels are included, with each having a section delimited by a bottom formed by one tubular peripheral wall of the profiled body, and laterally by two longitudinal dividers. A circumferential transfer channel, which is arranged transversely to the local axial direction and provides mutual fluid connection between the longitudinal channels, is provided at a position along the longitudinal path and or at an end, where the longitudinal dividers are interrupted, partially or completely, in the area of the circumferential channel, with optional use of a closure ring.
US12173965B2	Hybrid loop heat pipe with integrated magnetically levitating bearingless pump A hybrid capillary and mechanically pumped loop heat pipe (HLHP) includes a fluid loop having an evaporator thermally coupled to a heat load, a condenser thermally coupled to a heat sink, a reservoir, and one or more magnetically levitating pumps configured to pump fluid through the loop thereby improving heat transport capacity and system stability.
US12173959B2	Refrigerator A refrigerator includes a main body that defines a storage space, a door configured to open or close the storage space, and a dispenser located in the door and configured to dispense cooled water and purified water. The refrigerator also includes a purified water input part that inputs a command for dispensing the purified water, a cooled water input part that inputs a command for dispensing the cooled water, and a dispensing amount input part that sets an amount of purified water to be dispensed based on the purified water being selected through the purified water input part. The refrigerator further includes a filter device located within the storage space to purify water supplied from a water supply source, and a water tank storing water that has passed through the filter device in a cooled state.
US12173958B2	Refrigerating unit with a heating arrangement A refrigerating unit including a compartment, a glass door, and a heating arrangement installed in a base profile of the compartment. The refrigerating unit including an elongated gasket profile having a proximal part and a distal part, wherein the proximal part includes a flexible element configured to allow the distal part to be displaced towards the base profile upon closing the glass door. The distal part includes a hollow part with a first side of the hollow part connected to the proximal part and a second side of the hollow part directed towards the glass door. The heating arrangement further includes a heat-conducting material enclosed by the hollow part and arranged with an outer side surface of the heat-conducting material abutting the second side of the hollow part, and a heating element enclosed by the hollow part and arranged for conductive heating of the heat-conducting conductive material.
US12173957B2	Refrigerator A refrigerator includes: an inner case as assembled by a plurality of plates including an upper plate, a lower plate, a left plate, a right plate, and a rear plate, configured so that, while they are assembled with each other, form a storage compartment. At least one among the plurality of plate is injection molded. The refrigerator also includes an outer case configured to be coupleable to an outside of the inner case to form an external appearance; and a heat insulating material disposed between the inner case and the outer case. The at least one injection molded plate among the upper plate, the lower plate, the left plate, and the right plate includes a front flange integrally formed at a front side of the at least one injection molded plate, and the outer case is configured to be coupleable to the front flange.
US12173956B2	Refrigerator and home appliances A refrigerator includes: a door including a door body and a door panel coupled to the door body, and a buffer member disposed at a rear surface of the door panel and provided between the door body and the door panel. The door body defines a first part at a front surface, an adhesive portion is provided at the first part between the door body and the door panel to thereby couple a rear surface of the door panel to the front surface of the door body, and the buffer member contacts a first portion of the adhesive portion and the rear surface of the door panel contacts a second portion of the adhesive portion.
US12173955B2	Hinge and refrigeration equipment Disclosed are a hinge and a refrigeration equipment. The hinge includes a vertical hinge shaft, a first hinge base and a second hinge base. The first hinge base includes a first installation plate and a first sleeve rotatably connected to the hinge shaft to make the first sleeve rotate around the hinge shaft. A lower end of the first sleeve is provided with a first slope sloping downwards. The second hinge base below the first hinge base includes a second installation plate and a second sleeve fixed on the hinge shaft. An upper end of the second sleeve is provided with a second slope sloping upwards. The second slope abuts against and cooperates with the first slope for the first sleeve to move from a first position to a second position along a direction away from the second sleeve or from the second position to the first position along a direction close to the second sleeve while being rotated around the hinge shaft.
US12173951B2	Household appliance with a crisper Household appliance (2), comprising a casing (4) defining an inner compartment (10) in which a crisper (30) is arranged, whereby said crisper (30) comprises a frontal part (32) and further comprises a permeable membrane (70) allowing contact from an inner space of said crisper (30) to an atmosphere outside of said crisper (30), whereby said membrane (70) is arranged on said frontal part (32), whereby a handle (58) is provided at said frontal part (32), whereby said handle (58) and said membrane (70) are dimensioned and arranged in such a way that said membrane (70) is at least partially covered from view by said handle (58) in a frontal direction (72) towards said crisper (30).
US12173947B2	Ice maker and refrigerator An ice maker of this embodiment comprises: an upper tray defining an upper chamber that is a portion of an ice chamber; a lower tray defining a lower chamber that is another portion of the ice chamber, wherein the lower tray is relatively rotatable relative to the upper tray; and an upper heater disposed around the upper tray, for providing heat to the upper chamber, wherein the upper tray is made of a non-metal material and a flexible material, the upper heater is a DC heater receiving DC power, at least a portion of the upper tray is thicker than the lower tray, an accommodation part for accommodating the upper heater is formed on the upper tray, and at least a portion of the upper heater is disposed to vertically overlap the ice chamber in a state that the upper heater is accommodated in the accommodation part.
