US12002089B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for providing approved financing in advance of a purchase to a buyer of an item, such as an automobile, and allowing the prospective buyer to maintain control over the financing throughout the sales process. According to disclosed embodiments, a financial service system configures a financing website for the buyer, and receives personal information as well as information relating to the desired item. The financial service system approves loan parameters for the buyer, and provides the user with a link to access the financing website on a mobile device while at a dealership. Financing parameters can thus be edited throughout the process until the final sales agreement, providing the buyer with confidence and flexibility in the buying process.
US12002085B2
Digital image ordering based on object position and aesthetics is leveraged in a digital medium environment. According to various implementations, an image analysis system is implemented to identify visual objects in digital images and determine aesthetics attributes of the digital images. The digital images can then be arranged in way that prioritizes digital images that include relevant visual objects and that exhibit optimum visual aesthetics.
US12002076B1
Techniques are described for generating transaction data for a transaction, the transaction data generated with varying fidelity levels based on various constraints. In response to a transaction request from a client, a contract engine may perform service call(s) that instruct network service(s) to generate transaction data. The service call(s) may include constraint(s) on the generation of the transaction data, such as a time limit or a requested fidelity. The network service(s) may generate the transaction data at a particular fidelity based on the time limit, requested fidelity, or other criteria such as current load on the network service(s). The transaction data may be communicated to the contract engine with a fidelity indicator. Lower fidelity transaction data may be sent to the client to enable a low latency user experience. The lower fidelity transaction data may subsequently be replaced with higher fidelity transaction data generated with higher latency.
US12002072B1
Systems and methods for automatically managing placement of content slots in an information resource
At least one aspect is directed to a method of a method of automatically managing placement of content slots in an information resource. The method includes a data processing system receiving, from a computing device, a request for content and, in response, transmitting a content slot insertion script to the computing device. The content slot insertion script, when executed, can cause the computing device to identify one or more Document Object Model (DOM) elements included in the DOM tree of the information resource and determine one or more candidate third-party content placement locations according to a third-party content placement policy. The second plurality of computer-executable instructions, when executed on the computing device, can also cause the computing device to select, from the candidate third-party content placement locations, a third-party content placement location in the DOM tree and display a third-party content item at the selected ad placement location.
US12002068B2
Methods, computer-readable media, systems, and/or apparatuses for providing offer and output generation functions are provided. For instance, a request for an output may be received by a device. In response, user physical trait data, pre-stored data, location data, and the like, may be extracted and received from a plurality of sources. Machine learning may be used to analyze the data to predict one or more factors associated with the user and the output or offer may be generated based on the predicted factors.
US12002063B2
Methods and systems for forecasting demand for a plurality of items are provided. In particular, the demand forecasting system and methods described herein are useful for predicting demand of products in a retail context. Forecast models are built and used to score incoming sales data to predict future demand for items. Forecast models are validated by evaluating actual demand against predicted demand and using that information to inform how future ensemble forecast will be generated. Forecasts may be broken down into smaller components to satisfy a variety of requests for data from client applications.
US12002061B2
Systems, apparatus, and methods for determining unique contacts from a collection or pool of merchant data are discussed herein. Some embodiments may provide for an apparatus including circuitry configured to determine programmatic match results indicating whether different instances of merchant data match (e.g., describe the same contact). The circuitry may further determine probabilities of precision or recall errors with the programmatic match results. Programmatic match results having a high probability of error may be annotated by a user to generate user match results. The user match results may be used to generate a more reliable contacts database including unique contacts, as well as to train and/or update the match scoring algorithm. As such, the accuracy of machine-implemented binary classification is improved.
US12002060B2
A communications method is established using random and derivative device identifiers to authenticate, and to deliver targeted marketing and other customized communications to, app-tracking transparency and other devices so as to enable the continued privacy and anonymity of the device users.
US12002055B1
A system delivers access to remote resources and remote data across geographic regions through a parallel circuit that transfers data between components. The system includes a volatile memory and processors that read to and write to the volatile memory. A computer readable medium storing a program in a non-transitory media provides access to remote resources locally by processing requests received from different computer devices remote from the processors from a publicly accessible distributed network that is addressed by a single address. The system generates routing commands based on a content of a payload, a protocol used to deliver the data, and detections of data types. The system routes requests from different computer devices remote to the processors to intended devices based on the single device address. The different computers includes physical devices and endpoints that sever a plurality of entry points for accessing a cloud.
US12002040B2
A device is configured to process contactless payments by wirelessly reading account information from enabled payment instruments and providing the account information, along with other information, to a remote payment processing system. The device has an embedded reader, such as a near-field communications (NFC) reader or a radio-frequency identification (RFID) reader. The operating system of the device has a device driver that provides access to the embedded reader. The device driver is implemented as part of the operating system kernel in order to protect it from access by non-privileged software. A POS application installed on the device uses the device driver to obtain payment instrument information from a payment instrument such as a credit card. Before providing the payment instrument information to the POS application, the device driver encrypts the payment instrument information using a public key provided by the payment processing system.
US12002030B2
The present invention provides a method and system which facilitates easy and smooth detection of available one or more Point-of-sale (POS) terminals automatically at a merchant's site when a user desires to use a user device in order to pay for services/goods availed by the user device. The present invention provides a scalable, easy to use, seamless, and an efficient method to detect the POS terminals over a Wi-Fi network available to the user equipment. Information corresponding to the detected and available POS terminals are presented on the user device so that the user may easily select an appropriate POS terminal and may initiate the further payment process. The one or more available POS terminals are detected by the user device with the help of a first server device and a second server device.
US12002019B2
Provided is a data structure of virtual currency data with high safety. The virtual currency data, which is used in combination with a settlement device that accepts settlement when the virtual currency data is received from a predetermined device via a network and when predetermined conditions are satisfied, includes virtual currency encryption data which is data obtained by, according to a predetermined encryption method, encryption of issuer information including at least information on an issuer of the virtual currency data, amount information that is information for specifying a monetary value, and settlement condition information that is information on conditions for accepting payment with virtual currency.
US12002017B2
A method for processing a multi-account check includes: receiving a first authorization request including a transaction amount, an account identifier, and a check number; identifying a blockchain associated with the account identifier including a plurality of blocks, each block including a block header and blockchain data values, and a blockchain data value included in one of the blocks including the check number; generating two or more additional authorization requests including a payment amount, an alternate account number, and an alternate check number, where the alternate account number included in each of the additional authorization requests is unique among the additional authorization requests and a total of the payment amount included in the additional authorization requests is based on the transaction amount; and transmitting each of the additional authorization requests to a financial institution associated with the alternate account number included in the respective additional authorization request.
US12002015B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for dynamic routing of electronic transactions. One method comprises receiving a request message from a merchant system and determining a routing directive associated with the request message. Upon determining the routing directive, contextual data may be retrieved based on the routing directive. Then, a final destination payment processor may be determined based on the routing directive and the contextual data. The request message may be updated based on the final destination payment processor. The updated request message may then be transmitted to a downstream entity for further processing.
US12002013B2
A method and system for quantifying a lack of parity for a subjective data set and an objective data set within an injury profile report. The method and system analyzes and inspects each subjective and objective data set and compares these data sets to a historical accuracy database to find a lack of agreement or non-parity of the data sets. The method and system quantifies the lack of parity, creates an injury profile report and proscribes any functional limitations for the injured worker. The output can be used to assign safer and more accurate functional limitations and assign safer and mor accurate functional limitations to support a safer return to work event for the inured worker after injury.
US12002012B2
A computing system for identifying tasks at risk in a collaborative project includes one or more processors configured to execute, during an inference-time phase, a collaborative project management program and a machine learning model. The collaborative project management program is configured to receive telemetry data associated with a task, process the telemetry data based at least in part on one or more task attributes, and output at least one feature associated with the task. The machine learning model is configured to receive, as inference-time input, the at least one feature associated with the task, and, responsive to receiving the at least one feature, output a risk prediction for the task. The system is configured to output an alert when the task is predicted to be at risk of not being completed by a predetermined due date.
US12002011B2
The present disclosure describes techniques for facilitating content creation using a smart asset library. Information about a first user among a plurality of users in an online community may be received. The information about the first user may be indicative of the first user's preferences and behaviors in the online community. At least one asset in a library that the first user would find of interest may be determined based on the information about the first user and information about the library. The at least one asset may be presented to the first user. In response to receiving user input from the first user, at least one other asset related to the at least one asset may be determined and presented.
US12002006B2
Systems, methods, computing platforms, and storage media for directing and controlling an autonomous storage unit in an autonomous inventory management system are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may negotiate, by a first controller, a dispatch routine for the storage unit with a transport controller and a second controller, assign a token to the storage unit and the second controller, the token providing an identification signal between the storage unit and the second controller, register a departure event with the first controller, provide a secure connection between the storage unit and the second controller, exchange the token between the storage unit and the second controller, authenticate the secure connection based on exchanging the token, and give the storage unit permission to access a control territory assigned to the second controller.
US12002004B2
An information processing device includes a controller configured to execute acquiring a detection value obtained by detecting an amount of a product stored in a storage location corresponding to the product by a sensor, and transmitting a notification regarding a storage error of the product to a user terminal in a case where a decrease amount of the product based on the detection value of the sensor in a predetermined period is larger than a threshold value.
US12002003B2
The disclosure relates, inter alia, to a method comprising the steps of providing, by a user apparatus, an activable user interface for stipulating a delivery and/or pickup position, capturing of a position of the user apparatus when the user interface is activated, and communication of delivery and/or pickup position information associated with the captured position from the user apparatus to a delivery service apparatus.
US12002001B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for scoring candidate routes. One of the methods includes obtaining a predictive model trained on training examples from trip log data, wherein each training example has feature values from a particular trip and a value of a dependent variable that represents an outcome of a portion of the particular trip, wherein the features of each particular trip include values obtained from one or more external data feed sources that specify a value of a sensor measurement at a particular point in time during the trip. Sensor values from one or more external data feed sources of a sensor network are received. Feature values are generated using the sensor values received from the one or more external data feed sources. A predicted score is computed for each route using the feature values for the candidate route.
US12001998B2
Disclosed is an information processing method in an electronic apparatus, which includes acquiring, from a user, first information related to supply including information on a target fulfillment center and information on an item, confirming a delivery type of the supply, acquiring scheduled arrival time information of the item according to the supply according to a method corresponding to the confirmed delivery type of the supply, and providing second information including the information on the item and the scheduled arrival time information to the target fulfillment center, in which the acquiring of the scheduled arrival time information includes acquiring an item arrival time calculation model that is pre-trained, and determining the scheduled arrival time information based on the item arrival time calculation model.
US12001989B2
A system and method is proposed for estimating the contribution of components of a distributed computing environment to the generation of economically relevant values, like e.g., revenue numbers. Agents are deployed to the computing environment that trace executed transactions and that monitor components used to execute those transactions. The transaction trace data also contains data about the origin/user of transactions, which may be used to group transactions corresponding to particular interactions of individual users with the monitored application into visit data. Data describing economically relevant activities of transactions, like the purchase of goods, are also observed by agents and reported in trace data. Functional dependencies described in transaction trace data and resource related dependencies derived from component monitoring data are used to identify functionality and components that contributed to the generation of business value. The generated business value is assigned to contributing components to incrementally create data describing the economic value of those components. The so generated data can be used for various business-related analyses.
US12001988B2
The present invention identifies the optimal genetics, environment, and management practices and predicts the probability of growing a crop with the desired attributes, quantifies the attribute, scores relative performance, and identifies actions management can take to increase probability of growing plants with specific attributes. The present invention uses an improved technique of data acquisition known as intelligent sampling. Intelligent sampling functions by identifying a minimal dataset that is used to train the model disclosed herein while still achieving acceptable accuracy.
US12001980B2
Techniques are provided for data-driven organization adjustment. In an example, a service mesh of microservices of a platform can be determined. An organizational chart of workers in an organization that maintain the microservices can be determined. Which workers manage which microservices can be determined from a repository in which code for the microservices is maintained. Then, the organizational chart can be analyzed to determine whether workers are organized in a way that meets policies based on which microservices they manage. For example, a policy can be that all workers who manage a given microservice should report to the same manager in the organization.
US12001977B2
A system for providing a graphical user interface, including: a multi-tier hierarchy, stored in a database, which maps links between and among a plurality of tiers of an enterprise IT environment; and a dashboard that provides a user-interactive visualization of the enterprise IT environment based on the multi-tier hierarchy.
US12001974B2
Described augmented reality (AR) systems and devices provide users with enhanced human sensorial perceptions using digital content. More particularly, the system software platform and methodology of smartglasses create an immersive AR experience for visitors of cultural sites using object identification and optical flow tracking. Using graphical user interfaces, the system enables platform administrators to convert disparate cultural site content to coherent AR story-telling experiences called palimpsests or tours. During a learning phase, points of interest are catalogued and images are taken at different angles and under different lighting conditions to create markers. Using geolocation systems, data is loaded on the smartglasses a roomful at a time to increase efficiency. In use, AR content is generated after points of interest markers are matched using similarity and threshold algorithms. Optical flow tracking is used to track user movement and enhance the AR experience.
US12001972B2
Customer relationship management (“CRM”) implemented in a computer system, including parsing, by a parsing engine of the computer system into parsed triples of a description logic, words of a CRM event from an incoming stream of CRM events, the CRM event characterized by an event type, the stream implemented in a CRM application of the computer system; and inferring, by an inference engine from the parsed triples according to inference rules specific to the event type, inferred triples.
US12001954B2
An encoding apparatus connected to a learning circuit processing learning of a deep neural network and configured to perform encoding for reconfiguring connection or disconnection of a plurality of edges in a layer of the deep neural network using an edge sequence generated based on a random number sequence and dropout information indicating a ratio between connected edges and disconnected edges of a plurality of edges included in a layer of the deep neural network.
US12001942B2
An apparatus includes a substrate, an array of channels disposed in the substrate, wherein first ends of the channels are exposed to an outside the apparatus, a material disposed in the channel that promotes growth of neural tissue, a plurality of electrodes disposed at second ends of the channels, wherein each channel is aligned with a respective one of the electrodes, and a chip electrically connected to the electrodes.
US12001938B2
A method for estimating at least one energy production indicator of a solar energy production system, comprising: reception of at least one image obtained from a wide-angle image capture device, processing of said obtained image by at least one convolutional neural network comprising at least two layers respectively for the application of a convolution filter to the obtained image and for the estimation of an energy production indicator.
US12001932B2
Methods and apparatus for hierarchical reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm for network function virtualization (NFV) server power management. A first RL model at a first layer is trained by adjusting a frequency of the core of processor while performing a workload to obtain a first trained RL model. The trained RL model is operated in an inference mode while training a second RL model at a second level in the RL hierarchy by adjusting a frequency of the core and a frequency of processor circuitry external to the core to obtain a second trained RL model. Training may be performed online or offline. The first and second RL models are operated in inference modes during online operations to adjust the frequency of the core and the frequency of the circuitry external to the core while executing software on the plurality of cores of to perform a workload, such as an NFV workload.
US12001930B2
An example method includes initializing a configuration file for a machine learning model, wherein the initializing is performed in response to receiving a request from a user, and wherein the configuration file comprises a plurality of sections that is configurable by the user, configuring at least one parameter of a feature engineering rules section of the configuration file, wherein the configuring the at least one parameter of the feature engineering rules section is based on a first value provided by the user, configuring at least one parameter of an algorithm definitions section of the configuration file, wherein the configuring the at least one parameter of the algorithm definitions section is based on a second value provided by the user, and populating the configuration file using the feature engineering rules section as configured and the algorithm definitions section as configured, to generate the machine learning model.
US12001927B2
A computer-implemented method for using a machine-learning trained predictive engine to predict failures, comprising receiving, from a user using a graphical user interface, electronic transaction data comprising an item and candidate transaction terms, the candidate transaction terms comprising a first transaction term, the electronic transaction data being associated with a candidate transaction. The method may determine, by a machine learning predictive engine, a likelihood of success of the candidate transaction based on the electronic transaction data, and may determine, by the machine learning predictive engine, based on the first transaction term, a second transaction term that, together with the first transaction term, increases the likelihood of success of the candidate transaction above a predetermined threshold. An indication of the second transaction term and an indication of the likelihood of success of the candidate transaction may be displayed on the graphical user interface.
US12001918B2
This disclosure relates to classification methods that can be implemented on quantum computing systems. According to a first aspect, this specification describes a method for training a classifier implemented on a quantum computer, the method comprising: preparing a plurality of qubits in an input state with a known classification, said plurality of qubits comprising one or more readout qubits; applying one or more parameterised quantum gates to the plurality of qubits to transform the input state to an output state; determining, using a readout state of the one or more readout qubits in the output state, a predicted classification of the input state; comparing the predicted classification with the known classification; and updating one or more parameters of the parameterised quantum gates in dependence on the comparison of the predicted classification with the known classification.
US12001914B2
There is provided in one embodiment an apparatus having an image sensor array. In one embodiment, the image sensor array can include monochrome pixels and color sensitive pixels. The monochrome pixels can be pixels without wavelength selective color filter elements. The color sensitive pixels can include wavelength selective color filter elements.
US12001913B2
There is provided in one embodiment an apparatus having an image sensor array. In one embodiment, the image sensor array can include monochrome pixels and color sensitive pixels. The monochrome pixels can be pixels without wavelength selective color filter elements. The color sensitive pixels can include wavelength selective color filter elements.
US12001910B1
Presented are user-friendly battery powered touchless identity card emulator systems and methods that allow existing ID management installations, such as physical card reader systems, to securely operate without requiring a physical key and irrespective of type, model, shape, and size of reader and card format. Various embodiments integrate wireless functionality to existing systems to enable mobile access to provide advanced user/identity management capabilities for access control systems.
US12001909B2
According to an embodiment, a communication apparatus acquires tag data of each wireless tag at a plurality of positions of a moved antenna via an antenna. The communication apparatus inputs the tag data of each wireless tag into a learned model selected from a plurality of learned models in a manner that depends on an environment of the apparatus. In addition, the communication apparatus acquires, on the basis of input of the tag data of each wireless tag into the learned model, data indicating a range in which each wireless tag is present from the learned model.
US12001908B2
Disclosed is a method for identifying an RFID card as a passive or an active RFID card comprising sending a first RFID command, while keeping an RFID field on; receiving, from the RFID card a corresponding first answering signal; populating a first list with each corresponding first answering signal from the RFID card; sending a second RFID command, wherein the RFID field is paused for a predefined pausing period after sending the second RFID command; receiving, from at least zero active RFID cards, a corresponding second answering signal; populating a second list with each corresponding second answering signal from the at least zero active RFID cards; comparing the entries of the first list with the entries of the second list; identifying each of the at least zero passive RFID cards by having the corresponding first answering signal in the first list but not in the second list.
US12001902B2
A method for correcting distortion in image printing, the method includes receiving a digital image (200, 306, 376, 500, 600, 700, 810) acquired from a printed image. Based on the digital image (200, 306, 376, 500, 600, 700, 810), a geometric distortion in the printed image is estimated. One or more pixel locations (228, 504, 506, 514, 610, 620, 630, 640, 712, 716, 722, 724) are calculated, such that, when one or more dummy pixels (232, 234) are implanted therein, compensate for the estimated geometric distortion. The geometric distortion is corrected in a subsequent digital image to be printed, by implanting the one or more dummy pixels (232, 234) at the one or more calculated pixel locations (228, 504, 506, 514, 610, 620, 630, 640, 712, 716, 722, 724) in the subsequent digital image. The subsequent digital image having the corrected geometric distortion is printed.
US12001893B1
A system including a machine-learning accelerator (MLA) hardware comprising computation-control units that each have a programmable dependency matrix; and a compiler computing module configured to generate, based on a machine-learning model, dependency instructions indicating dependencies between the computation-control units; wherein the computation-control units include at least: a first computation-control unit configured to generate, after completion of a first operation, a synchronization token representing the completion of the first operation, the synchronization token specifying a recipient identifier for an intended recipient computation-control unit of the synchronization token; a second computation-control unit configured to: configure the programmable dependency matrix of the second computation-control unit according to the dependency instructions to include dependency conditions for performing operations; receive the synchronization token based on the recipient identifier; update a dependency state to reflect the received synchronization token; and execute an operation in response to a determination that the dependency state satisfies the dependency condition.
US12001873B2
A cable communication system includes one or more data-plane virtual network functions (VNFs) and one or more control-plane VNFs. The data-plane VNFs are configured to run on one or more hosts in a data network, and to perform data-plane medium access control (MAC) processing for a plurality of user-side cable modems and for a plurality of network-side physical-layer (PHY) devices that communicate with the user-side modems. The control-plane VNFs are configured to run on at least one host in the data network, separately from the data-plane VNFs, and to perform control-plane processing for the user-side modems and the network-side PHY devices.
US12001868B2
In a VM migration system 100, a controller 20 determines a priority group to which a VM whose performance is insufficient is desired to belong based on the amount of resource usage of each VM 1 and priority group setting information 14 acquired from a physical server 10. Upon acquiring performance guarantee failure alarm information, the controller 20 selects a VM to be migrated from VMs currently belonging to a priority group in which there are no vacancies, selects a physical server having the largest margin as another physical server to which the VM is to be migrated, and transmits migration instruction information to the physical server. The physical server migrates the selected VM to the other physical server.
US12001861B1
Disclosed are systems and methods for providing a desktop application for displaying enhanced web-based services. The desktop application may retrieve one or more web-based services from one or more universal resource locators (URLs). The desktop application may then, based on the types of web-based services retrieved, provide user interfaces complementary to the web-based services. These user interfaces may include features familiar to desktop application users, such as file menus, edit menus, and toolbars. The user interfaces may also include enhancements, such as efficient searching and sorting features. The web-based services may include mail services, scheduling services, and customer relationship management (CRM) platforms.
US12001858B2
The present disclosure generally relates to setting up an account for a service. A request to set up an account for a first service is received. In response to receiving the request to set up the account for the first service, a first login option and a second login option are displayed. If an input selecting the first login option is detected, a request to use first contact information for a user to set up the account for the first service is transmitted. If an input selecting the second login option is detected, a request to use second contact information for the user to set up the account for the first service is transmitted. The second contact information is automatically generated for the service and does not reveal the first contact information for the user.
US12001855B1
In a general aspect, an observability pipeline system includes a pack data processing engine. In some aspects, an observability pipeline system includes data processing engines that are configured according to system default configuration settings and system local configuration settings. A pack file received from a remote computer system contains routes, pipelines, and pack default configuration settings. A pack data processing engine includes the routes and pipelines from the pack file. Pack local configuration settings, defined for the pack data processing engine, inherit at least one of the system default configuration settings and at least one of the pack default configuration settings. The pack local configuration settings are isolated from the system local configuration settings. When pipeline data is processed in the observability pipeline system on the computer system, the pack data processing engine is applied to the pipeline data.
