US11746115B2
Solid forms including 7-[[(1S)-1-[4-[(1S)-2-cyclopropyl-1-(4-prop-2-enoylpiperazin-1-yl)ethyl]phenyl]ethyl]amino]-1-ethyl-4H-pyrimido[4,5-d][1,3]oxazin-2-one and a dihydroxybenzoic acid selected from 2,5-dihydroxybenzoic acid, 2,4-dihydroxybenzoic acid, and 2,3-dihydroxybenzoic acid are provided, as well as pharmaceutical compositions including the solid forms, methods for using the solid forms in treating cancer patients, and methods of making the solid forms.
US11746108B1
The invention relates to a Form A polymorph of a triazolopyridine compound, pharmaceutical compositions and methods of use thereof.
US11746098B2
The present invention is directed to compounds that inhibit Usp14, compositions thereof, and methods for the treatment of a condition associated with a dysfunction in proteostasis.
US11746095B2
Provided herein are inhibitors of receptor tyrosine kinase effector, RAF, pharmaceutical compositions comprising said compounds, and methods for using said compounds for the treatment of diseases.
US11746093B2
The present disclosure provides a nitrogen-containing compound, an electronic element, and an electronic device, and belongs to the technical field of organic materials. In the nitrogen-containing compound, 1-adamantyl and a cyano group are connected on a nitrogen-containing heteroaryl core structure by a linking group, so that the molecule has a high dipole moment as a whole, organic materials with a high electron mobility can be obtained, and the electron transport properties of the electronic element can be improved, and when the nitrogen-containing compound is used as an electron transport layer of an organic electroluminescent device, the luminous efficiency and service life of the device can be improved, and the operating voltage can be reduced.
US11746091B2
The present invention relates to certain compounds of Formula Ia and pharmaceutical compositions thereof that modulate the activity of the cannabinoid CB2 receptor. The present invention further relates to certain compounds of Formula Ia and pharmaceutical compositions thereof that modulate the activities of both the CB1 receptor and the CB2 receptor. Compounds of the present invention and pharmaceutical compositions thereof are directed to methods useful in the treatment of: pain, for example bone and joint pain, muscle pain, dental pain, migraine and other headache pain, inflammatory pain, neuropathic pain, pain that occurs as an adverse effect of therapeutics and pain associated with osteoarthritis; hyperalgesia; allodynia; inflammatory hyperalgesia; neuropathic hyperalgesia; acute nociception; osteoporosis; multiple sclerosis-associated spasticity; autoimmune disorders; allergic reactions; CNS inflammation; atherosclerosis; undesired immune cell activity and inflammation; age-related macular degeneration; cough; leukemia; lymphoma; CNS tumors; prostate cancer; Alzheimer's disease; stroke-induced damage; dementia; amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and Parkinson's disease.
US11746088B2
The present disclosure is directed to chemical compounds and to the use of such compounds in the treatment of diseases associated with a serotonin 5-HT2 receptor.
US11746077B2
Disclosed herein are methods of treating or suppressing a disorder selected from the group consisting of α-synucleinopathies, tauopathies, ALS, traumatic brain injury, and ischemic-reperfusion related injuries.ury, comprising administering to a subject in need thereof a therapeutically effective amount of a compound of the formula: or the hydroquinone form thereof; or a solvate or hydrate thereof.
US11746056B2
The invention belongs to the field of electronic ceramics and its manufacturing, in particular to the modified NiTa2O6-based microwave dielectric ceramic material co-sintered at low temperature and its preparation method. Based on the low melting point characteristics of CuO and B2O3, and the radius of Cu2+ ions is similar to that of Ni2+ and Ta5+ ions, the chemical general formula of the invention is designed as xCuO-(1-x)NiO-[7.42y+(xy/14.33)]B2O3—Ta2O5, and the molar content of each component is adjusted from raw materials. The main crystalline phase of NiTa2O6 is synthesized at a lower pre-sintering temperature, and NiTa2O6-based ceramic material with low-temperature sintering characteristics and excellent microwave dielectric properties are directly synthesized at one time, which broadened the application range in LTCC field.
US11746044B2
A glass composition, a macrocomposite, and methods of forming the macrocomposite including dispersing or immersing a metal in a glass. Preferably, the macrocomposite does not include an organic resin, an adhesive, or a polymer.
US11746029B2
The present invention discloses a method for starting a single-stage system for nitrogen removal coupling partial denitrification and anammox. The two nitrogen removal processes are coupled by gradually enriching denitrifying bacteria in anammox granular sludge and then activating the partial denitrification process of the functional bacteria (denitrifying bacteria). Particularly, the method comprises: inoculating anammox granular sludge in a single-stage reactor, adding an organic carbon source in gradients to enrich denitrifying bacteria and to adapt anammox bacteria, and replacing nitrites in feed with nitrates gradually to activate the partial denitrification process.
US11746028B2
A hydrogen gas dissolving apparatus 1 has a hydrogen supply unit 2 capable of supplying hydrogen gas, and a hydrogen gas dissolution module 6 for bringing the hydrogen gas supplied from the hydrogen supply unit 2 in contact with and dissolved in water. The hydrogen gas dissolution module 6 has a supply port 62 to which the hydrogen gas is supplied, a hydrogen chamber 63 communicating with the supply port 62 and filled with the hydrogen gas supplied from the supply port 62, and an exhaust port 64 communicating with the hydrogen chamber 63 and discharging the air in the hydrogen chamber 63. The exhaust port 64 is located in a lower part of the hydrogen chamber 63.
US11746007B2
The disclosure describes a system for generating hydrogen gas from a hydrocarbon through pyrolysis with reduced soot formation and increased carbon loading. The system includes a pyrolysis reactor configured to generate the hydrogen gas from the hydrocarbon through pyrolysis. The pyrolysis reactor includes one or more fibrous substrates configured to provide a deposition surface for carbon generated from the pyrolysis of the hydrocarbon. Each fibrous substrate has an effective void fraction between 40% and 95%, and includes a plurality of fibers configured to maintain chemical and structural stability between about 850° C. and about 1300° C. The one or more fibrous substrates may have a relatively high surface area to fiber volume of the plurality of fibers.
US11746001B2
A microelectromechanical (MEMS) microphone with membrane trench reinforcements and method of fabrication is provided. The MEMS microphone includes a flexible plate and a rigid plate mechanically coupled to the flexible plate. The MEMS microphone includes a stoppage member affixed to the rigid plate and extending perpendicular relative to a surface of the rigid plate opposite the surface of the flexible plate. The stoppage member limits motion of the flexible plate. The rigid plate includes a reverse bending edge that include a first lateral etch stop that includes a first corner radius and a second lateral etch stop that includes a second corner radius. The first corner radius is more than 100 nanometers and the second corner radius is more than 25 nanometers. Further, a lateral step width between the first corner radius and the second corner radius is less than around 4 micrometers.
US11745995B1
Cartridge loaders for fluid mixture dispensing systems are disclosed. One disclosed fluid mixture dispensing system comprises an interface surface, a cartridge receiver carriage, and an actuator configured to depress the cartridge receiver carriage towards the interface surface to load a cartridge. The fluid mixture dispensing system is configured to apply continuous downward pressure on the cartridge towards the interface surface when the cartridge is loaded and is in contact with the interface surface.
US11745991B2
A platform for onsite creation of consumable liquids is provided. The platform includes a liquid generating machine, a set of cubes, compatible bottles, and a user interface device. The liquid generating machine may include a water storage module, a cube module, a liquid making module and a bottle filling and cleaning module. The platform decentralizes the production of consumable liquids, such as drinking waters, enhances the consumer's experience, significantly increases consumers' choices, all while simplifying the consumption process (buying the water, carrying it, getting rid of/recycling the plastic bottle, etc.). The platform includes customizable liquid generating recipes associated with the cubes that may be provided through a network or local database and a security feature that allows the authorization of users to generate and access controlled liquids.
US11745988B2
A portable toilet is mounted on a skid. The skid has a pair of horizontal members with a terminal end with a vertically oriented hole. A leveler affixed to the horizontal member at the terminal end via a connector with a first vertical hole laterally spaced away from a second vertical hole. An anchor bolt is associated with the first vertical hole and engageable with the vertically oriented hole in the skid's horizontal member, thereby fastening the leveler to the toilet. A leveler bolt is threadingly engaging the second vertical hole for movement in a vertical direction in relationship to the toilet; and a foot associated with a lower terminal end of the leveler bolt. Whereby when the leveler is anchored to the skid and the leveler bolt is engaged with the foot, the portable toilet may be leveled by movement of the leveler bolt.
US11745987B2
An image-processing unit, a system, an automatic loading and/or unloading system and a method for detecting a locking device on a movable object, wherein the locking device locks a plurality of movable objects to one other and is arranged in a locking region of the movable object and the movable object is moved via a loading device, where the locking region can be sensed in a sensing region of at least one camera and an image-processing unit evaluates a signal of the camera to detect locking devices in a locking region of a movable object so as to detect locking devices efficiently and reliably.
US11745986B2
The arm with two or more hooks 1 comprises: a supporting beam 1) designed to be connected to an operating arm 20 of a telehandler 2 or another self-propelled operating machine and a plurality of hooks 11, 12, 13, distributed along the beam 10, each designed for supporting a respective load. One or more hooks 11, 12, 13 are connected to a load sensor 31, 32, 33.
US11745985B2
A lifting apparatus includes: a plate having multiple arms extending outward from a center thereof, each arm for engaging a respective portion of a support ring of a fuel tank; and multiple clips, each rotatably mounted on a respective arm. The clips rotate from an unlatched position to a latched position to secure the plate to the support ring of the fuel tank. A swivel device is rotatably mounted on the plate. Each arm has a ledge lowered from an upper surface of the plate for contact engagement with the bottom side of the support ring. Each ledge is sunken or lowered from the upper surface of the plate by a respective shoulder, such that the ledges and shoulders register and stabilize engagement of the plate with the support ring. The clips snap into the latched and unlatched positions and are automatically maintained there until rotated intentionally by hand by a user.
US11745984B2
An object of the present application is to obtain a door-pinch detection device and an elevator door device that enable detection of a string-shaped object. Accordingly, the elevator door device of the present application includes: a door panel of an elevator; and a first attachment section and a second attachment section installed on at least either one of a front face or a back face of the door panel, the first attachment section including a pressure sensor, the second attachment section including a repulsive member installed in a manner for the pressure sensor to be housed therein when doors of the elevator are closed, thus enabling adjustment of an angle of the pressure sensor relative to the door panel. Therefore, door-pinch of an alien object can be detected with an improved accuracy.
US11745979B2
There is provided a diagnostic device for vertical transportation devices, which can obtain information for appropriately diagnosing a vertical transportation device. The diagnostic device for vertical transportation devices includes a housing-unit that defines an outer profile, a storage-unit that is housed in the housing-unit and stores information, an acceleration-detection-unit that is housed in the housing-unit and detects, with the housing-unit attached to a moving object in the vertical transportation device, acceleration in a vertical direction and acceleration in a horizontal direction of the moving object as diagnostic information of the moving object in the vertical transportation device when the moving object has moved, and a control-unit that is housed in the housing-unit and causes the storage-unit to store information about the acceleration in the vertical direction and information about the acceleration in the horizontal direction, which have been detected by the acceleration-detection-unit, in association with information about a detection timing.
US11745978B2
A method for object detection within an elevator car including: transmitting radar signals at a selected polarization into an elevator car towards an individual; receiving reflected radar signals at a reflected polarization; comparing the reflected polarization to the selected polarization; determining that the individual is in possession of a metal object in response to comparing the reflected polarization to the selected polarization; and activating an alert in response to the determining that the individual is in possession of the metal object.
US11745975B2
A material tracking system is provided for tracking material stored on and drawn from a reel. The material tracking system may include a reel, detection element, digital logic components, battery and power components, transceiver and communication components, location receiver, enclosure, analytic component and interface component. One or more sensors relative to the reel may detect a position indicative of forward or reverse reel rotation. A processor may analyze signals to count rotations of the reel, which is savable in memory. A battery may provide power. The system may also record the time and location associated with rotations. A method to operate a tracking material stored on and drawn from a reel using the material tracking system is also provided.
US11745962B2
An unloading apparatus includes a holding apparatus configured to hold side peripheral surfaces of a holding target article group, which is an article subgroup in one level among a plurality of article subgroups in a plurality of levels which article subgroups are included in the stacked article group, in such a manner as to hold the holding target article group and an article subgroup above the holding target article group; a first transport apparatus configured to receive at least one article subgroup held by the holding apparatus from the holding apparatus, and transport the at least one received article subgroup; a retrieval apparatus configured to retrieve one or more articles from an article subgroup in an uppermost level in the stacked article group; and a second transport apparatus configured to transport the stacked article group from the retrieval apparatus to the holding apparatus.
US11745950B2
A combine feeder slat having a first base, a second base, and a slat body. The bases are located at respective ends of the slat, and have respective upper and lower surfaces. The slat body extends longitudinally and connects the bases. The slat body has a variable profile as viewed along the longitudinal direction, that transitions from a first profile shape at the first base, to an intermediate profile shape between the first base and the second base, to a second profile shape at the second base. The intermediate profile shape includes a front lip, a rear lip, and an upward-facing concave projection that connects the front lip to the rear lip and extends below an attachment plane defined between the first lower surface and the second lower surface. The first base, second base, and slat body are made from a unitary metal part.
US11745932B2
A container for receiving moisture sensitive goods containing a container body and a cap. The container body has a base and a sidewall extending upwards from the base. An insert element inside the container body has a bottom and an insert sidewall, wherein the insert element is dimensioned to fit into the interior of the container body such that at least a portion of an outer circumferential surface of the insert sidewall is in abutting contact to the inner circumferential surface of the sidewall of the container body. The insert sidewall and the sidewall of the container body are designed to attach the insert element inside the container body.
US11745924B2
A saw blade holder may include a first guard member which may include a first groove configured to receive a first portion of an edge of a saw blade, a second guard member which may include a second groove configured to receive a second portion of the edge of the saw blade, a hinge that may be configured to couple the first guard member to the second guard member such that the first guard member may rotate relative to the second guard member to transition the saw blade holder between an open position and a closed position, and a locking member that may be affixed to one of the first guard member or the second guard member, the locking member may be configured to move into a locked position to secure the first guard member to the second guard member when the saw blade holder is in the closed position.
US11745916B2
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful for reusable containers and item delivery using reusable containers. In several embodiments, the reusable containers described herein include removable divider walls that can be used to selectively divide an interior of the container into multiple smaller portions. By a further approach, the container and divider walls can have cooperating components to mount the divider wall to the container. In some embodiments, the reusable containers described herein can also include bag handle holding features so that bags placed therein are prevented from spilling contents during transport.
US11745913B1
A multi-compartment liquid beverage container assembly includes an outer container body housing multiple interior liquid beverage storage vessels. A one-piece liquid transfer rod contained within the outer container body releasably attaches to the interior beverage storage vessels in a manner enabling stored liquid beverage to be transferred from the interior beverage storage vessels, through the liquid transfer rod, to outer container body openings.
US11745912B2
An exemplary, nonlimiting embodiment of the present disclosure provides a box, as well as a method of use for the box, which may be opened and closed without substantially damaging the structural integrity of the box. The box comprises a segmental lid, which comprises of a first, second, third, and fourth flap. The first and fourth flaps further comprise a first and second pivotable tab, respectfully. The pivotable tabs are pivotally configurable and are preferably configured to be oriented in substantially opposing directions, relative to one another when the first and fourth flap are disposed in the same plane. The pivotable to allow for the flaps to be disposed in a closed position without damaging the box. The method comprises disposing the flaps into their respectively closed positions such that they may be subsequently re-opened without compromising the structural integrity of the box.
US11745911B2
A package includes board platform having a folded top platform element and bottom platform element made from cardboard material. The top platform element has cutout portions conforming to shapes of a product to be packaged. A folded cardboard product tray element forms an open cavity conforming to the shape of the product and is secured to at least one of the top platform element and the bottom platform element and is disposed therebetween. A paper platform wrapper covers the exterior surfaces of the top platform element and a paper product tray wrapper covers the interior side wall of the open cavity.
US11745910B2
Customized boxes for packaging one or more items therein can have item placement indicia printed, applied, or projected thereon. The boxes can include a plurality of side wall panels and a plurality of flaps extending from the plurality of sidewall panels. The plurality of flaps can be configured to form top and bottom surfaces of the customized boxes. The item placement indicia can be printed, applied, or projected on an interior surface of one or more of the side wall panels. The item placement indicia represent desired placements for the one or more items to be packaged in the customized boxes.
US11745904B2
A double-headed tube structure comprises a tube body, a first tube head, an annular retaining member and a second tube head. The first tube head and a first end portion of the tube body are hermetically connected together. A second end portion of the tube body is sleeved on an outer circumference of the annular retaining member. The second end portion of the tube body, the annular retaining member and the second tube head are hermetically connected together. The annular retaining member communicates with the tube body and the second tube head. The first and second tube heads are sealedly welded at both ends of the tube body by a two-step forming process. Through the annular retaining member, the tube body is not deformed in the two-step forming process, thereby improving the welding and sealing effect.
US11745899B2
An apparatus for visual navigation of a UAV includes a geo-fiducial mat and a plurality of geo-fiducials. The geo-fiducial mat includes a landing pad region that provides a location for aligning with a landing pad of a UAV. The geo-fiducials each includes a two-dimensional (2D) pattern that visually conveys a code. The 2D pattern has a shape from which a visual navigation system of the UAV can visually triangulate a position of the UAV.
US11745894B2
A refueling system has a vehicle having a fuel tank connected to a deployable fuel hose, an end effector having controlled flight, the fuel hose connected at an end away from the first vehicle, through the end effector to a fuel connector under the end effector, a second vehicle having a fuel tank coupled through a pumping apparatus to a fueling port on an acquisition apparatus adapted to acquire the end effector and connect the fueling port and the fuel connector of the end effector, and control circuitry enabling controlled flight of the end effector, wherein the end effector is controlled to be acquired by the acquisition apparatus to couple the fuel connector with the fueling port and fuel is provided from the fuel tank of one of the vehicles to the fuel tank of the other of the vehicles through the pumping apparatus.
US11745884B2
A transportation system and method serve passenger-conveying VTOL air vehicles (AVs) at a vertiport. The vertiport has a flight deck including at least one landing pad, a passenger terminal, and a dynamic partition arrangement that defines a capsule for receiving one of the AVs at a time. The dynamic partition arrangement assumes a first open state in which it is open to the flight deck and closed to the passenger terminal and a second open state in which it is closed to the flight deck and open to the passenger terminal. A robotic system includes a handling robot that automatically approaches and docks with the AV after landing, and conveys the AV between the landing pad and the capsule via an opening provided by the first open state of the dynamic partition.
US11745880B2
A light system for an evacuation slide may include a readiness indicator light assembly. The readiness indicator light assembly may comprise a first light emitting diode configured to emit a first color and a second light emitting diode configured to emit a second color. The light system may be configured to power the first light emitting diode after initial deployment of the evacuation slide and to power the second light emitting diode after the internal pressure of the evacuation slide is greater than a minimum pressure threshold.
US11745878B2
A passenger includes at least one seat component including a first material and at least one additive manufactured component including a second material, the at least one additive manufactured component including a plurality of zones. The at least one additive manufactured component is attached to the at least one seat component. The at least one additive manufactured component includes a lattice structure. Each of the plurality of zones have different physical properties.
US11745862B2
The present application discloses a three-steering gear direct-drive coaxial rotor system and a control strategy, and belongs to the technical field of helicopter structures. The system includes an upper rotor power module, an upper rotor assembly, an upper tilting mechanism, a driving steering gear group assembly, a lower tilting mechanism, a lower rotor assembly, a lower rotor power module, an upper fixing mast, and a lower fixing mast. According to the present application, three steering gears directly drives an upper-layer swashplate and a lower-layer swashplate, to make cyclic pitch and add-subtract collective pitch on rotors. The synchronous tilting mechanism of the present application provides a flexible design solution for the characteristic of cyclic pitch phase angle offset of the rotors gear.
US11745859B2
A flow control actuator includes a first side wall, a second side wall opposite and substantially parallel to the first side wall, an upstream wall mechanically coupled to upstream ends of the first and second side walls, and a downstream cap mechanically coupled to downstream ends of the first and second side walls. The first side wall, the second side wall, the upstream wall and the downstream cap collectively define an interior of the flow control actuator. An energy source is disposed in at least one of the first sidewall and the second sidewall. At least one fuel injector is disposed in the upstream wall, the first sidewall and/or the second sidewall for dispersing fuel into the flow control actuator. At least one air inlet is disposed in the upstream wall, the first sidewall and/or the second sidewall for introducing air into the flow control actuator. Fuel from fuel injector and air from the air inlet are ignited in the flow control actuator.
US11745858B2
In an embodiment, a method of managing force equalization (FEQ) on a vehicle utilizing redundant actuation systems for one or more control surfaces includes determining, via a force sensor, a measured force applied by a first actuation system in relation to a control surface, where the control surface is redundantly serviced by a plurality of actuation systems. The method also includes updating a measured-force time series for the first actuation system with the measured force. The method also includes analyzing movement over at least a portion of the measured-force time series. The method also includes identifying a force-fight cycle in the measured-force time series. The method also includes indicating the force-fight cycle in cumulative force-fight cycle data for the first actuation system.
US11745855B2
In an embodiment, an aircraft includes an airframe and a first propulsion assembly coupled to the airframe. The first propulsion assembly includes a first rotor hub and a first plurality of rotor blades non-uniformly spaced about the first rotor hub and operable to rotate in a rotor plane with the first rotor hub. The aircraft also includes a second propulsion assembly coupled to the airframe. The second propulsion assembly includes a second rotor hub and a second plurality of rotor blades non-uniformly spaced about the second rotor hub and operable to rotate in a rotor plane with the second rotor hub.
US11745846B2
A laminated dry floor system incorporates a grid having a lattice forming a first array of apertures. A support interlayer is adhered beneath the grid and has a second array of apertures in alignment with the first array, the first array of apertures, second array of apertures and thickness of the support interlayer configured to induce passage of a liquid. A wicking layer is in contact with the support interlayer opposite the grid. A base layer underlies the wicking layer and a pan assembly is configured to receive the base layer.
US11745842B1
Damper assemblies suitable for coupling a drive to an output may include a hub for coupling to the output. The hub may include a hub drive sleeve. A drive adaptor may be configured for coupling to the drive. The drive adaptor may include an adaptor shaft disposed in the hub drive sleeve of the hub. At least one continuous circumferential damper member may encircle the adaptor shaft of the drive adaptor. The at least one circumferential damper member may be drivingly engaged by the adaptor shaft of the drive adaptor and drivingly engage the hub drive sleeve of the hub. At least one deformation space may be disposed adjacent to the at least one continuous circumferential damper member. The at least one deformation space may at least partially coincide in circumference with the at least one circumferential damper member. Marine propellers having damper assemblies are also disclosed.
US11745841B2
A field configurable autonomous vehicle includes modular elements and attachable components. The vehicle can be assembled from these modular elements and components to meet desired mission and performance characteristics without the need to purchase specially designed vehicles for each mission. The vehicle can include a modular propulsion system with magnetic drive.
US11745835B1
An assembly with a first coupling having a forward bulkhead device is provided. The forward bulkhead device contains a first connector insert having first end connections for wires and optical fibers of an acoustic array. The assembly also includes a second coupling having an aft bulkhead device therein. The aft bulkhead device contains a second connector insert having second end connections for the wires and optical fibers of the acoustic array. The forward bulkhead device further includes an alignment assembly. The alignment assembly is matable with the aft bulkhead device to align the first connector insert with the second connector insert. The forward bulkhead device further includes a locking ring connecting the forward bulkhead device with the aft bulkhead device.
US11745832B2
A system for mounting equipment to a vessel's hull is disclosed. The system comprises a first stringer and a second stringer, where each stringer is attachable to the inside of the vessel's hull. The system also includes a layer of adhesive attaching both stringers to the inside of the vessels hull. Both stringers have a top cap for attaching equipment. Additionally, each stringer has a first vertical side wall connected to a first end of the top cap, a second vertical side wall connected to a second end of the top cap, and two flanged portions. A first flanged portion connects to a lower end of the first vertical side wall, and a second flanged portion connects to a lower end of the second vertical side wall. The system has an open side portion at the bottom end of both stringers.
US11745822B2
The bicycle handlebar grip assembly is disclosed. The assembly comprises an inner core having a first contact surface and an outer sleeve having an inner surface and a third contact surface on the inner surface. The outer sleeve is configured to enclose at least a major part of the inner core, when the grip assembly is installed to a handle-bar. The inner core and the outer sleeve are separate parts, which are configured to be bonded together by friction force acting between the first contact surface of the inner core and the third contact surface of the outer sleeve, when the grip assembly is installed to a handlebar.
US11745819B2
A three-wheeled vehicle includes a vehicle frame supported by a single wheel engaging the ground in the front and two wheels engaging the ground in the rear. The operator area of the vehicle may include seating for a driver and a passenger, one in front of the other. The three-wheeled vehicle is uniquely designed so that it can be easily modified by addition or removal of additional structures after it is purchased. The vehicle is ultra-narrow but achieves stability by unique mechanisms.
US11745818B2
The present invention provides a straddle type vehicle, comprising: a taillight disposed in a rear portion of a vehicle and configured to emit light to rearward of the vehicle; a license plate disposed at the rear portion of the vehicle; and a detection unit configured to detect surrounding conditions behind the vehicle, wherein the detection unit is connected to a vehicle body frame via a support stay and is disposed to be lower than the taillight and higher than the license plate.
US11745809B2
An active underbody panel system having a frame arrangement mounted under the vehicle and at least one deployable panel moveable between stowed and deployed positions to improve aerodynamics under the vehicle. A deployment/retraction mechanism is provided having a pair of linkage assemblies and driven by an actuator, which allows the deployable panel(s) to be moved automatically downward into the air flow as needed.
US11745808B2
A work vehicle includes a transmission case including an injection port to allow injection of transmission oil, a floor mat above the transmission case and near a driver's seat, the floor mat including an opening/closing portion to be opened in an open state in which the injection port is exposed and to be closed in a closed state in which the injection port is covered, and a fixing portion to fix the opening/closing portion in the closed state, in which the opening/closing portion includes a protrusion protruding in a predetermined direction, and the fixing portion includes a hole configured to fix the opening/closing portion when the protrusion is inserted into the hole.
US11745803B2
In an embodiment a rear quarter vehicle body structure includes a quarter complete including a quarter pillar upper reinforcement and a quarter complete outer welding surface formed at an outside of a vehicle body and a side outer rear extension assembly including a side outer rear extension having a rear extension outer flange formed at the outside of the vehicle body, wherein an inner surface of the rear extension outer flange is joined to the quarter complete outer welding surface.
US11745777B2
A cart has a sunshade connecting device that includes a standpipe upper joint with a standpipe mounting hole that receives a standpipe of the cart and a plug-in mounting hole that receives a sunshade seat. A mounting groove is positioned above the plug-in mounting hole. A quick release button clamp is arranged in the mounting groove and adapted to engage a fixing groove on the sunshade seat. A plug head mechanism is configured for pushing the sunshade seat upward out of the plug-in mounting hole. The sunshade seat may be plugged into the plug-in mounting hole with the quick release button engaged with the fixing groove to fix the sunshade seat. When the sunshade needs to be removed, the quick release button may be pressed and disengaged from the fixing groove of the sunshade seat. The plug head mechanism may then eject the sunshade seat from the plug-in mounting hole.
US11745775B2
A railway termination shunt enclosure including one or more receptacles, each of the one or more receptacles being configured to receive a termination shunt. The enclosure also includes at least one mounting surface and a connector assembly rotatably attaching the one or more receptacles to one or more of the at least one mounting surface.
US11745772B2
A gangway for connecting a first car of a multi-car vehicle to a second car, the gangway having a first element and a second element of a group of elements comprised of a first vehicle mounting plate at a first end for mounting the gangway to the first car, a second vehicle mounting plate at a second end for mounting the gangway to the second car, a center frame and a hoop between the first and second vehicle mounting plates, whereby the gangway has a normal position in which the first element has a predefined position relative to the second element, a spring element is connected to a first connection point on the first element and to a second connection point on the second element, whereby in the normal position of the gangway the first connection point is at a different height compared to second connection point, and/or is arranged either further outward or further inward than the second connection point.
US11745771B2
According to some embodiments, a discharge door locking system for a railcar discharge door comprises a lock piston configured to move between a first position (not engaged with an operating beam coupled to a discharge door) and a second position (engaged). The locking system comprises a first and second input. Activation of the first input moves the lock piston to the first position, and activation of the second input moves the lock piston to the second position. The first input of the locking system is coupled to a first input of an operating cylinder coupled to the operating beam. The first input of the operating cylinder is configured to move the discharge door to the open position.
US11745767B2
A work machine control system includes: a position sensor that detects the position of a work machine travelling on a traveling path; a non-contact sensor that detects the position of an object around the work machine; and a map data creation unit that creates map data on the basis of a detection point of the object and detection data of the position sensor, the detection point being detected by the non-contact sensor and satisfying a defined matching condition.
US11745753B2
An embodiment method for controlling a vehicle includes receiving state information of the vehicle and state information of a battery, identifying a present state of charge of the battery and calculating a preset reference value of the battery based on the state information of the vehicle and the state information of the battery, and displaying a message based on a difference between the present state of charge of the battery and the preset reference value of the battery.
US11745751B2
A vehicle and a method of managing a user setting menu (USM) enables the vehicle to add a new function after production of the vehicle so as to effectively manage the USM. The method includes: acquiring, by a conversion controller, first setting information about at least one existing function from a system controller through a first network using a first protocol; converting, by the conversion controller, the first setting information into second setting information using a second protocol; transmitting the converted second setting information to a head unit controller to manage the USM through a second network; transmitting third setting information about a one new function from a connectivity controller to the head unit controller through the second network, and updating, by the head unit controller, the USM based on the second and third setting information.
US11745743B2
A method for operating a motor vehicle, the motor vehicle has a control device and a drive train. The drive train includes as components a motor, a clutch, and at least one wheel. The motor is coupled to the at least one wheel via the clutch. The control device controls a rotational speed of the at least one wheel based on a rotational speed specification using a model mapping the drive train of the motor vehicle. A torque generated by the motor is influenced as the manipulated variable as a function of at least one state variable of the drive train determined on the basis of the model.
US11745735B2
A method of controlling the vehicle includes determining whether a section to be driven is a turn section; in response to determining that the section to be driven is the turn section, generating a turn path; generating a first risk of collision region based on the generated turn path; predicting a position of an obstacle based on obstacle information detected by an obstacle detector and driving information detected by a driving information detector; generating a second risk of collision region based on the predicted position of the obstacle; based on image information obtained from an imager, determining whether the obstacle exists in the first and second risk of collision regions, respectively; adjusting a risk level based on the presence or absence of the obstacle in the first and second risk of collision regions; and performing a collision avoidance control corresponding to the adjusted risk level.
US11745733B2
A vehicle control apparatus includes circuitry for controlling a vehicle. The circuitry is configured to search for a stop location where the vehicle is to stop, on a basis of road shoulder region information, generate an evacuation path on a basis of road information to the stop location, and guide the vehicle to the stop location from a first travel lane adjacent to a road shoulder region. The circuitry is further configured to calculate a collision risk of collision with an on-road obstacle. When the collision risk is a predetermined degree or higher, the circuitry is to interrupt the guidance, otherwise the circuitry is to guide the vehicle to enter the stop location and stop the vehicle at the stop location.
US11745726B2
Techniques for using a set of non-steering variables to estimate an angle of a wheel are described. For example, a yaw rate, a linear velocity of a wheel, and vehicle dimensions (e.g., offset between the wheel and a turn-center reference line), can be used to estimate the angle of the wheel. Among other things, estimating angles based on non-steering variables may provide redundancy (e.g., when determined in parallel with steering-based command angles or other commanded angles) and/or may be used to validate commanded angles based on steering components.
