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| US12277334B2 |
Selectable performance-based partitioning
A data storage device includes storage media and control circuitry and is configured to enable the creation of partitions with different performance levels. The storage media includes a first set and a second set of memory blocks having different performance levels. The control circuitry is configured to: in response to a request from a host system, provide performance data from the first set of memory blocks and the second set of memory blocks to the host system. The control circuitry is further configured to: receive partition settings from the host system, the partition settings creating a first partition including at least part of the first set of memory blocks and a second partition including at least part of the second set of memory blocks, wherein the first partition has a better performance level than the second partition; and save the partition settings to the storage media. |
| US12277331B2 |
Data storage device and method for determining buffer size of the data storage device
A data storage device includes a memory device and a memory controller. The memory device includes multiple memory blocks. The memory blocks includes one or more spare memory blocks that are not written with data and one or more predetermined memory blocks that are configured as a buffer for receiving data from a host device. The memory controller is coupled to the memory device and configured to access the memory device. The memory controller is configured to determine a setting value of a number of said one or more predetermined memory blocks according to a number of currently remaining spare memory block(s), a number of the predetermined memory block(s) that has/have been written with data among said one or more predetermined memory blocks and a predetermined threshold, and configure the number of the predetermined memory block(s) as the buffer according to the setting value. |
| US12277330B2 |
Data storage device and method for determining buffer size of the data storage device
A data storage device includes a memory device and a memory controller. The memory device includes multiple memory blocks which include one or more spare memory blocks not written with data and one or more predetermined memory blocks that are configured as a buffer for receiving data from a host device. The memory controller obtains a total number of remaining erasable count of the memory blocks and determines a setting value of a number of said one or more predetermined memory blocks according to a number of currently remaining spare memory block(s), a number of the predetermined memory block(s) that has/have been written with data among said one or more predetermined memory blocks, a predetermined threshold and the total number of remaining erasable count of the memory blocks, and configures the number of the predetermined memory block(s) as the buffer according to the setting value. |
| US12277329B2 |
Method and system for tracking memory usage
A method and system track memory allocation and release activities to detect memory leak, buffer overflow, and release type mismatch errors in a computing system. The memory tracker computes the necessary size of the allocated memory block and calls operating system provided functions to allocate and release raw memory blocks. Raw memory blocks are formatted into allocated memory blocks. An indexed data structure stores the allocated memory blocks. The user memory address is used as the index key value. The memory blocks are removed from the indexed data structure when the programs release the memory. The memory blocks remaining in the indexed data structure are considered memory leaks when the memory tracker terminates. The memory tracker adds bytes to the end of memory blocks for the integrity check and detects possible buffer overflow errors. Memory allocation type is added in the allocated memory blocks for release type mismatch errors. |
| US12277320B1 |
Improving data center sustainability through dynamic inclusion and elimination of paths
A method, comprising: selecting an HBA entity that is currently turned on and which is part of a host device, the host device being coupled to a storage array, the host device being configured to read and write data to the storage array; identifying an identifier of the HBA entity; identifying, based on the identifier, a switch that is coupled to the HBA entity via a communications path; identifying one or more other communications paths that span between the host device and the switch; detecting whether a redundancy policy would be violated if the HBA entity were to be turned off, the redundancy policy including at least one rule that specifies a minimum number of active paths that must be present between the host device and the switch at any given time; turning off the HBA entity in response to detecting that the redundancy policy would not be violated. |
| US12277316B2 |
Electronic storage system
Methods and systems for electronic storage are provided. A storage system comprises a plurality of storage system front ends, a plurality of storage system back ends, and a plurality of solid state drive (SSD) agents. Each storage system front end resides on a server of a plurality of servers. Each server of the plurality of servers comprises one or more storage system back ends of the plurality of storage system back ends. Each storage system front end is able to receive I/O requests and relay information associated with the I/O requests to a relevant storage system back end. The relevant storage system back end communicates metadata associated with the I/O request to an SSD via an SSD agent. |
| US12277314B2 |
Touch screen display with virtual trackpad
Examples are disclosed relating to computing devices and methods for performing touch detection within a virtual trackpad area of a touch screen display. In one example, a non-trackpad touch input signal is received from outside the virtual trackpad area and processed with at least a jitter restrictor algorithm that applies a non-trackpad distance between reported touch locations. A virtual trackpad touch input signal is received from within the virtual trackpad area. On condition of determining that the virtual trackpad touch input signal is received from within the virtual trackpad area, the virtual trackpad touch input signal is processed with the jitter restrictor algorithm that applies a virtual trackpad distance between reported touch locations that is smaller than the non-trackpad distance between reported touch locations. |
| US12277313B2 |
Handwriting drawing method and apparatus, electronic device, and readable storage medium
This application provides a handwriting drawing method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a readable storage medium. The method is applied to the electronic device, the electronic device includes a touch screen, the touch screen includes a touch panel sensor (TP sensor), and the method includes: performing a handwriting drawing operation in response to detecting that a stylus moves close to the touch screen and a capacitance change amount of the TP sensor is greater than or equal to a first threshold; and stopping the handwriting drawing operation in response to detecting that the stylus moves away from the touch screen and that the capacitance change amount of the TP sensor is less than a second threshold, where the first threshold is different from the second threshold. |
| US12277312B2 |
Single user or few users identification and blocking operable touch sensor device
A touch sensor system includes touch sensors, drive-sense circuits (DSCs), memory, and a processing module. A DSC drives a first signal via a single line coupling to a touch sensor and simultaneously senses, when present, a second signal that is uniquely associated with a user. The DSC processes the first signal and/or the second signal to generate a digital signal that is representative of an electrical characteristic of the touch sensor. The processing module executes operational instructions (stored in the memory) to process the digital signal to detect interaction of the user with the touch sensor and to determine whether the interaction of the user with the touch sensor compares favorably with authorization. When not authorized, the processing module aborts execution of operation(s) associated with the interaction of the user with the touch sensor. Alternatively, when authorized, the processing module facilitates execution of the operation(s). |
| US12277310B2 |
Simulated interactive panoramas
A panoramic system can receive content (e.g., live video) recorded in a landscape orientation and use a portrait dynamic crop window to display a portrait area of the received content. The panoramic system can further display the content in a landscape dynamic crop window that has a moveable user interface control that can pan the portrait crop window as the content plays in one or both of the dynamic crop windows. |
| US12277309B2 |
Simplified sharing of content among computing devices
In one general aspect, a method can include displaying, on a display device included in a computing device, content in an application executing on the computing device. The method can further include displaying, in a user interface on the display device, at least one identifier, receiving a selection of the at least one identifier, and initiating casting in response to receiving the selection of the at least one identifier. |
| US12277307B2 |
In-page navigation
A method, system, and product comprising: obtaining a user instruction instructing the browser to navigate to a second page, wherein the browser is displaying a first page, wherein the first page comprises a link to a second page, wherein the link is configured to instruct the browser to navigate to the second page, wherein the user instruction is based on a selection of the link; preventing the browser from navigating to the second page in response to the user instruction; and causing the browser to present content from the second page in an element that is placed over the first page. |
| US12277302B2 |
User terminal apparatus and management method of home network thereof
An example user terminal apparatus includes communication circuitry configured to be connected to a home network comprising a plurality of devices; a display configured to display a UI screen for managing the home network; a sensor configured to sense a user manipulation of the UI screen; and processing circuitry configured to change the UI screen displayed on the display according to the user manipulation. The UI screen is one of a plurality of service pages that are changeable according to a user manipulation in a first direction, the plurality of service pages being pages for respectively providing different home network management services. At least one of the plurality of service pages comprises an area that is displayable on the display according to a user manipulation in a second direction. |
| US12277298B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a display panel and an input sensing panel. The input sensing panel includes pluralities of first and second sensing electrodes and electrostatic induction patterns, each of which is connected to a sensing electrode from one of the pluralities of sensing electrodes and overlaps another sensing electrode from the other one of the pluralities of sensing electrodes. The input sensing panel includes a first area where deviations of mutual capacitances between the first and second sensing electrodes are small and a second area where the deviations are large. The electrostatic induction patterns include first electrostatic induction patterns disposed in the first area and second electrostatic induction patterns disposed in the second area, the second electrostatic induction patterns having a different area from the first electrostatic induction patterns, or the number of second electrostatic induction patterns being different from the number of first electrostatic induction patterns. |
| US12277297B2 |
Touch sensor having a touch detection electrode composed of fine metal wires
Provided are a touch sensor that can suppress shading unevenness of a touch detection electrode, and a method for producing the touch sensor.The touch sensor comprises a substrate and conductive layers formed on the substrate, in which the conductive layer has a touch detection electrode (11) that is composed of a plurality of fine metal wires arranged in a mesh shape and extends over an electrode length L1 from a first end part (11A) to a second end part (11B), the plurality of the fine metal wires of the touch detection electrode each have a layer to be plated and a metal plating layer, and an average line width Hm of the layers to be plated of the plurality of the fine metal wires in a region (R1) between the first end part (11A) and a position (P1) apart from the first end part (11A) toward the second end part (11B) side by 1/10 of the electrode length L1 is narrower than an average line width Hs of the layers to be plated of the plurality of the fine metal wires at a position (P2) apart from the first end part (11A) toward the second end part (11B) side by ½ of the electrode length L1. |
| US12277294B2 |
Acoustic input apparatus and method, electronic device and computer-readable medium
An acoustic input apparatus, an acoustic input apparatus, an electronic device, and a computer-readable medium. A first acoustic source is configured to generate a first acoustic wave, in response to a user performing a first operation. An acoustic transducer is configured to collect an acoustic wave and convert the collected acoustic wave into an electrical signal reflecting a frequency of the collected acoustic wave. The comparing circuit is configured to receive the electrical signal, determine whether the collected acoustic wave includes the first acoustic wave based on whether the frequency meets a first preset condition, and output an operating signal. The operating signal is in a first state in response to the collected acoustic wave including the first acoustic wave. The technical solution simplifies wiring and improves robustness to electromagnetic environment, while ensuring accuracy for recognizing an input of the user. |
| US12277285B2 |
Conductive member for touch panel, touch panel, and touch panel display device
Provided is a conductive member for a touch panel, a touch panel, and a touch panel display device capable of accommodating a first and a second lead wire in a narrow region. A conductive member for a touch panel includes a first conductive layer disposed on a transparent insulating substrate; an insulating layer disposed on the first conductive layer; and a second conductive layer disposed on the insulating layer. The first conductive layer has a plurality of first touch detection electrodes, and a plurality of first lead wires led from the plurality of first touch detection electrodes. The second conductive layer has a plurality of second touch detection electrodes, and a plurality of second lead wires led from the plurality of second touch detection electrodes. At least a part of the first lead wire and at least a part of the second lead wire overlap each other in plan view. |
| US12277282B2 |
Organic light emitting display device including touch sensing patterns including metal, and method of manufacturing the same
A organic light emitting display device includes a substrate comprising a light-emitting region and a reflection region, a first sensing electrode which senses a touch position is disposed in the reflection region, and comprises a material having a first reflectivity and a second sensing electrode which senses a touch position is disposed in the light-emitting region and the reflection region, and comprises a material having a second reflectivity, and overlapping a portion of the first sensing electrode. |
| US12277280B2 |
Input display device
An input display device includes a display configured to display an image, a capacitive touch panel attached to the display, a knob that is at least one three-dimensional operation unit on a front face of the touch panel, and a sensing unit configured to measure an electrostatic capacitance of the touch panel and sense an operation on the touch panel based on the measured electrostatic capacitance. The sensing unit senses the rotation amounts of all the fingers touching the knob, and determines that the rotation operation on the knob has been performed when a sensed rotation amount of any of the fingers reaches a threshold value. |
| US12277278B1 |
System and method of action-based navigation visualization for supply chain planners and specially-abled users
A system and method are disclosed for predicting recommendations for a user interface. The method includes generating a graphical user interface that receives an input from a user of a client portal, crawling tasks associated with the user in the client portal, ranking the tasks according to an intent associated with the input from the user, fetching at least one task from the ranked tasks, calculating a quantity of steps to complete the task from the ranked tasks; identifying one or more slots used by the task in at least one step from the quantity of steps, and generating one or more recommendations comprising a subsequent action for the user to complete the task. |
| US12277275B2 |
Content-based tactile outputs
The present disclosure generally relates to content-based tactile outputs. In some embodiments, user interfaces associated with content-based tactile outputs are described. In some embodiments, user interfaces associated with end-of-content tactile outputs are described. In some embodiments, user interfaces associated with moving a user interface in response to different types of input are described. In some embodiments, user interfaces associated with adjustable item-based tactile outputs are described. In some embodiments, user interfaces associated with input velocity-based tactile outputs are described. |
| US12277274B1 |
Haptic vibration device, terminal device and control method
A haptic vibration device includes a stator assembly, a vibrator assembly, and a touch-control assembly. The touch-control assembly can detect a pressing information in a first direction. The stator assembly includes a fixing frame assembly, and a magnetic circuit system fixed to the fixing frame assembly and having a magnetic gap. The vibrator assembly includes a shell elastically connected to the fixing frame assembly and provided outside the magnetic circuit system, and a solenoid assembly located in the magnetic gap. The magnetic circuit system can drive the solenoid assembly to reciprocate in a second direction with an angle to the first direction. A terminal and a control method are provided. The haptic vibration device can reduce the effect of the driving force in the non-pressing direction on the whole device, and has small space requirement for the terminal device in the pressing direction, and is suitable for various terminal devices. |
| US12277272B2 |
Systems and methods for electromyogram-based control using neural networks
An EMG-based control system is disclosed. The system includes an EMG sensor that streams data to a device. A neural network executed by the device decodes muscle activity into a two-dimensional continuous control signal. A network-based calibration routine optimizes the neural network to decode natural movements of the user. |
| US12277267B2 |
Two-way communication between head-mounted display and electroanatomic system
A processing system provides two-way communication between an electroanatomic navigation and mapping system (EAMS) and a head-mounted display (HMD). A user wearing the HMD can use hands-free or touch-free actions to interact with a user interface for EAMS information displayed by the HMD (e.g., 3D augmented reality graphics) or by a display monitor (e.g., 2D graphics). For example, the processing system updates the position of a cursor on the display monitor to track a gaze direction of the user as determined by the HMD. |
| US12277262B1 |
User comfort monitoring and notification
Some implementations disclosed herein present multimedia content to a user, identify a comfort state of the user (e.g., happy, unhappy, distressed, etc.) based on body data of the user (e.g., facial expressions, hand movements, physiological data, etc.), and update the multimedia content based on the identified comfort state. |
| US12277261B2 |
Deformable human interface device
A human interface device may include a deformable body having a handle portion, and a deformable conductor coupled to the deformable body and arranged to deform in response to a physical manipulation of the deformable body. The physical manipulation may include compressing, flexing, twisting, and/or stretching at least a portion of the deformable body. The deformable conductor may be arranged to change an electric characteristic such as a resistance, capacitance and/or inductance in response to the physical manipulation. The deformable conductor may include a sensor portion, and a transmission portion. The sensor portion may sense a first type of physical manipulation, and the transmission portion may sense a second type of physical manipulation. |
| US12277257B2 |
Cache code for an electronic payment terminal and corresponding electronic payment terminal
A removable cache code intended to be assembled to an electronic payment terminal in a reversible manner, thanks to first and second reversible attachment means located on the outer face of at least one of the lateral walls of the cache code. |
| US12277246B1 |
Derived permissions for stored outputs from artificial intelligence agents
The system provides a permissions engine derives permissions for responses from artificial intelligence (AI) agents. The permissions are derived based on the access permissions of chunks used to generate the response, and the response is cached for reuse with users meeting the permissions requirements. The system can also derive an access permission level for a user attempting to access the cached result or other content. This can be based on a managed access profile that includes user behavior criteria and device criteria. Likewise, the system can validate and derive sensitivity levels of documents that are ingested for use in AI agents and discriminate between chunks to use in synthesizing results based on the derived permissions of the chunks and their relationship to the user. |
| US12277239B2 |
Protective deactivation of GDPR wallet
A credential management system stores GDPR wallets of individuals who consent to share their private data with various consumers, and constructs GDPR directories for the consumers allowing access to the wallet records. If an individual decides they no longer want to share their records with a specific consumer, the system deactivates access to the specific consumer for compliance with privacy laws. However, the consumer may have a legitimate need to retain the information in which case the system will still allow access to records that were available prior to deactivation, but will block access to any newly added records in the individual's wallet. An individual may also automatically deactivate all current consumer connections; if this global deactivation happens after a specific consumer has been already been deactivated, the system will use two different deactivation dates for the access filter depending on which consumer is attempting to view the wallet. |
| US12277237B2 |
Managed metastorage
The present application discloses a method, system, and computer system for providing access to information stored on system for data storage. The method includes receiving a data request from a user, determining data corresponding to the data request, determining whether the user has requisite permissions to access the data, and in response to determining that the user has requisite permissions to access the data: determining a manner by which to provide access to the data, wherein the data comprises a filtered subset of stored data, and generating a token based at least in part on the user and the manner by which access to the data is to be provided. |
| US12277236B2 |
System and methods for intelligent entity-wide data protection
Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods, and computer program products for identifying sensitive, or non-publicly available, information, reclassifying identified sensitive information, and managing access to identified sensitive information in an intelligent and dynamic manner. In some embodiments, the systems and methods described herein utilize a pattern recognition engine designed to analyze and detect identifying characteristics of sensitive data or private data characteristics. The system may also employ an automated response and reporting capability to automatically re-classify sensitive data and apply appropriate protection measures in a multi-platform approach. |
| US12277233B1 |
Intelligent AI risk management framework
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for managing the risks inherent in using machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) tools. In one aspect, a system comprises accessing, by one or more computing devices, a repository of files, and analyzing, by the one or more computing devices, files stored in the repository to identify a subset of the files as candidates that contain or are potentially generated at least in part using one or more artificial intelligence (AI) processes. In another aspect, a system comprises identifying, based at least on one or more attributes indicative of artificial intelligence (AI) usage in a file, one or more automated tests to perform on the file, performing a user-selected automated test, storing results of the performed automated test to an inventory record, and using the results of the automated test to train a machine learning model. |
| US12277231B2 |
System and method for identifying cyberthreats from unstructured social media content
A cyberthreat detection system queries a content database for unstructured content that contains a set of keywords, clusters the unstructured content into clusters based on topics, and determines a cybersecurity cluster utilizing a list of vetted cybersecurity phrases. The set of keywords represents a target of interest such as a newly discovered cyberthreat, an entity, a brand, or a combination thereof. The cybersecurity cluster thus determined is composed of unstructured content that has the set of keywords as well as some percentage of the vetted cybersecurity phrases. If the size of the cybersecurity cluster, as compared to the amount of unstructured content queried from the content database, meets or exceeds a predetermined threshold, the query is saved as a new classifier rule that can then be used by a cybersecurity classifier to automatically, dynamically and timely identify the target of interest in unclassified unstructured content. |
| US12277227B2 |
Bios module provisioning sequence verification system
A BIOS module provisioning sequence verification system includes a BIOS subsystem coupled to a TPM and a BIOS storage system including a plurality of firmware volumes. The BIOS subsystem provides a plurality of BIOS modules in a BIOS module provisioning sequence using the plurality of firmware volumes and, for each of the plurality of BIOS modules when that BIOS module is provided during the BIOS module provisioning sequence: retrieves a BIOS module identifier associated with that BIOS module, and updates BIOS module provisioning sequence information using that BIOS module identifier. Following the provisioning of the BIOS modules in the BIOS module provisioning sequence, the BIOS subsystem provides the BIOS module provisioning sequence information to the TPM, with the BIOS module provisioning sequence information configured to be compared to BIOS module provisioning sequence verification information to verify the BIOS module provisioning sequence. |
| US12277225B2 |
Determining authenticity of binary images
A method is described that includes receiving source code corresponding to a program to be loaded on a processing device, generating a representation of the source code, generating a first authentication indication that indicates the representation is authentic and is based on the source code, generating a second authentication indication that indicates a build server generating the representation is authentic, the second authentication indication generated using an attestation operation and generating a modified representation including the representation, the first authentication indication, and the second authentication indication. |
| US12277224B1 |
Systems and methods for executing an analytical operation across a plurality of computer processes
A system, method, and computer-program product includes commencing a parent computer process based on receiving a request to perform an analytical operation on one or more datasets, commencing at least one child computer process that is launched by the parent computer process when the parent computer process initiates an execution of the analytical operation on the one or more datasets, transmitting, by the at least one child computer process, a request to the parent computer process to retrieve the one or more datasets, writing, by the parent computer process, the one or more datasets to a cross-process queue based on the parent computer process receiving the requests, reading, by the at least one child computer process, the one or more datasets from the cross-process queue, and executing, using an analytical application executing on the least one child computer process, the analytical operation based on the one or more datasets. |
| US12277223B2 |
System and method utilizing machine learning and natural language processing to identify malware DNA
A system and method utilize machine learning and natural language processing to identify malware DNA of a sample malware. The sample malware is analyzed for text strings using natural language processing, and machine learning models are applied to the text strings to classify the text strings as malware DNA relative to prototype malwares. |
| US12277221B2 |
Computer-implemented automatic security methods and systems
One aspect of the present disclosure provides a computer-implemented method of automatically securing a computer system or network against a suspect binary file (SBF) by, in response to detection of the SBF, initiating an automatic defence strategy. The automatic defence strategy includes a first action known to mitigate a known threat posed by a known malicious binary file (KMBF); and a further action predicted to mitigate a predicted threat posed by a discrepant function present in the SBF but not the KMBF. Further aspects of the present disclosure relate to corresponding data processing systems, computer programs, computer-readable data carriers and data carrier signals. |
| US12277218B2 |
Managing and classifying computer processes
In a system and method for processing computer system events asynchronously for software security operations, a computer memory is configured for a read operation by a computer process. The computer process loads, based on a first event occurring during the read operation, at least one file in the computer memory. At least one thread of the computer process is generated. An execution of the at least one thread of the computer process is delayed based on a second event occurring after the first event. A security operation is performed on the process contemporaneously with the loading of the file in the computer memory and the blocking of the execution of the at least one thread of the computer process. The process is either un-delayed on completion of the previous security operation or other security operations performed on that process. |
| US12277213B2 |
Method and device for securely starting up a container instance
A method for securely starting up a container instance in one or more execution environments for one or more components of a technical installation, such an execution environment being designed to execute the container instance includes the following method steps: a) providing a configurable check function that is performed before and/or while starting up the container instance, b) logging each step for preparing at least one execution limitation required for starting up and/or executing the container instance, c) checking each logged step using at least one permissibility criterion configured in the check function, and d) completing the startup and if necessary the execution of the container instance if the at least one permissibility criterion is satisfied, or e) initiating an alerting measure or a measure that counteracts the startup if at least one of the possible permissibility criteria is not satisfied. |
| US12277211B2 |
Security policies for software call stacks
The present disclosure provides systems, methods, and computer-readable media for implementing security polices at software call stack level. In one example, a method includes generating a call stack classification scheme for an application, detecting a call stack during deployment of the application; using the call stack classification scheme during runtime of the application, classifying the detected call stack as one of an authorized call stack or an unauthorized call stack to yield a classification; and applying a security policy based on the classification. |
| US12277209B2 |
Interactive security orchestration
A method includes providing auxiliary code implementing a process for facilitating enforcement of one or more computer-usage rules, and augmenting third-party code with the auxiliary code such that execution of the third-party code carries out the process. Other embodiments are also described. |
| US12277202B2 |
Computer-implemented method and a virtual reality device for providing behavior-based authentication in virtual environment
A method including: capturing or receiving data associated with behavior of a user of a virtual reality device during a session in a virtual environment, wherein the data includes sensory inputs associated with the user from one or more sensors and information associated with user parameters; initiating authentication of the user in the virtual environment; comparing the captured or received data with historic data of the user, wherein the historic data is associated with behavior of the user monitored for a plurality of sessions over a period of time in the virtual environment; determining a score based on the comparison; comparing the score with a predefined threshold score; and in response to determining that the score is above the predefined threshold score, authenticating the user. |
| US12277200B2 |
Fail-safe software access licensing control on a per project basis without a priori knowledge of project details
A request may be received to use a software on a first project. A first set of values may be extracted for a set of features of the first project. A classifier may be used to classify the first project based on the first set of values. It may be determined whether to grant the request to use the software on the first project based on an output of the classifier. |
| US12277196B2 |
System and method for electronic distribution of software and data
According to computerized methods of distributing software and data, software components may be distributed electronically for execution in controlled environments. Such a controlled environment may, for example, restrict the components' ability to communicate through a network to one or more specified hosts. When a component requests data, such as a stream of financial data, the request may specify a source of the data, and the request may be granted or denied by the distributor based on whether the specified source is an authorized source of the data and/or whether the requested data is available from an authorized source. |
| US12277195B2 |
Intelligent locking of display devices for remote use
A method, computer program product, and system include a processor(s) that continuously obtains data from the one or more sensor devices, generating, from the data, frames comprising images, identifies, utilizing the frames, entities within a pre-defined vicinity of a visual display unit at a first time, determines, based on applying the classification model, if each identified entity of the identified entities within the pre-defined vicinity at the first time is objectionable. When the processor(s) determined that at least one identified entity is objectionable, the processor(s) initiates a security action on the visual display unit to prevents the objectionable identified entity from viewing the content on the visual display unit. |
| US12277190B2 |
Web task automation with vectorization
A system and method uses a vectorization model to determine similar elements within a web page to the known web page. The vectorization model takes a known web element and generates a first set of vectors, representative of the various properties of the web element. A vectorization model generates a second set of vectors for each element in a new web page. The first set of vectors is compared to each second set of vectors for each element in the new web page to select the most similar web element. |
| US12277187B2 |
System and method for URL fetching retry mechanism
A method for overcoming intermittent, temporary, or other fetching failures by using multiple attempts for retrieving a content from a web server to a client device is disclosed. The URL fetching may use direct or non-direct fetching schemes, or a combination thereof. The non-direct fetching method may use intermediate devices, such as proxy server, Data-Center proxy server, tunnel devices, or any combination thereof. Upon sensing a failure of a fetching action, the action is repeated using the same or different parameters or attributes, such as by using different intermediate devices, selected based on different parameters or attributes, such as different countries. The repetitions are limited to a pre-defined maximum number or attempts. The fetching attempts may be performed by the client device, by an intermediate device in a non-direct fetching scheme, or a combination thereof. Various fetching schemes may be used sequentially until the content is retrieved. |
| US12277185B2 |
System and method for controlling and organizing metadata associated with on-line content
A system and method are disclosed for controlling metadata associated with content on an electronic device that includes displaying interface screens for user entry of metadata control instructions, accepting user instructions, modifying metadata of applicable content, and associating the modified metadata with the applicable content. The system can export and/or store the applicable content along with modified metadata. The system can automatically modify metadata according to one or more profiles. Relevant profiles can be determined based on the export mechanism, destination or type of content. The system can add watermarks to indicate metadata modification. The system can display metadata for user modification. The content can include photos, videos or other content. The system can display metadata and geolocation indicators for each content item that indicate whether that item has associated metadata and geolocation information. The user can selectively modify metadata of selected content. |
| US12277182B2 |
Service providing apparatus and method for providing search path
Disclosed are a service providing apparatus and a service providing method for providing a search path in order to support a related search word having a related search word having the highest relevancy to be easily selected and used for marketing up to reaching a requested search word of a user by providing a search path which enables relationships between other search words related to a search word requested by a user, and the search word to be determined as a distance. According to the present disclosure, there is an effect of supporting a related search word having the highest relevancy with the request search word of the user and having high advertising efficiency among search words positioned on a path for reaching the request search word of the user to be easily selected and used for marketing. |
| US12277181B2 |
Dynamic website characterization for search optimization
A computer-implemented method and a content characterization system (CCS) for dynamically characterizing a website rendered in one or more of a plurality of languages are provided. The CCS receives website data, analyzes it for characterization of the website, and generates multiple structured data objects with a core object that the CCS connects with the website. When changes are made to the website, the CCS dynamically incorporates the changes into the structured data objects connected with the core object. When a search query is received from a querying network entity, the CCS communicates relevant structured data objects to the querying network entity to answer the query optimally, thereby providing an optimal characterization of the website. |
| US12277180B2 |
Information processing apparatus and method
A program executed by a computer having a processor and a memory. The computer stores in a storage unit a trained model generated by training using as training data one or more types of words and a result of searching the Internet with a search engine using one or more types of words as a search query, the trained model receives, as an input, designated words which are words designated by a user, and thereby outputs an article content, and the program causes the processor to execute: receiving an input of at least a first word and a second word different from the first word as first designated words; and outputting a first article content corresponding to the received first designated words, based on the received first word and second word and the trained model. |
| US12277179B2 |
Document sharing processing method, apparatus, device, medium, and system
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose document sharing processing method, apparatus, device, medium and system. The method includes: displaying, in an email interface, hyperlink information of a sharable document and an authority control entry of the sharable document; and acquiring authority data for the sharable document determined by a first user based on the authority control entry; where the authority data is used to determine a second user's operation authority data for the sharable document. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, the hyperlink information of the sharable document and the authority control entry of the sharable document can be displayed in the email interface, and the first user can determine the authority data for the sharable document through the authority control entry, thereby enriching the controllable function for the sharable document in the email, and fulfilling users' document sharing requirements. |
| US12277177B1 |
Querying across different log data source types
A system may attempt to classify, according to field types, label fields used by structures in instances of different log data source types, which use different structure types and different path information to access the structures of those structure types within the instances. Each of the structures includes at least one of the label fields and at least one data field associated with that label field. The system may store a result that includes the path information to access the structures and mappings of at least some of the field labels to the field types. The system may determine a field type involved in a system level query, and then generate a set of query graphs based on the field type and the result. The system may generate a set of instance level queries for a set of the instances according to the set of query graphs. |
| US12277176B2 |
Concurrent automatic adaptive storage of datasets in graph databases
A method comprises storing data objects in a non-graph data repository, each data object including a data source record; storing metadata of the data source records in a graph data repository, comprising transforming a reference in a first data object, which links the first data object to a second data object in the non-graph data repository, into a link node having a first edge connected to a first node representing the first data object and having a second edge connected to a second node representing the second data object, in the graph data repository; receiving a query for a shortest path between two specified nodes; executing the query on the graph data repository to obtain a result set; transforming the result set into a set of data objects in the non-graph data repository; providing the set of data objects, including the corresponding data source records, in response to the query. |
| US12277174B2 |
Label propagation in a distributed system
Data are maintained in a distributed computing system that describe a graph. The graph represents relationships among items. The graph has a plurality of vertices that represent the items and a plurality of edges connecting the plurality of vertices. At least one vertex of the plurality of vertices includes a set of label values indicating the at least one vertex's strength of association with a label from a set of labels. The set of labels describe possible characteristics of an item represented by the at least one vertex. At least one edge of the plurality of edges includes a set of label weights for influencing label values that traverse the at least one edge. A label propagation algorithm is executed for a plurality of the vertices in the graph in parallel for a series of synchronized iterations to propagate labels through the graph. |
| US12277170B2 |
Audible acoustic performance tool
In an aspect, provided are computer-readable media and apparatuses comprising receiving a query specifying one or more materials of a floor/ceiling assembly and/or a classification or result, determining one or more media files responsive to the query, and providing the one or more media files for playback. |
| US12277168B2 |
Method and apparatus for image processing and image classification
The present disclosure provides methods and apparatuses for image processing and image classification. In one embodiment, the method for image processing comprises: receiving an image; obtaining a first classification result for the image based on a classification model; processing the image for classification based on a preset process, and providing a processing result into a re-ranking model to obtain a second classification result for the image; and determining a target classification result for the image, based on the first classification result and the second classification result. |
| US12277167B2 |
Graphical user interface with insight hub and insight carousel
Features described herein generally relate to a graphical user interface that includes an insight hub and an insight carousel. In one example, a system can receive insights associated with transactions, generate an image carousel that includes slides populated with information associated with the insights, and generate another interface page that includes insight listings corresponding to multiple insights. |
| US12277166B2 |
Method and system for rapid retrieval of target images based on artificial intelligence
A method and system for rapid retrieval of target images based on artificial intelligence, obtaining a template image and a plurality of known labels corresponding to the template image; extracting an image to be detected from a target image database; inputting both the image to be detected and the template image into a trained convolutional neural network, and outputting a hash code of the image to be detected and a hash code of the template image; obtaining a similarity between the images based on a Hamming distance between the hash codes, then selecting one or more images to be detected with the similarity higher than a set threshold as a retrieval result to output. Accordingly, the method and system is able to better cope with the retrieval of items in complex scenarios. |
| US12277165B2 |
Image processing apparatus, and image processing method
A query acquisition unit (109) acquires a first query moving image having a plurality of time-series first frame images and at least one second query moving image having a plurality of time-series second frame images. A feature value computing unit (103) computes a feature value of a keypoint detected from an object being included in each of the first frame images and the second frame images. A correspondence relationship determination unit (114) determines a second frame image associated with each of the plurality of first frame images. An integration unit (113) performs, for a plurality of combinations of the first frame image and the second frame image associated with each other, processing of integrating the feature values computed from each of the first frame image and the second frame image, and thereby generates an integrated query in which the integrated feature values are arranged in time series. |