US12001852B2
A distributed device network including a number of device nodes connected to a wireless mesh network and including memory configured to store instructions thereon. The instructions cause the one or more processors to receive, from a server by a first device node of the number of device nodes, a first packaged application, the first packaged application including a first functionality, execute, by the first device node, the first packaged application to provide the first functionality receive, from the server by a second device node of the number of device nodes, a second packaged application, the second packaged application including a second functionality, execute, by the second device node, the second packaged application to provide the second functionality, wherein the number of device nodes are resource-constrained devices that cooperate to perform one or more functions of a cloud computing system.
US12001840B1
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for detecting data errors. A method generally includes receiving a new value as user input for a data field, generating histogram-based approximations of kernel density estimates generated based on valid data and invalid data associated with the data field, determining a likelihood that the new value is a valid value and a likelihood that the new value is an invalid value, computing a likelihood ratio test statistic based on a ratio of the likelihoods, and classifying the new value as valid or invalid based on comparing the likelihood ratio test statistic to a likelihood ratio test threshold.
US12001834B2
The present invention relates to a firmware provision apparatus and a provision method therefor. The firmware provision apparatus according to the present invention comprises: a memory that stores firmware data of a specific device; and a processor that divides the firmware data into two or more logical blocks, and generates a firmware image including the logical blocks obtained from the division, wherein the logical blocks include data areas in which the corresponding divided firmware data is stored and buffer areas in which data about changed details of the corresponding divided firmware data is stored.
US12001833B2
The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for maintaining computer software of a supervisory control unit (SCU) of an industrial control system (ICS) configured to control equipment of a facility. The method includes capturing status information for the SCU and equipment that indicates at least performance of the SCU and the equipment, and connectivity of the SCU with the equipment. The method includes patching the computer software automatically to update, change, fix, or improve the computer software. The method includes capturing corresponding status information for the SCU and equipment and performing an audit of the ICS after the patch in which the status information and the corresponding status information are compared to identify any deviations in the performance or the connectivity of the equipment resulting from the patch. The method includes generating an audit report of the ICS that indicates any of the deviations that satisfy a reporting threshold.
US12001829B2
An OTA center includes: one or more storage devices configured to store regulation information; and one or more processors configured to communicate, via a network, with an OTA master mounted on the vehicle and configured to control software update for a target ECU, transmit update data of software of the target ECU to the OTA master, execute, by transmitting the update data, control for causing the OTA master to execute the software update for the target ECU, make a determination whether the software update to be executed is the specific software update, based on the regulation information, and when the determination is positive, transmit, to the OTA master, request information for requesting execution of the specific software update in the predetermined place.
US12001828B2
A method of updating a desired state of a virtualization software for a cluster of hosts includes: in response to a notification of a change associated with the cluster, determining versions of a base image of the virtualization software that are compatible with the cluster; for each compatible version of the base image, determining versions of an add-on image of the virtualization software that are compatible with the compatible version of the base image and the cluster; presenting as a recommended image a complete image of the virtualization software, the complete image containing a first version of the base image that is compatible with the cluster and a first version of the add-on image that is compatible with the first version of the base image and the cluster; and upon acceptance of the recommended image, updating a software specification to include the recommended image.
US12001826B2
Examples described herein relate to a network interface receiving a firmware update from one or more packets. In some examples, the one or more packets indicate a start of a firmware update. In some examples, the network interface can also perform authenticating the start of firmware update indication and based on authentication of the firmware update, permit a firmware update of a device. In some examples, the device is one or more of: Board Management Controller (BMC), central processing unit (CPU), network interface, Ethernet controller, storage controller, memory controller, display engine, graphics processing unit (GPU), accelerator device, or peripheral device. In some examples, an end of firmware update indicator is received in the one or more packets. In some examples, communications are maintained through a port during a firmware change.
US12001821B2
Implementations are described herein for leveraging prior source code transformations to facilitate automatic creation and/or recommendation of tools for automating aspects of source code transformations captured in real time. In various implementations, a transformation made by a programmer to a source code snipped may be captured in a source code editor application in real time. Based on the transformation and the intent, one or more candidate source code transformations may be identified from one or more repositories of prior source code transformations made by one or more other programmers. The source code editor application may be caused to provide output indicative of a tool that is operable to automate one or more edits associated with both the transformation made by the programmer to the source code snippet and with one or more of the candidate source code transformations.
US12001818B2
An industrial integrated development environment (IDE) supports open or extensible application programming interfaces (APIs) that enable end users (e.g., plant asset owners, original equipment manufacturers (OEM), system integrators, etc.) to build upon the IDE's development platform to create custom views or to code custom functionality. This can include, for example, defining a control programming syntax supported by the industrial IDE, customizing a development environment view afforded by the IDE's interface, modifying or creating project editing functions, defining customized programming guardrails designed to guide compliance with in-house programming standards, or other such IDE customizations.
US12001817B1
As described herein, a system, method, and computer program are provided for managing a navigational flow of an application. A navigational flow defined for a plurality of user interfaces of an application is determined. The navigational flow is rendered in an editing tool. An update to the navigational flow is received, via the editing tool. The update is automatically translated into code of the application.
US12001809B1
Machine learning translation models may be selectively tuned to provide custom machine translations. A request to translate input text from an input language to a target language may be received. A tuning data set for translating the input text to the target language may be identified and searched to select pairs of texts in the tuning data according to comparisons with the input text. A machine learning model used to translate into the target language may be tuned using only second texts in the target language in the selected pairs of texts. The tuned machine learning model may then be used to translate the input text into the target language.
US12001801B2
Disclosed are some implementations of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for integrating question generation and answer retrieval in a question answer system. The system generates a question using a set of documents and determines whether it is semantically distinct from questions in a question-answer repository. After determining that the question is semantically distinct from questions in the question-answer repository, the system adds the question to the question-answer repository. Upon receipt of a user-submitted question, the system uses the question-answer repository to identify a semantically similar question. The system retrieves an answer corresponding to the identified question from the question-answer repository and provides the answer in response to the user-submitted question.
US12001793B2
An object is to provide an interaction server in which inputs of an input keyword are reduced and the number of exchanges in interaction is reduced as a result. An interaction server 100 includes a truth table 104 configured to have question sentences including a sentence to be provided to a user and a plurality of searching keywords associated with, and a relational table 105 configured to have one main keyword and a plurality of related keywords related to the main keyword associated with each other. A search unit 102 acquires at least one of the one main keyword and any of the plurality of related keywords listed in the relational table 105 on the basis of an input keyword, further performs searching in the truth table 104 using the main keyword and/or the related keyword which has been acquired, and acquires a question sentence candidate which is response content corresponding to the main keyword or the related keyword.
US12001790B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for inverting neural embeddings. One or more forward neural embeddings associated with meanings, features, and/or characteristics of data samples may be generated for one or more data samples. One or more inverse neural embeddings associated with the one or more forward neural embeddings may be determined. One or more inverse feature sets for the one or more inverse neural embeddings may be generated.
US12001789B2
A method of textual data analysis is provided. The method comprises parsing text data extracted from transcripts related to a number of companies. Intermediate metrics are created comprising numerical representations of the parsed text data and derivations. The intermediate metrics are then combined into different combinations comprising headline analytics. A machine learning model tests each headline analytic for standalone predictive efficacy. Headline analytics with standalone predictive efficacies above a first threshold are selected and then tested for additive predictive efficacy to determine if the selected headline analytic incrementally increases the predictive efficacy of a preexisting economic analytic above a second threshold. Headline analytics with additive predictive efficacy above the second threshold are applied to a second number of transcripts in combination with the preexisting economic analytic to predict financial performance of companies that are the subjects of the second number of transcripts.
US12001781B2
Methods and systems for a query selection system are provided. The methods and systems include operations comprising: accessing a database comprising a plurality of data inquiries, a data inquiry of the plurality of data inquiries being associated with inquiry metadata including a data type, a data inquiry, a plurality of data responses, and display data; accessing a query definition group, the query definition group defining a plurality of data types to include in a data inquiry prompt; accessing historical query selection information representing one or more data inquiries of the plurality of data inquiries previously presented to one or more users; configuring, based on the query definition group and the historical query selection information, a set of the plurality of data inquiries; and generating the data inquiry prompt based on the configured set of the plurality of data inquiries.
US12001777B2
A font switching method obtains, through pixel matching with a comparison font, a target font consistent with a font currently used by an operating system, and applies the target font to a third-party application, enabling the third-party application to accurately vary with a font change of the operating system and to avoid inconsistency between the font used by the third-party application and the font used by the operating system.
US12001776B2
Systems and methods for providing resized layouts accommodating a plurality of documents sizes for variable data printing are disclosed. A computerized system is used to lay out a template for a given document having a first page size and including variable elements based on user input. The user can define the frame of each element according to one or more parameters including a scaling ratio, an X and Y alignment, and a must fit portion of the frame. The user provides a second page size which includes at least one dimension different than the first page size. A new document is automatically prepared that includes the content of the original document that is resized according to the one or more parameters.
US12001771B2
A computing system implementing a design verification system can detect multiple analog design blocks in a circuit design describing an electronic device. The design verification system can generate equivalent networks for the analog design blocks using different sets of the parameters of the analog design blocks by selectively collapsing nodes and branches in the analog design blocks based on values of the different sets of the parameters. The equivalent networks can correspond to behavioral topologies of the analog design blocks having the different sets of the parameters. The design verification system can selectively compile a subset of the analog design blocks into multiple compiled variant models based on a comparison of the equivalent networks. The design verification system can include an analog simulator to simulate the analog design blocks in the circuit design using the compiled variant models.
US12001769B2
Techniques and a system for quantum computing device modeling and design are provided. In one example, a system includes a modeling component and a simulation component. The modeling component models a quantum device element of a quantum computing device as an electromagnetic circuit element to generate electromagnetic circuit data for the quantum computing device. The simulation component simulates the quantum computing device using the electromagnetic circuit data to generate response function data indicative of a response function for the quantum computing device. Additionally or alternatively, a Hamiltonian is constructed based on the response function.
US12001765B2
The present document describes techniques associated with a textile-material model for vibroacoustic structural simulation. The techniques described herein provide a nontrivial methodology to test a textile and simplify its representation, which can enable prediction of acoustic performance (e.g., rub and buzz) of an electronic-speaker device having a textile mounted thereon. The textile is modeled as a textile-material model based on an elongation stiffness obtained from a time-temperature superposition curve of the textile, which is based on a dynamic mechanical analysis test of the textile in each of course and wale directions. The textile-material model is then applied to an assembly model of the electronic-speaker device to simulate a vibroacoustic response of the textile relative to the assembly model to predict a likelihood of rub and buzz.
US12001764B2
Systems and methods for facilitating virtual operation of a virtual vehicle within a virtual environment based on real-life vehicle operation are disclosed. According to aspects, a computing device may access a data model indicative of real-world operation of a real-world vehicle by a real-world operator and, based on the data model, determine virtual operation of the virtual vehicle that corresponds to the real-world operation of the real-world vehicle. The computing device may display, in a user interface, the virtual vehicle undertaking the virtual operation such that the real-life operator may review the virtual operation and potentially be motivated to improve his/her real-world vehicle operation.
US12001759B2
An operation device includes a housing arranged on a center cluster located diagonally in front of a driver seat and a passenger seat of a vehicle, a left-side operation unit and a right-side operation unit arranged on a right side and a left side, respectively, of a front surface of the housing to receive an operation, a left-side operation detection unit and a right-side operation detection unit to detect an operation performed on the left-side operation unit and the right-side operation unit, respectively, a substrate on which the left-side and right-side operation detection units are arranged, and an output unit that outputs a sound in response to a received operation and is arranged on the substrate so as to be located between the left-side operation detection unit and the right-side operation detection unit at a position to equalize distances from the driver seat and the passenger seat.
US12001756B2
An audio processing device includes: a sound level measuring circuit arranged to operably generate multiple sound level values, wherein the multiple sound level values respectively correspond to the sound levels generated by an audio playback device at multiple time points or the sound levels received by a microphone at multiple time points; an audio dose calculating circuit coupled with the sound level measuring circuit and arranged to operably generate an audio dose value corresponding to a measuring period based on the multiple sound level values and contents of a weighting table; a control circuit coupled with the audio dose calculating circuit and arranged to operably compare the audio dose value with a dose threshold to determine whether to generate a control signal or not; and an indication signal generating circuit coupled with the control circuit and arranged to operably generate a corresponding indication signal according to the control signal.
US12001755B2
An apparatus and a method for caring emotion of a driver based on a vehicle sound, may include a detector configured to detect driving information of the vehicle and body information of a user, a non-transitory storage to store instructions, and a processor to execute the instructions. The processor determines an emotional status of the driver by use of at least one of the driving information or the body information, to generate a healing sound by designing a virtual sound based on the driving information and the emotional status of the driver, and to generate and output the healing sound.
US12001747B2
An electronic shelf label system, comprising a number of display devices to display content on its screen or its screens, each device comprises a memory stage to store content data, and a control stage to control the display of the content on its screen; wherein the screen is a video screen and realizes a shelf rail or covers a front of a shelf rail or a part of it to which it is attachable, and the content is a video and the memory stage stores the entire video data of the video, and the control stage is designed to define a display window for the video and to display only the video content within the display window on its screen.
US12001737B2
An image forming apparatus configured to communicate with a first cloud cooperation system receives selection of a file stored in a cloud storage service, acquires the selected file via the first cloud cooperation system, performs control to execute printing of the acquired file, receives input of authentication information to be used for connection to a second cloud cooperation system different from the first cloud cooperation system, and transmits information about a result of the executed printing to the second cloud cooperation system via the first cloud cooperation system by using the input authentication information.
US12001726B2
Cloning storage systems in a cloud computing environment, including: receiving a request to create a cloud-based storage system; retrieving, from cloud-based object storage, one or more objects to include in the cloud-based storage system; and creating the cloud-based storage system, including storing, in block storage of the cloud-based storage system, data contained in the one or more objects retrieved from the cloud-based object storage.
US12001724B2
Techniques are provided for forwarding operations to bypass persistent memory. A modify operation, targeting an object, may be received at a persistent memory tier of a node. If a forwarding policy indicates that forwarding is not enabled for the modify operation and the target object, then the modify operation is executed through a persistent memory file system. If the forwarding policy indicates that forwarding is enabled for the modify operation and the target object, then the modify operation is forwarded to a file system tier as a forwarded operation for execution through a storage file system.
US12001721B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses include receiving a write command including user data. The write command is directed to a portion of memory including a first and second block and a first and second user data portion are directed to the first and second block. Temporary parity data is generated using the first and second user data portions. The temporary parity data and the first and second user data portions are stored in a buffer. Portions of the first and second block are programmed with two programming passes. The first and second user data portions in the buffer are invalidated in response to a completion of the second programming pass of the portions of the first and second blocks. The temporary parity data is maintained in the buffer until a second programming pass of the first and second block.
US12001716B2
A memory system includes a memory device comprising a content addressable memory (CAM) block storing a plurality of stored search keys and a value data block. The memory system further includes a processing device that receives an input search key and identifies one of the plurality of stored search keys that matches the input search key, the one of the plurality of stored search keys having an associated match location in the CAM block. The processing device further determines, using the associated match location, a corresponding value location in the value data block and retrieves, from the value location in the value data block, data representing a value associated with the input search key.
US12001714B2
An apparatus in one embodiment comprises at least one processing device that includes a processor coupled to a memory. The processing device is configured to obtain buffer availability information from a storage system, the buffer availability information indicating that the storage system is currently experiencing a deficiency in a number of available buffers of a given one of at least first and second different buffer sizes supported by the storage system, and to select particular input-output operations for delivery to the storage system over one or more networks based at least in part on the obtained buffer availability information. Obtaining the buffer availability information from the storage system illustratively comprises sending at least one command from a host device to the storage system. First and second different buffer types having the first and second different buffer sizes may comprise respective different write buffer types within a larger write buffer.
US12001707B2
Methods, systems, and devices for host verification for a memory device are described. A memory device may receive a first value from a host device that is associated with an identification of the host device after an event. The memory device may transmit a second value to the host device that is based on the first value and comprises a random set of bits. The memory device may receive from the host device data or a command that comprises an encrypted third value that is based at least in part on the second value and a secret shared between the host device and the memory device. The memory device may also enable a functionality of the memory device based on the encrypted third value.
US12001706B2
Provided is a computing system including a memory system in communication with a host, to store data therein. The memory system includes a memory having a plurality of memory components coupled to the controller via a memory interface; and a memory controller configured to communicate with the memory to control data transmission and performing scrubbing operation of the memory components and detecting a region of the memory to be sanitized and performing a sanitization operation of the detected region to prevent the occurrence of failure.
US12001705B2
An apparatus includes processing circuitry for performing data processing in response to instructions of a software execution environment. Configuration storage circuitry stores a set of memory transaction parameters in association with a partition identifier and configuration application circuitry applies the set of memory transaction parameters in respect of memory transactions issued by the software execution environment that identifies the partition identifier. The memory transaction parameters comprise a minimum target allocation of a resource used by a memory system in handling the memory transaction that identifies the partition identifier. Also provided is an apparatus that comprises processing circuitry for performing data processing in response to instructions of a software execution environment. Configuration storage circuitry stores a set of memory transaction parameters and associated partition identifiers. The memory transaction parameters comprise resource allocations for handling transactions that identify the associated partition identifier. Configuration application circuitry performs the resource allocations. The memory transaction parameters comprise an enable setting and the configuration application circuitry inhibits the resource allocations based on the enable setting.
US12001703B2
This application provides a data processing method and a storage device, and belongs to the field of storage technologies. In this application, the storage device performs deduplication and compression based on different granularities, deduplicates data based on a large granularity, and compresses the data based on a small granularity. Therefore, a limitation that a deduplication granularity and a compression granularity need to be the same is removed. A deduplication ratio decrease caused by an excessively large granularity and a compression ratio decrease caused by an excessively small granularity are avoided to some extent, to improve an overall reduction ratio of deduplication and compression.
US12001702B2
A memory system includes a non-volatile memory and a controller. The non-volatile memory includes a plurality of memory chips including one or more first memory chips, each first memory chip including a plurality of physical blocks and one or more second memory chips, each second memory chip including a plurality of physical blocks, each memory chip configured to operate independently. The controller can communicate with a host and controls the non-volatile memory. The controller configures a first logical block by parallelizing physical blocks of each of one or more first memory chips and physical blocks of each of one or more second memory chips in an interleaved configuration so that the physical blocks of each of one or more first memory chips and the physical blocks of each of one or more second memory chips can be used simultaneously.
US12001700B2
A system includes a solid-state storage array having a plurality of solid-state storage devices and a storage controller coupled to the solid-state storage array, the storage controller including a processing device, the processing device to select a segment height based on erase block sizes of the plurality of solid-state storage devices. The processing device is further to program a data segment using the segment height to a data stripe across two or more of the plurality of solid-state storage devices and store the segment height in metadata associated with the data segment.
US12001697B2
A memory system includes two or more memory controllers capable of accessing the same dynamic, random-access memory (DRAM), one controller having access to the DRAM or a subset of the DRAM at a time. Different subsets of the DRAM are supported with different refresh-control circuitry, including respective refresh-address counters. Whichever controller has access to a given subset of the DRAM issues refresh requests to the corresponding refresh-address counter. Counters are synchronized before control of a given subset of the DRAM is transferred between controllers to avoid a loss of stored data.
US12001686B2
Methods, apparatuses and systems related to managing deck-specific read levels are described. The apparatus may include a memory array having the memory cells organized into two or more decks. The apparatus can determine a delay between programming the decks. The apparatus can derive and implement the deck-specific read levels by selectively adjusting a base read level with an offset level according to the delay and/or the targeted read location.
US12001684B2
A first amount of energy to be stored at one or more power loss protection (PLP) components is determined to enable storage of data at a plurality of storage devices of a storage system upon an occurrence of a power failure. A first voltage is provided to the one or more PLP components that corresponds to the first amount of energy. A second amount of energy to be stored at the one or more PLP components is determined based on a change in the storage system. A second voltage is provided to the one or more PLP components that corresponds to the second amount of energy.
US12001670B2
A device with a display and a touch-sensitive surface displays a user interface including an object. While displaying the user interface, the device detects a first and a second portion of an input, where the first portion includes contact(s) at a location corresponding to the object and the second portion includes movement of the contact(s). In response: upon determining that the second portion was detected shortly after detecting the contact(s): when the first input has a first predefined number of contacts, the device drags the user interface object or a representation; and when the first input has a second predefined number of contacts, the device forgoes the dragging. Further in response, upon determining that the second portion was detected after the contact(s) had been detected at the location for at least the first threshold amount of time, the device drags the user interface object or the representation thereof.
US12001667B2
The present disclosure describes systems and methods for computer-moderated collaborative estimation among a population of human participants using a plurality of networked computing devices. A query (e.g., estimation prompt) may be presented to participants for collecting collaborative responses. The population of users may each set an initial estimation response to the prompt during an initial estimation time period, which is then followed by a collaborative estimation time period (during which all users are asked to produce an updated estimation response to the same prompt). A forbidden deadband region defines an area around each participant's initial estimation that the participant must move their variable slider out of in order for their slider to register as part of the collaborative real-time process. In some embodiments, a participant is not shown initial estimation responses of other participants until the participant has moved their slider out of the forbidden deadband region.
US12001666B2
A computer implemented method includes receiving video content to display on a display device, applying a sequence of video processing and display settings profiles to base settings to derive video processing and display setting values, processing the video via the computer in accordance with the video processing setting and display setting values, and providing the processed video to the display device.
US12001664B2
A method for adjusting the proportions of components in a total is described. The method comprises providing a computer processor configured to present, using a user interface, a plurality of components for selection. Further, the method comprises providing the computer processor to receive a selection of the presented plurality of components. Furthermore, the method comprises providing the computer processor to present, using the user interface, a linear arrangement of the selected plurality of components, each pair of adjacent components being separated by a selectable boundary. Additionally, the method comprises providing the computer processor configured to receive a selection of a selectable boundary. Moreover, the method comprises providing the computer processor to adjust, in response to the selection of the selectable border, the relative proportion of the components.
US12001654B2
An image storage method includes: receiving a first input; generating a screenshot image and displaying a thumbnail of the screenshot image in response to the first input; receiving a second input for the thumbnail; determining a target storage location in response to the second input; and storing the screenshot image to the target storage location.
US12001652B2
A system for analyzing a plurality of grouped incidents belonging to a group, the system having a database storing the plurality of grouped incidents and a GUI configured to receive from the database the plurality of group incidents and to display the plurality of group incidents. The GUI has a group interface that is configured to display one of a grouped incidents panel, a group visualization panel, or combinations thereof. The group has the plurality of grouped incidents, a plurality of grouped sources, and a group incident tag.
