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US12288485B2	Display system A display includes a riser and a cap where articles, such as jewelry elements and their holders, can be placed. The riser has a riser base and a riser side and the cap includes a cap side and a cap platform, wherein the cap side is in at least one of sliding and removable engagement with the riser side. In an alternative embodiment, the riser has a riser guide coupled with the riser side or the riser base, and the display further includes a drawer. The drawer has a drawer top, a drawer side, a drawer side guide coupled with the drawer side, and a drawer top guide. In yet another embodiment, the display further includes removable light fixtures having light emitting diodes.
US12288483B2	Billboard framework system for misaligned supports A billboard framework system may have a plurality of lateral adjusters adapted to be laterally adjustable on poles. The system may also have at least one frame support attached to some of the plurality of lateral adjusters where each of the frame supports may be co-planar with one another. The system may also have a generally rectangular-shaped frame structure connected to the frame supports where the frame structure is coplanar. The frame structure may have two side portions connecting an upper portion and a lower portion.
US12288478B2	Cloud projection A method of managing an interaction of a student with a class about a subject, the subject having at least one lesson having at least one topic, the topic having at least one of exposition content, demonstration content and test content, the test content having a query and a scheme for mapping a response to a result, comprising: presenting content to the student and storing the interaction of the student with the content presented.
US12288473B2	Techniques for providing insights according to tags and physiological data Methods, systems, and devices for physiological pattern recognition are described. A device may receive physiological data associated with a user from a wearable device. The device may determine that at least one physiological parameter associated with the received physiological data satisfies a physiological threshold associated with a pattern between the physiological threshold and a taggable event or a set of taggable events defined within an application associated with the wearable device. The device may then identify, based on the pattern, the taggable event or the set of taggable events indicating an activity the user engaged in that contributed to the at least one physiological parameter satisfying the physiological threshold, and cause a graphical user interface (GUI) of the device running the application to prompt the user to provide feedback associated with the identified taggable event or the identified set of taggable events.
US12288471B2	Apparatus for determining a most limiting parameter of an electric aircraft In an aspect an apparatus for determining a most limiting parameter of an electric aircraft is presented. An apparatus includes at least a processor and a memory communicatively connected to the at least a processor. A memory contains instructions configuring at least a processor to receive aircraft data from a sensing device. A sensing device is configured to measure a parameter of an electric aircraft and generate aircraft data. At least a processor is configured to determine a most limiting parameter of an electric aircraft as a function of aircraft data. At least a processor is configured to communicate a most limiting parameter to a pilot indicator in communication with the at least a processor and memory communicatively connected to the at least a processor. A pilot indicator is configured to display a most limiting parameter to a user.
US12288467B2	Collision avoidance system and vehicle equipped with it A collision avoidance system includes a periphery monitoring system which detects vehicles in proximity to a subject vehicle by use of a sensor, an approaching vehicle notifying system which communicates with another vehicle in proximity to the subject vehicle in vehicle-to-vehicle communication, and a detected vehicle comparison/determination system which is connected to the periphery monitoring system and the approaching vehicle notifying system, determines common vehicles detected by both the periphery monitoring system and the approaching vehicle notifying system, and controls the periphery monitoring system and the approaching vehicle notifying system.
US12288466B2	Collaborative ruleset management for vehicles Aspects of the present disclosure relate to collaborative rulesets for vehicles. A collaborative ruleset for a set of vehicles can be received, the collaborative ruleset defining relative positions each vehicle is required to maintain with respect to other vehicles within the set of vehicles. Sensor data indicating current positions of each vehicle within the set of vehicles while the set of vehicles are operating can be received. A command to display, on an augmented reality (AR) device of a user of a first vehicle within the set of vehicles, AR content for complying with the collaborative ruleset can be issued.
US12288463B2	Method and system for traffic management A method at a first computing device providing a local traffic service, the method including detecting a vehicle is transitioning to a region of control of a second local traffic service; and providing, to a second traffic management service, priority information for the vehicle.
US12288461B2	Vibration control method, vibration control device, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium A vibration control method, a vibration control device, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are provided. Target effect parameters are obtained in a preset vibration effect design model with reference to a haptic effect demand index, effect parameters in the vibration effect design model including a granularity parameter, a sharpness parameter and a hardness parameter. A vibration control signal is generated based on the target effect parameter. The actuator is controlled to vibrate based on the vibration control signal. With the implementations of the present disclosure, the vibration control models of the actuator can be adaptively designed based on different haptic effect demand scenarios, thereby ensuring the diversity of haptic effects and the adaptability to the scenarios. A variety of perception factors are considered in the vibration effect of the actuator, thereby providing the user with a more complex haptic feedback experience.
US12288456B2	Behavior deviation detection with activity timing prediction Various embodiments provide methods, apparatus, systems, computing entities, and/or the like, for identifying deviated behavior of an individual indicated by outlying activity counts and outlying activity timings classified by a prediction interval profile generated from historical behavior data. In an embodiment, an example method comprises accessing sensor data describing behavioral activities of an individual during historical time periods and generating a prediction interval profile for the behavioral activities comprising a predicted count interval within a prediction time period for at least some behavioral activities. The method further includes receiving sensor data for the prediction time period and extracting an observed activity count and an observed activity timing for each behavioral activity. The method then includes classifying a particular behavioral activity as a behavioral deviation if the observed activity count does not satisfy the predicted count interval and/or if the observed activity timing does not satisfy the predicted timing interval.
US12288448B2	System for prizing remote users using real life sports personalities Systems, methods and apparatus for game play using virtual players, sometimes referred to herein as vBots, where they may have images including those of real world personalities, such as sports personalities, is disclosed. In one aspect, a system for electronic game play involves the use of the system wherein one or more virtual players are displayed to the player of the game, preferably, the virtual players have differing play characteristics, receiving from the user association with a selection of a virtual player, displaying a simulated game using the virtual players, identifying a subset of the virtual players as being winners of the simulated game, and awarding a win to the lottery user if the selected virtual player is in the subset of virtual players. In one aspect, a team may be formed in which real life sports personalities images are utilized.
US12288445B2	Non-fungible tokens as gaming awards marketplace Systems and methods that utilize non-fungible tokens in association with the occurrence of gaming environment events and offer a marketplace to transact against such non-fungible tokens.
US12288442B2	Time stamping process to determine user behaviors on a wagering platform The present disclosure provides a system to time stamp user interactions on a wagering platform or application to determine user behaviors allowing the platform or application to group the users in specific cohorts or groups related to their behaviors on the platform or application. Also, the system provides an AI process that allows the use of a plurality of time-stamped parameters that are used to determine the user behaviors and interactions with the platform or application.
US12288440B2	Gaming machine and method with cascade feature A gaming machine, system, method, and program product provide a slot machine game with a mystery symbol indicator. Responsive to a play input, a base result representation is shown a matrix of symbol locations. Responsive to a winning pattern formed in the base result representation, cascade sequences occur in which symbols participating in any winning combination are removed from matrix, further symbols drop into the symbol locations of the removed symbols, and a cascade result is evaluated. Mystery symbol indicators are provided in the base result representation, which are configured to temporarily conceal and then reveal a symbol during a reel spin animation of the base result representation, once appearing in the base result representation, persist in the matrix of symbol locations during the one or more cascade sequences, and temporarily conceal and then reveal a new symbol during at least one of the one or more cascade sequences.
US12288438B2	Procedure for determining the authenticity of an object A method for determining the authenticity of an object by marking the object with a first luminescent material with a first decay behavior over time, marking the object with a second luminescent material with a second decay behavior that differs from the first decay behavior, excitation of the luminescent materials with a light pulse, measuring the afterglow intensities of both luminescent materials temporally after the excitation with the light pulse, forming a difference signal or identity signal from the afterglow intensities measured over the elapsed time, determining the time of a zero crossing of the difference signal or the time of the identity signal of a comparator, comparing the time determined by the zero crossing or by the identity signal with a setpoint value.
US12288437B2	Money handling system, money handling method, and money handling apparatus A money handling system includes: a first money handling apparatus that dispenses money; and a setting unit that sets information indicating an amount dispensable from the first money handling apparatus, on the basis of an upper limit amount set in advance as an upper limit of the amount dispensable from the first money handling apparatus, an amount of money dispensed from the first money handling apparatus, and an amount of money deposited into the first money handling apparatus or a second money handling apparatus.
US12288432B2	Electronic access control and location tracking system A method and system that allows authorized individuals access into controlled access locations and the ability to grant temporary and limited access to guests into these locations. The method and system allow for navigational services to be provided to members and guests, and real-time tracking and confirmation to members and administrators that guests have arrived at their destination and did not enter any unauthorized areas. The method preferably can work through a system of wireless radio, sound and/or light-based beacons communicating with member and guest's electronic devices. Members and administrators can send one or more temporary electronic access keys to a guest's smartphone or other electronic device. Wireless radio, sound and/or light-based beacons provide an access control and location tracking system with real-time data about the member and guest whereabouts, allowing for the confirmation and tracking.
US12288429B2	Data management system and operation method thereof A data management system and an operation method thereof are disclosed. The system includes: a data collecting unit configured to collect input data obtained by hardware; a database configured to store analysis reference data for analysis of collected input data and analysis result data; and an analysis unit configured to compare input data with analysis reference data to extract abnormal data, and classify the abnormal data so as to store the abnormal data as analysis result data in the database.
US12288424B2	On-component tracking of maintenance, usage, and remaining useful life One embodiment is a system including a component for installation on a vehicle comprising a central maintenance computer (“CMC”); a configuration/maintenance module (“CMM”) associated with the component and including memory for storing component information, a sensor for detecting a condition and generating data indicative thereof; a microprocessor for processing the sensor data and updating the component information with the processing results; and a communications interface between the CMM and the CMC. The system further includes a remaining useful life (“RUL”) module associated with the component that periodically updates an RUL, the RUL module periodically updating an RUL value for the component and communicating the updated RUL value to the CMM for storage in the memory. The CMC communicates with the CMM to update the component information included in the memory based on information input to the CMC by a user or changes in a condition of the vehicle.
US12288420B2	Display device, method for producing display device, and gesture recognition method A display device, a method for producing a display device, and a gesture recognition method are disclosed. The display device includes a display module including a base and an array substrate, a resin layer, a first electrode layer, a pixel definition layer, a light-emitting unit layer, a second electrode layer disposed opposite to the first electrode layer, and an encapsulation layer. The light-emitting unit layer is between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer and includes a plurality of light-emitting units respectively in a plurality of openings of the pixel definition layer, and an ultrasonic sensor including the second electrode layer, a piezoelectric material layer between the first electrode layer and the pixel definition layer, and a third electrode layer between the pixel definition layer and the resin layer. The piezoelectric material layer includes a plurality of piezoelectric material units separated by the plurality of light-emitting units.
US12288414B2	Systems and methods for performing fingerprint based user authentication using imagery captured using mobile devices Technologies are presented herein in support of a system and method for performing fingerprint recognition. Embodiments of the present invention concern a system and method for capturing a user's biometric features and generating an identifier characterizing the user's biometric features using a mobile device such as a smartphone. The biometric identifier is generated using imagery captured of a plurality of fingers of a user for the purposes of authenticating/identifying the user according to the captured biometrics and determining the user's liveness. The present disclosure also describes additional techniques for preventing erroneous authentication caused by spoofing. In some examples, the anti-spoofing techniques may include capturing one or more images of a user's fingers and analyzing the captured images for indications of liveness.
US12288406B2	Utilizing machine-learning based object detection to improve optical character recognition The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for accurately enhancing optical character recognition with a machine learning approach for determining words from reverse text, vertical text, and atypically-sized text. For example, the disclosed systems segment a digital image into text regions and non-text regions utilizing an object detection machine learning model. Within the text regions, the disclosed systems can determine reverse text glyphs, vertical text glyphs, and/or atypically-sized text glyphs utilizing an edge based adaptive binarization model. Additionally, the disclosed systems can utilize respective modification techniques to manipulate reverse text glyphs, vertical text glyphs, and/or atypically-sized glyphs for analysis by an optical character recognition model. The disclosed systems can further utilize an optical character recognition model to determine words from the modified versions of the reverse text glyphs, the vertical text glyphs, and/or the atypically-sized text glyphs.
US12288404B2	Resolution upscaling for event detection A game-agnostic event detector can be used to automatically identify game events. Game-specific configuration data can be used to specify types of pre-processing to be performed on media for a game session, as well as types of detectors to be used to detect events for the game. Event data for detected events can be written to an event log in a form that is both human- and process-readable. The event data can be used for various purposes, such as to generate highlight videos or provide player performance feedback. The event data may be determined based upon output from detectors such as optical character recognition (OCR) engines, and the regions may be upscaled and binarized before OCR processing.
US12288401B2	Anomalous activity detection for mobile surveillance robots Technical challenge in unusual human activity detection task is to rightly identify only unexpected or unusual movements from constant regular movements present in a scene, with most techniques built on understanding that camera is static. However, ego view camera of mobile surveillance robot is in motion as robot navigates. Embodiments herein provide a method and system for anomalous activity detection for mobile surveillance robots by mimicking ‘Konio-Parvocellular-Magno’ cells of the human brain into a NN model, which are responsible for detecting slow, normal, and swift changes in perceived scenes. To detect anomalous activity, the static or normal movements of scene captured by ego view camera are identified as redundant information and only RoI is forwarded for further processing using the Optical flow and SSIM techniques. The NN model mimicking KPM is trained only on the RoI to detect normal or anomalous activity.
US12288399B2	Secure edge platform using image classification machine learning models Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for a secure edge platform that uses image classification machine learning models. An edge platform can include at least one camera and can identify image classification models that generate classification output data from image data generated by the cameras. The edge platform can receive image data generated by the camera, and provide the image data to the models. In response to providing the image data classification models, the edge platform can receive classification output data. In response to receiving the classification output data from the image classification models, the edge platform can generate augmentation data that is associated with the image data, then transmit detection data to a central server platform. The detection data can include (i) the classification output data and (ii) the augmentation data associated with the image data. Data can be made recordable, reportable, searchable, and alarmable.
US12288395B2	Systems and methods for providing video presentation and video analytics for live sporting events Systems and methods for video presentation and analytics for live sporting events are disclosed. At least two cameras are used for tracking objects during a live sporting event and generate video feeds to a server processor. The server processor is operable to match the video feeds and create a 3D model of the world based on the video feeds from the at least two cameras. 2D graphics are created from different perspectives based on the 3D model. Statistical data and analytical data related to object movement are produced and displayed on the 2D graphics. The present invention also provides a standard file format for object movement in space over a timeline across multiple sports.
US12288394B2	Tracking performance display method and host Embodiments of the disclosure provide a tracking performance display method and a host. The method includes: visual content is provided in a see-through mode, and the visual content corresponds to a real-world scene; tracking performance associated with the real-world scene is evaluated; and a tracking performance indicator corresponding to the tracking performance is displayed in the visual content.
US12288392B2	Method for training object detection model, object detection method and apparatus A method for training an object detection model includes: firstly obtaining M sample image sets; then, obtaining an initial object detection model; and finally, training the initial object detection model by using the M sample image sets to obtain the object detection model. A sample image set includes at least one sample image and object type(s) of object(s) in each sample image. An object type corresponds to one sample image set, and the M sample image sets correspond to N object types.
US12288390B2	System and method of object detection using AI deep learning models A system for object detection of a manufactured part. The system comprises a system controller electronically coupled to an image acquisition device and delivery mechanism. An electronically stored ordered object detection map is provided which comprises predetermined detectable objects associated with the manufactured part. The ordered object detection map is generated from output created by execution of a trained object detection model and by processing such output according to predetermined calibration criteria. The system causing a visual image of the manufactured part to be captured with image data being extracted and processed to render at least one of a pass determination and a fail determination. The system being configured to process the manufactured based upon the rendered pass/fail determination.
US12288387B2	Method and system for transfer learning based object detection Image analysis is a vital field since images can provide contextual, environmental, and emotional factors. Conventional methods are facing challenges in analyzing an image accurately when the image is having lesser data or if the image is having less resolution. Conventional machine learning architectures are computationally intensive when run on high power computing devices for training and inference. The present disclosure provides a robust deep learning model to inference in any given environmental condition. Initially, image data is generated using a pre-trained Generative Adversarial Network (GAN). The GAN receives a plurality of images of varying domain and generates image data. The image data is annotated and segmented to obtain a contextual label map. The contextual label map is given as input to a pre-trained transfer learning model to obtain a plurality of image attributes including number of objects and activity performed by each object.
US12288385B2	Learning device, detection device, learning system, learning method, computer program product for learning, detection method, and computer program product for detecting A learning device 10 includes a first learning unit 20. The first learning unit 20 includes a first supervised learning unit 22 and a first self-supervised learning unit 24. The first supervised learning unit 22 learns a first object detection network 30 using learning data 40 so as to reduce a first loss between an output of the first object detection network 30 for detecting an object from target image data and supervised data 40B. Using image data 40A and self-supervised data 40C generated from the image data 40A, the first self-supervised learning unit 24 learns the first object detection network 30 so as to reduce a second loss of a feature amount of a corresponding candidate area P between the image data 40A and the self-supervised data 40C, the second loss being derived by the first object detection network 30.
US12288383B2	Using training images and scaled training images to train an image segmentation model A method for training an image segmentation model includes calling an encoder to perform feature extraction on a sample image and a scale image to obtain a sample image feature and a scale image feature. The method also includes performing a class activation graph calculation to obtain a sample class activation graph and a scale class activation graph. The method also includes calling a decoder to obtain a sample segmentation result of the sample image, and calling the decoder to obtain a scale segmentation result of the scale image. The method also includes calculating a class activation graph loss and calculating a scale loss. The method also includes training the decoder based on the class activation graph loss and the scale loss.
US12288379B1	Common sense reasoning for deepfake detection An exemplary method for detecting deepfake images and providing customized analysis comprises: receiving, from a user, a textual user inquiry regarding an image; inputting the textual inquiry and the image into a deepfake detection model, wherein the deepfake detection model comprises: an image encoder for generating a plurality of image embeddings based on the image; a text encoder for generating a plurality of textual embeddings based on the textual inquiry; one or more layers for generating a plurality of answer embeddings; and a language model for generating a textual analysis based on the plurality of answer embeddings; and outputting the textual analysis, wherein the textual analysis includes a classification result of whether the image is fake and further includes one or more visual features in the image and one or more attributes of the one or more visual features that contribute to the classification result.
US12288369B2	Server systems and methods using vision AI for data collection A system for automatically associating an image with an asset tag which includes a historian server system. A path command is sent to a mobile asset, the path command comprising instructions that enable the mobile asset to travel along a path to an instrumented asset. A collection command is sent to the mobile asset to collect asset data comprising a digital representation of the instrumented asset and send the asset data to one or more computers. The asset data can also comprise an instrument asset identification, one or more instrument data values indicative of a physical parameter of the instrumented asset, and a time stamp comprising an approximate time of collection command execution. The system generates a tag value comprising an asset link between the one or more instrument data values, the instrument identification, and the time stamp.
US12288366B2	Enhanced user experience through bi-directional audio and visual signal generation In various embodiments, a computer-implemented method of training a neural network for creating an output signal of different modality from an input signal is described. In embodiments, the first modality may be a sound signal or a visual image and where the output signal would be a visual image or a sound signal, respectively. In embodiments a model is trained using a first pair of visual and audio networks to train a set of codebooks using known visual signals and the audio signals and using a second pair of visual and audio networks to further train the set of codebooks using the augmented visual signals and the augmented audio signals. Further, the first and the second visual networks are equally weighted and where the first and the second audio networks are equally weighted.
US12288363B2	Sensor calibration for autonomous systems and applications In various examples, sensor configuration for autonomous or semi-autonomous systems and applications is described. Systems and methods are disclosed that may use image feature correspondences between camera images along with an assumption that image features are locally planar to determine parameters for calibrating an image sensor with a LiDAR sensor and/or another image sensor. In some examples, an optimization problem is constructed that attempts to minimize a geometric loss function, where the geometric loss function encodes the notion that corresponding image features are views of a same point on a locally planar surface (e.g., a surfel or mesh) that is constructed from LiDAR data generated using a LiDAR sensor. In some examples, performing such processes to determine the calibration parameters may remove structure estimation from the optimization problem.
US12288360B2	3D human pose estimation system Methods and systems for providing a dataset of human in-bed poses include simultaneously gathered images of in-bed poses of humans from imaging modalities including red-green-blue (RGB) and one or more of long wavelength infrared (LWIR), depth imaging, and pressure mapping. The images are obtained under a lighting condition and a cover condition. The dataset can be used to train a model of estimating human in-bed poses and for methods of estimating human in-bed poses. Methods and systems of estimating three-dimensional human poses from two-dimensional input images are provided.
US12288358B2	Method of sensor fusion for harmonizing data from multiple data sources A method includes: selecting, from among a series of images, a candidate image that was captured at an image-capturing time instant corresponding to a point-cloud-generating time instant at which a point cloud was generated; generating a two-dimensional data set from the point cloud; superimposing the two-dimensional data set on the candidate image to result in a superimposed image; obtaining a derived distance inconsistency between the candidate image and the two-dimensional data set in the superimposed image; feeding the derived distance inconsistency into a conversion model to obtain a derived time difference; calculating a target time instant based on the derived time difference and the image-capturing time instant of the candidate image; and selecting, from among the series of images that have been received from the image capturing device, a target image that was captured at a time instant the closest to the target time instant.
US12288354B2	Vehicle control device An extraction unit of a mobile terminal extracts a plurality of feature points from within a shooting range of a camera, based on shooting results of the camera provided on AR glasses. A determination unit determines a boundary between a first region corresponding to an inside of a vehicle cabin and a second region corresponding to an outside of the vehicle cabin within the shooting range of the camera based on discontinuity of movement vectors of the feature points when a vehicle moves. A specifying unit specifies a position of the AR glasses based on a determination result by the determination unit.
US12288348B2	Depth estimation based on ego-motion estimation and residual flow estimation A method for depth estimation performed by a depth estimation system associated with an agent includes determining a first depth of a first image and a second depth of a second image, the first image and the second image being captured by a sensor associated with the agent. The method also includes generating a first 3D image of the first image based on the first depth, a first pose associated with the sensor, and the second image. The method further includes generating a warped depth image based on transforming the first depth in accordance with the first pose. The method also includes updating the first pose based on a second pose associated with the warped depth image and the second depth, and updating the first 3D image based on the updated first pose. The method further includes controlling an action of the agent based on the updated first 3D image.
US12288338B2	Device and method for modeling three-dimensional organ by image segmentation The present disclosure relates to a method for three-dimensionally modeling an organ through image segmentation. The three-dimensional modeling of an organ includes the operations of: receiving one or more pieces of medical image data for a specific bodily organ of a target object; setting a region of interest with respect to the bodily organ based on the one or more pieces of medical image data; forming one or more blocks corresponding to the region of interest, wherein the blocks include a portion of the bodily organ corresponding to the regions of interest; setting a segment algorithm for each of the blocks; generating first image data respectively performing 3D modeling of portions contained in the blocks based on algorithms set to the blocks; and merging the first image data, and generating a three-dimensional section image data with respect to the entire bodily organ.
US12288337B2	Automated assessment of glaucoma loss from optical coherence tomography Systems and methods for assessing glaucoma loss using optical coherence topography. One method according to an aspect comprises receiving optical coherence image data and assessing functional glaucoma damage from retinal optical coherence image data. In an aspect, the systems and methods can map regions and layers of the eye to determine structural characteristics to compare to functional characteristics.
US12288332B2	Imaging support apparatus, operation method of imaging support apparatus, and operation program of imaging support apparatus A first acquisition unit acquires an optical image in which both an electronic cassette in which a detection panel for detecting radiation is built in a portable housing and a subject facing radiography using the electronic cassette are shown, from a camera. A first demarcation unit demarcates a detection region of the radiation by the detection panel, the detection region being determined in accordance with a position of the electronic cassette, in the optical image. A second demarcation unit demarcates an imaging region which is a region to be imaged in the radiography, the imaging region being determined in accordance with a position of the subject, in the optical image. A display controller performs control of displaying a frame indicating the detection region and a frame indicating the imaging region on a touch panel display in a manner of being superimposed on the optical image.
US12288330B2	Medical auxiliary information generation method and medical auxiliary information generation system A medical auxiliary information generation method and a medical auxiliary information generation system are provided. The method includes: obtaining a physiological image; identifying a target image region from the physiological image through at least one artificial intelligence model, wherein each pixel position in the target image region corresponds to an estimation value, and the estimation value meets a default condition; determining at least one target pixel position in the target image region according to a numerical distribution of the estimation value; and generating medical auxiliary information according to the target pixel position, wherein the medical auxiliary information carries prompt information related to the target pixel position.
US12288321B2	Image sample generating method and system, and target detection method Provided are a target detection method and an image sample generating method and system for deep learning. The image sample generating method includes performing a scenario composition analysis on an item to be detected in a security check place; obtaining a real-shot security check image of a target scenario having a corresponding composition ratio according to the scenario composition analysis; obtaining a target security check image having a label, where the target security check image is captured by a security check device; processing a pixel gray value of an i-th feature layer in the real-shot security check image and a pixel gray value of an i-th feature layer in the target security check image separately; determining images to be fused; normalizing sizes of the images to be fused; fusing the size-normalized images to be fused to form a new sample; and performing the determining the images to be fused.
US12288316B2	Method for providing HDR image and electronic device supporting the same A method and electronic device are provided for providing a high dynamic range (HDR) image. The HDR image is obtained. A first area, in which the HDR image is displayed, and a second area, in which an image is displayed, are identified within a screen. The first area is white point-processed based on a first white point, and the second are is white point-processed based on a second white point that is set for a display of the electronic device and different from the first white point. The screen including the white point-processed first area and the white point-processed second area is displayed on the display.
US12288309B2	Remote distribution of neural networks Remote distribution of multiple neural network models to various client devices over a network can be implemented by identifying a native neural network and remotely converting the native neural network to a target neural network based on a given client device operating environment. The native neural network can be configured for execution using efficient parameters, and the target neural network can use less efficient but more precise parameters.
US12288302B2	Display of virtual tablets in extended reality environments A method for generating a virtual tablet at a left or right position of user based on a hand gesture for creation of a virtual tablet in an extended reality environment.
US12288297B2	Method for displaying a comfort-increasing and especially anti-motion-sickness visual reference The invention relates to a method for displaying a visual reference in an image displayed by a viewing device masking all or some of the field of view of a user, said viewing device further comprising at least one movement sensor. The method defines a virtual tube around a viewing axis of the user, the walls of the tube corresponding to the peripheral visual field of the user. The visual reference comprises at least one frame and lines, the lines being placed on the walls of the tube. In response to a measurement of a rotational movement, the lines are modified to make a rotational movement about the viewing axis that is opposite the measured rotational movement and the frame is modified to make a rotational movement perpendicular to the viewing axis also opposite the measured rotational movement.
US12288291B2	Method and system for generation of a model for use in a virtual extraction procedure of a targeted extraction object in a patient A method for generating a virtual model of an object in a patient's anatomy. The method employs a surface scan of an anatomical region of the patient's oral cavity and a volumetric density scan of the anatomical region. The method includes receiving a first dataset of labeled surface scan segments, receiving a second dataset of labeled volumetric density scan segments, cross-mounting in a coordinate system, labeled surface scan segments from the first dataset to labeled volumetric density scan segments from the second dataset, receiving identification of the targeted extraction object, identifying the 3D volumetric density model and the 3D surface model associated with the volumetric density scan segment label, and generating a third dataset comprising and 3D model of a socket, a 3D model of portions of a tooth crown, a 3D model of portions of a target extraction tooth, and/or a 3D model of the extraction contour.
US12288289B2	User-context aware rendering dataset selection Systems and methods for generating and providing augmented virtual environments can include obtaining user data, processing the user data to determine a plurality of objects associated with the user data, and generating one or more renderings of the objects in an environment. The renderings can be generated based on a plurality of rendering datasets obtained based on the plurality of determined objects determined to available to a user. The plurality of rendering datasets can include a plurality of three-dimensional meshes and/or a plurality of neural radiance field datasets. The one or more renderings can be provided via an interactive user interface that can allow a user to view renderings of different views of the objects in the environment from different positions and view directions.
US12288287B2	Graphics system with additional context An embodiment of an electronic processing system may include an application processor, persistent storage media communicatively coupled to the application processor, and a graphics subsystem communicatively coupled to the application processor. The graphics subsystem may include a first graphics engine to process a graphics workload, and a second graphics engine to offload at least a portion of the graphics workload from the first graphics engine. The second graphics engine may include a low precision compute engine. The system may further include a wearable display housing the second graphics engine. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
US12288284B2	Dynamic routing of texture loads in graphics processing Dynamic routing of texture-load in graphics processing is described. An example of a processor includes one or more processing resources, the one or more processing resources to load a message including a texture load; a texture sampler and a data port; and a message router to route the texture load to a destination, wherein the destination may be either the texture sampler or the data port; wherein the message router includes arbitration circuitry to select the destination for the texture load, the arbitration circuitry to base selection of the destination at least in part on support by the data port for a format of a memory surface for the texture load; and a utilization metric for the data port representing availability of the data port.
US12288281B2	Frame interpolation for rendered content One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for performing frame interpolation. The technique includes generating (i) a first set of feature maps based on a first set of rendering features associated with a first key frame, (ii) a second set of feature maps based on a second set of rendering features associated with a second key frame, and (iii) a third set of feature maps based on a third set of rendering features associated with a target frame. The technique also includes applying one or more neural networks to the first, second, and third set of feature maps to generate a set of mappings from a first set of pixels in the first key frame to a second set of pixels in the target frame. The technique further includes generating the target frame based on the set of mappings.
US12288279B2	Modifying digital images via scene-based editing using image understanding facilitated by artificial intelligence The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that modify digital images via scene-based editing using image understanding facilitated by artificial intelligence. For instance, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems generate utilizing a segmentation neural network, an object mask for each object of a plurality of objects of a digital image. The disclosed systems detect a first user interaction with an object in the digital image displayed via a graphical user interface. The disclosed systems surface, via the graphical user interface, the object mask for the object in response to the first user interaction. The disclosed systems perform an object-aware modification of the digital image in response to a second user interaction with the object mask for the object.
US12288272B2	Method for determining a production aerial image of an object to be measured In order to determine a production aerial image of an object to be measured as a result of an illumination and imaging with illumination and imaging conditions of an optical production system, firstly a measurement aerial image of the object to be measured is captured. This is carried out with illumination and imaging conditions of an optical measurement system, which conditions include a predefined measurement illumination setting. Data of the measurement aerial image are generated during the capturing. An object structure of the object to be measured is reconstructed from the data of the captured measurement aerial image by use of a reconstruction algorithm. Data of the reconstructed object structure are generated during the reconstructing. A production aerial image is simulated from the data of the reconstructed object structure with the illumination and imaging conditions of the optical production system. Said conditions include a production illumination setting, which is different than the measurement illumination setting. This results in a determining method in which the requirements made of an optical measurement system used in the determining method, even under demanding illumination and imaging conditions of the optical production system, are relaxed.
US12288270B2	Online jury research system An apparatus and a method are provided for an online jury research system which enables a multiplicity of end-users to build surrogate jury surveys by way of a communications network, such as the Internet. The online jury research system comprises a survey builder which enables the end-users to upload information for which responses of surrogate jurors are desired and to assemble surrogate jury surveys. The uploaded information may include questions, videotaped opening or closing statements, depositions, exhibits, and graphics. A host site is accessible to the end-users by way of the communications network and provides access to a jury services package. In an embodiment, the survey services package comprises services operated by one or more third-party service providers. The online jury research system provides the surrogate jury survey to selected respondents and then compiles the results for review by the end-users.
US12288267B2	Transactive framework for electric vehicle charging capacity distribution A charging management system includes a network interface, a memory, and a processing circuit including a processor. The processing circuit is configured to determine monetary information related to an energy price, determine an electrical vehicle (EV) power limit PLIM for a total amount of EVs in an EV charging network, transmit the monetary information to two or more agents, each of the two or more agents associated with an EV in the EV charging network, receive, from each of the two or more agents, a bid including: an agent monetary value, a desired charging rate PD, and a charging interval, and allow the EVs associated with the two or more agents to be charged based on each of the bids.
US12288263B1	Search tool for improved workflow efficiency for insurance claim associates A workbench application is configured to present an interactive search display that includes a search field, and perform, using a search engine and a set of one or more search terms entered in the search field by a user, a search of one or more databases that collectively store policy information for a plurality of insurance policies. The application also presents to the user results corresponding to information returned by the search of the database(s), with the results including an entry for a first person associated with at least one of the insurance policies, and an interactive control associated with the entry for the first person. The application also receives a user input specifying a particular relationship between the first person and a loss event, and identifies, based upon the relationship, one or more loss reporting fields of a loss reporting tool.
US12288262B2	System and method for providing intelligent market data snapshots Systems and methods are provided for processing and distributing market data. Critical data, such as data showing that a market price has changed is distributed without further delay. When the market data does not result in a change in a market price or does not meet another critical criteria, the market data is aggregated with market data for similar events and distributed when the aggregated market data passes a quantity threshold.
US12288261B2	Data retrieval and validation for asset onboarding In certain aspects of the disclosure, a computer-implemented method includes collecting, via an artificial intelligence module, a first set of data associated with an asset and creating identifiers associated with the first set of data. The method includes collecting a second set of data associated with the asset based on the identifiers and comparing the first set of data and the second set of data based on the identifiers. The method includes determining validation of the first set of data based on the comparison and generating a result of approval or rejection based on the comparison.
US12288260B2	Transaction flow with master account ledger and escrow ledger interaction A system and method for completing a sale of digital shares representing an interest in an asset in an exchange, wherein the exchange comprising a transfer agent, includes registering, by the transfer agent, a user on an exchange; presenting to the user, by the transfer agent an interface allowing the user to select an interest in an asset to sell; communicating, by the transfer agent, with a broker dealer to transmit a sell contract to the user; pairing, by the transfer agent, a buyer with the user to sell the interest in the asset to the buyer; and executing, by the transfer agent, a sale of digital shares representing the interest in the asset.
US12288259B2	Transaction flow with master account ledger and escrow ledger interaction A system and method for completing a sale of digital shares representing an interest in an asset in an exchange, wherein the exchange comprising a transfer agent, includes registering, by the transfer agent, a user on an exchange; presenting to the user, by the transfer agent an interface allowing the user to select an interest in an asset to sell; communicating, by the transfer agent, with a broker dealer to transmit a sell contract to the user; pairing, by the transfer agent, a buyer with the user to sell the interest in the asset to the buyer; and executing, by the transfer agent, a sale of digital shares representing the interest in the asset.
US12288257B2	Systems and methods for preparing for an audit by recording corporate governance information on an immutable blockchain The present disclosure describes systems and methods for storing pertinent company information on an immutable blockchain. Preferred embodiments disclose systems and methods of preparing for an audit by recording corporate governance information on an immutable blockchain. The recorded information, which cannot be subsequently backdated or manipulated, provides auditors compliant and accurate information, which streamlines the audit and reduces costs.
