US11955148B2
A cartridge includes a tape-shaped nonwoven fabric, a reel on which the tape-shaped nonwoven fabric is wound, and a case that accommodates the reel. A basis weight of the tape-shaped nonwoven fabric is equal to or less than 25 c/m2 and an average fiber diameter of the tape-shaped nonwoven fabric is equal to or less than 11 μm.
US11955147B1
According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording/reproducing device comprises a magnetic head including an assist element and configured to perform assist recording by applying assist power to the assist element, a rotation driver configured to perform rotation drive of the magnetic recording medium, a rotation number controller, and an assist power controller. The assist recording is performed under a first condition including a first rotation number and a first assist power, or under a second condition including a second rotation number which is different from the first rotation number and a second assist power which is different from the first assist power.
US11955142B1
Music may be selected to provide accompaniment for a video edit of a video. Characteristics of the music may be determined and used to select the types of visual effects that are applied in the video edit. The characteristics of the music may be extracted from MIDI file/metadata track containing MIDI information for the music.
US11955133B2
Disclosed is an audio signal processing method implemented by an audio system with internal and external sensors. The internal sensor measures acoustic signals propogating internally to a user's head. The external sensor measures acoustic signals propagating externally to the user's head. The method includes: producing first and second audio signals by measuring simultaneously acoustic signals reaching the internal and external sensors, respectively; filtering the second audio signal by a noise matching filter matching a second noise signal affecting the second audio signal with a first noise signal affecting the first audio signal, wherein the first noise signal and the second noise signal correspond to a same noise acoustic signal originating outside the user's head and measured by respectively the internal and external sensors, thereby producing a filtered second audio signal including a matched second noise signal; and mixing the filtered second audio signal and the first audio signal.
US11955131B2
An apparatus for encoding a multi-channel signal having at least three channels includes an iteration processor, a channel encoder and an output interface. The iteration processor is configured to calculate inter-channel correlation values between each pair of the at least three channels, for selecting a pair including a highest value or including a value above a threshold, and for processing the selected pair using a multi-channel processing operation to derive first multi-channel parameters for the selected pair and to derive first processed channels. The iteration processor is configured to perform the calculating, the selecting and the processing using at least one of the processed channels to derive second multi-channel parameters and second processed channels. The channel encoder is configured to encode channels resulting from an iteration processing to obtain encoded channels. The output interface is configured to generate an encoded multi-channel signal including the encoded channels and the first and second multi-channel parameters.
US11955130B2
The present document relates to a method of layered encoding of a frame of a compressed higher-order Ambisonics, HOA, representation of a sound or sound field. The compressed HOA representation comprises a plurality of transport signals. The method comprises assigning the plurality of transport signals to a plurality of hierarchical layers, the plurality of layers including a base layer and one or more hierarchical enhancement layers, generating, for each layer, a respective HOA extension payload including side information for parametrically enhancing a reconstructed HOA representation obtainable from the transport signals assigned to the respective layer and any layers lower than the respective layer, assigning the generated HOA extension payloads to their respective layers, and signaling the generated HOA extension payloads in an output bitstream. The present document further relates to a method of decoding a frame of a compressed HOA representation of a sound or sound field, an encoder and a decoder for layered coding of a compressed HOA representation, and a data structure representing a frame of a compressed HOA representation of a sound or sound field.
US11955126B2
Systems, methods and software are disclosed for processing requests from users of an infotainment system. The method includes receiving a request from a user of the infotainment system. The method includes determining a domain for the received request based on information contained in the received request. The domain specifies one or more categories for the request. The method includes routing the received request to a virtual assistant assigned to handle requests for the determined domain. The virtual assistant is one of a plurality of virtual assistants respectively assigned to handle requests for a plurality of respectively assigned domains. The method includes transmitting a response to the request to the user.
US11955112B1
A speech-processing system may provide access to one or more virtual assistants via a voice-controlled device. A user may leverage a first virtual assistant to translate a natural language command from a first language into a second language, which the device can forward to a second virtual assistant for processing. The device may receive a command from a user and send input data representing the command to a first speech-processing system representing the first virtual assistant. The device may receive a response in the form of a first natural language output from the first speech-processing system along with an indication that the first natural language output should be directed to a second speech-processing system representing the second virtual assistant. For example, the command may be in the first language, and the first natural language output may be in the second language, which is understandable by the second speech-processing system.
US11955108B2
The invention relates to an adaptive active noise cancellation apparatus and an audio playback system using the same. The adaptive active noise cancellation apparatus shapes an error signal and a noise signal according to a shape of an ideal noise. After that, the shaped noise signal and the shaped error signal are sent into a parameter adjusting unit to perform an adaptive parameter adjustment. Thus, the adaptive noise filter unit is not only can adaptively suppress noise and minimize the error signal, but also can suppress specific frequencies that are sensitive to the human ear.
US11955096B2
A display method of a display panel, a display device, and a server are disclosed. The display method divides an initial image into a plurality of sub-frame images having a same frequency, and the frequency of the sub-frame images is a multiple of a frequency of the initial image. The sub-frame images are input into the display panel in sequence and are combined to obtain a target image. The target image is used to drive the display panel to display the initial image, thereby reducing a refresh rate of the display panel for inputting data. Therefore, the display panel can realize low frequency input and prevent frame loss.
US11955088B2
A display substrate includes a base substrate, multiple sub-pixels, multiple first gate drive circuits, and at least one auxiliary structure. The base substrate includes a display region and a peripheral region located at a periphery of the display region. The multiple sub-pixels are located in the display region. The multiple first gate drive circuits and the at least one auxiliary structure are located in the peripheral region. The multiple first gate drive circuits are configured to provide first gate drive signals to the multiple sub-pixels. One auxiliary structure is disposed between adjacent first gate drive circuits.
US11955085B2
An inverter circuit, a gate driver using the same, and a display device according to an embodiment are discussed. The inverter circuit can include a first transistor connected between a high potential voltage line and a first node; a second transistor having a gate connected to the first node and turned on according to a voltage of the first node to charge a second control node to a high potential voltage of the high potential voltage line; a third transistor having a gate connected to a first control node, a first electrode connected to the first node, and a second electrode connected to the second control node; and a fourth transistor having a gate connected to the first control node, a first electrode connected to the second control node, and a second electrode connected to a low potential voltage line.
US11955078B2
A display device includes: a pixel driving circuit configured to drive the light emitting elements of pixels; and sensors including a light sensing element and a sensor driving circuit connected with the light sensing element and configured to output a sensing signal corresponding to a light, the sensor driving circuit including: a reset transistor including a first electrode configured to receive a reset signal, a second electrode connected with a first sensing node, and a third electrode configured to receive a reset control signal; an amplification transistor including a first electrode configured to receive a sensing driving voltage, a second electrode connected with a second sensing node, and a third electrode connected with the first sensing node; and an output transistor including a first electrode connected with the second sensing node, a second electrode connected with a sensing line, and a third electrode configured to receive an output control signal.
US11955069B2
A display device includes a first gain provider which controls a first gain value during a first display period in which a still image is displayed, a second gain provider which controls a second gain value during a second display period in which a moving image including a still area is displayed, and a grayscale converter which applies the first gain value or the second gain value to an input image and generates an output image. The first gain provider linearly or exponentially increases the first gain value to a maximum gain value based on a load of the still image from a first time point when the second display period changes to the first display period to a second time point at which the first gain value starts to decrease from the maximum gain value.
US11955066B2
A display device includes: a display panel which displays an image corresponding to each of a plurality of frames, and a source driver which drives the display panel. The plurality of frames includes a first frame operating at a first operating frequency, and a second frame operating at a frequency higher than the first operating frequency. The first frame includes a write cycle section, a hold cycle section, and a blank section including a standby section. The source driver operates in a normal driving mode during the write cycle section and the hold cycle section, and operates in a low-power driving mode during the standby section.
US11955065B2
A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a pixel circuit including a driving transistor and a preset module, a light-emitting element and a gating module. A first terminal of the preset module is connected to the driving transistor, and a second terminal of the preset module is connected to a preset signal terminal or the driving transistor, a control terminal of the preset module is connected to a control signal line, a control terminal of the gating module is connected to a gating signal line configured for receiving a gating signal, the gating module is connected between the control terminal of the preset module and the control signal line, or between the first terminal of the preset module and the driving transistor, or between the second terminal of the preset module and the preset signal terminal or the driving transistor.
US11955062B2
Provided are a display driving method and apparatus, and a display panel and an electronic device. The display driving method is applied to a display panel, and comprises: determining a first charging duration of each display point on the basis of a preset position, in a display panel, of each display point in the display panel; generating, according to the first charging duration of each display point, a display control signal corresponding to each display point; and adjusting a second charging duration of each display point according to the display control signal.
US11955058B2
A display panel, a display device and a method for driving a display panel are provided. The display panel includes N types of display areas which includes an i-th type display area and a j-th type display area. The display panel includes M display parts which include a first display part and a second display part. The first display part includes at least one i-th type display area, and the second display part includes at least one i-th type display area. At least one j-th type display area is arranged between the i-th type display area included in the first display part and the i-th type display area included in the second display part. Light-emitting time periods of the i-th type display area and the j-th type display area at least partially do not overlap, to reduce the number of sub-pixels driven at the same time period.
US11955054B1
A device may include a display that display an image frame that is divided into adjustable regions having respective resolutions based on compensated image data. The device may also include image processing circuitry to generate the compensated image data by applying gains that compensate for burn-in related aging of pixels of the display. The gains are based on an aggregation of history updates indicative of estimated amounts of aging associated with pixel utilization. The circuitry may generate a history update by obtaining boundary data indicative of the boundaries between the adjustable regions, determining an estimated amount of aging, and dynamically resampling the estimated amount of aging by resampling a portion of the estimated amount of aging corresponding to an adjustable region by a factor and resampling of a different portion of the estimated amount of aging corresponding to another adjustable region by a different factor based on the boundary data.
US11955043B1
An apparatus for performing subpixel rendering of an RGBW display panel is provided. The apparatus receives an input gray level data to acquire a luminance value of each subpixel of a RGB pixel set including two RGB pixels adjacent to each other. The apparatus calculates a rendered luminance value of each subpixel of a display pixel set including two display pixels adjacent to each other according to the luminance values. The display pixel set of the RGBW display panel includes red, green, blue, and white subpixels. The rendered luminance value of the white subpixel of one of the display pixels is determined according to the saturation value of the corresponding RGB pixel and the luminance value of each subpixel of the corresponding RGB pixel. The apparatus acquires a gray level value of each white subpixel of the display pixel set according to the rendered luminance values.
US11955036B2
A supporting plate and a display module are provided. In the supporting plate, a bending part is connected between a first supporting main body and a second supporting main body. The bending part includes a first bending part. An end of the first bending part is connected to the first supporting main body, and another end of the first bending part is connected to the second supporting main body. Along a direction from the first supporting main body to the second supporting main body, the first bending part has a plurality of bending structures that bend back and forth in two opposite directions.
US11955034B1
An apparatus for supporting signage at a support structure is disclosed. The apparatus has a torsion member configured to be attached to the signage, at least one base member configured to be attached to the support structure, and at least one hinge assembly that is disposed between the torsion member and the at least one base member, the at least one hinge assembly including a base hinge subassembly and a second hinge subassembly that are attached together. The base hinge subassembly is attached to the at least one base member. The second hinge subassembly is attached to the torsion member. The torsion member is rotatable in a first rotational direction about the second hinge subassembly and a second rotational direction about the base hinge subassembly, the first rotational direction being different from the second rotational direction.
US11955031B2
A vehicle remote instruction training device that trains a remote commander who issues a remote instruction to an actual autonomous vehicle includes: a commander interface including an information output unit that shows a situation of the actual autonomous vehicle to the remote commander and an instruction input unit for the remote commander to input the remote instruction to the actual autonomous vehicle; a virtual situation display unit that shows a virtual situation of a virtual vehicle with time variation to a remote commander who is a trainee through the information output unit; a remote instruction input recognition unit that recognizes an input of the remote instruction input into the instruction input unit; and an evaluation unit that evaluates the remote commander based on timing at which they issue the remote instruction with respect to the virtual situation of the virtual vehicle or on a content of the remote instruction.
US11955028B1
An environment-transforming system transforms a user's environmental information in ways that allow the user to better perceive her environment. For example, the system transforms some aspects of a visual scene into a sound space for a visually impaired user. Once the user learns to interpret the sound space, she avoids walking into an object because a sound cue tells her that the object is in her near environment and roughly where it is. Various types of transformations are possible depending upon the user's needs and preferences. As all people are different, each user has a personalized profile that directs the transformation process. More generally, the environment to be transformed may include aspects of artificial or enhanced reality. The transformed environmental information can be presented to the user in a number of ways, such as in haptic feedback, as directional audio, through oral stimulation, or through modified visual display.
US11955027B2
Provided is an information output apparatus and method. The information output apparatus includes a plurality of expression members configured to protrude or retract by moving in at least one direction and being sensed by a user when protruding or retracting; an activation area calculator configured to calculate a series of braille letters as an activation area on the plurality of expression members; a non-activation area calculator configured to calculate a space between the braille letters as a non-activation area in the activation area; and a plurality of actuation controllers configured to actuate expression members corresponding to the activation area to protrude or retract and configured to actuate expression members corresponding to the non-activation area to retract.
US11955024B2
A system, method and computer program product for generating normalized activity results. A mobile application is installed on a plurality of computing devices and normalization base data is received for a first user. The first user is assigned to a user population based on the received normalization base data. A comparator population is determined that includes users having normalization base data within a comparator range. Activity results are collected from users in the user population and the comparator population. At least one activity results is received for the user. At least one normalization factor is determined for the user based on the comparator population activity results and the user population activity results. Normalized activity results are determined by adjusting each of the received activity results using the at least one normalization factor. The normalized activity results can then be displayed to the user.
US11955022B2
A camera with a field of view toward an external environment of an aircraft is disposed within an aircraft door such that a wheel of a main landing gear of the aircraft is within the field of view of the camera. A display device is disposed within an interior of the aircraft. A processor is operatively coupled to the camera and to the display device. The processor analyzes image data captured by the camera to monitor the landing gear.
US11955017B2
Example embodiments are directed to generating an optimized network of flight paths and an operations volume around each of these flight paths. A network system creates a source network of paths, whereby the source network comprises a set of possible paths between two locations. The network system assigns a cost for traversing each edge of each path of the source network and aggregates the cost for traversing each edge of each path to obtain a cost for each path of the source network. Based on the cost for each path, the network system identifies a path having the lowest cost, whereby the path having the lowest cost is the optimized route between the two locations. The network system then generates an operations volume for the optimized route. The operations volume represents airspace surrounding the optimized route. The operations volume is transmitted to a further system for use.
US11955012B2
Methods and systems are provided for assisting operation of a vehicle using speech recognition and transcription to provide a conversation log graphical user interface (GUI) display that consolidates communications with respect to the vehicle. One method involves receiving a data message from a system onboard the vehicle and generating a graphical representation of the data message within the conversation log GUI display, wherein the graphical representation of the data message includes a selectable element and is displayed on the conversation log GUI display concurrently with a graphical representation of a transcription of an audio communication with respect to the vehicle. The depicted data message and transcription are chronologically positioned with respect to one another in accordance with a timestamp associated with the data message. The conversation log GUI display dynamically updates in response to selection of the selectable element.
US11955000B2
Methods, systems, and media for generating and evaluating street grids comprising: receiving street grid information corresponding to a plurality of locations, wherein the street grid information corresponding to a location is associated with vehicular traffic information; training a pedestrian comfort model using the street grid information and the vehicular traffic information, wherein an output of the pedestrian comfort model is a predicted pedestrian comfort score that is based on traffic congestion from the vehicular traffic information; receiving a plurality of potential street grids; evaluating each potential street grid in the plurality of potential street grids using the trained pedestrian comfort model, wherein the trained pedestrian comfort model generates predicted pedestrian comfort scores for portions of each potential street grid; and generating an augmented map of each potential street grid that presents the predicted pedestrian comfort scores for each portion of each potential street grid.
US11954992B2
A monitoring system (10) including: an information accumulation program (32) configured to accumulate position information of a user terminal (100) carried by a watched person, the position information being determined based on information uploaded from the user terminal; a living area determination program (33) configured to determine a living area of the watched person, based on position information accumulated in a predetermined period among pieces of the accumulated position information; a determination program (37) configured to determine a positional relationship between a position of the user terminal, which is determined based on the position information of the first terminal, and the living area; and a notification program (28) configured to notify a guardian terminal (209) of a determination result.
US11954985B1
Systems, and methods for communicating during a calamity include a processing system of a first ATM that is communicably coupled via an ATM network to a second ATM. The first ATM includes an external network connection separate from the ATM network. The processing system can modify the first ATM from a first mode to a second mode responsive to detecting an event indicative of a calamity. The processing system can receive a user input to send a message to an address. The processing system can transmit the message to the second ATM via the ATM network, to cause the second ATM to route the message to the address. The processing system can receive a response to the message via the ATM network from the second ATM. The processing system can display the response to the message on a user interface of the first ATM.
US11954984B2
A cassette for receiving and dispensing bills is disclosed. The cassette includes a sensor structured to detect a location of the cassette, and memory having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to transmit the location of the cassette to a remote computing device, determine that the location of the cassette has changed, and generate an indication that the location of the cassette has changed.
US11954983B1
The present disclosure provides for a recycled golf ball vending machine having a housing with a bottom retrieval chamber and a plurality of shelves disposed above the retrieval chamber. Each shelf includes at least a single coiled wire and at least two opposing coiled wires. The recycled golf ball vending machine includes at least a first transparent cylindrical container having a plurality of recycled golf balls positioned upright within the single coiled wire. The recycled golf ball vending machine further includes a first transparent clamshell container having a first predetermined number of recycled golf balls positioned between the two opposing coiled wires. A payment mechanism activates an instruction mechanism upon a receipt of a payment by a user, which in turn rotates the single coiled wire or the at least two coiled wires. The rotation of the single coiled wire or the two coiled wires respectively conveys the first transparent cylindrical container or the first transparent clamshell container horizontally along the shelf until it slides over a front edge of the shelf and drops into the retrieval chamber.
US11954974B2
A system, method, and non-transitory computer medium for processing a payment for a wager in connection with a wagering event. The system may receive, over a communications interface, a wager on a wagering event from a player via an input device. The system may monitor progress of the wagering event. The progress of the wagering event may include at least a current status. The system may determine that the wager is active and that the wagering event is in progress. The system may determine an amount of a cash out offer and that the player accepts the cash out offer at the determined amount. The system may transmit, over the communications interface, the amount of the cash out offer to the first input device.
US11954966B2
According to one embodiment, provided is a chip recognition system that recognizes a chip on a gaming table in an amusement place having the gaming table, the chip recognition system including: a game recording apparatus that records, as an image, a state of chips stacked on the gaming table, using a camera; an image analysis apparatus that performs an image analysis on the recorded image of the state of chips; a plurality of chip determination apparatuses including at least a first artificial intelligence apparatus that determines a number of the chips stacked, using an image analysis result obtained by the image analysis apparatus; and a second artificial intelligence apparatus that decides a correct number of the chips stacked, when the plurality of chip determination apparatuses obtain different determination results for the number of the chips stacked.
US11954961B2
A method is for processing sheet material, in particular value papers, such as banknotes, checks, etc., in which different groups of sheet material are processed one after the other. The different groups of sheet material are separated for processing. In the processing of different groups of sheets materials, which are separated from one another by separation cards arranged respectively at the beginning of the different groups of sheet material, a first processing, in which separation cards and unrecognized sheet material are sorted out, should be followed by a second processing of the sorted-out separation cards and of the unrecognized sheet material, in which separation cards to which no unrecognized sheet material is assigned are sorted out.
US11954960B2
A storage stores money. An outlet can receive money delivered from the storage therein. The outlet is configured to allow the money to be removed from the inside of the outlet. A detector detects a removal action associated with removal of money from the outlet. The controller switches a process on money remaining in the outlet based on a detection result of the detector.
US11954957B2
The present disclosure relates a set of electronic keys for an electronic lock. The set of electronic keys includes at least one passive electronic key having a passive digital key, and at least one active electronic key having an active digital key. Each of passive and active electronic keys includes a communication channel and an electronic key power supply port. The active electronic key includes electrical power source providing electrical power supply to the active electronic key itself, the electronic lock and the passive electronic key through the electronic lock to operate the electronic lock. When both active and passive electronic keys are inserted into respective electronic keyholes of the electronic lock, both active and passive digital keys are transmitted to the electronic lock, the electronic lock can be locked and unlocked only when both active and passive digital keys received match prestored active and passive digital keys respectively.
US11954956B2
Multifunction smart door devices may be part of a system of multifunction smart door devices installed within or near stateroom doors of a cruise ship. Each smart door device can control access to a stateroom based on facial recognition or a wireless credential and can perform other functions such as controlling stateroom personalization features, providing an electronic peephole function, allowing controlled access for authorized crew members, accommodating remote unlocking, and providing notifications. Data obtained by the smart door devices can be provided to the cruise operator for service, safety, or security purposes, such as for anonymized foot traffic analysis, hazard detection, and stateroom access auditing. Smart door device functionality may be implemented in part by customers' mobile devices.
US11954954B2
To reduce the bulk of the acquisition systems embedded onboard an aircraft and dedicated to predicting failures, an acquisition system is provided comprising an avionics rack and at least one recording device, in which the avionics rack comprises a front panel provided with at least one test connector configured to be connected to all or some of the data buses of the aircraft, each recording device comprises a housing and an acquisition port, the acquisition port being provided on an outer face of the housing, the acquisition port of each recording device is engaged with a corresponding test connector of the avionics rack, each recording device is configured to acquire at least some signals applied to the acquisition port by the corresponding test connector, and to store the acquired signals.
US11954951B2
A data collecting system including a component assembled in an electric vehicle, a data collector connected to the component through a bus of the electric vehicle, and a debug server connected to the data collector is disclosed. The component collects different data from the electric vehicle and performs different sending procedures respectively under different situations including: a regular sending-procedure sends regular data to the bus based on a regular frequency; a high-speed sending-procedure starts collecting high-speed data and sending the same to the bus based on a high-speed frequency after a condition is satisfied; and a high-resolution sending-procedure sends high-resolution data to the bus after an error occurs, wherein the high-resolution data is collected within a period of time before and after the error occurs. The data collector collects these data from the bus. The debug server analyzes the data collected by the data collector.
US11954948B1
A vehicle communication interface cable includes a vehicle connector having a connector body and configured to connect to a diagnostic port of a vehicle, a vehicle communication interface connector having a connector body and configured to connect to a vehicle communication interface, a flexible cable portion having one or more conductors and extending between the vehicle connector and the vehicle communication interface connector, and a battery module comprising a housing for a battery. The battery module is integrated with the cable portion and a pair of battery wires extend from the housing to the vehicle communication interface connector to provide power to a vehicle communication interface from a battery within the housing when the vehicle communication interface connector is connected to the vehicle communication interface.
US11954943B2
The embodiments are directed to generating synthetic data. For example, in some examples, a method for creating 2D images of an object with annotation points is carried out by a processing unit. The method includes considering a synthetic 3D model of the object, named synthetic object, with annotation points correctly placed on the synthetic object. The method also includes generating several synthetic objects with different poses and different brightness conditions. Further, the method includes considering several 2D images with different backgrounds and different brightness conditions. For each 2D image, the method includes insertion of a generated synthetic object in the 2D image.
US11954942B2
Embodiments relate to a human behavior recognition system using hierarchical class learning considering safety, the human behavior recognition system including a behavior class definer configured to form a plurality of behavior classes by sub-setting a plurality of images each including a subject according to pre-designated behaviors and assign a behavior label to the plurality of images, a safety class definer configured to calculate a safety index for the plurality of images, form a plurality of safety classes by sub-setting the plurality of images based on the safety index, and additionally assign a safety label to the plurality of images, and a trainer configured to train a human recognition model by using the plurality of images defined as hierarchical classes by assigning the behavior label and the safety label as training images.
US11954941B2
One example method includes accessing an appearance history of a person, the appearance history including information concerning an appearance of a person at a particular time, generating, based on the appearance history, a forecast that comprises a probability that the person will appear again at some future point in time, determining that the probability meets or exceeds a threshold, and updating a high probability group database to include a facial image of a face of the person.
US11954939B2
An electronic device (200) includes a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel (204), a cover layer (218), one or more light sources (224), and an optical sensor module (226). The LCD panel (204) receives a contact input associated with a fingerprint of a user. The cover layer (218) includes a first major surface (228) and a second major surface (230) opposite to the first major surface (228), and is disposed on the LCD panel (204). The cover layer (218) defines a first axis (AA′) normal to the first major surface (228). The optical sensor module (226) receives a light from the predetermined fingerprint sensing area (222) to detect the fingerprint. The optical sensor module (226) at least partially overlaps with the predetermined fingerprint sensing area (222) along the plane of the first major surface (228). The optical sensor module (226) defines a second axis (BB′) normal to a surface of the optical sensor module (226). The second axis (BB′) is inclined at an inclination angle relative to the first axis (AA′) of the cover layer (218).
US11954938B2
A fingerprint sensor package includes a first substrate having a core insulating layer with a first surface and a second surface, and a through-hole passing through the first surface and the second surface, a first bonding pad disposed on the second surface of the core insulating layer, and an external connection pad, a second substrate disposed in the through-hole of the core insulating layer and including a plurality of first sensing patterns, a plurality of second sensing patterns, and a second bonding pad, a conductive wire connecting the first bonding pad and the second bonding pad to each other, a controller chip disposed on the second substrate, and a molding layer disposed on the second surface of the core insulating layer, filling the through-hole, covering the second substrate and the first bonding pad, and spaced apart from the external connection pad.
US11954931B1
The present disclosure discloses methods and systems for detecting tampering of an infrared (IR) security mark in a document. The method includes receiving the document including the IR security mark, wherein the IR security mark further includes one or more security texts and/or images. The document is scanned to generate scanned data. A portion of the scanned data including the IR security mark is segmented into a plurality of blocks such as blocks of size 32*32. Thereafter, a ratio of white to black pixels is calculated for each block. The calculated ratio is compared with a known threshold for each block. Upon comparison, the IR security mark is detected as a tampered security mark.
US11954926B2
A method, and corresponding apparatus, for identifying a feature in an image comprises determining a plurality of characteristic values for each pixel or group of pixels within the image, and determining a confidence value for a target area of the image on the basis of the plurality of characteristic values of the pixels within the target area. Each of the plurality of characteristic values relates to a different characteristic of the feature. The confidence value is indicative of whether the feature is represented by the target area of the image.
US11954924B2
Apparatus and methods for determining information about one or more objects in a 3-dimensional (3D) space are disclosed. One aspect of the method includes defining a virtual ground plane within a monitored 3D space. The virtual ground plane is divided into a plurality of bins. Each bin has corresponding counter value. An object is detected in a respective image captured by each of a plurality of sensors. A respective line segment is selected corresponding to a respective light between each of the plurality of image sensors and the detected object. One or more bins of the virtual ground plane are selected onto which a respective projected line segment of each respective line segment overlap. Each counter value for each of the one or more selected bins is increased. A location of the object is determined based on a bin of the one or more bins having a highest counter value.
US11954922B2
A time series of face images of a human during a human activity are captured. A first artificial neural network (ANN) processing pipeline processes the captured time series of face images to provide a first attention level indicator signal. An electrophysiological signal indicative of the level of attention of the human during the activity is also captured. A second ANN processing pipeline processes the sensed electrophysiological signal to providing a second attention level indicator signal. A risk indicator signal is then generated based on at least one of the first attention level indicator and second attention level indicator. A user circuit is then triggered as a result of the risk indicator reaching or failing to reach at least one attention level threshold.
US11954920B2
A system for controlling visual protection for a display unit includes a camera which is configured to generate a video signal; a video signal processing unit which is configured, based on the video signal of the camera, to determine a particular position of each of one or more persons relative to the display unit and to determine a particular viewing direction of one of the one or more persons; a database which is configured to generate a prediction for a behaviour of each of the one or more persons based on the particular position and viewing direction of each of the one or more persons detected by the video signal processing unit, wherein the prediction includes one or more predicted viewing directions of the particular person; and a display control unit which is configured to control the visual protection for the display unit based on the prediction.
US11954918B2
An object detection device includes: a camera ECU that measures the bearing of an object by detecting the object from an image captured by a camera and identifying the direction toward the object; a sonar that measures the distance to the object existing around the vehicle; and a position identification unit that identifies the position of the object by combining the measured bearing data and distance data on a grid map that is based on a polar coordinate system and identifying the grid cell where the object exists on the grid map.
US11954914B2
In various examples, systems and methods are described that generate scene flow in 3D space through simplifying the 3D LiDAR data to “2.5D” optical flow space (e.g., x, y, and depth flow). For example, LiDAR range images may be used to generate 2.5D representations of depth flow information between frames of LiDAR data, and two or more range images may be compared to generate depth flow information, and messages may be passed—e.g., using a belief propagation algorithm—to update pixel values in the 2.5D representation. The resulting images may then be used to generate 2.5D motion vectors, and the 2.5D motion vectors may be converted back to 3D space to generate a 3D scene flow representation of an environment around an autonomous machine.
US11954905B2
An example system includes: a landmark detection engine to detect landmark positions of landmarks in images based on facial detection; an optical flow landmark engine to determine the landmark positions in the images based on optical flow of the landmarks between the images; a landmark difference engine to determine, for a landmark in a given image: a distance between a detected landmark position and an optical flow landmark position of the landmark; and a weighted landmark determination engine to determine, for a first and second image, a position for the landmark in the second image based on: a respective detected landmark position and a respective optical flow position of the landmark in the second image; and respective distances, determined with the landmark difference engine, between a first detected landmark position of the landmark in the first image and respective optical flow landmark positions for the first and second images.
US11954902B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating a final classification output for an image of eye tissue. The image is provided as input to each of one or more segmentation neural networks to obtain one or more segmentation maps of the eye tissue in the image. A respective classification input is generated from each of the segmentation maps. For each of the segmentation maps, the classification input for the segmentation map is provided as input to each of one or more classification neural networks to obtain, for each segmentation map, a respective classification output from each classification neural network. A final classification output for the image is generated from the respective classification outputs for each of the segmentation maps.
US11954899B2
Systems and methods for training models to predict dense correspondences across images such as human images. A model may be trained using synthetic training data created from one or more 3D computer models of a subject. In addition, one or more geodesic distances derived from the surfaces of one or more of the 3D models may be used to generate one or more loss values, which may in turn be used in modifying the model's parameters during training.
US11954897B2
An endoscope processor device generates first video signals. A recognition processing processor device generates second video signals by reflecting a result of recognition processing based on the first video signals. A display displays any one of the second video signals or the first video signals switched from the second video signals on the basis of first video switching signals from the recognition processing processor device. The display displays that a result display of the recognition processing is being stopped in a case where the result display of the recognition processing by the second video signals is stopped.
US11954894B2
A system for determining blockage of a vehicle camera is configured to apply a partition grid having a plurality of locations to a sequence of images to form a plurality of regions. The system determines at least one spatial feature corresponding to the partition grid and at least one temporal feature corresponding to the partition grid. The system generates a sequence of classifications for each location of the plurality of locations based on the at least one spatial feature, the at least one temporal feature, and reference information. The system applies a smoothing technique to determine a subset of regions that are blocked among the sequence of classifications, and generates an output signal based on the subset of regions. The output may be provided to an output system to wash the camera lens, notify the user or the vehicle of the blockage, or modify image processing.
US11954890B2
The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and method for fast refining segmentation for a V-PCC encoder. The apparatus may include a grid segmentation unit segmenting a coordinate space of a point cloud into grid units, and an edge cube search unit searching a cube containing one or more points among the cubes segmented into grid units and containing a segment boundary. The apparatus may also include a surrounding cube search unit searching an edge surrounding cube containing one or more points within a predetermined range from the edge cube, and a smooth score calculation unit calculating smooth scores for all the edge surrounding cubes and all the edge cubes. The apparatus may further include a projection plane index update unit obtaining a normal score based on the calculated smooth scores and updating a projection plane index of each point in the edge cube using the normal score.