US11745720B2
Systems and methods for operating a hybrid vehicle are described. In one example, the automatic engine stopping may be inhibited so that an engine may be restarted during change of mind conditions without generating a large driveline torque disturbance. The engine stopping may be inhibited based on a inhibit engine pull-down torque threshold.
US11745713B2
An electric brake booster for an autonomous vehicle is provided. The electric brake booster includes a body part that receives a power cylinder generating braking pressure in an autonomous driving/braking mode and a master cylinder generating braking pressure in a manual driver braking mode. A driving shaft is movable in an axial direction in the power cylinder and coupled to a piston. A first motor is connected to a first side of the driving shaft and provides driving power thereto. A second motor is connected to a second side of the driving shaft and provides driving power thereto in a direction equal to that of the driving power provided from the first motor. A controller determines whether the first or second motor normally operates and simultaneously or separately operates the first and second motors based on a magnitude of the pressure in the power cylinder or whether emergency braking occurs.
US11745709B2
The invention relates to a signal-processing device (402) for a vehicle having an ABS unit (404) and multiple wheels, each of which is assigned a sensor (S1, S2, S3, S4) for wheel signal generation. The signal-processing device (402) is designed to detect (602) a failure of a wheel signal, to form (604) a substitute signal for the failed wheel signal using the wheel signal of at least one sensor assigned to a wheel that is not affected by the failure, and to supply (606) the substitute signal to the ABS unit (404). The invention also relates to an ABS system (400) having the signal-processing device (402) and an ABS unit (404), a vehicle having the ABS system (400), a signal-processing method for a vehicle having an ABS unit (404), a computer programme having computer code for carrying out the signal-processing method, as well as a control unit containing the computer programme.
US11745701B2
System for detecting window or glass panel damage, wherein the system comprises at least one sensor devices arranged to interior or exterior surface of a vehicle window or bus shelter glass panel for monitoring, registering and alerting on-line, in real-time, when and if a vehicle window or bus shelter glass panel damage is detected.
US11745697B2
There are provided a side panel constituting a vehicle side face at a higher level than a damper attachment portion suspending a rear wheel, a retractor fixed to a cabin-inside face of the side panel, a frame member forming a closed-cross section extending vertically in corporation with the side panel, and a reinforcing member fixed to the side panel. The reinforcing member comprises a retractor attachment portion to attach the retractor, a gusset portion to partition the closed-cross section of a C pillar reinforcement vertically, and a vibration-damping joint portion joined to the side panel via a vibration-damping material. Herein, the reinforcing member is formed integrally by a member which is configured to be continuous over a range of the retractor attachment portion, the gusset portion and the vibration-damping joint portion.
US11745696B2
A vehicle seat system includes a seat including a seat back and a seat base and a passive restraint system mounted adjacent to the seat. The passive restraint system includes a lap belt. A belt adjuster is mounted at the seat. The belt adjuster includes a member operable to engage and shift the lap belt away from the seat back upon being exposed to a selected deceleration force.
US11745692B2
A curtain airbag apparatus for a vehicle is configured to connect a curtain airbag cushion to a vehicle body by a cushion restriction device including a tether carriage and a cushion tether to reinforce a restriction force of the deployed curtain airbag cushion, and to reinforce restriction on movement of an occupant during a side collision by use of the curtain airbag cushion having the reinforced restriction force to prevent the occupant from being thrown through a vehicle side window during a side collision even when a panorama window is used as the side window.
US11745686B2
A seat-mounted airbag device includes a guidance member and an airbag body which includes a front-rear chamber and a distal-end chamber and is accommodated in a side portion of a headrest of a window-side vehicle seat in a state where the airbag body includes an outward winding portion. At the time of a front end collision, the front-rear chamber deploys from the side portion through a gap between the head of an occupant sitting on the window-side vehicle seat and the head of an occupant sitting on a central-side vehicle seat and is disposed in the gap. The distal-end chamber deploys inwardly from a front end part of the front-rear chamber. The guidance member projects from the side portion prior to the deployment of the airbag body so as to be disposed between the airbag body and the head of the occupant sitting on the central-side vehicle seat.
US11745682B2
A vehicle bumper is provided integrally to include metal beam-extension portions on both right-and-left end sides of a metal bumper-beam portion. In this vehicle bumper, the bumper-beam portion and the beam-extension portion include a vertical wall portion, an upper wall portion and a lower wall portion, and a resin reinforcing rib is joined to inner surfaces of a void formed of each of the wall portions. In addition, in this vehicle bumper, an extension dimension of the upper wall portion and the lower wall portion of the beam-extension portion is larger than an extension dimension of the upper wall portion and the lower wall portion in the bumper-beam portion, the resin reinforcing rib in the beam-extension portion is joined to the vertical wall portion, the upper wall portion, and the lower wall portion of the beam-extension portion; and the stiffness of the bumper-beam portion is higher than the stiffness of the beam-extension portion.
US11745672B1
A two piece attachment device used for securing a protective shield to a vehicle's head rest poles. The attachment device, as a first piece, includes a pair of shield plates, which include a front plate and a rear plate, attached to opposite sides of the protective shield. The front plate includes a shield attachment screw hole. The attachment device also includes, as a second piece, a head rest pole attachment plate. The attachment plate includes a pair of horizontal pole attachment arms with pole attachment channels. The attachment arms adapted for receipt around a portion of a pair of spaced apart, vertical, head rest poles. The attachment device further includes an “L” shaped shield release plate for attachment to the head rest pole attachment plate. The “L” shaped shield release plate is releasably attached to the front shield plate, using a shield attachment screw received in the shield.
US11745671B2
A backlit vehicle interior panel includes a non-polymeric decorative layer and a mask layer. The mask layer includes an aperture formed through a layer of opaque material. The decorative layer can be a wood layer that is part of a wood sheet complex that overlies the mask layer. A blind hole is formed in the decorative sheet complex and extends through the decorative layer. The blind hole is aligned with the aperture. Light from a light source passes through the aperture of the mask layer and the aligned blind hole of the sheet complex to partly define an illuminated symbol along at outer surface of the panel. The illuminated symbol can be generated through the decorative layer even when the decorative layer is opaque, and the symbol can have sharper features than can be produced through a translucent decorative layer.
US11745669B1
A sound bar having a mounting assembly configured to pivotally secure the bar. The sound bar includes an elongated, at least partially hollow, housing. The housing has a body extending between two opposing ends. A speaker array is positioned in the body. At least one speaker is positioned in at least one end of the bar. The end speaker(s) are preferably bass speakers in fluid communication with the hollow housing. A grill is preferably positioned over at least one of the housing ends. The grill preferably has a center hub affixed to an outer rim by spokes defining open spaces in the grill to facilitate the emission of sound. A mount is attached to the sound bar to secure the bar to a structure while allowing the bar to pivot along its longitudinal axis. Preferably, the mount is secured to the center hub of the grill.
US11745664B2
Step apparatuses that removably couple to a door latch element (e.g., a U-shaped striker element) of a vehicle are described. A step apparatus may include a hook element that enables the step apparatus to hang from a door latch element in a vehicle door well. A step apparatus may also be able to extend through a door latch element such that the step apparatus may couple to the door latch element in an upright position. A step apparatus may include one or more than one step structure.
US11745656B2
Provided is a notification control apparatus for a vehicle configured to determine, based on surrounding information and an operation state of an operation unit, whether there exists a possibility that an own vehicle turns toward a specific direction while an oncoming vehicle is approaching, to determine, when affirmative determination is made, based on vehicle information including at least one of a steering input value or presence/absence of a brake operation and a vehicle speed, whether a possibility that the own vehicle completes crossing of an opposing lane or an intersection after elapse of a reference period is high, and when affirmative determination is made, to execute the notification control when a virtual passing period required for the own vehicle to virtually pass the oncoming vehicle is a lower limit period or longer and an upper limit period or shorter, the upper limit period being the reference period or shorter.
US11745655B2
A method for displaying and/or calculating relative movement of a second moved object to a first moved object, wherein a future first change in position of the first object is calculated from an expired first change in position, and wherein a future second change in relative position of the second object is calculated from an expired second change in relative position, which future first change in position is compared with the future second change in relative position.
US11745654B2
A system and method for a vehicle sensor that maps radar detected targets as target alerts overlaid on a display image.
US11745652B2
An apparatus includes: a driving route calculator configured to obtain vehicle information about a vehicle and calculate a driving path of the vehicle; an object detector configured to detect an object near the vehicle or the driving path of the vehicle using one or more sensors mounted on the vehicle, and obtain object information on the object; and an acoustic signal processor configured to control a frequency and a volume of an acoustic signal based on the vehicle information and the object information, and transmit the acoustic signal to a speaker mounted on the vehicle.
US11745650B2
The present invention provides a dynamic lamp device (10) comprising: a housing (100); a substrate unit (200) disposed on the housing; and a lamp unit (300) at least partially connected to the substrate unit (200) and configured to allow light emitted therefrom to exit the housing (100) toward the outside of the housing, wherein the lamp unit (300) comprises: one or more lamp light delivery units (320) disposed in the housing (100) and each having a predetermined length; a lamp light source unit (330) disposed at each of both ends of each of the lamp light delivery units (320) and configured to deliver light emitted therefrom to the lamp light delivery unit (320); and a control unit (20) configured to apply a light source control signal to the lamp light source unit (330) disposed at each of the both ends of the lamp light delivery unit (320) to change the intensity of light along the length of the lamp light delivery unit (320) to cause a predetermined intensity zone having a predetermined light intensity to be shifted along the length of the lamp light delivery unit (320), and a control method thereof.
US11745647B2
The present invention relates to a method for sending information to an individual (11) located in the environment of a vehicle (10), the method comprising the following steps: acquiring an image of the environment of the vehicle (10), detecting, where applicable, at least one individual (11) on the acquired image, determining a probability of collision between the individual (11) detected on the acquired image and the vehicle (10), sending at least one item of information to the detected individual (11), the information sent depending on the determined probability of collision, the steps of detecting, determining and sending being repeated, for the same individual (11), with subsequent acquired images as long as said individual (11) is detected on said images and as long as the probability of collision is greater than a threshold.
US11745645B2
A mount is provided for attaching a camera to a support surface of a towed vehicle. The support surface is configured for supporting a light housing and has a hole for receiving a fastener for securing the light housing to the support surface. The mount broadly comprises a flange and a bracket extending below the flange. The flange comprises a light housing hole for receiving the light housing therethrough, and a fastener hole for receiving the fastener. The bracket is configured to engage the camera.
US11745641B2
A vehicle lamp and a method for manufacturing a vehicle lamp. The vehicle lamp includes a lower substrate, a fluorescent film and a color filter stacked in this order. The fluorescent film and the color filter include polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS).
US11745640B2
A self-absorbent vehicle headlamp system including (i) a vehicle frame element that can be firmly connected to a vehicle; (ii) a vehicle headlamp housing displaceably held on the vehicle frame element, having at least one pin that is firmly connected to the vehicle headlamp housing, wherein the vehicle frame element includes at least one guide for receiving and linearly guiding the pin, wherein the pin is in engagement with the guide, so that the vehicle headlamp housing is guided by the pin being displaced along the guide and is thereby displaceable with respect to the vehicle frame element; (iii) at least one triggering element that can be mechanically connected to a bumper of a vehicle, and (iv) at least one triggering mechanism that is firmly connected to the vehicle frame element and is configured to receive the triggering element and the pin and to change at least as a function of the position of the triggering element, between a state (S1) blocking the pin and a state (S2) releasing the pin, wherein in the state (S2), the vehicle headlamp housing including the pin is displaceable with respect to the vehicle frame element.
US11745638B2
A truck bed riser providing additional hauling capacity having a front riser member, a first side riser member, a second side riser member and a tailgate riser member. The riser members are adapted to connect to each other and to be held to the truck bed, preferably by clamp members. The truck bed riser may include a cover which is attached to the top portion of the four riser members and held in place by suitable means such as clamps or velcro. Preferably, the truck bed riser is made of aluminum.
US11745634B2
A trailer with at least one tilting axle unit, comprising a telescopic support or slide (3), a hinge (221) and a fifth-wheel coupling (4), designed to longitudinally move at least one posterior axle unit and to lift and rotate it so that a vehicle can be loaded on a loading deck (13) of said trailer.
US11745632B2
A folding lifting device for automobile, comprising outer housing, lifting supporting plate, folding assembly and synchronous cushioning assembly. Outer housing comprises housing bottom, lifting supporting plate is provided in outer housing, and folding assembly is provided between lower side of lifting supporting plate and upper side of housing bottom; folding assembly is composed of two groups of same side V-shaped folding elements, and synchronous cushioning assembly is provided between lower sides of two groups of side V-shaped folding elements. Each of two groups of side V-shaped folding elements comprises front upper folding bar, front lower folding bar, rear upper folding bar and rear lower folding bar; first synchronous rack is fixedly provided at rear side of front lower folding bar, second synchronous rack is fixedly provided at the front side of the rear lower folding bar.
US11745631B2
A vehicle ventilation system includes a seating assembly including a seat blower. The seat blower pulls air away from a seating surface. A cabin blower is configured to circulate air in a cabin. A controller is configured to monitor a flow rate of the cabin blower. The controller is also configured to control a seat blower flow rate as a function of a cabin blower flow rate.
US11745628B2
A child safety seat includes a seat shell having a backrest portion and a sidewall protruding forward from the backrest portion, an adjustable headrest movable along the backrest portion, and a first belt guide fixedly connected with the sidewall at a top thereof and a second belt guide provided on the headrest, wherein the first belt guide and the second belt guide are configured to receive a shoulder belt portion of a vehicle seatbelt disposed through a gap between the sidewall and the headrest. In some embodiments, the child safety seat may include a latch belt disposed transversally across the seat shell and having two opposite ends respectively provided with two connectors for attachment to an anchorage provided in a vehicle, and a storage compartment on a rear of the backrest portion adapted to receive the two connectors of the latch belt.
US11745627B2
A double fitting for a vehicle seat may have a first fitting part and a second fitting part that are drivingly connected to each other. The double fitting may also have adapter parts that can be connected to at least one of the fitting parts. One of the adapter parts can be connected to a structural part of the vehicle seat or to a vehicle body part, and the other adapter part is movably connected to a limited degree to the other adapter part which can be rigidly connected to the structural part or the vehicle body part. An elastic element is arranged between the adapter parts, a first fitting of the fittings is arranged axially between the adapter parts, and one of the adapter parts is arranged axially between the fitting. A vehicle seat having the double fitting is also disclosed.
US11745626B2
A dual gear type recliner device includes a recliner device having a hinge structure applied to an intermediate section of a seat and configured to form a fixed end hinge point with a seatback frame of a seatback and form a free end hinge point with a cushion frame and configured to impart movements of folding and unfolding to the seatback. The dual gear type recliner device further includes a controller configured to output motor control signals to a cushion motor and a seatback motor and to generate the movements of the folding and the unfolding. Therefore, two drivers are integrated into one device to improve the degree of freedom in designing an outer circumference of the seat and built in a gear box to perform a large angle adjustment so that a back table mode and a leg rest mode can be easily implemented.
US11745625B2
A longitudinal adjuster for a vehicle seat may have a rail assembly having two rail pairs of seat rails. The respective rail pair has a fixed seat rail and a seat rail that is movable relative to the fixed seat rail. The rail assembly may also have a motor unit and a gearbox unit, which couples the motor unit and the movable seat rail. The rail assembly may also comprise a holder for receiving a gearbox housing of the gearbox unit. The holder is arranged with the gearbox unit in a hollow space formed by the one rail pair and is fixed to the movable seat rail. The holder is formed so as to be open at one end and closed at the opposite end. The holder has at least one stiffening element at the open end.
US11745622B2
A device for controlling a battery for a vehicle is provided to maintain a battery temperature representing the optimal charging efficiency when the battery reaches a charging time point. The device determines the charging time point of a battery used in a hybrid vehicle and an electric vehicle, and adjusts the battery temperature based on a status of charge (SoC) of the battery at the determined charging time point.
US11745603B2
Example embodiments of systems, devices, and methods are provided for charging and discharging energy systems having multiple modules arranged in cascaded fashion for generating and storing power. Each module can include an energy source and switch circuitry that selectively couples the energy source to other modules in the system for generating power or for receiving and storing power from a charge source. The energy systems can be arranged in single phase or multiphase topologies with multiple serial or interconnected arrays. The embodiments are capable of being charged with multiphase AC charge signals, a single phase AC charge signal, and/or a DC charge signal. Embodiments implementing the modular energy system within a charge source for performing multiphase, single phase AC, or DC charging of electric vehicles are also disclosed. Also disclosed are multi-motor embodiments and embodiments with the capability to power active suspensions and active steering systems.
US11745599B1
A power electronics converter may include a converter commutation cell having a power circuit and a gate driver circuit. The power circuit includes at least one power semiconductor switching element and at least one capacitor. Each power semiconductor switching element is included in a power semiconductor prepackage, each prepackage including one or more power semiconductor switching elements embedded in a solid insulating material, each power semiconductor switching element having at least three terminals including a gate terminal. The gate driver circuit is electrically connected to and configured to provide switching signals to the gate terminal of each of the at least one power semiconductor switching element. A peak rated power output of the power electronics converter is greater than 25 kW and a value of a converter parameter α is less than or equal to 5 pHm3.
US11745595B2
A plurality of control maps respectively corresponding to a plurality of lever operation amounts are stored in a storage device. Each control map defines a driving force to be output from an electric motor such that the driving force corresponds to an accelerator operation amount and a vehicle speed. A control device uses a control map corresponding to an actual lever operation amount among the plurality of control maps and thereby calculates the driving force to be output from the electric motor based on an actual accelerator operation amount and an actual vehicle speed from the control map. This vehicle can alleviate discomfort caused when a driver accustomed to an engine vehicle operates an electric vehicle.
US11745575B2
A battery mounting structure of an electric vehicle is provided. The battery mounting structure includes a battery case including a side case portion in which a recess portion concave inwardly is formed and a battery connection member mounted in a vehicle body and having an insert portion inserted into the recess portion and connected to the side case portion.
US11745574B2
An electric vehicle includes an electric-vehicle battery tray including a frame member elongated along a vehicle-longitudinal axis. The electric vehicle includes a rocker rail elongated along the vehicle-longitudinal axis. The electric vehicle includes a subframe. The electric vehicle includes a bracket connecting the battery tray, the rocker rail, and the subframe.
US11745573B2
Integrated frame and battery pack structure for electric vehicles are disclosed. An example electric vehicle includes a frame of the electric vehicle to which a body of the electric vehicle is coupled, the frame including longitudinal frame rails, a mid-section of the frame not including frame cross-members. The example electric vehicle includes a battery pack mounted in the mid-section of the frame, the battery pack including battery pack cross-members, each of the battery pack cross-members connected to a top surface of the longitudinal frame rails and a bottom surface of the longitudinal frame rails.
US11745568B2
A vehicle door opening and closing apparatus includes a rail mounted on a vehicle body, a roller unit mounted on a vehicle door, the vehicle door having a main latch releasably engaged with a main striker mounted on the vehicle body, the roller unit configured to allow the vehicle door to open and close in a sliding mode and a swing mode, and an outside handle operatively connected to the main latch, and including a handle base mounted on the vehicle door and a handle grip movably mounted on the handle base, wherein the handle grip is slidable in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle body, and pivotal in a transverse direction of the vehicle body, and wherein as the handle grip slides, the sliding mode is selected, and as the handle grip pivots, the swing mode is selected.
US11745567B2
An assembly includes a vehicle body including a door opening and a first member and a second member each supported by the vehicle body. The first member and the second member are rotatable relative to each other and relative to the vehicle body across the door opening from an undeployed position to deployed position. The first member and the second member engage each other in the deployed position.
US11745559B2
This disclosure relates to a system and method for isolating an interior of a motor vehicle from poor outdoor air quality. More particularly, this disclosure relates to a system and method configured to identify conditions associated with poor outdoor air quality and to respond to those conditions by isolating the interior of the motor vehicle from the outdoor environment. An example system includes a selector configured to permit a user to select a drive mode of the motor vehicle, a location system configured to detect a location of the motor vehicle, and a controller configured to issue one or more commands to isolate an interior of the motor vehicle from an environment outside the motor vehicle based on either a selected drive mode or a detected location.
US11745555B2
A shock absorber includes a cylinder, a spring, a receiving member, a sensor, and a coupling member. The sensor includes a coil portion, and a core portion. The coupling member is formed integrally with the core portion. A recessed portion is formed in one of the receiving member and the coupling member, a protruding portion facing the recessed portion is formed in the other one of the receiving member and the coupling member, and the receiving member and the coupling member are coupled to each other via the recessed portion and the protruding portion.
US11745546B2
A tire 1 includes a pair of crown circumferential grooves 30, a pair of shoulder circumferential grooves 31, a crown land portion 40, and a pair of middle land portions 41 and 42, the crown land portion 40 includes a main crown shallow groove 100 and at least two sub-crown shallow grooves 101 and 102 each extending so as to communicate with the crown circumferential groove 30 and the main crown shallow groove 100, the pair of middle land portions 41 and 42 include V-shaped slots 201 and 202, respectively, and the sub-crown shallow grooves 101 and 102 and the slots 201 and 202 are located so as to be substantially point-symmetrical about a midpoint between positions at which the adjacent sub-crown shallow grooves 101 and 102 communicate with the main crown shallow groove 100.
US11745540B1
A device for lifting a wheel and rolling the wheel on a surface includes an elongated rigid plate having a top side, a bottom side, a peripheral edge, a pedal portion at a rear end of the rigid plate, and a wheel portion at a forward end of the rigid plate. A roller is fixed with the bottom side of the rigid plate and the peripheral edge of the wheel portion at the forward end of the rigid plate is bent upward to form a tire-tread engaging lip, at least a portion of which engages a tread of the wheel. In use, with the wheel resting on the wheel portion, the pedal portion may be pressed downwardly to pivot the rigid plate about the roller to lift the wheel. The lifting device is then rolled on the surface to place the wheel at a desired position.
US11745539B2
A wheel hub assembly for motor vehicles, provided with a first hub, which is stationary, a second hub, which is rotatable, and a bearing unit in turn having a radially outer ring provided with respective radially external raceways, at least one radially inner ring provided with respective radially internal raceways, at least one row of rolling bodies, positioned between the corresponding internal and external raceways, at least one sealing device, positioned on the axially inner side with respect to the at least one row of rolling bodies. A metal deflector configured so as to allow the water to drain and protect the area of the sealing device from the external contaminant is mounted by interference on the rotating hub.
US11745530B2
The present invention relates to a decorative material having excellent printability, and the decorative material according to the present invention has an ink-receiving layer having a radially fine sloping structure having a dendritic shape, whereby the absorbing and/or fixing property, i.e., printability, of the ink printed on the ink-receiving layer is improved, and clarity is excellent, so that aesthetic effects are excellent. In addition, since the ink-receiving layer is manufactured through UV curing, it can be directly coated on a substrate layer, and can include various kinds of substrate layers; and since it is manufactured using a solvent-free type resin composition without using an organic solvent, and has an excellent absorbing and/or fixing property with respect to a water soluble ink, it has environmental friendly advantages.
US11745525B2
To normally perform a preliminary ejection after a cleaning process. Provided is a recording apparatus including: a recording head that includes an ejection component that ejects a liquid; a circulation unit configured to perform a circulation operation of circulating the liquid in a circulation route including the recording head; a cleaning mechanism that performs a cleaning process with respect to the recording head; and a preliminary ejection unit configured to perform a preliminary ejection operation of preliminarily ejecting the liquid from the ejection component. The cleaning mechanism performs the cleaning process in a state in which circulation of the liquid is stopped, and at least one of the circulation operation by the circulation unit and the preliminary ejection operation by the preliminary ejection unit is performed after the cleaning process.
US11745522B2
A housing is provided with a sheet ejection port for discharging sheet that passed through a printing unit upward. A cutting unit is arranged between the printing unit and the sheet ejection port and cuts the sheet by either a method of cutting the sheet in the entire width direction or a method of leaving the central portion of the sheet in the width direction. First protrusions and second protrusions protruding from the inner periphery of the sheet ejection port are provided at a plurality of locations along the width direction of the sheet. The first protrusion faces a first surface of the sheet and the second protrusion faces a second surface, which is the back surface of the first surface of the sheet. The first protrusion and the second protrusion are provided at positions deviated from each other in the sheet width direction and bend the sheet in an undulating shape in the width direction therebetween. Further, protrusion height of at least one of the first protrusions and the second protrusions in the central portion in the width direction of the sheet is lower than protrusion heights of the first protrusions and the second protrusions in other regions.
US11745521B2
A printing apparatus includes a plurality of set units to set rolled print media, a conveyance unit to convey the print media, a printing unit, a detection unit, and display units. The printing unit prints an image on the print media conveyed by the conveyance unit. The detection unit detects whether any one of the print media is fed to a predetermined printable position at which printing is performable by the printing unit. Each display unit is provided on a different one of the plurality of set units and configured to indicate whether a print medium set in a corresponding set unit is being fed. When the printing unit performs printing on the print medium, each display unit indicates whether the print medium set in the corresponding set unit is being fed in accordance with a result of detection performed by the detection unit.
US11745512B2
An ink supply container configured to supply an ink to a printer includes a container part configured to contain the ink, a conduit part on a top side of the container part, the conduit part being configured to lead the ink out, a cap configured to protect the conduit part, the cap being detachably attached to the conduit part, and a film attached to at least one of an inner surface of the container part, an inner surface of the conduit part, and an inner surface of the cap.
US11745511B2
An ink tank includes: a first liquid storage chamber having a lower limit indicator; a second liquid storage chamber; a liquid inlet communicated with the first liquid storage chamber; a cap openable or closeable the liquid inlet; a rotation shaft extending from an inside of the first liquid storage chamber to an outside through a through hole provided on a side wall of the first liquid storage chamber; a valve member opening or closing the communication passage; a first lever arm rotatable around the rotation shaft and connected to the valve member; a second lever arm provided outside the ink tank and rotatable around the rotation shaft; and a slider member connected to the second lever arm and movable in conjunction with the cap, the through hole being provided at a position above the lower limit indicator.
US11745510B2
An inkjet recording apparatus includes an ink tank including an ink storage chamber configured to store ink to be supplied to a recording head configured to discharge ink. An injection portion is provided through which ink is injected from an ink bottle into the ink storage chamber. An ink reception portion is configured to receive ink inside the injection portion. A communication portion is configured to communicate with the ink storage chamber inside the injection portion. A guide portion is configured to guide ink received by the ink reception portion to the communication portion.
US11745501B1
A system is disclosed. The system includes at least one physical memory device to store drop size logic and one or more processors coupled with the at least one physical memory device to execute the drop size logic to receive first ink usage amount data for each of a plurality of color planes associated with a first halftone design and print job data, receive first ink drop size data for each of a plurality of color planes associated with the first halftone design, receive second ink drop count data for each of the plurality of color planes associated with a second halftone design and the print job data and determine second ink drop size data for each of the plurality of color planes based on the corresponding first ink usage amount data, the first ink drop size data and the second ink drop count data.
US11745500B2
An ink heating device comprising an ink container that includes an ink pack filled with ink, and a case housing the ink pack and having a first opening and a second opening, and a blower that sends warm air into the case through the first opening. The warm air is discharged through the second opening.
US11745495B2
Disclosed is a corrugated paperboard printer comprising a pressing device for applying a pressing force to press a chamber which reserves ink toward an anilox roll. The pressing device is configured to apply a first pressing force, and a second pressing force which is greater than the first pressing force, respectively, to a first pressing area and a second pressing area in a back surface of a chamber frame. In a state in which no pressing force is applied by the pressing device, bending occurring in the chamber frame due to a load transmitted from a printing roll to the chamber frame via the anilox roll as printing is performed to a corrugated paperboard sheet is greater in the second pressing area than in the first pressing area.
US11745493B2
A process for making an ultra-conformal microprint by ultra-conformal microprint transferring includes: disposing a transfer moiety arranged in a microstructure on a transfer substrate; disposing a glassy transfer layer on the transfer moiety; forming a glassy composite; removing the glassy composite from the transfer substrate while maintaining the microstructure of the transfer moiety in the glassy transfer layer; disposing the glassy composite on a microprint substrate; ultra-conformally covering the microprint substrate with the glassy composite by heating the glassy composite so that it flows while maintaining the microstructure of the transfer moiety in the glassy transfer layer so that the microstructure is disposed on the microprint substrate; and removing the glassy transfer layer while leaving the transfer moiety disposed in the microstructure on the microprint substrate to form the ultra-conformal microprint including the transfer moiety arranged in the microstructure on the microprint substrate.
US11745487B1
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of film sticking, more particularly to a sticking film, a film-sticking tool and a film-sticking assembly. The sticking film includes a tempered film for attaching to the screen of an electronic product, and a release film layer attached to the tempered film. The release film layer is an electrostatic layer, the release film layer and the tempered film are separated when pasting, and the side of the release film layer that is attached to the tempered film generates static electricity to attract dust on the screen. Thus, static electricity can be generated when the release film layer and the tempered film are separated, which can attract dust on the screen of electronic products and clean the screen, and avoids dust particles from scratching the screen due to direct wiping of the screen, resulting in damage to the performance of the screen.
US11745483B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a stand-up pouch for retort which has a high rate of gas barrier property recovery after retort processing and can stably retain high gas barrier properties. The stand-up pouch for retort of the invention comprises a laminate which comprises a base film and, disposed over one surface of the base film, a polyamide resin layer, a saponified ethylene-vinyl ester copolymer layer, and a heat-sealing resin layer, wherein the polyamide resin layer adjoins the saponified ethylene-vinyl ester copolymer layer.
US11745479B2
A laminated composite article having a core component and laminate sheet. The laminate sheet is disposed and overlying at least a portion of the core component. The laminate sheet includes a wear layer and an ink layer. The laminate sheet includes UV absorbers. The UV absorbers are arranged and disposed to provide ink stability to the ink layer. Methods for forming the laminated composite article are also disclosed.
US11745476B2
A film structure including at least a functional film, a carrier layer, and a counter-force liner, the functional film being in between the carrier layer and the counter-force liner. The carrier layer and the counter-force liner are larger than the receiving area, and the film structure includes a fastener adapted to fasten, directly or indirectly, the counter-force liner to the carrier layer at least on a portion of a zone outside the functional film. It is also proposed a corresponding machine, optical device and method for forming a functional film intended to be laminated on an optical article.
US11745474B2
A composite glass comprises two glass and/or plastic plates and an intermediate foil arranged between the glass and/or plastic plates. The composite glass, due to the intermediate foil, is configured differently in a side-dependent manner, by appearing to a viewer more transparent from an inner side than from an outer side. The composite glass, due to the intermediate foil, appears to the viewer different in a viewing angle-dependent manner from the outer side.
US11745473B2
Laminated (and, in some cases, additionally etched) glazing units for cooperation with solar-energy systems during architectural integration thereof include an optically-transparent substrate in contact with an incident medium, on one side, and with a non-quarter-wave thin-film-stack based interference filter on another side, followed by an exit medium. Embodiments are practically applicable to conceal physical structures disposed behind them and characterized by IR-light transmittance that is enhanced (as compared with conventional glazing units based on quarter-wave thin-film-stacks and similarly utilized) to improve efficiency of a solar-energy system carrying at least a portion of such glazing unit on its front surface. Colour of reflected light perceived as a function of angle is sufficiently stabilized for practical applications. In specific cases, a solar-energy system is integrated inside or with such a glazing unit.
