US11978271B1
Systems and methods for image understanding can include one or more object recognition systems and one or more vision language models to generate an augmented language output that can be both scene-aware and object-aware. The systems and methods can process an input image with an object recognition model to generate an object recognition output descriptive of identification details for an object depicted in the input image. The systems and methods can include processing the input image with a vision language model to generate a language output descriptive of a predicted scene description. The object recognition output can then be utilized to augment the language output to generate an augmented language output that includes the scene understanding of the language output with the specificity of the object recognition output.
US11978268B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating convex decomposition of objects using neural network models. One of the methods includes receiving an input that depicts an object. The input is processed using a neural network to generate an output that defines a convex representation of the object. The output includes, for each of a plurality of convex elements, respective parameters that define a position of the convex element in the convex representation of the object.
US11978266B2
In various examples, estimated field of view or gaze information of a user may be projected external to a vehicle and compared to vehicle perception information corresponding to an environment outside of the vehicle. As a result, interior monitoring of a driver or occupant of the vehicle may be used to determine whether the driver or occupant has processed or seen certain object types, environmental conditions, or other information exterior to the vehicle. For a more holistic understanding of the state of the user, attentiveness and/or cognitive load of the user may be monitored to determine whether one or more actions should be taken. As a result, notifications, AEB system activations, and/or other actions may be determined based on a more complete state of the user as determined based on cognitive load, attentiveness, and/or a comparison between external perception of the vehicle and estimated perception of the user.
US11978260B2
System and methods are disclosed for rapid license plate reading. A first image having a first resolution may be generated. A location of a license plate in the first image may be detected. The license plate may be read from a second image in accordance with the location of the license plate. The second image may have a second resolution greater than the first resolution. In embodiments, reading the license plate may comprise tracking the license plate across a plurality of license plate images.
US11978259B2
Systems and methods for operating a mobile platform. The methods comprise, by a computing device: obtaining a LiDAR point cloud; using the LiDAR point cloud to generate a track for a given object in accordance with a particle filter algorithm by generating states of a given object over time (each state has a score indicating a likelihood that a cuboid would be created given an acceleration value and an angular velocity value); using the track to train a machine learning algorithm to detect and classify objects based on sensor data; and/or causing the machine learning algorithm to be used for controlling movement of the mobile platform.
US11978247B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving multiple images from a camera, each image of the multiple images representative of a detection of an object within the image. For each image of the multiple images the methods include: determining a set of detected objects within the image, each object defined by a respective bounding box, and determining, from the set of detected objects within the image and ground truth labels, a false detection of a first object. The methods further include determining that a target object threshold is met based on a number of false detections of the first object in the multiple images, generating, based on the number of false detections for the first object meeting the target object threshold, an adversarial mask for the first object, and providing, to the camera, the adversarial mask.
US11978244B2
Provided is an atypical environment-based location recognition apparatus. The apparatus includes a sensing information acquisition unit configured to, from sensing data collected by sensor modules, detect object location information and semantic label information of a video image and detect an event in the video image; a walk navigation information provision unit configured to acquire user movement information; a metric map generation module configured to generate a video odometric map using sensing data collected through a sensing information acquisition unit and reflect the semantic label information; and a topology map generation module configured to generate a topology node using sensing data acquired through the sensing information acquisition unit and update the topology node through the collected user movement information.
US11978242B2
There is described a deep learning supervised regression based model including methods and systems for facial attribute prediction and use thereof. An example of use is an augmented and/or virtual reality interface to provide a modified image responsive to facial attribute predictions determined from the image. Facial effects matching facial attributes are selected to be applied in the interface.
US11978236B2
State of art techniques performing image labeling of remotely sensed data are computation intensive, consume time and resources. A method and system for efficient retrieval of a target in an image in a collection of remotely sensed data is disclosed. Image scanning is performed efficiently, wherein only a small percentage of pixels from the entire image are scanned to identify the target. One or more samples are intelligently identified based on sample selection criteria and are scanned for detecting presence of the target based on cumulative evidence score Plurality of sampling approaches comprising active sampling, distributed sampling and hybrid sampling are disclosed that either detect and localize the target or perform image labeling indicating only presence of the target.
US11978231B2
A wrinkle detection method includes: obtaining an original image, where the original image includes a face; adjusting a size of an ROI region on the original image to obtain at least two ROI images of different sizes, where the ROI region is a region in which a wrinkle on the face is located. A terminal device processes all the at least two ROI images of different sizes to obtain at least two binary images, where a white region in each binary image is a region in which a wrinkle is suspected to appear. The terminal device fuses the at least two binary images to obtain a final image, where a white region on the final image is recognized as a wrinkle.
US11978229B2
Systems and methods for three-dimensional (3D) localization of an object, including: a processor, a camera, in communication with the processor, and an X-Ray system, coupled to the camera such that a focal point of the camera is aligned with the source of the X-Ray system, where the X-Ray system is directed towards the object, and wherein the processor is configured to determine 3D localization of the object based on a combination of images received from the camera and from the X-Ray system.
US11978217B2
A long-term object tracker employs a continuous learning framework to overcome drift in the tracking position of a tracked object. The continuous learning framework consists of a continuous learning module that accumulates samples of the tracked object to improve the accuracy of object tracking over extended periods of time. The continuous learning module can include a sample pre-processor to refine a location of a candidate object found during object tracking, and a cropper to crop a portion of a frame containing a tracked object as a sample and to insert the sample into a continuous learning database to support future tracking.
US11978208B2
There is provided a medical information acquisition device including an information acquisition unit that acquires functional change information obtained on the basis of a reference image and a past image acquired by capturing images of the same subject at a reference time and a past time closer to the past than the reference time, respectively, using a trained model.
US11978199B2
Examples relate to an optical system and to an apparatus, method and computer program for an optical system. The optical imaging system comprises a camera for providing a camera image of a surface of an object. The optical imaging system further comprises one or more measurement modules for performing one or more measurements at one or more points of the surface of the object. The optical imaging system further comprises a display module. The optical imaging system further comprises a processing module configured to obtain the camera image of the surface of the object from the camera. The processing module is configured to obtain the one or more measurements at the one or more points of the surface of the object from the one or more measurement modules. The processing module is configured to determine a spatial location of the one or more points of the surface relative to the camera image. The processing module is configured to provide the camera image with an overlay representing the measurements at the one or more points of the surface of the object to the display module.
US11978189B2
Embodiments of this application provide a defect detection method and apparatus. The method includes: obtaining an image for inspection; performing anomaly detection on the image for inspection to obtain an anomaly region image corresponding to the image for inspection; and performing defect classification on the anomaly region image to obtain defect detection information of the image for inspection. The defect detection method of the embodiments of this application is divided into two steps of anomaly detection and defect classification. Anomaly detection is performed on the image for inspection first, and then defect classification needs to be performed only on an anomaly region, reducing the workload of defect classification, thereby improving the efficiency of defect detection.
US11978188B2
A computer-implemented method of anomaly detection associated with graphical data includes receiving as input one or more input data sets, wherein the input data sets includes one or more graphs, utilizing a plurality of graph neural networks (GNNs) to identify an aggregate loss including a first loss and second loss associated with the input data set, wherein the aggregate loss is associated with embedding's of the GNNs, and outputting a notification associated with an anomaly detection when the first and second loss exceeds an anomaly-detection threshold.
US11978186B2
An image processing apparatus and method is provided and includes one or more processors and one or more memory devices that store instructions. When the instructions are executed by the one or more processors, the one or more processors are configured to perform operations including obtaining a first image which is obtained by capturing based on a first shooting parameter, generating, by image processing on the first image, a second image corresponding to a second shooting parameter which is different from the first shooting parameter and using at least the generated second image as a training image for a model that is used in noise estimation processing for an input image.
US11978185B1
A system for color gamut normalization for pathology slide is disclosed. The system includes at least a computing device, wherein the computing device is configured to generate a plurality of segmentations of a whole slide image, wherein the whole slide image includes a plurality of biological tissue type variabilities. The computing device is configured to apply a segment-specific transformation to an individual segment in a first region. The computing device is configured to apply the segment-specific transformation to an individual segment in a second region. The computing device is configured to retrieve a plurality of discrete magnification levels from a user. The computing device is configured to choose as a first magnification level from the plurality of discrete magnification levels, and the computing device is configured to store the plurality of segmentations in a cache.
US11978174B1
A method includes extracting, using a backbone of a machine learning model, a plurality of features from an image of a foot and predicting, using a first portion of the machine learning model and based on one or more features of the plurality of features, a first aspect of the foot. The method also includes predicting, using a second portion of the machine learning model and based on one or more features of the plurality of features, a second aspect of the foot different from the first aspect, generating, using at least the first aspect and the second aspect, a two-dimensional model of a shoe, and superimposing the two-dimensional model of the shoe onto the image of the foot.
US11978154B2
In at least one embodiment, an immersive content generation system may receive a first input from a user indicating a lighting value. The computing device may receive a second input indicating a region of an immersive virtual environment to which the lighting value is to be applied. The computing device may apply the lighting value to the region of the immersive virtual environment. The computing device may output one or more images of the immersive virtual environment, the one or more images based, in part, on the input lighting value. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11978153B2
A method for determining a visible angle of a target object, an electronic device, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: acquiring first point of interest POI data of the target object, second POI data of an occluder, and a position of an observation point; determining a first tangent line and a second tangent line of the target object, passing through the position of the observation point, according to the first POI data and the position of the observation point; determining a third tangent line and a fourth tangent line of the occluder, passing through the position of the observation point, according to the second POI data and the position of the observation point; and determining a target visible angle of the target object relative to the occluder according to the first tangent line, the second tangent line, the third tangent line, and the fourth tangent line.
US11978152B2
Implementations described herein relate to methods, systems, and computer-readable media for computer-assisted graphical development. In some implementations, a computer-implemented method includes providing a GUI that includes at least one manipulable graphical object having one or more edges or vertices and a virtual pivot point, providing a dragger handle at a first position in the GUI, the dragger handle operable via user input to alter one or more of: a size, location, scale, or characteristic of the at least one manipulable graphical object based on the virtual pivot point, wherein the dragger handle is at least initially displayed on at least one of the one or more edges or vertices, receiving a request to summon the dragger handle, and, in response to the request, moving positioning the dragger handle to a different position in the GUI separate from the at least one manipulable graphical object.
US11978150B2
The present invention discloses a three-dimensional model and material merging method, device, terminal, storage medium, and rendering method, which belongs to the technical field of graphic rendering. The method comprises obtaining three-dimensional model files, material files and texture maps; determining the layout of the texture map; de-duplicating the material, merging the texture map of each channel according to the determined texture layout to obtain the texture map puzzle of each channel; optimizing the storage size of the three-dimensional models and texture map puzzles of each channel to generate and store the configuration file. The present method improves the speed of three-dimensional model and material merging, reduces the amount of data storage, thereby reduces the amount of data loading of the rendering CPU, and thus improves the rendering efficiency.
US11978149B2
A method, computer system, and a computer program product for projecting a 3D model defined by x, y, z coordinates onto the surface of a 2D image defined by u, v coordinates is provided. The present invention may include receiving a 3D model having a plurality of polygons, wherein certain edges are marked as seams. The present invention may include receiving input from a user, wherein the input comprises painting one or more parts of the 3D model in different colors, wherein the colors correspond with a weight of the area painted. The present invention may include unwrapping, by a processor, a 2D texture from the 3D model using a projection algorithm. The present invention may include generating a rectangular boundary around each island. The present invention may include scaling each island according to a gradient score.
US11978145B2
An expression generation method for an animation object is provided. In the method, a first facial expression of a target animation object is acquired by a first animation application from a facial expression set generated by a second animation application. The facial expression set includes different facial expressions of the target animation object. A display parameter of the acquired first facial expression in the first animation application is adjusted based on a first user input to obtain a second facial expression of the target animation object. A target animation of the target animation object that includes an image frame of the second facial expression is generated.
US11978140B2
A method starts with a processor receiving, at a computing system from a client device, descriptive text data from a descriptive text interface displayed on the client device, the descriptive text data associated with a media content item displayed on the client device, analyzing the descriptive text data to identify at least one data characteristic within the descriptive text data, and accessing a plurality of personalized media overlay icons each comprising at least one media overlay icon characteristic. The processor determines whether the identified data characteristic is associated with any of the at least one media overlay icon characteristics of each of the plurality of personalized media overlay icons, generates a personalized overlay icon interface which includes a selection of the plurality of personalized media overlay icons that include at least one media content icon characteristic associated with the data characteristic. The processor also causes the personalized overlay icon interface to be overlaid on the media content item displayed on the client device below the descriptive text data interface.
US11978136B2
The invention provides for a medical imaging system (100, 400) comprising a memory (110) storing machine executable instructions (120) and a configured artificial neural network (122). The medical imaging system further comprises a processor (104) configured for controlling the medical imaging system. Execution of the machine executable instructions causes the processor to receive (200) magnetic resonance imaging data (124), wherein the magnetic resonance imaging data is BOLD functional magnetic resonance imaging data descriptive of a time dependent BOLD signal (1100) for each of a set of voxels. Execution of the machine executable instructions further causes the processor to construct (202) a set of initial signals (126) by reconstructing the time dependent BOLD signal for each of the set of voxels using the magnetic resonance imaging data. Execution of the machine executable instructions further causes the processor to receive (204) a set of modified signals (128) in response to inputting the set of initial signals into the configured artificial neural network. The configured artificial neural network is configured for removing physiological artifacts from the set of initial signals.
US11978135B2
A method for recommending a color of a home appliance is provided. The method includes providing a plurality of panel graphic objects corresponding to each of a plurality of panels of the home appliance, providing a plurality of color graphic objects each representing a plurality of colors, receiving a selection for one of the plurality of color graphic objects, applying a color represented by the selected color graphic object to one of the plurality of panel graphic objects, and providing information on a color scheme corresponding to the color represented by the selected color graphic object.
US11978133B2
An album creating app obtains album data on a model album serving as an example, a candidate image group used to create an album, and analysis information on a model image in the model album and on each of the candidate image group. The album creating app has a similar image selecting unit that selects a similar image similar to the model image from the candidate image group based on the analysis information, a spread layout creating unit that creates a layout according to a template in the album data by placing the similar image in the slot where the model image corresponding to the similar image is placed, a layout evaluating unit that evaluates the layout created, and a processing changing unit that changes, based on the evaluation result, the type of editing performed on the similar image to place the similar image into the slot.
US11978117B2
A method of displaying an OHLL (open, high, low, last) type symbol representative of changes in price during a time period in which an open price occurred at a start of the time period, a last price occurred at a particular time within the time period, and the particular time occurred before an end of the time period, the method including generating and displaying a line representative of the last price wherein a width of the line spans an entirety of the time period, and generating and displaying the OHLL type symbol upon at least a portion of the line by drawing a spatiotemporal relationship between the open price, a highest price, a lowest price, and the last price in accordance with a selected symbol rendering method, wherein a width of the OHLL type symbol indicates a difference between the start of the time period and the particular time.
US11978115B2
A method for transferring a credit rights certificate is provided, including: generating a target account address according to a debtor account address and a creditor account address in a credit rights certificate transfer request, the target account address being a temporary account address used for storing a credit rights certificate and based on a multi-digital-signature process; transferring a credit rights certificate corresponding to the credit rights certificate transfer request from the debtor account address to the target account address; and transferring the credit rights certificate from the target account address to the creditor account address based on a confirmation instruction from the creditor account address.
US11978108B2
Systems and methods including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory storage devices storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform: receiving a request for an order comprising one or more items; determining when the order is eligible for batch picking by finding one or more other orders comprising at least one of the one or more items; and when the order is determined to be eligible for batch picking with the one or more other orders: creating one or more clusters by clustering together (1) the at least one of the one or more items of the order and (2) the at least one of the one or more items of the one or more other orders; estimating, for each respective cluster of the one or more clusters, an estimated fulfillment time interval to make ready the order; and assigning each respective cluster of the one or more clusters to at least one respective picker of one or more respective pickers. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.
US11978091B2
The technology generally relates to automatically associating products and services to be advertised in response to a search query and providing sponsored advertisements for output with the search query results on a publisher's website or mobile application. An ad advertiser may create an ad campaign for products without including or identifying keywords associated with the product. Upon receiving a request for an advertisement, an ad server may generate synonyms, or keywords, for the terms in the request. The ad server generated keywords may be used to identify available products that match, or are relevant to, the search query. The ad server may determine a quality of the match and, based on the quality, determine which products are most relevant to the search query. The ad server may solicit bids from the advertisers of the relevant ad campaigns. The winning ads may be returned to the publisher for output.
US11978083B2
Certain exemplary embodiments described herein relate to digital downloading jukebox systems of the type that typically include a central server and remote jukebox devices that communicate with the central server for royalty accounting and/or content updates. More particularly, certain exemplary embodiments relate to jukebox systems that have revenue-enhancing features such as for example, music recommendation engines and bartender loyalty programs. Such innovative techniques help to both increase per jukebox revenue as well as keep jukebox patrons engaged with the jukebox.
US11978076B2
A method of locating a target in a geographical space includes providing information to searcher users searching for the target, and potentially selecting among multiple targets for location, and providing rewards to the searchers after locating the target. The target may be a virtual object, and the method may use augmented reality features in locating the virtual object. The method may also provide for participating users who are not actively searching for the target, but may team with a searcher to receive a reward if the searcher locates the target, and who may potentially assist the user in locating the target. Participating users may be eligible if they are located in a designated participation area. The method may further provide for observing users who can observe progress of searchers in searching for the target but are not involved in the search or reward.
US11978072B2
A method of generating a visualization of location-dependent values is provided where a plurality of bids and a plurality of supply locations are received from at least one datastore. Each of the plurality of bids has an associated location. A first geographic location is selected from the plurality of supply locations. A ball tree is generated, the ball tree comprising a plurality of nodes, each node of the ball tree comprising a pivot geographic location and a radius, each node corresponding to at least one local value having a location within the radius of the pivot. The ball tree is traversed to generate sorted collection of location dependent values. Each of the location dependent values is determined from one of the plurality of bids. A map of the collection of location dependent values is output.
US11978068B2
A matching unit configured to match face data of a customer based on image data acquired by a camera in a shop against face data stored in a storage unit, a behavior information acquisition unit configured to acquire behavior information according to a behavior of the customer in the shop, and a condition determination unit configured to determine whether or not to store the face data into the storage unit based on the behavior information acquired by the behavior information acquisition unit in a case where the matching fails are provided.
US11978065B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for managing transaction disputes. Techniques include accessing a transaction pattern model associated with a user account; detecting deviation of a transaction from the transaction pattern model; transmitting, based on the detected deviation, transaction data to a user device; receiving an input at the user device in response to the transmitted data; generating, based on the received input, dispute data; storing the dispute data; monitoring data extracts associated with the user account; detecting, based on the monitoring, a data extract indicating a posted state of a transaction associated with the dispute data; and updating the dispute data based on the data extract indicating the posted state.
US11978062B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for detecting malicious use of a remote administration tool. In one aspect, an exemplary method comprises, gathering, from a flow of events, data that comprises any number of keyboard entry events, wherein each event is related at least to actions indicating a keyboard entry and a context in which the event occurred, comparing the gathered keyboard entry events with signatures from a database, and when a match is found with at least one signature, identifying an activity which is a characteristic that indicates that the remote administration tool is being controlled remotely.
US11978044B2
An approach is disclosed on a blockchain platform for authenticating clients. A public and private key is created at a client device. The private key into is split two or more parts. The split private key part is split into to two or more client devices including a first client device and a remaining client devices. Signing to authenticate a challenge to login using a partial key part occurs at the first client device. The challenge is sent to the remaining client devices wherein the remaining client devices that sequentially sign using short range wireless network connection and respond back to the challenge to login without a password.
US11978040B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to order processing. A computing platform may determine that order processing for a subset of a plurality of trading pairs should be migrated from a source computing platform to a destination computing platform. The destination computing platform may configure itself to process first trading pair, and may enter a proxy mode where orders for the subset of the plurality of trading pairs are routed to the destination computing platform. The destination computing platform may receive and load order processing information corresponding to the subset of the plurality of trading pairs, and may direct the source computing platform to cease processing for the subset of the plurality of trading pairs. The destination computing platform may disable the proxy for the source computing platform, and may receive orders/process for the subset of the plurality of trading pairs.
US11978036B2
The present disclosure describes a directional radio frequency identification (RFID) system, which provides directional RFID tag scanning using RFID enclosures and moveable radio signal blocking components. The RFID systems herein also prevent unwanted RFID tag activation and focuses RFID readers on specific scan areas. The directional RFID systems may be implemented in any type of system that utilizes RFID tag reading, such as a point of sale systems and other related systems, which utilize RFID scanning.
US11978034B2
The present disclosure provides a system constructed by connecting a mobile terminal and a service providing device, and a service providing method, wherein the service providing device and the mobile terminal are directly connected via an interface of the mobile terminal; the service providing device provides a service independently or through collaboration between the service providing device and various parties such as the mobile terminal and/or the background server based on the service information parsed and extracted the code information, identification information of any one or more parties among the user, the first mobile terminal, and the service providing device, and/or information bound to the identification information. Through active code scanning or passive code scanning or a combination of the two, the present disclosure may conveniently and quickly implement sensing access and effectively enhance security for operations such as mobile payment, etc.
US11978028B2
Systems and methods for facilitating access of interchange parameter data files through a centralized microservice system that integrates a plurality of interchange network systems with a plurality of payment processing applications. The microservice system comprises a plurality of microservices and a plurality of payment processing application modules hosting the plurality of payment processing applications. The microservice system accesses interchange related information sourced from the plurality of interchange network systems and stores the interchange related information in the plurality of microservices. A plurality of financial entities gets registered with the microservice system for availing services associated with the plurality of payment processing applications. The plurality of payment processing application sends a request to the microservice system to access the interchange related information required for processing of the payment transactions requested by the financial entities. The microservice system provides access of the interchange related information in response to receipt of the request.
US11978021B2
A system includes a transceiver and a processor. The processor is programmed to receive, using the transceiver, information from a vehicle indicative of vehicle status and from a cloud service indicative of a user schedule, and responsive to occurrence of a predefined trigger event determined according to the information, identify a responsive action to update the user schedule corresponding to the trigger event and notify a user of the action in accordance with a degree of freedom setting.
US11978005B2
An inventory management system provides automated management of medical item inventory and maintenance of a digital chain of custody for medical items. Medical items are labeled with an RFID-encoded tag that also displays a 2D barcode. The RFID tag and the 2D barcode both encode the same serialized Electronic Product Code (EPC) data for each specific item. Reading of the RFID tag is performed using a fixed or handheld RFID reader. Reading of the 2D barcode is performed using a handheld mobile device, such as a tablet or smart phone. The two-technology label allows for the digital chain of custody to be updated by means of RFID scanning in locations where RFID readers are available and by using a smart phone or tablet to read the 2D barcode in locations where RFID readers are unavailable.
US11977994B2
Various kinds of business and other information are tracked in real time. A coherent information visualization, for example as a time line, automatically, simultaneously presents relevant information to a user across multiple dimensions. Tools are provided that allow the user to establish and manipulate multi-dimensional linkages to develop insights into information gathered from multiple domains.
US11977992B2
A method for tuning predictive control parameters of a building energy consumption system based on fuzzy logic: 1) constructing a controlled building energy consumption system, performing generalized predictive control on the building energy consumption system, and initializing an tuned parameter λ of a generalized predictive controller; 2) collecting the output slope yk (t), the actual output y(t), the set value yr(t) and the predicted output value ŷ(t+i) of the controlled building energy consumption system in the control process, and then taking them as fuzzy target parameters; 3) constructing a membership function for the fuzzy target parameters in step 2), and then optimally selecting the parameters of the fuzzy membership function by using a particle swarm optimization algorithm to obtain membership function parameters of each fuzzy target parameter; 4) carrying out fuzzy reasoning operation on the membership function parameters, and tuning the adjusted parameter λ by using the results of fuzzy reasoning operation.
US11977988B2
In a method for applying deterministic logic to select resources for resource genomes in a genetic algorithm, a logic engine identifies resources associated with an objective and an overall task population to be completed by one or more of the identified resources. The logic engine then selects a deterministic logical framework from one or more deterministic logical frameworks based on the objective. Following the selection of a deterministic logical framework, the logic engine selects one or more resources from the one or more identified resources based on the selected deterministic logical framework. The logic engine compiles the one or more selected resources into a resource genome, assigns one or more tasks from the task population to the one or more selected resources, and sends instructions to the one or more selected resources to execute the one or more tasks. The logic engine determines a value score for the resource genome.
US11977982B2
The network comprises at least one network layer in which a plurality of electronic oscillators, interconnected via programmable coupling elements storing respective network weights, generate oscillatory signals at time delays dependent on the input signal to propagate the input signal from an input to an output of that layer. The network is adapted to provide a network output signal dependent substantially linearly on phase of oscillatory signals in the last layer of the network. The method includes calculating a network error dependent on the output signal and a desired output for the training sample, and calculating updates for respective network weights by backpropagation of the error such that weight-updates for a network layer are dependent on a vector of time delays at the input to that layer and the calculated error at the output of that layer.
US11977981B2
A device and method of operating the device for automatically creating photos or videos of a certain moment are provided. The method includes obtaining a plurality of image frames sequentially captured through a camera for a preset time interval; detecting at least one image frame among the plurality of image frames in which a main object corresponding to a preset main object or an action of the main object corresponding to a preset action is recognized; determining a type of composition of the at least one image frame; cropping a region including the main object from the at least one image frame based on placement of objects in the at least one image frame and the determined type of composition; and creating the photo using the cropped region.
US11977980B2
An information processing method includes the following executed by a computer: acquiring a first image and object data of an object appearing in the first image, extracting a portion of the first image that corresponds to a difference between the object data and an object detection result obtained by inputting the first image to a trained model, the trained model receiving an image as input to output an object detection result, acquiring a second image that includes a portion corresponding to the same object data as object data corresponding to the extracted portion of the first image, reflecting an image based on the extracted portion of the first image in the portion of the acquired second image that corresponds to the same object data, and generating training data for the trained model.
US11977974B2
A system, having a memory that stores computer executable components, and a processor that executes the computer executable components, reduces data size in connection with training a neural network by exploiting spatial locality to weight matrices and effecting frequency transformation and compression. A receiving component receives neural network data in the form of a compressed frequency-domain weight matrix. A segmentation component segments the initial weight matrix into original sub-components, wherein respective original sub-components have spatial weights. A sampling component applies a generalized weight distribution to the respective original sub-components to generate respective normalized sub-components. A transform component applies a transform to the respective normalized sub-components. A cropping component crops high-frequency weights of the respective transformed normalized sub-components to yield a set of low-frequency normalized sub-components to generate a compressed representation of the original sub-components.
US11977972B2
Residual semi-recurrent neural networks (RSNN) can be configured to receive both time invariant input and time variant input data to generate one or more time series predictions. The time invariant input can be processed by a multilayer perceptron of the RSNN. The output of the multilayer perceptron can be used as an initial state for a recurrent neural network unit of the RSNN. The recurrent neural network unit can also receive time invariant input, and process the time invariant input with the time invariant input to generate an output. The outputs of the multilayer perceptron and the recurrent neural network unit can be combined to generate the one or more time series predictions.
US11977971B2
A device include on-board memory, an applications processor, a digital signal processor (DSP) cluster, a configurable accelerator framework (CAF), and a communication bus architecture. The communication bus communicatively couples the applications processor, the DSP cluster, and the CAF to the on-board memory. The CAF includes a reconfigurable stream switch and data volume sculpting circuitry, which has an input and an output coupled to the reconfigurable stream switch. The data volume sculpting circuitry receives a series of frames, each frame formed as a two dimensional (2D) data structure, and determines a first dimension and a second dimension of each frame of the series of frames. Based on the first and second dimensions, the data volume sculpting circuitry determines for each frame a position and a size of a region-of-interest to be extracted from the respective frame, and extracts from each frame, data in the frame that is within the region-of-interest.
US11977963B2
A method of converting a data stored in a memory from a first format to a second format is disclosed. The method includes extending a number of bits in the data stored in a double data rate (DDR) memory by one bit to form an extended data. The method further includes determining whether the data stored in the DDR is signed or unsigned data. Moreover, responsive to determining that the data is signed, a sign value is added to the most significant bit of the extended data and the data is copied to lower order bits of the extended data. Responsive to determining that the data is unsigned, the data is copied to lower order bits of the extended data and the most significant bit is set to an unsigned value, e.g., zero. The extended data is stored in an on-chip memory (OCM) of a processing tile of a machine learning computer array.
US11977954B2
The invention relates to a method for determining the component of a magnetic field in a predetermined direction. The method comprises preparing a quantum system in a coherent superposition state (S1), letting the quantum system evolve for a delay time period (S2) and performing a readout operation and a projective measurement on the quantum system (S3). The steps (S1, S2, S3) are iteratively repeated in an iteration loop, wherein the delay time period increases linearly by the same time increment after each iteration. The method further comprises determining the component of the magnetic field in the predetermined direction according to the outcome of the projective measurements (S4).
US11977953B2
The present disclosure relates generally to the processing of machine-readable visual encodings in view of contextual information. One embodiment of aspects of the present disclosure comprises obtaining image data descriptive of a scene that includes a machine-readable visual encoding; processing the image data with a first recognition system configured to recognize the machine-readable visual encoding; processing the image data with a second, different recognition system configured to recognize a surrounding portion of the scene that surrounds the machine-readable visual encoding; identifying a stored reference associated with the machine-readable visual encoding based at least in part on one or more first outputs generated by the first recognition system based on the image data and based at least in part on one or more second outputs generated by the second recognition system based on the image data; and performing one or more actions responsive to identification of the stored reference.
US11977951B1
Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that match image portions of a first set of image portions and image portions of another set of image portions. This may be performed in a such a way that the sum of descriptor distances of the matched image portions is optimized in a globally optimal way. In some implementations, the matching is subject to one or more constraints, e.g., ensuring that each image portion of the first data set is matched with at least one image portion of the second data set and ensuring that each image portion of the second data set is matched with only one image portion of the first data set.
US11977949B2
A card reader includes a card reader main body, a board which is fixed to the card reader main body, a light emitting element which is disposed on a surface of the board, a cover member which is made of light transmissive material and covers the board from an opposite side to the card reader main body, and a code imaging part which images a one-dimensional code or a two-dimensional code. The cover member is formed with a card insertion port, and the code imaging part is held by the cover member and is disposed at a position adjacent to the card insertion port in a longitudinal direction of the card insertion port.
US11977946B2
This application discloses a method for automatically activating an NFC application and a terminal, and relates to the terminal field. When a terminal has a plurality of SEs, an NFC application accessed by a transaction instruction is automatically activated. The terminal may include an NFC controller and at least two SEs, and each of the at least two SEs carries at least one NFC application. A specific solution is as follows: The NFC controller receives a transaction instruction, determines a target SE from the at least two SEs according to the transaction instruction, and sends the transaction instruction to the target SE; the target SE receives the transaction instruction, and determines, according to the transaction instruction, a target NFC application from an NFC application carried in the target SE; and the target SE runs the target NFC application, and executes the transaction instruction.
US11977936B2
A differential multiplier-accumulator accepts A and B digital inputs and generates a dot product P by applying the bits of the A input and the bits of the B inputs to respective positive and negative unit elements comprised of groups of AND gates coupled to charge transfer lines through a capacitor Cu. Each positive and negative unit element receives one bit of the B input applied to all of the AND gates of the unit element, and each positive and negative unit element having the bits of A applied to each associated AND gate input of each unit element. The AND gates are coupled to charge transfer lines through a capacitor Cu, and the charge transfer lines couple to binary weighted charge summing capacitors and to an analog to digital converter to generate a digital output product. The charge transfer lines may span multiple unit elements.
