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| 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. |
| US12286930B1 |
Turbine engine fan case with bleed air for tip injection and heat exchanger cooling
A fan case assembly adapted for use with a gas turbine engine includes a fan casing and a bleed air flow control system. The fan casing includes an annular case and a fan track liner coupled with the annular case. The bleed air flow control system is configured to bleed selectively a portion of air flowing through a gas path of the fan case assembly for use as a cooling source in the fan case assembly. |
| US12286927B2 |
Vehicle with energy conversion system
A method for energy conversion for a vehicle is provided. The method including extracting a flow of compressed fluid from a compressor section of a propulsion system; flowing the flow of compressed fluid to a turbine operably coupled to a driveshaft, in which the driveshaft is operably coupled to a load device; expanding the flow of compressed fluid through the turbine to generate an output torque at the driveshaft to operate the load device; and flowing the expanded flow of compressed fluid from the turbine to thermal communication with a thermal load. |
| US12286921B2 |
Exhaust gas control apparatus for internal combustion engine
In an exhaust gas control apparatus for an internal combustion engine in which a catalytic converter is attached to an engine having a plurality of cylinders and a plurality of exhaust passages communicating with the plurality of cylinders, a diffusion portion that promotes a jet flow of a main flow of the exhaust gas flowing into the merging portion is provided at a merging portion connected to a downstream side of the exhaust passage. Further, on the inner wall of the merging portion facing the inlet of the exhaust gas provided in the exhaust passage, a dispersion face for three-dimensionally dispersing the main flow of the exhaust gas flowing linearly into the merging portion from the inlet is formed. |
| US12286919B2 |
Method for checking an exhaust gas system in a vehicle, and control unit for performing the method
A method and a control unit for checking an exhaust gas system in a vehicle. A control unit in the vehicle receives data from sensors of the vehicle and sends out control commands to final control elements of the vehicle. The control unit is in communication connection with an external computer located outside of the vehicle. The external computer causes the control unit to make an active intervention in the exhaust gas system by actuating final control elements of the vehicle. The control unit receives sensor data from the exhaust gas system, which it forwards to the external computer. Based on the sensor data from the sensors, the external computer rates the exhaust gas system as “OK” or “manipulated”. |
| US12286917B2 |
High power density insulated exhaust heating system
An exhaust gas heater system for an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine includes a housing and a heating element. The housing includes an outer peripheral wall disposed about a central axis and defining an interior hollow space configured to receive exhaust gas from an exhaust pipe of the exhaust system such that the exhaust gas flows through the interior hollow space. The heating element is positioned within the hollow space and including a first end and a second end. The heating element includes a first section proceeding in a first direction and a second section proceeding in a second direction. The support structure is configured to extend along a path conforming to a path of the first and second sections. |
| US12286915B2 |
High porosity ceramic honeycomb structure and method of manufacturing
A method of manufacturing a ceramic honeycomb structure by mixing a ceramic precursor batch composition having a median particle diameter less than or equal to about 10 μm and at least one starch-based pore former having a median particle diameter greater than or equal to about 10 μm. The method also includes forming a mixture of ceramic precursor batch composition and a starch-based pore former into a green ceramic structure having a web structure, and firing the green ceramic structure to yield a ceramic honeycomb structure. |
| US12286914B2 |
Interconnection system of a urea-based reducing agent injector to an after-treatment an exhaust gas device
System for interconnecting a urea-based reducing agent injector to an exhaust gas post-treatment device including an injector, a flange arranged to couple the injector to an exhaust gas line, a gasket arranged between the injector and the flange, wherein the gasket is a sandwich, formed by two external layers and an intermediate layer formed by insulating material. |
| US12286913B2 |
Work machine including exhaust treatment devices
A work machine where a plurality of exhaust treatment devices can appropriately be arranged is provided. The work machine includes an engine, a first exhaust treatment device that treats exhaust emitted from the engine, and a second exhaust treatment device that treats exhaust that has passed through the first exhaust treatment device. A longitudinal direction of the first exhaust treatment device is inclined with respect to a fore/aft direction and a lateral direction and inclined with respect to a longitudinal direction of the second exhaust treatment device. |
| US12286909B2 |
Rocker arm with a reset slider disposed in a lash adjustment assembly
A rocker arm comprises an actuator piston slidably disposed in an actuator piston bore formed in a motion imparting end thereof. A lash adjustment assembly is disposed in the motion imparting end and comprises an internal bore. A hydraulic passage is in fluid communication with the actuator piston bore and the internal bore. A resetting assembly is disposed in the lash adjustment assembly and comprises a reset slider and a checking element in fluid communication with the internal bore. The reset slider is slidably disposed in the internal bore and has a first end configured to engage a valve train component or engine valve, and has a second end with a resetting pin disposed thereon configured to contact and place the checking element in an unchecked state in response to positioning of the rocker arm when the first end contacts the valve train component or engine valve. |
| US12286908B2 |
Valvetrain power transfer module with shortened leaf-spring contact
A valvetrain includes a camshaft (501), a pivot (303), a rocker arm assembly (203) mounted on the pivot (303), a latch assembly (122), a power transfer module (100) a rocker arm (401), a cam follower (301) configured to engage a cam, and two contacts pin (403) protruding to opposite sides of the rocker arm (401). The electromagnetic latch assembly (122) includes a latch pin (405) and an electromagnet (119) that is powered through at least one of the contact pins (403). The power transfer module (100) includes a framework (101) that supports two contact pad each contacting a respective one of the contact pins. The framework (101) has a base that abuts the pivot (303). The contact pads extend upward from the base and terminates at a height that is below a height of the rocker arm assembly (203) above the pivot (303). |
| US12286905B2 |
Rotor assembly for gas turbine engines
A rotor assembly for a gas turbine engine includes a rotatable hub that has a main body and an array of annular flanges that extend about an outer periphery of the main body to define an array of annular channels. An array of airfoils are circumferentially distributed about the outer periphery. Each one of the airfoils includes an airfoil section extending from a root section received in the annular channels. Retention pins extend through the root section of a respective one of the airfoils and through the array of annular flanges to mechanically attach each root section to the hub. |
| US12286903B2 |
Turbine engine including a composite airfoil assembly having a dovetail portion
A turbine engine having a disk and a composite airfoil assembly. The disk having a slot. The composite airfoil assembly having an airfoil portion, a dovetail portion, and a roll snubber. The dovetail portion having a radially inner surface. The roll snubber being provided on the radially inner surface. The radially inner surface spaced from the slot to define a gap therebetween. |
| US12286902B2 |
Turbomachine cooling trench
A component for a turbine engine includes a body with an exterior surface abutting a combustion flowpath for a combustion gas flow through the turbine engine, a cooling passage defined within the body, and a trench on the exterior surface. The trench includes a plurality of outlets, and a plurality of cooling holes extending from the cooling passage to the corresponding plurality of outlets. |
| US12286900B2 |
Rotor blade and gas turbine provided therewith
A rotor blade including: a blade body extending in a blade height direction that is a direction perpendicular to an airfoil cross-section; and a platform provided to an end at a hub side, from between a tip side and the hub side which are of the blade height direction. The blade body includes: an anterior edge and a posterior edge; a ventral surface and a dorsal surface linking the anterior edge and the posterior edge together; and a cooling passage extending in the blade height direction between the ventral surface and the dorsal surface. The ventral/dorsal wall thickness ratio at any position between the hub-side position and the middle position in the cooling passage is smaller than the ventral/dorsal wall thickness ratio at any position between the middle position and the tip-side position. |
| US12286899B2 |
Trailing edge cooling circuit
An airfoil includes a leading edge, a trailing edge, a pressure side wall, and a suction side wall. The pressure side wall and the suction side wall each extend between the leading edge and the trailing edge. A camber axis is defined halfway between the pressure side wall and the suction side wall. A cooling circuit is defined in the airfoil. The cooling circuit includes a trailing edge cooling circuit. The trailing edge cooling circuit has a pressure side channel that is disposed at least partially on a first side of the camber axis and a suction side channel that is disposed at least partially on a second side of the camber axis. The pressure side channel and the suction side channel each converge towards the trailing edge as the pressure side channel and the suction side channel extend towards the trailing edge. |
| US12286889B2 |
Methods and apparatus to improve fan operability control using smart materials
Systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods are disclosed to improve fan operability control using smart materials. An engine comprising an engine surface in an airflow path, a sensor positioned on the engine surface, and a smart-material-based feature positioned on the engine surface, the smart-material-based feature triggered to modify the airflow path when the sensor outputs an indication of a detected deviation from a reference value of an operating parameter of the engine. |
| US12286885B1 |
Turbine assembly with confronting vane and turbine shroud segment
A turbine assembly adapted for use with a gas turbine engine includes a turbine shroud assembly and a turbine vane. The turbine shroud assembly includes a carrier segment arranged circumferentially at least partway around an axis and a blade track segment supported by the carrier segment to locate the blade track segment radially outward of the axis. The turbine vane is located axially forward of the turbine shroud assembly and cooperates with the turbine shroud assembly to form a tortuous flow path therebetween. |
| US12286884B2 |
Rotary digging drill and amphibious tunnel construction robot using same
A rotary digging drill includes three disk drills arranged in ascending order of diameter, each with a cavity therein. The disk drill includes two circular ring seats arranged side by side, multiple toothed digging buckets disposed at peripheries of the two circular ring seats, and ring gear racks respectively disposed on inner sides of the two circular ring seats. Adjacent ones of the disk drills have the toothed digging buckets facing opposite directions, and the disk drills all rotate in a direction facing a large opening, enabling adjacent two of the three disk drills to rotate in opposite directions. The rotary digging drill further includes three disk drill supports that match the three disk drills in quantity and are configured to support and drive the three disk drills. |
| US12286880B2 |
Methods and systems for characterizing properties of reservoir rock
Methods and systems are provided that combine NMR and IR spectroscopy measurements on a rock sample to determine data representing at least one property of the rock sample. In one embodiment, cuttings can be split into first and second lots. Results of an NMR measurement performed on the first lot of cuttings without cleaning can be analyzed to determine pore volume of the cuttings. Results of an IR spectroscopy measurement performed on the second lot of cuttings after solvent cleaning can be analyzed to determine matrix density of the cuttings. Porosity can be determined from the pore volume and matrix density of the cuttings. In another embodiment, combined NMR and IR spectroscopy measurements can be performed on an unprepared rock sample (without solvent cleaning) to characterize properties of kerogen in the rock sample and porosity. In another aspect, a method is provided that employs multi-nucleic NMR measurements to determine porosity. |
| US12286879B2 |
Oil field chemical release system