US11745469B2
A method for manufacturing a conductive laminate and a conductive laminate are provided. The method for manufacturing the conductive laminate includes steps of: providing a substrate having a surface; immersing the substrate into a modifying solution including a silane with a hydrophilic group to form a discontinuous modified layer on the surface of the substrate; forming a barrier layer on the surface of the substrate and the discontinuous modified layer, and forming a conductive layer on a surface of the barrier layer. The barrier layer includes a polymer, and the polymer is selected from the group consisting of: polyvinyl alcohol, polyvinylpyrrolidone, polyacrylic acid, polyethylene glycol, and any combination thereof.
US11745464B2
A method for the development of a thermally insulating sandwich-structured laminate, such as a sandwich-structured laminate of a housing of a climate chamber for the high temperature range, with an internal wall and an external wall, can include the method steps: providing the internal wall, adhering at least one high temperature stable insulation panel onto the internal wall, positioning the external wall with respect to the internal wall such that between the internal wall and the external wall the at least one high temperature stable insulation panel and a hollow volume are developed. The method can further include filling the hollow volume with a PUR foam for the formation of a second rigid foam layer connecting the at least one high temperature stable insulation panel and the external wall.
US11745462B2
An optical adhesive sheet having an excellent repulsion resistance and an excellent swelling rate, and a method for manufacturing the same.
US11745456B2
Methods and systems are provided for forming an article of footwear. In one example, forming the article of footwear includes using a perforated last during molding of a midsole of the article of footwear. The midsole may be attached to a seam of the upper of the article footwear to secure the midsole to the upper.
US11745454B2
The present disclosure relates to methods of forming a fiber optic core, and a fiber optic component with a highly uniform cladding covering the fiber optic core. In one microfabrication process a first sacrificial tubing is provided which has a predetermined inner diameter. A quantity of a curable polymer is also provided. The first sacrificial tubing is at least partially filled with the curable polymer. The curable polymer is then cured. The first sacrificial tubing is then removed to produce a finished fiber optic core. Additional operations may be performed by which the fiber optic core is placed inside a thermoplastic tubing, which is itself placed inside a sacrificial heat shrink. Heat is applied to reflow the thermoplastic tubing around the fiber optic core, thus forming a highly uniform thickness cladding. When the sacrificial heat shrink tubing is removed a finished fiber optic component is present. Additional microfabrication methods are disclosed which involve dip coating a pre-formed fiber optic core in a polymer, and then curing the polymer to form a finished fiber optic component with a uniform thickness cladding.
US11745449B2
Devices, systems, and methods of improving paste flow during the manufacture of wind turbine blades are provided. When the first turbine blade half is aligned with the second turbine blade half, a gap is formed between the first shell and the bond cap. The assembly includes a first mold half corresponding to the first turbine blade half and a second mold half corresponding to the second turbine blade half. When the first mold is aligned with the second mold, a second gap is formed. A first barrier is disposed within the first gap and a second barrier disposed within the second gap thereby fluidly sealing a volume defined by the first gap and the second gap to direct adhesive paste flow along the blade span between the adjoining leading and trailing edges.
US11745448B2
Provided is a technology for imparting a design having a higher degree of freedom than in the related art to a composite material product including a woven fabric, which is formed of a thread made of a specific fiber (carbon fiber, glass fiber, aramid fiber), and a resin. As a first step, a specific fiber cloth (100), which is the woven fabric formed of the thread made of a specific fiber, and a backing sheet (200) formed of a thermoplastic resin are stacked. Subsequently, embroidery is performed with an embroidery thread (300) to form a design on a front surface of the specific fiber cloth (100). The embroidery thread (300) is made of the specific fiber, and penetrates through the specific fiber cloth (100) and the backing sheet (200). Then, the specific fiber cloth (100) and the backing sheet (200) are sandwiched between resin sheets (400) each formed of a thermoplastic resin, and the whole is cured by an RFI method.
US11745445B2
A method of designing an anisotropic composite laminate structure to constitute a predetermined member of an airframe structure of an aircraft and includes a plurality of types of composite layers containing reinforcing fibers with different fiber orientations is provided. The method includes dividing the anisotropic composite laminate structure in the predetermined member into a plurality of regions in a thickness direction. The method includes determining, for each of the regions, at least a stacking sequence of the plurality of types of composite layers in accordance with a direction of stress acting on the predetermined member.
US11745444B2
The present disclosure relates to a pultrusion process for preparing a reinforced thermoset polyurethane composite, and specifically relates to a pultrusion process for simultaneous optimization of fiber sizing continuously along with the pultrusion process without any interruption by contacting the fibers with a sizing composition.
US11745439B2
A flexible, self-supporting hybrid veil that is permeable to liquid and gas. The hybrid veil includes: (a) intermingled, randomly arranged fibres in the form of a nonwoven structure; (b) particles dispersed throughout the nonwoven structure, wherein a majority of the particles are penetrating through the thickness of the nonwoven structure; and (c) a polymeric or resinous binder present throughout the veil. Such hybrid veil can be incorporated into composite laminates, prepregs, fabrics and fibrous preforms.
US11745435B2
A handrail has a thermoplastic body having a generally C-shaped cross section, a stretch inhibitor in the thermoplastic body above a T-shaped slot and a slider fabric layer. The handrail includes first and second end portions, each comprising a forward part extending from an end surface of the end portion and a rear part adjacent the forward part. A method of forming a joint can include: providing cuts to separate a top section of the thermoplastic body from a base section including shoulder portions; for each end portion, removing at least shoulder portions from the forward part thereof, to leave a central portion including a forward part at the slider fabric layer and a layer of thermoplastic; cutting the forward parts to a required shape; and assembling the first and second end portions together to form a spliced joint for moulding.
US11745433B2
A connection element for adhering to a component surface of a first component, such that a second component can be secured to the first component by the connection element, including a base element having an adhesive side with an adhesive surface, and a mounting structure. The base element consists of a thermoplastic with a temperature of continued use of at least 130° C., which can be poorly irradiated or cannot be irradiated with light, and has at least one irradiation region. The base element can be irradiated with light in this region in such a way that light energy penetrates the base element. The irradiation region, in cross-section, has a smaller thickness and a transmittance at least 20% with a light wavelength between 320 and 500 nm. Alternatively, the irradiation region is formed by a through-opening.
US11745416B2
An additive manufacturing device includes a build platform. A recoater is operatively connected to the build platform to move relative to the build platform to coat unfused powder onto a build on the build platform. The recoater includes a recoater mount defining a length-wise receptacle therein, and a recoater blade seated in the receptacle. A blade reel system is operatively connected to the recoater to replace the recoater blade in the receptacle during a build on the build platform.
US11745408B2
A material forming apparatus comprises: a support which is positioned at a side of a forming tool with respect to a material arranged on the forming tool to have a first part covered by the forming tool and a second part separated from the forming tool, and which supports the forming tool; a diaphragm which presses the second part of the material while the outer surface of the expanded diaphragm comes in close contact therewith, in a state in which the first part of the material is compressed by the forming tool and the outer surface of the diaphragm; and a volume-varying member which is disposed near the forming tool between the diaphragm and the support so that at least a portion thereof is positioned on the second part of the material.
US11745390B2
Methods, systems and agglomerators for recovering mixed multi-plastic and natural fiber are described. The systems, methods, and the agglomerator operate at low temperatures to avoid degradation of the plastic film. The agglomerator includes cutting discs that are adjustable.
US11745379B2
A cutting unit for the cutting of a substrate band for an aerosol-generating device, and a related cutting assembly, wherein the substrate band has a longitudinally-extending axis and wherein the cutting unit comprises: a feeder for feeding the substrate band along a feed direction parallel to the extension axis; a cutting head comprising a cutting edge having a closed profile for cutting a substrate portion from the substrate band, which cutting head is movable in a movement direction transversal to the feed direction between a cutting position, in which it cuts the substrate portion, and a release position, in which it releases the substrate portion; and a conveyor, which are arranged and shaped so as to receive the substrate portion from the cutting head when the cutting head is in the release position, and convey the substrate portion towards an output section.
US11745376B2
A cutting tool for use with a heated tool assembly is described herein. The cutting tool includes a support body and a plurality of cutting blades extending outwardly from an outer surface of the support body. The plurality of cutting blades includes a primary cutting blade and a pair of secondary cutting blades extending obliquely from the primary cutting blade. At least one heating element chamber is defined within the support body and is configured to receive a heating cartridge therein to facilitate transferring thermal energy from the heating cartridge to the cutting tool for use in heating the plurality of cutting blades.
US11745369B2
A cutting unit having a blade carrier carrying a cutting blade, and a guard. The guard includes a blade-facing surface engaging the cutting blade at a cut location, a planar guard contact surface for contacting the user's skin, where the guard contact surface is angled with respect to the blade-facing surface, and a guard extender separate from the guard. The guard extender includes a planar extension contact surface cooperating with the guard contact surface to provide an extended contact zone across the guard and the guard extender for contacting a user's skin. The blade-facing surface and the guard contact surface converge towards a tip of the guard, such that a cutting direction extends along the guard contact surface towards the tip. The extended contact zone may provide for improved stability and reliable orientation of the cutting unit for cutting while limiting material use.
US11745364B2
The robot includes a first arm member rotatable about a first axis line which extends in an up-and-down direction with respect to a base member, a second arm member supported by the first arm member so as to be swingable about a second axis line which extends in a horizontal direction, and a third arm member supported by a distal end side of the second arm member so as to be swingable about a third axis line which extends in a horizontal direction, and the first arm member is provided with a first attaching surface which is a surface substantially perpendicular to the second axis line, and to which the second arm member can be attached, and a second attaching surface which faces in a direction opposite from the first attaching surface, and to which the second arm member can be attached.
US11745354B2
A supplementary metrology position coordinates determination (SMPD) system is used with a robot. “Robot accuracy” (e.g., for controlling and sensing an end tool position of an end tool that is mounted proximate to a distal end of its movable arm configuration) is based on robot position sensors included in the robot. The SMPD system includes an imaging configuration and an XY scale and an alignment sensor for sensing alignment/misalignment therebetween, and an image triggering portion and processing portion. One of the XY scale or imaging configuration is coupled to the movable arm configuration and the other is coupled to a stationary element (e.g., a frame above the robot). The imaging configuration acquires an image of the XY scale with known alignment/misalignment, which is utilized to determine metrology position coordinates that are indicative of the end tool position, with an accuracy level that is better than the robot accuracy.
US11745353B2
A method includes identifying a target surface in an environment of a robotic device. The method further includes controlling a moveable component of the robotic device to move along a motion path relative to the target surface, wherein the moveable component comprises a light source and a camera. The method additionally includes receiving a plurality of images from the camera when the moveable component is at a plurality of poses along the motion path and when the light source is illuminating the target surface. The method also includes determining bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) image data, wherein the BRDF image data comprises the plurality of images converted to angular space with respect to the target surface. The method further includes determining, based on the BRDF image data and by applying at least one pre-trained machine learning model, a material property of the target surface.
US11745349B2
An origin calibration method of a manipulator is provided. The origin calibration method includes steps of: (a) controlling the manipulator to move in accordance with a movement command, and acquiring the 3D coordinates of the reference anchor points reached by the manipulator; (b) controlling the manipulator to move in accordance with the movement command while an origin of the manipulator being offset, acquiring the 3D coordinates of the actual anchor points reached by the manipulator, and acquiring a Jacobian matrix accordingly; (c) acquiring a deviation of a rotation angle of the manipulator according to the Jacobian matrix, the 3D coordinates of the reference anchor points and the actual anchor points, and acquiring a compensation angle value according to the deviation; and (d) updating the rotation angle of the manipulator according to the compensation angle value so as to update the origin of the manipulator.
US11745348B2
The foodstuff assembly system can include: a robot arm, a frame, a set of foodstuff bins, a sensor suite, a set of food utensils, and a computing system. The system can optionally include: a container management system, a human machine interface (HMI). However, the foodstuff assembly system 100 can additionally or alternatively include any other suitable set of components. The system functions to enable picking of foodstuff from a set of foodstuff bins and placement into a container (such as a bowl, tray, or other foodstuff receptacle). Additionally or alternatively, the system can function to facilitate transferal of bulk material (e.g., bulk foodstuff) into containers, such as containers moving along a conveyor line.
US11745344B2
A computer system that generates a universal resource locator (URL). The URL is associated with resuming at least one automated process of a running workflow process that includes a plurality of automated processes. The URL is provided to an external system/application. An input of the URL is received from the external system/application, in response to a trigger event at the external system/application. Based on the input of the URL, the at least one automated process is resumed by at least one headless robot.
US11745336B2
Proposed is an elastic body having variable rigidity, wherein the elastic body is used in a series elastic actuator module, connects an input and an output, and has a rigidity that varies according to the applied torque. The elastic body having variable rigidity comprises: a connection part which receives torque from the input side or the output side; and a spring part connected to and receiving torque from the one selected from among the input side and the output side which is different from the connection part, wherein the spring part is formed integrally with the connection part and has a rigidity that varies as the connection part and the spring part come into contact with each other due to deformation caused by the applied torque.
US11745335B2
Provided is a support structure comprising a link member (a rod-like member), a clamp member disposed to surround the link member, and an elastic member disposed between the link member and the clamp member, the support structure supports the link member inside the clamp member via the elastic member, and the elastic member comprises a liquid impermeable material, and fills a space between the link member and the clamp member.
US11745334B2
A spatial large-stroke compliant hinge with hybrid structure, which includes a rectangular planar unit for implementing an out-of-plane torsion function and a crossed-shaped planar unit for achieving an in-plane rotation function. The crossed-shaped planar unit is formed by two flexible straight beam thin sheets intersecting into a crossed-shaped structure with an angle, and the rectangular planar unit and the crossed-shaped planar unit are connected through an external connection or an embedded connection.
US11745332B1
Methods, apparatus, and computer readable media applicable to balancing robots. Some implementations are directed to maintaining a given end effector pose (relative to a world frame) of an end effector of a balancing robot when there is a disturbance to a balancing base of the balancing robot. Some implementations are additionally or alternatively directed to transitioning a balancing robot from a fallen configuration to a balanced configuration. Some implementations are additionally or alternatively directed to mitigating the risk that a balancing robot will fall when interacting with actuable environmental objects (e.g., doors) and/or to lessen the disturbance to a balancing base when interacting with actuable environmental objects.
US11745330B2
A door opening device comprising a multi-directional head and a telescoping pole is provided. The multi-directional head allows the operator to choose the angle when opening the door and the telescoping pole allows the operator to remain at a distance away from the doorway while operating the doorknob. By allowing an operator to remain around a corner when opening a door, an armed and cornered individual is less able to harm the operator by shooting through the door.
US11745329B2
A wrench case for a set of combination wrenches, where each wrench includes an open end, a closed end, and an elongate handle extending therebetween. The wrench case includes a handle, a post receiving the open end of each wrench, and a body including a front side and a back side. The front side supports the elongate handle of each wrench. The wrench case further includes a plurality of tabs spaced apart along the front side of the body. Between adjacent tabs is a gap that receives each wrench. The wrench case further includes a door pivotally coupled to the body between a closed position, in which the door is coupled adjacent the front side of the body to maintain each wrench against the body, and an open position, in which the door is coupled adjacent the back side of the body.
US11745328B1
A sawhorse support attachment device for attaching supports for construction use includes a stand unit. The stand unit comprises a pair of bases, a plurality of stands, and a pair of chains. Each of the bases has a hollow interior that defines a space for an insert to be nested within. A pair of stands is attached to each of the bases at an angle to create a sawhorse assembly when in an open position. A pair of chains connects each of the pair of stands to each other. The chains provide supplemental stability to the stand unit when attaching elements. A support has a bracket with a pair of inserts. The pair of inserts is nested into the hollow interior of the pair of bases when attaching to the stand unit. A platform having the bracket and pair of inserts can attach to the stand unit.
US11745315B2
A vacuum suction nozzle is provided, including a first housing, a second housing, an accommodating space, a gap, and a clamping assembly. The first housing includes a first lateral wall, a first lower surface, a channel, and a through hole. The through hole is formed on the first lateral wall. The second housing is fixedly connected to the first housing, and includes a second lateral wall and a second lower surface. The accommodating space is formed between the first lateral wall and the second lateral wall, and the through hole is opened onto the channel and the accommodating space. The gap is formed between the first lower surface and the second lower surface, and is opened onto the accommodating space. The clamping assembly is disposed in the accommodating space.
US11745311B2
A buffing and polishing member has an uncompressed monolithic body of foam material having slits from an outside surface toward and less than a distance to a rotational axis of the body. The slits, on circumferential spaced planes, extend generally radially from the outside surface toward and less than a distance to the rotational axis to define a plurality of foam fingers and an unslit center portion. A fastening mechanism holds the center portion of the slit foam body in a compressed state along the rotational axis such that the uncompressed outer ends of the foam finger define a spherocylinder.
US11745306B2
A polishing apparatus includes a rotatable head body having a pressing surface, a retainer ring configured to press a polishing surface while rotating together with the head body, a stationary ring, local load applying devices configured to apply a local load to the stationary ring, and a controller. The local load applying devices include a first pressing member and a second pressing member connected to the stationary ring. The first pressing member is disposed in the upstream side of the retainer ring in the traveling direction of the polishing surface, and the second pressing member is disposed in the downstream side. The controller calculates the inclination angle of the stationary ring based on a measured value of the height of at least one of the first pressing member and the second pressing member.
US11745299B2
A grinding apparatus and a grinding method of a composite substrate including resin, by which loading of a grinding wheel can be suppressed in grinding of a large-sized composite substrate including resin, and with which grinding can be effectively performed with high precision. This method for grinding a front surface of a composite substrate formed with a resin substrate embedded with at least one of a semiconductor device chip and an electrode, includes: bringing at least a part of a grinding member for grinding the front surface of the composite substrate into contact with the front surface; supplying water to at least one of a contacting part or a non-contacting part between the front surface of the composite substrate and the grinding member; and grinding the front surface of the composite substrate simultaneously with the supplying water.
US11745290B2
A metal member-welded structure includes: a Cu member; an Al member; and a welded portion formed by melting and solidifying each of materials of the Cu member and the Al member. The Cu member includes a Cu-based material containing Cu as a main component. The Al member includes an Al-based material containing Al as a main component and a plating layer that covers a side of the Al-based material, the side being close to a surface of the Cu member. The welded portion includes a sea-island structure in a vicinity of the surface of the Cu member. The sea-island structure includes: a plurality of island portions containing pure Al, and a sea portion interposed among the island portions. The sea portion has a eutectic structure having: a phase of an intermetallic compound of Cu and Al; and a phase of pure Al.
US11745284B2
A welding torch includes an inner tube of a helically wound wire to define a passage for a welding wire, a conduit in which the inner tube is inserted, the conduit having a curved portion, a torch body including a tip portion and a nozzle, a torch holder having a gas supplying member that supplies a shield gas into a space between the inner tube and the conduit, a feed unit provided upstream of the torch holder to feed the welding wire forward to or backward from the inner tube, and a sealing mechanism for preventing a reverse flow of the shield gas to the feed unit. A gap is defined between the adjacent wires of the inner tube allowing the shield gas to flow therethrough, and permitting wear debris generated by abrasion of the welding wire sliding in the inner tube to be ejected out from the nozzle.
US11745279B2
A system is configured for machining a workpiece (100), the workpiece includes an interior surface (110) that defines an internal passage (112). The system includes an electrode (116) located within the internal passage and electrically isolated from the workpiece, an electrolyte supply, a power supply, and a remover. The electrolyte supply is configured for circulating an electrolyte in a gap between the electrode and the workpiece. The power supply is configured for applying a voltage between the electrode and the workpiece to facilitate smoothing the interior surface. The remover is configured for completely removing the electrode from within the internal passage after smoothing the interior surface.
US11745273B2
A hole saw includes a substantially cylindrical body defining a cutting end and an axis of rotation. The hole saw also includes first and second apertures formed through the body and spaced from the cutting end such that a portion of the body extends between the cutting end and both the first and second apertures. The first and second apertures are both configured to receive a tool for removing work piece plugs from within the cylindrical body. The first aperture is axially spaced from the cutting end a first distance. The second aperture is axially spaced from the cutting end a second distance that is greater than the first distance. The first aperture and the second aperture are separated by a portion of the body.
US11745266B2
An example method for additive manufacturing of metals includes spreading a build material including a metal in a sequence of layers. Each layer has a respective thickness, a respective sequence position, and a respective exposed surface to receive energy from a flood energy source prior to spreading of a subsequent layer. Each respective exposed surface has a surface area of at least 5 square centimeters (cm2). Layer-by-layer, the exposed surface of each layer is exposed to the radiated energy from the flood energy source. The energy is radiated at an intensity profile and a fluence sufficient to cause a consolidating transformation of the build material in the exposed layer.
US11745262B2
The invention relates to a method for producing a metal foam of at least one first metal that contains the main constituent Mg, Al, Pb, Au, Zn, Ti or Fe in a quantity of at least approximately 80 wt. % in relation to the quantity of the at least one first metal, said method comprising the following steps: (I) providing a semi-finished product comprising a foamable mixture that comprises the at least one first metal and at least one foaming agent, (II) submerging the semi-finished product in a heatable bath comprising a liquid, and (III) heating the semi-finished product in the bath in order to foam the foamable mixture by removing gas from the at least one foaming agent for forming the metal foam. The invention also relates to a metal foam, to a composite material that can be obtained by the method, and to a component comprising the metal foam and/or the composite material.
US11745259B2
Methods for producing final bodies that contain a fine-grained refractory complex concentrated alloy (RCCA), as well as RCCAs, intermediate materials and final bodies containing the RCCAs, and high-temperature devices formed by such final bodies. Such a method includes providing a precursor with one or more precursor compounds containing elements of an RCCA, reducing the precursor compounds in the precursor via reaction with a reducing agent so as to generate the RCCA and a compound comprising a product of the reaction between the reducing agent and the precursor compounds, generating a solid material that contains at least the RCCA, forming with the solid material a porous intermediate body, and consolidating the porous intermediate body so as to partially or completely remove the pore volume from the porous intermediate body, and in doing so yield either a denser final body or a denser film.
US11745253B2
Methods and systems for creating a mold for a cast memorialization product are described herein. In a process for creating a mold, a three-dimensional (3D) model of a product design is generated. The product design includes customized features for a memorialization product. A mold design is generated based upon the 3D model of the product design. Printing instructions for creating the mold are generated and accessed by a processing device. The mold is created according to the printing instructions. A product, such as a bronze memorialization product, can be cast using the mold.
US11745249B2
Rotary caulking device, method of manufacturing hub unit bearing and method of manufacturing vehicle
A hub main body (13z) is supported by a support portion (18). At least one block (22) is engaged with a stationary flange (6) of an outer ring (2). As a support plate (21) rotates, the outer ring (2) rotates. A caulking portion (16) is formed by pressing a pressing die (20) on a cylindrical portion (31).
US11745246B2
Method for producing a component system having a first component with a first component portion and a second component with a second component portion, including the following steps: connecting, in particular welding or soldering, the first component portion, which consists of an aluminum alloy, to the second component portion, which in particular consists of a naturally aged aluminum alloy, a copper alloy or an iron alloy, in particular a steel alloy, so as to form a connection seam; artificially aging the connection seam such that the yield strength of the connection seam is above the yield strength of the first component portion and/or of the second component portion; and deforming, in particular deep-drawing and/or stretch-drawing, the component system.
US11745237B2
A cooling group for a laminar cooling device, including at least one cooling unit arranged above and below a strip to be cooled in order to supply the strip with a cooling liquid, including a central inlet via which cooling liquid is supplied, a distributing tube supplied with cooling liquid by the central inlet, and a number of supplying units supplied with cooling liquid from the distributing tube. Each supplying unit has a number of cooling nozzles via which cooling liquid is discharged onto the strip. In order to minimize the influence of the number of supplying units which are switched on or switched off, and thus have as little expenditure as possible, a volumetric flow rate regulating valve is arranged in or in front of the central inlet. The regulating valve is used to conduct a defined volume of cooling liquid through the central inlet per unit of time.
US11745230B2
A cleaning apparatus for cleaning of medical machine components of machines such as CPAP machines, nebulizers, PEEP machines, and the like is disclosed herein. The cleaning apparatus comprises a container body. A carousel is configured for placement within the container body. The carousel comprises a support structure. The carousel further comprises a helical ramp attached to the support structure and extending helically from an operative top end of the support structure to an operative bottom end of the support structure along a periphery of the support structure.
US11745227B2
A substrate cleaning device may include a chamber body configured to hold a substrate and a brush assembly. The brush assembly may include a first roller, a second roller, and a belt extending between the first roller and the second roller. At least one of the first roller and the second roller may be movable between a first position where the belt contacts a first surface of a substrate disposed in the chamber body and a second position where the belt is spaced from the first surface. Other substrate cleaning devices and methods of cleaning substrates are disclosed.
US11745226B2
The present invention discloses a cell photographing and conveying apparatus, including a cell feeding workstation, a detection workstation, a manipulator and an image acquisition device. The manipulator transfers a cell from the cell feeding workstation to the detection workstation. The image acquisition device includes ultraviolet lamps, illumination lamps, and cameras, where the ultraviolet lamps are used for emitting ultraviolet light to the detection workstation. By means of the cell photographing and conveying apparatus, a relatively complete appearance image of the cell can be acquired, thus ensuring detection accuracy.
US11745225B1
A golf ball sorting system has a ball feeder, a ball mover, a detector, and a sorting system. The ball feeder may be configured to receive a plurality of golf balls. The ball mover may be configured to move each of the plurality of golf balls one at a time at a predetermined minimum speed. The detector may be configured to inspect each of the plurality of golf balls moved by the movement mechanism and output a detection result based on the inspection. The sorting system may be configured to receive the detection result and sort the plurality of golf balls based on the detection result to separate golf balls that include a mark that is not visible to an observer from golf balls that do not include a mark.
US11745219B2
A vibration apparatus includes a vibrating body that has a tubular shape and includes first and second opening end portions, an outside surface, and an inside surface, a light transmissive body connected to the second opening end portion of the vibrating body, and a piezoelectric vibrator provided in the vibrating body. The vibrating body includes a flange portion extending from the outside surface of the vibrating body toward an outside. The vibration apparatus further includes a driving circuit that vibrates a connection body of the light transmissive body and the vibrating body in a vibration mode of light transmissive body vibration or a vibration mode of flange portion vibration and that alternately switches between the vibration mode of the light transmissive body vibration and the vibration mode of the flange portion vibration.
US11745216B2
A method for producing a film includes: coating a surface of a substrate with a composition containing a polymer having a structural unit represented by formula (1) and having a number average molecular weight of 13000 or more and a solvent, heating a coating film formed by the coating, and removing, with a rinsing liquid, a part of the coating film after the heating, wherein the rinsing liquid to be used contains a basic compound. In the formula (1), Y1 is a single bond, —CO—NR2—, a divalent aromatic ring group, a divalent group containing —O—, or a divalent group containing —CO—NR2—. A1 is a single bond, —O—, —S—, or —NR3—. R1 is a hydrogen atom, a monovalent hydrocarbon group, a monovalent halogenated hydrocarbon group, or a monovalent group having a heterocyclic structure.
US11745215B2
A system and method for applying a construction material is provided. The method may include mixing blast furnace slag material, geopolymer material, alkali-based powder, and sand at a mixing device to generate a non-Portland cement-based material. The method may also include transporting the non-Portland cement-based material from the mixing device, through a conduit to a nozzle and combining the transported non-Portland cement-based material with water at the nozzle to generate a partially liquefied non-Portland cement-based material. The method may further include pneumatically applying the partially liquefied non-Portland cement-based material to a surface.
US11745214B2
A dispensing paintbrush includes a handle, a brush head connected to the handle, and bristles attached to the brush head to apply a fluid to a surface. A coupler is attached to the handle and is configured to connect to a fluid source. A nozzle is attached to the coupler and is configured to dispense the fluid to the bristles. The nozzle extends within the bristles and terminates at a position from the brush head that is less than one half the length of the bristles.
US11745210B2
Disclosed is a sprinkler system including a controller, wherein when the sprinkler system is in a pressurized mode, the controller is configured for: rendering a first determination to transition the sprinkler system to a standby mode, and executing a first communication with a vacuum pump based on the first determination, the first communication directing the vacuum pump to activate, whereby fluid is drained from the sprinkler system.
US11745208B2
A sprinkler extension device is disclosed to adjust a height of an existing pop-up sprinkler installed in the ground. An example sprinkler extension device includes an extension riser configured to mate on a first end to a sprinkler riser. The extension riser is further configured to mate on a second end to a spray cap of the existing pop-up sprinkler installed in the ground. The example sprinkler extension device also includes an extension coupling configured to mate on a first end to a sprinkler housing. The extension coupling is further configured to mate on a second end to a sprinkler head of the existing pop-up sprinkler installed in the ground.
US11745201B2
A thermal spray system may include a thermal spray torch configured to produce an emission of material, at least one camera configured to capture an image of the emission of material emitted by the thermal spray torch, a diagnostic device communicatively coupled to the at least one camera, and a controller communicatively coupled to the diagnostic device. The camera may be configured to transmit an image of the emission of material to a diagnostic device that may be configured to determine a characteristic of the emission of material based on the image. The diagnostic device may transmit the characteristic to a controller that may control a position of the thermal spray torch based on the characteristic.
US11745199B2
A dispensing device (100) according to the invention comprises a reservoir (4) for a liquid or semi-liquid substance to be dispensed and a pumping mechanism (5) for dispensing the substance. The device is characterized in that it includes a housing (1), in which an upper body (2) and a lower body (3) are located, wherein a deformable reservoir (4) is located on or around the lower body (3) and the pumping mechanism (5) is located in the upper body (2). A supply valve (6) and a dispensing valve (8) are located in the lower body (3), and the supply valve (6) is connected by means of a lower channel (7) with the reservoir (4), and a dispensing valve (8) is connected by means of an upper channel (9) with the pumping mechanism (5).
US11745186B2
An embodiment is a sample rack system. The sample rack system comprises a rack having a base, a top opposite the base along a vertical direction, a receptacle that extends from the top toward the base along the vertical direction, and a receiver element proximate the top. The receptacle is sized to receive a sample collection unit. The system also includes a retention clip for holding the sample collection unit in the receptacle. The retention clip includes an engagement head for attachment to the receiver element of the rack. The engagement head defines an outer surface. The retention clip also includes a curved tail that extends from the engagement head and contacts the sample collection unit when the sample collection unit is placed in the receptacle. The outer surface of the retention clip does not project outwardly from the rack when the retention clip is attached to the rack.
US11745184B1
The invention provides reduced background substrates, such as multi-well plates, for use in enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs) and other ligand-binding assays, and methods for making and using the same.
US11745175B2
The present disclosure discloses a process for improving the surface catalytic efficiency of a catalyst substrate. In some embodiments, to use nano-catalyst particles more efficiently, a process uses a porous substrate as a stationary phase support and disperses the nano-catalyst particles uniformly in all the internal space of the porous substrate, such that reactants flow through the porous substrate to achieve a catalytic effect. In some embodiments, the process not only improves the use efficiency of nano-catalyst particles, but also enables easier and more convenient adjustment of various parameters of a catalytic reaction.
US11745172B2
A substrate (11) of an exhaust gas purification catalyst (10) includes inflow-side cells (21), outflow-side cells (22), and porous partition walls (23), each separating the inflow-side cell and the outflow-side cell. Catalyst portions (14, 15) are provided on the surfaces of the partition walls that each face the inflow-side cell and/or the surfaces of the partition walls that each face the outflow-side cell. In a cross section vertical to an exhaust gas flow direction, the percentage of the total area of voids, each void satisfying the expression L/{2(πS)1/2}≤1.1 (wherein L is the perimeter of the void in the cross section, and S is the area of the void in the cross section), is greater than 10% to 30% or less based on the apparent area of the catalyst portion present on the partition wall. The content of zirconium element in terms of oxide (amount of ZrO2) in the catalyst portions is from 35 mass % to 85 mass %.