US11977934B2
Automation solutions for event logging and debugging on KUBERNETES are disclosed. A system for providing no-instrumentation telemetry for a distributed application cluster includes at least one processor for executing computer-executable instructions stored in a memory. The instructions, when executed, instruct the at least one processor to provide an edge module configured to deploy a Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF) probe and a corresponding BPF program in the computing environment. The BPF probe is triggered based on an event associated with a distributed application running in a user space of the computing environment. Data associated with the event is captured in a kernel space of the computing environment via the BPF program. The captured data is transferred from the kernel space of the computing environment to the user space of the computing environment.
US11977924B2
A distributed ledger and transaction computing network fabric over which large numbers of transactions are processed concurrently in a scalable, reliable, secure and efficient manner. The computing network fabric or “core” supports a distributed blockchain network that organizes data in a manner that allows communication, processing and storage of blocks of the chain to be performed concurrently, with little synchronization, at very high performance and low latency, even when the transactions themselves originate from distant sources. This data organization relies on segmenting a transaction space within autonomous but cooperating computing nodes that are configured as a processing mesh. The nodes operate on blocks independently from one another while still maintaining a consistent and logically-complete view of the blockchain as a whole. Secure transaction processing is facilitated by storing cryptographic key materials in trusted computing environments associated with the computing nodes to facilitate construction mining proofs during block validation.
US11977916B2
A neural network processing unit (NPU) includes a processing element array, an NPU memory system configured to store at least a portion of data of an artificial neural network model processed in the processing element array, and an NPU scheduler configured to control the processing element array and the NPU memory system based on artificial neural network model structure data or artificial neural network data locality information.
US11977913B2
A graphics processing system for operation with a data store, comprising: one or more processing units for processing tasks; a check unit operable to form a signature which is characteristic of an output from processing a task on a processing unit; and a fault detection unit operable to compare signatures formed at the check unit; wherein the graphics processing system is operable to process each task first and second times at the one or more processing units so as to, respectively, generate first and second processed outputs, the graphics processing system being configured to: write out the first processed output to the data store; read back the first processed output from the data store and form at the check unit a first signature which is characteristic of the first processed output as read back from the data store; form at the check unit a second signature which is characteristic of the second processed output; compare the first and second signatures at the fault detection unit; and raise a fault signal if the first and second signatures do not match.
US11977912B2
A banking pipeline for processing various transactions for multiple financial instruments is disclosed herein. The pipeline may have three distinct interpreters, a transaction interpreter, a rollup interpreter, and a rules interpreter. Different aspects of the transaction may be performed on separate interpreters and each interpreter may perform its aspect of the transaction before the next interpreter begins.
US11977910B1
Disclosed herein are systems and method for moving a process from a host to a virtual machine (VM). In one exemplary aspect, a method comprises freezing the process at a host operating system (OS) of the host; transferring at least one kernel object of the process from the host OS to a VM OS of the VM; reconfiguring at least one input-output (IO) resource of the process to point to a host-VM channel such that data flow between the host and the VM is enabled; in response to determining that the IO resource is a network socket and that the VM has network access, creating a network socket on the VM side and re-configuring a network connection of the VM; mapping memory utilized by the process to the VM by remapping at least one page of the memory into the VM OS; and unfreezing the process at the VM OS.
US11977909B2
A method of organizing computer resources includes receiving a specification defining a plurality of quiescence groups of independent component instances for each of at least two services, and performing a first load balancing of the quiescence groups across a plurality of physical servers to define a plurality of supergroups while assigning each of the physical servers across the supergroups.
US11977905B2
A system receives, from a first augmented reality device, a first image of a web application that shows a first element of the web application. The system receives eye tracking information that indicates eye movements of a user looking at different elements of web application. The system determines that the user is looking at the first element and that the first element is actuated. The system receives a second image of the web application that shows an error message. The system determines that the first element is faulty, records user events that led to the error message, and updates an augmented reality message for the first element by indicating that the first element is faulty.
US11977903B2
A method includes receiving a first set of identifiers selected based on commonality among descriptive data corresponding to the identifiers of the first set. Each identifier corresponds to a user who has been supplied a physical object. The method includes identifying event data for the first set within a specified epoch. The method includes training a machine learning model for the first set using the identified event data. The machine learning model is trained using parallel processing of records from a storage structure storing the event data. The parallel processing includes assigning analysis of the event data of each of a subset of the first set to respective processor threads for parallel execution on processing hardware. The trained machine learning model is configured to receive a selected identifier and generate an output representing an amount of resources expected to be used by the selected identifier for a subsequent epoch.
US11977897B2
An information processing method includes, when an electronic apparatus is booted, obtaining current parameter information of a target hard disk drive and sending the current parameter information to a baseboard management controller (BMC). The current parameter information of the target hard disk drive indicates current mounting position of the target hard disk drive on a backplane (BP).
US11977895B2
Examples described herein relate to a graphics processing unit (GPU) coupled to the memory device, the GPU configured to: execute an instruction thread; determine if a dual directional signal barrier is associated with the instruction thread; and based on clearance of the dual directional signal barrier for a particular signal barrier identifier and a mode of operation, indicate a clearance of the dual directional signal barrier for the mode of operation, wherein the dual directional signal barrier is to provide a single barrier to gate activity of one or more producers based on activity of one or more consumers or gate activity of one or more consumers based on activity of one or more producers.
US11977894B2
The disclosure provides a method for distributing instructions in a reconfigurable processor. The reconfigurable processor includes an instruction fetch module, an instruction sync control module and an instruction queue module. The method includes: configuring a format of a Memory Sync ID Table of each instruction type, obtaining a first memory identification field and a second memory identification field of each instruction, obtaining one-hot encodings of first and second memory identification fields, obtaining a sync table and executing each instruction of a plurality of to-be-run instructions.
US11977879B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for configuring a software application through a remote configuration service. An example method generally includes receiving, from a remote configuration service, a declarative construct. Generally, the declarative construct includes a definition of a workflow in an application to be executed within a player application deployed on a client device. Information associated with the definition of the workflow is extracted by parsing the declarative construct according to a schema defining a format of the declarative construct. The workflow is executed in the player application based on the extracted information defining functionality of the workflow.
US11977877B2
In various embodiments, a remote access controller supporting remote management of an Information Handling System (IHS). The remote access controller receives a first firmware image comprising first firmware for a first hardware component of the IHS. A personality of the first firmware is determined and at least a portion of the first firmware is stored to a first region of a persistent storage of the first hardware component, where the first region is designated as storing firmware for adapting the first hardware component to the first personality. In response to a detected reconfiguration of the IHS, the remote access controller generates a notification of the first firmware that is stored by the first hardware component and that is usable to adapt operation of the first hardware component to the first personality.
US11977864B2
A method includes obtaining, by a processing device, web traffic including a set of messages associated with a target platform, analyzing, by the processing device, the web traffic to obtain a set of data extractor code candidates for extracting a set of data from the target platform, and selecting, by the processing device, data extractor code from the set of data extractor code candidates.
US11977858B2
A method performed by a platform for real-time intake capacity assessment of a project includes routing, to a service desk, a request to assess capacity for the project. In response, an electronic message is communicated with a link to a form to retrieve structured information about the project. An assessment template is populated with structured information that includes feature-level information of the project (e.g., a level-of-effort (LOE) for developing a software product). The platform can dynamically estimate a capacity measure for the project, which is then used to generate a visualization on a dashboard based on the estimate of the capacity measure. As such, the platform enables better decision-making, planning, and prioritization.
US11977855B2
The Zero User Interface (UI)-based automatic speech translation system and method can solve problems such as the procedural inconvenience of inputting speech signals and the malfunction of speech recognition due to crosstalk when users who speak difference languages have a face-to-face conversation. The system includes an automatic speech translation server, speaker terminals and a counterpart terminal. The automatic speech translation server selects a speech signal of a speaker among multiple speech signals received from speaker terminals connected to an automatic speech translation service and transmits a result of translating the speech signal of the speaker into a target language to a counterpart terminal.
US11977851B2
Embodiments of this disclosure disclose an information processing method, apparatus and a non-transitory computer readable medium. The method includes: obtaining a target text sequence corresponding to to-be-processed text information; obtaining a context vector according to the target text sequence; determining a logical similarity corresponding to the target text sequence according to the context vector and the target text sequence; and encoding the target text sequence corresponding to target text information by using the logical similarity to obtain a text encoding result. In this embodiment of this disclosure, a context vector related to a discrete sequence is used to encode the discrete sequence, to strengthen the dependence between elements in the discrete sequence, thereby enhancing the performance of a neural network model and improving the learning capability of the model.
US11977848B1
Computer-based natural language understanding of input and output for a computer interlocutor is improved using a method of classifying conversation segments from transcribed conversations. The improvement includes one or more methods of splitting transcribed conversations into groups related to a conversation ontology using metadata; identifying dominant paths of conversational behavior by counting the frequency of occurrences of the behavior for a given path; creating a conversation model comprising conversation behaviors, metadata, and dominant paths; and using the conversation model to assign a probability score for a matched input to the computer interlocutor or a generated output from the computer interlocutor.
US11977847B2
A method for dynamically updating a machine learning model is provided. The method comprises receiving first data comprising a first number of documents, training a first machine learning model with the first data, and releasing the first machine learning model for use. After receipt of the first data, second data is received comprising a second number of documents. A concept labeling engine, according to the first machine learning model, labels a concept for at least one document in the second data. Responsive to determining that a distribution of words in the second data deviates from a distribution of words in the first data beyond a specified threshold, the first machine learning model is retrained with at least part of the second data, the retraining producing a second machine learning model; and releasing the second machine learning model for use.
US11977845B2
The invention provides for the evaluation of semantic closeness of a source data file relative to candidate data files. The system includes an artificial neural network and processing intelligence that derives a property vector from extractable measurable properties of a data file. The property vector is mapped to related semantic properties for that same data file and such that, during ANN training, pairwise similarity/dissimilarity in property is mapped, during towards corresponding pairwise semantic similarity/dissimilarity in semantic space to preserve semantic relationships. Based on comparisons between generated property vectors in continuous multi-dimensional property space, the system and method assess, rank, and then recommend and/or filter semantically close or semantically disparate candidate files from a query from a user that includes the data file. Applications of the categorization and recommendation system apply to search tools, including identification of illicit materials or logically progressive associations between disparate files.
US11977841B2
An apparatus includes a display device that displays an input document in a user interface and at least one processor configured to receive a command to determine a document type of the input document and classify the input document to assign at least one document type and a respective confidence score. The processor assigns a significance score to each word of the input document that is indicative of a degree of influence the word has in deciding that the input document is of the at least one document type. The processor determines a level of visual emphasis to be placed on each word of the input document based on the significance score of the word and displays the input document on the display device with each word of the input document visually emphasized in accordance with the determined level of visual emphasis of the word.
US11977825B2
A discrete element method contact model building method includes: selecting a filling body in a disaster-causing structure to obtain a change rule of cumulative loss of the filling body; performing test simulation, and determining a relation function of each group of corresponding mesoscopic mechanical parameters in each time period and mesoscopic parameters of a DEM contact model representing a change rule of macroscopical parameters of the filling body; embedding each mesoscopic parameter relation function into an existing particle contact model, performing test simulation, and updating a fracture failure criterion of the contact model according to a corresponding relation of macro-mesoscopic strength during model failure; and based on a seepage failure indoor test, building a seepage failure discrete element calculation model, and simulating the seepage failure process of a rock and soil mass by using the obtained particle contact model and the fracture criterion of the particle contact model.
US11977823B2
In a method for designing a high-rigidity blade based on stochastic isogeometric analysis, the models of stochastic fields of the material property and the external load of the blade are established based on manufacturing conditions and service environment of the blade; an optimization model of the blade is established according to high-rigidity design requirements of the blade and a constraint condition of lift-drag ratio, which is then solved. In the solution procedure, a stochastic isogeometric analysis method is used to calculate the stochastic displacement of the blade under the influence of the randomness of the material property and the external load, and the maximum lift-drag ratio of the blade airfoil is also calculated, based on which the fitness values of individuals in the current population are calculated, so that the high-rigidity design of the blade is realized in the premise of ensuring the lift-drag ratio.
US11977785B2
The disclosed technologies provide functionality for non-volatile memory device-assisted live migration of virtual machine (“VM”) data. A host computing device (the “host”) requests that a source non-volatile memory device track changes to a namespace by a VM. In response thereto, the source device tracks changes made by the VM to the namespace and stores one or more data structures that identify the changed portions of the namespace. The host requests the data structures from the source device and requests the contents of the changed portions from the source device. The host then causes the data changed by the VM in the namespace to be written to a namespace on a target non-volatile memory device. The host can also retrieve the device internal state of a child physical function on the source device. The host migrates the retrieved device internal state to a child physical function on the target device.
US11977777B2
A semiconductor device includes a relay chip configured to be connected to a host; a first chip connected to the relay chip via a first channel; and a second chip connected to the relay chip via a second channel. The relay chip is configured to receive, from the host, a first enable signal for selecting the first channel and a second enable signal for selecting the second channel. During a first period in which the first enable signal is maintained at a non-active level and the second enable signal is maintained at an active level, the relay chip is configured to perform, in parallel, a first data transfer operation via the first channel and a first command issuing operation via the second channel.
US11977774B2
An average number of program erase cycles (PECs) for a memory device is identified. A set of trims associated with the average number of PECs is identified. One or more write trims associated with the memory device are set according to the set of trims. A write command directed to the memory device is received. The write command is executed according to the one or more write trims.
US11977767B2
A method of caching mapping table for use in a flash memory device having a flash memory controller and a flash memory is provided. The method includes: in response to a host read command, determining whether a group of a logical-to-physical (L2P) required by handling the host read command has been loaded to a DRAM of the flash memory controller; if the required group of the L2P mapping table has not been loaded to the DRAM, loading the required group of the L2P mapping table from the flash memory to a SRAM of the flash memory controller; directly accessing the SRAM to obtain an L2P address associated with the host read command from the required group of the L2P mapping table; and performing a read operation on the flash memory in response to the host read command according to the obtained L2P address.
US11977758B2
Methods, systems, and devices for assigning blocks of memory systems are described. Some memory systems may be configured to initiate an operation to characterize a plurality of blocks of a memory system; identify a first quantity of complete blocks of the plurality of blocks and a second quantity of reduced blocks of the plurality of blocks based at least in part on initiating the operation; determine, for a block of the second quantity of reduced blocks, whether a quantity of planes available for use to store the information in the block satisfies a threshold; and assign the block as a special function block configured to store data associated with a function of the memory system based at least in part on determining that the quantity of planes available for use to store the information in the block of the second quantity of reduced blocks satisfies the threshold.
US11977757B2
Profile switching for memory overclocking is described. In accordance with the described techniques, a memory is operated according to a first memory profile. During operation of the memory according to the first memory profile, a request is received to operate the memory according to a second memory profile. Responsive to the request, operation of the memory is switched to operate according to the second memory profile without rebooting. In one or more implementations, at least one of the first memory profile or the second memory profile comprises an overclocking memory profile that configures the memory to operate in an overclocking mode. In one or more implementations, the memory is trained to operate according to the overclocking memory profile prior to operating the memory according to the first memory profile.
US11977754B2
In accordance with one implementation, a method for adaptive in-field recalibration includes detecting a potential environmental disturbance for a first storage node in a mass storage system based on an indicator external to the first storage node, and initiating a recalibration of an operational parameter of the first storage node responsive to the detection.
US11977747B2
The present invention discloses a memory access apparatus having address scrambling mechanism that includes an address scrambling circuit and a memory controller. The address scrambling circuit performs the steps outlined below. An original access address is received to be interpreted into original unit indexes and a minimal original unit according to regional unit levels of a memory. Scrambled unit indexes and a minimal scrambled unit are generated correspondingly according to a random address generation algorithm, to further generate a scrambled access address accordingly, in which when a plurality of different original access addresses have at least one the same original unit indexes from the highest block unit level, the scrambled unit indexes generated therefrom are the same. The memory controller accesses the memory according to the scrambled access address.
US11977745B2
A data retry-read method, a memory storage device, and a memory control circuit element are provided. The method includes: detecting a notification signal from a volatile memory module; in response to the notification signal, instructing the volatile memory module to execute N command sequences in a buffer; and after the volatile memory module executes the N command sequences, sending at least one read command sequence, according to M physical addresses involved in the N command sequences, to instruct the volatile memory module to read first data from the M physical addresses.
US11977740B2
A cartridge management system that manages a plurality of cartridges, in each of which a magnetic tape is housed, includes a processor, and a memory incorporated in or connected to the processor, in which the processor is configured to execute data rewrite-in processing of rewriting data stored in the magnetic tape, in a specific cartridge among the plurality of cartridges based on an access frequency indicating a frequency of access to the data, and cartridge replacement processing of replacing the data stored in the magnetic tape of the specific cartridge and the data stored in the magnetic tape of another cartridge among the plurality of cartridges.
US11977737B2
Methods, systems, and devices for techniques to improve latency for gaming applications are described. The memory system may be configured to operate in a gaming mode that may enable faster load times. In some cases, the gaming mode may enable faster game download from an external server. In some cases, the gaming mode may enable faster transferring of files between volatile storage and non-volatile storage at the memory system. The gaming mode may enable faster read and write operations, and faster switching between one or more gaming applications. The memory system may additionally or alternatively be configured to operate in a non-gaming mode which may improve reliability and retention for other, non-gaming applications. The memory system may switch between the two modes depending on an application being executed by the system.
US11977734B2
Techniques are provided for implementing storage block balancing using volume part migration. One method comprises obtaining a capacity utilization of storage blocks each storing a portion of one or more storage volumes; and when the capacity utilization of a given storage block is above an upper target threshold, migrating a volume part of the given storage block to a different storage block having a capacity utilization below a lower target threshold, wherein the different storage block is within a same storage pool as the given storage block, and wherein the volume part comprises a subset of a storage volume. A volume part from a first storage block may also (or alternatively) be migrated to a second storage block when: (i) a number of blocks exceed a first threshold; (ii) a plurality of volume parts of the first storage block fit in one or more additional storage blocks in the same storage pool that are below the lower target threshold; and/or (iii) a storage block having a lowest utilization in the storage pool is smaller than a second threshold.
US11977722B2
An interactive, dynamic GUI for visualization of patent documents including content-dense graphics illustrating the number, content size, type of a multiplicity of patent documents (issued or granted patent versus published pending application), distributed over time, with comparison to similar patent documents, market events, and expert insights based upon content of specification or detailed description and claims, all within a predetermined technology sector having at least one sub-sector or category within the technology sector.
US11977718B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure enable system(s) and method(s) for creating and deploying an electronic skill-based activity, including implementing a matchup tool to determine a projected performance score for participants in real-world events based at least in part on historical performance data of each participant. The matchup tool creates suggested matchups for inclusion in a skill-based game by selecting, for each suggested matchup, at least two components, formed from one or more participants, expected to produce substantially similar scores in the skill-based game based on the projected performance score of each participant. The matchup tool renders for display to a game operator the suggested matchups to enable the game operator to interactively select suggested matchups for inclusion within the skill-based game. The matchup tool transmits the selected matchup to presentation devices of users to enable the users to interactively select components as predicted winning components of the skill-based game.
US11977714B2
Disclosed herein is a method of provisioning a collaborative virtual experience to two or more users, in accordance with some embodiments. The method may include transmitting an interactive 3D model data to one or more follower user devices associated with one or more followers. Further, the method may include receiving one or more follower state data from the one or more follower user devices. Further, the method may include generating a collaborative view data based on the interactive 3D model data and the one or more follower state data. Further, the method may include transmitting the collaborative view data to a leader user device operated by a leader associated with the one or more followers. Further, the leader user device may be configured for presenting the collaborative view data.
US11977713B2
The present disclosure provides a viewing angle adjustment method and device, an electronic device, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, and belongs to the field of computer technologies. The method includes determining an adsorption area of a first virtual object in a virtual scenario according to a distance between the first virtual object and a second virtual object, a size of the adsorption area being positively correlated with the distance between the first virtual object and a second virtual object. In response to an aiming point of the second virtual object being located in the adsorption area, the method includes obtaining a target rotation speed of a viewing angle of the virtual scenario. The method also includes adjusting the viewing angle of the virtual scenario according to the target rotation speed of the viewing angle.
US11977705B2
A touch event processing circuit includes receiving circuits and an average circuit. Each of the receiving circuits includes an operation amplifier, a current processing circuit, and a touch event detection circuit. The operation amplifier receives an input signal from a touch panel, and outputs a first current signal and a second current signal. The current processing circuit processes the first current signal and the second current signal according to a first current average signal and a second current average signal, to generate a processed current signal. The touch event detection circuit detects a touch event according to the processed current signal. The average circuit receives first current signals and second current signals from the receiving circuits; performs an average operation upon the first current signals, to generate the first current average signal; and performs an average operation upon the second current signals, to generate the second current average signal.
US11977701B2
A sensor panel includes a detection area and is coupleable to an integrated circuit (IC) for detecting a position of an active stylus in the detection area. The sensor panel includes a plurality of first electrodes which are elongated and extending along a first direction in the detection area, wherein the plurality of first electrodes are arrayed along a second direction that is transverse to the first direction; a plurality of first routing traces associated respectively with the first electrodes and connected respectively to the first electrodes; and a plurality of first terminals associated respectively with the first routing traces and connecting the first routing traces to the IC. The first routing traces include extension lines formed in an area farther distanced from the first terminals along the second direction, than locations of junctions between the first routing traces and the first electrodes relative to the first terminals.
US11977694B2
A method, system, and apparatus, including a program encoded on computer-readable medium, for providing remote control of a light beam pointing device. The system includes a camera that captures at least one image at a first location and a light source that generates a light beam in a direction within a viewable area of the camera. At a second location, remote from the first location, a display screen displays images captured by the camera and a controller that controls pointing of the light source toward a desired target object at the first location.
US11977690B2
An electronic pen includes a cylindrical housing including an opening on one end of the housing in an axial direction of the housing, a core body attached inside of the housing such that an end of the core body protrudes from the opening on the one end of the housing, and a signal generation circuit which, in operation, generates a signal that is transmitted from the core body. The core body includes a core rod that is conductive and a protection member. The core rod includes a front portion that protrudes from the opening on the one end of the housing, a back portion, and an intermediate portion between the front portion and the back portion. The intermediate portion has a tapered shape narrowing from the front portion toward the back portion. The core rod receives the signal from the signal generation circuit. The protection member covers a side surface of the intermediate portion of the core rod.
US11977688B2
A virtual reality system (100) and device for use therein involve an optical detection arrangement (200) configured to detect a light pattern associated with a unique identity, and a tool (300) having a plurality of light-emitting devices (600) engaged therewith. The light-emitting devices (600) are selectively user-actuatable between a plurality of light patterns detectable by the optical detection arrangement (200). The light patterns provide a plurality of unique identities of the tool (300) as detected by the optical detection arrangement (200).
US11977683B2
An electronic device includes a housing defining an aperture. An input device extends through the aperture and has a user input surface external to the housing. An inertial actuator is mechanically and fixedly coupled to the input device and positioned within the housing. A mechanical wave dampener provides mechanical wave dampening between the input device and the housing. The electronic device enables haptic feedback to be provided locally to the input device. In some cases, the mechanical wave dampener may dampen shaking of the input device with respect to the housing by at least an order of magnitude.
US11977673B2
A video display device comprising; a display; an exercise amount detection sensor configured to detect an exercise amount of a viewer while the viewer is viewing content displayed and output sensor information; a timer that measures a viewing time; and a processor. The processor: acquires the viewing time from the timer; calculates the exercise amount of the viewer based on the sensor information acquired within a predetermined period of viewing time; compares the exercise amount with an exercise facilitation threshold for determining whether to facilitate exercise for the viewer; displays a specific object within a display area of the display when the exercise amount falls below the exercise facilitation threshold; and moves the specific object from an inside of the display area to an outside thereof in accordance with an external coordinate system expressing a position in a real space associated with a two-dimensional coordinate system in the display area.
US11977672B2
Systems and techniques are described herein for generating and/or processing virtual content in a distributed system (e.g., a distributed extended reality system). For example, a first device (e.g., a client device) of a distributed extended reality system may transmit one or more sets of pose prediction parameters (e.g., prediction coefficients, prediction time associated with raw pose data, and/or the raw pose data) to a second device (e.g., a server device) of the distributed extended reality system. The second device may predict one or more poses of the second device based on the set(s) of pose prediction parameters, and may generate virtual content based on a pose of the predicted pose(s) of the first device. The second may transmit and the first device may receive the virtual content. The first device may then display one or more virtual objects based at least in part on the received virtual content.
US11977671B2
Techniques for implementing an augmented audio conditioning (AAC) system are described herein. In some examples, the AAC system can store conditioning data comprising crowd noise experiences associated with context-relevant environments and/or actions associated with an activity. The AAC system can detect an action of a user who is training in a conditioning environment and determine that the action is associated with the activity. In some examples, the AAC system can also determine an association between the action of the user and audio data representing a crowd noise experience of a context-relevant environment during an event. Furthermore, the AAC system can, in response to detecting the action of the user, output the audio-conditioning data into the conditioning environment to simulate the crowd noise experience of the context-relevant environment during the event.
US11977669B2
Methods and systems for securing data processing systems are disclosed. A data processing system may be operably connected to other devices via ports. When operably connected, some devices connected via the ports may cause undesired actions to be performed. To limit physical access to the ports, a security apparatus may be used to lock the ports. The security apparatus may transition between states where it may be inserted into openings for the ports and may be locked to the openings for the ports. When so locked, physical access to the ports may be limited.
US11977659B2
An IoT/M2M service layer may be provided with the capability to protect user privacy. This functionality may allow the IoT/M2M service layer to anonymize user data, particularly when user data is shared with third party consumers. A privacy policy service may enable the IoT service layer system to generate anonymization (e.g., privacy) policies based on inputs such as legal obligations, subscriber privacy preferences, and an authorization level of the data consumer. Data anonymization policies may be output from the privacy policy service and may be sent to a data anonymization service, where raw data may be anonymized based on the one or more data anonymization policies. The output from the data anonymization service function may be a privatized (e.g., anonymized) version of data that may prevent the data consumer from discovering one or more identifying characteristics of a user.
US11977657B1
Provided is a system and method for confidential repository searching. The method executed on a first computing device and includes: receiving an encrypted query term from the second computing device; searching the encrypted data repository by determining one or more matches of the encrypted query term to data in the encrypted data repository; communicating the one or more matches to the second computing device; receiving associative data from the second computing device, the associative data associated with data in the encrypted data repository that is to be retrieved and associated with one of the one or more matches; retrieving the encrypted data in the encrypted data repository associated with the received associative data; and communicating the retrieved encrypted data to the second computing device.
US11977655B2
A computer-implemented method, a computer system, and computer program product for associating security events. The method includes obtaining a result of implementation of one or more Locality-Sensitive Hashing (LSH) functions to feature data of a first event detected by a first device. The method also includes mapping the result to one or more positions in a data structure. In response to data elements of the one or more positions indicating first information associating with the one or more positions exists in a storage, the method includes obtaining the first information from the storage. The method further includes sending the first information to the first device.
US11977653B2
A computer implemented method for securing at least one of files and records related to a specific process, the method comprising obtaining interaction data comprising one or more persons and one or more files and/or records, said interaction data comprises a process interaction score between at least one user and the specific process; identifying, from the interaction data, one or more persons and one or more files and/or records related to the specific process; comparing a process threshold with a process interaction score between a target user and the specific process; and in response to the comparison satisfying a rule, performing a security operation on the one or more files and/or records related to the specific process.
US11977650B2
An apparatus configured for database access control. The apparatus includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor is configured to execute instructions, The instructions include receiving a statement requesting access for a user to data files stored in a non-transitory memory medium; parsing the statement into one or more arguments, wherein each argument ends with a logical operator; computing a skip count for each of the arguments; evaluating the statement using the skip counts to determine whether the access should be granted to the user; retrieving the data files from the non-transitory memory medium; and sending the data files to the user, if the access is granted.
US11977646B2
A sensor arrangement comprises a communication device and a sensor element. The sensor element is configured to record a property and provide a sensor signal that represents the property. The sensor arrangement comprises a security element configured to provide a secret. The sensor arrangement is configured to link the sensor signal to the secret to obtain a linked sensor signal, transmit the linked sensor signal to a communication partner using the communication device, obtain a test signal from the communication partner using the communication device, and perform a check to determine whether the test signal comprises the secret.
US11977637B2
Techniques related to a technique comprising dividing an update into a number of portions, generating, for the first portion, a first portion hash value, generating, for the second portion, a second portion hash value, generating a first branch hash value comprising a hash of a concatenation of the first portion hash value and the second portion hash value, generating a root hash value by concatenating the first branch hash value and a second branch hash value, generating a signature based on the root hash value and a private key, generating an update header comprising the signature, the root hash value, and a hash tree comprising first and second portion hash values, the first branch hash value, and the root hash value, transmitting the update header to a client device for authentication, and transmitting one or more of the number of portions to the client device.
US11977632B2
Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for classifier evaluation. The evaluation involves constructing a ground truth refinement having a degree of error within specified bounds from a malware reference dataset as an approximate ground truth refinement. The evaluation further involves using the approximate ground truth refinement to determine at least one of: a lower bound on precision or an upper bound on recall and accuracy. The evaluation further involves evaluating a classifier by evaluating at least one of a classification method or clustering method by examining changes to the upper bound and/or the lower bound produced by the approximate ground truth refinement.
US11977630B2
There is disclosed in one example a ransomware mitigation engine, including: a processor; a convolutional neural network configured to provide file type identification (FTI) services including: identifying an access operation of a file as a write to the file or newly creating the file; computing a byte correlation factor for the file; classifying the file as belonging to a file type; determining with a screening confidence that the file type is correct for the file; determining that the screening confidence is below a screening confidence threshold; and circuitry and logic to provide heuristic analysis including: receiving notification that the confidence is below the confidence threshold; performing a statistical analysis of the file to determine a difference between an expected value and a computed value; determining from the difference, with a detection confidence, that the file has been compromised; and identifying the file as having been compromised by a ransomware attack.
US11977629B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to retrospective memory analysis. In examples, a historical archive of memory images for an execution environment is maintained. A historical memory image of the historical archive may be evaluated according to a current set of known issues, rather than issues that were known at the time of the memory capture. Accordingly, it may be possible to determine when the execution environment was last in a good environment condition. As another example, it may be possible to determine whether a now-known issue has since been resolved (e.g., such that the issue would not be identified in the current execution environment). Thus, as compared to contemporaneous issue identification techniques, aspects of the present disclosure may be applied to any number of execution environments to enable retrospective identification of now-known issues that were, at least at the time of a memory capture, not known.
US11977626B2
A method for securing a genuine machine learning model against adversarial samples includes the steps of attaching a trigger to a sample to be classified and classifying the sample with the trigger attached using a backdoored model that has been backdoored using the trigger. In a further step, it is determined whether an output of the backdoored model is the same as a backdoor class of the backdoored model, and/or an outlier detection method is applied to logits compared to honest logits that were computed using a genuine sample. These steps are repeated using different triggers and backdoored models respectively associated therewith. It is compared a number of times that an output of the backdoored models is not the same as the respective backdoor class, and/or a difference determined by applying the outlier detection method, against one or more thresholds so as to determine whether the sample is adversarial.