US12173945B2	Carbon dioxide overlapping type heating system, and control method therefor A carbon dioxide overlapping type heating system and a control method therefor, in which the heating system includes a low-temperature-stage loop, high-temperature-stage loop and a heating loop, in which a temperature-stage compressor (3) and a high-temperature-stage compressor (7) are both variable-frequency compressors; and a water pump (10) is a variable-frequency water pump.
US12173943B2	Control method and system for refrigeration, oil return and noise reduction of multi-split air-conditioner A control method and system for refrigeration, oil return and noise reduction of a multi-split air-conditioner, wherein the method includes: when the accumulative time that the frequency of a compressor is smaller than the set frequency threshold reaches the oil return cycle and a standby indoor unit exists, conducting an oil return running mode; resetting the accumulative time; starting counting the oil return running time; calculating the indoor unit starting load; determining the opening degree of an expansion valve of the standby indoor unit according to the indoor unit starting load and whether there is anyone in a room where the standby indoor unit is located; controlling the compressor to run according to the set oil return frequency; and when the oil return running time reaches the oil return set time, exiting the oil return running mode, and conducting a normal refrigerating running mode.
US12173938B2	Condenser module and thermal management system including the same Disclosed are a condenser module and a thermal management system including the same. The condenser module includes a heat exchange device including a first inlet/outlet and a second inlet/outlet having a refrigerant flowing thereinto or discharged therefrom and a flow path formed therein through which the refrigerant flows between the first inlet/outlet and the second inlet/outlet, and a flow-path switching valve connected to each of the first inlet/outlet and the second inlet/outlet, the flow-path switching valve switchable between a first operation mode, in which the refrigerant flows into the first inlet/outlet and the refrigerant is discharged from the second inlet/outlet, and a second operation mode, in which the refrigerant flows into the second inlet/outlet and the refrigerant is discharged from the first inlet/outlet. The flow path formed in the heat exchange device has different positions in a direction of gravity between the first inlet/outlet and the second inlet/outlet.
US12173936B2	Interlaced microchannel heat exchanger systems and methods thereto The disclosed technology includes an air system including a first interlaced microchannel heat exchanger and a second interlaced microchannel heat exchanger. The air system can include a plurality of fluidly separated refrigerant circuits, and each of the refrigerant circuits can be configured to flow through the first interlaced microchannel heat exchanger and the second interlaced microchannel heat exchanger. The first interlaced microchannel heat exchanger can be located indoors, and the second interlaced microchannel heat exchanger can be located outdoors. Each of the refrigerant circuits can include its own compressor and expansion valve.
US12173933B2	Safety lens A planar non-imaging optical element (10) for a solar concentrator is described. Groups of circular and concentrically arranged microstructures (35) are arranged to refract light incident normal to the plane (504) of the optical element (10) towards the centre point (502). The angle of the microstructures (35) with respect to the plane (504) of the optical element (10) within each group increases with increasing radial distance from the centre point (502) and are selected such that upon normally incident light (60) they to form a focal area common to all of the groups at a focal plane (506) of the optical element (10) and further selected such that the light refracted from the smallest radial distance from the centre point (502) within a given group and the light refracted from the largest radial distance from the centre point (502) within a given group cross at a plane (518) closer to the optical element (10) than is the focal plane (506).
US12173932B2	Valve The invention relates to a valve (16) for installation on a water heater comprising a tank (19) with one single welded socket (17), and where cold-water by discharge is led into a connection for a supply pipe (1), through a check valve (4) and down through a cold-water pipe (5a) to the bottom of the tank (19). The hot water in the top of the tank (19) is forced out through a cavity (7) and out of the valve through a connection for a hot water delivery pipe (9). The valve (16) has a connection for a suction pipe (10) for connection to a circulation pump (24) sucking cold water from the bottom of the tank (19) to external heating, wherein the circulation pump (24) leads the consumption water of the tank (19) back to the valve (16) through a connection for a return pipe (11) and to the middle of the tank (19). The return pipe (11) is arranged to be used for return from the circulation pipe between the tank (19) and a hot water cabinet (28).
US12173931B2	Water heater with convenient-to-install decorative plate The present disclosure relates to water heaters, in particular to a water heater with convenient-to-install decorative plate. The water heater includes top, bottom decorative plate, front plate, rear housing, further includes frame. The frame includes body, upper, lower connecting bar. The rear edge of upper connecting bar is provided with first upper flanging, rear edge of lower connecting bar is provided with first lower flanging, front edge of top decorative plate is provided with second upper flanging, front edge of bottom decorative plate is provided with second lower flanging, the first upper flanging is in lap joint with the second upper flanging, second lower flanging is in lap joint with first lower flanging. Advantages: the left, right rear part of top decorative plate each can connected upper pressing bar with one screw, top and bottom decorative plate needs two screws separately. Water heater with convenient-to-install decorative plate has few screws.
US12173927B2	Air ionization system and method An air ionization unit is provided to ionize air to remove particulates and to release cleaned air. Air moves into the air ionization unit where it may be first filtered by an air intake filter. The air is moved, preferably by a fan, into contact with an ion generator, where the air is ionized. One or more (such as two) other fans may be used to provide airflow to (1) at least partially remove ions emanating from the air that has been exposed to the ion generator, and (2) to push the cleaned air through one or more ozone filters and out of the air ionization unit. The air ionization unit may also include an outgoing air filter, and one or more doors to access the air intake filter and/or the air ionization unit.