US12001645B2
Methods, systems, and media for presenting media content previews are provided. In some embodiments, the method comprises: causing a plurality of thumbnail images to be presented on a page presented on a user device, wherein each thumbnail image represents a media content item available for presentation on the user device, and wherein the user device is associated with a headset display; determining that a viewpoint of the headset display is directed to one of the thumbnail images of the plurality of thumbnail images; in response to determining that the viewpoint of the headset display is directed to the one of the thumbnail images, causing a first view of a content preview corresponding to the one of the thumbnail images to be presented on the headset display, wherein the content preview includes a second view that is different than and does not include the first view; detecting that the viewpoint of the headset display has changed in a direction toward the second view of the content preview; in response to detecting that the viewpoint of the headset display has changed in the direction toward the second view of the content preview, causing the second view of the content preview to be presented on the headset display; determining that the viewpoint of the headset display is no longer directed to the content preview; and in response to determining that the viewpoint of the headset display is no longer directed to the content preview, causing presentation of the second view of the content preview to be inhibited and causing presentation of the plurality of thumbnail images to resume on the headset display.
US12001643B1
The present technology includes receiving event data of a user from a user device while the user interacts with a graphical user interface (GUI) to access a service, where the event data includes behavioral biometrics of the user obtained from one or more input devices of the user device, and predicting, based on the event data, a projected age of the user, where predicting the age of the user includes inputting the event data into a machine learning model, where the machine learning model is configured to receive event data and output an age prediction for a user associated with the event data.
US12001637B2
A touch module includes a carrier layer, a first metal mesh layer, an insulating layer, and a second metal mesh layer which are stacked; the first metal mesh layer includes a second electrode located in a third region, the second metal mesh layer includes a first electrode located in a second region, and the third region overlaps the second region. In this case, the capacitive signal intensity of a touch unit formed by the first electrode and the second electrode is large. On this basis, by arranging the second region and the third region at a position corresponding to an opening or an arc corner of the display screen, the touch precision and the touch sensitivity at the position can be effectively improved.
US12001636B2
Computing devices and methods are used to detect and compensate for the presence of a cover layer on a touch input device. A computing device includes a processing device, a touch input device in electronic communication with the processing device, and a memory device in electronic communication with the processing device and having electronic instructions encoded thereon. The electronic instructions, when executed by the processing device, cause the processor to receive a first signal obtained from the touch input device over a first duration of time, the first signal including a first signal pattern, receive a second signal obtained from the touch input device over a second duration of time separate from the first duration of time, the second signal including a second signal pattern, determine a difference between the first signal pattern and the second signal pattern, and adjust a touch input detection setting based on the difference.
US12001621B1
A touch module includes a flexible base, a moisture blocking film and a touch structure. The moisture blocking film has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, and the first surface directly contacts the flexible base. The touch structure is disposed on the second surface of the moisture blocking film and includes a first conductive layer disposed on the second surface, a first insulating layer disposed on the first conductive layer, a second conductive layer disposed on the first insulating layer and a second insulating layer disposed on the second conductive layer. An area of the moisture blocking film is greater than or equal to the sum of the areas of the touch electrode region and the peripheral circuit region of the touch structure. The water vapor transmission rate of the moisture blocking film is less than 5.0*10−4 g/(m2*day).
US12001620B2
A method comprises: determining whether an external wireless power (EWP) source is coupled to an interface configured to transfer power from the EWP source to the power management (PM) system; selecting the EWP to power the computer mouse when the EWP source is electrically couples and provides power to the interface; determining whether a fixed internal power source (PS) is coupled to the PM system; selecting a fixed internal PS to power the computer mouse when the fixed internal PS is coupled to the PM system and the EWP source is coupled to but not providing enough power to the interface; determining whether a removeable internal PS is electrically coupled to a PM system in the computer mouse; and selecting the removeable internal PS to power the computer mouse when the removeable internal PS is electrically coupled to the PM system and the EPS is not coupled to the interface.
US12001615B2
A workstation enables operation of a 2D input device with a 3D interface. A cursor position engine determines the 3D position of a cursor controlled by the 2D input device as the cursor moves within a 3D scene displayed on a 3D display. The cursor position engine determines the 3D position of the cursor for a current frame of the 3D scene based on a current user viewpoint, a current mouse movement, a CD gain value, a Voronoi diagram, and an interpolation algorithm, such as the Laplacian algorithm. A CD gain engine computes CD gain optimized for the 2D input device operating with the 3D interface. The CD gain engine determines the CD gain based on specifications for the 2D input device and the 3D display. The techniques performed by the cursor position engine and the techniques performed by the CD gain engine can be performed separately or in conjunction.
US12001607B2
An image classification neural network is trained based on images that are the presented to an observer as a visual stimulus while collecting neurophysiological signals from a brain of the observer. The neurophysiological signals are processes to identify a neurophysiological event indicative of a detection of a target by the observer in one or more of the images, and the image classification neural network is trained to identify the target in the image based on the identification of the neurophysiological event.
US12001605B2
A method for compensating for a visual impairment in a virtual reality environment, by multiple computer systems associated with a head mounted display, including, rendering an image for display in a virtual reality environment, identifying, based at least in part on an input received by the head mounted display, a visual impairment associated with a user of the head mounted display, determining one or more visual adjustments to the head mounted display based on the identified visual impairment, and rendering an adjusted image for display in the virtual reality environment based on the one or more visual adjustments.
US12001603B2
The present disclosure describes systems and techniques directed to detecting a user's gaze and using millimeter electromagnetic waves to actuate a focus system of a contact lens worn by the user. The described systems and techniques include a contact lens (108) having a focus system (222) and contact lens circuitry (226) that includes transceiver circuitry (228), logic circuitry (230), and memory circuitry (232). The memory circuitry (232) stores instructions of a focus manager application (234) that, when executed by the logic circuitry (230), directs the contact lens (108) to actuate the focus system (222) in response to receiving a signal (110) having a millimeter wave (114).
US12001595B2
An apparatus comprises at least one processing device comprising a processor coupled to a memory, with the at least one processing device being configured to provide at least a portion of an input-output (IO) stack for processing of IO operations in a host device for delivery to a storage system over selected ones of a plurality of paths through a network. The IO stack comprises at least a multi-path device overlying one or more logical storage devices. The at least one processing device is further configured to perform a check at each of one or more points in the IO stack to confirm that a given IO operation directed to a given device of the IO stack is received from an expected overlying device of the IO stack. The IO stack illustratively comprises an encryption device overlying the multi-path device, supporting end-to-end encryption for one or more logical storage devices.
US12001594B2
A data storage chassis includes a plurality of data storage cartridges, and printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) electronics selectively connectable to one or more of the plurality of data storage cartridges. The data storage chassis also includes a wireless interface controller communicatively coupled to the PCBA electronics. The wireless interface controller facilitates wireless communication of data between the data storage chassis and a host using at least one frequency in a range of frequencies including fifth-generation (5G), millimeter, and sub-millimeter frequency ranges.
US12001592B2
Apparatuses, systems, and techniques for handling faults by a direct memory access (DMA) engine. When a DMA engine detects an error associated with an encryption or decryption operation, the DMA engine reports the error to a CPU, which may be executing an untrusted software directing a DMA operation, and the secure processor. The DMA engine waits for clearance from the secure processor before responding to further directions from the potentially untrusted software.
US12001591B2
Disclosed implementations may include receiving a first communication comprising first content generated by a first user; identifying authentication metadata embedded within the first communication; receiving a second communication generated by a second user, wherein the second communication comprises second content and the authentication metadata; decoding the authentication metadata from the second communication; parsing the first content of the first communication and the second content of the second communication; determining that the first content is different than the second content based at least in part on the parsing; and generating an alteration notification based at least in part on the determining.
US12001590B2
A redirect cloaking system (RCS) is provided. The RCS receives, from a client computing device, an original request to access a resource from another computing device, and cloaks at least a portion of a redirect chain associated with servicing the original request such that at least a first portion of redirect responses of the redirect chain are not returned to the client computing device. The RCS returns at least one of a second portion of redirect responses of the redirect chain or the resource to the client computing device without exposing the first portion of redirect responses to the client computing device.
US12001584B2
Techniques for privacy-preserving contact tracing are disclosed, including: generating, by a first user device, a first proximity token for contact tracing; receiving, by the first user device, a second proximity token from a second user device; generating, by the first user device, a hash based on the first proximity token and the second proximity token; generating, by the first user device using a prover function of a preprocessing zero knowledge succinct non-interactive argument of knowledge (pp-zk-SNARK), a cryptographic proof attesting that an individual associated with the first user device tested positive for a pathogen; and transmitting, by the first user device, publicly verifiable exposure data including at least the cryptographic proof and the hash to a public registry.
US12001582B2
Methods, non-transitory computer readable media, and verifier and/or prover devices or query verification apparatuses are disclosed that generate a first commitment from received data and send the received data to a prover device for insertion into a table of a database. A query result and an overall proof are received from the prover device in response to a received query forwarded to the prover device and associated with the database table. The overall proof is generated from one or more partial proofs comprising one or more commitments generated from one or more intermediate values. The query result and an indication the query result was verified are returned in response to the received query after verifying the query result based on a second commitment to the query result generated using the first commitment and the overall proof.
US12001581B2
A first database account shares, with a second database account, a secure function configured to accept an encrypted dataset and a decryption parameter. The first database account includes a first dataset. The second database account includes a second dataset. The second database account selects one or more rows and one or more columns of the second dataset as a searchable dataset, generates an encrypted searchable dataset by encrypting the searchable dataset with a key, and calls the secure function with the encrypted searchable dataset and the key. The secure function generates results of a query by: generating a decrypted searchable dataset by decrypting the encrypted searchable dataset with the key in a secure environment, obtaining the results by executing the query against a combination of the first dataset and the decrypted dataset in the secure environment to generated query-results data, and outputting the results to the second database account.
US12001566B2
Techniques described herein relate to a method for generating security findings acquisition (SFA) records. The method includes obtaining, by a security finding acquisition system (SFAS) orchestrator, an entity context request associated with an entity; making a first determination, by the SFAS orchestrator, that the entity is not associated with an entity directed acyclic graph (DAG); in response to the first determination: obtaining, by the SFAS orchestrator, the entity DAG associated with the entity from a lineage builder; making a second determination, by the SFAS orchestrator, that the entity is not associated with SFA anchors; in response to the second determination: obtaining, by the SFAS orchestrator, the SFA anchors associated with the entity from a resolver; obtaining, by the SFAS orchestrator, the SFA records associated with the entity from an extractor using the SFA anchors; and performing, by the SFAS orchestrator, security actions using the SFA records.
US12001555B1
A system and method for detecting and preventing ransomware includes creating a number of watch files in a filesystem, and adding a location and a timestamp of each to an ingest log. A number of native files are found in the filesystem and cataloged, adding the location and the timestamp of each to the ingest log. Periodically, each timestamp of each entry in the ingest log is compared to a current timestamp of a corresponding file in the filesystem and a count of watch files that have change and a count of native files that have changed is made. If the count of watch and native files that have changed indicate that a ransomware program is running on the computer, the ransomware program is suspended and reported. If a command indicates that the ransomware program is not ransomware, execution of the ransomware program is resumed.
US12001554B2
Methods and apparatus consistent with the present disclosure may use instrumentation code that remains transparent to an application program that the instrumentation code has been injected into. In certain instances, data sets that include executable code may be received via packetized communications or be received via other means, such as, receiving a file from a data store. The present technique allows a processor executing instrumentation code to monitor actions performed by the program code included in a received data set. Malware may be detected by scanning suspect program code with a malware scanner, malware may be detected by identifying suspicious actions performed by a set of program code, or malware may be detected by a combination of such techniques.
US12001545B2
Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for detecting and mitigating stack pivoting using stack artifact verification. In aspects, function hooks may be added to one or more functions. When a hooked function executes, artifacts relating to the hooked function may be left on the stack memory (“stack”). The location of the artifacts on the stack may be stored in a local storage area. Each time a hook in a hooked function is subsequently executed, protection may be executed to determine whether an artifact remains in the location stored in the local storage area. If the artifact is no longer in the same location, a stack pivot may be detected and one or more remedial actions may be automatically performed.
US12001544B2
Systems and methods for attacks, countermeasures, archiving, data leak prevention, and other novel services relating to active messages are disclosed. Among other things, a system can replace active content with static content in a message, can replace static content with active content in a message, and can use active messaging to provide enhanced on-hold message functions.
US12001537B2
A system, method and one or more wireless earpieces for authenticating utilization of one or more wireless earpieces. A request is received through the one or more wireless earpieces. Biometric readings are performed for a user utilizing sensors of the one or more wireless earpieces. The biometric readings are analyzed to determine whether a biometric profile authorizes the one or more wireless earpieces to fulfill the request. The request is authenticated in response to determining the biometric profile authorizes fulfillment of the request.
US12001535B2
The invention is an apparatus used for providing control of functions of a vehicle in response to touch commands of an authorized passenger. The functions for which the authorized passenger is provided control are disallowed to the driver when the vehicle is moving. The passenger is authorized with two-factor authentication. The first of the two factors is the fingerprint of the passenger which is enrolled before vehicle movement. The second factor is the location of the passenger. The first factor is used when an occupant attempts to control disallowed functions. The second factor is used when an occupant attempts to enroll a fingerprint. A display panel displays a prompt to enroll a fingerprint before vehicle movement, uses a fingerprint interface to enroll an original fingerprint, and instantaneously captures fingerprints of those attempting to control disallowed functions and compares them to enrolled fingerprints.
US12001532B2
An electronic device includes a memory storing a plurality of fingerprint reference data files. One or more sensors identify whether a mechanical support condition of the electronic device is a hand supported condition or a surface supported condition. A fingerprint sensor receives fingerprint data. One or more processors select a prioritized fingerprint data reference file from the plurality of fingerprint reference data files as a function of the mechanical support condition and authenticate an authorized user of the electronic device by comparing the fingerprint data to the prioritized fingerprint data reference file before comparing the fingerprint data to another fingerprint reference data file of the plurality of fingerprint reference data files. The fingerprint sensor can be situated on a minor surface of the electronic device, on a rear major surface in a central location, on the rear major surface in an edge location, or in other locations.
US12001528B2
One embodiment provides a method, including: identifying, at an information handling device, a sensitivity level associated with user-created content; detecting editing input provided to the user-created content by a user; determining, using a processor, a type of continuous authentication policy to implement for the user-created content based upon the sensitivity level; and authenticating the user providing the editing input at a frequency dictated by the type of the continuous authentication policy. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US12001519B2
A system and method for object classification and related applications based on frame and event camera processing is provided. The system acquires an output of image sensor circuitry and determines a first object classification result based on feature points associated with first objects in a first frame of the acquired output. The system executes an event-camera signal processing operation on at least two frames of the acquired output to generate an event frame. The generated event frame includes pixel-level movement information associated with second objects. The system determines a second object classification result based on the pixel-level movement information and determines one or more object classification tags based on the determined first and the determined second object classification result. The determined one or more object classification tags correspond to one or more objects, included in at least the first objects and the second objects.
US12001515B2
Systems and methods are described for training a machine learning model using intelligently selected multiclass vectors. According to an embodiment, a processing resource of a computing system receives a first set of un-labeled feature vectors. The first set feature vectors are homomorphically translated using a T-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (t-SNE) algorithm to obtain a second set of feature vectors with reduced dimensionality. The second set of feature vectors are clustered to obtain an initial set of clusters using centroid-based clustering. An optimal set of clusters is identified among the initial set of clusters by performing a convex optimization process on the initial set of clusters. For each cluster of the optimal set of clusters, a representative vector from the cluster is selected for labeling.
US12001505B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for application data amalgamation through integration with third-party applications. A dynamic stub operates within a user interface application on a client computing device. The dynamic stub enables integration of functionality of an associated middleware system. The dynamic stub extracts data from a user interface of a third-party application system based on a set of data capture components. The dynamic stub transmits data to the middleware system. The middleware system transmits information back to the dynamic stub based on the data. The middleware system can reconfigure the dynamic stub in order to alter at least a portion of the user interface based on the information received from the middleware system.
US12001494B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a content processing method and apparatus, a computer-readable storage medium, and a computer device. The method includes obtaining data of a to-be-pushed user in behavior evaluation dimensions, user portrait information of the to-be-pushed user, and to-be-pushed content, with the user portrait information corresponding to a user portrait code and the to-be-pushed content corresponding to a to-be-pushed content code. The method further includes determining a user behavior code based on the data of the to-be-pushed user in the behavior evaluation dimensions, and obtaining a target code by fusing the to-be-pushed content code with the user behavior code and the user portrait code. Then, the method includes determining a recommendation probability of the to-be-pushed content based on the target code to determine the push content based on the recommendation probability.
US12001490B2
A method of determining relevancies of objects to a search query includes associating multiple tags with multiple objects, recording bookmarks to the multiple objects, or both, and determining a relevance score for each of the multiple objects and a search query. One embodiment of the method combines full-text relevance algorithms with tag relevance algorithms. Other embodiments include statistical relevance algorithms such as statistical classification or rank regression algorithms. When a user executes a search query, a results list containing the objects is returned, with the objects organized based on the relevance scores. The objects are organized by, for example, listing those with the highest relevance scores first or by marking them with an indication of their relevance. Preferably, relevance scores for a tag-object pair are based on a number of times a term in the tag has been associated with the object, a number of tags associated with the object, a number of times that the tag has been associated with the multiple objects, a number of tag-object pairs that contain a term in the tag, a number of tag-object pairs that contain a reference to the object, or any combination of these.
US12001478B2
A video-based interaction implementation method includes the following: At least one video is presented in an interface; an interactive video input by a user based on a presented video is acquired, and an association relationship is established between the presented video and the interactive video; and the interactive video is presented based on the association relationship.
US12001477B2
A computing system includes an interface configured to interface and communicate with an external media resource, a memory that stores operational instructions and a processing module operably coupled to the interface and to the memory, such that the processing module, when operable within the computing system based on the operational instructions, is configured to is configured to perform various operations. The computing system receives an audio fingerprint from the external medial resource, divides the audio file segment into a plurality of portions and compares the audio file segment with a plurality of stored audio segments. The computing system then determines whether a threshold number of the plurality of portions of a stored audio segment compare favorably with a threshold number of the plurality of portions of the audio file segment and based thereon determines whether the audio file segment and the stored audio segment correspond to alternate versions of a same song.
US12001475B2
Systems, methods, devices, media, and computer-readable instructions are described for local image tagging and processing in a resource-constrained environment such as a mobile device. In some embodiments, characteristics associated with images are used to determine whether to store content (e.g., images and video clips) as ephemeral content or non-ephemeral content. Based on the determination, the image is stored in a non-ephemeral camera roll storage of the mobile device, or an ephemeral local application storage. Additional storage operations such as encryption or backup copying may additionally be determined and performed based on the analysis of the content. In some embodiments, such images may be indexed, sorted, and searched based on the image tagging operations used to characterize the content.
US12001472B2
A method and system for computer-based generation of podcast metadata, to facilitate operations such as searching for and recommending podcasts based on the generated metadata. In an example method, a computing system obtains a text representation of a podcast episode and obtains person data defining a list of person names such as celebrity names. The computing system then correlates the person data with the text representation, to find a match between a listed person name a text string in the text representation. Further, the computing system predicts a named-entity span in the text representation and determines that the predicted named-entity span matches a location of the text string in the text representation of the podcast episode, and based on this determination, the computing system generates and outputs metadata that associates the person name with the podcast episode.
US12001470B2
Documents, such as those that may or will be the subject of a litigation, may be managed by automatically determining that a document, such as an email or other communication, is privileged or producible such that superfluous documents may be removed to improve data storage and reduce the burden on storage, processing, and communication resources. Additionally, documents such as emails may comprise attached or embedded documents (e.g., attachments) which may be similarly or independently classified from their associated email. After determining privilege, such as via metadata associated with a sender/receiver of an email, similarly categorized documents may be grouped for presentation and/or storage. The documents may be indexed, such as by entries within a production log, to further facilitate accurate production and management of non-privileged documents, as well as, the exclusion of privileged documents. Documents not required for production may be indexed and/or purged from storage.
US12001468B1
Extracting key-value attributes from unstructured data includes a parser receiving a first incident comprising key-value attributes and a second incident comprising key-value attributes, and parsing the first incident for the key-value attributes and the second incident for key-value attributes. A machine learning (ML) model perform a pairwise comparison of one or more common key-value attributes associated with the first incident and the second incident. A cosine similarity module computes a cosine similarity between the one or more common key-value attributes to generate a score for each of the one or more common key-value attributes associated with the first incident and the second incident, and generates a final score between the first incident and the second incident by averaging all cosine similarity scores computed for each of the one or more common key-value attributes.
US12001461B2
A computerized search method includes receiving first input designating a first location of a first analytic. The method includes, in response to a scheduling event, obtaining a first document from the first location, identifying a first predefined label within the first document, obtaining first and second data associated with the first predefined label, storing the first datum into a value index as a current value of the first analytic, and storing the second datum into a text index as a textual description of the first analytic. The method includes presenting a search interface and, in response to receiving a search query from a user: identifying a set of result analytics relevant to the search query based on the text index and presenting, for each of the result analytics, a textual description of the analytic from the text index and a most recent value of the analytic from the value index.
US12001449B2
A method of managing the sharing of inventory data across a plurality of data centers, includes the steps of detecting a change made to the inventory data by one of the data centers, updating a desired state document that specifies a desired state of each of the data centers, the updated desired state document including the inventory data as changed, and instructing each of other ones of the data centers to update the inventory data using the updated desired state document. Each of the data centers employ a database for storing the inventory data, and so after the remaining ones of the data centers have updated the inventory data using the updated desired state document, the change made to the inventory data stored in the database of one of the data centers is replicated in the respective databases of the remaining ones of the data centers.
US12001443B2
Systems and methods for trigger event determination can include processing blockchain data to determine a trigger event. Data associated with the trigger event can be processed to determine a query. The query can then be utilized to recursively search a database for data descriptive of the trigger event occurring. A notification can then be provided to instruct a resulting action to be performed.
US12001438B2
Systems and methods are provided for identifying and tracking diverters of controlled medications. A system may receive signals indicative of medication dispensing activities by one or more health care providers such as nurses, physicians, or pharmacists. Based on the received signals, the system may determine suspected diverters and provide a graphical interface identifying corresponding factors related to usage, waste, dosage, or other factors associated with the suspected diverters. The graphical interface may provide a list of top diverters and display dispensing transactions performed at a dispensing device.
US12001436B2
There is provided a method and system for causing a smart connected device such as a smart speaker to execute content upon a link trigger being sensed. The content to be executed is received and organized in a content tree, and at least one deep hyperlink accessible by a given electronic device is generated. The link trigger associated with a sensing action of the given electronic device is generated for the deep hyperlink. The content, the deep hyperlink and the link trigger are stored in a database. An indication of the deep hyperlink having been accessed by the given electronic device by sensing the link trigger is received, and the content associated with the deep hyperlink and device information associated with the smart connected device are received. An indication of the content is transmitted, the transmitting thereby causing the smart connected device to execute the content.