| US12277164B2 |
Using an asset bucket for correlating assets
This disclosure describes techniques for implementing an asset bucket on user devices for organizing assets in a database. Assets may include, without limitation, stored multimedia data from various sources, grouped multimedia data, events, conditions, parameters, environmental data, and other data or telemetry data that are stored in a network operating center (NOC) server database or a third-party database. The asset bucket may include a persistent working space that can be rendered as a pane on a device's user interface for organizing assets that can be selected from a rendered window or windows on the device's user interface and/or directly inputted on the persistent working space. By configuring the asset bucket to facilitate performance of actions on the selected assets, the asset bucket may improve generation of reports on these selected assets. |
| US12277163B2 |
Systems and methods for media playlist generation
The various implementations described herein include methods and devices for identifying and presenting content to users. In one aspect, a method includes providing a domain specific language (DSL) tool to a user of the computing device and receiving a plurality of user inputs via the DSL tool. The plurality of user inputs includes: an input identifying a DSL object corresponding to a media pool; an input identifying a DSL object corresponding to a mutator to be applied to the media pool; and inputs identifying a plurality of DSL objects corresponding to respective objectives for a media set list. The method also includes generating the media set list from the media pool based on the mutator and the objectives and presenting information about the generated media set list to the user. |
| US12277159B1 |
Methods and apparatus to determine tags for media using multiple media features
Example methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to determine tags for unknown media using multiple media features. Disclosed examples extract features from portions of the unknown media. Disclosed examples weight the features based at least partially on respective recognition technologies used to extract the features to determine corresponding weighted features. Disclosed examples search a database of pre-tagged media with a combination of the weighted features to generate a list of suggested tags for the unknown media, the list of suggested tags including relevancy scores for respective ones of the tags in the list. Disclosed examples assign a tag from the list of suggested tags to the unknown media based on a comparison of the relevancy score for the tag to a threshold. |
| US12277158B2 |
Generating tagged content from a list in an electronic document
Techniques for maintaining list-type text formatting when converting content from a source content format to a destination content format are disclosed. A system generates text content by applying text formatting tags to segments of characters obtained from a source electronic document. The system parses a static-display type source electronic document to obtain character data of the characters in the source document. The system analyzes the parsed data to identify text arranged in a list-type text format in the source document. The system generates text content in a destination content format different from the source format by applying tags to segments of the text content designating the segments items in a list. |
| US12277156B2 |
Information retrieval method, related system, and storage medium
An information retrieval method includes obtaining Mi (i+1)th-hop candidate documents based on a retrieval text query and Ki ith-hop candidate documents; obtaining a score of each candidate document in the Mi (i+1)th-hop candidate documents; obtaining, based on a score of a candidate document Pjy(i+1) and a probability of a path L, a probability of a path corresponding to the candidate document Pjy(i+1); obtaining K(i+1) (i+1)th-hop candidate documents based on probabilities of paths respectively corresponding to the Mi (i+1)th-hop candidate documents; and obtaining, based on the K(i+1) (i+1)th-hop candidate documents, a retrieval result corresponding to the query. |
| US12277155B2 |
Exploration of relevant information for automated workflows
An online system extracts information from a user for use in workflows using a machine learning-based language mode. The online system creates a weighted epoch tree comprising epoch nodes, each epoch node associated with a time interval associated with the user. An epoch node has a relevance score determined based on a set of events associated with the user that occurred during a time interval. The online system builds the weighted epoch tree by selecting an epoch node for further exploration based on relevance scores and determining a question relevant to a context represented by the selected epoch node. The online system determines an answer to the question and either adds the answer to an existing node or to new epoch nodes added to the weighted epoch tree. The online system may use the weighted epoch tree for generating a synthetic statement for the user. |
| US12277154B1 |
Systems and methods for machine learning models to assess and extract data from user inputs
In some embodiments a processor can receive inputs associated with a user and classify, based on a first machine learning model using at least one input rubric, each input from the inputs into an input type. The processor can define, based on the input type of each input, a first set of inputs associated with a first evaluation type and a second set of inputs associated with a second evaluation type. The processor can select a second machine learning model based on the first evaluation type and can extract, using the second machine learning model, from the first set of inputs a pattern associated with the user, evaluate a first state of the user based on the pattern and a second state of the user based on the second set of inputs, and generate an assessment of the user based on the first state and the second state. |
| US12277152B2 |
System and method for serial-over-IP switch based character string pattern matching and detection
The present disclosure relates to a system for detecting a user defined character string in serial data at least one of output from a target device or transmitted to a target device. The system makes use of a serial communications device configured to enable a user to conduct a serial-over-IP active serial session with the target device. The serial communications device has a pattern matching application configured to at least one of receive, or be programmed with, a user defined character string, and to monitor for an occurrence of the user defined character string in serial data at least one of received from the target device or transmitted to the target device. The pattern matching application also is configured to take a predetermined action upon the detection of the user defined character string. |
| US12277145B2 |
Method and apparatus for constructing entity relationship graph, device and storage medium
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of information retrieval, and discloses a method for constructing an entity relationship graph, including: performing entity recognition and an operation of uniting like terms on the text to be processed to obtain a standard text entity set; performing grammatical structure analysis on the text to be processed, to obtain a grammatical relationship graph; selecting the node connected to the connection edge in the grammatical relationship graph as a target connection node and performing vector conversion to obtain a text vector, and analyzing a text entity relationship between the target connection nodes according to the text vectors; constructing a knowledge graph according to the standard text entities and the text entity relationship to obtain the entity relationship graph corresponding to the text to be processed. The present disclosure can improve the accuracy of the text entity relationship graph. |
| US12277143B2 |
Apparatus, method, and computer readable medium for evaluating the state of a facility
An apparatus is provided that includes an acquisition unit for acquiring target state data that are the state data in the target domain and source state data that are state data in a source domain and to which a label indicating a quality of a state is added; a conversion generation unit for generating a conversion rule of the target state data and the source state data into data of a common space based on distribution of the target state data and the source state data; a model generation unit for generating classification model for classifying a quality of a state indicated by the target state data in the common space using data of the common space to which the label is added; and an evaluation unit for evaluating the classification model using the source state data converted into data of the common space. |
| US12277142B2 |
Systems and methods for improving computational speed of planning by tracking dependencies in hypercubes
A system for updating a hypercube includes an interface and a processor. The interface is configured to receive an indication to update a cell of the hypercube. The processor is configured to determine a primary dimension value associated with the cell; determine a group of dependencies based at least in part on the primary dimension value, wherein a dependency of the group of dependencies comprises one or more primary dimension values and a pattern; for the dependency of the group of dependencies, determine a set of source locations based at least in part on the one or more primary dimension values and the pattern; and mark the set of source locations as invalid. |
| US12277141B2 |
System and method for analysis and management of data distribution in a distributed database environment
A system and method for analysis and management of data distribution in a distributed database environment. A method may include analyzing information related to transactions between an application and a plurality of data storage systems to produce analysis results. Analysis results may be used to produce a set of rules for defining logical data chunks. A logical data chunk may include at least a portion a data set stored in the plurality of data storage systems. A data distribution policy may be defined based on the set of rules. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| US12277139B2 |
Storage space determinations for snapshots
In some examples, a system maintains, for a base storage structure and a collection of snapshots associated with the base storage structure, statistics relating to usage of storage space based on data of the base storage structure and the collection of snapshots. The system checks metadata of a first snapshot to determine validity of references in the metadata and a presence of any child of the first snapshot or a grandparent of the first snapshot. The system associates, based on the validity of the references in the metadata and the presence of any child or grandparent of the first snapshot, a hint with a metadata entry of a parent of the first snapshot to indicate that a metadata entry of the child or the grandparent is to be checked. The system updates, using the hint, the statistics relating to usage of storage space. |
| US12277136B2 |
Method and/or system for transforming between trees and strings
Embodiments of articles, apparatuses, devices and/or systems for manipulating hierarchical sets of data are disclosed. |
| US12277135B2 |
Publishing to a data warehouse
A method for generating an executable application to transform and load data into a structured dataset includes receiving a metadata file that specifies values for parameters for structuring data feeds, received from a networked data source, into a structured database. The metadata file specifies logical rules for transforming the data feeds. The values of the parameters and the logical rules for transforming the plurality of the data feeds are validated to ensure logical consistency for each data feed. Data rules are generated that specify standards for transforming each data feed in accordance with the validated values of the parameters and logical rules. The executable application is generated that is configured to receive source data comprising a data feed from one or more data sources and transform the source data into structured data that satisfies the one or more standards for the structured data record in compliance with the data rules. |
| US12277129B2 |
Data recommender using lineage to propagate value indicators
Systems and methods provide a system that gathers information about data as it progresses through data processing pipelines of data analysis projects. The data analytics system derives value indicators and implicit metadata from the data processing pipelines. For example, the data analytics system may derive value indicators and implicit metadata from data-related products themselves, semantic analysis of the code/processing steps used to process the data-related products, the structure of data processing pipelines, and human behavior related to production and usage of data-related products. Once a new data analysis project is initiated, the data analytics system gathers parameters and characteristics about the new data analysis project and references the value indicators and implicit metadata to recommend useful processing steps, datasets, and/or other data-related products for the new data analysis project. |
| US12277128B2 |
Companion experience
Various embodiments provide a so-called companion experience in which content consumed on a primary screen can serve as a source for an automatic search that returns related content that can be presented on an auxiliary screen. The companion experience can be considered to reside in a layer that can be moved across different screens. The different screens can include different physical screens, such as those associated with different computing devices, or the same physical screen in which the companion experience would be rendered in a frame or sub-window. |
| US12277127B2 |
Task and process mining by robotic process automations across a computing environment
Disclosed herein is a method implemented by a task mining engine. The task mining engine is stored as processor executable code on a memory. The processor executable code is executed by a processor that is communicatively coupled to the memory. The method includes receiving recorded tasks identifying user activity with respect to a computing environment and clustering the recorded user tasks into steps by processing and scoring each recorded user task. The method also includes extracting step sequences that identify similar combinations or repeated combinations of the steps to mimic the user activity. |
| US12277125B2 |
Content analysis system and method
A computer-implemented method, computer program product and computing system for maintaining a non-public content repository; and analyzing user-generated content to identify related content included within the non-public content repository. |
| US12277124B2 |
Query processing with restrictions in a database clean room
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for query processing with restrictions in a database clean room. In an embodiment, a system receives a query directed to a combination of a first source dataset from a first database account of a distributed database and a second source dataset from a second database account of the distributed database. The system generates an approved statements table that contains database statement language that can be executed against the combination of the first and second source datasets. Based on determining that the approved statements table includes the query, the system executes the query to produce results data, and stores the results data in the first database account. |
| US12277120B2 |
System for creating and accessing digital cards stored in decentralized content storage
A reference to a digital item is stored as a digital card. The digital card can also be contained in, and/or refer to, other digital cards. The digital card can also include properties or attributes that may be added from the digital item that is being referred to. The digital card can be stored in a data pod within a de-centralized data storage system architecture. |
| US12277119B2 |
Database system with run-time query mode selection
A method of ingesting data to enable selection between a fast query mode and a low-cost query mode includes receiving data from one or more data sources, generating records based on the received data, adding the records to a current record file, and adding index metadata to the records. The index metadata for a given record includes a path and an offset, the path identifies a file in the datastore that includes the given record and the offset indicates a location of the given record in the file. The method further includes saving the current record file to a datastore and loading the records in the current record file into a table in a cloud database. |
| US12277118B2 |
Query optimization method and apparatus
A query optimization method includes: obtaining a plurality of query tasks to be optimized, each query task including at least one subtask, and when a same query task includes at least two subtasks, a query dependence relationship existing between the at least two subtasks; combining the plurality of query tasks based on the query dependence relationship to obtain a combined task; and merging at least two subtasks in different query tasks of the plurality of query tasks based on the combined task to obtain a first merged subtask, the first merged subtask being executed to obtain query results of the at least two subtasks in the different query tasks. |
| US12277116B2 |
Query plan cache shadow modes
The subject technology receives a query. The subject technology performs a lookup operation on a shadow cache. The subject technology performs a validation process on the particular query plan for determining a cache hit on the shadow cache. The subject technology performs a program building process to update the particular query plan with additional information for executing the particular query plan. The subject technology performs a compilation process to compile an updated program of the updated particular query plan. The subject technology determines that the updated particular query plan is cacheable based at least in part on the compilation process. The subject technology registers the updated particular query plan as a new entry in the shadow cache. The subject technology sends the updated program to an execution node for executing the updated particular query plan. |
| US12277115B2 |
Sharing materialized views in multiple tenant database systems
Systems, methods, and devices for sharing materialized views in multiple tenant database systems. A method includes defining a materialized view over a source table that is associated with a first account of a multiple tenant database. The method includes defining cross-account access rights to the materialized view to a second account such that that second account can read the materialized view without copying the materialized view. The method includes modifying the source table for the materialized view. The method includes identifying whether the materialized view is stale with respect to the source table by merging the materialized view and the source table. |
| US12277108B2 |
High performance distributed system of record with ledger configuration system
A high-performance distributed ledger and transaction computing network fabric over which large numbers of transactions are processed concurrently in a scalable, reliable, secure and efficient manner. In one embodiment, the computing network core is configured to support a distributed blockchain network that organizes data in a manner that allows communication, processing and storage of blocks of the chain to be performed concurrently at very high performance and low latency, even when the transactions themselves originate from distant sources. This data organization relies on segmenting a transaction space within autonomous but cooperating computing nodes that are configured as a processing mesh. The system also provides for confidence-based consensus. A configuration system is provided to enable configuration updates to be securely implemented across various subsets of the computing nodes. |
| US12277105B2 |
Methods and systems for improved search for data loss prevention
Methods and systems are provided for enhanced data loss prevention. Data loss prevention may be applied to data that includes a plurality of records and a plurality of categories, with each record including a plurality of fields and each field corresponding to a different one of the categories. Applying of data loss prevention may include selecting a subset of records from the plurality of records; scanning fields of the selected subset of records for sensitive information; computing based on a result of the scanning, for each category, a likelihood the category contains the sensitive information; selecting a subset of categories based on the computed likelihoods of the categories to contain the sensitive information; searching the sensitive information in the selected subset of categories; and in response to detection of sensitive information in at least one of the subset of records, taking one or more data loss prevention related actions. |
| US12277102B2 |
Stream-based transaction processing
A stream of database transactions are received and conflicts between transaction types are determined. When a conflict is determined, job components forming a database architecture are configured to execute a first transaction, and in response to completing the first transaction, job components forming the database architecture are reconfigured to execute a second transaction. |
| US12277095B2 |
Approaches for encoding environmental information
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can access a plurality of schema-based encodings providing a structured representation of an environment captured by one or more sensors associated with a plurality of vehicles traveling through the environment. The plurality of schema-based encodings can be clustered into one or more clusters of schema-based encodings. At least one scenario associated with the environment can be determined based at least in part on the one or more clusters of schema-based encodings. |
| US12277087B2 |
Low voltage drive circuit for transceiving analog data via a bus and methods for use therewith
A low voltage drive circuit includes a transmit digital to analog circuit that converts transmit digital data into analog outbound data by: generating a DC component; generating a first oscillation at a first frequency; generating a second oscillation at the first frequency; and outputting the first oscillation or the second oscillation on a bit-by-bit basis in accordance with the transmit digital data to produce an oscillating component, wherein the DC component is combined with the oscillating component to produce the analog outbound data, and wherein the oscillating component and the DC component are combined to produce the analog outbound data. A drive sense circuit drives an analog transmit signal onto a bus, wherein the analog outbound data is represented within the analog transmit signal as variances in loading of the bus at the first frequency and wherein analog inbound data is represented within an analog receive signal as variances in loading of the bus at a second frequency. |
| US12277084B2 |
Context-based workspace personalization using an experience ID
Context-based workspace personalization is provided using an experience ID. An agent can be used on a user computing device to monitor for context of a workspace. Based on context, the agent can generate and send a manifest and an experience ID generated from the manifest to a workspace management service. The workspace management service can use the experience ID to identify whether a manageability snapshot exists for the workspace in its current context. If so, the workspace management service can send the manageability snapshot to the agent which in turn can apply the manageability snapshot to customize the workspace to the user's preferences. When the user makes changes to configurations of the workspace, the agent can relay such changes to the workspace management service using the experience ID to thereby cause such changes to be reflected in a corresponding manageability snapshot. |
| US12277083B2 |
Time synchronization device for providing timing information acquired from network time sources to endpoint devices
An apparatus comprises a processing device configured to establish a first connection to a specified network time source via a network-connected device, and to acquire first timing information from the specified network time source via the network-connected device, the first timing information comprising a current time value and first accuracy information for the specified network time source. The processing device is also configured to set and maintain an internal real-time clock based on the current time value. The processing device is further configured to establish a second connection to an endpoint device and to provide second timing information to the endpoint device, the second timing information comprises a current time measurement of the internal real-time clock and second accuracy information for the internal real-time clock, the second accuracy information for the internal real-time clock being based on the first accuracy information for the specified network time source. |
| US12277079B2 |
Direct memory access architecture, system and method, electronic device, and medium
Provided is a direct memory access architecture, including: a direct memory access control component, a read data moving component, a write data moving component and a data storage component; wherein the direct memory access control component includes a control register, a read descriptor storage component, a write descriptor storage component, a read command transfer component and a write command transfer component; the control register is configured to obtain descriptor address information; the read descriptor storage component is configured to store a read descriptor obtained by using the control register; the write descriptor storage component is configured to store a write descriptor obtained by using the control register; the read command transfer component is configured to send, to the read data moving component, a read command; the write command transfer component is configured to send, to the write data moving component, a write command. |
| US12277077B1 |
Software-decoupling-based hardware control apparatus and method
The present disclosure discloses a software-decoupling-based hardware control apparatus and method. The software-decoupling-based hardware control apparatus includes one or more parameter test controllers; each parameter test controller includes a test command input FIFO, a command and parameter map memory, a parameter test command processor, and a device control generator. By means of separating a software low level driver from a specific chip controlled by hardware, the present disclosure achieves decoupling between a low level driver function and the specific chip controlled by the hardware, and reduces the maintenance cost and development cycle. Furthermore, the test efficiency in a test process is improved. |
| US12277076B2 |
Error correction for computational memory modules
Disclosed embodiments include a computational memory system. The computational memory system includes at least one computational memory chip including one or more processor subunits and one or more memory banks, formed on a common substrate. The computational memory system also includes at least one local error correction code (ECC) module configured for calculating an original ECC based on received data, at least one local ECC module associated with at least one of the processor subunits and/or at least one of the memory banks. |
| US12277074B1 |
Mechanisms to utilize communication fabric via multi-port architecture
Techniques are disclosed pertaining to utilizing a communication fabric via multiple ports. An agent circuit includes a plurality of command-and-data ports that couple the agent circuit to a communication fabric coupled to a plurality of hardware components that includes a plurality of memory controller circuits that facilitate access to a memory. The agent circuit can execute an instruction that involves issuing a command for data stored at the memory. The agent circuit may perform a hash operation on a memory address associated with the command to determine which one of the plurality of memory controller circuits to which to issue the command. The agent circuit issues the command to the determined memory controller circuit on a particular one of the plurality of command-and-data ports that is designated to the memory controller circuit. The agent circuit may issue all commands destined to that memory controller circuit on that port. |
| US12277061B2 |
ATS PRI support with implicit cache
The present disclosure generally relates to improved address translation. Rather than fetching translated addresses using ATS/ATC, a HIM address translation search engine (HATS) is used through implementing the ATC in a layer above per an NVMe command. The HATS is an engine that will monitor pointers with untranslated addresses and will fetch the translated addresses for the pointers. Once the translated addresses are fetched for the pointer, the HATS will overwrite the untranslated address with the translated address. The HATS will then update the status of the pointers. When a translation request fails, the device will use PRI to request the translated address. During a translation request fail the device will drain any incoming requests while skipping the data transfer phase. The device will not block any other requests in a queue. Once that translated address is received through the PRI flow, the status of the pointer will be updated. After PRI completes, the device will return to using the HATS to get all the translated addresses for the pointers with an untranslated address status. After getting the translated addresses, the device shall use the translated addresses to perform DMA operations. |
| US12277060B2 |
Application mapping on hardened network-on-chip (NoC) of field-programmable gate array (FPGA)
Methods and example implementations described herein are generally directed to the addition of networks-on-chip (NoC) to FPGAs to customize traffic and optimize performance. An aspect of the present application relates to a Field-Programmable Gate-Array (FPGA) system. The FPGA system can include an FPGA having one or more lookup tables (LUTs) and wires, and a Network-on-Chip (NoC) having a hardened network topology configured to provide connectivity at a higher frequency that the FPGA. The NoC is coupled to the FPGA to receive an profile information associated with an application, retrieve at least a characteristic, selected form any of combination of any or combination of a bandwidth requirement, latency requirement, protocol requirement and transactions, associated with the application from the profile information, generate at least one application traffic graph having mapping information based on the characteristic retrieved, and map the application traffic graph generated with into the FPGA using the hardened NoC. |
| US12277056B2 |
Memory device interface and method
Apparatus and methods are disclosed, including memory devices and systems. Example memory devices, systems and methods include a buffer interface to translate high speed data interactions on a host interface side into slower, wider data interactions on a DRAM interface side. The slower, and wider DRAM interface may be configured to substantially match the capacity of the narrower, higher speed host interface. In some examples, the buffer interface may be configured to provide multiple sub-channel interfaces each coupled to one or more regions within the memory structure and configured to facilitate data recovery in the event of a failure of some portion of the memory structure. Selected example memory devices, systems and methods include an individual DRAM die, or one or more stacks of DRAM dies coupled to a buffer die. |
| US12277052B2 |
Automatic release preparation and deployment for software applications
Methods and apparatuses are described for automatic release preparation and deployment for software applications. A server generates a candidate release build of selected software applications to be deployed to a production computing environment, including: building application artifacts associated with the applications and storing the application artifacts in a repository, updating a project configuration file associated with the applications, and creating a release branch associated with the applications. The server deploys the application artifacts of the candidate release build into a functional acceptance test computing environment and validates operation of the application artifacts. The server promotes the application artifacts to a performance acceptance test computing environment and validates operation of the application artifacts in the performance acceptance test computing environment The server promotes the application artifacts to a production computing environment when operation of the application artifacts is validated in the performance acceptance test computing environment. |
| US12277049B2 |
Fault localization in a distributed computing system
Localizing a faulty microservice in a microservice architecture is achieved by developing healthy execution sequence data for comparison to execution sequences during system failures. Oftentimes the faulty microservice does not emit a failure signal. Frequent sub-sequences arising from log template time series data during healthy execution facilitates localization of faulty services when there is no failure signal from the faulty service. |
| US12277046B2 |
System and method for monitoring state and alerts in data processing systems
Methods and systems for managing the operation of data processing systems are disclosed. A data processing system may include a computing device that may provide computer implemented services. To provide the computer implemented services, hardware components of the data processing system may need to operate in predetermined manners. To manage the operation of the hardware components, the data processing system may implement a framework for improving the likelihood that the management components have access to consistent state information. The framework may include use of multiple management components that conserve and/or distribute information regarding the states of and events impacting the operation of hardware components. |
| US12277039B1 |
Intelligent file and filegroup reorganizer for backup and restore in multi environments
Methods and systems are provided for restoring a source database to a target environment. The methods and systems may include calculating an amount of data on each drive of the source database. The methods and systems may include calculating free space of each drive of the target environment. The methods and systems may include shrinking filegroups in the drives of the source database. The methods and systems may include fetching historical transactional queries run on tables in the filegroups. The methods and systems may include identifying interdependencies between tables using the queries. The methods and systems may include ingesting, by an AI engine, the calculations, the queries, the identified interdependent tables, historical information of table movement and a business use case. The methods and systems may include the AI engine determining how to restore the source database using the ingested information. |
| US12277034B2 |
Content aware dynamic data pool allocation
A data protection system protects the data with the appropriate level of security and tiering for storage in data pools. The system includes a content awareness feature that is utilized to classify and analyze the data to be backed up and assigns the classified data to the appropriate data pool dynamically. It uses a classifying software development kit (SDK) or application program interface (API) to classify and analyze the contents. Based on this classification, data is segregated using specific data properties and is compared with a list of data pool properties. Then system then ranks and predicts the pool that is best suited for the classified data and dynamically assigns the data to the pool during backup. |
| US12277027B2 |
Memory control circuit, memory, and memory module
Provided is a memory access control unit that performs writing by dividing write data and an error correction code thereof into a plurality of memories, and acquires presence or absence of occurrence of a verify error in each of the plurality of memories related to the writing. In a case where the verify errors occur in at least any of the plurality of memories, an error bit length acquisition unit acquires bit lengths of the verify errors from the plurality of memories and a write control unit determines that the writing has succeeded if a total bit length of the verify errors falls within a range of a capability allocated to an error bit length tolerance of the error correction code, and determines that the writing has failed if the total bit length of the verify errors falls outside the range. |
| US12277024B2 |
Method for managing ECU on vehicle, and ECU and readable storage medium
A method for managing an ECU on a vehicle, and an ECU and a computer-readable storage medium are disclosed. The method may include: monitoring a working state of at least one ECU on a vehicle (S201); and in response to detecting an abnormal ECU in an abnormal working state, sending a control instruction to the abnormal ECU, where the control instruction is configured to trigger the abnormal ECU to execute a corresponding restore action (S202). |
| US12277022B2 |
Method for adaptively adjusting state transition time in peripheral component interconnect express system to enhance overall performance, and associated apparatus
A method for adaptively adjusting state transition time in a Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) Express (PCIe) system and associated apparatus such as a root complex (RC) device and an endpoint device are provided. The method may include: toggling a clock request signal on a signal path coupled between the RC device and the endpoint device based on a request from the RC device or on a request from the endpoint device, wherein when the clock request signal toggles, the endpoint device transits from a first state to a second state; and toggling a reference clock signal from the RC device at a timing determined according to a training parameter among at least one predetermined parameter which is set dependent on at least one of the factors: a transition time, a restoration delay, a latency tolerance report (LTR) and a bias state, after the clock request signal toggles. |
| US12277021B2 |
Circuitry that can perform fast mode switching
A circuitry includes a multi-mode switching multiplexer, a control circuit and a receiver. The multi-mode switching multiplexer is arranged to receive multiple mode settings, and select one of the multiple mode settings as an output mode setting. The control circuit is arranged to generate a mode switching signal to control the multi-mode switching multiplexer. The receiver is arranged to set its internal components according to the output mode setting. |
| US12277018B2 |
Memory system and operation method thereof and power management module
Implementations of the present disclosure disclose a memory system and an operation method thereof. The memory system comprises at least one memory device and a memory controller coupled with the at least one memory device. The memory controller is configured to: in respond to an instruction of a host coupled with the memory system, control the memory system to enter a first activation mode and a transition mode sequentially. The transition mode includes an idle mode and a first sleep mode. A power of the memory system in the first sleep mode is less than a power of the memory system in the idle mode. The power of the memory system in the idle mode is less than a power of the memory system in the first activation mode. |
| US12277017B2 |
Operating mode register
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to modifying an operating mode in memory. An example apparatus can include a memory array and a controller coupled to the memory array, wherein the controller includes a register configured to receive a mode register write command and write a value indicative of an operating mode in which the apparatus has reduced power consumption relative to a normal operating mode. |
| US12277016B2 |
System, method, apparatus and device for adjusting power consumption, and medium
A system, method, apparatus and device for adjusting power consumption, and a medium are provided. The system includes a Power Supply Unit (PSU) and a Complex Programmable Logic Device (CPLD). An input end of the PSU is connected to a server, and the PSU is configured to receive an initial electrical signal of the server in real time, and determine a current power supply condition according to the initial electrical signal to obtain a final electrical signal. The CPLD is connected to an output end of the PSU, and the CPLD is configured to receive the final electrical signal, increase a power of the server when the final electrical signal is a signal representing that the current power supply condition is high output power, and decrease the power of the server when the final electrical signal is a signal representing that the current power supply condition is low output power. |
| US12277009B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a display panel, a support member supporting the display panel and including a perforated portion in which a plurality of openings are formed, and an adhesive layer disposed between the display panel and the support member, and at least partially filling the plurality of openings. Because adhesive material of the adhesive layer at least partially fills the plurality of openings, adhesion reliability between the support member and the buffer member is improved. For this reason, the adhesive layer may not peel off from the support member over time, and the reliability of the display device is improved. |
| US12277006B2 |
Halo display with diagonal rack gear and dual lenticular surface
A display for an information handling system includes a front panel, a rear portion, and multiple halos. The halos are located in between the front panel and the rear portion, and each of the halos transition between a closed position and an open position. The first halo includes a dual lenticular surface and a main portion. The dual lenticular surface directs a bias light along the first halo. The main portion is in physical communication with the dual lenticular surface. The main portion receives the bias lighting from the dual lenticular surface, and reflects the bias lighting toward a front of the display. |
| US12277000B2 |
Conveyor-type device
There is described a conveyor-type device comprising: a carriage slidably moveable along a conveyance path and defining a first channel therein; and two loops disposed on opposite sides of the path and rotatable in response to a movement of the carriage along the path to adjust the length of a second channel, the loops being configured to: rotatably engage with one another downstream from the carriage to extend the second channel as the carriage moves towards an end of the conveyance path; and rotatably disengage from one another upstream from the carriage to shorten the second channel as the carriage moves towards a beginning of the conveyance path, wherein the first channel and second channel are aligned for receiving an elongated body therein. |
| US12276997B2 |
Distributed power harvesting systems using DC power sources
A method for maintaining reliability of a distributed power system including a power converter having input terminals and output terminals. Input power is received at the input terminals. The input power is converted to an output power at the output terminals. A temperature is measured in or in the environment of the power converter. The power conversion of the input power to the output power may be controlled to maximize the input power by setting at the input terminals the input voltage or the input current according to predetermined criteria. One of the predetermined criteria is configured to reduce the input power based on the temperature signal responsive to the temperature. The adjustment of input power reduces the input voltage and/or input current thereby lowering the temperature of the power converter. |
| US12276996B2 |
Power on/off circuit and electronic vaporization device
A power on/off circuit includes: a sensor for generating a corresponding first control signal based on a user operation; a first switch element, a first end of the first switch element being connected to a voltage input end, a second end of the first switch element being connected to a voltage output end, the voltage input end being connected to a power supply voltage; and a capacitor connected between a third end of the first switch element and the sensor, the capacitor controlling an on-off of the first switch element based on the first control signal. |
| US12276991B2 |
Double pipe heat exchanger fouling compensation
This disclosure presents methods and systems of controlling a counter flow double pipe heat exchanger (DPHE) that includes a hot fluid pipe and a cold fluid pipe. In a method, a temperature error between a reference temperature and a temperature at an outlet of the hot fluid pipe of the counter flow DPHE is determined. A cold fluid mass flow rate is determined from an output of a proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller based on the temperature error being input to the PID controller. The cold fluid mass flow rate is used for a cold fluid in the cold fluid pipe of the counter flow DPHE. The temperature error is controlled within a predefined range by utilizing parameters of the PID controller that are set by using a harmony search algorithm (HSA) to obtain a minimization of a cost function. |
| US12276976B2 |
Work machine maintenance management system
Provided is a work machine maintenance management system capable of predicting replacement timing of a component of a work machine early. The work machine maintenance management system of this disclosure includes a maintenance management DB server 110 that accumulates maintenance management information of a plurality of work machines and a maintenance management control device 120 that predicts replacement timing of each component of each of the work machines based on the maintenance management information. The maintenance management information includes an actual durable period from start of use to replacement each component of each work machine. The maintenance management control device 120 includes a replacement-factor determining section 121, a service life model creator 122, a failure model creator 123, and a replacement time predictor 126. The replacement-factor determining section 121 determines whether a replacement factor of each component is a service life factor or a failure factor based on an actual durable period of each component of the plurality of work machines. The service life model creator 122 creates a service life model of the component whose replacement factor is determined to be the service life factor by the replacement-factor determining section 121. The failure model creator 123 creates a failure model of the component whose replacement factor is determined to be the failure factor by the replacement-factor determining section 121. The replacement time predictor 126 predicts the replacement timing of each component of each work machine based on the service life model and the failure model. |
| US12276975B2 |
Abnormality detecting device, abnormality detecting method, and storage medium