An oil field chemical release system for controlled release of an oil field chemical within a hydrocarbon reservoir, well, or wellbore, the oil field chemical release system comprising: a plurality of microcapsules, each microcapsule comprising an oil field chemical and a microencapsulant, wherein the oil field chemical is contained within the microencapsulant; and a continuous bulk polymer matrix, wherein the plurality of microcapsules are disposed within the continuous bulk polymer matrix, wherein the oil field chemical release system is configured to allow the oil field chemical to move through the microencapsulant into the continuous bulk polymer matrix and through the continuous bulk polymer matrix to be released through a surface of the bulk polymer matrix into the hydrocarbon reservoir, well, or wellbore at a controlled rate, and wherein the oil field chemical release system is configured to provide a release profile. |
| US12286876B2 |
Drain apparatus for a subsea pipeline
The present invention provides a drain apparatus (200) for use in a subsea pipeline to remove liquid from a multiphase flow in the subsea pipeline. The drain apparatus comprises a first channel (20) for carrying a multiphase flow comprising liquid and gas phases; and liquid extraction means (11, 12, 14, 18) for extracting the liquid phase from the multiphase flow in the first channel (20). The internal diameter of the first channel (20) is substantially the same as an internal diameter of a subsea pipe arranged to carry the multiphase flow in the subsea pipeline, such that a pig travelling along the subsea pipe can pass through the first channel (20). The present invention also provides a subsea pipeline comprising a subsea pipe for transporting a multiphase flow subsea; and at least one drain. The at least one drain is disposed partway along a gradient in the subsea pipe to reduce liquid holdup. |
| US12286871B2 |
Method for preventing influx of fluid during fracturing of an offset well
Method is provided for preventing fluid from entering a well, such as a producing well, during a hydraulic fracturing treatment in another well completed in the same reservoir. Degradable ball sealers or degradable particulate material is injected into the well and pressure is maintained in the well during the fracturing treatment to prevent influx of fluid. |
| US12286870B2 |
Continuous chamber capillary control system, method, and apparatus
A system for enhanced oil and gas recovery. The system can comprise a boiler. The system can further comprise at least two capillaries in fluid communication with the boiler. The at least two capillaries can be disposed in an injector pipe and each one of the capillaries can include a flow control device for controlling an injection of steam in at least one of a chamber and a well for enhanced oil and gas recovery. |
| US12286866B2 |
Method for enhanced storage of carbon dioxide in geological formations
Described is a method for enhanced carbon dioxide (CO2) sequestration in geological formations. The method includes dissolving CO2 in a low salinity fluid to form a CO2-brine solution. The low salinity fluid includes sodium (Na+) ions and sulfate (SO42−) ions. The CO2-brine solution is injected into a geological formation, and the CO2 reacts with the geological formation to produce solid carbonate minerals for CO2 sequestration. |
| US12286862B2 |
Composite cement retainer
A system and method for a composite cement retainer. A composite cement retainer has various components. When these various components comprise composite where feasible, or a drillable metal, the retainer can be easily placed and quickly drilled if necessary. |
| US12286861B2 |
Combined actuation of slips and packer sealing element
A technique facilitates actuation of a packer to a sealing and gripping position along a borehole. The packer includes a packer element structure mounted about a center structure. The packer element structure includes a sealing element mounted along an expandable base such that the sealing element may be radially expanded. Additionally, the packer includes an actuator member connected to a portion of the packer element structure via a release mechanism, e.g. a shear member. A plurality of slips may be located on the actuator member such that linear movement of the actuator member causes successive movement of the packer sealing element and then the slips in the radially outward direction. The packer may be constructed such that this sequential setting motion creates a jarring effect to ensure the slips securely bite into the surrounding wellbore surface, e.g. casing surface. |
| US12286860B2 |
Downhole seal and method of setting a downhole seal
A downhole seal is proposed which has a CO2 swellable elastomer which swells when in contact with CO2. The downhole seal can be set by installing a downhole seal comprising a CO2 swellable elastomer in a downhole location within a borehole, and exposing the downhole seal to contact with CO2 after installing, whereby the CO2 causes the downhole seal to swell. |
| US12286857B2 |
Removing a stuck cap from a wellbore pressure control system
A tool and a method removing a stuck cap from a wellbore pressure control system. The method includes removing a quick union securing a cap to a Christmas tree cap adaptor of a wellbore pressure control system sealing a wellbore. A top gauge nut positioned in the cap is removed, and then a lifting key is installed in the cap. A hydraulic jacking system is clamped around the Christmas tree cap adaptor, followed by connecting a lifting hand to the lifting key. After connecting the lifting hand to the lifting key, a lever of the hydraulic jacking system is operated. Responsive to operating the lever, the lifting hand and the lifting key move in a first direction and the cap stuck in the Christmas tree cap adaptor is removed from the Christmas tree cap adaptor. |
| US12286855B1 |
Wellhead connector safety sensor
A wellhead connector system is improved by the addition of sense circuitry that is used to confirm proper engagement of cam locks that engage an adaptor which may be used for pressure pumping operations, such as hydraulic fracturing, or for perforating an oil or gas well. |
| US12286854B1 |
Methods and devices for casing and cementing wellbores
A casing string is augmented with one or more variable flow resistance devices or “vibrating tools” to facilitate advancement of the casing and distribution of the cement in the annulus once the casing is properly positioned. Vibrating tools in the form of plugs can be pumped down and landed inside the casing string. The method includes vibrating the casing string while advancing the casing down the wellbore or while the cement is pumped into the annulus, or both. After the cementing operation is completed, the devices may be drilled out or retrieved with fishing tools to reopen the casing string for further operations. One or more wipers may be provided on the plugs, but the section housing the flow path may be free of wipers to allow the size and flow capacity of the flow path to be optimized. |
| US12286849B1 |
Drilling head assembly with latching system and fluid retention mechanism
A head assembly for a drilling operation. The assembly includes a retractor case comprising a retractor pin slot. The assembly includes a body that comprises a body pin slot, wherein an interior space of the body is configured to receive the retractor case. The assembly includes a latch ear coupled to the body, wherein at least a portion of the latch ear extends outward relative to the body. The assembly includes an expansion block at least partially disposed within an interior space defined by the retractor case. The assembly is such that a position of the expansion block along a longitudinal axis of the assembly determines whether the latch ear is in an extended position or a retracted position relative to the body sidewall. |
| US12286847B2 |
Continuous recirculation for separation of fluids produced during drill out and flow back
One or two continuous recirculation loops are utilized for the well-site equipment that separates produced fluids into sand, liquid, and gas during drill out and flow back that occurs after fracturing a subterranean formation. When one recirculation loop is utilized, the recirculation loop continuously recirculates fluid between the recirculation chamber of the disclosed sand removal apparatus and a shaker device. When two recirculation loops are utilized, the first recirculation loop continuously recirculates fluid between a recirculation chamber of the disclosed sand removal apparatus and a shaker device, and the second recirculation loop continuously recirculates fluid between the recirculation chamber and a gas separator. |
| US12286846B2 |
Method and equipment for crushing debris in drilling fluids
A crusher includes a housing having an inlet and an outlet at opposite axial sides, an impeller positioned proximate the inlet of the housing, and a shaft connected to the impeller and extending axially through the housing between the inlet and the outlet. At least two spaced apart support structures hold the shaft in the housing, where a plurality of dynamic blades extending outwardly from the shaft are alternatingly positioned between a plurality of fixed blades extending radially inward from an inner wall of the housing. |
| US12286844B2 |
Completions for well zone control
Various embodiments of the present disclosure include a system, method, and apparatus for increased control of steam injection for use in oil and gas recovery in a well. Embodiments can comprise a plurality of controllable zones of injection disposed in the well. The plurality of controllable zones include a primary conduit that houses a plurality of concentric conduits of decreasing diameter disposed inside of the primary conduit. In some embodiments, each of the concentric conduits includes a proximal end and a distal end. In some embodiments, each of the plurality of concentric conduits are fluidly sealed from one another from their respective proximal end to distal end. |
| US12286838B1 |
Drive assembly for a vertical blind
A drive assembly structured to selectively rotate different ones of a plurality of blind rollers of a vertical blind assembly including a drive component, selectively positioned into driving relation with different ones of the plurality of blind rollers. The drive gear includes a driving component disposable into rotationally driving engagement with a different one of the plurality of blind rollers, concurrent to rotation of said drive gear. A support assembly is movable with and rotationally supports the drive gear when in the driving relation to an aligned one of the plurality of blind rollers. A selector assembly is drivingly connected to the support assembly and is operative to selectively dispose support assembly and drive gear into driving relation with the different ones of the plurality of blind rollers. |
| US12286836B2 |
Electromechanical actuator for blackout or sun-shading device and blackout or sun-shading installation comprising such an actuator
An electromechanical actuator is integrated into a blackout or sun-shading device that includes a screen, top and bottom bars, and top and bottom winding shafts. The screen is between the bars. The top bar is connected to the top winding shaft by first cords. The bottom bar is connected to the bottom winding shaft by second cords. The electromechanical actuator includes first and second transmission devices and an electric motor that drives the shafts. The first transmission device connects to the motor and the top winding shaft and includes a first clutch. The second transmission device connects to the electric motor and the bottom winding shaft and includes a second clutch. When the motor is activated with only one clutch engaged, only one winding shaft is rotated. Moreover, when the motor is activated electrically and the clutches are engaged, the winding shafts are rotated by the motor. |
| US12286834B2 |
Sound damping door
A sound damping door system having a door frame, a compression seal, a door slab, a bottom seal, and a concealed hinge assembly. The door frame includes male and female components adapted to engage each other in a rough door opening between first and second wall faces; and at least one isolation gasket adapted to be disposed between the male and female components. The compression seal is mounted to the door frame. The door slab includes an outer skin; an arched constrainment sheet inside the outer skin; a damping fill material inside the outer skin; and an acoustic insert inside the outer skin. The bottom seal is mounted to a bottom surface of the door slab such that the bottom seal is permitted to move relative to the door slab. |
| US12286831B2 |
Vehicle hinge driving apparatus
An embodiment vehicle hinge driving apparatus includes an actuator, a housing connected to the actuator, an output shaft having an axis aligned with an axis of the housing, a transmission mechanism configured to transmit a torque from the actuator to the output shaft, and a brake unit configured to provide a brake torque to the output shaft. |
| US12286822B2 |
Mortise lock with multi-point latch system
An adapter and interface permits a standard mortise lock to drive top and bottom latch mechanisms of a multi-point lock system. An actuator permits in situ adjustment of the top and bottom vertical latch projections of adjusting these projections while the door is hung in the door frame. An installation tool assists in the installation of the vertical rods in a door. A connector and carrier secures the vertical rods to the actuator and permits verification of retention of the rods in a multi-point latching system. A latch dogging indicator allows for end-user adjustment between a single-point lock and a multi-point lock system when desired. These different aspects may be employed in combination or separately with other locking systems. |
| US12286821B2 |
Vehicle door handle assembly