US11954873B1
The present disclosure relates to artificial intelligence-based devices and methods for geometric alignment and preprocessing of raw CT images. According to the present disclosure, when sensitive to a local error according to each characteristic, only linear transformation is applied to use the centrally aligned rigid registration result, and when the region of interest between patients is spatially matched or monitoring is required, a non-rigid registration result may be used.
US11954864B2
The present disclosure provides a medical image segmentation method. The medical image segmentation method includes acquiring a to-be-processed medical image set, the to-be-processed medical image set including a plurality of to-be-processed medical images corresponding to different time points, processing the to-be-processed medical image set in a time dimension according to the to-be-processed medical images and the time points corresponding to the to-be-processed medical images to obtain a temporal dynamic image, and extracting a target region feature from the temporal dynamic image by using a medical image segmentation model, to acquire a target region.
US11954855B2
Disclosed are a drug evaluation method and apparatus. The drug evaluation method includes acquiring cell images in response to a drug to be evaluated, loading an image processing-based learning model trained so as to predict molar concentrations, outputting molar concentrations of cells corresponding to the cell images by applying the learning model to the acquired cell images, and calculating a drug evaluation value used to evaluate effects of the drug on the cells based on the molar concentrations of the cells corresponding to the cell images output through the learning model.
US11954854B2
Disclosed is a method for training a neural network to quantify the vessel calibre of retina fundus images. The method involves receiving a plurality of fundus images; pre-processing the fundus images to normalise images features of the fundus images; and training a multi-layer neural network, the neural network comprising of a convolutional unit, multiple dense blocks alternating with transition units for down-sampling image features determined by the neural network, and a fully-connected unit, wherein each dense block comprises a series of cAdd units packed with multiple convolutions, and each transition layer comprises a convolution with pooling.
US11954843B2
A system is configured to receive an indication that an apparatus in a first assembled state should comprise a component with a first digital fingerprint and a component with a second digital fingerprint. The system is configured to receive video footage of apparatuses in the first assembled state. The system is configured to isolate an image of an apparatus in the first assembled state. The system is configured to split the image into a frame comprising a first component and a frame comprising a second component. The system is configured to identify feature points and to determine that the first set of feature points matches the first digital fingerprint and that the second set of feature points matches the second digital fingerprint. The system is configured to update a component database.
US11954841B2
An image analysis device may align an image to determine a position of a wafer within the image. The wafer may include a plurality of wafer bumps. The image analysis device may mask, based on the position of the wafer, the image to obtain an image of a portion of the wafer. The image analysis device may binarize the image of the portion of the wafer to create a binarized image of the portion of the wafer. The image analysis device may determine a bump pattern, associated with the plurality of wafer bumps, based on the binarized image of the portion of the wafer. The image analysis device may perform a defect analysis of the determined bump pattern. The defect analysis may be associated with detecting regions of the portion of the wafer in which one or more wafer bumps have abnormal bump heights.
US11954839B2
A leak source specification assistance device includes a processing unit that performs processing, based on a movement of a first pixel that is one of pixels constituting an image including a leaking fluid region (gas region), to determine a second pixel that is one of the pixels constituting the image and is a movement source pixel of the first pixel, and repeats the processing with the second pixel newly set as the first pixel to determine a final movement source pixel. The processing unit repeats the processing on each of a plurality of the pixels constituting the image to determine the final movement source pixel for each of the plurality of pixels.
US11954838B2
The present invention relates to the curation of map data. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method for preparing map data to present to a data curator for substantially optimal quality assurance. Further, the present invention relates to a tool for a data curator to verify map data. According to a first aspect, there is provided a method comprising: generating a plurality of interdependent map portions from a global map; determining, from the plurality of interdependent map portions, at least one interdependent map portion that requires validation; creating at least one group of interdependent map portions, the group of interdependent map portions comprising: the determined at least one interdependent map portion that requires validation; and at least one additional interdependent map portion; and outputting the at least one group of interdependent map portions for validation.
US11954832B2
A method and an apparatus for three-dimensional reconstruction. Images of the reconstruction space captured by N cameras are acquired as N current images in response to an object entering the reconstruction space. Foreground-background differences of all position points in the N current images are obtained according to the N current images and N corresponding initial background images captured by the N cameras when the reconstruction space is empty. Corresponding foreground-background differences of position points in the N current images are fused according to a corresponding relationship between all position points in the N current images and all position points in the reconstruction space, to obtain a foreground-background difference of each position point in the reconstruction space. All position points in the reconstruction space are filtered based on the foreground-background difference of each position point in the reconstruction space and the preset foreground-background threshold, to reconstruct the object three-dimensionally.
US11954831B2
A method of image evaluation when performing SIM microscopy on a sample includes: A) providing n raw images of the sample, which were each generated by illuminating the sample with an individually positioned SIM illumination pattern and imaging the sample in accordance with a point spread function, B) providing (S1) n illumination pattern functions, which each describe one of the individually positioned SIM illumination patterns, C) providing (S1) the point spread function and D) Carrying out an iteration method, which includes following iteration steps a) to e), as follows: a) providing an estimated image of the sample, b) generating simulated raw images, in each case by image processing of the estimated image using the point spread function and one of the n illumination pattern functions such that n simulated raw images are obtained, c) assigning each of the n simulated raw images to that of the n provided raw images which was generated by the illumination pattern that corresponds to the illumination pattern function used to generate the simulated raw image, and calculating n correction raw images by the comparison of each provided raw image with the simulated raw image assigned thereto, d) generating a correction image by combining image processing of the n correction raw images using the point spread function and the n illumination pattern functions, wherein a filtering step is carried out in each implementation of iteration step d), said filtering step suppressing a spatial fundamental frequency of the illumination pattern, and e) reconstructing the estimated image of the sample by means of the correction image and using the corrected estimated image of the sample as the estimated image of the sample in iteration step a) in the next run through the iteration.
US11954824B2
An image pre-processing method and an image processing apparatus for a fundoscopic image are provided. A region of interest (ROI) is obtained from a fundoscopic image to generate a first image. The ROI is focused on an eyeball in the fundoscopic image. A smoothing process is performed on the first image to generate a second image. A value difference between neighboring pixels in the second image is increased to generate a third image.
US11954820B2
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for adding dimensions to a target drawing. The technique includes generating a first set of node embeddings for a first set of nodes included in a target graph that represents the target drawing. The technique also includes receiving a second set of node embeddings for a second set of nodes included in a source graph that represents a source drawing, where one or more nodes included in the second set of nodes are associated with one or more source dimensions included in the source drawing. The technique further includes generating a set of mappings between the first and second sets of nodes based similarities between the first set of node embeddings and the second set of node embeddings, and automatically placing the one or more source dimensions within the target drawing based on the set of mappings.
US11954816B2
There is provided a display control device including a display controller configured to place a virtual object within an augmented reality space corresponding to a real space in accordance with a recognition result of a real object shown in an image captured by an imaging part, and an operation acquisition part configured to acquire a user operation. When the user operation is a first operation, the display controller causes the virtual object to move within the augmented reality space.
US11954815B2
Systems and methods of automatically controlling, on a graphical user interface used by a physician, display views of an anatomic structure of a patient. Such systems and methods of automatically controlling display views of an anatomic structure of a patient can facilitate visualizing a position of a medical device relative to the anatomic structure during a medical procedure directed to the anatomic structure. In certain implementations, the systems and methods of the present disclosure provide automatic display views of a cardiac catheter relative to a three-dimensional model of a patient's heart cavity during a medical procedure such as cardiac ablation.
US11954813B2
A three-dimensional scene constructing method, apparatus and system, and a storage medium. The three-dimensional scene constructing method includes: acquiring point cloud data of a key object and a background object in a target scene, wherein the point cloud data of the key object comprises three-dimensional information and corresponding feature information, and the point cloud data of the background object at least comprises three-dimensional information; establishing a feature database of the target scene, wherein the feature database at least comprises a key object feature library for recording three-dimensional information and feature information of the key object; performing registration and fusion on the point cloud data of the key object and the point cloud data of the background object, so as to obtain a three-dimensional model of the target scene; and when updating the three-dimensional model, reconstructing the three-dimensional model in a regional manner according to the feature database.
US11954811B2
An augmented reality (AR) platform supports concurrent operation of multiple AR applications developed by third-party software developers. The AR platform may include an application programming interface (API) that third-party software developers can use to integrate features of the AR platform into the overall user experience of their AR applications. The AR platform includes a feature set having a variety of AR-specific features that interact with and are accessible to the AR applications or AR layers that define a collection of AR content.
US11954796B2
The disclosure relates to a soil distribution planning system. The soil distribution planning system according to an embodiment includes a grid-model generation module configured to receive information about three-dimensional (3D) topography, ground and a target model and generate a 3D grid model by dividing a target area; an earthwork-volume calculation module configured to calculate an earthwork volume of each grid model generated by the grid-model generation module and store the calculated earthwork volume in a database; and an earthwork-volume distribution module configured to distribute the earthwork volume of a cutting area to a banking area based on the earthwork volume stored in the database.
US11954794B2
Systems and methods for retrieval of augmented parameters for an artificial intelligence (AI)-based character are provided. An example method includes receiving, from a user via a user interface, at least one keyword describing the AI-based character; retrieving, from at least one data source and based on the at least one keyword, the augmented parameters describing the AI-based character; and generating, based on the augmented parameters, an AI-based character model corresponding to the AI-based character. The at least one data source includes a database configured to store records associated with the AI-based character, an online search service, and a set of clusters associated with a type of a feature of the AI-based character and at least one hidden prompt corresponding to the type of the feature. The type of the feature includes one of the following: a voice, a dialog style, an emotional state, an age, and temperament.
US11954792B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for performing real-time video rendering with performance guaranteed power management are disclosed. A system includes at least a software driver, a power management unit, and a plurality of processing elements for performing rendering tasks. The system receives inputs which correspond to rendering tasks which need to be performed. The software driver monitors the inputs that are received and the number of rendering tasks to which they correspond. The software driver also monitors the amount of time remaining until the next video synchronization signal. The software driver determines which performance setting will minimize power consumption while still allowing enough time to finish the rendering tasks for the current frame before the next video synchronization signal. Then, the software driver causes the power management unit to provide this performance setting to the plurality of processing elements as they perform the rendering tasks for the current frame.
US11954789B2
Systems and methods are described for rendering a 3D synthetic scene. A display client receives point cloud samples of the scene, where the point cloud samples include a point location, one or more viewing directions, and color information for each of the viewing directions. The point cloud samples may be generated by a server using ray tracing. The display client combines information from the point cloud samples with a locally generated rendering of at least a portion of the scene to generate a combined rendering of the scene, and the client displays the combined rendering. The number of point cloud samples may be adjusted adaptively based on performance metrics at the client.
US11954788B2
A technique for performing ray tracing operations is provided. The technique includes processing small bounding box nodes in a box intersection test circuit to generate intersection test results for the small bounding box nodes; and processing large bounding box nodes in the box intersection test circuit to generate intersection test results for the large bounding box nodes.
US11954782B2
A method, system, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium for rasterizing primitives are disclosed. The method, system, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium includes: generating a primitive batch from a sequence of one or more primitives, wherein the primitive batch includes primitives sorted into one or more row groups based on which row of a plurality of rows each primitive intersects; and processing each row group, the processing for each row group including: identifying one or more primitive column intercepts for each of the one or more primitives in the row group, wherein each combination of primitive column intercept and row identifies a bin; and rasterizing the one or more primitives that intersect the bin.
US11954781B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a video processing method, a video processing apparatus, an electronic device and a computer-readable storage medium. The video processing method includes: displaying an initial image which includes a first-style image; in response to a first trigger event, displaying an image switching animation which is used for presenting a dynamic process of the switching from the initial image to a target image which includes a second-style image; and in response to completion of the displaying of the image switching animation, displaying the target image. A switching image in the image switching animation includes a first image area, a second image area and a third image area, and the first image area covers the entire image area of the image switching animation by means of position movement and in a time-sharing manner, and has a change in shape during a position movement process.
US11954778B2
A computer-implemented method for avatar rendering of virtual presentations is disclosed. The computer-implemented method includes extracting visual content from a presentation. The computer-implemented method further includes extracting audio content from the presentation. The computer-implemented method includes correlating the visual content with the audio content of the presentation. The computer-implemented method includes generating a virtual avatar to dynamically render a virtual presentation to a viewer, based at least in part, on the correlated visual content and audio content of the presentation.
US11954777B2
There is provided an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and a program capable of expanding the range of expression in a moving image generated by use of a 3D model. The image processing apparatus includes: a virtual camera setting unit that makes settings for a virtual camera; a virtual viewpoint image generation unit that generates a virtual viewpoint image that is an image of a 3D object viewed from a viewpoint of the virtual camera; a composition unit that generates a composite image based on a plurality of the virtual viewpoint images; and a moving image generation unit that generates a moving image including a frame based on the virtual viewpoint image or the composite image, in which after arranging a plurality of the virtual cameras, the virtual camera setting unit moves at least one of the plurality of virtual cameras to integrate the plurality of virtual cameras. The present technology can be applied to, for example, an apparatus that edits a moving image.
US11954776B2
A unified platform obtains, stores, and shares search results based on user profiles or groups with a common interest. User profiles or group profiles may be used to identify categories containing objects related to a common interest, and the objects may be selected for placement in a graphical user interface from which they may be purchased by or for the user. The objects may preferably be virtual objects stored in a virtual locker or other virtual display unit. Users are able to conduct web-based searches for products or services from different websites and store dimensional representations of virtual products or services in a unified platform.
US11954771B2
Systems and methods of timeline visualization that define a table structure which represents supply chain management actions in a generic way. The content of the table is then processed by the timeline visualization to extract the entities, events, their relationships, and their attributes. These entities are transformed into time axes, while the events are transformed into a visual representation of their attributes using color, shapes, and text labels. The events may be positioned on a canvas, above or below a timeline axis, depending on whether they are upstream or downstream events, using a layout module which determines the position on the x-axis (time) and y-axis.
US11954767B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for generating a three-dimensional reconstruction of an object with reduced distortion are described. In some aspects, a system includes at least two image sensors, at least two projectors, and a processor. Each image sensor is configured to capture one or more images of an object. Each projector is configured to illuminate the object with an associated optical pattern and from a different perspective. The processor is configured to perform the acts of receiving, from each image sensor, for each projector, images of the object illuminated with the associated optical pattern and generating, from the received images, a three-dimensional reconstruction of the object. The three-dimensional reconstruction has reduced distortion due to the received images of the object being generated when each projector illuminates the object with an associated optical pattern from the different perspective.
US11954758B2
This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus, and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for dynamic wave pairing. A graphics processor may allocate one or more GPU workloads to one or more wave slots of a plurality of wave slots. The graphics processor may select a first execution slot of a plurality of execution slots for executing the one or more GPU workloads. The selection may be based on one of a plurality of granularities. The graphics processor may execute, at the selected first execution slot, the one or more GPU workloads at the one of the plurality of granularities.
US11954754B2
A computing system can detect the launch of a rider application on computing devices of users of a transport service. The computing system can receive location data indicating the current location of each user, and determine a usage pattern for each user based on historical data corresponding to historical utilization of the transport service by the user. Based on the current location and the usage pattern of the user, the computing system can determine one or more suggested destination locations for the user, and transmit, over the one or more networks, display data to cause the rider application to display a destination accelerator for each of the one or more suggested destination locations. The destination accelerator can be selectable by the user to automatically input a destination location into a transport request for the transport service.
US11954753B2
Methods and systems for providing automated asset management are provided. In embodiments, an asset data collector is configured to automatically collect asset data associated with assets in an intermodal facility according to a mission plan. An automated data collection configurator is configured to configure the mission plan based on one or more parameters and to instantiate the asset data collector to initiate collection of the asset data according to the mission plan. An automated asset data analyzer is configured to identify data in which one or more assets appear, to identify the one or more assets detected in the set of data, to inspect, based on the set of data in which the one or more assets are detected, the one or more assets to determine a condition of the one or more assets, and to output the condition of the one or more assets.
US11954751B2
A workplace safety system includes an item of monitored equipment, a mobile communications device, and a scoring computing system. The item of monitored equipment includes a sensor, a transmitter, and a computing unit. The sensor is configured to generate signals. The computing unit is electrically coupled with each of the sensor and the transmitter. The mobile communications device is in wireless communication with the transmitter via a short-range communication protocol. The scoring computing system is in networked communication with the mobile communications device and is configured to receive data. The data includes an identity of an operator of the item of monitored equipment. A characteristic of operation is determined based upon the signals from the sensor and represents a manner by which the operator has used the item of monitored equipment. The scoring computing system is configured to generate a safety score associated with the operator. Methods are also provided.
US11954750B2
Systems and methods are described for determining an accuracy of crowd-sourced information. One or more servers can be configured to interact with and receive information from a plurality of devices/sources about an event, which may include, for example, sensors, social media platforms, and user inputs. The system can analyze information about the source and information about the event received from a source to determine the reliability and accuracy of the received information. This information can be cross-checked with social media posts, nearby sensor data, and other inputs to verify authenticity and accuracy. If an event is verified or deemed reliable, an alert can be transmitted to one or more recipients.
US11954735B1
Systems and methods for digital property protection are disclosed. For example, indication may be received that an entity has applied for an insurance policy to insure against theft of digital property. The digital property may be registered and a valuation of the digital property may be generated. Due diligence processes may be performed, including assessment of physical and/or network security mechanisms to prevent theft of the digital property. A recommendation to issue the insurance policy may be generated and sent in examples where the due diligence processes return favorable results. Terms generation and/or identification may be performed, and claims processing based at least in part on loss matrixes may also be performed.
US11954734B2
An exemplary system according to the present disclosure comprises a computing device that in operation, causes the system to receive financial product or financial portfolio data, map the financial product to a risk factor, execute a risk factor simulation process involving the risk factor, generate product profit and loss values for the financial product or portfolio profit and loss values for the financial portfolio based on the risk factor simulation process, and determine an initial margin for the financial product. The risk factor simulation process can be a filtered historical simulation process.
US11954733B1
A computing system includes a network interface circuit and a processing circuit configured to receive a plurality of issuer ratings associated with issuers from a plurality of analyst devices, wherein the plurality of issuer ratings include qualitative ratings, generate numerical quality ratings for the issuers based on the qualitative ratings of the issuers, receive a plurality of investment parameters from a manager device, the plurality of investment parameters defining characteristics of a custom investment strategy, generate a dataset regarding securities issued by the issuers based on the numerical quality ratings of the issuers, the dataset including securities issued by the issuers having a numerical quality rating over a pre-determined value, generate the custom investment strategy by selecting securities from the dataset based on the numerical quality ratings and the plurality of investment parameters, and provide the custom investment strategy to the manager device.
US11954732B2
A system and method is disclosed for evaluating a plurality of cryptocurrencies, the method comprising monitoring and storing volatility data for a plurality of cryptocurrency exchanges; analyzing the stored volatility data to generate one or more risk forecasts indicating risks associated with purchasing cryptocurrency through each of the cryptocurrency exchanges; determining a number of transaction factors for purchasing cryptocurrencies and selecting a cryptocurrency based on the transaction factors.
US11954729B2
A method for providing a dynamically-updated electronic report of assets available for transaction to a user is provided. The electronic report is provided to a computing device operated by the user. The electronic report includes one or more entries that each corresponds to an asset for sale. Each entry can include a link for the corresponding asset. In response to receiving user selection of a link on the report, one or more characteristics of the asset corresponding to the selected link are determined. One or more additional assets are determined based on the one or more characteristics. The electronic report is dynamically updated to include one or more entries corresponding to the one or more additional assets. A user profile of the user can also be updated in response to the user's selection.
US11954725B2
Systems and methods are provided and include a computer terminal located at a flooring store that receives a measured color of a flooring product. A server receives paint product catalog information from a computer system located at a coating manufacturer facility, determines paint colors that coordinate with the flooring product based on the paint product catalog information, and runs a paint product ordering application that interacts with a web browser of the computer terminal. The computer terminal receives a paint product ordering web page from the server that enables a user to create an order for a paint product based on a selected paint color and transmits the order to the server. The server receives the order and communicates the order to the computer system at the coating manufacturer facility. The computer system receives the order for order fulfillment, including creating, packing, and shipping the paint product to the user.
US11954721B2
A system including a user interface adapted to receive a user input and communicatively connected with a communications module, a foodstuff database stored in memory including a set of available foodstuff transactions, and a controller module adapted to receive the user input receive at the user interface by way of the communications module, and configured to query the foodstuff database based on the user input, identify at least a subset of available foodstuff transactions based on the query, and send the identified subset of available foodstuff transactions to the user interface by way of the communications module.
US11954719B2
A consumer is identified engaged in an activity at a specific physical location. A context is formulated for the consumer based on the activity, the location, preferences associated with the consumer, and a history associated with the consumer. A natural language voice-based assistance session is initiated with the consumer. The session follows the consumer as the consumer travels and remains engaged in the activity. In an embodiment, the session is seamlessly maintained and is seamlessly transferred from a plurality of different devices as the consumer is engaged in the activity and travels. In an embodiment, the session is initiated without the consumer requesting the session.
US11954712B2
The present disclosure provides for an apparatus for accessing a management system comprising a memory operable to store a plurality of customer reviews received from a plurality of external sources and a processor operably coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to receive the plurality of customer reviews, wherein receiving the plurality of customer reviews comprises of transmitting a functional call at a pre-determined frequency with property identifiers to an application programming interface (API). The processor is further configured to categorize each of the received plurality of customer reviews into a designated category and to generate a response to one of the received plurality of customer reviews. The processor is further configured to transmit the generated response to one of the plurality of external sources and to display each of the received plurality of customer reviews through one or more widgets on a user interface of the management system.
US11954707B2
Systems and related methods facilitating payments with a mobile device are discussed herein. Circuitry in a networked-based central system, which may be a promotional system or payment system, may be configured to receive payment information from a consumer device. The consumer device may include circuitry configured to receive wallet identifying data from the central system. The wallet identification data may be used to secure messages between the consumer device and another device, such as a merchant device, over a wireless link. In some embodiments, the consumer device may receive promotional offers, such as deal vouchers or rewards, and make payments to the other device via the wireless link.
US11954705B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for content quasi-personalization or anonymized content retrieval via aggregated browsing history of a large plurality of devices, such as millions or billions of devices. A sparse matrix may be constructed from the aggregated browsing history, and dimensionally reduced, reducing entropy and providing anonymity for individual devices. Relevant content may be selected via quasi-personalized clusters representing similar browsing histories, without exposing individual device details to content providers.
US11954704B2
A “scannable logo” image contains encoded identity data for the logo brand owner, encoded visual identification characteristics for the logo brand, an encoded GPS data corresponding to manufacturing location for a manufactured item or assembled item, plus additional embodiment dependent data. The image is scanned with the image scanning function of a mobile communication device and the encoded logo brand owner identity data, the encoded visually identifying characteristics for the logo brand, and the encoded GPS location information are decoded with a decoding function. The GPS location information is captured for the mobile communication device with the GPS function of the mobile communication device and compared to the decoded GPS location information. If the decoded information is a geo-proximal match, an authentication application is launched in the computer function of the mobile communication device.
US11954702B2
A method, including receiving, from a consumer, a client device identification though an application running in a client device, is provided. The method includes matching the client device identification with a loyalty card for a retail store, identifying a shopping history for consumer, associated with the retail store, in a database, based on the loyalty card, and requesting, through the application, an information from consumer, based on the shopping history. The method further includes verifying the identity of consumer when at least a portion of the information matches the shopping history associated with the retail store, for consumer, and providing an offer to consumer, through the application running in the client device, of a product in the retail store. A system and a non-transitory, computer readable medium storing instructions to perform the above method are also provided.
US11954693B2
A method for dynamic test suite creation from event communications from customers includes receiving an event communication from a customer about an adverse event. The customer receives support for computing equipment over a management network from a support provider and the adverse event is regarding the computing equipment. The method includes analyzing the event communication using natural language processing to identify a potential cause of the adverse event and selecting one or more tests from a test library based on the identified potential cause of the adverse event. Each test of the tests is configured to test a portion of the computing equipment to lead to identification of a cause of the adverse event. The method includes automatically initiating the selected one or more tests through the management network and analyzing test results from execution of the selected one or more tests to identify a cause the adverse event.
US11954688B2
An improved method and apparatus for determining if a financial transaction is fraudulent is described. The apparatus in one embodiment collects transactions off of a rail using promiscuous listening techniques. The method uses linear programming algorithms to tune the rules used for making the determination. The tuning first simulates using historical data and then creates a matrix of the rules that are processed through the linear programming algorithm to solve for the variables in the rules. With the updated rules, a second simulation is performed to view the improvement in the performance. The updated rules are then used to evaluate the transactions for fraud.
US11954686B2
Examples in this application disclose information sharing methods, media, and systems. One example computer-implemented method includes receiving, by a trusted execution environment (TEE), a first sharing request from a first institution and a second sharing request from a second institution, where the first sharing request comprises a user identity of a first user and first anti-money laundering (AML) risk information and the second sharing request comprises a user identity of a second user and second AML risk information, comparing the user identity of the first user with the user identity of the second user, in response to that the user identity of the first user is the same as the user identity of the second user, combining the first AML risk information and the second AML risk information, and sending the combined first AML risk information and second AML risk information to the first institution and the second institution.
US11954684B1
A system and method for providing proof of a digital identification of a user which may include activating, on a mobile computing device, a bank application and a digital identification service provider application, and which may allow the bank application to have access to user accounts after the bank application receives a digital identification from the digital identification service provider application in order to provide proof of identify with speed and security.
US11954677B2
Provided herein is a computer-implemented method for provisioning a token to an appliance. The method includes registering an original account identifier to an appliance, wherein the original account identifier is not associated with any user, associating a device token to the original account identifier, wherein the device token is stored by the appliance, associating a user account identifier for a user to at least one of the device token and the original account identifier, receiving, from the appliance, a transaction request for a transaction, the transaction request including the device token, identifying the user account identifier based on the device token, determining that the transaction is authorized based at least partially on the user account identifier and the original account identifier registered to the at least one appliance, and in response to determining that the transaction is authorized, processing the transaction. A system and appliance are also disclosed.
US11954673B2
A method for processing cryptographic currency transactions through user-based blockchain ledgers includes: receiving, by blockchain node in a blockchain network, a new cryptographic currency transaction from a first computing device including unspent transaction outputs, a sender public key, receiver public key, destination address, and cryptographic currency amount; identifying, by the blockchain node, a sending blockchain associated with the sender public key including the unspent transaction outputs; validating, by the blockchain node, the sending blockchain by generating a hash value using the sending blockchain and comparing the generated hash value to a historic sender hash value associated with the sender public key; generating, by the blockchain node, a new sender hash value by hashing a combination of the sending blockchain and the new cryptographic currency transaction; and transmitting, by the blockchain node, the generated new sender hash value to a plurality of additional nodes in the blockchain network.
US11954650B2
The described techniques relate generally to managing in-person access of users to physical properties based at least in part on tracking geographical locations of devices of the users, such as by using one or more geofences created around a physical property to provide authorized users with temporary access to the physical property based at least in part on tracked geographical locations of devices of the users. In some situations, a specialized server provides information to a user's mobile device about the geofence(s), and the mobile device notifies the specialized server when it breaches one or more of the geofences. The specialized server may perform further related activities, such as perform tracking of locations of users as they move around a physical property, and further analyzing the tracked location information to determine associated information and initiate corresponding additional automated activities.
US11954649B2
A system is provided which that allows users of electronic communication systems and/or calendar systems the ability to suggest meetings to users of different electronic communication systems and/or calendar systems via electronic messages. The system may provide users with the ability to share calendar availability with users of other electronic communication systems and/or calendar systems via electronic message. One aspect of the disclosed system is the fact that users can share interactive calendar information, and propose and confirm tentative meetings and events, with users of different electronic communications and/or calendar systems. Additionally, calendar information that is shared with others may be dynamically updated even after the electronic messages have been sent.
US11954645B2
Participant inclusion determination can include generating a textual analysis of a draft of an electronic communication in response to a sender preparing the draft for conveyance over an electronic communications network. A word relevance score can be computed for each word of the draft based on the textual analysis. Probabilistically weighted distances between the sender, an initial recipient of the electronic communication, and more additional recipient candidates for additionally receiving the electronic communication can be determined. The probabilistically weighted distances can correspond to hierarchical distances within a hierarchical structure corresponding to an organization in which the sender, the initial recipient, and one or more additional recipient candidates are members. At least one of the additional recipient candidates can be selected for receiving the electronic communication over the electronic communications network based on the word relevance scores and the probabilistically weighted distances.
US11954640B2
The invention relates to a container (10) for a goods management system, the system being configured for receiving goods, wherein the container comprises a capacitive sensor device (20) for detecting the presence and/or the filling volume of goods in the container, the capacitive sensor device comprising a conducting path (22) printed on a substrate on at least one boundary wall (11) of the container, which in the FIGURE is formed by its bottom (11). The invention further relates to a goods management system comprising one or more such containers.
US11954629B2
Activation policies for workflows are described. Some implementations support receiving a definition of a workflow, including data defining an input set for the workflow and data defining activities and a flow of the activities for the workflow. The data includes an activation policy for at least a particular activity of the activities. An estimated operational outcome for the workflow and/or each of the activities is determined and displayed. Then data identifying edits to the activation policy are received, and an updated version of the estimated operational outcome for the workflow and/or each of the activities is determined and displayed.
US11954621B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to personal protective equipment (PPE) management. A set of personal protective equipment (PPE) data describing use time limits of respective PPE articles of a set of PPE articles can be received. Use of a PPE article of the set of PPE articles can be monitored using one or more sensors. A determination can be made whether a PPE usage rule of the PPE article is satisfied based on the monitoring, where the PPE usage rule is based on at least a use time limit of the PPE article. A PPE recommendation action can be issued in response to determining that the PPE usage rule of the PPE article is satisfied.
US11954616B2
An intelligent stereo garage system based on Internet+ and a vehicle parking and pick-up method. The system includes a mobile APP (10), a cloud server (20), a computer system (30), a programmable logic controller (PLC) system (40), a stereo garage (50), and an all-in-one touch machine (60), where the all-in-one touch machine (60) is deployed next to the stereo garage (50), and the computer system (30) is deployed outside or inside the stereo garage (50). A fully-automatic parking method uses different parking and pick-up modes, which technically ensures that users can get their vehicles in time without hindering other users, and allows users to truly experience the system intelligence. This deeply embodies the smart city's idea of interconnecting everything with a mobile phone. The method largely solves problems such as parking difficulty, illegal parking, unauthorized charges, traffic jams, traffic noise, traffic accidents, and vehicle pollution.
US11954613B2
A method, apparatus and computer program product for establishing a logical connection between an indirect utterance and a transaction is described. An indirect utterance is received from a user as an input to a conversational system. The indirect utterance is parsed to a first logical form. A first set of predicates and terms is mapped from the first logical form to a first subgraph in a knowledge graph. A second set of predicates and terms is mapped from a second logical form belonging to a transaction to a second subgraph of the knowledge graph. A best path in the knowledge graph between the first subgraph and the second subgraph is searched for while transforming the first logical form using the node and edge labels along the best path to generate an intermediate logical form. A system action is performed for a transaction if a graph structure of the intermediate logical form matches the graph structure of the logical form of the transaction above a threshold.
US11954611B2
Tensor comparison across a network by determining a first parameter of a first vector representation of a first tensor object associated with a first processor, receiving a second parameter associated with a second vector representation of a second tensor object associated with a second processor, determining a first difference between the first parameter and the second parameter, and sending the first vector representation from the first processor to the second processor, according to the first difference.