US12288254B2	Low latency regulation of distributed transaction processing in accordance with centralized demand-based dynamically reallocated limits The disclosed embodiments relate to systems/methods for low latency regulation of distributed, e.g., geographically and/or logically, transaction processing, such as trading of financial instruments, in accordance with centralized demand-based dynamically reallocated post-trade-based limits, e.g., credit/risk limits. In particular, the disclosed embodiments relate to monitoring credit demand across execution venues, as opposed to actual utilization, and, based thereon, modifying execution specific limits to reallocate of portions of a credit/risk allotment, such as a credit/risk limit, to multiple execution venues for use in approving transactions, which may implement order driven and/or quote driven markets, so as to dynamically rebalance the allocations to the execution venues based on demand/need, rather than utilization, thereby avoiding having to mitigate latencies in determining and responding to utilization. In addition, the disclosed embodiments may maximize the total available amount for reallocation by recognizing inter-execution venue limit offsetting positions, i.e., trades, during the rebalancing process.
US12288249B2	Systems and methods for generating three-dimensional models corresponding to product bundles Generating and storing product media can be resource intensive processes. Some systems and methods disclosed herein relate to rapidly and/or automatically generating a three-dimensional (3D) composite model to help improve the generation of product media and/or to help reduce product media storage requirements. The 3D composite model may correspond to a product bundle. According to an embodiment, an indication of items associated with a product bundle is obtained. Pre-existing 3D models corresponding to the items are then obtained and used to generate a 3D composite model. The 3D composite model includes representations of the items and may be implemented to provide product media depicting the product bundle.
US12288248B2	System, method, and non-transitory computer-readable media for obtaining user parameters of e-commerce users to auto complete checkout forms A system for obtaining user parameters of e-commerce users to auto complete checkout forms includes one or more processors configured to monitor user interactions of a user with a merchant website on a user device; determine an intent to purchase one or more items based of the monitoring; determine an unfilled template of a checkout form associated with the merchant website based on previously stored website information, wherein the unfilled template of the checkout form comprises a plurality of checkout form fields; determine one or more user parameters associated with the user device; apply a machine learning algorithm to predict a geolocation of the user device based on the one or more user parameters; and auto fill the at least one of the plurality of checkout form fields in the unfilled template of the checkout form based on the predicted geolocation.
US12288246B2	Alerts for remotely-ordered grocery items The present disclosure provides various methods and embodiments for alerting a customer when requested food items are not available. When a customer places a grocery request, the system determines whether the requested items are available. If the system determines the requested items are not available, an alert is sent to the customer before a scheduled pick up time.
US12288236B2	Recommendation with neighbor-aware hyperbolic embedding A recommendation system generates recommendations for user-item pairs based on embeddings in hyperbolic space. Each user and item may be associated with a local hyperbolic embedding representing the user or item in hyperbolic space. The hyperbolic embedding may be modified by neighborhood information. Because the hyperbolic space may have no closed form for combining neighbor information, the local embedding may be converted to a tangent space for neighborhood aggregation information and converted back to hyperbolic space for a neighborhood-aware embedding to be used in the recommendation score.
US12288235B2	Methods and apparatus for predicting a user acquisition event In some examples, a system may be configured to obtain a set of features of a set of users including one or more features of transactional data of the set of users and one or more features of engagement data of the set of users. Additionally, the system may be configured to implement a first set of operations that generate output data including a plurality of trial membership scores, based on the set of features. In some examples, each trial membership score of the plurality of trial membership scores are associated with a particular user of the set of users and characterize a likelihood of an acquisition event of the corresponding user changing from a non-member status to a trial member status.
US12288234B2	Systems and methods for proof of application ownership A method and apparatus for a commerce platform providing proof of application ownership of a network distributable application are described. The method may include receiving a request to approve an application developed by a merchant system, wherein the application includes an application programming interface (API) component, a software development kit (SDK) component, or a combination thereof provided by the commerce platform to the merchant system. The method may also include generating a unique identifier (ID) for the application to be included as metadata within the application. Furthermore, the method may include obtaining, from an application information system, data describing the application, and extracting an ID from metadata in the data obtained by the application information system. Then, the method may include that in response to determining that the ID extracted from the metadata matches the unique ID, associating the merchant with the application in a merchant account at the commerce platform and approving the application for interacting with the commerce platform.
US12288231B2	Charging controller A charging controller is configured to carry out charging of a power storage with charging power to be restricted and to quit charging when a charging quitting condition is satisfied while charging is carried out. The charging controller is configured to change the charging quitting condition to move end of charging ahead in charging of the power storage by using a power feed facility when pricing of the power feed facility falls under time-based pricing and restriction of charging power is severer than a prescribed level, the time-based pricing being pricing that a fee is charged based on a charging time period.
US12288227B2	Systems and methods for generating and transmitting content based on association of a common device A computerized method of generating a report is disclosed, along with a corresponding system and non-transitory computer-readable medium. The method may include receiving training data including labeled feature sets and an indicator of a common device. The method may include receiving a first identifier with a first feature set, and a second identifier with a second feature set. The method may include correlating the first and second feature sets, and generating a common device score based on the correlated first and second feature sets and the training data. The method may also include comparing the common device score to a threshold, and associating, in response to the comparison, the first identifier and the second identifier with a device. The method may further include generating the report that indicates that the first and second identifiers are associated with the device.
US12288226B2	Method, communication terminal, and computer-readable recording medium for controlling home screen of communication terminal Home screen contents may be provided simultaneously while a communication terminal switches to an active mode from an inactive mode. The home screen contents correspond to an application installed in the communication terminal, and a user may set an application which desires the home screen contents to selectively receive the home screen contents.
US12288225B2	Channel integration A unique session is obtained and an anonymous session is generated that maps to the session. The anonymous session is passed to a selected advertisement service, and the selected advertisement service provides, in response thereto, an interface, which is proxied together with an existing interface of a device (associated with the unique session) during the unique session for a consumer to interact with the proxied interface on the device.
US12288223B2	Systems and methods for monitoring malicious software engaging in online advertising fraud or other form of deceit Systems and methods for monitoring malicious software engaging in online advertising fraud or other form of deceit are disclosed herein. An example method includes identifying a communication process used by a compromised computing device to communicate with a control server, the control server providing access to advertising weblinks, the compromised computing device associated with malicious software, directing, by an instruction executed by a processor, the compromised computing device to communicate with an uncompromised computing device by re-routing of packets used for communication between the compromised computing device and the control server, the uncompromised computing device is configured to mimic communications between the compromised computing device and the control server using the communication processes, storing information from one or more packets transmitted from the uncompromised computing device, and creating a profile of the malicious software based on the stored information.
US12288222B2	Method and system for application installation and detection of fraud in advertisement The present disclosure provides a method and system for application installation and detection of fraud in advertisement. The system receives a request for installing an application from a plurality of users in real time. In addition, the system provides one or more methods to the plurality of users for installing the application. Further, the system receives a first set of data and a second set of data in real time. Furthermore, the system analyzes the first set of data and the second set of data in real time. Moreover, the system identifies a user of the plurality of users and a publisher of a plurality of publishers committing the fraud. Also, the system blocks one or more users and one or more publishers committing the fraud in real time.
US12288219B1	System and method for improved phone and digital communication verification and efficiency A computer-implemented method includes receiving, via processing circuitry and from a customer interface device (CID), a customer communication and first authentication data, searching, via the processing circuitry, a database for a customer account corresponding to the customer communication, receiving, at the processing circuitry and from the database, first registered data corresponding to the customer account, and determining, via the processing circuitry, a first security challenge having a first security level category of a plurality of security level categories. The computer-implemented method also includes determining, via the processing circuitry and based on a first comparison between the first authentication data and the first registered data, a first outcome of the first security challenge, and determining, via the processing circuitry, for a second security challenge, and based on the first outcome of the first security challenge, a second security level category of the plurality of security level categories, the second security level category differing from the first security level category.
US12288218B2	System and method for verification of airbag destruction A method includes receiving information indicative of a first vehicle identification number (VIN) for a first vehicle, determining that the first vehicle includes a first recalled component by comparing the first VIN to information in a recall database stored in a memory of an auditing system, receiving first image data generated by a mobile device, the first image data being reproducible as a first image of the first VIN on the first vehicle and associated with a first location of the mobile device, receiving second image data generated by the mobile device, the second image data being reproducible as a second image of at least a portion of the first recalled component and associated with a second location of the mobile device, and validating a status of the first recalled component by comparing the first location of the mobile and the second location of the mobile device.
US12288216B2	Merchandise return and/or exchange systems, methods, and media Systems, methods, and apparatus are disclosed that provide a merchandise return and/or exchange process for items purchased from brick-and-mortar and/or e-commerce stores. In some embodiments, a mobile computing device of a customer may determine whether the mobile computing device and therefore the customer are in a defined zone for a store. In response to determining that the mobile computing device is in the defined zone, the mobile computing device may notify the customer and request whether the customer wishes to initiate a return and/or exchange of purchased items to the store. The mobile computing device may notify a merchandise pickup system of the customer's desire to return the purchased items.
US12288215B2	Multidimensional transaction pattern tracking and prediction Systems and methods for multidimensional transaction pattern tracking and prediction are provided. A method includes detecting a series of transactions associated with a remote user device and generating a multidimensional transactional profile. Generating the multidimensional transactional profile may involve a first ML model generating a first score representing a first dimension, and a second ML model generating a second score representing a second dimension. The method also includes selecting weightings for the scores, and combining the weighted scores to create the multidimensional transactional profile. The method also includes generating a list of recommended transactional activities and a list of flagged transactional activities, transmitting the list of recommended transactional activities to the remote user device, and detecting additional transactions originating from the account associated with the remote user device. In response to one of the transactions being from the flagged list, the method includes triggering an alert.
US12288212B2	Method and system for validating transaction in client-server environment A method of validating a transaction in a client-server environment, the method including: receiving a transaction request from a user at a client device; executing a command at the client device associated with the transaction request based on a state data corresponding to the user at the client device; transmitting a request by the client device to a server for execution of the command at the server, upon the command being executed at the client device; executing the command by the server using a copy of the state data stored on the server, upon receiving the request from the client device, for validating the transaction associated with the transaction request at the client device by the server; and performing one of: allowing the transaction or preventing the transaction, at the client device by the server, based on the execution of the command at the server.
US12288209B2	Factorization-based data object processing A system is configured to obtain constituent data streams for each data object of objects; to analyze the constituent data streams to allocate each constituent data stream to one of a set of primary groups; to assign the constituent data streams within each of the primary groups having aligned timing to a netting group of the primary group; to generate, for each netting group of each of the primary groups, continuous data streams by combining the constituent data streams within the netting groups; to define new data objects from the generated continuous data streams, each new data object specifying continuous data streams associated with a pair the primary groups; to incorporate a new data object into a set of data objects to effectuate adjustments to the set of data objects; and to cause the processor to incorporate store, the adjustments to the set of data objects.
US12288208B2	Electronic device for securely storing and providing payment information The systems, methods and apparatuses described herein provide a virtual integrated circuit card (ICC). In one aspect, a method of creating a virtual ICC may be provided. The method may comprise obtaining executable code configured to run on a user device to facilitate financial transactions, preparing a first encryption key usable by the executable code, receiving a second encryption key associated with the user device, forming a virtual ICC comprising the executable code and the first encryption key, and encrypting the virtual ICC with the second encryption key. In another aspect, a virtual ICC may be embodied on a non-transitory computer-readable medium. The virtual ICC may comprise executable code configured to run on a user device to facilitate financial transactions and a first encryption key usable by the executable code. The virtual ICC may be encrypted using a second encryption key associated with the user device.
US12288203B2	Systems and methods for an electronic wallet payment tool The systems may include transmitting wallet provider script to a payment service provider server, presenting an electronic wallet payment tool on a merchant checkout page, receiving a first selection of the electronic wallet payment tool, retrieving an electronic wallet comprised in a transaction account associated with the consumer, transmitting transaction account information associated with a desired transaction account in the electronic wallet to the payment service provider server, receiving a virtual token from the payment service provider server, and/or transmitting the virtual token to payment service provider script integrated in a browser used by the consumer.
US12288189B2	Enterprise and information technology services management orchestrating a plurality of enterprise applications A computer implemented method performed by a system for providing enterprise and information technology services management orchestrating a plurality of enterprise applications. The method includes receiving, in the system, a request for a service. The method includes determining, based on the received service request, one or more calls to implement a process for fulfilling the requested service. The method includes conveying, to the one or more of the plurality of enterprise applications, the one or more calls. The method includes receiving, from the one or more enterprise applications that received the one or more calls, a response for the fulfillment of the requested service. The method includes determining, based on the received response, a completion status of the service request.
US12288186B2	Automatic inventory creation via image recognition and overlay A method for automatically creating an equipment inventory from a plurality of images of a site. The method includes receiving, by a processor, the plurality of images of the site, labeling, by the processor, equipment present in each image of the plurality of images of the site, creating, by the processor, an overlap curve for neighboring images of the plurality of images of the site, determining, by the processor, a useful image of each side of the site based on the overlap curve, the useful image including a subset of the plurality of images, creating, by the processor, an overlay of equipment in the useful image of each side of the site, counting, by the processor, equipment present in the overlay of each side of the site, and generating, by the processor, the equipment inventory by adding a number of equipment counted in the overlay of each side of the site.
US12288185B2	System and methods for managing oil and gas production equipment A system for managing well production equipment, the system comprising a) an RFID tag reader associated with a production well within a production well field, said RFID tag reader being positioned to read RFID tags associated with well production equipment as the well production equipment is run into said production well; and b) a data processing unit in communication with said RFID tag reader associated with a production well.
US12288184B2	Locker management system A locker management system including a management server that manages status of shipping of items and status of keeping each of the items at the locker spots. The locker spot is equipped with an electronically controlled locker and a spot terminal, and the management server receives selection and designation of the locker spot to keep the item and designation of predetermined length of time for which the item is kept at the locker spot, and upon delivery of the item to the locker spot, notifies a customer terminal of a locker number. When a customer visits the locker spot and reads an identification code attached to the locker, and transmits this code and the customer ID to the management server, the management server performs necessary checking processing. If the answer of the checking processing is positive, the management server transmits a signal for unlocking a locker to the locker.
US12288183B2	Processing route information Server apparatus comprising a processor and a memory, the server apparatus being configured, under control of the processor, to execute instructions stored in the memory: to establish a route data record comprising data indicative of plural routes, each said route being between a start location and a respective destination, whereby each respective destination has at least one route to it from said start location; to process the route data record to determine a zone data record indicative of zones making up each route; and to combine the zone data record with a prediction data record to score the route data making up each said route to each destination based upon a prediction of the probability of a job or expected revenue in each zone making up that route.
US12288178B2	System and method for modelling and monitoring processes in organizations using digital twins The present invention discloses a system and method for modeling and monitoring processes in organizations using digital twins. The system has a model builder to create models, communicate with a first user device and create an integrated model of the process called digital twin definition. The digital twin includes a server component for executing the digital twin definition and the server component further communicates with multiple transaction systems and auxiliary systems. The digital twin has a client module that enables output on a second user device and deploys the digital twins to monitor the processes. The present invention discloses method for creating dynamic models and monitor said models using digital twin. The present invention also discloses a method for creating said PLAY.
US12288177B2	Deriving employee context from structured communication In a method of identifying a metric associated with a business, a computer system associated with the business recognizes a first user associated with a first communication device and a second user associated with a second communication device, wherein the first user is recognized as an employee of the business and the second user is recognized as an employee of the business. The computer system observes signals in between the first communication device and the second communication device, wherein at least a portion of the communication is an audible communication. The computer system identifies a metric based on the signals in the communication between the first communication device and the second communication device. The metric is then made available for decision making purposes.
US12288176B2	Cloud-edge collaboration forecasting system and method for aluminum oxide production indexes Provided is a cloud-edge collaboration forecasting system and method for aluminum oxide production indexes. The forecasting system performs forecasting algorithm selection, parameter configuration and model training on indexes and variables of the aluminum oxide production process at a cloud model training server, performs evaluation and parameter correction on the trained model to obtain an optimal training model, and pre-processes the data in the aluminum oxide production process at an aluminum oxide production index forecasting computer at an edge end. The trained model parameters are imported from the cloud, and further the trained forecasting model is used for forecasting aluminum oxide production indexes for different production processes. The forecasting system and method can provide powerful calculating resources by training an aluminum oxide production index forecasting model through the cloud model training server, and real-time convenient aluminum oxide production index forecasting through the computer at the edge end.
US12288172B2	Resource planning for an online concierge system based on predictive modeling An online concierge shopping system fulfills orders using workers who pick items at a warehouse to complete an order and workers to deliver the orders to a customer's location. To optimize the staffing of workers for each task, the system uses a trained model to predict the number of workers needed to achieve an optimal outcome based on an input set of contextual information. The system also schedules specific workers to various shifts using the predicted number of workers needed and then searching a feasibility space for an optimal solution. The trained model may be updated based on performance observations.
US12288171B1	Systems and methods to provide records for new users of a collaboration environment Systems and methods to provide records for new users of a collaboration environment are described herein. Exemplary implementations may: manage environment state information maintaining the collaboration environment; obtain requests to onboard new users to the collaboration environment; obtain subsets of prompts from a set of available prompts; effectuate presentation of a user interface including the subsets of prompts; obtain response information conveying entry and/or selection of answers to individual prompts by the new users; provide one or more of the records for the new users based on the response information; and/or perform other operations.
US12288167B2	Typhoon trajectory prediction method, device, electronic equipment and computer readable medium Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a typhoon trajectory prediction method, device, electronic equipment and computer readable medium. A detailed implementation of the method includes acquiring typhoon status information that includes typhoon wind speed information and typhoon location information, acquiring information of target distance from typhoon to a target position, obtaining typhoon time difference information based on the information of target distance and the typhoon wind speed information, performing slicing processing on the typhoon time difference information to generate time difference ratio information, performing data processing on the time difference ratio information and the information of target distance to generate time ratio distance information, and performing data processing on the time ratio distance information and the typhoon position information to generate typhoon position prediction information. The implementation realizes targeted prediction typhoon position information, thus enhancing the accuracy of broadcasting typhoon position.
US12288166B2	Assessment and response mechanism for autonomous systems Various systems and methods for implementing an assessment and response mechanism for autonomous systems are described herein. An assessment and response system for an autonomous system is configured to access a realm classification of an event; determine a hazard score based on the realm classification, a severity metric, a likelihood metric, an urgency metric, and a confidence level metric; identify, based on the hazard score, a responsive action; and record details of the hazard score determination and the responsive action in a decision ledger.
US12288164B2	Prediction method for stall and surge of axial compressor based on deep learning The present invention relates to a prediction method for stall and surge of an axial compressor based on deep learning. The method comprises the following steps: firstly, preprocessing data with stall and surge of an aeroengine, and partitioning a test data set and a training data set from experimental data. Secondly, constructing an LR branch network module, a WaveNet branch network module and a LR-WaveNet prediction model in sequence. Finally, conducting real-time prediction on the test data: preprocessing test set data in the same manner, and adjusting data dimension according to input requirements of the LR-WaveNet prediction model; giving surge prediction probabilities of all samples by means of the LR-WaveNet prediction model according to time sequence; and giving the probability of surge that data with noise points changes over time by means of the LR-WaveNet prediction model, to test the anti-interference performance of the model.
US12288161B2	Creating diverse neural networks with node tying A system and method for controlling a nodal network. The method includes estimating an effect on the objective caused by the existence or non-existence of a direct connection between a pair of nodes and changing a structure of the nodal network based at least in part on the estimate of the effect. A nodal network includes a strict partially ordered set, a weighted directed acyclic graph, an artificial neural network, and/or a layered feed-forward neural network.
US12288158B2	Intelligent automated imaging system The present disclosure describes a computational imaging system that uses a supervised learning algorithm to jointly process the captured image data to identify task-optimal hardware settings and then uses the task-optimal hardware settings to dynamically adjust its hardware to improve specific performance. The primary application of this device is for rapid and accurate automatic analysis of images of biological specimens.
US12288156B2	Machine learning system and a method, a computer program and a device for creating the machine learning system A machine learning system, in particular a deep neural network. The machine learning system includes a plurality of layers that are connected to one another. The layers each ascertain an output variable as a function of an input variable and at least one parameter that is stored in a memory. The parameters of those layers that are connected to a further, in particular preceding, layer are each stored in the memory using a higher resolution than the parameters of those layers that are connected to a plurality of further, in particular preceding, layers. In addition, A method, a computer program, and a device for creating the machine learning system, are described.
US12288155B2	Optimization of artificial neural network (ANN) classification model and training data for appropriate model behavior This disclosure relates to method and system for optimizing artificial neural network (ANN) classification model and training data thereof for appropriate model behavior. The method may include extracting entities and domain specific entities from the training data for each of classes of the ANN classification mode, determining model parameters of the ANN classification model based on the training data, determining missing data with respect to the training data or the model parameters based on the entities and the domain specific entities for each the classes, iteratively analysing a relative advantage of a modified ANN classification model with a modified training data with respect to the ANN classification model with the training data, and determining an optimized ANN classification model and an optimized training data for appropriate model behavior based on the iterative analysis. The modified data may be generated based on the missing data.
US12288153B2	Schedule-aware tensor distribution module Methods and systems include a neural network system that includes a neural network accelerator. The neural network accelerator includes multiple processing engines coupled together to perform arithmetic operations in support of an inference performed using the deep neural network system. The neural network accelerator also includes a schedule-aware tensor data distribution circuitry or software that is configured to load tensor data into the multiple processing engines in a load phase, extract output data from the multiple processing engines in an extraction phase, reorganize the extracted output data, and store the reorganized extracted output data to memory.
US12288152B2	Neural network weight encoding According to an aspect, a neural network circuit for decoding weights of a neural network includes a weight memory configured to store encoded weights for the neural network, where the encoded weights includes an index weight word, and a decompression logic circuit configured to retrieve the encoded weights from the weight memory, decode the encoded weights using the index weight word to obtain a sequence of one or more non-pruned weight words and one or more pruned weight words, and provide the sequence of the non-pruned weight words and the pruned weight words to a plurality of input-weight multipliers.
US12288151B2	Using machine learning to extract information from electronic communications Systems and methods for using machine learning to extract data from electronic communications are disclosed. According to certain aspects, a machine learning model is trained on a set of tasks using a set of training data. An electronic communication indicating a purchase of a product and/or service is processed to generate augmented text that is input into the machine learning model. After analyzing the augmented text, the machine learning model outputs a set of predicted values for a set of defined categories, which an entity may use for various purposes such as to apply digital rewards to user accounts.
US12288149B1	System and method for the prediction of runway configuration and airport acceptance rate (AAR) for multi-airport system Numerical weather prediction data during a time period of interest for a multi-airport system is used to generate a three-dimensional (3-D) tensor data for the time period of interest. The 3-D tensor data is then used to predict hourly runway configurations for each of a plurality of airports of the multi-airport system during the time period of interest using the 3-D tensor data as input to a plurality of runway configuration convolutional neural networks (CNN) branches and to predict an AAR for each of the plurality of airports of the multi-airport system during the time period of interest using the 3-D tensor data as input to an airport acceptance rate (AAR) CNN branch. The predicted hourly runway configuration for each of the plurality of airports and the predicted AAR for each of the plurality of airports are then used to manage flights within the multi-airport system.
US12288141B2	Multi-level caching for dynamic deep learning models Systems, apparatuses and methods provide technology for model generation with intermediate stage caching and re-use, including generating, via a model pipeline, a multi-level set of intermediate stages for a model, caching each of the set of intermediate stages, and responsive to a change in the model pipeline, regenerating an executable for the model using a first one of the cached intermediate stages to bypass regeneration of at least one of the intermediate stages. The multi-level set of intermediate stages can correspond to a hierarchy of processing stages in the model pipeline, where using the first one of the cached intermediate stages results in bypassing regeneration of a corresponding intermediate stage and of all intermediate stages preceding the corresponding intermediate stage in the hierarchy. Further, regenerating an executable for the model can include regenerating one or more intermediate stages following the corresponding intermediate stage in the hierarchy.
US12288140B2	Classifier assistance using domain-trained embedding A classifier may be trained with less than all datasets manually annotated with labels. A small subset of verbatims may be manually labeled with topic labels as seeds. Data augmentations can be used to acquire seed verbatim sets for known topics and to assign temporary pseudo labels to the rest of the verbatims based on their vector space proximity to the labeled seed verbatims. The training may involve classification epochs during which embeddings are updated with the assumption that the pseudo labels are ground-truth labels. The training may also involve labeling epochs during which the updated embeddings are used to update the vectors corresponding to the verbatims, and pseudo labels are updated based on updated vector coordinates in the vector space. As the training process progresses through the epochs, the embeddings will converge.
US12288137B2	Performance prediction using dynamic model correlation A data stream of performance metrics characterizing a technology landscape may be received. From a plurality of performance prediction models and based on the performance metrics, a subset of performance prediction models may be selected. The subset of performance prediction models may be combined into a composite prediction model. The composite prediction model may be loaded into a model processor for scoring against the data stream of performance metrics to obtain a performance prediction for the technology landscape based thereon.
US12288134B2	Quantum approximate chaos optimization for use in a hybrid computing system Embodiments described herein are generally related to a method and a system for performing a computation using a hybrid quantum-classical computing system, and, more specifically, to providing an approximate solution to a combinatorial optimization problem using a hybrid quantum-classical computing system that includes a group of trapped ions. A hybrid quantum-classical computing system that is able to provide a solution to a combinatorial optimization problem may include a classical computer, a system controller, and a quantum processor. The methods and systems described herein include an efficient method for an optimization routine executed by the classical computer in solving a problem in a hybrid quantum-classical computing system, which can provide improvement over the conventional method for an optimization by conventional stochastic optimization methods.
US12288129B2	System and method using multiple entangled linear qubit arrays for quantum computing A quantum computing (QC) system includes a plurality of qubits arranged in a plurality of substantially linear regions having longitudinal axes that are substantially parallel to one another. At least some of the substantially linear regions include two or more qubits and one or more qubits of each substantially linear region are configured to interact with one or more qubits of at least one other substantially linear region.
US12288124B2	RFID-integrated indicia-reading device and methods with increased read range via mode detection A RFID-integrated indicia reading device and methods with increased read range via mode detection is provided. The device comprises an imaging assembly configured to capture two-dimensional image data appearing in a first field of view; an antenna assembly including at least one antenna element, being arranged proximate to the imaging assembly within a housing; and, a controller, coupled to the imaging and antenna assemblies, configured to determine a presentation operating mode of the device and a handheld operating mode of the device. The presentation operating mode is indicative of the device being positioned in a cradle, and the handheld operating mode is indicative of the device being held by and positioned in front of a user. The controller, in response to determining the device is in handheld operating mode, increases a transmit power of the antenna element, which generates backward energy that reflects from the user and increases a forward read range of the device.
US12288122B2	Sensing fiber for monitoring rope condition, and method of manufacturing the same A system for monitoring performance of a rope includes a drawn form factor that has a plurality of radio-frequency identification (RFID) devices (e.g., embedded therein). The form factor is integrated into a core portion of the rope. Each RFID device is configured to transmit a corresponding message to at least one receiver in response to an interrogation initiated by at least one transmitter. The messages enable the determination of at least one characteristic of the rope based on a spatial relationship of the plurality of RFID devices and a timing of the received messages.
US12288118B2	RFID antenna formed by multiple cutting processes A method for manufacturing an antenna for an RFID device includes providing a conductive material on a substrate and performing a first cutting process on the conductive material to define an initial antenna. Additional cutting processes are performed on the initial antenna to define a final antenna, with the first and any subsequent cutting processes being different. The subsequent cutting processes are capable of more finely defining regions of the antenna, such as in some embodiments when the first cutting process is a die cutting process and a second cutting process is a laser cutting process. While the subsequent cutting processes are capable of more finely defining regions of the antenna than the first cutting process. By combining multiple cutting processes, a final antenna equivalent to one made using only one or more of the subsequent cutting processes may be created at a lower cost.
US12288113B2	Signature-based unique identifier The technology described herein can generate a unique identifier for a visual media that comprises pre-printed visual indications on the visual media and a user's handwritten signature. The location of the signature on the visual media can be determined by including preprinted fiducial marks on the visual media. The fiducial markers act as landmarks that allow the size and location of the signature to be determined in absolute terms. The unique identifier is then stored in computer memory on a user-experience server. The user-experience server can associate the unique identifier with a digital asset, such as an image or video, designated by the user. When the unique identifier is provided to the user-experience server a second time, the digital asset can be retrieved and output to the computing device that provided the unique identifier.
US12288110B2	Information processing apparatus, inspection system, information processing method, and storage medium for inspecting printed material To make it possible to easily set an inspection level in accordance with the type of contents included in a printed material. First, based on PDL included in a print job, a raster image is generated and a contents attribute different from an object attribute predefined by the PDL is identified by analyzing the raster image. Then, inspection level information in accordance with the identified contents attribute is assigned to the generated raster image and the raster image is provided to an inspection apparatus.
US12288109B2	Message-based processing system with address computation modes A message-based processing system is disclosed. An input message received in the message-based processing system comprises a first indication of at least a subset of a plurality of processor elements and a second indication of a target pattern. Each of the plurality of processor elements has an addressable storage entry with a processor element address storing a processor element state. An initial address computation mode is selected from a set of address computation modes. A state value of each of the processor elements in the subset is updated based on magnitude values of respective pattern elements of the target pattern. A currently applied pattern element of the target pattern in each case determines whether to maintain a current address computation mode of the set of address computation modes or assume a next address computation mode selected from the set of address computation modes.
US12288105B2	Environment construction system and environment construction method An environment construction system holds resource price information indicating a price of available resources in a second environment and communication distance information indicating a distance of a communication path between the second environment and a first environment when the available resources are used for the second environment, acquires system configuration information of an information system and environment arrangement information indicating a physical location where the first environment is disposed, analyzes the system configuration information to generate an analysis result indicating a configuration of the system, determines an environment arrangement policy indicating a requirement required for the second environment based on the analysis result, selects a resource to be used for the second environment based on the resource price information, the communication distance information, and the environment arrangement policy, converts the system configuration information to use the selected resource, and constructs the second environment using the selected resource.
US12288104B2	System and method for user devices in cloud computing environment A system and corresponding method consumerize cloud computing by incorporating consumer devices into an infrastructure of cloud computing environment. The consumer device comprises a client job manager that spawns a processing task on the consumer device responsive to a job request to perform at least a portion of a computational job. The computational job is requested by an end user device to be performed via cloud computing. The consumer device further comprises a network interface. The job request is received via the network interface from a cloud job manager of a cloud service provider system of a cloud service provider. The processing task performs the at least a portion of the computational job. The consumer device is selected by the cloud job manager based, at least in part, on proximity of the consumer device to the end user device and at least one characteristic of the consumer device. The client job manager communicates the at least one characteristic to the cloud job manager via the network interface.
US12288103B1	Systems and methods to facilitate adaptive resource capacity prediction and control using cloud infrastructures with a capacity prediction interface Systems, methods, and non-transitory, machine-readable media may facilitate adaptive resource capacity prediction and control using cloud infrastructures with a capacity prediction interface. Specifications of resource allocations for resources provided by a cloud infrastructure system may be collected. Observation data may be collected and may include resource metrics data. Prediction rules may be selected as a function of particular resource metrics. A subset of the resources may be identified. The selected prediction rules may be used to predict resource capacities for the subset of the resources as a function of the particular resource metrics and generate resource capacity predictions. Incidents may be identified based on the resource capacity predictions. A capacity prediction interface may be generated and may be configured to represent the resource capacity predictions and facilitate preemptive actions with respect to the incidents identified based on the resource capacity predictions.
US12288102B2	System and method for queuing node load in data preprocessing Systems and methods for optimal load distribution and data processing of a plurality of files in anti-malware solutions are provided herein. In some embodiments, the system includes: a plurality of node processors; a control processor programmed to: receiving a plurality of files used for malware analysis and training of anti-malware ML models; separating the plurality of files into a plurality of subsets of files based on byte size of each of the files, such that processing of each subset of files produces similar workloads amongst all available node processors; distributing the plurality of subsets of files amongst all available node processors such that each node processor processes its respective subset of files in parallel and within a similar timeframe as the other node processors; and receiving, by the control processor, a report of performance and/or anti-malware processing results of the subset of files performed from each node processor.
US12288100B2	Workload distribution by utilizing unused central processing unit capacity in a distributed computing system A technique for improving workload distribution by utilizing unused resources in a distributed computing system is described. In one example of the present disclosure, a system can determine that a computing entity of a distributed computing system includes an unused portion of a CPU capacity. The computing entity can have a first defined limit of the CPU capacity. The system can use the unused portion of the CPU capacity to improve a usage of a resource of the computing entity. The computing entity can have a second defined limit of the resource.
US12288096B2	Hierarchical scheduler Methods, systems, and computer programs are directed to the implementation of configurable hierarchical schedulers with multiple levels, where each level may use one of several types of queueing mechanisms. A configurable, hierarchical scheduler is designed to handle large scale processing of requests (e.g., transmitting outgoing messages). The hierarchical scheduler distributes the loads to different queues handling different types of messages (e.g., by user ID, by Internet Address (IP), by schedule). The different layers of the hierarchical scheduler are configurable to queue and schedule traffic based on many factors, such as IP address, handling reputation, available downstream bandwidth, fairness, concurrency rates to handle multiple constraints, scheduling per client, time of delivery constrains, rate limits per user, domain scheduling per user, concurrency throttling per outbound channel, and sharing global rate limits across service processors.
US12288093B2	Electronic device for handling bottleneck in system and operating method thereof An electronic device for handling a performance bottleneck of a system and an operating method thereof are provided. The electronic device includes a processor and a memory configured to store at least one instruction executable by the processor, wherein the processor, as a response to executing the at least one instruction, may determine, from a point in time corresponding to a start of a predetermined task, whether a threshold time preset for the task arrives, stop determining whether the threshold time has arrived in response to the task terminating prior to the threshold time arriving, and control one or more of resources for performing a task in response to the threshold time arriving prior to the task terminating.
US12288092B2	Task processing method and device A task processing method including associating and controlling, by a processing unit, a first resource to perform a task processing operation through N virtual resource identifiers in response to a task processing instruction. N is the number of data processing resources required for the task processing operation. The first resource includes n data processing resources, and n is an integer greater than or equal to 1, n
US12288091B2	Methods and apparatus for context switching Aspects of the present disclosure relate to apparatus comprising execution circuitry comprising at least one execution unit to execute program instructions, and control circuitry. The control circuitry receives a stream of processing instructions, and issues each received instruction to one of said at least one execution unit. Responsive to determining that a first type of context switch is to be performed from an initial context to a new context, issuing continues until a pre-emption point in the stream of processing instructions is reached. Responsive to reaching the pre-emption point, state information is stored, and the new context is switched to. Responsive to determining that a context switch is to be performed to return from the new context to the initial context, the processing status is restored from the state information, and the stream of processing instructions is continued.