US11745164B2
A sorbent composition for enhanced baghouse function is described. The composition may include a sorbent such as powder activated carbon as well as an additive that is a heat moderator or a permeability agent. The heat moderator may act as a heat sink or barrier. Heat moderators may include in non-limiting examples phyllosilicates, cyclosilicates, or nesosilicates that may include, montmorillonite, bentonite, halloysite, aluminum silicates, muscovite, illite, kaolin, andalusite, kyanite, sillimanite, metakaolin, mullite, polymers, such as chitosan, and/or clays, either natural or synthetic (e.g., montmorillonite), or polyethylenimine. Permeability may be affected by mixing sorbents of lower D50 with sorbents of higher D50 in various ratios, or addition of a permeability agent such as a phyllosilicate, perlite, silica, diatomaceous earth. Further, a permeability agent such as a fluoropolymer may be coated onto or admixed with the sorbent. Diatomaceous earth, perlites, or silicates may also increase permeability. The compositions are particularly useful in flue gas treatment systems with baghouse separation units in that they have reduced combustibility and increased permeability properties.
US11745161B2
An adsorbent composition comprises a bismuth material, a promoter and optionally a support. The adsorbent composition is suitable for adsorbing an arsenic material, such as arsine, from a process stream.
US11745158B2
A method for monitoring and controlling the polymerization in a polymerization vessel by using a camera viewing unit to (a) detect features of the polymer particles, or the particles' environment, (b) compare the features to pre-defined acceptable values of these features or the environment, and (c) if a variation from the pre-defined values is detected, act on process parameters to reduce or eliminate the variation.
US11745152B2
A stirring device includes a tray configured to hold an ink container filled with ink, a support member configured to support the tray, a rotary member configured to support the support member, and a pedestal configured to rotatably support the rotary member, in which the tray and the support member are engaged with each other by engagement portions provided on the tray and the support member (engagement cut-out portion, engagement convex portion).
US11745135B2
The disclosure relates to the field of heavy metal adsorbents, and a heterogeneous agglomeration adsorbent for heavy metal adsorption, a method for preparing the same, and applications are provided. The heterogeneous agglomeration adsorbent includes the following components according to percentage by weight: 0.005% to 0.01% of polyacrylamide, 0.0005% to 0.001% of calcium chloride, 0.001% to 0.01% of coconut oil fatty acid diethanolamide, and a balance is water.
US11745125B2
A center tube and a central fluid supply tube combination includes a center tube body defining a longitudinal length, and a central reservoir. The center tube also includes an apertured annular wall extending axially the majority of the longitudinal length, and a first annular solid wall extending axially from the apertured annular wall. A central fluid supply tube is disposed in the central reservoir, and includes a second annular solid wall that is radially surrounded by the apertured annular wall of the center tube. The second annular solid wall defines a supply passage with a fully circular flow flux.
US11745123B2
An oil filter assembly is disclosed for a machine, such as an internal combustion engine, that has an oil output port and an oil input port. A mounting plate is fixed with an outer enclosure. The mounting plate is further adapted to conduct oil from the machine into a peripheral portion of the outer enclosure, and then returning oil from a central portion of the outer enclosure back to the machine. Oil may pass from the peripheral portion to the central portion through a primary filter having a first porosity. A pressure-actuated valve is fixed fluidly between the portions of the outer enclosure.
US11745119B2
Chromatography and synthesis columns, assemblies, components, and methods of assembly and disassembly are disclosed including a support assembly having lifting mechanisms in each of the legs to raise and lower a frame secured to the column, a swing arm and/or carriage guiding movement of a bottom plate of the column, a bolt-free coupling between the main tube and bottom plate of the column, and upper and lower slurry ports in the main tube of the column.
US11745117B1
An atmospheric water harvesting generator includes an adsorbent with a nanopore structure and a moisture-condensing substrate with an amphiphilic structure such that water can be efficiently harvested from the atmosphere even in a dry climate, the generator is easy to operate with little power, and the flow of air can be controlled with a simple control to efficiently and continuously harvest water.
US11745116B2
An apparatus for a dividing wall column in an isomerization unit is disclosed. The apparatus includes a at least one primary vertical wall located at a first set of predetermined plurality of trays and configured to separate a feed from a first side cut; one or more walls placed at a second set of predetermined plurality of trays and configured to enable a second side cut wherein each of the one or more walls includes at least one predetermined shape, wherein the dividing wall column produces four cuts wherein one is hexane cut, wherein there are two walls in different sections of the column. The at least one primary vertical wall includes one of a straight wall, an ‘L’ shaped wall, an ‘Γ’ shaped wall, or a zig-zag wall. The one or more walls are mechanically coupled to form a second vertical wall.
US11745115B2
A building blocks that can be easily assembled or disassembled, comprising a building block main body. Each side of the building block main body is configured with a connecting structure. A plurality of building block main bodies is joined together through the connecting structures. The connecting structure comprises a connecting seat and a connecting rod. The connecting seat has an open connecting slot. The inner walls on the two sides of the open connecting slot are both formed with positioning bumps. The two sides of the connecting rod are respectively configured with a first and a second positioning slot. The two sides of the connecting rod are further configured with a first and a second guide slot that are respectively communicated to the first and the second positioning slot.
US11745111B2
According to a first aspect, there is provided a computer device having a user interface and a processor. The user interface is configured to provide a gameboard comprising tiles supporting game objects. A pre-defined plurality of the tiles constitutes a segment of the gameboard supporting a group of game objects. The user interface is configured to detect user input when a user engages with a user activatable game element. The processor is configured to receive a detected user input, detect a match game condition of a plurality of adjacent game elements having matching characteristics, and, if the match condition is detected, remove the plurality of game elements and generate new game elements to replenish the gameboard. The processor is further configured to detect a segment condition associated with the segment, and, if detected, to replace the group of game objects of the segment with a replacement group of game objects.
US11745105B2
A gaming partner can include a body having a head shaped portion and at least one display unit configured to resemble an eye of the character. At least one motor can be located in the body and configured to move a portion of the head shaped portion. A speaker and a microphone can also be associated with the gaming partner. A processor located adjacent the body can be configured to receive trigger information from a gaming/streaming device and/or a separate server. The processor can also be configured to output a signal to at least one of the display unit, the motor, the speaker, and the microphone in coordination with the trigger information such that a user receives information, such as a critique, related to the game in real time based on the signal to the at least one of the display unit, motor, speaker, and microphone.
US11745104B2
A method for interactive video content is disclosed. The method may include receiving a first video program stream from a first content provider server; displaying the first video program stream received from the first content provider server; displaying an on-screen tracking overlay selector, the on-screen tracking overlay selector including one or more selectable buttons, the one or more selectable buttons including a first selectable button associated with information from one or more third-party providers; receiving a second video program stream from a second content provider server, the second video program stream including embedded overlay content associated with the first selectable button from the at least one of the one or more third-party service providers; and displaying the second video program stream including the embedded overlay content associated with first selectable button from the at least one of the one or more third-party providers.
US11745092B2
A game piece assembly includes: a front surface formed in a first predetermined shape and including a predetermined number of pips, a back surface formed in a second predetermined shape, a side surface extending between the front and back surfaces, wherein the front surface, the back surface and the side surface define a hollow space that is configured to hold a prize therein in a closed configuration.
US11745087B1
A lift kit assembly includes a pair of axle cup bracket portions each adapted to accept an axle end and adjustably mount to a side rail or frame of a motorized skateboard on either side of a wheel whereby the axle of a motorized skateboard may be lowered or raised as desired by a user.
US11745086B1
Apparatus and systems are provided that enhance the use of a one wheel skateboard. Some of the apparatus described provide lateral surfaces that engage outer portions of a user's feet. Other apparatus facilitate the engagement of common snowboard bindings to a one wheel skateboard, thereby widening the spectrum of tricks that can be performed.
US11745084B1
A score tracking system may include a tracking module, companion device, and location system. The tracking module may be configured to be carried by a player competing in a golf tournament. The companion device may be configured to receive an input corresponding to a stroke event and that includes a time stamp corresponding to an occurrence of the stoke event. The location system may collect or receive location data, which comprises or is used by the location system to generate a plurality of sets of location coordinates. Each set of location coordinates may correspond to a location of the tracking module at a specified time. The location system may pair the time stamp with a set of the location coordinates corresponding to the location of the tracking module at the occurrence of the stroke event.
US11745076B1
A golf mat has a down-blow impact mat removably placed in a cutout formed in a base. The upper surface of the down-blow impact mat has a hitting section that slopes down gradually from the high point to a target point. The down-blow impact mat also has a lower portion having a sloping section and a flat section. The golf mat disclosed helps to improve the golfer's takeaway swing and the downswing so the golfer may practice his or her swing, including but not limited to, better mastering the elusive two-plane golf swing, with the guidance of the sloped hitting surface.
US11745075B2
The present invention is to provide a divided driving swing platform including a plurality of plates divided from the swing platform on which a user can perform a golf swing with a golf club and operated stably by increasing a degree of freedom of movement of each of the divided plates so that each of the divided plates can move in various ways and interference between the divided plates does not occur when each of the divided plates is driven and operated.
US11745074B1
A golf swing training aid comprises a set of components which include a substantially cylindrical grip bar with a first larger end tapering to a second smaller end so as to resemble the grip portion of a golf club. The grip bar has a first attachment eye at its first end. An extendable tensile member with first and second attachment affordances at its ends, such as clips or formed wire hooks, is attached to the first attachment eye at one end and a second attachment eye at the other end. A foot band attachment bracket has a second attachment eye and a base plane which is stepped upon for stability while a user exercises or practices golf swings while working against tensile resistance developed in the tensile member. The attachment component may be formed of sheet metal or made of formed metal wire in whole or in part.
US11745056B2
A physical function training device that measuring an amount of exercise automatically enables a user to use safely by determining an appropriate amount of exercise automatically and reduces specialist labor by automatically organizing to manage the actual exercise is provided. A physical function training device equips following; a control unit (20) is composed of a distance detection sensor (16) and, a number of times detection sensor (18) as a detection device for data related to a motion of upper or lower limbs and a storage unit (521); a control unit (20), which enables analyzing exercise data received by a detection device is composed of Various Arduino, NanpPi, RaspberryPi, microcomputer, etc.; and a storage unit (521), which is included in the control unit (20) records personal identification data, exercise data collected, collected time data of the exercise data at the time of enforcement from a time measurement apparatus (20a).
US11745052B2
The present invention discloses an exercise equipment that enables a movement of the wrist and ankle while using portions between fingers of the hands and or foot, or using a pinching force of the adjacent fingers. The exercise equipment includes: a first string member made of a first non-stretchable string, the first string member having a first length; a first pressing member made of a hard material attached to one end of the first string member; a second pressing member made of the hard material attached to the other end of the first string member; a connecting member of being non-stretchable having a second length, the connecting member has a first end and a second end, the first end connected to an intermediate portion of the first string; and a fixing member provided at the other end of the connecting member.
US11745050B2
A positioning device for a portable fitness equipment mainly provides a support frame for hanging the portable fitness equipment. The support frame includes a base and a support rod connected to each other, and there is an obtuse angle between the base and the support rod. The obtuse angle design allows the position where the support rod is connected to the base to bear less torque, which can effectively prevent the support rod from shaking or damage; and the portable fitness equipment can slide or can be fixed on the support rod, allowing users to adjust the portable fitness equipment to the most suitable height.
US11745049B2
An exercise device is provided to couple a user's limb to a resistance mechanism and to tighten on the user's limb by a force applied in opposition to the resistance mechanism. The device may include a strap including a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion. The strap may define an adjustable opening configured to receive the user's limb. The first portion and the third portion of the strap may be attached to a closed loop shape configured for coupling to the resistance mechanism. A fixed opening may be coupled to the strap, and the adjustable opening of the strap may be formed by passing the second portion of the strap through the fixed opening. The device may also include a flexible material coupled to the strap and defining a tube providing the fixed opening.
US11745044B2
A dumbbell facilitating weight adjustment is disclosed. The dumbbell includes a dumbbell rod assembly, multiple counterweight disks, and a base for placing the dumbbell rod assembly and the multiple counterweight disks. The dumbbell rod assembly includes a mandrel, fixed disks and gear rotating disks fixed on the left and right sides of the mandrel, positioning rings and multiple coupling flanges. Rotation interference devices for preventing a rotation of the mandrel are provided in the fixed disks. Unlocking devices for unlocking the rotation interference devices are provided on the base. The rotation interference devices include push rods arranged on front sides and rear sides of the positioning rings, pressing rods arranged on upper parts of the push rods and return springs arranged on upper parts of the pressing rods. The unlocking devices include push pillars arranged on the base and cooperating with the push rods.
US11745033B2
A process and apparatus to preclude unfiltered atmospheric gases and the products of human respiration including carbon-dioxide (CO2) with carbon-14 (14C) from contaminating greenhouse atmospheric gases which has utility in growing agricultural products with a reduced abundance of 14C are disclosed. Agricultural products with reduced 14C content can be grown in greenhouses with filtered atmospheric gases for the benefit of reducing harmful damage to human DNA. Agricultural production in greenhouses still requires humans to plant, maintain, and harvest crops in many cases. The process and apparatus allow for humans to access, work, and operate in these controlled environments without contaminating the atmospheric gases and agricultural products therein with respiration products and unfiltered atmospheric gases containing radioactive 14C.
US11745032B2
A thrust device for opening a door which can be assembled from a ready-to-assemble assembly of at least three parts by reversible attachment devices, which can be manually activated and deactivated, and able to maintain a rectilinear alignment of the lower and upper parts of the lower and upper support bars.
US11745029B2
Methods of treatment and treatment systems for performing radiomodulatory stereotactic radiosurgery to treat brain disorders in which target neural tissues associated with the brain disorder are sensitized to radiation by administration of a molecular substance and/or non-targeted critical structures are protected from radiation by a molecular substance, in order to treat disorders of brain circuitry. Specific embodiments disclose means for treating pain, obesity and drug addiction.
US11745019B2
Implementations provide a method that includes: placing a controller device over a surface region of the patient where the implantable wireless stimulation device has been implanted; configuring the controller device to (i) monitor a return loss representing electrical power reflected from the implantable wireless stimulation device to the controller device; (ii) compute a first path loss metric based on a first monitored return loss when the controller device is place over a first location within the surface region; (iii) compute a second path loss metric based on a second monitored return loss when the controller device is over a second location within the surface region; and (iv) generate a feedback to an operator to indicate whether the second path loss is smaller than the first path loss such that the controller device is placed at a location with more electrical energy non-inductively transferred to the implantable wireless stimulation device.
US11745016B2
Systems and techniques are disclosed to establish programming of an implantable electrical neurostimulation device for treating pain of a human subject, through the use and adjustment of analgesic stimulation parameters based on trust dynamics and trust measurements. In an example, the system to establish programming of the neurostimulation device performs operations that: determine a trust measurement value that is derived from results of at least one commitment made with a human subject, via observable interactions; determine a modification of at least one neurostimulation programming parameter, based on the trust measurement value; and to cause the implantable neurostimulation device to implement the modification of the at least one neurostimulation programming parameter. Further examples are provided to produce and track the trust measurement value, as well as identify a pain susceptibility value and determine a receptiveness to analgesic effects based on these and other trust dynamics.
US11745009B2
Apparatus (100) for training oral muscle tone, the apparatus (100) includes a mouthpiece (103) having first electrode means (132a, 132b, 133a, 133b) associated with the mouthpiece (103) and second electrode means (152a, 152b) for location exterior of the mouth of the user, electrical circuitry operatively connected to the first (132a, 132b, 133a, 133b) and second (152a, 152b) electrode means, wherein the apparatus (100) is configured to provide, in use, via the first (132a, 132b, 133a, 133b) and/or second (152a, 152b) electrode means electrical stimulation to one or more oral muscles to increase resting muscle tone and/or muscle tone during sleep, the second electrode means (152a, 152b) including a first and second electrode (152a, 152b), the first and second electrodes (152a, 152b) of the second electrode means being located or locatable lateral of a midline of the face of the user.
US11745003B2
An implantable access port including a port housing that defines a fill port cavity and includes a catheter fitting, a filter positioned within the port housing along a delivery flow pathway configured so that fluid injected into the fill port cavity passes through the filter prior to exiting through the catheter fitting, a one-way valve positioned within the port housing along an aspiration flow pathway configured to permit aspirated fluid to flow unfiltered from the catheter fitting to the fill port cavity and prevent injected fluid from flowing unfiltered from the fill port cavity to the catheter fitting, a port cover coupled to the port housing, and a pierceable septum positioned between the fill port cavity and the port cover configured to allow a needle to pierce through the pierceable septum to access the fill port cavity.
US11744998B2
Drug delivery devices having a drug-permeable component and methods of making and using the same are provided. Drug delivery devices include a housing having a first and second wall structures that are adjacent one another and together form a tube defining a drug reservoir lumen. The second wall structure, or both the first wall structure and the second wall structure, are permeable to water, and the first wall structure is impermeable to the drug while the second wall structure is permeable to the drug, such that the drug is releasable in vivo by diffusion through the second wall structure.
US11744995B2
A catheter includes a tip electrode with a shell and a support member to provide a plenum chamber. The plug is formed with a U-shaped passage for a safety line to wrap around and secure the support member (with the shell affixed thereto) to the catheter. Additional passages are formed in the plug to accommodate components such as irrigation tubing, lead wire and thermocouple wire pair. A method of manufacture provides distal installation and/or anchoring of the safety line, lead wire and thermocouple wire pair in the support member prior to sealing the support member and mounting the shell.
US11744991B2
A catheter assembly for navigation including a flexible catheter having a proximal portion adjacent a proximal end and a distal portion adjacent a distal end and defining a longitudinal axis, the flexible catheter defining a lumen extending therethrough along a longitudinal axis and configured to enable translation of an instrument from the proximal end to the distal end. The flexible catheter defines a compound curve formed on the distal portion, wherein the compound curve includes an elbow bend and a radially curved portion. The elbow bend deflecting the distal portion of the flexible catheter from the longitudinal axis, while the radially curved portion extends from the elbow bend farther deflecting the distal portion about a center point. The catheter guide assembly for navigation includes a control handle disposed at the proximal end of the flexible catheter and is configured to advance and rotate the flexible catheter within a luminal structure.
US11744983B2
This disclosure generally relates to catheters, methods of enhancing the patency of an intravascular catheter and compositions, methods, devices and kits relating to the infusion of a catheter lock solution into an indwelling catheter. Disclosed compositions, methods, devices and kits aid in diminishing the effects of microbial infection in catheters and occlusion of the catheters. A representative lock solution includes about 10% sodium citrate and about 1.5% benzyl alcohol. The solution has a density approximating the density of blood for retention of the solution in a catheter during the lock period.
US11744978B2
Various systems and devices for generating nitric oxide are disclosed herein. According to one embodiment, the device includes a body having an inlet, an outlet, and a porous solid matrix positioned with the body. The porous solid matrix is coated with an aqueous solution of an antioxidant, wherein the inlet is configured to receive a gas flow and fluidly communicate the gas flow to the outlet through the solid matrix to convert nitrogen dioxide in the gas flow into nitric oxide. The porous solid matrix allows the device to be used in any orientation. Additionally, the porous solid matrix provides a rigid structure suitable to withstand vibrations and abuse without compromising device functionality.
US11744971B2
An expandable endotracheal tube includes a shaft that has an airway. The expandable endotracheal tube also includes an expandable segment mounted to a distal end of the shaft. The expandable segment includes an expandable membrane and a constant force spring positioned within the expandable membrane. The constant force spring has a compressed configuration to allow for placement of the expandable endotracheal tube within a patient and an expanded configuration in which the expandable membrane forms a seal with a trachea of the patient to enable positive pressure ventilation.
US11744962B2
An inhaler article includes a body (110) extending along a longitudinal axis from a mouthpiece (112) end to a distal end with an endpiece element at the distal end (114). A capsule cavity is defined within the body. An air inlet region is between the endpiece element (120) and the capsule cavity (116). A composite porous support element (140) defines a downstream end of the capsule cavity. The composite porous support element is formed of a first porous material concentrically disposed about a second porous material. The first porous material has a first resistance to draw and the second porous material having a second resistance to draw. The first resistance to draw is different than the second resistance to draw. A mouthpiece air channel (113) extends from the capsule cavity, through the composite porous element to the mouthpiece end.
US11744961B2
A medical treatment system including a treatment chamber, a source of an aqueous mist containing a medication, a source of an oxygen-enriched gas, and a control system adapted to alternately surround a human body part with a mist containing a medication and the oxygen enriched gas, which can be used to treat various skin disorders including infected lesions, bacterial infections such as acne (i.e. Propionibacterium acnes), fungal infections such as Athlete's foot (i.e. fungal genus Trichophyton), conditions associated with hair loss including alopecia as well as ulcerations and frostbite resulting from poor circulation. A method of treating skin disorders is also disclosed, that includes providing a mist containing a medication and enriched oxygen gas to the site being treated as well as providing oxygen to the patient during treatment.
US11744959B2
The invention relates to a gripper apparatus for a cannulation robot and for gripping a cannula having a cannula holder. The gripper apparatus comprises two gripper elements and a moving device. The two gripper elements can be moved relative to each other and work in concert to grip the cannula holder. The moving device is designed to move the two gripper elements relative to each other and at least one of the gripper elements relative to the cannula holder. The gripper apparatus can thereby be brought into a gripping state, in which at least one of the gripper elements is engaged with the cannula holder, by means of the moving device.
US11744950B2
A syringe is described with a plunger assembly that is adapted to have a dispensing stroke sized to dispense a fluid therapeutic product from the syringe without dispensing any air or headspace. The syringe includes a plunger rod having a stop feature that stops a dispensing stroke of the plunger rod at a distance corresponding to a level of air or headspace within the syringe avoiding additional air dispensing steps from a healthcare provider.
US11744949B2
A medical device (100) includes an insulin pen (102), a pen needle (104) and a force sensor (106). The device also includes a microprocessor (206) to receive a signal from the force sensor (106). Audible and/or visual indicators (218, 220) provide feedback to a user to encourage proper injection technique. The device may also include an adaptor assembly comprising a sensor housing (306) and a first sensor (304) within the sensor housing, and a transfer needle assembly (308), the transfer needle assembly providing a connection (310) for a pen needle, and providing a fluid conduit between the pen needle (312) and the insulin pen (302). A second force sensor (314) is associated with a thumb button of the insulin pen (302).
US11744946B2
Techniques related to automatically generating a super bolus may include determining an amount of an augmented meal bolus to be delivered to a patient for regulating the patient's glycemic response to a meal. The amount of the augmented meal bolus may exceed a sufficient amount for counteracting a glucose level increase caused by the meal. In some embodiments, the techniques may further include determining a duration of a postprandial reduction period during which basal dosage deliveries to the patient are to be reduced. In some other embodiments, the techniques may further include delivering the augmented meal bolus to the patient prior to determining whether or not to cause reduction of basal dosage deliveries. More specifically, a glucose level of the patient may be obtained after delivery of the augmented meal bolus, and the obtained glucose level may be used to determine whether to reduce basal dosage deliveries.
US11744944B2
Systems and methods for automatically delivering medication to a user. A sensor coupled to a user can collect information regarding the user. A controller can use the collected information to determine an amount of medication to provide the user. The controller can instruct a drug delivery device to dispense the medication to the user. The drug delivery device can be a wearable insulin pump that is directly coupled to the user. The controller can be part of or implemented in a cellphone. A user can be required to provide a confirmation input to allow a determined amount of insulin to be provided to the user based on detected glucose levels of the user. The sensor, controller, and drug delivery device can communicate wirelessly.
US11744943B2
Systems and methods for integrating a continuous glucose sensor 12, including a receiver 14, a medicament delivery device 16, a controller module, and optionally a single point glucose monitor 18 are provided. Integration may be manual, semi-automated and/or fully automated.
US11744935B2
An apparatus, system and method for regulating fluid flow are disclosed. An apparatus for infusing fluid into a patient includes a housing, a tube-contact member, a rotating arm, and a tube-retention cover. The housing has an opening on a front side of the housing. The opening is sized to receive a drip chamber having an inlet tube and an outlet tube. The tube-contact member contacts one of the inlet tube and the output tube of the drip chamber when inserted into the opening. The rotating arm is coupled to the tube-contact member and is configured to rotate along an axis. The tube-retention cover is configured to close when the drip chamber is initially loaded into the opening.
US11744930B2
A hemodialysis system includes: a hemodialysis machine configured to provide hemodialysis treatment to a patient, wherein the hemodialysis treatment includes circulating extracorporeal blood of the patient through an extracorporeal blood circuit; a first oxygen saturation sensor device configured to measure oxygen saturation corresponding to the extracorporeal blood of the patient in the extracorporeal blood circuit; a second oxygen saturation sensor device configured to measure oxygen saturation corresponding to blood flowing within the patient; and at least one controller configured to determine one or more oxygen saturation phase shift (OSPS) values or one or more transcutaneous travel time values corresponding to the patient based on oxygen saturation measurements from the first oxygen saturation sensor device and the second oxygen saturation sensor device.
US11744916B2
The present disclosure relates to radiopaque PVA polymers where the PVA has a first pendant group and a second pendant group, wherein the first pendant group comprises a first phenyl group bearing 1 to 5 iodine atoms, and the second pendant group comprises either (a) a second phenyl group bearing 1 to 3 substituents selected from the group W and optionally 1 to 4 iodine substituents, the group(s) W and the optional iodines being the sole substituents of the second phenyl group. Each W is selected from —OH, —COOH, —SO3H, —OPO3H2, —O—(C1-4alkyl), —O—(C1-4alkyl)OH, —O—(C1-4alkyl)R2, —O—(C2H5O)qR1—(C═O)—O—C1-4alkyl and —O—(C═O)C1-4alkyl; wherein R1 is H or C1-4 alkyl; R2 is —COOH, —SO3H, or —OPO3H2; q is an integer from 1 to 4; wherein the group W may be in the form of a pharmaceutically acceptable salt; or (b) a pyridyl group; which is optionally in the form of a pyridinium ion.
US11744910B1
A disinfection apparatus disclosed herein includes a chamber and a conveyor belt adapted to convey an object through the chamber, in various aspects. A nozzle array comprising at least one nozzle is positioned beneath the conveyor belt to spray a disinfectant through apertures formed in the conveyor belt onto a surface of the object oriented toward the conveyor belt, the spray communicated upward through apertures formed in the conveyor belt, in various aspects. A blower array comprising at least one blower nozzle is positioned beneath the conveyor belt to blow an air jet through apertures formed in the conveyor belt onto the surface of the object to dry the disinfectant from the object, the air jet communicated upward through apertures formed in the conveyor belt. Related methods of disinfecting objects are also disclosed herein.
US11744905B2
A method of selecting a skin barrier system suitable for infants and young children is disclosed.
US11744900B2
The invention provides a one-step process for preparing a cell-binding agent cytotoxic agent conjugate comprising contacting a cell-binding agent with a cytotoxic agent to form a first mixture comprising the cell-binding agent and the cytotoxic agent and contacting the first mixture comprising the cell-binding agent and the cytotoxic agent with a bifunctional crosslinking reagent, which provides a linker, in a solution having a pH of about 4 to about 9 to provide a second mixture comprising the cell-binding agent cytotoxic agent conjugate, wherein the cell-binding agent is chemically coupled through the linker to the cytotoxic agent, free cytotoxic agent, and reaction by-products. The second mixture is then optionally subjected to purification to provide a purified cell-binding agent cytotoxic agent conjugate.
US11744899B2
Provided is a method for suppressing the generation of diclofenac lactam from a compound represented by a formula (1) in the description, including allowing the compound of the formula (1) and a component (A) that is at least one type of compound selected from the group consisting of a nonionic surfactant, a hydroxyalkylated cyclodextrin, a C1 to C3 mono-alcohol, a C2 to C3 di-alcohol, a C3 to C6 tri-alcohol, a polyalkylene glycol, a γ-lactone, polyvinylpyrrolidone, a chlorogenic acid, and an alkyl sulfate ester, and salts thereof to coexist. A method for producing a pharmaceutical composition containing a compound represented by the formula (1) and a component (A), and a pharmaceutical composition which is a product produced thereby are also provided.
US11744881B2
A method for treating Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neuron disease (MND) or Lou Gehrig's disease, in a patient in need thereof comprises administering botulinum toxin to the patient. The botulinum toxin may be administered by subcutaneous or intradermal injection. The injection may be administered to and/or around the vicinity of a trigeminal nerve, a cervical nerve, a thoracic nerve, a lumbar nerve, and/or a sacral nerve of the patient. The administration of the botulinum toxin prevents an overproduction of glutamate, Substance P, and CGRP in a sensory system and thereby inhibits a migration of the glutamate, Substance P, and CGRP to the motor system, which otherwise would cause neuroexcitatory toxicity that results in the death of motor neurons.
US11744870B2
Disclosed are a traditional Chinese medicine composition and a traditional Chinese medicine extract composition for treating metabolic syndrome. The traditional Chinese medicine composition consists of the following raw materials in the following weight ratio: 5-80% of Coptidis Rhizoma, 5-70% of Aurantii Fructus Immaturus, 0-60% of Pinelliae Rhizoma, 0-40% of Trichosanthis Fructus, 0-12% of Cinnamomi Cortex, and 10-60% of red yeast rice. The traditional Chinese medicine extract composition consists of the following raw materials in the following weight ratio: 2-30% of Coptidis Rhizoma extract, and 70-98% of a mixed extract from five traditional Chinese medicines comprising Aurantii Fructus Immaturus, Pinelliae Rhizoma, red yeast rice, Trichosanthis Fructus, and Cinnamomi Cortex. The traditional Chinese medicine composition or the traditional Chinese medicine extract composition contains the following active ingredients (mg/g): 6-122 mg/g of total alkaloids, which comprises 4-89 mg/g of berberine, 30-315 mg/g of total flavonoids, which comprises 20-186 mg/g of neohesperidin: and 0.5-9 mg/g of lovastatin. Further provided are preparation methods and applications of the above compositions.
US11744868B1
Disclosed are an Inonotus Obliquus dextran, a preparation method and application thereof, and relates to the field of medicines. The dextran has a structural formula as follows: By optimizing the extraction and isolation process, the present disclosure obtains an Inonotus Obliquus dextran, which is structurally determined to be a new polysaccharide. The Inonotus Obliquus dextran prepared by the present disclosure is combined with gemcitabine hydrochloride to inhibit tumor cells with anti-tumor activity against pancreatic cancer, in addition to reduce the dosage of chemotherapeutic drugs as well as the adverse effects of chemotherapeutic drugs.
US11744867B2
Modulation of microbial synthesis of 4-ethylphenol and 4-ethylphenyl sulfate in behavior and disease
Some embodiments relate to genetically engineered bacterial strains for modulation of levels of the bacterial metabolite 4-ethylphenol (4EP) and its sulfated form, 4-ethylphenyl sulfate (4EPS). In some embodiments, the bacteria reduce or inhibit production of 4EP or 4EPS in the gut of a subject. The bacteria can ameliorate, delay the onset, or reduce the likelihood of one or more symptoms associated with anxiety and/or autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the subject.
US11744861B2
Disclosed are methods of eliminating at least on target cell in a subject, comprising administering to the subject an effective amount of a composition comprising a plurality of immune cells, wherein each immune cell of the plurality expresses one or more chimeric ligand receptor(s) (CLR(s)) that each specifically bind to a target ligand on the at least one target cell, wherein specifically binding of the one or more CLR(s) to the target activates the immune cell, and wherein the activated immune cell induces death of the target cell. Exemplary target cells include, but are not limited to, hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs).