US12173921B2	Duct support device A duct support device is provided. The device includes a clamp assembly having a channel dimensioned to removably secure to a support structure, wherein a width of the channel is selectively adjustable via actuation of a pair of clamp handles affixed to the clamp assembly. A first arm member is affixed to the clamp assembly at a proximal end of the first arm member. A second arm member is pivotally affixed to a distal end of the first arm member. A third arm member is perpendicularly affixed to a distal end of the second arm member. A brace is affixed to the third arm member parallel to a longitudinal axis of the third arm member, wherein the brace extends along a length of an upper side of the third arm member. In some embodiments, a fourth arm member is perpendicularly affixed to a distal end of the third arm member.
US12173920B2	Duct support assembly and method of using a duct support Disclosed herein are embodiments of a duct support assembly. The duct support assembly can include a frame structure and a duct support. The duct support can be configured to be installed in a floor assembly between a first beam portion of a first wall frame and a second beam portion of a second wall frame and to provide a duct exit from the frame structure. The duct support can be configured to transfer a tension and/or compression load. Also disclosed herein are embodiments of a method of using a duct support to provide a duct exit from a frame structure. The method can include positioning the duct support in a floor assembly between a first beam portion of a first wall frame and a second beam portion of a second wall frame.
US12173912B2	Ventilation and air-conditioning structure and ventilation and air-conditioning method A ventilation air conditioning structure including a room that has a floor portion to a fourth wall portion, a first wall portion to be a building outer wall in which an air supply opening is formed in a vicinity of a third wall portion, and an air exhaust opening that is formed in a vicinity of the fourth wall portion. The ventilation air conditioning structure also includes an air conditioner that is disposed inside the room and where at least one of air sending openings of a room interior unit is capable of sending air in a direction of a second wall portion, and an external-air conditioner that is disposed outside the room. The external-air conditioner includes heat exchangers that are incorporated in a refrigerant circuit of the air conditioner via a branched pipe that is branched from a refrigerant piping and a casing that houses the heat exchangers.
US12173910B2	Hybrid fossil fuel-electric multi-function heat pump A multi-function heating and cooling device, comprising components for an ambient air-coupled sorption heat pump cycle and vapor compression cooling cycle integrated together inside a single enclosure is proposed. The sorption heat pump portion is configured to provide very high heating efficiency, while the vapor compression portion is configured to provide high cooling efficiency. The evaporator coil for the sorption cycle and the condenser coil for the vapor compression cycle are configured to share a common ambient-air fan, saving space and cost. By combining the two heating-cooling systems into a single enclosure with shared components, the total installed cost and outdoor space required is reduced compared to installing separate heating and cooling systems.
US12173908B2	Igniter assembly for a gas cooking appliance An igniter assembly for a gas cooking appliance is disclosed herein. In some embodiments, the igniter assembly may have an igniter that can be removed from and/or inserted into an igniter socket through a surface of a cooking appliance without having to remove the surface of the cooking appliance. Accordingly, when the surface is being cleaned after cooking applications, the igniter can be removed from the surface, thereby eliminating any potential damage to the igniter and allowing the surface to be thoroughly cleaned. After cleaning, the igniter can then be re-inserted into the igniter socket through the surface of the cooking appliance without having to remove the surface of the cooking appliance.
US12173904B2	Oven The present disclosure relates to an oven including a main body including a cooking chamber, a door rotatably coupled to the main body to open and close the cooking chamber, and a door locking device to lock the door not to be open with respect to the main body, wherein the door locking device includes a cam to be rotatable and including a plurality of first contact parts and a plurality of second contact parts, a lock releasing guide to linearly move to selectively come into contact with the plurality of first contact parts, and a locker to come into contact with the plurality of second contact parts and coupled to a locker holder provided in the door when coming into the plurality of second contact parts. Other various embodiments are possible.
US12173903B1	Firepit radiant and convective energy guidance device An energy guidance/heat deflecting device for redirecting convective and radiant energy leaving from an interior volume of a smokeless fire pit out an open top of the smokeless fire pit. The energy guidance/heat deflecting device typically includes: a circular, planar bottom support; at least three upwardly extending supports each spaced from one another and spaced about the exterior perimeter portion of the circular, planar bottom support and proximate the exterior perimeter edge of the circular, planar bottom support; and a downwardly facing truncated cone shaped energy deflecting material.
US12173902B2	Plasma injection modules A plasma injection module includes a fuel receiving end, a discharge end opposite the fuel receiving end, and an axial fluid pathway extending between the fuel receiving end and the discharge end. An insulator assembly defines a first portion of the axial fluid pathway proximate to the fuel receiving end. An injection tube assembly having a permanent magnet is positioned downstream of the insulator. A voltage input connection is arranged downstream of the insulator assembly and upstream of the injection tube assembly. The voltage input connection secures a voltage source to the injection tube to form a plasma filament within and adjacent to the axial fluid pathway. During operation a permanent magnet produces a magnetic field that interacts with the plasma filament to rotate the plasma filament and increase an area of ignition between the plasma filament and the combustible material at the discharge end.