An abnormality in a device of interest is detected on the basis of the distance from a predetermined reference curve to a point represented by a first index value and a second index value in a two-dimensional plane having the first index and the second index as axes. |
| US12276974B2 |
Control coordination system
Control of a facility is performed in accordance with a common action plan. Further, a plurality of controllers provided in the facility are caused to control the facility in coordination. A control coordination apparatus includes a control information generation unit and a control information transmission unit. The control information generation unit generates control data which include information for specifying a control content of the facility to be controlled by the plurality of controllers and are received by each of the controllers, from an action plan file which includes an action plan made by an action plan generation apparatus and is generated by the action plan generation apparatus. The control information transmission unit transmits the control data to each of the controllers on the basis of facility design information including information on connection with the facility. |
| US12276971B2 |
Generating PFS diagrams from engineering data
In example embodiments, a multi-stage PFS diagram generation technique is used to iteratively define the layout of a PFS diagram from a subset of engineering data in a 3D model of an industrial process. The multi-stage PFS diagram generation technique may repeatedly call an automatic layout generator, which each time solves for one unknown quality of the PFS diagram (e.g., relative positions of components in the PFS diagram, positions on components in the PFS diagram, sizes of the components in the PFS diagram). The PFS diagram may be adapted based on user preferences, for example to define the subset of engineering data, or to constrain aspects of its layout. Updated PFS diagrams may be generated by selecting different user preferences. |
| US12276967B2 |
Program creation apparatus and storage medium
A program creation apparatus acquires a work sequence executed by a robot, and creates a motion program based on the work sequence and a work information file in which information on work contained in the work sequence is recorded. Further, the work sequence is corrected from the work information file, and a new motion program based on a corrected new work sequence is created. |
| US12276966B2 |
Device configuration object template with user interaction for device properties generator
An industrial integrated development environment (IDE) supports the use of graphical device profiles to configure device parameters as part of an industrial control project. To allow an edit to first device represented by a first device profile to be applied easily to other device profiles, the industrial IDE system can record a user's interactions with the first device profile during a session of editing the device's parameters. These interactions are recorded as a sequence of cursor movements, mouse-click selections, keystrokes, and other such interactions. The user interactions are stored as a reusable interaction record which can be selectively applied to other device profiles to recreate or replay the user interactions on those other profiles. |
| US12276963B2 |
Apparatus, system, and method of functional safety
For example, an apparatus may include a motherboard including a functional processing core configured to perform a functionality having a Functional Safety (FuSa) level; a FuSa transceiver configured to communicate with an external safety-island processor, which is external to the motherboard; and a FuSa controller configured to establish a FuSa connection with the external safety-island processor according to the FuSa level, to send FuSa information corresponding to the functionality of the functional processing core to the external safety-island processor via the FuSa transceiver, and to control one or more FuSa operations of the functional processing core based on one or more control messages received from the external safety-island processor via the FuSa transceiver. |
| US12276957B2 |
Automation network and method for transmitting data in an automation network
An automation network comprises at least one primary subscriber, at least one switch, and at least one network subscriber. The primary subscriber comprises primary ports, the switch comprises switching ports, and the subscriber comprises subscriber ports, each comprising a transmitter and a receiver. The primary subscriber is configured to output first and second telegrams to first and second switching ports via first and second primary ports and first and second primary communication paths. The switch is configured to forward the first telegram to a first port of a network subscriber via a first subscriber communication path, and to forward the second telegram to a second port of a network subscriber via a second subscriber communication path. In an error mode, the switch and network subscriber are configured to return the first and/or second telegrams to the primary subscriber via the first and/or second primary port. |
| US12276956B2 |
Control system, support device and support program that communicates grouped process data
A control system includes a control device, an information processing device, a grouper, and a generator. The control device executes a control program controlling a control target while managing process data of the control program. The control device transmits one or more types of data sets storing a part of the process data according to a communication setting. The information processing device executes one or more applications using the process data by using the one or more types of data sets. The grouper allocates the process data designated to be used in the one or more applications to one or more groups. The generator generates the communication setting for the control device such that the process data allocated to the group are stored in one data set and transmitted for each of the groups grouped by the grouper according to an allocation result. |
| US12276947B2 |
Systems and methods for time synchronization of multiple sensors in a vehicle
A method for time synchronization in a vehicle may include transmitting, by a satellite navigation device to a controller and at least one LiDAR device, a UTC and a PPS signal. The satellite navigation device may have a first clock. The method may include synchronizing, by the controller, a second clock of the controller with the first clock of the satellite navigation device based on the PPS signal and the UTC. The method may include synchronizing, by the at least one LiDAR device, a third clock of the at least one LiDAR device with the first clock of the satellite navigation device based on the PPS signal and the UTC. The method may include synchronizing, by at least one camera, a fourth clock of the at least one camera with the second clock of the controller. |
| US12276942B2 |
Timepiece display mechanism
A timepiece display mechanism includes at least one display having a shaft, and having at least one plate and/or a bridge carrying at least one guide device for carrying and guiding this shaft around an axis, including, on a first side of said axis, a support surface comprising a V-shape or a pad, symmetrical with respect to a bisector plane passing through the axis, to centre the axis of the shaft on this bisector plane, and on a second opposite side, at least one holding element substantially diametrically opposite the support surface, all the holding elements exerting on this shaft a resultant elastic return force directed towards the axis, and preventing any radial exit of this shaft out of the guide bearing which is a platform with two parallel faces. |
| US12276941B2 |
Inertial mass equipped with a flexible inertial element, particularly for horology
An inertial mass (1) intended to be mounted on a regulating organ (10), particularly of a horological movement, the inertial mass being configured to be subjected to a rotary oscillation movement at a predetermined frequency, the inertial mass including a rigid main body (2), characterised in that it comprises a flexible inertial element (3) assembled with the main body (2), the flexible inertial element (3) being configured to modify the geometry of the inertial mass (1) according to the oscillation amplitude. Also, a regulating organ and a horological movement comprising such an inertial mass. |
| US12276940B2 |
Holographic microscope including holographic image sensor
According to an embodiment, a holographic microscope comprises a light source emitting light to an object, a beam splitter reflecting the light emitted from the light source to the object and transmitting object light reflected from the object, a holographic image sensor sensing information, including a holographic image, by receiving the object light and allowing the object light to coherently interfere with reference light, and an image processor obtaining three-dimensional (3D) information about the object based on the information sensed by the holographic image sensor. The holographic image sensor includes a lens focusing the object light to the holographic image sensor, a filter transmitting a predetermined wavelength band of light of the focused object light, a light receiving unit receiving interference light to sense a holographic image, and a reference light source directly emitting the reference light having the predetermined wavelength band to the light receiving unit. |
| US12276939B2 |
Holographic image sensor
According to an embodiment, a holographic image sensor comprises a lens focusing object light incident from outside of the holographic image sensor to the holographic image sensor, a filter transmitting a predetermined wavelength band of light of the focused object light, a light receiving unit receiving interference light to sense a holographic image, and a reference light source directly emitting reference light having the predetermined wavelength band to the light receiving unit. |
| US12276934B2 |
Toner container latching
A toner container according to one example embodiment includes a latch catch projecting upward on a top of a body of the toner container. The latch catch is spaced from a second longitudinal end of the body and positioned closer to the second longitudinal end of the body than to a first longitudinal end of the body. The latch catch includes a first contact surface that faces toward the second longitudinal end of the body for contacting a first corresponding surface of a latch in an image forming device to restrain the toner container along a longitudinal dimension of the toner container in a direction from the first longitudinal end of the body toward the second longitudinal end of the body when the toner container is in an installed position in the image forming device. |
| US12276933B2 |
Consumable chip and imaging forming control method
The present disclosure relates to a consumable chip, a consumable, an image forming device, and an image forming control method. The consumable chip is detachably installed on the consumable, and the consumable is detachably installed on the image forming device. The consumable chip includes a chip control unit, and the chip control unit is used to obtain a response signal based on a query signal, and process the response signal based on a preset rule to generate verification data, and the verification data is used to determine whether the consumable is a consumable that meets the preset requirement. The consumable chip generates verification data by processing the response signal according to preset rules, so that the verification data received by the image forming device includes both the response signal and auxiliary verification data obtained according to the response signal, thereby improving the verification reliability of forming device on consumable chip. |
| US12276930B2 |
Image forming apparatus the controls operation depending on whether show-through of sheet is detected
In an image forming apparatus, in a case of duplex printing, a sheet is transported toward an image forming device along a sheet transport route, the image forming device forms an image on a first face, which is one of faces of the sheet, a reverse transport device reverses the front and back faces of the sheet and transports the sheet to a position upstream of a show-through reading device in a sheet transport direction, and the show-through reading device reads a second face, which is another face of the sheet. Then the show-through detector decides whether a show-through has occurred, on a basis of the image that has been read. |
| US12276924B2 |
Reticle pod including motion limiting features and method of assembling same
Reticle pods include inner pods where motion limiting features restrict translational motion of the cover and the baseplate relative to one another. The motion limiting features are in addition to gross alignment features included in the inner pod. The motion limiting features resist the translational motion before the gross alignment features would resist the motion. Motion limiting features can include elastic bodies providing friction against contact surfaces, or pins received on elastic contact surfaces or in diaphragms or motion limiting cups. |
| US12276920B2 |
Method for avoiding damage to overlay metrology mark
The present application provides a method for avoiding a damage to an overlay metrology mark, forming a plurality of raised silicon structures on an active area of a scribe line area on a silicon substrate, forming first to third dielectric layers on the silicon structure, and forming an axial structure of a fin and a spacer on the first to third dielectric layers; forming a shallow trench isolation (STI) area on the silicon substrate between the axial structures; removing a portion of the silicon structure along the height thereof on the scribe line area, the height of the residual silicon structure is 150-300 angstroms higher than that of the STI area; forming a plurality of dummy gates on the residual silicon structure on the scribe line, then applying a dielectric layer to fill a gap between the dummy gates, polishing the dielectric layer to expose the top of the dummy gate. |
| US12276918B2 |
Method and apparatus for calculating a spatial map associated with a component
A method for calculating a spatial map associated with a component, the spatial map indicating spatial variations of thermal expansion parameters in the component, the method comprising: providing or determining a temperature distribution in the component as a function of time; calculating the spatial map associated with the component using the provided or determined temperature distribution in the component and optical measurements of a radiation beam that has interacted directly or indirectly with the component, the optical measurements being time synchronized with the provided or determined temperature distribution in the component. |
| US12276914B2 |
Developing method and apparatus
A developing method and apparatus are provided. The developing method includes: obtaining airflow conditions above a wafer to be developed; setting a developing procedure according to the airflow conditions; and developing the wafer to be developed according to the developing procedure. |
| US12276906B2 |
Methods for cleaning lithography mask
Methods for removing haze defects from a photomask or reticle are disclosed. The photomask is placed into a chamber which includes a hydrogen atmosphere. The photomask is then exposed to radiation. The energy from the radiation, together with the hydrogen, causes decomposition of the haze defects. The methods can be practiced on-site and quickly, without the need for wet chemicals or the need to remove the pellicle before cleaning of the photomask. A device for conducting the methods is also disclosed herein. |
| US12276904B2 |
Controllable aperture stop, compact camera module and electronic device
A controllable aperture stop includes a light pass portion, a fixed portion, a driving part and rollable elements. The light pass portion includes movable blades together surrounding a light pass aperture. The fixed portion has shaft structures corresponding to the movable blades. The driving part includes a rotatable element, a magnet and a coil. The rotatable element is for driving the movable blades to rotate relative to the shaft structures to adjust the size of the light pass aperture. The magnet is disposed on the rotatable element. The coil corresponds to the magnet. The magnet and the coil are to drive the rotatable element to rotate around the light pass aperture. The rollable elements are disposed between the fixed portion and the rotatable element and arranged around the light pass aperture, so the rotatable element is rotatable relative to the fixed portion. |
| US12276899B2 |
Image pickup device and method of tracking subject thereof
The present invention provides an image pickup device that recognizes the object that the user is attempting to capture as the subject, tracks the movement of that subject, and can continue tracking the movement of the subject even when the subject leaves the capturing area so that the subject can always be reliably brought into focus. The image pickup device includes a main camera that captures the subject; an EVF that displays the captured image captured by the main camera, a sub-camera that captures the subject using a wider capturing region than the main camera, and a processing unit that extracts the subject from the captured images captured by the main camera and the sub-camera, tracks the extracted subject, and brings the subject into focus when an image of the subject is actually captured. When the subject moves outside of a capturing region of the main camera, the processing unit tracks the subject extracted from the captured image captured by the sub-camera. |
| US12276896B2 |
Tunable orbital angular momentum system
This system and method of for providing a tunable orbital angular momentum system for providing higher order Bessel beams comprising: an acousto-optical deflector configured to receive an input beam, deflect a first portion of the input beam a first deflection angle relative to an axis of propagation and along an optical axis and deflect a second portion of the input beam a second deflection angle relative to the optical axis; a line generator disposed along the optical angle for receiving the first portion and the second portion of the input beam and provide an elliptical Gaussian mean; a log-polar optics assembly disposed along the optical angle for receiving the elliptical Gaussian beam and wrapping the elliptical Gaussian beam with an asymmetric ring; and, a Fourier lens configured to receive the wrapped elliptical Gaussian beam. |
| US12276891B2 |
Liquid crystal display device and electronic device
To provide a semiconductor device, a liquid crystal display device, and an electronic device which have a wide viewing angle and in which the number of manufacturing steps, the number of masks, and manufacturing cost are reduced compared with a conventional one. The liquid crystal display device includes a first electrode formed over an entire surface of one side of a substrate; a first insulating film formed over the first electrode; a thin film transistor formed over the first insulating film; a second insulating film formed over the thin film transistor; a second electrode formed over the second insulating film and having a plurality of openings; and a liquid crystal over the second electrode. The liquid crystal is controlled by an electric field between the first electrode and the second electrode. |
| US12276887B2 |
Driver circuit and display panel
The present application discloses a driver circuit and a display panel. The driver circuit includes a driver circuit board (600); a gate driver chip (320) connected to the driver circuit board (600); a connecting line (330) connecting the driver circuit board (600) and the gate driver chip (320); a fanout cable (341) connected to the gate driver chip (320) and a gate line (500) of the display panel (100), forming a fanout region (340) with a fanout cable (341) connected to the gate driver chip (320); and an additional conductive film (350) disposed in the fanout region (340). |
| US12276884B1 |
Electrically switchable liquid crystal grating cell based on photoalignment with an amplitude mask
A switchable liquid crystal grating cell, and methods for manufacturing the above. The switchable liquid crystal grating cell comprises a pair of switchable liquid crystal grating parts, each switchable liquid crystal grating part comprises a substrate; a conductive layer on the substrate; and a photoalignment layer with an alignment pattern above the conductive layer on the substrate, the alignment pattern having first and second types of domains, the first type of domain having a first uniform alignment direction, the second type of domain having a second uniform alignment direction that is reoriented at a predetermined angle to the first uniform alignment direction, the predetermined angle is 85°-95°, and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the pair of switchable liquid crystal grating parts, wherein an alignment pattern on a top surface is arranged to be shifted relative to the other alignment pattern on a bottom surface. |
| US12276875B2 |
Display apparatus and display holding device thereof
A display apparatus and a display holding device thereof are provided. The display holding device includes a front frame and a rear plate. The front frame includes an edge portion, a top portion, a containing portion, an extending portion, and a holding portion. The top portion is connected to the edge portion. An end of the containing portion is connected to the edge portion, and the containing portion is adapted to contain an optical transceiver module. The extending portion adapted to contain a panel module is connected to an another end of the containing portion and extends toward a direction away from the edge portion. The holding portion adapted to contain a light-transmissive element is between the containing portion and the extending portion. The rear plate adapted to contain an optical film module is connected to the front frame. Therefore, a width of the front frame can be further reduced. |
| US12276859B2 |
Lens barrel and imaging device
A lens barrel, that can be made thinner, has a lens holding frame that holds a lens; a driving part that is held by the lens holding frame; aperture blades including a first engaging part and a second engaging part; a first member that engages with the first engaging part and can be rotated around an optical axis by the driving part; and a second member that engages with the second engaging part and is provided with the aperture blade arranged between the second member and the first member. |
| US12276858B2 |
Fiber optic circuit and preparation method
A method of preparing a preformed fiber optic circuit for later termination to at least one fiber optic connector includes providing a substrate for supporting a plurality of optical fibers, the substrate including at least one layer of flexible foil, wherein the flexible foil may be formed from polyethylene terephthalate (PET) according to one example and peeling a layer including at least the optical fibers from the at least one layer of flexible foil. |
| US12276852B2 |
Rewindable optical fiber cable
A low fatigue rewindable optical fiber cable comprises a core having at least one optical transmission element, a dielectric armouring surrounding the core and a sheath surrounding the dielectric armouring. Particularly, the low fatigue rewindable optical fiber cable is characterized by a fatigue performance ratio (FPR) which is a ratio of a cross sectional area of the sheath and a cross sectional area of the dielectric armouring and is between 3 to 4.5 that enables at least 10 cyclic winds and unwinds carried out on a drum with a diameter of 40 times an outer diameter of the low fatigue rewindable optical fiber cable. |
| US12276851B2 |
Photonic chip, lidar, and mobile device
Embodiments of the present application disclose a photonic chip, a LiDAR, and a mobile device. The photonic chip has a substrate, a cladding layer, a first coupler, a first beam splitter, an emitting waveguide module, and a first optical adjusting monitoring module. The first beam splitter includes a first port, a second port, a third port, and a fourth port. The first beam splitter is configured to output the optical signal input through the first port through the third port and the fourth port, and to output the optical signal input through the third port through the first port and the second port. The first optical adjusting monitoring module includes a first photodetector. Monitors the optical power of the return light received by the emitting waveguide module through the first optical adjusting monitoring module integrated on the photonic chip, making the process more time-saving and labor-saving. |
| US12276848B2 |
Multi-port uniboot connector for multi-fiber plug housings
A cover for a fiber optic ferrule and ferrule push includes a sleeve extending lengthwise between opposed front and rear ends and defines a lengthwise-extending opening that opens through the rear end for receiving at least a portion of the fiber optic fiber optic ferrule and the ferrule push. The sleeve also includes a top side and an opposing bottom side, and two side walls extending between the top side and the bottom side and along at least a portion of the sleeve. A receiver is disposed in the top side to receive a projection associated with the ferrule push. |
| US12276844B2 |
Distributed tap architecture incorporating hardened connectivity
Distributed optical tapping architectures include two or more optical tap terminals daisy-chained together. Each optical tap terminal includes an environmentally sealed enclosure; an optical tapping circuit positioned within an interior of the enclosure, the optical tapping circuit including an tap input, a tap pass-through output, and a tap drop output; and hardened interface locations (e.g., de-mateable fiber optic connection locations, cable-pass through glands, etc.) corresponding to the tap input, the tap pass-through output and the tap drop output. |
| US12276841B2 |
Optical fiber fusion splicing method and fusion splicing device
An optical fiber fusion splicing method for performing fusion splicing through positioning of optical fibers to be spliced in a V-groove is provided. The optical fiber fusion splicing method includes pressing the optical fibers placed in the V-groove relatively toward the V-groove using a clamp, varying a clamp pressure of the clamp pressing the optical fibers, and moving the optical fibers placed in the V-groove with respect to the V-groove in an axial direction. |
| US12276837B2 |
Double-parameter in-situ sensor based on waveguide grating, a sensing system and a preparation method
The invention relates to the field of sensing technology, and discloses a double-parameter in-situ sensor based on waveguide grating, a sensing system and a preparation method. The sensor comprises an optical waveguide substrate, wherein a first straight optical waveguide and a second straight optical waveguide are arranged in the optical waveguide substrate in parallel, two ends of first straight optical waveguide are respectively connected with a first transmission fiber and a second transmission fiber, two ends of second straight optical waveguide are respectively connected with a third transmission fiber and a fourth transmission fiber, a first Bragg grating is arranged on the first straight optical waveguide, a second Bragg grating and a third Bragg grating are separately arranged on the second straight optical waveguide, a micro air groove is arranged on the upper surface of optical waveguide substrate, positioned between the second Bragg grating and the third Bragg grating. |
| US12276836B2 |
Optical waveguide apparatus and method of fabrication thereof
A semiconductor structure according to the present disclosure includes a buried oxide layer, a first dielectric layer disposed over the buried oxide layer, a first waveguide feature disposed in the first dielectric layer, a second dielectric layer disposed over the first dielectric layer and the first waveguide feature, a third dielectric layer disposed over the second dielectric layer, and a second waveguide feature disposed in the second dielectric layer and the third dielectric layer. The second waveguide feature is disposed over the first waveguide feature and a portion of the second waveguide feature vertically overlaps a portion of the first waveguide feature. |
| US12276832B2 |
Optical device, substrate optical waveguide element, and optical communication apparatus
An optical device includes an input waveguide and an output waveguide. The optical device includes an interference region that includes an input unit optically coupled with the input waveguide, that includes an output unit optically coupled with the output waveguide, and that has a larger waveguide width than a waveguide width of the input waveguide and a waveguide width of the output waveguide. Further, the optical device includes an unnecessary light waveguide that is included in the output unit in the interference region and that is arranged parallel to the output waveguide. The unnecessary light waveguide is a single-mode waveguide that includes a rib portion and a slab portion with a smaller thickness than a thickness of the rib portion, and that guides only a fundamental mode of light. |
| US12276829B2 |
Preform for optical fiber with low chlorine concentration improvements relating to loss and its use, method of its production and use thereof
An optical fiber having an axial direction and a cross section perpendicular to the axial direction, and a method and preform for producing such an optical fiber. The optical fiber is adapted to guide light at a wavelength λ, and includes a core region, an inner cladding region surrounding said core region, and at least one of a first type of feature including a void and a surrounding first silica material. The core, the inner cladding region and the first type of feature extends along said axial direction over at least a part of the length of the optical fiber. The first silica material has a first chlorine concentration of about 300 ppm or less. |
| US12276823B2 |
Light source module
A light source module includes a first light emitter, a second light emitter, and a third light emitter each to emit light with a different wavelength, a cladding, and a core in the cladding. The core includes a first waveguide that transmits light emitted from the first light emitter, a second waveguide that transmits light emitted from the second light emitter, a third waveguide that transmits light emitted from the third light emitter, a first merging portion in which two waveguides of the first waveguide, the second waveguide, or the third waveguide merge, a second merging portion in which the first merging portion merges with a waveguide other than the two waveguides of the first waveguide, the second waveguide, or the third waveguide, and an emission portion at one end of the second merging portion. |
| US12276822B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a window, a polarizing layer disposed directly on a lower portion of the window or attached to the lower portion of the window by an adhesive layer having a thickness smaller than about 5 micrometers, a retard layer disposed under the polarizing layer, and a display panel disposed under the polarizing layer. The retard layer includes a first retard layer and a second retard layer. At least one selected from a functional layer and a support plate is further disposed under the display panel. The functional layer includes at least one selected from a cushion layer and a digitizer, and the functional layer has a step difference. |
| US12276812B2 |
Dual lens drive device, dual camera module, and optical device
The present embodiment relates to a dual lens drive device that comprises: a housing; a first bobbin which is disposed to move in a first direction inside the housing; a second bobbin which is disposed to move in the first direction inside housing and is spaced apart from the first bobbin; a first coil which is disposed on the first bobbin; a second coil which is disposed on the second bobbin; a magnet which is disposed in the housing and faces the first coil and the second coil; a base which is disposed below the housing; a substrate which comprises a circuit member having a third coil disposed to face the magnet between the housing and the base; and a support member which movably supports the housing with respect to the substrate, wherein the housing is integrally formed. |
| US12276807B2 |
Polarization sorting metasurface microlens array device
Disclosed herein are systems and methods including polarization sorting metasurface microlens array devices. In certain embodiments, a polarization imaging device is provided. The polarization imaging device includes: a source of image light; a metasurface lenslet array comprising a plurality of repeating metasurface lenslets, where the plurality of repeating metasurface lenslets comprise a plurality of first metasurface lenslets configured to diffract the image light into a first polarization light in a first direction and a second polarization light in a second direction; an image sensor positioned in the optical path of the first polarization light and the second polarization light, and where the image sensor includes a plurality of image sensing units including a first image sensing unit positioned to sense the first polarization light and a second image sensing unit positioned to sense the second polarization light. |
| US12276805B2 |
Method and system for actively adjusting diopter of head-mounted display, and head-mounted display
The present invention relates to a method and system for actively adjusting diopter of a head-mounted display, and a head-mounted display. The method includes the following steps: adjusting a relative distance between a displaying component of the head-mounted display and an optical component by a motor driving component; presetting a mapping relationship between a diopter value and a motor pulse number; accordingly converting into a control signal for the motor driving component according to the mapping relationship; and actively adjusting the relative distance between the displaying component of the head-mounted display and the optical component by the motor driving component according to the control signal. A target diopter value is inputted and converted into a corresponding control signal. The motor driving component actively adjusts the relative distance between the displaying component of the head-mounted display and the optical component according to the control signal. |
| US12276797B2 |
Display device and head-mounted display
Provided is a display device having a thin profile and a high light use efficiency and a head-mounted display including the display device. The display device includes a display panel; a circular polarizer configured to convert display light from the display panel into circularly polarized light and to transmit the circularly polarized light; a patterning mirror including light transmitters and a light reflector, the light transmitters being configured to transmit the circularly polarized light and the light reflector being provided on a surface opposite to a surface facing the circular polarizer; a lens configured to transmit the circularly polarized light transmitted through the patterning mirror; and a circularly polarized light selective reflector configured to selectively reflect the circularly polarized light transmitted through the lens. |
| US12276789B2 |
Freeform optical lens integration with visors for near-eye displays
A near-eye display (NED), comprising a frame comprising an outer lens, a micro-display panel coupled to the frame and comprising a processor configured to process content for display to a user wearing the NED, an augmented reality (AR) lens comprising a main prism lens, wherein the outer lens comprises at least one of a display corrector lens or a see-through corrector lens. |
| US12276787B2 |
Compensating lens set and virtual reality apparatus with the same
Disclosed are a compensating lens set and a virtual reality apparatus with the same. The compensating lens set is applied to a folded optical path system. The folded optical path system sequentially comprises, in an optical axis direction, a display unit, a first lens set and a diaphragm. The compensating lens set is arranged between the first lens set and the display unit, the compensating lens set comprising a first compensating lens, the first compensating lens comprising a first surface and a second surface. The first lens set comprises a third surface and a fourth surface. An incident light emitted by the display unit enters the first compensating lens from the first surface, and is emitted out of the first compensating lens from the second surface, passes through the first lens set, and then is transmitted to the diaphragm. |
| US12276786B2 |
Self-illuminating distortion harp
Apparatus and methods are provided for using a self-illuminating harp to calibrate for distortion. In particular, apparatus, methods and systems are provided for imaging and analyzing self-illuminated harp in order to correct for lens distortion. In various implementations, an array of media is strung plumb which resembles a harp. The media can be light fibers or other suitable material which can be strung in a straight line. The cores of translucent fibers are illuminated. These are configured to scatter light throughout their bulk which escapes the core by egressing along the length of fiber. This light produces plumb lines which can be imaged, analyzed and model. In some implementations, imaging is performed by rotation to include a full FOV. |
| US12276783B2 |
Light expander/contractor device and method of using same
The application provides a light expander/contractor device and method of using same, the light expander/contractor device comprising: a faceted quartz structure comprising a lateral surface communicating with a light processing surface at one end and communicating with a planar surface at an opposed end; the light processing surface comprising an initial surface extending from the lateral surface substantially parallel to the planar surface and having a distal end spaced from the lateral surface, the light processing surface further comprising multiple levels of facets comprising quartz-air interfaces: each level of facets comprising (a) a proximal facet surface relative to the lateral surface, the proximal facet surface extending away from the initial surface and toward the lateral surface at a 45° angle relative to the initial surface to communicate with (b) a facet planar surface spaced apart from and parallel to the initial surface to communicate with (c) a distal facet surface adjacent and substantially parallel to the proximal facet surface. |
| US12276775B2 |
Wide angle MWIR F-theta lens
A wide angle MWIR F-theta lens with an F# of 2. The lens is deployed on airborne platforms for remote sensing applications. The lens is corrected for monochromatic and chromatic aberrations over the wavelength range 5000 nm-3300 nm. The image of the remote target is formed on a focal plane which may constitute CCD or CMOS with micro lenses. The lens comprises four groups of optical elements with a cold shield/aperture stop located behind the last group. One embodiment of the lens includes five types of optical materials and while another embodiment of the lens includes only two types of optical materials. |
| US12276774B2 |
Polyester protection film for flexible display device
A protection film according to an embodiment implements a very low reflectivity through a multilayer structure of which the refractive index is controlled and does not cause whitening and cracking to occur even in the case of frequent bending or folding thereof. Accordingly, the protection film is applied to a flexible display device, and especially to a cover of a foldable display device, thereby showing excellent optical and mechanical characteristics. |
| US12276772B1 |
Organic solid crystals having helical structures formed using negative templates
An optical film includes a block copolymer film defining a plurality of helically shaped cavities and a plurality of helically shaped organic solid crystals positioned within the plurality of helically shaped cavities. A method of making the optical film includes obtaining a film of a block copolymer solution including a chiral block copolymer and a non-chiral block copolymer on a substrate. The method includes annealing the film, thereby forming a plurality of helical structures from the chiral block copolymer defined within the non-chiral block copolymer and removing the plurality of helical structures, thereby creating a plurality of helically shaped cavities. The method further includes forming organic solid crystals inside the plurality of helically shaped cavities, thereby forming the optical film. |
| US12276770B2 |
Resolution improvement in dual energy
In some embodiments, a method for processing inspection data associated with cargo irradiated by a plurality N of pulses of inspection is provided. The method includes obtaining the inspection data, the inspection data being representative of intensity values of pixels of an inspection image of the including data associated with a higher energy mode, and data associated with a lower energy mode; generating a histogram having, as a first axis, bins corresponding to pixel intensity values HM associated with the higher energy mode and, as a second axis, bins corresponding to pixel intensity values LM associated with the lower energy mode; selecting a bin corresponding to a most frequent bin of the pixel intensity values HM; and generating a transformation table by mapping each bin of the pixel intensity values LM with the selected bin of the pixel intensity values HM. |
| US12276765B2 |
Implicit property modeling
A method of simulating a process of a geological structure includes obtaining a first digital model including structural data representing a geological structure. The method also includes selecting at least one marching technique based in part on a grid dimension and a grid cell shape of a grid on the first digital model. The method further includes applying the at least one marching technique to at least a portion of the structural data of the first digital model to identify at least some boundary data. The method further includes populating a second digital model based in part on the first digital model, a property, and the boundary data. The method further includes simulating a process of the geological structure using the second digital model. |
| US12276761B2 |
Phase anti-aliasing using spread-spectrum techniques in an optical distance measurement system
A three dimensional time of flight (TOF) camera includes a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter is configured to generate an electrical transmit signal at a plurality of frequencies over an integration time period and generate a transmit optical waveform corresponding with the electrical transmit signal. The receiver is configured to receive a reflected optical waveform that is the transmit optical waveform reflected off of an object, integrate the reflected optical waveform over the integration time period, and determine a distance to the target object based on a TOF of the optical waveform. The integration time period includes exposure time periods. A length of each of the exposure time periods corresponds to one of the frequencies. The TOF is determined based on a correlation of the electrical transmit signal and the return optical waveform utilizing a correlation function with respect to the integration time period. |
| US12276759B2 |
LiDAR systems and methods for focusing on ranges of interest
Embodiments discussed herein refer to LiDAR systems to focus on one or more regions of interests within a field of view. |
| US12276758B1 |
Multi-beam laser scanner with programmable field of view
An optical system and a method for non-mechanically (i.e., without physical movement) scanning a laser using a lens, a steering optical element, and an array of transmission paths configured to simultaneously emit a same wavelength of electromagnetic radiation. |
| US12276757B2 |
Systems and methods for tracking a position of a rotating platform of a lidar system
Systems and methods are provided herein for improved short range object detection in LiDAR systems. The associated systems may include a first portion and a second portion configured to rotate relative to one another. The system may also include a first magnet located on the second portion and arranged with a north pole of the first magnet facing a first direction. The system may also include a second magnet located on the second portion and arranged with a south pole of the second magnet facing the first direction. The system may also include a first sensor located on the first portion. The first sensor is further configured to measure a first magnetic field of the first magnet and a second magnetic field of the second magnet as the first portion and second portion rotate relative to one another. |
| US12276748B2 |
Radar device and bracket for radar device
A radar device configured to emit radio waves and detects an object present in a prescribed detection region includes an antenna unit and a radio wave reflector. The antenna unit is configured to emit the radio waves. The radio wave reflector is disposed in a region around the antenna unit and outside the detection region and includes a reflection surface having a height gradually changed with respect to an installation surface of the radar device. |
| US12276746B2 |
Sound source identification method and system based on array measurement and sparse prior information
The present disclosure provides sound source identification based on array measurement and sparse prior information, which uses a generalized minimax concave penalty function to apply a sparse constraint on a sound source reconstruction error, determines position information of a potential sound source according to a basic sound image generated by a conventional beamforming method, and generates an initial solution vector including a sound source position prior information in a specific way. Compared with using a random initial value and a zero initial value, computational efficiency of the disclosed sound field reconstruction method is improved. Further, an iterative convergence speed is improved by using a proximal gradient acceleration and an adaptive step size backtracking strategy, an optimal step size that can meet convergence is adaptively selected, and sound field reconstruction can be completed more quickly. The present disclosure realizes high-resolution and high-efficiency sound source identification by using a microphone array. |
| US12276744B2 |
Method and system for selectively applying deep learning for classification of platforms carrying radio frequency emitters
A method and system for selectively applying machine learning to data fusion of a plurality of classification of platforms carrying radio frequency (RF) emitters in an area are provided herein. The system may include: a sensor array of radio frequency sensors deployed outdoors, wherein each sensor is configured to perform synchronized sensor measurements of at least three types; at least one computer processor in communication with the sensor array and configured to apply a data fusion algorithm to the sensor measurements, to yield classification data of the platforms carrying the RF emitters; a machine learning module configured to obtain over a training period, classification data collected from at least the classification measurement of the three types of sensor measurements; train a model to provide outputs of the classification measurement of the first type based on readings of the classification measurement of at least one of the two other types. |
| US12276740B2 |
Method for the location of a beacon by angles of arrival
A method for location of a beacon includes: executing R sequences, wherein R is a whole number equal to or greater than 2, each including reception by a first antenna network and a second antenna network of a signal originating from the beacon, wherein the signals of the R sequences are of different wavelengths; calculating a first estimation function for angles of arrival of the signal on the first antenna network and of a second estimation function for angles of arrival of the signal on the second antenna network; and executing a mutual correlation of the R first estimation functions and the R second estimation functions, for the respective determination of a first angle between the beacon and the first network, and of a second angle between the beacon and the second network. |