US11744851B2
Disclosed herein are compositions of rAAV particles and methods for administrating rAAV particles having enhanced transduction properties.
US11744847B2
The present application relates to beta-1,3-glucan and uses thereof to modulate immunity in the human body. Also provided are methods for treatment and/or prevention of high cholesterol, diabetes, and allergies. Also provided are methods for treatment and/or prevention of intestinal inflammation.
US11744843B2
The present disclosure describes methods of treating lymphoma that expresses a short histone H2A variant. In some embodiments, the method can comprise collecting a sample from a subject having or suspected of having lymphoma, detecting a short histone H2A variant (sH2A) expression level in the sample collected from the subject, and administering to the subject a therapeutically effective dose of an anthracycline agent, if the subject has sH2A variant expression level that is detectable. In other embodiments, the sH2A is the H2A.B variant. In other embodiments, the anthracycline agent can be aclarubicin.
US11744839B2
Method of increasing platelet counts in a subject, the method comprising administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of a compound that inhibits Biliverdin reductase B (BLVRB) activity by blocking a binding site of BLVRB or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein the compound does not contain xanthene or acridine moiety is provided.
US11744833B2
Pharmaceutical compositions comprising azelastine or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of azelastine and melatonin are disclosed. Methods of using the pharmaceutical compositions for treating patients suffering from insomnia are also disclosed.
US11744831B2
Compounds, compositions, and methods of treatment and prevention of Hepacivirus, Pestivirus, Flavivirus or Alphavirus infection are disclosed. The compounds are pyrrolo[2,3-b]pyridines and pyrrolo[2,3-b]pyrimidine JAK inhibitors. Combinations of these JAK inhibitors and additional antiretroviral compounds, such as NRTI, NNRTI, integrase inhibitors, entry inhibitors, protease inhibitors, and the like, are also disclosed. In one embodiment, the combinations include a combination of adenine, cytosine, thymidine, and guanine nucleoside antiviral agents, optionally in further combination with at least one additional antiviral agent that works via a different mechanism than a nucleoside analog. This combination has the potential to eliminate the presence of Hepacivirus, Pestivirus, Flavivirus or Alphavirus in an infected patient.
US11744828B2
Methods of prevention of symptomatic malaria in a malaria-naïve, G6PD-normal human subject comprising administering to the human subject a compound of Formula (I), a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, or pharmaceutical composition comprising a compound of Formula (I). A compound of Formula (I) can be administered prior to potential exposure of a species of Plasmodium, during potential exposure of a species of Plasmodium, and after potential exposure of a species of Plasmodium. The methods of the invention also pertains to kits comprising specific doses of Formula (I), a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof or pharmaceutical composition comprising a compound of Formula (I), and instructions for administration of dosing quantity and frequency. The methods of the invention also pertain to determining doses of Formula (I) that meet the general regulatory requirement for a drug to be efficacious in the prevention of malaria in malaria-naïve subjects. The methods of the invention further pertain to using the described algorithm to derive dosing regimens which can provide protection against symptomatic malaria in malaria-naïve, G6PD-normal subjects.
US11744827B2
Methods and compositions for treating a lysosomal movement associated disease in an animal, in which the position of lysosomes can influence disease progression, comprising administering an effective amount of a first lysosome migration inhibitor or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, solvate, clathrate, stereoisomer, enantiomer or prodrug thereof.
US11744815B1
The present invention relates to the technical field of disease treatment, and more specifically, it relates to a pharmaceutical composition, having arginine metabolite dimethylguanidino valeric acid (DMGV) or plant flavonoids to treat chronic inflammatory and cancers. Disclosed in the present invention are plant flavonoids including kaempferol, daidzein, and quercetin. Treated chronic inflammatory diseases include rheumatoid arthritis (RA), inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and cancer further including hematological cancers as well as solid tumor.
US11744812B2
This disclosure features compounds and compositions that are useful in methods of treating coronavirus infections (e.g., useful in methods of treating COVID-19) in a subject in need thereof. The methods include administering to the subject niclosamide compounds (or pharmaceutically acceptable salts and/or co-crystals thereof, e.g., niclosamide). In some embodiments, the niclosamide compounds have one or more properties that include, but are not limited to: a particular purity (e.g., a chemical purity of greater than about 99.0%) or a particular particle size (e.g., a particular particle size distribution and/or a particular particle size range and/or a specific surface area range). In an aspect, the niclosamide compounds described herein (e.g., niclosamide) can form part of compositions, dosage forms (e.g., unit dosage forms), and the like, which are suitable for respiratory administration (e.g., via inhalation and/or intranasally). In another aspect, the niclosamide compounds described herein (e.g., niclosamide) can form part of compositions, dosage forms (e.g., unit dosage forms), and the like, which are suitable for administration to the GI tract (e.g., orally or rectally such as via enema)).
US11744805B2
The invention provides a method for validating the functioning of an apparatus with a static mixing device for mixing two liquid streams for producing nanoparticles. The static mixing device may be a jet impingement reactor. The method is based on the use of PLA, PLG or PLGA for producing polymeric nanoparticles with highly reproducible particle sizes. The invention further provides kits and liquid compositions for carrying out the method.
US11744796B2
The present invention includes pourable, non-toxic lubricating compositions containing carrageenan and more precisely λ carrageenan as an anti-viral agent, for protection from Human Papillomavirus (HPV), and methods of using the lubricating compositions as a non-oily, pseudoplastic lubrication product and administering the carrageenan for reducing the propagation of HPV during sexual activity.
US11744792B2
A solid soap containing, (A) 77 to 91 mass % of an alkali metal salt of a saturated fatty acid having an even number of carbon atoms from 12 to 18, (B) 0.005 to 1 mass % of an alkali metal salt of a saturated fatty acid having an odd number of carbon atoms from 13 to 17, (C) 0.5 to 5 mass % of glycerol, and (D) 5 to 18 mass % of water.
US11744788B2
Methodology for encouraging hair growth in male humans, and more particularly to methodology which involves application of electromagnetic radiation, mechanical vibrations, along with applications of combined minoxidil, mint oil, (preferably menthol containing essential peppermint oil), ginger oil, lavender oil, castor bean oil, jojoba oil; melaleuca oil, cumin oil, D-alpha tocopherol (vitamin E) infused oil, biotin infused oil and a single selection, or dry mixture and/or liquid “tea” formed from selections from the group consisting of powdered saw palmetto; powdered horsetail; powdered ginger; powdered stinging nettles; powdered horny goat weed; powdered pueraria lobate; powdered Tribulus terrestris; powdered ashwagandha; powdered capsicum; powdered habenero; powdered green tea; powdered sage; powdered gingko biloba; powdered myrrh; powdered alpha-hydroxy; powdered Aloe vera; powdered wheat protein; powdered wheat starch; powdered casein, powdered keratin, powdered folic acid; powdered fenugreek seed and powdered biotin powdered ginseng Root; powdered vetiver grass; powdered caffeine; powdered Co-enzyme Q; powdered folate; powdered gotukola leaf; powdered milk thistle; powdered African pygeum; powdered stinging nettles; powdered gingko biloba; powdered myrrh; powdered alpha-hydroxy; powdered caffeine; powdered niacinamide (NAD) and/or niacin; and powdered Nigella sativa; powdered Eclipta alba; powdered Centella asiatica; powdered Phyllanthus emblica in water and alcohol, or an oil.
US11744787B2
The invention relates to aroma preparations that contain (a) a compound of the formula (I) in which R1 represents a linear or branched, saturated or unsaturated hydrocarbon group with 1 to 4 carbon atoms, R2 represents hydrogen or a hydroxyl group and R3 represents hydrogen, a methyl or methoxy group, or an essential oil containing one or more compounds of the formula (I) and at least one menthol compound.
US11744783B2
The present invention relates to novel oil-in-water nanoemulsions. The oil phase contains oil selected from the group consisting of triglyceride oil and/or petrolatum as well as C8 to C18 fatty acid; and the aqueous phase contains specific N-acyl derivatives of amino acid salt as emulsifier.
US11744771B2
According to an aspect, there is provided a cardiopulmonary resuscitation, CPR, device (1) for enhancing the delivery of CPR to a patient. The device (1) comprises: a patient side (3) for engagement with the chest of the patient; and a user side (2) for engagement with the hands of a user delivering CPR to the patient. One or more of the surface of the patient side (3) and the surface of the user side (2) is at least partially formed of a material with variable contact characteristics configured to be controlled so as to regulate the lateral force distribution profile at the one or more of the surface of the patient side (3) and the surface of the user side (2) from a force applied to the device (1) by the user and transferred through the device (1) to the patient. According to other aspects, there is provided a control method for a cardiopulmonary resuscitation, CPR, device and a computer program which, when executed on a computing device, carries out a control method for a cardiopulmonary resuscitation, CPR, device.
US11744770B2
A therapeutic apparel article is configured with a supple wearable fabric article that can be configured over limb or nub of an amputated limb. The therapeutic apparel article is configured with a plurality of nodes for detachably attaching vibrating devices thereto. In addition, a control unit having a power source may be detachably attached to the wearable fabric article. A conductive network may extend from the control unit and/or the power source to provide electrical power to the nodes and the vibrating devices attached. A user may attach vibrating devices to various nodes of the wearable fabric article as desired. In addition, the vibrating devices and the control unit can be detached from the wearable fabric article to enable the wearable fabric article to be washed.
US11744763B2
Disclosed is a hand and arm support assembly for use by a user or patient to rehabilitate a hand of the patient. The hand and arm support assembly includes a hand actuator assembly and a forearm rest assembly. The hand actuator assembly provides a support for a hand engagement assembly having a housing and hand actuator rod engagement members projecting upwards therefrom to engage the hand of the patient. The housing is rotatable to accommodate the position of the patient's hand and the rod engagement members are adapted to travel along slots towards and away from one another. The forearm rest assembly includes a first carriage and a second carriage to support the forearm and elbow of the patient. The first and second carriage can pivot about an axis relative to the housing to further accommodate the position of the patient's arm and elbow.
US11744757B2
Disclosed is a leg positioner apparatus to secure placement of a leg in total hip arthroplasty procedures. The leg positioner apparatus can attach to a standard operating table and helps in positioning the operative leg for femoral preparation. The leg positioner apparatus includes a post assembly mounted to an attachment bracket. The attachment bracket can be attached to the operating table. The operative leg can rest on the post assembly during the surgical procedure.
US11744756B2
A patient positioning system and methods therefore including apparatuses having a base frame assembly operable to position a patient, adjustably-attached attached to a gimbal, wherein the gimbal is rotatable about two or more axes relative to the base frame assembly.
US11744755B2
Modules for housing electronic and electromechanical medical equipment including a system to measure and record administration of one or more IV medications or fluids for IV administration.
US11744754B2
A nursing bed for defecation and self-cleaning comprises a bed frame, a bed board device, a moveable cushion, a support frame, a bedpan, an excreta container; The bedpan is hung under the movable cushion through a support frame. When the patient wants to defecate, the patient only needs to remove a cushion and make the bedpan mouth of the bedpan facing the defecation hole of the moveable cushion, then the patient can defecate on the nursing bed; and further having a cleaning device a warm water supply device, using an electric heater to heat the cleaning water to an appropriate temperature to clean the patient's buttocks, thereby reducing the infection of germs, and also cleaning the excrement that attached to the bedpan to keeps the bedpan clean.
US11744746B2
A low bulk, high capacity disposable absorbent pant is disclosed. The pant may have a variety of combinations of features that contribute to imparting the pant with a more close-fitting, discreet appearance, particularly under outer clothing, more resembling that of an ordinary undergarment. The features may include an arrangement of relatively closely-spaced elastomeric strands in a belt structure; elastomeric strands in the belt structure having active portions that traverse forward and rearward portions of an absorbent pad assembly; an arrangement of elastomeric strands in the belt structure below the side seams; an arrangement of longitudinal elastic strands in the absorbent pad assembly that are closer to the longitudinal axis of the pant than to the side seams; and/or an absorbent core structure having portions that are tapered and/or channeled.
US11744741B2
The present invention relates to apparatuses and methods for treating a wound by applying reduced or negative pressure to the wound. The apparatus can include a wound cover, a fluid collection container, a vacuum pump, an inflation pump, and one or more conduits. The wound cover can be configured to move between at least a relatively rigid, generally raised position and a relatively flexible, generally collapsed position according to a predetermined program or in response to input from a user or one or more sensors. In some embodiments, the wound cover can be configured to move between at least the relatively rigid, generally raised position and the relatively flexible, generally collapsed position by adjusting the air pressure in one or more channels in the wound cover or by adjusting the length of piezoelectric or other length changing material supported by the wound cover.
US11744738B2
There is provided a hearing protector that has an earmuff (2) formed by a cup-shaped shell and a cushion. The hearing protector has a sound inlet (5) formed of at least one acoustic membrane that replaces a portion of the shell or by a hole into the cushion. The sound inlet locally reduces the sound barrier of the hearing protector predominantly with respect to sound originating from an anterior direction (11) that is defined in accordance to on the anatomic directions of a wearer when the hearing protector is worn. The present disclosure helps enabling directional hearing with a hearing protector.
US11744731B2
An ophthalmic device comprises an ultrasonic transducer, an accommodation actuator, and a controller. When the ophthalmic device is mounted in or on an eye of a user, the ultrasonic transducer is positioned to direct ultrasonic signals towards ciliary processes in the eye and the accommodation actuator is positioned to focus light entering the eye. The controller is coupled to the ultrasonic transducer and the accommodation actuator. The controller includes logic that when executed by the controller causes the ophthalmic device to perform operations including emitting the ultrasonic signals from the ultrasonic transducer towards the ciliary processes, receiving reflected ultrasonic signals from the ciliary processes with the ultrasonic transducer, calculating a time of flight between emitting the ultrasonic signals and receiving the reflected ultrasonic signals, and adjusting an optical power of the accommodation actuator based on the time of flight.
US11744730B2
A heating pad includes a heat pad with an anterior and posterior side. The heat pad includes a first layer, a second layer, and a third layer. The second layer is located in between the first layer and the third layer. The first layer is located on the posterior side, while the third layer is located on the anterior side. The second layer has a wire selectively heated to increase the temperature of the heat pad. The third layer is a reflective material positioned to reflect heat from the second layer towards the first layer, decreasing heat emitted on the anterior side of the heat pad. The heating pad also includes a battery storage section for securing a battery. The battery is in electronical communication with the wire of the heat pad. The heating pad further includes an engagement mechanism to secure the heating pad to a user.
US11744726B2
Tissue adjustment implants useful for adjusting a position of tissue in a patient are described. In an embodiment, a tissue adjustment implant includes a main body having a series of outwardly-extending projections. The tissue adjustment implants can be used in a variety of treatments, such as in the treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea and snoring.
US11744723B2
A catheter system for treating lesions is provided. The system is suitable for treatment of bifurcation lesions, has a low profile and provides substantially predictable translational and rotational positioning. In one embodiment, the system includes a fixed wire balloon catheter and a partially attached guidewire lumen, wherein the guidewire lumen is attached to the catheter at a crotch point. The location of the crotch point is predetermined so as to provide substantially predictable positioning. Several embodiments of the system are described for various types of lesions and vessel configurations.
US11744722B2
A stent graft delivery system includes a handle, a guidewire catheter extending distally from the handle, at least one tube, and at least one wire extending through the at least one tube, wherein each wire of the stent graft delivery system is configured as a loop at the distal end of the tube. The stent graft delivery system can be employed to implant stent grafts in a patient to thereby treat, for example, an aortic aneurysm spanning a region of an aorta that includes at least one arterial branch.
US11744710B2
The present disclosure includes devices, apparatuses, kits, and methods for replacing a nucleus pulposus of an intervertebral disc with an implantable nuclear prosthesis filled with a curable silicone material in situ. Configurations of the present spinal implant devices include a flexible body defining an outer fillable enclosure that defines an outer chamber, an inner fillable enclosure that defines an inner chamber, and a proximal plug configured to be coupled to the inner fillable enclosure.
US11744707B2
The present invention relates generally to minimally invasive, cost-effective, adaptable methods, systems, and devices used to repair anatomical joint conditions. The repair may be necessitated by trauma, disease or other conditions. The anatomical joint may specifically include mammalian joints such as the knee, shoulder, elbow, wrist, finger, hip, spine, toe and ankle, for example. The methods, systems, and devices disclosed herein include leveraging the significant (and often unappreciated) role the subchondral bone plays in the health status of the afflicted anatomical joint.
US11744702B1
A heart valve assembly includes an outer frame. The outer frame is formed from a metallic material and defines a gridded configuration. An inner frame houses a prosthetic heart valve. The inner frame is a graft covering extending around the prosthetic heart valve for providing sealing to the heart valve. The graft covering is one of polyester, PTFE, ePTFE, or a polymer. The outer frame is secured to the graft covering. The outer frame is secured to the graft covering by a plurality of stitches. A plurality of radially extending fibers extend from the graft covering and through the outer metallic frame to form a seal positioned outwardly of the outer frame. The fibers include strands of fibers that terminate in an end thereof outwardly of the outer frame.
US11744695B2
A device for attaching a soft tissue graft to bone includes a body with a smooth contoured first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface having a plurality of outwardly extending fixation members. The second surface is at least partially formed of a porous material adapted for bone ingrowth. A channel extends at least partially through the body in between the first and second surfaces for receiving a portion of the graft. The channel is at least partially formed of a porous material adapted for tissue ingrowth, bone ingrowth or a combination thereof.
US11744691B2
Systems and methods for the intravascular treatment of clot material within a blood vessel of a human patient are disclosed herein. A method in accordance with embodiments of the present technology can include, for example, positioning a distal portion of a catheter proximate to the clot material within the blood vessel. The method can further include coupling a pressure source to the catheter via a tubing subsystem including a valve or other fluid control device and, while the valve is closed, activating the pressure source to charge a vacuum. The valve can then be opened to apply the vacuum to the catheter to thereby aspirate at least a portion of the clot material from the blood vessel and into the catheter.
US11744681B2
In a method of generating a virtual 3D model of a dental site, scan data comprising a plurality of images of a dental site is received during an intraoral scan. An analysis of an image is performed. A representation of a reference object with known properties is identified in the image based on the analysis. A virtual 3D model of the dental site is generated based on the plurality of images. The image and/or the virtual 3D model of the dental site is modified by adding additional data about the reference object to the intraoral image and/or the virtual 3D model based on the one or more known properties of the reference object. If the image is modified, it may be modified prior to generation of the virtual 3D model, and the virtual 3D model may be generated using the modified image.
US11744680B2
An orthodontic bracket assembly treatment system comprising a bracket base and at least two rigid selectable bracket covers slidably engageable with the bracket base wherein the selectable at least two rigid selectable bracket covers are removably slidably couplable to said bracket base by slidably engaging the upper lip with the upper retention element and the lower lip with the lower retention element and wherein the width of the face of a first one of the at least two rigid selectable bracket covers is wider than the width of the face of a second one of the at least two rigid bracket covers and can be selectively releasably attached to the base during a treatment such that the treatment utilizes either the first bracket cover or the second bracket cover depending on a patient's treatment needs at a stage of the treatment.
US11744679B1
An orthodontics cover shields a patient's mouth from orthodontic appliances. The orthodontics cover comprises an arched shaped strip that has a protective outer perimeter to shield the patient's mouth. The strip has an inner perimeter having a longitudinally extending channel. The channel is formed on the inner perimeter of the strip, between opposed longitudinal ends. The channel covers the exterior surface of the patient's orthodontics appliances, such as braces or wires. The opposed longitudinal ends of the strip have lateral side flanges that cover an end portion of the patient's orthodontics appliances, such as the end of an orthodontics wire, to prevent engagement with the patient's mouth.
US11744675B2
An orthodontic appliance is constructed from shells shaped to receive teeth. The shells can be constructed from one or more polymer materials and stacked and also varyingly affixed to one another, which can include affixing only about the edge of each shell. The orthodontic appliance can be one of a series of similar appliances for incremental orthodontic modification of teeth.
US11744670B2
A robotic surgical system can include one or more adjustable arm supports that support one or more robotic arms. The adjustable arm supports can be configured to attach to either a table, a column support of the table, or a base of the table to deploy the adjustable arm supports and robotic arms from a position below the table. In some examples, the adjustable arm supports include at least four degrees of freedom that allow for adjustment of the position of a bar or rail to which the robotic arms are mounted. One of the degrees of freedom can allow the adjustable arm support to be adjusted vertically relative to the table.
US11744663B2
A puncture-resistant radiolucent operating surface apparatus includes a flat radiolucent and puncture-resistant surface configured to cover the detector of an intraoperative imaging machine, and downwardly extending sidewall flanges that are connected to said flat surface and that conform to the sides of said detector.
US11744660B2
A system for use in surgery includes a central body, a visualization system operably connected to the central body, a video rendering system, a head-mounted display for displaying images from the video rendering system, a sensor system, and a robotic device operably connected to the central body. The visualization system includes at least one camera and a pan system and/or a tilt system. The sensor system tracks the position and/or orientation in space of the head-mounted display relative to a reference point. The pan system and/or the tilt system are configured to adjust the field of view of the camera in response to information from the sensor system about changes in at least one of position and orientation in space of the head-mounted display relative to the reference point.
US11744659B2
An apparatus includes a drive module having a drive module base component and a load-sensed component. An elongated medical device (EMD) is removably coupled to an isolated component. The isolated component is isolated from an external load other than an actual load acting on the EMD. The isolated component is removably coupled to the load-sensed component. A load sensor is secured to the drive module base component and the load-sensed component sensing the actual load acting on the EMD.
US11744651B2
A surgical system and method involve a robotic system that has a moveable arm that supports an end effector relative to a surgical site to remove material from a bone. A scanner scans the surgical site and detects a vessel on the bone. Controller(s) is/are coupled to the robotic system and the scanner. The controller(s) obtain image data of the bone and receive, from the scanner, positional information of the vessel on the bone. The controller(s) input the positional information of the vessel to the image data of the bone and generate a boundary for the vessel. The controller(s) register the boundary to the bone for navigation and control the robotic system to remove material from the bone with the end effector and prevent interaction between the end effector and the vessel with the boundary.
US11744649B2
A tracking system can be used to track a plurality of tracking devices. A representation of at least two instruments may be displayed relative to image data. The representation is customizable to distinguish between the at least two instruments.
US11744645B2
Surgical tools that include a mechanisms for transmitting torque through an angle are disclosed. A surgical tool includes an instrument shaft, a drive shaft, an end effector, a driven shaft, and a coupling member. The instrument shaft is elongated along an instrument shaft axis. The drive shaft is mounted to the instrument shaft for rotation about a drive shaft axis. The end effector is coupled with the instrument shaft so that an orientation of the end effector can be varied relative to the instrument shaft. The driven shaft is coupled with the end effector to articulate a feature of the end effector via rotation of the driven shaft relative to the end effector. The coupling member couples the drive shaft with the driven shaft so that a rate of rotation of the drive shaft and a rate of rotation of the driven shaft about a driven shaft axis are equal.
US11744642B2
A device, system, and method for optically evaluating and treating or ablating tissue. Specifically, device, system, and method allow for the optical and/or electrical evaluation of tissue at the same location(s) at which ablation or treatment or ablation energy is delivered. This allows for a more accurate evaluation of lesion formation and tissue condition before, during, and/or after a treatment or ablation procedure. In one embodiment, a device for performing a medical procedure includes an elongate body including a proximal portion, a distal portion having a distal end, and a longitudinal axis, and a distal tip electrode at the elongate body distal end, the tip electrode being optically transparent and electrically conductive. The device may also include optical windows in the elongate body aligned with one or more transparent lateral electrodes for optically interrogating tissue and/or for delivering treatment or ablation energy to tissue.
US11744637B2
A surgical device comprising: a closure assembly including: (a) a movement unit including: a bar that moves in a direction of a prescribed motion; (b) a latch unit including: (i) a latch plate including a hook latch that selectively receives the bar, the latch plate being movable in the direction of the prescribed motion between (A) a lockable state where the hook latch is engageable by the bar of the movement unit, and (B) an unlockable state where the bar does not reach the hook latch or the hook latch is moved out of alignment with the prescribed motion so that the hook latch is not engaged by the bar; and (ii) a stop that restricts movement of the movement unit relative to the hook latch.
US11744633B2
The invention relates to a connector plug for a medical instrument, in particular a bipolar electrode or forceps, comprising an insulating body for connecting two limbs of the instrument, wherein the insulating body has openings for receiving, inserting or sliding in the limbs, wherein in each of the openings a latching or spring element is provided for fastening one of the limbs of the instrument in the insulating body.
US11744632B2
An electrosurgical generator having an oscillating circuit that is excited by an excitation circuit with a frequency preferably close to the resonance frequency of the oscillating circuit. A regeneration circuit, which may be a voltage multiplier circuit, is used to stop the oscillation as suddenly as possible without losing the energy stored in the oscillating circuit.
US11744629B2
A cryo-system for treating a body part of an individual by cryotherapy, which includes two parts. The first part is either i) a cryo-probe suitable for internal cooling, which includes a penetrating segment in communication with a cryogen source and is at least smaller than 1/10th of the body part's biggest volume and/or at least one dimension smaller than 1 cm or ii) a cryo-probe suitable for external cooling, which includes a non-penetrating segment in communication with a cryogen source. The second part is either i) an assembly of at least two nanoparticles bound to each other or associated with each other via binding or associating material or ii) at least one nanoparticle, which includes iron and at least one other metal than iron. The assembly of at least two nanoparticles or the at least one nanoparticle may be cooled by the cryo-probe or by switching on the cryo-probe.
US11744628B2
Instruments and related methods for breaking reduction tabs are disclosed herein, e.g., for breaking reduction tabs of a bone anchor or other implant. In some embodiments, the instrument can be configured to minimize the space needed to operate the instrument. For example, the instrument can be configured to receive a reduction tab that is to be broken while the instrument is coaxially positioned with respect to a bone anchor receiver to which the reduction tab is attached. As another example, the instrument can have a maximum outer transverse dimension that is less than, equal to, or only slightly greater than a corresponding dimension of a bone anchor from which a reduction tab is to be broken. Guide rods for positioning a tab breaker instrument over a reduction tab are also disclosed.
US11744620B2
A plate and an installation tool are provided for preventing a spinal facet joint implant from expulsing from its implant location between a superior and an inferior vertebra. A k-wire is used in cooperation with the plate and installation tool to guide them to the desired location. The plate includes a central threaded bore situated between one or two superior bone screw or bone connection barb bores and one or two inferior bone screw or bone connection barb bores. The installation tool includes a threaded plug at one end for receipt by the plate's central threaded bore for releasably holding the plate during installation. The installation tool has a superior structure and an inferior structure that can be a cannula or tang depending on the plate's form.
US11744618B2
A vertebral column correction system for correcting a spinal deformity without fusing the joint segments is disclosed. The vertebral column correction system may have first and second vertebral anchors secured to first and second vertebrae. The vertebral column correction system may further comprise one or more intermediate vertebral anchors secured to vertebrae between the first and second vertebrae. A connection member may be disposed within a head portion of the vertebral anchors. At least a portion of the connection member may be a flexible member, such as a flexible cord, configured for tensioning between at least two vertebral anchors for providing a desired amount of tension to apply a correctional force to the spinal column. A spring member, or other tensioning member, may maintain the tension of the connection member.
US11744614B2
A catheter extraction tool has a head that can be placed in position to significantly surround a diameter of a catheter. The head is shaped to have a low enough profile above the catheter to allow the head to be slid down the catheter and into a subdermal region in which the catheter is subdermal with respect to a patient. The head of the catheter extraction tool is expanded sufficiently to slide the head over a catheter cuff located in the subdermal region. After the head of the catheter extraction tool slides over the catheter cuff, the head is contracted to engage the catheter so that a user can pull the catheter out of the patient using the catheter extraction tool.
US11744611B2
The invention relates to a puncture system having an outer tubular body which is designed to remain in a body part of a living being, said puncture system comprising at least one inner tubular body and a puncture needle, wherein the inner tubular body is guided through a working lumen of the outer tubular body and is longitudinally displaceable relative to the outer tubular body, and the puncture needle is guided through a puncture lumen of the inner tubular body and the inner tubular body is longitudinally displaceable relative to the puncture needle. The puncture system has a manually actuatable element that can be moved by manual actuation at least into a fixing position and into a release position, wherein, in the fixing position, the longitudinal displaceability a1) of the inner tubular body relative to the outer tubular body and/or a2) of the puncture needle relative to the inner tubular body and/or a3) of the puncture needle relative to the outer tubular body is removed or reduced.
US11744609B2
An atherectomy system includes an electric drive mechanism that is adapted to rotatably actuate an atherectomy burr and a controller that is adapted to regulate operation of the electric drive mechanism. The controller regulates operation of the electric drive mechanism in accordance with a power input limit value that limits how much power can be put into an atherectomy burr and an energy input limit value that limits how much energy can be put into the atherectomy burr. The controller may also regulate operation of the electric drive mechanism in accordance with a dynamic torque limit.
US11744605B2
A tissue resecting device includes a housing having an outer shaft extending therefrom, the outer shaft including a tool portion disposed at a distal end thereof, the tool portion having a window defined therein. A rotatable inner shaft is disposed within the outer shaft and includes a cutting member disposed at the distal end thereof in concentric alignment with the tool portion and configured to rotate concomitantly with the inner shaft. The cutting member includes a series of slots defined therein configured to facilitate articulation of the cutting member and a blade disposed at a distal end thereof configured to cut tissue upon rotational engagement therewith. An actuator is configured to articulate the tool portion and the cutting member upon actuation thereof between a neutral position wherein the blade is aligned for radial cutting and articulated positions wherein the blade is aligned for varying degrees of axially-aligned cutting.
US11744595B2
A one piece molded polymeric ligating clip comprises a pair of curved jaws having a hinge at a proximal end and a latch at a distal end. The inner face of each jaw includes two rows of transverse ribs, with the rows separated from one another along a longitudinal center line of each jaw. The ribs of one row are staggered with respect to the ribs of the other row of the same jaw as well as ribs of the corresponding rows of the other jaw. Each rib includes a body and a pyramid which projects away from the inner face of its jaw and toward the longitudinal center of its jaw. The pyramid tip comprises a sharp apex which projects across the longitudinal center of its respective jaw.
US11744589B2
A device for providing a passage between a first and second heart chamber is provided. The device includes a middle region having first and second ends, a lumen extending therethrough having a longitudinal axis, a first end region coupled to the first end, and a second end region coupled to the second end. The first end region may be delivered in the first heart chamber in a compressed state and transitioned to a deployed state, the first end region being deformable such that portions of the first end region are expandable to different angles relative to the longitudinal axis. The second end region may be delivered in the second heart chamber in a compressed state and transitioned to a deployed state therein, the second end region being deformable such that portions of the second end region are expandable to different angles relative to the longitudinal axis.
US11744584B2
A surgical stapling instrument includes an elongate body portion defining a longitudinal axis, an end effector supported on a distal portion of the elongated body portion, and a deployment member extending from the elongate body portion into the end effector. The end effector includes a housing having a base portion and a jaw portion, an anvil assembly supported on the jaw portion, and a cartridge assembly releasably supported on the base portion. The cartridge assembly includes an alignment pin assembly. The deployment member includes a distal portion supporting an abutment member and is movable between a retracted position and an advanced position. The abutment member is releasably coupled to the alignment pin assembly when the deployment member is in the retracted position and is fixedly secured to the alignment pin assembly when the deployment member is moved from the retracted position.
US11744551B2
A portable ultrasound probe is described having a mechanical transducer, rotating mirror, and mirror motor. The transducer can be used for diagnostic imaging and procedural guidance imaging. The probe has a light weight design for easy one-handed use, and can use external processors to provide proper image display with accompanying software.