US12001426B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for supporting transformations of a graph generated from a query to event data. The event data may be unstructured event data, from which instances of a journey can be identified that represent sequences of related events describing actions performed in a computing environment. When evaluating journey instances, it can be helpful to visualize the instances as a graph. Depending on the instances viewed, a user may desire different modifications to the graph. While such modifications can be made when initially building instances from the unstructured event data, this can limit reuse of the resulting instances (since the modification would also be present when evaluating other subsets). To address this, embodiments of the present disclosure enable graph modifications to be applied to subsets of journey instances after building those instances from unstructured event data, increasing reuse of instances built from a query against the unstructured data.
US12001425B2
Systems and methods for improving evaluation of graph queries through depth first traversals are described herein. In an embodiment, a multi-node system evaluates against graph data a graph query that specifies a particular pattern to match by determining, at a first node of the multi-node system, in a particular instance of evaluating the graph query, that one or more first vertices on the first node match a first portion of the graph query and that a second vertex that is to be evaluated next is stored on a second node separate from the first node. In response to determining that the next vertex to be evaluated is stored on the second node separate from the first node, the first node generates a message to the second node comprising one or more results of the first portion of the graph query based on the one or more first vertices, an identifier of the next vertex, and a current stage of evaluating the graph query. In response to generating the message from the first node to the second node, the first node ceases the particular instance of evaluating the graph query.
US12001418B2
In some implementations, a query management system may receive an access notification associated with the data source. The query management system may analyze the data source to determine a query parameter that is associated with the data source. The query management system may determine a reliability score for the query parameter based on at least one of: source data of the data source, and other source data associated with one or more other data sources. The query management system may configure, based on the reliability score satisfying a reliability threshold, a communication interface with the data source. The query management system may integrate the data source for use with the virtual assistant in accordance with the reliability score, the query parameter, and the communication interface.
US12001408B2
The present disclosure relates to a system and techniques for enabling migration of data between data storage devices without disruption to an application that relies upon the data. In some embodiments, this may involve the insertion of a redirect command into a mutation log. Upon receiving a transaction that relates to a data value, a transactor host may access the mutation log. Upon detecting the redirect command, the transactor host may generate a new mutation log in a second memory location which includes a reference to the mutation log. New mutations generated by the mutation log are then written to the new mutation log.
US12001401B2
In an implementation, a sync engine running on a computing device synchronizes a local copy of a file with a copy of the file hosted by an online file service. An application on the device receives a request/command to open the file and responsively opens a temporary copy of the file in memory. The application populates the temporary file with content from the local copy of the file and also establishes a connection between the application and a co-authoring service. Note that the connection between the application and the co-authoring session bypasses the sync engine such, when connected to the co-authoring service, the application is able to synchronize the content in the temporary copy of the file with content in the hosted copy of the file over the connection.
US12001391B2
An indication to store to a remote storage a new archive of a snapshot of a source storage is received. At least one shared data chunk of the new archive is determined to be already stored in an existing chunk object of the remote storage storing data chunks of a previous archive. One or more evaluation metrics for the existing chunk object are determined based at least in part on a retention period associated with one or more individual chunks stored in the chunk object and a data lock period associated with the entire existing chunk object. It is determined based on the one or more evaluation metrics whether to reference the at least one shared data chunk of the new archive from the existing chunk object or store the at least one shared data chunk in a new chunk object of the remote storage.
US12001389B2
Described herein are systems and methods for providing a correlated content organization in a content management system based upon a training set. In accordance with an embodiment, the systems and methods described herein can build a training set based upon observations of received inputs to determine patterns that are used often in content merges. Once a pattern is established, the systems and methods can provide indications of proposed merges based upon the training set and rules established therefrom that fit the same, or similar (e.g., within a defined variant) of the pattern. The system can then receive an indication of whether the suggestion is accepted or rejected, and such decision can be fed back into the learning system. This way the accuracy of the content merge improves over time.
US12001382B2
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to generate command lists to be offloaded to accelerator circuitry. An example apparatus includes kernel duration model circuitry to predict a duration of execution of a first kernel based on a first source location, a first name, a first property of a first argument, or an occupancy of the first kernel. The example apparatus includes subsequent kernel model circuitry to predict a tuple and a dependency of a second kernel based on a second source location, a second name, a second property of a second argument, or a time of submission of the previous kernel. The example apparatus includes reinforcement learning model circuitry to determine whether to bundle the first kernel into a command list based on the duration of execution of the first kernel, the tuple of the second kernel, or the dependency of the second kernel.
US12001380B2
A distributed storage system including memory hosts and at least one curator in communication with the memory hosts. Each memory host has memory, and the curator manages striping of data across the memory hosts. In response to a memory access request by a client in communication with the memory hosts and the curator, the curator provides the client a file descriptor mapping data stripes and data stripe replications of a file on the memory hosts for remote direct memory access of the file on the memory hosts.
US12001379B2
A system and method for differentiated storage services with a Ethernet SSD includes receiving, at an Ethernet SSD (eSSD), an input/output (I/O) service request from a remote host via a multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) network. The I/O service request includes at least one parameter that may be used to match the I/O service request to a label switched path (LSP) based on the parameter(s). A storage traffic stream may then be opened between the eSSD and the remote host over the MPLS network according to the LSP.
US12001357B2
A direct memory access (DMA) circuit is provided. The DMA circuit may include a plurality of groups of direct memory access channels, wherein each of the groups includes at least one DMA channel and a resource usage counter configured to count an execution time in which one of the DMA channels of the group is executed, and an arbiter configured to evaluate a value of the resource usage counter of a group upon a request for execution time by one of the DMA channels of the group, and, taking into account a result of the evaluation, to assign, delay assignment, or deny execution time for using the direct memory access to one of the groups.
US12001353B2
In one embodiment, an apparatus includes an arbitration circuit with virtual link state machines to virtualize link states associated with multiple communication protocol stacks. The apparatus further includes a physical circuit coupled to the arbitration circuit and to interface with a physical link, where the physical circuit, in response to a retraining of the physical link, is to cause a plurality of the virtual link state machines to synchronize with corresponding virtual link state machines associated with a second side of the physical link, and where at least one of the communication protocol stacks is to remain in a low power state during the retraining and the synchronization. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US12001348B2
Described and claimed is a system for securely storing and processing raw data from a plurality of different data sources. The system comprises a server with a processing unit and volatile memory, an external non-volatile memory connected to the server and a plurality of data sources. The server is adapted for encrypting raw data received from each data source of the plurality of data sources and storing the encrypted raw data on the external non-volatile memory, retrieving and decrypting encrypted raw data stored on the at least one external non-volatile memory and processing raw data retrieved from the at least one external non-volatile memory. Further, a corresponding server and a method for securely storing and processing raw data from a plurality of different data sources are described and claimed.
US12001346B2
Techniques and mechanisms for a victim cache to operate in conjunction with a skewed cache to help mitigate the risk of a side-channel attack. In an embodiment, a first line is evicted from a skewed cache, and moved to a victim cache, based on a message indicating that a second line is to be stored to the skewed cache. Subsequently, a request to access the first line results in a search of both the victim cache and sets of the skewed cache which have been mapped to an address corresponding to the first line. Based on the search, the first line is evicted from the victim cache, and reinserted in the skewed cache. In another embodiment, reinsertion of the first line in the skewed cache includes the first line and a third line being swapped between the skewed cache and the victim cache.
US12001343B1
A data processing system includes a plurality of processing nodes communicatively coupled to a system fabric. Each of the processing nodes includes a respective plurality of processor cores. Logical partition (LPAR) information for each of a plurality of LPARs is maintained in a register set in each of the processor cores, where the LPAR information indicates, for each of the LPARs, which of the processing nodes may hold an address translation entry for each LPAR. Based on the LPAR information, a first processor core selects a broadcast scope for a multicast request on the system fabric that includes fewer than all of the plurality of processing nodes and issues the multicast request with the selected broadcast scope. The first processor core updates the LPAR information in the register set of a second processor core in another of the plurality of processing nodes via an inter-processor interrupt.
US12001337B2
A microprocessor includes a physically-indexed physically-tagged second-level set-associative cache. A set index and a way uniquely identifies each entry. A load/store unit, during store/load instruction execution: detects that a first and second portions of store/load data are to be written/read to/from different first and second lines of memory specified by first and second store physical memory line addresses, writes to a store/load queue entry first and second store physical address proxies (PAPs) for first and second store physical memory line addresses (and all the store data in store execution case). The first and second store PAPs comprise respective set indexes and ways that uniquely identifies respective entries of the second-level cache that holds respective copies of the respective first and second lines of memory. The entries of the store queue are absent storage for holding the first and second store physical memory line addresses.
US12001326B2
A method searches and tests for performance optima in an operating system (OS) configuration space. The method includes generating a plurality of OS configurations. For at least a first OS configuration, of the generated OS configurations, the method further includes: fetching a plurality of OS modules based on the first OS configuration; building a first OS image from the fetched OS modules; and testing the first OS image to determine a first value of a performance metric.
US12001320B2
The technology described herein provides a cloud reinforcement-learning architecture that allows a single reinforcement-learning model to interact with multiple live software environments. The live software environments and the single reinforcement-learning model run in a distributed computing environment (e.g., cloud environment). The single reinforcement-learning model may run on a first computing device(s) with a graphical processing unit (GPU) to aid in training the single reinforcement-learning model. At a high level, the single reinforcement-learning model may receive state telemetry data from the multiple live environments. The single reinforcement-learning model selects an available action for each set of state telemetry data received and communicates the selection to appropriate the test agent. The test agent then facilitates completion of the action within the software instance being tested in the live environment. A reward is then determined for the action. The single reinforcement-learning model may then be trained.
US12001317B2
A process is disclosed to identify the minimal set of sequential and combinational signals needed to fully reconstruct the combinational layout after emulation is complete. A minimal subset of sequential and combinational elements is output from the emulator to maximize the emulator speed and limit the utilization of emulator resources, e.g., FPGA resources. An efficient reconstruction of combinational waveforms or SAIF data is performed using a parallel computing grid.
US12001310B2
An example system includes a processor to monitor activity on a database server to generate an events stream. The processor can convert the events stream into a time series that approximates activity load at the database server using an exponential smoothing. The processor can also send the time series to a streaming analytics engine.
US12001306B2
An orchestrator device may receive a request from a first module deployed in a second cloud platform in a second jurisdiction, wherein the request is compliant with a jurisdictional characteristic of the second jurisdiction. The orchestrator device may process the request in order to identify a second module deployed in the first cloud platform to which to forward the request. The orchestrator device may forward the request to the second module to enable fulfillment of the request. The orchestrator device may receive a response from the second module, wherein the response is compliant with a jurisdictional characteristic of the first jurisdiction. The orchestrator device may process the response, to identify a third module deployed in the second cloud platform to which to forward the response. The orchestrator device may forward the response, to the third module.
US12001285B2
A system booting method, a node device, and a computer-readable storage medium relate to the technical field of operating systems and include determining a location of a first operating system to be booted by the node device in a target persistent memory; and booting, based on the location of the first operating system and by the node device, the first operating system.
US12001284B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to automated operations management. In various embodiments, a computer system accesses operational information that defines commands for an operational scenario and accesses blueprints that describe operational entities in a target computer environment related to the operational scenario. The computer system implements the operational scenario for the target computer environment. The implementing may include executing a hierarchy of controller modules that include an orchestrator controller module at top level of the hierarchy that is executable to carry out the commands by issuing instructions to controller modules at a next level. The controller modules may be executable to manage the operational entities according to the blueprints to complete the operational scenario. In various embodiments, the computer system includes additional features such as an application programming interface (API), a remote routing engine, a workflow engine, a reasoning engine, a security engine, and a testing engine.
US12001283B2
Data and error correction information may involve accessing multiple data channels (e.g., 8) and one error detection and correction channel concurrently. This technique requires a total of N+1 row requests for each access, where N is the number of data channels (e.g., 8 data row accesses and 1 error detection and correction row access equals 9 row accesses.) A single (or at least less than N) data channel row may be accessed concurrently with a single error detection and correction row. This reduces the number of row requests to two (2)—one for the data and one for the error detection and correction information. Because, row requests consume power, reducing the number of row requests is more power efficient.
US12001282B2
In described examples, a processor system includes a processor core that generates memory write requests, and a cache memory with a memory controller having a memory pipeline. The cache memory has cache lines of length L. The cache memory has a minimum write length that is less than a cache line length of the cache memory. The memory pipeline determines whether the data payload includes a first chunk and ECC syndrome that correspond to a partial write and are writable by a first cache write operation, and a second chunk and ECC syndrome that correspond to a full write operation that can be performed separately from the first cache write operation. The memory pipeline performs an RMW operation to store the first chunk and ECC syndrome in the cache memory, and performs the full write operation to store the second chunk and ECC syndrome in the cache memory.
US12001264B2
An apparatus comprising an interface to receive a video signal transmitted by a video source device to a first port of a plurality of ports of a display; and a controller comprising circuitry, the controller to responsive to a detection that the video source device is to enter a standby mode, cause the display to enter a low power state; and upon waking from the low power state, scan the first port of the plurality of ports for a communication from the video source device and quiesce scanning of the remaining one or more ports of the plurality of ports of the display.
US12001260B1
A speech-processing system may provide access to one or more virtual assistants via a voice-controlled device. The system may be activated by detecting a wakeword in speech received by a microphone of the device. The system may process the speech and provide a response in the form of synthetic speech. When a speaker of the device synthetic emits the speech, the microphone may detect some or all of the speech. If the synthetic speech includes a wakeword or words or phrases similar to the wakeword, a wakeword detection component of the device may detect the wakeword and activate an assistant, resulting in a self-wake or cross-wake. Self- or cross-wake may interrupt an action or response currently in progress, which may frustrate the user and result in a poor user experience. This disclosure thus proposes systems and methods for preventing cross-wake and self-wake in a voice-controlled device.
US12001256B2
A technique includes an agent executing on a plurality of nodes while a job is being concurrently executed by the plurality of nodes. The plurality of nodes is power-capped by an existing node power consumption budget. The technique includes managing power consumption of the plurality of nodes. The managing includes the agent determining a performance footprint that is associated with execution of the job; and the managing includes the agent determining a second node power consumption budget based on the performance footprint. The second node power consumption budget is different than the existing node power consumption budget. The managing includes the agent providing a power consumption request to a global power dispatcher to set a new node power consumption budget for the plurality of nodes.
US12001253B2
A wearable electronic device includes a first device housing coupled to a second device housing by at least one strap. The wearable electronic device includes heat generating electronics situated within the first device housing. A heat pipe thermally coupled to the heat generating electronics transfers thermal energy from the heat generating electronics through the at least one neck strap to the second device housing.
US12001246B2
A display control method applicable to an all-in-one (AIO) computer is provided. The AIO computer includes a first monitor and a second monitor. The display control method includes: receiving a control instruction from the first monitor; projecting a display content on the second monitor according to the control instruction; and selectively enabling a touch control function of the second monitor according to the control instruction.
US12001232B2
An LDO regulator for generating an output voltage at an output node of the LDO controller based on an input voltage received at an input node of the LDO controller is described. The LDO controller comprises a first amplifier stage, a driver stage, a second amplifier stage coupled between the drive stage and the output node, a feedback stage coupled between the output node and the first amplifier stage, and a gain limiter stage coupled between the first amplifier stage and the driver stage at an intermediate node for lowering a loop gain of the LDO regulator. A corresponding method for operating an LDO regulator is further described.
US12001228B2
The present disclosure relates to a directional heat transfer using thermal control devices, including a dual phase change thermal diode and an active contact-based thermal switch. The thermal diode includes a positive temperature coefficient switching material and a negative temperature coefficient switching material arranged in series. The thermal switch includes two thermally conducting surfaces which may be moved to contact (i.e., having a distance between them of substantially zero) creating minimal thermal contact resistance. Both thermal control devices may be used to control heat flow into and/or out of a building.
US12001226B2
Communication with a user is more naturally and effectively realized. An information processing apparatus includes an autonomous mobile body (10) that travels while maintaining an inverted state, and an operation control unit (230) that controls an operation of the autonomous mobile body. The autonomous mobile body includes a main body (10), two wheels (570) mounted on the main body, and a drive mechanism (565) that drives the two wheels. The operation control unit controls the drive mechanism to maintain the inverted state of the autonomous mobile body by the two wheels in a first state, and make the autonomous mobile body come to rest by the two wheels and a bottom of the main body when the autonomous mobile body transfers from the first state to a second state.
US12001215B2
Systems and methods for basis path generation are provided. In particular, a computing system can obtain a target nominal path. The computing system can determine a current pose for an autonomous vehicle. The computing system can determine, based at least in part on the current pose of the autonomous vehicle and the target nominal path, a lane change region. The computing system can determine one or more merge points on the target nominal path. The computing system can, for each respective merge point in the one or more merge points, generate a candidate basis path from the current pose of the autonomous vehicle to the respective merge point. The computing system can generate a suitability classification for each candidate basis path. The computing system can select one or more candidate basis paths based on the suitability classification for each respective candidate basis path in the plurality of candidate basis paths.
US12001213B2
A vehicular trailer assist system includes a plurality of vehicle cameras disposed at a vehicle, a trailer camera disposed at a rear portion of a trailer and viewing at least rearward of the trailer, and an electronic control unit (ECU) having a processor operable to process image data captured by the cameras. A display screen displays images of a region rearward of the trailer and includes a touch screen. Responsive to a touch input that is representative of a target location, the ECU, via processing of image data captured by the cameras, determines a path of travel for the vehicle and trailer to follow to maneuver the vehicle and trailer toward the target location. The ECU, responsive to an input indicative of an updated target location, updates the path of travel for the vehicle and trailer to follow to maneuver the vehicle and trailer toward the updated target location.
US12001209B2
A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes detecting thread groups relating to machine learning associated with one or more processing devices. The method may further include facilitating barrier synchronization of the thread groups across multiple dies such that each thread in a thread group is scheduled across a set of compute elements associated with the multiple dies, where each die represents a processing device of the one or more processing devices, the processing device including a graphics processor.
US12001205B2
A robot remote control method and system capable of remotely controlling navigation of a robot. The robot remote control method includes outputting both a map image and an ambient image to a display, the map image including location information corresponding to the ambient image, the ambient image being of surroundings of a robot, and the ambient image being received from a camera at the robot, generating a control command for controlling the robot in response to an input to the display during the outputting, and causing the robot to drive according to the control command by transmitting the control command to the robot.
US12001204B2
A system and method for safely terminating navigation of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). A method includes generating a navigation plan for the UAV, the UAV including a propulsion system, wherein the navigation plan includes at least a start point, an end point, and a virtual three-dimensional (3D) tunnel connecting the start and end points; and configuring the UAV to execute the navigation plan by navigating from the start point to the end point, wherein the UAV is configured such that the UAV executes the navigation plan by navigating from the start point to the end point, wherein the UAV is further configured such that the UAV terminates navigation by terminating power to the propulsion system of the UAV and deploying a failsafe, wherein the UAV is configured to terminate navigation when the UAV is outside of the 3D tunnel.
US12001196B2
Embodiments of this present disclosure may include systems that perform operations including receiving a first symbol instance from an industrial automation device. The first template object instance may characterize a dataset accessible to the industrial automation device. Symbol object instances may inherit a categorization with respect to categories associated with the industrial automation device including an identity, a state, a runtime status, a maintenance status, sustainability information, or any combination thereof. The operations may include receiving a first input corresponding to the first symbol object instance. The first input may include an indication of a change to the original symbolic definition. The operations may include identifying a type of the industrial automation device based on the first symbol object instance and generating enhanced template data based on the type of the industrial automation device, the first input, and the first symbol object instance.
US12001186B2
An information processing method includes acquiring a time chart indicating operation lines corresponding to operations of a plurality of control objects and interlocking modes between the operations, and generating a sequence program corresponding to the operations of the plurality of control objects based on the time chart.
US12001182B1
A smart lawnmower and system and method for use of the same are disclosed. In one embodiment of the smart lawnmower, in a real world-to-simulated world (“real-to-sim”) training phase, the smart lawnmower constructs a simulated environment corresponding to a mowing-relevant portion of a real-world environment relative to semantic information, which may include received location signalization at an antenna In a simulated world-to-real world (“sim-to-real”) mowing phase, a mowing policy is applied to control the cutting subsystem and the drive subsystem in response to the semantic information, which may include the location signalization. In each of the real-to-sim training phase and the sim-to-real mowing phase, the smart lawnmower may provide a user interface including the simulated environment. Further, in the sim-to-real mowing phase, the smart lawnmower may synchronize the real world and the simulated world.
US12001181B2
A power generation planning apparatus that calculates a generation plan which is a plan of starting and stopping and output power of electric generators. The apparatus includes an information calculation unit that calculates demand and supply of electric power, a plan calculation unit that calculates the generation plan of the starting and stopping and the output power of the electric generators by using, as an input, the generation information calculated by the information calculation unit, and an adjustment unit that calculates a generation plan with a time interval shorter than the generation plan by adjusting a starting initiation time and/or a stopping initiation time of the electric generator in the generation plan such that total power generation cost is reduced by using, as inputs, the generation plan calculated by the plan calculation unit and generation information with a time interval shorter than the generation plan.
US12001159B2
A processor causes a printing portion to execute, when first conveying processing is executed, test print processing for executing processing of forming a plurality of test toner images on a sheet under a print condition that differs for each of the plurality of test toner images. The processor acquires a plurality of first sensing densities when the first conveying processing is executed. The processor causes the printing portion to execute the test print processing when second conveying processing is executed. The processor acquires a plurality of second sensing densities when the second conveying processing is executed. The processor compares the plurality of first sensing densities and the plurality of second sensing densities to adjust the print condition in the print processing when the second conveying processing is executed.
US12001156B2
In some examples, a developing device includes a developing container including an opening and to store a developer, a developing sleeve installed in the developing container and partially exposed to an outside of the developing container through the opening, a regulation member upstream of the opening in a rotation direction of the developing sleeve and to regulate an amount of the developer adhered to the developing sleeve and supplied to the opening, and a magnetic member inside the developing sleeve. The magnetic member includes a main pole facing the opening, a regulation pole facing the regulation member, and a catch pole upstream of the regulation pole in the rotation direction of the developing sleeve. The magnetic member is to cause adhesion of the developer in the developing container to the developing sleeve. At least one of lengths of the catch pole or the regulation pole and diameters of both end portions of the catch pole or the regulation pole are less than a length and a diameter, respectively, of the main pole.
US12001155B2
A container for accommodating a content of powder or a liquid includes an accommodating portion for accommodating the content; a top end portion including a discharging portion and a shielding member, wherein the discharging portion includes a discharge opening for discharging the content to an outside of the container and a passage for permitting passing of the content toward the discharge opening, and the shielding member shields the discharge opening; and a cap detachably mounted to the top end portion, wherein the cap includes a main body portion covering at least a part of the top end portion and a fixing portion fixed to the top end portion and connected to the main body portion, and wherein the main body portion of the cap is separated from the fixing portion by being rotated about a rotational axis thereof relative to the top end portion.