US12173898B1	Combustion section with a primary combustor and a set of secondary combustors A turbine engine with a compressor section, a combustion section, and a turbine section in serial flow arrangement along an engine centerline. A combustion section for the turbine engine, having a primary combustor liner including an inner liner and an outer liner annular about an engine centerline. A dome wall extending between the inner liner and the outer liner. A set of primary dome inlets located in the dome wall and circumferentially arranged about the engine centerline. A set of secondary combustors fluidly coupled to a primary combustion chamber, the set of secondary combustors including a first mini combustor and a second mini combustor.
US12173896B2	Integrated flare system for gas plant A system includes a gas plant having an inlet slug catcher, downstream processing equipment fluidly connected to the inlet slug catcher, and a downstream flare system fluidly connected to the inlet slug catcher. The system also includes an upstream plant connected to the inlet slug catcher via a transmission pipeline. The upstream plant includes an upstream flare system fluidly connected to the transmission pipeline, wherein the inlet slug catcher has a design pressure equal to or greater than the transmission pipeline design pressure.
US12173893B2	Cylindrical burner apparatus and method A cylindrical burner apparatus and method which produce low NOx emissions and low noise levels without being dependent upon a blower, or natural draft, for providing air flow or flue gas recirculation. A flow of combustion air is induced into an initial tube pass of the burner by discharging a gas fuel from a plurality of discharge ports located in the initial tube pass. At the same time, a flow of recycled flue gas is induced through a bypass duct between a subsequent tube pass of the burner and the initial tube pass by discharging one or more jets of gas fuel through the bypass duct.
US12173887B1	Lighting fixture A lighting fixture adapted for installation in a handrail having an extruded durable light fixture design and assembly that will allow handrail lighting features for stairways, pathways and architectural features providing a simplified lighting installation and replacement structure. The design enables installation and replacement of very long runs of linear lighting elements that can be installed or removed from handrail at a single end of an installed handrail.
US12173884B2	Underwater light assembly and method An underwater directional light is provided. The directional light includes a lamp assembly, a tube assembly, and a printed circuit board assembly. The lamp assembly includes a housing and a lamp having a plurality of lighting elements. The tube assembly is coupled to the lamp and has a hollow interior. The printed circuit board assembly is mechanically coupled to the tube assembly and electrically coupled to the lamp.
US12173877B2	LED filament interconnecting ring The invention provides a light generating device (100) comprising (i) n filaments (200), (ii) an power distribution unit (400), and (iii) electronics (500); wherein: (a) each of the n filaments (200) comprises one or more solid state light sources (10), wherein n≥1, wherein each of the n filaments (200) comprises at least m electrical contacts (221), wherein m≥2; and wherein the n filaments (200) are configured to generate filament light (201); (b) the power distribution unit (400) comprises k electrically conductive tracks (410) separated by electrically insulating material (420), wherein k≥2; (c) at least two of the electrical contacts (221) of the n filaments (200) are functionally coupled to at least two different electrically conductive tracks (410); (d) the at least two different electrically conductive tracks (410) are functionally coupled to the electronics (500); and (e) the electronics (500) comprise one or more of a control system, a driver, and a transformer.
US12173876B1	Lighting device A lighting device includes a lighting assembly and a power control assembly. The lighting assembly includes a first wire, a second wire, and a light source electrically connected to the first wire and the second wire. The power control assembly includes a housing, a first power supply disposed in the housing, a conductive structure, and an insulating piece. The insulating piece is disposed between the first power supply and the conductive structure. The insulating piece partially extends out of the housing. The insulating piece is capable of switching between an isolation position and a released position under driving of an external force. When the insulating piece is located at the released position, the conductive structure contact the first power supply to form a closed circuit. When the insulating piece is located at the isolation position, the conductive structure does not contact the first power supply.
US12173870B1	Autonomous replacement of a light on a tower A system for the maintenance of a light on a tower is described. The coupling and decoupling system of a permanent electromagnet automates the maintenance of lights on light towers. The apparatus may include a designed light base, light housing, and drone plate. The designed light base is affixed to a tower and comprises a permanent electromagnet. The light housing includes a light and a base plate that magnetically affixes the light to the light base. The light housing also includes a light top plate that attaches to a drone plate that allows for a drone to couple to and decouple from the light housing in order to replace the light housing.
US12173868B1	Ground-inserted lamp string The present disclosure relates to a ground-inserted lamp string, which relates to the technical field of lamp strings. The ground-inserted lamp string achieves detachable assembling between the lampshade and the lamp holder through rotatable clamping between the ground insertion assembly and the lampshade, so that users can quickly change different lampshades according to different needs, thus improving the diversity and universality of the ground-inserted lamp string.
US12173861B2	Light emitting system, a design element, a rear view device, a covering device, and a body component of a vehicle A light emitting system includes a light pipe, a light source disposed at least partially within an interior of the light emitting system, and configured to emit light when receiving electrical power from an electrical power source, wherein the light source is arranged adjacent to and directed towards the light pipe, a lens substantially enclosing the interior of the light emitting system, the light pipe and the light source, the lens having an inner surface and an outer surface disposed opposite the inner surface, and a mask comprising a coating that is applied on the lens and laser etched to form a desired pattern, wherein light emitted from the light source passes through the light pipe and lens.