US12288085B2	On the fly configuration of a processing circuit A method for on-the fly updating of a processing circuit, the method includes monitoring, by multiple coroutines and during a monitoring period, a progress of multiple suspend-update-resume sequences executed by the processing circuit, wherein at least some of the multiple execute and suspend-update-resume sequences partially overlap and are not mutually synchronized, and wherein each suspend-update-resume sequence comprises on-the-fly updates; and determining, by a merged coroutine, timings of the multiple suspend-update-resume sequences, wherein the determining comprises performing multiple calculation iterations, wherein a calculation iteration of the multiple calculation iterations comprises calculating, in a an iterative manner, a timing of a next suspend-update-resume sequence to be executed out of the multiple suspend-update-resume sequences, and wherein the calculating is responsive to timing offsets between different suspend-update-resume sequences.
US12288084B2	Interface calling method and apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium This application provides an interface calling simulation method for developing an application program performed by an electronic device. The electronic device receives an interface calling request for a target interface in an application program. The interface calling request includes interface calling information of the target interface. The electronic device identifies, within a simulated interface set for a simulation interface corresponding to the target interface. The simulated interface set includes simulated interfaces that simulate real interfaces in the application program. The electronic device compares the interface calling information of the target interface with interface configuration information of the simulated interface. In accordance with a determination that the interface calling information matches the interface configuration information, the electronic device obtains simulated response data corresponding to the target simulation interface and generates calling response data of the interface calling request based on the simulated response data.
US12288077B2	Multi-boot architecture for electronic interaction device An electronic interaction device may include: a user interface configured to receive interaction requests by a user; a first data storage medium storing a first operating system; a second data storage medium storing a second operating system; a memory storing instructions; and a control unit including a processor. The control unit may be configured to: load the first operating system in response to the electronic interaction device being powered on; communicate with a remote server via a secure communications channel; transmit a status of the first operating system to the remote server via the secure communications channel; receive a boot instruction from the remote server via the secure communications channel; and in response to the boot instruction, load the second operating system.
US12288076B2	Reversible virtual factory reset A computer implemented method includes receiving a request for a boot into a system factory reset mode, accessing a virtual boot indication in an operating system memory area, identifying an address of a virtual boot user space memory area as a function of the virtual boot indication, and booting the system into the factory reset mode using the virtual boot user space memory without overriding user settings in the user space memory.
US12288073B2	Instruction prefetch throttling An apparatus is provided for limiting the effective utilisation of an instruction fetch queue. The instruction fetch entries are used to control the prefetching of instructions from memory, such that those instructions are stored in an instruction cache prior to being required by execution circuitry while executing a program. By limiting the effective utilisation of the instruction fetch queue, fewer instructions will be prefetched and fewer instructions will be allocated to the instruction cache, thus causing fewer evictions from the instruction cache. In the event that the instruction fetch entries are for instructions that are unnecessary to the program, the pollution of the instruction cache with these unnecessary instructions can be mitigated.
US12288071B2	Register addressing information for data transfer instruction A data transfer instruction is provided which specifies register addressing information for identifying a target portion of the register storage. In response to the data transfer instruction, instruction decoding circuitry controls processing circuitry to perform a data transfer operation to transfer data to or from the target portion of the register storage. The register addressing information includes at least: a base register identifier identifying a base register of the register storage for storing a base value; and an immediate value specified in an encoding of the data transfer instruction, the immediate value representing a value to be added to the base value to provide an index value for selecting the target portion of the register storage. This can be useful to provide an instruction set architecture which supports code that is scalable to variable data structure sizes, and which supports loop unrolling.
US12288070B1	Program counter zero-cycle loads An apparatus includes a processor core that includes an instruction decode circuit and a control circuit. The instruction decode circuit is configured to decode instructions, including a plurality of store instructions used to store information in a memory hierarchy. The control circuit is configured, after a particular store instruction is decoded, to preserve store information related to the particular store instruction, including a first program counter value for the particular store instruction. In response to decoding a subsequent load instruction with a corresponding second program counter value, the control circuit is configured to determine, using the first and second program counter values, whether a dependency has been established between the subsequent load instruction and the particular store instruction. In response to a determination that the dependency has been established, the control circuit is configured to use the preserved store information to perform the subsequent load instruction.
US12288069B2	Stream data unit with multiple head registers A streaming engine employed in a digital signal processor specifies a fixed read only data stream. Once fetched the data stream is stored in two head registers for presentation to functional units in the fixed order. Data use by the functional unit is preferably controlled using the input operand fields of the corresponding instruction. A first read only operand coding supplies data from the first head register. A first read/advance operand coding supplies data from the first head register and also advances the stream to the next sequential data elements. Corresponding second read only operand coding and second read/advance operand coding operate similarly with the second head register. A third read only operand coding supplies double width data from both head registers.
US12288065B2	Microprocessor with odd and even register sets A processor includes a plurality of register sets of a register file, and a plurality sets of functional units which are coupled by sets of dedicated read and write buses to allow parallel execution of instruction. The register sets and functional units are organized as odd and even sets. Shared buses may also be employed. The processor may also include a time counter and a time-resource matrix and provides a method for statically dispatching instructions.
US12288060B2	Data file partition and replication The present disclosure provides a method, system, and device for file replication. To illustrate, based on target replication information corresponding to a version of a file at a target device, a source device may determine one or more portions of a different version of the file at the source device to be provided to the target device. One or more other aspects of the present disclosure further provide sending, to the target device, the one or more portions and replication information corresponding to the version of the file at the source device. Based on the version of the file at the target device, the one or more portions, and the replication information corresponding to the version of the file at the source device, the target device may assemble and store a file that corresponds to the version of the file at the source device.
US12288059B2	Over the air analytics A system is provided for use with over-the-air (OTA) analytic data corresponding to OTA aggregate data associated with an OTA push of a software update to a plurality of devices. The system includes: a data receiver configured to receive the OTA aggregate data; a memory having instructions stored therein; and a processor configured to execute the instructions stored in the memory to cause the system to: store the received OTA aggregate data into the memory; analyze the OTA aggregate data to determine an optimized time period for the OTA push; predict a future OTA push time period based on the optimized time period; and generate a future OTA push instruction based on the predicted future OTA push time period.
US12288055B2	Information processing device and information processing system to update a function An electronic blackboard device that stores software of a plurality of functionalities includes: a touch panel that receives a user operation, a CPU that executes a piece of software of a functionality corresponding to the user operation, a usage history acquirer that acquires usage histories of the plurality of functionalities based on the execution of the piece of the software; an update information acquirer that acquires update information indicating update targets; a determiner that determines a functionality to be preferentially updated among the update targets based on the usage histories; and a display that provides an update notification to prompt update of the functionality thus determined.
US12288054B2	Method of generating rollback difference data of a vehicle controller and a method of rollback of a vehicle controller Provided is a method for generating rollback difference data of a vehicle controller. The method includes receiving difference data for updating from old version data to new version data from a server, and generating rollback difference data for a rollback from the new version data to the old version data by using the difference data and the old version data.
US12288052B2	Method for creating private image in public cloud and related device A method for creating a private image in a public cloud and a related device. The method includes: A cloud management platform on a network side provide a plurality of interfaces for a tenant, and obtain, based on the plurality of interfaces, an ISO file uploaded by the tenant and an operation input by the tenant. The cloud management platform registers the ISO file as an ISO image in the public cloud based on the input operation, where the ISO image carries the installation file of the operating system, installs the installation file of the operating system carried in the ISO image on a temporary cloud server, sets a running environment in an operating system on the temporary cloud server, obtains an image of the temporary cloud server in which the running environment is set, and records the image as a system disk image of the tenant in the public cloud.
US12288050B2	Compiler for machine learning programs In variants, a program optimization method can include: receiving a program; determining a set of proxy inputs for the program; generating a set of intermediate traces for the program; and generating a set of execution traces for the program, wherein the set of execution traces can include executor fusions associated with device kernels for hardware accelerators. During runtime, program results can be computed by executing an execution trace instead of executing the program.
US12288042B2	Computer implemented method and system for pseudo-random data generator A method of pseudo-randomly generating data is disclosed. The method Comprises receiving first data items (s1′ s2′ . . . sN′) from a plurality of first participants and combining the first data items to generate second data (Σisi′). A one-way function is applied to the second data to generate third data (Σisi′), wherein the one-way function is adapted to receive input data and generate output data based on the input data, wherein the input data is not deducible from the output data and the one-way function.
US12288038B2	Matching service requester with service providers Systems, methods, devices, and non-transitory, computer-readable storage media are disclosed for matching a service requester with a service provider via a taxonomy based directed graph. The method includes: receiving a keyword associated with a service; accessing a directed graph including a root node and nodes connected by edges, each node having a title; identifying a second node of the directed graph for each of service providers, each second node having a title matching a skill of a respective service provider; determining a distance between the first node and each second node along the directed graph; and ranking the service providers based at least in part on the distance between the first node and each second node. Systems, methods, devices, and non-transitory, computer-readable storage media are further disclosed for determining and storing a quality score for the revised linguistic content.
US12288036B2	Reform input in flow execution Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant are provided. An example method includes, at an electronic device having one or more processors and memory, receiving an utterance including a user request, determining a natural language representation of the user request, determining a first software process associated with the natural language representation, determining whether the natural language representation can be executed by a task flow of the first software process, and in accordance with a determination that the natural language representation cannot be executed by the task flow of the first software process: determining a set of transformation instructions, determining a revised natural language representation using the set of transformation instructions, and providing the revised natural language representation to a second software process.
US12288035B2	Question answering with first and second artificial intelligence models based on document with updated question The present disclosure provides an electronic apparatus, which conducts learning based on sensitive information or specialized tasks for the self-stored artificial intelligence model, while using an artificial intelligence model stored in an external electronic device, and uses internal and external artificial intelligence models complementarily to each other through this to provide appropriate answers and task results.
US12288031B2	Filtering user intent eligibility Filtering user intents corresponding to user utterances is provided. A list of allowed user intents is generated, using a natural language understanding model of a chatbot, based on identifying one or more of a set of user intents corresponding to a user utterance within a filtered user intent mapping table. It is determined whether a user intent having a highest confidence score in the set of user intents corresponding to the user utterance is contained in the list of allowed user intents. In response to determining that the user intent having the highest confidence score in the set of user intents corresponding to the user utterance is contained in the list of allowed user intents, content corresponding to the user intent having the highest confidence score is sent, using the chatbot, to a client device of a user who submitted the user utterance as a response to the user utterance.
US12288026B2	Information processing method, computer-readable recording medium storing information processing program, and information processing device An information processing method in which a computer executes processing includes: acquiring a sentence; specifying a word that appears immediately before or immediately after a first word in the acquired sentence by using a prediction model that predicts a word that appears immediately before or immediately after an input word; determining whether or not an estimated relationship between the first word and the second word in the sentence is appropriate on the basis of the specified word and a rule regarding a unit that corresponds to a relationship between words stored in a storage; and outputting information regarding the estimated relationship between the first word and the second word in a case where it is determined that the relationship is appropriate.
US12288025B1	Systems and methods for generating and editing messages Systems and methods for generating a message that is to be sent electronically to a user include the use of an artificial intelligence or large language model (AI/LLM) service to provide recommendations about how a message could be changed to improve customer engagement with the message. The systems and methods can present an individual generating the message with options for making changes to a draft of the message, and the individual can then select the changes that are to be made to create a final version of the message. In some instances, the systems and methods include analyzing the change recommendations provided by a AI/LLM service to ensure they will actually improve customer engagement and not clash with or impair the original purpose of the message.
US12288023B2	Font customization based on stroke properties Methods and systems disclosed herein relate generally to systems and methods for analyzing various stroke properties determined from strokes inputted by a user to generate a new glyph set for rendering type characters. A font-generating application receives, via a stroke input on a typographic layer presented on a user interface, strokes that trace a visual appearance of a glyph set comprising one or more glyphs. The font-generating application determines stroke properties for the strokes. The font-generating application constructs a new glyph set from the stroke properties. The font-generating application applies the new glyph set to render, on a user interface, one or more type characters that match a visual appearance of the new glyph set.
US12288021B2	Apparatus and method for generating a parameterized waveguide optical elements A method and system for generating a physical layout for a grating coupler integrated in a photonically-enabled circuit are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, the method receives a parametrized wavelength, a parametrized first refractive index, a parametrized second refractive index, a parametrized taper length, a parametrized width, a parametrized grating length, and a parametrized incident angle of the optical beam incident onto the grating coupler and generates a physical layout for the grating coupler based on the received parametrized inputs, the generating of the physical layout is according to a predefined model, and outputs the physical layout of the grating coupler for manufacturing under a semiconductor fabrication process.
US12288019B2	Method, device, apparatus, readable storage medium, and program product of chip design A chip design method includes determining a to-be-designed second device in a second module, arranging a second device in the first module, connecting the interface of the first device in the first module and the interface of the second device in the first module, performing physical design by analyzing physical wiring and time sequence convergence between the first device in the first module and the second device, copying the second device in the first module after the physical design as a designed second device in the second module, and disconnecting the interface of the first device in the first module from the interface of the second device in the first module and connecting the interface of the first device in the first module to an interface of the designed second device in the second module.
US12288017B2	Simulation method for characteristics of transistor, simulation method for characteristics of electronic circuit including transistor, and nontransitory recording medium that stores simulation program for characteristics of transistor A simulation method includes a process of calculating a transient charge density qT of trapped charges after applying a voltage between a gate electrode and a semiconductor layer of a transistor, the charge density qT being calculated with a time variance of the charge density qT being expressed by a function obtained by superimposing multiple exponential functions having mutually different time constants.
US12288016B2	Digital avatar platform Systems and methods provide a platform for a digital avatar that represents a particular physical device or a process using one or more processors and memory storing instructions. The instructions, when executed by one or more processors, are configured to implement the digital avatar. The digital avatar includes a system model for the particular physical device or the process configured to receive data and to process the data to model other parameters or behaviors of the particular physical device or process. The digital avatar includes a model calibration module configured to calibrate the system model during operation of the particular physical device or process to provide an up-to-date evergreen model that is customized for the particular physical device or process due to changes in characteristics of the particular physical device or the process.
US12288010B2	Information processing method, non-transitory computer readable medium having recorded thereon program, and information processing device An information processing method includes: creating a first table by an experimental design method, calculating a first response surface using the first table, setting a fourth level value for a first control factor when the first response surface does not include a target value related to an object variable for the first control factor, creating a second table by the experimental design method by deleting at least one combination of the experimental conditions which include one level value for the first control factor from the first table and adding at least one combination of the experimental conditions based on the plurality of level values including the fourth level value and without including the one level value for the first control factor, calculating a second response surface including the target value using the second table, and outputting the second response surface.
US12288008B2	Generating samples of outcomes from a quantum simulator Techniques for improving a quantum simulator are provided. In one example, a system includes a simulation component and a snapshot component. The simulation component determines a set of random numbers and simultaneously provides the set of random numbers to an arithmetic decoder to perform a stochastic simulation process. The snapshot component generates snapshot data indicative of a state of the stochastic simulation process based on data associated with a stochastic branching point for the stochastic simulation process.
US12288005B2	Shared data and collaboration for head-mounted devices A system can include head-mounted devices that collaborate to process views from cameras of the respective head-mounted devices and identify objects from different perspectives and/or objects that are within the view of only one of the head-mounted devices. Sharing sensory input between multiple head-mounted devices can complement and enhance individual units by interpreting and reconstructing objects, surfaces, and/or an external environment with perceptive data from multiple angles and positions, which also reduces occlusions and inaccuracies. As more detailed information is available at a specific moment in time, the speed and accuracy of object recognition, hand and body tracking, surface mapping, and/or digital reconstruction can be improved. Such collaboration can provide more effective and efficient mapping of space, surfaces, objects, gestures and users.
US12288004B2	Method for processing information, electronic device, and corresponding computer program product and recording medium A method implemented in an electronic device, the electronic device and a corresponding computer program product and medium. The method includes: at least partial playback, on a user interface of the electronic device, of items obtained from computing applications and associated with at least a first class of a plurality of item classes; acquiring at least a first command to be executed, wherein the first command relates to at least one of the items that has been at least partially played back.
US12288000B2	Electronic device capable of visualizing randomness of random numbers An electronic device includes a processor, a memory, and at least one program. The at least one program are stored in the memory and are executed by the processor. The at least one program includes instructions for receiving the sequence of bits, dividing the sequence of bits into binary numbers having a same number of bits, determining a corresponding point for each binary number on a circumference of a circle according to a central angle positively correlated to a value of each binary numbers, plotting chords connecting corresponding points of two succeeding binary numbers in the circle in the display image, and displaying the display image to show a brightness of each chord correlated to a number of times the chord is plotted, wherein the brightness of each chord forms a brightness distribution signifying an entropy of the first sequence of bits.
US12287994B2	Printing control apparatus, non-transitory computer readable medium storing program, and printing control method A printing control apparatus includes a processor configured to: transmit, when a print instruction is received from an operator, a printing processing command based on a print job to a printing apparatus; receive result information related to a result of an operation of the printing apparatus operating in accordance with the printing processing command from the operator; and transmit the result information to a process management apparatus.
US12287987B2	Data processing apparatus and method using direct memory access A data processing apparatus and method are disclosed. The data processing apparatus may include a host core configured to generate a control message to control a direct memory access (DMA), the DMA configured to generate a memory request based on the control message, a memory controller configured to generate a memory command based on the memory request, and a processor configured to perform an operation in a memory based on the memory command.
US12287986B2	System for computational storage with hardware-assistance A system includes a first hardware architecture and computational storage. The computational storage includes a second hardware architecture, and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the second hardware architecture, causes the system to perform a first set of operations. The first set of operations include receiving instructions from the first hardware architecture, performing one or more computations on data stored in the second hardware architecture, based on the received instructions, and transmitting a result to the first hardware architecture, based on the one or more performed computations.
US12287983B2	Data swapping method and electronic device supporting same An electronic device includes: a plurality of swap devices; a memory storing instructions and data to swap; and a processor configured to execute the instructions to: based on attributes of the data to swap stored in the memory and attributes of at least one swap device of the plurality of swap devices, identify a swap device for swapping the data among the plurality of swap devices, and swap the data using the identified swap device.
US12287982B2	Host data storage scan data retention rating A system includes a memory device containing multiple dies that each have multiple pages, and a processing device, operatively coupled with the memory device, to perform various operations including scanning a group of pages residing on a die and determining a value of one data state metric and a corresponding value of another state metric. The operations can also include recording a set of values of the first metric and a corresponding set of values of the second metric, as well as calculating the value of the second metric corresponding to a predetermined value of the first metric associated with a failure condition of the die. Additionally, the operations can include identifying a particular criterion that is satisfied by the calculated value, assigning, to the die, a rating corresponding to the identified criterion, and performing scans on the die at a frequency determined by the assigned rating.
US12287978B2	Host device, storage device, and electronic device According to an embodiment of the present technology, an electronic device may include a host device including: an application requesting to write data; and a file system configured to generate, in response to the request of the application, a log regarding a property of data, and allocate a section corresponding to the data based on the log; and a storage device comprising: a memory device including a plurality of memory dies; and a memory controller configured to control the memory device to receive the data and the log of the data from the host device, and sequentially store the data in a physical zone corresponding to the section.
US12287975B2	Flash memory controller that can quickly enter power saving mode after entering idle state, associated flash memory device, and associated control method A control method of a memory device includes: controlling a flash memory controller to transmit a command to a flash memory module; determining whether the flash memory controller is in an idle state; in response to the flash memory controller being in the idle state, determining whether an idle time of the idle state exceeds a threshold value, wherein the threshold value is less than a time required for the flash memory module to complete executing a write command or an erase command; and in response to the idle time exceeding the threshold value, controlling the flash memory controller to enter a power saving mode to turn off a part of components in the flash memory controller.
US12287974B2	Adaptive single-side erase to improve cell reliability A memory device includes control circuitry configured to perform an erase operation to erase memory cells of a memory block and perform an erase verify operation to verify whether the memory cells were sufficiently erased. To perform the erase operation, the control circuitry is configured to supply a first erase voltage pulse, perform the erase verify operation subsequent to supplying the first erase voltage pulse, subsequent to the erase verify operation, supply a first bias voltage to a first one of a plurality of memory strings and a second bias voltage different than the first bias voltage to a second one of a plurality of memory strings, and, while supplying the first and second bias voltages, supply a second erase voltage pulse. The second bias voltage is configured to inhibit the second erase voltage pulse supplied to the memory cells of the second one of the plurality of memory strings.
US12287967B2	Methods and systems for indexing, classifying, searching image data Systems and methods for image data management are provided. The methods may include by running a first process, storing raw data collected in a scan of a subject into first storage space of the at least one storage device, and generating first information relating to the raw data. The methods may include by running a second process, obtaining the first information from the first process and storing the first information into second storage space of the at least one storage device. The methods may further include reconstructing the raw data into a reconstruction image of the subject based on the first information.
US12287961B2	Providing bot participants within a virtual conferencing system Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for providing bot participants for virtual conferencing. The program and method provide, in association with designing a virtual space, a first interface for configuring plural participant video elements, each being assignable to a respective participant; receive, via the first interface, an indication of user input for setting first properties for the plural participant video elements; provide a second interface for configuring a bot participant for simulating an actual participant in association with a participant video element of the plural participant video elements; receive, via the second interface, an indication of second user input for setting second properties for the bot participant; and provide, in association with designing the virtual space, display of the virtual space based on the first and second properties, the bot participant being assigned to the participant video element.
US12287958B2	Displaying visualized testing results Disclosed are various methods of presenting result visualizations for test results. The visualization may include a timeline, a test label area, a test parameter indicator, and a test value representation. The test parameter indicator is associated with the test provided at a location corresponding with the test label of the test label area and with a location corresponding to a test time of the timeline, including a first test parameter indicator end associated with the upper test parameter threshold and a second test parameter indicator end associated with a lower test parameter threshold. The test value representation of a test value extends away from the test parameter indicator and proportionally represents the test value relative to an upper test limit and the test value to a lower test limit.
US12287954B1	Generating data analysis dashboard templates for selected data sources A method generates data analysis templates. A computing device receives, via a graphical user interface, a natural language input, which includes multiple terms. The terms include one or more data fields and/or data values from a data source. The device designates the natural language input as trigger text for a data analysis template. The trigger text includes the multiple terms. A user defines one or more rules for a subset of the terms, each rule specifying respective criteria to match a respective term in the subset. A user specifies multiple data visualizations corresponding to the trigger text. Each of the data visualizations (i) uses a respective one or more data fields, from the data source, corresponding to terms from the trigger text and (ii) has a respective data visualization type. The device generates the data analysis template according to the trigger text, the user definition, and the user specification.
US12287935B2	Touch sensor and a display device including the same A touch sensor including: a touch sensing area including driving electrodes and sensing electrodes; a driving signal generator which determines phases of driving signals based on a reference code and supplies the driving signals to the sensing electrodes, wherein the driving signals are sine waves; and a touch processor which receives sensing signals according to the driving signals from the sensing electrodes and determines a touch position based on the sensing signals and the reference code, wherein the driving signal generator controls the phases of the driving signals by updating the reference code at a predetermined time point.
US12287934B2	Touch and display driving circuit and operation method thereof A touch and display driving circuit applicable to driving at least one sensing pad of a touch and display panel and its operation method thereof are provided. The touch and display driving circuit includes a source driver circuit and a touch circuit having an analog front-end circuit, being electrically coupled to the sensing pad of the touch and display panel. The source driver circuit is operable and connected with a first operational voltage and a second operational voltage. The analog front-end circuit is operable and connected with a third operational voltage and a fourth operational voltage. The first operational voltage and the second operational voltage of the source driver circuit are different from the third operational voltage and the fourth operational voltage of the analog front-end circuit. By employing the disclosed technical contents, the invention is effective in reducing power consumption and redundant power waste.
US12287933B2	Method and apparatus for processing touch event through different receiving layers, storage medium and electronic device A touch event processing method includes: obtaining a screen touch event by means of an event receiving layer, uploading the screen touch event to a JVM by means of an intermediate layer, and assigning and adapting the screen touch event by means of the JVM to obtain an event to be processed, and distributing same to a service processing module for processing.
US12287931B2	Display device and method of manufacturing same A display device including a substrate, a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in a form of a matrix in a plane parallel with the substrate, a display functional layer exerting an image display function on a basis of an image signal supplied to the plurality of pixel electrodes, a driving electrode opposed to the plurality of pixel electrodes, and a plurality of detecting electrodes arranged in a form of a plane opposed to the driving electrode, separated and arranged at a pitch of a natural number multiple of an arrangement pitch of the pixel electrodes in one direction in the arrangement plane, and each capacitively coupled with the driving electrode.
US12287925B2	Processing method and electronic device A processing method includes projecting a display content of an electronic device to a terminal device having a display output module through a connection channel; and acquiring sensing parameters through a gravity sensor. The method further includes in response to determining that the sensing parameters satisfy a support surface placement condition, processing input parameters based on a plane transformation strategy to obtain response parameters, the input parameters obtained by a touch sensing module for a focus displayed in an output area of the display output module. The method further includes controlling, according to the response parameters, a display position of the focus in the output area to respond to a movement operation, a moving direction of the display position of the focus in the output area being consistent with a direction of the movement operation of the operating body with respect to the reference.
US12287923B2	Hybrid switch for an input device An input device comprises a depressible element with two switches including a first switch configured to generate a first signal when the depressible element is depressed by a threshold distance and a second switch configured to generate a second signal indicating when the depressible element is depressed by the threshold distance and the second switch is in an active state. One or more processors may be configured to receive the first signal from the first switch; configure the second switch to change from an inactive state to an active state in response to receiving the first signal; receive the second signal from the second switch in the active state; determine whether the second signal indicates that the depressible element is depressed by the threshold distance; and generate event data confirming that the depressible element is depressed by the threshold distance in response to receiving the second signal.
US12287922B2	System and method for automatic recognition of the gesture of bringing an electronic device to the ear A recognition system for recognition of a gesture of bringing an electronic device, of a mobile or wearable type, to a user's ear, designed to be integrated in the electronic device and having: a movement sensor, configured to provide a movement signal indicative of the movement of the electronic device; an electrostatic charge variation sensor, configured to provide a charge variation signal associated with the movement; a processing module, operatively coupled to the movement sensor and to the electrostatic charge variation sensor and configured to perform a joint processing of the movement signal and the charge variation signal for the recognition of the gesture.
US12287915B2	Camera system for pupil detection and eye tracking An event camera system for pupil detection may include a camera assembly and a controller, and may also include one or more off-axis light sources. The camera assembly may include one or more infrared (IR) light sources and an event camera. The one or more IR light sources are configured to emit pulses of IR light along an optical path toward an eyebox. The IR light is reflected from an eye in the eyebox, and the reflected light propagates back along the optical path toward the event camera for detection. The controller is configured to determine an orientation of the eye using data output from the event camera.
US12287903B1	Protected display of a requested user interface System, apparatus, and computer program products are disclosed for protected display of a requested user interface. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a protected mode display request to display the requested user interface in a protected mode, wherein the requested user interface comprises a plurality of data values; in response to the protected mode display request: (i) retrieving a data protection template for the protected mode display request, (ii) determining, based on the data protection template, one or more protected data values of the plurality of data values and one or more unprotected data values of the plurality of data values, (iii) for each protected data value, generating a masked representation, and (iv) generating a masked user interface that comprises: (a) each unprotected data value, and (b) each masked data value; and causing the masked user interface to be presented using a display device.
US12287901B2	System comprising a main device, a secondary device and a garment as well as an operating method A method for operating a system including a main device, a secondary device, which is a sensor and/or information device, and a garment for receiving the secondary device is shown. The method includes steps of, logging by the main device of the usage events triggered on the system in a usage log, storage of the usage log on the main device and/or the secondary device, creation of usage statistics based on the usage log, recognition of a terminating event by the main device, the terminating event displaying the end of the current user's use of the system, and automatic deletion of the usage log and/or the usage statistics by the main device if the terminating event has been recognised. Moreover, a system including a main device, a secondary device and a garment is shown.
US12287899B2	Techniques for detecting sensitive data in cloud computing environments utilizing cloning A system and method for agentless detection of sensitive data in a cloud computing environment is disclosed. The method includes: generating an inspectable disk from a clone of an original disk in a cloud computing environment; inspecting the inspectable disk for a cybersecurity object, the cybersecurity object indicating a sensitive data, the disk deployed in a cloud computing environment; extracting a data schema from the cybersecurity object, in response to detecting the cybersecurity object on the disk; generating a classification of the data schema; detecting in the disk a plurality of data files, each data file including the classified data schema; determining that the data schema corresponds to sensitive data based on the generated classification; generating in a security database: a representation of the data schema, and a representation of each data file; and rendering a visual representation of the cloud computing environment including a representation of the data schema.
US12287896B2	System and method for implementing data sovereignty safeguards in a distributed services network architecture Embodiments of systems and methods for implementing data sovereignty safeguards in a distributed services network architecture are disclosed. Embodiments of a distributed services system may have a number of distributed nodes that each implements a set of services. When a user requests a service at a particular node of a distributed services system, the node is configured to determine if that node is not (or is) data sovereign for a region associated with the user. If the node is not data sovereign for the user's region, the user may be directed to a corresponding service at a node of the distributed service system that is data sovereign for the user's region.
US12287893B2	Data governance systems and methods Some embodiments relate to a method for use in connection with governance of a plurality of data assets managed by a data processing system, the method comprising: using at least one computer hardware processor to perform: accessing a data governance policy comprising a first data standard (e.g., by obtaining information about the first standard stored in a database system); generating a first data asset collection at least in part by automatically selecting, from among the plurality of data assets managed by the data processing system and using at least one data asset criterion, one or more data assets that meet the at least one data asset criterion; associating the first data asset collection with the first data standard; and verifying whether at least one of the one or more data assets in the first data asset collection complies with the first data standard.
US12287892B2	Systems and methods for protecting machine learning models against adversarial attacks Embodiments pertain to systems configured to and methods for analyzing a scene comprising one or more objects. The system may be configured to perform the following: obtaining a set of optically encrypted image data describing a scene, including applying an optical manipulation to light incoming to an image acquisition device, whereby the image acquisition device outputs the set of optically encrypted image data, and wherein the optical manipulation is based on an encryption key; providing the set of optically encrypted image data to a machine learning model trained in accordance with the encryption key; and receiving from the machine learning model a prediction related to the scene.
US12287885B1	Reachability analysis for binary executables In the context of software security, reachability analysis provides a mechanism to assess the ease of exploitability of a particular vulnerability or whether a vulnerability is exploitable at all. The present techniques provide a mechanism to compute reachability for one or more binary executables within the context of an execution environment. These reachability analyses can be used to determine whether the executables or components therein present any potential vulnerabilities which, in turn, can cause a computing system executing such binary executable to exhibit undesired behavior. The analyses include determining reachability metrics for each of a plurality of program locations. These metrics are used to determine an environment-aware reachability metric reflecting the runtime properties of a computing environment specified by artefacts associated with the software. Remediation actions can then be undertaken to address any security issues in the software or take other actions before it is deployed or allowed to execute.
US12287876B1	Anomaly detection method and device based on artificial neural network The present disclosure relates to an anomaly detection method based on an artificial neural network. The anomaly detection method based on the artificial neural network includes collecting first log data including first user log data and first system log data, and providing the collected first log data to a trained first artificial neural network model to perform anomaly detection for a plurality of users and systems.
US12287872B2	System and method for correlating filesystem events into meaningful behaviors One example method includes integrating user space applications with kernel space events including primitives. The events are intercepted in kernel space and processed in user space. The events can be stored in a session cache that allows a holistic view of behavior to be determined with regard to resources of the computing system. The events in the session cache can be correlated to user or process behavior by provided a time-based view of the events.
US12287871B2	Apparatus and method for conducting endpoint-network-monitoring Provided is an intrusion detection technique configured to: obtain kernel-filter criteria indicative of which network traffic is to be deemed potentially malicious, determine that a network packet is resident in a networking stack, access at least part of the network packet, apply the kernel-filter criteria to the at least part of the network packet and, based on applying the kernel-filter criteria, determining that the network packet is potentially malicious, associate the network packet with an identifier of an application executing in userspace of the operating system and to which or from which the network packet is sent, and report the network packet in association with the identifier of the application to an intrusion-detection agent executing in userspace of the operating system of the host computing device, the intrusion-detection agent being different from the application to which or from which the network packet is sent.
US12287867B2	Method and device for operating a computing device A method for operating a computing device for a control unit of a motor vehicle. The computing device including a processor core, and is configured to control an exchange of data between a connectivity zone and a security zone. The security zone includes at least one component which is necessary to drive the vehicle and has an elevated relevance with regard to safety. The connectivity zone including at least one component whose operation requires communication outside of the vehicle but is not required to drive the vehicle and does not have an elevated relevance with regard to safety. At least one first program executable by the computing device is assigned to a non-trustworthy zone, and at least one further program is assigned to a trustworthy zone. The component of the connectivity zone is assigned to the non-trustworthy zone, and the component of the security zone being assigned to the trustworthy zone.
US12287865B2	System and method for safely autofilling login fields in computing sources A new password manager for safely autofilling login user login credentials performs multiple layers of security check to protect users' confidential data. User interface elements of a computing source, such as a web page or a mobile app, are parsed for determining that password input fields are present. In such a case, a autofill control is displayed for activating user authentication for accessing the password manager. The password manager determines a computing source identifier of the computing source, determines a list of context identifiers corresponding to the computing source, performs computing security check, matches the computing source identifier to an account, and selects an account. The password manager then performs account security check on the selected account. When the security check is successful, the password manager autofills the login password input field with login data associated with the selected account.
US12287864B2	Login methodology Methods and apparatus to a login methodology. A method includes selecting a library of images stored in the computer device, setting nicknames for the selected library, uploading the selected library of images to the server, and generating a login account. A network includes a server including at least a processor and a memory, a computer device linked to the server, the computer device including at least a processor and a memory, the memory including at least an operating system and a login process, the login process including selecting a library of images stored in the computer device, setting nicknames for the selected library, uploading the selected library of images to the server and generating a login account.
US12287860B2	Systems and methods for permitting access to a human machine interface in a vehicle A system for a vehicle configured to be driven by a driver is provided. The vehicle has a human-machine interface (HMI). The system includes an interior sensor suite, a processor electrically connected to the interior sensor suite and the HMI, and a memory. The memory has instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations including determine, based on the interior sensor suite, if there is a passenger in the vehicle, determine, when there is a passenger in the vehicle and based on the interior sensor suite, whether the passenger or the driver is attempting to use the HMI, and permit the passenger and not the driver to use the HMI.
US12287858B2	Systems and methods for executing electronic transactions using secure identity data The invention relates generally to secure data entry devices and methods of using such devices. A secure data entry device is provided that includes an integrated imaging device arranged such that it captures at least one image of a user during a transaction. The at least one image is processed in order to generate a biometric pattern. In one embodiment the at least one image includes a user's face and the processing involves applying a facial recognition algorithm to the at least one image to generate the biometric pattern. In some embodiments the biometric pattern is compared to a trusted biometric pattern in order to determine whether to approve or decline the transaction.
US12287855B2	Tokenization for cascading user updates Systems and methods for using tokenization are provided. In an embodiment, a first computer system receives a notification from a second computer system that user information has changed for a first user account serviced by the second computer system. The notification includes a token corresponding to a second user account serviced by the first computer system. The first user account and the second user account belong to a user. The first computer system searches for the second user account, based on the token, in a database associated with the first computer system. The first computer system updates the second user account to include the user information change and publishes the user information change to other computer systems that subscribe to updates from the first computer system. The published user information change causes the other computer systems to update corresponding user accounts to include the published user information change.