In a vehicle door handle assembly, a first lever rotates between a rest position where a first extremity is in a rest position, a deployed position where the first extremity is outside a bracket, and an opening position where the first lever actuates an opening lever. A second lever rotates between a rest position where a second extremity is in a rest position, an activation position where the second extremity lowers the second lever into the bracket, and a deployed position where the second extremity is outside the bracket. A return lever includes an elastic device biasing it to a first position. Rotation of the second lever to an activation position actuates rotation of the return lever from its first to a second position. Rotation of the return lever from its second to its first position actuates rotation of the second lever from its deployed position to its rest position. |
| US12286815B2 |
LED display screen lock
An LED display screen lock includes a handle, a lock seat and a lock core. The lock seat includes a base, a through hole and a pin slidably disposed on the base. The lock core is rotatably disposed on the handle and received in the through hole. A locking hole is formed on the lock core and the pin is inserted in the locking hole. An unlocking portion is disposed on a circumference of the handle. The unlocking portion is abutted against the pin, in order to drive the pin to exit the locking hole. |
| US12286814B1 |
Door opening system for animal enclosure
A door opening system for an animal enclosure is provided. The door opening system can include a latch mechanism to hold a door of the animal enclosure in a closed position and an opening mechanism to move the door to an open position in response to the latch mechanism releasing the hold on the door. The latch mechanism can incorporate an electromagnetic locking mechanism that is controlled by a user interface device at the enclosure or by a command from a remote device wirelessly connected to a control module for the electromagnetic locking mechanism by a network. The opening mechanism can include one or more springs that can move the door from the closed position to the open position. |
| US12286813B2 |
Selectively operable door for an autonomous device
A selectively operable door (50) for a robotic vehicle (10) may include a doorframe disposable in a barrier dividing two areas in which the robotic vehicle (10) is enabled to travel, a door body (54) hingedly connected to the door frame (52), and a latching assembly configured to alternately allow movement of the door body (54) such that the robotic vehicle (10) to enabled to pass through the selectively operable door (50) via displacement of the door body (54) and prevent movement of the door body (54) such that the door body (54) is retained in a closed state. The latching assembly may include an automatic lock configured to define a release position in which movement of the door body (54) from the closed state is allowed, and a capture position in which movement of the door body to the closed state is allowed and movement of the door body from the closed state is prevented. |
| US12286809B2 |
Relocatable tank
A relocatable tank, and method of constructing same, have a plurality of precast wall panels retained by a cable tensioning system between a plurality of support members to form a continuous, preferably generally circular, wall. At least some of the support members comprise at least one aperture and at least one elongate slot to receive respective cables of the tensioning system to retain a shape of the tank. The tank can be easily assembled at a site with prefabricated parts and easily deconstructed when no longer needed and be relocated and reinstalled in a range of sizes if desired. The relocatable tank is typically installed on a compacted earthen pad with no requirement for a concrete footing, unless the tank is used in regions with high seismic or wind activity. A liner system comprised of either a single or double arrangement is installed to fluidly seal the tank. The inclusion of water ballast tubes means no minimum liquid level is required to secure the liner in a designated position. |
| US12286802B2 |
Connecting device for a leg part and a beam
The present invention relates to a connecting device for a leg part and a supporting member, i.e., a beam, and more specifically, it is possible to secure a pair of leg part more easily and robustly to the beam using a fixing bolt, and it also relates to a leg member and a beam member connecting device so that the volume can be reduced by folding the leg member under the beam member during storage. |
| US12286801B2 |
Set of mutually lockable panels
A set of mutually lockable panels comprises a first panel having an edge including a male part and a second panel having an edge including a female part for receiving the male part of the first panel in unlocked condition of the panels. The male part has an outer side which, in locked condition of the panels, is directed to the second panel in a direction substantially parallel to the front face of the first panel, and an opposite inner side which is provided with a locking surface. The female part comprises a locking member, which is pivotable about a pivot axis that extends substantially parallel to the edge of the second panel and an actuator for rotating the locking member from its unlocked condition to a locked condition of the panels. |
| US12286800B2 |
Panel for producing self-locking floor covering
The invention relates to a panel in the form of a strip or tile for producing of a floor covering, the panel comprising two pairs of opposite sides defining—two opposite edges for the assembly at an angle, of which one edge comprises male coupling means provided from a side wall of the panel, and an opposite edge comprises complementary female coupling means provided from a side wall of the panel; two opposite edges for vertical assembly, of which one edge comprises a male coupling means provide provided from a bottom face of the panel, and an opposite edge comprises complementary female coupling mead provided from a top face of the panel. According to the invention, the male coupling means of the edges for vertical assembly comprise two parallel groves that extend along the edge and open onto a lower face of the panel so as to define an inner male groove. |
| US12286798B2 |
Three axis clip system for mounting panels to a wall
The present disclosure is directed to a clip system and methods for using same for the attachment of finish panels to modular walls. The clip system includes a lower portion for attachment to the modular wall, an upper portion with a receptacle for attaching the panel, and a middle portion connecting the upper and lower portions. The middle portion further allows movement between portions so that the clip system can be expanded in two axial directions for precise panel placement. Further panels can be adjusted about the upper portion in a third axial direction. Thus, the clip system facilitates panel positioning and attachment in an exact, three-dimensional location on the modular wall. |
| US12286797B2 |
Fastening system for covering elements
A fastening system for covering elements, the fastening system comprising an anchoring profiled element that can be mounted to a substructure and a clip element that can be mounted to the covering element and latched to the anchoring profiled element, wherein the anchoring profiled element has at least one latching protrusion on each of two opposite faces and the clip element has the shape of a U with a central web and two legs, and wherein, in the latched position, the clip element extends over the anchoring profiled element in the manner of a clamp and each leg latches to a latching protrusion in the manner of a snap hook. |
| US12286795B2 |
Method for applying a structured surface to a building surface and corresponding covering element
The invention pertains to a method for applying a structured surface to a building surface, particularly for the interior design of a room, wherein a carrier material is provided with a surface structure and the carrier material with this surface structure is applied to the building surface. |
| US12286787B2 |
Gasketed ceiling system
A suspended ceiling system in one embodiment includes a grid support member and a ceiling panel supported on the member. A resiliently compressible gasket is disposed at the interface between the grid support member and peripheral edge of the panel. The gasket may be fixedly attached to the panel peripheral edge in the factory under controlled conditions before shipment to the ceiling installation site. In one embodiment, the gasket may be adhesively attached to the panel. Mounting the ceiling panel on the grid support member compresses the gasket to preferably form a minimally visible air leakage resistant seal between the air plenum space above the ceiling panels and the occupied space below. This retards air exchange between the spaces which enhances heating/cooling efficiency, noise reduction and allows formation of pressurized clean rooms. |
| US12286784B1 |
Beam support structure
A beam support structure that is formed of a first bracket for supporting a first beam or post; and a second bracket for supporting a second beam. Each of the first and second brackets are of U-shape including a base wall and a pair of side walls that extend orthogonal to the base wall, and a support flange that extends parallel to the pair of side walls and an arm having respective ends that connect between the respective flanges of the first and second brackets. The arm is secured between the first and second brackets, while allowing multiple different secured positions between the first and second brackets. A leveling member may be associated with each bracket and arm. |
| US12286783B2 |
Gutter system, cover unit and securing element
The invention relates to a gutter system (1) comprising at least one frame unit (10), at least one cover unit (20) and at least one securing element (30), wherein the frame unit (10) comprises at least one receiving area (12) for arranging the cover unit (20), and wherein the securing element (30) is adapted to engage in the cover unit (20) and to releasably engage in the receiving area (12) so the cover unit (20) can interlock in the receiving area (12) of the frame unit (10). The invention also relates to a cover unit (20) and a securing element (30). |
| US12286781B2 |
Toilet bowl bidet capable of preventing droplets from splashing when toilet is flushed
Disclosed is a toilet bowl bidet capable of preventing droplets from splashing, the toilet bowl bidet including a washing water supply hose (150) having an air pump (180) disposed at an outlet side of a washing water valve (160) and configured to mix air into washing water supplied to a bidet nozzle unit (140), wherein the bidet nozzle unit (140) includes first and second washing water passages (141) and (143) respectively including bidet nozzles (142) and (144), a third washing water passage (145) including a shield nozzle (146), and a distributor 148 configured to guide the washing water to a selected one of the first, second, and third washing water passages (141), (143), and (145). A controller (170) is configured to, when a flushing operation is performed, control the distributor (148) to supply air-mixed washing water to the third washing water passage (145) and open the washing water valve (160). |
| US12286780B2 |
Toilet bowl odor extractor system
A toilet structure comprising an odor extract system. The structure includes a toilet seat which is attachable to a toilet. The toilet seat has a hollow structure and includes multiple vent holes distributed on a bottom surface of the toilet seat which traverse into the hollow interior. The multiple vent holes are each covered with a cap that directs air toward the multiple holes and prevents liquid or other toilet debris to enter the multiple holes. An opening is located on a back end of the toilet seat and the opening connects the hollow interior to an air intake mechanism. A gasket strip is integrated along a perimeter on the bottom surface of the toilet seat between the multiple vent holes and an outer edge of the toilet seat to create some space between the bottom surface and the toilet for the air to enter the multiple vent holes. |
| US12286778B2 |
Disposer mounting system and method
Mounting systems for waste disposers such as food waste disposers, waste disposers employing such systems, and related methods are disclosed herein. In one example embodiment, a mounting system includes a tubular structure extending between first and second ends, and an enclosure structure configured to be able to support, at least indirectly, the waste disposer. Further, the mounting system includes an elastomeric member coupled to each of the tubular structure, the enclosure structure, and the waste disposer. Additionally, the mounting system includes one or more backup support features that is or are configured to enable the enclosure structure and the waste disposer to be supported relative to the tubular structure when the elastomeric member is unable unilaterally to provide a desired support level of the enclosure structure and the waste disposer relative to the tubular structure. |
| US12286776B2 |
Adjustable showerhead support system
An adjustable showerhead support system capable of being attached to a shower chair. The showerhead support system has a showerhead support assembly operated by a showerhead support track lever allowing a user to move a showerhead forwards and backwards. The showerhead support assembly also has a telescoping bracket and telescoping legs to allow a user to adjust the height of the showerhead. The showerhead support system also includes a back track assembly operated by a back track lever that allows the user to move the showerhead left and right. The showerhead support system also includes a counterbalance. |
| US12286774B2 |
Stub-up coupling system