| US12276737B1 |
Suppression method for multipath signal of image mode based on correlation peaks of satellite baseband signal
Disclosed is a suppression method for a multipath signal of an image mode based on correlation peaks of a satellite baseband signal, including the steps of: constructing a real-world direct-multipath two-dimensional color image mode data set; and building a multipath suppression model of a deep learning network based on a long-short term memory (LSTM) and a self-attention mechanism module, and training the model. In the present disclosure, a satellite signal can be quickly captured without losing the sensitivity of the captured signal, and a Beidou satellite baseband signal can be captured from a signal recorded in the real world, which enables the model to learn complex signal patterns, improving the accuracy and robustness of multipath signal suppression in urban complex scenes. |
| US12276735B2 |
Enhanced navigation mode with location detection and map layer switching
Aspects presented herein may enhance the navigation function of navigation/map applications or systems when GNSS signals are weak or sporadic. In one aspect, a UE monitors a position of the UE based on GNSS communication, where the position of the UE is monitored using at least one first map layer of a plurality of map layers associated with a map. The UE detects that the position of the UE corresponds to a predefined location when the GNSS communication is below a communication threshold. The UE switches to monitoring the position of the UE using at least one second map layer of the plurality of map layers upon detecting that the position of the UE corresponds to the predefined location, where the at least one second map layer is associated with the predefined location. |
| US12276734B1 |
Encrypted LIDAR systems and methods
Described are systems and methods for providing an encrypted LIDAR system, which may be used in autonomous vehicles. Embodiments of the present disclosure can provide LIDAR systems and methods employing a cryptographically secure deterministic random bit generator (DRBG) to generate a secure pseudorandom key sequence. The secure pseudorandom key sequence can be encoded into light pulses emitted by the exemplary systems and methods. Subsequently, upon receipt of reflected light, the exemplary systems and methods can authenticate the received reflected light to confirm the key sequence encoded in the received reflected light. If the key sequence encoded in the received reflected light matches the key sequence encoded into the emitted light pulse, parameters associated with the emitted and reflected light can be used to determine a distance to the object that may have reflected the emitted light pulse. In the event the received reflected light does not include the encoded key sequence the received light can be “discarded” by the exemplary systems and methods. |
| US12276733B2 |
Method of computing three-dimensional drive parameter of a three-dimensional numerical drive control device by driving measurement of a tracking laser distance meter
The function of the three-dimensional television camera can be provided by attaching the distance to the two-dimensional position of the television camera by the distance meter side of the position of the image captured by the television camera. The high-speed tracking of the tracking mirror and the high image quality of the tracking television camera captured image enable a plurality of detailed image recognition and enable tracking image recognition of a three-dimensional space close to human status determination. The drive device for numerical control, which operates in the dimension space, is driven in that space by grasping and sharing the location of the working space. The position of the working space of the drive device for numerical control is measured. |
| US12276728B2 |
Systems and methods for polarization separation in remote imaging systems
Systems and methods described herein are directed to polarization separation of incoming light signals associated with an imaging system, such as a Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) system. Example embodiments describe a system configured to direct incoming light signals to a polarization separator and capture the two polarization states of the incoming light signals. The system may process the two polarization states of the incoming light signals separately to extract information associated with reflecting objects within the field-of-view of the imaging system. The polarization separator may be a birefringent crystal positioned adjacent to an edge of a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) that is used for processing outgoing and incoming light signals associated with the imaging system. The PIC may include at least one on-chip polarization rotator for converting a light signal of one polarization state to a light signal of another polarization state. |
| US12276724B1 |
Method for suppressing azimuth ambiguity of multi-channel SAR systems based on channel cancellation
The present disclosure discloses a method for suppressing the azimuth ambiguity of multi-channel SAR systems based on channel cancellation, which falls within the field of radar signal processing. The method includes: imaging echoed of the multi-channel SAR system based on a linear mapping reconstruction algorithm to obtain a reconstructed high-resolution wide-swath image; estimating positions of the azimuth ambiguity regions of the reconstructed high-resolution wide-swath image; extracting ambiguity images in the azimuth ambiguity regions based on channel cancellation and the refocusing algorithm; and suppressing a repetitive ambiguity image in imaging the echo of the multi-channel SAR system. The method weakens the influence of the original image on azimuth ambiguity extraction, improves the performance of ambiguity suppression, and solves the problem of additional repetitive ambiguity in multi-channel SAR systems by reconstructing the ambiguity signal, and improves the image quality of the multi-channel SAR system, which has great value for subsequent applications such as SAR image interpretation. |
| US12276723B2 |
Continuous-wave radar system for detecting ferrous and non-ferrous metals in saltwater environments
The present invention includes systems and methods for a continuous-wave (CW) radar system for detecting, geolocating, identifying, discriminating between, and mapping ferrous and non-ferrous metals in brackish and saltwater environments. The CW radar system generates multiple extremely low frequency (ELF) electromagnetic waves simultaneously and uses said waves to detect, locate, and classify objects of interest. These objects include all types of ferrous and non-ferrous metals, as well as changing material boundary layers (e.g., soil to water, sand to mud, rock to organic materials, water to air, etc.). The CW radar system is operable to detect objects of interest in near real time. |
| US12276722B2 |
Multipath classification in radar detections
A method for classifying tracks in radar detections of a scene acquired by a stationary radar unit, comprises: acquiring radar detections of the scene using the static radar unit; feeding at least a portion of the radar detections into a tracker module for producing track-specific feature data indicating a specific track in the scene, feeding at least a portion of the radar detections into a scene model comprising information about scene-specific features aggregated over time, and information indicating areas in the scene with expected ghost target detections and areas with expected real target detections, wherein at least a subset of the scene-specific features is determined from the radar detections; classifying the specific track as belonging to a real target or to a ghost target by relating the specific track to a position in the scene model. |
| US12276719B2 |
Radar device and signal processing method of radar device
A radar device includes a transmitter module configured to generate transmission waves including: generating a first chirp chain at a first chirp rate for a transmission wave to be output including: generating a first transmission signal including at least one modulated signal to be output at a first angle; and generating a second transmission signal to be output at a second angle different from the first angle; and generating a second chirp chain at a second chirp rate for the transmission wave to be output including: generating a third transmission signal including at least one modulated signal to be output at the first angle; and generating a fourth transmission signal including at least one modulated signal to be output at the second angle, where the first chirp rate is different than the second chirp rate. |
| US12276713B2 |
Quad-core radio-frequency coil circuit
Provided is a quad-core radio-frequency coil circuit. The quad-core radio-frequency coil circuit includes a coil module (1) and a front-end module (2). The coil module (1) is configured to receive a nuclear magnetic test signal and, according to the nuclear magnetic test signal, generate an induction signal. The front-end module (2) is connected to the coil module (1) and configured to generate the nuclear magnetic test signal and collect the induction signal. |
| US12276711B2 |
Sensor systems, method for determining a position of a magnet system, an operating unit, and a computer program
An exemplary embodiment of a sensor system includes a magnet system which is designed to generate a magnetic field. Furthermore, the sensor system includes a first magnetic field sensor which is movable in a first direction relative to the magnet system and has a first distance from the magnet system in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The sensor system also includes a second magnetic field sensor which is movable in the first direction relative to the magnet system and has a second distance from the magnet system in the second direction, the second distance being greater than the first distance. |
| US12276704B2 |
Maximum discharge current prediction method and battery system using the same
A method of predicting a maximum discharge current for a battery cell includes: receiving a discharge time and a discharge limitation voltage; setting a discharge reference voltage; obtaining a proportional constant and an index parameter corresponding to the discharge reference voltage, wherein the proportional constant and the index parameter are applied to a relation between a constant current and a discharge time during a discharge; calculating a constant current for the discharge time by using the proportional constant and the index parameter; and adjusting the discharge reference voltage when a difference between a temporary discharge limitation voltage at which a voltage due to the constant current and an internal resistance of the battery cell is dropped from the discharge reference voltage and the discharge limitation voltage deviates from a predetermined error. |
| US12276700B2 |
Relay state management apparatus and operating method thereof
A relay state management apparatus including a switch connected to an end of a battery module, a resistor unit connected to the switch, a voltage measuring unit measuring a voltage applied to the resistor unit, a relay connected between the battery module and a load, and a controller controlling the switch and the relay to be short-circuited and diagnosing a state of the relay based on the voltage measured by the voltage measuring unit. |
| US12276696B2 |
Defect detection using thermal laser stimulation and atomic force microscopy
The present disclosure is directed to an inspection tool having an integrated optical laser unit and atomic force probe unit with a detector unit. The inspection tool further includes a processor unit that is coupled to the optical laser unit and the atomic force probe unit and performs a fault location analysis for a device under test. In addition, the present disclosure to methods for inspecting a device under test for defects using an inspection tool having an integrated optical laser unit and atomic force probe unit that includes a detector unit. |
| US12276694B2 |
Coolant supplying apparatus, and temperature controlling apparatus and test handler including the same
A coolant supplying apparatus, which is configured to prevent dew condensation from being generated in a supply of coolant, and a temperature controlling apparatus and a test handler including the same are provided. The coolant supplying apparatus includes a housing having an outlet, a coolant spraying part arranged inside the housing and configured to discharge coolant around the outlet of the housing, and a dry air injection part configured to inject dry air into the housing. |
| US12276692B2 |
Calibration arrangement and corresponding calibration method, and calibration apparatus
A calibration apparatus is provided with a calibration card (6) attachable in an insertion opening (E) of a wafer prober (1) to form a corresponding substantially closed space. A calibration temperature probe (60, 61) attached to the calibration card can be approached by a temperature-controlled chuck (3), for clamping the wafer (4) which can be moved by means of a position controller (350) in lateral directions and in height direction. The position controller operates in such a way that the calibration temperature probe (60, 61) can detect a respective current temperature at various positions on the surface (O) of the chuck or on the surface (O′) of a wafer (4) clamped thereon. An evaluation device (600), connectable to the calibration temperature probe, a temperature controller (300) and the position controller (350), is arranged to calibrate the temperature output values of the temperature probes (S1-S9) based on the current temperatures at the various positions detected by the calibration temperature probe. |
| US12276687B2 |
Methods and systems for estimating coil impedance of an electromagnetic transducer
A method may include selecting, based on a condition of an electromagnetic load, a selected measurement technique from a plurality of impedance measurement techniques for measuring an impedance of the electromagnetic load and performing the selected measurement technique to generate an estimate of the impedance of the electromagnetic load. |
| US12276686B2 |
Apparatus for determination of capacitive and resistive characteristics of access lines
Apparatus having an array of memory cells and a controller for access of the array of memory cells, wherein the controller is configured to cause the apparatus to apply a reference current to a selected access line, determine a time difference between a voltage level of a near end of the selected access line being deemed to exceed a first voltage level while applying the reference current and the voltage level of the near end of the selected access line being deemed to exceed a second voltage level while applying the reference current, and determine a capacitance value of the selected access line in response to a current level of the reference current, the time difference, and a voltage difference between the second voltage level and the first voltage level. |
| US12276680B2 |
Abnormal detection circuit for detecting three-phase AC power
An abnormal detection circuit is provided. The abnormal detection circuit includes a conversion circuit, a voltage detection circuit, and a warning circuit. The conversion circuit receives a three-phase alternating current (AC) power and converts the three-phase AC power into a driving power. The voltage detection circuit detects each phase of the three-phase AC power. When a voltage value of at least one phase AC power of the three-phase AC power is abnormal, the voltage detection circuit uses the driving power to output at least one control signal corresponding to the abnormality. The warning circuit is driven by receiving the driving power and outputs at least one warning signal corresponding to the abnormality in response to the at least one control signal. |
| US12276679B2 |
Coupling probe for micro device inspection
The present disclosure describes a probe design to measure cycles of microdevices. In particular, the probe comprises, electrodes, dielectric, stimulating capacitor, voltage stimulating source for time varying stimulating voltage signal and a series switch to control biasing condition. The probe structure further has a probe tip and resting pads (ring shape or otherwise) along with a leveling mechanism and apparatus. The disclosure also describes a method to measure cycles of microdevices using the probe structure. |
| US12276677B1 |
Waveguide alignment system with dual plates
A waveguide alignment system with dual plates is disclosed. The disclosed system comprises: a base component, a lower plate coupled to the base component, and an upper plate coupled to the lower plate, wherein the upper plate is configured to attach to an electronic testing equipment component. |
| US12276673B2 |
Vibration rectification error correction device, sensor module, and vibration rectification error correction method
A vibration rectification error correction device includes a reference signal generation circuit that outputs a reference signal, a first frequency delta-sigma modulation circuit that performs frequency delta-sigma modulation on the reference signal by using a first measured signal to generate a first frequency delta-sigma modulated signal, a first filter, a second filter that operates in synchronization with the reference signal, and a first timing control circuit that controls a timing of outputting an input signal in synchronization with the first timing signal, in which the first filter and the first timing control circuit are provided on a signal path from an output of the first frequency delta-sigma modulation circuit to an input of the second filter. |
| US12276666B2 |
Method of generating an inclusion list for targeted mass spectrometric analysis
A method of generating an inclusion list for targeted mass spectrometric analysis is disclosed. Experimentally-acquired data for a plurality of isobarically-labeled peptides derived by proteolytic digestion of a corresponding protein. The data includes, for each of the isobarically-labeled peptides, a mass-to-charge (m/z) ratio, a charge state, and a chromatographic retention time (RT). The method includes determining a hydrophobicity index (HI) of an unlabeled peptide corresponding to the isobarically-labeled peptide. If the determined HI is less than a threshold value, a substitute unlabeled peptide is selected in accordance with predetermined criteria and predicted properties for the substitute peptide are determined and stored on an inclusion list. If the determined HI for the unlabeled peptide is at least as great as the threshold value, predicted properties for the unlabeled peptide are determined and stored on an inclusion list. The substitute unlabeled peptide may be selected from an available peptide library. |
| US12276664B2 |
Method for classifying cancer patients into appropriate hepatocellular carcinoma treatment groups and compounds for treating the patient
A method for the prognosis of response to treatment for a patient suffering from cancer, the method comprising: measuring the expression of at least one immune marker in a leukocyte sample taken from the patient with cancer; classifying the patient sample into (i) sustainable responders (SR) to selective internal radiation therapy (SIRT) or (ii) transient/non-responders (TR/NR) to (SIRT) based on expression of the at least one immune marker in relation to a predetermined value and treating sustainable responders (SR) to SIRT or SIRT or a composition comprising SIRT and an immunotherapy. In a preferred embodiment, the method is for the prognosis of response to treatment of a Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patient comprising detecting the co-expression of PD-1 or Tim-3 with CCR5; or expression of PD-1, Tim-3, CXCR6, or combinations thereof in a leukocyte sample taken from the patient. |
| US12276662B2 |
Device for analyte assays with built-in result reporting using recognizable symbols
A device for indicating a test result of a specimen using recognizable symbols includes a reagent strip, wherein the reagent strip includes a detection zone including an analyte binding area and a positive control area, and the positive control area includes a first-layer reagent and a second-layer reagent; the first-layer reagent is a reagent that becomes transparent when exposed to water, the second-layer reagent is a colored reagent, and the first-layer reagent is not transparent when dry but becomes transparent when wetted; or a device for indicating a test result of a specimen using recognizable symbols, which includes a reagent strip, and the reagent strip includes a detection zone including an analyte binding area and a positive control area; wherein the positive control area includes a light-emitting element which emits light after energizing, and the light emitted by the element is projected to the positive control area. |
| US12276661B2 |
Time-resolved fluorescence immunochromatography kit for simultaneous detection of mixed pollutant of aflatoxin and carbaryl, preparation method therefor, and application thereof
A time-resolved fluorescence immunochromatography kit for the simultaneous detection of a mixed pollutant of aflatoxin and carbaryl, a preparation method therefor, and an application thereof. The kit comprises a time-resolved fluorescence immunochromatography test strip and a sample reaction vial containing a europium-labeled anti-aflatoxin monoclonal antibody and a europium-labeled anti-carbaryl monoclonal antibody lyophilized product, detection lines of the time-resolved fluorescence immunochromatography test strip being coated with an aflatoxin-bovine serum albumin conjugate and a carbaryl-ovalbumin conjugate respectively, and the anti-carbaryl monoclonal antibody is produced by secretion of a hybridoma cell line Jnw1D2 with a preservation number of CCTCC NO. C201654. The kit can be used for the simultaneous detection of aflatoxin and carbaryl content in a sample, and features simple and quick operations and a high sensitivity. |
| US12276660B2 |
Device and system for analyzing a sample, particularly blood, as well as methods of using the same
The present invention is related to the field of bio/chemical sampling, sensing, assays and applications. Particularly, the present invention is related to how to make the sampling/sensing/assay become simple to use, fast to results, highly sensitive, easy to use, using tiny sample volume (e.g., 0.5 μL or less), operated by a person without any professionals, reading by mobile-phone, or low cost, or a combination of them. |
| US12276656B2 |
Compositions and methods for identification of antigen specific T cells
Disclosed herein are antigenic peptide-MHC complexes, termed comPACT polypeptides and comPACT polynucleotides, and methods of producing such complexes. Also discloses herein are methods of producing libraries of comPACT polynucleotides and polypeptides, and their exemplary use in capturing cancer neoepitope-reactive T cells with high accuracy. Dual particle detection approaches for detection of neoantigen specific T cells with improved sensitivity and specificity are provided. Signal to noise ratio analysis of isolated T cells for detection of neoantigen-specific T cells with improved T cells is also provided. |
| US12276653B2 |
Bioelectronic devices with programmable adaptors
The present disclosure provides devices, systems, and methods related to bioelectronic devices. In particular, the present disclosure provides bioelectronic devices, and methods of making bioelectronic devices, comprising adjustable adaptor polypeptides with repeatable motifs and enhanced conductive properties. The bioelectronic devices and methods of the present disclosure are useful for a variety of applications, including the direct measurement of protein activity (e.g., when sequencing a biopolymer). |
| US12276652B1 |
Detection of water in oil emulsions using spectral induced polarization
A method of emulsion detection includes executing an oil production process from a volume of a formation. While executing the oil production process, conducting real-time spectral induced polarization (SIP) measurements of the volume of the formation to determine a real-time real conductivity value (RCV) of a matrix material in the volume of the formation. The method further includes determining an onset of water-in-oil (W/O) emulsion formation in the volume of the formation by analyzing the real-time RCV of the matrix material and optionally identifying the onset of the W/O emulsion formation when the real-time RCV first exceeds a first threshold value. |
| US12276650B2 |
Method and device for calculating concentration of hydrocarbon in fuel evaporation gas of vehicle
A method includes calculating a first fuel evaporation gas density in a purge pump of a vehicle based on a pressure difference between a front end and a rear end of the purge pump, a radius of a fluid passage of the purge pump, a number of rotations of the purge pump, and an opening amount of a purge control solenoid valve, filtering the first fuel evaporation gas density, calculating a second fuel evaporation gas density in the purge pump based on the filtered first fuel evaporation gas density, calculating a third fuel evaporation gas density in a standard temperature and pressure state based on the second fuel evaporation gas density, a current pressure in the purge pump, and a current temperature in the purge pump, and calculating a concentration of hydrocarbon in a fuel evaporation gas in the purge pump based on the third fuel evaporation gas density. |
| US12276646B2 |
Smart sensing network
Embodiments are described of a sensing network including one or more sensor nodes, wherein each of the one or more sensor nodes includes a gas sensor that can measure the presence, concentration, or both, of one or more airborne pollutants in a nodal coverage area surrounding the sensor node. A sensor base that can measure the presence, concentration, or both, of one or more airborne pollutants is positioned in the nodal coverage area of each of the one or more sensor nodes, wherein the sensor base includes a gas sensor with higher accuracy, higher sensitivity, or both, than the gas sensors of the one or more sensor nodes. One or more servers communicatively coupled to the sensor base and the one or more sensors nodes. The sensor base and the sensor nodes can communicate their measurements to the server and the measurements of the sensor base are used by the server as a reference to correct the measurements of the one or more sensor nodes. |
| US12276642B1 |
Stress blank angle eliminating device and method for dynamic true triaxial electromagnetic Hopkinson bar
Provided is a stress blank angle eliminating device and method for a dynamic true triaxial electromagnetic Hopkinson bar. Objectives of eliminating influence of a stress blank angle in a sample in a test and preventing permanent deformation caused by mutual collision between the Hopkinson bars are achieved. The adjustable test device for eliminating the stress blank angle eliminates influence of the stress blank angle generated by the sample in a triaxial six-direction dynamic impact test process, and is convenient for obtaining real dynamic failure parameters of the sample. |
| US12276639B1 |
Large-space high-temperature and high-pressure true triaxial flexible loading device
A large-space high-temperature and high-pressure true triaxial flexible loading device includes a cylinder reaction frame, which includes a cylinder, a lower shear ring, an upper shear ring, a bottom cover, and a top cover, wherein the bottom cover and the top cover are detachably mounted at a bottom and a top inside the cylinder respectively, and an interior of the cylinder is divided to form a loading space for performing a triaxial test on a square test block; the lower shear ring is detachably embedded on an inner wall of the cylinder below the bottom cover; the upper shear ring is detachably embedded on the inner wall of the cylinder above the top cover; a confining pressure reaction frame, mounted in the loading space around the square test block; and, flexible loading mechanisms, disposed in pairs at two opposed side surfaces of the square test block. |
| US12276631B2 |
Parallel clock salinity sensor
A sensor for measuring ocean water salinity is described. The sensor may include a measurement clock circuit, a control clock circuit, and a comparator circuit. The measurement clock circuit, having an output that varies with salinity of a fluid, may have a first circuit architecture that includes a capacitive gap assembly that permits a fluid to flow into a gap between two electrodes of the capacitive gap assembly. The control clock circuit, having an output that does not vary with salinity of the fluid, may have a second circuit architecture comprising a capacitor. The comparator circuit may be configured to compare the controlled clock output to the measured clock output over a duration of time to determine a salinity measurement of the fluid. The first circuit architecture may differ from the second circuit architecture in that an electrically connected position of the capacitive gap assembly within the first circuit architecture is the electrically connected position of the capacitor within the second circuit architecture. |
| US12276628B2 |
Systems and methods for measuring electrical characteristic of medical fluids
A device for measuring conductivity of a fluid. The device including a chamber and at least two electrodes. The chamber includes an inlet, an outlet, an upper surface, and a lower surface that runs separate from the upper surface. The fluid enters the chamber through the inlet and flows out of the chamber through the outlet. Moving along a length of the chamber from the inlet to the outlet or from the outlet to the inlet, a distance between the upper surface and the lower surface changes in at least one dimension of the chamber. The two electrodes are configured to measure electrical voltage in the fluid that enters the chamber through the inlet and flows out of the chamber through the outlet. |
| US12276626B2 |
Flame transfer function measurement system for prediction and reduction of combustion instability
The present disclosure relates to a flame transfer function measurement system for prediction and reduction of combustion instability. |
| US12276625B2 |
Method for species identification and quality detection of liquid-like samples based on nuclear magnetic resonance technology
The present invention is directed to a method of species identification and quality detection of liquid-like samples based on nuclear magnetic resonance technology. In this invention, a two-dimensional relaxation signal containing the 1H T1 and T2 relaxation properties of liquid-like samples is obtained by applying a composite pulse sequence to samples, and from this a fingerprint spectrum is established. The fingerprint spectrum can be associated with the essential characteristics of the tested sample, thus can be used to distinguish a specific liquid-like sample from the others. |
| US12276623B2 |
Foreign matter inspection device
A foreign matter inspection device includes: an X-ray application unit configured to apply an X-ray to an inspection object carried by a carriage unit; an X-ray detection unit configured to detect an X-ray transmitted by the inspection object and to output X-ray image data based on the detection result; an infrared ray application unit configured to apply an infrared ray to the inspection object carried by the carriage unit; and an infrared ray detection unit configured to detect the infrared ray from the inspection object and to output infrared image data based on the detection result. The infrared ray application unit and the infrared ray detection unit are covered by a protection unit formed of a member blocking the X-ray and transmitting the infrared ray. |
| US12276621B2 |
Method for identifying foil position in power storage device and method for calculating inter-foil distance in power storage device
A method for identifying a foil position in a power storage device includes: analyzing the power storage device by X-ray CT analysis to obtain an X-ray absorbed amount at each position; acquiring an on-path X-ray absorbed amount at each on-path position on a specific imaginary line passing through an electrode sheet; and identifying a foil position of an electrode foil through which the specific imaginary line passes, based on the on-path X-ray absorbed amount. The foil position identifying includes fitting to determine an approximate curve that changes to fit a change in the on-path X-ray absorbed amount in a fitting region and generates a single peak in the fitting region, and estimating a foil position of a single electrode foil from the on-path position corresponding to the single peak of the determined approximate curve. |
| US12276618B2 |
Defect inspection device
The purpose of the present disclosure is to provide a defect inspection device with which it is possible to suppress variation in an output signal occurring when an imaging operation condition for an image sensor is changed. The defect inspection device according to the present disclosure comprises a detector that outputs a detection signal for signal light generated by irradiating a sample with light. The detector is controlled so that a first operation state of the detector in a first signal acquisition condition and a second operation state of the detector in a second signal acquisition condition are the same. |
| US12276614B2 |
System and method for imaging reflecting objects
A method and system for automated visual inspection of an object include using different patterns of illumination, each pattern including constant frequency pulses of illumination. The pulses of each different pattern of illumination are temporally offset so as to enable obtaining images illuminated by one or another illumination pattern. The images are combined using different parts of the different images in which the most details of the object are available, to produce a full image of the object which is essentially glare-free. The use of constant frequency pulses enables obtaining different pattern illumination images, to enable creating a glare-free image of an object, while providing a flicker-free inspection environment for human workers. |
| US12276609B2 |
Fluorescence spectroscopy for estimation of fluid contamination
A method of analyzing a fluid includes acquiring a sample of the fluid extracted from a subterranean region proximate to a borehole, the borehole including an injected fluid, applying light having a first excitation wavelength to the fluid sample, and measuring a first fluorescence spectrum. The method also includes comparing the first fluorescence spectrum to a reference fluorescence spectrum corresponding to a fluid having injected fluid contamination and/or to a second fluorescence spectrum based on applying light having a second excitation wavelength to the fluid sample. The method further includes estimating a level of contamination of the fluid sample with the injected fluid based on the comparing. |
| US12276607B2 |
System and method for monitoring ultraviolet radiation bioremediation
Embodiments of the present invention relate to a system and method for detecting biological material on surfaces after decontamination with UV-C and with high sensitivity and having low detection limits while providing rapid and efficient response to accommodate high turnover. Embodiments of the present invention monitor the disinfection process by detecting changes in the electrical properties of surface-confined biological thin films photodegraded with UV-C radiation using microwaves (MW). MW sensing provides noninvasive, real-time detection of the electromagnetic properties of biological materials via concentrated electromagnetic fields, for which advantages include wide bandwidth, small size, and cost-effective fabrication. |
| US12276602B2 |
Infrared Raman microscope and data processing method
An infrared spectrum display processing unit performs processing of displaying an infrared spectrum obtained by infrared spectroscopic analysis in a graph representing a relationship between a wave number and intensity. A data conversion processing unit performs processing of converting a Raman spectrum obtained by Raman spectroscopic analysis into an equal interval Raman spectrum in which data points are plotted by wave numbers at equal intervals. A Raman spectrum display processing unit performs processing of displaying an equal interval Raman spectrum as a graph representing a relationship between a wave number and intensity. |
| US12276600B2 |
Systems and methods for detecting foodborne pathogens using spectral analysis
An example system includes a light intensity measuring apparatus couplable to a food processing apparatus and a computing system. The light intensity measuring apparatus includes a chamber configured to receive a water sample from the food processing apparatus, a light source, a detector configured to detect light that has passed through the water sample and measure multiple times intensities of wavelengths of the light to obtain multiple sets of measured intensities of wavelengths, and a communication module configured to provide the multiple sets of measured intensities of wavelengths. The computing system may receive the multiple sets of measured intensities, process the multiple sets to obtain a set of values, apply a first set of decision trees to the set of values to obtain a first result indicating a positive or negative foodborne pathogen detection, generate a notification indicating either the positive of negative detection, and provide the notification. |
| US12276598B2 |
Specimen processing systems and related methods
A specimen processing system includes a plate for supporting a specimen system, wherein the specimen system includes a container and a specimen contained therein. The specimen processing system further includes a camera disposed above the plate and configured to generate images of the specimen system, a light source disposed beneath the plate for radiating light towards the plate, a light stop for blocking a portion of the light from reaching the specimen system to produce darkfield illumination of the specimen at the camera, and one or more processors electronically coupled to the camera and configured to track a position of the specimen within the specimen container during a specimen processing protocol based on the images. |
| US12276597B2 |
Multiple path length optical cell for trace gas measurement
Systems, devices, and methods including a modified Herriot cell comprising: a laser configured to generate a single beam; a partially transmissive region (PTR) disposed in at least one of: a first mirror and a second mirror, where a first portion of the single beam is received through the PTR, and wherein a second portion of the single beam is reflected by the PTR; a first detector disposed proximate the PTR, wherein the first detector receives the first portion of the beam, and where the first portion of the beam has traveled a first path length from the laser to the first detector; and a second detector disposed proximate the exit hole, where the second detector receives the second portion of the beam, and wherein the second portion of the beam has traveled a second path length from the laser to the second detector. |
| US12276590B2 |
Surface area determination for porous and particulate materials
In some aspects, a device may receive measurement data associated with a measurement subject. The device may determine an adsorption isotherm for the measurement subject based on the measurement data. The device may determine a thermodynamic adsorption capacity of the measurement subject based on the adsorption isotherm. The device may determine a surface area value associated with the measurement subject based on the thermodynamic adsorption capacity. The device may provide an output based on the adsorption capacity or the surface area value associated with the measurement subject. |
| US12276589B1 |
Method and system for detecting oil abrasive particle size
Provided are a method and system for detecting an oil abrasive particle size. The method includes: acquiring a voltage signal of an oil abrasive particle in real time, where the voltage signal is generated in real time in a process that the oil abrasive particle passes through an electromagnetic abrasive particle sensor; establishing a voltage curve coordinate system with an amplitude of the voltage signal as a Y-axis and a time of the voltage signal as an X-axis, and obtaining a voltage curve; performing feature extraction on the voltage curve, and obtaining an area S defined by a voltage curve within a half voltage signal cycle T and the X-axis and a maximum absolute value A of a voltage signal value according to the voltage curve coordinate system; and inputting S and A to a trained back propagation neural network for prediction to obtain a predicted oil abrasive particle size. |
| US12276588B2 |
Systems and methods for measuring effects of vibration on rheometric properties of a fluid
A system for measuring effects of vibration on rheometric properties of a fluid sample. The system includes a receptacle configured to hold the fluid sample and receive a probe extending from a rheometric measuring device. A vibration generator is configured to vibrate the fluid sample within the receptacle while the rheometric measuring device measures the rheometric properties of the fluid sample. A vibration control module is configured to control frequency at which the vibration generator vibrates. |
| US12276584B2 |
Cell analysis in body fluids, particularly blood using a sample card with multiple spacer sets having at least two distinct substantially uniform heights
Disclosed are devices and methods for analyzing an analyte, such as white blood cells in liquid samples. |
| US12276579B2 |
System for abnormal condition detection using nearest neighbor
One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, from at least one sensor operatively coupled to a mechanical device, sensor data corresponding to a function of the mechanical device; accessing, from an environmental database, information regarding at least one environmental condition in proximity to a geographical location of the mechanical device; generating, using a processor, a correlative value for the mechanical device, wherein the correlative value identifies a correlation between the sensor data corresponding to a function of the mechanical device and the at least one environmental condition; assigning the correlative value as a baseline correlative value to the mechanical device; monitoring the sensor data corresponding to a function of the mechanical device and the at least one environmental condition and updating the correlative value; identifying, using a processor, the correlative value for the mechanical device has exceeded a predetermined threshold as compared to the baseline correlative value; and notifying a user that the correlative value for the mechanical device has exceeded the predetermined threshold. Other aspects are described and claimed. |
| US12276578B1 |
High pressure gas fitting leak detection systems and related methods
Implementations of a gas leak indication system may include a ring including a flange extending from an interior surface of the ring, the flange including two seal channels on either side of the flange, and the ring including a flow opening extending into a projection extending from an exterior surface of the ring; an extender threadedly coupled into a side opening in the projection, the extender including a flow opening therethrough; an indicator threadedly coupled onto the extender, the indicator including a flow channel extending therethrough; and a cap coupled over an end of the indicator by a friction fit. |
| US12276575B2 |
Sensor assembly and refrigerant sensing system
A sensor assembly and a refrigerant sensing system for air conditioning systems can include a sensor controller, a sensor electrically connected to the sensor controller and configured to output sensor data to the sensor controller, and a housing having an interior space enclosing the sensor controller and the sensor. The housing includes a first end and a second end and a barrier disposed between the first end and the second end sealingly separating the interior space. The first end supports the sensor and includes a plurality of openings exposing the sensor to an external environment. The second end supports the sensor controller and substantially prevents the sensor controller from being exposed to the external environment. |
| US12276571B2 |
Method and apparatus for determining the geometrical dimensions of a vehicle wheel mounted that rotates about an axis of rotation
Method and related apparatus for determining the geometrical dimensions of a wheel, or at least one part of a wheel, with particular reference to vehicle wheels, in the context of a wheel maintenance process. This method uses contactless sensors which comprise a scanning radar system, preferably a millimeter-wave radar system, to scan the wheel, or at least one part of the wheel, quickly and accurately. |
| US12276567B2 |
Method and system for monitoring a status of a reducer of a gas turbine
A method for monitoring a status of a reduction gear of a gas turbine includes the steps of: obtaining measurements of parameters accomplished during an operating phase of the gas turbine, these parameters including temperatures of a lubricating oil of the reduction gear at the inlet and at the outlet of the reduction gear, a parameter representing a speed of the gas turbine, as well as at least one context parameter; selecting measurements; normalizing temperatures of the lubricating oil using the measurements of the context parameter; evaluating a thermal efficiency of the reduction gear by using a physical model defining the thermal efficiency based on a difference between the temperature of the lubricating oil; and determining a status of the reduction gear depending on a step of comparing the evaluated thermal efficiency with respect to a reference signature. |
| US12276566B2 |
Equipment malfunction diagnosis apparatus using sound spectrogram image, and method therefor
Disclosed are an equipment malfunction diagnosis apparatus using a sound spectrogram image, and a method therefor. In other words, the present invention collects sound data through a sensor unit provided at one side of equipment, converts the collected sound data into a spectrogram image, and determines malfunction of the equipment and classifies a cause of the malfunction by performing machine learning using the spectrogram image as an input value, thereby quickly and accurately identifying the cause of the malfunction when it is identified that there is the malfunction in the equipment, and providing a counterplan in response thereto. |
| US12276565B2 |
Electrical test of optical components via metal-insulator-semiconductor capacitor structures
Electrical test of optical components via metal-insulator-semiconductor capacitor structures is provided via a plurality of optical devices including a first material embedded in a second material, wherein each optical device is associated with a different thickness range of a plurality of thickness ranges for the first material; a first capacitance measurement point including the first material embedded in the second material; and a second capacitance measurement point including a region from which the first material has been replaced with the second material. |
| US12276562B2 |
Pressure sensor layout structure
A pressure sensor layout structure includes: a bumper beam; an absorber disposed at a front of the bumper beam; a pressure tube arranged between the bumper beam and the absorber; a pressure sensor attached to an end of the pressure tube; and a sensor cover fixed to a rear surface of the absorber, wherein the sensor cover is fixed to an end portion in a vehicle width direction of the absorber, at two or more positions which are located variously in the vehicle width direction. |
| US12276561B2 |
Tension measuring assembly