US12287852B1	Systems and methods of sensor data fusion Systems and methods of sensor data fusion including sensor data capture, curation, linking, fusion, inference, and validation. The systems and methods described herein reduce computational demand and processing time by curating data and calculating conditional entropy. The system is operable to fuse data from a plurality of sensor types. A computer processor optionally stores fused sensor data that the system validates above a mathematical threshold.
US12287850B2	Handwriting geometry recognition and calibration system by using neural network and mathematical feature A handwriting geometry recognition and calibration system by using neural network and mathematical feature includes: a pre-processor for pre-processing coordinate points of geometric figures from user's handwriting so as to get a plurality of sample points which expresses the geometric figures to be recognized; a neural network connected to the pre-processor for receiving the sample points of the geometric figure and recognizing the geometric figure so as to acquire a coarse class of the geometric figure; and an mathematical logic unit connected to the neural network for receiving recognition results from the neural network, including coarse classifications which are used in a secondary classification by using conventional mathematical recognition logics so as to determine an exact geometry shape of the geometric figure; then the geometric figure being calibrated so as to get a geometry with a regular shape.
US12287848B2	Learning Mahalanobis distance metrics from data The present invention provides techniques for learning Mahalanobis distance similarity metrics from data for individually fair machine learning models. In one aspect, a method for learning a fair Mahalanobis distance similarity metric includes: obtaining data with similarity annotations; selecting, based on the data obtained, a model for learning a Mahalanobis covariance matrix Σ; and learning the Mahalanobis covariance matrix Σ from the data using the model selected, wherein the Mahalanobis covariance matrix Σ fully defines the fair Mahalanobis distance similarity metric.
US12287846B2	Code sequence based intelligent key code identification method and recording medium and device for performing the same A code sequence based intelligent key code identification method includes extracting Smali code sequence by decompiling an application, vectorizing the extracted Smali code sequence to construct a training dataset, training a deep learning model with the vectorized Smali code sequence to generate a classifier, generating a category classification result using Smali code sequence of a target application as input of the classifier, and identifying and providing important Smali code sequence from which the classification result of the target application is derived. Accordingly, it is possible to objectively evaluate the application using Smali code sequence of the application being actually run.
US12287843B2	Systems and methods of instructions to accelerate multiplication of sparse matrices using bitmasks that identify non-zero elements Disclosed embodiments relate to accelerating multiplication of sparse matrices. In one example, a processor is to fetch and decode an instruction having fields to specify locations of first, second, and third matrices, and an opcode indicating the processor is to multiply and accumulate matching non-zero (NZ) elements of the first and second matrices with corresponding elements of the third matrix, and executing the decoded instruction as per the opcode to generate NZ bitmasks for the first and second matrices, broadcast up to two NZ elements at a time from each row of the first matrix and each column of the second matrix to a processing engine (PE) grid, each PE to multiply and accumulate matching NZ elements of the first and second matrices with corresponding elements of the third matrix. Each PE further to store an NZ element for use in a subsequent multiplications.
US12287840B1	Systems and methods for using crowd sourcing to evaluate truthfulness or bias in online content A method comprising identifying a content item having stated facts and/or opinions which a user is unsure whether to trust; during a first time period, obtaining first content evaluations of the content item from first users, each first content evaluation evaluating a belief state of the stated facts and/or opinions; displaying the first content evaluations; during a second time period initiating later than the first time period, obtaining second evaluations from second users regardless of second user expertise, the second users defined as having hindsight and thus knowledge as to the belief state of the stated facts and/or opinions greater than the first users; generating and issuing expert scores for the first users based on the second evaluations; and elevating an influential characteristic of each first user having an expert score higher than a certain threshold when providing another evaluation during another time period.
US12287838B2	System, method, and computer program product for automated discovery, curation and editing of online local content Various methods are provided for determining and displaying local content. One example method may comprise receiving input to open a mobile application at a mobile device, and without any additional input, accessing a location service of the GPS enabled mobile device to determine a GPS location and automatically generating a query, the query comprising the GPS location, identifying a predefined mix of content from a content index in accordance with an editing target, wherein the editing target specifies a number of articles and wherein the predefined mix indicates a portion of the editing target directed to at least one category, determining whether the editing target and the predefined mix are met, determining a new location, the new location being larger in geographic area and containing the location, in an instance in which the editing target and the predefined mix are not met, and displaying the results.
US12287837B1	Generating a path to a document element using machine learning Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for improving web scraping technology by using machine learning to generate parsing expressions. A system receives a request to identify an element in a first document at a target web page. The system downloads and modifies the first document by adding an index value as an attribute to a tag for the element. A query is submitted to a large language model (LLM), including the modified first document, a description of the element, and a request asking the LLM to identify the element based on the description. The system obtains, from the LLM, the index value assigned to the element. The system generates an expression defining a path to the element in the first document using the index returned by the large language model. The system downloads a second document, and parses data of a second element using the expression.
US12287836B2	Unified message search The disclosed embodiments include computerized methods, systems, and devices, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating terms of a search query based on a user's spoken utterances, identifying multiple cross-platform messages based on the generated terms, and to generating, via a presentation device, a single interface that enables the user to interact with identified messages. Based on a spoken utterance, the disclosed embodiments may determine user-specified search terms and/or criteria, and based on the user-specified search terms and/or criteria, may obtain cross-platform message data that corresponds to the search query. The communications device may generate one or more interface elements that describe corresponding ones of the cross-platform messages, which may be presented within a unified graphical user interface or voice-user interface by a communications device.
US12287833B1	Systems and methods for ranking user capabilities using machine learning techniques A sets of capability data can be received by a computing device. The each set of capability data can describe a user. The computing device can apply an artificial intelligence model to the sets of capability data to generate sets of vectors individually representing a respective one of the sets of capability data. The computing device can generate summary vectors individually corresponding to a particular set of the sets of capability data. The computing device can receive requirement data associated with a particular asset. The computing device can generate an asset vector for the particular asset based on the requirement data. The computing device can determine similarity scores individually based on a comparison of a corresponding summary vector of the summary vectors to the asset vector. The computing device can generate a ranking of the users for the particular asset based on the similarity scores.
US12287830B2	In-situ tenancy in graph-based models An overlay system is provided that includes a plurality of storage elements and processing circuitry coupled thereto. The plurality of storage elements store a plurality of executable graph-based models such that first and second storage elements store first and second executable graph-based models, respectively. Each executable graph-based model includes a plurality of nodes. The processing circuitry receives a stimulus to share a first node of the first executable graph-based model with a second node of the second executable graph-based model. The processing circuitry instantiates a tenant overlay node that is associated with the second node and includes a set of constraints to be adhered to by the second node while sharing the first node. The processing circuitry creates a sharing channel as a medium between the first and second storage elements. The sharing channel and the tenant overlay node enable sharing of the first node with the second node.
US12287822B2	Methods and systems for generating interactive composite media assets comprising common objects Methods and systems are disclosed herein to address the problems discussed above and in particular to provide coordination for uncoordinated content. Beyond simply archiving and/or organizing available content, the methods and systems generate composite media assets that provide enriched details and supplemental data that extends beyond any given source content. The methods and systems achieve this through a novel data filtration and synchronization process.
US12287819B2	Machine learned models for search and recommendations A system may generate a prompt based in part on a search query from a customer client device. The prompt instructs a machine learned model to provide item predictions. And the model was trained by: converting structured data describing items of an online catalog to annotated text data (unstructured data), generating training examples based in part on the annotated text data, and training the model using the training examples. The system may receive item predictions generated by the prompt being applied to the machine learned model, the item predictions may have corresponding item identifiers. The item predictions are processed to identify a recommended item from the item predictions. The processing includes determining item information for the recommended item using an item identifier associated with the recommended item. The item information is provided to the customer client device.
US12287818B2	Utilizing multiple knowledge bases to form a query response A method includes determining a set of identigens for each word of at least some words of a string of words of a query to produce a plurality of sets of identigens. The method further includes interpreting, based on a first knowledge database, the plurality of sets of identigens to produce a first entigen group and generating a first preliminary query response based on the first entigen group. The method further includes interpreting, based on a second knowledge database, the plurality of sets of identigens to produce a second entigen group and generating a second preliminary query response based on the second entigen group. The method further includes comparing the first and second preliminary query responses and when the first preliminary query response and the second preliminary query response are divergent, resolving inconsistencies between the first and second preliminary query responses to produce a final query response.
US12287816B1	Reducing latency by processing parts of a language model query in parallel A technique partitions a user's original query into plural smaller component queries, each of which has a common part and an instance-specific part. The technique distributes the component queries to plural processor instances of a processor. The plural processor instances transform the respective component queries into query-component responses by acting in parallel, independent of each other. The technique generates a final response based on the query-component responses, e.g., by assembling the component-query responses into the final response. The technique reduces latency because the processor instances work on parts of the user's original query at the same time, rather than as a single stream of consecutive tokens. The plural processor instances have access to a shared cache memory, and utilize relevant data that has been computed in response to previous queries.
US12287815B2	System and method for generating a research reporting narrative The invention includes systems and methods to provide a research reporting narrative, in particular, for research metrics. Specifically, the invention includes content performance metrics and contributing factors to performance, The invention collects, analyzes, and places into a narrative format, data from research that is not easily digestible. The invention provides a quick and efficient report for absorption by users.
US12287814B2	Natural language based data lineage tracking in complex data ecosystems Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide multi-stage data lineage tracking techniques for automatically generating holistic and accurate data catalog for complex data ecosystems. The techniques may include generating a critical attribute collection for a data-related task based on one or more natural language descriptions for the data-related task. The techniques include receiving a data lineage map that defines a plurality of hierarchical data layers for a data ecosystem associated with the data-related task. The techniques include generating a critical attribute map for the data-related task by identifying a data element for a critical attribute at each of the plurality of hierarchical data layers of the data lineage map. The techniques include identifying noncritical attributes for the data related task generating a task attribute map for the data-related task based on the noncritical attributes and the critical attribute map.
US12287813B2	Method and apparatus for determining spatial relationship, computer device, and storage medium A method for determining a spatial relationship, includes: obtaining a calculation request for the spatial relationship, the calculation request including a polygonal region and a set of report points; determining a plurality of first coded values corresponding to the polygonal region; determining a plurality of second coded values corresponding to the set of report points and a group of report points corresponding to each of the plurality of second coded values; determining a second coded value matching each of the plurality of first coded values by sorting and matching the plurality of first coded values and the plurality of second coded values respectively; and determining a relationship between the polygonal region and each report point in the set of report points according to a group of report points corresponding to the second coded value matching each of the plurality of first coded values.
US12287808B2	Resource management systems and methods Example resource management systems and methods are described. In one implementation, a resource manager is configured to manage data processing tasks associated with multiple data elements. An execution platform is coupled to the resource manager and includes multiple execution nodes configured to store data retrieved from multiple remote storage devices. Each execution node includes a cache and a processor, where the cache and processor are independent of the remote storage devices. A metadata manager is configured to access metadata associated with at least a portion of the multiple data elements.
US12287803B2	Techniques for generating customer profiles in a data warehouse A data warehouse connector service is described. The data warehouse connector service integrates with an identity resolution system of a customer data platform to systematically communicate identity-resolved customer profile data from the customer data platform to a cloud-based data warehouse. Operation of the data warehouse connector is managed through various configuration settings accessible to an end-user of the customer data platform via a user interface.
US12287798B2	Analysis device An analysis device according to the present disclosure is provided with: a data acquisition unit that acquires data detected by an industrial machine; an operation state extraction unit that extracts, from the data, data detected during operation of the industrial machine; an annotation unit that creates a plurality of data set groups by giving, on the basis of a predetermined standard, annotations indicating motion states of the industrial machine to a plurality of data sets segmented by a predetermined standard from the extracted data during the operation; a feature amount extraction unit that extracts a feature amount of data included in each of the data sets; a learning unit that generates decision tree models respectively for the plurality of data set groups; and a display unit that ranks the generated decision tree models on the basis of correct answer rates regarding prediction of the annotations based on predetermined training data and that displays the decision tree models.
US12287795B2	Beam search decoding with forward-looking scores Methods and systems for beam search decoding. One of the methods includes initializing beam data specifying a set of k candidate output sequences and a respective total score for each of the candidate output sequences; updating the beam data at each of a plurality of decoding steps, comprising, at each decoding step: generating a score distribution that comprises a respective score for each token in the vocabulary; identifying a plurality of expanded sequences; generating, for each expanded sequence, a respective backwards-looking score; generating, for each expanded sequence, a respective forward-looking score; computing, for each expanded sequence, a respective total score from the respective forward-looking score for the expanded sequence and the respective backwards-looking score for the expanded sequence; and updating the set of k candidate output sequences using the respective total scores for the expanded sequences.
US12287794B2	Data serialization in a distributed event processing system A distributed event processing system is disclosed that receives a batch of events via a continuous data stream and performs the serialization of data in the batch of events. In certain embodiments, the system identifies a first data type of a first attribute for each event in a batch of events and determines a first type of data compression to be performed on data values represented by the first attribute. The system determines a first type of data compression to be performed on data values represented by the first attribute based on the first data type of the first attribute. The system then generates a first set of serialized data values for the first attribute. The system processes the first set of serialized data values against a set of one or more continuous queries to generate a first set of output events.
US12287791B2	Dual-stack architecture that integrates relational database with blockchain A database includes a blockchain infrastructure that allows data tables comprising the database to be associated with respective blockchains. Data inserted into a data table is replicated in its associated blockchain. Certain operations on a data table are disabled when it is associated with a blockchain.
US12287790B2	Runtime systems query coordinator Systems and methods are disclosed for receiving, at query coordinator, a search query. The query coordinator parses the search query and generates tasks for different runtime systems. The query coordinator configures an interface enabling inter system communication between the runtime systems. The generated tasks are distributed to the runtime systems and partial results of a runtime system are communicated to the interface. The query coordinator retrieves the partial results from the interface, finalizes the partial results, and sends finalized results them to the requestor of the search query.
US12287789B2	Information processing device, method, and recording medium An information processing device sets: a first argument of a first table join instruction to a second table join instruction as the first argument of the second table join instruction; a second argument of the first table join instruction to the first table join instruction as the first argument of the first table join instruction; a first output data table generated by the first intermediate table generation instruction to the first table join instruction as the second argument of the first table join instruction; and a second output data table generated by the first table join instruction after changing the first and second arguments of the first table join instruction to the second table join instruction as the second argument of the second table join instruction.
US12287788B2	Learned join cardinality estimation using a join graph representation Aspects of the invention include techniques for providing a learned join cardinality estimation using a join graph representation. A non-limiting example method includes building a join cardinality estimation model. The model can be built by generating a training query having a known join cardinality, generating an adjacency matrix encoding a join graph of the training query, encoding one side of a diagonal axis of the adjacency matrix, and training the join cardinality estimation model using the encoded adjacency matrix and the known join cardinality. The method includes performing an inference using the join cardinality estimation model. The inference includes a predicted join cardinality for a query. The method includes executing a query execution plan for the query using the predicted join cardinality.
US12287782B2	Sensitive data discovery for databases Techniques for database management are described. A database management system may transmit a request for a data management system of a database to provide a set of metadata attributes for structured data within the database, and may receive a set of metadata attributes for the structured data within the database. The data management system may perform a pattern matching procedure to evaluate the set of metadata attributes for the structured data within the database against one or more patterns associated with a data type to determine one or more locations within the database that include structured data of the data type. Based on the pattern matching procedure, the data management system may output an indication that the one or more locations within the database include structured data of the data type.
US12287773B2	Systems and methods for validating non-homogeneous assets that comprise non-standardized data descriptions using dynamically generated validation rules Systems and methods use dynamically generated validation rules. These validation rules comprise a first validation rule portion that is generated using a standardized validation process (e.g., corresponding to a standardized schema) and a second validation rule portion that is generated using a validation process selected based on a non-standardized schema that is specific to a respective asset type of the plurality of respective asset types.
US12287772B2	Map update data processing method, apparatus, and system A map update data processing apparatus and method are provided. The method includes: obtaining first information from at least one vehicle terminal in a time window; determining, based on the first information and second information in a map, first change information of the second information and precision information and/or confidence information of the first change information, wherein the first change information indicates a difference between the first information and the second information; and finally, sending the first change information of the second information and the precision information and/or the confidence information to a first vehicle terminal.
US12287767B2	De-duplicating transaction records using targeted fuzzy matching A computer-implemented method is disclosed. The method includes obtaining, by a de-duplication server, a candidate pair of a plurality of digitally stored documents from a document database. Text elements are identified from each digitally stored document in the candidate pair in response, and the text elements are stored as document extraction attributes. The method then automatically computes and stores relative positional differences of the text elements between each digitally stored document of the candidate pair and a document similarity score based on the relative positional differences. The relative positional differences are compared with a similarity function to form a difference similarity vector for the candidate pair. The difference similarity vector comprises components corresponding to each relative positional difference. The components of the difference similarity vector are aggregated to determine a final score for the candidate pair. A document-level similarity metric is determined from the final score. The method includes determining whether the final score is above a cutoff value, and in response to determining that the final score for the candidate pair is above the cutoff value, comparing the document extraction attribute with the final score. The method also determines whether the document-level similarity metric is above a threshold value by the de-duplication server. The candidate pair is classified based on determining that the document-level similarity metric is above the threshold value to de-duplicate the plurality of digitally stored documents in the candidate pair. Based on the classifying, duplicate transaction documents are removed from the document database by any of deleting records, marking records, updating column attributes, or writing records to a different table.
US12287766B2	Systems and methods for machine learning-based data matching and reconciliation of information A method for machine learning-based data matching and reconciliation may include: ingesting a plurality of records from a plurality of data sources; identifying company associated with each of the plurality of records; assigning a unique identifier to each uniquely identified company; matching each of the records to one of the uniquely identified companies using a trained company matching machine learning engine; identifying a primary company record in the matching records and associating other matching records with the primary company record; matching each of the records to a contact using a trained contact matching machine learning engine; identifying a primary contact record in the matching records and associating other matching records with the primary contact record; synchronizing the plurality of records in a graph database using the unique identifier; receiving feedback on the matching companies and/or matching contacts; and updating the trained company matching machine learning engine.
US12287763B2	Methods for facilitating external cache in a cloud storage environment and devices thereof A method, non-transitory computer readable medium and storage server computing device that stores an identifier for a file system block evicted from a buffer cache in an entry in a table. The file system block is inserted into a victim cache hosted by an ephemeral block-level storage device by invoking a function provided by an application programming interface (API). The API exposes the ephemeral block-level storage device to a virtual storage appliance via an operating system of the storage server computing device. The entry in the table is updated to include location(s) on the ephemeral block-level storage device at which one or more portions of the file system block are stored, the location(s) returned in response to the function invocation. By this technology, performance of the virtual storage appliance is significantly improved, resulting in lower latency for client devices requesting data in a cloud storage environment.
US12287756B2	General-purpose systolic array A systolic array cell is described, the cell including two general-purpose arithmetic logic units (ALUs) and register-file. A plurality of the cells may be configured in a matrix or array, such that the output of the first ALU in a first cell is provided to a second cell to the right of the first cell, and the output of the second ALU in the first cell is provided to a third cell below the first cell. The two ALUs in each cell of the array allow for processing of a different instruction in each cycle.
US12287754B2	Method for performing a data transmission using ethernet as a physical layer with a non-ethernet serial protocol A method for performing a data transmission between a control device and an electronics unit. A microcontroller and an Ethernet transceiver are provided in the control unit, and a microcontroller and an Ethernet transceiver are also provided in the electronics unit. For data transmission, the two Ethernet transceivers are first synchronized, taking into account a common clock cycle, and, for data transmission, an Ethernet connection is used as a physical route, and the data transmission is carried out with a serial protocol.
US12287753B2	Alternative protocol over physical layer A link controller includes a Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) physical layer circuit for coupling to a communication link and providing a data path over the communication link, a first data link layer controller which operates according to a PCIe protocol, and a second data link layer controller which operates according to a non-PCIe protocol. A multiplexer-demultiplexer selectively connects both data link layer controllers to the PCIe physical layer circuit. A protocol translation circuit is coupled between the multiplexer-demultiplexer and the second data link layer controller, the protocol translation circuit receiving traffic data from the second data link layer controller in a non-PCIe format, encapsulating the non-PCIe format in a PCIe format, and passing traffic data to the multiplexer-demultiplexer circuit.
US12287752B2	Methods and systems for serial control with interleaved register mapping Digitally controllable elements capable of influencing operation of a power amplifier module are coupled in parallel to a serial data interface. Each digitally controllable element includes address control logic that decodes an address presented on the serial data interface as well as a device specific ID. In response to the decoding, physical registers in different digitally controllable elements are written in an interleaved order according to an interleaved register address map. Banks of registers within the digitally controllable elements may be select to influence or modify operation of the power amplifier module.
US12287749B2	Driving circuit, electronic device and communication method therefor A driving circuit includes a driver board and a slave processor. The driver board is configured to drive a touch panel of an electronic device. The slave processor is coupled to the driver board, and is configured to receive a control command including a first address when the driver board is in a power-off state, and send first response information in response to the control command. The driver board and the slave processor share the first address.
US12287743B2	Semiconductor system A semiconductor system including a transmitter configured to output a plurality of data as a plurality of data input/output signals through a plurality of channels based on a matrix E, and a receiver configured to generate the plurality of data by differentially amplifying the plurality of data input/output signals received through the plurality of channels based on a matrix D, in which all components of the matrix E and the matrix D are integers, a product matrix of the matrix D and the matrix E is a diagonal matrix, a sum of the components of each row of the matrix D is 0, and a sum of absolute values of the components of each column of the matrix D is less than or equal to a threshold value.
US12287742B2	Data processing apparatus for data-level pipeline The present disclosure discloses a data processing apparatus, a data processing method, and related products. The data processing apparatus is used as a computing apparatus and is included in a combined processing apparatus. The combined processing apparatus further includes an interface apparatus and other processing apparatus. The computing apparatus interacts with other processing apparatus to jointly complete a computing operation specified by a user. The combined processing apparatus further includes a storage apparatus. The storage apparatus is respectively connected to the computing apparatus and other processing apparatus and is used to store data of the computing apparatus and other processing apparatus. The solution of the present disclosure takes full advantage of parallelism among different storage units to improve utilization of each functional component.
US12287740B2	Data caching strategies for storage with ownership of logical address slices In at least one embodiment, processing can include receiving, at a first node, a read request directed to a logical address LA owned by a second node. The first node can locally cache content and an address hint corresponding to LA. The first node can issue a request to the second node. The request can include a flag to suppress the second node from returning content stored at the target logical address. The first node can receive a response including an address used to read current content of LA1 from back-end non-volatile storage. The first node can determine whether the address matches the address hint cached on the first node. If the first node determines the address and address hint match, the cached content of LA stored on the first node is valid and can be returned in response to the read as current content stored at LA.
US12287738B2	System and method for caching in storage devices A system and method for caching in storage devices. In some embodiments, the method includes: opening a first file, by a first thread; reading a first page of data, from the first file, into a page cache in host memory of a host; adding, to a first data structure, a first pointer, the first pointer pointing to the first page of data; opening a second file, by a second thread; reading a second page of data, from the second file, into the page cache; and adding, to the first data structure, a second pointer, the second pointer pointing to the second page of data.
US12287737B2	Method and system of using HMB as a cache of physical address mapping table This application discloses a method and system of using HMB as a cache of physical address mapping table. The method comprises: arranging physical addresses in order of logical addresses, physical mapping entries corresponding to a plurality of consecutive physical addresses form one table unit, and a logical address corresponding to a first entry of each table unit is used as an index of the table unit; determining HMB size, dividing all table units into a plurality of sections according to the HMB size, each section comprises a plurality of table units, each section is divided into a plurality of ways; calculating a metadata according to logical address corresponding to the first entry of the table unit to be stored and the HMB size, the metadata comprises a section number and a way number; writing the metadata and the table unit to be stored into the HMB. This application uses HMB as L2P address mapping table cache of SSD controller, saving or avoiding use cost of DRAM on SSD, and reducing SSD size.
US12287732B2	Method and device for storing data A method and device for storing data are provided. The method includes: selecting at least one block from a plurality of blocks in a storage device as a evicting block or a target block based on an expected expiration time of each of the plurality of blocks in response to a request for garbage collection, wherein the expected expiration time of each block is obtained based on an expected expiration time of valid data of each block; and performing garbage collection based on the selected at least one block.
US12287731B2	Method and device for storing data A method for storing data includes receiving a message to perform garbage collection on a first block of blocks included in a storage apparatus, and, based on the message, performing garbage collection on the first block by storing valid data that is stored in the first block into a second block according to a level of the first block among plural levels. A level of the second block among the plural levels is not lower than the level of the first block.
US12287727B2	A/b testing for mobile applications A machine may be configured to perform AB testing on mobile applications. For example, the machine receives an identifier of a user from a mobile device that requests a layout description of a user interface, determines the layout description that provides a configuration of one or more elements of the user interface according to an experiment variant associated with an experiment, and causes display of the one or more elements of the user interface on the mobile device based on the layout description.
US12287722B2	Method for the provision of a function by a group of computing units A method for providing a function by a group of computing units in which computation instances are executed, each computation instance implementing the function using at least one algorithm and being set up to determine at least one result in response to a call of the function. The method includes: determining an integrity level for each of the computation instances; receiving a function request from a subscriber, the function request including a quality requirement that includes an integrity requirement; selecting a plurality of the computation instances corresponding to the quality requirement, so that the integrity level of the selected computation instances corresponds to the integrity requirement; calling the function in the selected computation instances corresponding to the function request in order to determine a plurality of results; determining a response based on the results, taking into account the quality requirement; and sending the response to the subscriber.
US12287720B2	Displaying device-usage information In one embodiment, a method may include determining one or more of (1) an amount of use of a display screen of a user's client computing device during a period of time, or (2) a frequency of unlocks of the display screen during the period of time. The method may include displaying, on a lock screen of the client computing device, one or more of: (1) the amount of use of the display screen during the period of time, or (2) the frequency of unlocks of the display screen during the period of time.
US12287719B2	Activity recognition model balanced between versatility and individuation and system thereof The present invention relates to an activity recognition system balanced between versatility and individuation, comprising a communication framework jointly formed by a data collecting terminal, a computing device, and a cloud computing platform, the activity recognition system uses the communication framework to conduct personnel activity recognition and model updating, and the edge computing device further comprises a model training module and an activity recognition module, and the model training module retrieves a local activity recognition model by continuously verifying user IDs, and uses the first data to train a versatile network structure and an individualized network structure of the local activity recognition model in a way that individuation features of the user and versatility features of the model are fused with each other, so that the personnel activity recognition process conducted by the activity recognition module.
US12287718B2	Short-term model calibration in system monitoring A technology landscape may be characterized using a performance characterization that includes scores assigned to performance metrics for the technology landscape and using at least one trained machine learning model. In response to a detected calibration trigger, a calibratable performance metric of the performance metrics may be determined. A relationship may be determined between conforming values of the calibratable performance metric during a conforming period for which the at least one trained machine learning model was trained, and non-conforming values of the calibratable performance metric occurring during a calibration period initiated by the calibration trigger. In this way, a score assigned to the calibratable performance metric may be calibrated, based on the relationship.
US12287716B2	Techniques for providing application contextual information Techniques for providing application contextual information. One or more sets of database context identifiers corresponding to events that occur within the database are generated by the database. The one or more sets of database context identifiers have at least one application context field. A session identifier corresponding to a session to be monitored is sent from the application to the database. Information to be stored in the database with the session identifier is sent to the database. Database logs and application logs are correlated using at least the session identifier.
US12287712B2	Failover methods and systems in three-dimensional memory device Described are memory systems and devices in which each memory die in a three-dimensional stack of memory dies includes drive and receive circuitry that can communicate data signals from the stack on behalf of all the memory dies in the stack. The drive and receive circuitry, if defective on one device in the stack, can be disabled and substituted with the drive and receive circuitry from another. The stack of memory dies can thus function despite a failure of drive or receive circuitry in one or more of the memory dies. Each memory die includes test circuitry to detect defective drive and receive circuitry.
US12287711B1	Tenant-specific disaster recovery A computer-implemented method includes translating into a routing configuration, tenant-specific preferences for primary and secondary datacenter locations. A service mesh is set up for communication between services within and across the primary and secondary datacenter locations. Service persistencies with endpoints in datacenter locations are used to configure replication agents between the service persistencies. Using service endpoints, configuring Virtual Services that implement the service mesh. An Ingress Gateway is configured to route end user requests into the service mesh to a first service instance in the tenant-selected primary datacenter. According to the tenant-specific preferences, data replication is configured to copy data to redundant storage. Using endpoints of persistent storage replication agents for each service persistence in the tenant-selected primary datacenter, configuring persistent storage replication agents for each service persistence in the tenant-selected primary datacenter.
US12287709B2	System and method for managing a backup of a large set of files using a file system analysis for data stored in a network attached storage A method for managing data includes obtaining, by a universal connector, a backup request for a backup of a set of files, in response to the backup request: performing a file system analysis on the set of files to determine an ordering of files to be accessed for the backup, generating a set of file read requests based on the ordering of files, sending a data access request based on the set of file read requests, obtaining a response from the NAS server, wherein the response comprises data associated with the set of files, and generating the backup using the data associated with the set of files.
US12287708B2	Automatic XOR data programming by memory die for uncorrectable page failure recovery Embodiments of the present technology provide non-volatile memory devices comprising memory dies that natively generate “exclusive OR (XOR) data pages” that can be used to recover data pages corrupted by UECC errors. Through memory die native-XOR data page generation, embodiments can recover data pages corrupted by UECC errors more efficiently, more rapidly, and with fewer resources than potential alternative technologies.
US12287706B2	Memory device with status feedback for error correction Methods, systems, and devices for a memory device with status feedback for error correction are described. For example, during a read operation, a memory device may perform an error correction operation on first data read from a memory array of the memory device. The error correction operation may generate second data and an indicator of a state of error corresponding to the second data. In one example, the indicator may indicate one of multiple possible states of error. In another example, the indicator may indicate a corrected error or no detectable error. The memory device may output the first or second data and the indicator of the state of error during a same burst interval. The memory device may output the data on a first channel and the indicator of the state of error on a second channel.
US12287702B2	Fault management in a reconfigurable dataflow architecture A fault management system (FMS) receives events indicating an issue with a component in the system and determines, based on an inventory database, the component associated with the events. The FMS creates, based at least in part on the events, an error report that includes: (i) an error type identifying a type of error described in the error report, (ii) a timestamp indicating when the error report was created, and (iii) a universal unique identifier (UUID) to uniquely identify the error report. The FMS determines, based at least in part on the error report, a policy associated with the events and classifies the events, based at least in part on the policy, as either a threshold event or a discrete event. The FMS performs one or more actions to address the events.
US12287700B2	Systems and methods for predictive memory maintenance visualization Embodiments of the present disclosure include techniques for predictive memory maintenance. In one embodiment, error locations in a RAM are specified by columns and rows. Error locations are detected and stored in a storage system. One or more plots of the error locations may be presented to a user. In some embodiments, the error locations are time stamped. Rules may be defined to automatically detect patterns of error locations statically or over time. Alerts may be generated automatically to perform maintenance of a computer system with failing memory.
US12287696B1	Dynamically adjusting observability based on real-time performance A computer-implemented method, according to one approach, includes: receiving observability data produced by a first portion of a distributed application. The observability data is evaluated and in response to determining that the observability data indicates the first portion of the distributed application is degraded, the amount of the observability data produced by the first portion of the distributed application is increased. Additionally, the amount of observability data produced by other portions of the distributed application that are correlated with the first portion of the distributed application is also increased.
US12287695B2	Energy provisioning One or more embodiments of a regulator circuit for providing power to a load device having a first power demand profile over time. The regulator circuit comprises a regulator and an energy storage device coupled to the regulator and the load device. The regulator circuit is configured to scavenge provided energy that is available beyond the first power demand profile. Further, the regulator circuit is configured to store that energy in the energy storage device, and the energy storage device is configured to augment deliverable peak power to the load device when the load device requires more power than is provided by the regulator circuit.
US12287693B2	In-vehicle control device An in-vehicle control device includes a processor configured to: control a device of a first type, which has a function of switching an operation mode between a normal mode and a mode in which power consumption is limited compared to the normal mode in accordance with an instruction via communication and a device of a second type, which does not have the function; specify a limited device that is a device of which power consumption is to be limited, based on information acquired from outside; transmit to the limited device via a communication line an instruction to shift the operation mode to the mode in which power consumption is limited compared to the normal mode, when the limited device is the device of the first type; and stop power supply to the limited device when the limited device is the device of the second type.
US12287687B2	Systems and methods for integrating batteries to maintain volatile memories and protect the volatile memories from excessive temperatures A system comprises an integrated circuit die substrate; volatile memory electrically coupled to the integrated circuit die substrate; a first integrated circuit die element electrically coupled to the integrated circuit die substrate, the first integrated circuit die element comprising a first field programmable gate array (FPGA), and the first integrated circuit die element disposed adjacent to the volatile memory; a battery charger operable to receive power from a main power supply, the main power supply having an on state and an off state, wherein the main power supply is supplying power in the on state and not supplying power in the off state; and a battery module disposed on a top portion of the first integrated circuit die element, the battery module operable to receive power from the battery charger, and the battery module operable to supply power to the volatile memory at least when the main power supply is in the off state.
US12287680B1	Computing device case A case for an electronic device can include a case body including an exterior surface and an interior surface, the interior surface being positioned opposite the exterior surface. The case can additionally include a button body positioned at least partially within the case body between the exterior surface and the interior surface, the button body being movable inward and outward relative to the case body along an axis of button travel. The case can further include a biasing structure having a contact surface configured to contact the button body, the biasing structure configured to bias the button body toward the interior surface along the axis of button travel.
US12287679B2	Electronic apparatus and method for manufacturing electronic apparatus An electronic apparatus includes: a first chassis member; a second chassis member that is adjacent to the first chassis member and relatively rotatably connected to the first chassis member; a first plate that is supported by the first chassis member; a second plate that is supported by the second chassis member and aligned with a gap between the first plate and the second plate; a display that is formed in a flexible sheet shape, and has a first region fixed to a front surface of the first plate, a second region fixed to a front surface of the second plate, and a folding region capable of being folded and provided to straddle a gap between the first region and the second region; and a first fastening portion that fixes the first plate to the first chassis member.
US12287677B2	System and method for supporting hardware components Methods, systems, and devices for providing computer implemented services are disclosed. To provide the computer implemented services, the quantity of hardware resources available for providing the computer implemented services may be modified. The quantity of hardware resources may be modified by adding removable cards to a host system. When the removable card is added, a removable attachment element may be used to secure the removable card in place and maintain operable connection between the host system and the removable card.