A coupling system for plumbing applications including stub-ups in a poured slab. The coupling system includes a coupler and a cap. The coupler provides a glue-hub that is couplable to a stub-up. An opposite end of the coupler is enclosed by a knock-out disc that seals the end of the stub-up for pressure testing. A second glue-hub is provided beneath the knock-out disc. The cap includes a cap plate enclosing a top end thereof and is height adjustable on the coupler. A thermal expansion gap between the slab and the stub-up is provided by a sleeve positionable around the cap. The cap plate and the knock-out disc are “knocked out” to enable connection with the plumbing system and are sized to resist falling into the stub-up. An air purging valve may be installed in the coupler for pressure testing prior to removing the knock-out discs in the cap and coupler. |
| US12286769B2 |
Work machine and assist device to assist in work with work machine
A work machine includes a lower traveling structure, an upper swing structure swingably mounted on the lower traveling structure, an attachment attached to the upper swing structure, a surrounding area monitor, and a display. The display is configured to display guidance with respect to an object detected by the surrounding area monitor. |
| US12286768B2 |
Work machine
The invention of the present application has as its object the provision of a work machine that is equipped with a function to prevent a work device thereof from going into an entry prohibited area and can satisfy both working precision and working efficiency of the work device. A controller is therefore configured to start work range limiting control to decelerate or stop an action of a machine main body or the work device when a distance between a monitor point set beforehand on the work device and the entry prohibited area decreases to a first distance, to end the work range limiting control when the distance between the monitor point and the entry prohibited area increases to a second distance greater than the first distance, and to change the second distance according to an operation amount of an operation device. |
| US12286766B2 |
Swiveling work machine
A swiveling work machine includes a swivel base, a prime mover provided on the swivel base, a work device provided on the swivel base, and a support mechanism to support a fuel cylinder storing fuel for the prime mover. |
| US12286761B2 |
Foundation formwork
A light-weight formwork having a small change in dimensions due to an environmental temperature. A foundation formwork includes a metal frame having a rectangular frame shape, and a resin faceplate attached to the metal frame and closing an opening of the metal frame. The metal frame includes a top plate having fitting notches and L-shaped bridged bodies. The resin faceplate includes protruding bodies fitted with the fitting notches and L-shaped slits into which the bridged bodies are fittingly inserted. The protruding bodies fit with the fitting notches and the bridged bodies are fittingly inserted into the slits, thereby the resin faceplate is attached to the metal frame. The attached resin faceplate closes an opening of the metal frame. The fitting notches and the bridged bodies suppress an expansion and contraction of the resin faceplate in a left and right direction. |
| US12286757B2 |
Aqueous compositions with improved barrier properties
Described herein is an aqueous composition to improve barrier properties. Particularly, described herein is a polymer-based grease resistant aqueous composition for coating paper and paper products. |
| US12286755B2 |
Binder and formed body producing method
A binder includes an inorganic oxide particle and a binding material particle containing a binding material to mutually bind fibers when water is provided, wherein the binder includes a composite particle in which the binding material particle and the inorganic oxide particle are integrated, the inorganic oxide particle contains carbon, and the content of the carbon is 2% by mass or more relative to the mass of the inorganic oxide particle. |
| US12286753B2 |
Clothing
A clothing or seamed felt for a pressing section of a machine producing a fibrous web includes at least one base structure and at least one staple fiber layer is disposed on the base structure. The staple fiber layer is disposed on a side facing the fibrous web and/or the machine. At least one seam zone has seam loops connected to one another by at least one pintle or seam wire making the clothing endless. The staple fiber layer is divided in the region of the seam zone by at least one cut forming a seam flap and a seam wedge or gusset. At least one connecting element is inserted between the seam flap and the seam wedge. The connecting element is materially connected, in particular welded, to staple fibers of the seam flap and/or of the seam wedge. A method for using the clothing is also provided. |
| US12286752B2 |
Method for dewatering a web comprising microfibrillated celluose and a film produced from the dewatered web
The present invention relates to a method for dewatering a web comprising microfibrillated cellulose, wherein the method comprises the steps of: providing a suspension comprising between 50 wt-% to 100 wt-% of microfibrillated cellulose based on total dry weight, forming a fibrous web of said suspension on a support wherein said web has a dry content of 1-25% by weight, applying a dewatering felt into direct contact with the fibrous web, conducting said fibrous web, arranged between said dewatering felt and said support, through at least one shoe press equipment, drying the dewatered web to form a film which film has an Oxygen Transmission Rate (OTR) value (23° C., 50% RH) below 100 cc/m2/24 h according to ASTM D-3985. |
| US12286751B2 |
Oxygen treatment of high kappa fibers
Recycle fiber bleaching includes an oxygen pre-treatment to activate the fiber for further bleaching. A preferred method of making a high brightness papermaking pulp from recycled cellulose fiber includes: (a) pre-treating a first recycled cellulosic fiber mix with oxygen, said first recycled cellulosic fiber mix having a first high Kappa number prior to pre-treatment and a reduced Kappa number after pre-treatment that is lower than said first high Kappa number; and (b) blending the pre-treated first recycled cellulosic fiber mix with the reduced Kappa number with a second recycled cellulosic fiber mix having a second Kappa number lower than the first high Kappa number of the first recycled cellulosic fiber mix; and (c) oxidatively bleaching the blended recycled cellulosic fiber mix of step (b); and optionally (d) reductively bleaching the blended recycled cellulosic fiber mix of step (c). |
| US12286747B2 |
Reactive fibers, method of manufacturing the same, and outer shell of chemical, biological and radiological protective clothing including the same
A reactive fiber, a method of manufacturing the reactive fiber, and an outer shell of chemical, biological and radiological (CBR) protective clothing including the reactive fiber are provided. The reactive fiber includes a fiber, a plurality of reactive projections formed on a surface of the fiber, and a plurality of hydrophobic projections formed on the fiber and surfaces of the reactive projections. |
| US12286743B2 |
Laundry treatment apparatus
A laundry treatment apparatus is disclosed. The laundry treatment apparatus includes a cabinet having an accommodation space formed therein to accommodate laundry, a door hingedly connected to the cabinet to open or close the accommodation space, a presser for applying pressure to laundry to remove wrinkles from laundry, and a presser-fixing structure for mounting the presser to the inner surface of the accommodation space or the door. The presser-fixing structure includes a support holder protruding from the inner surface of the accommodation space or the door and a presser-fixing recess formed concavely in the rear surface of the presser so as to allow the support holder to be inserted thereinto. |
| US12286739B2 |
Yarn tension and breakage sensor system
A yarn monitoring system for textile machines uses sensors to indicate yarn over-tensioning and breakage. The sensors within eyelets monitor the passage of the yarn and send new signals to the controller. The eyelets, each with a sensor, are within a body containing a circuit board which is in constant communication with the sensors and software contained within a controller. The controller is in constant communication with the textile machine. The software contains an acceptable operational zone for new signal data and control limits establishing the lowest new signal data reading permitted for the yarn. The user establishes set points for the control limits, and reaching these set points is an indication of over-tension or yarn breakage. To prevent unnecessary shut down of the machine, the software averages the new signal data and, when the new signal average remains out of the established set points, initiates communication to the textile machine. |
| US12286734B2 |
Method for producing nonwoven fabric and nonwoven fabric
According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for producing a nonwoven fabric, the method comprising the steps of providing fibres comprising 10-100 wt-% of bast fibres, the bast fibres having at least one angle of at least 20°, and the bast fibres having an average fibre length of 10-60 mm; carding the fibres and forming a web of fibres on a wire support; hydroentangling the formed web by using at least a first and a second hydroentangling unit, wherein a hydroentanglement energy in the first hydroentangling unit is lower than the hydroentanglement energy in the second hydroentangling unit; dewatering the hydroentangled web; and drying the dewatered web at a temperature of 105-125° C. |
| US12286732B2 |
Pile fabric and manufacturing method therefor
A pile fabric includes a long pile portion and a short pile portion. An average pile length of the long pile portion differs from an average pile length of the short pile portion by 2 mm or more. The long pile portion contains crimped polyester-based fibers in an amount of 60% by weight or more. The short pile portion contains crimped polyester-based fibers in an amount of 60% by weight or more. A crimp removal temperature of the polyester-based fibers of the long pile portion is lower than a crimp removal temperature of the polyester-based fibers of the short pile portion. The crimp removal temperature of the polyester-based fibers of the short pile portion is 90° C. or more and 120° C. or less. Each of the crimp removal temperatures indicates a minimum temperature that satisfies a specific relationship. A method for manufacturing the pile fabric is also provided. |
| US12286730B2 |
Intermediate receiving mechanism for warp beam in loom
An intermediate receiving mechanism includes a base member capable of supporting both shaft end portions, a lever member for clamping both shaft end portions, and two beam support sets arranged side by side, corresponding to respective warp beams. Each beam support sets is constituted by two or more supporting rollers on the base member side and a contact part including one or more contact rollers on the lever member side. The lever member includes a swing member swings about a swing shaft and supports both the contact parts. Support positions on the swing member for both the contact parts are positions where a line segment connecting the support position for one contact part and a shaft center of the swing shaft forms an angle with respect to a line segment connecting the support position for the other contact part and the shaft center. |
| US12286727B2 |
Assessing nuclease cleavage
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods of analyzing cleavage profiles of nucleases. |
| US12286720B2 |
Electrochemical methods, devices and compositions
The disclosure provides a method comprising inducing a first current between a source of a countercharge and a first electrode, the first current being through an electrolyte. A second current is induced across the first electrode, the second current being transverse to the first current, and the second current inducing a relativistic charge across the first electrode. |
| US12286716B2 |
System and method for carbon dioxide reactor control
A system optionally including a carbon oxide reactor. A method for carbon oxide reactor control, optionally including selecting carbon oxide reactor aspects based on a desired output composition, running a carbon oxide reactor under controlled process conditions to produce a desired output composition, and/or altering the process conditions to alter the output composition. |
| US12286714B2 |
Nickel phosphide catalysts for direct electrochemical CO2 reduction to hydrocarbons
Disclosed are cathodes comprising a conductive support substrate having an electrocatalyst coating containing nickel phosphide nanoparticles. The conductive support substrate is capable of incorporating a material to be reduced, such as CO2 or CO. A co-catalyst, either incorporated into the electrolyte solution, or adsorbed to, deposited on, or incorporated into the bulk cathode material, provides increased selectivity and activity of the nickel phosphide electrocatalyst. Also disclosed are electrochemical methods for selectively generating hydrocarbon and/or carbohydrate products from CO2 or CO using water as a source of hydrogen. |
| US12286711B2 |
Use of intermediates in solar fuels generation
A solar fuels generation system includes a first reactor that contains a first solution in which a charge carrier is reduced to a reduced charge carrier. The system also includes a second reactor that contains a second solution in which the reduced charge carrier reduces protons so as to generate hydrogen gas. |
| US12286710B2 |
Methods of low-temperature/BEOL-compatible highly scalable graphene synthesis