A tension measuring assembly includes a pair of straps that has an attachment that can be attached to a tie down chain which is securing cargo on a flatbed trailer. A tension meter is provided and each of the pair of straps is attached to the tension meter. The tension meter measures tension in each of the straps to measure the tension in the tie down chain when the straps are attached to the tie down chain. A display unit is in remote communication with the tension meter and the display unit displays the tension measured by the tension meter. In this way the display unit facilitates a driver of the vehicle to monitor the tension of the tie down chain. |
| US12276558B2 |
Method and apparatus for calibrating a torque sensor using the separation of calibrated and expected torque values
Input is received. A conformance is determined. When conformance is determined, a raw torque is measured from a torque sensor at an engine; the raw torque is calibrated using the torque sensor parameters to produce a calibrated torque value, non-torque parameters associated with the engine are measured and the non-torque parameters are applied to a lookup structure to obtain an expected torque value. A separation of the calibrated torque value and the expected torque value is determined and based upon the separation, an operation of the torque sensor is controlled. |
| US12276555B2 |
Conductive yarn pressure sensor with sensing electrodes physically or electrically contacting each other through openings in intermediate layer in reponse to external pressure
A conductive yarn pressure sensor is proposed. The pressure sensor may include a porous fiber layer having predetermined cavities formed therein. The pressure sensor may also include a first sensing electrode made of a first conductive yarn formed on one surface of the porous fiber layer, and a second sensing electrode made of a second conductive yarn formed on the other surface of the porous fiber layer. The first sensing electrode or the second sensing electrode may be provided so as to be in contact with each other in the cavities of the porous fiber layer due to external pressure. According to an embodiment, by having conductive yarn in flexible clothing or textile material, pressure can be sensed by effectively responding to deformation due to external pressure. |
| US12276554B2 |
Electronic device including a plurality of temperature sensors
According to various embodiments, a wearable electronic device may include: a housing comprising a first plate including a first surface facing in a first direction, and a second plate including a second surface facing a second direction opposite to the first direction; a substrate disposed in a space between the first plate and the second plate of the housing; a processor; and at least two temperature sensors, wherein the at least two temperature sensors comprise a contact-type temperature sensor and a non-contact-type temperature sensor arranged at positions different from each other in the housing, and the processor is configured to: determine a body temperature using the temperatures measured by the contact-type temperature sensor and the non-contact-type temperature sensor. |
| US12276553B2 |
Multispectral light field imaging system, three-dimensional temperature field measurement method and measurement system
A multispectral light field imaging system includes a primary lens, a microlens array, a first relay lens, a dichroic lens, a second relay lens, a third relay lens, a first image sensor, a first filter, a second image sensor and a second filter, wherein the microlens array is located at an image plane of the primary lens; the first relay lens together with the second relay lens and the third relay lens forms a 1:1 relay lens group imaging system on a spectral band 1 light path and a spectral band 2 light path respectively; the dichroic lens forms an included angle of 45° with a light axis; the first image sensor is located at a focal plane of the second relay lens, and the second image sensor is located at a focal plane of the third relay lens. |
| US12276552B2 |
Wearable environmental sensor device and monitoring system
A wearable environmental sensor device includes a temperature/humidity sensor disposed on a wall surface of a housing that is exposed to an environment and configured to measure ambient environmental information around a living body, and a protective structure formed around the temperature/humidity sensor. The temperature/humidity sensor is disposed, directly or via a support structure, on or over the wall surface of the housing, wherein the wall surface faces substantially downward from the living body when the wearable environmental sensor device is attached to the living body and the living body is in a standing posture. The protective structure has respective ventilation holes provided in two or more pairs of opposed surfaces thereof each facing in a direction other than a vertical direction of the living body when the wearable environmental sensor device is attached to the living body and the living body is in the standing posture. |
| US12276544B2 |
Determining user proximity using ambient light sensor
One example provides a display device comprising a display panel, a touch sensor, an ambient light sensor, a processor, and storage. The storage comprises instructions executable by the processor to monitor an ambient light signal received from the ambient light sensor, detect, in combination with a call event, a threshold change in the ambient light signal that is indicative of the display device being proximate to a body of a user, and based at least on detecting the threshold change in the ambient light signal, modify an operation of the display device. |
| US12276543B2 |
Readout circuits for amplitude modulating sensors
A readout circuit for an amplitude modulating sensor includes a first and second wavelength light source; an optical coupler coupled to receive a first light signal from the first wavelength light source and a second light signal from the second wavelength light source; a frequency selector that allows for the first light signal to pass to the amplitude modulating sensor; and a detector system coupled to the optical coupler to receive the first light signal and the second light signal after the first light signal is modulated by the amplitude modulating sensor and independently detect the two signals. The detector system generates electronic signals representing the modulated first light signal and the second light signal and removes a common mode signal of the modulated first light signal and the second light signal, removing common mode noise or attenuation in the modulated first light signal. |
| US12276540B2 |
Rotating machine vibration monitoring process for detecting degradations within a rotating machine fitted with magnetic bearings
Rotating machine vibration monitoring process for detecting degradations within a rotating machine providing an output axle fitted with magnetic bearings, the magnetic bearings having at least a position sensor and at least a magnetic actuator, the process provides the following steps: 1) defining a set of excitations that does not destabilizes the rotating machine, 2) injecting the set of excitations in the rotating machine through the magnetic actuators and 3) measuring the response of the rotating machine checking whether the response verifies at least one predefined criterium, 4) if it is not the case, adjusting the properties of the set of excitations and resuming the process at the injection step, 5) if the response verifies the at least one criterium, determining at least one condition indicator based on the response measured, 6) determining if an alarm is to be triggered based on the condition indicator determined. |
| US12276535B2 |
Method for correcting reading of gas meter in smart gas, internet of things system, and medium thereof
The present disclosure provides method, Internet of Things (IoT) system, and medium for correcting reading of a gas meter in smart gas. The method may be implemented by a smart gas device management platform of an IoT system for correcting reading of the gas meter in smart gas. The method may include: obtaining reading data of the gas meter, wherein the reading data includes a first reading data and a second reading data; determining a historical flow distribution condition; determining a current flow distribution condition; determining a first confidence level of the reading data; in response to a determination that the first confidence level is smaller than a confidence level threshold, obtaining a working condition parameter; and determining a correction value of the second reading data through a reading data correction model. |
| US12276530B2 |
Portable verification system and method for use in lower pressure commercial and residential gas flow meters
Embodiments of a portable verification system can move from one commercial building or residential home gas flow meter location to another and temporarily connect to the building's or home's natural gas piping. The portable verification system may be connected to the gas flow meter by a flexible hose having a lap joint flange at one end. Adaptor fittings can be used to provide additional versatility. When in an intended use, natural gas flows into the reference meter and then into the gas flow meter connected to the commercial building or residential home. Downtime is limited to the time required to complete a circuit between the gas flow meter and the portable verification system. |
| US12276527B1 |
Device and method for measuring levelness of top cover of reactor pressure vessel
The present disclosure provides a device and a method for measuring levelness of a top cover of a reactor pressure vessel. The device includes a mounting and fixing mechanism, an inclination sensor mounting base, and an inclination sensor. The mounting and fixing mechanism includes a mounting bottom plate, and a fixing mechanism disposed on the mounting bottom plate. The inclination sensor mounting base includes a bearing plate located on the mounting bottom plate, and a portal frame disposed on the bearing plate and having a top surface. The inclination sensor is mounted on a sensor mounting surface of the bearing plate and located in the portal frame, and configured to obtain levelness of the sealing surface of the top cover by measuring levelness of the sensor mounting surface of the bearing plate. |
| US12276523B2 |
Methods and systems for providing a real-time viewshed visualization
The present disclosure provides methods and systems for providing a real-time viewshed visualization. Provided here is a method for generating viewshed map for one or more client nodes, comprising (a) receiving a first set light source data associated with an area; (b) obtaining a set of elevation data associated with the area; (c) generating a shadow map based at least in part on the first set light source data and the elevation data associated with the area; (d) receiving interactive position data from the one or more client nodes; and (e) generating a real-time viewshed map visualization of the area by rendering the shadow map based on the interactive position data. |
| US12276521B2 |
Method for processing map data, and electronic device
A method for processing map data includes: determining a first region for which a map display image is to be drawn; determining multiple first reference points within the first region according to a second region corresponding to the first region; determining relative height data of the first region according to positions and real height data of all the first reference points; and determining a map display image of a position to be displayed according to the relative height data, in which the position to be displayed is within the first region. |
| US12276517B2 |
Gas fuel-based moving object capable of checking the amount of gas filling according to filling specification and method for providing filling amount using the same
Disclosed is a gas fuel-based moving object capable of checking the amount of gas filling according to filling specification and method therefor. The moving object includes: a transceiver configured to receive filling specification information of a gas charger; and a processor configured to estimate, based on the filling specification information, a maximum possible filling amount of gas injected to a fuel tank of the moving object and to provide the maximum possible filling amount through a user interface. |
| US12276513B2 |
Method and system for positioning with improved resource conservation
A navigation solution for a vehicle is provided by obtaining motion sensor data from a sensor assembly of the vehicle, detecting a static condition for the vehicle based at least in part on the motion sensor data, selectively enabling reduced power operation and providing the navigation solution for the vehicle while reduced power operation is enabled. While reduced power operation is enabled, motion may be detected so that reduced power operation is disabled and a subsequent navigation solution is provided for the vehicle while reduced power operation is disabled. |
| US12276511B2 |
Method of selecting a route for recording vehicle
Disclosed are aspects of a method, carried out by a vehicle data recording device, that includes downloading, from a host data collecting system, a recording target and determining a plurality of possible routes for the vehicle. The method also includes, for each route, generating a route encoding in numerical values an information on predicted values of the route for metrics, a metric being a function assigning a value representing an amount of progress in achieving an elementary recording target to a piece of data. The method additionally includes providing the route encodings and additional environmental information independent of the routes to a reinforcement learning agent that selects one of the routes to optimize a reward. The method further includes recording data from in-vehicle sources while the vehicle drives along the selected route and uploading at least part of the recording data to the host data collecting system. |
| US12276507B2 |
Indoor navigation method, indoor navigation equipment, and storage medium
An indoor navigation method is provided, including: receiving an instruction for navigation, and collecting an environment image; extracting an instruction room feature and an instruction object feature carried in the instruction, and determining a visual room feature, a visual object feature, and a view angle feature based on the environment image; fusing the instruction object feature and the visual object feature with a first knowledge graph representing an indoor object association relationship to obtain an object feature, and determining a room feature based on the visual room feature and the instruction room feature; and determining a navigation decision based on the view angle feature, the room feature, and the object feature. |
| US12276506B2 |
Multispectral imaging for navigation systems and methods
Multispectral imaging and navigation systems and related techniques are provided to improve the operation of manned or unmanned mobile platforms, including mobile sensor or survey platforms. A multispectral navigation system includes a multispectral imaging system and a logic device configured to communicate with the multispectral imaging system. The multispectral imaging system includes a multispectral imaging module configured to provide multispectral image data corresponding to a projected course for a mobile platform. The logic device is configured to receive the multispectral image data, receive orientation and/or position data corresponding to the multispectral image data, and generate maneuvering obstacle information corresponding to the projected course based on the orientation and/or position data and the multispectral image data. |
| US12276501B2 |
Control point identification and reuse system
Landmarks are identified based on images of an area. A path is generated for a vehicle to traverse the area that includes the landmarks. Precise locations information indicative of locations of the vehicle and captured by a high accuracy position receiver of the vehicle while the vehicle traverses the path are received from the vehicle. At least some of the precise locations information are associated with the landmarks. Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) data are received from a UAV. The UAV data include aerial images of the area captured by the UAV and UAV location information corresponding to the aerial images. A three-dimensional model of the area is generated based on at least some of the precise locations information and the aerial images. |
| US12276498B2 |
Angular position sensor system
An angular position sensor system includes a two-pole magnet rotatable about a rotation axis; a magnetic sensor device having a plurality of horizontal Hall elements including at least a first, second and third horizontal Hall element located on a virtual circle having a centre located on the rotation axis. The Hall elements are spaced by multiples of 90. The magnetic sensor device has a processing unit connected to the horizontal Hall elements for obtaining a first, second and third signal, and for determining a first pairwise difference between the first and second sensor signal, and for determining a second pairwise difference between the second and third sensor signal, and for determining an angular position of the magnet relative to the sensor device based on a ratio of these pairwise differences. |
| US12276497B2 |
Pure-rolling generating measurement method and device for gear helix artifact
A pure-rolling generating measurement method and device for gear helix artifact is proposed, which use a dividing table to accurately control the linear rail slide block assembly component to rotate according to the helix angle of different base circle. The height of the measuring point is the installation height of the working plane of generating rails, so as to ensure that the measuring point is always located on the dividing cylindrical surface of the gear helix artifact. When the gear helix artifact does pure-rolling motion, the slide block performs high-precision linear motion on the working surface of two fixed rails; the pure-rolling motion is proportional to the high-precision linear motion, so that the inductor micro-displacement probe can complete the measurement of the helix deviations of the gear helix artifact with different base circle helix angle. |
| US12276493B2 |
Method and apparatus for characterizing objects using a light-emitting array
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for a light curtain system including a support frame arranged around a transport path including a product support, a light-emitting array including multiple light sources arranged along the support frame, each light source of the multiple light sources arranged along the support frame at a respective distance above the product support, a detector array including multiple light detectors, where each detector of the multiple light detectors is arranged on the support frame opposite the transport path from a light source of the multiple light sources and at a respective distance above the product support, and a data processing apparatus in data communication with the light-emitting array and the detector array. |
| US12276491B1 |
Device for measuring diameter error of roller for threaded pair transmission
A device for measuring a diameter error of a roller for threaded pair transmission in the technical field of power machinery, comprising a roller fixing device, a laser measuring device, a screw driving device, and a roller to be measured. The roller fixing device comprises a fixing rod, a supporting structure, guide rails, nut-bolt pairs and a fixing beam, to fix the roller. The laser measuring device comprises pressing columns, laser sensors, laser receiving plates, laser sensor placement plates and moving structures, which ensure the verticality of the roller. The screw driving device comprises ball screw pairs, bearings, nuts, nut connecting bolts and cranks, to drive the moving structures to ensure the distance between the laser measuring device and the roller. The roller diameter error measuring device of the present disclosure is simple to operate, has fewer human influence factors, and has high measurement accuracy. |
| US12276490B2 |
System and method to map thickness variations of substrates in manufacturing systems
Implementations disclosed describe, among other things, a system and a method of scanning a substrate with a beam of light and detecting for each of a set of locations of the substrate, a respective one of a set of intensity values associated with a beam of light reflected from (or transmitted through) the substrate. The detected intensity values are used to determine a profile of a thickness of the substrate. |
| US12276481B1 |
Bullet tracker for aiming remote controlled weapon systems
A bullet tracking system comprising a sensor sub-system that generates bullet tracking data by tracking a position and range of a bullet discharged from a remote-controlled weapon and traveling to an intended target; a processor that processes the bullet tracking data to determine aim adjustments of the weapon for subsequent firing of bullets to compensate for tracked bullet ballistics to improve an accuracy of the bullets for reaching the intended target; and a control sub-system to make the aim adjustments of the weapon. |
| US12276480B2 |
Optical sight mounting system
An optical sight includes a housing and an optical element supported by the housing. The housing includes a first surface defining a cavity accessible from a first cavity side of the housing and a bottom side of the housing and an opening extending along a longitudinal axis of the housing. The first surface is configured such that the first cavity is inaccessible from above. The first cavity is configured to accommodate a first fastener such that a head of the first fastener is supported by the first surface and such that a shaft of the first fastener extends through the bottom side of the housing. The optical element is disposed within the opening of the housing. |
| US12276477B1 |
Weapon-mountable breaching tool
A breaching system for a primary weapon includes a breaching tool secured at a point below said barrel. The breaching tool may include an exterior sleeve portion that is slidable towards a butt-end of the weapon for firing the breaching tool. |
| US12276472B2 |
Shotgun breech release
A breech release for a shotgun includes a push button, a return spring, a spring retainer, a threaded steel rod, and a release slide. the return spring is located between the push button and spring retainer. when the breech release engages with a breech, the breech release bisects an outer breech which hinged an inner breech, holding the breech closed in its default position. When the button is depressed, the button moves the slide out of the inner breech, allowing the breech to open. |
| US12276471B2 |
Direct fire weapon system training and firing aid
A weapon system training and firing aid comprising a shoulder bar attachment for elevating and/or traversing a weapon system is disclosed. It may have an elongate arm for attachment to the weapon system and extending in a generally rearward direction from the weapon system. Once coupled to a weapon system, it gives a user a stable method of supporting and moving the weapon system, allowing the user to quickly elevate and traverse the weapon system by giving the user an additional point of contact, for example at the shoulder or under the arm, to support and stabilize the weapon system. |
| US12276467B2 |
Sound, flash, and heat dissipating firearm suppressor
Embodiments described herein relate to suppressors for reducing or eliminating sound, flash, and/or heat generated by firearms while discharging projectiles. The suppressor includes a unitary structure containing a cone shaped nozzle disposed at one end of a body. The body has a plurality of baffles surrounding a central bore, a breech end opposite a faceplate, and a plurality of cooling channels spanning a length of the body. Each cooling channel has a first opening at the breech end and a second opening at the faceplate. The unitary structure further contains an outer ring spanning from the breech end to at least the faceplate, a longitudinal wall spanning from the breech end to the faceplate, and a plurality of radially oriented walls extending between the longitudinal wall and the outer ring. The plurality of cooling channels is disposed between the longitudinal wall, the outer ring, and the radially oriented walls. |
| US12276466B2 |
Heat exchanger based on gyroid/diamond hybrid minimal surface-based disturbance structure
The present disclosure belongs to the technical field of heat exchangers, and provides a heat exchanger based on a Gyroid/Diamond (GD-type) hybrid minimal surface-based disturbance structure. The heat exchanger includes a core, headers, and flanges. The core includes a cold fluid channel and a hot fluid channel, the cold fluid channel and the hot fluid channel are separated by a parting sheet. An inlet and an outlet of the cold fluid channel are separated from an inlet and an outlet of the hot fluid channel by sealing bars. A GD-type hybrid minimal surface-based disturbance structure is inserted into the hot fluid channel. A cold fluid and a hot fluid are distributed in a cross-flow manner. |
| US12276464B2 |
Compressor module and compressor module designing method
A compressor module includes: a compressor; and a high-pressure gas cooler which cools gas discharged from the compressor, wherein the high-pressure gas cooler includes a plurality of gas cooler partial bodies, wherein each gas cooler partial body includes a high-pressure casing which is formed in a cylindrical container shape extending in a horizontal direction and to which the gas is introduced and a high-pressure heat exchange unit which is installed in the high-pressure casing and cools a gas passing in one direction orthogonal to a center axis of the high-pressure casing, and wherein the gas cooler partial bodies are arranged in parallel so that the center axes of the high-pressure casings are parallel to each other, the gas sequentially flows through the gas cooler partial bodies. |
| US12276463B2 |
Methods and systems and apparatus to support reduced energy and water usage
An installation includes an in-building hot water supply system, a hot water heat pump, an energy storage arrangement containing a mass of phase change material and a heat exchanger coupled between the hot water system and the heat pump, and a processor to provide a signal to the heat pump based on the opening of an outlet of the hot water supply system. The mass of phase change material has enough latent heat capacity to heat to a predetermined temperature a predetermined quantity of water in the interval from the opening of an outlet of the hot water supply system until at least the heat pump begins to heat water in the hot water supply system. Also provided is a method of controlling a heat pump in such an installation. |
| US12276462B2 |
Three section configuration for compressed air energy storage systems
A method of temporarily storing thermal energy via a thermal storage subsystem in a compressed air energy storage system comprising an accumulator disposed at least 300 m underground and having an interior configured to contain compressed air at an accumulator pressure that is at least 20 bar and a gas compressor/expander subsystem in communication with the accumulator via an air flow path for conveying compressed air to the accumulator when in a charging mode and from the accumulator when in a discharging mode. |
| US12276459B2 |
Systems and methods for periodic nodal surface based reactors, distributors, contractors and heat exchangers
The present disclosure relates to a method for forming a transport mechanism for transporting at least one of a gas or a liquid. The method may comprise using a 3D printing operation to form the mechanism with an inlet and an outlet, and controlling the 3D printing operation to create the mechanism as an engineered surface structure formed in a layer-by-layer process. The method may further comprise controlling the 3D printing operation such that the engineered surface structure includes a plurality of cells propagating periodically in three dimensions, with non-intersecting, non-flat, continuously curving wall portions which form two non-intersecting domains, and where the wall portions have openings forming a plurality of flow paths extending in three orthogonal dimensions throughout from the inlet to the outlet, and such that the engineered surface structure has wall portions having a mean curvature other than zero. |
| US12276453B2 |
Refrigerator
A refrigerator is provided. The refrigerator includes a main body in which a storage chamber having an open front surface is provided, a door rotatably coupled to the main body to open or close the storage chamber, and a microphone device disposed on an upper end of the door and configured to receive a voice command, wherein the microphone device includes a microphone supported by a substrate and configured to receive voice data, a cover protruding upward from the upper end of the door and including a voice input hole passing through a front surface and a rear surface of the cover and a microphone hole vertically extending downward from the voice input hole so that the voice input hole and the microphone are connected, and a sealing member disposed between the substrate and the cover so that the substrate is in close contact with the cover. |
| US12276442B2 |
Multi-temperature heat collection system
The invention provides in some aspects a thermal energy collection system comprising a first solar collector through which a first heat transfer fluid flows to absorb energy from sunlight as it passes through the first solar collector, and a second solar collector that collects energy from sunlight that has passed through the first solar collector. The first heat transfer fluid of the thermal energy collection system according to these aspects of the invention is in thermal coupling with the first solar collector, but not with the second solar collector. In other aspects, the invention provides a radiator system, comprising a multi-wall panel, an interior of which is in fluid coupling with, and that forms part of, a fluid circuit through which a first heat transfer fluid flows. A reflective surface is disposed in a vicinity of a second face of the multi-wall panel. Still other aspects of the invention provide a reflective film solar energy collector and a solar energy absorber. |
| US12276439B2 |
Methods and systems for modulating energy usage
The present disclosure provides a computer-implemented method of modulating energy consumption by a water provision system, the water provision system comprising a heat pump configured to transfer thermal energy from the surrounding to a thermal energy storage medium and a control module configured to control operation of the water provision system, the water provision system being configured to provide water heated by the thermal energy storage medium to a water outlet, the method being performed by the control module and comprising: setting a first temperature for heated water being provided to the water outlet; setting a second temperature for heated water being provided to the water outlet, the second temperature being different from the first temperature; and upon determining that the water outlet is turned on, alternating a temperature of heated water provided to the water outlet between the first temperature and the second temperature. |
| US12276436B2 |
Ultra low flow desiccant air conditioning systems devices and methods
Systems and methods for conditioning air streams are described herein. In some embodiments, a system can include an absorber and a desorber. The absorber configured to receive a supply air stream including moisture at a first moisture concentration and expose it to a liquid desiccant to remove moisture from the supply air stream and produce a conditioned air stream. The desorber configured to receive a regeneration stream at a first mass flow rate and at least a portion of the liquid desiccant from the absorber and having at least one salt at a first weight percent. The desorber includes an array of emitters configured to direct the portion of the liquid desiccant at a second mass flow rate to a desorber media to facilitate removing moisture from the portion of the liquid desiccant and produce a concentrated liquid desiccant with the at least one salt at a second weight percent. |
| US12276435B2 |
Air conditioner
An air conditioner includes a base, a housing, an indoor unit, an outdoor unit and an electrical control assembly. The housing is disposed on the base, and an accommodating space is provided between the housing and the base. The indoor unit is located in the accommodating space, and the indoor unit includes an indoor air passage component. The outdoor unit is located in the accommodating space and arranged at an interval with the indoor unit. The outdoor unit includes an outdoor air passage component. At least one of sides of the indoor unit and the outdoor unit proximate to each other is provided with a groove. The electrical control assembly is installed between the indoor air passage component and the outdoor air passage component, and at least a part of the electrical control assembly is installed in the groove. |
| US12276428B2 |
Indoor unit in air conditioner
An indoor unit in an air conditioner configured to condition air in an indoor space includes: a casing that includes an intake port opened downward toward the indoor space; a fan configured to suck air in the indoor space into the casing via the intake port; a collector configured to collect dust contained in the air sucked via the intake port; a light source configured to irradiate an upstream side of the collector in an air flow direction with ultraviolet rays; a shield configured to block the ultraviolet rays from the light source toward the intake port; and a protecting member having a mesh shape and covering the intake port at a position upstream of the collector in the air flow direction. |
| US12276427B2 |
Cooking appliance and control knob with integrated display
A control knob for an appliance deploys a round bezel region that surround a fixed electronic display panel that is touch sensitive. The appliance state or operating condition is modified by the user rotating the bezel and selecting graphic user interface (GUI) icons on the electronic display. The bezel orientation modifies the GUI to display icons that operate the appliance in different modes. In a first mode of power control, the GUI displays power levels and the bezel orientation modifies the power level. In a second mode, the GUI displays temperature settings and the bezel orientation modifies the temperature. The GUI displays icons that when activated switch between the first and second mode as well as turn off the appliance. Another icon may activate a third mode that enables control and display of other settings, such as temperature units, time and date, count down timers and the like. |
| US12276426B2 |
Handle
A handle for carrying a component having an opening to a cavity may include a frame configured to span a cavity in the component, the frame having a grasp region. The handle may further include a first support brace on the frame configured to selectively engage a first wall of the component. The first support brace may be spaced a first distance from the grasp region. The handle may further include a second support brace on the frame configured to selectively engage a second wall of the component. The second support brace may be spaced a second distance from the grasp region, the second distance being greater than the first distance. |
| US12276422B2 |
Thermoelectric safety assembly
A thermoelectric safety assembly that includes a thermocouple configured to detect a flame in a burner and, in response to detecting the flame, generating an electrical voltage. The assembly includes an electromagnetic valve electrically connected to the thermocouple, and a transistor electrically connected between the thermocouple and the electromagnetic valve. The electromagnetic valve is arranged electrically connected with a field-effect transistor. The assembly also includes a voltage booster configured to power the transistor, the transistor being connected in parallel with the voltage booster. An output terminal of the voltage booster is arranged connected with a gate terminal of the transistor, the voltage booster being configured to boost the electrical voltage generated in the thermocouple, an electrical voltage being obtained that is capable of keeping the transistor closed such that the electromagnetic valve is energized. |
| US12276421B2 |
Collective exhaust system
The disclosure provides a collective exhaust system capable of safely detecting a closing failure of a check valve of the collective exhaust system. The collective exhaust system includes: multiple combustion devices including blowing parts and exhaust pipes; a collective exhaust duct to which the exhaust pipes of the multiple combustion devices are respectively connected; and check valves respectively provided between the exhaust pipes and the collective exhaust duct. The collective exhaust system is configured to detect a closing failure of the check valves by performing, in a state where one of the blowing parts of the multiple combustion devices is stopped and all the other blowing parts are driven with a predetermined blower capacity, a backflow determination from the collective exhaust duct to the combustion device with the stopped blowing part, and by performing the backflow determination for the multiple combustion devices. |
| US12276419B1 |
System and method for landfill flare anti- vibration
An automated system to monitor, record, and stop landfill harmonic vibrations before they become detectable to the local community is provided. Key components of the system are measured and monitored for vibration intensity and duration. When any of these measurements exceeds critical set point values, the landfill gas blower speed is reduced or the system is shutdown. |
| US12276414B1 |
Hemispherical lighting device
A lighting unit including a hollow hemispherical body, a hemispherical holder, and a sphere. A center of a bottom half of the hollow hemispherical body contains the hemispherical holder which is configured to hold the sphere. The sphere includes a light source, a translucent portion, and an opaque portion. The light source is disposed inside of the sphere, and the sphere is configured to rotate within the hemispherical holder so as to vary a position of light emitted by the light source through the translucent portion. |
| US12276413B2 |
Active thermal-control of a floodlight and associated floodlights
This document describes techniques directed to active thermal-control of a floodlight and associated floodlights. As described, an example floodlight includes a first heat-transfer subsystem that uses a fully enclosed heat sink to transfer heat from an array of LEDs to a first housing component of the floodlight. The floodlight further includes a second heat-transfer subsystem to transfer heat from one or more PSUs to a second housing component of the floodlight. Described techniques include using thermistors located throughout the floodlight to actively monitor a temperature profile within the floodlight and, if one or more operating-temperature thresholds are violated, reducing power consumption within the floodlight. |
| US12276411B2 |
TV and control method thereof
A TV according to an embodiment of the present disclosure comprises: a screen which displays a content; a cover at least a part of which overlaps the screen and to which one or more illuminators are attached; a sensor which senses an object located behind the screen; and a controller which controls the one or more illuminators according to the sensing result of the sensor. |
| US12276410B2 |
LED light with replaceable module and intelligent connectivity
There is provided an LED light with a replaceable module that is connected to an intelligent network. The replaceable module includes a driver element, communication element, and power storage such as a battery. The driver element has circuitry, such as printed circuit boards, which is uniform for mating with any connection component to provide electrical connection. The communication/control element includes communication with a voice orchestrated infrastructure and to Z-link capable systems, via a wireless network. The replaceable module fits inside the opening of a housing which includes a mount for electrical connection to standard electrical outlet. Zone control LED lighting is also provided which is likewise connected to the network for voice control. |
| US12276409B1 |
Mini LED light fixture
Provided is a light fixture comprising: a body with a cavity, the body having a cavity and an opening on a bottom of the cavity; tracks on opposite sides of the body on outside of the body, the tracks configured to attach to bar hangers; a source of light inside of the cavity; reflector inside of the cavity below the source of light; and a plate below the optics, the plate secured to the body to close the opening of the cavity, the plate further having a central opening for passage of light from inside to outside of the cavity. |
| US12276405B2 |
Mounting fixture, medium for connecting a lamp, and lamp assembly
A lamp assembly includes a lamp, a medium and an assembling piece. The medium is configured to connect the lamp to a carrier. The assembling piece is disposed between the lamp and the medium, and is configured to connect the lamp to the medium, wherein the assembling piece includes a first part and a second part. The first part is configured to non-threadedly connect the lamp with the medium. The second part is configured to release the lamp from the medium. |
| US12276401B2 |
Lighting device providing an improved visibility
The present invention relates to a lighting arrangement (1) for outdoor illumination, the lighting arrangement comprising at least one first light source for emitting a first light and at least one second light source arranged at a distance from the first light source and arranged for emitting a second light. The lighting arrangement further comprises a modulating optical element (7) for converting the first light into a modulated first light providing a first illumination pattern on a first target surface (4′), wherein the first illumination pattern comprises a sequence of alternating illuminance peaks. The modulating optical element (7) further converts the second light into a modulated second light providing a second illumination pattern on a second target surface (4″), wherein the second illumination pattern comprises a sequence of alternating illuminance peaks. The first and the second target surfaces at least partially overlap, and the first illumination pattern is substantially complementary to the second illumination pattern. |
| US12276398B2 |
Distributed induction-controlled solar lighting system
A distributed induction-controlled solar lighting system comprises a first light, second lights and an inductive switch. Each light comprises a first sensor and a sub-controller used for controlling the brightness of the light. The inductive switch is spaced apart from the first light and can trigger the brightness of the first light within its preset range to increase when sensing that a pedestrian or an animal passes by. The first sensor can trigger the brightness of the first light and/or the second light within its range to increase when sensing that a pedestrian or an animal passes by. The solar lighting system can sense a signal in advance when a pedestrian or an animal passes by, such that the situation where the lights will not be turned on or brightness will not be increased until a pedestrian or an animal passes by is avoided; each light has a brightness adjustment function and can adjust the brightness of its own according to a sensing signal of the adjacent lights, a special master controller is not needed, unnecessary lighting power is avoided, and the endurance and reliability of the lights are improved. |
| US12276397B1 |
LED lamp with angle controller
An LED lamp includes a lamp holder provided with a mounting groove; an LED lamp panel mounted in the mounting groove and including a plurality of groups of light-emitting elements uniformly arranged in a plurality of sectors; a driving power supply mounted to the lamp holder and configured to supply power to the LED lamp panel; a light-transmitting plate fixed to the lamp holder and covering the LED lamp panel; and an angle controller electrically connected between the LED lamp panel and the driving power supply, the angle controller provided on the lamp holder to control the light-emitting elements corresponding to different positions on the light-transmitting plate to emit light. |
| US12276393B2 |
Lighting device for a motor vehicle
A lighting device for a motor vehicle includes numerous light sources and a collimator with numerous collimator lenses. Each collimator lens has an entry surface and an exit surface through which light from the light sources passes successively. Projection optics include a first and second transparent substrates, each with an entry surface and an exit surface. At least one array of cylindrical lenses are on the entry and/or exit surface of the first and second substrates. Light exiting the collimator first passes through the at least one array of cylindrical lenses on the first substrate and then through the at least one array of cylindrical lenses on the second substrate. The projection optics include a first array of cylindrical lenses on the first substrate, the cylinder axes of which extend in a first direction, which is horizontal when the lighting device is installed in a vehicle. |
| US12276392B2 |
Organic light emitting display device and lighting apparatus for vehicles using the same
Disclosed are an organic light emitting display device and lighting apparatus for vehicles using the same. The organic light emitting display device includes a first layer including a first organic layer and a first emission layer on a first electrode, a second layer including a second emission layer and a second organic layer on the first layer, a second electrode on the second layer, and a third organic layer between the first layer and the second layer. A thickness of the first emission layer is equal to or greater than a thickness of each of the first organic layer and the second organic layer. |
| US12276391B2 |
Vehicle light module, lighting system, and vehicle
A vehicle light module includes a light source assembly, a driving assembly, and a shielding assembly. The driving assembly is connected to the shielding assembly. The light source assembly is configured to send a first beam to the shielding assembly, where the shielding assembly is located on a transmission optical path of the first beam. The driving assembly is configured to drive, according to a driving instruction, the shielding assembly to move, to change a relative position between the shielding assembly and the first beam. A second beam emitted from the shielding assembly is displayed on a path around the vehicle in a target light pattern. The shielding assembly includes at least one movable member, at least a part of the first beam is illuminated on the at least one movable member, and a shape of a cross section of the second beam corresponds to the target light pattern. |
| US12276390B1 |
Auxilliary illumination assembly for a vehicle
An illumination assembly is configured for providing auxiliary illumination for use with a vehicle. The illumination assembly includes a housing. The housing defines an interior with an open face. A frame is provided at the open face. A lens cover is coupled to the open face and at least partially overlies the frame. An illuminator is at least partially formed by the frame and the lens cover with a light source configured to emit a trajectory of light. |
| US12276389B2 |
Illumination device for a motor vehicle
An illumination device for a motor vehicle having a printed circuit board with a plurality of light emitting diodes disposed thereon. An optical pane and a reflector element are provided, whereby the reflector element is disposed between the printed circuit board and the optical pane. The reflector element has a plurality of segments into which the reflector element is divided. Each light emitting diode is assigned a segment so that light emitted from the light emitting diodes is reflected by the segments of the reflector element and passes through the optical pane. |
| US12276385B2 |
Lamp for vehicles
A lamp for vehicles is provided with a number of light modules that are offset or tilted in relation to one another, such that light distributions of the light modules can be overlapped to obtain a homogenous overall light distribution. |