US11954606B2
Automated event monitoring is performed utilizing a Knowledge Graph (KG) constructed by grouping and consolidation of a variety of log Entry Types. A log entry is received by a knowledge graph parser (Kg parser). That parser finds contiguous sub-strings in a log entry that have a parameterized basic-format. The parser figures out which basic-formats are present, where, and with which parameters. Given a sub-string, its basic-format and its parameters, the parser can correctly parse the sub-string to components (e.g., keys and values if a key-value format; fields if a structured format). A result of the parsing is an entity type tree structure. Next, a grouping and consolidation capability functions to modify the KG to incorporate an incoming new entry type structure. The KG may be consumed by a user (e.g., visualization; querying), and may provide an artifact to an event monitoring system to automatically trigger certain actions (e.g., alerts).
US11954601B2
Disclosed is a method of storing, in a distributed manner, genomic information in a plurality of nodes, each containing a block chain composed of blocks connected to each other, retrieving at least one piece of the stored genomic information, and acquiring a genomic material corresponding to the retrieved genomic information from a genomic material storage unit that stores genomic materials, each genomic material containing a genome and an artificial nucleic acid sequence. The method includes (1) storing, by each node, genomic information, (2) retrieving, by at least one of the nodes, specific genomic information, and (3) performing authentication.
US11954593B2
Current cancer screening methods are not suitable to be applied on a broad scale and are not transparent to the patient. The problem is solved by a method to determine a degree of abnormality, the method comprising the following steps: receiving a whole slide image, the whole slide image depicting at least a portion of a cell, classifying at least one image tile of the whole slide image using a neural network to determine a local abnormality degree value associated with the at least one image tile, the local abnormality degree value indicating a likelihood that the associated at least one segment depicts at least a part of a cancerous cell, and determining a degree of abnormality for the whole slide image based on the local abnormality degree value for the at least one image tile.
US11954585B2
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of semiconductor integrated circuits and discloses a multi-mode array structure for in-memory computing, and a chip, including: an array of memory cells, function lines corresponding to all the memory cells measured by rows in the array of memory cells, and complementary function lines and bit lines BL corresponding to all the memory cells measured by columns in the array of memory cells. According to the present disclosure, the TCAM function and CNN and SNN operations are enabled; the multi-mode array for in-memory computing herein goes beyond the limits of the von Neumann architecture by integrating the multiple modes of storage and computation, achieving efficient operation and computation; in addition to solving the computing power problem, a new array mode is provided to promote the development of high-integration circuits.
US11954584B2
A neural core, a neural processing device including same and a method for lauding data of a neural processing device are provided. The neural core comprises a processing unit configured to perform operations, an L0 memory configured to store input data and an LSU configured to perform a load task and a store task of data between the processing unit and the L0 memory, wherein the LSU comprises a local memory load unit configured to transmit the input data in the L0 memory to the processing unit, and the local memory load unit comprises a target decision module configured to identify and retrieve the input data in the L0 memory, a transformation logic configured to transform the input data and thereby generate transformed data and an output FIFO configured to receive the transformed data and transmit the transformed data to the processing unit in the received order.
US11954580B2
In one embodiment, a method for machine learning acceleration includes receiving, by a shared controller of a tensor processor cluster that includes multiple tensor processors, a multi-cycle instruction, determining, based on the instruction, a sequence of vector operations to be executed by the tensor processors and address information usable to determine a respective spatial partition of an input tensor on which each tensor processor is to operate when performing each vector operation. The method also includes, for each vector operation in the sequence, generating, based on the address information, a common address offset, relative to a respective base address associated with each tensor processor, at which each tensor processor is to retrieve the respective spatial partition on which the tensor processor is to operate, multicasting the common address offset to the tensor processors, and controlling the tensor processors to execute the vector operation in parallel and in lock step.
US11954576B2
Disclosed are a method for implementing and developing a network model and a related product. The method includes: an establishment command of a neural network model is received, and a computation graph of an initial neural network model is established accordingly; a computing module selected and a connection relationship of the computing module are acquired, the computing module and the connection relationship are added into the computation graph of the initial neural network model, and an intermediate neural network model is obtained; and an establishment ending command of the neural network model is collected, the intermediate neural network model is verified according to the ending command to determine whether the computing module conflicts with other computing modules or not; if not, an established neural network model matched with a computation graph of the intermediate network model is generated, and execution codes matched with the computation graph are generated.
US11954573B2
A method of constructing an adaptive multiply accumulate layer in a convolutional neural network, including determining an activation data map width, an activation data map height, a channel depth, a batch, a kernel width, a kernel height and a filter set number, setting a first dimension of an adaptive multiplier layer based on the activation data map width, setting a second dimension of the adaptive multiplier layer based on the channel depth, setting a third dimension of the adaptive multiplier layer based on the filter set number and constructing the adaptive multiplier layer based on the first dimension, the second dimension and the third dimension.
US11954572B2
A method for machine learning-based classification may include training a machine learning model with a full training data set, the full training data set comprising a plurality of data points, to generate a first model state of the machine learning model, generating respective embeddings for the data points in the full training data set with the first model state of the machine learning model, applying a clustering algorithm to the respective embeddings to generate one or more clusters of the embeddings, identifying outlier embeddings from the one or more clusters of the embeddings, generating a reduced training data set comprising the full training data set less the data points associated with the outlier embeddings, training the machine learning model with the reduced training data set to a second model state, and applying the second model state to one or more data sets to classify the one or more data sets.
US11954567B2
According to some aspects, machine-learning models can be executed to classify a subsurface rock. Examples include training numerous machine-learning models using training data sets with different probability distributions, and then selecting a model to execute on a test data set. The selection of the model may be based on the similarity of each data point of the test data set and the probability distribution of each training class. Examples include detecting and recommending a pre-trained model to generate outputs predicting a classification, such as a lithology, of a test data set. Recommending the trained model may be based on calculated prior probabilities that measure the similarity between the training and test data sets. The model with a training data set that is most similar to the test data set can be recommended for classifying a physical property of the subsurface rock for hydrocarbon formation.
US11954566B2
A data collection system includes a classification model storing unit, a model delivery unit, a classification result storing unit, an optimum model recommendation unit, and a teacher data recording unit. The model delivery unit delivers a classification model to the user environment. The classification result storing unit classifies each of the classification models on the classification model storing unit using data with a label transmitted from the user environment as an input. The classification result storing unit stores a classification result including at least one of classification correctness or a percentage of correct answers for each input data. The optimum model recommendation unit presents an appropriate classification model for the input data based on the classification result for each of the classification models. The teacher data recording unit records the input data as teacher data or test data of the classification model.
US11954560B2
Aspects of the present disclosure describe techniques for fast cooling of ion motion in a long chain using local motional modes. For example, a method is described for cooling down ions in a chain of ions that includes performing a cooling down sequence in which phonons are removed from the ions in the chain of ions by exciting and de-exciting local motional modes associated with individual ions, wherein sideband transitions that are part of the cooling down sequence are driven faster for the local motional modes than for collective motional modes for the same chain of ions; and completing the cooling down sequence when the local motional modes reach a ground state. A corresponding system and computer-readable storage medium for fast cooling of ion motion in a long chain using local motional modes are also described.
US11954558B1
An Internet of Things equipment management system and an operation method thereof are provided. The operation method includes: obtaining, by a wearable camera, a group number and a user name of the wearable camera from a client-side server; obtaining, by a mobile application, the group name from the wearable camera; scanning a barcode of a sensor to obtain a serial number of the sensor and writing the group name to the sensor by the mobile application; pairing, by the mobile application, the group name and the serial number to establish a pairing relationship between the wearable camera and the sensor; and transmitting, by the mobile application, the pairing relationship to the client-side server.
US11954555B2
A sensor interface circuit includes: an RF switch having a control node; a bias circuit electrically connected to the control node and applying, to the control node, a voltage at a first level or a second level corresponding to a linear region of a reflection characteristic; a first variable oscillation circuit electrically connectable to a first sensor; a second variable oscillation circuit electrically connectable to a second sensor; and a difference circuit electrically connected between the first variable oscillation circuit and the bias circuit, and between the second variable oscillation circuit and the bias circuit.
US11954546B2
Provided is a structure for individual authentication in which a pillar pattern region including a plurality of nanopillars formed of synthetic quartz glass is formed on at least a part of a surface portion of a synthetic quartz glass substrate. In the pillar pattern region, the nanopillars have an indentation elastic modulus of 35 to 100 GPa as measured by a nanoindentation method, and the nanopillars are plastically deformed.
US11954541B1
Techniques are described for providing a highly available data ingestion system for ingesting machine data sent from remote data sources across potentially unreliable networks. To provide for highly available delivery of such data, a data intake and query system provides users with redundant sets of ingestion endpoints to which messages sent from users' computing environments can be delivered to the data intake and query system. Users' data sources, or data forwarding components configured to obtain and send data from one or more data sources, are then configured to encapsulate obtained machine data into discrete messages and to send copies of each message to two or more of the ingestion endpoints provisioned for a user. The ingestion endpoints receiving the messages implement a deduplication technique and provide only one copy of each message to a subsequent processing component (e.g., to an indexing subsystem for event generation, event indexing, etc.).
US11954533B2
Detecting a trend in latency for storage underlying a deduplicated file system includes generating a set of data points by recording when input/output (IO) requests were issued to the storage and recording time required to receive success responses from the storage. Least squares regression is performed on the data points to find a best-fit line through the data points. A slope of the best-fit line is calculated. A determination is made as to whether the slope is positive, a positive slope thereby indicating a trend of increasing latency of the storage. When the slope is determined to be positive, clients accessing the deduplicated file system are throttled.
US11954526B2
The present disclosure provides a multi-queue multi-cluster task scheduling method and system. The method includes: constructing a training data set; training and optimizing a plurality of parallel deep neural networks (DNN) by using the training data set to obtain a plurality of trained and optimized parallel DNNs; setting a reward function, where the reward function minimizes the sum of a task delay and energy consumption by adjusting a reward value proportion of the task delay and a reward value proportion of the energy consumption; inputting a to-be-scheduled state space into the plurality of trained and optimized parallel DNNs to obtain a plurality of to-be-scheduled action decisions; determining an optimal action decision among the plurality of to-be-scheduled action decisions based on the reward function for output; and scheduling the plurality of task attribute groups to a plurality of clusters based on the optimal action decision.
US11954524B2
A method for scheduling services in a computing environment includes receiving a service scheduling request corresponding to the computing environment and identifying a resource pool and a set of compliance requirements corresponding to the computing environment. The method continues by identifying target resources within the resource pool, wherein target resources are resources which meet the set of compliance requirements, and subsequently identifying a set of available target resources, wherein available target resources are target resources with scheduling availability. The method further includes analyzing the set of available target resources to determine a risk score for each available target resource and selecting one or more of the set of available target resources according to the determined risk scores. The method continues by scheduling a service corresponding to the service scheduling request on the selected one or more available target resources.
US11954523B2
There are provided a method for behavioral pairing in a task assignment system with an external pairing system. The method includes transmitting, to the external pairing system over an application programming interface, a control flag and a benchmark flag and receiving, from the external pairing system, a task-agent pairing based on one of a first pairing strategy and a second pairing strategy. The task-agent pairing is based at least in part on the control flag and the benchmark flag.
US11954522B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method for processing tasks in parallel, a device and a storage medium, and relate to a field of artificial intelligent technologies. The method includes: determining at least one parallel computing graph of a target task; determining a parallel computing graph and an operator scheduling scheme based on a hardware execution cost of each operator task of each of the at least one parallel computing graph in a cluster, in which the cluster includes a plurality of nodes for executing the plurality of operator tasks, and each parallel computing graph corresponds to at least one operator scheduling scheme; and scheduling and executing the plurality of operator tasks of the determined parallel computing graph in the cluster based on the determined parallel computing graph and the determined operator scheduling scheme.
US11954519B2
An information processing apparatus includes a memory and processing circuitry. The memory stores log data generated by an execution of a process. The processing circuity stops the execution of the process in a state where the process is being executed and when an amount of the log data in the memory is larger than a first threshold, and restarts the execution of the process in a state where the execution of the process is stopped and when the amount of the log data in the memory is smaller than a second threshold that is smaller than the first threshold.
US11954518B2
Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to optimize processor resources at a user-defined level. In at least one embodiment, priority of one or more tasks are adjusted to prevent one or more other dependent tasks from entering an idle state due to lack of resources to consume.
US11954515B1
A system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes at least two virtual machines running on a hardware platform using either a hosted or a bare metal hypervisor. The virtual machines may communicate with an agent-server resident in the host operating system or in one of the virtual machines to switch control of the hardware component, such as graphics hardware, from one virtual machine to another.
US11954510B2
A method includes identifying an ahead-of-time (AOT) native-image application to be compiled and during AOT compilation of the AOT native-image application; bypassing an operating system page cache corresponding to the AOT native-image application; and accessing, by a processing device, the native-image application from an in-memory cache shared using inter-process-communication.
US11954504B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for a method of cloud infrastructure optimization. The method identifies an existing infrastructure configuration deployed in a cloud environment and generates a plurality of proposal configurations, each of the plurality of proposal configurations having executable code configured to adjust the existing infrastructure configuration for at least one variable. The method selects a proposal configuration from the plurality of proposal configurations based on the at least one variable adjusted for in the existing infrastructure configuration, and the selected proposal configuration is deployed in the cloud environment. The method then analyzes the selected proposal configuration for a level of adjustment for the at least one variable. The method trains a model engine with existing and new training data.
US11954492B1
Techniques are disclosed relating to channel stalls or deactivations based on the latency of prior operations. In some embodiments, a processor includes a plurality of channel pipelines for a plurality of channels and a plurality of execution pipelines shared by the channel pipelines and configured to perform different types of operations provided by the channel pipelines. First scheduler circuitry may assign threads to channels and second scheduler circuitry may assign an operation from a given channel to a given execution pipeline based on decode of an operation for that channel. Dependency circuitry may, for a first operation that depends on a prior operation that uses one of the execution pipelines, determine, based on status information for the prior operation from the one of the execution pipelines, whether to stall the first operation or to deactivate a thread that includes the first operation from its assigned channel.
US11954484B2
A method for providing graph-based application modeling to facilitate application lifecycle management is disclosed. The method includes receiving, via a graphical user interface, an input, the input relating to a request to design and develop an application; determining, based on the input, a model development plan, the model development plan including a universal schema that is compatible with a variety of application development schemas; generating a model based on the model development plan and the input, the model relating to an illustration of a topology corresponding to the application; associating the model with the application; storing the model and the association in a model repository; and exposing the model via a network interface.
US11954479B2
A method and system for predicting post-upgrade outcomes in information technology environments through proactive upgrade issue testing. At least with respect to computing, an upgrade may entail the replacement of a product—in the form of hardware, software, and/or firmware—with a newer or better version, which may serve to bring the product up to date, improve the characteristic(s) of the product, and/or resolve any issue(s) inflicting the product. Further, the process of upgrading a product in view of an issue therein is often reactive—that is, it is often required that a customer experiences and reports an issue for a product to a vendor prior to the issuance of an upgrade to the customer that addresses the issue for the product by the vendor. Presently, what is lacking is a mechanism through which product upgrades may be presented to customers proactively in order to minimize product failure and/or downtime.
US11954473B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for a deployment architecture for multi-tenant cloud computing systems. In some implementations, a first cluster of processing nodes is configured to run tenant computing environments on behalf of different tenants. A second cluster of processing nodes runs a deployment controller configured to manage and monitor tenant computing environments allocated for the first cluster of processing nodes. A pool of unassigned computing environments is hosted in the first cluster of processing nodes. After receiving a request for a new environment, the deployment controller running in the second cluster of processing nodes coordinates with one or more modules running in the first cluster of processing nodes to update and assign one of the previously unassigned computing environments to be used.
US11954472B2
Disclosed are various embodiments for resolving conflicts between workflows in a workflow processing system. A plurality of workflows stored in a workflow queue are evaluated to identify a common dependency of the plurality of workflows. Then, a version hierarchy is created for the common dependency of the plurality of workflows, the version hierarchy identifying multiple versions of the common dependency. In response to execution of a first one of the plurality of workflows stored in the workflow queue, the version hierarchy can be evaluated to identify the most recent version of the common dependency. Then, installation of the most recent version of the common dependency can be initiated.
US11954463B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to determining a similarity of components of a current webpage to different UI components for use in automatically generating an updated webpage. A computer system may receive information specifying a current webpage, including a particular current UI component and information specifying a plurality of different UI components for an updated webpage. The computer system may identify one or more characteristics of the particular current UI component. The computer system may determine, based on the identified one or more characteristics, a similarity of ones of the plurality of different UI components to the particular current UI component. The computer system may select, based on the determining, a particular different UI component from the plurality of different UI components for use, in the updated webpage, for the particular current UI component. Such techniques may advantageously improve user experience by automatically providing up-to-date user interfaces.
US11954459B2
A program editing device edits a machining program in which a machining path along which a wire electrode of a wire electrical discharge machine machines a workpiece is defined. The machining program includes a plurality of blocks corresponding to respective multiple partial paths into which the machining path is divided, each of the blocks including path information indicating the corresponding partial path. The program editing device includes an analyzer analyzing the machining program and thereby identifying a predetermined shape pattern formed by a series of the multiple partial paths in the machining path, an information generator generating shape information corresponding to the identified predetermined shape pattern, and an editor inserting the shape information into the machining program.
US11954452B2
A translation method includes: selecting a source word from a source sentence; generating mapping information including location information of the selected source word mapped to the selected source word in the source sentence; and correcting a target word, which is generated by translating the source sentence, based on location information of a feature value of the target word and the mapping information.
US11954451B1
Systems and methods for observation-based training of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) character model are provided. An example method includes receiving log data including interactions of a user and a first AI character model, receiving internal parameters of a second AI character model including a first plurality of heuristic machine learning models and a second plurality of primary machine learning models, pre-processing the log data to obtain one or more data streams including behavioral characteristics of the user, running the one or more data streams through the first plurality of heuristic machine learning models to produce intermediate outputs, composing the intermediate outputs into templated formats, and providing the templated formats to the second plurality of primary machine learning models. The internal parameters of the second AI character model are adjusted based on the templated formats such that the second AI character model mimics the behavioral characteristics of the user.
US11954443B1
Techniques are described for performing complaint prioritization using one or more machine learning models for customer communications. For example, a computing system includes a memory and one or more processors in communication with the memory. The one or more processors are configured to receive communication data indicative of a service inquiry from a user device, generate a set of emotion factor values that indicate a measure of particular emotions in the service inquiry, determine, using a machine learning model and based on the set of emotion factor values, an emotional priority score for the service inquiry, and determine a response priority order for the service inquiry based on at least the emotional priority score.
US11954433B2
Techniques for visualizing text expressions in spreadsheet cells by mapping syntactic elements of the text expressions to two-dimensional (2D) or three-dimensional (3D) configurations of elements, and displaying the 2D or 3D configurations in a graphical user interface, wherein the syntactic relationships between syntactic elements in the text expressions are rendered as spatial relationships between the elements in the 2D or 3D configuration. In one embodiment, a method for converting a text expression into a 2D or 3D configuration includes selecting a spreadsheet cell based on input received from a user input device, wherein the spreadsheet cell comprises a text expression, parsing the text expression, using a logic subsystem, into at least a first syntactic element, mapping the first syntactic element, using the logic subsystem, to a first 2D or 3D element, and displaying the first element in a graphical user interface via a display subsystem.
US11954431B2
Embodiments are disclosed for generating an intelligent change summary are described. In some embodiments, a method of generating an intelligent change summary includes obtaining a representation of a plurality of versions of a document, determining a distance score based on a comparison of a first of version of the document and a second version of the document, the distance score representing a magnitude of changes made from the first version of the document to the second version of the document, and generating a change summary of the document based on the distance score.
US11954430B2
In one embodiment, a system for generating a document includes one or more processors, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that cause the one or more processors to display, in an electronic display, a graphical user interface comprising a prior document section, a word processing section, and a tag query text field, receive query text from the tag query text field, retrieve one or more documents from a database having a tag corresponding to the query text, display in the prior document section a section of the one or more documents associated with the tag, receive a request to include text from the one or more documents in the prior document section in the document displayed in the word processing section, and populate the document displayed in the word processing section with the text.
US11954422B2
A method for automatically inserting hyperlinks is provided. In one example, the method includes determining a location for a hyperlink anchor in a document based on a type of structural element identified in the document. A presentation of the hyperlink anchor may be displayed according to a set of rules defining an appearance of the hyperlink anchor according to the type of structural element.
US11954420B2
System and methods for displaying one or more assets on a client device based on device characteristics are provided. Code is transmitted to a client device. The code, when executed by the client device, causes a processor of the client device to determine a first device characteristic of the client device. A first layout may be selected based on the first device characteristic. The layout may include one or more cards. Each card may correspond to one or more assets. Each card may be modified based on a corresponding card characteristic. One or more assets may be requested. The assets may be displayed on the first client device. The code may be transmitted to another client device, which may select a different layout based on a different device characteristic.
US11954419B2
A system may include a set of compute engines. The compute engines may be configured to perform electronic design automation (EDA) operations on a hierarchical dataset representative of an integrated circuit (IC) design. The system may also include a dynamic resource balancing engine configured to allocate computing resources to the set of compute engines and reallocate a particular computing resource allocated to a first compute engine based on an operation priority of an EDA operation performed by a second compute engine, an idle indicator for the first compute engine, or a combination of both.
US11954416B2
A computer program causes a computer to execute processing of simulating behavior of an electromagnetic component including a coil at each of a plurality of time points based on an analytic model of the electromagnetic component. The processing comprises creating a look-up table storing a flux linkage of the coil, an inductance of the coil and a current in the coil that are obtained by a magnetic field analysis based on the analytic model in association with one another, and simulating behavior of the electromagnetic component by referring to the look-up table using currents in the coil calculated at a previous simulation step and at a step before the previous simulation step.
US11954413B2
In an example, a tangible machine-readable medium stores instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to evaluate a plurality of possible object generation arrangements based on a default separation distance and an enhanced separation distance, wherein the enhanced separation distance is used to assess predefined object sub-portions.
US11954402B1
A multimedia system records audio segments and allows speakers and other users to select recorded audio segments as “Loved” or “Kept” for selective later playback in a timed sequence in association with corresponding images. A concept of telerecording is that one can call their relative in another country and ask them to explain what's going on in a picture. This way we can record their voices without having to travel to wherever they live.
US11954401B2
Disclosed are a method for selecting an audio output device and a display apparatus. The method includes: in response to a power cutoff command, saving a first device list and performing a first set of operations associated with the power cutoff command; while the display apparatus is in a power off state, receiving a power on command; in response to the power on command, performing a second set of operations associated with a power on process; in response to a first audio output device having connected with the display apparatus, determining whether a first identifier of the first audio output device is same as the identifier of the current sound output device; and in response to the first identifier of the first audio output device being same as the identifier of the current sound output device, taking the first audio output device as the current sound output device.
US11954394B2
The present disclosure provides a splicing screen and a control method and system thereof. The splicing screen includes a display panel. A communication unit is configured to receive display data and receive a ready command sent by a slave splicing screen of the splicing screen; a control unit is configured to control, in response to determining that the splicing screen is ready and receiving the ready command, the communication unit to send a specified play command to the slave splicing screen, where the specified play command instructs to play a specified play frame in the display data at a specified play moment; and control the display panel to display the specified play frame at the specified play moment.
US11954388B2
A printing apparatus capable of connecting to a plurality of cloud print services executes a print job received from any one of the plurality of cloud print services, stores identification information for identifying the cloud print service from which the print job is transmitted, and after the print job is executed, transmits execution history information about the print job to the cloud print service from which the print job is transmitted, using the stored identification information.
US11954373B2
The instant disclosure provides a data structure store system and a method of managing data in the store. The method includes receiving, by a data structure store management system, a request for storing data from a client. In the created data structure, each data element includes a portion of the data. On receiving a read request for at least part of the data, the data structure store management system provides at least part of the data to a recipient device. The data elements are stored in persistent memory in the form of one or more non-volatile random access devices, wherein during a time interval between receiving the storing request and providing the at least part of the data by the data structure store management system to the recipient device, the data structure store management system provides no portion of the data for writing to a hard disk drive.
US11954372B2
A technique efficiently migrates a live virtual disk (vdisk) across storage containers of a cluster having a plurality of nodes deployed in a virtualization environment. Each node is embodied as a physical computer with hardware resources, such as processor, memory, network and storage resources, that are virtualized to provide support for one or more user virtual machines (UVM) executing on the node. The storage resources include storage devices embodied as a storage pool that is logically segmented into the storage containers configured to store one or more vdisks. The storage containers include a source container having associated storage policies and a destination container having different (new) storage policies. The technique enables migration of the live vdisk from the source container to the destination container without powering down the UVM and halting input/output accesses to the vdisk, and while maintaining uninterrupted servicing of data from the live vdisk during the migration transparent to the executing UVM.
US11954368B2
According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a communication interface connectable to a plurality of hosts. A virtual controller creation unit creates a virtual controller based on connection of a host to the communication interface. An access management unit manages permission information indicating a correspondence between each of the plurality of namespaces and a host permitted to access the namespace. The virtual controller creation unit create, based on the permission information, a first virtual controller to which a namespace that a first host connected to the communication interface is permitted to access is attached, as a virtual controller to be used by the first host to access a nonvolatile memory.
US11954365B2
An information processing apparatus that functions as a SUB controller that, for a command group formed of pairs each formed by a command prepared by a host controller and a status, executes processing of each command and returns a status of an execution result of the command processing. In response to a request for processing the command group from the host controller, the SUB controller acquires the command group therefrom as an original command sequence. The original command sequence is divided into a plurality of segments each formed by one or more commands and having a total volume not larger than a threshold. Command groups each formed of pairs each formed by a command and a status are independently set in one or more storage devices connected to the information processing apparatus. Each storage device is notified of a command processing request on a segment-by-segment basis.
US11954354B2
A method for performing a backup operation includes obtaining, by a backup server, a backup request, wherein the backup request specifies a virtual machine to be backed up, wherein the virtual machine is hosted by a production host, and in response to the backup request: obtaining classification data from the backup agent, initiating a backup classification on an unprocessed backup associated with the virtual machine based on the classification data to obtain a sensitivity tag, and initiating a data processing on the unprocessed backup based on the sensitivity tag.
US11954345B2
A system and method for two-level indexing for key-value persistent storage. The method may include: sorting two or more key-value pairs to form a sorted key-value pair set; determining an address of a first key-value pair of the key-value pairs, the first key-value pair including a first key and a first value; determining an address of a second key-value pair of the key-value pairs, the second key-value pair including a second key and a second value; and training a first linear regression model to generate a first line corresponding to the key-value pairs, the training including training the first linear regression model with key-value pairs including the first key-value pair and the second key-value pair.
US11954333B2
A data storage device and method for detecting malware on a data storage device. The device includes a non-volatile storage medium configured to store at least one file system control block and user data block(s) to store user data. The file system control block comprises at least one reference data structure. The data storage device further comprises a buffer to temporarily store user data. The data storage device further comprises a controller to scan each write command in the user data to be transferred for protocol commands or malicious data. The controller also stops the data transfer of user data from the buffer to the non-volatile storage medium if at least one of protocol commands or malicious data is detected in at least one write command.
US11954332B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a data processing method, a controller, a storage device, and a storage system. The controller adds an execution time of an IO request to the IO request, and the execution time is used to instruct the storage device to complete the IO request before the execution time expires. The controller sends, to the storage device, the IO request to which the execution time is added. When receiving the IO request, the storage device can execute the IO request based on the execution time of the IO request.
US11954327B2
Disclosed by the present application are a system and method for multi-device media data management, and a robot device. A detection module detects a device located within a detection range, and determines according to a detection result whether to add the device to a device management list. A storage module obtains media data generated by each device in the device management list and stores the media data in a backup system in association with a corresponding tag. An instruction module receives an instruction of a user and analyzes the content of the instruction, the content comprising a tag and management type corresponding to the media data. A management module performs a management operation on corresponding media data according to the analyzed content. Thus, a plurality of devices may be actively detected and discovered, media data in corresponding devices may be obtained according to an instruction of the user, and be safely and reliably stored; in addition, intelligent searching for a plurality of tags may be conducted. Therefore, media data of a plurality of devices of a user may be integrally managed safely.
US11954320B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for dynamically and automatically modifying a user interface (UI) of an application based on the UI capabilities of a computer device running the application, in particular whether the computer device is touch-enabled or not.
US11954316B2
In some implementations, a method includes: while presenting an object via the display device, determining an operation set associated with the object that includes a plurality of input-response pairings, wherein each input-response pairing includes an input type and an associated response; obtaining, via the one or more input devices, a user input directed to the object; and, in response to detecting the user input: mapping the user input to an input-response pairing within the operation set associated with the object; and performing an operation on the object based on the user input and the input-response pairing.
US11954315B1
In one aspect, a graphical user interface (GUI) for a dynamic model creation (DMC) system may be provided. The GUI may include: (i) a first display area programmed to display the at least one model including a visual representation of a determined location where a collision occurred, and/or (ii) a second display area programmed to display at least one data table corresponding to the at least one model, wherein movement of a visual representation of a vehicle on the GUI during a simulation of the at least one model is controlled at least by telematics data, and wherein the GUI is configured to receive user inputs such that the visual representations in the first display area and the at least one data table in the second display area are dynamically modifiable by a user.
US11954309B2
In implementations of systems for predicting a terminal event, a computing device implements a termination system to receive input data defining a period of time and a maximum event threshold. This system uses a classification model to generate event scores for a plurality of entity devices. Each of the event scores indicates a probability of an event occurrence for a corresponding entity device within a period of time. The plurality of entity devices are segmented into a first segment and a second segment based on an event score threshold. Entity devices included in the first segment have event scores greater than the event score threshold and entity devices included in the second segment have event scores below the event score threshold. The termination system generates an indication of a probability that a number of event occurrences for the entity devices included in the second segment exceeds the maximum even threshold within the period of time.
US11954294B2
A touch substrate and a manufacturing method therefor, and a touch display device and a control method therefor. The touch substrate comprises a base substrate and a touch electrode structure. The touch substrate comprises a bendable region, and a first non-bendable region and a second non-bendable region adjacent to the bendable region. The touch electrode structure comprises a first touch electrode structure located in the first non-bendable region, and a second touch electrode structure located in the second non-bendable region. The first touch electrode structure comprises a plurality of first transmitter electrode groups and a plurality of first receiver electrode groups. The second touch electrode structure comprises a plurality of second transmitter electrode groups and a plurality of second receiver electrode groups. The bendable region comprises at least a first receiver electrode and a second receiver electrode.
US11954284B2
Provided is a position detection circuit that uses a touch sensor of a capacitance type including sensor electrodes to detect a first position indicated by a first indicator that communicates with the touch sensor to indicate the first position and a second position indicated by a second indicator that indicates the second position without communicating with the touch sensor, the position detection circuit including a first detection circuit that detects a touch of the second indicator to an input surface arranged on the touch sensor, a second detection circuit that detects the first indicator when proximity information indicating a proximity of the first indicator to the touch sensor is equal to or greater than a threshold, and a changing circuit that changes the threshold to a larger value when the first detection circuit detects the touch compared to when the first detection circuit does not detect the touch.
US11954283B2
A sensor array (10) comprising a plurality of touch sensitive pixels, each pixel (12) comprising a capacitive sensing electrode (14) and a reference capacitor (16) connected in series with the capacitive sensing electrode (14) to provide an indicator voltage that is indicative of the proximity of a conductive object to be sensed.
US11954282B2
Examples are disclosed that relate to methods and computing devices for determining a distance of an input device from a surface of a computing device. In one example, a method comprises receiving a plurality of input device signals via the input device. A portion of the input device signals are used to determine an effective voltage of the input device. Adjusted input device signals are generated by adjusting another portion of input device signals using the effective voltage of the input device. The method further comprises providing the adjusted input device signals as an input to a distance model, and receiving and outputting the distance of the input device from the surface of the computing device.
US11954273B2
Systems, devices and methods for the management of glucose levels in the body of patient featuring user interface input mechanisms configured to provide haptic feedback to the user are provided.