A method is described for migration of a deposition material across a diffusion couple deposited on a substrate to a substrate surface including: using a reactor system to facilitate the migration of one or more diffusion materials across a diffusion couple to a substrate by applying a specified pressure to facilitate the migration of the one or more diffusion materials across the diffusion couple to the substrate, where the specified pressure has a value between 14.5 psi and 125 psi, and applying a temperature to facilitate the migration of the one or more diffusion materials across a diffusion couple to the substrate, where the heatable top disk is controlled at a temperature between 25° C. and 500° C. and the heatable bottom disk is controlled at a temperature between 25° C. and 500° C., and where graphene is formed on the substrate surface. |
| US12286709B2 |
Carbide material for cutting devices and associated method of manufacture
There is provided a carbide material including tungsten carbide of 60 to 85 weight %, titanium carbides of 10 to 25 weight % and preferably a metal matrix of 0.5 to 20 weight % including Fe and optionally at least one or both of the metals Co or Ni. There is also provided a device including a ferrous substrate and such a carbide material and a method of manufacturing a device, the method comprising mixing powders comprising carbon, tungsten and a scavenger material such as titanium, placing the mixed powders proximal a ferrous substrate, impinging an energy source onto the powdered materials to create a melt pool formed of the powders and the material of the substrate, and allowing the melt pool to solidify to form a carbide material substantially free from iron tungsten carbides of (W, Fe)6C and (W, Fe)12C type. |
| US12286708B2 |
Method and system for fabricating an electrical conductor on a substrate
A system for spraying a coating material to a substrate includes an optical sensor that monitors a thickness, a controller that generates a first signal corresponding to an amount of gas propellant to be heated, a second signal corresponding to a temperature to which the gas propellant is to be heated, a third signal corresponding to an amount of a solid powder composition to be mixed with the heated gas, and a fourth signal corresponding to a distance between the nozzle and the substrate, a first regulator that supplies an amount of gas propellant corresponding to the first signal, a heater that heats the gas propellant to the temperature corresponding to the second signal, a second regulator that supplies an amount of solid powder composition corresponding to the third signal, and an actuator that moves the nozzle corresponding to the fourth signal. |
| US12286707B2 |
Apparatus for manufacturing semiconductor device
An apparatus for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes first and second process chambers in a first row in a first direction, third and fourth process chambers in a second row in the first direction, the third and fourth process chambers being spaced apart from the first and second process chambers in a second direction, and the first and third process chambers being arranged in parallel in the second direction to perform a same process, a load-lock chamber at one side of the first to fourth process chambers in the first direction, and first and second transfer chambers directly connected to each other in a third row in the first direction, the third row being between the first and second rows, and each of the first and second transfer chambers including a transfer unit to transfer a semiconductor substrate between the first to fourth process chambers and the load-lock chamber. |
| US12286697B2 |
Low temperature hardenable steels with excellent machinability
The present invention relates to the application of at least partially bainitic or interstitial martensitic heat treatments on steels, often tool steels or steels that can be used for tools. The first tranche of the heat treatment implying austenitization is applied so that the steel presents a low enough hardness to allow for advantageous shape modification, often trough machining. Thus a steel product is obtained which can be shaped with ease and whose hardness can be raised to a higher working hardness with a simple heat treatment at low temperature (below austenitization temperature). |
| US12286696B2 |
Hot rolled and unannealed ferritic stainless steel sheet having excellent impact toughness, and manufacturing method therefor
A non-annealed hot-rolled ferritic stainless steel sheet with excellent impact toughness includes, in percent (%) by weight of the entire composition, C: more than 0 and 0.03% or less, Si: 0.1 to 0.5%, Mn: 1.5% or less, P: 0.04% or less, Cr: 10.5 to 14%, Ni: more than 0 and 1.5% or less, Ti: 0.01 to 0.5%, Cu: more than 0 and 1.0% or less, N: more than 0 and 0.015% or less, Al: 0.1% or less, the remainder of iron (Fe) and other inevitable impurities, and satisfies the following equation (1), and the average grain size of the cross-sectional microstructure in the direction perpendicular to the rolling direction is 60 μm or less. (1500≤(1001.5*C+950.6*Mn+1350.5*Ni+395.6*Cu−0.7*Si−1.0*Ti−0.1*Cr−1.0*P−1.0*Al+1020.5*N)≤2200). (1). |
| US12286686B2 |
Co-processing of copper sulphide concentrate with nickel laterite ore
A process to recover nickel, cobalt and copper by co-processing copper-containing sulphide concentrate feed containing one or more of arsenic, antimony, and bismuth, and laterite ore feed containing nickel and cobalt by pressure oxidative leaching. The sulphide concentrate and oxygen are controlled to produce sulphuric acid to leach nickel, cobalt, copper and acid soluble impurities into a liquid phase of an acidic leach slurry, to precipitate iron compounds and a majority of the arsenic, antimony and bismuth as solids, and to produce heat to heat the incoming feeds to a temperature above 230° C. Reacted slurry is withdrawn, solids are separated, and the PLS solution contains the nickel, cobalt, copper and acid soluble impurities. A first solution purification stage on the PLS neutralizes free acid, precipitates one or more of iron, aluminum, chromium and silicon, and, separates as solids, the precipitated impurities and other solids from a first purified solution. Copper is separated from the first purified solution with a solvent extraction step to produce a raffinate solution reduced in copper and a copper loaded organic phase. The organic phase is stripped and copper is recovered with electrowinning. A second solution purification stage is conducted on the raffinate by one or both of neutralizing free acid and precipitating one or more of iron, aluminum, chromium and silicon, followed by separating as solids, the precipitated impurities and other solids from a second purified solution. Nickel and cobalt are recovered as mixed hydroxides or mixed sulphides from the second purified solution. |
| US12286684B2 |
Copper smelting process
Disclosed is a process for recovering copper from secondary raw materials including in a feed batch smelting in a furnace a feedstock including copper oxide and elemental iron for forming a concentrated copper intermediate, whereby heat is generated by the redox reactions converting iron to oxide and copper oxide to copper, whereby copper collects in a molten liquid metal phase and iron oxides collect in a supernatant liquid slag phase, whereby at the end of the batch the liquid phases separate and may be removed from the furnace as smelter slag and as the concentrated copper intermediate, wherein during the smelting step an excess of elemental iron is maintained in the furnace relative to the amount required for completing the redox reactions, and further heat input is provided by the injection of an oxygen containing gas for oxidizing the excess iron. |
| US12286676B2 |
Method for counting cell types or cell markers in a sample, in particular in a blood sample
A method for detecting characteristic cells in a sample includes performing a first lysis of a sample to yield a first lysate wherein nuclei of the cells of the sample remain intact. Freely available RNA in the first lysate is extracted and classified to ascertain the amounts of various types of RNA in the first lysate. A second lysis operation on the previously lysed sample is performed to yield a second lysate wherein the cell nuclei of the cells in the sample are destroyed. DNA freely available in the second lysate is extracted and a total cell count of cells in the provided sample is calculated on the basis of the amount of extracted DNA. The number of cells having individual cell markers in the provided sample is calculated using the ascertained amounts of various types of RNA and the calculated total cell count. |
| US12286675B2 |
Epigenetic markers for the identification of blood sub-cells of type 1
The present invention relates to a method, in particular an in vitro method, for identifying CD3CD4 positive T lymphocytes of a mammal, wherein said method comprises analysing the methylation status of at least one CpG position in the CD3a/b/c/d/g genes, in particular their “upstream” regulatory regions, and in particular the promoter and other conserved regions of the gene cd3, wherein a demethylation of at least one CpG in the analyzed sample to at least 90% is indicative for memory and naive CD4 or/and memory and/or naive T lymphocytes. Furthermore, the present invention is directed at the use of DNA-methylation analysis of the genes CD3a/b/c/d for the detection and quality assurance and control of T lymphocytes. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a kit for performing the above methods as well as respective uses thereof. In a preferred embodiment, the present invention furthermore provides an improved method for analysing the methylation status of at least one CpG position in the gene CD3, allowing for a precise analysis even from sub-optimal quality samples, such as non-freshly obtained blood or serum samples. |
| US12286674B2 |
Nucleic acid taggants
The present disclosure relates to compositions and methods for marking/tagging objects for identification. In particular, tagging objects with a nucleic acid taggant (genetic tag based merchandise authentication). |
| US12286672B2 |
Methods and systems for detecting genetic variants
Disclosed herein in are methods and systems for determining genetic variants (e.g., copy number variation) in a polynucleotide sample. A method for determining copy number variations includes tagging double-stranded polynucleotides with duplex tags, sequencing polynucleotides from the sample and estimating total number of polynucleotides mapping to selected genetic loci. The estimate of total number of polynucleotides can involve estimating the number of double-stranded polynucleotides in the original sample for which no sequence reads are generated. This number can be generated using the number of polynucleotides for which reads for both complementary strands are detected and reads for which only one of the two complementary strands is detected. |
| US12286671B2 |
Linked target capture
The invention generally relates to sequencing library preparation methods. In certain embodiments, two or more template nucleic acids are joined together by a linking molecule, such as a PEG derivative. Identical copies of a nucleic acid fragment or both strands of a duplex fragment may be linked together. The linked nucleic acids are amplified, creating linked amplicons. Emulsion PCR with linked primers creates linked template nucleic acids for seeding sequencing clusters and errors can be readily identified by their presence on only one of the linked fragments. |
| US12286670B2 |
Full-length RNA sequencing
The present disclosure provides a method for analyzing a polyribonucleotide, wherein the polyribonucleotide is an mRNA molecule with a poly(A) tail, said method comprising: (a) obtaining a labeled polyribonucleotide by GI tailing; followed by (b) providing a second molecule comprising a first primer recognition sequence followed by a sequence of C nucleotide residues linked to a sequence of T nucleotide residues; followed by (c) obtaining a complex of said labeled polyribonucleotide and said second molecule; followed by (d) obtaining an extended second molecule by (d1) extending the 3′ end of the second molecule by synthesizing a sequence that is complementary to the labeled polyribonucleotide; followed by (d2) extending the 3′ end of the second molecule by adding at least 1 to 5 C nucleotide residues, followed by a second primer recognition sequence; said method providing information on entire polyribonucleotides, in particular mRNA isoforms and their respective poly(A) tails. |
| US12286668B2 |
SH2B adapter protein 3 for the prediction of bone marrow response and immune response
The present invention relates to SH2B adapter protein 3 (SH2B3) for use as a diagnostic marker. Further, the present invention relates to a method for the determination of SH2B3 gene expression. |
| US12286667B2 |
In situ detection of nucleic acid molecules
Disclosed herein, inter alia, are compositions and methods of use thereof for interrogating a cell. |
| US12286666B2 |
Methods for in situ transcriptomics and proteomics
Disclosed herein, inter alia, are compositions and methods of use thereof for interrogating a cell. |
| US12286664B2 |
Pipe weight coating
Provided herein are novel and improved weight coating systems suitable for use with pipes, particularly pipes that are submerged in liquid, such as water, in environments including oceans, seas, marshes, lakes and rivers. The novel coating systems provided herein comprise an aggregate and a polyurethane binder, wherein the polyurethane binder is a two-component composition comprising an isocyanate component and an iso-cyanate-reactive component. The coating systems provided have increased durability, as well as flexibility allowing for efficiencies related to transportation, storage, use and resistance to corrosive effects. Furthermore, the coating systems are cost effective and have minimal or zero impact on the environments in which they are utilized. |
| US12286661B2 |
Methods for making high intensity sweeteners
Provided herein include methods of making mogroside compounds, e.g., Compound 1, compositions (for example, host cells) for making mogroside compounds, and the mogroside compounds made by the methods and compositions disclosed herein, compositions made by the methods (for example, cell lysates), and recombinant cells comprising the mogroside compounds (e.g., Compound 1). |