US12001142B2
The present application relates to a wafer processing device and a wafer processing method. The wafer processing device includes: a spraying unit configured to spray a photoresist-removing solution to remove a photoresist; and a heating unit mounted to the spraying unit and configured to heat the photoresist-removing solution to a preset temperature. According to the wafer processing device and wafer processing method of the present application, the photoresist-removing solution is heated to a preset temperature, so that the photoresist-removing solution dissolves the photoresist more rapidly and thoroughly. Therefore, the photoresist may be removed from a surface of the wafer more thoroughly, and further a yield of the wafer is increased.
US12001139B2
A resist composition is provided comprising a base polymer and a quencher comprising a cyclic ammonium salt having a fluorinated saturated hydrocarbyl group or fluorinated aryl group. The resist composition has a high sensitivity and forms a pattern with improved LWR or CDU, independent of whether it is of positive or negative tone.
US12001138B2
A composition for forming a silicon-containing resist underlayer film contains at least one or more kinds of a quaternary ammonium salt shown by the following general formula (A-1), and a thermally crosslinkable polysiloxane (Sx), where Ar1 represents an aromatic group having 6 to 20 carbon atoms, or a heteroaromatic group having 4 to 20 carbon atoms. R11 represents an alkyl group, alkenyl group, oxoalkyl group, or oxoalkenyl group having 1 to 12 carbon atoms, an aryl group having 6 to 20 carbon atoms, or an aralkyl group or aryloxoalkyl group having 7 to 12 carbon atoms. Some or all of hydrogen atoms of these groups are optionally substituted. Z− represents an organic or inorganic anion as a counterion of the quaternary ammonium cation. An object is to provide a silicon-containing resist underlayer film having high effect of suppressing ultrafine pattern collapse and appropriate etching rate in multilayer resist methods.
US12001137B2
A fluid dispensing system, an imprint lithography system with a fluid dispensing system, a method of manufacturing an article with the fluid dispensing system. The fluid dispensing system comprising: a fluid dispenser and a heater. The fluid dispenser configured to dispense droplets of a fluid onto a substrate. The heater configured to maintain droplet temperature at greater than 23° C. Each of the droplets has a fluid volume that is less than 1.2 pL. The fluid dispenser is configured to have a drop placement accuracy for the imprint resist fluid that is less than a first threshold when the droplet fluid temperature is greater than 23° C. The drop placement accuracy is greater than the first threshold when the droplet fluid temperature is less than or equal to 23° C.
US12001128B2
A light source unit according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes a base member having one face and another face that face each other, and having a first region and a second region that are disposed side by side, a first light-emitting element group disposed in the first region of the one face, a second light-emitting element group disposed in the second region of the one face, and having substantially the same heat generation amount as the first light-emitting element group, a first heat dissipation structure provided in the first region, and a second heat dissipation structure provided in the second region, and having a heat dissipation characteristic equal to or greater than a heat dissipation characteristic of the first heat dissipation structure.
US12001127B2
An optical device with a secondary reflecting structure includes a housing that is sealed. A light source, a first reflecting mirror, a lens module, a second reflecting mirror, and a projection lens are arranged in the housing. The first reflecting mirror is adjacent to the light source. The second reflecting mirror is arranged above the first reflecting mirror. The projection lens is adjacent to the second reflecting mirror and is arranged above the light source. The lens module is arranged between the first reflecting mirror and the second reflecting mirror. Light emitted by the light source is reflected by the first reflecting mirror and passes through the lens module to reach the second reflecting mirror, then the light is reflected to the projection lens through the second reflecting mirror. A projector includes a casing and the optical device with the secondary reflecting structure arranged in the casing.
US12001126B2
A folded module includes a housing, a reflecting unit supported on an inner surface of the housing and including a reflective member, and a driving unit configured to provide driving force to rotate the reflecting unit with respect to the housing. The driving unit includes a first magnet and a second magnet disposed on the reflecting unit to face the inner surface, and at least one coil disposed in the housing and facing the first magnet and/or the second magnet.
US12001125B1
Folded Tele cameras comprising an optical path folding element (OPFE) for folding a first optical path OP1 to a second optical path OP2, a lens including N=8 lens elements, the lens being divided into three lens groups numbered, in order from an object side of the lens, G1, G2 and G3, and an image sensor, wherein G1 and G3 are included in a single G13 carrier, wherein G2 is included in a G2 carrier, wherein both the G13 carrier and the G2 carrier include rails for defining the position of G2 relative to G13, wherein the Tele camera is configured to change a zoom factor continuously between a minimum zoom factor ZFMIN and a maximum zoom factor ZFMAX by moving the G2 carrier relative to the G13 carrier and by moving the G13 carrier relative to the image sensor, and wherein an effective focal length (EFL) is 7.5 mm
US12001124B2
An image pickup apparatus includes a window portion, an image pickup unit configured to photoelectrically convert an optical image obtained via the window portion, a heating unit, and a movable portion configured to move the heating unit to a first position and a second position. At the first position, the heating unit does not contact the window portion. At the second position, the heating unit contacts the window portion.
US12001121B2
A light source module includes an illumination element and an adjustable light diffusing material. The light source module is configured to receive or generate a control signal for adjusting diffusion of light emitted from the light source module and accordingly adjust an amount of diffusion of light emitted from the light source module. In some embodiments, an adjustable light diffusing material includes a polymer stabilized cholesteric texture (PSCT), a smectic phase liquid crystal, a polymer network liquid crystal (PNLC), or other suitable material. A controller for a light source module may determine a level of diffusion based on a level of inclusion of a wide-angle field of view of a wide-angle lens system or a telephoto field of view of a telephoto lens system in a composite camera field of view that includes a combination of the wide angle field of view and the telephoto field of view. Also, the controller may determine a level of diffusion based or an estimated distance to a scene in a camera field of view that is to be captured.
US12001120B1
An optical device including a plurality of electrodes, an electro-optic component, an optical grating, and a buried back reflector is described. The electro-optic component includes at least one optical material exhibiting an electro-optic effect. The optical grating is optically coupled with the electro-optic component. In some embodiments, the optical grating includes a vertical optical grating coupler. The buried back reflector is optically coupled with the optical grating. The buried back reflector is configured to increase a coupling efficiency of the optical grating to an out-of-plane optical mode and configured to reduce a performance perturbation to the plurality of electrodes. The buried back reflector may include a metal layer having a thickness of at least thirty nanometers and not more than five hundred nanometers.
US12001119B2
An electrically-switchable flexible contact lens for conforming to an eye of a user is provided. The lens comprises a liquid crystal cell for changing a focal power of the contact lens, and the liquid crystal cell has a cell gap thickness between a first inner surface and a second inner surface, the liquid crystal cell comprising a diffractive optical element for correcting the vision of a user, wherein the diffractive optical element is arranged to maintain the cell gap thickness by providing support at one or more locations within the cell.
US12001115B2
An optical device. In some embodiments, the device comprises: an input waveguide, configured to receive light; a first electro-absorption modulator, coupled to receive light from the input waveguide, and operable to produce a first output or a second output, wherein the second output has a lower amplitude than the first output; a second electro-absorption modulator, coupled to receive light from the input waveguide, and operable to produce a third output or a fourth output, wherein the fourth output has a lower amplitude than the third output; and an output waveguide, coupled to receive light from the first electro-absorption modulator and the second electro-absorption modulator, and output a combined signal comprising an output of the first electro-absorption modulator and an output of the second electro-absorption modulator.
US12001111B2
A device having variable scattering by liquid crystals includes a stack with a first electrode, an electroactive layer with liquid crystals being stabilized by the polymeric network, and a second electrode. The material exhibits, from a temperature referred to as T1, a mesophase referred to as P. At a temperature T′ greater than or equal to T1, the stack is capable of exhibiting at least three stable and reversible scattering states in the visible range and a variable color.
US12001105B2
A method for the making of a plurality of LCD screens starting with an oversize panel. The panels laid out on the mother glass include a plurality of screen layouts with trace lead-outs around all four sides of a rectangular panel layout. A panel is then made which has conductor traces around the periphery of the panel. The conductor traces may conductor pads on the panel. The panels are then able to be cut into up to four separate final screen panels depending upon the size requirements of the application. Each of the cut final screen panels will have trace contacts along adjacent edges to allow for coupling to flex connectors. As some panels will be left-right images of each other with regard to pixel colors, drivers for the panels will be adapted for RBG to GBR conversion to drive mirror image panels with the same images.
US12001102B1
Disclosed are a backlight module and a display device. The backlight module includes a driving backplate and an optical film on a side of the driving backplate light taking-off. The driving backplate includes a substrate, electronic elements, and an adhesive layer. The electronic elements are disposed on a side of the substrate close to the optical film. The adhesive layer covers the electronic elements and includes first adhesive-dispensed portions. The first adhesive-dispensed portions are in contact with the optical film.
US12001093B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a first substrate, a polarizer, and a conductive adhesive. The polarizer is disposed on the first substrate and has a conductive layer. The conductive adhesive is disposed on the first substrate and electrically connected to the conductive layer. From a top view, the conductive adhesive is adjacent to an edge of the polarizer and has an extending direction. An angle between the extending direction and an absorption-axis direction of the polarizer is between 80° and 100°.
US12001088B2
A multi-spectral optical imaging device includes a switchable element configured to be switched between first and second states, one of which alters a polarization of light, and a geometric phase element arranged to receive the light from the switchable element. The geometric phase element is configured to diffract a first wavelength band of the light to alter a direction of propagation thereof based on the polarization and without substantially altering a direction of propagation of a second wavelength band of the light, responsive to the first state of the switchable element. Related optical shutters and multi-spectral optical detectors are also discussed.
US12001086B2
A tool for managing heat generation in smart contact lenses. The tool determines one or more activities to be performed by one or more smart contact lenses. The tool determines a heat generation pattern associated with performance of the one or more activities. The tool assigns the one or more activities to the one or more smart contact lenses based on the heat generation pattern. Responsive to a determination that a pre-determined thermal threshold of the one or more smart contact lenses is exceeded, the tool generates one or more recommendations to perform one or more cooling functions of the one or more smart contact lenses.
US12001082B2
An image capturing optical assembly includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens group, a second lens group and a third lens group, wherein the first lens group includes a first lens element and a second lens element, the second lens group includes a third lens element, a fourth lens element and a fifth lens element, and the third lens group includes a sixth lens element, a seventh lens element and an eighth lens element. At least one surface of at least one of the lens elements of each lens group is aspheric. At least one surface of at least one of the lens elements includes at least one inflection point.
US12001080B2
A camera optical lens includes, from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens. The camera optical lens satisfies: −4.50≤f4/f≤−2.00, and 0.65≤d5/d6≤19.50, where f denotes a focal length of the camera optical lens, f4 denotes a focal length of the fourth lens, d5 denotes an on-axis thickness of the third lens, and d6 denotes an on-axis distance from an image-side surface of the third lens to an object-side surface of the fourth lens. The camera optical lens has a good optical performance and meet the design requirements of being ultra-thin and having a wide angle and a large apertures.
US12001078B2
Folded Tele cameras, comprising: an optical path folding element (OPFE) for a folding a first optical path OP1 to second optical path OP2, a lens including N lens elements, the lens being divided into four lens groups arranged along a lens optical axis and marked, in order from an object side of the lens to an image side of the lens, G1, G2, G3 and G4, and an image sensor, wherein the lens elements of a lens group do not move with respect to each other, wherein G1 and G3 do not move with respect to each other, wherein G2 and G4 do not move with respect to each other, wherein the Tele camera is configured to change a zoom factor (ZF) continuously between a minimum zoom factor marked ZFMIN corresponding to a minimal effective focal length marked EFLMIN and a maximum zoom factor marked ZFMAX corresponding to a maximal effective focal length marked EFLMAX by moving G1 and G3 together relative to the image sensor and by moving G2 and G4 together relative to the image sensor.
US12001057B2
A bidirectional optical device includes a first optical component, wherein a portion of a first interface of the first optical component has a reflector coating, wherein a second interface of the first optical component has an optical coating, and wherein the first optical component includes an internal splitting interface disposed between the first interface and the second interface, and a second optical component including a reflector aligned to the second interface of the first optical component, wherein the first optical component and the second optical component comprise an unbalanced Mach-Zehnder (MZ) interferometer.
US12001054B2
An output coupler can be used to couple multiple channels of light from a semiconductor waveguide to an optical fiber for wavelength division multiplexing. To couple light of a wide bandwidth (e.g., equal to or greater than 100 nm), two symmetrical gratings on two sides of a Fabry Perot cavity is used. The two symmetrical gratings are optimized to both reflect light for a Fabry Perot resonator and couple light out of the semiconductor waveguide.
US12001039B2
In a display apparatus body (10A), a first polarization plate (31), a first wave plate (32), a reflection layer (33), a second wave plate (35), and a second polarization plate (36) are arranged between a display element (De) and a lens (S) and are lined up in this order from the display element (De) toward the lens (S). Further, the reflection layer (33) includes reflection regions (E1) that correspond to positions of non-light emission regions (R2) of the display element (De) and that reflect light and includes light transmission regions (E2) that correspond to positions of a plurality of light emission regions (R1) and that transmit light. This can obtain a display apparatus that can improve the use efficiency of light emitted from a display element.
US12001015B1
A projection system includes an optical device, a positioning device, and a projector. The optical device has a substrate and at least two positioning components, and the at least two positioning components are respectively disposed on multiple different areas of the substrate. The positioning device performs positioning on the optical device according to the positioning component on the substrate and generates a position signal. The projector projects an image light beam to the optical device, receives the position signal, and determines a projection direction of the image light beam according to the position signal.
US12001013B2
A visual perception device has a look-up table stored in a laser driver chip. The look-up table includes relational gain data to compensate for brighter areas of a laser pattern wherein pixels are located more closely than areas where the pixels are further apart and to compensate for differences in intensity of individual pixels when the intensities of pixels are altered due to design characteristics of an eye piece.
US12001010B2
An oscillator system includes an oscillator structure configured to oscillate about a first axis according to a first oscillation and oscillate about a second axis according to a second oscillation; a first driver configured to drive the first oscillation, detect first zero-crossing events of the first mirror, and generate a first position signal based on the detected first zero-crossing events; a second driver configured to drive the second oscillation, detect second zero-crossing events of the second mirror, and generate a second position signal based on the detected second zero-crossing events; and a synchronization controller configured to receive the first and the second position signals, and synchronize at least one of a phase or a frequency of the second oscillation with at least one of a phase or a frequency of the first oscillation, respectively, based on the first and the second position signals.
US12001009B2
Disclosed is a camera module comprising: a lens assembly including a liquid lens; an image sensor for receiving light that has passed through the lens assembly; a detecting sensor for detecting the movement of the lens assembly to generate a motion signal; a voltage controller for generating a driving signal to control an interface of the liquid lens in response to the motion signal; a detecting unit for outputting a motion frequency from the motion signal; and a driving unit for changing an image-capture timing of the image sensor according to the motion frequency.
US12001008B2
A new and improved tunable optical receiver based on thermal optics and controllers for technologies that require fast wavelength channel tuning. The device entails a thermal control system in which a wavelength tunable filter, a sensor and at least two thermal actuators enables fast tuning, which are controlled by advanced algorithms. The key compositions of both parts are outlined and their main requirements are discussed.
US12001006B2
A device includes a detection path, along which detection radiation is guided, and a means for splitting the detection radiation between first and second detection paths. A detector has detector elements in each detection path. A microlens array is disposed upstream of each detector in a pupil. The first and second detectors have a substantially identical spatial resolution. The detector elements of the first detector are arranged line by line in a first line direction, while the detector elements of the second detector are arranged line by line in a second line direction. The first and second detectors are arranged relative to the image to be captured such that the first and second line directions are inclined relative to one another. A readout unit for reading out the image data of the detectors is configured for selectively reading those detector elements arranged line by line which form an image line.
US12001003B2
An accessory optic is described which enables a non-immersed, long working distance microscope objective to be used as a higher-power immersion objective. This is particularly useful for biological imaging of specimens in an index-matching clarification medium. The accessory approach is the opposite of conventional unitized immersion objective design and presents several advantages over conventional design. The front lens element of the accessory may be selected to have precisely the refractive index of the specimen immersion medium and the accessory may be designed for use with immersion media that are incompatible with conventional immersion objectives. A dual accessory enables two such modified objectives to be optimized for light-sheet microscopy.
US12001001B2
Methods and systems are provided for synchronizing image capture at a multi-detector imaging system. In one example, a method includes coordinating cycling of each microscope assembly of the multi-detector imaging system through a selection of illumination channels, each microscope assembly configured to obtain an image of a portion of one of more than one microplate wells simultaneously, to generate complete images of the more than one microplate wells concurrently.
US12000993B2
An optical imaging system is described including first to sixth lenses sequentially disposed from an object side to an image side, and an image sensor configured to convert incident light reflected from a subject, having passed through the first to sixth lenses, into an electrical signal. One of the first to sixth lenses includes a spherical object-side surface and another of the first to sixth lenses includes corresponding aspherical object-side surfaces. The first to sixth lenses include corresponding aspherical image-side surfaces, and a lens of the first to sixth lenses that is closer to the object side than the one of the first to sixth lenses including the spherical object-side surface, has a highest refractive index among the first to sixth lenses.
US12000992B2
The present disclosure provides an optical imaging system and a camera device equipped with the optical imaging system. The optical imaging system includes sequentially, from an object side to an image side along an optical axis, a first lens having a positive refractive power, wherein an image-side surface of the first lens gradually changes from a paraxial concave surface to an edge convex surface as the image-side surface moves away from the optical axis; a second lens having a positive refractive power, wherein an object-side surface of the second lens is a convex surface, and an image-side surface of the second lens is a convex surface; a third lens having a negative refractive power; a fourth lens having a positive refractive power or a negative refractive power; and a fifth lens having a positive refractive power or a negative refractive power, wherein an object-side surface of the fifth lens is a convex surface at a paraxial position, and an image-side surface of the fifth lens is a concave surface at a paraxial position. A combined refractive power of the fourth lens and the fifth lens is a negative refractive power.
US12000991B2
An optical image capturing lens assembly includes five lens elements, the five lens elements being, in order from an object side to an image side along an optical path, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element and a fifth lens element, each of the five lens elements has an object-side surface towards the object side and an image-side surface towards the image side. The first lens element has negative refractive power. The second lens element has the image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The third lens element with positive refractive power has the image-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof. The fifth lens element has the object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof and the image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof.
US12000976B2
A method for training a well model to predict material loss for a pipe string having a wall thickness and located within a borehole. The method may include measuring the wall thickness of a first pipe string at locations axially along the first pipe string with a logging tool at a first time. The method may also include measuring the wall thickness of the first pipe string at the locations with the logging tool at a second time. The method may further include training a first well model based on a machine learning (“ML”) algorithm to predict a predicted amount of material loss in the future for the first pipe string at a selected location using the wall thickness measurements at the first and second times and well operating condition information related to the first pipe string.
US12000953B2
A radar device for automotive applications comprises a radar circuit configured to process a radar signal that has a first signal portion and a second signal portion, wherein the first signal portion occupies a first frequency band and the second signal portion occupies a second frequency band that is separate from the first frequency band. An antenna device of the radar device comprises a first and second antenna element that are both coupled to a common signal port of the radar circuit and the radar device is configured to route both the first signal portion and the second signal portion via the common signal port between the radar circuit and the antenna device. The antenna device is a frequency selective antenna device that transduces the first signal portion via the first antenna element and not via the second antenna element and that transduces the second signal portion at least via the second antenna element.
US12000945B2
Methods and systems for determining a device position include determining a first position estimate using radio-based range information. A second position estimate is determined using visual odometry information. The first position estimate and the second position estimate are fused based on radio environmental conditions and visual environmental conditions to determine a final position estimate. Resources are deployed based on the final position estimate.
US12000943B2
A communication device for estimating the azimuth angle includes a receiving module and an estimating module. The receiving module is configured to sequentially switch several azimuth angles to receive a first signal transmitted at the first transmitting angle from a first transmitting module of the first communication device. The estimation module is configured to calculate several signal powers of the first signal received by the receiving module at the several azimuth angles; to determine the maximum signal power among the several signal powers; to determine the pre-judged AOD according to the azimuth angle of the maximum signal; and to calculate the AOD of the associated first signal based on the pre-judged AOD and at least one azimuth angle adjacent to the pre-judged AOD among the several azimuth angles.
US12000939B2
Systems and methods for determining an improved user location using real world map data and/or sensor data are provided. In one embodiment, the method can include obtaining an initial estimate of a location of a user device and maps information corresponding to a geographic area at least partially surrounding the initial estimate of the location of the user device. The maps information can include one or more physical boundaries located at least in part within the geographic area at least partially surrounding the initial estimate. The method can further include determining a set of permissible areas that can potentially include the user device. The set of permissible areas can be determined based at least in part on the one or more physical boundaries. The method can further include revising the initial estimate to provide a revised estimate for the location of the user device based at least in part on the set of permissible areas.
US12000926B2
A radar system for tracking UAVs and other low flying objects utilizing wireless networking equipment is provided. The system is implemented as a distributed low altitude radar system where transmitting antennas are coupled with the wireless networking equipment to radiate signals in a skyward direction. A receiving antenna or array receives signals radiated from the transmitting antenna, and in particular, signals or echoes reflected from the object in the skyward detection region. One or more processing components is electronically coupled with the wireless networking equipment and receiving antenna to receive and manipulate signal information to provide recognition of and track low flying objects and their movement within the coverage region. The system may provide detection of objects throughout a plurality of regions by networking regional nodes, and aggregating the information to detect and track UAVs and other low flying objects as they move within the detection regions.
US12000925B2
The present invention provides a terrace detection device and a use method of the terrace detection device. The terrace detection device comprises a target vehicle, a measuring vehicle and a controller, wherein the target vehicle comprises a first mobile vehicle and a target, and the target is mounted on the first mobile vehicle; the measuring vehicle comprises a second mobile vehicle and a measuring head, and the measuring head is mounted on the second mobile vehicle; and The controller is electrically connected with the measuring vehicle and the target vehicle, respectively, and is used for controlling the first mobile vehicle and the second mobile vehicle to move from a first established measuring range to a second established measuring range. Therefore, the to-be-measured terrace is estimated integrally, so that the accuracy of the acquired terrace data is improved.
US12000912B2
Aspects and embodiments provide an MRI scanner-compatible virtual reality system comprising: user equipment locatable within an MRI scanner bore, the user equipment being configured to provide a subject with an immersive virtual environment; the system further comprising: at least one sensor configured to track eye movement of the subject; wherein interaction of the subject with the immersive virtual environment is controlled by the tracked eye movement. Aspects and embodiments may be implemented in a manner which recognises that VR techniques, which typically rely upon dynamic movement of a VR subject, can be used to aid with maintenance of minimal motion of a subject to be placed within an MRI scanner bore. Implementations may be such that calmness of a subject can be increased and awareness of their physical surroundings diminished, thus allowing for successful MRI image acquisition whilst seeking to minimise distress, boredom and/or frustration experienced by the subject under study.