US11954267B2
One example of an internet protocol (IP) keyboard, video, mouse (KVM) device includes a universal serial bus, a display port, a network port, and a processor. The USB port is to be communicatively coupled to a host device. The display port is to be communicatively coupled to the host device. The network port is to be communicatively coupled to a network. The processor is communicatively coupled to the USB port, the display port, and the network port. The processor is to receive, via the display port, a multi-stream transport (MST) DisplayPort signal; demux the MST DisplayPort signal to provide a plurality of individual video streams; and output, via the network port, each individual video stream.
US11954260B2
A system and method for determining handedness in a device. The system including a first electrode, a second electrode, a sensor, and a processing circuit coupled to each other. The first electrode is placed at a first location, and the second electrode is placed at a second location on the device—the first location is different from the second location. The electrodes are configured to sense a variation in an electrostatic field in response to a user interacting with the device. The sensor detects a differential potential between the first electrode and the second electrode, and the processing circuit determines whether the user is interacting with the device using a left hand or a right hand. The determining is based on data received from the sensor corresponding to the differential potential.
US11954258B1
A system and method for rendering AI-based haptic feedback and recommendations in a VR environment is provided. The system detects an active VR session on a VR device that renders immersive content associated with a VR environment that includes a digital avatar and a virtual object. The system acquires the immersive content based on the detection and determines physical attributes of the virtual object, scene information associated with the VR environment, and an activity of the digital avatar based on a first network-based analysis, a second network-based analysis, a third neural network-based analysis, respectively, of the content. The system further detects an interaction between the digital avatar and the virtual object in a duration of the activity, and generates a feedback signal based on the interaction, the scene information, and the physical attributes. The system further controls a haptic device based on the feedback signal to generate a haptic feedback.
US11954257B2
Examples are disclosed relating to providing haptic feedback in a stylus while the stylus crosses a gap between two displays. In one example, a method comprises detecting one or more haptic triggering criteria, and at least on condition of detecting the one or more haptic triggering criteria, actuating the haptic feedback component to produce haptic output. Using a width of the gap between the displays, a stylus velocity, and a stylus direction, a crossing time for the stylus tip to cross the gap is calculated. At a first time after actuating the haptic feedback component, the method determines that the stylus tip crosses an inside edge of one of the displays. At least on condition of determining that the tip of the stylus crosses an inside edge of a display, the method continues to actuate the haptic feedback component for the crossing time.
US11954253B2
Embodiments describe a system configured with a brain machine interface (BMI) system implemented in a vehicle for performing vehicle functions using electrical impulses from motor cortex activity in a user's brain. The system uses fuzzy states for increased robustness. The fuzzy states are defined by sets of Gaussian kernel-type membership functions that are defined for steering and velocity action function states. The membership functions define fuzzy states that provide overlapping control tiers for increasing and decreasing vehicle functionality. An autonomous vehicle may perform control and governance of transitions between membership functions that may overlap, resulting in smooth transitioning between the states.
US11954242B2
A computer system presents first computer-generated content. While presenting the first computer-generated content, the computer system detects first movement of a first user in a physical environment, and in response: in accordance with a determination that the first movement changes a spatial relationship between the first user and a second user in the physical environment from a first spatial relationship to a second spatial relationship and that the change in spatial relationship meets first criteria, the computer system changes one or more output properties of the first computer-generated content; and in accordance with the determination that the first movement changes the spatial relationship from the first spatial relationship to the second spatial relationship and that the change in spatial relationship does not meet the first criteria, the computer system presents the first computer-generated content without changing the one or more output properties of the first computer-generated content.
US11954241B2
A position of a user is recognized. A display unit (102) displays a content-display-frame (112). A determination unit (103) determines whether the position of the user is within a predetermined range from a wall surface (12) or not. The display control unit (104) configured to display a content-display-frame on a floor surface (11) when the position of the user is farther than the predetermined range from the wall surface, and configured to display an operation input area (113) that receives an operation input from the user on the wall surface while displaying a content-display-frame to span from the floor surface to the wall surface when the position of the user is within the predetermined range from the wall surface.
US11954222B2
A consent block is a type of block that may be stored in a blockchain. Each consent block has an owner and may store an owner consent contract, i.e., a smart contract containing owner-specified access rules that determine who may access data assets that are stored in other blocks of the blockchain and owned by the same owner. The consent block may alternatively store a global consent contract containing global access rules that supersede owner-specified access rules. The consent block also stores a hash value determined from the consent contract and a previous hash value of the block immediately preceding the consent block. The consent contract and the position of the consent block in the blockchain are verifiable from the hash value. Each consent block, once added to the blockchain, becomes part of the immutable record of data stored in the blockchain, and therefore leaves an auditable trail.
US11954220B2
Data protection for container storage, including: assigning, to a container storage volume of a storage system, a volume-level access policy; and determining whether to allow access to the container storage volume based on the volume-level access policy and one or more attributes of a request for the access, including allowing the access responsive to the one or more attributes meeting the volume-level access policy or denying the access responsive to the one or more attributes failing to meet the volume-level access policy.
US11954217B2
Disclosed embodiments relate to systems and methods for securely provisioning sensitive data elements to virtualized execution instances. The techniques may include: identifying a request to provision a new virtualized execution instance; determining, in association with the request, that the new virtualized execution instance will require a prohibited data element in order to communicate with a target network resource; without providing the new virtualized execution instance the prohibited data element, registering the new virtualized execution instance; identifying a request from the new virtualized execution instance to communicate with the target network resource: performing a verification process for the request to communicate with the target network resource; and conditional on the verification process, provisioning the prohibited data element to the new virtualized execution instance.
US11954210B2
A hierarchical health index evaluation method for an intelligent substation includes: obtaining a basic health index of a device based on static information and dynamic information of the device; obtaining a device correlation based on a communication connection relationship between the device and another device, and correcting the basic health index of the device based on the device correlation to obtain a health index of the device; obtaining a layer-based health index of a layer based on a device health index and a device importance weight of the layer; obtaining a whole-station health index of an intelligent substation based on a layer-based health index of each layer and a sum of device importance weights of each layer; and regulating the intelligent substation based on a health index of each device in the intelligent substation, the layer-based health index of each layer, and the whole-station health index.
US11954205B2
A method for securing an electronic control unit (ECU). The method may include generating a granular security control adjustment authorization ticket (G-SCAAT) for securing the ECU according to a plurality of security parameters determined based on to a role selected for a corresponding user. The G-SCAAT may include security values to be used in controlling the ECU to operate according to the security parameters.
US11954204B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose an AI processing method and an AI processing apparatus. The method is applied to the AI processing apparatus. An AI processor has at least two working modes, and security of the at least two working modes is different. The method includes: processing, by the AI processor, an AI processing request in a target mode. The target mode is one of the at least two working modes, and the target mode is a working mode determined based on the AI processing request. The AI processor has at least two working modes with different security, and may switch between different working modes.
US11954202B2
In some implementations, a system may receive a shell script associated with a computing device. The system may generate a character frequency feature vector based on the shell script. The system may input text of the shell script to a convolutional neural network (CNN) branch of a trained deep learning model. The system may input the character frequency feature vector to a feedforward neural network (FNN) branch of the trained deep learning model. The system may determine using the trained deep learning model, a respective probability score for each of a plurality of obfuscation types for the shell script based on a combined output of the CNN branch and the FNN branch. The system may detect whether the shell script is obfuscated based on the respective probability score for each of the plurality of obfuscation types determined for the shell script.
US11954196B2
Method of mutual authentication of a controllable electronic device (DE) and of its user (USER) able to control it so that it procures him a service (DS), the device (DE) containing sensitive or confidential data (DA) and being arranged so as to—in an operational phase (OP) including a preliminary step of authentication of the user (UAP)—, execute an operation (SO) so as to procure the service (DS), including, furthermore, a prior phase of authentication of the device (SDAP), in which the authenticity of the device (DE) is verified, so that if on completion of the prior phase of authentication of the device (SDAP), the device (DE) is confirmed to be authentic, the user (USER) can execute the operational phase (OP), whilst if the device (DE) is not confirmed to be authentic, the user (USER) can prevent the execution of the operational phase (OP).
US11954189B2
A method and system of authenticating a user logon builds a user logon profile with a plurality of user logon features gathered during at least one successful attempted user logon, determines a logon feature novelty score for each feature, receives a user logon request for authentication and extracts current user logon features, retrieves corresponding logon feature novelty scores, determines a first distance function score for the corresponding logon feature novelty scores of the current user logon features, builds a failed logon attempt database, determines a failed logon feature novelty score, extracts the failed logon feature novelty scores corresponding to current user logon features, determines a second distance function score for the corresponding failed logon feature novelty scores of the current user logon features, and determining to one of allow or deny the user logon request based on at least one of the first distance function score and the second distance function score.
US11954187B2
Aspects described herein may relate to techniques for detecting login activity to a financial account during a knowledge-based authentication process. The login activity may be related to access to an online interface for the financial account. The detection of login activity during the authentication process my indicate that the integrity of the authentication process is compromised as login access may provide an individual with transaction data that may be used to answer transaction-based authentication questions. As a result of detecting login activity, an alternative authentication process may be initiated or an authentication request related to the financial account may be denied.
US11954174B2
A computerized-method for scaling automatic deployment of a machine-learning detection model in a cloud-based managed analytics service by knowledge sharing to overcome an imbalanced dataset learning problem. The computerized-method includes: sending the received data to machine-learning models to synthesize patterns of the received data to yield a differential privacy data; maintaining in the database the differential privacy data of one or more on-prem cloud-based managed analytics services to generate a consortium shared synthetic data lake; operating phases of machine-learning detection model based on the received data and data in the database to create a packaged model. The data in the database is aggregated and used during the operating phases of the machine-learning detection model to create a packaged model for other on-prem cloud-based managed analytics services, thus overcoming imbalanced dataset learning thereof, and after the packaged model is created it is automatically deployed on-prem.
US11954162B2
A client device can identify user data pertaining to use of the client device by a user. The client device can determine at least one persona trait of the user based on the user data pertaining to the use of the client device by the user. The client device can receive persona categorization data, the persona categorization data specifying a plurality of persona categories and, for each persona category, a plurality of persona traits. Based on the at least one determined persona trait, the client device can assign the user to a persona category selected from the plurality of persona categories. Based on the persona category to which the user is assigned, the client device can identify information to present to users who are assigned to the persona category to which the user is assigned. The client device can present to the user the identified information.
US11954154B2
A building management system (BMS) includes memory devices having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by processors, cause the processors to perform operations including obtaining for each of a plurality of respective BMS objects respective semantic information for each of the plurality of the respective BMS objects, the respective semantic information being stored on the each of the respective BMS objects, identifying a plurality of predetermined classifications that pertain to the plurality of the respective BMS objects using the respective semantic information, classifying the plurality of BMS objects using the plurality of predetermined classifications, updating a semantic site model associated with the building site by including the respective semantic information associated with the plurality of the respective BMS objects and adjusting a plurality of parameters associated with the respective BMS objects using the semantic site model.
US11954137B2
A data generation device according to an embodiment includes one or more processors. The one or more processors classify each of a plurality of users having attributes similar to one another into any one of a plurality of clusters based on user information representing the respective attributes of the users. The one or more processors estimate whether a search result is useful to each of the users based on a similarity between information included in the search result and information representing attributes of the clusters, and output learning data of a ranking model for determining an order of a plurality of the search results, the learning data being data including the search results and estimation information representing whether the search results are useful.
US11954136B2
A method of training a model for query generation, the method performed by at least one processor and including receiving a training instance query corresponding to a dialogue history. The method further including generating a first static view of the model based on a number of common words between the training instance query and the dialogue history. The method further including generating a second static view of the model based on one or more tokens not covered by the dialogue history, the one or more tokens corresponding to one or more query words. The method further including generating a dynamic view of the model based on a score operation that compares a candidate query generated from the model with a target query. The method further including training the model based at least on the first static view, the second static view, and the dynamic view.
US11954127B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for associating summarizations of visualizations of a data set based on affinities between the summarizations. For a data set, a number of summarizations may be created that summarizes the data set in different ways. The summarizations may be linked, such that selecting a data element of a first summarization causes display of a second summarization. To assist in linking of summarizations, suggested linkings between summarizations can be determined based on affinities of the two summarizations. Affinities can reflect similarities in the data content of the two summarizations, such as an output of a first summarization being a valid input to the second summarization.
US11954124B2
A follower system and a leader system store records for a plurality of users. Each of the follower system and the leader system stores at least a record for a user. Each of the follower system and the leader system stores a private log and a public log. The public log is periodically synchronized across the follower system and the leader system. The private log of each system is maintained independent of the other system. The follower system transmits information stored in the public logs to the leader system for synchronizing the public logs of the follower system and the leader system in response to updating the public logs with information describing the second set of transactions.
US11954121B2
A selection device includes a storage unit and a selection unit. The storage unit stores the write time and the read time of each of a plurality of nodes. The selection unit selects a first response condition in response to a data write request on the basis of the write time of each of the plurality of nodes such that the response time for the data write request becomes shorter than a requirement value of the write time and the number of nodes in which writing has been completed increases. The selection unit selects a second response condition in response to a data read request on the basis of the first response condition and the read time of each of the plurality of nodes such that the response time for the data read request becomes shorter than a requirement value of the read time.
US11954113B2
In an embodiment, a query system sends compact code to a database service for expansion of the compact code to partially-expanded code and expanded code. In an embodiment, a hash value is generated based on the partially-expanded code and indexed in memory with the expanded code. In an embodiment, a hash value is received as part of a command and expanded code is identified based on the hash value and sent to a database service.
US11954111B2
Disclosed is system for executing service request. The system comprises a processing arrangement and data sources. The processing arrangement receives the service request and is configured to extract data from the data sources based on the service request. The data sources respond in response to a characteristic framework of the service request. The system further comprises an administrator module to permute the service request received by the processing arrangement in accordance with the characteristic framework employed by the data sources. The administrator module is configured to identify at least one attribute of the service request, obtain data corresponding to the at least one attribute of the service request from the data sources, normalize the obtained data and provide the normalized data to execute the service request, via the processing arrangement.
US11954090B1
Techniques and systems can process data of a dataset to determine when a portion of data is comprised in the data of the dataset. An output generated from processing the data of the dataset can be evaluated, where the output can signify that processing the data of the dataset was unable to locate the portion of data in the data of the dataset. Based on evaluating the output, the data of the dataset can be automatically reprocessed to determine the portion of data is in the data of the dataset. A result can then be generated from the portion of data determined to be in the data of the dataset.
US11954084B2
A method and apparatus for processing a table, a device, a storage medium and a product. An implementation of the method comprise: receiving a content query request for a target table; acquiring a target tree structure of the target table according to the content query request; where, the target tree structure is obtained by performing absorbing processing and merging processing on at least one target cell in the target table; acquiring to-be-queried content in the content query request; and querying target content matching the to-be-queried content from the target tree structure.
US11954082B1
A method and system for enabling a user to hide or rename an item in a list of items. The user identifies an item or a set of related items and then designates whether to hide or rename the item(s). The hiding or renaming can be applied to printed lists or to lists displayed in online systems, or both. Various options exist for footnoting the hidden or renamed item, and for compensating for hidden items in printed lists. Original item data including date, description and other information are always retained in the database.
US11954081B1
Systems and methods include configuration of a first database view to read from common versions of rows of a database table or from rows of the database table associated with a first version of the application, the database table storing application content, configuration of a first application server to write to the common versions of rows of the database table, configuration of a second database view to read from common versions of rows of the database table or from rows of the database table associated with a second version of the application, configuration of a second application server to write to rows of the database table associated with the second version of the application, modification of the database table to include rows associated with the second version of the application while the first application server executes the first version of the application and incoming user requests are directed to the first application server, configuration of the second application server to write to common versions of the rows of the database table, and re-direction of incoming user requests to the second application server executing the second version of the application.
US11954076B2
In a hierarchical storage management system including: a hierarchical storage that is provided in an individual data center and has at least one storage medium; and a hierarchical storage control apparatus that manages at least one hierarchical storage, the hierarchical storage control apparatus includes a calculation unit that performs processing for obtaining, for individual data managed by the hierarchical storage control apparatus, a storage medium in a data center that satisfies an operation policy by calculating power consumption needed for storing the data, a cost needed for storing the data, and communication time for transferring the data from a data center to a reference source area and by comparing the calculated power consumption, cost, and communication time with the operation policy set for the data.
US11954071B1
A file organization system includes a container for renaming files added thereto, the container having a file naming convention by which the files are named. The container may generate a log file to store information regarding the history of the files, for example, their previous file names, current file names, previous locations, current file location, the dates when the file was renamed or moved, etc. which may help identify and track the files.
US11954068B2
Computer-implemented methods and systems are disclosed for receiving and indexing a plurality of files for later querying, for dynamically generating scripts to be executed during a query of a data store, and for horizontally distributing a query and aggregating results of the distributed query.
US11954063B2
Described herein is a graphics processing unit (GPU) configured to receive an instruction having multiple operands, where the instruction is a single instruction multiple data (SIMD) instruction configured to use a bfloat16 (BF16) number format and the BF16 number format is a sixteen-bit floating point format having an eight-bit exponent. The GPU can process the instruction using the multiple operands, where to process the instruction includes to perform a multiply operation, perform an addition to a result of the multiply operation, and apply a rectified linear unit function to a result of the addition.
US11954061B2
A mapping method for a reconfigurable array, including: Si obtaining and analyzing a DDG; providing an initial interval; obtaining a reconfigurable architecture; copying the first adjacency matrix and the second adjacency matrix to form a mapping space; establishing an integer linear programming model, and mapping, with the integer linear programming model, a processing vertex, an intra-cycle edge, and an inter-cycle edge in the DDG, to the mapping space, respectively; obtaining a mapping relationship from the processing vertex and the edge in the DDG to the processing element and the link of extended TS_max layers; and generating configuration information by the mapping relationship modulo the initial interval.
US11954049B2
Memory devices, systems including memory devices, and methods of operating memory devices are described, in which security measures may be implemented to control access to a fuse array (or other secure features) of the memory devices based on a secure access key. In some cases, a customer may define and store a user-defined access key in the fuse array. In other cases, a manufacturer of the memory device may define a manufacturer-defined access key (e.g., an access key based on fuse identification (FID), a secret access key), where a host device coupled with the memory device may obtain the manufacturer-defined access key according to certain protocols. The memory device may compare an access key included in a command directed to the memory device with either the user-defined access key or the manufacturer-defined access key to determine whether to permit or prohibit execution of the command based on the comparison.
US11954043B2
According to one embodiment, when a read request received from a host includes a first identifier indicative of a first region, a memory system obtains a logical address from the received read request, obtains a physical address corresponding to the obtained logical address from a logical-to-physical address translation table which manages mapping between logical addresses and physical addresses of the first region, and reads data from the first region, based on the obtained physical address. When the received read request includes a second identifier indicative of a second region, the memory system obtains physical address information from the read request, and reads data from the second region, based on the obtained physical address information.
US11954040B2
Various implementations described herein are directed to device. The device may include a first tier having a processor and a first cache memory that are coupled together via control logic to operate as a computing architecture. The device may include a second tier having a second cache memory that is coupled to the first cache memory. Also, the first tier and the second tier may be integrated together with the computing architecture to operate as a stackable cache memory architecture.
US11954037B2
A computing system includes a volatile memory, a cache coupled with the volatile memory, and a processing device coupled with the cache and at least one of a storage device or a network port. The processing device is to: generate a plurality of virtual addresses that are sequentially numbered for data that is to be at least one of processed or transferred in response to an input/output (I/O) request; allocate, for the data, a continuous range of physical addresses of the volatile memory; generate a set of hash-based values based on mappings between the plurality of virtual addresses and respective physical addresses of the continuous range of physical addresses; identify a unique cache line of the cache that corresponds to each respective hashed-based value of the set of hash-based values; and cause the data to be directly stored in the unique cache lines of the cache.
US11954031B2
A method performed by a controller comprising assigning a first status indicator to entries in a first address line in a volatile memory belonging to a first region of an LUT stored in a non-volatile memory, and a second status indicator to entries in the first address line in the volatile memory belonging to a second region of the LUT, setting either the first or second status indicator to a dirty status based on whether a cache updated entry at an address m in the volatile memory belongs to the first or second region of the LUT, and writing, based on the dirty status of the first and second status indicator at the address m, all entries in the volatile memory associated with the first region or the second region containing the updated entry to the non-volatile memory.
US11954026B1
A processing system includes a processor core for processing instructions and a memory that stores a page table set including an extended page table having an extended page table entry storing extended page table attributes associated with a physical memory page. The system receives a virtual address and translates the virtual address to a physical address for the physical memory page. One or more extended page attributes associated with the physical memory page are retrieved from the extended page table entry based on the virtual address.
US11954022B2
Provided are a storage device, system, and method for throttling host writes in a host buffer to a storage device. The storage device is coupled to a host system having a host buffer that includes reads and writes to pages of the storage device. Garbage collection consolidates valid data from pages in the storage device to fewer pages. A determination is made as to whether a processing measurement at the storage device satisfies a threshold. A timer value is set to a positive value in response to determining that the processing measurement satisfies the threshold. The timer is started to run for the timer value. Writes from the host buffer are blocked while the timer is running. Writes remain in the host buffer while the timer is running. A write is accepted from the host buffer to process in response to expiration of the timer.
US11954012B2
A method may include detecting an error during execution of a function of an application executing on a system; inputting an identifier of the error into a first client-side telemetry data filter model; based on the inputting, receiving an output value from the first client-side telemetry data filter model; determining that the output value is above an importance threshold; and in response to the determining, transmitting telemetry data associated with the error to a server computing device.
US11954010B2
A method for blocking external debugger application from analysing code of software program installed on computing device. The method including initializing software program including an application program and an internal debugger application. The software program, upon initialization thereof, instructs internal debugger application to load application program in internal debugger application. The internal debugger application is configured to utilize kernel resources of an operating system of the computing device. The method includes executing internal debugger application to set one or more break-points in code of application program to define execution path for code of application program, executing application program as per defined execution path for code thereof, stopping execution of code of application program upon reaching any of one or more break-points therein, and handing control to internal debugger application to provide an address for next instruction to be executed in defined execution path for code of application program.
US11954008B2
Task automation is enabled by recording, over a period of time, inputs of a computing device user to generate a log of inputs by the user in connection with one or more task applications. The user inputs are stored along with information pertaining to the one or more task applications. The log is processed to identify the one or more task applications to generate a user task file. The log is further processed to identify the fields in the task applications with which the user entered inputs and the identified fields are stored to the task file. The task file is processed to identify one or more tasks performed by the user. An automated software robot which is encoded with instructions to perform automatically, when invoked, one or more of the tasks performed by the user may be automatically generated.
US11954002B1
Automatic storage system configuration for mediation services that includes: determining that a particular storage system of the storage systems is not configured to request mediation from a mediation target for mediation between storage systems synchronously replicating a dataset; requesting, by the particular storage system from a configuration service, configuration information indicating one or more service handles for a mediation service; and configuring, in dependence upon the one or more service handles received from the configuration service, a mediation handler to communicate with the mediation service responsive to detecting a communication fault with one of the storage systems.
US11954000B2
A file system in a user space partition of virtual memory may be mounted by a computing device that runs a virtual machine which includes a set of storage disks. The file system in user space may then expose one or more virtual files associated with one or more storage disks that correspond to one or more loop devices configured to map files of the virtual machine to the one or more virtual files. The computing device may then receive a request to read a data block stored at the virtual machine and may identify a file and corresponding virtual file that stores the requested data block based on a set of metadata provided by the loop devices. The computing device may then determine the location of the data block stored at the virtual machine, and may read the data block from the determined location.
US11953991B2
Techniques for storage management involve determining a plurality of storage units to be reconstructed on a group of disks, the plurality of storage units being distributed on different disks in the group of disks. Such techniques further involve selecting, based on the distribution of the plurality of storage units on the group of disks, a group of storage units from the plurality of storage units so that different storage units in the group of storage units are distributed on different disks. Such techniques further involve performing concurrent reconstruction on the group of storage units.
US11953989B2
To achieve low-latency register error correction, a register can be read as part of an instruction when that instruction is the currently executing instruction in a processor. A correctable error in data produced from reading the register can be detected. In response to detecting the correctable error, the currently executing instruction in the processor can be changed into a register update instruction that is executed to overwrite the data in the register with corrected data. Then, the original (e.g., unchanged) instruction can be rescheduled.
US11953978B2
Techniques described herein relate to a method for managing a distributed multi-tiered computing (DMC) environment. The method includes obtaining, by a local controller associated with a DMC domain, a weighted rank order of causal services associated with a service impairment; obtaining contextual information associated with the weighted rank order of causal services; identifying top causal services based on the weighted rank order of causal services; generating, using a causal symbolic engine, a ranked order of top root causes based on the top causal services and the contextual information; selecting remediation profiles associated with the top root causes; executing remediation profiles in ranked order of the top root causes; making a determination that the remediation profiles were successful; and in response to the determination: logging the service impairment and notifying a user associated with the service impairment.
US11953973B2
In some implementations, a memory device may detect a first read failure associated with a page type and a memory section of the memory device. The memory device may perform multiple read recovery operations in a first order defined by a first sequence of read recovery operations. The memory device may identify a read recovery operation that results in successful recovery from the first read failure. The memory device may reorder the first sequence of read recovery operations to generate a second sequence of read recovery operations that prioritizes the read recovery operation. The memory device may detect a second read failure associated with the page type and the memory section. The memory device may perform one or more read recovery operations to recover from the second read failure in a second order defined by the second sequence of read recovery operations.
US11953972B2
Selective privileged container augmentation is provided. A target group of edge devices is selected from a plurality of edge devices to run a plurality of child tasks comprising a pending task by mapping edge device tag attributes of the plurality of edge devices to child task tag attributes of the plurality of child tasks. A privileged container corresponding to the pending task is installed in each edge device of the target group to monitor execution of a child task by a given edge device of the target group. A privileged container installation tag that corresponds to the privileged container is added to an edge device tag attribute of each edge device of the target group having the privileged container installed. A child task of the plurality of child tasks comprising the pending task is sent to a selected edge device in the target group to run the child task.
US11953968B1
An ergonomic power supply for a computer system includes a printed circuit board assembly configured to convert a mains electricity input to voltage-regulated, direct-current (DC) outputs. The printed circuit board assembly defines a mains input and has one or more DC output connectors. An enclosure houses a fan and the printed circuit board assembly. The enclosure has a rear panel, a front panel positioned opposite the rear panel relative to the printed circuit board assembly. A side panel is positioned between the front and rear panel. The mains connector extends through an aperture defined by the rear panel of the enclosure. The one or more DC output connectors extend through the side panel. Such an arrangement provides significantly easier access to the power supply outputs compared to conventional power supplies. Associated computer systems also are described.
US11953957B2
Systems and methods for cooling a computer environment are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, one or more neural networks can be used to adjust one or more flow control valves, of a liquid cooling system for a data center, to control a variation in liquid flow rate across the data center.
US11953956B2
A replaceable frame assembly is disclosed, which comprises: a base plate, a first fixing unit, a second fixing unit, a front panel, at least one first electrical connection interface, a second electrical connection interface, a third electrical connection interface, and a fixation plate. The replaceable frame assembly is adopted for accommodating an expansion card module, and can be disposed in a case of an electronic device. After being disposed in the case, an electrical connection end of the first electrical connection interface is embedded into an electrical slot that is disposed on a main board, such that the expansion card module communicates with the main board through the second electrical connection interface, the third electrical connection interface, the first electrical connection interface, and the electrical slot, thereby making the expansion card module become a functional electronic module of the electronic device.
US11953949B2
According to various embodiments, an electronic device may comprise: a housing comprising a first housing and a second housing. The first housing may comprise: a hinge module including a hinge; a first plate connected to the hinge module; a second plate facing a direction opposite the first plate; and a first side frame surrounding a first space between the first plate and the second plate. The second housing may comprise: a third plate connected to the hinge module; a fourth plate facing a direction opposite the third plate; and a second side frame surrounding a second space between the third plate and the fourth plate. The first housing and the second housing may be configured to fold or unfold with regard to each other using the hinge module. In addition, the electronic device may comprise: a printed circuit board disposed in the second space; a first display supported by the first plate and the third plate; a battery disposed between the third plate and the fourth plate in the second space; and a second display disposed between the battery and the fourth plate and visible from the outside through at least a part of the fourth plate. At least a part of the second display may be disposed to face the battery.
US11953943B2
A device can include a processor; memory accessible to the processor; a base housing; a display housing that includes a front side, a back side and a display panel on the front side that spans an intermediate portion and wing portions of the display housing, where the wing portions fold over the front side of the intermediate portion, where the wing portions open to form a continuous front facing viewable display, and where the wing portions open and fold over the back side of the intermediate portion and meet to form a substantially continuous back facing viewable display; and a hinge assembly that couples the display housing to the base housing.
US11953941B2
A wearable device for an attraction system includes a display, a projector oriented at a first oblique angle with respect to the display and configured to project an image onto the display, and a microphone oriented at a second oblique angle with respect to the display. The microphone is configured to receive audio waves deflecting off the display.
US11953938B1
The present technology proposes techniques for generating globally coherent timestamps. This technology may allow distributed systems to causally order transactions without incurring various types of communication delays inherent in explicit synchronization. By globally deploying a number of time masters that are based on various types of time references, the time masters may serve as primary time references. Through an interactive interface, the techniques may track, calculate and record data relative to each time master thus providing the distributed systems with causal timestamps.
US11953934B2
The disclosed embodiments relate to a memory system that generates a multiplied timing signal from a reference timing signal. During operation, the system receives a reference timing signal. Next, the system produces a multiplied timing signal from the reference timing signal by generating a burst comprising multiple timing events for each timing event in the reference timing signal, wherein consecutive timing events in each burst of timing events are separated by a bit time. Then, as the reference clock frequency changes, the interval between bursts of timing events changes while the bit time remains substantially constant.
US11953931B2
A pedal assembly includes a housing having a cavity. A pedal arm is at least partially received in the cavity. The pedal arm is configured to move within the cavity relative to the housing. At least two pivot levers are positioned within the cavity and configured to pivot upon a contact by the pedal arm. A spring retainer is formed in the housing. The spring retainer has a spring positioned therein. A spring member is disposed about the spring retainer and is moveable about the spring retainer. At least two sensors are attached to the spring housing. At least two sensor assemblies are positioned in the housing and configured to sense an amount of travel of the at least two sensors. When a load is applied to the pedal pad, the pedal arm contacts the at least two pivot members pivoting the pivot members and moving the spring housing wherein the sensors movement is sensed by the respective at least two sensor assemblies indicative of the amount of depression of the pedal pad.
US11953922B2
An apparatus and method for operating and calibrating a paint mixture delivery system includes a positive displacement fluid cylinder and a linear transducer that monitors operation of the positive displacement fluid cylinder. A controller is connected to a servo drive whose operation manipulates the performance of the positive displacement fluid cylinder. Operation of the fluid delivery system is controlled such that the ratio of paint or resin to catalyst or hardener can be accurately controlled and calibration of the discrete fluid flow sensors can be quickly and conveniently calibrated to assure delivery of the respective fluids are the desired mixture ratio.
US11953915B2
The invention provides, inter alia, a system for the intralogistic transport of products, comprising—a number of vehicles, where each vehicle is designed to turn on a vertical turning axis where, viewed from above, there is a maximum distance amax between the vertical turning axis and a point on the periphery of the vehicle; —a central control device that is designed to transmit control signals to on-board control devices of the vehicles, wherein the central control device and/or the on-board control device of at least a portion of the number of vehicles comprise a digitized grid of grid points that represents a movement area or at least a portion thereof, which grid points are arranged at least partially according to a hexagonal pattern where the distance between neighbouring grid points is equal to distance d, which distance d is greater than 2.0 times the maximum distance amax, wherein the central control device and/or the on-board control device of at least a portion of the number of vehicles are designed to move a vehicle within a strip, which strip consists of at least two mutually connected straight strip portions that run parallel to one of three directional lines defined by pairs of grid points.