US12287672B1	Extended screen An extended screen includes a first display screen, a second display screen, and a third display screen. The second display screen is connected to a top end of the first display screen. The third display screen is connected to a left side edge or a right side edge of the second display screen, so that the first display screen and the third display screen are capable of forming a diagonal shape. When the first display screen and the third display screen form a diagonal shape, one placement position is formed below the third display screen near the first display screen. The placement position is configured for placing a display screen of a computer device. The extended screen includes three display screens, with two display screens arranged transversely above and one display screen arranged below, forming one placement position for placing the display screen of the computer device.
US12287670B2	Electronic devices having morphing device housings allowing wearable and handheld modes of operation An electronic device includes a first device housing and a second device housing that are slidable relative to each other. A flexible display spans a major surface of the electronic device. A strap can be attached to the electronic device so as to span a second major surface of the electronic device, where sliding the first device housing toward the second device housing changes the perimeter of an arm insertion aperture defined by the strap and device housings. A deformable device housing arm can extend between the device housing(s) and the strap and can wrap around a user's arm. The first device housing and second device housing can be manufactured from a flexible material to wrap around an arm allowing a first coupler coupled to the first device housing to attach to a second coupler coupled to the second device housing.
US12287669B2	Foldable electronic device A foldable electronic device is provided. The foldable electronic device includes a foldable housing including a first housing portion, a second housing portion, and a hinge structure connected with the first housing portion and the second housing portion, the foldable housing configured to be folded about a folding axis; a flexible display accommodated in the first housing portion and the second housing portion; a plurality of rigid printed circuit boards (RPCBs) including a first RPCB accommodated in the first housing portion and a second RPCB accommodated in the second housing portion; a first flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) configured to electronically connect with the first RPCB and the second RPCB, the first FPCB including a first flexible portion located through a designated area of the hinge structure, the first FPCB including a first rigid portion and a second rigid portion affixed to a part of the hinge structure; a second FPCB configured to electronically connect with the first RPCB and the second RPCB, the second FPCB including a second flexible portion located through the designated area of the hinge structure, the second FPCB including a third rigid portion and a fourth rigid portion affixed to a part of the hinge structure, wherein the second flexible portion of the second FPCB is spaced apart and substantially parallel from the first flexible portion of the first FPCB; and a bending-guide member attached to the first FPCB between the first rigid portion and the second rigid portion, and attached to the second FPCB between the third rigid portion and the fourth rigid portion such that the first flexible portion and the second flexible portion are held together.
US12287667B2	Control system, clock synchronization method, controller, node device, and vehicle The present disclosure relates to control systems, clock synchronization methods, controllers, node devices, and vehicles. In one example control system provided in this application, a primary controller directly sends a reference clock signal to at least one node device by using a ring network, so that the at least one node device can perform timing based on a frequency of the reference clock signal.
US12287660B2	Low-dropout regulator circuit with high loop stability based on load-dependent zero mobile compensation and method thereof Provided is a low-dropout regulator circuit with high loop stability based on a load-dependent zero mobile compensation and a method thereof. The LDO circuit with high loop stability comprises a LDO circuit body, the LDO circuit body includes a PMOS transistor; the LDO circuit with high loop stability comprises a dynamic-resistance-boosting-circuit adaptively connected with the PMOS transistor, a dynamically variable resistor in parallel with PMOS transistor is generated according to the state of the load by the dynamic-resistance-boosting-circuit; the dynamically variable resistor is connected in parallel with PMOS transistor following the load variations to form a load equivalent resistor, a value for the formed load equivalent resistor is less than an equivalent resistance maximum value for PMOS transistor in a stable loop state, so that a high frequency pole frequency of the LDO circuit body is greater than a unit gain frequency of the LDO circuit body.
US12287659B2	Low-dropout regulator for low voltage applications A low-dropout regulator for low voltage applications includes a buffer circuit being arranged between an output terminal of an error amplifier and a control node of a pass device. The buffer circuit includes a driver having a first transistor being embodied as an NMOS transistor. The output terminal of the error amplifier is coupled to the control node of the first transistor. The control node of the pass device is coupled to an internal node of a first current path including the first transistor. The low-dropout regulator has high load capability, even if an input supply voltage is very low.
US12287655B2	Method and apparatus for mass flow control Mass flow controller (MFC) devices capable of self-verification and methods of providing for self-verifying mass flow control are provided. An MFC includes a chamber configured to receive a fluid, an upstream valve disposed upstream of the chamber, and a downstream control valve disposed downstream of the chamber. The MFC further includes a pressure drop element disposed downstream of the downstream control valve and first and second pressure sensors. A controller of the MFC is configured to control actuation of the downstream control valve by toggling between flow-based feedback control and pressure-based feedback control. In flow-based feedback control, a flow is monitored based on a rate of decay of pressure in the chamber as detected by the first pressure sensor upon closure of the upstream control valve. In pressure-based feedback control, a pressure upstream of the pressure drop element, as detected by the second pressure sensor, is monitored.
US12287652B2	Fluid-conveying device with valves for controlling the fluid flow A fluid-conveying device for conveying a fluid, such as in particular water, from a tank. The fluid can be conveyed along a dosing line to an injection point by a pump, wherein the dosing line is attached at a pressure side of the pump by a connection plug which is attached to an outlet line. The fluid-conveying device has at least one first valve, which is preloaded by a spring and which is configured to prevent a fluid flow from the dosing line to the outlet line and which is furthermore configured to permit the fluid flow from the outlet line to the dosing line if a predefined minimum pressure p1 is reached on that side of the first valve which faces toward the outlet opening.
US12287650B1	Adaptive speed control for line-following robots and method thereof A line-following robot in an assembly line. The line-following robot includes a microcontroller, a camera connected to the microcontroller, disposed on a front of the line-following robot, and configured to collect line images, an Infrared (IR) sensor array connected to the microcontroller, disposed on the line-following robot, and oriented in a direction of travel of the line-following robot, a first wheel set and a second wheel set disposed opposite one another on opposing sides of a bottom of the line-following robot, and a battery. The microprocessor controls a motor speed of the line-following robot based on an upcoming assembly line by continuously capturing and processing the lines images using an advance image processing technique and computer vision techniques.
US12287646B2	Apparatus for controlling robot and method thereof In an embodiment a robot control apparatus includes at least one first sensor provided on a front of a head part of a robot including a wheel part and the head part connected to an upper portion of the wheel part, the first sensor being configured to sense a first distance from a ground, at least one second sensor provided on a rear of the head part and configured to sense a second distance from the ground and a controller configured to determine a driving environment of the robot based on at least one of the first distance or the second distance and adjust a control gain related to a balance control of the robot based on the determined driving environment.
US12287644B2	Method and system for improved aircraft takeoff performance in the presence of asymmetric thrust conditions In the event of a failed engine, an automatic takeoff thrust asymmetry compensation system (“ATACS”) for an aircraft improves capabilities to reduce VMCG and deal with the potential side-effects simultaneously. The system commands selected control surfaces (which can be e.g., rudder and/or ailerons and/or spoilers or any combinations thereof) for a short period of time, improving the capability to reduce the VMCG without increasing the penalty on system failures or poor handling qualities.
US12287641B2	Robotic post A robotic post includes a memory and a processor in communication with the memory, an optical sensor, a support holder and a securable hook. The robotic post is configured to secure an item container by coupling it to the securable hook and further adjusting the support holder. An optional robotic arm manipulates items in or out the item container based on particular semantics of interest inferred based on inputs from the optical sensor.
US12287639B1	Floor plan repair system for autonomous mobile devices Systems and techniques for generation, storage, and updating of common floor plans across shared autonomous mobile devices. The systems and techniques include extraction of semantically meaningful data from one or more occupancy maps to provide a floorplan to a user that aligns with the user's understanding of the space using heuristics and machine learning techniques. The techniques also enable repair of damaged or inconsistent floor plan geometries through the use of polygon triangulation and graph cuts.
US12287638B2	Loading dock area safety system utilizing pulsed magnetic fields A dock area control system includes a vehicle proximity detection system (PDSC). The PDSC includes a vehicle low frequency magnetic field generator (MFG) that generates a vehicle pulsed magnetic field that is sensed by a dock area controller electronics module (DEM).
US12287636B2	Transportation system A transportation system includes map information storage means configured to store map information including travel road additional information about travel roads of an autonomous traveling transporter for transporting a load and inclination of the travel roads, collected information acquisition means configured to acquire collected information collected through autonomous traveling of the transporter on the travel roads, map information update means configured to update the travel road additional information of the map information corresponding to the travel roads autonomously traveled by the transporter based on the collected information, and a travel plan unit configured to identify a travel plan of the transporter autonomously traveling to transport the load, based on the map information including the travel road additional information and travel tolerance PB indicating tolerance of the load with respect to traveling.
US12287633B2	System and method for comparing simulated environments for unmanned ground vehicle development and testing In an approach to comparing simulated environments for unmanned ground vehicle development and testing, a system includes stored program instructions, the stored program instructions configured to: receive a first simulation scene and a second simulation scene; calculate a first costmap for the first simulation scene and a second costmap for the second simulation scene; calculate a traversability ratio metric comparing the first costmap and the second costmap; calculate a blob size metric comparing the first costmap and the second costmap; calculate an L2 distance between a first plurality of histograms from the first costmap and a second plurality of histograms from the second costmap; and determine whether a first environment of the first simulation scene and a second environment of the second simulation scene are similar based on the traversability ratio metric, the blob size metric, and the L2 distance.
US12287629B2	Detection of autonomous operation of a vehicle A computer includes a processor and a memory, and the memory stores instructions executable by the processor to receive operation data generated by first components of a vehicle; determine that the vehicle is being operated autonomously by an on-board autonomous-operation module based on the operation data without using output from the on-board autonomous-operation module; and upon determining that the vehicle is being operated autonomously, actuate a second component of the vehicle.
US12287625B2	Method and reproduction unit for reproducing protected messages A method and replay unit for sending secured messages via a messaging system to a receiver ECU to be tested, wherein the replay unit is connected to the device under test via the messaging system, wherein the replay unit is set up to receive first secured messages to be replayed, to remove from the first secured messages a first counter value and a first authenticator, and to generate a second authenticator by means of a second counter value, an encryption algorithm and a key, and wherein the replay unit is set up to generate second secured messages by adding the second counter value and the second authenticator to the first messages, and wherein the replay unit is further adapted to send the second secured messages to the recipient device under test via the messaging system.
US12287623B2	Methods and systems for automatically creating statistically accurate ergonomics data The systems and methods provide an action recognition and analytics tool for use in manufacturing, health care services, shipping, retailing and other similar contexts. Machine learning action recognition can be utilized to determine cycles, processes, actions, sequences, objects and or the like in one or more sensor streams. The sensor streams can include, but are not limited to, one or more video sensor frames, thermal sensor frames, infrared sensor frames, and or three-dimensional depth frames. The analytics tool can provide for analyzing ergonomic data from the one or more sensor streams.
US12287620B2	Machine learning device, numerical control system, setting device, numerical control device, and machine learning method A machine learning device for performing machine learning with respect to a numerical control device which causes a machine tool to operate, and is provided with: a state information acquisition unit that causes the machine tool to perform cutting work, in which a cutting amount and a cutting rate are set, and acquires state information including the cutting amount and cutting rate; an action information output unit that outputs action information; a reward calculation unit that acquires determination information that is information about the strength of pressure applied to a tool at least during cutting work, the shape of the waveform of the pressure applied to the tool, and time it has taken to perform work, and outputs a reward value in reinforcement learning; and a value function update unit that updates a value function on the basis of the reward value, the state information, and the action information.
US12287618B2	Machining center NC operation panel with body temperature management function A machining center NC operation panel with a body temperature management function includes a visible range image camera and an infrared detection camera on a front surface of an operation panel. A storage unit has: an operator list; a face image file; and a body temperature management file for machine tool users and body-temperature managed users. A control unit includes: a face authentication processing unit; a work information processing unit that calls a work item assigned to the identified operator and displays it on a display unit of the operation panel so as to allow execution of a selection; and a body temperature acquisition processing unit that assesses whether or not the operator has a fever. When receiving a result of the assessment that the operator has a fever, the work information processing unit locks an operation screen of the display unit to inhibit continuation of an operation.
US12287617B2	Multi-user computer-numerically-controlled machine A method for accessing a computer-numerically-controlled machine can include receiving a command to be executed by the computer-numerically-controlled machine. A hardware state of a component in the computer-numerically-controlled machine can be determined by receiving, from the component, data indicative of the hardware state. An origin of the command including a user identification of a user who sent the command and/or a machine identification of a device that sent the command can be determined. Whether the computer-numerically-controlled machine is allowed to execute the command can be determined by applying a set of rules and based on the hardware state and/or the origin of the command. In response to determining that the computer-numerically-controlled machine is allowed to execute the command, the command can be executed at the computer-numerically-controlled machine.
US12287616B2	Numerical controller, numerical control machine tool, machining program generation device, and machining program generation method A numerical controller includes: a model holding unit that holds a machine model, the machine model being a model that simulates deformation of a mechanical structure accompanying motion of the mechanical structure in axial directions and representing an error amount as an amount of displacement of a tool; a machining error estimation unit that estimates an error direction and the error amount in the error direction on the basis of axis data that is data on drive of a drive mechanism and the machine model, the error direction being a direction in which displacement of the tool occurs among the axial directions; and a correction amount arithmetic unit that selects one or more of the axes subject to correction, and performs arithmetic to find a correction amount used for correction of a command to be output to the drive mechanism for the axis selected.
US12287615B2	Numerical control device for machine tool The present invention is to allow for an automatic correction of an offset amount of a tool used in actual workpiece processing at an appropriate timing. The present invention provides a numerical control device for a machine tool including: an execution unit for executing a processing program; a storage unit for storing, for each tool used in each processing program, a wear amount of the each tool when executing the processing program, as a tool offset amount; a monitoring unit for monitoring the timing of the work processing end or work processing start; and a changing unit for changing, for each processing program, the present tool offset amount at the timing of the work processing end or work processing start monitored by the monitoring unit, on the basis of the tool offset amount of the processing program stored in the storage unit.
US12287614B2	Differentiable model for manufacturability Systems, computer-implemented methods, and instructions encoded in machine-accessible storage media are provided for determining manufacturability of an integrated circuit layout. A computer-implemented method includes receiving a layout describing the integrated circuit to be manufactured by a semiconductor manufacturing process. The method also includes generating a differentiable manufacturability parameter as an output of a machine learning model using the layout, the machine learning model being trained to generate the differentiable manufacturability parameter. The differentiable manufacturability parameter describes the manufacturability of the integrated circuit by the semiconductor manufacturing process.
US12287611B2	Method of manufacturing watch component and watch component A method of manufacturing a watch component according to the present disclosure is a method of manufacturing a watch component that includes a decorative region at a front surface thereof. The method includes sequentially irradiating the decorative region with laser light to draw, in a superimposed manner, a plurality of decorative patterns constituted by a plurality of lines. At least one of the decorative patterns is constituted by the plurality of lines arranged at intervals in a range of 80% to 200% of a spot diameter of the laser light, at least one of the plurality of lines including a curved portion.
US12287608B2	Image projection method and system An image cast system includes: a transparent holographic display screen; a first diffraction grating superimposed at a first display surface of the transparent holographic display screen; a second diffraction grating superimposed at a second display surface of the transparent holographic display screen; a plurality of cast light sources including a cast light source disposed outside and facing towards the transparent holographic display screen or a cast light source disposed inside the transparent holographic display screen; and a control device connected to the transparent holographic display screen, the first diffraction grating, the second diffraction grating, and the plurality of cast light sources. The control device controls at least one cast light source of the plurality of cast light sources to cast a virtual scene image onto the first display surface of the transparent holographic display screen; and outputs an electrical control signal to the second diffraction grating.
US12287607B2	Electrostatic charge image developing toner, electrostatic charge image developer, toner cartridge, process cartridge, image forming apparatus, and image forming method An electrostatic charge image developing toner contains toner particles and silica particles that are added to an exterior of the toner particles and contain a nitrogen element-containing compound containing a molybdenum element, in which in the silica particles, a ratio (Mo/Si) of Net intensity of the molybdenum element to Net intensity of a silicon element measured by X-ray fluorescence analysis is 0.035 or more and 0.35 or less.
US12287606B2	Binder resin composition for toner A resin binder composition for toners, containing a polyester resin A which is a polycondensate A of raw materials A containing an alkylene oxide adduct of bisphenol A, an aromatic dicarboxylic acid compound, a trivalent or higher polyvalent raw material monomer being at least any one of a trihydric or higher polyhydric alcohol and a tricarboxylic or higher polycarboxylic acid compound, and an amorphous acid modified product A of an α-olefin polymer having 4 to 18 carbon atoms, the polyester resin A having a softening point of 120° C. to 150° C.; and a toner for electrostatic image development, containing the resin binder composition. The resin binder composition is suitable for a toner for electrostatic image development used in development of latent images formed in electrostatic image development, electrostatic recording and electrostatic printing.
US12287605B2	Toner and production method thereof, toner stored unit, image forming apparatus, and image forming method A toner includes toner base particles each including: a binder resin, a colorant, and wax; and resin particles on surfaces of the toner base particles. A standard deviation of a distance between the resin particles next to each other on the surfaces of the toner base particles is less than 500 nm.
US12287596B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a sheet-supplier, a photoconductor, a fuser and a controller. The controller is configured to, in a case where the number of sheets to be printed indicated by a printing job is less than a first predetermined number of sheets, start supplying a sheet by a sheet-supplier at a timing when a second period of time has been passed from a timing when the temperature in the fuser has reached a second temperature, and, in a case where the number of sheets to be printed is equal to or greater than the first predetermined number of sheets, start supplying the sheet by the sheet-supplier at a timing when the second period of time has been passed from a timing when the temperature in the fuser has reached a first temperature larger than the second temperature.
US12287588B2	Method for operating an EUV lithography apparatus, and EUV lithography apparatus A method for operating an EUV lithography apparatus (1) with at least one vacuum housing (27) for at least one reflective optical element (12) includes operating the EUV lithography apparatus in an exposure operating mode (B), in which EUV radiation (5) is radiated into the vacuum housing, wherein a reducing plasma is generated at a surface (12a) of the reflective optical element in response to an interaction of the EUV radiation with a residual gas present in the vacuum housing. After an exposure pause, in which no EUV radiation is radiated into the vacuum housing, and before renewed operation of the EUV lithography apparatus in the exposure operating mode (B), the EUV lithography apparatus is operated in a recovery operating mode, in which oxidized contaminants at the surface of the reflective optical element are reduced in order to recover a transmission of the EUV lithography apparatus before the exposure pause.
US12287587B2	Damping arrangement for vibration damping of an element in an optical system The disclosure relates to a damping arrangement for vibration damping of an element in an optical system, for example in a microlithographic projection exposure apparatus. A damping arrangement according to the disclosure has an element, a fluid located in a cavity, and at least one channel connected to the cavity. A vibration of the element causes vibration energy of the element to be dissipated by partial displacement of the fluid from the cavity into the at least one channel.
US12287586B2	Stage system, lithographic apparatus, method for positioning and device manufacturing method A system for positioning, a stage system, a lithographic apparatus, a method for positioning and a method for manufacturing a device in which use is made of a stage system that includes a plurality of gas bearing devices. Each gas bearing device includes: a gas bearing body, which has a free surface, a primary channel which extends through the gas bearing body and has an inlet opening in the free surface, a secondary channel system which extends through the gas bearing body and which has a plurality of discharge openings in the free surface. The flow resistance in the secondary channel system is higher than the flow resistance in the primary channel.
US12287584B2	Methods and apparatus for obtaining diagnostic information relating to an industrial process In a lithographic process, product units such as semiconductor wafers are subjected to lithographic patterning operations and chemical and physical processing operations. Alignment data or other measurements are made at stages during the performance of the process to obtain object data representing positional deviation or other parameters measured at points spatially distributed across each unit. This object data is used to obtain diagnostic information by performing a multivariate analysis to decompose a set of vectors representing the units in the multidimensional space into one or more component vectors. Diagnostic information about the industrial process is extracted using the component vectors. The performance of the industrial process for subsequent product units can be controlled based on the extracted diagnostic information.
US12287583B2	Method for modeling measurement data over a substrate area and associated apparatuses Disclosed is a method for modeling measurement data over a substrate area and associated apparatus. The method comprises obtaining measurement data relating to a first layout; modeling a second model based on said first layout; evaluating the second model on a second layout, the second layout being more dense than said first layout; and fitting a first model to this second model according to the second layout.
US12287580B2	Fluid handling system, method and lithographic apparatus A lithographic apparatus has a substrate holder configured to hold a substrate and a projection system configured to project a radiation beam onto the substrate held by the substrate holder. There is also a fluid handling system configured to confine immersion liquid to a space between a part of the projection system and a surface of the substrate so that the radiation beam can irradiate the surface of the substrate by passing through the immersion liquid. An excitation device is provided to generate surface acoustic waves in the substrate and propagating toward the immersion liquid.
US12287577B2	Electronic device and method for manufacturing target substrate An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a base and a conductive layer that is disposed on the base and patterned by a plurality of processes. The plurality of processes include providing a mask substrate. The mask substrate includes a first substrate and a patterned substrate. In the cross-sectional view, the width of the first substrate is greater than or equal to the width of the patterned substrate. The plurality of processes include arranging the mask substrate and the base correspondingly. The plurality of processes also include performing exposure and development processes on the conductive layer for patterning the conductive layer, and removing the mask substrate.
US12287576B2	Underlayer compositions and patterning methods An underlayer composition, comprising a polymer comprising a repeating unit of formula (1): wherein Ar is a monocyclic or polycyclic C5-60 aromatic group, wherein the aromatic group comprises one or more aromatic ring heteroatoms, a substituent group comprising a heteroatom, or a combination thereof; X is C or O; R1, R2; Ra and Rb are as provided herein; optionally, R1 and R2 can be taken together form a 5- to 7-membered ring; optionally, one of R11 to R13 can be taken together with R1 to form a 5- to 7-membered ring; wherein Ra and Rb optionally may be taken together to form a 5- to 7-membered ring; wherein one of Ra or Rb optionally may be taken together with R2 to form a 5- to 7-membered ring; and when X is O, Ra and Rb are absent.
US12287575B2	Photoresist and method of formation and use A system and method for depositing a photoresist and utilizing the photoresist are provided. In an embodiment a deposition chamber is utilized along with a first precursor material comprising carbon-carbon double bonds and a second precursor material comprising repeating units to deposit the photoresist onto a substrate. The first precursor material is turned into a plasma in a remote plasma chamber prior to being introduced into the deposition chamber. The resulting photoresist comprises a carbon backbone with carbon-carbon double bonds.
US12287574B2	Resin composition and flow cells incorporating the same An example resin composition includes an epoxy resin matrix, a first photoacid generator, and a second photoacid generator. The first photoacid generator includes an anion having a molecular weight less than about 250 g/mol. The second photoacid generator includes an anion having a molecular weight greater than about 300 g/mol. In an example, i) a cation of the first photoacid generator has, or ii) a cation of the second photoacid generator has, or iii) the cations of the first and second photoacid generators have a mass attenuation coefficient of at least 0.1 L/(g*cm) at a wavelength of incident light to cure the resin composition.
US12287564B2	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.
US12287563B2	Aperture set and aperture set driving device An aperture set includes a support including a first opening overlapping with a lens, a rotor rotatably disposed on the support and including a second opening overlapping with the lens and the first opening, and a plurality of blades disposed on the support and respectively rotatably disposed on the rotor, wherein an inner surface of the blade for adjusting an amount of light incident on the lens includes a curved portion and a straight portion.
US12287560B2	Light source module and projector A light source module, which includes a heat sink, a laser assembly, a circuit board assembly, a conductive material, and multiple lock members, is provided. The circuit board assembly includes a circuit board, which has an accommodating opening that corresponds to a beam emitter of the laser assembly. The lock members respectively pass through third lock holes of the circuit board assembly, second lock holes of the laser assembly, and first lock holes of the heat sink in sequence, thereby locking the circuit board assembly and the laser assembly on the heat sink. The accommodating opening of the circuit board exposes the beam emitter, and the conductive material connects two conductive pads of the laser assembly to two corresponding electroplated through holes, thereby enabling the laser assembly to be electrically connected to the circuit board assembly. A projector including the light source module is also provided.
US12287557B2	Ultra-low-noise, on-chip quantum devices A quantum EIT-based optical switch includes a first waveguide, linear or nonlinear, a separate nonlinear waveguide evanescently coupled to the first waveguide, and a pump coupled to the nonlinear waveguide. A quantum STIRAP-based optical transduction device, which includes an auxiliary, intermediate spectral state for the quantum signal that aids efficient transduction of the quantum signal from the input spectral state to the output spectral state in a single device.
US12287552B2	Display device A display device includes a plurality of pixel electrodes each connected to a semiconductor device, a plurality of common electrodes each disposed opposite to a part of the plurality of pixel electrodes, and a plurality of common wirings each connected to the plurality of common electrodes. The semiconductor device includes an oxide semiconductor layer having a polycrystalline structure, and at least a part of each common wiring is composed of the oxide semiconductor layer. Each common electrode may be located across a plurality of pixel electrodes.
US12287550B2	Array substrate and display panel The present application provides an array substrate and a display panel. By arranging an auxiliary electrode in a second electrode layer that is in a different layer from the pixel electrode, an aperture ratio of a pixel can be increased. In addition to that, a capacity of the storage capacitor can be increased, thereby solving a problem that the display panel is prone to flickering.
US12287549B2	Display apparatus A display apparatus is provided and includes a display panel including a first border and a second border, and a decorative bezel that covers the first border. The display panel further includes: a first substrate, a second substrate including a first side, on which the first substrate is disposed, and a second side opposite to the first side, an electrode layer on the second side of the second substrate; a ground wire between the first substrate and the second substrate, the ground wire configured to connect to a ground; and a conductive silicon that is on the second border and electrically connects the electrode layer and the ground wire.
US12287548B2	Display device A display device includes: a plurality of first colored particles contained in a space between a first substrate and a second substrate; a light-emitting portion having a first light-emitting element provided on the first substrate, and a first-light-emitting-element driving circuit provided on the first substrate and configured to drive the first light-emitting element; a first transparent portion disposed in a direction along a main surface of the first substrate with respect to the light-emitting portion; a first electrode provided in the light-emitting portion; and a second electrode provided in the first transparent portion and being nckudestransparent. The display device is capable of switching between a light-transmitting state of the first transparent portion in which the first electrode attracts the plurality of first colored particles, and a light-blocking state of the first transparent portion in which the second electrode attracts the plurality of first colored particles.
US12287544B2	Display apparatus In a backlight module of a display apparatus, the base substrate is a flat plate structure, so that the backlight module can be prevented from being subjected to a bending internal stress, thereby avoiding a damage to the backlight module and ensuring a yield of the display apparatus. At the same time, the difference of backlight brightness provided by the backlight module to different regions of the display panel is smaller, so that brightness uniformity of different regions of the display apparatus can be ensured, and a display effect of the display apparatus is better.
US12287543B2	Display device According to an aspect, a display device capable of outputting individual images to a plurality of viewpoints arranged in a predetermined direction, the display device includes: two light-transmitting substrates that face each other with a liquid crystal layer interposed therebetween; a resin layer that is a light-transmitting layer and stacked between the liquid crystal layer and one substrate positioned on a user side of the two light-transmitting substrates; and a light-shielding barrier provided between the one substrate and the resin layer and having a plurality of openings.
US12287541B2	Sub-display screen, assembled screen, and display device A sub-display screen, an assembled screen, and a display device are disclosed. The sub-display screen includes a display panel and a fixing piece. The fixing piece is disposed below the display panel for supporting the display panel. A seam region is formed between the fixing piece and the display panel. The sub-display screen further includes an assembling piece arranged in the seam region. A portion of the assembling piece is connected to the display panel and the fixing piece, and seals the gap between the display panel and the fixing piece. Another portion of the assembling piece protrudes from the side of the fixing piece away from the display panel to form a joining portion, and after the sub-display screens are assembled, the joining portions seal the seam regions.
US12287536B2	Progressive spectacle lens A progressive spectacle lens, a method for its production, and a related computer program are disclosed. The progressive spectacle lens has a progressive surface including a central viewing zone, a lower viewing zone, two peripheral vision zones extending bilaterally from a vertical meridian of the progressive surface, and an upper viewing zone. The central viewing zone has a surface power providing a first refracting power for distance vision and the lower viewing zone has a greater surface power than the central viewing zone providing a second refracting power corresponding to near vision and being connected to the central viewing zone by a first progressing power region. The progressive spectacle lens generates a retarding or arresting effect on myopia progression, especially in myopic juveniles.
US12287526B2	Optical element driving mechanism An optical element driving mechanism is provided in the present disclosure, including a first movable portion, a fixed portion, a first driving assembly and a first supporting assembly. The first movable portion is connected to a first optical element. The first movable portion is movable relative to the fixed portion. The first driving assembly drives the first movable portion to move relative to the fixed portion in a first dimension. The first supporting assembly is disposed between the first movable portion and the fixed portion. The first movable portion moves relative to the fixed portion via the first supporting assembly.
US12287523B2	Fiber-optic splice storage tray A fiber-optic storage tray is disclosed, comprising a fiber splicing portion; wherein the fiber splicing portion is configured to retain a plurality of optical fiber splices, such that adjacent optical fiber splices are offset with respect to one another in the direction of the depth of the tray and the adjacent optical fiber splices are also offset with respect to one another in the direction of their length.
US12287507B2	Illuminated keyboard and backlight module An illuminated keyboard includes a keyboard module, a circuit board and a backlight module. The keyboard module includes a bracket and at least one first key cap, disposed above the bracket. The circuit board has a first surface facing towards the at least one first key cap and a second surface facing away from the at least one first key cap, at least one top-emitting element is disposed on the first surface, and at least one side-emitting element is disposed on the second surface. The backlight module is disposed below the keyboard module and includes a light guide plate having a slot. The at least one side-emitting element extends into the slot such that the light emitted from the at least one side-emitting element enters the light guide plate. The light passes through a light output zone of the bracket and illuminate the at least one first key cap.
US12287503B2	Light-absorbing composition and optical filter A light-absorbing composition according to the present invention includes: a light absorber; a curable resin; and an alkoxysilane. The alkoxysilane includes a dialkoxysilane. Since the alkoxysilane of the light-absorbing composition includes the dialkoxysilane, desired flexibility is likely to be imparted to a light-absorbing layer owing to an organic functional group of the dialkoxysilane while a strong skeleton having a siloxane bond is formed in the light-absorbing layer.
US12287497B2	Diffuser screen A optical apparatus to display an image to a user is disclosed. The apparatus comprises an image source to generate an image bearing light beam having a first numerical aperture; and a diffuser screen. The diffuser screen is configured to increase the numerical aperture of the image bearing light beam to a second numerical aperture. The diffuser screen comprises a first part comprising: a first face and second face substantially parallel to each other, a first array of a plurality of waveguides forming an optical path between the first face and the second face. A value of an optical property of each of the plurality of waveguides is selected randomly from a set of values of the optical property. The first array of a plurality of waveguides is arranged such that each of the plurality of waveguides has an optical axis that is substantially parallel to it's nearest neighbour. Substantially all the waveguides of the first array are sized below a size that would allow a single mode of visible light to propagate along each waveguide.
US12287494B2	Optical apparatus and driving method therefor An optical apparatus and a driving method therefor according to an embodiment are disclosed. The optical apparatus comprises: a lens assembly including a liquid lens; and a control circuit for generating a driving signal for driving the liquid lens, wherein the driving signal includes a first section and a second section having driving signals with different waveform shapes.
US12287483B2	Optical member and image display apparatus An optical member and an image display apparatus including the optical member. The optical member includes: a light guide element including a light guide plate, first and second incidence diffraction elements, and first and second emission diffraction elements; a wavelength selective retardation layer that functions as a retardation layer with respect to a specific wavelength range, and changes a polarized state of light diffracted by the first or second emission diffraction element; and a polarizer, in which the first and second emission diffraction elements are polarization diffraction elements and diffract light components such that the diffracted light components are polarized light components having opposite properties, the first and second emission diffraction elements, the wavelength selective retardation layer, and the polarizer overlap each other in a main surface of the light guide plate, and the wavelength selective retardation layer is provided between the light guide element and the polarizer.
US12287482B2	Virtual image display apparatus A virtual image display apparatus includes an image light emitting unit configured to emit image light, and a see-through mirror which is an optical member having a reflective film that reflects the image light, wherein the see-through mirror includes a first region on which a light ray of the image light corresponding to a center angle of view is incident and a second region on which a light ray of the image light which different from the light ray corresponding to the center angle of view is incident, a film thickness in the first region of the reflective film is thicker than a film thickness in the second region, and the first region of the reflective film has reflectivity characteristics corresponding to a wavelength band which is wider toward the long wavelength side than a wavelength band of the image light emitted from the image light emitting unit.
US12287478B2	Lens assembly and augmented reality glasses A lens assembly and Augmented Reality (AR) glasses, including a waveguide substrate, a wiring layer, a protective layer, an eye tracking component, and a lens. The waveguide substrate includes a first surface. The wiring layer is disposed on the first surface. The protective layer is disposed on the first surface and covering the wiring layer. The eye tracking component is disposed in the protective layer and is electrically connected with the wiring layer for tracking position of an eyeball. The lens is connected to a side of the protective layer away from the waveguide substrate. The AR glasses includes a display device and two lens assemblies. The display device is positioned between the two lens assemblies for emitting image light to the waveguide substrates of the two lens assemblies.
US12287477B2	Electronic image device and method for driving the electronic image device Provided is an electronic image device, which includes a barrel-shaped container, a conductive liquid, an insulating liquid, an electronic image element, a light-transmissive window, a first electrode, a second electrode, and a voltage source. The conductive liquid and the insulating liquid have the same density and different optical refractive indices, are immiscible with each other, and are filled into the barrel-shaped container. The electronic image element is disposed at a first end of the barrel-shaped container and in contact with the conductive liquid. The light-transmissive window is disposed at a second end of the barrel-shaped container and in contact with the insulating liquid. The first electrode is in contact with the conductive liquid and the second electrode forms a capacitive coupling with the conductive liquid. A variable voltage is applied between the first electrode and the second electrode.
US12287471B2	Chromatic light sheet microscope Methods, apparatus and systems that relate to a portable chromatic light microscope are described. One example chromatic light microscope includes a light source including light producing elements that produce non-monochromatic output light that can be modulated. The chromatic light microscope further includes an illumination subsection to receive light that is output from the light source. The illumination subsection includes one or more lenses to spatially disperse spectral contents of the light that is received by the illumination subsection and to deliver light having chromatic aberration to a target object. The chromatic light microscope also includes an imaging subsection that includes one or more lenses to receive scattered light from the target object and to deliver the same to a sensor, and a linear variable filter to selectively pass a portion of the light having a particular spectral range of wavelengths to the sensor.
US12287465B2	Multi-camera panoramic image capture devices with a faceted dome A low parallax imaging device includes a dome defining an interior volume in which a plurality of imaging lens elements are disposed. The dome includes a first outer optical element associated with a first of the imaging lens elements and a second outer optical element associated with a second of the imaging lens elements. Facets are provided at seams in the dome between the first outer optical element and the second outer optical element.