US12173858B2	Light emitting diode assembly and plant lighting fixture An LED assembly includes a substrate, an LED module mounted on the substrate, and a lens plate disposed on the substrate. The lens plate has a lens portion disposed atop the LED module and defining a space between an inner surface of the lens portion and the LED module. A filler material having a refractive index greater than air fills the space between the LED module and the inner surface of the lens portion. The LED module includes a chip holder mounted on the substrate, a red LED chip mounted on the chip holder, and an optical encapsulant covering the top surface of the LED chip. The LED module is a plastic leaded chip carrier package. The refractive index of the filler material preferably differs from the refractive index of the optical encapsulant by at most ±0.3.
US12173856B2	Lighting device The lighting device disclosed at an embodiment of the invention comprises: a reflective member; a resin layer disposed on the reflective member; a light emitting device disposed to correspond to one side surface of the resin layer; and a light wavelength conversion layer disposed on one surface of the resin layer. The light wavelength conversion layer includes a main phosphor pattern disposed in a long axis direction of the resin layer, the main phosphor pattern includes a first unit-phosphor pattern disposed in a first region and a second unit-phosphor pattern disposed in a second region, the first region may be located closer to the light emitting device than the second region, and a width of the first unit-phosphor pattern may be less than a width of the second unit-phosphor pattern.
US12173854B2	Method for transferring cryogenic fluid using a device for transferring cryogenic fluid A cryogen storage vessel at an installation is filled with liquid cryogen from a liquid cryogen storage tank that has a pressure lower than that of the vessel. After headspaces of the vessel and tank are placed in fluid communication with another via a gas transfer vessel and are pressure-balanced, a pump in a liquid transfer line connected between the tank and the vessel is operated to transfer amounts of liquid cryogen from the tank to the vessel via the liquid transfer line and pump as amounts of gaseous cryogen are transferred, through displacement by the pumped cryogenic liquid, from the vessel to the tank.
US12173850B2	Fluid tank The pressure vessel contains a fluid, such as a high pressure gas, therein. The metal dome and the metal dome are arranged in the longitudinal direction of the pressure vessel opposite each other with the pressure vessel interposed therebetween. The stay connects the metal dome and the metal dome. The stay is connected to the metal dome and the metal dome such that the distance between the metal dome and the metal dome can be varied.
US12173849B2	Submerged gas conveyance of constant pressure and buoyancy Disclosed is an apparatus, system, and method, by which a gaseous chemical, e.g., hydrogen gas, can be retrieved by, stored within, and transported by, a low-cost autonomous vessel. The vessel is deployed, and operates, within a body of water. A submerged portion of the vessel is subjected to an ambient hydrostatic pressure that is used to compress the stored gases. A spar buoy that floats adjacent to a surface of the body of water regulates and stabilizes a depth of the submerged portion. A single pressure-tolerant chamber within the submerged portion is used to acquire gas from a gas provider and to equilibrate the pressure of the gas so acquired. The pressure-equilibrated and/or pressure-balanced gas is then drawn into a first gas storage tank through a venting of an approximately equal volume of another gas, e.g., air, from a second gas storage tank, resulting in a gas transfer at an approximately constant pressure. The processing and storage of acquired gases at pressures approximately equal to the ambient hydrostatic pressures permits the use of thin-walled tanks, and makes possible a low-cost gas acquisition, storage, and transportation, vessel.
US12173847B2	High-pressure gas tank module A high-pressure gas tank module may include: a gas tank which stores high-pressure gas, the tank including a cylindrical side wall extending along a center axis of the tank, and an end wall located at an end of the side wall, wherein the end wall is curved outward in a dome-shape; a protector fixed on an outer surface of the end wall; and a boss located on the center axis and fixed on an inner surface of the end wall. The boss includes a joining surface joined to the inner surface, the protector includes a facing surface facing the end wall, wherein the facing surface includes a joining area joined to the outer surface and a non-joining area extending along the outer surface from the joining area toward the side wall, and the joining area faces the joining surface with the end wall interposed therebetween.
US12173846B2	Method for manufacturing high-pressure tank, high-pressure tank manufacturing apparatus, and non-transitory storage medium A method for manufacturing a high-pressure tank includes an arrangement step of arranging, in a cavity of a mold, an intermediate including a liner and a fiber bundle wound around the liner, and an impregnation step of impregnating the fiber bundle with a molten resin in the cavity by increasing a pressure on the molten resin injected into the cavity. The impregnation step includes a pressure increasing step of increasing an internal pressure of the intermediate when increasing the pressure on the molten resin.
US12173839B2	Rotatable-shooting live-streaming platform Disclosed is a rotatable-shooting live-streaming platform, including a stand platform and a bracket assembly. The stand platform includes a base and a plate provided above the base; and the bracket assembly includes an auxiliary bracket rotatably connected to the stand platform around a vertical axis, and the auxiliary bracket is provided with an equipment-installation structure for installing a supplementary light and/or a shooting equipment. The technical solution of the present disclosure enables the live-streaming platform to shoot the items and the models on the plate stably in multiple directions, which enriches the live-streaming effect.