US11953914B2
Systems and methods are provided herein for platooning vehicles or other types of nodes. The platooning may involve receiving a request from a vehicle to initiate a platoon. In response to the request, another vehicle may indicate a desire to form the platoon with the requesting vehicle. Before the platoon is formed, a verification process may be performed to determine the eligibility of the vehicle to join a platoon, which may be based on a rating associated with the vehicle. Once the vehicle is verified, the platoon may be established. Upon establishment, the vehicles may proceed to coordinate actions, and a lead vehicle may be identified for the platoon. Vehicles may request to join and leave the platoon throughout the lifetime of the platoon. The platoon may eventually be dismissed, for example if the lead vehicle leaves the platoon and no one vehicle is willing and/or able to serve as lead vehicle. Additionally, all of this information may be stored at a ledger through one or more blocks indicating each of the events that takes place with respect to the platoon and/or individual vehicles.
US11953902B2
In various aspects, a first set of attributes associated with a target location are determined. The target location is a location that one or more items are to be delivered to by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The first set of attributes are compared with a second set of attributes. The second set of attributes indicate attributes of each UAV of a plurality of UAVs. Based on the comparing, a UAV, of the plurality of UAVs, is recommended to deliver the one or more items to the target location.
US11953895B2
A fraudulent diagnostic machine detection apparatus capable of preventing the occurrence of fraudulent processing due to a fraudulent diagnostic machine being connected in parallel with a legitimate diagnostic machine is a fraudulent diagnostic machine detection apparatus comprising node ECUs of a diagnosis target connected to a communication line and a gateway connected between the communication line and a diagnostic machine connection coupler, wherein the gateway detects an electrical circuit change caused by a pin connection of the diagnostic machine connection coupler being branched and the plurality of diagnostic machines being connected in parallel.
US11953893B2
Aspects of the disclosed technology encompass the use of a deep learning controller for monitoring and improving a manufacturing process. In some aspects, a method of the disclosed technology includes steps for: receiving a plurality of control values from two or more stations, at a deep learning controller, wherein the control values are generated at the two or more stations deployed in a manufacturing process, predicting an expected value for an intermediate or final output of an article of manufacture, based on the control values, and determining if the predicted expected value for the article of manufacture is in-specification. In some aspects, the process can further include steps for generating control inputs if the predicted expected value for the article of manufacture is not in-specification. Systems and computer-readable media are also provided.
US11953890B2
Embodiments of system and methods for providing centralized management of a software defined automation (“SDA”) system are disclosed. The SDA system comprises of a collection of controller nodes and logically centralized and yet physically distributed collection of compute nodes by monitoring activities of the compute nodes. In accordance with some embodiments, one or more components of the system monitor execution, network and security environments of the system to detect an event in a first environment. In response to the detected event, at least one component in the first environment is remediated, the remediation of the first environment creating a trigger to cause remediation of at least one component in each of a second and third environments.
US11953877B2
Manufacturing of a shoe or a portion of a shoe is enhanced by executing various shoe-manufacturing processes in an automated fashion. For example, information describing a shoe part may be determined, such as an identification, an orientation, a color, a surface topography, an alignment, a size, etc. Based on the information describing the shoe part, automated shoe-manufacturing apparatuses may be instructed to apply various shoe-manufacturing processes to the shoe part, such as a pickup and placement of the shoe part with a pickup tool.
US11953875B2
A cutting processing machine includes a processing machine body and an NC device. The NC device includes a tool diameter correction amount calculator, a processing trace calculator, and a driving controller. The processing machine body includes a processing unit and a tool trace controller. In a case where, as a processing condition, an offset amount between a control center point of a tool trace and a center point of a nozzle is set, the processing trace calculator generates a tool trace control signal for causing the control center point to be displaced relative to the center point of the nozzle by the offset amount in a predetermined direction. The processing machine body controls the tool trace based on the tool trace control signal such that the control center point is displaced relative to the center point of the nozzle in the predetermined direction.
US11953872B2
The present invention relates to the field of precision agriculture, particularly to systems and methods for providing crop coefficient (Kc) values including near real time and forecast values for the management of precise agricultural irrigation.
US11953869B2
Representative implementations of devices and techniques provide local and/or remote control for one or more connected loads or remote appliances. A load control device includes controls for switching and varying the power to associated loads and also includes communication components for remote operations. A user interface device includes a configurable and user customizable interface to communicate control instructions to the load control device. The load control device and the user interface device may be installed as a single unit, mechanically and electrically coupled together, or they may be installed remote from each other. Accordingly, the load control device and the user interface device include wired and wireless communication capabilities.
US11953867B2
A multi-pump control system with a control module, a processing module, communication interface, and a storage module. The system is configured to change a number n of running pumps, and receive a signal indicative of a power consumption P and information about a speed ω of one of the n running pumps before and after two different changes of the number n of running pumps. The system is configured to determine, before and after at least two different changes of the number n of running pumps, without a measurement of a differential pressure Δp and of a flow Q, two approximated pump characteristics Pn and Δ{tilde over (p)}n, wherein each of the approximated pump characteristics Pn and Δ{tilde over (p)}n is unambiguously defined by a pair of parameters (θ1, θ2; θ3, θ4). The system is configured to store the pair of parameters (θ1, θ2; θ3, θ4) for each of the determined approximated pump characteristics Pn and Δ{tilde over (p)}n.
US11953860B2
a system for estimating a vehicle battery charging time using big data is provided. The system may include a big-data server configured to collect a charge-related parameter of a battery in a vehicle from a plurality of vehicles, to group the plurality of vehicles into a plurality of groups based on the collected charge-related parameter, and to calculate and transmit a first estimated charging time of a group to which the vehicle belongs during vehicle charging, and a controller installed in each of the plurality of vehicles, and configured to calculate a second estimated charging time based on a state of the battery in the vehicle while the corresponding battery in the vehicle is charged and to calculate a final estimated charging time of the battery by combining the first estimated charging time and the second estimated charging time.
US11953858B2
A watch includes crystal, a dial including a marking, a pointer including a luminous body, and a light-transmissive member disposed between the crystal and the dial, the light-transmissive member including a first face facing the crystal and a second face facing the dial, in which the first face is provided with a first luminous member and a second luminous member, and the second face is provided with a third luminous member and a fourth luminous member.
US11953853B2
An image forming apparatus includes a drive source, an object configured to be driven by the drive source, and a drive transmission mechanism including a driving member, a driven member, an intermediate member, an urging member, and an actuating portion. The intermediate member is configured to move in an axial direction. The intermediate member includes a shaft portion extending in the axial direction, and a positioning portion configured to determine a position of the driven member in a direction orthogonal to the axis. The shaft portion includes a receiving portion configured to receive a force. The receiving portion is positioned inward of the positioning portion in a radial direction of rotation of the intermediate member.
US11953844B2
The present disclosure features an image forming apparatus having a first developing unit having a first developing roller; and a first toner supply unit configured to supply toner to the first developing unit, the first toner supply unit having: a first container configured to accommodate the toner therein, the first container having a first inlet opening through which the toner is received in the first container and a first outlet opening through which the toner in the first container is discharged; a first lid configured to close the first inlet opening; and a first shutter configured to open the first outlet opening when the first lid closes the first inlet opening, and to close the first outlet opening when the first lid opens the first inlet opening.
US11953842B2
A light guide device has a support member, a light guide member, a first abutting part, and a cover member. The light guide member is supported by the support member and has a light incident surface. The first abutting part has the light guide member and positions the light guide member at the first reference position predetermined in the support member by abutting on the abutted part of the support member. The cover member is attached to the support member and covers the light guide member. The cover member has a first biasing part that biases the light guide member in an abutting direction where the first abutting part abuts the abutting part, with the cover member attached to the support member, and an engaging part that engages with an engaged part of the support member while the first biasing part generates a biasing force in the abutting direction.
US11953838B2
Apparatus for and method of removing a contaminant from a working surface of a lithography support such as a reticle or wafer stage in an EUV or a DUV photolithography system in which a cleaning substrate provided with a coating made a selected material and configuration is pressed against the working surface so that the contaminant is transferred from the working surface to the coating.
US11953831B2
Provided are a photosensitive composition for pulse exposure including: a coloring material A; a photoradical polymerization initiator B; and a radically polymerizable compound C, in which a content of a radically polymerizable compound C1 having a weight-average molecular weight of 3000 or higher is 70 mass % or higher with respect to a total mass of the radically polymerizable compound C.
US11953830B2
The present invention addresses the problem of providing a photosensitive resin composition which exhibits good imidization rate even in cases where the photosensitive resin composition is fired at a temperature of 200° C. or less, while having high pattern processability, and a cured film of which exhibits high long-term reliability if used in an organic EL display device. In order to solve the above-described problem, a photosensitive resin composition according to the present invention contains (a) a polyimide precursor, (b) a phenolic compound having an electron-withdrawing group and (c) a photosensitive compound; and the polyimide precursor (a) has a residue which is derived from a diamine that has an ionization potential of less than 7.1 eV.
US11953828B2
Provided is a method of making a circuit pattern. The method includes: Step (A): providing a master substrate comprising a first photosensitive layer containing photosensitive particles; Step (B): providing an energy beam to reduce metal ions in a predetermined area of the first photosensitive layer to form multiple first metal particles; Step (C): removing unreduced photosensitive particles by a fixer to obtain a master mask; wherein the first metal particles form a first predetermined pattern in the master mask; Step (D): providing a chip comprising a second photosensitive layer containing second photosensitive particles; Step (E): putting the master mask on the second photosensitive layer and providing an energy beam to reduce metal ions of an uncovered part of the second photosensitive layer to form multiple atomized second metal particles; Step (F): removing unreduced photosensitive particles by a fixer to obtain the circuit pattern having line spacing at picoscopic/nanoscopic scale.
US11953824B2
Methods for fracturing a pattern to be exposed on a surface using variable shaped beam (VSB) lithography include inputting an initial pattern; calculating a first substrate pattern from the initial pattern; overlaying the initial pattern with a two-dimensional grid, wherein an initial set of VSB shots are formed by a union of the initial pattern with locations on the grid; and merging two or more adjacent shots in the initial set of VSB shots to create a larger shot in a modified set of VSB shots; and outputting the modified set of VSB shots. The method also includes calculating a calculated pattern to be exposed on the surface with the modified set of VSB shots; and calculating a second substrate pattern from the calculated pattern to be exposed on the surface.
US11953823B2
A method of controlling an imaging process uses a qualified optical proximity correction (OPC) model, the process including obtaining an OPC model that is configured to model the behavior of OPC modifications to a pre-OPC design in a process for forming a pattern on a substrate using a post-OPC design in a patterning process, using the patterning process in a manufacturing environment, collecting process control data in substrates patterned using the patterning process in the manufacturing environment, storing the collected process control data in a database, analyzing, by a hardware computer system, the stored, collected process control data to verify that the OPC model is correcting pattern features within a selected threshold, and for pattern features falling outside the selected threshold, determining a modification to the imaging process to correct imaging errors.
US11953807B2
A detection device includes a photographing unit, a first holding portion holding the photographing unit, a magnet having an attracting face facing a flow space in which fluid flows and opposed to the photographing unit via the flow space, a second holding portion holding the magnet, and a connection portion connected to the second holding portion and having an opening portion.
US11953806B2
An adjustable backdrop support system kit includes at least two interlocking bars, two adjustable tripod stands and a backdrop, during usage, the at least two interlocking bars are interlocked with each other to form a supporting crossbar having two ends which are respectively on tops of the two adjustable tripod stands to configure a support system for supporting a backdrop at a predetermined height, wherein the backdrop is adapted for being supported by the supporting crossbar and being extending downward to provide a photographing background environment.
US11953802B2
A WSS device in which a VIPA is used as a spectral disperser. In an example embodiment, the VIPA is configured to produce two or more diffraction orders on the LCOS micro-display of the WSS device. The LCOS micro-display is configurable to independently process light corresponding to different diffraction orders. For example, the LCOS micro-display may be used to implement: (i) optical-signal switching by applying different relative phase shifts to light of different diffraction orders to cause constructive interference at a selected one of the optical ports of the WSS device; (ii) optical-signal splitting by steering light of different diffraction orders to at least two different selected optical ports of the WSS device; and (iii) controllable optical-signal attenuation by applying different relative phase shifts to different diffraction orders to control the relative degree of constructive and destructive interference at a selected one of the optical ports of the WSS device.
US11953795B2
An embodiment of the present application discloses a pixel unit of a display panel and a display panel, wherein data lines are covered with a light shielding matrix element, two light shielding strips of the light shielding matrix element shield the two data lines respectively. Each light shielding strip comprises a first light shielding section and a second light shielding section in different widths overlap side edges of the main pixel electrode portion and side edges of the sub-pixel electrode portion respectively to effectively shield light leakage regions between the data lines and the pixel electrode, which solves the technical issue of the conventional pixel unit of a display panel forming light leakage regions between data lines and the pixel electrode, causing light leakage in a dark state, and resulting lowered display quality of the display panel and improves display quality.
US11953792B2
The irregularly-shaped display panel comprises a plurality of pixel units arranged in an array and a shielding layer. some of the pixel units are shielded by the shielding layer to form irregularly-shaped pixel units, and each of the irregularly-shaped pixel unit at least comprises a first irregularly-shaped pixel unit; in the first irregularly-shaped pixel unit, the areas of opening regions of at least two sub-pixels shielded by the shielding layer are different, and the sub-pixel having a larger area of an opening region shielded by the shielding layer has a greater pixel pressure difference.
US11953789B2
According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a facing area, a liquid crystal layer, and a first spacer. The facing area includes a first area for displaying an image, a second area, and a frame-shaped frame area. The second substrate includes a light-shielding layer. The second area is an area having higher transparency than transparency of the first area. The liquid crystal layer is located in the second area, the frame area, and the first area. The first spacer is located in the second area and is provided on the first substrate or the second substrate.
US11953788B2
A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate located closer to an observer than the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer provided between the first substrate and the second substrate, and performs display in a twisted vertical alignment mode. Each pixel includes a reflective region where display is performed in a reflection mode. The first substrate includes a reflective electrode including a portion located in the reflective region, and a first vertical alignment film. The second substrate includes a second vertical alignment film. The liquid crystal layer includes a liquid crystal material having negative dielectric anisotropy, and a chiral agent. The reflective electrode includes silver or a silver alloy. The reflective region includes a plurality of liquid crystal domains in which reference alignment azimuths of liquid crystal molecules are different from each other.
US11953786B2
A lens portion of a display device includes: a first lens arranged between a light guide plate and a light-emitting element portion, and having a plurality of first prisms arranged on a first light-exiting surface; and a second lens arranged between the first lens and the light-emitting element portion, and having a plurality of second prisms arranged on a second light-exiting surface arranged at a position facing a light-entering surface. The first lens includes a plurality of diffusing prisms arranged on the light-entering surface and capable of diffusing light emitted from the second lens and introducing said light into the first lens.
US11953781B2
An apparatus includes a light source unit that emits color light beams having different wavelengths; a light intensity modulation element including pixels, and subjecting the color light beams to intensity modulation to generate an image; a diffraction element configured to simultaneously illuminate at least two pixel regions at different pixel positions, with different color light beams, by diffracting the respective color light beams from the light source unit toward pixel regions at different pixel positions on the light intensity modulation element; and a control unit that changes diffraction angles of the respective color light beams in the diffraction element within a predetermined period. The control unit also sequentially switches illumination regions for the pixel regions by the respective color light beams, to allow all of the color light beams to time-divisionally illuminate any pixel region of the pixel regions within the predetermined period.
US11953777B2
The present application discloses a display module and a display device. The display module includes a light grating assembly. The light grating assembly includes alternately arranged first regions and second regions, and liquid crystal molecules and dye molecules distributed in the first regions and the second regions. Arrangement of the liquid crystal molecules and the dye molecules are controlled to make the first regions light-transmissive and the second regions light-transmissive under a first mode and not light-transmissive under a second mode to form alternately light and dark stripes under the second mode.
US11953776B2
A diffraction-limited, programmable pulse shaping network using a virtually integrated phased array (VIPA)-grating pair, integrated with a 2-d transmissive phase-only spatial light modulator (SLM) and a retro-array phase-conjugate mirror (RA-PCM). A high-temporal resolution, broadband pulse shaping network is realized using a 2-D VIPA-grating dispersive element pair, with a programmable SLM at a common Fourier transform plane. True wavefront reversal (“time reversal”) is realized using a self-starting RA-PCM, which compensates for system path distortions, misalignment, beam wander, vibrations and optical aberrations. Upon reverse transit through the system, the RA-PCM wavefront matches the set of virtual images emerging from the VIPA. The RA-PCM is a self-starting, low-power device, without frequency shifts, doesn't require pump beams and/or the need for high-intensity stimulated scattering threshold conditions to be met. Polarization decoupling enables the RA-PCM to compensate for optical distortions, while enabling the SLM to generate real time Fourier phase masks for programmable pulse shaping.
US11953773B2
A display device is provided and includes first substrate; first line extending in first direction on first substrate; second line extending in a second direction crossing the first lines; pixel electrode on the first substrate; insulating film on the pixel electrode; common electrode on the insulating film, including a first electrode arranged in a second direction and a plurality of second electrodes connected to the first electrode; second substrate facing first substrate; liquid crystal layer provided between first and second substrates; and wherein, in plan view, pixel electrode is rectangular in shape, and in plan view, part of first electrode overlaps second line.
US11953772B2
Disclosed herein a touch display driving device for driving a touch panel including first and second touch panels, which includes a plurality of touch sensing circuits configured to receive a touch sensing signal from the touch panel, and a plurality of driving device pads connected to the touch panel and selectively connected to the touch sensing circuit, wherein the plurality of driving device pads are divided into first, second, and third driving device pads, and when the touch sensing signal is received from the first touch panel through the first and second driving device pads, the touch sensing circuit connected to the third driving device pad is turned off.
US11953759B2
A computer-implemented method, including: capturing a nominal refractive power and/or a nominal astigmatism in a near reference point of the lens, determining a corrective value of the vertical or horizontal prism in the near reference point of the lens; modifying the nominal refractive power and/or the nominal astigmatism in the near reference point on the basis of the corrective value of the vertical or horizontal prism of the lens; determining a continuous course of the nominal refractive power or the nominal astigmatism along the main line of the lens on the basis of the modified refractive power and/or nominal astigmatism in the near reference point; and calculating or optimizing the lens on the basis of the modified nominal refractive power and/or nominal astigmatism in the near reference point and the determined course of the nominal refractive power and/or the nominal astigmatism along the main line.
US11953753B2
A VCM (voice coil motor) is disclosed, the VCM including: a rotor including a cylindrical bobbin for accommodating a lens and protruded at a bottom end with a boss, and a coil block arranged at a periphery of the bobbin; a stator including a magnet facing the coil block and a yoke fixing the magnet; and an elastic member including a first elastic member formed with a through hole coupled to the boss of the bobbin and a second elastic member coupled to an upper end facing the bottom end of the bobbin; wherein the boss is formed with a disengagement prevention unit inhibiting the first elastic member from being disengaged from the boss, and the first elastic member is formed with a coupling unit contacting a joint where the disengagement prevention unit and the coupling unit meet.
US11953743B2
The present disclosure provides an optical fibre ribbon (100) with intermittent bonding. The optical fibre ribbon (100) includes a plurality of optical fibres (102). The plurality of optical fibres (102) are placed parallel to each other. The plurality of optical fibres (102) adjacent to each other are bonded intermittently along a length. The optical fibre ribbon (102) has a bond ratio of about 15 to 22. The bond ratio is a ratio of a number of a plurality of bonds (106) per unit length of the optical fibre ribbon (100) to a number of optical fibres in the optical fibre ribbon (100).
US11953741B2
An example optoelectronic module includes a housing that extends between a first end and an opposite second end. The optoelectronic module includes a printed circuit board (“PCB”) with an electrical connector at an end thereof, a transmitter electrically coupled to the PCB, a receiver electrically coupled to the PCB, and a receiving member including a plurality of ports each configured to receive a respective one of a plurality of fiber optic cables. In one aspect, the receiving member includes a plurality of deformable retaining members configured to be positioned in corresponding receptacles of the housing member in an arrangement structured to limit movement of the receiving member. In another aspect, the module also includes a plurality of fiber optic cable receptacles and a receptacle retaining member is positioned between the housing and the receptacles and limits movement of the receptacles in the housing.
US11953734B2
A fiber optic adapter includes a shell body defining an inner space, a dividing wall dividing the inner space into two receptacles, an installation seat, and a securing seat. The installation seat and the securing seat are respectively located in the receptacles. The securing seat includes a plurality of base walls connected in pairs, a plurality of pairs of clamping walls, and a plurality of clenching walls. Each base wall cooperates with a respective pair of the clamping walls and a respective clenching wall to form a ring-shaped structure, with each adjacent two of the base wall, the pair of clamping walls and the clenching wall defining a gap therebetween.
US11953730B2
A semiconductor structure including a semiconductor substrate, a first patterned dielectric layer, a grating coupler and a waveguide is provided. The semiconductor substrate includes an optical reflective layer. The first patterned dielectric layer is disposed on the semiconductor substrate and covers a portion of the optical reflective layer. The grating coupler and the waveguide are disposed on the first patterned dielectric layer, wherein the grating coupler and the waveguide are located over the optical reflective layer.
US11953729B2
Photonic devices are disclosed including a first cladding layer, a first electrical contact comprising a first lead coupled to a first dielectric portion, a second electrical contact comprising a second lead coupled to a second dielectric portion, a waveguide structure comprising a slab layer comprising a first material, and a second cladding layer. The slab layer may be coupled to the first dielectric portion of the first electrical contact and the second dielectric portion of the second electrical contact. The first dielectric portion and the second dielectric portion may have a dielectric constant greater than a dielectric constant of the first material.
US11953726B2
An optical device includes a first waveguide extending in a first direction and a second waveguide connected to the first waveguide. The second waveguide includes a first mirror, a second mirror, and an optical waveguide layer. At least either the first waveguide or the second waveguide has one or more gratings in a part of a connection region in which the first mirror, the second mirror, and the first waveguide overlap one another when seen from an angle parallel with a direction perpendicular to a first reflecting surface of the first mirror. The one or more gratings is at a distance that is longer than at least either a thickness of the first mirror or a thickness of the second mirror in the first direction from an end of the first mirror or the second mirror that is in the connection region.
US11953723B2
A thermally tunable waveguide including an optical waveguide and a heater is provided. The optical waveguide includes a phase shifter. The heater is disposed over the optical waveguide. The heater includes a heating portion, pad portions and tapered portions. The heating portion overlaps with the phase shifter of the optical waveguide. The pad portions are disposed aside of the heating portion. Each of the pad portions is connected to the heating portion through one of the tapered portions respectively.
US11953719B2
An optical device is provided. The optical device includes a substrate, a first optical layer; a high k layer, and a second optical layer. The first optical layer is disposed on the substrate. The first optical layer comprises a top surface, a first sidewall, and a second side-wall opposite thereto. The high k layer is disposed on the top surface of the first optical layer. The second optical layer is disposed on the high k layer. The second optical layer includes a top surface, a third sidewall, and a fourth sidewall opposite thereto. The first sidewall of the first optical layer is misaligned with the third sidewall of the second optical layer. The second sidewall of the first optical layer is coplanar with the fourth sidewall of the second optical layer.
US11953715B2
A backlight module includes a light guide plate, a light source, a fixing element and an elastic element. The light guide plate has a light incident surface. The light source has a light-emitting side and a back side opposite to the light-emitting side, and the light-emitting side faces the light incident surface. The fixing element is disposed to be opposite to the back side. The elastic element is connected to the fixing element, wherein the elastic element is adapted to push the light source to be against the light incident surface.
US11953707B2
A multi-layer lens is disclosed which includes a plurality of dual-layer structures staked on top of one-another, wherein each dual-layer Ri of the plurality of dual-layers includes i) a first curable material having a height of ZLi cured at a predetermined curing level CA, and ii) a second curable material having a height of Zgi cured at a predetermined curing level CB.
US11953706B2
Wavelength-selective films are visibly apparent under the selective wavelength. Wavelength-selective films typically reflect off axis the selected wavelength and therefore can provide high-contrast against a background when applied in a pattern on a substrate. However, it is difficult to apply unique patterned embedded images from film. Disclosed is a cost-effective method and construction of a patterned wavelength-selective image to a substrate. In the disclosed wavelength-selective image, wavelength-selective film particles are applied to an adhesive pattern to create the wavelength-selective image.
US11953696B2
The present disclosed subject matter relates to a display device for displaying an image to an eye, comprising a support mounting a light source and a mirror assembly. The light source is configured to emit a visible light beam carrying the image towards the mirror assembly, and the mirror assembly is configured to angularly oscillate and deflect the emitted visible light beam towards the eye. A light sensor is mounted on the support and configured to record return light received via said mirror assembly from the eye. The display device further comprises a processor connected to the light sensor and configured to detect a state of the eye from the recorded return light.
US11953695B2
It is provided the wearable electronic device including a skeletal member comprising a temple, a frame, and a bridge; a display fixed to the temple and configured to output visible light corresponding to a virtual image; a beam steering member comprising a liquid crystal and configured to adjust a direction of the visible light traveling from an exit pupil of the display to an input grating of an optical waveguide using the liquid crystal; the optical waveguide configured to adjust a path of the visible light and output the virtual image; an infrared output unit configured to output infrared light for tracking a gaze of a user; an infrared sensor configured to detect infrared light reflected from a pupil of the user; a bend sensor connected to the temple and the frame to measure a first bending state between the temple and the frame.
US11953694B2
A right temple member and a left temple member are provided, close to a display unit, at inner side faces of a right case member and a left case member that store at least a part of the display unit. A right support member and a left support member are provided at the right temple member and the left temple member. Accordingly, the provision of the right support member and the left support member enables to adjust a degree of opening and an inward repulsive force of the right temple member and the left temple member.
US11953693B2
An athletic eyeglasses system and method for monitoring and displaying to an athlete relevant information such as elapsed time and heart rate, in real time, without diversion of attention from the view ahead and without extraneous movement of hands or arms, providing an eyeglasses frame, two frame arms, two display glass units having data displays, a controller unit, a battery, a covered port for charging the battery, input buttons, a timer starter, and a sensor to sense physiological conditions such as heart rate and peripheral oxygen saturation.
US11953692B1
A system for and method of projecting augmentation imagery in a head-mounted display is disclosed. A system for projecting light onto an eye includes a display to project light, a beam combiner, first and second optical systems between the display and the beam combiner along respective first and second optical paths. The first and second optical paths differ. The system also includes a switchable reflector that, in a reflective state, reflects light incident upon the reflector, and, in a non-reflective state, transmits light incident upon the reflector. The reflector is between the display and the first and second optical systems along the first and second optical paths and directs light along the first path, in the reflective state, or along the second path, in the non-reflective state, to reflect light from the beam combiner to the eye from different directions when in the different states.
US11953686B2
An optical combiner in a display system of a mixed-reality head-mounted display (HMD) device comprises a lens of birefringent material and a ferroelectric liquid crystal (FLC) modulator that are adapted for use with a reflective waveguide to provide multiple different focal planes on which holograms of virtual-world objects (i.e., virtual images) are displayed. The birefringent lens has two orthogonal refractive indices, ordinary and extraordinary, depending on the polarization state of the incident light. Depending on the rotation of the polarization axis by the FLC modulator, the incoming light to the birefringent lens is focused either at a distance corresponding to the ordinary refractive index or the extraordinary refractive index. Virtual image light leaving the birefringent lens is in-coupled to a see-through reflective waveguide which is configured to form an exit pupil for the optical combiner to enable an HMD device user to view the virtual images from the source.
US11953682B2
An optical aperture multiplier includes a first optical waveguide (10) having a rectangular cross-section and including partially reflecting surfaces (40) at an oblique angle to a direction of elongation of the waveguide. A second optical waveguide (20), also including partially reflecting surfaces (45) at an oblique angle, is optically coupled with the first optical waveguide (10). An image coupled into the first optical waveguide with an initial direction of propagation at an oblique coupling angle advances by four-fold internal reflection along the first optical waveguide, with a proportion of intensity of the image reflected at the partially reflecting surfaces so as to be coupled into the second optical waveguide, and then propagates through two-fold reflection within the second optical waveguide, with a proportion of intensity of the image reflected at the partially reflecting surfaces so as to be directed outwards from one of the parallel faces as a visible image.
US11953681B2
A HUD 1 comprises an image display device 30 including an LCD panel 31c, a virtual image optical system 40 forming an optical path L of an image light emitted from the LCD panel, and an outer housing 50 wherein: the outer housing includes an outer case 51 accommodating the virtual image optical system and having the image display device attached thereto, an upper cover 52 covering an upper portion from which the image light is emitted in the outer case, and a bottom cover 60 covering a bottom portion of the outer case; the bottom cover accommodates the image display device and the bottom surface of the outer case when fixed to the outer case such that the image display device to isolate them form an external space of the outer housing; and fins 63 is formed on an outer surface thereof.
US11953677B2
An apparatus include a motor, a first scanner, and a second scanner. The first scanner is coupled to the motor, and the motor is configured to rotate the first scanner at a first angular velocity about a rotation axis to deflect a first beam incident in a third plane on the first scanner into a first plane different from the third plane. The second scanner is coupled to the motor, and the motor is configured to rotate the second scanner at a second angular velocity different from the first angular velocity about the rotation axis to deflect a second beam incident in the third plane on the second scanner into a second plane different from the third plane.
US11953674B2
A microelectromechanical system (MEMS) structure includes at least first and second metal vias. Each of the first and second metal vias includes a respective planar metal layer having a first thickness and a respective post formed from the planar metal layer. The post has a sidewall, and the sidewall has a second thickness greater than 14% of the first thickness.
US11953669B2
An optical observation instrument according to the invention, in particular a surgical microscope or exoscope, comprises an optics unit with an objective arrangement and at least one electronic image recorder, wherein the optics unit has a first stereo channel with a first beam path and a second stereo channel with a second beam path for recording a stereo image of an object field with the at least one electronic image recorder and wherein the first and the second beam path extend through the objective arrangement. The instrument moreover comprises a retaining apparatus, on which the optics unit is mounted so as to be rotatable about a first axis of rotation, the latter at least approximately corresponding to an axis of the objective arrangement, wherein the optical observation instrument has a viewing direction that is angled in relation to the axis of the objective arrangement and comprises a deflection element, arranged on the object-side of the objective arrangement, for deflecting the first and the second beam path into the objective arrangement. The invention further relates to a method for generating a stereo image of an object field.
US11953665B2
An imaging apparatus includes a first reflection optical system and a second reflection optical system having mutually different optical axes, each of the first and second reflection optical systems includes a plurality of reflecting surfaces, a first imaging portion configured to receive an imaging light reflected by the first reflection optical system, a second imaging portion configured to receive an imaging light reflected by the second reflection optical system, a first member, a second member, and a frame. A part of the plurality of reflecting surfaces of the first reflection optical system are reflecting surfaces provided on the frame. Among the plurality of reflecting surfaces of the first reflection optical system, a final-stage reflecting surface configured to reflect the imaging light toward the first imaging portion is a first reflecting surface formed on a surface of the first member.
US11953651B2
This invention relates to comfortable ophthalmic devices and methods of producing such devices.
US11953630B2
A radiation detector, comprising two or more ionisation chambers (10), each of which comprises a main body (11), and which are arranged in such a way that the main bodies (11) delimit a measurement space (M) inside which a radiation source can be positioned.
US11953619B2
Radar-based sensing includes, at an electronic device that includes one or more radar-based transmitters and one or more radar-based receivers, transmitting, from one or more of the radar-based transmitters, radio waves into an area in a vicinity of the electronic device and receiving, at one or more of the radar-based receivers, radio waves reflected off one or more objects in the vicinity of the electronic device. The radio waves, as reflected off the one or more objects, can be processed using a radar imaging module.