US11977622B2
A set of redundant industrial control system communications/control modules includes at least a first communications/control module and a second communications/control module. The first and second communications/control modules are configured to perform an authentication sequence including: transmitting a request datagram from the first communications/control module to the second communications/control module, the request datagram including a first nonce, a first device authentication key certificate, and a first identity attribute certificate; transmitting a response datagram from the second communications/control module to the first communications/control module, the response datagram including a second nonce, a first signature associated with the first and second nonces, a second device authentication key certificate, and a second identity attribute certificate; and transmitting an authentication datagram from the first communications/control module to the second communications/control module when the response datagram is valid, the authentication datagram including a second signature associated with the first and second nonces.
US11977619B2
An embodiment discloses a method for controlling a vehicle virtualization structure-based device including the steps of receiving a request for use of a device from at least one container among a plurality of containers; and determining the use of the device according to a type of the device and a type of the container that transmits the request for use.
US11977617B2
Provided is to prevent a false determination due to an attachment condition of an apparatus that transmits and receives an acoustic signal, and perform accurate personal authentication. A personal authentication device includes: a personal authentication means that authenticates an individual by using first information at least including an acoustic characteristic calculated from an acoustic signal propagating through the head of the user, which is detected by an apparatus being attached on a head of a user for transmitting and receiving the acoustic signal, and a feature amount extracted from the acoustic characteristic; an attachment trouble rule storage means that stores an attachment trouble rule for detecting an attachment trouble with the apparatus; and an attachment trouble detection means that detects a trouble with an attachment state of the apparatus when the first information satisfies the attachment trouble rule.
US11977601B2
A computer-implemented method for supplementing measurement results of automated analyzers is presented. The method includes obtaining, at a computer device, a result of a measurement performed by an automated analyzer, the computer device and the automated analyzer being located within a privileged computer network, obtaining a context related algorithm associated with the result of the measurement defining one or more triggering conditions and context related information from a computer device residing outside of the privileged computer network at the computer device and processing the result of the measurement by using the context related algorithm to generate a context specific supplement to the result of the measurement at the computer device.
US11977584B2
A system designed with a scanning engine, storage, analysis engine, search engine, security exchange, and display engine. The system performs data reticulation using the scanning engine to access a first piece of data stored at a first location and a second piece of data stored at a second location. The scanning engine further retrieves from the first and second pieces of data first and second metadata, related respectively. The analysis engine creates the correlated metadata based on the first and second metadata. An example of the correlated metadata contains information not present in the first metadata and the second metadata.
US11977582B2
A global index with a repartitioning operator is provided. A method for executing a query includes receiving a query including a request to search a first table based on a first value in a first column. The method may include generating a second table by partitioning the second table based on the first column and including, in the second table, a partition identifier and a reference row identifier. The method may include pruning the second table such that a row corresponding to the first value remains in the second table. The method may include repartitioning the row to a stream based on the partition identifier. The method may include executing the query by at least searching the partition of the first table based on the stream and the row identifier of the row. Related systems and articles of manufacture are provided.
US11977576B2
Method of generating presentation starts by receiving user input indicating activation of presentation generator and generating and transmitting content selection display to the electronic device that includes search button, first table including list of selected cocktails, and second table including spirit type and number count. When the user input indicates selection of search button, processor generates and transmits cocktail lookup page display that includes pop-up window that includes drop-down lists or search fields including cocktail criterions and third table that includes entries matching selected cocktail criterion selected. When user input indicates activation of selection box included in the third table and subsequent user input indicates no other entries are desired, processor generates and transmits content selection display that includes updated first table that comprises the entry associated with the activated selection box. Processor then generates and transmits the presentation in a first format to the electronic device. Other embodiments are also described.
US11977572B2
A method of detecting a pattern in common in two text files, each comprising an ordered sequence of words, is disclosed. The method includes generating groups of words having the same syntactic function, comprising at least one word from each text file such that each word in a group is synonymous with another word in the same group, associating each word in a text file belonging to a group of words with a tag representative of the group, generating, for each text file, at least one dense set of words satisfying a condition of internal proximity in the text file, determining at least one pattern in common in the two text files, a pattern in common including one or more sets of words sharing the same tag and comprising at least one word from a dense set of words in each text file.
US11977571B2
An interactive, dynamic GUI for visualization of patent documents including content-dense graphics illustrating the number, content size, type of a multiplicity of patent documents (issued or granted patent versus published pending application), distributed over time, with comparison to similar patent documents, market events, and expert insights based upon content of specification or detailed description and claims, all within a predetermined technology sector having at least one sub-sector or category within the technology sector.
US11977567B2
A method of retrieving a query, an electronic device, and a medium are provided, which relate to fields of intelligent searching, intelligent recommendation, natural language processing, etc. The method of retrieving a query includes: processing a query to be retrieved, so as to obtain a first processing result for the query to be retrieved, the first processing result containing a first text information and a first semantic information; comparing the first processing result with a second processing result of each of at least one candidate query, so as to obtain a comparison result, the second processing result containing a second text information and a second semantic information; determining a target query from the at least one candidate query based on the comparison result; and determining at least one of the target query or an answer corresponding to the target query as a retrieving result.
US11977565B2
Systems, methods, and graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for ingesting and enriching data regarding a plurality of entities are provided. A first data set comprising company data and a second data set comprising customer data are ingested. The first data set is processed to generate a processed data set. The first data set may be processed by applying an entity matching technique, wherein one or more data elements are generated based on whether an entity of the first data set and an entity of the second data set are commonly associated. The first data set may additionally or alternatively be processed by applying a statistical matching technique, wherein one or more predicted data elements are generated based on similarity between an entity of the first data set and one or more entities of the second data set.
US11977564B2
Described herein are systems and methods for profiling structured or semi-structured datasets. An example computer-implemented method includes grouping, using a machine learning classifier, a plurality of tables in a dataset that are associated with an object into a cluster, where each of the tables of the cluster includes respective data and respective metadata, the respective metadata including at least one respective attribute, generating a metadata-profile for the cluster, where the metadata-profile includes the at least one respective attribute of each of the tables of the cluster; and querying the cluster using the metadata-profile.
US11977549B2
An event processing system for processing events in an event stream is disclosed. The system can launch a first CQL engine in a cluster of CQL engines using a CQL engine tracking engine. The system can schedule, using the CQL engine tracking engine, the first CQL engine to process a batch of a continuous stream of input events related to an application. The system can track, using the CQL engine tracking engine, the first CQL engine to be scheduled for execution. The system can then execute, using the CQL engine tracking engine, the first CQL engine to process the batch of the continuous stream of input events to generate a set of output events related to the application.
US11977542B2
An editable search refinement specification can be displayed with search results for a search query. The search refinement specification can include terms of the search query and any modifiers to the query, such as categories, filters, and other refinements. A user can edit portions of the search refinement specification inline, with other portions of the specification being retained, in order to adjust the search. Using such an approach, a user can adjust a search query without losing any context or refinement from a previous search that the user would like to use for the subsequent search. Various options can be provided with the search refinement specification, such as to edit any portion, delete one or more portions, suggest refinements, go to other specifications, and the like. The search refinement specifications also can be saved for use at a later time.
US11977530B2
Systems, apparatus, and methods of managing the lifecycle of a digital token are described. In an example, while the digital token is being generated, the digital token or the underlying digital asset can be compared to other digital tokens and/or digital assets to determine similarity thereto. Based on the similarity, a program code interface (e.g., smart contract, an application programming interface—API, RPC, etc.) can be determined and an API call can be made to execute a program code. The execution can indicate whether the digital token creation process can be completed. If so, the digital token is recorded. Thereafter, its use or the use of the underlying digital asset can be monitored, whereby this monitoring can apply similarity processing. If a use thereof is determined or if a use of a similar digital token or similar digital asset is determined, notifications can be generated and sent.
US11977529B2
Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems, methods, and computer readable media for infinite versioning by automatic coalescing. In a particular embodiment, a method provides determining an age range for a plurality of data versions stored in a secondary data repository and identifying first data versions of the plurality of data versions that are within the age range. The method further provides determining a compaction ratio for the first data versions and compacting the first data versions based on the compaction ratio.
US11977519B1
Described is a system (and method) for efficient metadata verification when leveraging multi-streams as part of data deduplication system. The system may efficiently perform metadata integrity verification by dynamically invoking multi-streaming to leverage parallelization for metadata verification. Accordingly, the system may better utilize bandwidth and processing capabilities to reduce verification time.
US11977506B2
A controller enumerates a plurality of devices while operating in a daisy-chain mode of operation and then causes the devices to operate in a parallel mode of operation in which the devices are individually addressed.
US11977489B2
Apparatuses, systems, and techniques for memory management are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, memory management is provided for a heterogenous system, for example, a system including a CPU and a GPU, in which redundant or unnecessary memory transfers are reduced.
US11977484B2
Implementations of the present disclosure include methods, systems, and computer-readable storage mediums for determining a first cost and a second cost associated with a virtual memory page accessed during execution of an application, the first cost being associated with a first memory type, and the second cost being associated with a second memory type in a hybrid memory system, comparing the first cost and the second cost to provide a comparison result, determining a current location of the virtual memory page, the current location including one of the first memory type and the second memory type, and selectively migrating the virtual memory page from the current location based on the comparison result and the current location.
US11977481B2
According to one embodiment, a write instructing unit instructs a data access unit to write, in a storage area of a data storage unit indicated by a first physical address, write object data, instructs a management information access unit to update address conversion information, and instructs a first access unit to update the first physical address. A compaction unit extracts a physical address of compaction object data, instructs the data access unit to read the compaction object data stored in a storage area of the data storage unit indicated by the physical address, instructs the data access unit to write the compaction object data in a storage area of the data storage unit indicated by a second physical address, instructs the management information access unit to update the address conversion information, and instructs a second access unit to update the second physical address.
US11977473B2
A pseudo language is provided for manipulating the complex variables associated with the orchestration flow. Verbs are specified in the pseudo language. The verbs cause operations to be performed on the complex variables during processing of the orchestration flow. A first verb of the verbs is specified with a first operation of the operations The first operation, when processed, transfers data from a first set of source elements in a source complex variable to new target elements in a target complex variable based on a description of a target schema of the target complex variable. The target complex variable does not include the first subset of source elements and the target schema includes the description of the first subset of the source elements.
US11977471B2
An example embodiment may involve identifying local traces of related events within a plurality of event data repositories, wherein each of the event data repositories is respectively associated with a software application; using a clustering model, assigning the local traces into clusters; determining positive rules that define when pairs of the local traces are linked to a common global trace, and negative rules that define when the pairs are linked to different global traces; linking the pairs into global traces; iteratively training a similarity model to project the local traces into a vector space such that the pairs that are linked to common global traces exhibit a greater similarity with one another than the pairs that are linked to different global traces; and based on the similarity model as trained, linking further local traces to the global traces.
US11977461B2
Techniques are provided for incrementally restoring a virtual machine hosted by a computing environment. In response to receiving an indication that the virtual machine is to be incrementally restored, a snapshot of the virtual machine may be created while the virtual machine is shut down into an off state. The snapshot is transmitted to a storage environment as a common snapshot. The snapshot and the common snapshot are common snapshots comprising a same representation of the virtual machine. The common snapshot and a prior snapshot of the virtual machine are evaluated to identify a data difference of the virtual machine between the common snapshot and the prior snapshot. An incremental restore is performed of the virtual machine by transmitting the data difference from the storage environment to the computing environment to restore the virtual machine to a state represented by the prior snapshot.
US11977450B2
Backup system and method that can determine a backup destination in consideration of disaster are provided. There are provided: a data acquisition unit 110 that acquires disaster information, network information, and node information; a replication group construction unit 130 that generates, based on the disaster information, and the like, replication group information including association information between a first node that stores original data and one or more second nodes that are candidates for backup destination of the original data, and saves the replication group information in a storage unit 120; a replication destination node calculation unit 140 that, when executing backup of the original data, calculates the second node as backup destination from the replication group; and a replication processing unit 230 that replicates and stores the original data into the storage of the second node.
US11977448B2
Techniques are provided for restoring a directory from a snapshot of a volume backed up to an object store. The snapshot may be backed up from a node to the object store, such as a cloud computing environment. A user may want to restore the directory within the volume without having to restore the entire volume, which otherwise would waste computing resources, storage, network bandwidth, and time. Accordingly, the techniques provided herein are capable of restoring just the directory from the snapshot that is stored within the object store. Because snapshot data of the snapshot may be stored across multiple objects within the object store, certain objects are identified as comprising snapshot data (backup data) of the directory and content items within the directory. In this way, the snapshot data of the directory is restored from these objects to a restore directory at a restore target.
US11977447B2
A storage device with improved security performance is provided. The storage device comprises a first non-volatile memory storing a firmware image, a second non-volatile memory storing an emergency image, and a storage controller controlling the first and second non-volatile memories, wherein the storage controller checks an integrity of the firmware image received from the first non-volatile memory, loads and executes the emergency image from the second non-volatile memory when the integrity check of the firmware image fails, receives a recover image from an external device based on the emergency image, and provides the recover image to the first non-volatile memory.
US11977437B2
An information handling system may include at least one processor and a memory. The information handling system may be configured to: execute a plurality of microservices, wherein each microservice is configured to generate logging information relating to its operation, and wherein a logging level is configured to determine an amount of logging information generated by the microservice; monitor the execution of the plurality of microservices to determine a failure rate associated with application programming interface (API) calls to the plurality of microservices; and based on the determined failure rate, alter the logging level.
US11977416B2
A device includes: a housing having an exterior surface; a mounting recess defined in the exterior surface, the mounting recess configured to receive a fastener to couple the exterior surface of the device to an external surface; a film cover pierceable by the fastener, the film cover having (i) an inner surface affixed to a portion of the exterior surface surrounding the mounting recess, and (ii) an opposing outer surface; wherein the film cover comprises a material impermeable to an environmental contaminant to prevent entry of the environmental contaminant into the mounting recess.
US11977415B2
A sturdy electronic device is provided. A reliable electronic device is provided. A novel electronic device is provided. An electronic device includes a first board, a second board, a display portion having flexibility, and a power storage device having flexibility. The first board and the second board face each other. The display portion and the power storage device are provided between the first board and the second board. The display portion includes a first surface facing the power storage device. The first surface includes a first region not fixed to the power storage device. The first region overlaps with a display region of the display portion.
US11977409B2
A display device includes a display panel including a folding area and a non-folding area, and a plate which faces the display panel. The plate includes first surface and a second surface which is opposite to the first surface, and a pattern hole which is defined in the plate and corresponding to the folding area of the display panel. The pattern hole is defined by a side surface of the plate, and a first inclined surface of the plate which connects the first surface and the side surface to each other. With respect to the first surface, the first inclined surface forms a first angle and the side surface forms a second angle, and the first angle of the first inclined surface with respect to the first surface is different from the second angle of the side surface with respect to the first surface.
US11977388B2
The performance of a neural network is improved by applying quantization to data at various points in the network. In an embodiment, a neural network includes two paths. A quantization is applied to each path, such that when an output from each path is combined, further quantization is not required. In an embodiment, the neural network is an autoencoder that includes at least one skip connection. In an embodiment, the system determines a set of quantization parameters based on the characteristics of the data in the primary path and in the skip connection, such that both network paths produce output data in the same fixed point format. As a result, the data from both network paths can be combined without requiring an additional quantization.
US11977382B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for identifying high-priority agents in the vicinity of a vehicle. The high-priority agents can be identified based on a set of mutual importance scores in which each mutual importance score indicates an estimated mutual relevance between the vehicle and a different agent from a set of agents on planning decisions of the other. The mutual importance scores can be calculated based on importance scores assessed from the perspectives of both the vehicle and the agents.
US11977381B1
Systems and methods for autonomous waste and/or recycling collection by a waste services provider during performance of a waste service activity are provided. In a waste services environment, a waste service vehicle is configured to provide services to customers. The system and method can include, without limitation: a collection station or “hub” at a centralized location in a residential neighborhood; a plurality of autonomous collection vehicles capable of traveling between the collection station and the residences in the neighborhood to collect waste/items and/or containers at the residences and deliver the waste/items and/or containers to the collection station; and a waste service vehicle capable of collecting waste/items from the collection station and transporting the waste/items away from the neighborhood to a landfill or other collection, disposal or processing site.
US11977379B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure assist pilots of aerial vehicles in performing particular operations utilizing improved user interface(s). In some contexts, pilots performing vertical takeoffs or vertical landings cannot visually inspect the environment around the vehicle. Embodiments of the present disclosure utilize virtual elements, including a virtual corridor and virtual vehicle corresponding to an aerial vehicle, to enable improved visualization and control of an aerial vehicle within a particular environment. Utilizing representation(s) of the virtual elements, including a virtual corridor and/or virtual vehicle, embodiments of the present disclosure provide improved user interfaces that assist a pilot in safely controlling an aerial vehicle (even without visual inspection of a real-world environment) during vertical takeoff and/or vertical landing.
US11977375B2
An example method comprises receiving historical wind turbine failure data and asset data from SCADA systems, receiving first historical sensor data, determining healthy assets of the renewable energy assets by comparing signals to known healthy operating signals, training at least one machine learning model to indicate assets that may potentially fail and to a second set of assets that are operating within a healthy threshold, receiving first current sensor data of a second time period, applying a machine learning model to the current sensor data to generate a first failure prediction a failure and generate a list of assets that are operating within a healthy threshold, comparing the first failure prediction to a trigger criteria, generating and transmitting a first alert if comparing the first failure prediction to the trigger criteria indicates a failure prediction, and updating a list of assets to perform surveillance if within a healthy threshold.
US11977372B2
A method for a device, including an integrity information collecting step S10 of measuring and collecting a time consumed from a start time of one operation to an end time in a normal state of a device; a defect information collecting step S20 of measuring and collecting a time consumed from a start time of one operation to an end time in a state of a device; a setting step S30 of setting an integrity reference value and a defect reference value for the time consumed for one operation of the device; a detecting step S40 of measuring and collecting a time value consumed from a start time of an operation of the device to an end time in real time and detecting an integrity index value of the device; and an outputting step S50 of outputting the integrity index value.
US11977370B2
Provided is a system and method for minimizing non-productive idle times within an automation process executed by an automation facility, the system including a model memory which stores a probabilistic model of a distribution of object exchange times of objects used or consumed in the automation process; and an optimizer adapted to calculate optimal assignments of objects to magazine positions of an object storage magazine depending on the probabilistic model and depending on a sequence of productive non-idle times of objects used or consumed in process steps of the automation process.
US11977366B2
An assist device is for grasping the operating status of a plant and includes a data acquisition unit that acquires process data for the plant, a summarization unit that summarizes the dimensionality of the process data acquired by the data acquisition unit, and a display unit that displays the summarized data summarized by the summarization unit.
US11977363B2
A machine tool and a control device therefor, wherein vibration cutting of a workpiece is carried out by means of a tool and wherein, after the vibration cutting, finish-cutting is carried out for cutting a finishing allowance of the workpiece by means of the tool, without relative vibration between the workpiece and the tool, by relatively rotating the workpiece and the tool and relatively moving them in the feed direction. According to the invention, before the vibration cutting, a finishing allowance calculation means calculates a finishing allowance remaining on the workpiece after vibration cutting has been completed, and a determination means determines whether or not the finishing allowance as calculated by the finishing allowance calculation means is less than, or equal to a predetermined threshold value.
US11977361B2
A system and method for interactively communicating with a field device of an industrial automation system for performing a function in relation to monitoring and controlling an industrial process of a power plant includes a field device is associated with a gateway interface device (GID) including NLP algorithm, and communicatively coupled to an interactive device. The GID receives a first instruction associated with the function in relation to monitoring and controlling the industrial process, in natural language format, and converts the first instruction into a second instruction based on the NLP algorithm, where the second instruction has structured format native to the field device. The GID sends the second instruction to the field device for performing the function, receives an information associated to the function performed by the field device, and sends the information for displaying in the interactive device, the function performed by the field device.
US11977359B1
Described is a method for determining when to transition devices between different states based on determined potential activity in an area near the devices. When the potential for activity near an input device is below a threshold, the device is maintained in an inactive state. When the potential for activity near the device exceeds the threshold, the device is transitioned to an active state before the potential activity can occur near the device. Likewise, when the device is in an active state, the implementations described herein provide the ability to determine when to begin and end transmission of data from the device to a remote computing resource for processing. For example, obtained video may be processed locally to determine if an activity is occurring. If an activity is occurring, relevant data is sent to a remote computing resource to determine if an action has been performed during the activity.
US11977355B2
A spring (1) for a notching system, the spring including at least two elastic arms (11, 12), and a first toothset javomg first notching teeth (11a, 12a) disposed on each of the arms, the spring being designed such that, in a position in which one of the arms of the spring is not loaded, the arm is convex as seen from the top of the first notching tooth of this arm.
US11977353B2
An optical scanning holography system includes a polarization-sensitive lens configured to receive a linearly polarized beam and generate a first spherical wave of right-handed circular polarized light having a negative focal length and a second spherical wave of left-handed circular polarized light having a positive focal length, a first polarizer configured to pass only a beam component therethrough in a predetermined polarization direction among components of the generated first and second spherical waves, a scanning unit configured to scan an object by using an interference beam generated between the first and second spherical waves passing through the first polarizer, and a first photodetector configured to detect a beam reflected from the object.
US11977352B2
Digital holographic microscopy and related image processing techniques are described. A hologram captured in an image frame is split into different depths while a new hologram is being captured. Image slices of the hologram are determined and using free space impulse responses that are pre-calculated at a different precision than processing operations using the holographic data. Each computation is calculated in parallel based on the number of available processing cores and threads. The image slices are combined into a 2D array or 3D array to permit further processing of the combined array to count and size particles in the image frame. The reconstructed hologram is displayed at a subsequent image frame than that used to capture the hologram.
US11977343B2
The present disclosure provides a consumable, a consumable chip, and a communication method between the image forming apparatus and the consumable chip. The consumable chip is capable of being installed on a consumable, and the consumable is capable of being detachably installed on an image forming apparatus. The consumable chip includes a storage unit and a chip control unit. The storage unit is configured to store identity authentication information of the consumable. The chip control unit is configured to receive an authentication request sent by the image forming apparatus and obtain second time information, generate a second code by performing a calculation using a preset algorithm according to the obtained second time information and the pre-stored identity authentication information of the consumable, and send the second code to the image forming apparatus. The second code is configured to determine whether the consumable meets expectation.
US11977339B2
A lithography system is provided with: a measurement device measuring position information of marks on a substrate held in a first stage; and an exposure apparatus on a second stage, the substrate for which the position information measurement for the marks has been completed, performs alignment measurement to measure position information for part of marks selected from among the marks on the substrate, and performs exposure. The measurement device measures position information of marks on the substrate to obtain higher-degree components of correction amounts of an arrangement of divided areas, and the exposure apparatus measures position information of a small number of marks on the substrate to obtain lower-degree components of the correction amounts of the arrangement of the divided areas and exposes the plurality of divided areas while controlling the position of the substrate by using the obtained lower-degree components and the higher-degree components obtained by the measurement device.
US11977338B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes selecting a diffraction based focus (DBF) mark that is unaffected by a pattern of a lower layer; manufacturing a mask including a mark pattern for forming the DBF mark; forming the DBF mark in a cell region of a wafer by using the mask; measuring the DBF mark and monitoring defocus; correcting the defocus on the basis of a result of the monitoring; and forming a pattern in the cell region of the wafer, after correcting the defocus.
US11977336B2
A method for improving a process model for a patterning process, the method including obtaining a) a measured contour from an image capture device, and b) a simulated contour generated from a simulation of the process model. The method also includes aligning the measured contour with the simulated contour by determining an offset between the measured contour and the simulated contour. The process model is calibrated to reduce a difference, computed based on the determined offset, between the simulated contour and the measured contour.
US11977334B2
A method for determining a wavefront parameter of a patterning process. The method includes obtaining a reference performance (e.g., a contour, EPE, CD) of a reference apparatus (e.g., a scanner), a lens model for a patterning apparatus configured to convert a wavefront parameter of a wavefront to actuator movement, and a lens fingerprint of a tuning apparatus (e.g., a to-be-matched scanner). Further, the method involves determining the wavefront parameter (e.g., a wavefront parameter such as tilt, offset, etc.) based on the lens fingerprint of the tuning apparatus, the lens model, and a cost function, wherein the cost function is a difference between the reference performance and a tuning apparatus performance.
US11977330B2
A resist composition which generates an acid by exposure and whose solubility in a developing solution changes by the action of an acid. The resist composition contains a high-molecular-weight compound having a constitutional unit represented by General Formula (a0-1), and a high-molecular-weight compound having a constitutional unit represented by General Formula (f01-1) and a constitutional unit including an acid-dissociable group represented by General Formula (f02-r-1). In the formulas, R represents a hydrogen atom or the like; Va01 represents a divalent linking group; na01 represents an integer of 0 to 2; Ra01 is a lactone-containing cyclic group having a cyano group or the like; Vf01 represents a divalent linking group; Rf011 and Rf012 each represents a trifluoromethyl group or the like; Rf021 and Rf022 each represents an alkyl group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms; and Rf023 represents a polycyclic aliphatic hydrocarbon group
US11977324B1
In some aspects, a mask shape is represented by vertices that are connected by segments. A correction to the mask shape is received. The correction may include displacements of the segments and displacements of the vertices. The mask shape is modified by a processor, as follows. The segments are moved according to the segment displacements. As part of this process, vertices that are endpoints of the moved segments are replicated. The replicated vertices are then collapsed. The resulting vertices are then moved according to the vertex displacements. This process of modifying the mask shape may be used as part of a mask synthesis process, to synthesize or correct the mask shapes according to some desired result.
US11977303B2
According to one embodiment, a display device includes, the first substrate including an insulating substrate, first and second light-shielding layers, a stacked layer film, first and second source lines, and a first insulating layer, the second substrate including first and second light-shielding materials. A first width of the first light-shielding layer along the first direction is equal to or greater than a second width of the first light-shielding material along the first direction, and a third width of the second light-shielding layer along the first direction is equal to or greater than a fourth width of the second light-shielding material along the first direction.
US11977297B2
A splicing type light board and a display device are provided with a first LED light board and a second LED light board; a first end of the first LED light board near a first signal input terminal, and a second end away from the first signal input terminal; a first end of the second LED light board near a second signal input terminal, and a second end away from the second signal input terminal; and the first end of the first LED light board connecting the first end of the second LED light board or the second end of the first LED light board connecting the second end of the second LED light board.
US11977293B1
An illumination device includes a light source, a first optical member, and a fixing portion. The first optical member includes a light reflection portion configured to reflect light, at least a part of the light reflection portion overlapping with the light source, and a light transmitting portion configured to transmit light, the light transmitting portion not overlapping the light reflection portion. A center of the light source in a plan view is defined as a first center, and a center of the light reflection portion in a plan view is defined as a second center. In the light reflection portion, the second center is located between the fixing portion and the first center at a first temperature, and at a second temperature higher than the first temperature, a position of the second center is closer to the first center than a position of the second center at the first temperature.
US11977291B1
A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a sealant layer. The first substrate includes a ground electrode positioned in a frame region. The second substrate includes a black matrix layer and a protective layer. The protective layer is positioned on a side surface of the black matrix layer close to the first substrate. In the present application, at least one opening is arranged on the protective layer positioned in the frame region, so that the black matrix layer is exposed. By arranging the conductive adhesive in the sealant layer or forming the sealant layer with the conductive adhesive, the black matrix layer can be electrically connected to the ground electrode of the first substrate through the conductive adhesive.
US11977289B2
Wide-viewing-angle optical film, manufacturing method of the same, and liquid crystal display device
Provided are a wide-viewing-angle optical film, a manufacturing method of the wide-viewing-angle optical film, and a liquid crystal display device. The manufacturing method includes: providing a substrate and forming a first light-transmissive layer at one side of the substrate; performing light treatment on the first light-transmissive layer to form protrusions on a surface of the first light-transmissive layer; and forming a second light-transmissive layer on one side of the first light-transmissive layer away from the substrate, in which a refractive index of a material of the second light-transmissive layer is greater than a refractive index of a material of the first light-transmissive layer to obtain a wide-viewing-angle film including the first light-transmissive layer and the second light-transmissive layer stacked on each other.
US11977282B2
A core, constituted by an amorphous undoped semiconductor (i type), which is formed on a lower clad layer, and a p-type layer and an n-type layer which are disposed on the lower clad layer with the core interposed therebetween and are formed in contact with the core are provided. The core is formed to be thicker than the p-type layer and the n-type layer. The p-type layer and the n-type layer are constituted by single crystal silicon.
US11977275B2
The present disclosure embodiment may disclose a glasses including a glasses frame and two speakers. The glasses frame may include a glasses rim and two glasses temples. The two glasses temples may be rotatably connected to the glasses rim, respectively. The two speakers may include an earphone core. The two speakers may be connected to the two glasses temples via hinge components of the two glasses temples, respectively. The hinge components may be rotatable to change a position of each of the speakers relative to connected one of the glasses temples. The glasses temple may include a circuit component or a battery to drive the earphone core to vibrate to generate a sound. In the present disclosure, the glasses rim and the glasses temple may be connected through a rotating shaft, thereby protecting the connection wire in the glasses and extending the life of the connection wire.
US11977273B2
An optical lens system includes, in order from the object side to the image side: a stop, a first lens with positive refractive power, a second lens with positive refractive power, a third lens with negative refractive power, wherein a distance from an image-side surface of the third lens to an image plane along an optical axis is BFL, a distance from an object-side surface of the first lens to the image plane along the optical axis is TL, following condition is satisfied: 0.38
US11977265B2
An optical element that is optically coupled to light inlet/outlet ends of an optical fiber is disposed on a base placed near the light inlet/outlet ends of the optical fiber. Moreover, a rod-like reinforcing member has an integral structure fixed into a first hole formed in the optical fiber and a second hole formed in the base 102.
US11977254B2
A composed multicore optical fiber (MCF) device includes a first segment (MCF1) of a MCF having three coupled identical cores and having a first length (L1) and a second segment (MCF2) of the same MCF having a second length (L2). L1 and L2 are different from each other. One of the three coupled cores is located in a geometrical centre of the MCF. The first segment (MCF1) and the second segment (MCF2) of the MCF are rotated 180° relative to each other and spliced together. The first segment (MCF1) is spliced to a first segment (SMF1) of a single mode fiber (SMF) and the second segment (MCF2) is spliced to a second segment (SMF2) of the SMF. The free end of the second segment (SMF2) of the SMF is coupled to a mirror (M) to reflect an optical signal coming from the first segment (SMF1) of the SMF.
US11977248B2
The present invention relates to an optical filter with nanostructured layers and spectral sensors with layers of such kind. The optical filter has at least two nanostructured layers, each of which forms a transmission grating from grating wires extending parallel to each other. The grating wires of the two transmission gratings intersect each other and are positioned one on top of the other in the optical filter. An optical polarise which polarises incident optical radiation linearly parallel to the grating wires of one of the two transmission gratings is arranged over the transmission gratings. The optical filter can be produced as a bandpass filter with standard semiconductor processes without additional layers or modification of said processes.
US11977245B2
An optical waveguide unit includes a plurality of reflecting units being the same in structure, and each reflecting unit being any one or a combination of any two of: a metal layer, a total reflecting layer, and a medium reflecting layer; and a plurality of sub waveguides stacked on each other, each of two sides of each sub waveguide being provided with one reflecting unit, at least two of the plurality of sub waveguides having different heights in a stacking direction of the plurality of sub waveguides, and the different heights of the sub waveguides being corresponding to different incident angle directions. The present disclosure also provides an optical waveguide array and a flat lens.