US11744548B2
Devices and method are provided for ultrasound transmission without the need for external couplants, such as gels, which are typically used in conventional ultrasound procedures. In particular, ultrashields are provided for use with ultrasound probes, wherein the ultrashields have specialized layers to provide an uninterrupted pathway of acoustic conductance from the probe to the surface of the body throughout the procedure while introducing minimal to no attenuation of ultrasound wave transmission. In addition, combinations of ultrashields and probe covers are provided to provide additional features such as a microbial barrier.
US11744547B2
An ultrasound phased array transducer is disclosed that achieves suppression of grating lobes through the incorporation of a coupling layer, where the coupling layer is positioned adjacent to the phased array transducer such that an ultrasound beam propagates through the coupling layer prior to encountering a propagation medium. The phased-array elements may be provided such that one or both of the array pitch and a lateral extent of each ultrasound transducer element is larger than half of the ultrasound wavelength in the propagation medium. Grating lobes within the coupling layer and the propagation medium may be reduced or suppressed by selecting a coupling material having a speed of sound that exceeds that of the propagation medium. The coupling layer may have a thickness sufficient for the generation of a wavefront, and the coupling layer may be formed from a viscous or viscoelastic material.
US11744546B2
A control device including: a breast thickness acquisition unit that acquires a thickness of a breast in a pressed state by a pressing member; a depth information acquisition unit that, in a case where an ultrasound image of the breast in the pressed state is captured, acquires depth information indicating a depth to which imaging by an ultrasonography apparatus which captures the ultrasound image is possible; a deriving unit that derives imaging information indicating whether or not capture of an ultrasound image having predetermined accuracy or higher is possible by the ultrasonography apparatus on the basis of the thickness of the breast acquired by the breast thickness acquisition unit and the depth information acquired by the depth information acquisition unit; and an output unit that outputs the imaging information derived by the deriving unit.
US11744544B2
Devices, systems, and methods for visually depicting a vessel and evaluating a physiological condition of the vessel are disclosed. One embodiment includes obtaining, at a first time, a first image of the vessel, the image being in a first medical modality, and obtaining, at a second time subsequent to the first time, a second image of the vessel, the image being in the first medical modality. The method also includes spatially co-registering the first and second images and outputting a visual representation of the co-registered first and second images on a display. Further, the method includes determining a physiological difference between the vessel at the first time and the vessel at the second time based on the co-registered first and second images, and evaluating the physiological condition of the vessel of the patient based on the determined physiological difference.
US11744543B2
Real time strain imaging is provided by acquiring a sequence of cardiac image frames and estimating tissue displacement in the myocardium over a heart cycle. The displacements are used to calculate strain over the myocardium and a color map is formed of the strain values. During the next heart cycle the color map is warped to fit the myocardium in each image frame and the warped color map is displayed as a color overlay over the myocardium of each image of the new heart cycle as they are displayed in real time. A new color map is also produced over the new heart cycle for use with the following heart cycle. An ultrasound system which performs real time strain imaging is also described.
US11744531B2
A method for estimating motion of an X-ray focal spot is provided. The acts of the method include acquiring image data by causing X-rays to be emitted from the X-ray focal spot of an X-ray source toward a radiation detector comprising multiple channels, wherein a subset of the channels each have a collimator blade positioned above the respective channel. The acts of the method also include independently estimating X-ray focal spot motion in an X-direction for the X-ray focal spot relative to an isocenter of the radiation detector and in a Y-direction along a direction of the X-rays for the X-ray focal spot relative to the isocenter based on respective channel gains for a first channel and a second channel of the subset of the channels.
US11744527B2
Systems, devices, and methods are provided to determine and visualize landmarks with an intraluminal imaging system for lesion assessment and treatment. An intraluminal imaging system may be configured to receive imaging data from an intraluminal imaging device, generate a set of image frames using received imaging data, and automatically calculate a luminal area associated with the body lumen for each of the image frames. The calculated luminal area and a longitudinal view of the body lumen may be displayed to a user on a display device.
US11744510B2
Methods, compositions and systems are provided for the imaging of cavity/tissue lesions, including without limitation cavity/tissue malignant lesions, e.g. cancers of the skin, mouth, colon, digestive system cervix, bladder, lung, etc.
US11744505B2
According to an embodiment, a method for diagnosing traumatic brain injury (TBI) in a subject may include repeatedly measuring heart rate variability (HRV) in the subject and a plurality of HRV altering variables; calculating an HRV fingerprint based on the subject's measured HRV and the measured plurality of HRV altering variables; generating a predicted HRV of the subject based on the HRV fingerprint; and diagnosing a TBI in the subject when the measured HRV of the subject deviates from the predicted HRV of the subject.
US11744504B2
One variation of a system for locating electrodes on a head of a user includes a headset defining a set of electrode bodies elastically interconnected by a unique set of spring elements configured to locate the set of electrode bodies at electrode positions of the international 10-20 standard, irrespective of the size of the head of the user. The spring elements are configured to carry electrical signals between interconnected electrode bodies and ultimately to a controller. An electrode tip is mechanically and electrically coupled to each electrode body. The electrode tip comprises a thin conductive probe mounted at the distal end of an elastic beam and is configured to extend from a base of the electrode tip, bypass hair, and electrically couple to the head of the user, and an insulative boss, configured to rest on and transfer the weight of the headset to the head of the user.
US11744496B2
A method of classifying a mental state of a user using a computing device, which includes a microphone, a camera, a display, a wireless communication unit, and a processor, and a mental state classification server is provided. The method comprises: by the microphone, detecting ambient noise of the user; by the camera, generating an image by photographing a face of the user; by the processor, checking whether each of ambient noise of the user, ambient brightness of the face of the user obtained from the image, and a face position of the user obtained from the image is suitable for a heart rate variability measurement environment; by the processor, controlling to display on the display images indicating whether each of the ambient noise, the ambient brightness, and the face position is suitable for the heart rate variability.
US11744491B2
The technology relates to medical devices for monitoring and assessing vascular health. In one embodiment, the technology is an apparatus that attaches to a subject's finger comprising a heating and cooling component, a coherent source, a temperature sensor, an image detector, and/or a component for data control and management. In another embodiment, there is a component that alters local blood flow in the subject, and laser speckle contrast and photoplethysmography (PPG) signals from the altered blood flow in the subject are compared to monitor the vascular health of the subject.
US11744487B2
A glucose biosensor includes a plurality of optical fibers configured for placement within the ear canal. A first optical fiber emits light into the ear canal. A plurality of other optical fibers capture and transmit the reflected light back to the glucose biosensor. A plurality of photodetectors are configured in the glucose biosensor to detect the reflected light from the plurality of optical fibers. The glucose biosensor processes the detected light from each photodetector to determine a glucose level measurement. In an embodiment, the glucose biosensor also obtains a second glucose level measurement using another method and determines a calibration for the first glucose level measurement using the second glucose level measurement.
US11744485B2
A lower limb loading assessment system having at least one motion sensor mounted to a subject's lower limb that is configured to sense the tibial shockwaves experienced by the lower limb as the subject performs a repetitive physical activity involving repetitive footstrikes of the lower limb with a surface. The motion sensor comprises an accelerometer that is configured to sense acceleration data in at least three axes and generate representative acceleration data over a time period associated with the physical activity. The acceleration data represents a series of discrete tibial shockwaves from the discrete footstrikes. A data processor receives the tibial shockwave data and processes that to generate output feedback data comprising data to assist the subject to minimize future loading in their lower limbs.
US11744469B2
In order to enable the measurement of thermal property information about a subject, this thermal diffusion coefficient measuring device, which is used by contacting the surface of a living body, is provided with: a biological information sensor comprising a temperature sensor and a heat flux sensor; and a heating/cooling control means. The temperature sensor is provided at a position contacting the surface of the living body, and operates so as to detect skin temperature. The heat flux sensor is provided at a position contacting the surface of the living body, while being adjacent to the temperature sensor, and operates so as to detect heat flux on the surface of the living body. The heating/cooling control means enables the measurement of the temperature diffusion coefficient of a thermal resistance component that is present between the biological information sensor and a deep inner portion of the living body.
US11744465B2
Disclosed is a method for generating a three-dimensional brain map, comprising the steps of: acquiring a brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) image of an object; segmenting the brain MRI image into a plurality of regions; generating a three-dimensional brain image of the object including the plurality of regions by using the segmented brain MRI image; and generating a three-dimensional brain map of the object capable of simulating a process of transferring electrical stimulation to the brain of the object based on properties of each of the plurality of regions included in the three-dimensional brain image, wherein the step of segmenting includes the step of acquiring a segmented brain MRI image of the object by inputting a brain MRI image of the object into a model learned by using a plurality of processed brain MRI images.
US11744459B1
Disclosed are a data analysis method and a data analysis system for retinal nerve fibrous layer. The method comprises the following steps: obtaining a peripapillary RNFL scanning image and a full-circumference RNFL thickness measurement data distribution image; obtaining a fundus scanning image, measuring a optic disc macular inclination angle; obtaining the upper and lower range of the RNFL scanning image, and measuring the upper and the lower RNFL thickness; obtaining an intersection position of an RNFL measuring ring and a blood vessel according to the canning image, and respectively correcting the upper and the lower RNFL thickness; performing a symmetry evaluation of the upper and the lower RNFL thickness according to the upper and the lower RNFL thickness correction value, and judging whether the RNFL data is abnormal. The system includes: image acquisition module, macular angle module, RNFL thickness module, RNFL thickness correction module and RNFL data evaluation module.
US11744458B2
Gonioscope devices are disclosed herein that are configured to enable a medical professional to view structure inside the eye that is ordinarily hidden from normal view. The gonioscope can be an integrally molded single piece that includes both a handle and a gonioscopic optical element. The proximal surface can have a viewing area and a light diffusing area. A recess can provide access to a wound site on the eye while the gonioscope is used for viewing. The handle can be configured to encourage proper alignment of the gonioscope with the eye. The gonioscope can provide an optical fixation point for the subject to focus on to facilitate proper alignment of the eye. The gonioscope can have one or more retention elements configured to engage the tissue of the eye around the contact surface to stabilize the gonioscope. The gonioscope can couple to a lid speculum.
US11744451B2
The present disclosure provides methods, computing device readable medium, devices, and systems that utilize a cheek retractor and/or a mobile device holder for case assessment and/or dental treatments.
US11744449B2
An endoscopy system including an insertion tube segment, a handle segment, at least one heat source, a heat pipe and a heat-conductive material is provided. The insertion tube segment has first and second end portions opposite to each other and is inserted in the handle segment. An inside of the insertion tube segment and an inside of the handle segment commonly have a connecting space. The at least one heat source is disposed in the first end portion. The heat pipe is disposed in the connecting space and at least extends from a portion of the connecting space of the insertion tube segment to a portion of the connecting space of the handle segment. The heat-conductive material is disposed between the at least one heat source and the first end portion, and the heat-conductive material is thermally coupled to the at least one heat source and the heat pipe, respectively.
US11744447B2
Surgical visualization systems and related methods are disclosed herein, e.g., for providing visualization during surgical procedures. Systems and methods herein can be used in a wide range of surgical procedures, including spinal surgeries such as minimally-invasive fusion or discectomy procedures. Systems and methods herein can include various features for enhancing end user experience, improving clinical outcomes, or reducing the invasiveness of a surgery. Exemplary features can include access port integration, hands-free operation, active and/or passive lens cleaning, adjustable camera depth, and many others.
US11744439B2
In various embodiments, a scope-based imaging system is introduced. An optical sensor assembly located at the tip of the scope may include the CMOS sensors, filters, and lenses/mirrors, to perform fluorescence imaging using the scope.
US11744437B2
Provided is a medical image processing system that can stably control the light emission amount of narrow-band light of a short wavelength in a case where the narrow-band light of the short wavelength is used for illumination of an observation target. A light source circuit emits specific narrow-band light of a short wavelength. An image sensor includes a first pixel group including a B pixel and a second pixel group including a G pixel. The B pixel has a higher sensitivity to the specific narrow-band light than the G pixel. The G pixel has a sensitivity to light in a green band and the specific narrow-band light. The light source control unit controls the light emission amount of the specific narrow-band light on the basis of a pixel value of the B pixel and a pixel value of the G pixel.
US11744433B2
A hanger assembly for hanging wash mitts, rags and the like above a bucket includes a top subassembly with a mast and spaced apart arms extending radially from the mast. A bottom subassembly includes a bucket engaging structure and a shaft, to which the mast of the top subassembly is coupled (e.g., rotatably coupled). The bucket engaging structure of the bottom subassembly may include in one embodiment a plate, a tail and a pair of legs for engaging the sidewall of the bucket, or in another embodiment a ring or disc that sits on the bottom of the bucket.
US11744423B2
A telescopic conductive tube is provided, including a conductive assembly. The conductive assembly includes an isolating guide, an isolating restraining tube, a rail, a wire, a guiding rod and a conductive spring. The conductive spring is sleeved on the guiding rod and electrically connects with the wire. The guiding rod and the conductive spring are accommodated within the isolating restraining tube. The isolating restraining tube is accommodated within the isolating guide. The wire is accommodated within the rail. The isolating restraining tube has one end inserted into the rail. The rail is slidable relative to the isolating guide. When sliding into the isolating guide, the rail slides along an outer wall of the isolating restraining tube, and the conductive spring is compressed by a bottom of the rail.
US11744422B2
A vacuum cleaner includes an air treatment or debris removable assembly with a multi-layer filtration stage. The multi-layer filtration stage can include an outer mesh screen, a louvered exhaust grill, and a multi-layer filter. Optionally, an inner perforated exhaust grill is also provided. The debris removable assembly can further include a cyclonic filtration stage.
US11744416B2
A lint removing device, includes a body, a handle connected to the body, and a lint removing assembly located in the body. The handle is hollow with an opening at one end, while the other end of the handle is connected to an outer wall of the body. The handle includes an extended functional structure, and the extended functional structure includes a fixed portion and a protruding portion. The fixed portion is placed inside the handle. The protruding portion extends out of the handle opening for the extended function, and the protruding portion is fixed in the handle by the fixed portion after the protruding portion is retracted in the handle. The lint removing device with an extended function of the handle enables the lint removing device to expand other functions in addition to the lint removing function.
US11744415B2
Disclosed is a flexible toilet seat including a top surface; a bottom surface; an inner edge, at which the top and bottom surfaces meet; an inner region, configured to elastically and vertically deform inward relative to the outer edge in response to an applied load; and an outer region supported by an upper surface of a toilet and configured to support the inner region.
US11744403B2
A robotic kitchen system for preparing food items in combination with at least one kitchen appliance such as a fryer comprises an automated bin assembly, a robotic arm, and a basket held by the robotic arm. The automated bin assembly comprises at least one automated bin for holding the food items. A camera or sensor array collects image data of the food items in the bin(s). A central processor is operable to compute and provide directions to the first robotic arm and automated bin assembly based on the image data and stored data to (a) move the robotic arm to the bin; (b) actuate the bin to drop the food items from the bin into the basket; (c) and to move the basket into the fryer all without human interaction. Related methods are also described.
US11744402B2
Exemplary embodiments of a kamado-style cooker pizza oven conversion device are disclosed. Certain embodiments detachably mount within a kamado-styled cooker such that the lid of the cooker rests at an angle on the top of the device and thereby “closes off” and defines a cooking space within the interior that takes advantage of the pizza oven-like features of a kamado cooker. With an embodiment of the solution installed in a kamado cooker, an open doorway or window is defined for allowing a user to insert a pizza into the cooking space and place the pizza on a pizza stone held by the device. Embodiments allow for cooking to occur simultaneously via conductive, convective and radiant thermal energy transfer.
US11744392B1
A Christmas tree stand for artificial trees comprising a base, a hollow tubular member, a plurality of locking-folding mechanisms, and a plurality of movable elongated leg members. A method of using the Christmas tree stand comprises positioning the Christmas tree stand on a floor or surface and positioning and securing an artificial Christmas tree in the Christmas tree stand for displaying and viewing the tree.
US11744383B2
A mattress includes a layer including a first surface and a second surface arranged opposite to the first surface. The layer defines a plurality of slits extending from the first surface to the second surface and arranged in a plurality of rows extending in a longitudinal direction. The slits in each row are arrayed linearly in the longitudinal direction and are disposed spaced apart from each other. The rows of the slits restrict a compression of the layer to an area under loading and prevent the surrounding portion of the layer from being pulled towards the area under loading.
US11744381B2
The present invention relates to a pillow divider device primarily comprised of a body that is further comprised of at least one base, at least one vertical wall member and at least one cover. In the preferred embodiment, the base is triangular in shape and the vertical wall member is rectangular in shape. The vertical wall member may be inseparably or removably attached to the top surface of the base. The base and vertical wall member are further enclosed by an outer surface. The base may also have at least one weight or can be filled with water such that it becomes stable and difficult to move. The device can be placed between two partners who are sleeping, wherein the shape of the base and vertical wall member prevent any air exhaled by one partner from contacting the other partner.
US11744370B2
A chair may include a frame, a seat pan, a backrest, a pair of arm rests, and a plurality of legs wherein at least two legs may each provided with an inner leg and an outer leg and the inner leg is configured to telescope out of the outer leg, wherein the at least two legs may include a leg locking system for locking the outer leg to the inner leg when the chair is in an unfolded position, wherein the leg locking system may include a trigger housing, a trigger, and a latch, and wherein the latch may be configured to engage a bushing on the inner leg.
US11744361B2
An adjustable power and data rail for static height and vertically adjustable desks. The adjustable power and data rail fits between the static height and vertically adjustable desks and expands as needed either horizontally or vertically to match the installation configuration with paired multiple desks. The power and data rail provides connectivity for each of the static height or vertically adjustable desks to data and power connectors.
US11744353B1
An expandable grip apparatus to assist in holding a handheld device includes a base member having a substantially flat contact surface for securing to a surface of the handheld device, a top member that is spaced from the base member, and an expandable center section that connects between the base member and the top member, the expandable center section comprised of a series of integral foldable pleats. The series of integral foldable pleats include adjacently disposed foldable pleats that define a living hinge between the adjacently disposed foldable pleats to enable the expandable center section to selectively nest onto each other. The base member can include an adhesive or a magnet for securing the grip apparatus to the handheld device.
US11744348B2
A device for automating the process of installing eyelash extensions onto the natural eyelashes of a subject. In some embodiments, the placing of extensions is carried out by a robotic mechanism utilizing computer vision. In some embodiments, the same device may be used for extending eyebrows rather than eyelashes, as eyebrows have rather similar properties to eyelashes.
US11744346B2
Cosmetic product application device, related kit and reservoir The device (14) includes: —an applicator (40), comprising a gripping member (44) and a product application member t (46) intended to plunge into a reservoir (12) of a cosmetic product; —an intermediate part (42) comprising a attachment sleeve (70) for the removable fastening of the gripping member (44), with the attachment sleeve (70) defining a circulation hole (76) of the product application member (46). The intermediate part (42) comprises an outer band (72) for protecting the applicator (40) protruding opposite the attachment sleeve (70), the band (72) having at its free edge (88) an insertion opening (90) of the reservoir (12). The intermediate part (42) comprises an inner fastening member (74) for the removable fastening of the reservoir (12), protruding in the band (72) opposite the attachment sleeve (70).
US11744344B1
A curling device comprising a flap and a channel connected to each other. A curling member having an elongated shape and a curved cross-section is implemented in the channel. The curling member is capable of transitioning between an extended configuration and a curled configuration. The channel has a curved cross-section corresponding to the curling member's curved cross-section, which creates a trough, whereby hair can be positioned in the trough and held therein by wrapping the flap over the trough and around the channel. Transitioning the curling member from an extended configuration to a curled configuration holds the flap and the hair in a curved configuration, which imparts a curl to the hair when the hair is held in the curled configuration for some time.
US11744343B1
A hair styling apparatus, the apparatus including heating plate. The heating plate is defined by a free end and an attached end. The free end includes a top plate and a bottom plate that is separated by a gap configured to receive hair to be styled. The top plate and bottom plate are curved around a width of the hair styling apparatus. The gap is adjustable using a lever that is provided on a connecting handle that is connected to the attached end. The hair styling apparatus further includes a heater to heat the heating plate. The connecting handle also includes a gripping portion that enables gripping of the apparatus by a user. The hair styling apparatus also includes a power module to provide power to the heater.
US11744336B2
A walking cane may be transformed into an assistive device for sit-to-stand transfers. The device has two sets of opposing handles, which are to be grasped by the user and an assister during sit-to-stand transfers. The transformation is accomplished by deploying a second set of handles by pivoting or rotating from a stored to a utility position. The assistive device form can then be reversed by the user once standing by reversing the deployment.
US11744335B2
A ring accessory comprises an outer loop and an elastic piece placed in the outer loop. The outer loop comprises a lateral loop and a top cover located above the lateral loop. The top cover has a hole for a ring head passing through. An inner side of the top cover at an edge of the hole comprises at least three deep recesses, and a shallow recess between every two adjacent deep recesses. A distance from the deep recess to hole center is greater than a distance from the shallow recess to the hole center. The elastic piece has recesses corresponding to the deep recesses and shallow recesses on the top cover. The elastic piece is an annulus with a wave shape, the elastic piece deep recesses are located at the bottom of the wave, and the elastic piece shallow recesses are located at the top of the wave.
US11744327B2
Footwear for covering a foot of a wearer includes an outsole configured for supporting the foot of the wearer, an upper secured to the outsole and configured for covering the foot of the wearer, an insole located above the outsole within the upper, a midsole located above the outsole and below the insole and first and second laterally adjacent shanks located above the outsole and below the insole. The first shank angles forward and outward from the heel portion to a lateral side of the middle portion and the second shank angles forward and outward from the heel portion to a medial side of the middle portion to form an acute angle therebetween and provide balance and torsional stability for sides of the wearer's foot.
US11744323B2
A sole of a sole structure includes an upper wall portion disposed on an upper side, a lower wall portion disposed on a lower side and spaced away from the upper wall portion, and a pair of sidewall portions that extend substantially in a vertical direction between the upper wall portion and the lower wall portion, that have a vertical zigzag shape, that are coupled to the upper wall portion and the lower wall portion, and that extend in a longitudinal direction along the outer peripheries of the upper wall portion and the lower wall portion. The upper wall portion and the lower wall portion and a pair of sidewall portions are resin-made wall members with a predetermined thickness and form an interior space. Each of the sidewall portions has concave parts recessed inwardly and convex parts protruding outwardly and it is compressible in the vertical direction.
US11744321B2
A method of making a cushioning member is provided. The method includes forming a first barrier member from a first material, the first barrier member including a first compartment and a second compartment. The method further includes forming a second barrier member from a second material different than the first material. The first compartment is provided with a first quantity of particulate matter and the second compartment is provided with a second quantity of particulate matter. The method further includes covering the first compartment with the second barrier member and covering the second compartment with the second barrier member.
US11744319B2
A heel insert is provided for an article of footwear that includes an upper defining a foot-receiving cavity having an ankle opening. The heel insert includes a base. The heel insert includes a spine extending outward from the base to a tip of the spine such that the spine extends upward along a posterior wall of a heel region of the upper toward the ankle opening when the base is operatively connected to the heel region. The tip of the spine is moveable relative to the base between a first position and a second position along a longitudinal axis of the article of footwear. The heel insert includes a spring operatively connected to the spine such that the spring biases the tip of the spine toward the first position of the tip. The tip of the spine is resiliently deflectable toward the second position against the bias of the spring.
US11744311B2
A head covering to reduce the force from an external surface on the head of an individual. The head covering is formed from thin polymeric tubes that are inflated by blowing via lung exhalation. The head covering is light weight and can be folded into a small in volume such that it is easily carried in a shirt or pant pocket.
US11744308B2
It is common for the organizers of endurance sports to provide aid stations along the route where participants may receive water to prevent dehydration. To reduce waste at these events, organizers encourage ‘cupless’ races that requiring participants to carry their own vessels. The present invention comprises a hat with a visor, such as a baseball style cap, with a collapsible drinking vessel integrated into the visor. During the course of the race, a runner may encounter a water stop and require a vessel to contain the liquid for immediate consumption. At such time the runner can simply remove their hat and configure the vessel to the open position to receive the liquid. Post-consumption the vessel is configured back to the closed position and becomes seamlessly integrated into the visor with no negative effects upon the runner.
US11744306B2
Systems, devices, and methods including: a clasp, the clasp comprising: a body; one or more magnets of the clasp attached to an outside portion of the body; and a middle portion configured to extend away from the body such that hair is configured to go between the middle portion and the body to secure the clasp to the hair; a stay, the stay comprising: one or more magnets of the stay; where the clasp is detachably attached to the stay via the one or more magnets of the clasp and the one or more magnets of the stay; and where the stay is configured to attach to a hair piece.
US11744304B2
To configure a pad so as to be gentle to the skin, to prevent stretching and/or tearing of the front surface sheet, and to not reduce liquid permeability and air permeability. [Solution] An underarm sweat pad in which an absorbent is interposed between a front surface sheet and a back surface sheet and which is used folded in two at a folding line and attached to the inside of the axillary portion of a garment. The front surface sheet is composed of a hydrophilic cellulose fiber. Adhesive regions, in which an adhesive for bonding the front surface sheet to the absorbent is applied, are formed as stripes that are parallel to the folding line and are spaced at intervals in the direction that is orthogonal to the folding line.
US11744296B2
A smoking article is provided and has opposed lighting and mouth ends. A mouth end portion is disposed at the mouth end and a heat generation portion is disposed about the lighting end. An outer wrapping material is wrapped at least about the heat generation portion and extends toward the mouth end portion, to define a cylindrical rod. An aerosol-generating portion is disposed within the outer wrapping material and between the heat generation and mouth end portions. The aerosol-generating portion is configured to generate an aerosol in response to heat received from the heat generation portion. Heat from the heat generation portion for aerosol formation is provided by igniting a combustible fuel element (e.g., a plurality of parts or pieces of clean burning carbonaceous material) located within an enclosed heat generation cartridge.
US11744292B2
A cartridge for an electronic vapour inhaler is provided and includes an elongate induction heatable element and a flavour-release medium adhered to a surface of the elongate induction heatable element. The induction heatable element can include a tube having a wall with inner and outer wall surfaces and the flavour-release medium can be adhered to the outer or inner wall surface.
US11744288B2
A capsule for an aerosol-generating device may include a housing, a filter, and an aerosol-forming substrate. The housing may have a gas-permeable end and an impermeable end. The filter may be disposed within the housing so as to be adjacent to the impermeable end. The aerosol-forming substrate may be disposed within the housing so as to be between the filter and the gas-permeable end. The housing may be configured to facilitate a heating of the aerosol-forming substrate via one of conduction, convection, or both conduction and convection so as to generate an aerosol.
US11744266B2
The present patent application relates to novel red-orange coated particles, which are mainly used in (dry) formulations for instant beverages. The advantage of these coated particles is that they are red to orange as such (also in the formulations for instant beverages, wherein they can be identified by the naked eye as individual discrete colored particles), but upon dissolution of the instant beverage powder, the particles will dissolve as well and will not interfere with or change the intended color of the ready-to drink instant beverages made from the instant beverage dry powders.
US11744263B2
The present invention relates to animal feed or animal feed additives comprising polypeptides having protease activity and uses thereof. It also relates to the methods for producing the proteases and for using the proteases to improve animal performance and the nutritional value of an animal feed.
US11744258B1
An apparatus and method for organizing breast milk storage bags, comprising a refrigerated enclosure, a vertical carousel automated conveyor having a plurality of racks rotating around it vertical axis with such racks partitioned in a plurality of compartments wherein the breast milk storage bags are placed, a main door that allows access to the whole arrangement and a secondary door that allows easy access to one rack for retrieving or storing breast milk storage bags, such secondary door includes a load sensor and a plurality of light sources that indicates in which slot the desired bag is located. The apparatus further includes a control panel with a User Interface and employs an algorithm that selects the breast milk storage bags according to the desired ounces sorting them by nearest expiration date and keeping track of the breast milk inventory database which is able to be accessed through a mobile app.
US11744256B2
Disclosed is a smoker device for imparting smoked flavors to beverages and foodstuffs can include a base having at least a wall defining a first end and a floor with an opening defining a second end, a cover capable of being positioned over the base first end, thereby defining an enclosed cavity, and a conduit portion defining an open channel at a first end and closed at a second end, the first end connecting to a perimeter of the base floor opening, creating a passageway from the enclosed cavity to the channel. Also disclosed is a method for using the smoker device to impart smoked flavors to beverages and foodstuffs.
US11744254B2
A phospholipase A1 characterized by having an sn1/sn2 specificity ratio of about 55/45 or greater wherein said phospholipase A1 has a lysophospholipase/phospholipase activity ratio of less than 0.02 is presented in conjunction with methods for use in lipid containing food matrix, baking and making dough with the phospholipase and also including baking improvers using the disclosed phospholipase A1.
US11744248B2
A composition and method for inducing and inflicting damage to cell membranes of microorganism by inducing changes in membrane permeability caused by polycation-induced membrane pores. The control of Clostridium difficile spores with an efficacy of 99.99% on hard surfaces is provided. The invention includes the application of an evaporation-induced self-assembly, surfactant-mediated synthesis or self-condensing polymer, which forms a film which is both flexible on the surface as a nano-polymeric coating and with refractive index yielding a transparent coating. The polymeric matrix includes various biocidal polymeric cationic quaternary salts, one being a silyl quaternary having a kinetic zeta potential to disrupt bacterial spores functions. The polymeric matrix consist of multiple small molecule biocides as well as polymerics biocide combinations not otherwise seen to develop an surface topography of peaks and troughs in the nano range to resist bacterial adhesion factors and subsequent biofilm formation. The surfactants induce self-assembly film topography.
US11744247B2
Disclosed herein are veterinary compositions including imidacloprid or an analogue thereof; a pyrethroid; a solvent selected from the group consisting of N-methyl pyrrolidone, N-ethyl pyrrolidone and mixtures thereof; and dimethyl sulfoxide. The veterinary compositions of the invention are useful in methods of controlling parasites on or within warm-blooded domesticated animals.
US11744242B2
A living body specimen transport device for receiving multiple living body specimens has a frame, a rotating bracket, and a storage assembly. The rotating bracket can be rotated with respect to the frame. The storage assembly can receive a container with a living body specimen and be rotated with respect to the rotating bracket. A center of gravity of the storage assembly is lower than a pivoting point where the rotating bracket is mounted on the frame and a pivoting point where the storage assembly is mounted on the rotating bracket. With such structure, even when the living body specimen transport device is vibrated and shaken during transporting and then the frame of the living body specimen transport device is tilted or turned over, the rotating bracket and the storage assembly can rotate to be vertical by themselves, which keeps the living body specimen being soaked in the preservation solution.
US11744240B2
An autonomous ground vehicle for agricultural plant and soil management operations. According to some embodiments, autonomous ground vehicle includes: a camera unit configured to generate images of agricultural ground soil and plant organisms, a first mechanical arm having an end effector comprising a hoe portion and an electrode portion, a second mechanical arm having an end effector comprising an electrode portion, a high voltage booster electrically connected to the electrode portions, an electronic memory storage medium comprising computer-executable instructions; one or more processors in electronic communication with the electronic memory storage medium, configured to execute the computer-executable instructions stored in an electronic memory storage medium for implementing a plant species control management operation comprising electrical control and mechanical control options.
US11744231B1
A system, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for using a smart collar to monitor a pet are described. The system includes a smart collar, a mobile computing device including a display screen, and a pet monitoring mobile application stored on the mobile computing device. The smart collar includes a global positioning receiver, a communications device, an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display, a rechargeable battery, and a microcontroller. The microcontroller calculates a distance of a current location of the smart collar from a desired location, determines when the distance is greater than a first distance threshold, and generates a communications packet including the current location, the perimeter, and the distance of the smart collar from the desired location, and transmits the communications packet. The mobile computing device receives the communications packet, and the pet monitoring mobile application displays the current location on a display screen of the mobile computing device.