US11953614B2
A method for measuring coordinate position include detecting the distance of a target relative to a portable electronic device to generate a measurement signal corresponding to the distance, sensing a relative position of the target to generate a azimuth angle corresponding to the relative position, detecting the movement of the portable electronic device to generate an inertial signal corresponding to the movement, obtaining positioning information of the portable electronic device, converting the measurement signal into distance data, converting the inertial signal into a tilt angle, calculating coordinate difference information with the tilt angle, the distance data and the azimuth angle, and calculating coordinate position of the target with the positioning information and the coordinate difference information.
US11953607B2
Systems, device configurations, and processes are provided for navigation and determination of navigation observables based on low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite signals. A method for navigation includes using differential carrier phase measurement of LEO signals including correction of position estimates using integer ambiguity resolution and double difference carrier phase determinations. Frameworks described herein can use a computationally efficient integer ambiguity resolution to reduce the size of the integer least squares (ILS) determination. The framework may include a joint probability density function (pdf) of the megaconstellation LEO satellites' azimuth and elevation angle to characterize a LEO system. Embodiments are also directed to correction of ambiguities of carrier phase differential (CD)-low Earth orbit (LEO) (CD-LEO) measurements that may utilize a base and a rover without requiring prior knowledge of rover position.
US11953586B2
A computer includes a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to select a scanning rate for a first sensor of a vehicle based on at least one of data related to a current time or data related to a location of the vehicle; instruct the first sensor to run at the selected scanning rate; in response to receiving data from the first sensor indicating a newly present object, turn on a second sensor; and then record data from the second sensor. The second sensor has a higher power draw than the first sensor.
US11953578B2
Techniques are provided for single sided beam management in a millimeter wave (mmW) communication system for use in bistatic radio frequency (RF) sensing. An example method of tracking targets with bistatic radio frequency sensing includes receiving a scanning reference signal, generating a scanning signal report indicating one or more target groups associated with the scanning reference signal, transmitting the scanning signal report, receiving tracking signal configuration information indicating a tracking reference signal associated with the one or more target groups, receiving the tracking reference signal identified in the tracking signal configuration information, and tracking the one or more target groups associated with the tracking reference signal.
US11953576B2
A smart current transformer for determining primary current or power consumption, by stepping down the primary current to a secondary current for subsequent measurement by a connected meter. The current transformer is provided with a connected non-volatile memory for storing calibration data (and optionally identification data) regarding that particular current transformer. The calibration data can include the gain error and/or phase delay for the current transformer, as determined from prior calibration testing of the current transformer. The calibration data may be communicated to or otherwise determined by the meter, and used to calibrate the measurement of the secondary current, in order to determine the primary current or power consumption. Also disclosed is a system and method utilizing such a smart current transformer.
US11953572B2
A method for ascertaining a magnetic field of at least one magnetic coil unit of a magnetic resonance apparatus, a magnetic resonance apparatus, and a computer program product are provided. According to the method, the magnetic field is generated by the at least one magnetic coil unit. A plurality of magnetic field vectors are detected at different positions of the magnetic field by a magnetic field sensor unit, where each magnetic field vector of the plurality of magnetic field vectors describes a strength, such as a magnitude, and a direction of the magnetic field at the respective position. The magnetic field is ascertained. To ascertain the magnetic field based on the plurality of magnetic field vectors, a model of a vector field is ascertained.
US11953568B1
The present disclosure relates to a wide-range perpendicular sensitive magnetic sensor and the method for manufacturing the same, the magnetic sensor includes a substrate, a plurality of magnetic tunnel junctions, a plurality of magnetic flux regulators, a first output port and a second output port.
US11953563B2
A Hall effect sensor system includes a Hall effect sensor and a drive-sense circuit (DSC). The Hall effect sensor includes an input port to receive a DC (direct current) current signal and generates a Hall voltage based on exposure to a magnetic field. The DSC generates the DC current signal based on a reference signal and drives it via a single line that operably couples the DSC to the Hall effect sensor and simultaneously to sense the DC current signal via the single line. The DSC detects an effect on the DC current signal corresponding to the Hall voltage that is generated across the Hall effect sensor based on exposure of the Hall effect sensor to the magnetic field and generates a digital signal representative of the Hall voltage.
US11953558B2
A method and system for estimating the state-of-health of a battery The invention relates to a method for estimating the state-of-health, SoHest, of a battery in a vehicle, the method comprising: determining (100) a first battery property and a battery temperature of a battery in a vehicle; calculating (102) a state-of-health, SoHcalc, of a battery cell based on the determined first battery property using a predetermined model; providing (104) a function f estimating a battery cell degradation rate; updating (106) a state-of health estimated in a previous time step according to SoHest←SoHest+ƒ·dt+K·(SoHcalc−SoHest), where K is a gain factor which is dependent on operating conditions of the vehicle, and wherein K is modified (108) for each time step using a reinforcement learning agent.
US11953556B2
Methods for determining an operating state of a battery with respect to one or more use profiles include: a step of prior learning during which operational limits of the battery are defined depending on parameters of the battery; the operational limits defining an operational zone in which the battery carries out the one or more use profiles, and a non-operational zone in which the battery does not carry out the one or more use profiles; a step of determining the operating state of the battery for a given use profile in the course of which the parameters of the battery in operation are determined; and a comparison step in which the operational limits and the parameters of the battery are compared and the battery is positioned in the operational or non-operational zone.
US11953544B1
A system for testing a sensor and a hub is provided. The system includes a testing control device and a sensor testing device. The testing control device is configured to select a testing profile based at least in part on the sensor, and transmit a testing initiation signal based at least in part on the testing profile. The sensor testing device is configured to perform testing of the sensor and the hub in response to the testing initiation signal, the testing including rotating the sensor along at least one axis based at least in part on the testing profile, and transmit test data to the testing control device based at least in part on the testing of the sensor and the hub. The testing control device is configured to receive the test data from the sensor testing device.
US11953534B2
The present disclosure pertains to systems and methods for detecting lightning and using such information to implement appropriate control strategies in an electric power system. In one embodiment, a system may include a data acquisition subsystem configured to receive a plurality of representations of electrical conditions associated with at least a portion of the electric power system. The system may also include a traveling wave subsystem to identify an initial traveling wave in the electric power system and generated by lightning and identify at least one subsequent traveling wave in the electric power system and generated by lightning. A lightning analysis subsystem may perform an analysis of the initial traveling wave and the at least one subsequent traveling wave to determine a characteristic of the ionosphere based on the analysis and a lightning location. An adaptive control subsystem may adjust a control strategy based on the lightning location.
US11953533B2
A capacitive sensor includes a first conductive structure; a second conductive structure that is counter to the first conductive structure, wherein the second conductive structure is movable relative to the first conductive structure in response to an external force acting thereon, wherein the second conductive structure is capacitively coupled to the first conductive structure to form a first capacitor having a first capacitance that changes with a change in a distance between the first conductive structure and second conductive structure; a signal generator configured to apply a first electrical signal step at an input or at an output of the first capacitor to induce a first voltage transient response at the output of first capacitor; and a diagnostic circuit configured to detect a fault in the capacitive sensor by measuring a first time constant of the first voltage transient response and detecting the fault based on the first time constant.
US11953531B2
An apparatus may include a sense resistor comprising a plurality of parallel-coupled resistor elements, a plurality of positive voltage sense points, and a plurality of negative voltage sense points. A first passive combination network may be configured to combine the plurality of positive voltage sense points into a single positive sense terminal and a second passive combination network may be configured to combine the plurality of negative voltage sense points into a single negative sense terminal. The first passive combination network and the second passive combination network may be arranged such that a sense voltage is measurable between the single positive sense terminal and the single negative sense terminal and a dependence of the sense voltage on a variation in current density in the parallel-coupled resistor elements is minimized.
US11953518B2
The present disclosure provides a switching matrix system and an operating method thereof for semiconductor characteristic measurement. The switching matrix system is configured to: detect an assembly of at least one switching matrix module inserted into a plurality of slots of the switching matrix system; determine a user interface according to the assembly of the at least one switching matrix module inserted into the slots, wherein the user interface includes an operable object corresponding to the assembly; and provide the user interface.
US11953517B2
A large radius probe for a surface analysis instrument such as an atomic force microscope (AFM). The probe is microfabricated to have a tip with a hemispherical distal end or apex. The radius of the apex is the range of about a micron making the probes particularly useful for nanoindentation analyses, but other applications are contemplated. In particular, tips with aspect ratios greater than 2:1 can be made for imaging, for example, semiconductor samples. The processes of the preferred embodiments allow such large radius probes to be batch fabricated to facilitate cost and robustness.
US11953516B2
The present invention is a self-disengaging pitot tube cover having a split cylinder configuration and an internal release mechanism, which is triggered by a temperature sensitive mechanism upon detecting a predetermined temperature so that the pitot tube cover separates and is released from the pitot tube at a predetermined temperature.
US11953515B2
A method of processing information of a rotating wheel includes measuring angular velocity of a rotating wheel with a gyroscopic sensor, determining an instantaneous position of the rotating wheel with an accelerometer, and determining the angular positions of the rotating wheel based on the measured angular velocity and the instantaneous position of the rotating wheel. The gyroscopic sensor and the accelerometer are mounted on the rotating wheel.
US11953514B2
An inventive accelerometer includes a proof mass and a pair of vibrating sensors. Excitation-and-detection circuits drive vibrational modes of one sensor at resonant frequencies f1, F1, and F′1, and drive those same vibrational modes of the other sensor at resonant frequencies f2, F2, and F′2. Compressive or tensile loads oppositely applied by the proof mass to the vibrating sensors cause difference frequencies Δf=f1−f2, ΔF=F1−F2, and ΔF′=F′1−F′2 to vary monotonically with acceleration of the apparatus along a sensing axis. A measurement of acceleration can be generated based at least in part on a linear or nonlinear function of one or more or all of f1, f2, F1, F2, F′1, or F′2, and can be generated using a trained neural network.
US11953510B2
A management system including at least one processor, wherein the processor is configured to acquire an image obtained by imaging a sample container containing a sample, recognize relevant information related to reliability of a test result related to the sample based on the image, and derive reliability information indicating the reliability of the test result related to the sample based on the recognized relevant information.
US11953509B2
The automatic analyzer includes a housing unit capable of housing a plurality of reagent bottles each of which has an IC tag on one surface of short-side side surfaces thereof, an antenna used to communicate with the IC tag, a detector that detects the presence or absence of a reagent bottles, and a control unit. The housing unit includes a housing container cooled by a cooling machine, a heat insulating material, a reagent tray provided with a plurality of reagent bottle holding portions that hold the reagent bottles, a disk rotatably holding the reagent tray, and a driving unit driving the disk, and when it is unable to communicate with the IC tag of the reagent bottle installed in the reagent bottle holding portion where the reagent bottle is detected by the detector, the control unit determines that the reagent bottle is installed in a reverse direction.
US11953495B1
Disclosed are a molecule detection unit, a chip and a preparation method. The molecule detection unit includes a single-hole liquid storage cavity, a liquid resistance flow channel, a buffer flow channel, a sensing electrode, a substrate, a first structural layer, a second structural layer and a sample flow channel. The first structural layer is arranged on the top of the substrate; the single-hole liquid storage cavity and the buffer flow channel are arranged in the first structural layer and are independent of each other; the liquid resistance flow channel is arranged in the first structural layer, and two ends of the liquid resistance flow channel are respectively communicated with the single-hole liquid storage cavity and the buffer flow channel; the second structural layer is arranged on the top of the first structural layer and covers the top of the buffer flow channel.
US11953491B2
A detection device that is capable of being attached to a through hole includes a main body portion, a detection portion, a cover portion, an insulation portion, and an oscillation portion. The main body portion has an insertion portion and a head portion. The detection portion is arranged in the insertion portion and detects the state of a fluid. The cover portion is arranged so as to form a gap with the head portion. The insulating portion has a lateral wall having a cylindrical shape. An oscillation portion is accommodated inside the insulation portion, and performs a wireless output of a detection result of the detection portion by using the head portion, the cover portion and the gap as a slot antenna.
US11953486B2
The present invention relates to a sensor (1) for sensing organic carbon in a liquid (L), comprising: a container (2) having an interior space (20) for receiving the liquid (L), a photodetector (3), and a light source (4) configured to emit ultraviolet light (5) so that the ultraviolet light (5) travels along an optical path (P) through liquid (L) residing in the interior space (20) and is absorbable by carbon bonds of organic molecules in the liquid (L). According to the present invention, the photodetector (3) is configured to detect light in the visible or infrared spectrum, and the sensor (1) comprises a down conversion material portion (22; 22a) arranged in the optical path, wherein the down conversion material portion (22; 22a) is configured to receive incoming ultraviolet light (5) emitted by the light source (4) and to down convert received ultraviolet light (5) and to emit said down converted light (50) in the visible or infrared spectrum so that emitted down converted light (50) impinges on the photodetector (3).
US11953482B2
Methods of sensing carbon dioxide, sensors, and related articles and systems are generally described.
US11953469B2
A fluid measuring device for determining at least one characteristic property of a fluid includes a measuring tube having a fluid duct and a measuring section in which the measuring tube is cylindrical on the inside and an area of a measuring tube wall is configured as a waveguide, and a transmitter for exciting acoustic waves in the waveguide and a receiver for receiving acoustic waves which are in direct contact with an outer surface of the waveguide, wherein acoustic waves excited by the transmitter are adapted to propagate as a volume wave through the fluid. The waveguide has an elongated waveguide path which extends at an acute angle to a longitudinal extension direction of the measuring tube and with a component in the circumferential direction, wherein in the area of the waveguide path, the measuring tube wall has a smaller wall thickness than in areas adjoining the waveguide path.
US11953462B2
A method of forming a glass electrochemical sensor is described. In some embodiments, the method may include forming a plurality of electrical through glass vias (TGVs) in an electrode substrate; filling each of the plurality of electrical TGVs with an electrode material; forming a plurality of contact TGVs in the electrode substrate; filling each of the plurality of contact TGVs with a conductive material; patterning the conductive material to connect the electrical TGVs with the contact TGVs; forming a cavity in a first glass layer; and bonding a first side of the first glass layer to the electrode substrate.
US11953460B2
Monolithic humidity sensor devices, and methods of manufacture. The devices include circuitry on or over a silicon substrate. A primary passivation barrier is formed over the circuitry with conductive vias therethrough; a capacitor, comprising metal fingers with spaces therebetween, is formed above said primary passivation barrier and electrically coupled by the conductive vias to the circuitry. A secondary passivation barrier is formed over the capacitor. A hygroscopic material layer is formed over the secondary passivation barrier, wherein the capacitor is operable to exhibit a capacitance value responsive to moisture present in the hygroscopic material layer and the circuitry is operable to generate a signal responsive to said capacitance value.
US11953456B2
A method for separating oil-water two-phase NMR signals by using dynamic nuclear polarization comprising: using a combination of a non-selective free radical and a selective relaxation reagent to selectively enhance an NMR signal of an oil phase or a water phase, the relaxation reagent being capable of selectively suppressing dynamic polarization enhancement of the water phase or oil phase, thus achieving the polarization enhancement of a single fluid phase in the mixed fluid phases and realizing separation of the two-phase signals; or using a selective free radical to selectively enhance the NMR signal of the oil phase or the water phase, thus achieving the polarization enhancement of a single fluid phase in the mixed fluid phases and realizing separation of the oil-water two-phase NMR signals. The method is simple and easy to operate, has a short test time, and can efficiently separate NMR signals of oil and water phases.
US11953449B2
A visual inspection device including a pinhole lens optically coupled to a sensor is provided. The pinhole lens has a pinhole placed at the distal end of the lens to capture the rays from an object to be inspected, a front optical group receiving the rays which cross the pinhole, and a rear optical group. The front optical group is configured to focus, on the rear optical group, the rays which cross the pinhole. The rear optical group is configured to focus, on the sensor, the rays received from the front optical group.
US11953440B2
The described method and system allow the simultaneous detection of multicolored samples, e.g. in live cells or tissues, in a simple experimental geometry. It relies on combining ultrashort ultra-broadband laser sources (10) with a fluorescence microscope setup able to collect fluorescence intensities and/or photon arrival times per excitation volume, as well as nonlinear signals, such as second/third-harmonic and sum-frequency generation. In the description, the presented method is referred to as “SyncRGB method”.
US11953436B2
Embodiments described herein relate to devices, and methods for quantifying thiol content in a sample containing a mixture of proteins or protein isoforms. The method includes conjugating a portion of the sample with free thiol detection binders, separating the contents in the portion of the sample into separated protein isoforms, detecting fluorescence signals associated with each separated protein isoform, and quantifying, based on the fluorescence signals, a relative amount of free thiol associated with each separated protein isoform. In some instances, the method includes quantifying the amount of each separated protein isoform based on absorbance signals associated with each separated protein isoform. In some instances, the fluorescence and/or absorbance signals associated with protein isoforms conjugated with detection binders can be compared with the corresponding signals associated with unconjugated protein isoforms. In some instances, the method further includes applying a reducing agent and quantifying total-thiol content in the sample.
US11953426B2
The present invention relates to a measurement light source for generating measurement light with a uniform spatial illumination intensity distribution. The measurement light source comprises a solid block, in which an illumination space, a light-forming space and a light exit space are each formed as a hollow space in the block and have a diffusely reflecting inner surface. The illumination space opens into the light-forming space. The light-forming space opens into the light exit space. At least one light source is at least partially arranged in the illumination space in order to generate light. The light exit space has a light exit. According to the invention, an axis of the illumination space and an axis of the light exit space are arranged at a distance from one another. The light-forming space is designed for a reversal of a light propagation direction. The invention also relates to a measuring arrangement for detecting at least an absolute reflection spectrum of a sample. The measuring arrangement is used in particular for the spectroscopic examination of surfaces in production processes in order to determine the color or gloss of surfaces, for example.
US11953419B2
Disclosed is an apparatus for monitoring bioaerosols, including a capturer configured to capture bioaerosol particles in air in a capture solution; a particle sprayer configured to electro-spray the capture solution in a form of droplets such that the particles are included in at least some of the sprayed droplets; and an analyzer configured to analyze the particles, sprayed through the particle sprayer, by machine learning. In accordance with such a configuration, the droplets containing a certain amount of the particles can be continuously analyzed in real time by machine learning, thereby contributing to the improvement of monitoring efficiency for a specific bioaerosol genus.
US11953410B2
A specimen support tool for supporting a slice prepared by using a microtome includes a specimen support member on which a groove for guiding the slice is formed.
US11953407B2
A laboratory system includes: a laboratory device on a table surface of a laboratory bench, the laboratory bench having at least one receiving section below the table surface, which at least one receiving section receives at least one fluid reservoir which is connected to the laboratory device. In an embodiment, the laboratory device includes a climate chamber and/or an incubation system, and the laboratory system further includes a first fluid supply system that supplies at least one fluid to the climate chamber and/or the incubation system, the first fluid supply system being connected to the at least one fluid reservoir in which the at least one fluid is storable.
US11953395B2
Differential magnetic field torque sensors include first and second magnetic field concentrators that guide magnetic flux to a magnetic field sensor from first and second magnetic field directors and a target, such as a multipole magnet assembly configured as a ring magnet. The magnetic field concentrators have pairs of sections that are interdigitated and configured adjacent to magnetic field sensing elements of the magnetic field sensor. The magnetic field directors can each have a plurality of teeth, which can be interdigitated and adjacent or proximate to the target. The magnetic field directors can be configured to be mounted as a unit to a rotatable shaft while the target can be configured to be mounted to a different rotatable shaft. The magnetic field concentrators and magnetic field sensor can be fixed while the magnetic field directors and target can rotate with respect to each other about a twist axis.
US11953386B2
A method for estimating the junction temperature of the power semiconductor device of the power module is provided. The method includes computing a junction temperature prediction value of the first power semiconductor device based on a power loss and a thermal resistance of the first power semiconductor device and computing a junction temperature prediction value of the second power semiconductor device based on a power loss and a thermal resistance of the second power semiconductor device. A temperature prediction value of the heat sink is computed by subtracting the junction temperature prediction value of the first power semiconductor device from a sensing temperature sensed by the temperature sensor. The junction temperature of the second power semiconductor device is then finally determined by adding the temperature prediction value of the heat sink to the junction temperature prediction value of the second power semiconductor device.
US11953382B2
A system comprising a device or the device itself for measuring temperatures, comprising a sensor array plate, comprising on a first surface at least one temperature sensor arranged on at least one tongue that is surrounded by a cut-out leaving a bridge to the sensor array plate, wherein the at least one sensor has on both sides' spacer and a second surface opposite the first surface for connection to at least one operating plate of a thermocycler; and a pressure plate, comprising fins at the side for connection to the sensor array plate that align with the spacer of the sensor array plate when a pressure plate is arranged onto a sensor array plate.
US11953365B2
A switching device includes a first enclosure containing a switch, a rod-shaped second enclosure having a second end connected to the first enclosure, a detector unit in the second enclosure, and a float disposed around the second enclosure and capable of moving along it. As the float moves from the first end of the second enclosure toward the second end, when the float enters a first position range, a first position sensor senses the float and transmits a first sensing signal to a detection circuit; when the float enters a second position range, a second position sensor senses the float and transmits a second sensing signal to the detection circuit. The detection circuit close a switch in response to the second sensing signal to turn on an external appliance. The switching device is flexible, reliable, and inexpensive to produce.
US11953360B1
A volumetric flow measuring and metering device for flowable solids as a flow passage through which a flow of bulk material may be passed. An obturating device is positioned at the bottom end of the flow passage and is movable in a linear direction toward and away from the bottom end. The obturating device is positioned relative to the bottom end of the flow passage at a distance that imparts a consolidated, column-like flow of the bulk material in the flow passage. A speed sensor operates to measure a speed of consolidated, column-like flow of the bulk material in the flow passage. A controller uses the speed data from the speed sensor to calculate a volumetric flow rate of the bulk material flowing through the flow passage. The obturating device can be selectively positioned to increase or decrease the volumetric flow rate of the bulk material. Other aspects are also provided.
US11953355B2
Utility meter for measuring thermal energy delivered to a point of consumption by a fluid supplied via a supply flow and a return flow, including a flow meter unit for measuring a supply flow rate or return flow rate of the fluid; a pair of temperature sensing probes for measuring temperatures of the supply flow and the return flow, each of the temperature sensing probes including a resistive temperature device; and a calculator device configured for executing a measuring algorithm for determining an amount of thermal energy delivered to the point of consumption over a period of time based on flow rates and temperatures received from the flow meter unit and temperature sensing probes, respectively; wherein the calculator device is configured to detect the type of resistive temperature device included in the temperature sensing probes and to adapt the measuring algorithm according to the type of resistive temperature device.
US11953351B2
A tactile and proximity sensor includes a light source, a light receiver, an elastic structure, and a reflecting mirror. The light source emits light. The light receiver receives light and generates a signal indicating a result of reception of the light. The elastic structure includes an elastic body deformable in response to an external force and includes a reflecting portion to reflect light and transmitting portions to transmit light. The reflecting mirror faces the light source to guide the light from the light source to the reflecting portion and the transmitting portion.
US11953349B2
A magnetic tracking system is configured to determine an object pose of a tracked object in an environment of the magnetic tracking system. The tracking system includes a transmitter assembly that includes a transmitting coil configured to generate a magnetic signal indicative of an object pose of a tracked object with respect to the transmitter assembly and a marker that visually identifies a pose of the transmitter assembly with respect to a camera device. The camera device captures at least one image of the transmitter assembly. A computing device determines, based on the image, a pose for the transmitter assemblies in the image. Based on the magnetic signal and the pose associated with the transmitter assembly, the computing device determines the object pose of the tracked object in the environment.
US11953346B2
There is disclosed a system and method for diagnosing plagiocephaly (flat head syndrome, associated primarily with in infants) from photographs of the head. The method and apparatus may involve the use of a processor circuit, for example an application server, for automatically identifying the contour of the head in a plurality of images, then computing geometrical measurements in order quantify plagiocephaly. Photographs are acquired from an overhead view of a head, where the images may be rotated manually or automatically to a standard orientation. For each image, an optimal head contour is identified as minimizing a mathematical cost function combining local image filter responses designed for edge detection and a global model of head contour shape combining smoothness and convexity constrains. Length measurements are then computed from the identified contour, e.g. head diameter, diagonal diameter, and used to quantify the degree of head asymmetry and diagnose plagiocephaly.
US11953343B2
A product [11] includes a foldable clamshell-type housing [10] folded to a closed position to contain a pre-formed sensor pad [17] that was formed in situ therein when the housing [10] was in an open position, prior to closing. The housing [10] has an enclosed volume [12] bounded by relatively thin and flexible walls [23, 34], and outwardly extending tabs [18] which facilitate opening. This structure enables the user to easily open the housing [10] to remove the sensor pad [17], a cured silicone composition, by pushing inward on an outer surface of the outer wall [34] of a base section [15] of the housing [10]. This product [11] reduces the amount of manipulation needed to place the sensor pad [17] in a desired position, for example, during installation of a rain sensor system for a vehicle windshield.
US11953342B2
A laser marking system in one aspect of the present disclosure includes a laser marker, a beam receiving device, and a notifier. The laser marker includes a laser beam emitter. The beam receiving device includes a beam receiver and a transmitter. The beam receiver receives a laser beam emitted by the laser beam emitter. The transmitter transmits a first positional signal. The first positional signal indicates a receiving position of the laser beam in the beam receiver. The notifier notifies of the receiving position of the laser beam based on the first positional signal.
US11953335B2
The present disclosure relates to a robot configured to determine a delivery priority among a plurality of destinations based on weight information of an article, and a delivery method using such a robot. The robot may communicate with other electronic devices and a server in a 5G communication environment.
US11953329B2
A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product for planning multimodal travel. A planning request for the multimodal travel from a first location to an second location is received. Candidate routes are determined for a passenger that is customized for a set of customization parameters a using the first location, the second location, and a set of passenger preferences. A candidate route in the candidate routes comprises a first leg from the first location to a first vertiport via a first modality, a second leg for a passenger air vehicle to travel from the first vertiport to a second vertiport using an air modality, and a third leg from the second vertiport to the second location using a second modality. The candidate route in the candidate routes is selected to form a route for the multimodal travel for the passenger when a user input is received selecting the candidate route.
US11953323B2
A micromechanical rate-of-rotation sensor set-up, including a first rate-of-rotation sensor device capable of being driven rotationally by a driving device via a drive frame device, so as to oscillate about a first axis, and is for measuring a first outer rate of rotation about a second axis and a second outer rate of rotation about a third axis; and a second rate-of-rotation sensor device capable of being driven by the driving device via the drive frame device, so as to oscillate linearly along the second axis, and is for measuring a third outer rate of rotation about the first axis. The first rate-of-rotation sensor device is connected to the second rate-of-rotation sensor device by the drive frame device. The drive frame device includes a first and second drive frame, which may be driven by the driving device in phase opposition, along the third axis, in an oscillatory manner.
US11953321B2
The invention relates to a method for determining a water current velocity profile in a water column by registration of a deviation between a first position and a second position of an underwater vehicle travelling in the water column. A batch of underwater vehicles is deployed from a surface vessel into the water. The vehicle(s) steers to the first position, which for the first batch is a predefined estimated position (PEP). The vehicle is by first means recording the second position, which is the actual position (AP). The difference ΔP between the predefined estimated position PEP and the actual position is registered and based on the difference a deviation data set is calculated. An updated current profile or stack of horizontal water current velocities UV is determined.
US11953320B2
An optical coherence tomographic imager for contributing reduction of the number of man-hours for evaluation to obtain a wavelength sweeping operation of continuous, linear, and monotonic change while utilizing a wavelength-tunable laser having a structure that is less susceptible to mechanical disturbance. The optical coherence tomographic imager includes a wavelength-tunable light source, a branching means, an irradiation means, a photoelectric conversion measuring means, and a processor. The wavelength-tunable light source outputs light whose wavelength is determined by a plurality of light source drive parameters. The branching means branches output light of the wavelength-tunable light source into object light and reference light. The irradiation means irradiates an object to be measured with the object light. The photoelectric conversion measuring means obtains interference light intensity measurement values by causing object light scattered from the object to be measured and the reference light to interfere with each other and to be guided to a light receiver. The processor reorders the interference light intensity measurement values based on the output light wavelengths.
US11953318B1
An endodontic file measuring device includes a housing with an upper opening for receiving the file within a file channel in the housing. A movable base is disposed in the file channel and a plurality of sensors are disposed along the file channel. When a tip of the endodontic file is positioned on the movable base, the sensors can detect a presence of the file within the channel and measure a length of the file in the channel. A slider protrudes from the front wall of the housing and is connected to the base by a connecting rod. The slider can be manipulated by the user to lower or elevate the file within the base. A display on an outer surface of the housing displays the length of the file present in the file channel.
US11953317B2
A reference core position calculation device 100 that calculates a reference core position of an elevator shaft in which an elevator is to be installed includes a measurement unit 101 and a calculation unit 112. The measurement unit 101 measures a dimension of each portion of the elevator shaft. The calculation unit 112 calculates portion dimension values of the elevator shaft based on the reference core position and the dimension of each portion measured by the measurement unit 101. When the reference core position is a first reference core position, the calculation unit 112 determines whether portion dimension values of the elevator shaft calculated based on the first reference core position satisfy a predetermined specification.
US11953307B2
A measuring apparatus for measuring a planar relative motion between a tool attacher and a work attacher of a machine tool includes at least one image capturing element capable of performing image capturing at a first position, a second position, and a third position, which are not located on the same line. The image capturing elements at the first position, the second position, and the third position are caused to capture a first point, a second point, and a third point, respectively, arranged on at least one plane of an XY-plane, an XZ-plane, and a YZ-plane. The image capturing element at the second position and the image capturing element at the third position are caused to capture the first point, the image capturing element at the first position and the image capturing element at the third position are caused to capture the second point, and the image capturing element at the first position and the image capturing element at the second position are caused to capture the third point. Based on the image capturing result, a value indicating the planar relative motion between the tool attacher and the work attacher is calculated.
US11953306B2
Systems for delivering explosives including homogenizing agents and methods of delivering explosives including homogenizing agents are provided. Methods of mixing homogenizing agents with emulsion matrices are also provided. The methods can include supplying an emulsion matrix, mixing a homogenizing agent with the emulsion matrix into a mixed product, and homogenizing the mixed product into a homogenized product. The homogenized product can be sensitized and/or conveyed to a blasthole.
US11953294B1
A system and methods of an active protection system (or “APS”) for a platform. The APS has a threat cueing sensor provided at a first position on the platform where the threat cueing sensor detects a threat launched from a threat guidance system at a distance away from the platform. The APS also has a logic system operably connected to the threat cueing sensor where the logic system is adapted to determine an estimated location of the threat guidance system via a distance away from the platform. The APS also has a laser source operably connected to the logic system where the laser source emits a countermeasure beam directed at the estimated location of the threat guidance system to deter the threat away from the platform.
US11953290B2
A reticle leveling system can include a firearm mount having a base mount, track, scope saddle, and light projector. The system can further include a tripod and an alignment grid. The firearm mount can attach to an elongated portion of a firearm, such as a barrel or picatinny rail. The base mount and track can secure the firearm mount to the elongated portion of the firearm, and the scope saddle can align on top of the scope, thereby creating connection points on both the elongated portion and the scope. The light projector can shine light through the front of the scope, thereby causing scope reticle to project out of the eyepiece. The projected image of the reticle can be shown on the alignment grid, which can be attached to the top of the tripod, and the alignment grid can include cross-hatching to illustrate whether the reticle is properly aligned.
US11953284B2
A modular quiver system and method of use may include, first, a base portion configured to be attachable to a bow and configured to removably hold a first arrow, and second, a detachable portion configured to removably hold a plurality of second arrows and configured to be removably attachable with the base portion by hand without the use of any tools, regardless whether or not the base portion is attached to the bow, and regardless whether arrows are in the quiver. A quick-release bracket system allows the modular quiver system to be removed from and attached with a bow in different predetermined positions without the use of any tools.
US11953278B2
A method of firing a firearm includes rotating a trigger to force a latch pin lever to move; forcing a latch pin forward by the latch pin lever to force a cylinder forward toward a barrel; sealing or substantially sealing the barrel and the cylinder; and releasing a hammer to strike a cartridge while the barrel and the cylinder are sealed.