US11977235B2
A method for projecting image contents onto a user's retina using an optical system. A light beam is first projected onto a diverting unit of the optical system using a projector unit of the optical system. The light beam is subsequently diverted to the position of the user's eye. An ascertained deviation of an actual state of the projected light beam diverted by the diverting unit from a desired state is stored using memory unit. Second image data are generated using an image-processing device based on the stored and ascertained deviation of the actual state of the projected light beam from the desired state. The second image data are received using the projector unit. The received second image data are projected at successive second time intervals using the projector unit. At least two of the second time intervals differ from one another in terms of time.
US11977232B2
A wearable device and a method for adjusting a display state based on an environment are provided. The method is adapted for the wearable device. The method includes: capturing an environmental image; when determining that there is a specific object in the environmental image, determining a display mode of a display circuit based on the specific object; and controlling the display circuit to be adjusted to a display state corresponding to the display mode.
US11977228B2
The image display apparatus includes an image capturing optical system, an image sensor, a display element, and an ocular optical system. An optical axis of the image capturing optical system and an optical axis of the ocular optical system are located on a same straight line. An image capturing view angle of the image capturing optical system is larger than a display view angle of the ocular optical system. The display element is configured to display, of an image generated by using a signal from the image sensor, an area corresponding to the display view angle. When d represents a distance between a position of an entrance pupil of the image capturing optical system and a position of the exit pupil of the ocular optical system, the condition of 20 mm≤d≤60 mm is satisfied.
US11977216B2
A light microscope and a method for capturing images with a light microscope includes guiding illumination light to a sample; guiding detection light from the sample to a plurality of photon-counting sensor elements, which each successively capture a plurality of photon counts; forming a plurality of photon count distributions to be analyzed and at least one reference photon count distribution from the photon counts; calculating a similarity between each photon count distribution to be analyzed and the reference photon count distribution; and identifying sensor elements as overdriven as a function of the calculated similarity of the corresponding photon count distribution(s) to be analyzed.
US11977212B2
To simplify the optical calibration of an optical observation apparatus, a stand for an optical observation unit including a calibration object arranged directly on the stand in a fixed location is specified. Moreover, an optical observation apparatus, which includes such a stand and an optical observation unit connected to the stand, a method for calibrating such an optical observation apparatus, and a computer program are specified.
US11977192B2
Charged-particle trajectory measurement apparatus and charged-particle trajectory measurement method
In one embodiment, a charged-particle trajectory measurement apparatus for measuring a trajectory of a cosmic ray muon as a charged particle includes: a plurality of detectors, each of which generates a detection signal at the time of detecting a cosmic ray muon; a signal processing circuit that processes the detection signal from the detector; a time calculator that calculates the generation time point of the detection signal from the detector on the basis of the signal outputted from the signal processing circuit; a trajectory calculator that calculates the trajectory of the cosmic ray muon on the basis of the generation time point of the detection signal and the positional information of the detector having detected the cosmic ray muon, wherein the signal processing circuit and each of the detectors are integrally configured by being coupled to each other.
US11977191B2
Disclosed herein is a radiation detector comprising: an electronics layer comprising a first set of electric contacts and a second set of electric contacts; a radiation absorption layer configured to absorb radiation; a first set of electrodes and a second set of electrodes, wherein the first set of electrodes and the second set of electrodes are interdigitated and extend into the radiation absorption layer in a direction of thickness thereof; wherein the electronics layer and the radiation absorption layer are bonded such that the first set of electrodes are electrically connected to the first set of electric contacts and the second set of electrodes are electrically connected to the second set of electric contacts.
US11977184B2
Embodiments discussed herein refer to a relatively compact and energy efficient LiDAR system that uses a multi-plane mirror in its scanning system.
US11977181B2
An apparatus, such as a radar system that conducts beamforming operations, includes a plurality of analog-to-digital-converters (ADCs) and an error correction system coupled to the ADCs. Based upon an assessment of a plurality of errors associated with the ADCs by the error correction system, the error correction system programs sampling operations for the ADCs. The error correction system includes an error correction unit that identifies the plurality of errors associated with a plurality of sub-ADCs of the ADCs, a selection unit coupled to the error correction unit that sorts the errors associated with the plurality of sub-ADCs, and a programming unit coupled to the selection unit that reconfigures the sorted errors to generate a sequence of sampling operations for the plurality of sub-ADCs. Using, for example, a barrel shifter function, the sorted errors are reconfigured by the programming unit such that a summation of elements in each column in a matrix in which the sorted errors are stored are within a predefined value.
US11977180B2
A radar system includes a signal generator configured to generate an RF signal; a modulator configured to generate an RF test signal by modulating the RF signal with a test signal; a transmitting channel configured to generate an RF output signal based on the RF signal; and a receiving channel configured to receive an antenna signal and the RF test signal and down-convert a superposition of the two signals to baseband by means of a mixer in order to obtain a baseband signal. The radar system further includes an analog-to-digital converter configured to generate a digital radar signal based on the baseband signal, and a computing unit configured to filter the digital radar signal by means of a digital filter, wherein the filter characteristic of the digital filter has a pass band, a transition band, and a stop band. The test signal has a frequency in the transition band.
US11977173B2
A system is disclosed. The system may include a receiver or transmitter node. The receiver or transmitter node may include a communications interface with an antenna element and a controller. The controller may include one or more processors and have information of own node velocity and own node orientation relative to a common reference frame. The receiver or transmitter node may be time synchronized to apply Doppler corrections to signals, the Doppler corrections associated with the receiver or transmitter node's own motions relative to the common reference frame, the Doppler corrections applied using Doppler null steering along Null directions. The receiver node is configured to determine a parameter of the signals and an authenticity of the signals based on the parameter.
US11977169B2
A LIDAR system has a laser emission unit configured to generate a plurality of laser beams. The LIDAR system also has an optical system configured to transmit the plurality of laser beams from the laser emission unit to a common scanning unit. The common scanning unit is configured to project the plurality of laser beams toward a field of view of the LIDAR system to simultaneously scan the field of view along a plurality of scan lines traversing the field of view.
US11977168B2
A LIDAR system includes a laser source configured to output a first beam and a polygon scanner. The polygon scanner includes a plurality of facets. Each facet of the plurality of facets is configured to transmit a second beam responsive to the first beam. The plurality of facets include a first facet having a first field of view over which the first facet transmits the second beam and a second facet having a second field of view over which the second facet transmits the second beam. The first field of view is greater than the second field of view.
US11977160B2
A system for detecting an overheight and/or an over-width of a vehicle or a load carried by a vehicle includes a plurality of dimension sensors. The system also includes a controller configured to determine an object passing through the system based on the inputs received from at least one of the sensors, and determines at least one of a vertical continuous presence of the object or a horizontal continuous presence of the object. The controller determines the object as the load carried by the vehicle if at least one of the vertical continuous presence of the object or the horizontal continuous presence of the object is detected and generates an alert when a maximum height of the load is above a height limit and/or the maximum width of the load is above a width limit.
US11977158B2
A laser radar device performs control to make a focus distance of transmission light equal to a measurement distance by switching a plurality of laser light sources that emit beams of oscillation light having wavelengths different from each other to switch emission directions of the transmission light while maintaining the focus position of optical antennas, and changing the wavelength of the beams of oscillation light according to the measurement distance.
US11977138B2
Some implementations provide an MRI system that includes: a housing having a bore accommodating a portion of a subject; a main magnet enclosed by said housing and configured to generate a substantially uniform magnet field within the bore; a gradient sub-system to provide perturbations to the substantially uniform magnet field; a flexible coil assembly configured to (i) receive radio frequency (RF) signals from the subject in response to the portion of the subject being scanned, and (ii) generate and apply B0 shimming to improve a field homogeneity of the substantially uniform magnetic field; and a control unit configured to: drive the gradient sub-system using a gradient waveform; and receive measurement results responsive to the gradient waveform such that a coupling between the gradient sub-system and the flexible coil assembly is determined and subsequently reduced in response to the determined coupling exceeding a pre-determined threshold.
US11977132B2
Magnetic-field sensor arrangement comprises a magnetic-field sensor for providing a sensor output signal based on a magnetic field acting on the sensor; an excitation-conductor array including selectively driveable excitation conductors spaced from the magnetic-field sensor; a driver for selectively driving the excitation conductors to generate different magnetic test fields in different drive states by driving a different excitation conductor, and to generate a set of detected output signal values of the magnetic-field sensor according to the different drive states; and evaluator configured to provide different parameter sets including comparison output signal values for the different drive states and representing variations of the architecture of the magnetic-field sensor including the excitation-conductor array, and further configured to determine, based on the set of detected output signal values of the magnetic-field sensor, that parameter set whose comparison output signal values exhibit a best match with the set of detected output signal values.
US11977127B2
A method for detecting a faulty cell in an electric battery pack includes the following steps: measuring the no-load voltage at the terminals of each cell of the battery pack; calculating the deviation between the no-load voltage measured at the terminals of the cell and an average known no-load voltage as a function of the number of days during which the battery pack was not used; calculating the difference between the calculated deviation and a quantity n·σ, n being an integer no lower than 1, and σ being a known standard deviation which is a function of the number of days during which the battery pack was not used; and detecting a faulty cell if the difference is greater than zero.
US11977125B2
A method of predicting the lifetime of a battery and an apparatus for performing the method can include collecting, by a battery information collection unit, information on the battery, generating, by a first battery value determination unit, first battery value data, generating, by a second battery value determination unit, second battery value data and determining, by a battery value determination unit, a battery value based on the first battery value data and the second battery value data. The first battery value data is a value of the battery, which is determined based on a battery diagnostic test, and the second battery value data is a value of the battery, which is determined based on vehicle data.
US11977123B2
A voltage sensor includes a drive-sense circuit (DSC) and a reference load. The DSC is operably coupled to a point along a wire that is proximate to a battery terminal. The wire connects the battery terminal to a load. The DSC is configured to generate a signal based on a reference signal that is reference signal is based on an estimate of a voltage at the point along the wire. The DSC is also configured to generate an output signal that corresponds to a difference between the signal and the reference signal and to tune the reference signal until the signal compares favorably to the voltage at the point along the wire. The DSC also is configured to determine the voltage at the point along the wire based on the tuned reference signal. The reference load is operably coupled to the DSC and the point along a wire.
US11977117B2
An electrical system having a battery system and a control system. The battery system may include a first switching device, a first battery electrically coupled in series with the first switching device, a second battery electrically coupled in parallel with the first switching device and the first battery when the first switching device is in a closed position, and a second switching device coupled in series with a load. The control system may perform diagnostics on the battery system.
US11977107B1
In a general aspect, a radio frequency (RF) measurement device includes first and second mode converters, each configured to convert a mode of the RF electromagnetic wave between a first RF waveguide mode and a second RF waveguide mode. The RF measurement device also includes an internal cavity between the first and second mode converters that contains a vapor or a source of the vapor. The vapor includes Ryberg atoms or molecules. The RF measurement device additionally includes an RF waveguide extending between the first and second mode converters and configured to establish a circular polarization of the RF electromagnetic wave in the internal cavity.
US11977097B2
The present invention relates to methods and devices for extending a time period until changing a measuring tip of a scanning probe microscope. In particular, the invention relates to a method for hardening a measuring tip for a scanning probe microscope, comprising the step of: Processing the measuring tip with a beam of an energy beam source, the energy beam source being part of a scanning electron microscope.
US11977084B2
The inventors surprisingly found that neural stimulation caused the synthesis and degradation of proteins into peptides which were then secreted into the cell media within minutes of stimulation by a novel neural-specific and membrane bound proteasome (neuronal membrane proteasome or NMP) that is transmembrane in nature. These secreted, activity-induced, proteasomal peptides (SNAPPs) range in size from about 500 Daltons to about 3000 Daltons. Surprisingly none of the peptides appear to be those previously known to have any neuronal function. Moreover, these SNAPPs have stimulatory activity and are heretofore a new class of signaling molecules. Moreover, the NMP appears to play a highly significant role in aspects of neuronal signaling known to be critical for neuronal function. The inventors have gone on to develop all tools to study this novel mechanisms including protocols and practice for generation and purification of SNAPPs as well as a new and specific inhibitor of the NMP allowing for selective control of this process in the nervous system. The present invention provides methods of making and using these SNAPPs for both laboratory and clinical purposes, the screening for molecules which modulate NMP function in vivo and in vitro, and methods for diagnosis of NMP related diseases.
US11977079B2
Methods and devices are provided for analyzing acetone in breath. One such method comprises disposing a reactant in a reaction zone within the breath analysis device, wherein the reactant comprises a primary amine disposed on a surface, and wherein the reaction zone has an optical characteristic that is at a reference level. It also comprises pre-storing a liquid nitroprusside solution within the breath analysis device separately from the reactant. The method further comprises using the breath analysis device to cause the breath to contact the reactant in the reaction zone so that the acetone in the breath reacts with the reactant to form a reaction product and, after the reaction product has been formed, using the breath analysis device to cause the nitroprusside solution to contact and react with the reaction product and to facilitate a change in the optical characteristic of the reaction zone relative to the reference level. The method also comprises using the breath analysis device to detect the change in the optical characteristic to sense the acetone in the breath. Apparatuses that use these methods are also described.
US11977076B2
The present invention provides methods for diagnosis and prognosis of lung cancer using expression analysis of one or more groups of genes, and a combination of expression analysis from a nasal epithelial cell sample. The methods of the invention provide far less invasive method with a superior detection accuracy for lung cancer when compared to any other currently available method for lung cancer diagnostic or prognosis. The invention also provides methods of diagnosis and prognosis of other lung diseases, such as lung cancer.
US11977070B2
The present disclosure relates generally to methods of controlling the movement of molecules, such as DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid), RNA (Ribonucleic Acid) and proteins as well as other biological molecules passing through nanopores. In particular, the disclosure describes how structures made of soft magnetic material can be used to selectively hold, pull and release DNA tagged with magnetic beads.
US11977067B2
Provided herein are newly discovered methods of analyzing abaloparatide samples for abaloparatide isomers. Additionally, methods of storing and treating with abaloparatide in view of the newly discovered abaloparatide isomers are described.
US11977065B2
An electronic display device includes a housing for an electronic display to form an assembly. A thermal management subsystem forms part of the assembly and utilizes ingested ambient air from immediately outside said assembly to thermal manage the assembly. Data is received from one or more sensors pertaining to at least one characteristic of the ingested ambient air at times during operation of the assembly. Operating parameters of the assembly are automatically adjusted when the data indicates a difference in the measured at least one characteristic at the times, and when said difference exceeds a threshold value.
US11977057B2
A method for characterizing a target peptide through a detection approach such as mass spectrometry is provided, including: introducing at least one guard molecule to mix with the target peptide; and applying the detection approach for the characterization of the target peptide. Each guard molecule is configured to have similar characteristics as the target peptide, yet is still distinguishable therefrom by the detection approach, such as having a mass spectrometry-distinguishable different M/z value compared with the target peptide. The method can be used to characterize a neoantigen peptide through mass spectrometry, upstream of which the method can further include steps for tissue sample preparation, HLA molecules enrichment, elution, clean-up, and purification. Some or all of these steps can be configured to be executed in a substantially automatic manner with little or no manual intervention. A system for implementing the neoantigen analysis method is further provided.
US11977055B2
The present disclosure provides for a guide for use in a compression test, the compression test comprising loading a test sample between a first loading plate and an opposing load applied between the test sample and the first loading plate in a loading direction, the guide comprising: at least one support member, positionable between the first loading plate and the load and extending substantially parallel to the loading direction to constrain the test sample in a direction perpendicular to the loading direction, wherein, when in use, the at least one support member is positioned to define a space between the first loading plate and the support member such that when a load is applied the test sample is deformable in a direction perpendicular to the loading direction within the space.
US11977052B2
Systems and methods for analyzing physical characteristics of a battery include arrangements of two or more transducers coupled to the battery. A control module controls one or more of the two or more transducers to transmit acoustic signals through at least a portion of the battery, and one or more of the two or more transducers to receive response acoustic signals. Distribution of physical properties of the battery is determined based at least on the transmitted acoustic signals and the response acoustic signals.
US11977048B2
A smell sensor includes an ion sensor having a sensitive film, a substance adsorption film disposed on the sensitive film and configured to adsorb a smell substance to be detected, and an electrode configured to apply a reference voltage to the substance adsorption film. The substance adsorption film is in a state of releasing a proton in response to absorbing the smell substance.
US11977045B2
An embodiment humidity sensor device includes a humidity sensor including a measurement section for measuring humidity, a housing accommodating the humidity sensor while the measurement section is exposed to the outside, and a wall member protruding from a bottom surface of the housing and surrounding a periphery of the measurement section.
US11977043B2
The MEMS type semiconductor gas detection element of the invention is a MEMS type semiconductor gas detection element 1 having a MEMS structure, for detecting hydrogen gas, comprising: a substrate 2; a gas sensitive portion 3 mainly made of a metal oxide semiconductor and provided to the substrate 2; a heating portion 4 for heating the gas sensitive portion 3; an inactive film 5 having hydrogen-permselective and formed outside the gas sensitive portion 3; a protective film 6 formed outside the inactive film 5, for suppressing deterioration of the gas sensitive portion 3.
US11977041B2
Systems, methods, and a machine readable medium for measuring conductivity in a hydrocarbon sample are provided. An example conductivity analyzer includes a peristaltic pump to flow the hydrocarbons over a temperature controller and a conductivity probe. The temperature controller includes a Peltier block. The conductivity analyzer also includes the conductivity probe.
US11977040B2
Certain disclosed methods include: transmitting an excitation signal into the MUT and transmitting a reference signal to a set of magnitude and phase (M/P) detectors; receiving the response signal; separately comparing a magnitude and phase for each of the excitation signal and the reference signal with corresponding detection ranges for a first one of the M/P detectors; separately comparing a magnitude and phase for each of the response signal and the reference signal with corresponding detection ranges for a second one of the M/P detectors; iteratively adjusting the excitation signal until the response signal has both a magnitude and a phase within the corresponding detection ranges for the second M/P detector; and iteratively adjusting the reference signal until the reference signal has both a magnitude and a phase within the corresponding detection ranges for the first and the second M/P detectors.
US11977038B2
An inspection apparatus for inspecting an inspection target object, includes an X-ray generation tube having a target including an X-ray generation portion that generates X-rays by irradiation with an electron beam, and configured to emit X-rays to the inspection target object, and a plurality of X-ray detectors, wherein each of the plurality of X-ray detectors detects X-rays emitted from a foreign substance existing on an inspection target surface of the inspection target object irradiated with the X-rays from the X-ray generation portion and totally reflected by the inspection target surface.
US11977034B2
In the measurement of properties of a wafer substrate, such as Critical Dimension or overlay a sampling plan is produced defined for measuring a property of a substrate, wherein the sampling plan comprises a plurality of sub-sampling plans. The sampling plan may be constrained to a predetermined fixed number of measurement points and is used to control an inspection apparatus to perform a plurality of measurements of the property of a plurality of substrates using different sub-sampling plans for respective substrates, optionally, the results are stacked to at least partially recompose the measurement results according to the sample plan.
US11977025B2
Gas sensors are disclosed having an on-board, low-power data processor that uses multivariable gas classification and/or gas quantitation models to perform on-board data processing to resolve two or more gases in a fluid sample. To reduce computational complexity, the gas sensor utilizes low-power-consumption multivariable data analysis algorithms, inputs from available on-board sensors of ambient conditions, inputs representing contextual data, and/or excitation responses of a gas sensing material to select suitable gas classification and/or gas quantitation models. The data processor can then utilize these gas classification and quantitation models, in combination with measured dielectric responses of a gas sensing material of the gas sensor, to determine classifications and/or concentrations of two or more gases in a fluid sample, while consuming substantially less power than would be consumed if a global comprehensive model were used instead. Thus, the data processor is utilized for linear, nonlinear, and non-monotonic multivariate regressions.
US11977019B2
Optical traps enable nanoscale manipulation of individual biomolecules while measuring molecular forces and lengths. Disclosed herein is a camera-based detection system that enables accurate and precise measurements of forces and interactions in a dual optical trap. Optical traps may be used to stretch and unzip DNA molecules while measuring the displacements of trapped particles from their trapping centers with sub-nanometer accuracy and precision.
US11977015B2
Systems and methods for uniquely identifying fluid-phase products by endowing them with fingerprints composed of dispersed colloidal particles, and by reading out those fingerprints on demand using Total Holographic Characterization. A library of chemically inert colloidal particles is developed that can be dispersed into soft materials, the stoichiometry of the mixture encoding user-specified information, including information about the host material. Encoded information then can be recovered by high-speed analysis of holographic microscopy images of the dispersed particles. Specifically, holograms of individual colloidal spheres are analyzed with predictions of the theory of light scattering to measure each sphere's radius and refractive index, thereby building up the distribution of particle properties one particle at a time. A complete analysis of a colloidal fingerprint requires several thousand single-particle holograms and can be completed in ten minutes.
US11977004B2
Capillary-based pressure threshold sensors are provided for liquids that exploit the properties of hydrophobic, superhydrophobic, oleophobic and amphiphobic porous membranes to detect when fluid passes through the membrane in the event of the pressure across the membrane rising above the breakthrough pressure of a fluid. Example implementations are provided of different configurations for a capillary-based pressure threshold sensor, and of how a capillary-based pressure threshold sensor is used in a medication delivery device or other fluid delivery devices to detect occlusion or other fluid flow condition.
US11977003B2
A system and method for monitoring the operating condition of a wheelset on a railcar comprising a sealed unit mounted on or near a wheelset of the railcar for collecting data from the wheelset and performing AI analyses on the collected data to determine the operational condition and predict failure modes for the wheelset. Results are communicated off-railcar wirelessly via one or more of several different methods.
US11977000B2
A damage estimation device includes an acquisition unit that acquires a temperature change amount in a period during which an inflow air temperature rises and a period length, a distortion amount derivation unit that derives a distortion amount of a cooling device in the above period, based on the temperature change amount, and a damage value derivation unit that derives an accumulated damage value by integrating a value depending on the distortion amount. When the period length is shorter than a period length determination value, the distortion amount derivation unit derives a larger value as the distortion amount than when the period length is equal to or longer than the period length determination value.
US11976999B2
The present disclosure relates to chain monitoring systems and methods. In particular, the chain monitoring system is configured to mount onto a portion of a chain and measure one or more parameters associated with one or more characteristics of the chain. The measured parameters are processed by the chain monitoring system and/or transmitted to a remote system for analysis. The analysis may be used to determine a characteristic and/or change in the characteristic of the chain. In some examples, the characteristic is an elongation value associated with the chain, which can be transmitted to a networked system for analysis, display, and/or control. In some examples, a sensor can be employed to measure one or more characteristics of the chain. The sensor may include, but is not limited to, a strain gauge, an accelerometer, an optical, a sonic, and/or a magnetic sensor.
US11976997B2
Disclosed is a borescope-based inspection method for inspecting a condition of an externally invisible component of a device, in which method a change in the microstructure of the component material is determined based on a physical property and evaluated in relation to at least one reference physical value that accounts for aging of the component. Also disclosed is a system having a computing unit and at least one probe for performing such an inspection method for selecting, with the aid of or, in particular, by a computer, a non-destructive testing method for measuring the physical property and for actually measuring the physical property, for performing a comparison between a measured value and the reference value and for performing an evaluation of a tolerance between the measured value and the reference value.
US11976992B2
A vacuum pressure sensor includes a vacuum-tight electrical feedthrough. The feedthrough has an electrically insulating insulator element with a through-opening, having a first boundary surface adjacent to the through-opening and a second boundary surface also adjacent to the through-opening and opposite to the first boundary surface, and an electrically conductive conductor element which extends through the through-opening and which is connected to the insulator element in a vacuum-tight manner along a circumferential line of the conductor element. The insulator element is transmissive to electromagnetic radiation in an optical wavelength range and the first boundary surface and/or the second boundary surface is formed as a curved surface.
US11976983B2
Temperature sensing circuits for devices described herein include a substrate material, a first conductive portion, a second conductive portion, and a third conductive portion associated with the substrate material, and a plurality of thermistors associated with the substrate material for sensing a temperature associated with the device. The plurality of thermistors include a first thermistor and a second thermistor. The first thermistor is connected to the first conductive portion. The first thermistor and the second thermistor are both connected to the second conductive portion. The second thermistor is connected to the third conductive portion.
US11976982B2
The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for measuring the temperature of optical fibers during fusion splicing or thermal processing, said method comprising: a) measuring, using an interferometric method, a change in an optical path length in an optical fiber due to temperature dependent properties of the optical fiber during fusion splicing or thermal processing; and b) determining the temperature of the optical fiber based on the measured changes in the optical path length.
US11976980B2
A temperature sensor includes a first electrode, second electrode, and a pyroelectric layer between the first electrode and the second electrode. The pyroelectric layer includes a ferroelectric polymer and an ionogel.
US11976973B2
Provided is a method for blending of agricultural product utilizing hyperspectral imaging. At least one region along a sample of agricultural product is scanned using at least one light source of different wavelengths. Hyperspectral images are generated from the at least one region. A spectral fingerprint for the sample of agricultural product is formed from the hyperspectral images. A plurality of samples of agricultural product is blended based on the spectral fingerprints of the samples according to parameters determined by executing a blending algorithm.
US11976967B2
An electronic device includes a photodiode, a switching circuit, a readout circuit, and an energy storage device. The photodiode includes a first terminal and a second terminal and is configured to generate a signal according to a light. The switching circuit is electrically connected to the first terminal and the second terminal. When the electronic device operates in a sensing mode, the switching circuit electrically isolates the photodiode from the energy storage device so that the signal is provided to the readout circuit. When the electronic device operates in a charging mode, the switching circuit electrically connects the photodiode to the energy storage device so that the signal is provided to the energy storage device.
US11976958B2
A capacitive liquid level sensor (1). The sensor comprises a sensor body in the form a tongue with a freely depending portion (3) extending to a distal tip (6) at its lowermost end. A set of spaced capacitive electrodes (7) extend along the tongue towards the distal tip. In use, when the distal tip (6) of the tongue is immersed in a body of liquid, the capacitance between the electrodes (7) changes depending on the depth of the body of liquid. The width of the tongue increases in the downward direction at least for part of the bottom half of the freely depending part of the tongue.
US11976952B1
A self-cleaning thermal conductivity sensor comprises: a bellows coupled to a support structure; a pneumatic or hydraulic cylinder; a sensor configured to measure a thermal conductivity of a fluid and extending from the pneumatic or hydraulic cylinder, wherein the sensor comprises an exposure end configured to contact the fluid during sensing by the thermal conductivity sensor, a temperature sensor, and a heat source; sensor wires connected with the thermal conductivity sensor and extending to a control system; a self-cleaning system comprising: a hood having walls extending radially outward and defining a volume; and a cleaning brush integrated with or adjacent the bottom of the support structure. In a retracted configuration, the exposure end of the sensor is positioned at a retracted position a distance from cleaning brush, and, in an extended configuration, the exposure end of the sensor extends a distance along the central axis away from the retracted position.
US11976950B2
The present disclosure provides a thin film sensor, a thin film sensor array and an electronic device. The thin film sensor has a functional area and a non-functional area surrounding the functional area, and includes: a dielectric substrate having a first surface and a second surface which are oppositely arranged; a first conductive layer located on the first surface of the dielectric substrate and including a first conductive structure arranged in the functional area; a second conductive layer located on the second surface of the dielectric substrate; a first light-shielding layer located on the first surface of the dielectric substrate, the first light-shielding layer includes a first light-shielding structure at least arranged in the non-functional area, the first light-shielding structure has the same pattern as the first conductive structure.
US11976945B1
An assembly includes a housing defining a pressurized chamber. The assembly includes a sensor supported by the housing. The assembly includes a shell enclosing the sensor and rotatable relative to the housing, the shell enclosing a second chamber in fluid communication the pressurized chamber, the housing and the shell defining a gap therebetween. The assembly includes a ring supported by the housing, the ring defining an internal passage having an exhaust vent at the gap.
US11976939B2
In various examples, operations include obtaining, from a machine learning model, feature classifications that correspond to features of objects depicted in images of a geographical area in which the images are provided to the machine learning model. The operations may also include annotating the images with three-dimensional representations that are based on the obtained feature classifications. Further, the operations may include generating map data corresponding to the geographical area based on the annotated images.
US11976930B2
A method is disclosed for mitigating the risks associated with operating an autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle by using calculated route traversal values to select less risky travel routes and/or modify vehicle operation. Various approaches to achieving this risk mitigation are presented. A computing device is configured to generate a database of route traversal values. This device may receive a variety of historical route traversal information, real-time vehicle information, and/or route information from one of more data sources and calculate a route traversal value for the associated driving route. Subsequently, the computing device may provide the associated route traversal value to other devices, such as a vehicle navigation device associated with the autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle. An insurance company may use this information to help determine insurance premiums for autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicles by analyzing and/or mitigating the risk associated with operating those vehicles.
US11976926B2
Methods and systems are described that enable world geodetic system (WGS) to cartesian coordinate conversion for driving. A path of a vehicle comprising lane-group segments (LGSs) is received. The LGSs comprise respective origins in WGS coordinates, respective path points in WGS coordinates; and respective groups of constants. For a first of the LGSs, global cartesian path coordinates are calculated, based on modified Bowring techniques, for the path points of the first LGS. The coordinates are calculated using the constants of the first LGS and respective differences between the path points of the first LGS and an origin of the first LGS. The vehicle can navigate along the path using the global cartesian path coordinates calculated for the first LGS. By using modified Bowring techniques and pre-calculated constants for each LGS of the path, accuracy can be maintained over long distances and across boundaries without requiring substantial computational overhead.
US11976918B2
A structured light projectors includes an illuminator configured to emit illumination light, a pattern mask configured to project structured light by partially transmitting the illumination light, and a lens configured to project the structured light, wherein the pattern mask includes a first lens distortion compensation region including a plurality of opaque first light shielding patterns having a first pattern width, respectively, and a second lens distortion compensation region surrounding the first lens distortion compensation region, the second lens distortion compensation region including a plurality of opaque second light shielding patterns having a second pattern width, respectively, wherein the second pattern width is less than the first pattern width.
US11976917B2
A system for monitoring a physical change of a marine structure includes a complex optical measuring instrument configured to detect a behavior and structural change of the marine structure by using at least one optical sensor by means of optical fiber Bragg grating.
US11976897B2
A projectile lift for vertically moving ammunition elements between two storage levels of a magazine comprising a receiving tray for receiving an ammunition body and a retaining device for retaining the ammunition body, wherein the retaining device can vertically lift the ammunition elements away from the receiving tray. The disclosure also relates to a magazine including a projectile lift and a method for vertically moving ammunition elements.
US11976896B2
Methods and systems are provided for firearm muzzle brakes. In one example, a muzzle brake comprises: a body; a projectile entrance and a projectile exit; a gas-actuated valve biased toward the projectile entrance within an interior of the body; and a projectile opening of the gas-actuated valve arranged along a projectile path between the projectile entrance and the projectile exit.
US11976894B2
A heat exchanger assembly includes a cooling plate with at least one outer heat transfer surface adapted for thermal contact with one or more heat-generating substrates. A fluid flow path extends from an inlet port to an outlet port, with a plurality of cooling zones spaced apart along the fluid flow path, each cooling zone including a heat transfer element such as a corrugated fin sheet in contact with the inner surface of the first plate wall. Manifold spaces are defined proximate to the inlet and outlet ports, and between adjacent cooling zones. One or more bypass flow passages are provided between upstream and downstream ends of at least one cooling zone, to divert a portion of the heat transfer fluid from flowing through the cooling zone. The volume of fluid flow bypassing one or more cooling zones is calibrated to improve temperature uniformity of the heat-generating substrates.