US12000906B2
The present disclosure provides a system and a method for measuring hot-spot temperature of a transformer, wherein the measurement system comprises a processor, an oscilloscope and a plurality of ultrasonic sensors, wherein the ultrasonic sensors are oppositely arranged on an outer wall of a transformer oil tank and electrically connected with the oscilloscope, and the oscilloscope is electrically connected with the processor; the ultrasonic sensors receive signals transmitted by the oppositely arranged ultrasonic sensors and transmit them to the oscilloscope. The method, by applying an ultrasonic wave to measure the hot-spot temperature of a transformer in real time, solves the problems that methods in the prior art are susceptible to the external environment, have short service life and cannot correctly measure the internal temperature of the transformer.
US12000889B2
The present disclosure provides a signal generation device, comprising at least two signal generators, a clock source that is coupled to the at least two signal generators and that is configured to generate a clock signal and provide the clock signal to the at least two signal generators, wherein the signal paths between the clock source and each one of the at least two signal generators are matched at least regarding the signal runtime, and wherein the at least two signal generators are each configured to generate an output signal based on the clock signal. Further, the present disclosure provides a respective measurement device and a respective method.
US12000884B2
A system includes a plurality of thermally-coupled zones and a plurality of thermal control devices, each controllable to thermally control one of the plurality of zones, and a plurality of temperature sensors, each configured to measure temperature of one of the plurality of zones. The system includes a control circuit configured to receive a temperature measurement for each of the plurality of zones, collect the temperature measurements in a temperature vector in a real coordinate system, and transform the temperature vector to a normal coordinate system that provides a plurality of uncoupled equations. The control circuit is configured to determine, based on the plurality of uncoupled equations and a desired temperature gradient, a desired power vector in the normal coordinate system, transform the desired power vector to the real coordinate system to generate a power vector, and control the plurality of heaters in accordance with the power vector.
US12000880B2
A method for generating a reflectometry signal intended to be injected into a transmission line in order to identify the presence of at least one possible fault on the line, the method includes the steps of: generating a first multi-carrier digital signal on a first set of frequency carriers, generating a second corrective multi-carrier digital signal on a second set of frequency carriers separate from the first set, summing the first digital signal and the second corrective digital signal so as to generate a reflectometry signal, normalizing the frequency carriers of the reflectometry signal, the second corrective digital signal being determined so as to reduce the peak to average power ratio of the reflectometry signal with respect to the first digital signal.
US12000878B1
A laser diagnostic device may include a beamsplitter to split one or more input pulses into one or more fundamental pulses and one or more perturbing pulses, one or more beam-combining optics to combine the fundamental and perturbing pulses at a detection plane, a detector including a solid-state material at the detection plane, and a controller. The controller may receive a detector signal from the detector is indicative of nonlinear absorption in the solid-state medium of the fundamental pulses that is perturbed by the perturbing pulses. The controller may further extract a temporal electric field waveform of the one or more input pulses from the detector signal and provide as an output at least one of the temporal electric field waveform, a spectrum, or a spectral phase of the one or more input pulses.
US12000877B2
A method for atom-based closed-loop control includes exciting atoms of a gas into one or more Rydberg states, applying one or more signal processing functions to the one or more Rydberg states, and regulating a characteristic of the applied one or more signal processing functions based on, at least in part, a response of the one or more Rydberg states to the one or more signal processing functions. A system for internal quantum-state-space interferometry includes an atomic receiver, an interferometric pathway, and a detector. The interferometer includes an atomic vapor with first atomic states and second atomic states. The interferometric pathway from RF phases between the first and second atomic states is closed by a quantum-state-space. The detector is configured to detect a readout of an interferometric signal. Embodiments include atom-based automatic level control, baseband processors, phase-locked loops, voltage transducers, raster RF imagers and waveform analyzers.
US12000872B2
In order to provide an environmentally secured voltage testing interface, an electrical enclosure box comprising a front panel is herein-described, into which is mounted a voltage indicator comprising a plurality of LED indicators that indicate a status of one or more circuits coupled thereto and monitored thereby. A compact test point device is also mounted through the front panel and comprises an interface comprising a plurality of external measurement sockets configured to receive one or more probes for manual measurement of voltages, wherein each external measurement socket is coupled to a voltage divider that is further coupled to each of a plurality of respective wires coupled to respective LED indicators.
US12000871B2
Disclosed herein are devices (100), systems, and methods for testing a circuit (114). A circuit test device (100) includes a housing (102) and a circuit (104) disposed in the housing (102). The circuit (104) includes an electromagnetic field (EMF) sensor (106) and a signal detector (110) coupled to the EMF sensor (106). The circuit test device (100) includes an interface (112) connected to the circuit (104) and extending through the housing (102). The interface (112) is adapted for coupling the circuit (104) to a circuit under test (CUT) (114). The EMF sensor (106) is configured to generate a signal in the presence of a time varying flow of current from the CUT (114) in the circuit (104). The EMF sensor (106) is configured to provide the signal to the signal detector (110).
US12000868B2
A waveform segmentation device has a state level estimation unit that estimates a state level of input waveform data, and a segmentation identification unit that segments the waveform data at a plurality of segmentation points based on the state level estimated by the state level estimation unit. The segmentation identification unit may identify the plurality of segmentation points such that a feature value of the waveform data is included between two adjacent segmentation points among the segmentation points.
US12000867B2
An electrical connecting device includes probes, and a probe head including a middle guide plate arranged between a top guide plate and a bottom guide plate and closer to the bottom guide plate so as to lead the probes to penetrate therethrough. The top guide plate and the middle guide plate are provided with guide holes through which the probes are inserted at positions shifted between the top guide plate and the middle guide plate so as to lead the probes to be held in a bent state between the top guide plate and the middle guide plate. The probes have a structure easier to bend at a region excluding a maximum stress part than at the maximum stress part defined at a position at which a maximum stress is applied to the probes buckled when tip end parts of the probes are brought into contact with an inspection object.
US12000864B2
Proposed is an outer cylindrical spring pin including a compression spring (30), and an integrated upper probe (10) integrally provided with an upper probe portion (11) for contacting the outside, and with two upper probe side wall portions (12) which extend from the upper probe portion (11) and which surround two side surfaces facing each other, among four side surfaces of the compression spring (30). The spring pin further includes an integrated lower probe (20) integrally provided with a lower probe portion (21) for contacting the outside, and with two lower probe side wall portions (22) which extend from the lower probe portion (21) and which surround other two side surfaces between the two side surfaces. When an external force is applied, the upper and lower probe side wall portions (12 and 22) are capable of being slid on each other while being in contact with each other.
US12000859B2
A resonant sensor including a support, a proof body suspended from the support and having a resonant frequency ωa, an element that measures a force including at least one resonator of resonant frequency ωrn, the force being applied by the proof body, and a mechanical decoupling structure interposed between the proof body and the resonator. The decoupling structure includes a decoupling mass, a first connecting element between the decoupling mass and the proof body, a second connecting element between the decoupling mass and the resonator, the decoupling structure having a main vibration mode whose resonant frequency ωd is such that ωa<ωd<ωrn, the decoupling structure forming a mechanical low-pass filter between the proof body and the resonator.
US12000850B2
A laboratory sample distribution system with a number of sample container carriers, each comprising at least one magnetically active device and adapted to carry a sample container; a transport plane adapted to support the carriers; a number of electro-magnetic actuators stationary arranged below the transport plane and adapted to move a corresponding carrier located on top of the transport plane by applying a magnetic force to the carrier; a touch panel arranged below the transport plane adapted to generate position signals (PS) depending on positions of the carriers located on top of the transport plane; a position determination unit adapted to determine the positions of the carriers located on top of the transport plane in response to the position signals (PS); and a control unit adapted to control the operation of the laboratory sample distribution system in response to the determined positions of the carriers.
US12000846B2
Nitrogen containing compounds may have formulas (I), (II) and (IV), and such compounds may be suitable for detecting alkyne group containing organic compounds by mass spectrometry. Furthermore, methods may also include synthesizing these compounds, detecting of organic compounds containing the specific compounds, uses of the compounds in mass spectrometry for determining enzyme activity or monitoring the lipid metabolism in a cell, and a kit which contains at least one of these compounds and at least one internal standard.
US12000845B2
The invention relates to a method for determining, diagnosis, prognosis, treatment guidance, treatment monitoring, risk assessment and/or risk stratification of patients with abnormal platelet levels comprising providing a sample of said patient, determining a level of proadrenomedullin (proADM) or fragment(s) thereof in said sample, wherein said level of proADM or fragment(s) thereof correlates with the abnormal platelet levels in said patient. In embodiments of the invention, a level of proADM or fragment(s) thereof of high severity indicates low platelet levels in the subject and subsequent initiating or modifying a treatment of the patient to improve said condition. In some embodiments of the invention the method comprises determining a level of one or more additional markers in a sample isolated from the patient, such as the level of platelets, the level of PCT or fragment(s) thereof, one or more markers of thrombocytopenia and/or one or more markers of an inflammatory response.
US12000843B2
The invention features compositions and methods for the treatment and prevention of peroxisomal diseases (e.g., neonatal adrenoleukodystrophy and Zellweger syndrome), including in a subject selected as having increased levels of metallothionein polypeptides. The invention also provides compositions and methods for identifying a subject having a peroxisomal disease involving detecting metallothionein polypeptides or polynucleotides.
US12000838B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to reagents and their use for elemental imaging mass spectrometry of biological samples. The embodiments comprising methods for quantifying one or more analytes within a sample, comprising the steps of: (a) providing the sample, wherein the one or more analytes are immobilized to a sample carrier, wherein the sample has been labelled with one or more mass tags comprising one or more labelling atoms, (b) performing mass cytometry on the sample to determine the level of the one or more labelling atoms, wherein the level of the one or more labelling atoms corresponds to the copy number of the one or more analytes.
US12000837B1
A granule for detecting protein in pet urine comprises 60-80 parts by weight of silicone particles, 40-50 parts by weight of a filler, 10-20 parts by weight of an adhesive, 1-3 parts by weight of a bacteriostatic agent, 3-5 parts by weight of a deodorant, and 5-10 parts by weight of an tetrabromophenol blue indicator.
US12000835B2
Aspects of the application provide methods of identifying and sequencing proteins, polypeptides, and amino acids, and compositions useful for the same. In some aspects, the application provides methods of obtaining data during a degradation process of a polypeptide, and outputting a sequence representative of the polypeptide. In some aspects, the application provides amino acid recognition molecules having a shielding element that enhances photostability in polypeptide sequencing reactions.
US12000832B2
According to an embodiment of the present invention, a composition for diagnosing or predicting the prognosis of lung cancer is provided, the composition including a primer, probe, or antibody that specifically binds to a GRIP and coiled-coil domain-containing protein (GCC2) gene or protein in an exosome.
US12000830B2
The current invention provides compositions, methods, and kits for detecting the exposure to and infection by certain viruses. Specifically, the current invention allows for the rapid differential serological detection of exposure to, and infection by viruses. In particular, the current invention allows for the rapid serological detection of exposure to, and infection by Zika virus (ZIKV).
US12000827B2
The present disclosure provides a system comprising a communication interface and computer for assigning a label to the biomolecule fingerprint, wherein the label corresponds to a biological state. The present disclosure also provides a sensor arrays for detecting biomolecules and methods of use. In some embodiments, the sensor arrays are capable of determining a disease state in a subject.
US12000819B2
A gas concentration prediction method which includes: step 1 of exposing a gas to a specimen A which contains a liquid containing a compound, and to a specimen B which includes a liquid containing the compound in a concentration lower than the concentration of the compound in the specimen A, under the same conditions X, and step 2 of measuring a gas concentration a in the specimen A obtained in step 1, and a gas concentration b in the specimen B obtained in step 1, to obtain a coefficient α by calculating the relationship between a and b based on the calculation equation α=a/b.
US12000817B2
A milking system includes a milking device, a milk line for carrying milk, and a sampling unit arranged to take a sample from the milk line and test the sample for the presence or concentration of at least one substance. The sampling unit is provided with a housing. The housing includes a supply reel with a tape that carries reagent, and a sample supplier. The sampling unit includes a tape displacer displacing the tape, a sample analyser, and a used tape collector device collecting tape with reagent to which a sample has been supplied. The supply reel at a surface thereof includes a desiccant, or is completely made of a desiccant material. This provides such a large volume of desiccant that the correspondingly high moisture absorption capacity ensures an uninterrupted useful life of the sampling unit, and thus of the milking system.
US12000809B2
A gas chromatographic (GC) column using a zwitterionic compound and methods of use thereof are disclosed herein. The volatile free acids were observed to strongly retain on these zwitterionic compounds-based columns with excellent peak symmetry. By carefully tuning the structures of these zwitterionic compounds, different selectivity toward volatile free acids was demonstrated. These stationary phases possess a wide working range with thermal stabilities at higher temperatures.
US12000807B2
A gas chromatograph includes first and second sample vaporization units, first and second separation columns, first and second carrier gas suppliers, a column oven that contains the first and second separation columns and has a first heater, first and second detectors, a first auxiliary gas supplier that supplies an auxiliary gas to the first separation column and a controller that executes control by increasing a supply pressure of an auxiliary gas applied by the first auxiliary gas supplier to a pressure higher than a pressure during an analysis of a sample and lowering a supply pressure of a carrier gas applied by the first carrier gas supplier to a pressure lower than a pressure during the analysis of the sample such that the supply pressure of the auxiliary gas is higher than the supply pressure of the carrier gas, and sets a first maintenance switch mode in which the first sample vaporization unit is maintainable.
US12000805B2
A method of introducing a sample into a separation column includes introducing the sample into a trap column, isolating the trap column from ambient atmosphere and pressurizing the trap column to a first pressure while the trap column is isolated from ambient atmosphere, providing a fluid connection between the trap column and the separation column after pressurizing the trap column to the first pressure, supplying the sample from the trap column to the separation column.
US12000798B2
An apparatus and method utilizing acoustic resonance spectroscopy applicable to any mechanical device or structure having internal or external components that need to be positioned away from a set point and then returned to the original position, such as a valve which is opened to pass fluids and subsequently closed, for noninvasively providing a measure of the deviation from the original position, and for classifying or grouping together objects that appear to be identical from the outside, but which may have slight external or internal differences, such as sealed containers filled with different fluids or materials, are described.
US12000797B2
The present disclosure can provide for an ultrasonic welding method for a pair of workpieces. The method can include first pressing an ultrasonic welding stack against a first workpiece in the pair so that the first workpiece comes into contact with a second workpiece in the pair. The method can then provide for initiating a weld phase by outputting energy from the ultrasonic welding stack to the first workpiece. The method can provide for monitoring, with at least one sensor, a sensed parameter. The sensed parameter can be, for example, weld force and/or weld force rate of change. The method can provide for determining whether the sensed parameter has reached a predetermined level. Based on determining that the sensed parameter has reached the predetermined level, the method can provide for ending the weld phase.
US12000795B2
An eddy current sensor for deriving an eddy current and sensing the derived eddy current in order to detect a crack in a battery cell, the eddy current sensor comprises: a core unit in which a coil is wound around a magnetic member; and a case for accommodating the core unit of which there are at least two, which are arranged so that the central axis of the coil is oriented in the thickness direction of the battery cell.
US12000793B2
A disposable self-sensing signal test strip includes a test strip body. The test strip body has a detection area and a circuit area. The detection area has a detection circuit. An electrochemical processing unit, a wireless transmission unit, and a power source unit are provided in the circuit area. The detection circuit is electrically connected to the electrochemical processing unit. The electrochemical processing unit sends to the detection circuit a control signal for performing detection. After receiving the control signal, the detection circuit reacts electrochemically with the test sample and sends a feedback signal to the electrochemical processing unit. The electrochemical processing unit converts the feedback signal into a detection parameter signal and sends the detection parameter signal through the wireless transmission unit to a receiving unit. The power source unit supplies electricity to the electrochemical processing unit and the wireless transmission unit.
US12000784B2
A sensor (e.g., an optical sensor) that may be implanted within a living animal (e.g., a human) and may be used to measure an analyte (e.g., glucose or oxygen) in a medium (e.g., interstitial fluid, blood, or intraperitoneal fluid) within the animal. The sensor may include a sensor substrate, electrode or housing, an analyte indicator covering at least a portion of the sensor, and one or more probes that identify degradative species in an environment of the sensor.
US12000781B2
A scanning device for laser detection and ranging (LiDAR), the scanning device includes, arranged in optical free space: an optical input for receiving a pulsed broadband laser beam having a linear polarization; a separating unit configured for transmitting the laser beam along a scanning optical path while changing the polarization into a circular one; a wavelength selection unit; and a scanning unit. The separating unit is configured for deviating the reflections (4) on a broadband detector while changing the orthogonal circular polarization into an orthogonal linear polarization compared to the linear polarization of the laser beam. The broadband detector is configured to receive the deviated reflections, and to detect a time-of-flight and an optical power of the light reflection.
US12000777B2
Disclosed are a sensor including a first metal layer and a second metal layer facing each other, and a volume changeable layer disposed between the first metal layer and the second metal layer and capable of absorbing a material to change the thickness thereof, wherein at least one of the first metal layer and the second metal layer is a semi-transmissive layer and the sensor indicates a color change by changing a resonance wavelength of light transmitted through the semi-transmissive layer according to a change in thickness of the volume changeable layer, and a sensor device, an electronic device, a smart window, and an IoT system including the same.
US12000774B2
An embodiment of a gas analyzer is described that comprises a light source configured to produce a substantially collimated first beam with a diverging angle of less than about 15 degrees; a gas cell comprising an inlet configured to introduce a gas into the gas cell, an outlet configured to remove the gas from the gas cell, and a plurality of mirrors configured to reflect the substantially collimated first beam within the gas cell; and a detector configured to generate a signal in response to the substantially collimated first beam.
US12000757B2
A method and system for leakage status evaluation and leaks location of a solid waste land disposal facility. The method includes: arranging an off-site emitting electrode for the solid waste land disposal facility, and arranging a plurality of intra-site receiving electrodes on a solid waste pile surface in a grid shape; selecting a power supply to collect a current value between the off-site emitting electrode and each of the intra-site receiving electrodes respectively, and determining a maximum current value point Mn of the solid waste pile surface and a maximum current value An; selecting an off-site point So2, and measuring a current value between the off-site emitting electrode and the point So2 as a reference current Ab under the same power supply condition; and determining a leakage status of the solid waste land disposal facility based on a ratio of the maximum current value An to the reference current Ab.
US12000747B2
A wearable blast sensor for simultaneously measuring blast pressure from multiple directions includes multiple pressure sensing transducers oriented in individual planes for simultaneously measuring blast pressure of a blast from multiple directions, at least one blast parameter sensing transducer to measure a blast parameter, a memory for storing blast pressure data and measured blast parameter data, a controller coupled to and responsive to the multiple pressure sensing transducers and to the blast parameter sensing transducer to capture and store measured blast pressure data and measured blast parameter data, at least one indicator to indicate blast exposure severity as a function of amplitude of measured blast pressure data and measured acceleration amplitude, the multi-directional pressure sensor device, the blast parameter sensing transducer, the memory, the controller, and the indicator light and/or display sealed within in a housing, and at least one attachment device coupled to the housing for mounting.
US12000744B2
Methods and systems are presented for diagnosing operation of a fuel tank pressure sensor. The methods and systems may include releasing fuel vapors from a fuel tank to an engine when an engine is rotating in a fuel cut out mode while a catalyst temperature is greater than a threshold temperature to determine whether or not the fuel tank pressure sensor is degraded.
US12000742B2
Disclosed is a pressure gauge comprising a pressure sensor, a pressure transmitter connected upstream of the pressure sensor and having an isolation diaphragm, the outer side of which can be supplied with pressure and under which a pressure receiving chamber is enclosed, and comprising a hydraulic pressure transmission path connected to the pressure receiving chamber and filled with a pressure transmitting fluid. The diaphragm seal comprises a deflection device actuated by a controller connected to the pressure sensor and/or to a temperature sensor, and which is designed to exert a force on the isolation diaphragm, or on an element connected to the isolation diaphragm, said force deflecting the isolation diaphragm in the direction of its diaphragm bed, at times that are determined by the controller and that are based on a pressure measured continuously by the pressure sensor and/or a temperature measured continuously by the temperature sensor.
US12000737B2
A temperature sensor includes a block body, a first thermocouple, and a second thermocouple. The first thermocouple includes a first strand, a second strand, a first insulator surrounding the first strand and the second strand, and a first metal sheath surrounding the first insulator. The second thermocouple includes a third strand, a fourth strand, a second insulator surrounding the third strand and the fourth strand, and a second metal sheath surrounding the second insulator. An end portion of each of the first thermocouple and the second thermocouple is buried in the block body.
US12000733B2
Disclosed is a hand-held optical apparatus and method for using the apparatus to activate and detect optical emissive materials as part of a safety interlock system. Typically, the hand-held optical apparatus will include one or more light sources capable of emitting at least one wavelength of light towards an optical emissive material, a light detector capable of detecting a response from the optical emissive material, and control circuitry configured to cause at least one of the one or more light sources to emit the at least one wavelength at a power density less than a predetermined threshold, receive a signal from the light detector representing a detected response, and repeat until the microprocessor determines the detected response matches an expected response.
US12000732B2
A system and method with AC coupling that reserves photodiode bandwidth in a biased configuration, allows optimal transimpedance amplifier performance, retains DC signal measurement capability, and does not introduce noise into the balanced detection signal.
US12000718B2
Position sensor and position encoder using millimeter-wave metamaterial with a millimeter-wave radar
A rotation sensor system includes a rotatable target object configured to rotate about a rotational axis in a rotation direction; a first millimeter-wave (mm-wave) metamaterial track coupled to the rotatable target object, where the first mm-wave metamaterial track is arranged around the rotational axis, and where the first mm-wave metamaterial track includes a first array of elementary structures having at least one first characteristic that changes around a perimeter of the first mm-wave metamaterial track; at least one transmitter configured to transmit a first electro-magnetic transmit signal towards the first mm-wave metamaterial track, where the first mm-wave metamaterial track converts the first electro-magnetic transmit signal into a first electro-magnetic receive signal; at least one receiver configured to receive the first electro-magnetic receive signal; and at least one processor configured to determine a rotational parameter of the rotatable target object based on the received first electro-magnetic receive signal.
US12000710B2
The disclosure relates to a method of providing a current local environment status map for a motor vehicle, and to a motor vehicle and a system for carrying out the method. The method includes generating own driving situation data which describe a current, position-related vehicle parameter of the motor vehicle, and generating environment situation data which describe a current arrangement of a further motor vehicle located in a predefined environment of the motor vehicle. The method also includes generating, based on these data, a vehicle environment map which describes a current local traffic situation in the predefined environment. The further vehicle environment maps of the environment of the vehicle are received from the further motor vehicle and are combined with the generated vehicle environment map using a map data evaluation criterion in order to generate an improved current local environment status map for the motor vehicle.