US12287463B2	Photographing lens system, image capturing unit and electronic device A photographing lens system includes, in order from an object side to an image side along an optical path, a front lens group and a rear lens group. The front lens group includes four lens elements. The rear lens group includes four lens elements. A second lens element counted from the image side in the front lens group has negative refractive power. An image-side surface of a first lens element counted from the image side in the front lens group is convex in a paraxial region thereof. A second lens element counted from the object side in the rear lens group has negative refractive power. An object-side surface of a first lens element counted from the image side in the rear lens group is concave in a paraxial region thereof. At least one lens element in the rear lens group has at least one lens surface being aspheric.
US12287452B2	Member and electronic device including the same An electronic device and ornamental member for the same are disclosed herein. The electronic devices includes a housing, a front plate disposed on one surface of the housing, and a rear plate disposed on a rear surface of the housing, wherein one of the plates includes the ornamental member, which includes: a base film attached to one surface of a transparent plate and configured to at least partially transmit light, an ultra-violet (UV) molding layer formed on a surface of the base film, and a plurality of refractive layers sequentially stacked on a surface of the UV molding layer, wherein at least one of the plurality of refractive layers is formed to have a different refractive index and a different surface area from a remainder of the refractive layers.
US12287449B2	Three-dimensional imaging method and system for surface comprehensive geophysical prospecting A three-dimensional imaging method and system for surface comprehensive geophysical prospecting, the method includes: acquiring detection data of a plurality of two-dimensional profiles of a surface detection site; forming two-dimensional profile resistivity data by geophysical inversion of the detection data; performing three-dimensional coordinate conversion on the two-dimensional profile resistivity data to obtain resistivity data of a three-dimensional coordinate system; and converting the resistivity data of the three-dimensional coordinate system into a three-dimensional model by using a Kriging interpolation method.
US12287442B2	Automated fault segment generation The disclosure presents processes to automatically generate one or more set of fault segments from a fault plane pointset. The processes can identify a predominant direction and derive a set of fault segments from the fault plane pointset, where the fault segments are generated by using slices of data from the fault plane pointset that are perpendicular to the predominant direction. For each slice of data, the fault segments can be analyzed with neighboring fault segments to determine if they are overlapping. Fault segments that block or overlap other fault segments can be assigned to a different subset of fault segments from the underlying fault segments. Gaps in the fault plane pointset, and the resulting set of fault segments, can be filled in by merging neighboring fault segments above and below the gap if the neighboring fault segments satisfy a criteria for filling the gap.
US12287436B2	Ultrasonic transceiver and production method for same An ultrasonic transceiver (1) for a vehicle comprises a plastics housing (2), an ultrasonic diaphragm (3), a sound transducer element (4) for stimulating vibrations and detecting vibrations of the ultrasonic diaphragm (3), and an electrically conductive contact element (6), arranged in the interior (5) of the plastics housing (2), for making electrical contact with the sound transducer element (4), wherein the plastics housing (2) and the contact element (6) are directly and positively connected to one another by caulking of at least one plastics element (8) that is formed in one piece with the plastics housing (2).
US12287433B2	Method for determining a distance of an object with the aid of an optical detection apparatus and optical detection apparatus A method for determining a distance of an object with the aid of an optical detection apparatus and such an apparatus are described. A light signal pulse is emitted and reflected at the object, and is received as an echo light signal pulse. The echo light signal pulse is divided upon reception into temporally successive discrete reception time windows and converted into corresponding electrical energy. The end of the respective conversion is in each case assigned as the sampling time to the corresponding time window. The electrical energies of the time windows are compared in each case with a threshold value. As soon as the electrical energy of a first reference reception time window is greater than the threshold value, a linear interpolation of the temporal profile of the discrete electrical reception signal is carried out temporally before the sampling time of the first reference time window.
US12287431B1	LiDAR and mobile device A LiDAR and a movable device are disclosed. The LiDAR includes a first optical transceiving module, a first reflecting module, and a galvanometer module. The galvanometer module includes a galvanometer and a first driving mechanism. The galvanometer is configured to receive a detection light emitted from the first reflecting mirror of the first reflecting module, and scan a target object. The first driving mechanism is connected to the galvanometer, and the first driving mechanism is configured to drive the galvanometer to move between a first preset position and a second preset position.
US12287430B2	Frequency information rapid extraction for ranging applications A frequency modulated continuous wave LiDAR system is disclosed that may be scalable and integrated in compact and demanding environments. The improved system of the present disclosure includes: an electro-optic modulator configured to modulate a laser generated by a laser source; a balanced photo detector configured to process an interference signal of a local copy of the laser coupled with a signal of the laser returned from a target and output a beatnote signal; a modulation source with two outputs, and a Frequency Information Rapid Extraction for Ranging Applications (“FIRE-RA”) system to receive the interference signal from the balanced photo detector, process the interference signal with a signal from one of the two outputs of the modulation source for the balanced photo detector, and output distance and speed data for the target according to the processed interference signal.
US12287428B2	Light-emitting device, optical device, measurement device, and information processing apparatus A light-emitting device includes plural driving units; plural laser element arrays connected to the respective plural driving units; and a connection wire that interconnects terminals of the plural laser element arrays, the terminals being connected to the plural driving units.
US12287427B2	Method and apparatus for rear cross collision warning A method with rear cross collision warning includes generating a grid map by dividing an area around a host vehicle into a plurality of cells arranged in lateral and longitudinal directions, and classifying the cells corresponding to positions where a stationary object around the host vehicle as occupied cells, determining a position of a reflective structure reflecting radar signals based on a positional relationship between the occupied cells on the grid map, and determining, based on the determined position of the reflective structure and a moving direction of the tracking target, whether the tracking target is a ghost tracking target.
US12287426B2	Echo signal processing method and apparatus, system, and storage medium A method includes: determining, a first pixel in a receiving field of view of a radar and N sampling point sets in an echo signal corresponding to the first pixel; estimating an estimated distance between the radar and a target object based on each first sampling point set of the N sampling point sets, and determining, based on each estimated distance, M cumulative receiving fields of view in a one-to-one correspondence with M data frames; determining a second sampling point set in echo signals corresponding to Q neighboring pixels, and superposing each first sampling point set and the corresponding second sampling point set to obtain an echo signal that corresponds to the first pixel and that is obtained; and calculating an actual distance between the radar and the target object based on the echo signal obtained after superposition processing.
US12287425B2	Quantum entanglement enhanced radar A radar time synchronization system according to an example embodiment of the present disclosure include a transmitter radar, a receiver radar, and a quantum interferometer device communicatively coupled to the transmitter radar and the receiver radar. The quantum interferometer device includes a quantum entanglement source operable to transmit a first entangled photon to the transmitter radar and a second entangled photon to the receiver radar. The quantum interferometer device further includes a quantum entanglement detector operable to receive the first entangled photon from the transmitter radar and the second entangled photon from the receiver radar. The quantum entanglement detector further operable to detect a quantum interference effect associated with the first entangled photon and the second entangled photon. The quantum interferometer device synchronizes a first time associated with the transmitter radar and a second time associated with the receiver radar based at least in part on the quantum interference effect.
US12287421B2	Method and system for multipath reduction for wireless synchronization and/or locating A method for determining an instantaneous phase difference between time bases of at least two location anchors for a desired point in time (t), each of the location anchors having transmitting and receiving access to a joint broadcast transmission medium and a respective time base for measuring time, wherein a first of the location anchors broadcasts a first broadcast message at least twice; the first location anchor and at least a second of the location anchors receive the first broadcast messages; the second location anchor broadcasting a second broadcast message at least twice; and the second location anchor and at least the first location anchor receive the second broadcast messages. The location server calculates the instantaneous phase difference from a determined first and second clock model functions and from a time elapsed between a reference point in time and the desired point in time t.
US12287417B2	Sound source determining method and apparatus, and storage medium This application discloses a method and apparatus for determining characteristics of a sound source. The method may include: acquiring a first position of a first virtual role controlled by an application client in a virtual scene; detecting, in a sound source detection area associated with the first position, a second position of a sound source virtual object in the virtual scene; determining transparency of a position mark that matches the sound source virtual object, according to a sound source distance between the first position and the second position, the position mark identifying the second position of the sound source virtual object; and displaying, on an interaction interface of the application client, the position mark of the sound source virtual object according to the transparency.
US12287416B2	Live sonar systems and methods A system for generating live sonar images is provided having a first and second sonar transducer assembly. The sonar transducer assemblies each have sonar transducer elements configured to transmit sonar beam(s) into an underwater environment to form respective coverage volumes. The sonar transducer assemblies each define a respective facing direction. The system includes bracket(s) having alignment feature(s). The bracket(s) are configured to mount the sonar transducer assemblies to a watercraft, and the alignment feature(s) are configured to position the sonar transducer assemblies so that the facing directions are different and relative to each other so as to create continuous coverage of the underwater environment. Continuous coverage has an overall coverage volume that is greater than either of the coverage volumes individually. Sonar return data from the sonar transducer elements is used to form a live sonar image representative of sonar returns received from the overall coverage volume.
US12287413B2	Method for gauging a track position A method for gauging a track position uses a track gauging trolley (7) moved on the track. A gauging run is carried out with the track gauging trolley (7), a GPS antenna (8) and an RTK GPS receiver (11) that communicates with an RTK correction data service (RTK-KD), wherein at least one wheel (10) of the track gauging trolley (7) is pressed against a rail (4). Using boundary conditions such as constraint positions, constraint points and maximum permissible track position corrections, to avoid the disadvantages of the drifts of an inertial gauging system during long gauging runs and the only relative information on the track position, the position of the GPS antenna (8) with respect to a reference axis of the track (4, 10) is determined with the aid of a compensation scanner (6) and a computing unit (13), and the measured GPS coordinates are converted into Cartesian coordinates (Pi(xi, yi, zi)) recorded with the computing unit (13) as a spatial curve (3), from which the location image (1), from which a desired curvature image (ksoll) is calculated, and the longitudinal image (2), from which a desired longitudinal inclination image (Nsoll) is calculated, are formed. An inertial system (INS) is set up on the gauging trolley (7), with which inertial system a correction spatial curve of the same section is created, and recorded using the computing unit (13) and is used as a correction value for the GPS coordinates converted into Cartesian coordinates (Pi(xi, yi, zi)).
US12287410B2	Vehicle and vehicle system A vehicle is a movable vehicle and includes an access point function unit having an antenna and configured to function as an access point by wirelessly communicating with a terminal device located near the antenna and a control unit configured to control a directivity direction of radio waves transmitted through the antenna so that a radio wave intensity of radio waves transmitted to a predetermined first region set on the basis of a surrounding environment of the antenna is less than a radio wave intensity of radio waves transmitted to a second region other than the first region.
US12287408B2	Laser scanner A laser scanner and a system with a laser scanner for measuring an environment. The laser scanner includes an optical distance measuring device, a support, a beam steering unit rotatably fixed to the support which rotates around a beam axis of rotation. The beam steering unit includes a mirrored surface which deflects radiation used in the optical distance measurement and an angle encoder for recording angle data. The optical distance measurement is performed by a progressive rotation of the beam steering unit about the beam axis of rotation and the continuous emission of a distance measurement radiation, the emission being made through an outlet area arranged in the direction of the mirrored surface on the support, the receiving optics for receiving radiation are arranged on the support, and wherein the outlet area has a lateral offset with respect to the optical axis of the receiving optics.
US12287406B2	Methods and systems for geo-referencing mapping systems A method includes receiving a trajectory dataset including a plurality of geospatial points forming a point cloud and acquired along a trajectory wherein for each of the plurality of geospatial points there is a defined an x-coordinate, a y-coordinate and a z-coordinate and at least one mapping device orientation attribute, segmenting the trajectory dataset into a plurality of segments, determining at least one relative constraint for each of the plurality of segments and utilizing, for each of the plurality of segments, at least one of the determined relative constraints to determine a relative position of at least two of the plurality of segments.
US12287402B2	Sonar ping synchronization and associated methods A synchronization wire for synchronizing sonar ping transmissions from sonar transducer elements or arrays is provided. The synchronization wire includes first and second connection points. The first connection point is configured to connect the synchronization wire to a first sonar module that is configured to control transmission of a first sonar ping from a first sonar transducer. The second connection point is configured to connect the synchronization wire to a second sonar module that is configured to control transmission of a second sonar ping from a second sonar transducer. The synchronization wire is configured to transfer an electrical current between the first and second sonar modules. The synchronization wire is configured to enable synchronization of the first and second sonar modules through the use of the electrical current. Processing circuitry in sonar modules may cause or prevent transmission of sonar pings based on the voltage level on the synchronization wire.
US12287396B2	Estimating three-dimensional target heading using a single snapshot Provided herein is a system and method to determine a three-dimensional heading of a target. The system includes a radar sensor that obtains a three-dimensional snapshot of radar data comprising Doppler velocities and spatial positions of a plurality of detection points of a target, one or more processors, and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, causes the system to perform conducting a first estimation of a three-dimensional heading of the target based on the spatial positions; conducting a second estimation of the three-dimensional heading of the target based on the Doppler velocities; and obtaining a combined estimation of the three-dimensional heading of the target based on a weighted sum of the first estimation and the second estimation.
US12287395B2	Ris-based enhanced positioning A base station selects, in response to a location request for a UE, RIS(s) to use for positioning purposes for the UE. The base station performs a process with the selected RISs to determine information used to configure the UE with RS configuration for using the selected RIS(s) for the positioning purposes. The base station sends the RS configuration to the UE. An RIS receives signals including RSs to be used for positioning purposes for a UE. The RIS time stamps the signals with the RSs and reflects signals including the RSs and corresponding time stamps. A UE receives a reference signal configuration for using RIS(s), receives RSs based on the configuration, and receives signals comprising RSs that have been reflected from the RIS(s). The UE performs timing estimates based on the received signals and sends indication of the timing estimates toward the base station.
US12287394B2	Distance assessment with headerless packets Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to communicating data for authentication and location determination, such as for authenticating a key FOB and locating the key FOB within a defined distance. As may be implemented in accordance with one or more embodiments, a plurality of headerless packets, respectively including scrambled timestamp sequence (STS) packets but not including encoding and/or synchronization headers, are communicated between respective communication circuits. A time of flight (TOF) value indicative of time elapsed between transmission and reception of the plurality of headerless packets is assessed based on the STS packets. A distance between the communication circuits is determined based on the assessed time of flight.
US12287391B2	Method and apparatus for determination of direction of arrival angle An apparatus configured to receive an input dataset, x, indicative of radar signals reflected from targets as received at a plurality of antenna elements; define a matrix, A, formed of direction-of-arrival-angle vectors, an, each direction-of-arrival-angle vector representing an expected response at the plurality of antenna elements of radar signals from one of the targets; define a signal amplitude vector s to represent expected complex amplitudes as received in the radar signals; define an objective function based on x, A and s; search for a set of direction of arrival angles for each of the plurality of targets by the repeated evaluation of the objective function for a plurality of candidate matrices based on matrix A; and wherein said search space comprises a plurality of discrete points, z, associated with the direction of arrival angles by a function of sin(θk).
US12287390B2	Hybrid digital and analog signal generation systems and methods An analog signal generating source comprising two or more digital-to-analog converters (DAC) combined to generate one or more frequency components. The analog signal source comprises a first path for generating substantially low frequency signals, the first path comprising a first one of the DACs; and a second path for generating substantially high frequency signals, the second path comprising a second one of the DACs. The analog signal source also comprises a data processor for processing an input signal and providing the processed input signal to the first and second paths; a combining circuit configured to combine outputs of the first and second paths into the source signal; a feedback portion configured to sense the source signal; and a servo loop configured to use the sensed source signal to adjust as need to maintain the source signal to substantially agree with the input signal.
US12287389B1	Method and system for monitoring effectiveness of a treatment regimen A method for determining an effectiveness of a treatment regimen for a subject, including, during a first imaging session of the subject, acquiring baseline magnetic resonance imaging signals, and determining baseline quantitative magnetic resonance parameters, the baseline quantitative magnetic resonance parameters including one or more markers, during a second imaging session of the subject, acquiring follow-up magnetic resonance imaging signals and determining a plurality of follow-up quantitative magnetic resonance parameters including the one or more markers, comparing the baseline and follow-up one or more markers of the acquired baseline and acquired follow-up magnetic resonance parameters of a select portion of the subject's anatomy, determining a change to the select portion of the subject's anatomy based on the comparison of the baseline and follow-up one or more markers, and determining, based on the determined change to the select portion of the subject's anatomy, the effectiveness of the treatment regimen.
US12287379B2	Present-position measurement system, present-position measurement device, present-position measurement program, magnetic-field generation device, and magnetic-field generation program A present-position measurement system includes a magnetic-field generation unit that generates a magnetic field, a magnetic sensor that measures a direction of the magnetic field generated by the magnetic-field generation unit, and a present-position measurement unit that measures a present position of the magnetic sensor. The present-position measurement unit measures the present position of the magnetic sensor relative to the magnetic-field generation unit based on the direction of the magnetic field measured by the magnetic sensor.
US12287378B2	Method, computer program, electronic storage medium and device for detecting the breakdown of an energy reserve unit A method for recognizing the breakdown of an energy reserve device of at least two energy reserve devices of a device for protecting the occupants of a vehicle. The method includes: charging the at least two energy reserve devices to a test voltage level; ascertaining an ambient temperature of the at least two energy reserve devices; acquiring the (overall) capacitance of the at least two energy reserve devices; recognizing the breakdown of an energy reserve device as a function of a floating mean value, which is a function of the ascertained ambient temperature, for the (overall) capacitance and of the acquired (overall) capacitance; updating a floating mean value as a function of the ascertained ambient temperature and the acquired overall capacitance.
US12287376B2	Battery system diagnosing apparatus and method A battery diagnosing technology capable of effectively diagnosing a defective battery cell among a plurality of battery cells included in a battery system at an early stage. The battery system diagnosing apparatus diagnoses a battery system including a plurality of battery cells having electrode tabs therein, and includes a cell measuring unit for measuring a voltage or current for each of the plurality of battery cells; and a processor for calculating a state of health (SOH) for each battery cell multiple times over time by using the voltage or current measured by the cell measuring unit and detecting a battery cell having a defect in the electrode tab among the plurality of battery cells based on the SOH of each battery cell calculated multiple times.
US12287370B2	Data gating using scan enable pin An Integrated Circuit (IC) includes a storage element and control circuitry. The control circuitry is configured to select, responsively to a scan-enable control, between a functional-data input and a scan-data input to serve as an input to the storage element, to selectively disable toggling of an output of the storage element, responsively to a clock-enable control, by gating a clock signal provided to the storage element, and, while the clock-enable control indicates that the output of the storage element is to be disabled from toggling, to select the input of the storage element to be the scan-data input.
US12287369B1	Self-correcting circuitry Embodiments include herein are directed towards various circuit topologies. A self-correcting latch circuit may include a plurality of memory loops, a plurality of clock inputs, a plurality of data inputs, and a plurality of outputs. Each of the plurality of memory loops may be configured to store data in parallel.
US12287367B2	Test board and test device including the same A test board is provided. The test board comprises a first region which includes a first upper surface with first test sockets aligned thereon, and a first lower surface opposite to the first upper surface, a second region which includes a second upper surface with second test sockets aligned thereon, and a second lower surface opposite to the second upper surface, a hinge portion between the first region and the second region, and configured to connect the first region and the second region such that the first region and the second region are folded or unfolded, a first connector at one end of the first region opposite to the hinge portion and a second connector at one end of the second region opposite to the hinge portion.
US12287365B2	Radio-frequency element group testing system and method The present invention discloses an RF element group testing system and method. The method comprises steps: adding an identification feature to a first RF signal, which is output by one of the plurality of tested RF elements, to generate an identification RF signal; synthesizing the identification RF signal and a second RF signal, which is output by each of the rest of the tested RF elements, to generate a corresponding synthesis signal; resolving the synthesis signal into the identification RF signal and the corresponding second RF signal according to the identification feature; restoring the identification RF signal into the first RF signal; and calculating at least one signal-feature parameter of the first RF signal and the second RF signal.
US12287355B2	Semiconductor testing device, semiconductor testing method, and manufacturing method for semiconductor device A test object includes a first semiconductor element, a first main electrode electrically connected to a positive electrode of the first semiconductor element, a second main electrode electrically connected to a negative electrode of the first semiconductor element, and a first capacitor connected between the first main electrode and the second main electrode. A semiconductor testing device comprises a DC power supply connected between a first probe and a second probe, and a controller. When the first probe is connected to the first main electrode and the second probe is connected to the second main electrode, the controller charges the first capacitor with a DC voltage supplied from a DC power supply, and inputs, to a control electrode of the first semiconductor element, a control signal for turning on the first semiconductor element, after charging the first capacitor.
US12287346B2	Methods for detecting vitamin D metabolites by mass spectrometry Provided are methods of detecting the presence or amount of a vitamin D metabolite in a sample using mass spectrometry. The methods generally directed to ionizing a vitamin D metabolite in a sample and detecting the amount of the ion to determine the presence or amount of the vitamin D metabolite in the sample. Also provided are methods to detect the presence or amount of two or more vitamin D metabolites in a single assay.
US12287344B2	Fret-based method to measure seeding activity of misfolded protein species in biological samples The present invention relates to a method for the quantification of seeding (Δt50) of an amyloidogenic aggregate, methods for assessing the risk for development, predicting the onset or assessing the progression of a polyQ disease, and a method for identifying compounds that inhibit mHTT seeding activity (HSA) in vitro. Further, uses of fluorophore-bearing polyQ proteins, particularly mutant N-terminal huntingtin fragments comprising exon-1 and related soluble protein constructs are provided.
US12287343B2	Quantification of neurofilament light chain in physiological samples The present disclosure relates to immunoassays for NF-L performed on liquid samples derived from physiological fluids such as venous blood to detect the presence or absence of a physiological condition by quantifying one or a combination of NF-L determinations at concentrations indicative of the condition.
US12287342B2	Biomarkers for diagnosing non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) or hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) Embodiments described herein generally relate to technologies for analyzing peptide structures for diagnosing and/or treating a disease state advancing through a disease progression. A non-limiting example of a method relating to the technologies described in the subject application may include receiving peptide structure data corresponding to the biological sample obtained from the subject, identifying a peptide structure profile, and diagnosing a disease state within a disease progression. The example may further include generating a diagnosis output relating to the disease state. In at least some cases, the peptide structure profile may include glycosylated peptides, aglycosylated peptides, or both.
US12287341B2	Assays and methods for targeted treatment of hydrosalpinx A method including detecting a presence of at least one analyte in a sample from a subject wherein the at least one analyte is selected from the group consisting of: mesothelin, Galectin-3-binding protein, Clusterin, Polymeric immunoglobulin receptor, Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin, Leucine-rich alpha-2-glycoprotein, Osteopontin, Alpha-amylase 1, WAP four-disulfide core domain protein 2, Mucin-16, GSTP1, PRDX5, TXN, PRDX6, and SOD1, and determining the subject has hydrosalpinx if the sample comprises an increased level of mesothelin, Galectin-3-binding protein, Clusterin, Polymeric immunoglobulin receptor, Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin, Leucine-rich alpha-2-glycoprotein, Osteopontin, Alpha-amylase 1, WAP four-disulfide core domain protein 2, and/or Mucin-16 relative to a control, and/or a decreased level of GSTP1, PRDX5, TXN, PRDX6, and/or SOD1, relative to the control, is provided herein. The method may further include if the subject is determined to have hydrosalpinx, administering a hydrosalpinx therapy to the subject.
US12287337B2	Autoantibody biomarkers of ovarian cancer The present invention relates to the identification of biological markers of ovarian cancer. Specifically, cancer-associated autoantibodies to ANXA1, ARP3, SAHH, SERPH, ARAP1, OTUB1, ATP1A1, UBA1, and CFAH have been identified in subjects with early stage ovarian cancer. These autoantibodies can be utilised for a range of purposes including methods for detecting ovarian cancer, methods for screening for early stage ovarian cancer, and methods for assessing treatment response as well as disease progression and recurrence. The autoantibodies also represent prognostic markers of ovarian cancer development.
US12287336B2	Protein for rapid, efficient capture of antigens The present disclosure relates to proteins comprising a target-binding domain for detection of a target of interest, methods, compositions and kits thereof.
US12287335B2	Direct affinity measurement of human IgG1 binding multimeric antigens Herein is reported a method for determining the binding affinity of the binding sites of a bivalent full length antibody of the human IgG1 subclass to a homo-multimeric antigen comprising the steps of i) incubating a mixture comprising the antibody and a polypeptide that is derived from lysine-gingipain of Porphyromonas gingivalis at a pH of from pH 7.5 to pH 8.5, in the presence of a reducing agent, at a temperature of from 30° C. to 42° C., for time of from 10 min. to 240 min. to cleave the antibody into Fabs and Fc-region, and ii) determining the binding affinity of the Fabs of the antibody for its antigen using a surface plasmon resonance method by directly applying the incubated reaction mixture obtained in the previous step in the surface plasmon resonance method and therewith determining the binding affinity of the binding sites of the bivalent full length antibody of the human IgG1 subclass.
US12287333B2	Automated solid phase extraction using filter tips Devices and methods for performing pre-analysis sample processing of biological and chemical samples using robotic liquid handlers are disclosed. Methods for solid phase extraction, protein precipitation and filtration of biological and chemical samples using automation and the devices in a rapid and convenient way are described.
US12287332B2	Test cartridges The disclosure provides cartridges that are pre-loaded with reagents for performing antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) and FISH testing. Cartridges of the disclosure include various incubation wells loaded with different antimicrobial agents for differential growth analysis. Imaging wells with species-specific microbial probes, fluorescent tags, magnetic particles and dye-cushion layers allow for tagging and imaging of target microbes for differential growth analysis.
US12287327B2	Method of determining a concentration of an analyte in a bodily fluid A method is disclosed for determining concentration of an analyte in a body fluid with a mobile device having a camera. The camera captures an image of an optical test strip having a test field. The analyte concentration value is determined from color formation of the test field. Provided in the mobile device is a correlation for transforming color formation of the test field into analyte concentration. Also provided in the mobile device is an item of clearance information indicating a level of confidence for the correlation. When the item of clearance information indicates a sufficient level of confidence for the correlation, the mobile device indicates to a user that the capturing of the image does not require using a color reference card. Further disclosed are a method of controlling analytical measurements, a mobile device, a system for controlling analytical measurements and computer programs for performing and/or controlling analytical measurements.
US12287325B2	Identifying desirable T lymphocytes by change in mass responses In certain embodiments methods of identifying T cell receptors that respond to specific target cell antigens are provided, where the methods comprise providing a substrate bearing a plurality of target cells (e.g., mammalian cells); contacting the target cells on the substrate with CD8+ T cells; and using label-free optical imaging to identify an increase in mass of a T-cell and/or a decrease in mass of a target cell, where an increase in mass of a T cell and/or a decrease in mass of a target cell is an indicator that said T cell bears a T cell receptor activated by antigens presented on said target cell.
US12287324B2	Companion diagnostics for NSAIDS and donepezil for treating specific subpopulations of patients suffering from Alzheimer's disease The present invention includes a method for identifying a patient response to treatment for Alzheimer's Disease with a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) or an acetylcholinesterase (AChE) inhibitor drug comprising: obtaining a blood or serum sample from the patient; determining the presence of a proinflammatory endophenotype in the blood or serum sample of the patient; using the proinflammatory endophenotype to detect treatment response (a responder, a stable, a non-responder or an adverse responder); and treating the patient with the NSAID or the AChE inhibitor if the patient is in the responder or the stable treatment response phenotype group; or preventing a treatment with the NSAID or the AChE inhibitor if the patient is a non-responder or an adverse responder.
US12287319B2	Methods and systems for determining platelet concentration Disclosed are a method for determining a platelet concentration of a blood sample, a hematology system and a storage medium. The method for determining a platelet concentration in a blood sample includes: forming a first suspension by mixing a first aliquot of the blood sample with a diluent; forming a second suspension by mixing a second aliquot of the blood sample with a lytic agent and a fluorescent dye to lyse red blood cells and stain white blood cells; measuring DC impedance signals of the first suspension passing through an aperture; measuring light scatter signals and fluorescent signals of the second suspension passing through an optical flow cell; analyzing DC impedance signals of the first suspension to obtain a first platelet distribution; analyzing light scatter signals and fluorescent signals of the second suspension to differentiate platelets from white blood cells and to obtain a second platelet distribution; and determining platelet data, such as the platelet concentration of the blood sample using the first and second platelet distributions.
US12287316B2	Water sampling immersion probe The present invention relates to a water sampling immersion probe (50) for continuously filtering a water sample from wastewater (14). The water sampling immersion probe (50) includes a distal coarse filter (60) with a porosity of 0.1 to 1.0 mm, a proximal fine filter (70) arranged downstream of the coarse filter (60) and having a porosity of less than 5.0 μm, and a sample suction opening (74) arranged downstream of the fine filter (70). The coarse filter (60) is arranged to not contact the fine filter (70).
US12287315B2	Rapid reliable detection of pathogens in fresh foods Provided are methods for rapid detection of microbial contaminants in fresh foods, involving obtaining a product sample (preferably at or near the time of harvest of the product), applying, prior to any chilling of the sample or the product, an amount of a enrichment medium sufficient to cover the sample surfaces to provide a non-chilled sample for incubation, incubating the non-chilled sample for a time period and at a temperature sufficient to allow for amplification and enrichment of a non-cold-shocked target microbe, followed by recovering all or a portion of the enrichment media, concentrating the target microbes from the recovered enrichment medium, and detecting the concentrated target microbes.
US12287313B1	Single lap shear test sample mold A mold is configured to make several identical single lap shear test samples according standards at one time. The mold can be made from aluminum and cast pieces of silicone rubber. The mold's shorter sides have slots designed to hold rigid substrates. The rigid substrates are inserted into the slots after the area to be bonded has been coated with adhesive. The opposing slots for each sample are offset so that the substrates overlap by the prescribed amount in the standard in the center of the mold. Spacer pieces are provided between the substrates. The slots and spacer pieces hold the substrates rigidly together to ensure a thin adhesive bondline between the two rigid substrates.
US12287311B2	Synchronous and dynamic loading method in electro-magneto-thermo-mechanical multi-field coupling conditions Disclosed is a synchronous and dynamic loading method in electro-magneto-thermo-mechanical multi-field coupling conditions. The method comprises the following steps: applying maximum pulse current to a test object by a pulse power supply to realize loading in extreme electric field and magnetic field conditions; meanwhile, generating a large amount of friction heat by the high-speed rotation of a rotating body and the friction of the test object to realize loading in an extreme-temperature field combined with a large amount of Joule heat and arc heat; synchronously applying pressure to the rotating body by a pressure device to realize loading of extreme force combined with the gravity of the rotating body and the friction force between the rotating body and the test object.
US12287310B2	Method for classifying a package A method of classifying a package based on stiffness of the package, wherein the package includes carton and is filled with food product, the method including applying a force on the package, retrieving a sample value by measuring a deformation of the package caused by the force, determining a difference between the sample value and a reference value, and classifying the package as belonging to a first category if the difference is within a threshold interval, otherwise classifying the package as belonging to a second category.
US12287308B2	Meldrum's acid activated furan (MAF) mass spectrometry compatible staining agent for proteins in polyacrylamide gels A method for visualizing a macromolecule fragment pattern resulting from gel electrophoresis has steps for preparing a polyacrylamide gel in an electrophoresis apparatus, treating the polyacrylamide gel with Meldrum's acid Activated Furan (MAF) dissolved in a suitable solvent, loading a protein sample to a prepared position in the gel, and resolving the protein sample by applying an electrical potential across the gel for a period of time, separating molecular fragments of the protein into the fragment pattern in the gel. The method is characterized in that the MAF stains the molecular fragments in a manner to be discernible by human vision and by conventional analysis techniques.
US12287307B2	Devices incorporating multilane flow cell A sensor device includes a substrate having a die attached to the substrate. The die includes an array of sensors and an array of wells cooperatively disposed over the array of sensors. The array of wells is exposed by the substrate. The sensor device further includes a flow cell secured to the substrate and defining a flow space disposed over the die and accessible to the array of wells. The flow cell defines a plurality of separate volumes. Each separate volume of the plurality of separate volumes has an inlet and an outlet. The plurality of separate volumes are separated by dividers. The dividers cover a set of wells of the array of wells.
US12287306B2	System and method for determining an ambient concentration of compositions for bathroom cleaning A system for determining an ambient concentration of compositions for bathroom cleaning comprises a processor operable to receive a concentration measurement from a sensor over a network within a first period of time. The processor is operable to compare the received concentration measurement to a first threshold and to a second threshold greater than the first threshold. The processor is operable to instruct a memory communicatively coupled to the processor to store an indication that a bathroom was cleaned in response to a determination that the received concentration measurement is greater than the first threshold and less than the second threshold. The processor is operable to send an alert for display on a user device indicating either that the sensor has been tampered or that a spill event has occurred in response to a determination that the received concentration measurement is greater than the second threshold.
US12287304B2	Flexible pH sensor and detection system Disclosed are a flexible pH sensor and detection system, belonging to the technical field of sensors. A material that does not react with electrolyte is mixed with metals to print an anode substrate, and one-step synthesis of a metal ions doped polyaniline composite material is realized through an electrochemical method. The doping amount of metal ions in polyaniline is changed by controlling metal content; due to addition of the metals, the conductivity of the anode substrate is improved, which is conducive to the deposition of polyaniline; such one-step method for preparing the polyaniline composite material is simpler, low in cost, and pollution-free; and compared with pure polyaniline, the sensitivity is further improved. According to the solution, this material is applied to the pH sensor for the first time, achieving a wide pH detection range (2-12) and high bending stability.
US12287302B2	Method and measuring device for measuring objects by means of x-ray fluorescence A measurement object is placed on a region of a measuring table, and an overview image of the region of the measuring table is captured by an optical device. A type of the measurement object is determined from the overview image or from an identifier on the measurement object or an identifier positioned adjacently thereto. The position and/or the alignment of the measurement object on the measurement table is determined from the overview image. At least one measurement location of the measurement object is positioned in a measurement point of an X-ray fluorescence device and at least one measured value is determined from the at least one measurement location of the measurement object. The at least one measured value is compared with a setpoint value stored in a data processing device and a measurement result for the at least one measurement location of the measurement object is output.
US12287300B2	Device and method for analyzing diffraction pattern of mixture, and information storage medium A device for analyzing a diffraction pattern of a mixture uses a fitting pattern including a term related to a known target pattern, which indicates a target component and which is changeable in shape with use of a shape parameter, and a term related to an unknown pattern, which indicates a residual group. The fitting pattern is fitted to an observed pattern with a given value assigned to the shape parameter and with the unknown pattern set to an initial pattern. The unknown pattern is then changed, to thereby fit the fitting pattern to the observed pattern. The fitting described above is executed with use of a plurality of shape parameters each of which is the shape parameter, and a calculation result related to one of the plurality of shape parameters is selected.