US11976890B2
A heated inlet tube for use in a wet scrubber is disclosed. In one embodiment, the heated inlet tube comprises a heated tube concentric to the inlet tube to which a heated gas is applied thereby maintaining temperature of a waste gas stream as it flows through the inlet tube. In a further embodiment, an insulating tube concentrically surrounds the heated tube to further maintain the temperature of the waste gas stream.
US11976879B2
A combined plant for cryogenic separation and liquefaction of methane and carbon dioxide in a biogas stream, including a mixing means, a compressor, a first exchanger, a distillation column, a second exchanger, a separating means, an expanding means, and a separator vessel. Wherein, the mixing means is configured such that the recycle gas is the overhead vapour stream, and the first exchanger and the expanding means are combined.
US11976872B2
An axial flow fan includes a hub driven to rotate and configured to serve as a rotation axis of the axial flow fan and a blade connected to the hub. The blade has a leading edge and a trailing edge. The trailing edge has an indentation indenting toward the leading edge. The indentation narrows from the trailing edge to the leading edge, and has an apex being a point closest to the leading edge from among the points constituting the indentation. The blade has, at the indentation, a maximum thickness portion at which a thickness of the blade is maximum, and which is positioned radially inside of the apex.
US11976864B2
In a gamma free-piston Stirling cooler driven by linear electric motors, a motor operating frequency for consuming minimum electric power is detected and a different motor operating frequency that delivers maximum thermal cooling power is detected. The frequencies are detected by varying the operating frequency in small steps while sensing (1) the motor power input to maintain a steady temperature or (2) the thermal cooling power of the Stirling cooler. A mode detection routine detects whether the appropriate freezer operation is the electric power minimization mode or the thermal cooling power maximization mode based upon the current thermal conditions in the freezer. When the freezer is sufficiently cold, the pistons of the Stirling cooler are driven at the minimum electric power consumption frequency. When the temperature is, or is likely to become, too warm, the pistons of the Stirling cooler are driven at the maximum thermal cooling power frequency.
US11976860B2
A refrigeration system includes a vapor compression loop and a purge system in communication with the vapor compression loop. The purge system includes at least one separator including a sorbent material to separate contaminants from a refrigerant purge gas provided from the vapor compression loop when the sorbent material is pressurized.
US11976853B2
Embodiments of the present invention reduce the amount of energy required to operate air-conditioners and refrigerators by providing a vapor-compression system that harnesses a low- or no-cost source of energy, namely, heat, and uses the harnessed heat to power a new kind of compressor, called a “burst compressor” and a new kind of pump, called a “vapor pump.” The heat-driven burst compressor pressurizes the refrigerant, while also providing “push and pull” vapor refrigerant to the vapor pump. The vapor pump, actuated by the high pressure refrigerant in gaseous form provided by the burst compressor, is configured to pump a combination of gaseous, vaporous and liquid refrigerant out of the receiver tank and inject that low pressure refrigerant mix into the burst compressor, where it is heated to change the state of the refrigerant to a heated, pressurized gas. Then the heated, pressurized gas is released in bursts into the other components of the vapor compression cycle. Thus, embodiments of the present invention use heat to provide cold. Because of this arrangement, vapor-compression systems constructed and arranged to operate according to embodiments of the present invention are able to provide air-conditioning and/or refrigeration much more efficiently and with much less expense than traditional vapor compression systems for air-conditioning and refrigeration.
US11976848B2
An air purifying system for an indoor space includes a plurality of air purifying sites, each one of the plurality of air purifying sites configured to treat a sub-volume of the total volume of air in the indoor space, wherein each one of the plurality of air purifying sites includes a housing, an air inlet configured to direct treatment air having gaseous and non-gaseous components from the indoor space into the housing, a purifier carried within the housing, an air outlet configured to direct the treatment air that has passed through the purifier into the indoor space, and an air mover configured to move air between the air inlet and the air outlet, through the purifier, wherein the plurality of air purifying sites is configured to work cooperatively with a central air system of the indoor space.
US11976844B2
An evaporative cooling unit includes a first V-shaped portion of a winding of microporous hollow fibers configured to receive a liquid. The evaporative cooling unit also includes a second V-shaped portion of the winding of microporous hollow fibers configured to receive the liquid, where the second V-shaped portion is coupled with the first V-shaped portion. The evaporative cooling unit also includes an internal cavity disposed between the first V-shaped portion and the second V-shaped portion.
US11976843B2
Methods and apparatus for latent heat extraction of an air stream eliminates the need for recirculation pumps and uses the pressure in the chilled water supply to the primary chilled water cooling coil to motivate the water through the precooling and reheat coils of a run-around system. The energy transfer lowers the air temperature entering the primary coil so that the primary coil can provide a greater amount of latent heat extraction from the air stream. Both the precooling and the primary coils can share the primary cooling function for periods of peak cooling demand when precooling is not required thereby reducing the required primary cooling coil size. Enhancements combine the functions of a precooling coil, a primary cooling coil, and a reheat coil into precooling, cooling, and reheat coil portions in a single integrated housing comprising the coil portions sharing the housing.
US11976837B2
An air conditioning system configured to supply a plurality of places in a building with conditioned air with use of ducts inhibits malfunction of the air conditioning system due to airflow volume through a utilization heat exchanger. A heat exchanger unit includes a utilization heat exchanger. The heat exchanger unit is connected with a plurality of ducts. A plurality of fan units sucks conditioned air from the heat exchanger unit through the plurality of ducts and supplies a plurality of blow-out ports with the conditioned air. The fan units include fan motors as a plurality of actuators configured to individually change supply air volume of the conditioned air. A main controller controls the plurality of fan motors such that airflow volume through the utilization heat exchanger satisfies a predetermined condition.
US11976828B2
An outdoor unit of an air-conditioning apparatus in which indoor units are connected, includes: a housing forming an outer casing of the outdoor unit; a terminal block located at a side of the housing; and a conduit plate to be attached to the terminal block. The conduit plate includes: a terminal block cover to be attached to the housing to cover the terminal block, and having an opening portion formed at a lower portion of the terminal block cover; an outer casing cover to be attached to the terminal block cover to cover the opening portion of the terminal block cover, and having an opening portion at a side of the outer casing cover; and a cable connection cover to be attached to the side of the outer casing cover, and having attachment holes for connection of a conduit cable to be connected to the terminal block.
US11976824B2
A centrifugal fan includes: an impeller having a back plate; and a scroll casing including a peripheral wall having a volute shape, a first side wall facing a virtual extension of the back plate and an inner end portion of the volute shape of the scroll casing, an expanded portion, and a first edge end portion being an end of a first edge defining the discharge port, of the first side wall, are arranged in a named order in the rotation direction, the first edge end portion being farther from the rotation shaft than an other end of the first edge and distance L1≥distance LM>distance LS is satisfied where LS is a distance between the first side wall at the inner end portion of the volute shape and the virtual extension of the back plate, LM is a distance between the first side wall at the expanded portion and the virtual extension of the back plate, the expanded portion being a portion at which the distance between the first side wall and the virtual extension of the back plate is larger than LS, and L1 is a distance between the first side wall at the first edge end portion and the virtual extension of the back plate.
US11976819B2
Disclosed are a flue pipe separation sensing apparatus and a boiler including the same. The flue pipe separation sensing apparatus of a boiler for sensing separation of an exhaust flue pipe that is fitted with and coupled to an exhaust adapter provided in an exhaust opening of a boiler body includes a sensing member located on an outer side of the exhaust flue pipe in a state, in which the exhaust flue pipe is coupled to the exhaust adapter, and that passes through the exhaust adapter by an elastic force and proceed into an interior of the exhaust adapter to sense the separation of the exhaust flue pipe when the exhaust flue pipe is separated from the exhaust adapter.
US11976817B2
A method for detecting a dioxin emission concentration of a municipal solid waste incineration process based on multi-level feature selection. A grate furnace-based MSWI process is divided into a plurality of sub-processes. A correlation coefficient value, a mutual information value and a comprehensive evaluation value between each of original input features of the sub-processes and the DXN emission concentration are obtained, thereby obtaining first-level features. The first-level features are selected and statistically processed by adopting a GAPLS-based feature selection algorithm and according to redundancy between different features, thereby obtaining second-level features. Third-level features are obtained according to the first-level features and statistical results of the second-level features. A PLS algorithm-based DXN detection model is established based on model prediction performance and the third-level features. The obtained PLS algorithm-based DXN detection model is applied to detect the DXN emission concentration of the MSWI process.
US11976816B2
A chemical recovery boilers is described in which the primary air system is reconfigured to provide aggressive charbed control and improved combustion in the lower furnace. The fewest number of primary air ports are used on two opposing walls to generate powerful air jets that penetrate across the boiler providing physical and thermal stability to the charbed while increasing the heat release and combustion stability in the lower furnace, increasing reduction efficiency, and lowering carryover and emissions. Various embodiments are described including operating strategies and multi-level black liquor injection.
US11976809B2
The present disclosure provides a light bulb for use in a lamp housing of a vehicle. The light bulb includes a bulb body assembly having one or more light sources fixedly attached thereto, and a mounting assembly configured to mount on the lamp housing. The bulb body assembly and the mounting assembly are connected by a rotatable joint such that positions of the one or more light sources can be adjusted after the mounting assembly is mounted on the lamp housing. In some embodiments, a key portion is attached to the bulb body assembly to rotate the bulb body assembly relative to the mounting assembly.
US11976807B2
An illumination device includes an elongated flexible body having a first end connected to a second end via a flexible connecting body and an illumination portion coupled to the first end and a coupling portion coupled to the second end, wherein the illumination portion includes one or more illuminating sources and a first magnetic component housed within the illumination portion, the coupling portion includes a second magnetic component housed within the coupling portion, and the flexible connecting body is capable of folding such that the illumination portion and the coupling portion axially align and the first magnetic component magnetically couples to the second magnetic component.
US11976805B1
A connection structure of an (light-emitting diode) LED wall lamp having a hidden switch contains: a fixer, a rotatable sleeve, a coupling ring, a lampshade, a connection seat, a LED light module, and a decoration element. The fixer includes multiple positioning orifices and a through orifice. The rotatable sleeve is configured to be rotatably connected with the coupling ring and includes a connecting shaft, a locating post, and a rotary section. The coupling ring is configured to connect the lampshade, the connection seat and the decoration element. The lampshade includes a circular platform and multiple threaded orifices. The connection seat is configured to connect the LED light module. The LED light module is configured to illuminate lights and includes multiple LED units and a switch built in the LED light module. The decoration element is mounted on the coupling ring to cover a central orifice of the circular disc.
US11976799B2
A vehicle headlight has a segmented light guide device in which segments are selectively controlled to operate in an output state that reduces glare to oncoming vehicle drivers. Vehicle sensors and controller circuitry are used to identify areas of glare removal in the light pattern of the headlight and control the corresponding segments in the light guide device to operate in a selected light output state that reduces glare. The segments can be operated in a focused output state for vehicle driver visibility, or in a scattered output state to reduce glare. The segments can be operated in a clear or transparent output state for vehicle driver visibility, or in a reflected output state to reduce glare. Reflected light can optionally be re-directed. The light guide device can employ bi-stable liquid crystal shuttering or liquid crystal switchable mirror technology.
US11976790B2
An object is to accurately estimate loss-on-ignition in a short time. A loss-on-ignition estimation apparatus includes at least one processor configured to carry out an estimation step, the estimation step including estimating the loss-on-ignition of foundry sand with use of a learned model constructed by means of machine learning. The learned model is configured to receive, as input, (1) sand weight data relating to a weight of the foundry sand detected in a calcination period and (2) at least one of (i) sand property data relating to one or more properties of the foundry sand, (ii) additive data relating to one or more additives added to the foundry sand, and (iii) calcination environment data relating to a calcination environment detected in the calcination period. The learned model is configured to generate, as output, an estimated loss-on-ignition of the foundry sand.
US11976789B2
A vaporization system and control method are provided. Liquid cryogen is provided to first ambient air vaporizer (AAV) units. When an output superheated vapor temperature is less than a threshold, the liquid cryogen is provided to second AAV units. When greater than or equal to the threshold, it is determined whether the second AAV units are defrosted. When defrosted, the liquid cryogen is provided to the second AAV units. When not defrosted, it is determined whether ice has formed on the first AAV units. When not formed, it is again determined whether the superheated vapor temperature is less than the threshold. When formed, it is determined whether a current ambient condition is favorable to defrosting the second AAV units. When not favorable, the liquid cryogen is provided to the second bank of AAV units. When favorable, it is again determined whether the superheated vapor temperature is less than the threshold.
US11976782B2
A hanger device structurally configured to couple at an edge of a horizontal support is disclosed and described, the hanger device including a hanger support including a horizontal top support having a planar undersurface structurally configured to rest on an upper surface of the horizontal support when in use and an edge extension extending downwardly from the top support and configured to abut an edge of the horizontal support. The hanger device can further include a lower hanger coupled to and extending downwardly from the edge extension, a lower hook coupled to the lower hanger and oriented to suspend a decorative item therefrom, and an engagement lock slidably coupled to the lower hanger and configured to contact a bottom surface of the horizontal support opposite the horizontal top support to secure the hanger device to the horizontal support.
US11976778B2
An accessory or gun-mounted support stand apparatus including a release mechanism and locking mechanism configured to allow or prevent longitudinal movement of telescoping legs.
US11976775B2
A rotatable docking station includes a swivel mount assembly for rotational mounting of an electronic device. The swivel mount assembly includes an insertable part inserted into an opening in a structure and a lip part. A securing body secures the assembly body to a surface of the structure. A rotatable body includes another insertable part inserted into an opening in the insertable part of the assembly body, a plate part, side walls with at least one side aperture, and a platform part. At least one first roller directs a cable extending through an opening in the another insertable part into a volume between the plate part and the platform part. At least one second roller directs a further cable through the at least one side aperture. A cable retractor includes a frame. An intermediate storage section of the cable or further cable is ordinarily disposed within the frame.
US11976774B2
A display stand with an adjustable rear support that is movable along a base by way of a channel is provided. The rear support receives and sandwiches objects, each of different thicknesses, between and against a support lip. The rear support is orientated at an obtuse angle relative to the base. The channel is tapered, facilitating a tapered slide nut to move there along in concert with the rear support. A threaded fastener interconnects the rear support and the slide nut by way of the channel. The slide nut provides female threading engaging the threading of the threaded fastener. The rear support provides a slot that seats on a protrusion of the slide nut to provide anti-rotation functionality.
US11976770B2
A solids removal apparatus for glycol reclamation includes a first tubular, a second tubular, and a strainer. The first tubular includes an open end configured to receive a brine stream including solid material. The second tubular is connected to and protrudes from the first tubular. The second tubular is configured to discharge an outlet stream. The strainer is disposed within the second tubular. The strainer is configured to prevent at least a portion of the solid material from flowing through the strainer, such that the outlet stream discharging from the second tubular has a solids content that is less than a solids content of the brine stream.
US11976767B2
A damper device that includes an elongate body containing a passageway for fluid to flow there through and a first opening and a second opening, wherein the first opening and the second opening have an inside diameter. A throat is disposed within the body and between the first opening and the second opening of the elongate body having an inside diameter smaller than the inside diameter of the first opening and the second opening.
US11976761B2
A fitting for permanently connecting to at least one tube, the fitting including: a main body; a retaining element which has locking elements for locking to a corresponding locking element of the tube to be connected; a sealing element; and a blocking ring, the blocking ring allowing movement of the retaining element in the radial direction in a first axial position and preventing movement of the retaining element outwards in the radial direction in a second axial position.
US11976752B2
One aspect of the invention provides a system including: a length of energy-dissipative tubing; a first sealing device coupled to a first end of the length of energy-dissipative tubing; and a second sealing device coupled to a second end of the length of energy-dissipative tubing. Exposure to one or more selected from the group consisting of: fault currents or lightning strikes at an exposure point along the length of energy-dissipative tubing will produce arcs at the exposure point and at least one of the first end and the second end.
US11976750B2
A resin material, in which the elongation at break in an environmental condition at a predetermined temperature of 100° C. or higher and 150° C. or lower is 50% or more, a content of a plasticizer is 3 mass % or less with respect to the total mass of the resin material, a strength at break in the environmental condition at this predetermined temperature is 5 MPa or more, the elongation at break is 500% or less, and a 10% modulus is 3 MPa or less, is formed into a tubular form and used as an inner surface layer, an intermediate layer, and an outer surface layer of a hose, and components of an air conditioner are connected through the hose. Such resin material, and also a hose including the resin material, which are mainly used for an air conditioner installed in a vehicle, have improved durability in a high temperature environment.
US11976746B2
A fail-safe actuator for moving a part has in each case a drive (18, 118) by means of which a first or a second drive train (24, 26) can be moved. The drive trains (24, 26) in each case have their own output shaft (34, 38) and can be actuated independently of one another. An energy storage device is coupled with the second output shaft (38), wherein a holding device selectively holds the energy or releases it from the energy storage device, so that the second output shaft (38) can be moved. A rotary entrainment of the first output shaft (34) ensures that in the event of a failure of the drive (18) this is moved into a specified end position. The two output shafts (34, 38) are set in motion via gear wheels (32, 36) if the drive trains are actuated. An assembly unit consisting of actuator and moved part is also described.
US11976740B2
A compact valve block for a chemical container wherein the coaxial valve block has a housing that can accommodate three valve control mechanisms thus allowing for quick and effective purging without the need for an additional external conduit, valves, and coaxial injector. The advantage is a greatly reduced amount of wetted surface area inside the valve block leading to a significant decrease in the time it takes to purge a system thus allowing for quicker times to change chemical containers.
US11976737B2
Check valve are disclosed having a primary seal and a secondary seal, where the primary and secondary seals resist movement of a fluid through the check valve, and the secondary seal can provide a backup seal in an instance where the check valve does not function as intended. The primary and secondary seals can be formed by first and second sealing ridges, respectively, and a valve body can be positioned within the check valve, between a valve support, the first sealing ridge, and a second sealing ridge. The valve body is configured to move relative to the first and second sealing ridges, and can have a position wherein a portion of the valve body is engaged against any of the first and second sealing ridges.
US11976736B2
A backflow prevention device includes a main pipe body extending along a first center longitudinal axis, at least one check valve disposed within the main pipe body, an inlet pipe connected to an inlet side of the main pipe body, and an outlet pipe connected to an outlet side of the main pipe body. The inlet pipe and the outlet pipe extend along a second center longitudinal axis. The first center longitudinal axis is offset with respect to the second center longitudinal axis in a direction perpendicular to the first and second center longitudinal axes. A center of the valve seat of the at least one check valve is offset with respect to the second center longitudinal axis in the direction perpendicular to the first and second longitudinal axes.
US11976726B2
A continuous variable transmission (CVT) system includes a drive clutch, a driven clutch and a continuous belt wherein the sheaves on one side of the CVT system have an incline of approximately 2 degrees different from the sheaves on the other side of the CVT system. The continuous belt has opposing faces, each face matching the angles of the sheaves that the belt engages.
US11976722B2
A method of controlling an axle assembly. The method includes executing a speed synchronization mode and operating a clutch actuator to shift a clutch from a neutral position toward an engaged position. The method may also include executing a low torque synchronization mode when the clutch cannot be shifted from a neutral position to an engaged position within a first predetermined period of time.
US11976715B2
Separate structural units for an inner gear and a housing of a planetary gear device include an inner gear with a first raised portion formed on the outer peripheral surface of the inner gear, where the first raised portion extends towards in a direction that is inclined with respect to the axial direction of the inner gear. A housing includes a second raised portion formed on an inner peripheral surface, where the second raised portion extends in a direction that is inclined in respect to the axial direction. The housing contains the inner gear such that there is a gap formed between the inner peripheral surface of the housing and the outer peripheral surface of the inner gear. Movement of the inner gear within the interior of the housing is limited through linear contact of the first raised portion and the second raised portion.
US11976712B2
A transmission, including an outer shell (1), an inner shell (2), a drive disk (3), a plurality of T-shaped teeth (4), a gear (5), a tooth seat (6), an adjustable nut (7), balls (8), inner balls (9), outer balls (10), an inner protective frame (11), an outer protective frame (12), rollers (13), a first sealing ring (14), a second sealing ring (15) and a third sealing ring (16). Transmission clearance can be adjusted freely at any time, the meshing of the T-shaped tooth and the gear is a real surface meshing, and almost all the teeth participate in force transmission simultaneously. Therefore, the transmission has high precision, high mechanical properties, and long service life.
US11976704B2
A propeller shaft (1) that is a power transmission shaft has a shaft member (2) as a tubular body made of iron-based metal and a balance weight (3) made of iron-based metal and welded to an outer peripheral surface of this shaft member (2). At least a part of the balance weight (3) of the propeller shaft (1) is covered with a sacrificial metal coating (4) made of sacrificial corrosion prevention material that contains metal whose ionization tendency is higher than that of metal forming the shaft member (2). With this, it is possible to suppress local progression of corrosion at a periphery of the balance weight (3) and improve durability of the propeller shaft (1).
US11976701B2
The proposal is for an improved expansion device for a drum brake having an integrated readjustment unit having a readjusting screw which can be locked therein by a spring-loaded latching unit which, for a reliable readjustment function with a reduced level of force, provides for the latching unit to allow a defined idle rotation of the readjusting screw, which is defined structurally by a first stop acting in a first direction of revolution and a second stop acting in the opposite direction of revolution.
US11976700B2
The application relates to a brake pad assembly (2) for a disk brake system. Further, the application relates to a disk brake system. The proposed brake pad assembly (2) comprises a back plate (4) having a front side for facing a brake disk (1) of the disk brake system and a back side (6). The brake pad assembly (2) further comprises a friction layer (3) arranged at the front side of the back plate (4) for contacting a friction surface the brake disk (1). In addition, the brake pad assembly (2) comprises a shim (5, 8, 12). The shim (5, 8, 12) comprises a copper layer (7, 11, 13, 17) for reducing squeal noises. The shim (5, 8, 12) is arranged on the back side (6) of the back plate (4).
US11976695B2
A driveshaft has an elongated rotary slip sub, a tube sleeve telescopically engaged with the slip sub, a bearing assembly mounted on the slip sub by a roller, a retaining part positioned on the bearing assembly, and a cover extending radially outwardly of the slip sub. The roller is adjacent a movable end of the tube sleeve. A bellows is secured to an adjacent tube sleeve. The retaining part holds the bellows on the bearing assembly. The cover covers the roller.
US11976694B2
A power take off includes a housing, an input mechanism that is supported in the housing and is adapted to be rotatably driven by a source of rotational energy, and an output mechanism that is supported in the housing and is rotatably driven by the input mechanism, the output mechanism being adapted to rotatably drive a rotatably driven accessory. The power take off further includes a two piece damping assembly that minimizes the transmission of torque transients from the input mechanism to the output mechanism. The two piece damping assembly may be an input cluster gear assembly that includes a first gear portion and a second gear portion that are supported for rotational movement relative to one another. The two piece damping assembly may also be part of a clutch assembly for selectively the output mechanism to be rotatably driven by the input mechanism.
US11976692B1
A disconnect clutch actuator mechanism includes a shift fork, an actuator, and a position sensor. The shift fork includes a rack gear, a pair of pins, and a sensor target. The shift fork is arranged to be pivotable on the pair of pins. The actuator includes a pinion gear engaged with the rack gear. The actuator is arranged to pivot the shift fork. The position sensor is arranged proximate the sensor target for sensing a pivot position of the shift fork. In some example embodiments, the rack gear includes a pair of arched portions and a toothed portion disposed on at least one of the pair of arched portions. The pinion gear is engaged with the toothed portion. In an example embodiment, the rack gear has a gap disposed between the pair of arched portions and the pinion gear is disposed in the gap.
US11976686B2
A method of manufacturing a connector for a fluid transfer conduit comprises: manufacturing a tube which runs parallel to a central axis C from fibre-reinforced polymer, said tube comprising a hub portion 206 and a flange-forming portion 208 located adjacent to the hub portion 206, wherein the hub portion 206 comprises continuous circumferentially oriented fibre-reinforcement 210; and the hub portion 206 and the flange-forming portion 208 comprise longitudinally oriented fibre-reinforcement 212 which runs continuously from the hub portion 206 into the flange-forming portion 208; and bending the flange-forming portion 208 away from the central axis C such that it extends from the hub portion 206 at an angle to the central axis C.
US11976683B2
A tolerance compensation arrangement enables fastening two components with compensation of tolerances between the components. The arrangement includes a base element with a passage opening, an inner thread, an adjusting element with a supporting collar and with a thread sleeve having an outer thread which matches the inner thread. On a first front side of the base element, the adjusting element is screwed into the passage opening and on a second front side of the base element, a holding structure faces away from the adjusting element. The holding structure has at least one locking web and a supporting structure, so that via a lateral or an axial insert opening in the front-sided holding structure, a fastening structure configured with two steps is fastenable friction-fit and form-fit in the holding structure an opening in the front-sided holding structure.
US11976680B2
A fastening device for assembly and quick release between objects includes a retaining device for an attachment element with a dockable portion. There is a plurality of separable parts held close together around the attachment element by at least one disengageable preloading mechanism. The preloading mechanism includes a link wound around the separable parts in order to hold them closed on the attachment element, which has the appearance of a ribbon wound in a spiral and has spring properties. The ribbon has a non-constant thickness, i.e. the thickness decreases from the inside towards the outside of the spiral. The thickness decreases with the angle of the spiral. It is manufactured as such, in its final form, by a manufacturing process employing either the removal of material by machining, or by aggregation of material.
US11976676B2
A hydraulic-electric coupling driven multi-actuator system and control method are provided. The system comprises one or more hydraulic-electric hybrid driven actuators, first inverters, control valves, centralized hydraulic units and control units, wherein each hydraulic-electric hybrid driven actuator is correspondingly connected with one first inverter and one control valve; the centralized hydraulic units are connected with the control valves and configured to supply oil for the hydraulic-electric hybrid driven actuators and to perform power compensation; and the control units are respectively connected with the hydraulic-electric hybrid driven actuators, and each control unit is configured to control output torque of a first motor of the corresponding hydraulic-electric hybrid driven actuator based on pressure information of the hydraulic-electric hybrid driven actuator, such that pressure of driving cavities of the hydraulic-electric hybrid driven actuators is equal.
US11976675B2
A hydraulic system for controlling bleed down and retraction of a boom within a safety envelope includes a backup battery power supply, and at least a first boom lift hydraulic cylinder configured to raise and lower the boom. The first boom lift hydraulic cylinder includes a solenoid bleed valve electrically connected to the backup battery power supply. The hydraulic system also includes an input device controllable by an operator of the boom. The input device may, for instance, be used by the operator to initiate bleed down and retraction of the boom from an elevated position. To accommodate independent failsafe features of the system, the input device is configured to selectively actuate the solenoid bleed valve using electrical power supplied from the backup battery power supply.
US11976673B2
A blower with a silencer has the blower including an axial fan including a casing, a motor attached to the casing, and a rotor having a shaft portion attached to the motor and rotated and a blade formed to protrude to an outer side of the shaft portion in a radial direction, and a silencer attached to the casing, in which the silencer includes a resonator that selectively silences a dominant sound generated by the axial fan, the silencer is disposed at a position in which at least a part of the silencer overlaps with the shaft portion, as viewed from a rotation axis direction of the rotor, and in a case in which, in a cross section perpendicular to a rotation axis of the rotor, a circle around the rotation axis, which has a radius of a line connecting the rotation axis and a point of a most distal end of the blade, is defined as a rotation region, an area of the silencer in the cross section perpendicular to the rotation axis is smaller than an area of the rotation region.
US11976672B2
A vertically-elongated member, which is preferably a support post used in a molten metal pump, includes a ceramic tube and tensioning structures to add a compressive load to the tube along its longitudinal axis. This makes the tube less prone to breakage. Another vertically-elongated member, such as a support post, includes one or more reinforcement members to help alleviate breakage. A device, such as a pump, used in a molten metal bath includes one or more of such vertical members.
US11976671B2
Embodiments disclosed herein include temperature control systems. In an embodiment, a temperature control system comprises a fluid reservoir for holding a fluid, and a spray chamber fluidically coupled to the fluid reservoir. In an embodiment, a pump is between the spray chamber and the fluid reservoir, where the pump provides the fluid to the spray chamber. In an embodiment, the temperature control system further comprises a vacuum source fluidically coupled to the spray chamber, where the vacuum source controls a pressure within the spray chamber, and where the fluid reservoir is between the vacuum source and the spray chamber.
US11976669B2
A housing of an axial fan that allows air to flow in an axial direction includes a frame including, on an inner surface, an air channel through which air flows, stator vanes extending radially inward from the inner surface, a motor housing supported radially inward of the stator vanes, and a motor supported on one axial side of the motor housing. A portion of the stator vanes is provided on a surface on the other axial side of the motor housing.
US11976668B2
A flow guiding device for use on a fan assembly with a motor-operated radial impeller rotating about an axis of rotation. The guiding device has an outer housing and an inner diffuser. A flow duct is formed between the outer housing and inner diffuser. The flow duct extends along an axial flow direction. The outer housing forms a receiving space for the integral holding of the radial impeller. The impeller borders, in the axial direction, on the inner diffuser. The impeller, during operation, takes in a flow axially and blows it out radially into the flow duct. The flow duct is adapted to deflect the flow from a radial direction into an axial direction.
US11976658B2
An electric pump including a pump shaft, a first rotor assembly, a stator assembly, and a second rotor assembly. The first rotor assembly is arranged in a first accommodation cavity, the stator assembly and the second rotor assembly are arranged in a second accommodation cavity; the electric pump further comprises a first channel and a second channel, the first channel passes through the upper and lower surfaces of the bottom wall of a first accommodation portion, the first channel can communicate with first accommodation cavity and the second accommodation cavity, at least part of a work medium in the first accommodation cavity can flow into the second accommodation cavity through the first channel, the second channel is arranged to penetrate through a first end face of the pump shaft and a second end face of the pump shaft.
US11976651B2
A lubricator package for intermittently delivering a lubricant to lubrication points on packing on a high-pressure reciprocating pump, a frac pump is described. A preferred package includes a large (e.g., 10 gallon) capacity reservoir; a three or five outlet pump; a common manifold receiving oil from the large capacity reservoir and supplying oil or grease to the pumps; a mounting stand supporting the large capacity reservoir and the five outlet pump; and an optional a control package providing low level monitoring of lubricant flow and controlling the pump providing a pump stroke counter or timer.
US11976644B2
The present disclosure relates to a compressor including a case, a compression unit provided inside the case, and a driving unit, wherein the compression unit includes a cylinder having a compression space, a piston reciprocating inside the cylinder, a discharge cover covering the compression space, a first plenum disposed inside the discharge cover and having a discharge space and a coupling space, a second plenum disposed inside the discharge cover and defining a movement channel through which refrigerant moves, a rib disposed in the movement channel, and a communicating portion through which the discharge space and the movement channel communicate with each other, wherein the refrigerant discharged from the compression space moves along the discharge space, the communicating portion, and the movement channel, whereby pulsation caused by the discharge of the refrigerant can be reduced.