US12173838B2	Rearview assembly mounting element A mounting element for a rearview assembly may comprise a mount capable of being removably attachable to a button and having a tapered channel in a first end; a pivot comprising a first end capable of supporting the rearview assembly and a pivot ball; a pivot cup disposed at least partially within the tapered channel of the mount, having fingers extending from a first end and an annular surface having an outer diameter at a second end, the pivot cup being operable to at least partially accept and to exert a pivot torque on the pivot ball; and a coil spring having a first end, a second end, and an outer diameter similar to the diameter of the annular surface of the pivot cup, the coil spring disposed within the mount, the first end of the coil spring pressing against the annular surface of the pivot cup.
US12173824B2	Hydraulic coupling with dovetail seal having multiple radial sealing surfaces and inner biasing element An undersea hydraulic coupling member having a ring-shaped seal with multiple sealing surfaces extending radially inwardly therefrom is disclosed. The multiple sealing surfaces help guide the probe of the male coupling member into the female member without the risk of drag or galling of the receiving chamber or metal seal retained therein. The seal has an interfit with reverse inclined shoulders in the female member to restrain the seal from moving radially inwardly due to vacuum or low pressure. The seal also includes an internal biasing element to restrain the seal from moving radially inwardly during de-mating of the coupling members.
US12173820B2	Connectors A connection apparatus suitable for mounting on a structural element and connection to a port of a system or component in which the connection apparatus comprises a connector, a flange and a compressible biasing element is provided. The connector forms a longitudinally extending conduit having an axis (A) extending along the centre of the conduit, a port end adapted to be engaged with the port of a system or component, and a second end. The connector comprises a shoulder extending around the perimeter of the connector, and the shoulder extends around the perimeter of the connector in a direction substantially perpendicular to the portion of the conduit axis (as) around which the shoulder extends. The biasing element is adapted to at least partially extend around a portion of the connector adjacent to the shoulder.
US12173819B2	Pipe coupling gasket assembly A conduit coupling assembly having an arcuate clamp ring having first and second longitudinal edges, a spanner configured to extend across a longitudinal ring gap between the first and second longitudinal edges, a connecting assembly configured to tighten the spanner and clamp ring to the fluid conduit from a non-actuated position to a tightened position, an arcuate gasket configured to be positioned between the clamp ring and spanner on an outer side of the gasket and the fluid conduit on an inner side of the gasket, and the gasket comprising a spanner recess in the outer side of the gasket configured to receive at least a portion of the spanner.
US12173818B2	Systems and methods for fluid fitting installation A fluid fitting installation system includes a first handle and a second handle movably coupled to the first handle. The second handle is movable between a first position and a second position. The fluid fitting installation system includes a grasping member coupled to the second handle. The grasping member is configured to be coupled to a first fluid fitting. A movement of the second handle from the first position to the second position is configured to couple the first fluid fitting to a second fluid fitting.
US12173814B2	Female ISO flare union with integrated mating brake ISO F flare port A brake union for providing a secure and leak free connection between first and second fluid carrying lines inserted into a female union body having a first and second open ends. Each of the fluid carrying lines exhibits an expanded, typically flared, end form which, upon inserting through the female body, seat against one another. A mating flare nut coaxially surrounds one of the fluid carrying lines and includes exterior threads which inter-engage interior threads of the female body, with tightening to establish a fluid-tight connection between the opposing end forms.
US12173808B2	Isolation gate valve The specification discloses an isolation gate valve (10) for controlling flow of a particulate type material of a dry or semi dry nature including ore and coal, the gate valve (10) having a support frame (11), at least one slidable blade member (20, 21) movably mounted relative to said support frame (11) to selectably open or close a material flow opening (12) defined by said support frame (11), one or more actuators (22, 23) provided to drive the slidable blade member or members (20, 21) between open or closed positions, the or each said slidable blade member (20, 21) having a forward leading edge region (27, 28) adapted, in use, to transversely extend across the material flow opening (12).
US12173801B2	Seal for a vacuum valve Seal for a vacuum valve comprising a circular base element, wherein the base element has a non-circular cross-section having an outer side extending in an axial direction and an inner side extending radially such that the inner side of the seal can be clampingly fixed in a sealing element of a valve. Further, the present invention relates to a sealing element, such a seal and a valve with such a sealing element.
US12173798B2	Sealing arrangement for detecting thickness of a sealing element of a seal A sealing arrangement for detecting thickness (t) of a sealing element (2) of a seal (1) wherein the sealing surface (3) at frontside of the sealing element (2) is arranged to be in sliding contact with sealed surface (4), wherein at least one sensor (5) measures the thickness of the sealing element (2) and is mounted to the surrounding component (10) of the sealed surface (4). The sensor (5) is positioned opposite the sealing element (2). The sensor (5) receives a response from a transverse border of the sealing element (2) or from an electrically conductive insert (6) or from an insert (6) of magnetic material, which insert (6) is embedded within the sealing element (2) or is connected to the backside of the sealing element (2). The thickness (t) is detected and/or measured along the length of the sealing element (2).
US12173796B2	Kit for protecting at least one seal installed in a transfer fuel pump A kit for protecting at least one seal installed in a cavity of a transfer fuel pump, the cavity comprising an opening for receiving a shaft inside the cavity. The kit comprises a first tool and a second tool, the first tool comprising a first handle and a first protective portion, the second tool comprising a second handle and a second protective portion, and the first and the second protective portions being shaped to be inserted in the cavity of the transfer fuel pump while receiving the shaft inside said cavity.