| US12286658B2 |
Enhancing formation of milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) by modifying lactose import in the cell
This invention relates to a method of producing one or more human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs), in particular LNT and/or LNnT, in a genetically engineered cell comprising an enhanced oligosaccharide transport capability. The genetically modified cell comprises a series of genetic modification which enable the production of one or more HMO(s), and a series of genetic modification that enhances the transport of lactose and produced HMO(s). |
| US12286657B2 |
Methods and compositions
The invention relates to genetic incorporation of 2,3-diamino propionic acid (DAP) into polypeptides, to unnatural amino acids comprising DAP, to a tRNA synthetase for charging tRNA with unnatural amino acids comprising DAP, and to methods of using the resulting polypeptides, for example in capturing substrates and/or intermediates in enzymatic reactions. The invention also relates to compounds of formula (I) or (II): or salts, solvates, tautomers, isomers or mixtures thereof. |
| US12286656B2 |
Pseudozyma microorganisms and the production of itaconic acid
Described herein is the fermentative production of fine chemicals, notably itaconate or itaconic acid, including production microorganisms, fermentation compositions and media, proteins useful in the production of the products, and nucleic acids for expression of such proteins, as well as methods for the production of fine chemicals. |
| US12286655B2 |
Human alpha-galactosidase variants
The present invention provides engineered human alpha-galactosidase polypeptides and compositions thereof. The engineered human alpha-galactosidase polypeptides have been optimized to provide improved thermostability, serum stability, improved cellular uptake, stability under both acidic (pH<4) and basic (pH>7) conditions, reduced immunogenicity, and improved globotriaosylceramide removal from cells. The invention also relates to the use of the compositions comprising the engineered human alpha-galactosidase polypeptides for therapeutic purposes. |
| US12286652B2 |
Variants of terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase and uses thereof
The present invention relates to variants of Terminal deoxynucleotidyl Transferase (TdT), each of which (i) has an amino acid sequence similarity to SEQ ID NO: 2, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33 or 35 with corresponding amino acid substitutions, (ii) is capable of synthesizing a nucleic acid fragment without a template and (iii) is capable of incorporating a modified nucleotide into the nucleic acid fragment. |
| US12286647B1 |
Establishment and suspension acclimation of CRFK adherent cell line, and its application
Provided are establishment and suspension acclimation of a Crandell Reese Feline Kidney (CRFK) adherent cell line, and its application. The CRFK cell line, named CRFK-BLA, is deposited at the China General Microbiological Culture Collection Center (CGMCC), with the address being Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 3, Yard No. 1, Beichen West Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, the deposit number being CGMCC NO: 45703; the CRFK cell line was classified and named CRFK cells, and was deposited on Aug. 17, 2023. A serum-free complete suspension culture type CRFK cell line obtained by acclimation on the basis of CRFK-BLA is named CRFK-BLS, and is deposited at the China General Microbiological Culture Collection Center (CGMCC), with the address being Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 3, Yard No. 1, Beichen West Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, the deposit number being CGMCC NO: 45704; the CRFK cell line was classified and named CRFK suspension cells. |
| US12286644B2 |
Cardiosphere-derived cell sheet and methods of making and using the same
A method of making a cell sheet comprising secondary spheroids, including (a) obtaining cardiosphere-derived cells; (b) cultivating the cardiosphere-derived cells for a first period of time in a first media comprising at least one of an ascorbic acid and an analog thereof, to form secondary spheroids; (c) transferring an amount of the spheroids formed in step (b) into a mold; (d) culturing the secondary spheroids for a second period of time in a second media comprising at least one of the ascorbic acid and an analog thereof, wherein the at least one of the ascorbic acid and an analog thereof is present in an amount effective to promote a formation of an extracellular matrix; and (e) culturing a product obtained in step (d) for a third period of time, in the absence of the at least one of the ascorbic acid and an analog thereof. |
| US12286640B2 |
Modified strains for improved secretion of recombinant proteins
Disclosed herein are modified strains for improving secretion of recombinantly expressed products secreted from a host organism with improved growth and productivity characteristics, as well as methods of using the modified strains. |
| US12286636B2 |
Replicating and non-replicating vectors for recombinant protein production in plants and method of use thereof
The present disclosure relates to plant-based recombinant protein production systems and their methods of production and use. The plant-based recombinant protein production system is a vector comprising a 5′ UTR and a 3′ UTR, wherein the 3′ UTR comprises at least one terminator selected from the group consisting of: EU, IEU, NbACT3, NbACT617, NbACT567, Pin2, BDB501, BDB282, NbHSP, NbHSPb, Rep, RbcS, SIR, SIR 5′/3′, SIR 3′, AtHSP, 35S, RepA, NOS, TMV, TNVD, PEMV, and BYDV. In certain implementations, the vector comprises two terminators in the 3′ UTR, where the two terminators are fused to form a double terminator. For example, the double terminator comprises two members selected from the group consisting of: EU, IEU, NbACT3, NbACT617, NbACT567, Pin2, BDB501, BDB282, NbHSP, NbHSPb, Rep, RbcS, SIR, SIR 5′/3′, SIR 3′, AtHSP, 35S, RepA, NOS, TMV, TNVD, PEMV, and BYDV. In some aspects, the vector further comprises a chromatin scaffold/matrix attachment region (MAR) that is downstream of the terminators. |
| US12286635B2 |
Oleic acid-enriched plant body having genetically modified FAD2 and production method thereof
The present invention relates to an artificially manipulated unsaturated fatty acid biosynthesis-associated factor and use thereof to increase the content of a specific unsaturated fatty acid of a plant body. More particularly, the present invention relates to a system capable of artificially controlling unsaturated fatty acid biosynthesis and a plant body produced thereby, which include an artificially manipulated unsaturated fatty acid biosynthesis-associated factor to control unsaturated fatty acid biosynthesis and a composition capable of artificially manipulating the factor. In a specific aspect, the present invention relates to artificially manipulated unsaturated fatty acid biosynthesis-associated factors such as FAD2, FAD3, FADE, FAD7 and FAD8 and/or an unsaturated fatty acid biosynthesis controlling system by an expression product thereof. |
| US12286634B2 |
Regulatory sequences for modulating transgene expression in plants
The invention relates to gene expression regulatory sequences, specifically introns that act as enhancers of gene expression, the promoter and terminator sequences endogenously associated with these introns. Presence of these intronic enhancer sequences in proximity to promoter sequences leads to enhancement of gene expression. Methods of finding such new intronic enhancer sequences and using them to generate transgenic plants are also described. |
| US12286633B2 |
Compositions and methods for genome editing in plants
Compositions and methods for modifying genomic DNA sequences of a plant cell are provided. The methods produce double stranded breaks at target sites in a genomic DNA sequence, resulting in mutation, insertion, and/or deletion of DNA sequences at the target site(s) in a genome. The compositions comprise DNA constructs comprising nucleotide sequences that encode a Cas12b protein. The DNA constructs can be used to direct the modification of genomic DNA at a target site. Methods to use these DNA constructs to modify genomic DNA sequences are described herein. Additionally, compositions and methods for modulating the expression of genes are provided. |
| US12286632B2 |
Rationally-designed synthetic peptide shuttle agents for delivering polypeptide cargos from an extracellular space to the cytosol and/or nucleus of a target eukaryotic cell, uses thereof, methods and kits relating to same
The present description relates to methods for delivering polypeptide cargos from an extracellular space to the cytosol and/or nucleus of a target eukaryotic cell. The methods involve contacting the cell with the polypeptide cargo in the presence of a peptide shuttle agent at a concentration sufficient to increase the polypeptide cargo's transduction efficiency. Also described here are parameters that may be used in the rational design of such synthetic peptide shuttle agents, peptide shuttle agents that satisfy one or more of these design parameters, as well as methods and compositions relating to the use of the synthetic peptide shuttle agents for delivery of a variety of polypeptide cargos (such as transcription factors, antibodies, CRISPR-associated nucleases and functional genome editing complexes) from an extracellular space to the cytosol and/or nucleus of target eukaryotic cells. Applications and targets for genome-editing NK cells for improved immunotherapy are also described. |
| US12286630B2 |
Treatment methods for muscular dystrophy
New dosing regimens for treating muscular dystrophy in a patient suffering from Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) with an antisense oligonucleotide conjugate that causes skipping of an exon in the human dystrophin gene are described. Also described is a method of treating a patient with an antisense oligomer CPP conjugate and a magnesium supplement. |
| US12286629B2 |
Compositions and methods for treating endometriosis
The invention includes compositions and methods for the treating or preventing endometriosis in a subject in need thereof. In one aspect, the invention relates to compositions and methods for modulating let-7 microRNA. |
| US12286626B2 |
Myocardial enhancer RNA and methods of use
Disclosed are methods of detecting myocardial enhancer RNA levels in mammalian cardiomyocytes. In a further embodiment, a method of disrupting assembly of an enhancer DNA-Myh6 promoter-Myh7 promoter complex, is provided wherein the method comprises providing enhancer RNA to a cardiomyocyte. |
| US12286625B2 |
Inhibition of mir-22 miRNA by APT-110
Increase of energy expenditure as an effective treatment of obesity and related disorders is a target for drug research and development. A 15% increase of energy expenditure is believed to be sufficient to achieve significant weight and fat mass reduction while providing meaningful improvement of metabolic parameters. Disclosed herein is a method for pharmacological inhibition of miR-22-3p, which represents a new therapeutic approach for treating human obesity, diabetes, and hypercholesterolemia. |
| US12286623B2 |
Methods and kits for identifying cancer treatment targets
In one aspect, the present disclosure provides a method for identifying treatment targets relating to tumors. In another aspect, the present disclosure provides a method for identifying biomarkers and molecular features of normal and cancer cells. |
| US12286622B2 |
Genomics-based identification and characterization of rare cell types
This disclosure provides genomics-based methods that can be used to identify, quantify, and characterize rare cell types, including circulating tumor cells. |
| US12286621B2 |
Efficient combinatorial bead barcoding
Disclosed herein include methods, compositions, and systems for extending particle-associated oligonucleotides. In some embodiments, the methods of extending particle-associated oligonucleotides enable efficient methods of preparing a library of barcoded beads. It is also provided, in some embodiments, hydrogel beads degradable upon application of a chemical stimulus that comprise releasably attached oligonucleotides. |
| US12286615B2 |
Cell transfection by precise mechanical membrane disruption
The invention relates to a microfluidic poration device having narrow channels slightly smaller than the width of a target cell, wherein the channels are lined with a plurality of nanospikes in a row extending down the middle of the channel, i.e. in a row parallel to the sides of the channel. In one embodiment, one channel may have 2 nanospikes (or 2 nanolancets). Thus, in particular embodiments, the invention provides microfluidic poration devices capable of simultaneously squeezing cells while piercing holes in their membranes for allowing foreign molecules into cells. The holes in porated cells spontaneously close after exiting the channels, thus entrapping the foreign molecules inside of the target cells. This porated cell population has approximately a 95% viability with greater than 50% containing at least one foreign molecule. |
| US12286614B2 |
Well plate incubator
Incubators including an enclosure with an internal chamber configured to support a cell culture plate comprising a plurality of wells are disclosed. The enclosure includes a plurality of openings configured to allow access to the wells. The incubators include a sealing element configured to seal the plurality of openings in the enclosure. The sealing element comprises a plurality of openings corresponding to at least a subset of the plurality of openings in the enclosure. Access to the internal chamber can be provided by aligning the plurality of openings in the sealing element with the plurality of openings in the enclosure. Methods for using the incubators are also provided. |