US12287299B2	Single piece droplet generation and injection device for serial crystallography A single-piece hybrid droplet generator and nozzle component for serial crystallography. The single-piece hybrid droplet generator component including an internally-formed droplet-generation channel, an internally-formed sample channel, a nozzle, and a pair of electrode chambers. The droplet-generation channel extends from a first fluid inlet opening to the nozzle. The sample channel extends from a second fluid inlet opening to the droplet-generation channel and joins the droplet-generation channel at a junction. The nozzle is configured to eject a stream of segmented aqueous droplets in a carrier fluid from the droplet-generation channel through a nozzle opening of the single-piece component. The pair of electrode chambers are positioned adjacent to the droplet-generation channel near the junction between the droplet-generation channel and the sample channel. The timing of sample droplets in the stream of fluid ejected through the nozzle is controlled by applying a triggering signal to electrodes positioned in the electrode chambers of the single-piece component.
US12287294B2	Preparation method of nanoscaled dye@ZIF-8-based colorimetric sensor and application thereof in food quality evaluation A method of preparing a nanoscaled dye@ZIF-8-based colorimetric sensor is provided, in which a ZIF-8 nanomaterial is first prepared from Zn(CH3COO)2 and the 2-methylimidazole, and then the ZIF-8 nanomaterial is dispersed with ethanol and mixed with a colorimetric solution. The resultant mixed solution is added with polyethylene glycol-300 and applied to a substrate to obtain the nanoscaled dye@ZIF-8-based colorimetric sensor. This application further provides an evaluation method using the nanoscaled dye@ZIF-8-based colorimetric sensor, in which a back propagation neural network is established as the food quality evaluation model to evaluate the food quality.
US12287289B2	Raman analysis of pharmaceutical dosage forms Methods and apparatus (10) for Raman spectral analysis of a sample (12), such as a pharmaceutical dosage form, are disclosed. Delivery optics (16) are used to deliver probe light to a delivery region (13) on the sample, and collection optics (20) are used to collect, from a collection region (17) on the sample spaced from the delivery region, the probe light following scattering through the sample. Each of a plurality of target Raman spectral features are measured in the collected light, and a spectral distortion of the collected light arising during scattering through the sample is determined. A property of the sample is then quantified using the target Raman spectral features in combination with the determined spectral distortion, such that the quantified property is compensated for the spectral distortion.
US12287286B2	Inspection device An inspection device includes: a light source for outputting pulsed excitation light with a time width of 10 picoseconds to 10 nanoseconds; a nonlinear optical crystal for generating a terahertz wave by optical wavelength conversion of the pulsed excitation light; a polarization part for reflecting at least a part of a reflected wave of the terahertz wave reflected by an inspection target; and a detector for detecting the reflected wave reflected by the polarization part.
US12287282B2	Method for recalibrating an electronic nose A method for recalibrating an electronic nose includes successively injecting, into a measurement chamber, reference gases that do not contain target compounds and that have various values of relative humidity. A measurement signal is determined in the course of each injection. Then, for each reference gas, a baseline is determined, which baseline is representative of the determined measurement signal. The baseline is also associated with the relative humidity of the reference gas present. A second correction function is determined on the basis of the determined baselines and of the predetermined values of relative humidity. The second correction function is then stored in a processing unit instead of a first correction function.
US12287281B2	System for locating a woven preform tracer A system for locating a strand including fibers of a first woven preform material, the preform including, at the surface, strands of fibers of a second material and the strand including fibers of the first material forming a tracer. The system further includes a camera; a light source emitting a non-polarized incident beam configured to be directed towards the preform; a polarizer configured to polarize the non-polarized incident beam before interacting with the preform in order to obtain a polarized incident beam; and a crossed analyzer; the first material being chosen from among glass, aramid and aluminum oxide; the second material being chosen from among carbon and silicon carbide; the camera being configured to film a reflected beam originating from the interaction of the polarized incident beam with the preform, the reflected beam having previously crossed the crossed analyzer, so as to locate the tracer of the preform.
US12287277B2	Information processing apparatus, particle measuring apparatus, particle measuring system, particle dispensing apparatus, particle dispensing system, information processing method, and information processing program The present technology is to provide technology for appropriately visualizing a population of particles in particle analysis technology.There is provided an information processing apparatus including an information processing unit that receives optical data obtained from particles, and calculates a parameter that specifies a display method of the optical data in a display range having at least one axis including a linear axis and a logarithmic axis on the basis of the received optical data, in which the parameter includes a first parameter that specifies a range of the linear axis and a second parameter that specifies a lower limit value of the display range, and the first parameter and the second parameter are calculated on the basis of different reference values.
US12287275B2	Information processing apparatus, particle sorting system, program, and particle sorting method To provide an information processing apparatus, a particle sorting system, a program, and a particle sorting method that practice a spectral type analysis usable for sorting particles. The information processing apparatus according to an aspect of the present technology includes: an analysis unit; a learning unit; and a discrimination unit. The analysis unit calculates fluorophore information indicating respective amounts of luminescence of a plurality of types of fluorophores on the basis of detection data indicating amounts of luminescence of fluorescence at respective wavelength bands, the fluorescence having been emitted from a particle irradiated with excitation light, discriminates whether or not to treat the particle as a process target in accordance with the fluorophore information, and generates teaching data by associating a result of the discrimination with the detection data. The learning unit applies a machine learning algorithm to the teaching data, learns a characteristic of the detection data discriminated as the process target, and generates dictionary data including a result of the learning. The discrimination unit discriminates whether or not the particle whose detection data has been acquired is the process target on the basis of the dictionary data when the detection data is supplied.
US12287273B2	Method for optimising the concentration of elements of interest for visual measurement on a biological sample The invention relates to a method for imaging a body fluid sample for visual measurements relating to leukocytes, which comprises: —obtaining a measured concentration (WIC) of leukocytes in the sample; —diluting (330) a test solution obtained from the sample, with a dilution ratio (D) determined in accordance with the measured concentration of leukocytes in the sample, so as to obtain an optimum concentration of leukocytes; —rotating (400) the optical chamber containing the test solution by a centrifugation unit, so as to align the leukocytes of the test solution on an optical plane, wherein the optimum concentration of leukocytes for the test solution corresponds to a target surface density of between 20 and 1000 leukocytes per square millimetre on the optical plane; and—imaging (500) the test solution.
US12287266B2	Particulate matter imaging, identification, and analysis systems and methods Imaging systems and methods for capturing an image of a subject. The imaging system includes an imaging device that captures images of the subject, a focus mechanism for changing a focal length of the imaging device, and a controller that processes images captured by the imaging device. The imaging device captures a plurality of images of the subject at each of a plurality of focal lengths. The controller generates a sharpness map for each of the plurality of images of the subject at each of the plurality of focal lengths and a composite image of the subject by blending together the plurality of images at each of the plurality of focal lengths into a single image based on the sharpness maps.
US12287264B2	Modular assay support devices A substrate holder includes a base configured to receive a substrate; a cover configured to mateably engage with the base, the cover defining an opening formed by inner sidewalls; and a removable insert defining a surface, the removable insert being configured to be received within the opening of the cover. The removable insert includes a gasket; a projection coupled to the gasket; and at least two insert tabs extending from opposite sides of the removable insert, each insert tab being configured to engage with at least one of the inner sidewalls forming the opening of the cover.
US12287263B2	Sample purification apparatus and analysis system A sample purification apparatus includes a container for separating, with a heavy solution, a mixed sample based on a specific gravity difference and a collector that collects a component in the mixed sample lighter in specific gravity than the heavy solution by receiving a supernatant flowed out from the container. The container includes a flow-out port provided in an uppermost portion of the container and a flow-out path that guides the supernatant flowed out through the flow-out port to the collector. the container has a horizontal cross-sectional area which gradually decreases upward starting from a prescribed height of the container to a height where the flow-out port is located.
US12287262B2	Device and method of staining an organic material on a slide Disclosed is a device (10) for staining an organic element on at least one slide (105), said slide defining an axis (110) contained within the plane of the slide, the device being characterized in that it comprises: at least one slide support on which is positioned the slide holding the organic element, at least one means (115) for spreading a staining fluid and/or a rinsing fluid on the slide, which means is paired with a means for relative displacement in translation in relation to the slide and along the axis of said slide, the spreading means having a linear element (120) extending along an axis perpendicular to the axis of the slide and supplied with spreading fluid, and at least one suction means (115) for suctioning the staining fluid and/or the rinsing fluid, said suction means being paired with a means for relative displacement in translation in relation to the slide along the axis of said slide.
US12287261B2	Measurement of a dynamic system A method for performing measurements includes providing relative movement between a receptacle and a cover over a measurement interval comprising multiple non-overlapping time periods. A distance between the receptacle and the cover changes along a first axis over at least a portion of each time period. An apparatus for performing measurements includes a receptacle comprising a substrate and a plurality of wells within the substrate, and a cover. The cover includes: (1) a device configured to engage with the receptacle, (2) a control subsystem configured to provide relative movement between the receptacle and the cover, and (3) a measurement subsystem.
US12287259B2	Tissue sectioning system The disclosure provides a tissue sectioning system for direct coupling with a microscope. The tissue sectioning system includes a frame having a blade module, a container containing a solution system, and a movable arm. Specifically, the blade module is used to slice a sample. The solution system in the container includes at least two solutions, which are the first and second solutions. Further, a refractive index of the first and second solutions is identical, and the first and second solution is immiscible with each other. The first moveable arm has two ends, which are the first end and second ends. The first and second ends connect to the container and the frame, respectively. Additionally, the first moveable arm moves the container along the Z-axis.
US12287257B2	Load estimation apparatus, load estimation method, and program A load estimation apparatus includes: an acceleration sensor attached to at least one of a bogie body supporting wheels or a vehicle body attached to the bogie body and configured to measure a first acceleration; and a control unit configured to estimate a load which is applied to the bogie body on the basis of load information which is acquired in advance and in which an acceleration and a load are correlated and the first acceleration.
US12287256B2	Vibrational alarms facilitated by determination of motor on-off state in variable-duty multi-motor machines Apparatus and associated methods relate to a vibrational sensing system (VSS) including an accelerometer and a data processor, which determines an “operational state” of a mechanical drive unit, the processor further employing the “operational state” to gate learning of long-term vibrational data to exclude collection of non-operational data, the long-term data collected to calculate alarm thresholds. For example, vibrations from a target motor are sensed by a coupled accelerometer. Vibrational data from the accelerometer is fed into a data processor which determines the operational state of the motor. The operational state (e.g., on/off indication) may gate data collection such that data is only acquired during on-time, which may advantageously create accurate baselines from which alarm thresholds may be generated, and nuisance alarms may be avoided.
US12287252B2	Multi-element sensor for monitoring composite structure Disclosed is a sensor for monitoring a composite structure. The sensor includes multiple sensing elements of different sizes, each configured for different respective monitoring tasks. Also disclosed are methods of fabricating the sensor, designing and manufacturing the sensor, and attaching the sensor to the composite structure.
US12287251B1	Method and device for testing stress of high-temperature component of power plant boiler The present invention belongs to the technical field of stress detection and provides a method and device for testing stress of a high-temperature component of a power plant boiler. The adjusting assembly includes a plurality of bearing blocks, each bearing block is provided with an accommodating groove vertically, limiting blocks are disposed at two ends of the accommodating groove symmetrically, an elastic member, a first connecting rod, and a second connecting rod are disposed in the accommodating groove, and a limiting plate is fixedly connected to one end of each of the first connecting rod and the second connecting rod. According to the present invention, lengths of the first connecting rod and the second connecting rod extending out of the accommodating groove are adjusted, so that the device can be adjusted according to a caliber of a pipeline of the power plant boiler.
US12287248B2	Piezoelectric sensor and robot hand A piezoelectric sensor includes an elastic body, a piezoelectric element which is disposed at a position where the piezoelectric element has contact with the elastic body, and which is configured to output a voltage signal when deforming in accordance with a deformation of the elastic body, and a detector configured to detect the voltage signal output from the piezoelectric element, wherein the detector detects kinetic frictional force generated between the object and the elastic body based on a variation in the voltage signal due to the relative movement of the object to the elastic body.
US12287245B2	Time-temperature indicator The present invention relates to a visual time-temperature indicator which comprises a first and a second element each comprising a hydrogel, wherein said first element further comprises at least one alkalinizing agent, and said second element comprising further at least one food colouring.
US12287242B2	Readout circuit of infrared focal plane array and control method therefor A readout circuit of infrared focal plane array (FPA) and a control method therefor. The readout circuit is connected to an infrared FPA, which comprises a plurality of pixels. The readout circuit comprises an integral and readout unit, a correction unit and a digital control unit. For each pixel, the correction unit determines an initial bias value based on a to-be-corrected parameter value for the pixel; the integral and readout unit determines, based on a first current corresponding to the initial bias value and a second current caused a pixel response temperature value, a responsive voltage value for the pixel; and the digital control unit adjusts, based on a comparison result between the responsive voltage value and a preset voltage value, the to-be-corrected parameter value for the pixel, to obtain an adjusted parameter value, and determines, based on the adjusted parameter value, an optimal corrected parameter value for the pixel.
US12287240B2	Device and method for spectral imaging A spectral imaging device includes an imager, a scanning stage to establish relative motion between the imager and a sample in a scanning direction and an optical system controlling a light characteristic of a light beam constituting an image of the sample to the imager. The optical system includes a light varying element to receive the light beam and provide an output light beam with spatially varying light characteristic over a cross-section thereof. A set of redirecting optical elements direct light rays from the sample to form the light beam, and to focus the output light beam onto the imager. A controller controls the scanning stage and the imager to capture a plurality of image frames with an overlap including a defined shift that is greater than 1 pixel along the scanning direction between consecutive image frames. A computing device consolidates image data to provide an image of the sample.
US12287238B2	Automated light testing apparatus and method An automated light testing apparatus including: a test platform including one or more recesses configured to secure a light product, each recess configured to fit a main light of the light product; a light sensor built in each of the one or more recesses, each light sensor configured to detect light from the respective main light held by the recess; a horizontal beam parallel to a surface of the test plat form; a test arm movably attached to the horizontal beam, the test arm controlled by one or more motors and configured to be moved into a plurality of positions when testing the light product; and a controller configured to set one or more parameters of the testing apparatus and transmit control signals to the light sensor and test arm.
US12287231B2	Measurement system There is provided a method of measuring liquid volume in a sealed container of a breast pump of known volume comprising liquid and gas. The method includes a measurement phase, measuring the volume of gas in the container by changing a first parameter of the gas by a known amount. The method also includes measuring a change in a second parameter of the gas; calculating the volume of gas in the container using the measured change and a predetermined operation equation; and determining the volume of liquid in the container based on the calculation.
US12287230B2	Coriolis flowmeter with multiple flow tubes In some embodiments, the disclosure provide a Coriolis flowmeter with multiple flow tubes, including a flow sensor and a flow transmitter is provided. The flow sensor includes a sensor housing, a sleeve, and two symmetrical flanges. A sensor assembly is arranged in the sensor housing, and the sensor assembly includes at least two flow tube groups, each flow tube group includes at least two flow tubes. Two flow tubes with the same size and geometry in different groups form a flow tube pair. At least two flow tube pairs are provided by at least two flow tube groups, each flow tube pair is fixedly connected together by at least one pair of node plates, a measurement area of the flow tubes is between an innermost pair of node plates, and each flow tube group is connected to a driver and a detector.
US12287229B2	Volume flowmeter and method for determining a volumetric flow rate An aspect of the present invention pertains to a method for determining the volumetric flow rate of a compressible fluid flow flowing through a volume flowmeter having a flow inlet, a wheel downstream of the flow inlet and a constriction downstream of the flow inlet and upstream of the wheel, the compressible fluid flowing through the flow inlet and actuating the wheel. The method comprises measuring the rotational speed of the wheel and determining the permanent pressure loss across the wheel based on the measured rotational speed. The method further comprises measuring the fluid pressure of the compressible fluid flow at the flow inlet and determining whether the compressible fluid flow in the volume flowmeter is in the subsonic or in the supersonic regime based on the determined permanent pressure loss and the measured fluid pressure. The method also comprises measuring the fluid temperature of the compressible fluid flow at the flow inlet and determining the volumetric flow rate of the compressible fluid flow based on the determined permanent pressure loss, the measured fluid pressure, the regime of the compressible fluid flow and the measured fluid temperature. Other aspects of the present invention pertain to volume flowmeter for determining the volumetric flow rate of a compressible fluid flow, a data processing device for controlling a volume flowmeter, a computer program for the controller and a computer-readable medium having stored thereon the computer program.
US12287226B2	Rotation detection device, medium transport device, and recording device A pulley serving as a rotary body and a scale configured to rotate integrally with the pulley are attached to an end portion of the pulley serving as the rotary body in a thrust direction, a detection unit is configured to detect rotation of the pulley serving as the rotary body by reading a reading region of the scale. An absorber capable of absorbing liquid is attached to a surface of the scale on which a reading region is present, and when liquid adheres to the scale, the absorber absorbs the liquid.
US12287225B2	Method, apparatus, and computer program product for lane geometry generation based on graph estimation A method is provided for automatically creating road and lane geometry from images representing probe data within a geographical area using graph estimation. Methods may include: receiving a rasterized image representative of map geometry within a geographic area, where each pixel of the rasterized image includes a property representing at least one feature of the map geometry; identifying pixels within the rasterized image corresponding to nodes of one or more map elements as node pixels; determining, for a respective node pixel, presence of a next node based on the at least one property of the respective node pixel; determining for the respective node pixel, a location corresponding to the next node based on the at least one property of the respective node pixel; generating, from a sequence of node pixels, at least one map element; and updating a map in a map database with the at least one map element.
US12287224B2	Vehicle operation zone detection This disclosure relates to a vehicle apparatus, and related vehicle control method, the vehicle apparatus including a memory to store zone map data representing one or more operation zones, a sensor of the vehicle fetching vehicle location data from one or more location beacons; and a controller, in communication with the sensor, analyzing the vehicle location data and comparing the present location against locations in the stored zone map data stored in the memory, wherein when the controller determines that the vehicle is entering one of the one or more operation zones, the controller adjusts an operating parameter of the vehicle based upon one or more operation rules associated with the operation zone that the vehicle is entering.
US12287215B2	Wear mitigation routing platform A method for assessing driving routes to mitigate wear on a vehicle may include determining a driving route traversed by a vehicle, the driving route including an origin and a destination. The method may include receiving signals generated by a number of sensors built into specific locations on the vehicle, the sensors including at least one vibration sensor. The method may include assessing wear on the vehicle due to one or more wear mechanisms based on the signals. The method may include identifying a correlation between the driving route and the assessed wear on the vehicle, transmitting information associated with the correlation between the driving route and the assessed wear on the vehicle, receiving a routing recommendation based on information about an alternate route, and displaying the routing recommendation.
US12287214B2	Information processing device, information processing method and information processing system An information processing device includes a control unit that executes: acquiring a first route based on a communication speed; and creating a first plan for a first vehicle, the first plan being a plan about execution of download of first data during traveling along the first route. The control unit acquires the first route between two predetermined spots, based on a first map indicating a distribution of a communication speed of a first communication carrier that is employed in the first vehicle. The control unit acquires a route for which it is predicted that a time spent on the download of the first data is shortest.
US12287212B2	User preview of the interior Provided herein is a system on a vehicle, the system comprising one or more sensors, one or more processors, and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, causes the system to perform: receiving one or more ride requests for ridesharing from one or more users; receiving respective preferences from each of the one or more users; selecting a ride request of a user from the one or more ride requests based on the respective preferences; notifying the user of the selecting of the ride request; sending at least one of the images or videos of the interior of the vehicle to the user; in response to the sending, determining whether the user confirms the ride request; and in response to determining that the user confirms the ride request, selecting a route to the user and driving, according to the route, to the user.
US12287205B2	Three-axis MEMS gyroscope A three-axis MEMS gyroscope includes a substrate, a sensing unit connected with the substrate, and a driving unit driving the sensing unit to move. The substrate includes anchor point structures and coupling structures connected with the anchor point structures. The driving unit includes driving pieces. One ends of each of the driving pieces are elastically connected with an adjacent coupling structure. The sensing unit includes X and Y mass blocks and Z mass blocks. Each of the X and Y mass blocks is arranged in a corresponding avoiding space. The X and Y mass blocks are respectively connected with adjacent coupling structures to form a rectangular frame. The Z mass blocks are connected with the driving pieces and separately arranged on one side of each driving piece away from each anchor point structure. The three-axis MEMS gyroscope is differentially driven, which realizes differential detection and reduces quadrature error.
US12287204B2	Double-lever coupling A microelectromechanical resonator is provided with two proof masses that are coupled with an anti-phase coupling structure that includes a seesaw lever and a force-displacement lever. Moreover, a joint extends from the seesaw lever to the force-displacement lever and a mass connection element extends from each proof masse to the adjacent lever.
US12287202B2	Vibrating-type gyroscope element and angular velocity sensor comprising same A vibrating-type gyroscope element includes a fixed part, a resonator having a cos Nθ (N is a natural number of two or more) mode of vibration, support parts, and electrodes. The electrodes are arranged in 4N orientations arranged in an outer circumferential direction of the resonator. The electrodes include a primary driving electrode, a primary pickoff electrode, a secondary pickoff electrode, and a secondary driving electrode. The primary pickoff electrode is arranged in the same orientation as that of the primary driving electrode, and the secondary driving electrode is arranged in the same orientation as that of the secondary pickoff electrode.
US12287196B2	Scanning element and inductive position measuring device having this scanning element A scanning element, for measuring a position along a measuring direction, includes a multilayer printed circuit board. The printed circuit board has a first receiver track that includes a first receiver circuit trace. The printed circuit board also has a connecting line that includes a first conductor trace and a second conductor trace, the connecting line crossing the first receiver track. In at least one first section of the connecting line, the first conductor trace is arranged offset to the second conductor trace in the positive measuring direction, and, in at least one second section of the connecting line, the second conductor trace is arranged offset to the first conductor trace in the positive measuring direction.
US12287195B2	Coater cup deformation testing device and method of coater cup deformation testing A coater cup deformation testing device includes a supporting board, a first plate and a second plate. The first plate is located on a first side surface of the supporting board. The first plate is circular and has a first diameter. The second plate is located on the first plate or on a second side surface of the supporting board. The second side surface is opposite to the first side surface. The second plate is circular and has a second diameter less than the first diameter. An area of each of the first and second plates is less than an area of the supporting board. A projection of each of the first and second plates on the supporting board is formed within the supporting board.
US12287188B2	Information processing apparatus and information processing method Provided is an information processing apparatus that includes an estimation unit and a correction unit. The estimation unit estimates a motion vector of a distance measurement target based on distance information on a distance to the distance measurement target input from a distance measuring device that measures the distance to the distance measurement target and motion information of the distance measuring device input from a motion detection device that detects a motion of the distance measuring device. The correction unit corrects the distance information based on the motion vector of the distance measurement target estimated by the estimation unit.
US12287184B2	Ammunition cartridge casing An ammunition cartridge casing is provided having a primer body and a casing body. The primer body has an inner primer portion and an outer primer portion configured to nest in conformance with an outer surface of the inner primer portion. The outer surface of the inner primer portion provides a circumferential trench having a radially outwardly extending circumferential wall portion contiguous with an axially extending circumferential wall portion. The casing body has a distal end portion and a proximal end portion. The proximal end portion of the casing body is interposed between the inner primer portion and the outer primer portion within the trench having an interlocked axially extending circumferential portion and an interlocked radially outwardly extending disc portion of the casing body entrapped between the inner primer portion and the outer primer portion. A method is also provided.
US12287172B2	Composite case having retaining bag including bead refill mechanism A protective carrying case for a firearm is disclosed, wherein the protective carrying case includes a top component, a bottom component, and semi-hexagonal ends, wherein the top component and the bottom component are constructed from carbon fiber. The protective carrying case additionally includes a retaining element with vacuum split functionality to retain elements within the case.
US12287169B2	Installation provided with linkless ammunition loading system The installation includes a traversing portion configured to be rotatably mounted and supported on a stationary support structure, to rotate about a traversing axis. An elevating portion is rotatably supported by the traversing portion about an elevating axis perpendicular to the traversing axis. A firearm assembly supported by the elevating portion has a barrel configured to fire linkless ammunitions through firearm assembly. A magazine is configured to contain a plurality of linkless ammunitions to be fed to the barrel. A feeding assembly is configured to transfer the linkless ammunitions from the magazine to the barrel. The magazine is carried by the traversing portion and is operatively integral therewith. The feeding assembly is carried by the elevating portion and is operatively integral therewith. A transfer device mounted on the traversing portion is configured to transfer the linkless ammunitions (A) from the magazine to the feeding assembly.
US12287168B2	Muzzle flash simulator A muzzle flash simulator for use in an airsoft gun, comprising an internal passage, a detector, a controller, and multiple illuminating components. In response to a projectile passing through and away from the internal passage, the simulator will be triggered and flash multi-color lights on a projectile passage in front of the simulator. When each color light is illuminated on the moving projectile at a specific intensity at specified time periods, because of an afterimage phenomenon of the human eye, the surface of the moving projectile reflects the corresponding color and leaves a multi-layered light-trail accordingly.
US12287166B2	Methods for increasing the number of countermeasure expendables for dispensing systems Various systems and methods for leveraging legacy countermeasure dispensing systems (CMDSs). The legacy CMDSs are leveraged through the expansion of breechplates and magazines in a CMDS by expanding the amount of expendables carried by a CMDS while still maintaining the legacy sequencer and dispenser in a legacy military platform, such as an aircraft. In addition, various circuitry systems are included in a circuit card of the breechplate for duplicating and/or expanding the firing lines provided in a legacy CMDS.
US12287158B2	Heat exchanger and method for manufacturing same A heat exchanger includes a partition wall that separates two fluids having different temperatures. The partition wall includes a side circumferential portion, and a bottom portion configured to close an opening on one side of the side circumferential portion. Fins are formed on an outer surface of the partition wall, and arranged side by side in a circumferential direction around a center of a cylinder of the side circumferential portion. Each of the fins includes a base portion connected to an outer surface of the bottom portion. Plate-shaped members are provided between the base portions of the fins adjacent in the circumferential direction, and fixed to the outer surface of the bottom portion. The partition wall and the plurality of fins are integrally molded of a same material. The plate-shaped members are formed of a different material of higher emissivity or heat resistance than the material of the fins.
US12287153B2	Thermal energy storage system for increasing efficiency of continuous cold water supply device for data center server A thermal energy storage system includes: a thermal energy storage having an upper space for storing hot water and having a lower space for storing cold water, in which the hot water and the cold water are stratified; an upper diffuser located in the upper space; and a lower diffuser located in the lower space, wherein the thermal energy storage includes: a body having a cylindrical shape and having a central axis arranged parallel to a ground; a first dome part having a dome shape and configured to seal open one side of the body; a second dome part having a dome shape and configured to seal an open opposite side of the body; and a plurality of separation plates spaced apart from each other in a vertical direction within the body.
US12287152B2	Heat pipe, heat exchange device, and method for manufacturing heat pipe A heat pipe including: a heat receiving chamber; a heat dissipation chamber; a tubular connecting pipe; and wicks. Each of the heat receiving chamber and the heat dissipation chamber has, when viewed from a first direction, a greater width in a second direction than a width of the connecting pipe in the second direction. The wicks are formed side by side at least in the second direction. The wicks are formed in a groove shape on inner wall surfaces of the heat receiving chamber, the heat dissipation chamber, and the connecting pipe. At least one of the wicks has a bent portion on the heat receiving chamber side, which is bent in the second direction in the heat receiving chamber and the heat dissipation chamber. The heat receiving chamber, the heat dissipation chamber, the connecting pipe. The wicks are integrally formed by laminating and shaping using a metal powder.
US12287151B2	Thermal plate having a fluid channel An example apparatus is for contacting a device to change a temperature of the device. The apparatus includes a plate configured to contact the device and a channel within the plate configured to enable flow of fluid between an input port and an output port. The plate includes a thermally conductive material to conduct heat between the device and the fluid. The channel includes multiple islands arranged in series. An island among the multiple islands is arranged to receive the fluid at a first side. The island is for splitting the fluid into a first flow and a second flow and for causing the first flow and the second flow to merge at a second side of the island that is downstream of the first side of the island.
US12287139B1	Rechargeable thermal battery systems for use in transporting or storing perishable items An apparatus includes a cargo area with a heat exchanger; a thermal battery system having a phase change material (PCM) with first and second heat exchangers embedded in the PCM; fluid conduits defining fluid passageways interconnecting the cargo area heat exchanger and the first PCM-embedded heat exchanger; and a pump creating a fluid flow through the fluid conduits between the cargo area heat exchanger and the first PCM-embedded heat exchanger. The apparatus also includes external ports configured for connecting to an external charging source for charging the PCM; and fluid conduits defining fluid passageways interconnecting the external ports and the second PCM-embedded heat exchanger. The first PCM-embedded heat exchanger, pump, and cargo area heat exchanger form part of a first closed-loop circuit for transferring heat between the cargo area and the thermal battery system. The second PCM-embedded heat exchanger and external ports do not part of the first closed-loop circuit.
US12287137B2	Snow making apparatus A snow making apparatus includes: a snow making container having an inner space for snow making; a supply unit configured to supply fine snow or fine water droplets to the inner space; a catching unit configured to catch the fine snow or the fine snow formed of the water droplets; and a drive unit configured to move the catching unit toward a place where the fine snow is flying in the inner space. The catching unit is configured to be shaken thereby making snow caught by the catching unit fall off from the catching unit.
US12287135B2	Ice maker and refrigerator An ice maker of the present embodiment comprises: an upper tray including an upper tray body defining an upper chamber that is a portion of an ice chamber for generating ice; and a lower tray rotated relative to the upper tray based on a rotational center, and including a lower tray body defining a lower chamber that is another portion of the ice chamber, wherein a top surface of the lower tray body can contact a bottom surface of the upper tray body, the rotational center is disposed outside of the upper chamber and the lower chamber, the bottom surface of the upper tray body includes a first surface and a second surface disposed farther from the rotational center than the first surface, and before the top surface of the lower tray body contacts the bottom surface of the upper tray body, the second surface is lower than the first surface.
US12287134B2	Method of operating a BLDC motor in an ice making appliance An icemaker includes a casing that receives water from a water supply and is in thermal communication with an evaporator of a sealed system that chills the casing to freeze the water. An auger is mounted within the interior volume and is rotatable to scrape the ice from the casing and urge it through an extruder to form nugget ice. A BLDC motor is mechanically coupled to the auger to selectively rotate the auger. A controller determines a target speed of the auger based at least in part on the ice production parameter, and operates the BLDC motor to rotate the auger at the target speed. The BLDC motor with the speed-closed control loop can provide the constant speed and enough torque to prevent the ice maker from freezing. The controller can adjust the PWM and the voltage will be adjusted slightly, then the torque will be adjusted accordingly.
US12287129B2	Method for exchanging heat in vapor compression heat transfer systems and vapor compression heat transfer systems comprising intermediate heat exchangers with dual-row evaporators or condensers A multi-step method is disclosed for exchanging heat in a vapor compression heat transfer system having a working fluid circulating therethrough. The method includes the step of circulating a working fluid comprising a fluoroolefin to an inlet of a first tube of an internal heat exchanger, through the internal heat exchanger and to an outlet thereof. Also disclosed are vapor compression heat transfer systems for exchanging heat. The systems include an evaporator, a compressor, a dual-row condenser and an intermediate heat exchanger having a first tube and a second tube. A disclosed system involves a dual-row condenser connected to the first and second intermediate heat exchanger tubes. Another disclosed system involves a dual-row evaporator connected to the first and second intermediate heat exchanger tubes.
US12287127B2	Thermal battery and heat exchanger assembly using phase change material A heating and cooling (HVAC) system that includes a compressor; a first heat exchanger; a second heat exchanger; a first expansion valve positioned between the first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger; a first reversing valve that permits the system to operate in a first mode and a second mode; and a thermal battery including a phase change material therein that is configured to selectively store and release thermal energy received from a working fluid.
US12287126B2	Heat utilization system and heat generating device A heat utilization system according to the invention includes: a sealed container into which a hydrogen-based gas is supplied; a heat generating structure that is accommodated in the sealed container and includes a heat generating element that is configured to generate heat by occluding and discharging hydrogen contained in the hydrogen-based gas; and a heat utilization device that utilizes, as a heat source, a heat medium heated by the heat of the heat generating element. The heat generating element includes a base made of a hydrogen storage metal, a hydrogen storage alloy, or a proton conductor, and a multilayer film provided on the base. The multilayer film has a first layer made of a hydrogen storage metal or a hydrogen storage alloy and having a thickness of less than 1000 nm and a second layer made of a hydrogen storage metal or a hydrogen storage alloy, which is different from that of the first layer, or ceramics and having a thickness of less than 1000 nm.
US12287125B1	Particle suppressor for a centrifugal particle receiver A particle suppressor can be used in a particle receiver to reduce the particle loss rate. The receiver can include a rotating drum with an inliner. The particle suppressor can include a retaining surface. The retaining surface can be spaced away from and extend concentrically with the inline. A spacing gap between the inliner and the retaining surface can dampen the motion of bouncing particles. The spacing gap can be between 15 mm and 20 mm. In some embodiments, the particle suppressor can include a support ring with a plurality of suppressor segments disposed circumferentially around the support ring. The particle suppressor can include a plurality of suppressor segments coupled directly to the inliner. A heat shield can be coupled to the particle suppressor. A support bracket can suspend the particle suppressor within the receiver.
US12287123B2	Reversible air deflector and ventilation system A two-part reversible air deflector for reversing the flow direction of air pumped by a radial fan with constant rotation direction and a ventilation system formed of ventilation installations with use of reversible air deflectors, wherein the air deflector is divided into the suction-inlet body and the separate compression-outlet body, each of them having the frontal through opening surrounded with an annular protrusion wherein both bodies and of the deflector are arranged opposite a fixed partition having a round through opening with its edge of a funnel outline surrounded on two sides with a pair of annular protrusions in such a manner that the common axis X of frontal openings of the bodies is aligned with the axis of the round opening of the partition.
US12287114B2	Air circulator An air circulator includes a blower unit having an airflow opening on a front side of the blower unit and a grill in the airflow opening, and a support unit that supports the blower unit. The grill has a plurality of airflow guide blades arranged in a spiral, and inner end portions of the airflow guide blades proximal to a center of the spiral of the plurality of airflow guide blades protrude from outer end portions of the airflow guide blades in an airflow direction. The blower unit includes a cover forming an outer panel of the blower unit and an air passage forming member provided inside the cover. A reinforcing rib is formed on an outer circumferential surface of the air passage forming member.
US12287113B2	Building, building method, installation method, device control system and air-conditioning device Object:A building that enables lighting and air-conditioning to be effectively linked with each other is configured.Resolution means:An air-conditioning device including a connector receiving portion is installed on a ceiling, and the air-conditioning device and a plurality of lighting fixtures disposed around the air-conditioning device are electrically connected to each other with wirings provided for the number of the plurality of lighting fixtures installed around the air-conditioning device. Further, the air-conditioning device supplies power converted into a power voltage for the lighting fixtures to the plurality of electrically connected lighting fixtures. A wiring that passes through the rear of the ceiling is taken out of an opening of a ceiling member, and is connected to the lighting fixtures, so that the lighting fixtures are installed on the ceiling. An operation unit is operated to collectively control the air-conditioning device and the plurality of lighting fixtures disposed around the air-conditioning device.