US12173794B2	Sealing arrangement for a connection between two connecting elements of an offshore structure and method for producing same Seal arrangement for a joint of two joint elements, in particular realized as a monopile and a transition piece, of an offshore structure, preferably an offshore wind energy installation, in particular a substructure thereof, in which, for the purpose of producing a stable joint, an upper joint element and a lower joint element are inserted into each other in a clamping manner by means of at least one seal unit, comprising one of the joint elements and the at least one seal unit fixed to the joint element, in such a manner that the seal unit, in a joining position, is arranged between an inner joint surface of one joint element and an outer joint surface of the other joint element, at least one seal unit having at least one elastic sealing element, which extends in the circumferential direction around the entire circumference and the thickness (D) of which is greater than the thickness (D′) of an adjoining seal unit region and method for producing a seal arrangement.
US12173788B2	Control system and method thereof for multispeed transmission An electro-hydraulic control system for a multispeed transmission having a plurality of torque-transmitting mechanisms includes a controller for operably controlling the transmission, a fluid source for supplying hydraulic fluid, and a plurality of torque-transmitting mechanisms being operably selected between an applied and an unapplied state to achieve a plurality of ranges including at least one reverse, a neutral, and a plurality of forward ranges. The system includes a plurality of trim systems having pressure control solenoids and trim valves. The system may also include one or more shift valves disposed in fluid communication with the fluid source and being capable of moving between stroked and de-stroked positions. In any given range, only two of the plurality of torque-transmitting mechanisms may be applied. Moreover, three of the plurality of pressure control solenoids are normally high solenoids, and the remaining solenoids are normally low solenoids.
US12173787B2	Throttle input limiting system A system and method are described to help ensure that gears contained within the transmission system are shifted to the correct position before the user can apply the throttle. An electronic control unit (ECU) is connected to a shift position sensor that measures a position of a shifting axle within the engine. If the shift position sensor provides measurement data indicating that the shifting assembly is rotationally positioned to engage a specific gear, the ECU allows the user actuated throttle input to control the throttle level of the engine. If the shift position sensor provides measurement data indicating that the shifting assembly is rotationally positioned in between positions that actuate specific gears (also known as a “dead zone”), the ECU prevents the user actuated throttle input from controlling the throttle level of the engine.
US12173785B2	Planetary gear mechanism A planetary gear mechanism includes: a case; a first shaft having a connecting shaft; a second shaft having a receiving hole to rotatably receive the connecting shaft; a sun gear joined to the first shaft; a planetary carrier joined to the second shaft; planetary gears rotatably supported by the planetary carrier; and a ring gear provided on an inner surface of the case. The connecting shaft or the receiving hole is formed with a helical groove extending vertically and connected to a gap formed between an upper surface of the sun gear and a lower end surface of the second shaft. The second shaft is formed with a first lubricating oil passage connecting the helical groove to sliding contact parts of the second shaft and the case. When the first shaft is rotating, at least a part of each planetary gear is immersed in lubricating oil stored in the case.
US12173780B2	Filtering pulley A filtering pulley for an accessory transmission of an internal combustion engine that has a hub, a crown, a filtering unit or transmitting the torque interposed between the hub and the crown, a torsion spring, a carrier, and a torque limiting joint. The torque limiting joint is coupled to interface with one of the surfaces between the crown and has an open-loop strip spring. The torque limiting joint and is configured to slide with respect to said surface when the torque transmitted between the crown and the hub reaches a predetermined level.
US12173777B2	Linear motion actuator A linear motion actuator has a ball screw device having a screw shaft, a nut, and a plurality of balls, a piston mounted on one end of the screw shaft, and a stroke limiting mechanism setting an operation starting point in time of the screw shaft toward a first direction pointed by the one end. The nut has one end face directed to the first direction and a protruding part protruding from the one end face.
US12173775B2	Attachment system The present invention relates generally to an attachment and cinching system. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to an apparatus and method to attach objects to a stationary vertical support where such objects include a climbing stick and/or climbing tree platform.
US12173770B2	Damper device A damper device includes a first rotor, a second rotor rotatable relative to the first rotor, a plurality of elastic members circumferentially aligned, an intermediate member, and a hysteresis generating mechanism. The intermediate member is disposed axially between the first rotor and the second rotor. The hysteresis generating mechanism is disposed axially between the first rotor and the second rotor to generate a hysteresis torque in relative rotation between the first rotor and the second rotor. The intermediate member includes an annular portion and a support portion. The annular portion is provided radially outside the plurality of elastic members. The support portion protrudes radially inward from the annular portion. The support portion is disposed between at least circumferentially adjacent two of the plurality of elastic members. The support portion actuates the at least circumferentially adjacent two of the plurality of elastic members in series.
US12173760B2	Coupling guard for a rotating member A coupling guard for a rotor, which includes a housing for enclosing the rotor in an inner space of the housing, the housing extending longitudinally along a length of the rotor; a ventilation system for creating a flow of gas in the inner space from a gas inlet to a gas outlet that exhausts outside. The gas inlet includes a pipe extending along a pipe longitudinal axis from outside to inside the housing. The pipe includes a first opening located outside the housing and a second opening located inside the housing in the inner space. The pipe has the second opening close to the rotor when the housing encloses the latter. The second opening has a curved edge wherein a projection of the curved edge onto a plane extending parallel to the longitudinal axis of the pipe and parallel to the axis of longitudinal extension is a segment of curve.