| US12286613B2 |
Portable incubator platform integrated into a portable imaging device
A portable incubator system integrated to a mobile phone providing a real-time tracking of samples and data flow is provided. The portable incubator system allowing cells to be cultured, reproduced and characterized in real-time without a need for a commercial incubator and a microscope-camera system installed within the portable incubator system. |
| US12286611B2 |
Tissue culture vessel for preparation of compressed hydrogel skin grafts and related methods and systems
A tissue culture vessel including a graft support tray (200) and a box having a lid (400) and a base which engages and retains the tray. The tray has two operational states: a first operational state in which a floor of the tray is slightly raised with respect to a floor of the base and a second operational state in which the floor of said tray descends to contact the floor of the base. |
| US12286608B2 |
Beer-taste fermented malt beverage
An object of the invention is to provide a beer-taste fermented malt beverage with an alcohol concentration of less than 1% (v/v), which has beer-like fermented feeling and robust feeling of drinking, and does not give a watery drinking feeling. The means for solving the problems is a beer-taste fermented malt beverage with an alcohol concentration of less than 1% (v/v), containing a wort fermented liquid, more than 5.3 ppm and less than 80 ppm of pyruvic acid, more than 29.2 ppm and less than 90 ppm of succinic acid, and having a genuine extract concentration of more than 2.0% (w/w). |
| US12286605B2 |
Liquid cleaning compositions comprising protease variants
The present invention relates to compositions comprising protease variants suitable for use in cleaning or detergent compositions, such as laundry detergent compositions and dish wash compositions, including automatic dish wash compositions. |
| US12286603B2 |
Organic acid based antimicrobial formulations containing extremely low levels of surfactant and fatty acid
The present invention is for an acidic cleaning composition which has excellent cleaning performance, low toxicity and good antimicrobial efficacy. The inventive acidic cleaning compositions are capable of sanitizing or disinfecting a variety of hard surfaces. The inventive acidic cleaning compositions can take a variety of forms, such as: disinfecting wipes, all-purpose disinfecting sprays, kitchen cleaners, bathroom cleaners, toilet cleaners, etc. The compositions may meet EPA DfE requirements, EPA category III or IV requirements, and/or be safe for use on food contact surfaces without rinsing. The compositions may include citric acid, an anionic surfactant, a non-volatile glycol solvent, a fatty acid, and water. The compositions may be free of other sanitizing acids, quaternary ammonium compounds, biguanides, peroxides, hypohalites, etc., and have a pH of less than 2.5. The composition may provide sanitization or disinfection against a target microbe within 5 minutes or less, or 4 minutes or less. |
| US12286599B2 |
Method and system for preparing fuel by using high acid value biological oil and fat
The present invention provides a method and a system for preparing fuel using high-acid-value biological grease, which can be processed through triple deoxidization steps, i.e., thermal cracking deoxygenation-catalytic cracking deoxygenation-catalytic hydrodeoxygenation. By use of the method and system of the invention, the raw material of the high-acid-value biological grease can be gradually deoxidized to reduce the acid value and thereby prepare a clean fuel with equivalent fuel components as those obtained from crude oil refining or direct hydrodeoxygenation for biological grease. |
| US12286595B2 |
Use of high halide-containing catalyst in front reactors to extend the life and selectivity of reforming catalyst
This disclosure provides processes for reforming hydrocarbons by using a series of adiabatic reactors and catalysts, in which the catalyst(s) in at least one front or upstream catalyst bed or reactor includes a higher fluoride concentration, higher chloride concentration, or both than the respective halide concentrations in the catalysts in one or more downstream catalyst beds or reactors, which has been unexpectedly discovered to extend the useful life and/or the selectivity of the catalyst system. |
| US12286588B2 |
Polyanionic surfactants and methods of making and using thereof
The present disclosure is directed to polyanionic surfactants, surfactant mixtures, compositions derived thereof, and uses thereof in hydrocarbon recovery. Methods of making polyanionic surfactants are also described. |
| US12286586B2 |
Hydrocarbon swelling particles for wellbore cementing
Hydrocarbon swelling particles for wellbore cementing include a crosslinked polymer comprising vinyl aromatic monomer and/or (meth)acrylic monomer. |
| US12286579B2 |
Fire-retardant oriented strand board
A two-part flame-retardant, a flame-retardant oriented strand (OSB) and method for forming a flame-retardant OSB is provided. The two-part flame-retardant composition includes an aqueous solution containing a water-soluble flame-retardant and a flame-retardant powder that is incorporated into an oriented strand board without substantially affecting the mechanical properties of the oriented strand board. The method includes applying the aqueous solution containing a water-soluble flame-retardant to an oriented strand board furnish and applying a flame-retardant powder to the wetted furnish, without requiring an additional drying step. |
| US12286576B2 |
Luminescent composition
The invention relates to lighting emitting devices and systems comprising a luminescent composition, said luminescent composition comprising: (i) a first emitting material, said first emitting material having a host lattice doped with EU3+ ions; (ii) a second emitting material, said second emitting material having a host lattice doped with Tb3+ ions; and (iii) sensitizer material, which sensitizer material is excitable in the violet-to-blue (400 to 480 nm) wavelength range and has an emission spectrum which overlaps at least partly with one or more excitation bands of the first emitting material and with which overlaps at least partly with one or more excitation bands of the second emitting material. |
| US12286569B2 |
Adhesive sheet
Provided is a pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet that may be used for the grinding of a hard and brittle substrate in a backgrinding step for the hard and brittle substrate, the pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet being excellent in all of grinding accuracy, low contamination property, productivity, and fixing property. The pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet of the present invention includes a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, wherein the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer contains: a pressure-sensitive adhesive containing a base polymer; and a foaming agent having a foaming temperature of 90° C. or more, and wherein the pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet has, when a pressure-sensitive adhesive surface thereof is bonded to a silicon chip, a shear adhesive strength of 1.0 MPa or more under an ambient temperature of 25° C., and a shear adhesive strength of 0.2 MPa or more under an ambient temperature of 80° C. |
| US12286568B2 |
Thermally conductive silicone rubber sheet comprising a thermally conductive adhesive layer
One of the purposes of the present invention is to provide a composite heat-release sheet which is excellent in thermal conductivity and electrical insulation property and, at the same time, has all of sufficient adhesion to an actual machine, low thermal resistance, reworkability, and reliable adhesive strength. Another purpose is to provide a more convenient production process for the heat-release sheet. A thermally conductive silicone rubber sheet comprising at least one thermally conductive silicone rubber layer having a type A durometer hardness of 60 to 96 and at least one silicone adhesive layer, wherein the silicone adhesive layer is a cured product of an addition curable or peroxide curable silicone adhesive composition comprising (a) organopolysiloxane having at least one alkenyl group bonded to a silicon atom and having a phenyl group bonded to a silicon atom in such an amount that the percentage of the number of the phenyl group is 2 to 20%, based on the total number of substituents each bonded to a silicon atom, (c) thermally conductive filler having an average particle diameter of less than 10 μm and containing 0 to 3 mass % of particles having a particle diameter of 20 μm or more and 0 to 0.01 mass % of particles having a particle diameter of 40 μm or more, and (f) silicone resin comprising an R3SiO1/2 unit and an SiO4/2 unit. |
| US12286567B2 |
System for curing a patch
A method for curing a patch. The method includes generating the patch according to a negative of a scan of a scarf in a composite material. The method also includes pre-curing the patch. |
| US12286565B2 |
Process for preparing a bonding resin
The present invention relates to a process for preparing a bonding resin, lignin in solid form or in the form of a dispersion in water is mixed with a crosslinker; and optionally one or more additives followed by addition of a basic solution. The bonding resin is useful for example in the manufacture of laminates, mineral wool insulation and wood products such as plywood, oriented strandboard (OSB), laminated veneer lumber (LVL), medium density fiberboards (MDF), high density fiberboards (HDF), parquet flooring, curved plywood, veneered particleboards, veneered MDF or particle boards, laminates or mineral wool insulation. |
| US12286563B2 |
Butyl rubber based pressure sensitive adhesives
Provided herein are butyl rubber based pressure sensitive adhesive compositions comprising low molecular weight polyisobutylene oligomers and a multifunctional crosslinker. These adhesive compositions can exhibit high adhesion and shear resistance without requiring curing at high temperature to provide the compositions with these advantageous performance properties. Also provided are adhesive tapes and methods using the disclosed adhesive compositions. |
| US12286553B2 |
Method for rejuvenating a roof and roof coating composition
A method for rejuvenating a roof or a facade of a building and a coating composition are disclosed. The method comprises: providing a pre-mix base composition comprising a water based polymeric emulsion or resin and a rheology modifier added to the pre-mix composition to adjust a viscosity of the pre-mix base composition between about 100 KU and about 140 KU according to ASTM D562; mixing the pre-mix base composition with solid granules to form a coating composition with a ratio pre-mix base composition/solid granules in the coating composition ranging from 1/1 to 1/2; and applying the coating composition on the roof or façade. The coating composition once applied on the surface and dried preserves original shingles' aesthetics and flexibility without cracking while rejuvenating the shingles. The method allows creating a much stronger bond to the surface than original granules. |
| US12286543B2 |
Image forming method
An image forming method according to an aspect of the present invention includes supplying a water based ink to an inkjet head at a flow rate of 5 mL/min or more and 120 mL/min or less, and ejecting the supplied water based ink from a nozzle of the inkjet head. The water based ink contains a colorant and a water-insoluble resin having a glass transition temperature of 40° C. or higher and 100° C. or lower. |
| US12286539B2 |
Method for forming and patterning color centers
This disclosure enables the generation and patterning of color centers with nanometer-scale spatial control in a variety of materials in repeatable fashion and without the use of radiation. Embodiments in accordance with the present disclosure employ a layer of vacancy-injection material disposed on a host-material, where the vacancy-injection material forms a compound with host-material atoms at elevated temperatures. During compound formation, lattice vacancies are generated in the host material and diffuse within the substrate lattice to bond with impurity atoms, thereby forming color centers. High-resolution lithographic patterning of the vacancy-injection film and the short diffusion lengths of the lattice vacancies enables nanometer-level spatial control over the lateral positions of the color centers. Furthermore, the depth of the color centers in the substrate can be controlled by controlling the coating material, thickness, anneal time, and anneal temperature. |
| US12286538B2 |
Modified pigments and use thereof
A modified organic pigment can be used to make a coating composition, such as a paint, a varnish, or a printing ink. The modified organic pigment is obtained by reacting the pigments during the pigment synthesis with one interface-active compound, where the interface-active compound is a compound within a three-dimensional Hansen space determined by three coordinates, Hansen solubility parameters (HSPs), D=18.21, P=8.44, H=13.16 with a radius of 6.7 units about a center of the three-dimensional Hansen space, determined with the aid of the HSPiP software, version 5.0.0.4. |
| US12286536B2 |
Biodegradable thermoplastic material made from casein and/or caseinate
A casein and/or caseinate based biodegradable thermoplastic. In particular, a biodegradable thermoplastic which includes: a) between 50 and 80% casein and/or caseinate, preferably between 55 and 70%; b) between 4 and 12% water, preferably between 5 and 11%; c) between 10 and 35% of at least one plasticizer different from b), preferably between 15 and 28%; d) between 0.1 and 8% of a hydrophobic agent, preferably between 1 and 4%; e) between 0.5 and 6% of at least one surfactant, preferably between 2 and 4%. |