| US12276383B2 |
Multistage parallel type loop-free decorative light string
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of lamps and discloses a multistage parallel type loop-free decorative light string, which includes a main power cable and at least one branch power cable connected in parallel to the main power cable, wherein a connection between the main power cable and the branch power cable is externally sleeved with a light string connector; and the branch power cable is electrically connected with a plurality of second lamps. A lamp cover is provided with a wire hiding slot that can store a tail end of the branch power cable. |
| US12276381B2 |
Methods for assessing loss of maintenance medium of smart gas pipeline network and internet of things (IoT) systems
The present disclosure provides a method and an Internet of Things (IoT) system for assessing a loss of a maintenance medium of a smart gas pipeline network. The method comprises: determining a degree of a maintenance impact based on maintenance data; determining a target supply for a maintenance pipeline branch in a target time period based on the degree of the maintenance impact and historical supply data; determining a target demand for the maintenance pipeline branch in the target time period based on historical usage data; determining a target loss in the target time period based on the target supply and the target demand; and determining a replenishment parameter based on the target loss. |
| US12276380B2 |
Method for determining division schemes of smart gas pipeline network inspection areas and internet of things system thereof
The embodiment of the present disclosure provides a method for determining a division scheme of a smart gas pipeline network inspection area and an Internet of Things system thereof. The method includes: obtaining area feature information of a target inspection area of a gas network; generating one or more key inspection points in the target inspection area based on the area feature information of the target inspection area; generating one or more candidate division schemes based on the one or more key inspection points; generating a population to be optimized including a first preset count of individuals based on the one or more candidate division schemes; generating a target division scheme; generating one or more inspection zones in the target inspection area based on the target division scheme; and allocating inspection personnel to perform inspection in the one or more inspection zones. |
| US12276379B2 |
Hot oil media for sulfur export line and sulfur storage tank
A system for heating one or more sulfur transport and storage systems including a hot oil distribution system, a first transport line fluidly connecting one or more reboilers to an inlet on a heating jacket on a sulfur transport system, a second transport line fluidly connecting an outlet of the heating jacket on the sulfur transport system to an inlet on a heating coil in a sulfur storage system, and a third transport line fluidly connecting an outlet on the heating coil in the sulfur storage system to a return header on the hot oil distribution system. |
| US12276377B2 |
Modular mounting system
A modular mounting system includes a panel with a hexagonal array of primary apertures each of which has at least three planes of symmetry. Each of the primary apertures is separated from an adjacent primary aperture by a secondary aperture comprising an elongated opening having a length that is greater than the width of a PALS strap. A mounting system comprising a backing plate, an optional separate indexing plate and a front mounting bracket can be assembled to the panel to provide a rigid attachment between the equipment and the panel. |
| US12276376B1 |
Bracket assembly and method for mounting a loudspeaker
A bracket assembly for mounting a loudspeaker to a support surface includes a generally L-shaped wall bracket including an adjustment plate including a slot and a mounting flange mountable to the support surface. The bracket assembly includes a generally U-shaped speaker bracket including a central plate mountable to the loudspeaker, a top arm, and a bottom arm. The bracket assembly includes a generally U-shaped intermediate bracket having a joining plate including a first aperture, an upper flange, and a lower flange. The intermediate bracket is coupled to the speaker bracket and rotatable about an axis defined between the top arm and the bottom arm for providing pan adjustability of the loudspeaker. The wall bracket is connectable to the intermediate bracket via a first fastener received through the slot and the first aperture, a position of the first fastener movable along the slot for providing tilt adjustability of the loudspeaker. |
| US12276364B2 |
Quick-connect fitting
A quick-connect fitting that provides a leak-proof connection between two components of a waterway. The quick-connect fitting of the present disclosure is releasable and reusable for disconnecting and reconnecting the waterway connection. Moreover, the quick-connect fitting further comprises an audible identifier which identifies the quick-connect fitting has secured the waterway components to be connected. |
| US12276350B2 |
Retrofitted flood irrigation valve actuating apparatus
A retrofitted flood irrigation valve apparatus, including a motor coupled to a stem of an existing flood irrigation valve, the motor to generate mechanical energy to rotate the stem of the existing flood irrigation valve and one or more rails coupled to a frame of the existing flood irrigation valve, wherein each of the one or more rails includes tracks along which the motor is configured to move as the stem of the existing flood irrigation valve opens and closes the valve. |
| US12276349B2 |
Steam valve and steam turbine plant
There are provided a steam valve and the like capable of preventing breakage of an auxiliary valve element and effectively suppressing the occurrence of a leak of steam in the auxiliary valve element. In the steam valve of an embodiment, the auxiliary valve element is structured to be in an open state in which the valve rod moves in an opening direction to increase a distance between an auxiliary-valve cap and a main valve element, thereby opening an auxiliary-valve steam introduction hole, and to be in a fully-closed state in which the valve rod moves in a closing direction in which the main valve element is closed to bring the auxiliary-valve cap and the main valve element into contact with each other, thereby closing the auxiliary-valve steam introduction holes. A contact position in which the auxiliary-valve cap and the main valve element are brought into contact with each other is located outside in a radial direction of the valve rod from the outer peripheral surface, of the auxiliary-valve tubular part, through which the auxiliary-valve steam introduction holes are formed. |
| US12276347B1 |
Mass and/or spring assisted rupture disc
A mass and/or spring assisted rupture disc including a holder assembly, a rupture disc assembly having a membrane that is operatively connected with a mass and/or a spring to assist its rupture. The mass and/or spring assisted rupture disc is designed with a mass distribution that uses acceleration forces, which are present in many engineering applications, to aid in the opening. This allows a rupture disc that is more compact and more sensitive than a conventional rupture disc in applications with significant acceleration levels. The added force of both the mass and the spring makes the membrane more sensitive and tunable to rupture across a wider range of pressures. |
| US12276345B2 |
Valve
A valve for controlling fluid flow, the valve comprising: a first plate comprising a plurality of first holes extending through said first plate; a second plate comprising a plurality of second holes extending through said second plate, the second holes being substantially offset from the first holes of said first plate; wherein said first plate and said second plate are arranged to form a cavity therebetween in fluid communication with the first holes of said first plate and the second holes of said second plate; and a flap disposed and moveable between said first plate and said second plate, said flap having holes substantially offset from the first holes of said first plate and substantially aligned with the second holes of said second plate; wherein said flap is operable to be motivated between said first and second plates in response to a change in direction of differential pressure of the fluid across the valve; wherein said first plate comprises a coating disposed on a surface of the first plate; wherein the first plate comprises a plurality of clearance regions, substantially aligned with the holes of the flap, in which a thickness of the coating is reduced; and wherein each of the clearance regions defines a respective inner region in which a thickness of the coating is generally greater than its defining clearance region. |
| US12276341B2 |
Valve device and hot water supply device
A valve device includes: a case having a valve chamber and first to third water communication ports communicating with the valve chamber; first and second valve bodies disposed in the valve chamber; and a shaft body connected with the first valve body. The first valve body is rotated about a central axis of the shaft part. The second valve body is rotated about the central axis together with the first valve body. When rotated about the central axis in a first angle region, the first valve body changes a first flow rate, i.e., a flow rate of water between the first and third water communication ports, and a second flow rate, i.e., a flow rate of water between the second and third water communication ports. When the first valve body is rotated about the central axis in a second angle region, the second valve body changes the second flow rate. |
| US12276340B2 |
System and method for high flow valve
A system and method for a high flow valve includes a seal rod, an armature configured to be connected to and move the seal rod, a valve seal configured to be connected to the seal rod, an exhaust seal seat and a diaphragm. The valve seal is configured to be positioned on the exhaust seal seat and exert an exhaust seal pressure force. The diaphragm is configured to exert a diaphragm force opposite the exhaust seat pressure force to balance the exhaust seal pressure force. |
| US12276337B2 |
Annular metal seal, attachment structure for annular metal seal, and attachment method for annular metal seal
In an attachment structure for an annular metal seal, an annular metal seal includes a seal body configured such that at least one of outer corner portions thereof corresponding to an inner corner portion of the seal groove has a sharp ridge, and in a state where a positioning ring is held between an inner-side side surface of the seal groove and an inner-diameter-side side surface or an outer-diameter-side side surface of the seal body, the annular metal seal is fitted in the seal groove with the positioning ring abutted on at least a portion of the inner-side side surface of the seal groove and the sharp ridge of the seal body spaced from the inner corner portion of the seal groove, and the first member and the second member are fastened with each other, so that inner and an outer sides of the annular metal seal are sealed. |
| US12276334B2 |
Unit
Provided is a unit including: a housing configured to accommodate a gear connected to a motor, and a catch tank provided in the housing, in which the gear rotates integrally with a differential case, the catch tank has a portion that overlaps the gear when viewed in an axial direction, and the catch tank has a portion that overlaps the motor when viewed in the axial direction. |
| US12276331B2 |
Transmission including a baffle plate
A device includes a case; a first rotating body that has at least a part immersed in the oil in an oil bath; a second rotating body disposed in the case at a position not immersed in the oil in the oil bath; a plate; a first wall portion provided on the plate between the first rotating body and the second rotating body; a second wall portion provided above the first wall portion in a gravity direction and extending toward a direction away from the first rotating body; and a fourth wall portion provided between the first rotating body and the second rotating body and extending in a vertical direction on the plate, wherein the first wall portion is provided on a first rotating body side of the plate, and the fourth wall portion is provided on a second rotating body side of the plate. |
| US12276325B1 |
Hybrid module thrust bushing
A hybrid module includes a rotor carrier, a torque converter, and a thrust bushing. The rotor carrier includes an axially extending portion and a radially extending portion extending radially inward from the axially extending portion. The torque converter includes an impeller having an impeller shell fixed to the rotor carrier and an impeller hub fixed to the impeller shell. The impeller hub extends in an axial direction away from the radially extending portion of the rotor carrier to a distal end. The thrust bushing is connected to the impeller hub. The thrust bushing includes an axial portion in contact with the impeller hub and a radial portion extending radially outward from the axial portion. The radial portion is in contact with the distal end. |
| US12276324B2 |
Drive apparatus, dual-motor drive system, automobile and drive apparatus control method
A drive apparatus includes a first variable speed drive mechanism, a second variable speed drive mechanism, a first output half shaft, and a second output half shaft. The first variable speed drive mechanism includes a first reduction gear, a first planetary gear system, and a first brake mechanism. The second variable speed drive mechanism includes a second reduction gear, a second planetary gear system, and a second brake mechanism. The first planetary gear system includes a first sun gear, a first gear ring, a first planetary gear, and a first planet carrier. The first reduction gear is engaged with the first sun gear. |
| US12276315B1 |
Cryogenic thermal isolation stage with integral passive vibration dampers
Systems, methods, and devices of the various embodiments may provide a high-thermal-stability cryogenic-kinematic-mount with passive magnetic vibration damping. In various embodiments, the cryogenic-kinematic-mount may be configured for use in sub-Kelvin environments. Various embodiment cryogenic-kinematic-mounts may provide dampening and thermal isolation without a need for electronics or software feedback-based controls for the mounts. Various embodiments cryogenic-kinematic-mounts may be passive mounts configured to not require dampening controls. |
| US12276314B2 |
Torque limiter
A torque limiter includes a friction mechanism, a pressure plate, a first side plate, an urging member, and a second side plate. The friction mechanism includes a first friction member and a second friction member. The pressure plate includes a first contact surface and a plurality of first drainage grooves. The first contact surface is a surface that makes contact with the first friction member. The first drainage grooves radially extend. The second side plate includes a second contact surface that makes contact with the second friction member. The second side plate is disposed on a second side with respect to the second friction member in an axial direction. The second side plate is attached to the first side plate to be unitarily rotated therewith. |
| US12276310B2 |
Brake apparatus for vehicle
A brake apparatus for a vehicle according to the present disclosure includes a torque member configured to surround a brake disk, a pair of brake pads disposed in the torque member in a way to face each other, and a plurality of return parts mounted on the pair of brake pads, respectively, coupled with the torque member, and configured to guide movements of the brake pads and return the brake pads to their original positions by elastic restoring forces thereof. |
| US12276309B2 |
Disc brake for a utility vehicle
A disc brake for a utility vehicle includes brake caliper which straddles a brake disc, two brake pads each arranged in a pad channel of a vehicle-side brake carrier. The brake pads are retained in the disk brake under prestress by a pad retaining spring and a pad retaining clip on the brake caliper which spans a opening of the brake caliper. The disc brake further includes a restoring device configured to bias the brake pads away from one another after having been displaced during brake actuation. The restoring device includes sprung spreader elements that engage the opposite brake pads. The sprung spreader elements preferably include V-shaped spreader elements which are supported in the connection region of their respective spring arms on the pad retaining clip, and retained via their ends on the opposing brake pads. |
| US12276308B2 |
Driveshaft with a slidable coupling
A driveshaft assembly comprising an elongated front shaft (3), a retaining element (10) being engaged from a connection end (50) with the front shaft (3) in a co-rotating manner and a coupling device (20) secured to the front shaft (3) by means of the retaining element (10) is provided. The driveshaft further comprises a gear part (52) which is extending on the connection end (50) and the retaining element (10) is having a sleeve (17) fits to the gear part (52) in axially slidable manner. |
| US12276307B1 |
Input drum assembly for improving performance of 68RFE transmission, 68RFE transmission, and method
Disclosed are an input drum assembly for improving performance of a 68RFE transmission and a method. The cooling and lubricating efficiencies of the input drum assembly in the 68RFE transmission can be improved by an input drum assembly and/or transmission housing; mounting spaces of clutch plates and clutch friction discs can be increased by the input drum assembly, so that thicknesses of the clutch plates 14 and discs or the number thereof can be increased, and a torque borne by the 68RFE transmission can be increased finally; a reinforcing rib is increased when the transmission housing is cast, so that the overall strength of the transmission housing can be enhanced; and an inner wall is cut after the transmission housing is cast, so that a diameter of the input drum assembly can be increased, thereby increasing diameters of the clutch plates and discs, and finally increasing the torque. |
| US12276304B2 |
Self-locking bushings
A bushing is disclosed herein. The bushing includes a body having a first end and a second end, a bore formed through the body from the first end to the second end, and a lock tab coupled to the body at a point between the first end and the second end of the body and extending toward the second end of the body, the lock tab extending from the body and into the bore. |
| US12276296B2 |
Self-drilling screw structure and manufacturing method thereof
The invention provides a self-drilling screw structure and a manufacturing method thereof, wherein the manufacturing method includes: providing screw body, forming drill tail screw rod section, forming concave neck portion, forming drill tail cutting edge and forming thread. The self-drilling screw structure including a screw head portion and a screw rod portion, the screw rod portion is sequentially provided with a threaded screw rod section, a drill tail screw rod section and a drill bit screw rod section, the drill tail screw rod section has a rod diameter of drill tail, a plurality of drill tail cutting edges and a plurality of drill tail chip discharge grooves, the drill bit screw rod section is provided with a concave neck portion, and the drill bit screw rod section is protruded to form a plurality of drill bit cutting edges and the plurality of drill bit chip discharge grooves. |
| US12276295B2 |
Fastener, driver bit and punch tool
A fastener includes a screw head and a screw shank. The screw head has a top surface and an inner surrounding surface. The inner surrounding surface has six curved portions and six driven portions disposed in an alternating arrangement. Each of the driven portions has a curved section connected to one of two adjacent curved portions and having a direction of curvature opposite to that of the one of the two adjacent curved portions, a straight section extending along a tangent line of an end of the curved section, and an extension section connected between the straight section and the other one of the two adjacent curved portions. |
| US12276289B1 |
Hydraulic cylinder top end cap
There is an outer surface having a first upper O ring groove and a second lower O ring groove. The outer surface has a pressure line aperture therein. The outer surface has a snap ring groove and a third sweep O ring groove. The top end cap has a lower portion and an upper portion. The pressure line aperture has a thread. The inner surface forms a passageway through the length of the top end cap. |
| US12276287B2 |
Liquid hydrogen pump and methods
One or more boost pumps for a liquid hydrogen fuel system are disposed within the fuel tank and fully flooded. An electrical connector of each boost pump is sealed from the fuel tank and accessible from an exterior of the fuel tank while the boost pump is installed. Each boost pump can be independently replaced using a toolbox. Each boost pump is purged of fuel before being replaced by introducing a gas at a center region of the boost pump. The toolbox and new boost pump are purged prior to removal of the old boost pump. Each boost pump can be formed from modular components. |
| US12276281B2 |
Multiple-pump device
A multiple-pump device for a vehicle may include a housing. The housing may include at least a first drive device for driving a first drive shaft with a first impeller, and a second drive device for driving a second drive shaft with a second impeller. The multiple-pump device may include a bearing shield penetrated by the first drive shaft and the second drive shaft. The beating shield may separate a wet region with the first impeller and the second impeller from a dry region with the first drive device and the second drive device. The multiple-pump device may include power electronics arranged in the dry region and connected with the bearing shield to transfer heat. |
| US12276277B2 |
Fluid transfer and depressurization system
A gas transfer and depressurization system that is configured to transfer gas from a first location to a second location wherein during the transfer of gas the pressure of the first location is reduced. The gas transfer and depressurization system includes a drive chamber having an interior volume with a drive assembly movably disposed therein. A first cylinder and a second cylinder are operably coupled to the drive chamber on opposing sides thereof. The drive assembly includes a drive rod having portions extending into the first cylinder and second cylinder wherein the drive rod has pistons formed on opposing ends thereof. A controller is operably coupled to a compressed air source and is configured to provide compressed air into said drive chamber so as to reciprocally move the drive assembly. Gas blocks and coupling block are additionally present and facilitate flow of gas intermediate the first and second cylinders. |
| US12276269B2 |
Integrated air supply unit
The patent application discloses a compressed air control device. The compressed air control device for a source of compressed air on motor vehicles may comprise a housing. The housing may include an air inlet opening located at an outside surface of the housing. The housing comprises an electric motor and an air dryer. The air dryer together with the electric motor forms a first functional unit. |
| US12276265B2 |
Windmill and wind power generation apparatus
A windmill includes a shaft, a blade, and a supporting member. The windmill is rotatable about a center axis of the shaft. The blade has a blade main body portion extending along an axial direction that is a direction of the center axis. When viewed in a cross sectional view orthogonal to the axial direction, the blade main body portion includes a front edge and a rear edge, the front edge being an end on a front side in a rotation direction of the windmill, the rear edge being an end on a rear side in the rotation direction. The supporting member extends along a radial direction orthogonal to the axis direction and passing through the center axis, so as to connect the shaft and the blade main body portion to each other. |
| US12276258B2 |
Vertical axis wind turbine and method of use thereof
Wind driven apparatus is provided including upright support means and a plurality of wind directing wall members protruding outwardly from the upright support means at spaced apart intervals. The area between two adjacent wind directing wall members creates a wind collection section for collecting and directing wind in use. At least one opening is defined in the upright support means in each wind collection section for allowing wind, air and/or air pressure collected in the wind collection section to pass through said at least one opening and into an inner compartment defined in the upright support means. Drive shaft means provided in the inner compartment of the upright support means and rotatable means provided on and/or associated with the drive shaft means are rotatable as a result of air pressure and/or air flowing into the inner compartment via said at least one opening. Rotation of the drive shaft means can be used to drive electricity generating means, hydraulic pump means and/or drive transmission means in use. |
| US12276257B2 |
Wind power generation system
The application provides a wind power generation system. The application discloses one or several set of power generation units, which generate power by driving the power generation units through the airflow generated by the natural environment or the carrier device, and then the control module outputs the power to the power storage device, and then supplies power to each power-consuming equipment by the diverter connected to the power output terminal of the power storage device, respectively. The internal structure of a turbofan blade of this application has a cavity for repeated impact of airflow, which can utilize a single inlet air to generate several drives to the blades, so that tiny wind can provide more stable power supply for various power-consuming facilities, and the power generation system of this application is less affected by external environmental factors. |
| US12276256B1 |
Wind turbine blade inspection system and method based on unmanned aerial vehicle
The disclosure relates to a wind turbine blade inspection system and method based on an unmanned aerial vehicle. The system includes: a collection module, used for collecting blade data and surrounding environment data of blades to be inspected, determining feature inspection points of the unmanned aerial vehicle according to the blade data and the surrounding environment data, and generating inspection paths; an inspection module, used for shooting corresponding blade at the feature inspection points according to the inspection paths to obtain a first inspection image and a second inspection image; an analysis module, used for receiving the first inspection image and the second inspection image, analyzing the first inspection image and the second inspection image to obtain a health state of the corresponding blade, and making a maintenance plan according to the health state of each of the blades. |
| US12276255B2 |
Insulated pitch tube
An arrangement includes a transmission, a pitch tube, and a fixation device configured to affix the pitch tube in the transmission. The fixation device is electrically insulated from the pitch tube. The pitch tube can be axially movable relative to the fixation device. The pitch tube can be fixed in a shaft or a rotatably-mounted planet carrier of the transmission by the fixation device. |
| US12276254B2 |
Mass balancing of wind turbines
In a method for balancing a wind turbine where a plurality of blades are mounted on a rotor hub an annular blade bearing which allows the blade to pivot, in response to a detection of an imbalance caused by unbalanced loads applied by the blades weight is added to one or more of the blades to counter the imbalance. The weight is added by mounting a weight body to the blade at the blade bearing. The weight body comprises a plurality of individual arcuate weight elements in a stack attached to the outer race of the bearing a plurality of brackets, each engaged onto a selected one of the screw fasteners connecting the bearing to the hub. Each bracket includes a collar engaged onto a selected one of the screw fasteners and a post forming the engagement portion onto which the weight body is engaged. |
| US12276252B2 |
System and method for assembling a wind turbine
A method for assembling a wind turbine (10) having a first wind turbine component (20) with a first mounting interface (36) and a second wind turbine component (26) with a second mounting interface (34) includes positioning the second wind turbine component (26) relative to the first wind turbine component (20) such that the second mounting interface (34) is located a vertical distance above the first mounting interface (36), aligning the second mounting interface (34) to the first mounting interface (36), lowering the second wind turbine component (36) toward the first wind turbine component (20) to contact each other, and connecting the second mounting interface (34) to the first mounting interface (36). At any time during assembly when the second mounting interface (34) vertically overlaps the first mounting interface (36), the vertical distance between second mounting interface (34) and the first mounting interface (36) is maintained below a predetermined threshold (D). A system for assembling the wind turbine (10) is also disclosed. |
| US12276250B2 |
Noise reducing wind turbine blade
A wind turbine blade (10) comprising a pressure side (24) and a suction side (26), a leading edge (18) and a trailing edge (20). At least a portion of the blade (10) located in a trailing edge region (142) at or adjacent to the trailing edge (20) is a noise reducing portion defining an exposed surface and comprising a plurality of sound reducing or sound absorbing acoustic resonators (58), each of the resonators (58) comprising an opening (55) in the exposed surface and a cavity (56) having a length L between the opening (55) and a bottom (57) of the cavity opposite the opening (55). |
| US12276249B2 |
Wind-speed accelerating wind turbine
A wind-speed accelerating wind turbine has the wind turbine installed in the nacelle, the nacelle has a front nacelle member having a cross-section area formed so as to linearly or curvilinearly contract from a wind inlet to an installed position of the wind turbine and has a rear nacelle member having the contracted cross-section area formed so as to linearly or curvilinearly expand or maintain the same cross-section area from the installed position of the wind turbine to a wind outlet, and a wind dispersion part or a wind dispersion shape is provided at the wind outlet of the rear nacelle member. |
| US12276247B2 |
Utilizing hydrostatic and hydraulic pressure to generate energy, and associated systems, devices, and methods
Systems, devices, and methods for utilizing hydrostatic and/or hydraulic pressure to generate energy and to separate water into hydrogen and oxygen are disclosed herein. A representative industrial system can comprise a storage tank containing fluid, a separator piston having a first separator compartment configured to be fluidically coupled to the storage tank and a second separator compartment, and a pressure intensifier. The pressure intensifier includes a first compartment, and a second compartment fluidically coupled to the second separator compartment. The second compartment of the pressure intensifier includes a pressure concentrator having a housing, a piston head member including arms, a plurality of cylinders each defined in part by the housing, and a drive piston head portion. Pressurized water may be depressurized by sending it through fine bore friction channels to produce water vapor and/or steam, which may then be injected into plasma reactors that separate water into hydrogen and oxygen. Some embodiments may involve injecting a catalyst into the plasma reactors with the water vapor and/or steam. |
| US12276231B2 |
Systems and methods for determining real time fuel consumption information of an aircraft
A system includes one or more control units configured to determine one or more fuel consumption models for an aircraft. A method includes determining, by one or more control units, one or more fuel consumption models for an aircraft. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising executable instructions that, in response to execution, cause one or more control units comprising a processor, to perform operations including determining one or more fuel consumption models for an aircraft. |
| US12276230B2 |
Variable transmission driven fuel pump for a gas turbine engine
A fuel system for a gas turbine engine includes a fuel pump to provide fuel flow during engine operation and a transmission system that includes an output shaft coupled to drive the fuel pump, and an input shaft driven through a mechanical link to a shaft of the gas turbine engine. The output shaft drives the fuel pump at a variable speed that is independent of a rotational speed of the input shaft. |
| US12276224B2 |
Cooling structure for radial turbine
A cooling structure for a radial turbine is equipped with a partition wall arranged between a compressor and the radial turbine, and a through hole formed in the partition wall supplying a part of air compressed by the compressor to the rear surface of the radial turbine as cooling air. The through hole is inclined in a rotational direction of the radial turbine in the range of 40° to 80° with respect to a rotation axis of the radial turbine. |
| US12276222B2 |
Controllable mechanical motor vehicle coolant pump
A controllable mechanical motor vehicle coolant pump includes a rotatable drive shaft co-rotatably connected with a coolant pump wheel, a transverse housing surface extending transversely with respect to and surrounding the drive shaft, a cylindrical inner slider support surface radially surrounding the drive shaft, a control slider which is axially shiftable with respect to the coolant pump wheel so as to control an effective discharge flow cross-section thereof, and a push-out pressure chamber. The push-out pressure chamber is arranged between a slider bottom wall of the control slider and the transverse housing surface, is defined at one axial side by the transverse housing surface and radially inwardly by the cylindrical inner slider support surface, and is pressurized to generate a push-out push force which pushes the slider bottom wall toward the coolant pump wheel. A first housing element defines the transverse housing surface and the inner slider support surface. |
| US12276220B2 |
Method for heating an exhaust system
A method for heating an exhaust system downstream from an internal combustion engine using an electrical heating device. The method includes an ascertainment of a current temperature in the exhaust system, an ascertainment of a current temperature of the electrical heating device and a fluid mass flow flowing through the electrical heating device, an ascertainment of a heating requirement based on the ascertained current temperature and a target temperature, a calculation of a required amount of heat depending on the heating requirement and an amount of energy required to heat up the electrical heating device, taking into account a heat input into the fluid mass flow to be expected at the ascertained current temperature of the electrical heating device, and a control of the electrical heating device to generate the calculated amount of heat. A computing unit and a computer program are also described. |
| US12276218B2 |
System for lighting off an auxiliary occupational emissions device and method of operating the same
A system for removing effluents from the exhaust gases of an engine includes an auxiliary occupational emissions device positioned downstream of a vehicle-regulated emission abatement system. One or more glow plugs is positioned between the vehicle-regulated emission abatement system and the auxiliary occupational emissions device. The glow plugs are operable to heat exhaust gases exiting the vehicle-regulated emission abatement system prior to advancement into the auxiliary occupational emissions device. A method of lighting off an auxiliary occupational emissions device is also disclosed. |
| US12276217B2 |
Engine device
An engine device includes an exhaust gas purification device above a cylinder head through a support pedestal. The support pedestal has a flat portion on which the exhaust gas purification device is mounted, and a plurality of legs which protrude downward form the flat portion and are fixed to the cylinder head. The flat portion and the leg portion are formed integrally. Portions between the legs are each formed in an arch-shape. |
| US12276214B1 |
Camshaft phase adjuster with improved vane construction
A camshaft phase adjuster having a vane construction that optimizes one or more of the seal contact pressure, wear properties, and/or the distribution of forces acting on the vane that are transmitted to the rotor. Vane configurations include vanes with non-parallel sides at the actuation end as well as a core and over-molded cover configuration. This provides enhanced wear properties and/or allows the use of lower strength materials for the vane which reduces costs. |
| US12276212B2 |
Heat engine
A heat engine including a compressor, an expander, a reactor in which first and second reactants in a working fluid can react with each other, the reactor arranged between the compressor and the expander, and a condenser for condensing a gas in the working fluid, the condenser arranged between the expander and the compressor. There is also provided a method of operating a heat engine. |
| US12276210B2 |
Hydrogen expansion system for fuel cell use
A fuel cell system includes a hydrogen expansion system comprising an aeolipile, and a heat exchanger for receiving and expanding hydrogen received from a supply of hydrogen, for provision to the aeolipile. A generator coupled to the aeolipile may generate electrical power from operation of the aeolipile. The hydrogen leaving the aeolipile may be returned to the heat exchanger to transfer heat to the hydrogen received from the supply of hydrogen. |
| US12276209B2 |
Mounting of a sealing ring on an aeronautical turbine engine
The invention proposes an aeronautical turbine engine assembly comprising an upstream casing (55) to which guide blading (48a) is fastened, and a downstream casing (58) to which a sealing element (62) provided with an abradable material for rotor blading is fastened. This assembly further comprises a shroud ring (66) placed between the upstream casing and the downstream casing and fastening means (68) for detachably fastening the shroud ring. In order to be fastened to the upstream casing, the guide blading (48a) of the turbine engine is mounted on a downstream hook (480b) of the upstream casing, without being hooked onto the shroud ring (66), and the downstream casing (58) has an upstream hook with which the sealing element (62) is engaged in order to be fastened to the downstream casing, or the shroud ring has an upstream hook on which the sealing element (62) is mounted so as to be fastened to the downstream casing. |
| US12276207B2 |
High-temperature part and gas turbine including the same
A high-temperature part of the present disclosure includes: a high-temperature part body which includes a base and a coating layer formed on a part of a surface of the base; and a protective layer which is formed on at least a part of a surface of the coating layer. The protective layer is formed of a material which is allowed to disappear from a surface of the coating layer under an operation environment of a gas turbine. |
| US12276202B2 |
Oil tank for aircraft engine
Aircraft engine oil tanks, lubrication systems, and associated methods are provided. The oil tank includes a first tank portion defining a first volume for holding oil and a second tank portion defining a second volume for holding oil, in fluid communication with the first volume. The first tank portion includes an oil outlet for delivering oil to a lubrication load via a pump. The first volume is in fluid communication with a vent opening for venting the oil tank. At least part of the second tank portion is disposed higher than the vent opening for retaining a quantity of oil inside the oil tank during a negative-g force flight condition and facilitate the recovery of the lubrication system following the negative-g force flight condition. |
| US12276197B2 |
Tunnel excavation device
A tunnel excavation device includes a front body portion configured to support a cutter head and a rear body portion. The rear body portion includes a gripper carrier and a gripper portion. The gripper carrier is disposed in a rear of the front body portion. The gripper portion is provided on the gripper carrier. The gripper portion includes a groove portion and a wheel portion. The groove portion is formed in a recess shape toward the rear main body. The wheel portion is disposed in the groove portion. |
| US12276196B2 |
Three-level prevention and control method for rock burst roadway
A three-level prevention and control method for a rock burst roadway, the method comprising: pre-weakening a thick and hard rock layer above a roadway before the roadway is excavated; carrying out prestress support, pressure relief and reinforcement when the roadway is excavated; and carrying out stress transfer on an advance abutment pressure, and arranging a composite energy absorption protective structure around the roadway before the mining of a working face. By coordinating the spatio-temporal relationship between pressure relief, support and prevention, the energy dissipation in the rock burst roadway is changed from an unstable, disorderly and uncontrollable dissipation state to a stable, orderly and controllable dissipation state. |
| US12276193B2 |
Underground drilling rig and method for erecting same
The Invention relates to an underground drilling rig (10) and a method for its erection, wherein the method, in a special embodiment, comprises erecting a mast structure (20) of the drilling rig (10) extending from a horizontal tunnel (production tunnel) into a vertical mast shaft (14) and by means of an erecting structure (50), wherein the mast structure (20) comprises a plurality of mast segments (60) connected to one another or connectable to one another. |
| US12276190B2 |
Ultrasonic flow check systems for wellbores
An ultrasonic flow check system for wellbores includes an ultrasonic transceiver installed within an inner surface of a bell nipple attached to a well head of a wellbore at a surface. The bell nipple receives wellbore fluid from a flow line attached to a side surface of the bell nipple. An alarm is installed on a rotary table installed above the bell nipple such that the bell nipple is between the rotary table and the well head. A ultrasonic signal is caused to be transmitted, by the ultrasonic transceiver, into the bell nipple. The ultrasonic signal is reflected by the wellbore fluid within the bell nipple resulting in an ultrasonic response signal. The ultrasonic response signal is caused to be received by the ultrasonic transceiver. Based on the ultrasonic response signal, it is determined whether the fluid level within the bell nipple is static or mobile. |
| US12276189B2 |
Anti-collision well trajectory design
Techniques for determining trajectories for a plurality of wells while avoiding collision between wells are presented. The techniques can include determining a zone of uncertainty for individual wells of the plurality of wells, determining a minimum separation factor for individual wells of the plurality of wells, determining a gradient of a separation factor for at least one pair of wells of the plurality of pairs of wells, updating a nudge position for at least one well, and providing nudge positions for the individual wells of the plurality of wells. |
| US12276188B2 |
Optimizing drilling parameters for controlling a wellbore drilling operation
A system can receive input data indicating a current state of a wellbore drilling operation. The system can determine, by a set of software applications, constraints associated with the wellbore drilling operation. The system can optimize, by an optimization model and using the input data, a drilling parameter subject to the constraints associated with the wellbore drilling operation. The system can output the optimized drilling parameter for controlling the wellbore drilling operation. |
| US12276186B2 |
Controlling hydraulic fracture growth using stress shadows
A method for controlling the growth of a hydraulic fracture using a stress shadow generated during a hydraulic fracturing operation includes selecting a stage pair including a first stage and a second stage for which hydraulic fractures are to be generated via a hydraulic fracturing operation. The method also includes hydraulic fracturing the first stage to generate a corresponding first hydraulic fracture and controlling a magnitude of a stress shadow originating from the first hydraulic fracture by varying at least one parameter of the hydraulic fracturing operation, where the stress shadow is controlled so as to provide a second hydraulic fracture of a target fracture shape for the second stage. The method further includes hydraulic fracturing the second stage to generate the second hydraulic fracture with the target fracture shape. |
| US12276184B1 |
Reviving a well using through-tubing cable-deployed pump
A method that includes disposing a packer and an ESP inside a production tubing bore. The ESP includes a pump, a discharge, a shroud, and a bypass sub coupled to the shroud. The shroud includes a closed end coupled to a base of the pump. The packer, coupled to an outer surface of the shroud, is located downstream of the bypass sub. The method includes circulating liquids from the pumping base through the discharge to a shroud open end downstream of the packer thereby sealing the packer between the outer surface and the production tubing bore. The method includes pumping, using the pump device, the liquids through the production tubing using the bypass sub and performing a production operation using the wellhead assembly to obtain an amount of gas production. |
| US12276183B2 |
Perforating-gun initiator circuit
An initiator circuit for a perforating gun includes a microprocessor structured to perform a circuit-startup algorithm comprising determining whether the circuit supply voltage is stable enough for operation and, if it is, or if a predetermined period of time has passed since powering up the circuit, sending a message indicating the circuit (and thus gun) is ready for operation. The sent message may be a communication uplink indicating an address of the circuit and its ready state or a short burst of pulses indicating the circuit's ready state. |
| US12276179B2 |
Intelligent power management system
A method may include obtaining, from a digital drilling program and by a drilling management network, a drilling operation sequence of the drilling rig. The drilling management network is coupled to a drilling rig, rig equipment, and various electric power generators. The method may further include determining, by the drilling management network, a power management sequence that matches an electric power capacity of the drilling rig to an electric power consumption of the rig equipment. The method may further include executing, by the drilling management network, the power management sequence to the rig equipment and the electric power generators. |
| US12276171B2 |
Control system for a well control device
A control system for automatically operating a well control device located in a subsea blow-out preventer (BOP), has a first control unit and a second control unit. The first control unit is connected to the second control unit and issues an activation command to the second control unit to cause it to trigger actuation of the well control device, and the first control unit is configured to automatically issue the activation command to the second control unit on detecting issue of the signal indicative of a requirement to trigger actuation of the subsea BOP shear mechanism. |
| US12276170B2 |
Subsea wellhead monitoring system