US11976641B1
The present disclosure provides a thermomechanical actuator and a cleaning system implementing the thermomechanical actuator. The thermomechanical actuator includes a solar heat collector (SHC) housing shape memory alloy springs connected between a piston movably disposed therein and one end of the SHC. A cable extending from the piston through an opposite end of the SHC is connected to a bias load that develops returning force on the springs. In presence of solar radiation, the springs contract and cause linear movement of the piston in a direction of contraction and, in absence of the solar radiation, the springs expand and cause linear movement of the piston in direction of expansion. Useful power and work is extracted in form of the cleaning system from such linear movement of the piston.
US11976637B1
A novel renewable energy system where ambient temperatures at the surface or lower altitudes evaporate an enclosed material and create a buoyant force on the system. The buoyant system ascends and produces power. At high altitudes, the lower ambient temperature condenses the material, removing the buoyant force. The system descends to ground level, and begins the evaporation phase, starting the cycle over again.
US11976628B2
Provided is a drivetrain assembly including a rotor shaft; a bearing unit mounted about the rotor shaft; and a further drivetrain component connected to an end of the rotor shaft, wherein an annular face of the further drivetrain component is arranged opposite an annular face of the bearing unit with a distance between the annular faces. The drivetrain assembly is characterized by an annular arrangement of tapped holes formed in a first of the two opposing annular faces; a plurality of bolts, wherein each bolt includes a bolt shaft threaded into a tapped hole, a lock nut threaded onto the bolt shaft and tightened against the first annular face; and a bolt head arranged to make contact with the second of the two opposing annular faces. Also provided is a wind turbine including a such a drivetrain assembly; and a method of assembling such a drivetrain.
US11976627B2
A fairing for a modular blade of a wind turbine generator, comprising including a joining zone disposed between two consecutive modules of the modular blade. The fairing is comprised of different components; the suction side fairing, the pressure side fairing and auxiliary components, such as tabs to facilitate the joining of the components. The leading edge fairing and the trailing edge fairing are constituted of an elastomeric material, preferably silicone, supported in a rigid glass fibre framework in order to absorb the warping experienced by the blade during the operation thereof. The attachment elements employed to join the fairings together and to the setbacks of the blade shell are rivets or similar. All the fairings incorporate the metal elements necessary to be equipotentially bonded, being linked to the lighting down-drop.
US11976619B2
A movable core is driven by a magnetic attraction force with a fixed core to move a valve body to inject fuel. A yoke accommodates the fixed core. A coil is in a coil chamber between the fixed core and the yoke. The coil chamber is filled with a filling resin member being electrically insulative. The fixed core has a core facing surface facing the movable core and includes a protruding portion that protrudes radially outer side and is in contact with the yoke to conduct the magnetic flux. A resin molding flow channel is formed in the protruding portion to cause molten resin serving as the filling resin member to flow into the coil chamber. A length of the protruding portion along a cylinder center line is set to be shorter toward a radially outer side.
US11976618B2
A fixed core generates a magnetic attraction force with energization of a coil. A movable core has an attracted surface facing an attracting surface of the fixed core is attracted to the fixed core to cause the valve body to open a nozzle hole. A stopper member abuts against the movable core to restrict movement of the movable core. The movable core has an abutment portion that abuts against the stopper member, and a core body portion in which the attracted surface is formed. The attracting surface and the attracted surface extend annularly around an axis line of the fixed core, are formed so as to be separated from each other in an axis line direction in a state where the abutment portion abuts against the stopper member, and a separation distance from each other increases toward a radially outer side.
US11976615B1
A fuel supplying device for an internal combustion engine includes a tank configured to store a gaseous fuel, a fuel injection valve configured to supply the gaseous fuel to a cylinder of the internal combustion engine, a fuel passage configured to supply the gaseous fuel in the tank to the fuel injection valve, and a pressure reduction valve provided in the fuel passage. The fuel passage has a double-walled pipe structure including an inner pipe through which the gaseous fuel flows and an outer pipe that has an inner diameter larger than the inner pipe and covers the inner pipe. The fuel passage is configured such that a coolant is supplied to a space between the outer pipe and the inner pipe.
US11976611B2
A gas turbine engine for an aircraft comprises, in axial flow sequence, a compressor module, a combustor module, and a turbine module, with a first electric machine being rotationally connected to the turbine module. The first electrical machine is configured to generate a maximum electrical power PEM1 (W), and the gas turbine engine is configured to generate a maximum dry thrust T (N); and a ratio S of: S = ( Maximum Electrical Power Generated = P E M 1 ) ( Maximum Dry Thrust = T ) is in a range of between 2.0 and 10.0.
US11976598B2
A gas turbine engine includes a first spool associated with a primary combustor, a second spool associated with a secondary combustor, and a third spool, each spool including a compressor and a turbine mounted to a shaft. A transmission and accessory gearing are enclosed within an housing of an accessory gearbox. The transmission rotationally couples the third spool to the second spool and accessory gearing. A method of operating the gas turbine engine includes supplying a first fuel flow rate to the primary combustor and supplying a second fuel flow rate to the secondary combustor within an intermediate speed range of the gas turbine engine.
US11976592B1
An anti-icing system includes a nozzle assembly, a bleed air supply, a bleed control valve assembly, and a controller. The bleed air supply is configured to direct pressurized bleed air to the nozzle assembly. The bleed air supply includes a first pressure sensor configured to measure a first pressure of the pressurized bleed air. The bleed control valve assembly includes a control valve and a valve actuator. The control valve is positionable to control a flow rate of the pressurized bleed air. The valve actuator is configured to control a position of the control valve. The controller is configured to identify a power condition of the bleed air supply as a first power condition or a second power condition and control the valve actuator to position the control valve in a fully opened position for the first power condition and in a predetermined position based on the first pressure for the second power condition.
US11976587B2
A two-stroke engine includes a cylinder having a combustion chamber. The combustion chamber is delimited by a piston guided in a reciprocating manner in the cylinder and drives a crankshaft. A first intake channel opens into the crankcase interior. A transfer channel opens into the crankcase interior via a transfer window on a cylinder bore of the cylinder and via a passage opening. A second intake channel is provided for supplying scavenging air to the transfer channel. The first intake channel and the second intake channel are configured for supplying air. An injection valve configured for injecting the entire quantity of fuel to be supplied to the engine directly into the crankcase interior is disposed on the crankcase. A method for operating a two-stroke engine provides that the entire quantity of fuel to be supplied to the engine via a metering installation is supplied directly to the crankcase interior.
US11976573B2
The present disclosure teaches a system and method of generating electricity via a thermal power plant. The system and method includes a fuel heating chamber configured to receive a nano-thermite fuel, an induction assembly configured to inductively heat the fuel in the fuel heating chamber, and an electricity generating subsystem configured to convert heat from the heated nano-thermite fuel into electricity.
US11976572B2
High cycle fatigue (HCF) in a turbine wheel of a sector-divided dual volute turbocharger, particularly a turbocharger where the tongue-to-blade gap is as small as from 1-3% of the wheel diameter, is reduced, by locally increasing the volute cross-sectional area just upstream of the tongues. Thereby, it becomes possible to reduce the force function of the exhaust gas pressure onto the turbine wheel blades. Modifying how the pressure presents itself to the wheel reduces blade excitation and, ultimately, HCF of turbine wheels. In another aspect of the invention, the angle of the tongues are modified to direct the exhaust more directly onto the turbine wheel than conventional tongues. It is surprising that this approach not only accomplishes the desired result, but does this without significant loss of turbine stage efficiency.
US11976570B2
The invention relates to an aeronautical part, such as, for example, a turbine blade or a distributor vane, which is used in aeronautics, comprising at least one reactive layer adapted to react with at least one CMAS compound, the reactive layer at least partially covering the environmental barrier, characterized in that the material of the reactive layer comprises at least one oxide of the formula A′4-xA″xB′2-yB″yO11-δ, A′ being selected from a rare earth, yttrium and scandium, A″ being selected from a rare earth, yttrium, scandium and aluminum, B′ being selected from tantalum and niobium, B″ being selected from tantalum, niobium, titanium, zirconium, hafnium, aluminum and cesium, wherein x and y are real numbers between 0 and 2 and 6 is a real number between −1 and 2 and preferably between −1 and 1.
US11976565B2
A vibration dampening system includes a vibration dampening element for a turbine nozzle or blade. A body opening extends through the turbine nozzle or blade, e.g., through the airfoil among potentially other parts of the nozzle or blade. A vibration dampening element includes a plurality of stacked damper pins within the body opening. The damper pins include an outer body having an inner opening, a first end surface and an opposing second end surface; and an inner body nested and movable within the inner opening of the outer body. The end surfaces frictionally engage to dampen vibration. The inner body has a first central opening including a first portion configured to engage an elongated body therein and an outer surface configured to frictionally engage a portion of the inner opening of the outer body to dampen vibration.
US11976559B1
A rotor for an aircraft rotary engine includes a rotor body. The rotor body extends about an axial centerline. The rotor body includes an outer body portion, an annular inner body portion, and ribs. The outer body portion forms a plurality of sides and a plurality of apex portions of the rotor. The annular inner body portion is disposed radially inward of the outer body portion. The ribs extend radially between and connect the outer body portion and the annular inner body portion. The rotor body forms at least a first lubrication passage within the inner body portion and within a first rib of the ribs. The first lubrication passage includes at least one passage inlet and at least one passage outlet. The at least one passage inlet is disposed at the annular inner body portion.
US11976556B2
Systems for forming or extending a tunnel or shaft within geologic material may include a ram accelerator assembly for accelerating one or more projectiles into geologic material to weaken a region of the geologic material. The projectile(s) pre-condition the geologic material, such as by forming one or more holes in a central region of the material or to define a perimeter of the region to be displaced. A cutting tool or subsequent projectile impacts may then be used to remove the weakened material. The voids formed by the first projectile(s) cause compressive forces from subsequent impacts or cutting operations to be converted to tension forces that more efficiently break geologic material, which may fall into the voids created by the first projectile(s). The voids created by the projectile impacts may also control the material that is removed and the shape of a resulting section of the tunnel or shaft.
US11976550B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for controlling a downhole tool by encoding a tool control signal in a fluid flow and obtaining a temperature response downhole. In an example, a system for controlling a downhole tool includes a signal transmitter, a signal receiver, and a controller. The signal transmitter is uphole of the tool to be controlled (e.g., at surface) and encodes the tool control signal by varying one or more fluid flow parameters of a fluid flow down a well. The signal receiver is positionable in the well in fluid communication with the fluid flow. The signal receiver detects a temperature response in the fluid flow resulting from varying the one or more fluid flow parameters. A controller controls the downhole tool according to the temperature response.
US11976545B1
Systems and methods for monitoring slide drilling operations and providing advisory information includes a Bayesian network having a slide drilling dysfunction output node and six input nodes including: a downhole mechanical specific energy (MSE) trend node; a downhole bit aggressiveness trend node; a differential pressure trend node; a minimum buckling load node; a downhole weight on bit (DWOB) vs surface weight on bit (SWOB) ratio node, and a toolface efficiency index node. When one or more dysfunctions are detected based on the information provided to one or more nodes, the system sends out one or more alerts and provides one or more corrective actions to return to efficient drilling.
US11976543B2
A fracking device (100) for generating shock waves in a well bore (102) comprises a fracking gun (110). The fracking gun (110) includes a cartridge (200) having a hollow cavity and a cylinder (202) disposed inside the hollow cavity of the cartridge (200). The cylinder (202) has a first chamber (210) and a second chamber (212). The first chamber (210) includes a plurality of explosive charges (206) positioned on an inner surface of the cylinder (202), wherein each of the explosive charges (206) contains an explosive mixture comprising hydrogen and stoichiometric oxygen in a predetermined ratio. The second chamber (212) contains a combustion-neutral gas. The first chamber (210) is separated from the second chamber (212) by a diaphragm (214).
US11976541B2
A system includes a built hydraulic fracturing system with a plurality of devices connected together and a simulation of the built hydraulic fracturing system on a software application. Additionally, a fracturing plan may be provided on the software application to include pre-made instructions to perform multiple processes in a hydraulic fracturing operation such as a sequence of valve operations to direct fluid flow through a selected path. Further, the fracturing plan may be modified to create a customized fracturing plan including the pre-made instructions and at least one modified instruction. Furthermore, the customized fracturing plan may be executed to perform at least one of the processes in the built hydraulic fracturing system.
US11976540B2
Techniques for hydraulic fracturing a subsurface formation can include using a deterministic model to simulate a deviated well comprising a casing and at least one perforation tunnel. The techniques can include determining a different statistical distribution for each of one or more parameters to the deterministic model. The statistical distributions can be determined from the log data along the measured depth within the wellbore. The techniques can include probabilistically solving the deterministic model to determine a mean and a standard deviation of breakdown pressures along the measured depth within the wellbore. The techniques can include processing the mean and the standard deviation of breakdown pressures to determine an upper bound breakdown pressure based on a level of confidence. The techniques can include drilling and completing a deviated well based on the determined upper bound breakdown pressure and injecting hydraulic fluid to cause hydraulic fracturing of the subsurface formation.
US11976532B2
A slip assembly comprises a plurality of slips provided over a mandrel of a downhole tool, at least one generally cylindrical cone body slidably provided over the mandrel, and at least one biasing member coaxially provided over the mandrel and adapted to apply an axial force against the cylindrical body to maintain the slips in a radially extended position when the tool is set.
US11976525B2
Certain embodiments of the present application relate to a variable frequency drive (VFD) cabin for a pump configuration including a mobile trailer on which the VFD cabin is to be mounted. The VFD cabin generally includes a medium-voltage VFD and a ventilation system. In certain embodiments, the ventilation system is configured to generate an overpressure condition within the cabin to discourage the entry of dust and debris into the cabin. In certain embodiments, one or more components of the medium-voltage VFD are coupled to the floor of the cabin via a vibration damping system. In certain embodiments, the VFD cabin may be directly coupled to a chassis of the mobile trailer without an intervening suspension being provided between the VFD cabin and the chassis.
US11976522B2
A system includes a crate and a deployer. The crate is configured to contain a plurality of elongated rods; the crate has a length, width and height. The deployer includes a bed frame upper surface, a crate support frame, a tilt mechanism and a scope mechanism. The crate support frame includes an attachment mechanism configured for removable attachment of the crate, wherein the crate support frame has a longitudinal extent aligned with the length of an attached crate. The tilt mechanism is configured to move the crate support frame between a horizontal position parallel to the bed frame upper surface and a vertical position normal to the bed frame upper surface. The scope mechanism is configured to move the crate support frame linearly along its longitudinal extent. A method of deploying a plurality of rods to a selected location is also described.
US11976520B2
A well system incorporates electrically conductive mesh providing robust, reliable electrical communication pathways along portions of tubular equipment. An example system comprises a tubular string disposed in a wellbore, such as a multilateral wellbore. The tubular string defines an internal fluid flow path for conveying fluids to or from a surface of a wellsite. The tubular string also includes a plurality of well components with tubular component bodies arranged along the tubular string. An electrical network along the tubular string interconnects the well components. The electrical network comprising a transmission path defined at least in part by a mesh sleeve disposed along the tubular string around the internal fluid flow path.
US11976514B2
A child window safety system based on building a reliable safety net to prevent children from leaning and falling out through open windows is installed and uninstalled without any damage to a window. The child window safety system is mass produced to fit windows at all sizes for an installer to form a window gap vertically and horizontally with thin steel cords and fastening the thin cords to each other at an installation site.
US11976508B2
The sliding door system includes a sliding door, displaceable along a running rail relative to a stationary activation member up to a closing position; which includes a door leaf equipped with an activatable sealing device including an extractable sealing strip and actuating element equipped with a transmission device including a transmission element; and includes at least two carriages, including a carriage body and running elements connected to the door leaf, and are held in the running rail displaceable in parallel to the longitudinal axis of the running rail; wherein the activation member and transmission device are arranged so that, when the sliding door enters the closing position, a force can be transmitted from the activation member via the transmission element to the actuating element in order to drive out the sealing strip. A stationary buffer device stops the sliding door in the closing position and includes the activation member.
US11976499B2
An anti-tampering device secures bolted components, such as a trailer coupler mounted to an adjustable channel. A nut shield provides hexagonal channels in which nuts are contained. A hasp assembly provides a locking tab. Bolts secure the nut shield and the hasp assembly to the components. A hasp shield with a notched annular flange overlays the hasp assembly, receives the tab through a slot in the area surrounded by the notched annular flange, and contains a puck lock in the area. The puck lock engages the locking tab.
US11976491B2
The disclosed technology includes systems and methods for operating a pool water heating system. The pool water heating system can include a heat pump, a supplemental heat source, a water temperature sensor, and a controller. The controller can be configured to receive water temperature data and, in response to determining that the temperature of the water is less than a threshold temperature, output a control signal to activate the heat pump. The controller can further determine an expected heating time that can be indicative of an amount of time required for the temperature of the water to be greater than or equal to the threshold temperature. The controller can also generate a heating schedule based at least in part on the expected heat time and a predetermined time of use. The heating schedule can be indicative of a heat pump operation time and a supplemental heat source operation time.
US11976487B2
Elements of drop-stitch material are formed into different structures. In a platform, two legs support a horizontal platform. All are of drop-stitch material, which can be inflated to sufficient pressure for it to be rigid. Valves between the legs and platform allow air to flow between the legs and the platform. Another design is a luggage or cargo carrier for vehicles with a base, top and front walls formed of interconnected drop-stitch material. When the drop-stitch material is inflated, the material forms a cavity which receives luggage or other items. Sidewalls create an enclosed space. elements of the drop-stitch material can form other structures such as a truck shell with openings through the material to acts as windows or a door.
US11976478B2
A building formwork apparatus includes a building formwork having a frame with a positioning hole and a locking hole, and a locking member including a first tapered section, a second tapered section connected to the first tapered section, and a threaded portion connected to the second tapered section. The positioning hole is configured to receive insertion of the locking member therethrough such that the first tapered section is retained therein and the second tapered section is exposed therefrom for connection with another building formwork apparatus. The locking hole is configured to receive a threaded portion and a second tapered section of a locking member of the another building formwork apparatus.
US11976476B2
A device for leveling and aligning tiles and a method for leveling and aligning tiles are disclosed. In one embodiment of the tile leveling device, a body defines a viewing opening. A base is orthogonally coupled to the body with a base to body coupling including a frangible breakaway section. The base and the body are integral prior to frangible separation and the frangible breakaway section, upon breaking, frangibly separates the body from the base. Respective arms are moveably connected to the body opposite the base. Each of the arms may operate from an open position to a closed position where the arm releasably mates one or more tiles.
US11976470B2
Provided is a hard floor panel having a top side and a bottom side and having side edges along the panel sides for floating installation to form a floor panel composite. At least two floor panels are joined together in each case, the opposite side edges being provided with tongue-and-groove profiles, a tongue and a joining surface is provided in a first side edge and a groove and a joining surface is provided in a second opposite side edge. The tongue of the first side edge has an upper side and a lower side. A projection with a contact surface is provided on the lower side of the tongue. The joining surface of the first side edge extends from the upper side of the floor panel towards the upper tongue side and the joining surface is beveled.
US11976454B2
A trenchless collector system is configured to intercept and direct surface and/or subsurface fluids to a designated reception location to control groundwater elevations. A target collection and drainage area is identified and a gravity drainage pipe is accessed or trenchlessly installed at the target collection and drainage area. The gravity drainage pipe can be accessed at one or more drawdown points. One end of a collection pipe can be connected to the gravity drainage pipe. Surface and subsurface water is hydrostatically drawn into the collection pipe from the target collection and drainage area through venting at the one end of the collection pipe connected to the gravity drainage pipe. The surface and subsurface water can be passively drained from the collection pipe into the gravity drainage pipe and onto the designated reception location.
US11976451B2
A foot switch for driving a lever-type flush valve of a toilet bowl includes a lever operating part mounted on a flush valve of a toilet bowl to rotate a lever of the flush valve, a driving cable of which one end is connected to the lever operating part and the other end is connected to a foot stepper, and a foot stepper configured to pull the driving cable by being pressed by a foot of a user, wherein the lever operating part includes a first frame fixed to the flush valve and a second frame configured to be supported to be rotatable relative to the first frame as the driving cable is pulled.
US11976447B2
A countertop installation assembly comprises an installation seat, a driving member, and a fastening assembly. The installation seat is positioned in the installation hole and is configured to extend to below the countertop. The installation seat comprises a receiving cavity extending along a longitudinal direction. The driving member is rotatably disposed in the installation seat. The fastening assembly is operatively coupled to the driving member, and the fastening assembly is located below the countertop and moves up and down in the receiving cavity. The driving member is rotated from above the countertop to drive the fastening assembly to move up and down in the receiving cavity so as to enable the fastening assembly to be clamped to or separated from a lower side of the countertop. The fastening assembly is driven by the driving member to move between a retracted position and an extended position.
US11976442B2
A construction machine includes an attitude sensor that detects the current attitude of an upper turning body; a reference angular acceleration calculation unit that calculates a reference angular acceleration to be generated when an electric turning motor is driven by a torque command value generated according to the operation amount of an operation part; a reference gravity torque calculation unit that, on the basis of the current attitude and the deviation between an actual angular acceleration, calculates a reference gravity torque; a gravity compensation torque calculation unit that calculates a gravity compensation torque for compensating a torque component generated about the turning axis by the gravity in the current attitude; and a correction unit that corrects the torque command value by using the gravity compensation torque so as to cancel the torque component generated about the turning axis by the gravity in the current attitude.
US11976439B2
A cutting edge tip includes an attachment portion defining an adapter receiving void. A working portion extends forwardly from the attachment portion. A first lateral end portion is disposed along the lateral direction, the first lateral end portion defining a first lateral end surface that jogs laterally. Also, a second lateral end portion is disposed along the lateral direction opposite of the first lateral end portion. The second lateral end portion also defines a second lateral end surface that jogs laterally.
US11976434B2
A land anchor device for securing a boat to the shore using a pair of deployable plates includes a tube having a top surface. The tube has an interior that defines a space where a variety of elements can be positioned within. The end of a tube is a spear that impales into the ground. A drive is positioned on the top surface of the tube. A lead screw is connected to the driver where the driver rotates the lead screw when in use. A plurality of lead nuts is enwrapped on the lead screw and move along an axis of the lead screw. A pair of arms is coupled to a lead screw and move into a perpendicular position for securing a rope around. A pair of plates is positioned near the spear and helps stabilize the tube within the ground.
US11976433B2
Disclosed herein are methods and systems designed to eliminate or otherwise substantially reduce the amount of water from rainfall that comes into contact with the foundation of a building and the basement walls. Methods and systems described herein will in many instances save users thereof thousands of dollars in costs associated with repairing basement walls that have become cracked or otherwise damaged due to exposure to water and associated structural damage.
US11976430B2
A cable barrier delineator for selective attachment on roadway barrier cable systems that utilize steel cables between posts as a vehicle safety barrier along highways. The cable barrier delineator is a rectangular one-piece cable attachment having double sided reflective insert surfaces with a split apertured mounting tab for cable engagement extending therefrom. An attachment tab retainment tie stays selectively positioned through apertures in said mounting tabs, stabilizes and prevent unauthorized removal once installed and secured on the cable.
US11976428B2
A barricade includes a foundation frame, a finger wedge barrier, a hinge hingedly coupling the finger wedge barrier to the foundation frame, and an actuator mechanism coupled to the foundation frame and the finger wedge barrier. The finger wedge barrier is configured to rotate about the hinge between a stowed configuration and a deployed configuration, and the actuator mechanism is configured to rotate the finger wedge barrier between the stowed configuration and the deployed configuration. The actuator mechanism includes an actuator comprising a housing and a rod configured to reciprocally move in the housing, a first linkage having a first end rotatably coupled to the rod and a second end rotatably coupled to the finger wedge barrier, and a second linkage having a first end rotatably coupled to the rod and a second end rotatably coupled to the foundation frame.
US11976410B2
A clothes treatment apparatus includes a cabinet, a door, and a steam unit. The clothes treatment apparatus further includes a heat pump unit that is located in the cycle chamber and that is configured to circulate and condition air in the treatment chamber. The clothes treatment apparatus further includes a water supply tank that is installed in the tank installation space, that is connected to the steam unit, and that is configured to supply water to the steam unit. The clothes treatment apparatus further includes a drainage tank that is separably installed in the tank installation space, that is configured to store condensed water generated in at least one of the treatment chamber or the heat pump unit. The clothes treatment apparatus further includes a water supply level sensor. The clothes treatment apparatus further includes a drainage level sensor.
US11976407B2
A clothing treating device comprises a first clothing treating bucket, a second clothing treating bucket and an air duct, wherein an air inlet end of the air duct respectively communicates with a first air inlet of the first clothing treating bucket and a second air inlet of the second clothing treating bucket through an air duct conversion device at the air inlet end, and the air duct conversion device at the air outlet end of the air duct respectively communicates with a first air outlet of the first clothing treating bucket and the second air outlet of the second clothing treating bucket. Through respectively arranging an air duct conversion device at two ends of the air duct, a single air duct can provide a circulating air flow for drying clothes to the first clothing treating bucket or the second clothing treating bucket, respectively.
US11976401B2
A washing machine including a tub disposed inside a main body, a drainage pump configured to cause the received water inside the tub to flow to an outside of the washing machine through a drainage passage, a first filter, arrangeable along the drainage passage, to filter out foreign matter equal to or greater than predetermined size from the water, and a second filter, arrangeable along the drainage passage, to filter out foreign matter smaller than the predetermined size from the water. The drainage passage includes a first connecting hose to guide the water to flow from the tub to the first filter, a second connecting hose to guide the water to flow from the first filter to the second filter, and a drainage hose to guide the water to be discharged from the second filter to the outside of the washing machine.
US11976398B2
In a thread standing device capable of switching a plurality of spool pins between a stored state and a deployed state and a sewing machine having the thread standing device, an operability is improved during the switching operation. In a thread standing device, a plurality of spool pins can be switched between a stored state and a deployed state, operation portions related to a switching operation of the plurality of spool pins is provided, and the plurality of spool pins are configured to be switched from the stored state to the deployed state when the operation portions are operated.
US11976396B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for producing a nonwoven fabric that improves filtration performance when applied as a filter material. By adjusting the modification ratio of the Y-shaped cross-section of polyester filaments constituting the nonwoven fabric, when applied to a filter by increasing a specific surface area of the nonwoven fabric, it increases the collection amount of the materials to be filtered and maintains a low differential pressure, thus enabling long-term use.
US11976395B2
An embossed non-woven for the vehicle interior, includes: polyethylene terephthalate framework staple fibers; and polyethylene terephthalate binding staple fibers. A proportion of polyethylene terephthalate binding staple fibers is 5 to 50 wt. % based on a total weight of the non-woven. The polyethylene terephthalate binding staple fibers includes core/shell staple fibers. A shell of the core/shell staple fibers has low-melting co-polyethylene terephthalate having a melting point measured in accordance with DIN ISO 11357-3 (2013) in a range of 80° C. to 230° C.
US11976392B2
A cushion cover includes a one-piece knit fabric configured to at least partially surround a cushion, the cover including at least one graphic feature protruding from an associated surrounding area of the one-piece knit fabric. The at least one graphic feature is integrally knitted in the one-piece knit fabric and has a thickness at least about 2 times the thickness of the associated surrounding area of the one-piece knit fabric.
US11976388B2
A method and associated device and system are provided for recording trash in a fiber preparation system having a plurality of cleaning points and a transport line that is connected to the cleaning points and is guided into a central container connected to a negative pressure source for generating transport air. The trash is suctioned from each cleaning point through the transport line with the transport air to the central container and is feed separately from each cleaning point to the central container. In the central container, the trash is separated from the transport air and transferred into a scale for weighing. With the trash located on the scale, an optical recording of the trash is made with a camera directed to an interior of the scale.
US11976386B2
A method of preparing a carbon fiber including: preparing a precursor fiber for preparing a carbon fiber; and stabilizing the precursor fiber. The stabilization of the precursor fiber includes a first stabilization phase, a second stabilization phase, a third stabilization phase, and a fourth stabilization phase, which are set at four different temperatures between a temperature at which heat starts to be generated from the stabilization reaction of the precursor fiber and a temperature at which the generation of heat is maximized. Ozone gas is input while at least one phase of the third stabilization phase and the fourth stabilization phase is carried out.
US11976384B2
Methods and systems for quantification of an abundance of one or more payloads (e.g. proteins) in a mixture (e.g. a complex mixture (e.g. in vivo)) using barcodes (e.g. peptide barcodes), binders (e.g. polypeptide binders), and binding agents (e.g. phage) are provided herein.
US11976375B1
Systems and processes for the production of lithium metal from molten salts. Systems can include a ceramic tube affixed by or to a freeze-composite. The freeze-composite includes a matrix, of a salt and a dispersed phase. The freeze is maintained with a cooling collar to maintain a temperature below the melting point of the salt. Systems can include a molten-catholyte and a molten-anolyte each adjacent to separate surfaces of the ceramic tube. The freeze-composite forms a fluidic and non-conductive barrier between the molten-catholyte and the molten-anolyte. Processes include a freeze-composite affixed to the ceramic tube. The ceramic tube is adjacent to a composite collar which is adjacent to a cooling collar; The cooling fluid is passed through the cooling collar. A molten-catholyte is passed along a first surface of the ceramic tube. A molten-anolyte is passed along to a second surface of the ceramic tube.
US11976369B2
In one aspect, a highly scalable diffusion-couple apparatus includes a transfer chamber configured to load a wafer into a process chamber. The process chamber is configured to receive the wafer substrate from the transfer chamber. The process chamber comprises a chamber for growth of a diffusion material on the wafer. A heatable bottom substrate disk includes a first heating mechanism. The heatable bottom substrate disk is fixed and heatable to a specified temperature. The wafer is placed on the heatable bottom substrate disk. A heatable top substrate disk comprising a second heating mechanism. The heatable top substrate disk is configured to move up and down along an x axis and an x prime axis to apply a mechanical pressure to the wafer on the heatable bottom substrate disk. While the heatable top substrate disk applies the mechanical pressure a chamber pressure is maintained at a specified low value. The first heating mechanism and the second heating mechanism can be independently tuned to any value in the working range.
US11976367B2
A dual phase magnetic component, along with methods of its formation, is provided. The dual phase magnetic component may include an intermixed first region and second region formed from a single material, with the first region having a magnetic area and a diffused metal therein, and with the second region having a non-magnetic area. The second region generally has greater than 0.1 weight % of nitrogen.
US11976366B2
A sliding member of the present invention includes a base material and a coating layer that is formed on the base material. The coating layer includes a particle aggregate, and the particle aggregate contains two or more kinds of precipitation hardened copper alloy particles that have different compositions. The sliding member has high coating strength and superior wear resistance.
US11976364B2
A material layer manufacturing method is provided. The material layer manufacturing method may comprise the steps of: preparing a substrate having a base pattern formed thereon; providing a first precursor on the substrate having the base pattern formed thereon, in a state where a first voltage is applied to the base pattern; and providing a second precursor on the substrate having the first precursor provided thereon, in a state where a second voltage is applied to the base pattern, to form, on the substrate having the base pattern formed thereon, a material layer resulting from the reaction of the first precursor with the second precursor.
US11976363B2
Pedestal assemblies, purge rings for pedestal assemblies, and processing methods for increasing residence time of an edge purge gas in heated pedestal assemblies are described. Purge rings have an inner diameter face and an outer diameter face defining a thickness of the purge ring, a top surface and a bottom surface defining a height of the purge ring, and a thermal expansion feature. Purge rings comprise a plurality of apertures extending through the thickness and aligned circumferentially with a plurality of circumferentially spaced purge outlets in a substrate support.