| US12286535B2 |
Particles comprising polyamides with pendent pigments and related methods
A nonlimiting example method of forming polyamide polymer particles having pigments therein may comprising: mixing a mixture comprising a polyamide having a pigment pendent from a backbone of the polyamide (PP-polyamide), a carrier fluid that is immiscible with the PP-polyamide, and optionally an emulsion stabilizer at a temperature greater than a melting point or softening temperature of the PP-polyamide and at a shear rate sufficiently high to disperse the PP-polyamide in the carrier fluid; and cooling the mixture to below the melting point or softening temperature of the PP-polyamide to form solidified particles comprising the PP-polyamide and, when present, the emulsion stabilizer associated with an outer surface of the solidified particles. Said solidified particles may be used in additive manufacturing to make a variety of objects like containers, toys, furniture parts and decorative home goods, plastic gears, automotive parts, medical items, and the like. |
| US12286534B2 |
Binder for an aqueous coating composition
The invention relates to a self-emulsifying polymer US comprises Michael donor groups, wherein the Michael donor groups are acidic C—H groups from activated methylene and/or methine groups, to an aqueous polymer dispersion containing a mixture thereof with compounds having Michael acceptor groups which are activated olefinically unsaturated groups, activated by an electron-withdrawing group, and a catalyst to promote the Michael reaction, to a paint binder prepared from the mixture and the catalyst, and to coating compositions comprising the paint binder and appropriate additives. |
| US12286531B2 |
Multi-block copolymer compositions
Methods of making multi-block copolymer that reduce the tendency for large phase domains to form provide copolymer compositions that are useful for various applications, including the manufacture of medical devices. |
| US12286529B2 |
Tire with tread containing vegetable oil extended high Tg styrene/butadiene elastomer and traction resin
This invention relates to a tire with high performance tread of rubber composition for promoting tread durability and traction. For such purpose, a tread rubber composition is provided which contains a high Tg solvent solution polymerization prepared styrene/butadiene elastomer (SSBR) together with precipitated silica reinforcement and traction resin. The invention includes extension of the uncured high Tg SSBR by triglyceride vegetable oil instead of petroleum based oil. |
| US12286527B2 |
Ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer resin particle composition, ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer film formed therefrom, and multilayer structure
An ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (EVOH) resin particle composition, an EVOH film formed therefrom, and a multilayer structure containing the same. The EVOH resin particle composition includes: a first EVOH resin particle having a surface valley void volume (Vvv) of 0.00003˜2 μm3/μm2; and a second EVOH resin particle having a surface valley void volume (Vvv) of 0.00005˜10 μm3/μm2. This can improve thickness uniformity, oxygen transmission rate and stretchability of the film made by the EVOH resin particle compositions. |
| US12286522B2 |
Highly scattering porous material based on fibrillar, elongated, or disk-like particles
The present invention concerns a material, based on fibrillar, elongated, or disk-like colloidal particles, that has a high scattering efficiency, a method that is suitable for preparing such a material, and the use of such a material. The material can be used as, or as a part of, a pigment, paint or protective coating in various industries, but due to its high scattering, and due to the fact that the material appears white even as a thin membrane, it is an interesting option also in the paper and pulp, cosmetic and medical industries. |
| US12286513B2 |
Method for producing fluorine-containing polymer and composition thereof
An object of the present disclosure is to provide a method for producing a fluorine-containing polymer and a composition containing the fluorine-containing polymer. The present disclosure provides a composition comprising (A) a fluorine-containing polymer comprising as a main component a structural unit containing a fluorine-containing aliphatic ring, and (B) an aprotic solvent, wherein the fluorine-containing aliphatic ring of the fluorine-containing polymer (A) contains one, two, or three etheric oxygen atoms as a ring-constituting atom; when the fluorine-containing aliphatic ring contains a plurality of etheric oxygen atoms, the etheric oxygen atoms are not adjacent to each other; and the fluorine-containing polymer (A) is present in an amount of 20 mass % or more based on the mass of the composition. |
| US12286512B2 |
Photocurable resin for high-resolution 3-D printing
Provided are photocurable resins comprising a poly(siloxane)-based copolymer together with a photoinitiator, and other optional ingredients such as a photocurable diluent, a photoabsorber, a photosensitizer, or a hydrophillic additive. Also provided are methods of stereolithographically printing a 3-D object from a disclosed resin. Also provided is an improved method for stereolithographically printing a 3-D object, the improvement comprising the use of a disclosed photocurable resin. Further provided is a 3-D microfluidic device such as an artificial lung prepared from a disclosed photocurable resin. |
| US12286508B2 |
Melt-processable shape-memory elastomers containing bisurea segments
A shape-memory polymer that is melt-recyclable with high processability and little performance loss, in contrast to known Crosslinked semicrystalline shape-memory networks that are capable of storing large amounts of elastic energy with negligible plastic deformation but as thermosets are not easily melt-processed or recycled. In examples herein, catalyst-free isocyanate chemistry is used to prepare two linear poly(caprolactone)s with bisurea hydrogen bonding groups periodically positioned along the main chain. Compared to an entangled poly(caprolactone) homopolymer of similar molecular weight, the segmented poly(bisurea)s exhibit minimal stress relaxation when elastically strained at identical conditions. Furthermore, the materials' single relaxation times indicate chain reptation, and at sufficient temperatures, disentanglement occurs rapidly enough to perform melt-processing. The polymers show excellent shape fixity and recovery before and after shredding, melt-pressing, and annealing into a reprocessed film. |
| US12286506B2 |
Organic sulfur material, electrode, and lithium-ion secondary batteries, and producing method
It is an object of the present invention to provide a novel organic sulfur material which is capable of improving a charge/discharge capacity and cycle characteristics, an electrode comprising the organic sulfur material, that is, a positive electrode or a negative electrode, and a lithium-ion secondary battery comprising the electrode. Provided is an organic sulfur material comprising a sulfur-modified acrylic resin, wherein an acrylic resin has peaks around 756 cm−1, around 1066 cm−1, around 1150 cm−1, around 1245 cm−1, around 1270 cm−1, around 1453 cm−1, and around 1732 cm−1 in an FT-IR spectrum. |
| US12286504B2 |
Catalyst components for the polymerization of olefins
A solid catalyst component for the polymerization of olefins made from or containing a magnesium halide, a titanium compound having at least a Ti-halogen bond, a first electron donor compound selected from 1,3 diethers (DE), and a second electron donor compound selected from dicarbamates (DC), wherein the first and second electron donor compounds are present in a molar ratio DE:DC ranging from 4.5:1 to 20:1. |
| US12286499B2 |
Polyrotaxane-reinforced settable fluids with entrapped gas phase under high pressure
This document relates to methods for preventing or inhibiting the cracking or explosion of cement in an oil well using cement compositions that contain polyrotaxane additives. The cement compositions containing the polyrotaxane additives exhibit increased resiliency to cracking as compared to the same cement without the polyrotaxane additive. |
| US12286498B2 |
Polymeric antimicrobial surfactant
Polycationic polymeric antimicrobial surfactant and polymeric biocompatible antimicrobial surfactant compositions are useful in dispersing various compounds in a carrier liquid. The polycationic polymeric antimicrobial surfactant and polymeric biocompatible antimicrobial surfactant compositions employ polymers having both hydrophilic domains and hydrophobic domains so that the compositions can disperse particles such as polymer particles or droplets in a continuous phase as well as provide stable dispersions that have not been provided before. The antimicrobial properties of the compositions provide much-needed capabilities of fighting infectious agents such as bacteria and viruses in a wide spectrum of products such as paint, adhesives, and coatings. Methods of using these compositions as well as methods of making products using the compositions are disclosed. |
| US12286497B2 |
Process for the production of grafted polyethylene and grafted polyethylene
Process of grafting of a polyethylene-containing material to produce a modified polyethylene composition comprising providing a twin screw extruder with one or more thermal regulation devices; a polyethylene-containing material and a grafting agent and extruding the polyethylene-containing material and the grafting agent to obtain a modified polyethylene composition; the step of extruding comprises a thermal treatment of the polyethylene-containing material by self-heating of the material at a maximum barrel temperature Ts ranging from 315° C. to 410° C. in one or more hot zones of the extruder. |
| US12286495B2 |
(Meth)acrylate-functionalized waxes and curable compositions made therewith
The present invention relates to (meth)acrylate-functionalized waxes and curable compositions, such as anaerobic adhesive compositions, made therewith. |
| US12286494B2 |
Chromogenic double inverse opals photonic crystal resin film using water as ink and the preparation thereof
A double-inverse opal photonic crystal resin film is formed by embedding nanospheres in pores of polyacrylate inverse opal framework material and then filling the pores of the double-inverse opal photonic crystal resin film with an ethanol solution with hydrophilic acrylamide dissolved therein followed by photopolymerization to form a polyacrylamide network, so as to obtain the double-inverse opal photonic crystal resin film using water as ink. A mass fraction of hydrophilic acrylamide in the ethanol solution is 2 to 8 wt. %. The resin film can induce water to penetrate into the pores of the double-inverse opal photonic crystal resin film, making the nanospheres in the pores of the inverse opal framework distribute from random to order under the action of buoyancy force, thereby eliminating scattering interference and producing brilliant structural colors by regulating refractive index contrast. |
| US12286493B2 |
Systems for fabricating appliances from polymerizable compositions
Systems for fabricating orthodontic appliances are provided. In some embodiments, a system includes a build platform configured to receive a polymerizable composition, the polymerizable composition including a first polymerizable component and a second polymerizable component, the polymerizable composition characterized by an initial ratio of the first polymerizable component to the second polymerizable component. The system can also include a light source configured to form a portion of an orthodontic appliance from the polymerizable composition by: forming a first region by exposing the polymerizable composition to radiation, where the first region includes a first ratio of the first polymerizable component to the second polymerizable component, the first ratio being different from the initial ratio; and forming a second region, where the second region includes a second ratio of the first polymerizable component to the second polymerizable component, the second ratio being different from the initial ratio and the first ratio. |
| US12286484B2 |
Targeting metastasis stem cells through a fatty acid receptor (CD36)
Targeting metastasis stem cells through a fatty acid receptor. The disclosure provides the use of blockers or inhibitors of CD36 activity or expression for the treatment of oral squamous cell cancer (OSCC), particularly for the treatment of generated metastases and for diminish is generation from primary tumours. Apart from shRNAs, anti-CD36 antibodies are provided as blockers or inhibitors, especially those that block the binding of CD36 to oxidized LDL and fatty acids and their incorporation into cells, because the promotion of their transport is indicated as the mechanism by which CD36 promote metastases dissemination and growth. Also provided is a method for identifying candidates to anticancer agents, particularly for OSCC metastasis, among those that promote in CD36+ cells, in vivo or in vitro, effects associated to CD36 depletion or blocking such as decrease of growth accumulation of lipid droplets and decrease of size in the case of metastases. |
| US12286482B2 |
IL10RB binding molecules and encoding nucleic acids
The present disclosure relates to biologically active molecules comprising a single domain antibody (sdAb) that specifically binds to the extracellular domain of human IL10Rb, compositions comprising such antibodies, and methods of use thereof. |
| US12286476B2 |
FCMR-binding molecules and uses thereof
The invention provides novel anti-FCMR antibodies, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such antibodies, and therapeutic methods of using such antibodies and pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment of diseases such as cancer or autoimmune disease. |