US12173759B2	Clutch assembly with two hydraulically actuated clutch devices A hydraulic assembly for an electrically operatable multi-gear axle drive train of a motor vehicle, including first and second clutch devices for actuating at least one gear selection device of the electrically operatable axle drive train and a central release mechanism having a first central release mechanism piston that is movable relative to a central release mechanism housing, rotationally fixed to a drive train housing, in a translational manner, and a second central release mechanism piston that is movable relative to the central release mechanism housing, rotationally fixed to the drive train housing, in a translational manner. The radially outer lateral surface of the central release mechanism housing has a groove into which a shell-like toothing element with an outer toothing is inserted and secured axially and for torque-transmission. The outer toothing engages into corresponding toothing rotationally fixed to the drive train housing.
US12173758B2	Shifting element for an automatic transmission A hydraulically actuatable shift element (100) includes a clutch piston (101), a fast fill piston (102), a fast fill valve (103), a fast fill pressure chamber (126), and a clutch pressure chamber (117). The fast fill valve (103) includes a sealing body (132) and a control body (131). Before the actuation of the shift element (100), the sealing body (132) is in a first switching position, in which the fast fill pressure chamber (126) is connected to a pressurized oil source (108) and, after the actuation of the shift element (100) in a second switching position, seals off the fast fill pressure chamber (126) with respect to the rest of the hydraulic system. The control body (131) has a first pressure surface (A18) and a second pressure surface (A19), wherein, in the first switching position, only the first pressure surface (A18) is pressurizable from the pressurized oil source (108). The fast fill valve (103) is configured such that, in the second switching position or between the first switching position and the second switching position of the control body (131), the second pressure surface (A19), in addition to the first pressure surface (A18), is pressurizable.
US12173757B2	Clutch device and motorcycle A clutch device includes a clutch center including center-side fitting teeth, and a pressure plate including pressure-side fitting teeth. When a center-side assist cam surface and a pressure-side assist cam surface contact each other, an end of each of the pressure-side fitting teeth in a first direction is located ahead, in the first direction, of an end of a corresponding one of the center-side fitting teeth in a second direction, and at least portions of some of the pressure-side fitting teeth overlap with the center-side fitting teeth when seen in radial directions of the output shaft, and at least portions of others of the pressure-side fitting teeth do not overlap with the center-side fitting teeth when seen in radial directions of the output shaft.
US12173755B2	Compliant joint drive assembly A torque transfer assembly includes a drive shaft and a driven shaft. The drive shaft includes a motor shaft configured to be connected to and rotated by a motor, and a cam shaft connected to and rotatable with the motor shaft. The driven shaft is connected to and rotatable with the cam shaft, and the cam shaft is formed of a dielectric material defining an insulating barrier between the drive and the driven shaft.
US12173753B2	Bearing assembly A bearing assembly includes a bearing unit configured to support a rotatable component relative to a stationary component, the bearing unit including a stationary bearing ring and a rotatable bearing ring, the rotatable bearing ring being connectable to the rotatable component and the stationary bearing ring being connectable to the stationary component such that the stationary bearing ring and the stationary component are rotationally fixed. The stationary component or a connecting element between the stationary component and the stationary bearing ring comprises a plurality of layers which may be formed by an additive manufacturing process. Also a method of forming the bearing assembly.
US12173752B2	Resin composition for sliding member, and sliding member Provided are a resin composition for a sliding member and a sliding member, which have excellent molding workability and mechanical workability and with which it is possible to improve sliding properties including lubricating properties and wear resistance. The resin composition for a sliding member of the present invention contains, in addition to a polyacetal resin, 2% to 20% by mass of an ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene resin, 0.01% to 3% by mass of a modified polyolefin resin, and 0.5% to 3% by mass of a lubricant as additives.
US12173751B2	Multipad hybrid conical foil bearing A conical bearing includes a bearing sleeve, a bump foil, and a top foil. The bearing sleeve extends along an axis from a first open end to a second open end. The bearing sleeve has an axially tapered shape such that a first diameter of the bearing sleeve is greater than a second diameter of the bearing sleeve. An interior surface of the bearing sleeve has a non-circular profile. The bump foil is concentrically disposed within the bearing sleeve and includes bump foil pad segments extending circumferentially about the interior surface of the bearing sleeve. Each bump foil pad segment comprises a plurality of foil bumps and the plurality of foil bumps varies in stiffness along a circumference of the bump foil. The top foil is concentrically disposed within the bump foil and includes top foil pad segments extending circumferentially about an interior surface of the bump foil.
US12173749B2	Pole joint Methods, systems, devices, and products for use in a pole support system. Apparatus include a hinge joint comprising: a base having an insertion end with a longitudinal slot and with a fulcrum protrusion on an inner surface; a cup having a receiving end selectively receiving the insertion end of the base; a securing assembly configured to selectively release the cup from the base, the securing assembly comprising a rotatable shaft that translates along the longitudinal slot between at least i) a lower relative position corresponding to an engaged state in which the insertion end is received by the receiving end, and ii) an upper relative position corresponding to a released state in which the insertion end is free of the receiving end; the shaft having a cam projection positioned to contact against the fulcrum protrusion and displace the shaft toward the upper relative position when the shaft is rotated.

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