US11744226B2
A pet feeding apparatus includes a feed tank, a discharge tank, and an ejection assembly. The feed tank includes an accommodation chamber and a discharge outlet communicating with the accommodation chamber. The discharge tank includes an ejection outlet, an inlet, and an ejection chamber located between the ejection outlet and the inlet. The inlet communicates with the discharge outlet of the feed tank. The ejection assembly includes a rotation blade and a driving member. The rotation blade is received in the ejection chamber, and the rotation blade includes a rotation shaft and a blade extending from the rotation shaft. The driving member is connected to the rotation shaft and is capable of driving the rotation shaft to rotate with respect to the ejection chamber, so that the driving member drives the blade to swing from the inlet toward the ejection outlet.
US11744222B2
A teatcup, configured to be attached to the teat of an animal to be milked, and a cartridge for said teatcup, where the cartridge has an elongated sleeve with having an upper end section and a lower end section, and a barrel that is pre-mounted in the elongated sleeve (8) and forming an inner space for receiving the teat such that a pulsation chamber is formed between the elongated sleeve and the barrel, where the cartridge also has a head member at the upper end section with a lip surrounding an opening into the inner space, where the elongated sleeve has a flange extending outwardly at the upper end section, and the head member has a plurality of locking members each configured to grip the flange, each of the locking members extending towards the lower end section and beyond the flange.
US11744219B1
A novel alfalfa variety designated AFX174083 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing an alfalfa plant comprise crossing alfalfa variety AFX174083 with another alfalfa plant. Methods for producing an alfalfa plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits transgenes or locus conversions introgressed into AFX174083 through backcross conversion and/or transformation are provided and the alfalfa seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Alfalfa seed, plants or plant parts produced by crossing alfalfa variety AFX174083 or a locus or trait conversion of AFX174083 with another alfalfa plant or population are disclosed. Alfalfa populations derived from alfalfa variety AFX174083, methods for producing other alfalfa populations derived from alfalfa variety AFX174083 and the alfalfa populations and their parts derived by the use of those methods.
US11744218B2
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01091749. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01091749. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01091749 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01091749 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US11744198B1
An orchid growing and holding apparatus that is configured to releasably secure an orchid thereto and further is configured to be mounted to a vertical support surface. A base member that is planar in manner and rectangular in shape is provided. The base member has a mounting aperture proximate the upper end thereof. The base member includes a first securing aperture and a second securing aperture axially aligned horizontally journaled through the base member proximate the lower end thereof. A securing member is provided and operable to be passed through the first securing aperture and second securing aperture and bias an orchid against the front surface of the base member. A plant support member is provided on the front surface and has a radius curved body that extends outward from the front surface. A hook member is provided to suspend the present invention from a vertical support surface.
US11744187B2
Devices and methods suitable for hanging items. Such a device includes a body having spaced-apart legs interconnected by a bridge section, protrusions extending from a distal end of each leg opposite the bridge section and defining a recess in the distal end of each of the leg, a hole in each leg adjacent the distal end thereof, and fasteners each configured to be secured to a corresponding one of the legs such that the fastener defines a loop that passes through the hole, extends along a first face of the leg, passes within and around the recess between the protrusions, and extends to a second face of the leg opposite the first face. The fasteners are configured to secure an item between the fasteners and the corresponding legs, and the bridge section is spaced apart from the holes in the legs to define a niche for receiving an object.
US11751493B2
Apparatus, methods, and systems are disclosed for robust scalable topological quantum computing. Quantum dots are fabricated as van der Waals heterostructures, supporting localized topological phases and non-Abelian anyons (quasiparticles). Large bandgaps provide noise immunity. Three-dot structures include an intermediate quantum dot between two computational quantum dots. With the intermediate quantum dot in an OFF state, quasiparticles at the computational quantum dots can be isolated, with long lifetimes. Alternatively, the intermediate quantum dot can be controlled to decrease the quasiparticle tunneling barrier, enabling fast computing operations. A computationally universal suite of operations includes quasiparticle initialization, braiding, fusion, and readout of fused quasiparticle states, with, optionally, transport or tunable interactions—all topologically protected. Robust qubits can be operated without error correction. Quasilinear arrays of quantum dots or qubits can be scaled arbitrarily, up to resource limits, and large-scale topological quantum computers can be realized. Extensive two-dimensional arrays can also be used.
US11751490B2
A qubit coupling device includes: a dielectric substrate including a trench; a first superconductor layer on a surface of the dielectric substrate where an edge of the first superconductor layer extends along a first direction and at least a portion of the superconductor layer is in contact with the surface of the dielectric substrate, and where the superconductor layer is formed from a superconductor material exhibiting superconductor properties at or below a corresponding critical temperature; a length of the trench within the dielectric substrate is adjacent to and extends along an edge of the first superconductor layer in the first direction, and where the electric permittivity of the trench is less than the electric permittivity of the dielectric substrate.
US11751478B2
A method of manufacturing a power generation element includes a first step of disposing a support unit that supports a vibration unit in one end portion of the vibration unit in one direction, and disposing a weight unit in the other end portion of the vibration unit in the one direction in a substrate including the vibration unit capable of vibrating, a second step of disposing a piezoelectric unit that generates power due to vibration in a portion of the vibration unit on an opposite side from the support unit side in a thickness direction of the substrate after the support unit and the weight unit are disposed in the vibration unit, and a third step of extracting a power generation element from the substrate by cutting an outer edge of the vibration unit in the thickness direction of the substrate after the piezoelectric unit is disposed in the vibration unit.
US11751476B2
The present invention relates to an electron buffering material and an organic electroluminescent device comprising the same in an electron buffer layer. It is possible to provide an organic electroluminescent device having excellent luminous efficiency and lifespan characteristics by using the electron buffering material according to the present invention.
US11751471B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for monitoring and controlling electronic devices using wired and wireless protocols are disclosed. The systems and apparatus may monitor their environment for signals from electronic devices. The systems and apparatus may take and disambiguate the signals that are received from the devices in their environment to identify the devices and associate control signals with the devices. The systems and apparatus may use communication means to send control signals to the identified electronic devices. Multiple apparatuses or systems may be connected together into networks, including mesh networks, to make for a more robust architecture.
US11751469B2
An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display panel, a manufacturing method thereof, and an OLED display device are provided. At least one of a substrate or a backplate in the OLED display panel has a reduced thickness, thereby increasing light transmittance of an electronic element area. Furthermore, an area where a camera lens is disposed can display normally and an under-display camera can be realized without defining a hole. Therefore, a screen-to-body ratio is increased, and a technical problem is solved: in conventional OLED display panels, the hole needs to be defined on the area where the camera lens is disposed, leading to a display effect being affected.
US11751466B2
Embodiments of the disclosed subject matter provide an apparatus having a device with a micronozzle array disposed on a micro-fabricated fluidic die. The device may include a first gas distribution plate and a second opposing plate, where the micro-fabricated fluidic die is disposed between the first gas distribution plate and the second opposing plate, wherein the first gas distribution plate is irreversibly joined to the micronozzle array with a seal that is gas-tight, and where the first gas distribution plate includes a plurality of sealed flow paths. A manifold may be reversibly joined to the first gas distribution plate, where the micro-fabricated fluidic die and the first gas distribution plate and the second opposing plate are disposed between the manifold. A thermally conductive plate may have at least one window that provides a clearance fit for the device across a range of motion relative to the thermally conductive plate.
US11751464B2
Provided is a display substrate. The display substrate includes: a base substrate, a plurality of sub-pixels, a plurality of data lines, a plurality of data transmission lines, a plurality of electrostatic discharge circuits, a panel crack detection trace, and a plurality of electrostatic discharge dummy circuits. At least one of the electrostatic discharge dummy circuits may be connected to the panel crack detection trace. A display device is also provided.
US11751452B2
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate opposing the first substrate, a wiring substrate connected to the first substrate, a cover member located on an opposite side to the first substrate so as to interpose the second substrate therebetween and a conductive layer maintained at a predetermined potential, and the first substrate includes an extension portion extending further from the second substrate, the wiring substrate is connected to the extension portion, the cover member includes a first surface opposing the extension portion, and the conductive layer overlaps the extension portion in plan view.
US11751451B2
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a pixel area including pixels each including at least one thin film transistor includes a semiconductor layer and a gate electrode, a first terminal area including a first wiring line disposed thereon connected to the at least one thin film transistor, a first protective film provided on the semiconductor layer, the gate electrode and the first wiring line, a first insulating film provided on the first protective film, a second protective film provided on the first insulating film, a second insulating film provided on the second protective film, a first opening formed in the first terminal area, and partially exposing the first wiring line, and a second opening formed to correspond to the first opening.
US11751442B2
A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel has a display area. The display panel includes: a base substrate; a driving circuit and at least one signal line on the base substrate; and at least one insulating layer between the driving circuit and the at least one signal line. The driving circuit is disposed in a periphery of the display area; and an orthogonal projection of at least one of the signal lines on the base substrate has an overlapping area with an orthogonal projection of the driving circuit on the base substrate.
US11751440B2
A display panel and a method of manufacturing a display panel are disclosed. The display panel is provided with a first electrode disposed on the same layer as a source electrode. A plurality of signal lines are disposed on the same layer as a plurality of light shielding patterns, so that a light shielding layer and a gate line layer can be used for wiring layouts, and a spacing between two electrodes of a parasitic capacitance formed between metal wirings and metal film layers is increased. In this manner, a parasitic capacitance of a subpixel driving circuit can be reduced, so that response times of the display panel can also be reduced.
US11751433B2
A transistor display panel according to an exemplary embodiment includes: a substrate; a first transistor disposed on the substrate; and a pixel electrode connected to the first transistor, wherein the first transistor includes a lower electrode disposed on the substrate, a first semiconductor overlapping the lower electrode, a first insulating layer covering the first semiconductor, a first gate electrode disposed on the first insulating layer and overlapping the first semiconductor, and a first source connecting member and a first drain connecting member disposed on the same layer as the first gate electrode and connected to the first semiconductor, wherein the first gate electrode is formed as a triple layer, the first source connecting member and first drain connecting member are formed as a double layer, and the first source connecting member is connected to the lower electrode.
US11751418B2
A display panel may include a first display substrate, a second display substrate disposed over the first display substrate, and a sealing member bonding the first display substrate and the second display substrate. The sealing member may include a frit sealing member including an outer region and an inner region, with the inner region disposed next to an inner side of the outer region and having a first crystallization temperature lower than a second crystallization temperature of the outer region, and an organic sealing member disposed next to an inner side of the frit sealing member.
US11751414B2
An display device may include a substrate including an active area and an inactive area surrounding the active area, a plurality of thin film transistors disposed in the active area, each of the thin film transistor including a semiconductor layer and a first electrode, a light emitting elements disposed in the active area, each of the light emitting element including an anode electrode and an organic light emitting layer, a connection area and a peripheral area disposed in the inactive area, and a first reflective electrode disposed in the connection area.
US11751399B2
A semiconductor memory device according to an embodiment includes a first stacked body, a second stacked body, an intermediate conductive layer, an intermediate insulating layer, a semiconductor pillar, a charge storage film, and an insulating film. The semiconductor pillar includes a first part, a second part, and a third part. The charge storage film includes a first charge storage portion and a second charge storage portion. The charge storage film includes at least one first element selected from the group consisting of nitrogen, hafnium, and aluminum. The insulating film provides in at least a portion between the intermediate conductive layer and the first part. The insulating film not includes the first element, or the insulating film has a concentration of the first element lower than a concentration of the first element of the charge storage film.
US11751398B2
A memory structure including a substrate, a gate structure, a charge storage layer, and a first control gate is provided. The substrate has a fin portion. A portion of the gate structure is disposed on the fin portion. The gate structure and the fin portion are electrically insulated from each other. The charge storage layer is coupled the gate structure. The charge storage layer and the gate structure are electrically insulated from each other. The first control gate is coupled to the charge storage layer. The first control gate and the charge storage layer are electrically insulated from each other.
US11751389B2
A three-dimensional (3D) memory device and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The 3D memory device includes a substrate, insulation layers, gate material layers, and a vertical structure. The insulation layers and the gate material layers are disposed on the substrate and alternately stacked in a vertical direction. The vertical structure penetrates the gate material layers in the vertical direction. The vertical structure includes a semiconductor layer and a trapping layer. The semiconductor layer is elongated in the vertical direction. The trapping layer surrounds the semiconductor layer in a horizontal direction. The trapping layer includes trapping sections aligned in the vertical direction and separated from one another. The electrical performance of the 3D memory device may be improved by the trapping sections separated from one another.
US11751380B2
A semiconductor memory structure includes a semiconductor substrate, a bit line disposed on the semiconductor substrate, and a capacitor contact disposed on the side of the bit line. The capacitor contact includes a semiconductor plug disposed on the semiconductor substrate, a metal plug disposed on the semiconductor plug, a metal silicide liner extending along the sidewalls and bottom of the metal plug, and a nitride layer disposed on the metal silicide liner. The top surface of the metal silicide liner is lower than the top surface of the metal plug. The nitride layer surrounds the top portion of the metal plug.
US11751376B2
There are provided a semiconductor memory device and a manufacturing method thereof. The semiconductor memory device includes: a first etch stop layer; a source layer on the first etch stop layer; a second etch stop layer on the source layer; a stack structure on the second etch stop layer; and a channel structure penetrating the first and second etch stop layers, the source layer, and the stack structure, the channel structure being electrically connected to the source layer. A material of each of the first and second etch stop layers has an etch selectivity with respect to a material of the source layer.
US11751371B2
A component mounting device includes a control device configured to execute a recognition data creation process and a pickup process. In the recognition data creation process, the control device creates the recognition data by obtaining the angle information of the component, causing the imaging device to operate so as to image the component, and rotating the captured image so obtained to the reference angle based on the angle information. In the pickup process, the control device causes the head to operate so as to pick up the component after the supply state of the component is determined based on the captured image obtained by causing the imaging device to operate so as to image the component, the recognition data created in the recognition data creation process, and the angle information.
US11751369B2
Provided is a method for removing an electronic component from a printed wiring board. The method comprises applying an embrittlement agent to a lead of an electronic component that is soldered to the printed wiring board. The electronic component is removed from the printed wiring board by breaking the embrittled lead.
US11751357B2
An apparatus including a heat sink having two or more sections of parallel fins that define colinear channels is disclosed herein. The colinear channels are configured to direct flow of air or coolant across the heat sink and have wider channel widths closer to an inlet for the air or coolant and narrower widths closer to an outlet for the air or coolant.
US11751355B2
Provided herein is a system and method for heat exchange of a vehicle. The system comprises an enclosure disposed on the vehicle. The enclosure comprises a vent at a base of the enclosure. The enclosure houses one or more sensors. The enclosure comprises a fan disposed at a base of the enclosure. The heat exchange system comprises an deflector disposed on the vehicle outside the enclosure and configured to direct an airflow into the vent of the enclosure. The heat exchange system comprises a motor configured to: generate electricity from the airflow and selectively supply electricity to operate the fan. The heat exchange system comprises a controller configured to adjust the deflector and regulate an amount of electricity supplied from the motor to the fan.
US11751347B2
According to an embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a printed circuit board including a plurality of devices that include a nonvolatile memory package and a controller package configured to control the nonvolatile memory package, and a housing accommodating the printed circuit board. The housing includes an opening on a surface constituting the housing. An encryption device among the plurality of devices is present in a first region. The first region is a region on the printed circuit board that is not irradiated with light emitted from a light source placed at the opening. The encryption device is a device used for an encryption process of data to be stored into the nonvolatile memory package.
US11751346B2
The present application discloses a rotating device and a display device, which relate to a field of electronic technologies. The rotating device includes: a first member including an anti-rotation groove and at least one first connecting portion; and a second member including an anti-rotation protrusion and at least one second connecting portion. The first connecting portion and the second connecting portion are rotationally connected, and the anti-rotation protrusion enters the anti-rotation groove to prevent the first connecting portion from rotating along a first direction with respect to the second connecting portion.
US11751343B2
A modularly expandable electronic control unit comprises: an electronic circuit board on which a conductor track is disposed on a side in a region of lateral edges and enclosing an inner region and separating it from an outer region of the side, a housing having two halves for receiving the electronic circuit board. With the housing assembled, at least one housing half has an encircling electrically conductive shielding wall which rests on and establishes electrical contact with the conductor track and/or has at least one receptacle accessible from outside the assembled housing. The receptacle is disposed so the electronic module placed in the receptacle may be electrically connected to a module connection port disposed in the outer region of the electronic circuit board. The electronic circuit board has electrical connections between the module connection port and one or more electronic assemblies disposed on the inner region.
US11751342B2
A display device includes a display panel and a transparency control panel. The display panel includes a first bonding area. The transparency control panel is disposed below the display panel and includes a second bonding area. The first bonding area is not shielded by the transparency control panel, and the second bonding area is not shielded by the display panel.
US11751341B2
An electronic apparatus includes a bottom cover, a main board provided with a stud, a screw, a washer, and a sponge. The screw has a head portion having a diameter larger than that of an attachment hole, a male screw portion configured to be screwed into a first female screw portion, and a columnar portion having a diameter smaller than a root diameter of the male screw portion. The washer has a flange portion having a diameter larger than that of the attachment hole, a cylindrical portion having a diameter smaller than that of the attachment hole, and a second female screw portion which the male screw portion is screwable into and passable through. The head portion abuts on the bottom cover to fix the bottom cover by the male screw portion. The flange portion is between the stud and the bottom cover.
US11751336B2
An apparatus is disclosed for transferring a pattern of a composition containing particles of an electrically conductive material and a thermally activated adhesive from a surface of a flexible web to a surface of a substrate. The apparatus comprises: respective drive mechanisms for advancing the web and the substrate to a nip through which the web and the substrate pass at the same time and where a pressure roller acts to press the surfaces of the web and the substrate against one another, a heating station for heating at least one of the web and the substrate prior to, or during, passage through the nip, to a temperature at which the adhesive in the composition is activated, a cooling station for cooling the web after passage through the nip, and a separating device for peeling the web away from the substrate after passage through the cooling station, to leave the pattern of composition adhered to the surface of the substrate.
US11751335B2
A printed circuit board includes: a first substrate including a first cavity and first circuit units; and a second substrate disposed in the first cavity of the first substrate with an electronic component disposed therein, and including second circuit units having a higher density than the first circuit units, wherein the second substrate includes a first region and a second region, the first region of the second substrate includes an outermost circuit layer among the second circuit units, and circuit layers in the first region of the second substrate have a higher density than circuit layers in the second region of the second substrate.
US11751333B2
An interconnection for flex circuit boards used, for instance, in a quantum computing system are provided. In one example, the interconnection can include a first flex circuit board having a first side and a second side opposite the first side. The interconnection can include a second flex circuit board having a third side and a fourth side opposite the third side. The first flex circuit board and the second flex circuit board are physically coupled together in an overlap joint in which a portion of the second side for the first flex circuit board overlaps a portion of the third side of the flex circuit board. The interconnection can include a signal pad structure positioned in the overlap joint that electrically couples a first via in the first flex circuit board and a second via in the second flex circuit board.
US11751328B1
Provided are flexible interconnect circuit assemblies and methods of fabricating thereof. In some examples, a flexible interconnect circuit comprises multiple circuit portions, which are monolithically integrated. During the fabrication, some of these circuit portions are folded relative to other portions, forming a stack in each fold. For example, the initial orientation of these portions can be selected such that smaller sheets can be used for circuit fabrication. The portions are then unfolded into the final design configuration. In some examples, the assembly also comprises a bonding film and a temporary support film attached to the bonding film such that the two circuit portions at least partially overlap with the bonding film and are positioned between the bonding film and temporary support film. In some examples, at least some circuit portions extend past the boundary of the bonding film and are coupled to connectors.
US11751327B2
The invention relates to an electrically conductive film (10) having an electrically nonconductive substrate layer (12), and an electrically conductive metal layer (14) that has a structure produced by material removal and that on a first side is joined, at least in sections, to the substrate layer (12).
US11751312B2
A load control system for controlling a plurality of lighting loads located in a space may be configured to track the location of one or more tracked devices. The load control system may comprise a system controller, lighting control devices, e.g., for controlling a plurality of lighting loads, and tracked devices. The tracked devices may each transmit beacon messages. The lighting control devices may receive the beacon message. The lighting control devices may measure a communication quality metric of each of the beacon messages, and process the measured communication quality metrics received over a period of time to determine a processed communication quality metric for the tracked device. The lighting control devices may transmit tracking data to the system controller. The system controller may determine a location of the tracked device. For example, the system controller may determine the location of the tracked device via trilateration.
US11751308B2
The invention relates to an isolated driver (100) for lighting means (109), comprising: a primary circuit (100a), a secondary circuit (100b), an isolation barrier (106) separating the primary circuit (100a) and the secondary circuit (100b), wherein a ground potential of the primary circuit (100a) and a ground potential of the secondary circuit (100b) are connected via a capacitor (107), and a control circuit (111) on the secondary side (100b), monitoring a current to/from the capacitor (107) to the ground potential of the secondary circuit (100b) and issuing a mains (101) failure signal in case the current does not meet predefined conditions, preferably in case no such current is detected.
US11751307B2
A device comprises a voltage regulator, circuits, a voltage-to-current converter, a control bus, a resistor and a resistor network. Each of the circuits has at least one LED connector and one LED driver. Each of the circuits has a measuring circuit for detecting voltage differences between the potentials of LED terminals and a reference potential. Further, each of the circuits includes a local controller. The local controller withdraws a current from the control bus in dependence on the detected voltage differences. Bias current sources inject bias currents into the control bus in form of a sum current of the injected bias currents. The resistor performs a current-to-voltage conversion of the sum current to a control voltage. The voltage-to-current converter converts the control voltage into a current. The resistor network converts the current into a voltage value. An output voltage of the voltage regulator depends on the voltage value.
US11751302B2
A linear light-emitting diode (LED) lighting apparatus may include an array of light emitting diodes (LEDs) that may include a first plurality of LEDs that produces a first light having a first color temperature. The first plurality of LEDs aligns within a first linear shape. The second plurality of LEDs may produce a second light having a second color temperature different from the first color temperature. The second plurality of LEDs aligns within a second linear shape. The lighting apparatus may also include a driver circuit that outputs a plurality of currents and a switch assembly that may couple to the driver circuit. The switch assembly may include a first switch that may cause the driver circuit to output one of the plurality of currents and a second switch that may cause the one of the plurality of currents to couple to the first plurality of LEDs, the second plurality of LEDs, or both.
US11751292B2
An electromagnetically heated cooking utensil, and a heating control circuit and method therefor. The heating control circuit includes a first resonance device; a second resonance device; a first power switch; a second power switch; a first synchronization device that detects voltages of both ends of the first resonance device to output a first synchronization signal; a second synchronization device that detects voltages of both ends of the second resonance device to output a second synchronization signal; and a control device that selects, according to the heating mode of the electromagnetically heated cooking utensil, the first synchronization signal to generate a driving signal for driving the first power switch, a second synchronization signal to generate a driving signal for driving the second power switch.
US11751291B2
An induction heating apparatus is provided. The induction heating apparatus includes a heating coil, an inverter, a current sensor configured to measure a driving current supplied from the inverter to the heating coil, and a controller configured to provide a drive signal to the inverter to allow the driving current to follow a target current based on a user input. The controller reduces a driving duty of the drive signal based on the driving current exceeding a predetermined reference current, and the controller provides a drive signal to the inverter to allow the driving current to follow a current less than the target current, based on the driving current being less than or equal to the predetermined reference current after reducing the driving duty of the drive signal.
US11751289B2
A heater includes a sintered assembly and a functional element disposed on one of opposing surfaces of the sintered assembly. The heater is manufactured by a method that includes hot pressing a ceramic powder and a plurality of first slugs and forming the sintered assembly including a ceramic substrate and the plurality of first slugs embedded therein, forming the functional element on the one opposing surface of the sintered assembly such that the functional element is connected to the plurality of first slugs, and forming a monolithic substrate in which the functional element and the plurality of first slugs are embedded.
US11751288B2
A heat-emitting transparent plate includes a heat-emitting region that is transparent to visible light and is a region that emits heat by absorbing infrared rays. The heat-emitting region includes a meta-surface, and the meta-surface includes a plurality of meta-patterns to absorb infrared rays. A method of manufacturing a heat-emitting transparent plate includes forming a material layer on a transparent substrate and forming a plurality of patterns on the transparent substrate by patterning the material layer. The plurality of patterns include a material that is transparent to visible light and that emits heat by absorbing infrared rays, and a pitch of the plurality of patterns is less than a wavelength of the infrared rays. A heat-emitting device includes the heat-emitting transparent plate and a light source.
US11751281B2
Provided are a method for supporting service continuity when a disaster situation ends, and a device supporting same. A user equipment (UE) receives, from a disaster roaming PLMN, a configuration update command message including information indicating that a disaster condition of a home PLMN (HPLMN) has ended. The UE waits until a service that is being received from the disaster roaming PLMN ends, and performs, after the service that is being received from the disaster roaming PLMN ends, a procedure of deregistration from the disaster roaming PLMN on the basis of information indicating that the disaster condition of the HPLMN has ended.
US11751280B2
According to one configuration, multiple users in a tiered hierarchy share use of a wireless spectrum. For example, a spectrum access system receives a notification indicating that a first-priority tier 1 user in the hierarchy temporarily needs access to a first wireless spectrum assigned to a second-priority tier 2 user in the hierarchy. In response to the notification, the spectrum access system temporarily allocates the second-priority tier 2 user use of a second wireless spectrum. The spectrum access system protects use of the second wireless spectrum by the second-priority tier 2 user from a third-priority tier 3 user in the hierarchy. In certain instances, the one or more spectrum access systems receive the same notification of use of the first wireless spectrum by the first-priority tier 1 user. The multiple spectrum access systems not serving the second-priority tier 2 user protect the Tier 2 User from any Tier 3 Users in the hierarchy.
US11751272B2
The disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car, a connected car, health care, digital education, a smart retail, security and safety services.
US11751263B2
An information handling system includes a first wireless data communication interface configured to establish wireless data communication links on a first frequency band, a second wireless data communication interface configured to establish wireless data communication links on a second frequency band, and a processor. The processor establishes a first data communication link on the first wireless data communication interface with an access point external to the information handling system, determines a first link characteristic for the first data communication link, establishes a second data communication link on the second wireless data communication interface with the access point, determines a second link characteristic for the second data communication link, selects one of the first and second data communication links based on the first and second link characteristics, and maintains the selected one of the first or second data communication links based upon the selection. The first and second link characteristics are of a common type of characteristic.
US11751261B2
A method of wireless communications forms a group with multiple UEs within a vicinity of a UE. The method establishes a tunnel between the UE and each of the UEs. The method also aggregates network resources obtained from a network interface of the UE and network resources shared by the UEs via each tunnel. The method provides the aggregated network resources to an application of the UE.
US11751255B2
Provided are a data transmission method, apparatus and computer readable storage medium. The method includes: sending, by a terminal, a random access preamble to a base station, and receiving, by the terminal, a random access response sent by the base station; and sending, by the terminal, a first request message carrying uplink data to the base station; wherein the sending, by the terminal, the random access preamble to the base station comprises: in response to determining that the terminal satisfies a first preset condition, sending, by the terminal, the random access preamble for requesting an uplink data transmission resource to the base station; and wherein the method further comprising one of: failing to receive, by the terminal, a second response message returned by the base station; receiving, by the terminal, the second response message carrying an uplink data failure indication or an uplink data retransmission indication returned by the base station; or in response to determining that the terminal fails to receive the random access response returned by the base station, determining, by the terminal, a random access failure and reinitiating, by the terminal, random access.
US11751249B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. For a user equipment with a number of M greater than or equal to two antennas, a signal is transmitted from at least a first antenna and a second antenna at a first time with an initial relative phase state including a first relative phase rotation between the signals transmitted by the first and second antennas. In response to a determination that a response signal was not received at the user equipment, the signal is retransmitted from at least the first antenna and the second antenna with a subsequent relative phase state among the transmitting antennas, including a second different relative phase rotation, at a second time. The second time may be the next subsequent retransmission of the signal or may be a retransmission following one or more retransmissions using the first relative phase rotation.
US11751248B2
The present disclosure relates to random access methods, apparatus, and devices. One example method includes adjusting a sweeping parameter of a receive beam when at least one target receive beam is determined based on prior information, and sweeping the receive beam based on the adjusted sweeping parameter. The prior information includes at least one of cell historical information or cell handover information. The sweeping parameter includes at least one of a sweeping frequency, a sweeping sequence, a beam direction, or a beam width. The receive beam includes the at least one target receive beam. The receive beam is used to receive a random access preamble sent by a terminal. After a base station receives, on the receive beam, the random access preamble sent by the terminal, the terminal randomly accesses the base station for data communication.
US11751247B2
A wireless station that belongs to a communication cell includes a receiver which, in operation, receives a trigger frame transmitted from an access point that belongs to an interference cell and a controller which, in operation, determines, based on at least one parameter included in the trigger frame and reception power value of the trigger frame received at the wireless station, whether the wireless station is allowed to transmit to other wireless station that belongs to the communication cell, wherein the at least one parameter includes a value set based on transmit power value of the trigger frame transmitted from the access point.
US11751246B2
A method for transmitting a physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) in a transmission opportunity (TXOP) and a device using the same are provided. The device transmits a request to send (RTS) frame to a plurality of receiving stations. The RTS frame includes a bandwidth field and a plurality of allocation fields. The bandwidth field indicates a first bandwidth in which the RTS frame is transmitted. Each allocation field indicates a bandwidth in which a clear to send (CTS) frame is to be sent by a corresponding receiving station. The device determines a transmission bandwidth of a PPDU to be sent by comparing the first bandwidth with a second bandwidth which is a total bandwidth indicated by the plurality of allocation fields.
US11751225B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a base station may determine a result associated with an initial set of transmissions of a periodic transmission cycle, and switch a search space configuration set to be used for one or more slots of the periodic transmission cycle based at least in part on the result, the search space configuration set being switched to a candidate search space configuration set. In some aspects, a user equipment may determine that a search space configuration set to be used for a slot of a periodic transmission cycle is to be switched based at least in part on a result associated with an initial set of transmissions of the periodic transmission cycle; and switch the search space configuration, the search space configuration set being switched to a candidate search space configuration set. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11751211B2
The present application provides a method for processing a physical resource, a user equipment, and a base station. The method for processing a physical resource includes the following steps: determining scheduled physical resource blocks (PRB) based on indication information of carrier sensing result of at least one received frequency sub-band and indication information of physical resource blocks; and receiving data on the scheduled PRBs.
US11751195B2
In embodiments of systems and methods for managing control signaling for multicast communications, a base station may transmit to a wireless device an indication of whether to monitor a group common physical downlink control channel (GC PDCCH), a wireless device-specific PDCCH for multicast configuration information, or both. The base station may determine a schedule for transmitting multicast communications to the wireless device based on a capability reported by the wireless device, and may transmit to the wireless device an indication of whether a transport block for GC multicast communications including services for multicast communications will be scheduled by the GC PDCCH, the wireless device-specific PDCCH, or both. The base station may transmit, and the wireless device may receive, the multicast communications according to the multicast configuration information and the schedule.
US11751193B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. In one example, a method for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE) includes identifying that the UE is in carrier aggregation communication with a first cell having a first sub-carrier spacing and a second cell having a second, different sub-carrier spacing. The method may further include monitoring one or more UE-specific search spaces of the first cell for first control information scheduling a first data communication on the first cell and one or more UE-specific search spaces of the first cell or the second cell for second control information scheduling a second data communication on the first cell, and resolving a scheduling order of the first control information scheduling the first data communication and the second control information scheduling the second data communication based at least in part on the monitoring and on a scheduling condition.