US11953275B1
A fixed position ejector detachably connectable to a firearm is disclosed. The ejector comprises a base having an elevated forwardly extending finger, wherein the finger has an outer finger face configured for contacting a cartridge or case during the ejection phase of the firing cycle of the firearm. The base has forward and rear downwardly extending posts that are configured to engage into respective forward and rear retaining post holes positioned on the upper frame surface. At least one of the forward and rear posts includes a downwardly slanted notch. A retaining screw is provided to adjustably engage into both (i) a through-hole positioned adjacent and perpendicular to the upper frame surface of the firearm, and (ii) the slanted notch of one of the forward and rear posts such that the retaining screw urges the bottom base surface of the base against the upper frame surface of the firearm.
US11953268B2
A tight-fit riveting structure for a clustered radiation fin set and a heat pipe and a riveting method include a radiation fin set formed by locking a plurality of radiation fins together and at least one heat pipe. The radiation fin set has an accommodation slot for accommodating the heat pipe. The heat pipe is positioned in the accommodation slot for a tight fit by subjecting two sides of the accommodation slot of the radiation fin set to a riveting operation. First riveting and deforming portions defined on two sides of a communication mouth of the accommodation slot are riveted towards a surface of the heat pipe, which causes the deformation of the first riveting and deforming portions whereby the heat pipe is clamped in a tight fit manner.
US11953258B2
A refrigerating appliance includes a refrigerating cabinet that has an outer wrapper. A machine compartment is disposed proximate a rear bottom of the refrigerating cabinet. The machine compartment is defined by selectively removable side panels, an inner curved surface of the outer wrapper, and a bottom support plate. A controller is disposed within the machine compartment. Reinforcement segments extend from a planar extent of the outer wrapper to a lip of the bottom support plate.
US11953249B2
A refrigerator includes a freezer compartment and a machine compartment positioned proximate the freezer compartment. An icemaker assembly is positioned within the freezer compartment. A fill tube extends from the machine compartment into the icemaker assembly. A first solenoid valve is coupled to the fill tube. A second solenoid valve is coupled to the fill tube, wherein the first and second solenoid valves are positioned within the machine compartment. A controller is configured to independently open and close the first and second solenoid valves.
US11953244B2
Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide an electronic expansion valve, including: a valve body, the valve body having a valve port; a valve head portion, movably provided in the valve body, the valve head portion including a valve head and a pressing sleeve, the valve head having an accommodating cavity, the end of the accommodating cavity close to the valve port having a bottom wall, a through hole being provided on the bottom wall, and the valve head being used for blocking the valve port; a guide sleeve, provided in the valve body, the valve head portion being inserted in the guide sleeve; a driving portion, movably provided in the valve body, an end of the driving portion penetrating the pressing sleeve, and a channel being provided on the end of the driving portion.
US11953229B2
An illustrative example embodiment of a structure for supporting a heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) unit includes a frame having support members configured to be situated beneath the HVAC unit to support a weight of the HVAC unit, which is directed in a vertical direction. The frame is at least partially situated in a plane that is perpendicular to the vertical direction. A supply air passage and a return air passage are supported by the frame. The return air passage has a first side and a second side opposite the first side. The first side is oriented at a first oblique angle relative to the plane. The second side is oriented at a second oblique angle relative to the plane. The first oblique angle is different than the second oblique angle.
US11953226B1
Implementations of vent extenders may include a first portion including a back wall, a first sidewall, and a second sidewall and a second portion including a first sidewall and a second sidewall. The second portion may be configured to extendably couple to the first portion. The vent extender may also include a pocket formed within the first portion and including a first pocket sidewall, a second pocket sidewall, a third pocket sidewall opposite the second pocket sidewall, an opening opposite the first pocket sidewall, and a base. The vent extender may also include a magnet coupled to the base of the pocket. The first pocket sidewall may be directly coupled to both of the second pocket sidewall and the third pocket sidewall. The magnet may be configured to secure the vent extender to a vent register.
US11953214B2
An air conditioner may provide a a fan housing assembly that moves in the front-rear direction by the operation of an actuator, and the fan housing assembly moves so as to pass through a front outlet arranged on a door assembly to be in a projected state, and the front end of the fan housing assembly protrudes further to the front than the front surface of the door assembly; and through the projected state, may provide conditioned air by a direct air flow to a long-distance target region. The configuration may enable the minimization of interference between the discharged air and the door assembly, and the minimization of flow loss of the discharged air since, when the fan housing assembly is in the projected state, a steering grill is in a state of protruding to the outside of the door assembly by passing through the front outlet.
US11953213B2
An air conditioner that further provides a lighting function is provided. The air conditioner can increase space utilization of a ceiling by the lighting device being integrally installed in the indoor unit. In addition, heat generated at the lighting device can be radiated by the cooling structure provided in the indoor unit, and thereby overheating of the lighting device can be prevented. The air conditioner includes a blowing fan configured to flow air, a housing in which an intake port is formed to suction air by the blowing fan, a lighting device provided in the housing, and a cooling channel configured to guide the air suctioned by the blowing fan to pass the lighting device.
US11953205B2
A swirler with a fuel manifold, and a combustor and gas turbine including the same are provided. The swirler may include a swirler body disposed between an inner surface of a fuel nozzle and an outer surface of a center body, a fuel injection hole disposed on the swirler body, a fuel manifold formed in the swirler body, the fuel manifold being connected to a fuel channel disposed in the center body while communicating with the fuel injection hole, and a turbulence alleviator formed at a fuel inlet of the fuel manifold to alleviate creation of turbulence of fuel flowing from the fuel channel to the fuel manifold.
US11953191B1
A water-proof decorative lamp and a lamp string are disclosed. The water-proof decorative lamp includes a light source body, connecting wires and a water-proof component. The water-proof component includes a light-emitting chip and a packaging body, the light-emitting chip is arranged in the packaging body and is provided with two pins extending out of the packaging body, the connecting wire includes a conductive wire and an insulating layer wrapping the conductive wire, the conductive wire protrudes out of the insulating layer to form a connector, and the two pins are respectively connected with the connectors. The water-proof component includes an isolating column between the two pins and a sleeve arranged around the insulating layer at one end, and the packaging body at the other end, the isolating column is made of a hot melting material, and the sleeve is made of a heat-shrinkable material.
US11953183B2
A combination for illuminating the interior of a building comprises a fixture and a retrofit kit. The fixture has a base attached to a building ceiling, the fixture having a first tombstone, and a second tombstone. The first and second tombstones are configured to receive between them a fluorescent light tube. The retrofit kit is connected to the base. The retrofit kit includes a light panel, the light panel having a first side facing the fixture and an opposite second side. The light panel resides between the first tombstone and the second tombstone, and the fixture resides above the light panel. The combination is devoid of a fluorescent light tube. The base and the light panel define between them a raceway. A light emitting diode is disposed on the second side of the light panel.
US11953173B2
An illumination apparatus for vehicles having a light source, a support plate for receiving the light source, and an optical unit arranged in front of the light source in the main emission direction to deflect light emitted by the light source onto a roadway in front of the vehicle in accordance with a predetermined light distribution. The light source has a light-emitting surface and a light source frame surrounding the same. The light source is surrounded by a shielding frame with a wall that is raised in the main emission direction and encloses an intermediate space between the light source and the optical unit.
US11953165B2
A connection system is provided for modular luminaires, wherein the luminaires are each provided with at least one tapered pillar projecting from a back, the pillar having a top opening. A coupling arrangement is used for coupling the two luminaires together, in the form of a bridge having first and second tapered openings for fitting over the pillars. A sprung retaining clip projects within each opening for passing through the top opening and thereby gripping the pillar.
US11953159B2
A cryogenic vaporization system and a method for controlling the system are provided. The system includes a first vaporizer arrangement and a second vaporizer arrangement configured for receiving a liquid cryogen and outputting a superheated vapor. The second vaporizer arrangement is connected in parallel with the first vaporizer arrangement, and includes one or more banks of ambient air vaporizer (AAV) units or loose fill media with a high heat capacity. The second vaporizer arrangement has a different configuration than that of the first vaporizer arrangement. The system further includes at least one control valve controlling provision of the liquid cryogen to at least one of the first vaporizer arrangement and the second vaporizer arrangement.
US11953158B2
A device and process for refuelling containers comprising a pressurized gas source, a transfer circuit intended to be removably connected to a container, the device comprising a refrigeration system comprising a refrigerant cooling loop circuit comprising, arranged in series, a compressor, a condenser section, an expansion valve and an evaporator section, the refrigeration system comprising a cold source in heat exchange with the condenser section and a heat exchanger located in the transfer circuit, the refrigerant cooling loop circuit comprising a bypass conduit comprising an upstream end connected to the outlet of the compressor and a downstream end connected to the refrigerant cooling loop circuit upstream the compressor inlet, the device further comprising a bypass regulating valve for controlling the flow of refrigerant flowing into the by-pass conduit, the device comprising a pressure sensor for sensing the refrigerant pressure in the cooling loop circuit between the compressor inlet and the heat exchanger outlet, notably at the inlet of the compressor, the device comprising an electronic controller configured for regulating the suction pressure at the inlet of the compressor via the control of the compressor speed and the opening of the bypass valve.
US11953143B1
A mounting pad system for securing equipment, such as an HVAC outdoor unit or a standby generator, is provided in the form of a lightweight fillable pad member having a plurality of receivers located on a top surface of the pad member. The receivers are associated with attachment points located on the equipment and are used to secure the equipment to the pad. The pad member contains a filling port on its top surface and is configured as a molded hollow shell containing a gelling material which, when mixed with water, provides support to reduce deflection of the pad member caused by the equipment secured to the pad, prevents damage to the pad that would otherwise be caused by the expansion of internal contents upon freezing and prevents leakage of internal contents of the fillable pad in the event of an unintended breach in the hollow shell. The pad member is provided with at least one through-hole that acts as a supporting structure.
US11953140B2
A patch for a pipe includes a patch body that has an outer surface and an inner surface. The patch body is curved to correspond to the curvature of a pipe that may include a defect that is desired to be sealed. A plug extends from the inner surface of the patch and the plug is configured to fit within the defect while the inner surface of the patch is in contact with an outer diameter of the pipe. The patch is adhered to the pipe using a primer and an adhesive that is applied to the outer diameter of the pipe surrounding the defect, the inner surface of the patch, or to both surfaces. Attachment straps may wrap around the pipe and the patch as the adhesive sets to maintain contact between the pipe and the patch.
US11953130B2
A cylindrical cavity for receiving the tubular article and a metal casing body delimiting a seat substantially inside which the insert is wrapped around the article, the insert having an external projection which extends radially towards the exterior of the insert and is configured to cooperate with a corresponding orifice formed in the seat of the metal body so as to position the insert inside the body, the projection comprising a base attached to the insert and a head provided at the periphery of the head with a protruding clipping edge configured to hold the insert inside the metal casing body. The insert has, at the base of the projection, a through hole extending in line with the clipping edge.
US11953126B1
A fluid rotary joint assembly capable of high rotational speed exceeding a maximum rotational speed of a single rotary joint is disclosed herein. For example, the fluid rotary joint may be capable of exceeding rotational speeds greater than 1500 RPM. The fluid rotary joint assembly may have several single-stage fluid rotary joints and multiple gear devices wherein a relative speed between the first and second rotary parts of each single stage fluid rotary joint does not exceed a maximum rotary speed (e.g., 500 rpm). The fluid rotary joint assembly incorporates speed reduction within each stage through the gear device. By controlling the relative speed between the first and second parts of each of the fluid rotary joints to be less than or equal to a maximum allowable rotational speed (e.g., less than or equal to 500 RPM), the fluid rotary joint assembly provides for reliable operation at high rotational speeds between the first stage and the last stage.
US11953120B2
A champagne tower-type multi-stage throttle control valve includes a valve body, a valve cover, a throttle sleeve, and a valve core. A sleeve cavity of the throttle sleeve is shaped as a stepped hole with two or more layers. The valve core is shaped as a stepped shaft with two or more layers coaxial with the throttle sleeve. The number of shaft shoulders of the valve core is smaller than or equal to the number of hole shoulders of the sleeve cavity of the throttle sleeve, such that each set of shaft shoulders of the valve core in an axial direction can form a sealing surface fit with corresponding hole shoulders of the throttle sleeve. A flow channel groove is axially or obliquely formed on each of the hole shoulders of the throttle sleeve and/or the shaft shoulders of the valve core.
US11953118B2
Valve systems and related methods include at least one component comprising a conductive material and at least one inductance-to-digital converter (LDC) configured to wirelessly sense a position of the portion of the conductive material.
US11953105B2
A valve cartridge assembly supported by a receiver and fluidly coupled to a waterway assembly. The waterway assembly includes a base and a plurality of flexible tubular members. A gasket is received intermediate the receiver and the waterway assembly.
US11953093B2
The invention relates to an actuator having a drive device which drives a drive shaft, a first actuating element which is operatively connected to the drive shaft, a spring element which can be supported on one side on a housing component of the actuator and is supported on the other side on a second actuating element which is configured for stressing the spring element, wherein a rotational element which can be driven by means of the drive shaft and is rotatably mounted is provided. According to the invention, a further actuating element for actuating a switching device is provided, which further actuating element is operatively connected to the first actuating element, and a transmission device with a transmission element is provided between the first actuating element and the actuating element of the switching device.
US11953091B2
A power transmission device includes an input shaft, an output shaft, a differential device, a continuously variable transmission unit, and a control device. The differential device includes a first rotation element connected to the input shaft, a second rotation element connected to the output shaft, and a third rotation element. The continuously variable transmission unit includes a conversion unit configured to convert rotational power of the third rotation element into an other power, and a reconversion unit configured to reconvert the converted other power into the rotational power and supply the reconverted rotational power to the output shaft. The control device includes a continuously variable transmission control unit configured to generate a control signal of the continuously variable transmission unit such that the other power generated by the conversion unit exceeds the other power input to the reconversion unit.
US11953084B2
A drive device protection structure has a rotary electric machine, a gearbox connected the rotary electric machine, an undercover disposed underneath the drive device and a protecting plate provided to the undercover. The rotary electric machine has a rotary electric machine housing that has a rotary electric machine flange. The gearbox has a gearbox housing that has a gearbox flange. The rotary electric machine flange and the gearbox flange are connected together. The rotary electric machine flange and the gearbox flange are formed such that a lower surface of the gearbox flange is positioned lower than a lower surface of the rotary electric machine flange. The protecting plate is formed of a material more rigid than a material of the undercover. The protecting plate is provided beneath connecting part between the rotary electric machine flange and the gearbox flange so as to face the connecting part.
US11953081B2
A leadscrew assembly includes a screw shaft along which is formed a first helical groove and a primary nut along which is form a second helical groove. The first helical groove and the second helical groove cooperate to define a track. The assembly also includes a secondary nut along which is formed a third helical groove. The first helical groove and the third helical groove cooperate to define a track with a nominal running clearance. A preload X is provided wherein when a load applied to the screw exceeds the predetermined preload, the secondary nut engages with the track such that load of the screw above preload X is transferred through the secondary nut and thus protecting the primary nut.
US11953073B2
An active vibration isolation system with a magnetic actuator where the magnetic actuator includes a coil carrier with at least one coil which engages in a magnetic actuator without touching it so that it takes the form of a linear motor. The magnetic actuator has a magnetic shield with an opening through which the coil carrier extends into the magnet carrier.
US11953067B2
A brake assembly includes a brake disc in rotational engagement with a wheel of a vehicle, a brake pad which frictionally engages the brake disc in a dynamic braking operation and a parking brake operation, a dynamic actuator adapted to bring the brake pad and brake disc into the frictional engagement in the dynamic braking operation, and a parking brake actuator associated with the dynamic actuator such that, in the parking brake operation, the frictional engagement of the brake disc and brake pad is maintained.
US11953062B2
A one-way clutch regenerative braking system includes a sleeve which is arranged on an outer circumference of a hub and moved in an axial direction, a clutch gear which is arranged on a side of the hub and meshed with the sleeve, and a one-way clutch which is arranged on an inner circumference of the hub and rotated in a first direction, wherein, when the sleeve and the clutch gear are meshed with each other, the clutch gear is rotated in a second direction which is opposite to a rotational direction of the one-way clutch.
US11953061B2
A clutch system is provided. The clutch system includes an outer unit having a surface defining an aperture in the outer unit; an inner unit disposed in the aperture, wherein a shape of the inner unit matches a shape of the aperture; a low melting point material disposed in the aperture between the inner unit and the surface of the outer unit; a heating element; a temperature sensor; and a processor in electronic communication with the heating element and the temperature sensor. The processor is configured to control the heating element thereby changing the low melting point material between a soft state and a rigid state.
US11953056B2
A shaft bearing assembly having a shaft supported in a bearing housing is described. The shaft bearing assembly includes a pressure reduction device for generating an underpressure inside the bearing housing. The pressure reduction device is operated by employing an incompressible fluid. Further, a method of reducing a pressure inside a bearing housing supporting a shaft is described. The method includes using an incompressible fluid for operating a pressure reduction device for generating an underpressure inside the bearing housing.
US11953051B2
A joint mechanism includes a first route member and a second route member. The first route member includes; a first pivot point disposed in a first apparatus, which forms a portion of a transport route opposite a first surface of a sheet; and a first pivot section that extends from the first pivot point toward a second apparatus and that has a first abutment member. The second route member includes: a second pivot point disposed in the second apparatus, which forms a portion of the transport route opposite a second surface of the sheet; and a second pivot section that extends from the second pivot point toward the first apparatus and that has a second abutment member. The first abutment member abuts against the second route member and the second abutment member abuts against the first route member to maintain a space to transport the sheet.
US11953047B2
A formed body of Cu—Al—Mn-based shape-memory alloy may include a screw portion, wherein the screw portion is a form-rolled portion. A method for producing a formed body of Cu—Al—Mn-based shape-memory alloy may involve forming a screw portion having superelasticity by plastically working at least a portion of a material for the formed body with form-rolling in a state that a crystal structure is an A2-type structure and then, subjecting heat-treatment so as to convert the A2-type crystal structure into an L21-type crystal structure. The screw portion can be formed with good working property, and has excellent fatigue resistance and breaking resistance.
US11953046B2
There is provided a nut in which occurrence of galling is prevented. The nut in which a depth t of a counterbore hole is set to be greater than (D−d×cos θ)/tan θ, when a nominal diameter is D, an average value of a maximum outer diameter and a minimum outer diameter taking into account a tolerance of a bolt to be fitted is d [mm], an inner diameter of the counterbore hole provided on an insertion side of a screw hole is D+0.2 [mm], a pitch of a screw thread is P [mm], and θ satisfies θ=arc tan(P/d).
US11953041B2
A machine for rotary driving screw anchors into underlying ground and related. The machine has a mast with a rotary driver and a mandrel driver oriented on a common axis. The mandrel driver passes a mandrel through the rotary driver and the screw anchor to allow the mandrel to be actuated ahead of the screw anchor while the rotary driver drives the screw anchor into the ground. Alternatively, the mandrel driver may also drive a hammering drill through the screw anchor to clear a path ahead of it through subsurface rocks.
US11953040B2
The invention relates to a clip for connecting a cover panel to a vehicle body. The clip comprises an annular inner portion defining a central through hole for receiving a fastening means for securing the clip to the vehicle body. The clip also comprises a plurality of leg portions for snap-locking a cover panel to be mounted to the vehicle body. The leg portions extend radially from the annular inner portion and are circumferentially distributed and separated from each other by void spaces. Each leg portion has an initial contact surface. Each leg portion is configured to flex radially inwardly towards the annular inner portion when the initial contact surface is subjected to a pressing force, and to snap radially outwardly when said pressing force on the initial contact surface as ceased. The axial extension of the annular inner portion is shorter than the axial extension of the leg portions.
US11953038B2
A removable blind fastener includes: a body; a screw member; and a clamping member. The body includes a hollow cylindrical shaft with a proximal end and a distal end and a head at the proximal end, the head being hollow with an internal end face. The shaft has an open guide channel along a portion of its length and an urge channel opposite the guide channel located at the distal end of the shaft. The screw member has a threaded region that fits within the shaft and the screw member has a head at a proximal end that fits within the hollow head. The clamping member fits in the guide channel and has a threaded aperture for engaging with the threaded region of the screw member, such that rotation of the screw member causes the clamping member to move along the guide channel of the body.
US11953036B2
An anchor assembly (A) for hollow walls comprises an anchor body (400) and a toggle member (231) that is displaceable between a first position wherein the toggle member (231) is substantially aligned with the anchor body (400) such that the anchor assembly (A) can be inserted in the wall (W) via a cutting distal end (325) of the toggle member (231), and a second position wherein the toggle member (231) extends behind the wall (W) at an angle relative to the anchor body (400) which extends through the wall (W). The toggle member (231) is held captive in the first position but is released and then rotated to the second position by a fastener (218) introduced in the anchor body (400). The fastener (218) threadably engages the toggle member (231) thereby drawing the toggle member (231) against a hidden side of the wall (W).
US11953031B2
A hydraulic control assembly includes means for holding pressure in a cylinder to inhibit boom or arm drop of a machine in the event that a hose between the cylinder and a main control valve (MCV) ruptures. The pressure holding means of the hydraulic control assembly include a hydraulic valve and a parts-in-body check assembly both configured for insertion into a valve cavity defined by a valve body. The hydraulic valve comprises a proportional piloted valve that controls pressure.
US11953028B2
A flow corrector (14) which includes a tubular body (40) with an entry end (42) and an exit end (44), and a plurality of parallel flow passages (54a, 54b, 54c, 54d) between the entry end and the exit end.
US11953026B2
A submersible pump comprises a rotational assembly and a rotational assembly housing. The rotational assembly has a plurality of in-line flow inducing sections. A centerline longitudinal axis of each of the flow inducing sections extends colinearly with a rotational axis of the rotational assembly. A downstream end portion of a flow pressurizing section is engaged with an upstream end portion of a rotational flow amplification section. A downstream end portion of the rotational flow amplification section is engaged with an upstream end portion of a flow outlet section. The rotational assembly housing has an interior space extending along a centerline axis of the rotational assembly housing. The rotational assembly is disposed within the interior space of the rotational assembly housing. The rotational assembly and the rotational assembly are jointly configured for causing the rotational axis to extend colinearly with the centerline longitudinal axis of the rotational assembly housing.
US11953025B2
A marine pump may have a nozzle interface and a detachable strainer base. The nozzle interface may have an aperture for removably receiving a nozzle, and a detent channel defined therein. The detent channel may be configured to receive portion of a detent, which may be configured to contact the nozzle and hold the nozzle in place when inserted into the nozzle interface. The detachable strainer base may have a plurality of slots and a plurality of holes configured to interact with and stop particulates in a fluid passing through the strainer base.
US11953020B2
A turbofan includes a circular end plate, a ring-shaped shroud facing the end plate, and a plurality of blade members disposed between the end plate and the shroud. An annular portion of a space between the end plate and the shroud where the blade members are disposed is a pressure-increase flow path. The turbofan causes air to flow from an inner peripheral side to an outer peripheral side of the pressure-increase flow path. A cross-sectional area of the pressure-increase flow path increases gradually from an upstream end toward a downstream end of the pressure-increase flow path.
US11953018B2
A multi-switch pump assembly is disclosed that facilitates switched flow and/or mixed flow from the pump assembly. The multi-switch pump assembly comprises a pump body, an electric motor, a rotating motor shaft, a first pump stage and impeller, and a second pump stage and impeller. The first pump stage includes a first inlet and first and second outlets disposed about the pump body. The second pump stage includes a second fluid inlet connected to a mix chamber. The mix chamber further connected to the second fluid outlet of the first pump stage. The second stage further includes a second and a third outlet disposed about the pump body. An actuator connected to a valve assembly is arranged to operate and place the valve assembly into at least a first, a second, a third and a fourth switched positions to direct fluid flow between the first and the second pump stages and the first, second, third and fourth fluid outlets.
US11953011B2
“The disclosure relates to a pump at least for conveying a fluid, comprising at least one conveyor device which has at least one conveyor chamber, at least one dimensionally stable conveyor chamber element that at least partly delimits the conveyor chamber, and at least one elastically deformable conveyor element that together with the conveyor chamber element delimits the conveyor chamber and is arranged on the conveyor chamber element; at least one drive unit for acting on the conveyor device; and at least one housing for receiving the conveyor device, wherein the housing is formed at least separately from the conveyor chamber element of the conveyor device, in particular from the conveyor device as a whole, in particular such that the conveyor chamber element, in particular the conveyor device, can be removed as a whole from the housing.”
US11953010B2
A scroll compressor includes a housing; a motor provided in the housing; a rotating shaft rotated by the motor; an orbital scroll orbital moved by the rotating shaft; a fixed scroll forming a compression chamber together with the orbital scroll; an injection flow path guiding an intermediate pressure refrigerant from an outside of the housing to the compression chamber; and an injection valve assembly opening and closing the injection flow path, wherein the injection valve assembly includes a cover plate having an inlet through which the intermediate pressure refrigerant is introduced, an injection valve opening and closing the inlet, and a valve plate having an outlet guiding the refrigerant that has passed through the injection valve toward the compression chamber. Thereby, an amount of refrigerant discharged from the compression chamber is increased, and thus the performance and efficiency of the compressor may be improved.
US11953005B2
A compressor includes: a shell forming an outer portion thereof and having lower part in which an oil pan is formed to store oil; a motor provided in the shell; a compression unit provided in the shell to compress a working gas when being driven by the motor; a frame fixed to the shell and supporting the compression unit; a shaft supported by the frame, connecting the motor and the compression unit, provided to transmit a turning force of the motor to the compression unit, and including an oil passage; and an oil pump provided at lower part of the shaft to draw oil from the pan and supply the oil into the oil passage. The pump includes a bypass valve that is opened, when a pressure of oil flowing in the oil passage is higher than a threshold pressure, to return part of the oil to the pan.
US11952993B2
A compressor assembly has a pulley assembly and a compressor, with a mounting plate mounted therebetween. The compressor includes a front head, a rear head, and a piston assembly operably mounted between the front head and the rear head. A plurality of case bolts extend through the mounting p late, the front head, and into the rear head.
US11952987B2
A hydraulic piston machine is described comprising a piston (1) having a hollow (2) secured by a wall (3) and an insert (4) arranged in the hollow. Such a machine should have a high efficiency at low costs. To this end the insert (4) comprises a section (29) which extends out of the hollow (2).
US11952986B2
A fluid end for use with a power end. The fluid end comprises a plurality of fluid end sections positioned adjacent one another. Each section includes a single horizontally positioned bore. A plunger is installed within the bore and includes a fluid passageway. Low-pressure fluid enters the bore through the plunger and high-pressure fluid exits the fluid end through an outlet valve installed within the bore. The intake of low-pressure fluid within the fluid end section is regulated by an inlet valve installed within the plunger. Low-pressure fluid enters the plunger through an inlet component attached to both the plunger and an inlet manifold.
US11952983B2
A method of determining an orientation of a nacelle of a wind turbine, wherein the nacelle carries a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) sensor, the method comprising: yawing the nacelle between a series of orientations; obtaining locus data based on a series of calibration positions measured by the GNSS sensor, wherein each calibration position is measured by the GNSS sensor when the nacelle is in a respective orientation of the series of orientations; storing the locus data; after storing the locus data, measuring a new position with the GNSS sensor; and determining the orientation of the nacelle on the basis of the stored locus data and the new position.
US11952981B2
Provided is a method for controlling a wind power installation, the wind power installation having a generator for the generation of electric current, the generator having an air gap with a variable air gap thickness, the wind power installation being controlled in a part load range by means of a control regulation, the wind power installation being controlled in a manner which is dependent on the air gap thickness, the control regulation being selected or set in a manner which is dependent on the air gap width.
US11952969B2
A supplemental fuel system includes a fuel mixer having a nozzle and a stem. The nozzle is configured to be positioned within a conduit of an air supply system for an engine. The nozzle has a body defining a first inlet, an outlet, a passage extending from the first inlet to the outlet, and a second inlet positioned between the first inlet and the outlet. The body has a first cross-sectional dimension that is configured to be less than a second cross-sectional dimension of the conduit such that (i) a first portion of air flowing through the conduit flows through the passage and (ii) a second portion of the air flowing through the conduit flows around the nozzle. The stem has a first end that interfaces with the second inlet. The stem is configured to extend through a wall of the conduit.
US11952968B2
The present invention relates a safety ignition device for a high altitude dual pulse motor according to the present invention, and can prevent accidental ignition of an ignition device or a propulsion engine while efficiently using a space by installing the safety ignition device in front of a combustion pipe, increase the reliability of ignition, and maintain the air tightness of the inside of the propulsion engine and the ignition device even in a high altitude environment.
US11952967B2
Various embodiments of a vortex hybrid motor are described herein. In some embodiments, the vortex hybrid motor may include a housing with a solid propellant positioned within the housing, and an injector ring positioned at a proximal end of the housing. The injector ring can include a plurality of angled injector units each including a first injector and a second injector angled towards an impingement point. A first fluid stream of a liquid propellant dispensed from the first injector can collide with a second fluid stream of the liquid propellant dispensed from the second injector to atomize the liquid propellant and form a spray fan formation. At least one of the first injector and the second injector can be positioned at an injection angle relative to the sidewall to create a swirl flow of the atomized injector fluid.
US11952961B2
An air conditioning system includes a compressor and a refrigerant line. A power generating unit may be disposed along the refrigerant line to generate power from the heat in the refrigerant line while helping to convert hot compressed refrigerant gas into a hot high-pressure refrigerant liquid. An air conditioning system may also involve using a cooling chamber to use refrigerant to cool a heat exchange medium which is then used in a cooling coil to condition air.
US11952959B2
Systems and methods for combustion engines with interchangeable components are described herein. An engine sub-assembly for a gasoline powered engine can include a crankcase having an opening extending at least through an upper surface thereof, the opening being configured to receive a crank arm therethrough, and a first mounting plate configured to be coupled with the crankcase. The first mounting plate can be selectively removable from the crankcase. The opening of the first mounting plate can generally align with the opening in the crankcase when the first mounting plate is coupled with the crankcase. The first mounting plate can be configured to receive a first cylinder block and to couple the first cylinder block to the crankcase. A second mounting plate can be configured to couple with a second cylinder block that is different than the first cylinder block and to couple the second cylinder block to the crankcase.
US11952955B2
A method for operating an internal combustion engine, in particular of a motor vehicle, wherein fuel is injected in a fuel injection device in a plurality of time-spaced partial injections per duty cycle directly into a combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine.
US11952954B2
Some embodiments described herein relate to a method of operating a compression ignition engine. The method of operating the compression ignition engine includes opening an intake valve to draw a volume of air into a combustion chamber, closing an intake valve, and moving a piston from a bottom-dead-center (BDC) position to a top-dead-center (TDC) position in the combustion chamber at a compression ratio of at least about 15:1. The method further includes injecting a volume of fuel into the combustion chamber at an engine crank angle between about 330 degrees and about 365 degrees during a first time period. The fuel has a cetane number less than about 40. The method further includes combusting substantially all of the volume of fuel. In some embodiments, a delay between injecting the volume of fuel into the combustion chamber and initiation of combustion is less than about 2 ms.
US11952953B2
An internal combustion engine includes a forced-induction device, a blow-by gas passage, and a PCV pressure sensor detecting a pressure in the blow-by gas passage as a PCV pressure. A period during which an intake fluctuation amount, which is a fluctuation amount of an intake air amount per unit time, is greater than or equal to a specified value is defined as a specific period. The diagnosing apparatus executes a process of calculating a pressure fluctuation amount, which is a fluctuation amount of the PCV pressure in the specific period, a process of correcting the pressure fluctuation amount to a smaller value when the intake air fluctuation amount in the specific period is relatively large than when the intake air fluctuation amount is relatively small, and a process of determining, based on the corrected pressure fluctuation amount, whether there is an anomaly in the blow-by gas passage.