US11976359B2
Gas supply assemblies and reactors systems including the gas supply assemblies are disclosed. An exemplary gas supply assembly includes a vessel, a valve plate, a housing encasing the vessel and the valve plate, a gas feedthrough having a first end interior of the housing and a second end exterior of the housing, and one or more valves attached to the valve plate, wherein at least one valve is fluidly coupled to an interior of the vessel. The assemblies can further include a removable gas line having a first end coupled to the at least one valve and a second end coupled to the gas feedthrough. Additionally or alternatively, a gas supply assembly can include one or more valve plate leveling devices coupled to the valve plate.
US11976355B2
A method for producing a part having improved resistance to oxidation and high temperature-corrosion, includes the formation of an environmental barrier coating on an at least partially ceramic matrix composite material, the environmental barrier coating being formed by direct liquid injection-metal organic chemical vapor deposition.
US11976349B2
A deposition mask according to an embodiment includes a metal plate including a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface wherein the metal plate includes iron (Fe) and nickel (Ni), a thickness of the metal plate is 15 μm to 30 μm, and the metal plate includes a first surface layer having a depth of 20% or less of the thickness of the metal plate from the first surface and a second surface layer having a depth of 20% or less of the thickness of the metal plate from the second surface, wherein when diffraction intensity with respect to a (111) crystal plane of the first surface layer is defined as I (111), diffraction intensity with respect to a (200) crystal plane is defined as I (200), and diffraction intensity with respect to a (220) crystal plane is defined as I (220), a ratio of diffraction intensity of I (220) is defined by Equation 1 below, A=I(220)/(I(200)+I(220)+I(111)) [Equation] a ratio of diffraction intensity of I (200) is defined by Equation 2 below, B=I(200)/(I(200)+I(220)+I(111)) [Equation 2] a ratio of diffraction intensity of I (111) is defined by Equation 3 below, C=I(111)/(I(200)+I(220)+I(111)) [Equation 3] a value of the A is greater than a value of the B and a value of the C, the value of the B is greater than the value of the C, and when a ratio of the B to the A (B/A) is defined as D, a value of the D is 0.5 to less than 1.
US11976343B2
An aluminium based alloy, and a method for production of components by additive manufacturing (AM) or other rapid solidification process with the alloy, is based on the alloy having a composition with from 2.01 wt % to 15.0 wt % manganese, from 0.3 wt % to 2.0 wt % scandium, with a balance apart from minor alloy elements and incidental impurities of aluminium.
US11976340B2
A refining vessel for high-temperature melt includes a refractory for gas blowing nozzle that includes a central refractory embedded with metal tubules, and an outer refractory circumferentially surrounding the central refractory. The refractory for gas blowing nozzle has a horizontal projection on which a minimum radius of an imaginary circle encompassing all the metal tubules embedded in the central refractory is R (mm), wherein the central refractory has an outline that falls between one circle that is concentric with the imaginary circle and has a radius of R+10 mm, and another circle that is concentric with the imaginary circle and has a radius of R+150 mm. The central refractory is formed of a MgO—C refractory having a carbon content of 30 to 80 mass %, and the outer refractory is formed of a MgO—C refractory having a carbon content of 10 to 25 mass %.
US11976339B2
A method is provided for producing sustainable leather using by-products from parts of all varieties and species of the plant genus Persea including among them both the American species and the Hass variety. A hide or leather may be produced by the method, and a method is provided for producing the natural tanning agents used in the method to produce sustainable leather and the natural tanning agents produced by the method.
US11976337B2
This disclosure concerns amplification primers, hybridization assay probes, compositions containing such primers and probes, and associated reagents, kits, and methods, that can be used to analyze samples for the presence of Influenza A virus, Influenza B virus, Respiratory Syncytial Virus A, and/or Respiratory Syncytial Virus B target nucleic acids.
US11976327B2
The present invention relates to a method, in particular an in vitro method, for identifying specific immune cells, in particular MDSCs, comprising analyzing a modification, preferably the methylation status, of at least one CpG position in the mammalian gene region for endoplasmatic reticulum-golgi intermediate compartment 1 (ERGIC1), wherein a demethylation or lack of methylation or modification of said gene region is indicative for an MDSC, when compared to a non-MDSC. The analyses according to the invention can identify specific sub-populations of MDSCs, namely monocytic MDSCs (m MDSCs) on an epigenetic level and distinguish them from all other cells in complex samples, such as, for example, other blood or immune cells. The present invention furthermore provides an improved method for quantifying m MDSCs, in particular in complex samples. The method can be performed without a step of purifying and/or enriching cells, preferably in whole blood and/or non-trypsinized tissue.
US11976322B2
The current document discusses electromechanical sequence detectors that transduce changes in the shape of a shape-change sensor component into an electrical signal from which one or more derived values are generated. In a disclosed implementation, the sequence-detection system comprises a mechanical-change sensor that changes shape when specifically interacting with entities within a target, a shape-to-signal-transduction component that transduces changes in the shape of the mechanical-change sensor into an electrical signal, an analysis subsystem that determines the types of entities within the target using the electrical signal, and a control subsystem that continuously monitors operational characteristics of the sequence-detection system and adjusts sequence-detection system operational parameters.
US11976318B2
Methods of analyzing nucleic acids of a cell are provided.
US11976311B2
The present invention provides for a method of fermenting or saccharifying a biomass comprising: (a) (i) contacting a biomass comprising a polysaccharide, and an ionic liquid (IL) to form a first solution, or (ii) providing the first solution comprising the biomass and the IL, (b) contacting the first solution and carbon dioxide such that the first solution results in a lower pH, (c) introducing (i) an enzyme capable of enzymatically to breakdown at least one bond in the polysaccharide or a breakdown product of the polysaccharide, and/or (ii) a microorganism that capable of producing the enzyme and/or fermenting the polysaccharide or a breakdown product of the polysaccharide, such that the polysaccharide is at least partially broken down and the first solution is transformed into a second solution.
US11976310B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for the incorporation of formaldehyde into biomass comprising the following enzymatically catalyzed steps: (1) condensation of pyruvate with formaldehyde into 4-hydroxy-2-oxobutanoic acid (HOB); (2) amination of the thus produced 4-hydroxy-2-oxobutanoic acid (HOB) to produce homoserine; (3) conversion of thus produced homoserine to threonine; (4) conversion of the thus produced threonine into glycine and acetaldehyde or acetyl-CoA; (5) condensation of the thus produced glycine with formaldehyde to produce serine; and (6) conversion of the thus produced serine to produce pyruvate, wherein said pyruvate can then be used as a substrate in step (1). The disclosure also relates to enzymes for catalyzing the corresponding enzymatic reactions and recombinant microorganisms which express the enzymes for catalyzing the corresponding enzymatic reactions.
US11976304B2
Described herein are methods for providing an in vitro intestinal model system, e.g., using primary cells instead of cell lines and/or cancerous cells.
US11976303B2
Described herein are methods for enhancing the nuclear reprogramming of somatic cells to become induced pluripotent stem cells. In particular, the methods disclosed herein involve the use of damage-associated molecular pattern molecules (DAMP). In certain embodiments the DAMPs are aluminum compositions such as aluminum hydroxide. Such DAMPs have unexpectedly and surprisingly been found to enhance the nuclear reprogramming efficiency of the reprogramming factors commonly used to induce somatic cells to become induced pluripotent stem cells. Accordingly, this disclosure describes methods of nuclear reprogramming as well as cells obtained from such methods along with therapeutic methods for using such cells for the treatment of disease amendable to treatment by stem cell therapy; as well as kits for such uses.
US11976301B2
The present invention provides a method for producing megakaryocytes that have an increased capacity to produce platelets, the method comprising a step of culturing, under conditions that cause the death of cells that do not express a gene that is specifically expressed by megakaryocytes, cells that have the capacity to differentiate into megakaryocytes.
US11976295B2
The present application discloses a cell culture media for growth, maintenance and induction of reversion to a less mature state of a cell comprising a MUC1* activating ligand.
US11976290B2
The invention provides recombinant DNA molecules that are unique to Brassica Event MON94100 and transgenic Brassica plants, Brassica plant parts, Brassica seeds, Brassica cells, and agricultural products containing Brassica Event MON94100 as well as methods of using and detecting Brassica Event MON94100. Transgenic Brassica plants containing Brassica Event MON94100 exhibit tolerance to dicamba.
US11976285B2
Provided herein are KRN2 gene controlling kernel row number in plant, molecular markers closely linked to KRN2 and their application in molecular breeding.
US11976279B2
This disclosure relates to the use of miRNA-483 and its target genes, UBE2C, pVHL and HIF1alpha, in managing the treatment of cardiovascular and inflammatory diseases. In certain embodiments, this disclosure relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising a miR-483 mimic and/or an HIF inhibitor and a pharmaceutically acceptable excipient for use in treating or preventing a vascular disease or condition. In certain embodiments, the miR-483 mimic is a double stranded nucleobase polymer or an expression vector that expresses mature human miR-483-5p and miR-483-3p sequences or operable fragments and variants.
US11976270B2
Provided herein, in some aspects, are methods and compositions for producing single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) having uniform length.
US11976262B2
A biological culture unit comprises a chamber body and a valve plate. The chamber body has defined therein a growth chamber and an aliquot chamber. The valve plate is disposed on the top surface of the chamber body and is movable to define selectable configurations of the biological culture unit for: (1) loading the growth chamber; (3) transferring an aliquot from the growth chamber to the aliquot chamber via a path defined within the biological culture unit in the transfer position; and (4) extracting the aliquot from the aliquot chamber. The selectable positions may further include (2) a growth position, and (5) a termination position for putting a termination agent into the growth and aliquot chambers. The valve plate may further include a neutralizer port that is aligned with the aliquot chamber in the loading position, for loading a neutralizing agent into the aliquot chamber.
US11976261B2
A bioproduct manufacturing system is disclosed. The system comprises a hollow-fiber primary membrane gas absorber comprising a shell side and a lumen, wherein the primary membrane gas absorber is configured to receive a carbonate salt-based solvent on the shell side and a gas mixture comprising oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon dioxide in the lumen, at least one runway algal cassette reactor-photobioreactor, and a growth medium circulating between the primary membrane gas absorber and the at least one runway algal cassette reactor-photobioreactor. The at least one runway algal cassette reactor-photobioreactor comprises at least one growth chamber coupled to and in fluid communication with a headspace channel so as to define and interior volume, a first condenser coupled to and in fluid communication with the headspace channel, and a harvest line in fluid communication with the at least one growth chamber and coupled to a filter.
US11976258B2
The invention relates to a brewing plant for continuously or discontinuously obtaining and treating a wort in the beer brewery or beverage industry; wherein the wort derived based on a surface filtration, is obtained continuously or discontinuously. In a second device the wort obtained as such, is set to a first temperature between 0 and 85° C. after completing of the thermal treatment of the wort; and an enzyme-containing substrate is added by means of an apparatus. Therein, the first apparatus for setting the temperature of the wort to a first temperature is arranged downstream to an apparatus for keeping hot or boiling of the wort. The apparatus is arranged downstream to the first apparatus for setting the temperature of the wort to the first temperature. Moreover, a corresponding method and corresponding uses are suggested.
US11976255B2
The invention relates to solidification of liquid amine oxide, betaine, and/or sultaine surfactants with a binder to form a solidified surfactant composition. In particular, the invention relates to solidification of liquid surfactants utilizing drying device(s), wherein the feed composition contains at least one liquid surfactant and a binder and optional carrier to form a solidified surfactant composition. The solidified surfactant compositions can be useful in various cleaning compositions.
US11976253B2
The current invention relates to a method of separating lipids from a lipids containing biomass by demulsification under mild conditions, to an oil and to a delipidated biomass as obtained by such a method.
US11976249B2
The present disclosure relates to a coating composition for a wiper blade comprising graphene and a wiper blade coated using the same. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to a coating composition for a wiper blade comprising graphene that may improve durability, an abrasion resistance, and a slip property of a wiper blade, a wiper blade coated using the coating composition, and a method for manufacturing the wiper blade.
US11976248B2
The invention provides dispersions comprising I) at least one oil-soluble polymer effective as a cold flow improver for mineral oils, II) at least one organic, water-immiscible solvent, III) a dispersant comprising, based on the total amount of dispersant, a) 10-90% by weight of a salt of an ethercarboxylic acid and b) 90-10% by weight of a nonionic surfactant, IV) water and V) at least one organic, water-miscible solvent.
US11976246B1
Disclosed are exemplary embodiments of thermal conversion reactors and assemblies/units, systems, and methods including the same for thermally converting landfill-bound plastic waste (broadly, polymeric materials) into electrical energy.
US11976244B2
A method may include: hydropyrolyzing a bio feedstock in a hydropyrolysis unit to produce at least a hydropyrolysis oil; introducing at least a portion of the hydropyrolysis oil with a hydrocarbon co-feed into a fluidized catalytic cracking unit; and cracking the hydropyrolysis oil in the fluidized catalytic cracking unit to produce at least fuel range hydrocarbons.
US11976239B2
Non-aqueous drilling fluids may be removed from a wellbore or tubing nor casing within the wellbore by introducing into the well a biodegradable aqueous fluid comprising banana.
US11976233B2
A composition contains a compound of formula (1), and a polymerizable liquid crystal compound or a liquid crystalline polymer compound. n represents 1 or 2; Ar1, Ar2, and Ar3 each represent a 1,4-phenylene group or a divalent sulfur-containing aromatic heterocyclic group; At least one of Ar1 and Ar2 has a fluorine atom; R1 represents a single bond or a group selected from —OC(═O)—, —C(═O)O—, —C≡C—, —CH═CH—, —CH═N—, —N═N—, and —N═CH—; R2 represents an alkylamino group or an alkoxy group; R3 represents a group selected from an alkanediyl group, an alkanediyloxy group, an alkanediyloxycarbonyl group, and an alkanediylcarbonyloxy group; and R4 represents a polymerizable group or a hydrogen atom. R4—R3—Ar1—(—R1—Ar2—)n—N═N—Ar3—R2 (1)
US11976225B2
The present invention relates to a process for bonding substrates, wherein the bond is a bond that can be released by heat treatment at a temperature of 50° C. to less than 200° C. and a composition is used to produce the bond, said composition containing a polymer of formula (I): Q-(O—C(O)—CR′R″—C(O)—R)x, where: Q=a polymer group, selected from a polyester group and/or a polyolefin group, wherein the polymer group does not contain any components that result from the use of molecules having (meth)acrylic acid units as monomers; x is greater than or equal to 1; R1═R2 or O—R3; R2=a hydrocarbon group, which can be substituted with halogen atoms, comprising 1 to 10 carbon atoms; R3=a hydrocarbon group, which can be substituted with halogen atoms, comprising 1 to 10 carbon atoms, or a polymer group; R′=—H, or a hydrocarbon group, which can be substituted with halogen atoms, comprising 1 to 10 carbon atoms, or a group of formula (II): —C(O)—NH-Q′, where Q′=an organic group which can also have one or more silicon atoms; and R″=—H or a group of formula (II), with the proviso that if neither of the groups R′ and R″ is a group of formula (II), then at least one of the groups R′ or R″ is —H.
US11976221B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a thermoplastic adhesive composition comprising: at least one maleic anhydride-grafted ethylene-based polymer; at least one at least one ethylene/α-olefin/non-conjugated diene interpolymer having a molecular weight distribution (MWD) ≥2.5, wherein MWD=Mw/Mn, wherein Mw is weight averaged molecular weight and Mn is number averaged molecular weight, which are both determined by gel permeation chromatography; a very low density polyethylene (VLDPE) having a density in the range 0.885 to 0.915 grams/cm3; and optionally at least one ethylene alkyl (meth)acrylate copolymer, wherein the alkyl group comprises one to four carbon atoms.
US11976216B2
An electrically conductive and corrosion resistant graphene-based coating composition, including a binder, high-pressure airless-sprayed expanded graphene stacks, carbon fibers, and a dispersing agent, wherein the graphene-based coating composition has an electrical conductivity of at least 2 S/cm and a pull-off adhesion of at least 2 MPa.
US11976206B2
An ink set for inkjet recording includes a base ink which contains at least one polymerizable compound selected from the group consisting of a monofunctional polymerizable compound and a difunctional polymerizable compound and an image recording ink which contains a polymerizable liquid crystal compound and a chiral compound. An image recording method uses the ink set.
US11976198B2
A mixture made from or containing T1) from 99 wt % to 75 wt % of bitumen, and T2) from 1 wt % to 25 wt % of a polymer composition made from or containing A) 5-35% by weight of a propylene homopolymer or a propylene ethylene copolymer; B) 20-50% by weight of a copolymer of ethylene and a C3-C8 alpha-olefin containing from 1.0% to 20.0% by weight of alpha-olefin units; and C) 30-60% by weight of a copolymer of ethylene and propylene containing from 25.0% to 75.0% by weight of ethylene derived units.
US11976196B2
Aspects of the present disclosure pertain to compositions and methods for preparing silk films for use in food packaging. Exemplary compositions of the present disclosure comprise silk films and packaging coatings as a replacement for traditional food packaging, such as single-use plastic packaging, and/or to extend the shelf-life of foods. The natural bio-based silk coatings of the present disclosure may be odorless, low cost, edible, compostable, come from a renewable source, removable from the packaging for recycling, and are biodegradable. In some embodiments, the silk films and packaging coatings may prolong the shelf-life, enhance or maintain the quality and safety, and/or provide indication of and regulate the freshness of food products.
US11976171B2
A polyimide resin precursor is obtained by allowing a diamine and an acid anhydride to react with each other. The diamine includes p-phenylenediamine, a bis(aminophenoxy)benzene, and 2-(4-aminophenyl)benzoxazol-5-amine. The acid anhydride includes a biphenyl tetracarboxylic dianhydride. The content of the p-phenylenediamine is 30 to 75% by mol, the content of the bis(aminophenoxy)benzene is 10 to 30% by mol, and the content of the 2-(4-aminophenyl)benzoxazol-5-amine is 10 to 50% by mol, with respect to the total of the diamine. The content of the biphenyl tetracarboxylic dianhydride is 78% by mol or more with respect to the total of the acid anhydride.
US11976165B2
The present invention relates to a method for producing a double metal cyanide (DMC) catalyst, comprising the reaction of an aqueous solution of a cyanide-free metal salt, an aqueous solution of a metal cyanide salt, an organic complex ligand, optionally a complex-forming component to form a dispersion, the dispersion being produced using a mixing nozzle and a peroxide. The invention further relates to double metal cyanide (DMC) catalysts obtainable by means of the method according to the invention and to the use of DMC catalysts to produce polyoxyalkylene polyols.
US11976150B2
Presented and described is a hydrocarbon resin obtainable by thermal polymerization of a cyclic diolefin component including a cyclic diolefin compound with an aromatic component including indene and/or C1-4-alkylindene, with the hydrocarbon resin having a polydispersity index (PDI) of 1 to less than 2.3. Further described is a production process for the hydrocarbon resin, wherein a monomer mixture which includes an aromatic component including indene and/or C1-4-alkylindene and a cyclic diolefin component including a cyclic diolefin compound is polymerized by heating to a polymerization temperature of at least 180° C. to give a product stream including hydrocarbon resin, and oligomers which include units originating from the cyclic diolefin compound and/or units originating from the aromatic component are separated from the product stream and returned to the monomer mixture. Lastly described are a hydrogenated hydrocarbon resin, a process for production thereof, and the use of the hydrocarbon resin and of the hydrogenated hydrocarbon resin.
US11976148B2
A curable composition comprising: a hydroxy-functional or ether-functional (meth)acrylate copolymer, an epoxy resin; water; a photocatalyst, and optionally a polyvinyl acetal polymer and/or a film-forming polymer. When cured, provides structural bonding adhesives that are curable under high humidity conditions.
US11976130B2
The invention relates to antibodies directed against an epitope located within the C-terminal portion of CLDN18.2 which are useful, for example, in diagnosing cancer and/or in determining whether cancer cells express CLDN18.2.
US11976128B2
The present disclosure is directed to antibodies binding to PD-L2 and methods of using such antibodies to treat cancers, such as those that express or overexpress PD-L2.
US11976126B2
The disclosure relates generally to molecules that specifically engage death receptor 5 (DR5), a member of the TNF receptor superfamily (TNFRSF). More specifically the disclosure relates to multivalent and multispecific molecules that bind at least DR5.
US11976125B2
Disclosed herein are B cell maturation antigen binding proteins with improved binding affinities and improved ability to mediate killing of cancer cells expressing B cell maturation antigen (BCMA). Pharmaceutical compositions comprising the binding proteins disclosed herein and methods of treatment of a cancer or a metastasis thereof using such formulations are further provided.
US11976120B2
Provided herein are antibodies that selectively bind to complex comprising a non-classical HLA-I (e.g. HLA-E) and a neoantigen having variable heavy chain domains (VH), variable light chain domains (VL), and complementarity determining regions (CDRs) as disclosed herein, as well as methods and uses thereof.
US11976116B2
The invention provides improved compositions for adoptive cell therapies for cancers. The invention generally provides improved vectors for generating T cell therapies and methods of using the same. More particularly, the invention provides salvage CARs, dimerizable salvage receptors, and their use in treating, preventing, or ameliorating cancers, and in particular preferred embodiments relapsed or refractory cancer. In various embodiments, a salvage chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) is provided comprising: an extracellular antigen binding domain; a multimerization domain; a transmembrane domain; one or more intracellular co-stimulatory signaling domains; and/or a primary signaling domain.
US11976112B2
An scFv-Fc dimer binds and neutralizes TGFβ1 selectively and with high affinity and avidity. The scFv region may comprise the same VH and VL domains or CDR regions as metelimumab. The unique combination of their smaller size, high selectivity, potency against TGFβ1, and long in vivo half-life makes the scFv-Fc dimers ideal candidates for therapeutic applications.
US11976110B2
The present invention pertains to a method for directly determining the biological activity of a Neurotoxin polypeptide in cells, comprising the steps of: a) incubating cells susceptible to Neurotoxin intoxication with a Neurotoxin polypeptide for a time and under conditions which allow for the Neurotoxin polypeptide to exert its biological activity; b) fixing the cells and, optionally, permeabilizing the cells with a detergent; c) contacting the cells with at least a first capture antibody specifically binding to the non-cleaved and Neurotoxin-cleaved substrate and with at least a second capture antibody specifically binding to the cleavage site of the Neurotoxin-cleaved substrate, under conditions which allow for binding of said capture antibodies to said substrates; d) contacting the cells with at least a first detection antibody specifically binding to the first capture antibody, under conditions which allow for binding of said first detection antibody to said first capture antibody, thus forming first detection complexes, and at least a second detection antibody specifically binding to the second capture antibody, under conditions which allow for binding of said second detection antibody to said second capture antibody, thus forming second detection complexes; e) determining the amount of the first and second detection complexes of step d), and f) calculating the amount of substrate cleaved by said Neurotoxin polypeptide in said cells by means of the second detection complexes, thereby determining the biological activity of said Neurotoxin polypeptide in said cells. The invention further provides for a kit for carrying out the method of the invention.
US11976108B2
A modified Ac-TMP-2 protein lacks one or a plurality of acidic C-terminal amino acids normally present in a full-length or wild-type Ac-TMP-2 protein and may also lack one or a plurality of N-terminal amino acids while retaining the amino acid sequence C-S-C at or near the N-terminus. The modified Ac-TMP-2 protein may be useful in method and composition for reducing or alleviating inflammation in a subject. Inflammation may be associated with a disease is a disease of the digestive tract such as chronic gastritis or an inflammatory bowel disease such as Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis, or a disease of the respiratory system, such as asthma, emphysema, chronic bronchitis, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
US11976103B2
Provided herein are IL-2 muteins, IL-2 mutein Fc-fusion molecules, anti-IL-2 antibodies, and complexes comprising an anti IL-2 antibody bound to an IL-2 cytokine that preferentially expand and activate T regulatory cells and are amenable to large scale production. Also provided herein are variant human IgG1 Fc molecules lacking or with highly reduced effector function and high stability despite lacking glycosylation at N297. Also provided herein are linker peptides that are glycosylated when expressed in mammalian cells. Also provided herein are methods of making and using the compositions of the present invention.
US11976102B2
Provided herein are IL-2 muteins and IL-2 mutein Fc-fusion molecules that preferentially expand and activate T regulatory cells and are amenable to large scale production. Also provided herein are variant human IgG1 Fc molecules lacking or with highly reduced effector function and high stability despite lacking glycosylation at N297. Also, provided herein are linker peptides that are glycosylated when expressed in mammalian cells.
US11976092B2
Disclosed herein are high Tm RNA nanostructures that can be composed of one or more modules or motifs to build RNA nanostructures with or without layers. The RNA nanostructures can have a core domain and three or more double-stranded arms and formulations thereof to conjugate high copy numbers of therapeutics, pH responsive or enzyme cleavable drug cargo. Also described herein is a design strategy for generation of synthetic RNA oligonucleotides that can self assemble into highly thermostable RNA structures. Also described herein are uses of the RNA nanostructures described herein.
US11976088B2
Boron-containing compound and electrolyte solution additive for secondary battery including the same
Provided are a novel boron-containing compound and an electrolyte solution additive for a secondary battery including the same. The electrolyte solution for a secondary battery provided in one embodiment includes the novel boron-containing compound, thereby suppressing the decomposition of an electrolyte solution to improve the capacity and the life characteristics of a battery.
US11976087B2
The invention provides a light-stimuli responsive coordination polymer, and preparation method and use thereof. The coordination polymer has a chemical formula of [Zn(tkpvb) (Fb)2]n1, wherein Fb represents p-fluorobenzoate, tkpvb represents 1,2,4,5-tetrakis((E)-2-(4-pyridyl)vinyl)benzene, and n=3000-60000; and crystallographic parameters of: (1) crystal system: monoclinic system; (2) space group: C2/c; (3) a=28.577(3)Å, b=7.4084(6) Å, c=22.612(3) Å, β=126.771(2)°, and V=3834.8(7) Å3; (4) Z=4; and (5) F(000)=1720, R1=0.0440, wR2=0.1042, and GOF=1.047. The method is simple, and has mild reaction conditions, and fast light conversion rate. The means of light-stimuli responsiveness are non-contact and non-damage type, the volume adjustment is highly accurate, and the whole adjustment process does not require any chemical reagents, and is safe and reliable. Photoactuators can complete a variety of behaviors under the irradiation of ultraviolet light having a wavelength of 365 nm.
US11976083B2
The present disclosure relates to novel compounds for use in therapeutic treatment of a disease associated with peptidylarginine deiminases (PADs), such as peptidylarginine deiminase type 4 (PAD4). The present disclosure also relates to processes and intermediates for the preparation of such compounds, methods of using such compounds and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds described herein.
US11976082B2
This invention relates to a novel continuous process for making alkyl 7-amino-5-methyl-[1,2,5]-oxadiazolo¬[3,4-b]pyridine-carboxylate, wherein R is C1-3-alkyl. The process of the invention present invention overcomes disadvantages of processes of the prior art by avoiding the highly energetic intermediates, using readily available and inexpensive starting materials and reagents, and avoiding the isolation of intermediates. The process according to the invention is suitable for use on industrial scale.
US11976076B1
Compounds for treating tuberculosis and, particularly, to anti-tubercular compounds that are 5-(1H-indol-3-yl)-1,3-substituted-7-thioxo-7,8-dihydropyrimido[4,5-d]pyrimidine-2,4(1H,3H)-dione derivatives and their use as anti-tubercular agents. Each compound may have the formula I: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or tautomer thereof, wherein: R1 is H or CH3; R2 is H or CH3; and X is O or S.
US11976073B2
The present application provides bicyclic amines of Formula (I): and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, that are inhibitors of cyclin-dependent kinase 2 (CDK2), as well as pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and methods of treating cancer using the same.
US11976070B1
Novel 5-substituted aminopyrimido[6′,1′:2,3]imidazo[4,5-c][1,6]naphthyridine compounds having the formula I below with all substituents as defined in the instant specification, a method of synthesizing said compounds, a pharmaceutical composition comprising said compounds and a suitable carrier, and a method of using the compounds. The 5-substituted aminopyrimido[6′,1′:2,3]imidazo[4,5-c][1,6]naphthyridine compounds, identified as CK2 inhibitors, are useful as anticancer and/or antitumor agents, and as agents for treating other kinase-associated conditions including inflammation, pain, and certain immunological disorders, and other types of diseases such as diabetes, viral infection, neurodegenerative diseases.
US11976067B2
Provided herein are compounds of formula (II): or a stereoisomer or tautomer thereof, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of any of the foregoing, wherein m, n, p, R1, R2, R3, L1, L2, L3, R4, X1, X2, X3, and X4 are as defined herein. Also provided are methods of preparing compounds of formula (II), or a stereoisomer or tautomer thereof, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of any of the foregoing. Also provided are methods of inhibiting APOL1 and methods of treating an APOL1-mediated disease, disorder, or condition in an individual.
US11976066B1
Compounds for treating tuberculosis and, particularly, to anti-tubercular compounds that are substituted 7-amino-3-(substituted benzoyl)indolizine-1-carboxylates and their use as anti-tubercular agents.
US11976064B2
The present invention relates to imidazo-pyridinyl compounds, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds and salts, and to methods of using such compounds, salts and compositions for the treatment of abnormal cell growth, including cancer, in a subject.
US11976062B2
The present invention provides a compound, a salt thereof, or a prodrug thereof as a compound effective for preventing and/or treating fibrosis, the compound being represented by formula (1) (wherein A is an optionally substituted benzene ring; B is optionally substituted aryl or optionally substituted heteroaryl; X is an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom; Y is a nitrogen atom or a carbon atom, of Y is a single or double bond when Y is a carbon atom, or of Y is a single bond when Y is a nitrogen atom; each R1 independently represents lower alkyl, or two R1s may be bound to each other to form a spiro ring or a crosslinked structure, or two R1s may be bound to each other to form a saturated fused heterocycle together with nitrogen and carbon atoms constituting a ring containing Y; p is 0, 1, or 2; or (R1)p is oxo).
US11976052B2
Provided are specific leukotriene synthesis inhibitor compounds and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds and methods of using the compounds and the pharmaceutical compositions in treating, for example, inflammatory diseases or conditions.
US11976051B1
A N′(2-(5-(4-chlorophenyl)-1,3,4-oxadiazol-2-ylthio)acetoxy)-2-naphthimidamide compound, its synthesis, and its use as an antimicrobial agent.
US11976049B2
Substituted naphthyl p38α mitogen-activated protein kinase inhibitors, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and the use of the substituted naphthyl p38α mitogen-activated protein kinase inhibitors and pharmaceutical compositions thereof for treating diseases are disclosed.
US11976048B1
A 1-(2-hydroxybenzylideneamino)-5-phenylimidazolidine-2,4-dione compound, its synthesis, and its use as an antimicrobial agent.
US11976041B1
A 9-(5-bromo-2-hydroxyphenyl)-10-[3-(dimethylamino)propyl]-3,4,6,7,9,10-hexahydroacridine-1,8(2H,5H)-dione compound, its synthesis, and its use as an antimicrobial agent.
US11976037B2
This invention concerns a process for the production of vinyl esters of carboxylic acids with 3 to 20 carbon atoms, via vinylation in the presence of palladium (Pd) catalyst in combination with copper (Cu) as co-catalyst stabilized by organic salts in the presence of ethylene and air or oxygen.
US11976034B2
Process for the production of a diacyl peroxide involving the reaction of an anhydride with an aldehyde and oxygen, removal of the formed carboxylic acid, production of an anhydride from said carboxylic acid, and recycling of the anhydride within the process.