US12000709B2
A method for collecting transportation vehicle-based data and transferring the data to a backend computer, wherein the respective data sets relate to predefined route sections travelled along by a swarm of data-collecting vehicles, wherein parameterized orders for the acquisition of transportation vehicle-based data are stored in the backend computer and each order includes the parameter of route section, which defines the route section for which transportation vehicle-related data is to be collected; the parameter of swarm size, which defines how many transportation vehicles per unit of time are to collect data for the specified route section; and the parameter time interval, which defines the time interval in which data is to be acquired for the route section. Route-related data is continuously transferred to the backend computer from each transportation vehicle of the swarm, wherein a header constitutes an overview of the transportation vehicle-based data stored temporarily in the transportation vehicle.
US12000708B2
Technologies and techniques for estimating a departure time for a user of a vehicle. A departure time may be estimated for a user using a vehicle by obtaining vehicle-related data on the vehicle and obtaining personal data on the user. The departure time may be estimated on the basis of the vehicle-related data and the personal data.
US12000703B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for determining a position and an orientation. The method (300) comprises the steps of obtaining (310) sensor data (210) comprising a plurality of images of Earth's surface from at least one calibrated camera; forming (320) a 3D reconstruction (220) of apart of Earth's surface based on obtained sensor data (210); obtaining (330) from a data storage (250), source data (260) indicative of a region comprising at least said part of Earth's surface, wherein said source data (260) comprises a source digital surface model, DSM, (270) for said region, and an orthophoto (280) of said region; determining (340a) a sensor DSM (230) of the 3D reconstruction (220) and a sensor texture (240) of the 3D reconstruction (220) based on the 3D reconstruction (220); matching (350) the sensor DSM (230) and the sensor texture (240) with the source DSM (270) and the orthophoto (280); and determining (360) the position and the orientation of the 3D reconstruction (220) based on the matching (350) of the sensor DSM (230) and the sensor texture (240) with the source DSM (270) and the orthophoto (280).
US12000688B2
Provided are a shape inspection device, a processing device, a height image processing method, and a height image processing program capable of accurately inspecting a measurement object. A profile data generation unit sequentially generates a plurality of pieces of profile data as the measurement object relatively moves in a Y-axis direction. A height image generation unit extracts characteristic points for the respective pieces of profile data, and moves the respective pieces of profile data in a plane intersecting with a Y axis such that the extracted characteristic points are aligned in a line in a direction corresponding to the Y axis. Then, the height image generation unit arranges the moved profile data in a direction corresponding to the Y axis to correct a height image.
US12000687B2
A coordinate calibrating method includes the steps of: (1) reading paper coordinates by adopting two OID sensors, comparing the coordinates read by the two OID sensors with pre-designed coordinates of paper to obtain coordinate deviation of positions of the two OID sensors, and according to the coordinate deviation, calculating an inclination angle value θ generated by the coordinates of the two OID sensors; and (2) according to the coordinate deviation and the inclination angle value, calibrating an actually read coordinate position of a pen by selecting the second OID sensor as a reference point, translating horizontally and vertically coordinates of the pen to be corrected first, and then rotating the coordinates by the angle θ with reference to the second OID sensor, so that the positions of the two OID sensors coincide with pre-designed standard positions, and the coordinate position of the pen is calibrated.
US12000681B2
A concealed amalgamated neutralizer covertly combines neutralizer material comprised of various combinations of inert materials such as calcium carbonate or silicates with common explosive material for the prevention of malicious use of the explosive material in improvised explosive devices. The concealed amalgamated neutralizer device may vary in shape, size, and color and is therefore adaptable to varying methods of containment typified by common pyrotechnic products. The neutralizer material mimics the explosive material of the pyrotechnic products without detection. Upon disassembly of a concealed amalgamated neutralizer device, the neutralizer material is mixed with and neutralizes the explosive material rendering the explosive material useless as a component for an improvised explosive device. A biodegradable container is also provided for the amalgamated neutralizer and the explosive material.
US12000677B2
The present invention relates to a modular ballistic protective clothing unit, in particular with splinter, puncture and/or cut protection, preferably with splinter protection, in particular for use as protective equipment, preferably for the military and/or civilian sector, preferably for in particular subsequent application to and/or donning over an outer garment.
US12000666B2
Trigger groups for semi-automatic firearms have a frame, a hammer connected to the frame and movable between a cocked position and a striking position, the hammer being biased toward the striking position, a trigger element connected to the frame and movable by a user between a forward position and a rearward position, a selector connected to the frame and movable between at least a first position and a second position, a disconnector having a hammer engagement facility adapted to selectably engage the hammer, a disconnector control element movable between a first control position and a second control position, the disconnector being operably engaged to the disconnector control element, the disconnector operable to move in a first range of motion when the disconnector control element is in the first control position, and in a second range of motion when the disconnector control element is in the second control position.
US12000657B2
A heat exchanger according to a concept of the disclosure includes an inlet pipe, an outlet pipe, and a connecting pipe connecting a first header to a second header, to perform heat exchange while a refrigerant flows in one direction of a up direction or a down direction in the heat exchanger to thereby improve circulation of the refrigerant, wherein each of the first header and the second header includes a plurality of partitioned chambers therein to distribute the refrigerant several times according to a flow of the refrigerant passing through each chamber, thereby improving distribution and mixing of the refrigerant.
US12000656B2
A heat exchanger (10) of heat pipe configuration for transferring heat between a first and second process streams via a heat transfer fluid comprises: at least one first process stream passage (19); at least one second process stream passage (29); and a shell (11) enclosing the first and second process stream passages (19, 29) within a volume (55). The volume (55), as a result of a heat transfer process, is fully filled with both vapour and liquid phases of the heat transfer fluid. The first and second process stream passages (19, 29) are spaced by a disengagement zone (50) enabling gravitational separation of said vapour and liquid phases and limiting accumulation of liquid phase heat transfer fluid about the first process stream passage(s) (19). Such heat exchangers can be used, among other applications, to replace a flash cooling stage in a Bayer process plant.
US12000653B2
A system for removing freezing components from a feed gas includes a heat exchanger, a scrub column and a return vapor expansion device. The heat exchanger includes a reflux cooling passage and a return vapor passage. Vapor from the scrub column is directed through the return vapor expansion device, where the temperature and pressure are lowered. The resulting cooled fluid then travels to the return vapor passage of the heat exchanger and is used to cool a vapor stream in the reflux cooling passage to create a reflux fluid stream that is directed to the scrub column.
US12000651B2
An instant freezer apparatus able to freeze consumable fluids and food having a freezing point lower than water is disclosed. The method of the present invention is directed to freezing of a substance such as to instantly freeze consumable fluids and food without altering their chemical compositions. The instant freezer apparatus generally comprises a main frame and a removable freezing module. The apparatus may further comprise a freezing fluid injection system such as a liquid carbon dioxide tank or a liquid nitrogen tank fluidly connected to the main frame. At least two freezing cells comprising the fluid to be frozen may be included, the freezing cells being independently removable from the freezing module and other freezing cells. A semi-flexible mat for receiving and supporting varying shapes of freezing cells may be included.
US12000641B2
A thermoacoustic device includes a process volume which is filled with a working fluid through which the acoustic wave propagates. The thermoacoustic device further includes an acoustic network comprising a tubular loop configured with a passage providing an opening in the loop and configured as acoustic circuit provided with a compliance volume, a thermo-acoustic core and an inertance volume. Within the loop, the thermoacoustic core is at a first side thereof adjacent to the passage at a first path length through the loop, and at its second side, opposite to the first side, the thermoacoustic core is at a second path length from the passage. The thermoacoustic device includes within the loop a spring-type partitioning element that is configured to close off the cross-section of the tube and to be impermeable for the working fluid while allowing transmission of pressure waves in the working fluid through the spring-type partitioning element.
US12000640B2
A distributed refrigeration system is provided. The distributed refrigeration system comprises a pre-cooling system configured to be thermally coupled to two or more cryogenic devices and to provide a first cooling stage to the two or more cryogenic devices. The two or more cryogenic devices may be two or more of a dilution refrigerator, a low-temperature microscopy system, a 3He refrigeration system, and/or a superconducting CMOS system.
US12000621B2
A wind-direction adjustable air purifier according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a housing provided with an air discharge opening formed on one surface thereof; an air guide having a front end disposed in a center of the air discharge opening and a rear end extending toward the other surface of the housing such that the air discharge opening has a ring shape; and a rotation guide coupled to the inside of the housing so as be rotatable in the circumferential direction of the air discharge opening, and supporting the air guide in by the housing, wherein the air guide can be coupled to the rotation guide so as to be rotatable in a direction inclined relative to the air discharge direction of the air discharge opening.
US12000611B2
In an air conditioner of the present embodiment capable of selecting either a fan rotation speed determined on the basis of a static pressure value and an air volume or a required fan rotation speed, motor control means determines, on the basis of the static pressure Pt, the fan rotation speed Rm of a fan motor that provides the air volume Av required by the user, and transmits the determined fan rotation speed Rm to an indoor unit control means. When the fan rotation speed Rm received from the motor control means is a prohibited rotation speed, the indoor unit control means transmits a correction fan rotation speed different from the prohibited rotation speed to the motor control means, and the motor control means drives the fan motor at the received correction fan rotation speed.
US12000604B2
A failure diagnosis system diagnoses the state of an air-conditioning apparatus having a refrigerant circuit in which refrigerant circulates. The failure diagnosis system has an abnormality diagnosis unit that performs normal-operation abnormality diagnosis for determining whether or not there is an abnormality in the air-conditioning apparatus by using state data and control data during normal operation of the air-conditioning apparatus. If the abnormality diagnosis unit determines that there is an abnormality, it changes a control value for an actuator of the air-conditioning apparatus and acquires state data and control data. Then, the abnormality diagnosis unit performs abnormality-cause identification diagnosis for identifying the cause of the abnormality in the air-conditioning apparatus by using the state data and the control data acquired before the change of the control value and the state data and the control data acquired after the change of the control value.
US12000601B2
An air-conditioning apparatus has an airflow direction deflector having a shaft located in a second airflow passage extending from a heat exchanger to an air outlet of an outer panel, the shaft being connected to a vane, and an airflow speed reducer provided between the heat exchanger and the shaft in the second airflow passage. The airflow speed reducer is spaced apart from a first airflow passage wall located between a first airflow passage extending from an air inlet of the outer panel to the heat exchanger and the second airflow passage. The airflow moves between the airflow speed reducer and the shaft at an airflow speed slower than the airflow speed thereof between the heat exchanger and the airflow speed reducer.
US12000600B2
A hydronic system and method of use that will maintain normal system operating pressure while also reliably detecting even very small fluid losses in any closed loop fluid heat transfer system is described. The system includes a controller in communication with one or more pressure sensors and optionally one or more temperature sensors that provides one or more notifications when the pressure drops below predetermined levels.
US12000599B2
A solar photovoltaic (PV) water heating system includes a tank (1.020) including at least a first heating unit (1.016) having at least first and second heating elements (1.016.1 . . . 1.016.x), at least one of which is switchable (1.014.1A . . . 1.014.1m); a PV solar collector (1.002); an inverter (1.004) adapted to convert the output from the PV collector to an alternating power supply; a modulator (1.060) to modulate the alternating power supply from the inverter; a controller (1.040) adapted to control the modulator and the switching of the or each switchable heating element; wherein the controller is adapted to control the modulator and the switchable heating elements to maximize the energy drawn from the PC collector.
US12000598B2
A cooking device has at least one support and a cooking body which is rotatably attached to the support via a rotatable axis, the cooking body has a tub-shaped cooking container and at least one gas burner. The cooking device has at least one supply line for the gas burner, which is connected to the gas burner, which extends through the rotatable axis and which is configured concentrically with the rotatable axis. The cooking device has an outer pipe surrounding the supply line, the supply line having a smaller diameter than the rotatable axis, as a result of which an annular gap is formed radially between the supply line and the wall of the outer pipe.
US12000591B1
The present invention discloses an adjustable camping wood-burning stove in the technical field of wood-burning stoves, including a stove body. A fixing disk is threadedly connected to the bottom surface of the stove body. A support mechanism is arranged on the fixing disk. An ash collecting disk is arranged on the bottom surface of the fixing disk. The support mechanism is rotationally connected in the ash collecting disk. Three chutes are formed in the stove body. A lifting mechanism is slidingly connected in the chute. The lifting mechanism is provided in the stove body. A stove plate is movably connected to the lifting mechanism. Two sealing plates are slidingly connected between the two fixing strips, which effectively adjusts an apparatus, makes it more convenient to use the apparatus, and further improves the practicability and convenience of the apparatus.
US12000589B2
Proposed are a jet nozzle, and a combustor and a gas turbine including the jet nozzle. The jet nozzle is formed on an inner surface of a combustor to supply fluid into an interior of a liner of the combustor in a direction intersecting with a progress direction of combustion gases primarily combusted in a combustion chamber in the interior of the liner. The jet nozzle includes a fluid inlet, through which fluid is externally introduced, and a fluid outlet including a first fluid outlet member, through which a portion of the fluid introduced through the fluid inlet is discharged so as to be rotated in one direction, and a second fluid outlet member, through which the rest of the fluid is discharged so as to be rotated in a direction different from the rotation direction of the fluid discharged from the first fluid outlet member.
US12000588B2
A fuel nozzle, a fuel nozzle module having the same, and a combustor having the same, which can solve a problem of combustion instability due to a high-frequency resonance generated by fuel containing hydrogen are provided. The fuel nozzle includes a fuel flow path through which a fuel flows, and a plurality of fuel plenums including a plurality of micro-mixers including a mixing flow path through which a fluid in which the fuel and compressed air are mixed flows and a fuel supply hole for supplying the fuel to the mixing flow path, wherein the plurality of fuel plenums are formed in the fuel flow path to be spaced apart from each other.
US12000587B2
A method for analyzing or optimizing the operation of waste incinerator systems. The content of CO2 is measured in the exhaust gas and is used to determine the ratio of biogenic carbon to fossil carbon in the incinerated waste, if necessary after resetting to the CO2 reference quantity. The variability of the CO2 reference or the ratio of biogenic carbon to fossil carbon in the incinerated waste is determined and recorded according to quantity and duration. When optimizing the operation, the location of the waste in the bunker, from which the incinerated waste originates with a composition or variability that has now been ascertained using the method, is used to further remove or mix the waste.
US12000586B2
Provided are a chevron vane that traps and removes droplets contained in steam and a moisture separator including the same. The chevron vane for trapping and removing droplets contained in steam includes a main frame group including multiple main frames arranged in a flow direction of steam and pivotably connected to each other, and a collection vane group mounted on the main frame group and including multiple collection vanes for trapping droplets contained in the steam.
US12000583B2
A direct-light generator includes an optical unit positioned downstream of an output surface of a collimated light source and upstream from a first emitting surface with respect to a direct light direction. The optical unit includes a first planar light mixing element characterized by a first response function having a first angular profile with a peak having a first divergence angle, and a second planar light mixing element characterized by a second response function having a second angular profile with a peak having a second divergence angle. The first planar light mixing element at least partially intercepts collimated light exiting the output surface of the collimated light source and defines a unit input surface. The second planar light mixing element is positioned downstream of the unit input surface to at least partially intercept light crossing the unit input surface and to define a unit emitting surface.
US12000580B2
The present disclosure describes an annular light-guide integrated into a system, including a mesh network device. The system includes a lighting manager application that, when executed by a processor, causes the system to determine an operational status and select, based on the determined operational status, a color. The lighting manager application then causes the system to activate one or more light-emitting components to radiate light corresponding to the selected color and transmit, through an annular light-guide, the radiated light to provide an exterior glow under a bottom housing of the system.
US12000571B2
An LED string light includes a first conducting wire, a second conducting wire, and a third conducting wire which are arranged in parallel. The first conducting wire, the second conducting wire and the third conducting wire all comprise a conducting wire core and an insulation layer coating a surface of the conducting wire core, and the first conducting wire and the second conducting wire defines a plurality of lamp welding regions. The LED string light also includes a plurality of SMD LEDs respectively disposed at the plurality of lamp welding regions. Each SMD LED has a first welding leg and a second welding leg, which are respectively welded onto the first welding spot and the second welding spot at one corresponding lamp welding region, and the plurality of the SMD LEDs are connected in parallel. A plurality of encapsulation colloids respectively coat the plurality of the SMD LEDs.
US12000568B2
A head lamp module for a motor vehicle is provided, and includes one single printed circuit board, a first group of light sources, a second group of light sources, a lens and an optical device. The first group of light sources and the second group of light sources are both arranged on the printed circuit board. The first group of light sources and the second group of light sources emit light to the optical device. The optical device is adapted to guide the emitted light in a direction towards the lens. The light leaves the head lamp module through the lens.
US12000553B2
A lighting device disclosed in the embodiment of the invention includes a base member including a straight portion and a curved portion, a substrate including a first substrate disposed on the straight portion of the base member and a second substrate disposed on the curved portion; a plurality of light sources disposed on each of the first and second substrates, a resin layer including a first resin portion disposed on the first substrate and a second resin portion surrounding the second substrate, and a phosphor layer disposed on the resin layer, and an outer side surface of the second resin portion may include a curved surface.
US12000552B2
A laser-based fiber-coupled white light system is provided. The system includes a laser device comprising a gallium and nitrogen containing emitting region having an output facet configured to output a laser emission with a first wavelength ranging from 385 nm to 495 nm. The system further includes a phosphor member integrated with light collimation elements. The phosphor member converts the laser emission with the first wavelength to a phosphor emission with a second wavelength in either reflective or transmissive mode and mixed partially with laser emission to produce a white light emission. The system includes a transport fiber coupled to the phosphor member via the light collimation elements to receive the white light emission and deliver the white light emission remotely to a lighthead for either directly distributing white light on road or to a leaky fiber for illumination applications by side-scattering.
US12000551B1
A lighted artificial tree includes a first tree portion including a first trunk portion, first branches joined to the first trunk portion, and a first light string. The first trunk portion has a trunk connector and a first trunk wiring assembly, the first trunk wiring assembly is electrically connectable to the first light string and the trunk connector, and at least a portion of the first wiring assembly is located inside the first portion. The second tree portion includes a second trunk portion, second branches, and a second light string. The second trunk portion has a trunk connector and a second trunk wiring assembly, the second trunk wiring assembly electrically connectable to the second lighting string and the trunk connector. The second tree portion may be mechanically coupled and electrically connected to the first tree portion by coaxially coupling the first trunk portion to the second trunk portion.
US12000539B2
A high-pressure tank liner manufacturing device includes: a heater to heat and melt end surfaces of liner halves; a heater transportation mechanism configured to slidably move the heater between a waiting position for the heater and a heating position for the heater; an elevation mechanism (drive mechanism) configured to drive a pair of the liner halves so as to cause the pair of liner halves to be relatively moved closer to each other or away from each other; and a parallelism adjustment mechanism configured to adjust parallelism of the end surfaces of the liner halves in accordance with the heater being slidably moved.
US12000530B2
A display support frame configurable as a free-standing device holds many different sizes of flat screen displays. The display support frame includes a base frame to be placed against a surface such as a desk, floor, or wall, two elevation arms rotatably coupled to the back end of the base frame, and a tilt frame rotatably coupled to the front end of each elevation arm. A flat screen display may be attached to the tilt frame. An elevation angle between the elevation arms and base frame and a tilt angle between the tilt frame and elevation arms are independently adjustable. After removing the flat screen display, the display support frame folds into a flat pack for convenient storage and transport. The display support frame may be placed in deployed and flat pack configurations without the use of tools.
US12000529B2
Disclosed is a display apparatus including a display assembly comprising a screen configured to display an image; and a stand connected to the display assembly to support the display assembly. The stand comprises a support bar extending in a front-rear direction, a leg extending upward from the support bar, and a plurality of coupling parts provided on the leg and arranged in the front-rear direction. The display assembly is connected to one of the plurality of coupling parts.
US12000520B2
A protective cap (1) is proposed for an end of an elongate member (6), such as a male connecting end of a pipe or tube. The cap (1) comprises a sheath of flexible, resilient (i.e. elastic) material (2) to cover part of the outer surface of the member (6) at an end of the member. The protective cap (1) can be applied to the end of the member by unfurling at least part of the sheath 3 from a gathered configuration, such as a rolled-up configuration. The protective cap (1) includes resilient ridges (8) extending inwardly from an insert member (2), and/or a chip at least partly within the cap.
US12000518B2
The refrigerator (1000) includes a first surface (1); a second surface (2); an insulating element (3) arranged between the first and second surfaces (1, 2); and a sealing device (100). The sealing device (100) is associated with at least one of the first and second surfaces (1, 2) and includes: an external structure (10), an internal structure (20) and a connection region (30) that interconnects the external structure (10) with the internal structure (20); at least one first fixing element (31) arranged in the connection region (30); a through-hole (40) between the external (10) and internal (20) structures; wherein the at least one first fixing element (31) forms a male-female arrangement with at least one of the first and second surfaces (1, 2).
US12000515B2
Fluid coupling devices can be configured for use in fluid systems for purposes of providing a single-use, aseptic disconnection functionality that can substantially limit fluid spillage when being disconnected. In some embodiments, the coupling portions cannot be functionally reconnected to each other after being disconnected from each other. The coupling portions can be identical to each other in some embodiments. A retainer component of the fluid coupling devices can be removably engaged with the coupling portions while the coupling portions are abutted against each other in an operative arrangement.
US12000510B2
The present disclosure is generally directed to a sway brace attachment for a bracing system comprising a body defining at least one slot for receiving a flange of a structural support of a building, a set screw bar coupled to the body, and set screws threadably received in threaded openings defined by the set screw bar.
US12000509B2
A channel clip for fixing conductors to the outside of guide channels of power conduction chains. The aim of the invention is to be able to fix the conductors to the outer sides of guide channels with little effort by means of such a channel clip. This aim is achieved in that the channel clip substantially comprises a U-shaped bracket of resilient plastic material having a first U limb and a second U limb, in that the two U limbs form a receiving region for the conductors to be held, in that a transverse web is provided on the upper end of the first U limb and extends in the direction toward the upper end of the second U limb, in that, to close the receiving region at the free end of the transverse web and at the adjacent upper end of the second U limb, a snap-in connection that can be latched in is provided, and in that the first limb, provided with the transverse web, has a device for mounting the channel clip on a guide channel.
US12000507B2
A pipe extending from a first side toward a second side includes a side wall and a spool. The spool formed in the side wall is bent so as to protrude from an outer circumferential surface of the pipe, and extends to surround the outer circumferential surface. The spool includes a first portion located on the first side and a second portion located on the second side. There is a clearance between the first portion and the second portion in a top region of the spool, and the first portion and the second portion substantially abut each other in a base region.