US11751191B2
Various embodiments relate to a method performed by a station to identify the maximum allowed transmit power spectral density (PSD) of a basic service set (BSS), including: receiving, by the station, a first field from an access point (AP) of the BSS, wherein the first field indicates that the BSS bandwidth is set to M times a unit channel bandwidth; receiving, by the station, a set of second fields from the AP, wherein the set of second fields includes K fields corresponding to K channels and wherein each of the K second fields indicates the maximum allowed transmit PSD for the K channels and the bandwidth of the channel is the unit channel bandwidth; and identifying, by the station, the maximum allowed transmit PSD of the M channels of the BSS bandwidth from the first M consecutive second fields.
US11751179B2
Various designs for optimization of carrier aggregation (CA) capability signaling are discussed. A user equipment (UE) configured for CA determines to signal supported CA combinations that include a band, the band being one of a first band and a second band. The first band is a superset of the second band. The UE signals the supported CA combinations that include the band to the network. A base station receives a signal indicating the CA combinations supported by the UE that include the band. The base station determines CA combinations that include the first band and CA combinations that include the second band based on the CA combinations received from the UE.
US11751172B2
In a method of sidelink resource control, a first core network configured based on a first radio access technology receives a sidelink control request from a first user equipment that accesses the first core network using the first radio access technology, the sidelink control request requesting sidelink control information for a second radio access technology that is not supported by the first core network. The sidelink control information for the second radio access technology is obtained directly from a second core network outside the first core network, the second core network being configured based on the second radio access technology, and the sidelink control information for the second radio access technology being provisioned by the second core network. The obtained sidelink control information for the second radio access technology is provided, via the first radio access technology and in response to the sidelink control request, to the first user equipment.
US11751161B2
The present application discloses a terminal device locating method, a terminal device, a system, an emergency locating server, an electronic device and a storage medium, and relates to locating and information flow technologies. A specific implementation solution is: acquiring dialing information of a call of a terminal device, sending information related to a location of the terminal device through a non-network channel to an emergency locating server if the call is determined to be an emergency call according to the dialing information, where the information related to the location of the terminal device is used to locate the terminal device and obtain locating information of the terminal device.
US11751160B2
A method includes after receiving a first non-access stratum (NAS) security mode command (SMC) message sent by an initial access and mobility management function (AMF), a user equipment (UE) stores a first NAS security context; the UE receives a second NAS SMC message sent by a second AMF, where the message carries indication information used to indicate the UE to use the first NAS security context; and the UE uses the first NAS security context as a current NAS security context based on the indication information. According to the method for mobility registration provided in this application, when receiving the second NAS SMC message sent by the second AMF, the UE uses the first NAS security context as the current NAS security context, and then processes the second NAS SMC message, so that the NAS security contexts on the UE and the second AMF are consistent.
US11751156B2
In one embodiment, a method comprises: receiving, by a constrained wireless network device comprising a local clock, a plurality of messages from respective neighboring wireless network devices advertising as available parent devices in a directed acyclic graph of a time-synchronized network that is synchronized to a master clock device; determining, by the constrained wireless network device, a corresponding timing error of the local clock relative to each message output by the corresponding available parent device; and executing, by the constrained wireless network device, a distributed time synchronization of the local clock with the master clock device based on correlating the respective timing errors relative to the local clock.
US11751147B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may identify that a band is associated with a first numerology and a second numerology for synchronization, and/or perform a synchronization scan to identify a synchronization signal block using stored data, wherein the stored data includes data regarding a plurality of frequency locations of the band, and wherein the synchronization scan is performed with regard to a first set of frequency locations, of the plurality of frequency locations, associated with the first numerology, and wherein the synchronization scan is performed with regard to a second set of frequency locations, of the plurality of frequency locations, associated with the second numerology, wherein the second set of frequency locations includes a proper subset of frequency locations of the plurality of frequency locations. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11751144B2
Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer-readable medium to perform operations for selecting a device to prioritize for a high power link. The operations include detecting, in proximity of a mobile device, a first and second available devices. The operations also include establishing a respective connection with each of the first and second available device using a first radio access technology (RAT). Further, the operations include determining, using the respective connections, one or more metrics associated with first available device and the second available device, where the one or metrics comprise a respective angle of arrival at the mobile device corresponding to the first available device and the second available device. Further, the operations include determining, based at least on the one or more metrics, to establish a high power link with the first available device using a second RAT, where the second RAT utilizes more power than the first RAT.
US11751143B2
Disclosed is a wireless communication device that can suppress an increase in power consumption of a terminal while preventing the degradation of SINR measurement precision resulting from TPC errors in a base station. A terminal controls the transmission power of a second signal by adding an offset to the transmission power of a first signal; an offset-setting unit sets an offset correction value in response to a transmission time gap between a third signal transmitted the previous time and the second signal transmitted this time; and a transmission power control unit controls the transmission power of the second signal using the correction value.
US11751140B2
A channel monitoring method includes: configuring a specified occurrence of a power-saving signal and a specified effective time range of the specified occurrence for a terminal, the specified occurrence representing a specified effective range of the power-saving signal for subsequent discontinuous reception (DRX); generating first notification information, the first notification information comprising the specified occurrence and the specified effective time range; and sending the first notification information to the terminal, so that the terminal acquires the specified occurrence and the specified effective time range from the first notification information, and performs channel monitoring according to the specified occurrence and the specified effective time range.
US11751138B2
Electronic shelf label system that has: at least one battery-operated shelf label client that has an energy-saving sleep mode without radio communication standby according to a radio standard and an active mode with radio communication standby according to the radio standard and that has a radio wake-up receiver designed so as, on receiving a wake-up signal, to leave the sleep mode and prompt the active mode to be adopted, and an access point that is designed for radio communication with the at least one shelf label client according to the radio standard and that has a radio wake-up transmitter for transmitting the wake-up signal, wherein the radio wakeup transmitter is designed to be controllable in terms of the time at which the wake-up signal is transmitted by the access point, and the access point defines the time as the initiation of a radio connection setup to the at least one shelf label client according to the radio standard, in particular with a lead time for changing from the sleep mode to the active mode.
US11751131B2
A transportation vehicle, a network node, an apparatus, a computer program, and a method for selecting a mobile communications system for a mobile communications service. The method includes obtaining for each of multiple mobile communications services information on a required quality of service (rQoS) of the mobile communications services, determining for each of multiple mobile communications systems information on a predicted quality of service, and selecting from the multiple mobile communications systems a mobile communications system for each of multiple mobile communications services based on the information on the rQoS and the pQoS of the mobile communications system.
US11751126B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may identify that the UE is to scan one or more frequency bands during a cell acquisition procedure. The UE may receive one or more over-the-air signals, each of the one or more over-the-air signals having a respective bandwidth that includes a corresponding plurality of channels from a frequency band of the one or more frequency bands. The UE may process individual ones of the one or more over-the-air signals. The UE may evaluate, in corresponding batches for each of the individual ones of the one or more over-the-air signals, each of the corresponding pluralities of channels for cell acquisition. The UE may acquire a cell via batch-wise evaluation of the corresponding pluralities of channels.
US11751124B2
Disclosed herein is a method and system for detecting, monitoring and/or controlling one or more of mobile services for a mobile communication device (also referred to herein as a Controllable Mobile Device or CMD), and in particular, when the device is being used and the vehicle, operated by the user of the device, is moving. The present method and system determines whether the vehicle is being operated by a user that may also have access to a mobile communication device which, if used concurrently while the vehicle is in operation, may lead to unsafe operation of the vehicle. If the mobile services control system determines that a vehicle operator has potentially unsafe access to a mobile communication device, the mobile services control system may restrict operator access to one or more services that would otherwise be available to the operator via the mobile communication device.
US11751123B2
Technologies disclosed herein are directed to context-based mobile device management. According to one embodiment, an application executing in a mobile device detects an event to trigger context-based management of the mobile device. A usage context associated with the mobile device is determined. One or more policies to enforce on the mobile device are identified as a function of the usage context. The application enforces the one or more policies on the mobile device.
US11751122B2
An interface device may provide a first wireless network and a second wireless network in a user's premise. The interface device may encourage some user devices to connect to the second wireless network without controlling the user devices. For example, the interface device may receive a request from a device to access its first wireless network. The interface device may then determine whether the device is a premise device by, for example, searching a database of device registration information. The interface device may determine that the device is a premise device and deny the request to access the first wireless network. The device may then be available to access the second wireless network.
US11751120B2
The present disclosure is related to systems, methods, and processor readable media for distributing digital data over networks. Certain embodiments relate to systems, methods, and devices used within such networks where at least a substantial portion of the interconnected devices are capable of interacting with one or more neighbouring devices, and then to form such a time synchronous network using local network information.
US11751119B2
Methods and systems for routing data through IAB nodes 201, 202 in 5G communication networks. Embodiments herein allow routing data between a UE 206 and an IAB donor 200 though IAB nodes 201, 202 using adaptation layers of the IAB donor 200 and the IAB nodes 201, 202. The adaptation layers of the IAB donor 200 and the IAB nodes 201, 202 are configured by defining adaptation layer header and functionality. Mapping is performed between bearers/RLC channels of the UE 206 and the IAB node 202 and between bearers/RLC channels of the IAB nodes 201, 202 and the IAB donor 200. The means to perform the mapping is specified by the adaptation layers of either the IAB donor 200 or the IAB nodes 201, 202. The data is routed through the bearers/RLC channels. The embodiments include managing RLC layer functionality using either hop-by-hop ARQ or end-to-end ARQ.
US11751114B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a wireless device avoiding reselection or handover to cells of different operators. The wireless device may attach to a first base station of a first network operator. The wireless device may determine that a neighboring base station is associated with a second network operator. Based on determining the neighboring base station is associated with the second network operator, the wireless device may exclude the third base station from handover or reselection.
US11751109B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive a set of system information blocks (SIBs) common to a set of cells of a non-terrestrial network (NTN), the set of SIBs indicating one or more parameters common to the set of cells for communications with the set of cells. The UE may receive a first SIB associated with a first cell of the set of cells of the NTN, where the first SIB includes cell-specific information indicating a first set of cell-specific parameters for communications with the first cell. The UE may then communicate with the first cell using the first set of cell-specific parameters associated with the cell-specific information of the first cell and at least a first sub-set of parameters of the one or more parameters that are common to the set of cells.
US11751108B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine that a reduced signaling handover condition has occurred. The UE may execute a reduced signaling handover from a source base station to a target base station based at least in part on determining that the reduced signaling handover condition has occurred. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11751095B2
The present disclosure generally relates to a methods, apparatus, and computer readable medium for implementing the methods for transmitting multi-bit SR (SRs) from a user equipment (UE). The UE receive from a base station a radio resource control (RRC) message from the base station. The RRC message may indicate that uplink component carriers (CCs) of the UE are to be assigned to a plurality of uplink CC groups. Upon receipt of the RRC, the UE may assign the uplink CCs to the plurality of uplink CC groups. A multi-bit SR may be generated for each group of the plurality of uplink CC groups. The UE may transmit the multi-bit SR generated for each group of the plurality of uplink CC groups to the base station. multi-bit SR transmission across different CCs may reduce latency in uplink grant and improve data transmission time.
US11751093B2
Systems and methods provide flow control for uplink traffic in an integrated access and backhaul network. A first relay node determines that its uplink buffer has reached an occupancy level higher than a pre-determined level. In response, the first relay node transmits, to a second relay node associated with the first relay node, a message indicating a buffer occupancy status of the uplink buffer of the first relay node.
US11751092B2
Various communication systems may benefit from differentiated quality of service management. For example, specific applications run on a user equipment in a 5G radio access network may benefit from the flexible differentiated quality of service management. A method includes determining a service flow setup, and mapping traffic through the service flow by a common convergence sublayer entity to at least one radio convergence sublayer entity. The method also includes controlling the traffic through the service flow.
US11751089B2
Provided is a wireless relay system including multiple terminal station apparatuses and a base station apparatus. The base station apparatus includes: a base station reception unit that respectively receives pieces of upstream data traffic from the multiple terminal station apparatuses; an encoding unit that, if pieces of upstream data traffic that require mutual forwarding in opposite directions are present in the respective pieces of upstream data traffic, performs network encoding on the respective pieces of upstream data traffic such that the pieces of upstream data traffic are pieces of data traffic of mutually identical content; and a base station transmission unit that simultaneously transmits encoded data traffic as downstream data traffic to the multiple terminal station apparatuses. The terminal station apparatuses each include: a terminal station transmission unit that transmits the upstream data traffic to the base station apparatus; a terminal station reception unit that receives the encoded data traffic; and a decoding unit that decodes the encoded data traffic using the upstream data traffic.
US11751082B2
Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a UE transmits, at a first time during a measurement window for positioning purposes, a first uplink reference signal in accordance with a first timing adjustment parameter, wherein the first time is offset from a downlink frame time of a base station by an amount of the first timing adjustment parameter, determines whether to use a second timing adjustment parameter, transmits, in response to the determination to use the second timing adjustment parameter, at a second time during the measurement window, a second uplink reference signal in accordance with a second timing adjustment parameter, wherein the second time is offset from the downlink frame time of the base station by an amount of the second timing adjustment parameter, and transmits a report indicating that the second timing adjustment parameter has been applied to at least the second uplink reference signal.
US11751073B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems, wireless devices operating in an unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band may perform directional listen-before-talk (LBT) procedures to gain access to a channel. In a beam-shrinking scheme for directional LBT, a wireless device may start an LBT procedure using a first beam (e.g., a wide beam). If the clear channel assessment (CCA) fails for the first beam (e.g., due to directional interference), the device may switch the LBT procedure to a second beam (e.g., a narrower beam). Depending on the direction of the interference source, the second beam may result in a successful LBT procedure. In a beam sweeping scheme for directional LBT, a wireless device may perform concurrent LBT over multiple narrow beams. If any beam of the set of beams detects frequent or continuous interference, the device may drop that beam from the concurrent LBT procedure.
US11751070B2
Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, devices, and machine-readable mediums that detect evil twin and other anomalous access points in an IT infrastructure by detecting access points that are not in their expected locations based upon an analysis of access point reports from one or more computing devices.
US11751061B2
Devices, systems and methods are provided to implement key generation for secure pairing between first and second devices using embedded out-of-band (OOB) key generation and without requiring the devices to have input/output (IO) capability to enter authentication information. Bluetooth Smart or Low Energy (BLE) OOB pairing option can be used for pairing medical devices with added security of OOB key generation. The OOB key generation comprises providing first and second devices with the same predefined credential and secure hashing algorithm, and making input of the hashing algorithm of the first and second devices the same. The first device transmits unique data to second device (e.g., via BLE advertising) to share and compute a similar input. The first and second devices use the credential and shared data with the hashing function to generate a key that is the same at each of first and second devices.
US11751055B2
Integrity protection is used to assist in ensuring the secure transmission of wireless data within a cellular network. Instead of performing integrity protection on each packet data unit (PDU) transmitted/received within a PDU session, integrity protection is performed on a portion of PDUs transmitted within a cellular network. For instance, partial integrity protection may be performed on at least one predetermined PDU (e.g., the first, second, fourth, . . . ) that is transmitted via a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH)/Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) during a communication session. By performing partial integrity protection, user data may be transmitted more quickly throughout the cellular network, compared to performing full integrity protection, while still providing integrity protection.
US11751048B2
The present disclosure provides a communication apparatus comprising a cryptographic circuitry which, in operation, uses a shared cryptographic secret Key and a cryptographic salt to generate a cryptographically encoded Message Integrity Code (MIC) that is computed over the address field of a Wake Up Radio (WUR) frame; and a transmission signal generator which, in operation, generates a secure WUR signal by replacing the address field of the WUR frame with the MIC; and a transmitter which, in operation, transmits the secure WUR signal.
US11751047B2
A method and apparatus for a first IAB node for securely communicating with at least one second IAB node is provided. A secure connection with a node of a network is established. A message is received, from the node, indicating a secure messaging protocol to use to communicate with the at least one second IAB node, the message including one of at least one nonce or a key. A control message to be sent to the at least one second IAB node is transformed into a secure control message using the secure messaging protocol. The secure control message is transmitted to the at least one second IAB node.
US11751043B2
A pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE), in which a method performed by a user equipment (UE) includes transmitting, to a first base station (BS), a packet data network (PDN) connection request message, receiving, from the first BS, information on a first single-network slice selection assistance information (S-NSSAI) selected by a combination of a packet data network gateway control plane entity (PGW-C) and a session management function (SMF) from among the UE's at least one subscribed S-NSSAI, transmitting, to a second BS, a registration request message including a requested NSSAI in which the first S-NSSAI is included, and receiving, from the second BS, a registration accept message including an allowed NSSAI in which a second S-NSSAI mapped to the first S-NSSAI is included.
US11751035B2
One or more presence sensors of a vehicle are used to detect the presence of one or more people outside the vehicle. When the presence of the one or more people outside the vehicle is detected, one or more external microphones of the vehicle are used to capture any speech by people. A speech recognizer of the vehicle is used to determine whether the captured speech includes a verbal request for emergency services. And, upon determining that the captured speech includes the verbal request for emergency services, a network access device of the vehicle is used to automatically request emergency services.
US11751032B2
A snake cam is provided with a camera mounted to a housing via a shaft. The shaft may be flexible or rigid. The housing includes components needed for operation of the camera but that need not be in close physical proximity to the camera, thus allowing the camera itself to have a relatively small size, which facilitates placement thereof in small places. The housing may include a wireless communication module, through which a mobile device may be connected to the snake cam. The mobile device may then be used to access or control one or more features of the snake cam.
US11751030B2
To improve the accuracy of a trigger-based commissioning in a high dense network without leveraging an optical link, a separate beacon tag (400) is employed to assist the commissioning procedure between a node (200) and a commissioning device (300). A trigger event is detected at the node (200) side when its local identification number is equal to the identification number comprised in a second type of beacon received from the beacon tag (400), and the proximity of the beacon tag (400) is determined to be below a local threshold. Upon the detection of such a trigger event, the node (200) updates its first type of beacons to notify the commissioning device 300 about the trigger event. And then, the commissioning device (300) confirms the trigger event and sends a request for commissioning to the node (200).
US11751029B2
A transportation vehicle, an apparatus, a method, and a computer program for a transportation vehicle in a mobile communication system a system. A method for a first transportation vehicle in a mobile communication system for setting up data communication with a second transportation vehicle includes receiving a message from the second transportation vehicle on a first radio frequency, the message having information related to an antenna of the second transportation vehicle; configuring an antenna of the first transportation vehicle based on the information related to the antenna of the second transportation vehicle; and transmitting a data packet to the second transportation vehicle on a second radio frequency using the antenna of the first transportation vehicle.
US11751027B2
A system for accident detection or detecting an unsafe driving condition in a vehicle including a device that measures and transmits at least one output signal; at least one remote device configured to receive, record, and/or display the at least one output signal from the device; a computing device configured to receive the at least one output signal from the device and display the at least one output signal in real-time; and a graphical user interface on the computing device that allows an emergency response professional to view and customize options for monitoring the at least one output signal, wherein the device, the at least one remote device, and the computing device are communicatively connected to each other via a communications network.
US11751026B2
One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for a terminal transmitting a message in a wireless communication system, comprising the steps of: generating a message; and transmitting, from a resource sectioned on a time axis, control information for the message and the message when the size of the message is larger than a predetermine value, and transmitting, from a resource sectioned on a frequency axis, the control information for the message and the message when the size of the message is smaller than the predetermined value.
US11751025B2
A communication device for multi-radio access technology (RAT) communications includes one or more processors and a plurality of transceivers. Each transceiver is configured to operate in at least one RAT of a plurality of RATs. The processors are configured to establish connection with a second communication device using a first transceiver of the plurality of transceivers and a first RAT of the plurality of RATs. A first data stream associated with a communication link connected to the second communication device and a third communication device is receive via a convergence function at the second communication device. The communication link uses a second RAT of the plurality of RATs. A code sequence is applied to a second data stream to generate an encoded second data stream, which is transmitted to the third communication device via a second communication link established based on information received via the first data stream.
US11751021B2
A method and an apparatus for performing direct communication with at least one other user equipment are provided. A method performed by a UE includes transmitting, to at least one other UE included in a group call with the UE, a first message requesting permission for transmission; starting a timer upon transmitting the first message; restarting the timer in response to the timer expiring before a second message in response to the first message has been received; stopping the timer in response to receiving the second message before the timer expires; retransmitting the first message each time the timer expires before receiving the second message until a total number of transmissions of the first message reaches a predetermined number of times; transmitting, to the at least one other UE, a third message indicating that the permission for transmission is granted to the UE after the first message is transmitted the predetermined number of times and the timer expires before receiving the second message; and transmitting media data to the at least one other UE after transmitting the third message.
US11751018B1
A connection between a user equipment (UE) and an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) can become disrupted due to network-side issues with the IMS, an access network, or a core network. The UE can initiate a watchdog timer to determine when a previously-established IMS connection may be unusable due to such a network-side issue. If the watchdog timer expires, for example because the IMS does not reply to a message sent by the UE before the watchdog timer expires, the UE can toggle an airplane mode on and off. Toggling airplane mode on and off can deactivate and then re-activate a transmission interface of the UE, and cause the UE to establish a new usable connection with the IMS that may not be affected by the network-side issue that disrupted the previously-established IMS connection.
US11751003B1
Embodiments relate to personalization of a head-related transfer function (HRTF) for a given user. A sound source is spatialized for an initial position using an initial version of a HRTF to obtain an initial spatialized sound source. Upon presentation of the initial spatialized sound source, at least one property of the HRTF is adjusted in an iterative manner based on at least one perceptive response from the user to generate a version of the HRTF customized for the user. Each perceptive response from the user indicates a respective offset between a perceived position and a target position of the sound source. The customized version of the HRTF is applied to one or more audio channels to form spatialized audio content for the perceived position. The spatialized audio content is presented to the user, wherein the offset between the perceived position and the target position is reduced.
US11750996B2
Improved methods and/or apparatus for decoding an encoded audio signal in soundfield format for L loudspeakers. The method and/or apparatus can render an Ambisonics format audio signal to 2D loudspeaker setup(s) based on a rendering matrix. The rendering matrix has elements based on loudspeaker positions and wherein the rendering matrix is determined based on weighting at least an element of a first matrix with a weighting factor g = 1 L . The first matrix is determined based on positions of the L loudspeakers and at least a virtual position of at least a virtual loudspeaker that is added to the positions of the L loudspeakers.
US11750993B2
A method and device for processing information are provided. The method for processing information includes: determining a current output voltage of a power supply in a terminal device; determining a target parameter of an audio processing circuit in the terminal device according to the current output voltage; and configuring the audio processing circuit for processing an audio signal according to the target parameter. With the embodiments of the present disclosure, an impact of a change of the output voltage of the power supply on output volume of a loudspeaker can be reduced, thereby improving user experience.
US11750991B2
An information providing method receives, from a terminal apparatus, terminal position information representative of a position of the terminal apparatus; identifies, from among a plurality of pieces of distribution information stored in a reference table in which correspondences between the plurality pieces of distribution information and a plurality of pieces of sound output position information are registered, a piece of distribution information corresponding to a piece of sound output position information identified based on the position of the terminal apparatus represented by the received terminal position information; and transmitting the identified piece of distribution information to the terminal apparatus. Each of the plurality of pieces of distribution information relates to a position at which a corresponding one of sound output devices outputs sound, and each of the plurality of pieces of sound output position information is representative of a position at which the corresponding sound output device outputs the sound.
US11750987B2
Disclosed is a method, performed in an accessory device, for controlling a hearing device, the accessory device comprising an interface, a memory, a display, and a processor. The method comprises determining an environment parameter. The method comprises determining a processing context parameter based on the environment parameter. The method may comprise displaying on the display a first user interface object representative of the processing context parameter.
US11750979B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel including configured to display an image and a sound generating device on a rear surface of the display panel, the sound generating device being configured to vibrate the display panel to generate sound. The sound generating device includes a first structure and a second structure over or under the first structure, the second structure including a first part having a piezoelectric characteristic and a second part between adjacent first parts to have flexibility.
US11750975B2
A signal processing device includes: an obtainer that obtains sound data; a pitch controller that controls pitch of the sound data obtained to increase the pitch by a factor of n (a real number greater than 1); an extractor that extracts frequency components of at least 20 kHz which are included in the sound data whose pitch is controlled; an adder that adds the frequency components extracted to the sound data obtained; and an outputter that outputs sound data to which the frequency components extracted are added.
US11750967B2
A microphone includes a base, at least one sound receiving element, and a flexible circuit board. The base has a plurality of supporting portions, a plurality of damping portions, and a bearing portion. The plurality of supporting portions are spaced apart from each other. Each of the plurality of damping portions is disposed on an inner surface of the corresponding supporting portion. The bearing portion is connected to the plurality of damping portions and is suspended between the plurality of supporting portions. The at least one sound receiving element is disposed on the base. The flexible circuit board is disposed on the base and has a first transmission segment. The first transmission segment is electrically coupled to the at least one sound receiving element, and the first transmission segment has a plurality of bending sections.
US11750961B2
An earpiece including an external surface having a first fixed configuration disposable within the outer ear and having a passage adapted for retention of an in ear device, the earpiece heatable to achieve a moldable condition which allows reconfiguration of the external surface by engagement with the outer ear to dispose the external surface in a second fixed configuration in greater conformity to the outer ear.
US11750958B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing including a first surface facing in a first direction, a second surface facing in a second direction opposite to the first direction, and a side surface member enclosing the first surface and the second surface, a display visible through at least a portion of the first surface, an opening formed on a portion of the first surface, a speaker positioned within the housing, a sensor positioned within the housing, and a first path configured to guide a sound of the speaker to the opening, and a second path configured to guide the sound of the speaker to the opening and to avoid overlapping the first path, and at least a portion of the sensor is positioned between the first path and the second path.
US11750955B2
The present invention provides a novel computer-implemented routing method for a dynamic wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) optical network having wavelength continuity constraints. The method is more efficient than the existing methods, in terms of number of wavelengths, and due to the fixed routing strategy used, its implementation is simple, and its online operation is very fast.
US11750954B2
In one embodiment, a remote monitoring system for a fluid applicator system is disclosed. The fluid applicator system is disposed to heat and pump spray fluid, and to transmit reports including sensed temperatures, pressures, and other operational parameters of the fluid applicator system via a wireless network. The remote monitoring system comprises a data storage server, and an end user interface. The data storage server is configured to receive and archive the reports. The end user interface is configured to provide a graphical user interface based on the reports. The graphical user interface illustrates a status of the fluid handling system, sensed and commanded temperatures of the fluid handling system, sensed and commanded pressures of the fluid handling system, and usage statistics of the fluid handling system.
US11750952B2
There is provided an imaging element includes a photoelectric conversion unit that includes a first electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer, and a second electrode, in which the photoelectric conversion unit further includes a charge storage electrode that has an opposite region opposite to the first electrode via an insulating layer, and a transfer control electrode that is opposite to the first electrode and the charge storage electrode via the insulating layer, and the photoelectric conversion layer is disposed above at least the charge storage electrode via the insulating layer.
US11750951B2
It is intended to improve reading speed of pixel signals in a solid-state imaging element provided with an ADC. A plurality of pixels are arrayed in a pixel block. A drive circuit drives the pixel block to output a plurality of pixel signals at the same time. A comparator successively selects the plurality of pixel signals and compares the selected pixel signals and a predetermined reference signal. A control section generates a control signal for updating the predetermined reference signal on the basis of comparison results of the comparator. A reference signal update section updates the predetermined reference signal according to the control signal.
US11750947B2
There are provided a circuit and a method for regulating a gate voltage, and a sensor applying the circuit. In the circuit, an input end of the storage module is connected to a first end of a signal storage unit, an output end thereof is connected to an input end of the comparison module, an output end of the comparison module is connected to an input end of the voltage regulation module, and an output end of the voltage regulation module is connected to a transmission gate. The storage module stores electrical signals outputted by the signal storage unit. The comparison module compares at least two of the electrical signals correspond to different gate voltages to obtain a comparison result. The voltage regulation module regulates, based on the comparison result, an output voltage according to a predetermined rule to change the gate voltage.
US11750930B1
A panoramic image system with parallax mitigation includes a controller that can generate on a display an IFOV that includes image data from both a first image sensor having a first FOV and a second image sensor having a second FOV which are overlapping FOVs. The IFOV includes a portion of the non-overlapping section of a first FOV, the overlapping sections of both the first and second FOVs, and a portion of the non-overlapping section of the second FOV. The overlapping section of the first FOV is blended with the overlapping section of the second FOV, wherein the first FOV and the second FOV both have a level of contribution to the blended overlapping section. The level of contribution to the blending from the first FOV increases as the viewer's head moves in a first angular direction and decreases as the viewer's head moves in a second angular direction.
US11750929B2
Various embodiments include a camera voice coil motor (VCM) actuator configured to shift an image sensor along multiple axes. Some embodiments include a magnet and coil arrangement. Some embodiments include a position sensing arrangement. Some embodiments include a flexure arrangement. Some embodiments include a coil structure and coil carrier assembly.
US11750928B2
Provided is method for rectifying an image using an electronic device. The method includes simultaneously capturing a first image of a scene using a first image sensor and a second image of the scene using a second image sensor, a first field of view (FOV) of the first image sensor being different from a second FOV of the second image sensor; identifying a motion characteristic in the first image; determining a motion function based on one of the first image and a capture process of the first image that caused the motion characteristic in the first image; scaling the motion function from the first image by a scale of the first image sensor with respect to the second image sensor; and applying the scaled motion function onto the second FOV of the second image to obtain a rectified second image without the motion characteristic.
US11750923B2
A vehicle control system includes: a sensor; a first controller configured to output a first control signal for controlling the sensor via the first signal line; and a second controller configured to output a second control signal for controlling the sensor via the first signal line and the second signal line, wherein the sensor is configured to operate according to the first control signal output from the first controller via the first signal line when a vehicle state that indicates a state of a vehicle is a first state, and operate according to the second control signal output from the second controller via the first signal line and the second signal line when the vehicle state is a second state.
US11750914B2
A device displays a camera user interface for recording media images in a plurality of media recording modes. While displaying the camera user interface, the device captures media with one or more cameras. In response to capturing the media, in accordance with a determination that the captured media is consistent with a first media recording mode, the device displays a first prompt in the camera user interface that prompts a user to take one or more actions associated with the first media recording mode; and in accordance with a determination that the captured media is consistent with a second media recording mode, the device displays a second prompt in the camera user interface that prompts the user to take one or more actions associated with the second media recording mode, where the first media recording mode is different from the second media recording mode.
US11750911B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus for detecting UAVs in an RF environment are disclosed. An apparatus is constructed and configured for network communication with at least one camera. The at least one camera captures images of the RF environment and transmits video data to the apparatus. The apparatus receives RF data and generates FFT data based on the RF data, identifies at least one signal based on a first derivative and a second derivative of the FFT data, measures a direction from which the at least one signal is transmitted, analyzes the video data. The apparatus then identifies at least one UAV to which the at least one signal is related based on the analyzed video data, the RF data, and the direction from which the at least one signal is transmitted, and controls the at least one camera based on the analyzed video data.
US11750907B2
Imaging systems and methods are provided for taking high-magnification photographs confined to a small physical volume. In some embodiments the system is composed of at least one lens, one or more partially reflective elements, and a sensor. The partial reflectors reflect a portion of the light back and forth between them to allow a long path length for a portion of the light from the lens to the sensor which enables a high magnification.
US11750906B2
An image sensor includes a substrate. An array of photodiodes is disposed in the substrate. A plurality of spacers is arranged in a spacer pattern. At least one spacer of the plurality of spacers has an aspect ratio of 18:1 or greater. A buffer layer is disposed between the substrate and the spacer pattern. An array of color filters is disposed in the spacer pattern.