A subsea wellbore monitoring system of the present disclosure includes hanger, plug, and monitoring assemblies. The hanger assembly installs on landing in the wellhead, engages the lock profile, and has a hanger seal sealing in the wellhead. The plug assembly is supported in the hanger assembly and has a plug seal to seal in the landing. Ports of the plug assembly communicate with a bore envelope and an annulus envelope. The monitoring assembly has pressure monitors that communicate with the ports and measure pressure measurements related to the envelopes. The hanger and plug seals can be elastomeric and/or metal elements. The hanger and plug seals are preferably expandable or can be energized outward so the seals can pass any shoulders and profiles when installed in the wellbore and can then seal against the internal surfaces. |
| US12276167B2 |
Downhole apparatus
An explosive assembly for a downhole tool operable to connect and selectively disconnect within a wellbore a first portion of a downhole tool string and a second portion of the downhole tool string. The explosive assembly includes an explosive charge, a detonator switch operable to detonate the explosive charge, and a housing assembly containing the explosive charge and the detonator switch. The explosive assembly may be movable as a single unit and installable within an internal space of the downhole tool. The explosive charge may be operable to sever a support member of the downhole tool when the explosive charge is detonated by the detonator switch to therefore disconnect a first portion of the downhole tool and a second portion of the downhole tool from each other and thus disconnect the first portion of the downhole tool string and the second portion of the downhole tool string from each other. |
| US12276166B2 |
Device for preventing abrupt blockage in blooie line of gas drilling
A device for preventing abrupt blockage in a blooie line of gas drilling includes a sand-storing tank body, which is connected to a rotating blowout preventer through a guiding tube, and a guiding three-way joint is set between the guiding tube and the sand-storing tank body and connected to the blooie line by a vertical guiding tube; the sand-storing tank body is connected to the blooie line by means of a gas discharge tube; a flap plate assembly is arranged at the position fronting straight onto the guiding three-way joint inside the sand-storing tank body, and configured to control the rock particles in the guiding tube to enter the sand-storing tank body, preventing blockage in the blooie line. |
| US12276163B2 |
Method and apparatus for testing of the downhole connector electrical system during installation
Disclosed are methods and devices for testing downhole connector electrical systems and cable integrity during installation of a permanent completion, including a customized retrievable plug arm assembly connectable to the completion during RIH, the tool mimicking a retrievable ESP, but without motor, and can be employed with or without pressure isolation. Another method employs a slidable starpoint located within the downhole wet mate connector of the completion to provide continuous electrical contact between the phases when no retrievable assembly is in place. When a retrievable assembly is later put in place, the slidable starpoint is moved into a second position that no longer provides electrical contact between the phases. Another method uses fusible links installed between two conductors within the downhole electrical connector system of the completion to provide similar electrical contact between phases, the fusible link configured to melt away once motor current is sent through the conductors. |
| US12276159B2 |
Window shade and actuating system thereof
An actuating system for a window shade includes a rotary axle, a cord winding assembly and a limiting mechanism. The cord winding assembly is coupled to the rotary axle and is connected with a plurality of suspension cords, the rotary axle being rotatable to cause the cord winding assembly to wind and unwind the suspension cords for displacing a movable rail of a window shade. The limiting mechanism includes a latch coupled to one of the suspension cords, the latch being movable between a locking state for preventing rotation of the rotary axle and an unlocking state for rotation of the rotary axle, the limiting mechanism being configured so that tensioning and loosening of the one of the suspension cords causes the latch to switch between the locking state and the unlocking state. |
| US12276158B2 |
System and method for controlling one or more roller shades
Systems, methods, and modes for controlling one or more roller shades in order to substantially synchronize and uniformly align a plurality of roller shades. Each shade comprises a roller tube, a shade material connected to the roller tube, a motor adapted to rotate the roller tube, and a controller. The controller is adapted to: drive the motor between a first limit position and a second limit position of the shade material at a first rotational speed; determine a run time it took the motor to move the shade material between the first limit position and the second limit position; using at least the determined run time, determine a second rotational speed for the controller to drive the motor between the first limit position and the second limit position within a predetermined run time; and set the motor to operate according to the second rotational speed. |
| US12276157B2 |
Condensation water disposal device of a rapid sliding roll-up door interposed between two environments with different temperatures
A high speed sliding roll-up door interposed between two rooms at different temperatures has a flexible curtain to close or open a passage of a wall separating these rooms. The roll-up door has two side uprights having guide rails of the side edges of the curtain, and an upper crosspiece near which there is a storage area of the curtain. A device for draining the condensation water present on the curtain includes guide rails having an upper rectilinear portion, close to the shelter area, and a lower rectilinear portion offset with respect to the upper rectilinear portion, between which an inclined portion is interposed which is connected upstream and downstream with the upper and lower rectilinear portion. Below the upper rectilinear portion there is a gutter formation configured to receive the condensation water present on the curtain, when this rises towards the shelter area. |
| US12276154B2 |
Double door system and method with service check mode
Double door system (1) comprising an understriking door leaf (2), an overstriking door leaf (3), a first door operator (11) adapted to move the understriking door leaf (2) between an open and a closed position, a second door operator (12) adapted to move the overstriking door leaf (3) between an open and a closed position, a mechanical brake arrangement (100) and an electric coordination system (90). |
| US12276153B2 |
Multi-joint hinge
A multi-joint hinge has a mounting element which can be fixed to an appliance body and a hinge part which can be fixed to a door and which is held pivotably on the mounting element via a joint mechanism with a plurality of joint levers. The hinge part is biased in the closing direction via a spring and at least one linear damper with a damper housing and a piston rod displaceable relative to the damper housing is provided which brakes a closing movement of the hinge part. The linear damper is arranged with the damper housing in a rotationally fixed manner via a holding element within a lever and the holding element is fixed to a lever of the joint mechanism. The piston rod can be pushed into the damper housing via an actuating element which is arranged on a further lever of the joint mechanism. |
| US12276149B2 |
Protector with sensor and method of manufacturing the same
A first end of an insert fills up a space of a hollow part of a protector, and a second end includes an insulator to insulate a first wire connection part where a first leg of a resistor is piled on a first core wire from a second wire connection part where a second leg of the resistor is piled on a second core wire. Die-molding material covers the insulator, the first and second core wires, the resistor, the first and second legs, and the first and second wire connection parts. The insulator has a tabular shape, and the insulator has left and right side ends exposed from a part covered with the die-molding material. The insert includes a second protrusion on a connection part between the first and second ends of the insert. The second protrusion is closer to an inner side part than an inner surface of the insulator. |
| US12276148B2 |
Furniture drive
A furniture drive includes a housing to be arranged on a furniture panel, and an actuating arm assembly for moving the movable furniture part, and the actuating arm assembly includes an actuating arm movably-supported relative to the housing to be fixed to the movable furniture part. The actuating arm assembly is movable between a first relative position and a second relative position, and includes actuating arms pivotable relative to one another. A pivotal movement of the actuating arm assembly from the second relative position toward the first relative position can be blocked by a releasable blocking device including a movably supported blocking element movable between a blocking position and an unblocking position. A blocking element of the blocking device is supported on one of the actuating arms and includes an abutment bearing against a counter-abutment of the other of the actuating arms in the blocking position. |
| US12276144B1 |
Door security device
Provided is a self-acting door security device including a latch bolt of a locking module installed on a swinging door and engaging with a latch hole of a striker mounted on a door frame to enable the locking/unlocking the swinging door. The self-acting door security device can be easily installed in a gap between a door and a door frame to quickly detect forced opening of the door by an intruder, thereby securing personal safety. The self-acting door security device has an improved structure such that the door can be opened without interference from a latch bolt even in a malfunction condition that the latch bolt of an existing lock module installed on the door is not fully inserted, thereby enabling quick evacuation in emergency situations including fires. The self-acting door security device includes an insert plate, a locker plate, a fastening piece, a stop holder, and a stopper member. |
| US12276143B2 |
Device and method for securing a door
Disclosed are various embodiments providing a device to secure a hinge of a door, such as a hinge of a door on a shipping container. The device includes a body member and a clamp member. The body member is L-shaped and is placed over a the hinge of the door and the clamp member is placed over a door panel and attached to the body member via a bolt inserted through the clamp member to attach to the body member. Access to the bolt is limited by a puck lock attached to the clamp member. |
| US12276141B2 |
Latch mechanism opening/closing detection system
A latch mechanism opening and closing detection system for accurately detecting the open and closed state of a door including a claw configured to be pushed by a striker and rotated in a fastening direction; a pawl member configured to contact the claw and rotate in an interlocked manner such that the claw engages at a half-lock point corresponding to a middle portion of a rotation range of the claw and at a full-lock point corresponding to an end portion of the rotation range, thereby limiting rotation of the claw in an unfastening direction; and a full-lock detection switch configured not to be manipulated at the half-lock point and configured to be switching-manipulated at the full-lock point by the claw and the pawl member, thereby detecting a state in which the claw is fully fastened to the striker. |
| US12276137B2 |
Stepless adjustable electronic device locking apparatus
A stepless adjustable electronic device locking apparatus has a fixing member, a stage adjusting mechanism, a driving mechanism, an unlocking member, and a lock. The driving mechanism selectively opens the fixing member to engage in an anti-theft hole based on a current one of working stages to which the stage adjusting mechanism adjusts. The unlocking member is able to close the fixing member. By separating adjustment of the working stages and movement of the fixing member, the movements of the fixing member do not interfere in the working stages. Therefore, the unlocking member can be applied to the driving mechanism to unlock. The fixing member can be closed to disengage from the anti-theft hole through the unlocking member without being reversely rotated and adjusting the working stages, so as to unlocking quickly. |
| US12276132B2 |
Striker assembly for closure latch in motor vehicles
A striker assembly for a vehicle closure panel includes a striker plate and a striker. The striker plate has opposite sides with at least one opening. A body of the striker extends through the at least one opening outwardly from the opposite sides to opposite first and second end regions, the second end region being configured for latched engagement with a ratchet of a latch assembly. The body is releasably fixed in a first position relative to the striker plate during normal use conditions resulting in normal use forces being applied to the striker. The body is intentionally deformable under an abnormal condition resulting in abnormal, excessively high force being applied to the striker to allow the striker to automatically move relative to the striker plate from the first position to a second position to allow a vehicle closure panel to move outwardly relative to an adjacent vehicle body structure. |
| US12276130B2 |
Autonomous dispensing device
A floating and energy-autonomous device (1) configured to dispense a solid compound (2) into a volume (3v) of liquid. The device (1) includes a reservoir (9) of solid compound (2), and a pump (13) configured to generate a circulating flow of the liquid (3) coining from the volume (3v) of liquid and passing through the reservoir (9) before returning to the volume (3v) of liquid. The device (1) includes a sensor (17) configured to generate a sensor signal indicative of a parameter of the volume (3v) of liquid or of a gaseous environment (4) of the device (1), and/or an antenna (18) configured to receive a radio signal, and to generate an antenna signal. The device (1) includes a microcontroller (19) configured to command the pump (13) and to regulate the circulating flow rate of the liquid (3) on the basis of the sensor signal and/or of the antenna signal. |
| US12276126B2 |
Portable multi-hinged shelter
A portable multi-hinged shelter for housing one or more individuals and storing gear commonly associated with outdoor excursions and like activities, which includes a box frame mounted atop of and connected to an open cargo bay of a vehicle and fitted with a secondary shelter shell and a supportive wind wall removably attached to the box frame and pivotally connected to a lower wind wall and sideward arms of a moveable frame assembly. The moveable frame assembly further includes primary and secondary canopies pivotally connected to the sideward arms and a ground brace pivotally connected to the primary canopy that collectively accept and support attachment of a primary shelter shell, whereby multiple pairs of linear actuators operating in unison and connecting to and interacting with select structural aspects of the supportive wind wall and moveable frame assembly yields automated expansion and contraction of the moveable frame assembly respectively for occupancy and compact transport alongside the vehicle. |
| US12276125B2 |
Solar tent for medical uses in the field
The solar tent comprises a canopy tent with integrated solar panels into the roof of a medical tent design. This technology allows the tent to capture solar energy, and convert it into electrical energy which can then be used to power lights, medical devices, and other equipment. This technology is foldable and collapsible to allow the tent to be both deployed and stored rapidly. The solar tent helps medical professionals overcome the challenges of lack of sufficient electricity while operating from a canopy tent, in the face of COVID-19. |
| US12276122B2 |
Carpet tile lifting apparatus and system for removing carpet tiles
A carpet tile lifting apparatus is disclosed comprises a base plate and a base plate cover coupled to each other via a snap-fit locking mechanism. The base plate is provided with a front cutting edge in a form of a pointed spike to slide underneath the carpet tile. The apparatus comprises two wings coupled at either side of the base plate cover. Further, the wings comprise a first blade and a second blade coupled with each other. The apparatus comprises a housing coupled with the at least one wing. The housing encloses a plurality of wheels coupled to the housing via a first shaft. The first shaft is coupled to a first gear. The apparatus comprises at least one spiked roller coupled with the second shaft and interlocked between the first end and the second end of the housing. |
| US12276117B2 |
Board and floor panel based on such board
Sheet material includes at least two layers of material, wherein a first layer of material forms more than half the thickness of the sheet material and is mainly built up from wood particles glued by means of a first binder and pressed. The first binder is thermosetting, wherein the second layer of material is present on the surface of the aforementioned sheet material and is mainly built up from particulate particles glued by a second binder and pressed. The second binder is thermoplastic and/or elastomeric. |
| US12276116B2 |
Cladding system for a wall, arrangement of tile cladding system and method for mounting the cladding system
The invention relates to a cladding system (100) for a wall (1), having a plate-shaped cladding element (50) which can be connected on two opposite longitudinal or transverse sides to a respective fastening profile (10), wherein the fastening profile (10) is designed to anchor the cladding system (100) on the wall (1), wherein the cladding element (50) has, on the two longitudinal or transverse sides arranged in operative connection with a fastening profile (10), in each case a preferably strip-shaped fastening portion (60, 62) which interacts with a complementary, groove-shaped receiving portion (16, 18) on the fastening profile (10), wherein the two receiving portions (16, 18) on the fastening profile (10) are arranged on the fastening profile (10) on the side opposite to a fastening surface (14) for the wall (1) on the fastening profile (10), wherein the first receiving portion (16) extends at least substantially parallel to the fastening surface (14) or to abase surface portion (64) of the cladding element (50), and the second receiving portion (16) is arranged at an oblique angle (a), preferably between 50 degrees and 60 degrees, very particularly preferably about 45 degrees, to the fastening surface (14) or to the base surface portion (64). |
| US12276111B2 |
Building ridge vent system
A ridge vent system is provided including a ridge vent having opposing exterior sidewalls that each define multiple fastener recesses that extend inward from the exterior sidewalls and downward from a top plate, where each recess can have multiple recess slots that cooperate with adjacent sidewall slots to form contiguous vented areas along each of the opposing exterior sidewalls to provide enhanced attic ventilation and/or airflow through the ridge vent, while still providing fastener recesses that facilitate rapid and efficient application of fasteners therethrough. |
| US12276109B2 |
Ventilation assembly
A ventilation assembly (200) includes a frame unit (100) and a cover body (60). The frame unit (100) includes two frame assemblies (10) and two closing plates (30) connected between the frame assemblies (10). Each frame assembly (10) includes two frame seats (11) and outer and inner side plates (12, 13) cooperatively defining a tortuous passage (14). Each frame assembly (10) further includes first and second air vents (15, 16). The cover body (60) is connected to and cooperates with the frame assemblies (10) and the closing plates (30) to define an air chamber (70) configured to communicate with an opening (102) in an upper portion (1) of a building. The first air vent (15) is provided to communicate the air chamber (70) with the tortuous passage (14), and the second air vent (16) is provided to communicate the tortuous passage (14) with the atmosphere. |
| US12276108B1 |
Step flashing and moisture barrier assembly and method therefor
A step flashing and moisture barrier assembly includes a panel and a layer of moisture-proof material. The panel has a front surface and a back surface and includes a first panel portion and a second panel portion joined transversely at a corner extending across the panel. The layer of moisture-proof material has a front surface attached to the back surface of the panel and a back surface that includes an adhesive material to permit attachment of the step flashing and moisture barrier assembly to a roof structure at a juncture of two roof surfaces. |
| US12276099B2 |
Modular building systems
A building module for use in construction of a building comprising a deck oriented in a horizontal plane and a plurality of hollow structural members extending downwardly from around a periphery of the deck. A method of constructing a building comprising placing a plurality of modules according to a floor plan to form a story of the building, pouring flowable medium that sets to a become a solid structural material into the hollow structural members of the plurality of modules to form structural columns, pouring flowable medium that sets to a become a solid structural material onto the decks of the plurality of modules for form structural slabs, and allowing the structural columns and structural slabs to set to complete the story of the building. |
| US12276098B1 |
System for purifying and delivering surface water to an aquifer
A system for purifying and delivering surface water from rain or snow-melt to the local aquifer in order to increase the local groundwater level, is disclosed. The system includes activated charcoal for removal of contaminants including per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, commonly referred to as PFAS, from surface water prior to delivering the water to the aquifer. |
| US12276097B2 |
Additive dispenser
A liquid dosing apparatus for dispensing a liquid from a container into a liquid stream of a shower, toilet, or tap includes an adapter, a dosing mechanism, a damping control system, and a dispensing outlet. The adapter is arranged to detachable receive the container. The dosing mechanism includes a dosing chamber and a movable member. The dosing mechanism is arranged to draw a set volume of the liquid into the dosing chamber on activation by moving the moveable member in a first direction. The damping control system is arranged to control a dispensing rate of the set volume of the liquid by controlling return speed of the moveable member. The damping control system is arranged to allow and control adjustment of the dispensing rate. The dispensing outlet is arranged to dispense the liquid into the water stream at the controlled dispensing rate. |
| US12276092B2 |
System and method for providing water conservation
System and method for implementing water conservation is disclosed. The water conservation system may comprise a plurality of solenoid valves, a plurality of water outlet points, one or more grey water tanks, a city water source, water pumps, timers, and a plurality of sensors. The sensors may include water level detection sensors, temperature detection sensors, solenoid valve sensors, pump control sensors, and the like. A control unit comprising a memory and a processor may be configured to control the working of the water conservation system. Data received from various components and sensors are processed to determine an operation to be performed by the system. The operations include fire control, excess grey water removal, or standard irrigation. The control unit activates a combination of solenoid valves and pumps to route water from grey water tanks and/or city water source depending upon the operation to be performed. |
| US12276091B2 |
Systems and methods for managing production and distribution of liquid water extracted from air
This disclosure relates to systems and methods for managing production and distribution of liquid water extracted from air. In certain embodiments, a system is provided that includes a plurality of local water generation units (110) including a first local water generation unit and a second local water generation unit. The first and second water generation units each include a controller that is configured to control a production rate of liquid water extracted from the air, a local water collection unit, and a local transceiver. A principal water supply unit (120) is in fluid communication with at least one of the local water collection units. The principal water supply unit is configured to store at least part of the liquid water extracted from the air and to maintain a principal water level at a reservoir of the principal water supply unit based on one or more operational parameters for water distribution. |
| US12276089B2 |
Conveyance drain emitter
A rainwater conveyance system for managing water flowing through a conveyance line having a first portion located above ground and a second portion located underground and adjacent to a percolation region. The rainwater conveyance system comprises a drain emitter comprising an emitter inlet and an emitter outlet. The emitter inlet is connected to the conveyance line such that the collected water flows into the drain emitter and a drained portion of the collected water flows from the second portion of the conveyance line and through the emitter outlet at a preset emitter flow rate. The drain emitter is arranged such that the drained portion of the standing water flows to the percolation region. The preset emitter flow rate is predetermined such that the drained portion of the collected water flows out of the conveyance line and percolates through the percolation region. |
| US12276085B2 |
Work assist server, work assist method, and work assist system
Provided is a server and a system that can assist an operator in recognizing whether or not a work machine in a work-site birds-eye image output on an output interface constituting a remote operation device is subject to remote operation by the remote operation device. According to the captured image acquired through the image pickup device C, when a work machine 40 is in the work-site birds-eye image that is output on an output interface 220 constituting a remote operation device 20, whether or not the work machine 40 is a connection-target work machine is determined. If the determination result is positive, a first sign image ID1 associated with an actual machine image Q2 that represents the work machine 40 in the work-site birds-eye image is displayed on the output interface 220 of the remote operation device 20. |
| US12276082B2 |
Working vehicle
A working machine includes a cooling fan, and a first cooling device and a second cooling device that are disposed in series in a flow passage of cooling air that is generated by the cooling fan. The first cooling device is disposed upstream of the second cooling device in a direction of flow of the cooling air, and has a heat-exchange suppressing portion that is provided at a portion corresponding to a region in a rotation center vicinity of the cooling fan and that suppresses heat exchange between the cooling air and a fluid that flows in the first cooling device. |
| US12276080B2 |
Vacuum excavation apparatus having a deceleration vessel and methods for excavating a site
Hydro excavation vacuum apparatus that process spoil material onboard the apparatus by separating water from the cut earthen material are disclosed. |
| US12276079B2 |
Crawler-type work machine
A crawler-type work machine includes left and right steering brakes configured to brake left and right output shafts, a turning motor configured to produce a rotation speed difference between the left and right output shafts, work implement cylinders configured to drive a work implement attached to a vehicle body, a hydraulic pressure supply unit configured to supply hydraulic fluid to the turning motor and the work implement cylinders, and a controller configured to control the hydraulic pressure supply unit. The controller is configured to execute a hydraulic fluid amount control in order to reduce the hydraulic fluid amount supplied from the hydraulic pressure supply unit to the turning motor when the work implement cylinders are driven while the turning motor is rotating. |
| US12276077B2 |
Methods and apparatus for foundation monitoring
A system for monitoring a foundation includes a sensor cartridge assembly. The sensor cartridge assembly includes a sensor disposed in a sensor tube and a sensor head attached to an end of the sensor tube. Wiring coupled to the sensor and routed in the sensor tube to the sensor head conveys power and/or telemetry between the sensor and a controller. The sensor tube is configured to be inserted into a raceway attached to a foundation. The raceway may be within the foundation and/or located at a perimeter of the foundation. A method for monitoring a foundation includes deriving an elevation of the foundation at the location of the sensor based on pressure measurements made by the sensor within the sensor tube. |
| US12276076B1 |
Green sealing material for karst flowing water, and preparation method and use thereof
Provided are a green sealing material for karst flowing water, and a preparation method and use thereof. The green sealing material includes a component A and a component B, with a volume ratio of the component A to the component B being in a range of 4:1 to 5:1; where the component A includes in parts by weight: 40 parts to 50 parts of a sulphoaluminate cement, 10 parts to 15 parts of a light-burned magnesium oxide, 1 part to 4 parts of boric acid, and 40 parts to 50 parts of water; and the component B includes in parts by weight: 0.2 parts to 0.4 parts of hydroxypropyl methylcellulose, 0.1 parts to 0.5 parts of polyacrylamide, 15 parts to 30 parts of potassium dihydrogen phosphate, 0.2 parts to 0.4 parts of triethanolamine, 0.5 parts to 1 part of lithium carbonate, and 80 parts to 100 parts of water. |
| US12276073B2 |
Method and apparatus for safely and quickly removing snow from narrow pedestrian and vehicular paths
A method and system which provides for a zero turn stand-on snow blower with only two powered wheels and two free wheeling casters which provides for the ability to blow snow from narrow paths, turn around without leaving the sidewalk, automatically turn off the auger and present a shovel for performing quick detailed shoveling tasks when stepping off the snow blower. |
| US12276068B2 |
Fabric tape
A forming fabric tape for a machine for producing or processing a fiber material web, the forming fabric tape including an upper fabric layer including upper longitudinal threads and upper transversal threads woven into the upper longitudinal threads; and a lower fabric layer including lower longitudinal threads and lower transversal threads woven into the lower longitudinal threads, wherein the upper fabric layer and the lower fabric layer are arranged on top of one another so that the upper fabric layer is oriented towards the fiber material web and the lower fabric layer is oriented away from the fiber material web, wherein the upper longitudinal threads are offset from each other unevenly, wherein the upper longitudinal threads are arranged so that average distances of the upper longitudinal threads have the following sequence which is repeated continuously in the transversal direction of the fabric tape: large distance, large distance, small distance. |
| US12276066B2 |
Method for producing a finished leather substitute
A method for producing a finished leather substitute, finished leather substitutes obtainable by such method, and uses thereof are provided. Specifically, a method for producing a finished leather substitute is provided, comprising providing a sheet material grown from mycelium having a top surface layer and a bottom surface, and applying at least one finishing coating to the bottom surface only. |
| US12276064B2 |
Method of decolorizing fabrics
A method for localized or diffused decolorization of colored fabrics and garments by applying an accelerating substance comprising quaternary ammonium salts and subsequently treating with ozone. |
| US12276058B2 |
Embroidery machine thread tension adjusting device
The present invention relates to an embroidery machine thread tension adjusting device. An embroidery machine thread tension adjusting device according to an embodiment of the present invention is provided for an embroidery machine comprising a needle bar, a thread take-up unit, a hook, and an embroidery frame, and is configured to adjust the tension of an upper thread withdrawn from a spool and supplied to a needle of the needle bar through the thread take-up unit. The embroidery machine thread tension adjusting device comprises: a thread pulling adjusting unit comprising a thread take-up lever disposed along a path of movement of the upper thread withdrawn from the spool and supplied to the needle so as to control the amount of pulling of the upper thread when rotating while maintaining contact with the upper thread, and a first actuator for providing the thread take-up lever with rotational driving power; at least one thread guide adjusting unit comprising a pair of thread guide units disposed on at least one of the front and rear ends of the thread pulling adjusting unit along the path of movement of the upper thread such that, when the upper thread passes, same are forced against each other while maintaining contact with the upper thread, thereby controlling frictional force of the upper thread, and a second actuator for providing the pair of thread guide units with driving power; and a controller for determining the status of driving of at least one of the needle bar, the needle take-up unit, the hook, and the embroidery frame according to each of multiple pieces of stitch information included in embroidery data, and controlling the driving of at least one of the first actuator and the second actuator provided in each of the at least one thread guide adjusting unit according to the result of determination, thereby adjusting at least one of the amount of pulling of the thread take-up lever and the frictional force of the upper thread supplied between the pair of thread guide units provided in each of the at least one thread guide adjusting unit. |
| US12276057B2 |
Sewing machine
A sewing machine includes: a sewing needle, holding an upper thread; an upper thread tension adjustment mechanism, adjusting a tension of the upper thread; a shuttle cooperating with the sewing needle to form a seam; a feed mechanism, in which endless feed belts feeding a sewing object disposed at a sewing position along a first direction are disposed on two sides with respect to the sewing position in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and in which a belt drive part independently driving the feed belts on two sides with respect to the sewing position in the second direction is provided; and a control part, controlling the mechanism, so that, from beginning to end of sewing, a tension of the upper thread varies in an amount according to a difference between feed amounts of the feed belts. |
| US12276055B2 |
Needle machine and method for equipping and operating a needle machine
A needle machine has a needle bar having a plurality of needles, a holding-down device for holding-down a textile fabric structure, and a support device for supporting the textile fabric structure. A monitoring device is configured to monitor the positioning of the plurality of needles relative to the holding-down device or to the support device. |
| US12276054B2 |
Method for making a composite material
A method for manufacturing a composite material includes forming a composite precursor material comprising a nonwoven layer comprising a plurality of fibers and a polymer film layer laminated to the nonwoven layer; forming a plurality of apertured extended cells in the polymer film layer, each of the apertured extended cells having a continuous sidewall extending away from the nonwoven layer that terminates in an aperture at a distal end; and, while forming the plurality of apertured extended cells, pushing, with a fluid, at least one of the fibers into at least one of the apertured extended cells so that a portion of the at least one of the fibers extends into the at least one of the apertured extended cells and through the aperture at the distal end. |
| US12276050B2 |
Textile fabric implementing a capacitive grid
It is disclosed a textile fabric comprising a first set of electrically conductive and externally isolated yarns (22) separated by isolating textile yarns (24); a second set of non-isolated conductive yarns (23); a plurality of textile yarns interlacing the first and the second set of yarns (22, 23), wherein part of the interlacing textile yarns are non-isolated conductive yarns (23) in order to form an electrical grounding grid with the non-isolated conductive yarns (23) of the second set of yarns and part of the interlacing textile yarns are isolating textile yarns (24). |
| US12276048B2 |
High-power bidirectional-driven bionic muscle fiber as well as preparation method and use thereof
A high-power bidirectional-driven bionic muscle fiber as well as a preparation method and use thereof are provided. The bionic muscle fiber includes a matrix fiber and an object material layer coating the matrix fiber, where the matrix material is capable of emitting heat after electrification, and the object material layer includes a liquid crystal elastomer (LCE); the bionic muscle fiber is excessively twisted to form a helical barrel-like structure. The bionic muscle fiber provided by the present application improves the mechanical property of the LCE, shows large work capability and drive quantity, and has an realize rapid response and work at high frequency. The contraction of the fiber can be controlled by changing voltage. Furthermore, the bionic muscle fiber exhibits a bidirectional driving feature that can recover without stress. In addition, the cyclic work of the fiber is greater than zero. |
| US12276047B2 |
Alternating color fabric
An alternating color fabric includes a base portion woven by first yarns, a pleat portion woven by second yarns, and a hydrophilic resin layer formed on the pleat portion. A water contact angle of the hydrophilic resin layer is not more than 60 degrees. The base portion presents a primary color, and the pleat portion presents a secondary color, and the primary color is different from the secondary color. |
| US12276046B2 |
Roll-to-roll manufacturing machines and methods for producing nanostructure-containing polymer films
A roll-to-roll manufacturing machine suitable for processing and producing polymer films that contain nanostructures, including but not limited to multifunctional polymer films. The machine applies a liquid polymer on a substrate to form a liquid polymer film, at least partially embeds nanostructures into the liquid polymer film, melt casts a layer of a molten polymer on the liquid polymer film to produce a thin polymer film, organizes the nanostructures in a thickness direction of the thin polymer film comprising applying an electric field to the thin polymer film, aligns the nanostructures in the thin polymer film by simultaneously subjecting the thin polymer film to heat and a field that aligns the nanostructures, and solidifies the thin polymer film to freeze the nanostructures along nanocolumns in a thickness direction of a solidified polymer film resulting therefrom. |
| US12276038B2 |
Process method for controlling glossiness of electroplated nickel-layer
Disclosed is a process method for controlling a glossiness of an electroplated nickel-layer, which comprises: subjecting a metal substrate to pre-treatment, copper plating process, satin-nickel plating process, semi-bright-nickel plating process, and post-treatment in turn. The present application can effectively control the surface glossiness of a nickel-layer by optimizing the process flow of the electroplated nickel-layer and process parameters in the electroplating process, so that the glossiness of the product reaches 290-310 Gu, which fully meets the specification requirements of the product glossiness of 280-350 Gu. |
| US12276035B2 |
Polymer electrolyte membrane, membrane electrode assembly and polymer electrolyte water electrolyzer
To provide a polymer electrolyte membrane which can be applied to a polymer electrolyte water electrolyzer, and is capable of producing a polymer electrolyte water electrolyzer having a low electrolytic voltage and excellent in hydrogen gas recovery efficiency, as well as a membrane electrode assembly and a polymer electrolyte water electrolyzer obtainable by using it.The polymer electrolyte membrane of the present invention contains a polymer electrolyte, of which the hydrogen gas permeation coefficient under the conditions of a temperature of 80° C. and a relative humidity of 10%, is at most 2.4×10−9 cm3·cm/(s·cm2·cmHg), wherein the membrane resistance value under the conditions of a temperature of 80° C. and a relative humidity of 50%, is from 50 to 150 mΩ·cm2. |
| US12276034B1 |
Molybdenum-doped zinc/cobalt oxide electrocatalyst for hydrogen production
An electrode includes an electrically conductive substrate and a layer of a molybdenum-doped zinc/cobalt oxide (ZnCo2-xMoxO4). The surface of the electrically conductive substrate is at least partially covered by the layer of ZnCo2-xMoxO4, where x is a positive number equal to or less than about 0.1, and the layer of the ZnCo2-xMoxO4 includes spherical-shaped particles. The electrode has a Tafel slope from 75 millivolts per second (mV/s) to 115 mV/s, and a potential of 0.27 to 0.30 volts relative to the reversible hydrogen electrode (VRHE) at a current density of about 50 mA/cm2 for a duration of at least 40 hours. |
| US12276028B2 |
Galvanized steel sheet, electrodeposition-coated steel sheet, automotive part, method of producing electrodeposition-coated steel sheet, and method of producing galvanized steel sheet
Provided is a galvanized steel sheet with excellent resistance to cracking in resistance welding at a welded portion, even if crystal orientations of an Fe-based electroplating layer and a cold-rolled steel sheet are integrated at a high ratio at the interface between the Fe-based electroplating layer and the cold-rolled steel sheet. The galvanized steel sheet has a Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet containing Si in an amount of 0.1 mass % to 3.0 mass %; an Fe-based electroplating layer formed on at least one surface of the Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet with a coating weight per surface of more than 20.0 g/m2, and a galvanized layer formed on the Fe-based electroplating layer, where crystal orientations of the Fe-based electroplating layer and the Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet are integrated at a ratio of more than 50 % at the interface between the Fe-based electroplating layer and the Si-containing cold-rolled steel sheet. |
| US12276025B2 |
Substrate processing apparatus and substrate processing method
A substrate processing apparatus includes a processing chamber having a processing space in which a substrate is plasma-processed, and having a transparent window; a gas flow unit supplying and discharging process gas to the processing chamber; and a laser irradiator irradiating a laser for heating the substrate to be selectively atomic layer-processed for each of a plurality of thin films formed on the substrate through the transparent window from an external space of the processing chamber. |
| US12276022B2 |
Alkoxide compound, thin-film forming raw material, and method of producing thin-film
A method for producing a thin-film containing a metal atom or a semimetal atom on the surface of a substrate, comprising the steps of vaporizing a thin-film forming raw material comprising an alkoxide compound represented by the following general formula (1), introducing the vaporized compound into a treatment atmosphere, and subjecting the vaporized compound to decomposition and/or a chemical reaction, to thereby form the thin-film containing a metal atom or a semimetal atom on the surface of the substrate: where R1 to R6, M and n are defined herein. |
| US12276020B2 |
Semiconductor cleaning step
The invention provides a semiconductor cleaning step, which comprises the following steps: providing a chamber with a bottom surface and a sidewall, the chamber contains a heater on the bottom surface, performing a first deposition step to leave a residual layer on the sidewall of the chamber, performing a carbon deposition step to form a carbon layer on at least the surface of the heater, and performing a plasma cleaning step to simultaneously remove the residual layer on the sidewall of the chamber and the carbon layer on the bottom surface. |
| US12276018B2 |
Manufacturing apparatus and method for microwave device
The present invention relates to a manufacturing apparatus and a manufacturing method for microwave means. The manufacturing apparatus (1) for microwave means comprises: a fixture (10, 10′), the fixture (10, 10′) comprising a base (11) capable of rotating about a first axis (A1), and a carrier (12) capable of swinging about a second axis (A2), the carrier (12) being connected to the base (11) so as to hold an insulating substrate (40), wherein the first axis (A1) intersects the second axis (A2); a source (20) for releasing metal ions towards the insulating substrate (40); and a controller (30), the controller (30) coupled to the fixture (10, 10′) and the source (20) and configured to control a movement pattern of the fixture (10, 10′) and/or an angle of the source (20) such that the insulating substrate (40) receives the metal ions from a plurality of angles and a metal layer (50) is formed over all surfaces (41) of the insulating substrate (40). |
| US12276017B2 |
Engineered multi-dimensional metallurgical properties in PVD materials
Multi-layer metal or pseudometallic materials having engineered anisotropy are disclosed. The multi-layer materials having defined engineered grain orientations in each layer of the multi-layer material and bond layers between adjacent layers orthogonal to the grain orientations. This configuration distributes applied stress across the plurality of layers in the multi-layer metal material and around a neutral axis of the multi-layer metal material and increases the overall mechanical properties of the disclosed multi-layer metal material relative to conventional wrought metal materials of the same or similar chemical constitution. The microstructure of each layer, group of layers, or across multiple layers may be tailored to the intended application of a device made from the material. Individual layers may be tuned for property variations, such as gradients, or to adjust the bond layer characteristics. A method of making the multi-layer metal materials by physical vapor deposition to deposit each layer as crystalline grain structures and allow for layer-by-layer control over the physical, mechanical and chemical properties of each layer in the multi-layer metal as well as a bond layer between adjacent layers is disclosed. |
| US12276015B2 |
Method of manufacturing TiAl alloy and TiAl alloy
A method of manufacturing a TiAl alloy includes a casting step of melting and casting a TiAl alloy raw material which contains 42 at % or more and 45 at % or less of Al, 3 at % or more and 6 at % or less of Nb, 3 at % or more and 6 at % or less of V, 0.1 at % or more and 0.3 at % or less of B, and the balance being Ti and inevitable impurities, a hot forging step of hot forging the cast TiAl alloy by heating the cast TiAl alloy to a temperature range between 1200° C. or higher and 1350° C. or lower, and a thermal treatment step of holding the hot-forged TiAl alloy at a temperature range between 1220° C. or higher and 1300° C. or lower for a hour range between 1 hour or longer and 5 hours or shorter, applying a first thermal treatment to the hot-forged TiAl alloy, cooling the TiAl alloy subjected to the first thermal treatment to a temperature range between 1000° C. or higher and 1100° C. or lower at a cooling rate of 400° C./hour or more, holding the TiAl alloy subjected to the first thermal treatment at a temperature range between 100 ° C. or higher and 1100° C. or lower for a hour range between 1 hour or longer and 4 hours or shorter, applying a second thermal treatment to the TiAl alloy subjected to the first thermal treatment, and rapidly cooling the TiAl alloy subjected to the second thermal treatment. |