US11952950B2
An axial turbomachine comprising a compression device with a variable-orientation vane rectifier stage; a combustion chamber downstream of the compression device; a turbine device downstream of the combustion chamber; and a leak passage of air compressed by the compression device, between the compression device and the turbine device for cooling the turbine device; and where the rectifier stage is configured to modulate the section of the leak passage according to the orientation of the vanes of the stage.
US11952946B2
A turbine engine has: a compressor; a combustor; a turbine; a gaspath passing downstream from the compressor through the combustor and then through the turbine; a fuel source; a fuel flowpath from the fuel source to the combustor; and a heat exchanger for transferring heat from the gaspath to the fuel flowpath The heat exchanger has: an inner wall in heat transfer relation with the gaspath; an outer wall; tubes between the inner wall and the outer wall bounding respective segments of the fuel flowpath; and a heat transfer fluid between the inner wall and the outer wall and in heat transfer relation with the tubes and the inner wall.
US11952943B2
Assemblies and methods for directing a flow of air through a compressor section of a gas turbine engine are disclosed. A method includes receiving the flow of air over a strut extending radially across a substantially annular gas path of the gas turbine engine, and at least partially confining and modifying a strut wake generated in the flow of air by the strut using one or more variable orientation guide vanes.
US11952937B2
A two-stroke engine possesses a cylinder, in the cylinder bore of which a combustion chamber is formed. The combustion chamber is bounded by a reciprocating piston, which drives a crankshaft rotatably mounted in a crankcase. A crankcase interior is fluidically connected to the combustion chamber across at least one transfer channel in at least one position of the piston. The at least one transfer channel emerges with a discharge opening in the crankcase interior and with at least one transfer window on the cylinder bore. It is proposed that all transfer channels have an average length as measured from the discharge opening to the transfer window, the average length being at least 1.5 in relation to the stroke, and that the volume of the crankcase interior including all transfer channels is at most 3.1 in relation to the piston displacement.
US11952931B2
An exhaust emission control device has at least one exhaust gas line, at least one particulate filter and/or at least one exhaust gas catalytic converter connected to the exhaust gas line, and a heated catalyst assembly arranged upstream of the particulate filter and/or the exhaust gas catalytic converter. The heated catalyst assembly is designed to react fuel with exhaust gas, and has a housing provided with an inlet and an outlet connected to the exhaust gas line such that a partial flow of the exhaust gas flowing in the exhaust gas line can be fed through the inlet into the housing and can be discharged from the housing through the outlet back into the exhaust gas line downstream of the inlet. An exhaust emission control device of this type may be used in conjunction with an internal combustion engine, and may be used for emission control of exhaust gas.
US11952928B2
An exhaust system with a multipiece heat shield for a work vehicle includes a first shield part and a second shield part. The first shield part surrounds an aftertreatment unit for aftertreating exhaust gases. The first shield part extends in an axial direction. The second shield part surrounds an exhaust tailpipe with radial spacing between the second shield part and the exhaust tailpipe. The second shield extends in the axial direction from the first shield part, wherein a radial gap between the first and second shield parts is sealed by a seal.
US11952925B2
A centrifugal degasser of an air-oil mixture of a turbine engine includes a hollow shaft extending along an X axis and a pinion for rotating the hollow shaft, and an annular chamber for centrifugal separation of the mixture. The chamber is arranged around the hollow shaft and forms a fluid passage area, an inlet of which is oriented axially for feeding the chamber with the mixture, and a first outlet of which is oriented radially inwards for the outlet of the de-oiled air separated from said mixture. The chamber also includes at least one second oil outlet oriented radially outwards and configured for discharging the oil separated from said mixture to the outside of the degasser. The chamber and the pinion form a single piece.
US11952924B1
A windage tray for an engine including a first body having a first coupling feature by which the first body is adapted to be coupled to an engine block. The first body having a second coupling feature by which the first body is adapted to be coupled to a bearing cap. The first body having a third coupling feature by which the first body is adapted to be coupled to a balance shaft module.
US11952922B2
Operation of an energy storage system comprising a thermodynamic cycle including first and second thermal reservoirs and a turbomachinery as energy converter for two-way conversion between electrical energy and thermal energy. For controlling the temperature in the system, the compression ratio of the turbomachinery is adjusted in real-time during charging on the basis of temperature measurements downstream of the compression and/or during discharging on the basis of temperature measurements downstream of the expansion.
US11952918B2
A stator vane includes a platform that defines an opening. The stator vane further includes an airfoil that has a leading edge, a trailing edge, a suction side wall, and a pressure side wall. The airfoil extends radially between a base and a tip. At least one of the base or the tip includes a protrusion. The protrusion extends into the opening of the platform such that the platform surrounds the protrusion of the airfoil. The stator vane further includes a braze joint disposed between and fixedly coupling the platform and the protrusion of the airfoil. The stator vane further includes a cooling circuit defined in at least one of the protrusion or the platform to cool the braze joint.
US11952916B2
A coating for a blade root/disk interface includes a layer of soft metal matrix, and a solid lubricant distributed through the soft metal matrix. Examples of materials include CuAl as the soft metal matrix and MoS2 as the solid lubricant, although others are also disclosed.
US11952912B2
A turbine engine includes a compressor section, a combustion section, and a turbine section, and an airfoil with an outer wall defining a pressure side and a suction side and extending between a leading edge and a trailing edge to define a mean camber line. A first thickness is defined between the pressure side and the suction side at a first location along the mean camber line.
US11952897B1
A system for remotely operating a machine, such as a mine vehicle, includes at least one first emitter for emitting a first signal corresponding to a first zone adjacent to the machine. A transmitter is provided for receiving the first signal emitted by the emitter, the transmitter being adapted for issuing commands for controlling the machine and also indicating the presence of the transmitter in the first zone. A controller is also provided for controlling the machine based on the control signals from the transmitter based on the presence of the transmitter in the first zone. Related methods are also disclosed.
US11952895B2
A downhole motor for directional drilling includes a driveshaft assembly including a driveshaft housing and a driveshaft rotatably disposed within the driveshaft housing, a bearing assembly including a bearing housing and a bearing mandrel rotatably disposed within the bearing housing, wherein the bearing mandrel is configured to couple with a drill bit, a bend adjustment assembly configured to adjust a bend setting of the downhole motor, a lock piston including an unlocked position, and a locked position configured to lock the bend setting of the bend adjustment assembly, one or more hydraulic pumps configured to actuate the lock piston into the unlocked position to unlock the bend adjustment assembly, and an electronics package configured to indicate the bend setting of the bend adjustment assembly.
US11952881B2
The method for drilling includes extending a borehole from a surface location to a borehole end with a drill string having a bottom hole assembly with a drill bit. A surface sensor and a downhole sensor take measurements used to project borehole features, like the borehole end. The measurements are used to project the borehole end so that the drill bit can be steered through the rock formation. The downhole sensor is separated from the bit location by a plurality of segments. The method includes corrections when the measurements at the downhole location are not the measurements at the bit location. As the drill bit travels, the types of corrections change, including applying an initial Kalman filter, a first adjusted Kalman filter, a second adjusted Kalman filter, and a third adjusted Kalman filter, according to the plurality of segments between the downhole sensor and the bit location.
US11952872B2
A detonator positioning device for use with a detonator in a perforating gun assembly is described. The detonator positioning device may be configured for electrically contactably forming an electrical connection within the perforating gun housing by contact. The detonator positioning device may include a body having a first end, a second end, and a central bore extending between the first and second ends. The central bore may be adapted for receiving one or more electrically contactable components of a detonator. The detonator positioning device can align at least one of the one or more electrically contactable components to form an electrical connection with a bulkhead assembly.
US11952870B2
The method comprises supplying, at a construction site, of a functional module comprising a hybrid cooler; verifying onsite the exploitation of the equipment of the functional module; mounting the functional module on a support structure; moving the structure to an exploitation site on the expanse of water. The verification involves passing a flow to be cooled through the air cooler of the hybrid cooler, the flow being cooled exclusively by a flow of air circulating through the air cooler of the hybrid cooler. The exploitation of hydrocarbons on the expanse of water involves the passage of a flow to be cooled through the water cooler of the hybrid cooling system, the flow being cooled by heat exchange with water taken from the expanse of water circulating through the water cooler.
US11952861B2
A technique facilitates control over a downhole well operation. The technique utilizes an electronic control system for controlling actuation of a downhole application-specific attachment. According to an embodiment, the system comprises a universal actuator module which may be selectively combined with a variety of application-specific attachments, e.g. well tools. The universal actuator module is electrically powered via, for example, electricity supplied to drive an electric motor which, in turn, may be used to drive a hydraulic pump or other type of mechanical device. Additionally, a given application-specific attachment can be readily interchanged with other application-specific attachments (e.g. well tools) for performing a desired downhole operation or operations.
US11952859B2
The present invention provides a method of repairing one or more fractures in a wellbore cement by an electric field to move micelles from crude oil to the area to be repaired.
US11952853B2
Systems and methods for coupling subsea tubular members together are provided. An apparatus may be used to properly orient and/or provide communication between a first subsea tubular member that is being landed on a second subsea tubular member. An apparatus for coupling subsea tubular members may include an alignment sub and a corresponding alignment member. The alignment sub includes: a generally cylindrical body having one or more fluid, electric, or fiber optic lines extending therethrough, one or more couplings coupled to at least one end of the alignment sub, and an orientation profile disposed on a surface of the alignment sub. The alignment member has a profile designed to interface with the orientation profile of the alignment sub. One of the alignment sub and the alignment member remains stationary while the other rotates relative to the stationary structure.
US11952843B2
A tool for holding a well column pipe, the tool incorporating a plate having a lateral end, an oppositely lateral end, a longitudinal end, and an oppositely longitudinal end; a seam extending oppositely laterally from the plate's lateral end, the seam dividing the plate into longitudinal and oppositely longitudinal segments; a hinge connected operatively to the plate at a lateral end of the seam; a releasable latch connected operatively to the plate at an oppositely lateral end of the seam; a jaw connected operatively to a segment selected from the group consisting of the plate's longitudinal segment and the plate's oppositely longitudinal segment, the jaw being adapted for frictional engagement with the well column pipe; and a jack screw actuator for driving the well column pipe against the jaw.
US11952835B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure are directed toward apparatuses, systems, and methods that include a sill, a head opposite the sill, a first jamb, and a second jamb opposite the first jamb forming a window cavity therebetween, the sill including a lower surface and an upper surface and one or more compartments therebetween; and a weep hood arranged in the sill and configured to allow water and air to exit the one or more compartments within the sill.
US11952830B2
A threshold system with an insulated thermal break device configured to provide a thermal break for insulating a door opening and related methods is provided.
US11952829B1
The door sill includes a sill deck and a rail carrier assembly having a function of height adjustment. The rail carrier assembly is configured on the sill deck. The rail carrier assembly includes a rail cap, a rail carrier, an adjustment nut and an adjustment screw. The rail cap is snapped onto an upper end of the rail carrier. A groove is formed in the sill deck for the rail carrier to fit in. A nut installation hole is formed in the rail carrier. The adjustment nut is assembled at the nut installation hole, and is in threaded fit with the adjustment screw. The adjustment screw drives the adjustment nut to move up or down in an axial direction of the adjustment screw through rotation, thereby altering the height of the rail carrier fitted in the groove and altering the height of the rail cap.
US11952825B2
Methods and apparatus to monitor and/or adjust operations of doors are disclosed. An apparatus includes processor circuitry to execute instructions to: monitor a position of a door panel associated with a door system; detect when a beam from a photo-eye sensor associated with the door system is in an unexpected non-triggered state based on the position of the door panel; and generate an alert or notification indicating a significance of the beam in the unexpected non-triggered state.
US11952822B2
Provided is a vehicle including: an image acquisition unit; a cap provided on a body of the vehicle and configured to open and close a replenishing port for replenishing an energy source; a driving unit allowing the cap to be separated or connected from/to the body; and a controller configured to determine an intention of a user to replenish the energy source on the basis of an image acquired by the image acquisition unit, and control the driving unit such that the cap is automatically separated from the body in response to determining that the intention of the user to replenish the energy source exists.
US11952814B2
A door assembly for selectively interlocking opposing doors each pivotably mounted at a hinge side thereof to a door frame so as to both open and close in the same direction includes a door handle assembly mounted to one door at a latch side thereof opposite the hinge side and carrying a first plurality of magnets, and another door handle assembly mounted to the other door at a latch side thereof opposite the hinge side and carrying a second plurality of magnets. The door handle assemblies are arranged relative to each other with the first and second pluralities of magnets aligned such each aligned pair of the first and second pluralities of magnets have opposite magnetic polarities, and the aligned first and second pluralities of magnets magnetically couple to each other as the door handle assemblies are brought into contact with each other.
US11952813B2
A vehicle door positioning holder includes a hydraulic cylinder connected to the door and a vehicle chassis, and a brake hydraulically connected in a loop. The cylinder pushes hydraulic fluid in the loop when the door is moved. The brake includes first and second chambers hydraulically connected to the loop and a third chamber connected in the loop at respective ends to the first and second chambers. The brake has a ball element in the third chamber when the hydraulic fluid is still, moved towards the first chamber as the hydraulic fluid flows in a first direction, and moved towards the second chamber as the hydraulic fluid flows in a second direction. A flow resistance of the hydraulic fluid is larger when the ball is positioned in the third chamber than when the ball is moved towards the first or the second chambers.
US11952811B2
A vehicle lock device includes a base including an entry groove for entry of a striker, a latch that pivots between a restraining position to restrain the striker and a release position to release the striker and also to allow entry of the striker, a locking lever engaging the latch and holding the latch in the restraining position, and a torsion spring that presses the striker rearward in an entry direction when a first arm portion comes into contact with the striker, and that applies an elastic force to the latch toward the release position when the first arm portion engages the latch. The first arm portion of the torsion spring is disengaged from the latch when the first arm portion is pushed down in the entry direction by the striker.
US11952803B1
An anti-theft device for securing an article of merchandise against unauthorized removal from a display counter. The anti-theft device includes a plurality of arms slidingly disposed within the housing. Grips are disposed on proximal ends of the arms and are configured to receive and secure edges of an article of merchandise. A locking mechanism is disposed within the housing of the anti-theft device. The locking mechanism involves an actuator that presses a locking component to engage at least one of the arms. The arms have a first set of teeth disposed thereon, such that, when the locking component engages at least one of the arms, the first set of teeth interlocks with a second set of teeth. The arms cannot slide relative to the housing while the first set of teeth and the second set of teeth remain interlocked.
US11952796B1
A width-adjustable drop-in stair system for an in-ground vinyl liner swimming pool includes a first and second drop-in step components having first and second lengths. The first and second drop-in step components are arranged as parts of a stair step that attaches to opposing sidewall panels of the swimming pool. The second drop-in step component is engaged in nested relationship with the first drop-in step component at a nesting overlap distance that is established to configure the stair step with a defined width dimension corresponding to a distance between the opposing sidewall panels to which the stair step is attached. The defined width dimension is less than the first and second lengths in total. The first and second drop-in step components are fastened together so as to be statically secured as parts of the stair step.
US11952794B2
Cooling units are provided. The cooling units include abase having a housing with control components, a cooling tower attached to the base and having an inner flow path and an exterior surface. An air distribution system is attached to the cooling tower and includes an air distribution chamber defined between first and second enclosures, air dispensers are configured in the first enclosure, and a cover disposed on an exterior surface of the second enclosure. The control components are configured to convey air through the base, the cooling tower, and the air distribution system to dispense air through the cool air dispenser and the warm air dispenser and an electronics package installed on the cooling unit.
US11952787B2
A mounting adapter including a bearing for rotatably mounting a surface processing tool to a tool holder body. The bearing has a rotatable hub including an attachment in an upper portion thereof for non-rotatable attachment to the tool holder body. The mounting adapter includes a rubber flex pad having a periphery and a first aperture. The mounting adapter includes an element supporting the periphery of the rubber flex pad, the element having a second aperture in vertical registry with and beneath the first aperture. The mounting adapter includes an end plug within the second aperture for closing the first aperture. The end plug supports the flex pad from beneath the second aperture.
US11952782B2
An awning assembly and method is provided that includes an awning connection system coupling an awning canopy to a support structure. The awning connection system comprises a rolling assembly operably connected to the awning canopy, a lock bearing coupled to the rolling assembly, and an end cap, comprising a lock, coupled to the rolling assembly. Wherein, the rolling assembly comprises an unlocked mode, wherein the lock bearing is free from contact with the lock, and a locked mode, wherein the lock bearing is in contact with the lock.
US11952779B2
Foam insulation boards having an improved shiplap edge for interfacing with one another are disclosed.
US11952777B2
The present invention discloses a rectangular ceiling module, accessible one by one, that allows the use of larger-than-standard, reduced-thickness formats, with a front face, a rear face and four edges, with corners forming obtuse angles and robust geometry; it is installed from below without surpassing the height of the standard support grid; it rests on the grid by its four edges or sides and leaves the grid hidden. The module is useful as a standard false ceiling, hiding air-conditioning installations, electrical installations, fire-protection systems, low-current systems, etc., located under the slab, mostly in office buildings, while also serving as an element of insulation and/or sound absorption, depending on the material used.
US11952776B2
A ceiling system which includes a substrate and securing members configured to engage a grid system to mount the substrate to the grid system. The securing members may include a mounting flange positioned with its bottom surface adjacent to the substrate. The mounting flange may be coupled to the substrate via fasteners. The securing members may further include a positioning member protruding from a top surface of the mounting flange and terminating in a distal edge. The positioning member may have a first side edge and a second side edge. The securing members may include a grid engagement member extending from the distal edge of the positioning member. The grid engagement member may be located centrally between the first and second side edges of the positioning member. The grid engagement member may have a U-shaped engagement portion configured to engage a grid member of the grid system.
US11952774B1
An extendable wall panel assembly includes a first wall panel and a first core that includes a first and second surface. A first edge joiner comprises a first male extension extending therefrom. A second edge joiner has a first female receiver disposed therein. A second wall panel is slidably coupled to the first and second wall panels and has a second core. A third edge joiner extends between a third surface and a fourth surface and has a second male extension extending therefrom. A fourth edge joiner has a second female receiver disposed therein. A coupling mechanism has a first channel disposed in the first wall panel receiving a first clamp bar therein. A first fastener receiver is coupled to the second wall panel and a fastener extend through the first fastener receiver and into the first clamp bar in the first channel.
US11952773B2
A pre-fabricated wall system can include a first thin wall module and a second thin wall module. The two thin wall modules have a depth defined by a distance from a front surface of each thin wall module to aback surface of each thin wall module. The pre-fabricated wall system can further include a vertical connection post that has a first connection interface on a first side configured to secure to the first thin wall module. The first connection interface can include a first channel. The vertical connection post can also include a second connection interface on a second side opposite the first side configured to secure to the second thin wall module. The second connection interface can include a second channel. The two thin wall modules can be parallel or co-planar to one another when the two thin wall modules are secured to the vertical connection post.
US11952771B2
Rigid wall shelters are used throughout the world for shipping, living quarters, and housing for electronic systems and are energy inefficient. While investigating energy-efficient technologies for rigid wall shelters the discovery was made to insulate the outside of the shelter rather than the inside. Space is often limited inside of the shelter. The invention of an external, re-deployable insulation system was developed. The present invention is an insulating system composed of three main components. The first component is multiple, purpose cut flexible envelopes filled with insulating materials (which creates a panel). The second component is multiple insulating strips that cover the joint between the panels. The final component is a weatherproof outer covering that protects the entire system from the elements.
US11952751B2
A shroud retention system for a work tool is disclosed. The shroud retention system may have an adapter attached to the work tool. The shroud retention system may also have a shroud that slidably engages with the adapter. The shroud may have a retainer slot. Further, the shroud retention system may have a spring assembly disposed in the shroud. The spring assembly may have a block that slidably moves relative to the adapter. The spring assembly may also have a resilient member disposed between the adapter and the block. In addition, the spring assembly may have a retainer disposed in the retainer slot. The retainer may engage with the block. The retainer may have at least one recess disposed on the retainer front face or on the retainer rear face. The recess may extend partway toward the other of the retainer front face or the retainer rear face.
US11952747B2
A remote operation device includes: a vibration detector to detect a plurality of vibration components in a plurality of directions different from each other, the vibration components being included in a vibration caused on an attachment; a transmission device; and a transmission control section that controls an operation of the transmission device. A vibration determination condition is set in advance, the vibration determination condition including a condition that an amplitude of a maximum vibration component largest in amplitude among the plurality of vibration components detected by the vibration detector is equal to or larger than a preset amplitude threshold. The transmission control section controls the operation of the transmission device to allow the vibration information to be transmitted to an operator only when the vibration determination condition is met.
US11952746B1
Systems and techniques are described for implementing autonomous control of powered earth-moving vehicles, including to automatically determine and control movement around a site having potential obstacles. For example, the systems/techniques may determine and implement autonomous operations of powered earth-moving vehicle(s) (e.g., obtain/integrate data from sensors of multiple types on a powered earth-moving vehicle, and use it to determine and control movement of the powered earth-moving vehicle around a site), including in some situations to implement coordinated actions of multiple powered earth-moving vehicles and/or of a powered earth-moving vehicle with one or more other types of construction vehicles. The described techniques may further include determining current location and positioning of the powered earth-moving vehicle on the site, determining a target destination location and/or path of the powered earth-moving vehicle, identifying and classifying obstacles (if any) along a desired path or otherwise between current and destination locations, and implementing actions to address any such obstacles.
US11952740B2
A bucket (10) for moving ground material, the bucket (10) comprising a handling section (12) with a mounting arrangement (64) for coupling to a machine, a load section (14) mounted on the handling section (12) such that the load section (14) is separable from the handling section (12) so that the load section (14) can be separated and replaced with another load section (14). The handling section (12) may include a mounting formation (46), and the load section (14) may include a further mounting formation (20) that is complementary to said mounting formation (46) and the mounting formation (46) is configured to receive the further mounting formation (20) therein and the mounting (20) and complementary mounting formations (46) have surfaces that are in abutment.
US11952727B2
Fibrous structures, for example toilet tissue, having a surface including a plurality of fibrous elements, such as a plurality of hydroxyl polymer filaments that exhibit an average fiber diameter of less than 2 μm as measured according to the Surface Average Fiber Diameter Test Method such that the fibrous structure exhibits a Dual Surface Glide Value of less than 17.7 g as measured according to the Glide Test Method—3 Inch Sample and method for making same is provided.
US11952714B2
A process (1, 101, 201) for separating a fibrous target component (21) from textile waste (2, 5) is shown, said textile waste (2, 5) containing the target component (21) and at least one ancillary component (22), whereby the target component (21) consists of water-swellable textile fibers (51) with a density higher than the density of water, the process (1, 101, 201) comprising the steps: a) dispersing the comminuted textile waste (5) in an aqueous solution (7) to obtain a suspension (8) containing the textile waste (5), and b) separating the dispersed textile waste (5) into a high-density target fraction (81) comprising the target component (21), and a low-density residual fraction (82) comprising the at least one ancillary component (22), according to the respective density of said components (21, 22). In order to provide a reliable, fast process for the separation of water-swellable fibers from other textile fibers which are similar in density, it is proposed, that the aqueous solution (7) is an alkaline aqueous solution (7) and the target component fibers (51) are swelled in the alkaline aqueous solution (7) prior to step b), thereby increasing the density and weight of said target component (21) relative to the density and weight of the ancillary component (22).
US11952708B1
A portable glove drying apparatus having a housing defining an inner chamber containing a fan and power source, as well as a sized outlet for receiving a golf glove. A flexible but resilient loop is disposed across the sized outlet and can be inserted in a golf glove to support and expand the golf glove from its inside. The fan can generate air flow that is directed into a base opening of the glove and out of ventilation holes of the golf glove. The air flow acts to improve evaporation of moisture contained on or in the golf glove and thereby promotes rapid drying of the golf glove.
US11952690B2
A breathable and waterproof non-woven fabric is manufactured by a manufacturing method including the following steps. Performing a kneading process on 87 to 91 parts by weight of a polyester, 5 to 7 parts by weight of a water repellent, and 3 to 6 parts by weight of a flow promoter to form a mixture, in which the polyester has a melt index between 350 g/10 min and 1310 g/10 min at a temperature of 270° C., and the mixture has a melt index between 530 g/10 min and 1540 g/10 min at a temperature of 270° C. Performing a melt-blowing process on the mixture, such that the flow promoter is volatilized and a melt-blown fiber is formed, in which the melt-blown fiber has a fiber body and the water repellent disposed on the fiber body with a particle size (D90) between 350 nm and 450 nm.
US11952684B2
Disclosed is a shoe upper with an illuminating logo. The upper includes a main body part, a logo part, and a lighting unit, in which the logo part for illumination may be formed integrally with the upper, providing the upper with an illumination feature. In this way, the upper with an illuminating logo can be manufactured with a reduced amount of time, leading to an improved manufacturing efficiency. In addition, the logo part is much less likely to come off and there is no need for an adhesive or bonding, creating an aesthetically attractive appearance from outside.
US11952679B2
Inverse temperature crystallization processes are provided to produce perovskite single crystals (PSCs), as well as surface passivation techniques for producing stabilizing the PSCs in the bulk region. Stable hybrid perovskite material include a bulk region comprising a single crystal perovskite material having a first bandgap and a smooth perovskite surface layer having a second bandgap greater than the first bandgap. Devices for detection and energy conversion are also contemplated, including for spectroscopic photon and elementary particle detection, such as radiation detectors. Crystallization chambers for forming the PSCs are also provided.
US11952677B2
A method for effectively removing minute impurities of 1 μm or less in size that are present on a surface of an aluminum nitride single-crystal substrate without etching the surface includes scrubbing a surface of an aluminum nitride single-crystal substrate using a polymer compound material having lower hardness than an aluminum nitride single crystal, and an alkali aqueous solution having 0.01-1 mass % concentration of potassium hydroxide or sodium hydroxide, the alkali aqueous solution being absorbed in the polymer compound material.
US11952673B2
Certain systems comprise a reactor (e.g., a reduction cell such as an electrolytic cell comprising an anode, a cathode, and an electrolyte) comprising molten metal within a container; and a collection vessel at least partially contained within the container of the reactor, the collection vessel comprising an opening fluidically connected to the container of the reactor. Some systems comprise a reactor; and a collection vessel comprising a first opening fluidically connected to the reactor and a second opening fluidically connected to a source of gas (e.g., inert gas) and to a source of negative pressure.
US11952670B1
The present invention relates to a removable and reusable anode mounting head for use with heater treaters, tanks, pressure vessels and production vessels. More particularly, the present invention provides a reusable anode mounting head with metallic and non-metallic components that enable electrical connection to the vessel and insulation at a connection to the vessel (e.g., via coupling).
US11952666B2
A method for producing an abrasion-resistant coating on the inner wall of an aluminum alloy workpiece is provide. The steps include mixing a graphene powder and Al powder to obtain a mixed powder; combining and heating the mixed power with a polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) liquid, and performing spray granulation to obtain a low-temperature self-propagating composite; stirring a slurry comprising the low-temperature self-propagating composite and sodium silicate; injecting the slurry into a cylindrical inner cavity of an aluminum alloy workpiece mounted on a horizontal rotary table for rotation, the aluminum alloy workpiece is heated with the rotation at a second temperature of 80-100° C. so that the slurry is uniformly solidified on the cylindrical inner surface of the cylindrical inner cavity; and burning the slurry, after the slurry is uniformly solidified and while the rotation is maintained, with an oxyacetylene flame to form the wear-resistant coating.
US11952663B2
Exemplary semiconductor processing chambers may include a substrate support including a top surface. A peripheral edge region of the top surface may be recessed relative to a medial region of the top surface. The chambers may include a pumping liner disposed about an exterior surface of the substrate support. The chambers may include a liner disposed between the substrate support and the pumping liner. The liner may be spaced apart from the exterior surface to define a purge lumen between the liner and the substrate support. The chambers may include an edge ring seated on the peripheral edge region. The edge ring may extend beyond a peripheral edge of the substrate support and above a portion of the liner. A gap may be formed between a bottom surface of the edge ring and a top surface of the liner. The gap and the purge lumen may be fluidly coupled.
US11952661B2
A deposition method includes: forming an adsorption inhibiting region on an adsorption site formed on a substrate, by causing the adsorption site to adsorb adsorption inhibiting radicals by a predetermined amount; causing an area on the adsorption site, on which the adsorption inhibiting region is not formed, to adsorb a raw material gas; and depositing a film of a reaction product on the adsorption site by causing the raw material gas adsorbed on the adsorption site to react with a reactant gas activated by a plasma.
US11952652B2
Provided is a method of manufacturing a zinc-plated steel sheet. The method includes: coating a metal on the steel sheet on a steel sheet; annealing the metal coated steel sheet; and zinc plating the annealed steel sheet by dipping in a molten zinc plating bath. Further provided is a method of manufacturing a hot-press part including: coating a metal on the steel sheet on a steel sheet; annealing the metal coated steel sheet; zinc plating the annealed steel sheet by dipping in a molten zinc plating bath; heating the zinc-plated steel sheet; and press forming the heated steel sheet.
US11952646B2
Provided is a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet including a base steel sheet, an intermediate layer which is disposed in contact with the base steel sheet and mainly includes silicon oxide, and an insulation coating which is disposed in contact with the intermediate layer and mainly includes phosphate and colloidal silica, in which the base steel sheet contains predetermined chemical composition, BN having an average particle size of 50 to 300 nm is present, when an emission intensity of B is measured using glow discharge emission analysis, predetermined conditions are satisfied, and a ratio of a major axis to a minor axis of BN is 1.5 or less.
US11952632B2
Methods and kits for detection of cancer-related mutations in a DNA sample using enzymatic restriction and real-time PCR. A DNA sample is subjected to digestion with a restriction endonuclease to obtain restriction endonuclease-treated DNA, followed by co-amplification of a restriction locus comprising a cancer mutation site and a control locus. A ratio of signal intensities of the amplification products of the restriction locus and the control locus is used to detect the cancer-related mutation.
US11952630B2
There is disclosed a composition of an aqueous solution comprising, consisting or consisting essentially of a flap endonuclease, a bulking agent and an organic buffer, wherein the aqueous solution has an inorganic salt concentration of 5 mM or less and wherein the composition is substantially free of glycerol.
US11952625B2
This disclosure provides systems and methods for sample processing and data analysis. Sample processing may include nucleic acid sample processing and subsequent sequencing. Some or all of a nucleic acid sample may be sequenced to provide sequence information, which may be stored or otherwise maintained in an electronic storage location. The sequence information may be analyzed with the aid of a computer processor, and the analyzed sequence information may be stored in an electronic storage location that may include a pool or collection of sequence information and analyzed sequence information generated from the nucleic acid sample. Methods and systems of the present disclosure can be used, for example, for the analysis of a nucleic acid sample, for producing one or more libraries, and for producing biomedical reports. Methods and systems of the disclosure can aid in the diagnosis, monitoring, treatment, and prevention of one or more diseases and conditions.
US11952620B2
According to one embodiment, a method of quantifying a target nucleic acid containing a first sequence in a sample is provided. The method includes preparing a substrate on which a plurality of detection regions are arranged, forming a reaction field by placing, on the substrate, a reaction liquid containing a sample, a primer set, and an amplification enzyme, maintaining the reaction field in an isothermal amplification condition, detecting a detection signal for each of the detection regions, determining, for each of the plurality of detection regions, whether positive or negative and detecting or quantifying the target nucleic acid based on the number of positive and/or a rise time of each of the positive detection signal.
US11952612B2
The present invention relates to sensors and methods for detecting bacterial proteases in a sample. In particular, the present invention relates to sensors and methods for detecting Pseudomonas spp. protease activity in a sample. The sensors and methods may be used to detect or predict spoilage of a dairy product. The invention also relates to methods for preparing samples for protease assays.
US11952605B2
The present invention relates to methods of modulating the mannose content of recombinant proteins.
US11952600B2
Modified PH20 hyaluronidase polypeptides, including modified polypeptides that exhibit increased stability and/or increased activity, are provided. Also provided are compositions and formulations and uses thereof.