US12287109B2	Air blower A disadvantage such as loss of life to a bearing of an indoor fan motor may occur when the number of rotations of the indoor fan falls below a predetermined number of rotations. An indoor unit includes a fan, a casing, a first horizontal flap, a second horizontal flap, and an indoor controller. The casing accommodates the fan, and has a blow-out port through which air provided by the fan is blown out. The indoor controller performs opening and closing operations to bring the first and second horizontal flaps into a first state in decreasing an airflow volume to be blown out through the blow-out port. In the first state, the first horizontal flap is in a position to open a first portion of the blow-out port while the second horizontal flap is in or substantially in a position to close a second portion of the blow-out port.
US12287107B2	Indoor air quality monitors for HVAC systems A heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) system includes at least one indoor air quality monitor. The indoor air quality monitor is formed with an arrangement of chambers—intake chamber, low-flow chamber, and outlet chamber—such that a particulate sensor on an interior and another air quality sensor are neither overwhelmed nor underwhelmed by air flow to the sensors. The indoor air quality monitor may be arranged for attaching to a surface in a conditioned space for sampling air therein or may include a bypass chamber that fluidly couples to an HVAC duct.
US12287104B2	Multi-area artificial fog pipe network intelligent control method and system based on YOLOv5 algorithm A multi-area artificial fog pipe network control method and system based on a you only look once version 5 (YOLOv5) algorithm are provided. The method includes: obtaining thermal sensation data of each target person based on facial skin temperature; calculating group thermal sensation data of each subarea and total group thermal sensation data of an artificial fog pipe network area; determining a total flow of fog-making water introduced into the artificial fog pipe network according to target number of people and total group thermal sensation data; controlling opening gears of atomization nozzles on the artificial fog pipe networks in subareas according to a number of the target person in each subarea, the group thermal sensation data and a micro-action type of each target person.
US12287103B2	Electric control box and window air conditioner An electric control box includes a box body. The box body includes a bottom plate, a box cover covering the bottom plate, an electric control assembly mounted at the bottom plate and including an electric control board and a heat sink mounted at the electric control board, and a sealing sleeve sleeved on a circumference of the heat sink. The box cover is provided with an extension opening for the heat sink to protrude outward. An inner surface of the box cover is formed with a sink groove on a circumference of the extension opening, and the sink groove is fitted and engaged with the sealing sleeve.
US12287100B2	Heating mat for use in a floor structure, floor structure, and method for producing same A heating mat is for use in a floor structure in an aircraft. The heating mat has a layered structure, with a plurality of layers firmly connected to one another, with a layer sequence. The layer sequence includes: a) a walkable protection layer having an unfinished floor covering material made of fiberglass-reinforced plastic or aramid fiber-reinforced plastic; b) an electrically conductive ground fault detection layer; c) an electrical insulation layer; and d) a flat electrical heating element having an electrically conductive heating varnish layer.
US12287092B2	Temperature control system for an air preheater installation An air preheater (APH) temperature control system, including at least a first APH or combustion/secondary air bypass duct in metered communication with a combustion air inlet duct and a secondary air duct, adapted in use to bleed a portion of the combustion air as secondary air bypass from the air inlet duct upstream of the APH 100 for reintroduction downstream into the secondary air duct, and a flow control device for metering or controlling volumetric flow of the secondary air bypass and tempering primary air flow in use operative to maintain the flue gas outlet temperature at or above a desired minimum predetermined temperature for the incident flue gas volumetric flow exiting the APH alone or in conjunction with other tempering means maintaining mills outlet temperature within a safety range of T10MIN to T10MAX.
US12287088B2	Color control using a high frequency wavelength sweeping light source and a phosphor A light generating system includes first light generating device configured to generate a first wavelength variable light changing between at least two centroid wavelengths having a difference of at least 10 nm, with a changing frequency of at least 50 Hz; a second light generating device configured to generate a second light having a different spectral power distribution from that of the first light generating device; and a luminescent material configured to convert at least part of one or more of the first or the second lights into luminescent light. The light generating system is configured to generate white system light including the luminescent light, the first device light, and the second device light. ( λ 1 ⁢ c , 1 , λ 1 ⁢ c , 2 ) ( I )
US12287087B2	High brightness light source comprising a blue laser pumping a green yellow phosphor and a yellow orange superluminescent diode pumping a red phosphor The invention provides a light generating system (1000) comprising (i) a plurality of light sources (110, 120, . . . ), (ii) a first luminescent material (210), and (iii) a second luminescent material (220), wherein: (a) a first light source (110) is configured to generate first light source light (111) having one or more wavelengths in the blue wavelength range and having a first centroid wavelength (λC1), wherein the first light source (110) is a laser; (b) the first luminescent material (210) is configured to convert at least part of the first light source light (111) into first luminescent material light (211) having one or more wavelengths in the green and/or yellow wavelength range; (c) a second light source (120) is configured to generate second light source light (121) having one or more wavelengths in the yellow and/or orange wavelength range and having a second centroid wavelength (λC2), wherein λC2>λC1; wherein the second light source (120) is a superluminescent diode; (d) the second luminescent material (220) is configured to convert at least part of the second light source light (121) into second luminescent material light (221) having one or more wavelengths in the orange and/or red wavelength range; and (e) in an operational mode the light generating system (1000) is configured to generate system light (1001) comprising the first luminescent material light (211) and the second luminescent material light (221).
US12287086B2	Lighting device A lighting device that can switch between intensity distributions of emitted light with a simple configuration. The lighting device includes a light source, a polarization controller, and a polarizing plate, in which the polarization controller switches light emitted from the light source between light components having two or more different polarization states to be incident into the polarizing plate, and the polarizing plate functions as a diffraction grating that has two or more regions having different polarization states of transmitted light in an in-plane direction and where one or more regions among the regions are periodically disposed.
US12287081B2	Systems and methods for providing lighting using modular heat sink structures and lenses A light fixture (50), comprising: an electronics housing (51); first and second heat sink structures (52, 54, 56, 58, 60, 62) coupled to the electronics housing, wherein each heat sink structure of the first and second heat sink structures is defined at least in part by a heat sink outer arc (64) having first and second end points (72, 74), and wherein each heat sink structure is further defined at least in part by two heat sink radii (66, 68) extending from the first and second end points, respectively, to a center point (P) of the light fixture; first and second light sources (53); at least two lenses (106, 108, 110, 112, 114, 116) comprising a first lens attached to the first heat sink structure and covering the first light source and a second lens attached to the second heat sink structure and covering the second light source, wherein each lens of the first and second lenses is defined at least in part by a lens outer arc (120) having first and second end points (128, 130), wherein each lens is further defined at least in part by two lens radii (122, 124) extending from the first and second end points, respectively, to a point (PI) that is different than the center point of the light fixture, and wherein each lens is further defined at least in part by an inner arc (126) extending between the two lens radii (122, 124); and a ventilation channel (76, 78, 80, 82, 84, 86) arranged between the first and second heat sink structures.
US12287076B2	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.
US12287071B2	Tactical flashlight with camera function The invention discloses a tactical flashlight with camera function, which comprises a flashlight component, wherein the flashlight component comprises a main shell, a lamp component and a camera component located above the lamp component are arranged inside the main shell, the lamp component comprises a lamp panel and LEDs arranged on one side of the lamp panel, a lamp cup for covering the LEDs is also arranged on one side of the lamp panel, and the camera component comprises a lens mount. The camera function is integrated into the flashlight with laser aiming function, the flashlight is installed on outdoor equipment to record the situation in front of the flashlight as well as the actions of holding gun for self-defense and go hunting in real time, buttons are located at the tail of the main shell, and a storage slot is used to store a buckle.
US12287069B2	Cryogenic full containment storage tank for realizing low-liquid-level material extraction function by using pump column A cryogenic full containment storage tank for realizing a low-liquid-level material extraction function by using a pump column, comprising an inner tank, an outer tank, a pump column, a submersible pump and a material pre-extraction device; wherein the material pre-extraction device comprises a cofferdam, a Venturi mixer, a backflow pipe, a return control valve, a lead-out pipeline and a liquid level detection system. The cryogenic full containment storage tank can make use of a low-temperature medium flowing back from the pump column to extract the low liquid level material outside the cofferdam into the cofferdam to form a local high liquid level and maintain the normal operation of the submersible pump.
US12287066B2	Pressure vessel, pressure vessel system, and motor vehicle having fuel rail A pressure vessel for storing may have a connection piece for forming a fluid connection between the fuel storage volume V of the pressure vessel and an energy converter of a motor vehicle. At least part of the connection piece may extend out of the pressure vessel. An outer surface of the connection piece may have a sealing face and a curved fastening face. The sealing face may be designed to seal off the fluid connection between the pressure vessel and a fuel-conducting section of the motor vehicle. The fastening face may be provided for fastening the pressure vessel to at least one body attachment element.
US12287065B2	System and method of controlling the circumference of a pressure tank mounted within a vacuum tank A tank system includes a vacuum tank having a vacuum tank skin, and a pressure tank mounted within the vacuum tank having one or more pressure tank skin segments having a total circumference that is less than that of a complete circle, resulting in one or more longitudinal gaps respectively between the one or more pressure tank skin segments. The tank system includes one or more gap control mechanisms configured to control a width of the one or more longitudinal gaps in a manner facilitating movement of the one or more pressure tank skin segments between at least the following positions: a retracted position in which there is a radial gap between each pressure tank skin segment and the vacuum tank skin, and a fully extended position in which at least a portion of each pressure tank skin segments is in contact with the vacuum tank skin.
US12287063B2	Adjustable leveling chock An adjustable chock is provided with a first component having screw threads, a second component having screw threads cooperating with the screw threads of the first component and having a lower bearing surface, and with a bearing element provided with a lower bearing surface in contact with an upper bearing surface of the first component, and with an upper bearing surface. At least one of the lower bearing surface of the second component and the upper bearing surface of the bearing element is provided with a coating having a coefficient friction higher than that of the associated bearing surface.
US12287058B1	Adjustable support stand assembly and connection system A jack stand includes a stand body defining a stand axis extending between a first axial stand body end and a second axial stand body end. The stand body further includes an outer stand component having an assembly through-bore and a plurality of radially extending openings, and an inner stand component within the assembly-through bore, and including therein a plurality of axially extending leg channels. A plurality of legs each include a retention lug within one of the plurality of radially extending openings and an edge opposite the respective one of the retention lugs and within one of the plurality of axially extending leg channels. The jack stand is collapsible and adjustable to a service arrangement to support a lifted body such as a vehicle in an off-highway environment.
US12287057B2	Dual-screen stand for computer extension The present disclosure discloses a dual-screen base support for computer extension, including: a mounting plate, wherein one side of the mounting plate is movably connected with a first connection shaft; a connection plate is mounted on the first connection shaft; one side of the connection plate is movably connected with a second connection shaft; a first mounting socket is mounted on the second connection shaft; the other side of the mounting plate is movably connected with a sliding plate; a front end of the sliding plate is movably connected with a third connection shaft; a second mounting socket is mounted on the third connection shaft. According to dual-screen base support for computer extension, an extended screen is arranged on an external structure, thus avoiding application of pressure to a screen of a notebook computer. Furthermore, when not in use, the extended screen can be quickly folded, which facilitates transportation.
US12287056B1	Dual containment pipe assembly A dual containment pipe assembly includes an outer containment pipe defining a rib on an interior surface thereof. An inner containment pipe can be positioned inside of the outer containment pipe. The inner containment pipe has at least one clip on an exterior surface thereof. At least one spacer wheel is between the outer containment pipe and the inner containment pipe. The spacer wheel has an inner channel for engagement to the clip and an outer groove for engagement to the rib. The spacer wheel includes: an inner circumferential hub defining the inner channel for engaging the clip; an outer circumferential rim defining the outer groove for engaging the rib; and a plurality of support spokes connecting the inner circumferential hub and the outer circumferential rim.
US12287055B2	Raised temperature resistant pipes comprising an ethylene-based polymer The present invention relates to a pipe comprising an ethylene-based polymer, wherein the ethylene-based polymer: ⋅ comprises ≥0.10 mol % of units derived from 1-hexene, with regard to the total molar quantity of polymeric units of the ethylene-based polymer; ⋅ has an Mw/Mn as determined in accordance with ASTM D6474 (2012) of ≥2.5 and ≤4.0, preferably of ≥2.5 and ≤3.4; ⋅ has a density as determined in accordance with ASTM D792 (2008) of ≥925 and ≤945 kg/m3; and ⋅ in the molecular weight range of log(Mw) between 4.0 and 5.5, has a comonomer branch content of between 2 and 15 comonomer-derived branches per 1000 carbon atoms in the polymer, as determined via 13C NMR. Such pipe provides a desirably high long-term strength, as demonstrated by its high strain hardening modulus, as well as desirably high impact strength, as demonstrated by its high Charpy impact strength. Further, such pipe may be compliant with the PE-RT requirements of ISO 22391-1 (2009). For example, such pipe may be used for containing water at temperatures in the range of 40° C. to 80°.
US12287053B2	Conduit support assembly for HVAC and R system A conduit support assembly for a heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and/or refrigeration (HVAC&R) system includes a bracket having a base portion and a tab portion. The base portion includes a channel formed therein, the channel is configured to receive a conduit of the HVAC&R system, the tab portion is configured to be inserted through an opening in a panel of the HVAC&R system, and the base portion and the tab portion are configured to cooperatively capture the panel in an installed configuration of the conduit support assembly.
US12287044B2	Valve indicator and related methods A device for indicating the position of a valve including a mechanical mechanism and output device. A related method for indicating the position of a valve including operatively connecting the device to a valve such as a manual valve. A mechanical mechanism for use with a valve is also described herein. An output device for use with a valve is also described herein.
US12287042B2	Actuator having an electric motor and an electromagnet arranged movably on the rotor of the electric motor to apply a holding torque with contact via a remanent magnetic field Various embodiments of the teachings herein include an actuator for a flap or for a valve for adjusting a gaseous or fluid volume flow. The actuator may include: a housing; an electric motor disposed in the housing; a downstream reduction gear; and a positioning element with an actuator connection for the flap or the valve. There is an electromagnet adjacent to an outer side of the rotor with a coil arrangement with a magnetic core. There is an electrical circuit arrangement for activating the electromagnet, providing a first brief current pulse, so a remanent magnetic field remains in the coil core. In a holding position of the actuator, while a mechanical pre-tensioning is set up, there is a holding torque with contact to the outer side of the rotor. The circuit arrangement provides a second brief current pulse to extinguish the remanent magnetic field still present in the coil core for releasing the holding torque with contact, forming an air gap between the electromagnet and the outer side of the rotor.
US12287039B2	Valve with pressure differential seating A valve for use in oil and gas production or similar applications includes a plug or other flow barrier disposed in a cavity of a hollow valve body with a metal-to-metal sealing surface that is not reliant on any rubberized or elastomeric material to effect a seal.
US12287038B2	Pressure reduction valve A pressure reduction valve includes a body including a gas passage, a valve seat provided in the gas passage, and a valve member provided on a downstream side of the valve seat in the gas passage. The gas passage includes a primary-side passage section located on an upstream side of the valve member, and a secondary-side passage section located on a downstream side of the valve member. The primary-side passage section includes a pressure chamber, which is a space formed between the valve member and the valve seat. The valve member includes a valve member passage that connects the pressure chamber to the secondary-side passage section, and an auxiliary passage configured to assist gas that flows into the pressure chamber through a clearance between the valve member and the valve seat to flow out to the secondary-side passage section.
US12287029B2	Starting device A starting device includes a fluid coupling, an electric motor, and a restriction mechanism. The electric motor includes a rotor and a stator. The rotor is disposed radially outside the fluid coupling. The restriction mechanism restricts relative rotation between the fluid coupling and the rotor. The restriction mechanism includes a first key groove, a second key groove, and a key body. The first key groove is provided on an inner peripheral surface of the rotor to extend in an axial direction. The second key groove is provided on an outer peripheral surface of the fluid coupling to extend in the axial direction. The second key groove is lesser in length than the first key groove. The key body includes a first key portion and a second key portion. The first key portion is fitted to the first key groove. The second key portion is fitted to the second key groove.
US12287018B2	Brake pad, brake caliper assembly, disc brake A brake pad may have at least one plate and at least one friction material supported by the plate. The friction material surface may have a barycenter. The plate may have a first slot and a second slot. The first slot may have a first slot edge adapted to accommodate a first pin mounted on the caliper body. The second slot may have a second slot edge adapted to accommodate a second pin mounted on the caliper body. In a forward braking condition, the brake pad rests on the first pin with a first slot first portion, and the brake pad rests on the second pin with a second slot first portion. The first slot is arranged in a radially outer position with respect to the barycenter and the second slot is arranged in a radially inner position with respect to the barycenter. The first slot and the second slot may be radially external with respect to a barycenter circumference centered on a rotation axis and passing through a barycenter.
US12287014B2	Bearing arrangement The invention relates to a bearing arrangement (10) having at least one first bearing element (12) and one second bearing element (14), which are connected to each other rotatably relative to each other along a common longitudinal axis (16), wherein the bearing element (10) comprises a braking device (24) which inhibits the relative rotation of the two bearing elements (12, 14) to each other, wherein the braking device (24) comprises a brake element (26) connected to the first bearing element (12), a counter surface (34) connected to the second bearing element (14), and at least one spring element (44) which presses the brake element (26) against the counter surface (34) using the spring force for generating a frictional engagement, and an actuable adjustment device (42), by means of which a contact force by which the brake element (26) is pressed against the counter surface (34) may be reduced, wherein the counter surface (34) is arranged on an extension (38) of the second bearing element (14), which is oriented transversely, in particular perpendicular, to the effective direction of the contact force, wherein said extension (38) is formed integrally with the second bearing element (14).
US12287011B1	Friction washer for limited slip differential clutch pack A friction washer for a limited slip differential is provided, with the friction washer including a disk body having first and second opposing surfaces. The first and second opposing surfaces define respective first and second contact planes and include recesses that extend into the disk body from the respective first and second contact planes such that only a portion of the disk body extends to the respective first and second contact plane. The recesses are defined by partial spherical or partial cylindrical surfaces. This provides improved properties for holding lubricating fluid circulated within the differential so that the hydrodynamic pressure created between the friction surfaces provides a more consistent film or boundary layer of the lubricating fluid for a more uniform coefficient of friction over various operating speeds and pressures.
US12287008B2	Grease composition and rolling device Provided are a grease composition and a rolling device which can prevent a decrease in seal performance even when a low-viscosity base oil having, for example, a kinematic viscosity of 5 to 40 mm2/s is used, and can achieve both seal performance and low torque. A seal member (12a) has a plurality of seal lips (114), (115), and (116) made of an elastic material, and a grease composition is sealed in gap portions (121) and (122) between a sliding surface of a slinger (106) on which the seal lips slide and the two adjacent seal lips. The grease composition contains a base oil and a polar polymer, and a weight-average molecular weight of the polar polymer is from 5000 to 140000.
US12287006B2	Multi-row thrust bearing with sigma cage A thrust bearing assembly comprises a cage including an annular portion. A first flange extends axially from an inner peripheral edge of the annular portion, and a second flange extends axially from an outer peripheral edge of the annular portion. A first plurality of roller pockets are defined by the annular portion, the first roller pockets of the first plurality of roller pockets being spaced evenly about the annular portion. A second plurality of roller pockets are defined by the annular portion, the second roller pockets of the second plurality of roller pockets being evenly spaced about the annular portion so that each second roller pocket is disposed between adjacent first roller pockets.
US12287003B2	Drive system A drive system as disclosed includes an input shaft, an output shaft, and at least two coupling elements respectively coupled to the input shaft and the output shaft. In order to absorb assembly and manufacturing tolerances with respect to the shafts, the coupling elements and their attachment to the shafts and thereby prevent jamming of the drive system, at least one coupling element has an elastically deformable section, the elastically deformable section having a different material or a different cross-section than an adjacent section of the coupling element.
US12287001B2	Roller bearing assembly A roller bearing assembly including an tapered inner cup defining an inner raceway, an tapered outer cup defining an outer raceway, the outer raceway having a convex profile, the convex profile being defined by an intersection of the outer raceway and a central plane in which a longitudinal center axis of the roller bearing assembly lies, and a plurality of straight rollers disposed between the tapered inner cup and the tapered outer cup so that each straight roller is in rolling contact with the inner raceway and the outer raceway, each straight roller having a first end face, a second end face and a cylindrical body extending therebetween.
US12287000B1	Locking and positioning mechanism and rotational folding positioning apparatus The present disclosure relates to a locking and positioning mechanism and a rotational folding positioning apparatus. The locking and positioning mechanism includes a locking knob and a positioning pin. The locking knob is in a threaded connection with a side wall of a support sleeve, and the support sleeve sleeves a stand column; the locking knob can be screwed in and out relative to the support sleeve, and when the locking knob is screwed inward, an inner end of the locking knob presses tightly against the stand column for locking. The positioning pin is coaxially arranged through the locking knob, and the positioning pin can extend inward and outward relative to the locking knob; an elastic member is provided between the positioning pin and the locking knob. The mechanism is compact in structure, occupies minimal space, and is convenient and effortless to operate.
US12286997B2	Grab hook with shoulder A fastener assembly device includes a body. The body includes top and bottom regions, a channel within the body, and a recess defined in the channel. The recess is wider than any other area of the body.
US12286995B2	Single bolt shaft clamp Embodiments of the adjustable clamps having a curved body having an inner surface, an outer surface, a first side section, a middle section, a recess, and a bore to receive a fastener to compress, or expand the adjustable clamps are presented herein. Other embodiments and related methods are also disclosed herein.
US12286990B2	Fastener system for furniture A fastener system for quick and easy assembly of an article of slatted furniture is used to join multiple slats and connects a support thereto. A flange inserted into one of the slats receives a stud connected to the support. A rod connects a plurality the slats, and mates with the flange. The flange and rod are rotatable within the slats to properly position and tighten the fastener system.
US12286986B2	Method for monitoring operation of a hydraulic system The present invention pertains to method for monitoring operation of a hydraulic system, in particular of a hydraulic system of a working machine, having at least one hydraulic actuator. The method comprises a step of determining a predefined operating condition of the hydraulic system; a step of determining an input power parameter being indicative of a power provided by an engine to the hydraulic system during the predetermined operating condition; a step of determining an output power parameter being indicative of a power provided by the hydraulic actuator during the predetermined operating condition; and a step of determining a fault condition of the hydraulic system based on the input power parameter and the output power parameter.
US12286981B2	Hydraulic valve bank and mobile hydraulic system A hydraulic valve bank has at least two valve sections, a connection section, and a pressure channel for pressurizing the valve sections. The pressure channel connects the connection section to each valve section for pressurizing them. Each valve section has a spool, an electrohydraulic pilot control for actuating the spool and an upstream pressure compensator. The valve bank is a load-sensing system and has a load pressure collecting channel for signaling the highest load pressure. A common pilot pressure signal is applied to the electrohydraulic pilot control of each valve section via the connection section. A single pilot control pressure influencing valve changes the common pilot pressure signal, and is connected to the pressure channel to be acted upon in a first switching direction, and to the load pressure collecting channel to be acted upon in a second switching direction. A mobile hydraulic system includes such a hydraulic valve bank.
US12286977B2	Scroll casing of centrifugal fan, centrifugal fan, air-conditioning apparatus and refrigeration cycle apparatus including the scroll casing A scroll casing has a scroll portion, a discharge portion provided with a discharge port, and a tongue portion. An extended plate has, in a cross section obtained by cutting in a thickness direction, a change point, at which an enlargement ratio of an area of the cross section is enlarged so as to be larger on a downstream side than that on an upstream side due to a change of inclination. In the extended plate, an angle θ1, and an angle θ2 satisfy a relationship of either 0≤θ2<θ1 or 0<θ2≤θ1. A distance L1 and a distance L2 satisfy a relationship of L2
US12286971B2	Scroll compressor A scroll compressor is provided that may include a casing, a main frame, a rotational shaft, an orbiting scroll, a fixed scroll, and an oil supply guide. A second oil supply guide of the oil supply guide may be disposed in at least one of the orbiting scroll or the fixed scroll and extend along a thrust bearing surface between the orbiting scroll and the fixed scroll to provide communication between a first oil supply guide and a compression chamber having a lower pressure than an oil storage space. This may produce a great pressure difference between ends of an oil supply passage including the first oil supply guide and the second oil supply guide, and allow smooth oil supply using differential pressure to the thrust bearing surface between the fixed scroll and the orbiting scroll.
US12286966B2	Modular valve apparatus and system A valved manifold module is disclosed, constructed and arranged to be readily connected in a chain with similar modules to form a manifold assembly. The modular manifolds allows for expansion or modification of the manifold assembly to control a group of pneumatically or hydraulically driven pumps, valves or combinations thereof in a liquid flow control apparatus. The valved manifold module can be configured to accept a group of four substantially identical valve assemblies, and can be controlled by a local controller mounted to the manifold module, thus forming an independently programmable valved manifold module. The resulting modular system is expandable to allow for coordinated operations of a liquid flow control system, using substantially independent controller functions originating at the manifold assembly level.
US12286965B2	Radial piston compressor with transmission element and piston guide ring The present invention relates to a piston-cylinder assembly for a radial piston compressor. The piston-cylinder assembly comprises a drive shaft with a cylindrical eccentric for guiding the movement of the piston to a top dead center position. A cylindrical piston guide ring guides the movement of the piston to a bottom dead center. Both the cylindrical eccentric and the piston guide ring are connected to the piston by means of respective concave/convex contact surfaces for the positive transmission of the forces.
US12286962B2	Binary power generation system utilizing renewable energy such as geothermal heat A scale inhibiting agent having silicon dioxide (SiO2) and sodium oxide (Na2O) as main components is put into each of a circulation flow channel in a hot water circulation system and a circulation flow channel in a cooling water circulation system. On the other hand, a solid-liquid separation device is installed at an appropriate position of each of the circulation flow channel in the hot water circulation system and the circulation flow channel in the cooling water circulation system, the solid-liquid separation device storing a lot of filter mediums each of which is provided with a lot of rectangular water stream inlets in a staggered pattern along a peripheral direction, is provided with a semicircularly curved water stream control plate extending inward from a short side in one side of each of the water stream inlets and has a diameter of 12 mm and a length of 12 mm.
US12286961B2	Controlling offshore wind turbines regarding a damping action A method of controlling plural offshore wind turbines regarding a mechanical oscillation damping action is provided, the method including: obtaining wave characteristic information indicating a characteristic of at least one sea wave; obtaining wind turbine operational state information of the plural wind turbines; obtaining wind characteristic information; controlling the wind turbines regarding the damping action based on the wave characteristic information and/or the wind turbine operational state information of the plural wind turbines and/or the wind characteristic information in particular such that a power oscillation of a total power output of the wind park is reduced.
US12286959B2	Wind turbine drive control device and control method of wind turbine drive A wind turbine drive control device according to one aspect of the present invention is a wind turbine drive control device for controlling at least one drive device for moving two structures included in a wind power generation device relative to each other, the wind turbine drive control device including: an obtaining unit for obtaining information related to a load occurring between the at least one drive device and one of the two structures that receives a force generated by the at least one drive device; and a control unit for controlling the at least one drive device so as to cause a force generated by the at least one drive device to be reduced or zero based on the information related to the load obtained by the obtaining unit during a stop period in which the two structures are stopped relative to each other.
US12286958B2	Off-shore wind turbine support system, off-shore wind farm and method for controlling such wind farm A wind turbine support system configured to support an off-shore wind turbine, an offshore wind turbine farm and a method for controlling a floating offshore wind park with such turbine support system are described. The wind turbine support system includes: a floating body configured to hold a lower end of a tower of the wind turbine; and a single point mooring system. The single point mooring system includes a seabed anchor; and a mooring line configured to be connected to the seabed anchor at a first end thereof. The floating body has a bow and a stern, and the bow is configured to be connected to a second end of the mooring line.
US12286957B2	Method and device for connecting a blade of a wind turbine to a hub The present invention relates to a blade positioning system configured for positioning wind turbine blades at a hub of a nacelle of a wind turbine from an installation vessel at an offshore location, the blade positioning system comprising: the installation vessel comprising: —at least one lifting device configured for lifting wind turbine components, and —an auxiliary support tower extending upwardly from the installation vessel, the auxiliary support tower comprising: o a nacelle support for supporting the nacelle, o a root end moving assembly defining a guide path which extends over a vertical distance, the root end moving assembly comprising a movable root end support base and a root end support configured for supporting and guiding the root end of the blade, the root end support being connected to the movable root end support base, the root end support being movable along the guide path, the root end moving assembly being configured for moving the root end of the blade along the guide path from the engagement position to an installation position, the at least one lifting device being configured for lifting the nacelle onto the auxiliary support tower, wherein the at least one lifting device and the root end moving assembly are configured to jointly support and jointly move the blade upwards towards the hub, wherein during the movement the root end is supported by the root end support and the lifting device carries a majority of the vertical loads on the blade.
US12286956B2	Modular wind turbine blade with vibration damping According to a first aspect of the invention, there is provided a wind turbine blade having a split blade configuration, comprising a first blade module defining an aerofoil profile and a second blade module defining an aerofoil profile; a damping module intermediate the first blade module and the second blade module; wherein the damping module comprises a first blade interface for joining to the first blade module and a second blade interface for joining to the second blade module. The damping module comprises a vibration damping unit.Beneficially, the invention provides a useful way in which to integrate motion damping functionality into a modular wind turbine blade.
US12286954B2	Buoy with radiated wave reflector Disclosed is buoyant wave energy capture device, adapted to float adjacent to an upper surface of a body of water over which waves pass, and adapted to capture a portion of the radiated waves created by its own rising and falling in response to incident and/or passing environmental waves. A power take off mechanism combined with the disclosed wave energy capture device may be tuned to a specific wave frequency, and thereby optimally extract energy from a motion of a single frequency, even the wave energy capture device may be excited and/or energized by waves of any of a relatively broad range of frequencies, thereby increasing the power-generation and cost efficiencies of such devices relative to wave energy conversion devices of the prior art.
US12286948B2	Fuel pump A GDi fuel pump comprising an inlet valve assembly arranged in an inlet passage of the pump housing. The inlet valve assembly comprises a check valve comprising a seat member cooperating with a valve member; and an actuator assembly having a needle assembly reciprocally moveable by means of a magnetic field to actuated the valve member. The needle assembly includes an actuating needle, an armature, a washer with a plurality of through holes and an obturating member. The obturating member comprises a plurality of flexible blades, each blade comprising an obturating pad configured to be moveable between a rest position, wherein the obturating pad rests on the washer and closes a respective through hole thereof, and a raised position, raised from the washer when the needle moves away from the check valve. Each obturating pad comprises a plurality of openings, the cumulative cross-sections of the openings in a respective pad representing a fraction of the flow cross-section through the respective hole in the washer.
US12286947B2	Intake manifold for engine, engine, and vehicle An intake manifold for an engine includes a premixing chamber, a pressure stabilizing chamber, and multiple intake passages. The intake passages are connected with a bottom of the pressure stabilizing chamber. A first end of the premixing chamber includes an intake end having an air inlet. A second end of the premixing chamber is communicated with the pressure stabilizing chamber and is close to a top of the pressure stabilizing chamber. An exhaust gas inlet is disposed on the premixing chamber and close to the air inlet. The engine includes an engine body and the intake manifold for the engine. The vehicle includes a vehicle body and the engine.
US12286943B2	Turbomolecular air-scoop for satellite air-breathing electric propulsion In one embodiment, an air-scoop includes an air inlet that air molecules enter the air-scoop through at an orbital speed when the air-scoop is moving through an atmosphere at the orbital speed. The air-scoop also includes a rotor that is rotated by a motor at a rotational speed, and the rotor includes multiple rotatable blade stages. A first one of the rotatable blade stages has a blade configuration that maximizes transparency of the first one of the rotatable blade stages to air molecules entering the air-scoop through the air inlet at the orbital speed when the rotor is rotating at the rotational speed. A last one of the rotatable blade stages has a blade configuration that maximizes opacity of the last one of the rotatable blade stages to air molecules in the air-scoop flowing directionally toward the air inlet when the rotor is rotating at the rotational speed.
US12286942B2	Electrically powered supersonic and hypersonic propulsor A system for electromagnetically exciting certain molecules within a volume of gaseous working fluid or charge via transition frequency heating for propulsion, comprising an electrical energy source (EES), an electromagnetic wave generator (EWG), a reflection coefficient measurement device (RCMD), a controllable electrical matching network (EMN), a proportional integral derivative controller (PIDC), and a propulsor cavity (PC), wherein said PC further comprises a transmission line that comprises a waveguide and a radio frequency (RF) window, wherein said RF window provides optical access to a heating zone where the charge resides or passes through, wherein said heating zone resides in the flow path between a propulsion system's charge inlet and nozzle exhaust.
US12286937B2	Method of controlling inlet valves and exhaust valves of an internal combustion engine, control arrangement, combustion engine, and vehicle A method of controlling inlet valves and exhaust valves of a cylinder of an internal combustion engine to obtain an engine braking effect is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of preventing at least one exhaust valve of the cylinder from closing completely during a plurality of successive intake, compression, expansion, and exhaust strokes of the cylinder, phase shifting control of at least one exhaust valve and regulating the amount of air being pumped through the cylinder by phase shifting control of at least one inlet valve of the cylinder. The present disclosure further relates to a computer program, a computer-readable medium, a control arrangement, an internal combustion engine, and a vehicle comprising an internal combustion engine.
US12286936B1	Adjustable fan track liner with groove array active fan tip treatment for distortion tolerance A gas turbine engine includes a fan and a fan case assembly. The fan includes a fan rotor configured to rotate about an axis of the gas turbine engine and a plurality of fan blades coupled to the fan rotor for rotation therewith. The fan case assembly extends circumferentially around the plurality of fan blades radially outward of the plurality of the fan blades.
US12286935B2	Methods and systems for controlling an engine system of a vehicle Disclosed is a computer-implemented method for controlling an engine system of a vehicle comprising: determining an operating condition of the vehicle; determining one or more contextual conditions relevant to the vehicle; selecting, based upon both the determined operating condition and the determined one or more contextual conditions, a control profile for the engine system from a directory comprising a plurality of control profiles having different control characteristics; applying the selected control profile to a controller of the engine system; and controlling the engine system with the controller in accordance with the selected control profile. Also disclosed are an engine control system, a gas turbine engine, and an aircraft.
US12286932B1	Turbine engine combustor including a heat shield A combustor of a turbine engine has a combustion chamber for combusting fuel and air, generating heat. A fuel nozzle-mixer assembly mixes and injects fuel and air into the combustion chamber for combustion. The assembly has a heat shield at an aft end for shielding the assembly from the heat. A centerbody outer shell defines a cooling air flow cavity. A cooling air flow gap is defined between the centerbody outer shell and the heat shield. The centerbody outer shell has cooling air exit holes between the cooling air flow cavity and the cooling air flow gap, the air passing through the cooling air exit holes and into the cooling air flow gap. The cooling air exits the cooling air flow gap at a cooling air exit angle, the cooling air exit angle having a non-zero axially aft component, displacing the combustion downstream, to protect the assembly.

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