| US12276013B1 |
Corrosion-resistant oxide dispersion strengthened steel
Provided are a corrosion-resistant oxide dispersion strengthened steel and a method for preparing the corrosion-resistant oxide dispersion strengthened steel. The corrosion-resistant oxide dispersion strengthened steel includes in percentage by mass: Cr at 8.0 wt %-10.0 wt %, Al at 4.0 wt %-6.0 wt %, Ce at 0.2 wt %-0.8 wt %, Y at 0.2 wt %-0.4 wt %, O at 0.05 wt %-0.3 wt %, C less than or equal to 0.0016 wt %, and the balance of Fe. |
| US12276011B2 |
Lightweight cemented carbide
Provided is a cemented carbide suitable for use as a material in the manufacture of a punch for metal forming and in particular for the manufacture of metal beverage cans. The cemented carbide may include a hard phase that includes WC, a binder phase and a gamma phase. The gamma phase may include metal carbides in combination with metal nitrides or metal carbonitrides. A quotient of the average grain size of WC/the average grain size of the gamma phase may be in a range of from 0.5 to 1.5. |
| US12276010B2 |
Aluminum alloy for high pressure die casting of ultra-large vehicle body structures
An aluminum alloy for high pressure die casting of ultra-large vehicle body structures. The aluminum alloy includes about 4.00 to about 12.00 weight percent silicon (Si); about 0.20 weight percent maximum (Max) copper (Cu); about 0.40 weight percent Max magnesium (Mg); about 0.20 to about 0.60 weight percent iron (Fe); about 1.00 weight percent Max manganese (Mn); about 0.50 weight percent Max zinc (Zn); about 0.02 weight percent Max strontium (Sr); about 0.50 weight percent Max cerium (Ce); about 0.01 weight Max percent boron (B); and a remaining weight percent aluminum (Al). The aluminum alloy provides an as-cast yield strength of greater than 130 Megapascals (MPa), ultimate tensile strength of greater than 260 MPa, and elongation of greater than 6% without the need for heat treatment. |
| US12276009B2 |
Process for low-cost tempering of aluminum casting
A thermally stable component formed of a tempered aluminum alloy casting which reduced costs is provided. The aluminum alloy typically has an elongation of at least 8% after casting, which is preferred for self-piercing rivet processes. The aluminum alloy leaves a casting facility in the as-cast (F temper) condition. The cast aluminum alloy is then shipped to another entity, such as an OEM, and is subjected to an artificial aging process, such as on the OEM's existing paint line, rather than at the casting facility. The artificial aging process typically includes electrodeposition coating and curing. The components that can be formed by the reduced cost method include lightweight automotive vehicle components, including structural, body-in-white, suspension, or chassis components, such as front shock towers, front body hinge pillars, tunnels, and rear rails. |
| US12276008B2 |
Tungsten-base alloy material and preparation method therefor
A tungsten-base alloy material and a preparation method therefor. The preparation method comprises: 1) evenly grinding composite powder containing tungsten and zirconium oxide, and then performing annealing treatment at 700-1000° C. to obtain powder A; and 2) grinding and then compression moulding the powder A, and then performing liquid-phase sintering to obtain a tungsten-base alloy blank so as to obtain the tungsten-base alloy material. |
| US12276006B2 |
Method of producing high-strength hot-dip galvanized steel sheet
To obtain a high-strength hot-dip galvanized steel sheet having excellent surface appearance even in the case where a steel strip containing Mn at a predetermined ratio or more to Si is subjected to hot-dip galvanizing treatment, a method of producing a hot-dip galvanized steel sheet using a continuous hot-dip galvanizing apparatus comprises: subjecting a steel strip to annealing, by conveying it in an annealing furnace; and subjecting the steel strip discharged from a cooling zone to hot-dip galvanizing using a hot-dip galvanizing line, to obtain a hot-dip galvanized steel sheet. The steel strip has a chemical composition containing, in mass %, Mn: 1.7% or more and 3.5% or less and Si: 0.2% or more and 1.05% or less and satisfying [Si]/[Mn]≤0.30. The chemical composition, a dew point of an atmosphere in the soaking zone, and a delivery temperature of the heating zone satisfy Formula (1). |
| US12276004B2 |
Non-oriented electrical steel sheet
The present disclosure has as its object the provision of non-oriented electrical steel sheet excellent in magnetic properties which is free from any drop in magnetic flux density even after stress relief annealing and a method for manufacturing the same.Non-oriented electrical steel sheet having a chemical composition containing C: 0.0030 mass % or less, Si: 2.0 mass % or more and 4.0 mass % or less, Al: 0.010 mass % or more and 3.0 mass % or less, Mn: 0.10 mass % or more and 2.4% mass or less, P: 0.0050 mass % or more and 0.20 mass % or less, S: 0.0030 mass % or less, and one or more elements selected from the group comprising Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, Ce, La, Nd, Pr, Zn, and Cd: total 0.00050 mass % or more and having a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities, where, when designating a mass % of Si as [Si], a mass % of Al as [Al], and a mass % of Mn as [Mn], a parameter Q shown by the following formula (1) is 2.0 or more, a random intensity ratio of the {100} orientation is 2.4 or more, and an average grain size is 30 μm or less: Q=[Si]+2[Al]−[Mn] (1). |
| US12276000B2 |
Methods for predicting the risk of developing pulmonary colonization/infection by Pseudomonas aeruginosa
The present invention relates to methods for predicting the risk of developing pulmonary colonization/infection by P. aeruginosa. The inventors analyzed the respiratory tract microbiota from 65 patients sputum samples and compared microbiota data. The inventors found that patients that will remain uninfected from P. aeruginosa exhibited 3-fold higher abundance of Porphyromonas catoniae compared to the other groups. In particular, the present invention relates to a method for predicting the risk of developing pulmonary colonization/infection by P. aeruginosa in a subject suffering from cystic fibrosis (CF) comprising measuring the abundance of Porphyromonas catoniae in a biological sample obtained from said subject. |
| US12275999B2 |
Polynucleotides for the amplification and detection of chlamydia trachomatis
The invention provides methods and compositions for the detection of Chlamydia trachomatis in a test sample. Its presence or absence in the sample is determined by nucleic acid based testing methods using primers and/or probes and or molecular beacons that bind to the 16S or 23S ribosomal genes or gene transcripts. |
| US12275998B2 |
Multiple-tiered screening and second analysis
Disclosed herein are methods, non-transitory computer readable media, systems, and kits for performing a multiple tiered analysis for identifying individuals with a health condition for monitoring, treating, and/or enrolling the individuals in a clinical trial. Specifically, the multiple tiered analysis involves a first screen, which eliminates a large proportion of individuals who are identified as not at risk for a health condition, and a subsequent second analysis which detects presence of a health condition in the remaining individuals. The second analysis includes an intra-individual analysis, which involves combining sequence information from target nucleic acids and reference nucleic acids obtained from the individual. The target nucleic acids include signatures that may be informative for determining presence or absence of the health condition and the reference nucleic acids include baseline biological signatures of the individual. Altogether, the multiple tiered analysis achieves improved performance and accurate identification of individuals with the health condition. |
| US12275997B2 |
System and method for determining copies-per-unit-volume using PCR and flow control of droplets
Methods and systems for quantification of a target nucleic acid in a sample are provided. The method includes forming a plurality of discrete sample portions. Each of the plurality of discrete sample portions comprising a portion of the sample, and a reaction mixture. The method further includes amplifying the plurality of discrete sample portions to form a plurality of discrete processed sample portions. At least one discrete processed sample portion containing nucleic acid amplification reaction products. Fluorescence signals are detected from the at least one of the plurality of discrete processed sample portions to determine a presence of the at least one target nucleic acid. The method also includes determining the respective volumes of the plurality of the plurality of discrete processed sample portions, and estimating the number of copies-per-unit-volume of the at least one target nucleic acid in the sample. Estimating the number of copies-per-unit-volume is based on the number of discrete processed sample portions determined to contain the at least one target nucleic acid therein. |
| US12275988B2 |
Methods, compositions, and kits for determining the location of an analyte in a biological sample
Provided herein are methods, compositions, and kits for the spatial analysis of target nucleic acids, or complements thereof, by their 5′ end. |
| US12275978B1 |
System and method for CO2 hydrogenation using multi-enzyme immobilization on modified metal-organic framework (MOF)
There is disclosed a highly stable biocatalytic multi-enzyme system on hydrophobic support for the efficient and continuous hydrogenation of carbon dioxide (CO2) to formate. The system immobilizes formate dehydrogenase (FDH), glucose dehydrogenase (GDH), and carbonic anhydrase (CA) enzymes on a hydrophobic surface-modified metal-organic framework (MOF), SA-HKUST-1. The hydrophobic surface modification with stearic acid enhances the enzyme stability and reusability, maintaining 95% activity after four cycles. The hydrophobicity of SA-HKUST-1 improves CO2 diffusion to the immobilized enzymes, significantly boosting the formate production. Enzyme specificity ensures selective reactions, with FDH facilitating CO2 bioconversion, CA accelerating CO2 hydration and GDH facilitating cofactor regeneration within the system. The system demonstrates superior performance, producing 255.8 mM formate per gram of MOF per hour. Operating under mild conditions with simple equipment, it reduces costs and eliminates harmful by-products. This invention offers an eco-friendly, sustainable approach for CO2 mitigation, with potential applications in industrial CO2 conversion processes. |
| US12275973B2 |
Enzymatic method for preparation of CMP-Neu5Ac
The present invention relates to a method for producing cytidine 5′-monophospho-N-acetyl-neuraminic acid (CMP-Neu5Ac, 1) from low-cost substrates N-acetyl-D-glucosamine (GlcNAc), pyruvate, cytidine and polyphosphate in a single reaction mixture with a set of optionally immobilized or optionally co-immobilized enzymes comprising N-acylglucosamine 2-epimerase (AGE), an N-acetylneuraminate lyase (NAL), an N-acylneuraminate cytidylyltransferase (CSS), a uridine kinase (UDK), a uridine monophosphate kinase and a polyphosphate kinase 3 (PPK3). Further, said process may be adapted to produce Neu5Acylated i.e. sialylated biomolecules and biomolecules including a saccharide, a peptide, a protein, a glycopeptide, a glycoprotein, a glycolipid, a glycan, an antibody, and a glycoconjugate, in particular, an antibody drug conjugate, and a carbohydrate conjugate vaccine, or a flavonoid. |
| US12275972B2 |
Microorganism producing purine nucleotide and method of producing purine nucleotide using the same
Provided are a microorganism of the genus Corynebacterium which produces a purine nucleotide, and a method of producing a purine nucleotide using the microorganism. |
| US12275971B2 |
Biological degradation of low-rank coals
Methods and processes for producing aerobic digestion products, such as organic acids, from a low-rank coal substrate are provided. Also provided are multistage bioreactor systems for carrying out the described methods and processes. In another aspect, product compositions comprising organic acids produced by the described methods and processes are provided, as well as methods for their use, including for the improvement of soil quality and/or plant growth. |
| US12275969B2 |
Halophilic Bacillus amyloliquefaciens KMUS1 which produces thrombolytic enzyme nattokinase
The present invention relates to a novel halophilic Bacillus amyloliquefaciens KMUS1 strain (KCTC13635BP) producing thrombolytic enzyme nattokinase, and the halophilic Bacillus amyloliquefaciens KMUS1 strain according to the present invention produces highly active nattokinase. When food is fermented using the above strain, it can also be used in foods with high salt concentration. In addition, it can be used in the food industry through the role of dissolving and preventing blood clots by nattokinase produced by the strain. |
| US12275965B2 |
Nuclease domain and use thereof
The present invention provides an artificial nucleic acid-cleaving enzyme comprising: a nuclease domain which is a polypeptide containing an amino acid sequence set forth at positions 391 to 585 of SEQ ID NO: 1 or positions 389 to 579 of SEQ ID NO: 3, or a mutant polypeptide thereof; and a nucleic acid-binding domain. |
| US12275964B2 |
Variant type V CRISPR/Cas effector polypeptides and methods of use thereof
The present disclosure provides variant type V CRISPR/Cas effector polypeptides, fusion polypeptides comprising the variant type V CRISPR/Cas effector polypeptides, and nucleic acids comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the variant polypeptides and fusion polypeptides. The present disclosure provides methods of binding, or binding and nicking, a target nucleic acid, using a variant type V CRISPR/Cas effector polypeptide of the present disclosure. The present disclosure provides methods of detecting a single-stranded DNA, using a variant type V CRISPR/Cas effector polypeptide of the present disclosure. |
| US12275961B2 |
Method for utilizing engineered dendritic cells to induce gut-homing regulatory T cells and treat gut inflammation
Gene-modified, lymphoid-tissue-homing dendritic cells that comprise a 1-alpha-hydroxylase gene and a retinaldehyde dehydrogenase 2 gene, where the 1-alpha-hydroxylase gene is expressed to produce functional 1-alpha-hydroxylase enzyme and the retinaldehyde dehydrogenase 2 gene is expressed to produce functional retinaldehyde dehydrogenase 2 gene enzyme. A method for treating one or more than one inflammation-related condition or disease, the method comprising administering gene-modified, lymphoid-tissue-homing dendritic cells that comprise a 1-alpha-hydroxylase gene and a retinaldehyde dehydrogenase 2 gene, where the 1-alpha-hydroxylase gene is expressed to produce functional 1-alpha-hydroxylase enzyme and the retinaldehyde dehydrogenase 2 gene is expressed to produce functional retinaldehyde dehydrogenase 2 gene enzyme. |
| US12275960B2 |
AAV-mediated delivery of therapeutic antibodies to the inner ear
Provided herein are methods that include introducing into an inner ear of a mammal a therapeutically effective amount of an adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector that includes a nucleotide sequence encoding (a) a polypeptide including an antibody heavy chain variable domain operably linked to a signal peptide and a polypeptide including an antibody light chain variable domain operably linked to a signal peptide; (b) a polypeptide including an antigen-binding antibody fragment operably linked to a signal peptide; or (c) a soluble vascular endothelial growth factor receptor operably linked to a signal peptide. |
| US12275959B2 |
Compositions and methods for enhanced gene expression in cone cells
The present disclosure provides polynucleotide cassettes, expression vectors and methods for the expression of a gene in cone cells. |
| US12275958B2 |
Gut organoid and method for producing the same
A gut organoid includes a tissue structure that encloses a cavity. A method of using the gut organoid includes providing a test drug to the gut organoid in the presence of a buffer solution so that liquid comprising the test drug enters into the cavity, and collecting and analyzing the liquid in the cavity. A method for producing the gut organoid includes plating cells on a cell culture substrate including a surface on which a cell-adhesive region and a non-cell-adhesive region surrounding the cell-adhesive region are formed, and culturing the cells plated on the cell culture substrate so as to induce differentiation of the cells. |
| US12275957B2 |
Next generation designer liver organoids and their methods of preparation and use
The present disclosure relates to synthetic liver organoids and methods of using such synthetic liver organoids for various applications including drug discovery and modeling human liver development. In particular, provided herein are methods of producing and using synthetic mature liver organoids comprising mature, functional cells found in the human liver. |
| US12275954B2 |
Method of identifying l/m-opsin and CRX positive cone photoreceptor cells based on specific biomarkers
The present invention relates to the identification of photoreceptors or cone photoreceptors in populations of cells. In particular the present invention relates to methods of identification of photoreceptors or cone photoreceptors and methods of isolating photoreceptors or cone photoreceptors. Photoreceptors or cone photoreceptors isolated by the methods of the present invention are useful for transplantation and the treatment of retinal dystrophies. Also claimed are human cell populations enriched for photoreceptors or cone photoreceptors and kits for identifying photoreceptors or cone photoreceptors. |
| US12275953B2 |
Methods for screening host cells expressing target proteins
A method for screening host cells expressing a target protein is provided. The method includes the following steps: providing an expression vector, the expression vector including a promoter, a gene encoding a target protein and an FTH1 gene; transfecting the host cells with the expression vector; culturing the host cells in a medium; and adding iron ions to the medium, and screening the surviving host cells to obtain the host cells expressing the target protein. An expression vector and a method for establishing a cell line stably expressing an exogenous recombinant gene are also provided. |
| US12275952B2 |
Using programmable DNA binding proteins to enhance targeted genome modification
Compositions and methods for using programmable DNA binding proteins to increase the efficiency and/or specificity of targeted genome modification or to facilitate the detection of specific genomic loci in eukaryotic cells. |
| US12275945B2 |
Methods for improving photosynthetic organisms
The invention provides a method for reducing water soluble carbohydrate (WSC) in a photosynthetic cells and plants, the method comprising the step of genetically modifying the photosynthetic cells and plants to express a modified oleosin including at least one artificially introduced cysteine to reduce WSC. The applicants have shown that in such cells and plants, there is a strong correlation between reduced WSC and elevated photosynthesis. In addition, WSC is significantly simpler to measure that than the other typically measured characteristics when selecting cells or plants with the most favourable characteristics. |
| US12275943B2 |
Method for increasing intracellular heme content of Escherichia coli
The disclosure discloses a method for increasing the intracellular heme content of Escherichia coli and belongs to the field of metabolic engineering. In the disclosure, in E. coli, the gene mscS encoding a small conductance mechanically sensitive ion channel protein is knocked out, the gene aroG encoding 3-deoxy-D-arabino-heptulosonate-7-phosphate synthase is knocked out, or the gene hemA encoding glutamyl-tRNA reductase is overexpressed. The constructed recombinant strain is cultured in an LB culture medium, and the heme content can reach 47.6 μmol·L−1, which is significantly higher than that of a control strain. The recombinant strain has the value of wide application. |
| US12275942B2 |
Method for producing DNA vectors from molecular bricks containing sequences of interest
Disclosed is a method for producing, in one step, “made to measure” double-stranded DNA vectors from molecular bricks including sequences of interest in the presence of a one and only type IIs restriction enzyme. |
| US12275937B2 |
Stereospecific linkages in RNA editing oligonucleotides
The invention relates to editing oligonucleotides (EONs) that carry stereospecific phosphorothioate internucleotide linkage modifications at specified positions and that do not carry such modifications on positions that would lower RNA editing efficiency. The selection of positions that should or should not carry a phosphorothioate Rp and/or Sp configuration modification is based on computational modelling that revealed incompatibilities of the stereospecific linkages with the intermolecular oxygen-mediated hydrogen bond network. |
| US12275936B2 |
Method to connect chromatin accessibility and transcriptome
The invention provides scalable methods for measuring chromatin accessibility and RNA expression in the same single cells by connecting chromatin accessibility and transcriptome. Specifically, the disclosure provides a methods for concurrent characterization of gene expression levels and epigenetic landscape within a single cell comprising determining chromatin accessibility and RNA expression in the cell with a splint oligonucleotide. |
| US12275935B2 |
Gapped and tunable repeat units for use in genome editing and gene regulation compositions
Provided herein are DNA binding domains comprising a plurality of repeat units, wherein each repeat unit is expanded or contracted in length. Also provided herein are DNA binding domains comprising a plurality of repeat units, wherein each repeat unit is separated from a neighboring repeat unit by a linker. In certain aspects, the linker includes a recognition site. Also disclosed are DNA binding proteins that include a fragment of N-cap sequence of a TALE protein. The TALE protein may be a Xanthomonas TALE protein. |
| US12275933B2 |
Composition of photoautotrophic microorganisms and chemoheterotrophic microorganisms in a biofilm
A composition of microorganisms, comprising photoautotrophic microorganisms (16) which produce oxygen by photosynthetic water oxidation chemoheterotrophic microorganisms (17) which respire oxygen, wherein the photoautotrophic microorganisms (16) and the chemoheterotrophic microorganisms (17) are comprised in a biofilm (13), the biofilm further comprising components (15) which were secreted by the photoautotrophic microorganisms (16) and/or the chemoheterotrophic microorganisms (17), and a reactor (1), a method for forming a biofilm, and a method for biocatalytic conversion employing such composition. |
| US12275930B2 |
Disposable cartridge cooperating with a platform for a system and installation for monitoring and controlling fluids
The invention is comprised among control devices for controlling and monitoring fluids and for the handling thereof. The invention relates to the integration of these control devices in a disposable cartridge cooperating with a platform for a system for monitoring and controlling a fluid. Specifically, the invention relates to a disposable cartridge and a platform, cooperating with one another, for a system for monitoring and controlling the state of a fluid, wherein the cartridge comprises at least two sensors. The invention also relates to a system and installation for monitoring and controlling the state of a fluid. More particularly, the present invention is intended for monitoring and controlling the state of a cell culture. |
| US12275929B2 |
Cell expansion system
A cell expansion system for culturing and expanding cells in hydrogel tubes is disclosed herein. The cell expansion system includes a cap having an extruder located within the cap and a tubular housing in fluid connection with the cap. The extruder has at least a first and second inlet. The tubular housing includes a cell compatible buffer. The extruder extends from within the cap into the tubular housing. The cell expansion system allows for expanding cells that can significantly reduce the production time and cost, while increasing the production capacity. |
| US12275927B2 |
Microbial contamination control in bioprocessing
Biomanufacturing hygiene control in batch and fed-batch bioreactors is provided using a bioreactor employing a chlorite/Cld system, wherein the bioreactor comprises an engineered cultured cell expressing a recombinant cytoplasmic chlorite dismutase (cCld) sufficient to increase chlorite resistance of the cell, and chlorite sufficient to substantially inhibit growth of one or more contaminating microorganisms in the bioreactor yet not substantially inhibit growth of the cell. |
| US12275926B2 |
Reactor having dynamic sparger
Systems and methods relating to dynamic spargers for generating fine bubbles within reactors such as biological and chemical reactors. A sparger system is positioned within a reactor and comprises a support plate, multiple annular shrouds engaged with the support plate, and spargers positioned within the annular shrouds defining a gap between an interior surface of the annular shroud and an exterior surface of the corresponding sparger. Liquid flows through the defined gap between an interior surface of the annular shroud and an exterior surface of the sparger. Acceleration of the liquid through the gap shears bubbles at the exterior surface of the sparger creating bubbles or fine bubbles. |
| US12275923B2 |
Systems and methods for controlling attenuation in a fermentation process
A method of controlling attenuation in a fermentation process includes culturing a fungus in a medium to produce a fermented liquid and adding a killer toxin to the fermented liquid. The killer toxin is added in an amount effective to deactivate the fungus. |
| US12275920B2 |
Compositions and methods for clarification of biological materials
The present disclosure relates to compositions and methods for clearing biological materials. Specifically, the present disclosure relates to increasing the transparency of biological materials via contact with clearing composition comprising a solution of polyoxometallate salt. |
| US12275912B2 |
Lubricant compositions for direct injection engine
The invention is directed to a method for reducing low speed pre-ignition events in a spark-ignited direct injection internal combustion engine by supplying to the sump a lubricant composition which contains an oil of lubricating viscosity and an ashless dispersant. The ashless dispersant may be selected from succinimide compounds prepared from aliphatic or aromatic amines. |
| US12275911B2 |
Fluorine-containing ether compound, lubricant for magnetic recording medium, and magnetic recording medium
The present invention provides a fluorine-containing ether compound that can form a lubricating layer which has excellent wear resistance even if the thickness is thin and in which a decrease in film thickness due to spin-off is less likely to occur. The fluorine-containing ether compound is represented by the following formula. R1—R2—O—CH2—R3—CH2—O—R4—R5 (R3 is a perfluoropolyether chain. R1 and R5 are either an alkyl group which may have a substituent or a hydrocarbon group having a double bond or triple bond. R2 and R4 are each a divalent linking group containing one or more heteroatoms, and have one or more polar groups, and the terminal end on the side bonded to R1 and R5 is a heteroatom. At least one of R2 and R4 contains one or more secondary amine structures. At least one of R1—R2— and —R4—R5 contains one or more cyano groups). |
| US12275910B2 |
Lubricating oil composition
A lubricating oil composition may have a high flash point, a low pour point, and excellent electrical insulation, while having excellent cooling performance. Such a lubricating oil composition may include a base oil (A), wherein the base oil (A) includes at least one synthetic oil (A1) selected from a polyalkylene glycol having a specific degree of polymerization and a polyvinyl ether having a specific degree of polymerization. |
| US12275909B1 |
System and method for producing renewable natural gas from biogas
An improved method and apparatus for removing acid gases and other impurities from raw biogas streams, such as biogas from landfills or biogas from controlled anaerobic digestion, is disclosed. The method provides efficient generation of high-purity renewable natural gas from raw biogas. The biogas is treated in a multi-stage membrane system integrated with compression equipment. The membrane separation units are arranged into interconnected high-pressure and low-pressure gas recycling loops powered by high-pressure and low-pressure compressors. The combined system provides for the generation of efficient contaminant removal from raw biogas to generate high-purity methane products with reduced compression energy consumption. |
| US12275906B2 |
Hydrodeoxygenation of phenolic lipids and renewable hydrocarbon fuels produced therefrom
The invention relates to renewable hydrocarbons, and more particularly to biomass-based diesel fuel produced in a process including hydrodeoxygenation (HDO) of phenolic lipids. The process may generally include combining a phenolic lipid and a hydrocarbon diluent to provide a hydrocarbon-diluted phenolic lipid then subjecting the hydrocarbon-diluted phenolic lipid to hydrodeoxygenation in a reactor to provide a reactor effluent including a hydrodeoxygenated phenolic lipid. The hydrodeoxygenated phenolic lipid is separated from the reactor effluent. |
| US12275905B2 |
Y-shaped entrained-flow high-temperature zoned gasification device adopting dry-process slag-discharging
The present disclosure discloses a Y-shaped entrained-flow high-temperature zoned gasification device adopting dry-process slag-discharging, which comprises a Y-shaped entrained-flow gasifier, wherein the Y-shaped entrained-flow gasifier is partitioned by a sectioned conical head into an upper gasification chamber and a lower chilling chamber; a descending bed atomizing chiller is arranged in the chilling chamber, a conical top of the descending bed atomizing chiller is in communication with an outlet of the sectioned conical head, and two or more chilling atomizing nozzles are evenly arranged on the conical top of the descending bed atomizing chiller in a circumferential direction. |
| US12275904B2 |
Fuel compositions from light tight oils and high sulfur fuel oils
Methods are provided to prepare a low sulfur fuel from hydrocarbon sources, such as light tight oil and high sulfur fuel oil, often less desired by conventional refiners, who split crude into a wide range of differing products and may prefer presence of wide ranges (C3 or C5 to C20 or higher) of hydrocarbons. These fuels can be produced by separating feeds into untreated and treated streams, and then recombining them. Such fuels can also be formulated by combinations of light, middle and heavy range constituents in a selected manner as claimed. Not only low in sulfur, the fuels of this invention are also low in nitrogen and essentially metals free. Fuel use applications include on-board large marine transport vessels but also on-shore for large land based combustion gas turbines, boilers, fired heaters and transport vehicles and trains. |
| US12275900B2 |
Processes for upgrading a hydrocarbon feed
A process for upgrading a heavy oil includes passing heavy oil and disulfide oil to a thermal cracking system that includes a thermal cracking unit and a cracker effluent separation system downstream of the thermal cracking unit and thermally cracking at least a portion of the heavy oil in the presence of the disulfide oil in the thermal cracking unit to produce solid coke and a cracking effluent comprising reaction products. The reaction products include one or more liquid reaction products, one or more gaseous reaction products, or both. The presence of the disulfide oil in the thermal cracking unit promotes conversion of hydrocarbons from the heavy oil to the liquid reaction products, the gaseous reaction products, or both relative to the production of the solid coke. |
| US12275899B2 |
MOCO hydrodesulfurization catalyst
Carbon nanofiber doped alumina (Al—CNF) supported MoCo catalysts in hydrodesulfurization (HDS), and/or boron doping, e.g., up to 5 wt % of total catalyst weight, can improve catalytic efficiency. Al—CNF-supported MoCo catalysts, (Al—CNF—MoCo), can reduce the sulfur concentration in fuel, esp. liquid fuel, to below the required limit in a 6 h reaction time. Thus, Al—CNF—MoCo has a higher catalytic activity than Al—MoCo, which may be explained by higher mesoporous surface area and better dispersion of MoCo metals on the AlCNF support relative to alumina support. The BET surface area of Al—MoCo may be 75% less than Al—CNF—MoCo, e.g., 166 vs. 200 m2/g. SEM images indicate that the catalyst nanoparticles can be evenly distributed on the surface of the CNF. The surface area of the AlMoCoB5% may be 206 m2/g, which is higher than AlMoCoB0% and AlMoCoB2%, and AlMoCoB5% has the highest HDS activity, removing more than 98% sulfur and below allowed levels. |
| US12275898B2 |
Hydrodesulfurization reaction composition
Carbon nanofiber doped alumina (Al-CNF) supported MoCo catalysts in hydrodesulfurization (HDS), and/or boron doping, e.g., up to 5 wt % of total catalyst weight, can improve catalytic efficiency. Al-CNF-supported MoCo catalysts, (Al-CNF-MoCo), can reduce the sulfur concentration in fuel, esp. liquid fuel, to below the required limit in a 6 h reaction time. Thus, Al-CNF-MoCo has a higher catalytic activity than Al—MoCo, which may be explained by higher mesoporous surface area and better dispersion of MoCo metals on the AlCNF support relative to alumina support. The BET surface area of Al—MoCo may be 75% less than Al-CNF-MoCo, e.g., 166 vs. 200 m2/g. SEM images indicate that the catalyst nanoparticles can be evenly distributed on the surface of the CNF. The surface area of the AlMoCoB5% may be 206 m2/g, which is higher than AlMoCoB0% and AlMoCoB2%, and AlMoCoB5% has the highest HDS activity, removing more than 98% sulfur and below allowed levels. |
| US12275896B2 |
Catalytic hydrotreating of feedstocks
A process for hydrotreating recycled or renewable feedstocks with a catalytic microparticle slurry, and a process for manufacturing the catalytic microparticle slurry, are disclosed. |
| US12275895B2 |
Chemical recycling of plastic-derived streams to a cracker separation zone with enhanced separation efficiency
Methods and systems are provided for the conversion of waste plastics into various useful downstream recycle-content products. More particularly, the present system and method involves integrating a pyrolysis facility with a cracker facility by introducing at least a stream of r-pyrolysis gas into the cracker facility. In the cracker facility, the r-pyrolysis gas may be separated to form one or more recycle content products, and can enhance the operation of the facility. |
| US12275893B2 |
Methods for hydrocarbon recovery
Provided herein are liquid polymer (LP) compositions comprising a synthetic (co)polymer (e.g., an acrylamide (co)polymer), as well as methods for preparing inverted polymer solutions by inverting these LP compositions in an aqueous fluid. The resulting inverted polymer solutions can have a concentration of a synthetic (co)polymer (e.g., an acrylamide (co)polymer) of from 50 to 15,000 ppm, and a filter ratio of 1.5 or less at 15 psi using a 1.2 μm filter. Also provided are methods of using these inverted polymer solutions in oil and gas operations, including enhanced oil recovery. |
| US12275890B2 |
Metal sulfide scale dissolver for oilfield application
A method may include providing a treatment fluid comprising a metal sulfide dissolver and a base fluid. The metal sulfide dissolver includes a chelating agent, a boosting agent, a scaling agent, and a dispersing agent. The treatment fluid is then injected to contact a metal sulfide scale, which dissolves at least partially. The treatment fluid may be injected into a wellbore as a standalone treatment or as an additive. |
| US12275882B2 |
Near-infrared-II nanoparticles and related compositions and methods
Provided are cubic-phase (α-phase) erbium (Er)-doped near-infrared-II (NIR-II)-emitting nanoparticles. In certain embodiments, the nanoparticles are near-infrared-IIb (NIR-IIb)-emitting nanoparticles. Also provided are nanoparticles having disposed thereon a layer-by-layer crosslinked polymeric hydrophilic biocompatible coating. Also provided are compositions comprising the nanoparticles of the present disclosure. Methods of using the nanoparticles, e.g., for in vivo imaging, are also provided. |
| US12275878B2 |
Foldable backplate film manufacturing method
The present application relates to a method for manufacturing a foldable backplate film, and according to one aspect of the present invention, a method for manufacturing a foldable backplate film that the foldable backplate film is manufactured by a method of cutting it in a direction from the release film to the protective film upon half-cutting, and then release-changing the release film, whereby by improving a half-cutting process, the foldable backplate does not fall off upon the release film peeling, is provided. |
| US12275877B2 |
Pressure-sensitive adhesive tape
An adhesive tape with high high-load holding power, initial adhesive strength, and repeelability is provided. An adhesive layer of the adhesive tape contains filler particles and a triblock copolymer with a repeating unit represented by the following general formula (1): A, B, and C independently denote a repeating unit. A and C independently denote an alkyl methacrylate monomer unit and B denotes an alkyl acrylate monomer unit. p, q, and r independently denote the degree of polymerization of their monomer units respectively. A and C may be the same or may denote an alkyl methacrylate monomer unit with a different chemical structure, and * denotes a bonding arm to another atom. A relationship D50/T between an average particle size D50 of the filler particles and an average thickness T of the adhesive layer ranges from 0.05 to 1.0. |
| US12275875B2 |
Surface protection film and method for manufacturing organic light emitting electronic device
Disclosed relates to a surface protective film including: a base layer; and an adhesive layer provided on one surface of the base layer, where the adhesive layer comprises a cured product of an adhesive composition, comprising: a urethane polymer; an acrylic polymer; and a curing agent, where the acrylic polymer comprises a monomer unit derived from an alkyl(meth)acrylate monomer having 10 or more carbon atoms, where a peel strength of the adhesive layer is 2 gf/in or more and 30 gf/in or less when a surface of the adhesive layer, opposite to a surface on which the base layer is provided, is peeled off from glass at a peel speed of 30 m/min and a peel angle of 180°, and where, in the adhesive composition, the acrylic polymer is comprised in an amount of 1 part by weight to 15 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the urethane polymer. |
| US12275867B2 |
Adhesive tape for semiconductor package manufacturing process and method for manufacturing same
The present disclosure relates to an adhesive tape for a semiconductor manufacturing process, the adhesive tape being attached on a lower surface of a semiconductor package on which a plurality of protrusion electrodes are formed. The adhesive tape is configured to include a first base film, a first adhesive layer containing an acrylic-based copolymer, the first adhesive layer being stacked on top of the first base film, a second base film containing a metal material in such a manner as to be deformed and then kept deformed during each process in a manner that corresponds to a topology of the lower surface of the semiconductor package, the second base film being stacked on top of the first adhesive layer, and a second adhesive layer containing silicon having a spiral network structure, the second adhesive layer being on top of the second base film. |
| US12275862B2 |
Foul release coating composition
Embodiments herein relate to a non-aqueous liquid foul release coating composition for controlling aqueous biofouling on man-made objects comprising a moisture curable polysiloxane comprising repeating units of according to formula (I) as described in the applicationand at least one terminal or pendant group of according to formula (II) as described in the application;andat least one of a marine biocide or a non-volatile component comprising units selected from hydrocarbyl, heterocarbyl, halocarbyl, ether, ester, amide, ketone, siloxane, urethane or urea groups. Embodiments herein further relate to a substrate coated with such coating composition and to processes of use of such coating compositions to control aquatic biofouling of a man-made object. |
| US12275861B2 |
Impact resistant coating compositions, multi-layer coating systems, and substrates at least partially coated with such compositions
A curable coating composition includes: (a) a binder having a film-forming resin with at least two functional groups, and (ii) a curing agent reactive with the functional groups of the film-forming resin; and (b) solid vulcanized rubber particles that are unreactive with the binder. The curable coating composition is a solid particulate powder coating composition. Multi-layer coating systems, coated substrates, and methods of preparing the curable coating composition are also disclosed. |
| US12275860B2 |
Digitally printed labels
Described are primer coatings, overprint varnishes, and seaming solution solutions for application to substrates such as those used to make wrap around and sleeve labels, particularly shrink wrap labels, which are used to label containers. The labels can be digitally printed with or without lane priming. With certain seaming solutions, the labels can be removed in the wash stage to enable the recycling of containers. |
| US12275859B2 |
Fluorine-containing ether composition, coating solution, and article and production method therefor
The object of the present invention is to provide a fluorinated ether composition with which a surface layer capable of imparting excellent water/oil repellency to the surface of a substrate and being excellent in abrasion resistance and weather resistance of the water/oil repellency, can be formed, and a coating liquid containing the fluorinated ether composition. The present invention further provides an article having a surface layer formed of the fluorinated ether composition, and a method for producing it.A fluorinated ether composition containing a specific fluorinated ether compound (1) having a poly(oxyfluoroalkylene) chain and having two silyl groups each having a hydrolyzable group bonded, at one terminal of the chain via an amide bond, and a specific fluorinated ether compound (2) having a poly(oxyfluoroalkylene) chain and having two silyl groups having a hydrolyzable group bonded, at both terminals of the chain via an amid bond. |
| US12275856B2 |
Fast drying inkjet ink compositions
Ink compositions for inkjet printing are disclosed. The ink compositions comprise a pigment, a binder system, a solvent system, and an epoxy resin. The ink compositions have improved drying time from the time of printing to the time of lamination with an overlaminate film as compared to existing inkjet ink compositions. |
| US12275854B2 |
Curable composition, film forming method and article manufacturing method
A curable composition containing a polymerizable compound (a), a photopolymerization initiator (b), and a solvent (c), wherein the curable composition has viscosity of not less than 2 mPa·s and not more than 60 mPa·s at 23° C., a content of the solvent (d) with respect to the whole curable composition is not less than 5 vol % and not more than 95 vol %, a boiling point of the solvent (d) at normal pressure is less than 250° C., and the polymerizable compound (a) contains a compound (a-1) containing not less than one aromatic ring or aromatic heterocycle, and not less than four vinyl groups directly bonding to the aromatic ring or the aromatic heterocycle. |
| US12275852B2 |
High chroma flakes
An article including a reflector having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface; a first selective light modulator layer external to the first surface of the reflector; a second selective light modulator layer external to the second surface of the reflector; a first absorber layer external to the first selective light modulator layer; and a second absorber layer external to the second selective light modulator layer; wherein each of the first and second selective light modulator layers include a host material is disclosed herein. Methods of making the article are also disclosed. |
| US12275851B2 |
Polymeric tandem dyes with linker groups
Compounds useful as fluorescent or colored dyes are disclosed. The compounds have the following structure (I): or a stereoisomer, tautomer or salt thereof, wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, L1, L2, L3, L4, M1, M2, m and n are as defined herein. Methods associated with preparation and use of such compounds is also provided. |
| US12275850B2 |
Organic-inorganic hybrid material comprising a metal and lignin, processes for preparing the same and uses thereof
An organic-inorganic hybrid material is disclosed comprising a metal compound and a lignin fraction, as well as processes for preparing the same and uses as an antimicrobial agent in agriculture, and in human and animal food industry. |
| US12275847B2 |
Thiol-ene silicone additive fabrication
Methods and compositions for additive manufacturing of silicone parts are provided. The methods can use SLA printing techniques to print silicone parts that exhibit excellent hardness, tear strength and elongation at break. The parts can be produced by using low dosages of radiation. In various embodiments, the silicone compositions include a mercapto-derivatized polysiloxane having two or more functional groups, an alkenyl-derivatized polysiloxane, and a photo-initiator. |
| US12275846B2 |
Resin composition, prepreg, film with resin, metal foil with resin, metal-clad laminate, and printed wiring board
A resin composition contains a curable resin. A minimum value (Min) of loss tangent (tan δ=E″/E′) of a cured product of the resin composition is equal to or greater than 0.04. The loss tangent is a ratio of a loss modulus (E″) of the cured product of the resin composition to a storage modulus (E′) thereof. The loss modulus (E″), the storage modulus (E′), and the loss tangent (tan δ=E″/E′) are obtained by dynamic mechanical analysis at a temperature equal to or higher than 100° C. and equal to or lower than 200° C. |
| US12275841B2 |
Thermoplastic compositions with ultra-high dielectric constant for nano molding technology (NMT) applications
Thermoplastic compositions include: from about 30 wt % to about 80 wt % of a polymer base resin component; from about 3 wt % to about 20 wt % of a polycarbonate component; from about 2 wt % to about 15 wt % of an impact modifier component; from about 10 wt % to about 50 wt % of a glass fiber component; and from about 0.5 wt % to about 8 wt % of a carbon additive including carbon fiber. The compositions have a dielectric constant (Dk) of at least 5 at a frequency of from 1 GHz to 30 GHz as tested in accordance with a coaxial method. |
| US12275834B2 |
Methods of preparing a composite having elastomer and filler
Disclosed herein are methods of preparing composites from solid elastomer(s) and wet filler(s), as well as products, including composites, vulcanizates, and articles therefrom. The wet filler can have a liquid content of at least 15%. A resulting composite comprises the filler dispersed in the elastomer at a loading of at least 20 phr with a filler yield loss of no more than 10%, wherein the composite has a liquid content of no more than 10% by weight based on total weight of said composite. |