US11976033B1
Novel organoselenium selective ligands are presented and designed to determine metal ions in a sample. These ligands are used as complexing agents in a dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction procedure of copper and zinc ions. The procedure has a shortened extraction time, minimal organic solvent types, and lower amounts of solvents, as well as easy operation and high enrichment efficiency.
US11976025B2
Provided herein are processes for the separation of acetonitrile from low-purity feedstock streams. The provided processes are particularly useful for isolating acetonitrile at high purity from chemical manufacturing waste streams that include methanol, water, and allyl alcohol.
US11976023B1
A new synthetic route to 2,2′,6,6′-tetraisopropyl-4,4′-diiodoazobenzene.
US11976018B2
Disclosed is a diamine compound represented by Formula (1), in which R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, X1, X2, X3, X4, m, n, a, b, c, and d are as defined herein. Also disclosed are a method for manufacturing the diamine compound, a composition including the diamine compound having a (chain alkoxy-methylene) phenyl group or a (hydroxyl-methylene) phenyl group, and a polymer including the (chain alkoxy-methylene) phenyl group or the (hydroxyl-methylene) phenyl group.
US11976017B2
The present invention relates to processes for preparing isoprene and mono-olefins comprising at least six carbon atoms. In one aspect, a process comprises (a) hydroformylating a mixed C4 olefin stream, wherein the mixed C4 olefin stream comprises 1-butene, 2-butene, and optionally isobutene, with a hydroformylation catalyst, wherein the hydroformylation catalyst comprises rhodium with monodentate organophosphorous ligand and optionally polydentate organophosphorous ligand, to produce a mixture comprising linear and branched C5 aldehydes; (b) separating the branched C5 aldehydes from the linear C5 aldehydes to provide a branched C5 aldehyde stream and a linear C5 aldehyde stream; (c) dehydrating the branched C5 aldehydes in the branched C5 aldehyde stream using a dehydration catalyst to form a stream comprising isoprene; (d) hydrogenating the linear C5 aldehydes in the linear C5 aldehyde stream to form a C5 alcohol stream; (e) dehydrating the C5 alcohols in the C5 alcohol stream with a second dehydration catalyst to form a C5 olefin stream; (f) hydroformylating the C5 olefins in the C5 olefin stream to generate a C6 aldehyde stream; (g) hydrogenating the C6 aldehydes in the C6 aldehyde stream to form a C6 alcohol stream; and (h) dehydrating the C6 alcohols in the C6 alcohol stream with a third dehydration catalyst to form a C6 olefin stream.
US11976015B2
Disclosed are a nanoenergetic material composite-based solid propellant, a method of preparing the same, and a projectile using the same. The propellant includes: potassium nitrate-sucrose (KNSU) composite powder; and nanoenergetic material (nEM) composite powder in a solid powder form mixed with the KNSU composite powder to prepare a KNSU/nEM propellant. The method includes: preparing KNSU composite powder; preparing nEM composite powder; and preparing a KNSU/nEM propellant by mixing the KNSU composite powder and the nEM composite powder in a solid powder form. The projectile includes: a clay block; a clay nozzle responsible for releasing the pressure generated by explosion of a propellant; and a propellant lamination area disposed between the clay block and the clay nozzle. Upon ignition of the KNSU/nEM propellant, the nEM composite powder increases the combustion rate and combustion temperature of a potassium nitrate-sucrose (KNSU) propellant.
US11976013B2
An article may include a substrate including a ceramic matrix composite (CMC); a composite coating layer including a first coating material that includes a rare-earth disilicate and a second coating material that includes at least one of a rare-earth monosilicate, a CMAS-resistant material, or a high-temperature dislocating material, where the second coating material forms a substantially continuous phase in the composite coating layer.
US11976008B2
The Present disclosure is related to hot-mix asphalt (“HMA”) which open new price/performance areas to asphalt cement concrete (“ACC”) pavement. Equivalent-performing pavement may be made at lower cost, or higher-performing pavement may be made at equivalent-to-prior-art cost. The amendments, recycled asphalt pavement (“RAP”, and including recycled asphalt shingles [“RAS”]), and reinforcing fiber (aramid fiber) may be adjusted as described herein to achieve a desired price/performance target.
US11976000B2
The present disclosure concerns expandable silica particles having a coating comprising talc powder and kaolin powder provided on the outer surface of the expandable silica particle and expandable and expanded silica particles comprising silica fume and/or ultrafine quartz silica sand beneath the surface of the particles. Methods for producing expandable and expanded silica particles are disclosed, including a method using a vibration plate and a furnace having a vibration plate for carrying out that method. The expanded silica particles have high compressive strength, substantially uniform cell size and distribution, low water absorption, and low porosity on the outer surface. They are useful as a filler in matrix materials, like concrete or epoxy, as insulation material with various binder materials, and as water filtration medium.
US11975997B2
A method of producing a glass structure includes forming a green body having an inner layer of a first powder of a first glass composition in a first organic material matrix and an outer layer of a second powder of a second glass composition in a second organic material matrix, the outer layer covering at least two opposing major surfaces or all surfaces of the inner layer, the first glass composition being different from the second glass composition, the first and second powders having respective first and second sintering temperatures, the second sintering temperature being within 0 to 30° C. of the first sintering temperature; and debinding and sintering the green body to remove the organic materials and to sinter together the first and second glass powders to produce a sintered glass structure having an inner layer of the first glass composition and an outer layer of the second glass composition.
US11975989B2
An integrated method for clearance, collection and capture of internal pollutants and algae at the bottom of a lake include the following steps: selecting areas where the pollution level is high, and organic or inorganic particulate matter is prone to accumulation and carrying out trenching operations at the bottom of the lake to form a plurality of traps; and removing the sludge and algae inside the traps and clearing the sediment inside the traps, for subsequent internal pollution control when the surface-layer sludge on both sides of the traps almost fills up the traps. This method makes use of the hydrodynamic disturbances of waves formed by natural wind energy and lake currents to continuously transport sludge with a high pollution level and a small specific gravity and algae in the surface layer of the lake bottom, which are rich in organic debris, to artificially built traps.
US11975981B2
The present invention provides zeolite hollow spheres in which zeolite crystals grow to form a framework of macropore through a hydrothermal crystallization process using the hydrophilic surface of a carbon sphere as a hard template, wherein the zeolite framework is an ordered, porous crystalline zeolite material with a number of channels or pores interconnected, which has pore structures including mesopores and micropores. The zeolite hollow spheres of the present invention can be used for various purposes such as catalysts and adsorbents.
US11975979B2
A method for growing bulk boron arsenide (BA) crystals, the method comprising utilizing a seeded chemical vapor transport (CVT) growth mechanism to produce single BAs crystals which are used for further CVT growth, wherein a sparsity of nucleation centers is controlled during the further CVT growth. Also disclosed are bulk BAs crystals produced via the method.
US11975978B2
The invention relates to the use of carboxylic acid during the preparation of precipitated silica or a suspension of precipitated silica and to the precipitated silicas thus obtained, particularly with low water uptake, which can be used, for example, as a reinforcing filler in silicon matrices.
US11975976B2
A process for removing metallic impurities from halogenated silicon compounds, such as chlorosilane monomers and/or chlorinated polysilanes is disclosed. The process involves treating a halogenated silicon compound with a tertiary amine and thereafter a suitable grade of activated carbon.
US11975967B1
Provided are a device for hydrogen production from water photolysis and a method therefor, which belongs to the field of photocatalytic solar hydrogen production. The device for hydrogen production from water photolysis comprises: a catalytic reaction unit for water photolysis comprising a light-transmitting surface, and a light condenser component with a light-concentrating surface facing the light-transmitting surface of the catalytic reaction unit for water photolysis; the light condenser component comprises a solar concentrating cone and a reflector for reflecting and concentrating sunlight into the solar concentrating cone. In the present application, from the perspective of improving the utilization efficiency of sunlight, the device for hydrogen production from water photolysis is designed, which utilizes the light condenser component to concentrate solar energy into the catalytic reaction unit for water photolysis, greatly improving the light intensity and catalytic efficiency, and greatly simplifying the catalytic interface and reaction unit for water photolysis.
US11975963B2
A microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) device includes a MEMS die and an electrical circuit electrically connected to the MEMS die. The electrical circuit includes a first capacitor that produces a first output signal based on a signal received from the MEMS die, and a second capacitor that produces a second output signal based on a signal received from the MEMS die. The electrical circuit is configured to determine a nominal capacitance of the MEMS die based on a ratio of the first output signal to the second output signal and a ratio of the capacitances of the first and second capacitors.
US11975962B2
A hermetically sealed package includes: at least one cover substrate and a substrate arranged so as to adjoin the at least one cover substrate, which together define at least part of the package, the at least one cover substrate being in a thermally prestressed state and bonded to the substrate adjoining the at least one cover substrate in a hermetically sealing manner by at least one laser bonding line, the at least one cover substrate being made of a material which has a different characteristic value of a coefficient of thermal expansion than the adjoining substrate and a thermal prestress is established in the package; and at least one functional area enclosed in the package.
US11975960B2
A method and computer program product for defining a PWM drive signal having a defined voltage potential. The PWM drive signal has a plurality of “on” portions and a plurality of “off” portions that define a first duty cycle for regulating, at least in part, a flow rate of a pump assembly. At least a portion of the “on” portions of the PWM drive signal are pulse width modulated to define a second duty cycle for the at least a portion of the “on” portions of the PWM drive signal. The second duty cycle regulates, at least in part, the percentage of the defined voltage potential applied to the pump assembly.
US11975950B2
The disclosure relates to an assembly head for a telescopic boom that can be separated into an inner and an outer boom set and that is reversibly mountable at an inner telescopic section of the outer boom set. The assembly head comprises a pulley head having deflection pulleys and a telescopic tube section that is arranged the pulley head, that can be pushed into the inner telescopic section from its end, and that has a substantially smaller length than the inner telescopic section. The disclosure further relates to a separable telescopic boom having an assembly head in accordance with the disclosure, to a mobile crane having a telescopic boom in accordance with the disclosure, and to a method for the self-assembly of an assembly head in accordance with the disclosure at the outer boom set of a telescopic boom.
US11975946B2
An elevator rope monitoring device, provided with: line sensor cameras 1a, 1b for imaging the entire circumference of the traveling elevator rope 5; a speed/position detecting device 4 for detecting the traveling speed and traveling position of the elevator rope 5; an image recording part 3a for inputting the image acquired by the line sensor cameras 1a, 1b in association with the traveling position of the elevator rope 5 detected by the speed/position detecting means 4; an image creating part 3b for creating an entire circumferential image of the elevator rope 5 from the image imaged by the line sensor cameras 1a, 1b; and an image processing part 3c for detecting an abnormality in the elevator rope 5 by analyzing the entire circumferential image.
US11975941B2
The invention relates to a rotary guide (1) for guiding at least one line (2) between two points (3, 4), which can be rotated relative to each other, without interruptions. Two receiving parts (12, 14) for receiving a respective sub-section of two sub-sections (29, 31), which are to be wound about the common rotational axis (X) in opposite directions, of a line section (2a), which can be received in the rotary guide (1), can be rotated relative to each other about a rotational axis (X). A deflecting unit (16) supports a deflecting region (18), in which the line section (2a) of the line (2) changes over between the opposite sub-sections (29, 31) in order to deflect the line (2) to be guided from one receiving part (12, 14) to the other receiving part (12, 14) in the event of a relative rotation. Each of the receiving parts (12, 14) has a spiral-shaped receiving groove (20, 22) with a plurality of windings (24, 26) for receiving a line section (2a), said windings running about the common rotational axis (X) from a starting radius (ra) to a final radius (re), wherein the windings (24, 26) lie on a plane perpendicular to the common rotational axis (X). The deflecting unit (16) has an active surface (33) which extends or can be adjusted radially between the starting radius (ra) and the final radius (re) and which interacts with the receiving grooves (20, 22) in order to transfer the line section (2a) from the receiving groove (20, 22) of the one receiving part (12, 14) to the receiving groove (20, 22) of the other receiving part (12, 14) in the event of a relative rotation.
US11975931B2
The present invention relates to a method for moving a heavy object into a confined space. The method comprises providing the heavy object in an initial position, the heavy object having an underside resting on a ground surface and comprising an inducible gas-cushion arrangement which in its inactive state causes the underside of the heavy object to maintain contact with the ground surface; activating the inducible gas-cushion arrangement by forming a gas cushion between the underside of the heavy object and the ground surface, the gas cushion generating a lifting force causing the underside of the heavy object to lose contact with the ground surface; moving the heavy object relative to the confined space until the underside of the heavy object at least levels with the supporting surface of the confined space; and moving the heavy object into its final position utilizing the lifting force of the gas-cushion.
US11975920B2
A system may include a vehicle for delivering items and a plurality of racks having a plurality of storage locations. The racks may be arranged to form one or more aisles. The vehicles are configured to drive horizontally along a path that may extend along a path under the racks that is parallel to the aisles. Additionally, the vehicles may be operated to turn while the vehicle is positioned under one of the racks. The vehicles may travel under the racks and cross one or more aisles to reach a particular column in one of the aisles. The vehicle climbs upwardly within the particular column to retrieve an item from a storage location in the column.
US11975900B1
An emergency medicine storage and dispensing device includes a housing with a front section and a back section, a front panel with at least one pinhole, a lip extending from the sidewall, a cover securing the front panel, at least one cutout in the sidewall, a tray sliding into the housing through the at least one cutout, and a pin securing the tray in the housing. The front panel may be partially transparent and made from materials such as glass or plastic. The pin may be a breakaway pin with a thin breakaway section and a capturing section. The tray may have at least one slot holding at least one rapid chemical deployment system, such as an opioid overdose reversal medicine. The front section, back section, cover, and front panel may be substantially the same shape, such as triangular with chamfered ends.
US11975888B2
A housing unit (1) is provided having a sleeve (10) defining a chamber (11) and a capsule (30) that is arranged to house an electronic device (32) in the capsule (30). The capsule (30) is shaped and configured to be received in the chamber (11). The sleeve (10) and capsule (30) have cooperating securing formations that are arranged to enable the capsule to be releasably secured within the chamber (11). The sleeve (10) is shaped and configured to enable it to fit into a cavity in a load carrier.
US11975886B2
Devices and associated methods for containing and/or disposing of hydrocarbon fluids are disclosed herein. One aspect of the present technology, for example, includes a vessel formed of a plant-based absorbent substrate with an interior region configured to receive and retain a hydrocarbon fluid of at least 250 degrees Fahrenheit for at least 14 days without substantial deformation of the vessel or leaching of the hydrocarbon fluid.
US11975883B2
A discharging device for a vertical form fill and seal machine includes at least one transfer unit (14) to transfer sealed bags (16) from a sealing device (18) of the vertical form fill and seal machine to a transport device (20) located downstream with respect to the vertical form fill and seal machine. The transfer unit (14) comprises at least one transfer element (22) arrangeable between the sealing device (18) and the transport device (20), wherein the transfer element (22) is provided to change an orientation of the sealed bags (16) during a transfer from the sealing device (18) to the transport device (20). The transfer element (22) is embodied as a chute with two opposite arranged sliding wings (24, 26) on which the sealed bags (16) can slide during a transfer from the sealing device (18) to the transport device (20).
US11975879B2
Tray sealer, comprising a sealing station for sealing trays, an infeed belt for providing trays, an outfeed belt for transporting sealed trays away, a gripper device comprising a first gripper unit which is configured to pick up trays from the infeed belt and to position them for a sealing process within the sealing station, and comprising a second gripper unit which is configured to collect the trays sealed by way of the sealing station and to position them on the outfeed belt for being transported away, where the first gripper unit comprises a first carriage as well as a first gripper mounted thereon and the second gripper unit comprises a second carriage and a second gripper mounted thereon, a lifting mechanism for opening and closing the sealing station, as well as a control device for controlling a motion of the first carriage and the first gripper as well as for controlling a motion of the second carriage and the second gripper, where, during the opening of the lifting mechanism, the control device is configured to control a closing motion of the second gripper carried out transverse to the direction of production for collecting sealed trays from the sealing station as well as an adjusting motion of the first carriage carried out in the direction of production for supplying unsealed trays into the sealing station such that a substantially predetermined minimum distance is present between the first and the second carriage when the closing motion of the second gripper is at least substantially completed. The disclosure furthermore relates to a method for controlling a gripper device of a tray sealer.
US11975875B2
The invention relates to a robotic method for loading cases on a packaging line from cases contained in a closed parallelepiped container and wherein it is proceeded with the loading of the packaging line, after opening of the container (Ca) by: /d/ insertion of a first jaw (30) of the clamp between the first face (F1) of the container and the first case (Et1) of the row of cases and, insertion of a second jaw (31) of the clamp between the last case (Etd) of the row of cases and the second face (F2) of the container, and approach of the jaws until seizing up the row of cases, /e/ piloting of the robotic arm so as to extract the row of cases from the container grasped by the motor-driven clamp (3) and load the packaging line (Lg) with the row of cases.
US11975870B2
Systems and methods for nuclear reactor direct drive of a cryocooler turbine. A nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) system may have a nuclear reactor that heats a thermal working fluid for directly driving the turbine to power a cryogenic fluid management (CFM) system for keeping propellant at cryogenic temperatures. The features may be used on NTP rockets. The propellant may be liquid hydrogen.
US11975865B2
An aircraft passenger cabin light. The light has: an elongated shape having a longitudinal direction (L) comprises: a cabin wall illumination assembly, which extends along the longitudinal direction (L) of the aircraft passenger cabin light and which is configured for illuminating a portion of a wall of an aircraft passenger cabin; and a plurality of personal reading light units for providing personal reading light illumination to passengers. The plurality of personal reading light units are arranged in an array extending along the longitudinal direction (L) of the aircraft passenger cabin light Said array is arranged along the cabin wall illumination assembly.
US11975853B2
An electric propulsion system for a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft having a heat exchanger to cool fluids used in an electrical engine, the electric propulsion system comprising at least one electrical engine mechanically connected directly or indirectly to a fuselage of the VTOL aircraft and electrically connected to an electrical power source. The electrical engine may comprise an electrical motor having a stator and a rotor; a gearbox assembly comprising a sun gear; at least one planetary gear; a ring gear; and a planetary carrier. The electric engine may include an inverter assembly comprising a thermal plate and an inverter assembly housing; an end bell assembly that is connected to the thermal plate of the inverter assembly; and a heat exchanger comprising an array of cooling fins and tubes.
US11975850B2
An ice protection system may comprise an electrical heating mat of an electrically resistive material, wherein the electrically resistive material defines at a first spanwise zone and a first chordwise zone, wherein at least one of the first spanwise zone or the first chordwise zone include a first busbar portion contiguous with the electrically resistive material.
US11975848B2
A method for operating a frost treatment system including a first heating mat, covering a first zone and an intermediate zone of a second zone, operating alternately at a first energy level adjusted to maintain a first positive temperature on the first zone and a negative temperature on at least a part of the intermediate zone and at a second energy level adjusted to generate a positive temperature on the intermediate zone, a second heating mat covering the second zone apart from the intermediate zone and ensuring the defrosting function for the zone. This solution makes it possible to reduce the energy consumption of the first heating mat by reducing the energy level at which it is powered for most of the time. Also, an outer wall of an aircraft is provided including at least one frost treatment system operating according to this method.
US11975845B2
A passenger seat for an aircraft is described. The passenger seat is configurable between an upright position and a bed position. The upright position may be provided for taxi, take-off and landing events. The bed position, also referred to as a lie-flat position, is provided for long-haul travel in comfort. The passenger seat includes a seat pan, a seatback, and an armrest. The seat pan, the seatback, and the armrest form a kinematic chain by a number of pivot joints. The passenger seat also includes a linkage connecting the seat pan and the armrest. By the linkage, the armrest follows a motion of the seat pan when the passenger seat is reconfigured.
US11975838B2
A filter component for an aircraft insert can include a non-conductive body having an outer surface and an inner surface. The inner surface can be configured to be hidden from view when installed on the insert. The filter component can include a surface filter disposed on the inner surface such that when the non-conductive body is installed on the insert the surface filter is not visible. The surface filter can be configured to filter out one or more predetermined filter frequencies.
US11975834B2
A high rise building escape drone is shown and described. The high rise building escape drone includes of a frame. The frame has a spine secured to an upper housing. The upper housing secures a motor and a CPU operably connected to the motor. The motor is rotatably coupled to at least one propeller. A seat is secured to the spine below the upper housing. A control panel is secured to the seat. The control panel is operably coupled to the CPU and is capable to control the drone. A plurality of feet are secured to a bottom of the spine such that the feet support the drone.
US11975828B2
A torque measurement system determines torque on a shaft by monitoring angular deflection of the shaft under load using phase shift measurements. Calibration of the system uses a defined offset that is determined using a reference operating condition. The offset calibration value is determined for a rotorcraft using the following steps: defining a reference operational condition in which the shaft is rotating, estimating the torque at the reference condition based on aerodynamic knowledge of the rotors coupled to the shaft, operating the shaft at the reference operational condition, capturing sensor data to determine the phase difference at the operational condition, and associating the phase difference and an estimated torque as a calibration value to enable calculation of torque in the torque measurement system.
US11975822B2
A method of determining a service interval for an actuator of a landing gear assembly is suitable for used with a landing gear assembly in which the actuator positions the landing gear assembly between a stowed position and a deployed position. The method includes the steps of determining an actuator travel value for a time interval and increasing a total actuator accumulated travel value by the actuator travel value for the time interval. The method further includes the step of comparing the total actuator accumulated travel value to a predetermined value.
US11975808B2
Disclosed are an automatic stable posture seabed base and a releasing method, belonging to the technical field of ocean observation. The automatic stable posture seabed base includes an accommodating body with an inner cavity for accommodating the first observation device and a seawater, and the accommodating body has first through holes for the seawater to enter and outflow the inner cavity; plugging members blocked at the first through holes to close or semi-close the first through holes; and a buoyancy body installed at a transducer of the first observation device, and a buoyancy of the buoyancy body is larger than a mass of the first observation device, so that the first observation device may float in the cover body after the cover body is filled with water, and a posture of the transducer in the cover body always keeps vertically to the sea surface.
US11975805B2
A marine vessel and method for carbon capture and sequestration are described. The marine vessel includes a buoyant hull, a cryogenic storage tank within the hull, and a gaseous carbon dioxide loading manifold. The marine vessel also includes a carbon dioxide liquefaction system in fluid communication with the cryogenic storage tank downstream of the carbon dioxide liquefaction system and with the gaseous carbon dioxide loading manifold upstream of the carbon dioxide liquefaction system. Finally, the marine vessel includes a carbon dioxide supercritical system in fluid communication with the cryogenic storage tank. In operation, the marine vessel moves between multiple locations, where gaseous carbon dioxide is onboarded, liquified and stored. Thereafter, the marine vessel transports the liquified carbon dioxide to a location adjacent an offshore geological reservoir. The liquefied carbon dioxide is then pressurized to produce supercritical carbon dioxide, which is then injected directly into the reservoir from the marine vessel.
US11975802B1
A bicycle hub system, method and device including rear and front hub assemblies. Both the rear and front hub assemblies include locking mechanisms with matching undulating splined coupling faces that correspond to complementary undulating splined coupling faces of a wheel hub.
US11975801B2
A bicycle gearshift mechanism has a base element, a pivot mechanism, a movable element, and a chain guide arrangement. The pivot mechanism connects the base element to the movable element. The chain guide arrangement is connected, rotatably about a rotary axle, to the movable element. The base element comprises a first attachment end, which is coaxial with respect to the rear-wheel axle or axis, and a second attachment end for coupling to the pivot mechanism.
US11975797B2
The disclosure provides a bicycle caliper control method. The bicycle caliper control method is configured to control a rear caliper and a front caliper of a bicycle. The bicycle caliper control method includes: when a first brake lever of the bicycle is squeezed, the first brake lever activates the rear caliper and the front caliper; and when a second brake lever of the bicycle is squeezed, the second brake lever activates the rear caliper.
US11975796B2
A driving support system (1) for motorcycles including: an external sensor unit (2) which recognizes a road state ahead of one's own vehicle; a collision risk determination unit (62) which determines a level of collision risk between one's own vehicle and an object ahead of one's own vehicle based on a recognition result of the external sensor unit 2; an automatic braking control unit (61) which executes automatic braking to automatically operate a brake device (83) in response to the determination result by the collision risk determination unit (62); and a departure risk determination unit (64) which determines a level of departure risk of one's own vehicle to outside of one's own vehicle travel lane in a case of executing the automatic braking. The automatic braking control unit (61) ends execution of the automatic braking in a case of being determined that the departure risk is high.
US11975792B2
A system and method to select and implement a suspension tune is disclosed. The system includes a memory configured to store a plurality of suspension tunes. A suspension controller configured to implement one of the plurality of suspension tunes for at least one suspension component of a vehicle. A manually operated switch to receive a user input, the manually operated switch configured to navigate between the plurality of suspension tunes, and, based on the user input, designate a different one of the plurality of suspension tunes to be implemented by the suspension controller.
US11975789B2
Cargo bike comprising a collapsible frame, the collapsible frame being adjustable between an elongate state in which the collapsible frame positions a front and rear wheel of the cargo bike at a first distance along a longitudinal axis of the cargo bike, and a collapsed state in which the collapsible frame positions the front and rear wheel at a second, smaller distance along the longitudinal axis of the cargo bike, a cargo holder for holding cargo that comprises a face that extends substantially transversely to the longitudinal axis, and wherein in the collapsed state of the collapsible frame at least one of the wheels extends transversely to the longitudinal axis of the cargo bike and at least partially overlaps with the transversely extending face.
US11975786B2
A convertible cargo holder for a bicycle that is operable in a cargo mode and a child carry mode. The holder has a frame that is secured to the bicycle and that has a hoop. A liner is removably secured to the frame and has first and second side walls, first and second end walls, and a bottom wall. The liner has disconnecting fasteners to secure the side walls to the end walls, and disconnecting fasteners to secure the liner to the hoop. In cargo mode the side walls are secured to the end walls, and each of the walls are secured to the hoop to create a basket. In child carry mode the side walls are disconnected from the end walls and the hoop, and the side walls hang below the bottom wall. Seats are also provided.
US11975782B2
A decorative molded component includes: a substrate having a shell extending along a mating surface and a through hole adjacent to the shell and defined along the mating surface; and a molded body coated to the mating surface, the molded body covering the through hole to be continuous from a skin bonded to the shell. The decorative molded component improves appearance while keeping the functions of the two members.
US11975775B2
A steering control device for reducing a steering load on the driver by adjusting a gain of a rear wheel steering angle with respect to a front wheel steering angle operated by the driver according to a relative relationship between the vehicle and the parking frame to enable fine steering of the own vehicle near the parking frame when the four-wheel steering vehicle is parked. The steering control device is configured to control a rear wheel steering angle by a rear wheel steering system based on a front wheel steering angle operated by a driver, and includes an arithmetic device configured to reduce an absolute value of a gain of the rear wheel steering angle with respect to the front wheel steering angle as a positional relationship between an own vehicle and a parking frame comes closer when an own vehicle shifts to a parking driving mode.
US11975771B2
A vehicle steering device includes a reaction force device, a drive device, a first ECU configured to control the reaction force device, a second ECU configured to control the drive device, a first rudder angle sensor and a second rudder angle sensor each configured to detect a steering angle of a wheel and output the detected steering angle to the second ECU, and a communication line that transmits at least one of steering angles of the wheel as detected values of the first rudder angle sensor and the second rudder angle sensor from the second ECU to the first ECU.
US11975766B2
An access door for a vehicle including an open bed assembly including a front wall, two side walls and a rear wall. A door portion on one of the side walls of the liftgate opening on a substantially vertical hinged axis for providing side access to the truck bed.
US11975758B2
A first risk potential field for a risk avoidance control is a sum of a risk potential field in which a valley of a risk value extends in a lane longitudinal direction and a risk potential field in which the risk value is maximum at a position of an object and decreases as a distance from the object increases. The steering control is executed such that a vehicle approaches a first minimum point that is a minimum point of the first risk potential field and that is searched for in a first search range. When a plurality of first minimum point candidates is present in the first search range, the first minimum point candidate that is present in a direction away from a foremost object as viewed from a previous minimum point and is the closest to the previous minimum point is selected as the current first minimum point.
US11975757B2
Disclosed are a walking deviation correction method and a walking deviation correction device for a working machine. The working machine includes: a first pump, a second pump, a first motor and a second motor; the first pump is connected to the first motor, the second pump is connected to the second motor, the first motor is configured to drive a first running wheel, and the second motor is configured to drive a second running wheel. The method includes: receiving a first input from a user; outputting a flow percentage in response to the first input; receiving a second input from the user based on the flow percentage; and adjusting working flow rates of the first motor and the second motor in response to the second input.
US11975750B2
A method and apparatus to detect breaks in tracks and/or detect the presence of a vehicle, such as a train, in a monitored section of the track or rail. Embodiments of the present invention measure the change in track inductance associated with a track or rail break. Electrical shunts are connected between the rails at spaced-apart intervals (for example a shunt can be placed every mile). At least two different frequencies of alternating current are generated and fed into the segments of rail (for example at or near a mid-point between the shunts). If a rail break occurs, the total inductance of the rail at that segment will change. Using two or more frequencies allows a rail break to be differentiated from environmental rail-to-rail and rail-to-earth leakage.
US11975746B2
A vessel for transporting a material that is solid or semi-solid at ambient temperature, includes a body having an interior surface comprising textured metal, and a superoleophobic coating on the interior surface for inhibiting the material from adhering to the interior surface, the superoleophobic coating including a nanotextured coating disposed on the textured metal and functionalized with a fluorinated compound. The superoleophobic coating facilitates flow of the material along the interior surface.
US11975745B2
A modular foot platform for a driver's cab of a rail vehicle includes at least a base frame having a height adjustment mechanism, an intermediate frame mounted on the base frame, and a step plate lying on the intermediate frame. The height adjustment mechanism includes at least one operating element, which is disposed at least partially in a region on or above the top side of the step plate, which top side faces away from the base frame. A rail vehicle having a driver's cab and a modular foot platform disposed therein is also provided.
US11975742B2
Methods of refining a planned trajectory of an autonomous vehicle are disclose. For multiple cycles as the vehicle moves along the trajectory, the vehicle will perceive nearby objects. The vehicle will use the perceived object data to calculate a set of candidate updated trajectories. The motion planning system will measure a discrepancy between each candidate updated trajectory and the current trajectory by: (i) determining waypoints along each trajectory; (ii) determining distances between at least some of the waypoints; and (iii) using the distances to measure the discrepancy between the updated trajectory and the current trajectory. The system will use the discrepancy to select, from the set of candidate updated trajectories, a final updated trajectory for the vehicle to follow.
US11975740B2
Particular embodiments described herein provide for a system and method to help enable a towing vehicle. In an example, the system can identify a location of the disabled vehicle, deploy the towing vehicle to the location of the disabled vehicle, where the towing vehicle uses sensor data from a sensor suite and a perception module to navigate to the location of the disabled vehicle, and use the towing vehicle to tow the disabled vehicle to a new location.
US11975738B2
A first image can be acquired from a first sensor included in a vehicle and input to a deep neural network to determine a first bounding box for a first object. A second image can be acquired from the first sensor. Input latitudinal and longitudinal motion data from second sensors included in the vehicle corresponding to the time between inputting the first image and inputting the second image. A second bounding box can be determined by translating the first bounding box based on the latitudinal and longitudinal motion data. The second image can be cropped based on the second bounding box. The cropped second image can be input to the deep neural network to detect a second object. The first image, the first bounding box, the second image, and the second bounding box can be output.