US12000504B1
A multifunctional electro-hydraulic flow control valve and a flow control method. The control valve comprises a main valve, a proportional pilot valve, a flow sensor, a multifunctional valve controller, a control cavity pressure sensor, an oil inlet pressure sensor, an oil outlet pressure sensor, a temperature sensor and a cloud storage. The invention has the characteristics that a flow of the main valve is continuously controlled without being influenced by load change without installing a pressure compensator in the system, and meanwhile, the valve has the function of a flow sensor, has low pressure loss and wide flow control range, and realizes integration of flow detection and control; and information such as flow, power and efficiency of each part in a hydraulic system is monitored in real time based on a multifunctional controller, key operation state monitoring, service life prediction and fault positioning of the control valve are achieved.
US12000503B2
Fault diagnostics utilize an embedded tracking digital twin of a valve assembly physical part in a microprocessor system of the valve positioner. The digital twin has simulation model parameters including a fault-related simulation model parameter. The digital twin receives a control signal representing a real control of the at least part of the valve assembly, and generates simulated measurements relating to the simulated control result. The digital twin compare the simulated measurements with real measurements that relate to the real control result, to track an error between the results of simulated operation and the real operation of the valve assembly to adjust the fault-related simulation model parameter in a sense that the error is decreased. The fault-related simulation model parameter relates to a specific physical fault in the physical part of the valve assembly, and it is detectable and identifiable based on the simulation model parameter adjusted value.
US12000498B2
A valve actuator includes a motor and a gear assembly that receives driving force of the motor and controls a valve. In the gear assembly, a power transmission gear for transmitting rotational force of an input gear to an output gear includes a selective power transmission unit. When the output gear is in physical contact with a stopper, the power transmission gear transmits the rotational force of the input gear to the output gear is blocked. Accordingly, even after the valve is actuated to close a path, the rotational force of the input gear is not transmitted to the output gear even though the motor is continuously driven.
US12000496B2
A valve assembly includes a valve body, a valve bonnet, coupled to the valve body, an opening extending through the valve body and the valve bonnet, along a longitudinal axis, and a valve stem. The valve assembly also includes a valve member positioned at an end of the valve stem and arranged within the opening, the valve member being movable, along the longitudinal axis, between an open position and a closed position, an actuator housing coupled to the bonnet, and an adapter assembly coupled to the actuator housing. The adapter assembly includes an adapter element, the adapter element coupled to the valve stem and a force converter coupled to the adapter element, the force converter translating an external rotating force into an axial force.
US12000489B2
A mechanical seal assembly having a gland assembly, a rotary seal ring, a stationary seal ring, a sleeve assembly having a flange portion for mounting the rotary seal ring, a cover sealing element for seating over the flange portion and contacting a portion of the rotary seal ring, and an energizer sealing element axially spaced from the cover sealing element for sealing a portion of the stationary seal ring and the gland assembly and for providing an axial biasing force to the stationary seal ring.
US12000480B2
Disclosed is a locking unit having a piston and serving for locking the movement of the piston which can be acted on with pressure of a fluid. The locking unit can additionally have an electromagnet and at least one detent element. The detent element interacts with an armature or an armature rod of the electromagnet, and the piston has at least one detent receptacle, where the piston can be secured by the retaining interaction of the detent element with the detent receptacle. The piston is adjustable between a retracted position and an extended position. The piston is mounted at least partially in a middle piece which is surrounded at least partially by a housing, and the middle piece is configured in two parts from a metal part and a plastic part.
US12000478B1
A method of controlling a four wheel drive (4WD) low range shift in a vehicle is provided. The vehicle has a powertrain including a transmission that drives a transmission output shaft to provide drive torque to a driveline including a power transfer unit (PTU) that delivers torque to front drive wheels and a rear differential unit (RDU) that delivers torque to rear drive wheels. The PTU and RDU are selectively rotatably coupled to each other through a propeller (prop) shaft. The PTU and the RDU are commanded into a neutral position. A clutch at the RDU is commanded to selectively engage to a degree that communicates a desired amount of torque from the prop shaft to the RDU. A determination is made that an output speed of the transmission output shaft is synchronized to match a speed of the RDU and the RDU is commanded to shift into 4WD low.
US12000477B2
The invention relates to the actuation of a converter lock-up clutch (44) of a hydrodynamic torque converter (4) in a vehicle drive-train by means of a safety function where, in addition to a driving strategy function, the safety function can actuate the converter lock-up clutch (44) by issuing a clutch actuation command. For this purpose, at least one rotation speed at the torque converter (4) is monitored. If the monitored rotation speed is below a rotation speed threshold, the safety function commands an actuation of the converter lock-up clutch (44) in its opening direction.
US12000476B2
A method of correcting an angular transmission error for a reducer of creating correction data for correction of an angular transmission error of the reducer in a robot system including an arm, the reducer having an input shaft and an output shaft, a motor, an encoder, and an inertial sensor, includes rotating the arm in an input rotation angular range smaller than a necessary input rotation angular range, measuring and recording the angular transmission error, determining whether or not an accumulated value of measurement times is equal to or larger than a predetermined value, when the accumulated value is smaller than the predetermined value, measuring the angular transmission error of the reducer and updating a record, and, when the accumulated value is equal to or larger than the predetermined value, creating the correction data based on the recorded angular transmission error of the reducer.
US12000467B2
A pump operation piston biased by a neutral spring mechanism and a larger volume operation spring biased by a larger volume operation spring in a larger volume direction operatively move pump and motor volume adjusting members, respectively, is provided. A first pressure control valve commonly controls supply-discharge of pressure oil that presses the pump operation piston in a first slide direction and the motor operation piston in a smaller volume direction. A second pressure control valve controls supply-discharge of pressure oil that presses the pump operation piston in a second slide direction. Biasing forces of the neutral spring mechanism and the larger volume operation spring are so set that, after the pump operation piston is moved in the first slide direction by a predetermined distance, the motor operation piston starts moving.
US12000465B2
A transmission includes an input shaft coupled to a prime mover, a countershaft, main shaft, and an output shaft, with gears between the countershaft and the main shaft. A shift actuator selectively couples the input shaft to the main shaft by rotatably coupling gears between the countershaft and the main shaft. The shift actuator is mounted on an exterior wall of a housing including the countershaft and the main shaft. An integrated actuator housing is operationally coupled to the shift actuator and a linear clutch actuator. The linear clutch actuator is a self-adjusting actuator, and the transmission includes a self-adjusting clutch.
US12000464B1
A multi-speed transmission may include a plurality of planetary gearsets and a plurality of selective couplers. The plurality of planetary gearsets may include a first planetary gearset, a second planetary gearset, a third planetary gearset, a fourth planetary gearset, and a fifth planetary gearset. The plurality of selective couplers may include a number of clutches and a number of brakes. The multi-speed transmission may have five planetary gearsets and seven selective couplers. The seven selective couplers may include two clutches and five brakes or three clutches and three brakes.
US12000463B2
A gearbox for a vehicle includes a primary shaft configured to rotate about a first axis, a distribution gear, a transmission gear arranged around the primary shaft, an auxiliary shaft configured to rotate around a second axis, an auxiliary output gear and an auxiliary transmission gear arranged around the auxiliary shaft, an output gear arranged around the primary shaft for transmitting a power out of the gearbox, and a gear shift system slidable between at least two positions. The gear shift system is configured to rotationally engage the distribution gear and the output gear for transmitting the power directly from the primary shaft to the output gear, or the distribution gear and the transmission gear for transmitting the power indirectly from the primary shaft to the output gear through the auxiliary shaft.
US12000459B2
An adjustment device includes a base, a ratchet wheel assembly and a fixing rod. The base includes an accommodating groove and ratchet teeth. The ratchet wheel assembly is rotatably accommodated in the accommodating groove and includes a body, an elastic arm, and a pawl. The elastic arm includes a first connecting segment connected to the body and a second connecting segment connected to the pawl. The pawl may engage with one of the ratchet teeth. The fixing rod movably extends between the body and the elastic arm. When the fixing rod is arranged between the second connecting segment and the body, the pawl is fixed to the ratchet teeth, so that the ratchet wheel assembly is positioned on the base. When the fixing rod is arranged between the first connecting segment and the body, the ratchet wheel assembly may rotate relative to the base.
US12000448B2
A biostimulator transport system, such as a biostimulator retrieval system, having a torque limiter to allow a torque shaft to slip rotationally relative to a handle, is described. The torque limiter can connect the torque shaft to the handle, and can include a slip mechanism, such as a flat spring or apposed clutch faces, that allow the torque shaft to slip relative to the handle when a resistance torque at a distal end of the torque shaft exceeds a torque threshold. Accordingly, torque can be applied to a biostimulator by the torque shaft with a reduced likelihood of over-torqueing the biostimulator within the target tissue. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US12000446B2
A drum brake having a brake drum, brake shoes, a carrier plate and a load measurement device in the region of an abutment is mountable on a steering knuckle. The abutment has a cylinder in which two pistons are guided, on the outer end faces of which the abutment ends of the brake shoes rest and the inner end faces of which are each supported by a spring on a step in the cylinder. A hollow peg projects from the outside of the cylinder and penetrates an opening in the carrier plate, such that it can be received in a receiving space in the steering knuckle resting on the carrier plate or in a reinforcement element fixed on the steering knuckle.
US12000435B2
A rolling bearing according to an embodiment includes a stationary ring having a first facing surface, a rotating ring having a second facing surface facing the first facing surface, and rotating relative to the stationary ring, rolling elements arranged between the first facing surface and the second facing surface, a cage that retains the rolling elements, first electrodes and second electrodes fixed in position relative to the stationary ring and arranged in a bearing space between the stationary ring and the rotating ring, third electrodes fixed in position relative to the rotating ring, position relative to the rolling elements, or position relative to the cage and arranged in the bearing space, and an insulating film formed on surfaces of the first electrodes and the second electrodes or surfaces of the third electrodes.
US12000431B2
A ball stud assembly includes a ball stud for engaging a component with a stepped bore extending along a bore axis and a reaction surface orthogonal to the bore axis. The stud includes a ball first end, a threaded second end, and a flange. The stud additionally includes a shank extending along a stud axis between the first and second ends, having a stepped shank shape, and configured to extend through the stepped bore and leave a gap between the bore and the shank. The stud also includes a flange between the first end and the shank with a flange surface orthogonal to the stud axis for engaging and abutting the reaction surface. The stud additionally includes a sleeve positioned on the shank and a threaded nut configured to tighten the stud on the component and deform the sleeve such that the sleeve fills at least part of the gap.
US12000419B1
A universal mount platform for office and industrial modular workstations including embodiments of an N-side slot mount matrix. The N-side slot mount matrix also includes an N number of outer rails arranged in a N-sided polygon, where N is an integer, each of the outer rails having two outer rail ends, each of the two outer rail ends coupled to one of the outer rail ends of another one of the outer rails. The N-side slot mount matrix has an N number of inner rails, each of the inner rails having a first end coupled to one of the outer rails and a second fend coupled to another one of the inner rails. The N-side slot mount matrix has an N number of mount slots, each between one of the inner rails and an adjacent one of the outer rails.
US12000411B2
An impeller for a fluid pump includes a hub having an outer surface; an outer ring which is concentric with the hub and having an inner surface; and a plurality of blades extending from a root at the outer surface to a tip at the inner surface. Each of the blades has a first leg and a second leg which meet at a vertex such that a concave side of the blades faces toward a rotational direction and such that a convex side of the blades faces away from the rotational direction. The concave side of each one of the plurality of blades forms a draft angle with the convex side of another one of the plurality of blades which is immediately adjacent thereto in the rotational direction. The draft angle at the inner surface is less than or equal to 10% of the draft angle at the outer surface.
US12000404B1
A fuel-cell-powered vehicle includes an electrically-powered turbine assembly having a housing, a rotating shaft, an air compressor comprising a compressor stator fixed to the housing and a compressor rotor fixed to the rotating shaft, an electric motor including an electric motor stator fixed to the compressor stator and an electric motor rotor fixed to the rotating shaft, a turbine including a turbine stator affixed to the housing, a turbine rotor fixed to the rotating shaft, and two or more fuel cells arranged around an outside of the electrically-powered turbine assembly.
US12000399B2
A volume ratio control system for a compressor includes a chamber formed within a housing of the compressor, where the chamber is in fluid communication with a high pressure side of the compressor, a piston disposed within the chamber, where the piston includes a cavity in fluid communication with a low pressure side of the compressor, and a biasing device disposed within the chamber and configured to enable movement of the piston in response to a pressure differential between the low pressure side of the compressor and the high pressure side of the compressor falling below a threshold value.
US12000397B2
A scroll compressor is disclosed, which comprises an auxiliary discharge path capable of sufficiently making sure of a discharge area at an initial discharge stage. The compressor comprises a fixed scroll including a fixed end plate portion and a fixed wrap, and an orbiting scroll including an orbiting end plate portion and an orbiting wrap, wherein a discharge hole is formed in the fixed end plate portion, and an auxiliary discharge path for connecting a side of the orbiting wrap with a bottom surface of the orbiting wrap is provided to be communicated with the discharge hole, whereby a compressed refrigerant may be discharged through the auxiliary discharge path.
US12000393B2
A thrust plate for use in a scroll compressor is described. The thrust plate comprises a disk-shaped body defining a plane and having a first side and a second side, wherein the second side opposes the first side, at least one protrusion extending from the first side, and at least one recess located at the second side, wherein the at least one protrusion and the at least one recess overlap at least partially in a direction perpendicular to the plane. Further, a system is described, wherein the system comprises a thrust plate with at least one protrusion and an orbiting scroll plate with at least one recess, wherein the at least one protrusion and the at least one recess overlap. Also, a scroll compressor having either a corresponding thrust plate or a corresponding system is described.
US12000392B2
Disclosed is a scroll compressor including: an orbiting scroll having an orbiting scroll end plate and an orbiting volute formed on one side of the orbiting scroll end plate, and a fixed scroll having a fixed scroll end plate and a fixed volute formed on one side of the fixed scroll end plate. The fixed and orbiting scrolls match each other in order to form a series of compression cavities therebetween including a central compression cavity and middle compression cavities located radially outside of the central compression cavity, and. The middle compression cavities include at least a set of a first middle compression cavity and a second middle compression cavity. A fluid channel selectively communicating with a discharge area is provided between the first and second middle compression cavities, and the first middle compression cavity directly communicates with the second middle compression cavity by means of the fluid channel.
US12000388B2
A peristaltic pump actuator includes a rotor element supporting rollers, the rotor element being configured to rotate about a rotor axis and the rollers each being configured to rotate about a roller axis that is parallel to the rotor axis. The rotor element and each of the rollers is constrained such that the rotor element and rollers are able to rotate only about their respective axes. A shoe having a displacement axis perpendicular to the rotor axis is forced against the rollers by an urging element without rotation in any axis. A tube may be placed between the shoe and the rollers.
US12000385B2
A driving mechanism is provided in the present disclosure, including a fixed portion, a first movable portion, and a first driving assembly. The first movable portion moves relative to the fixed portion in a first direction. The first driving assembly drives the first movable portion to move relative to the fixed portion in the first direction. The first driving assembly includes a coil and a magnetic element corresponding to the coil.
US12000382B2
A platform assembly for a hub of a wind turbine is configured to provide a working surface inside the hub. The platform assembly includes a first platform coupled to a hub access structure, wherein the hub access structure extends in an axial direction between a nacelle of the wind turbine and the hub and provides access from the nacelle to the hub.
US12000380B2
A method for controlling a wind turbine, and an associated wind turbine, includes receiving a wind direction signal indicative of an instantaneous wind direction at the wind turbine and receiving a signal indicative of an instantaneous wind speed at the wind turbine. A rate of change of the wind direction at the wind turbine and a rate of change of wind speed at the wind turbine are determined. A control signal for a pitch system for blades of the wind turbine is determined based on the rate of change of the wind direction and the rate of change of wind speed. The pitch of the blades is then changed with the pitch system based on the control signal to reduce loads on the wind turbine from changes in the wind direction simultaneous with changes in the wind speed.
US12000375B1
A modular wind turbine assembly platform (WTAP) comprises a crane module and at least one work module for temporary storage of wind turbine components, and a modular floating hull assembly platform (FHAP) comprises a crane module and at least one work module for temporary storage of floating platform hull components and a large floating mat, wherein each of the modules comprises a rectangular hull and a plurality of retractable legs with each leg featuring a large-size footing in a water depth of 5 to 15 meters. A method for assembly of a floating offshore wind turbine comprises a floating wind assembly base (FWAB) including the modular FHAP and WTAP deployed at a near-shore site within a distance of 200 to 2000 meters from a shoreline. The method further comprises assembling a floating platform hull and lowering it into the water using the FHAP with the floating mat, then assembling and integrating a wind turbine with the floating platform hull using the WTAP.
US12000373B2
A method for manufacturing a tower structure of a wind turbine includes printing, via an additive printing device, the tower structure of the wind turbine of a cementitious material. The method also includes printing, via the additive printing device, one or more additional airflow modifying features on an outer surface the tower structure of the wind turbine so as to reduce and/or prevent vortex shedding, excitation, and/or drag of the tower structure. Further, the method includes curing the cementitious material so as to form the tower structure.
US12000371B2
In a first aspect of the invention there is provided a method of making a wind turbine blade. The method comprises providing a blade shell mould, providing a plurality of 5 substantially planar strips of reinforcing material, and arranging the plurality of strips in the mould in a first stack to form at least part of a first spar cap. The method further comprises providing a retaining clip having a substantially planar body and upper and lower flanges projecting transversely to the planar body, wherein the flanges and the body together define a first receiving region on a first side of the retaining clip, and the 10 method further comprises arranging the retaining clip on a side of the first stack such that the strips in the first stack are received in the first receiving region.
US12000359B2
A cascade thrust reverser assembly is provided for a turbofan engine. The turbofan engine includes a nacelle assembly defining a bypass passage, and the cascade thrust reverser assembly includes at least one cascade assembly configured to be at least partially enclosed by the nacelle assembly. The cascade assembly may further include a plurality of cascade segments and an actuation assembly operably connected to the plurality of cascade segments, wherein the actuation assembly is configured to increase an axial extent of the cascade assembly and rotate the plurality of cascade segments.
US12000355B2
A piston (10) for an internal combustion engine, includes shaft wall sections (18) for supporting in a cylinder or a cylinder liner, and at least one base support (20) that is connected thereto in the circumferential direction, and which has at least one contour that forms a section of a helix.
US12000351B2
A system and method for dynamically deactivating engine cylinders of an engine equipped with a cylinder deactivation system, where the system and method control torsional vibration in the engine while deactivating cylinders using a computer programed with a desired firing density and a controlled range of engine vibration frequencies. The computer dynamically determines a cylinder firing pattern that provides the desired firing density while optimizing a cost function norm in the controlled range of engine vibration frequencies. The cylinder deactivation system in the engine is then controlled using the determined cylinder firing pattern.
US12000344B2
An aircraft turbine engine includes a turbine shaft having a first axis of rotation, a propulsion propeller having a second axis of rotation parallel to and spaced from the first axis, and a mechanical reduction gear coupled to the turbine shaft and rotating the propeller. The reduction gear has a sun gear connected to the turbine shaft, a ring gear, and at least two planet gears, each including a first external toothing that is meshed with an external toothing of the sun gear. A second external toothing is located within the ring gear and is meshed with an internal toothing of the ring gear.
US12000339B2
The present disclosure generally relates to monolithic superstructures for supporting a rotating shaft coupled to a rotor relative to a stator. An integral superstructure supports the rotating component. The superstructure includes a bearing portion that contacts the shaft. A stator portion, is spaced a critical dimension radially outward, from the rotor. A first annular transfer portion extends axially forward from the bearing to the stator portion. A second annular transfer portion extends axially aft from the stator portion to a mounting flange. The mounting flange connects the superstructure to a frame. The superstructure maintains a critical dimension between the rotor and the stator as the temperature of the superstructure increases. The rotor may be a compressor impeller in a gas turbine engine and the stator may be an aero component that transfers air into a combustor.
US12000336B2
A propulsion system coupled to a vehicle. The system includes a diffusing structure and a conduit portion configured to introduce to the diffusing structure through a passage a primary fluid produced by the vehicle. The passage is defined by a wall, and the diffusing structure comprises a terminal end configured to provide egress from the system for the introduced primary fluid. A constricting element is disposed adjacent the wall. An actuating apparatus is coupled to the constricting element and is configured to urge the constricting element toward the wall, thereby reducing the cross-sectional area of the passage.
US12000335B2
A method and apparatus for improving the energy efficiency of an existing gas turbine combined cycle plant, which includes a gas turbine having a compressor that pressurizes combustion air which is combusted with fuel in a combustion chamber to form combustion gases. The compressor is followed by a turbine, a high temperature heat exchanger, a low temperature heat exchanger, and a secondary process steam turbine II. Water from the secondary process steam turbine II is condensed in a following condenser-heat exchanger, pressurized by a following pump, and then is vaporized.
US12000330B1
A crank and linkage assembly for a component of a turbocharger includes a linkage and two cranks each including a pin whose outer surface defines a pin groove. Each end of the linkage defines a through bore for receiving one of the pins. At each end of the linkage, a plurality of fingers are integrally formed and of one piece with the linkage, the fingers extending parallel to, and circumferentially spaced about, the through bore axis. The fingers are elastically bendable such that the hooks move away from the bore axis and such that a restoring force of each of the fingers acts in a direction to bend the hooks back toward the bore axis. The assembly can be assembled by a push-to-connect process in which each pin is advanced into the respective through bore until the hooks snap into the respective pin groove.
US12000324B2
One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for a new coolant tank that may also provide a structural element to the frame of the engine compartment. The coolant tank is comprised of a rear wall that also makes up a portion of the firewall in the engine compartment. A structural coolant tank component is engaged with the rear wall to form the coolant reservoir. The coolant reservoir can provide support to attach structural elements of the vehicle, and can also allow for improved space efficiency in the engine compartment. Further, improved access to the filling port is provided, while continued operation and desired function is maintained even at extreme vehicle tilt.
US12000323B2
A coolant filler neck assembly for a pressurized cooling system. The coolant filler neck includes a cylinder housing defining a non-pressurized coolant overflow reservoir; an upper cap member attached to an upper region of the cylinder housing, the upper cap member including an overflow inlet port member arranged internally in the coolant overflow reservoir and a filler pipe member in fluidic communication with the overflow inlet port member and the pressurized cooling system; a first fluid overflow tube member arranged internally in the coolant overflow reservoir to extend in a longitudinal direction though a first region of the non-pressurized coolant overflow reservoir to direct overflow liquid coolant to the non-pressurized coolant overflow reservoir; and a second fluid overflow tube member arranged internally in the coolant overflow reservoir to extend in a longitudinal direction though a second region of the non-pressurized coolant overflow reservoir to direct the overflow liquid coolant from the non-pressurized coolant overflow reservoir to the ambient environment.
US12000320B2
A current feedthrough for an electrically heatable catalytic converter, which has inside it at least one electrical conductor that can be electrically contacted by the current feedthrough, a central electrically conductive inner conductor, which is guided from the interior of the catalytic converter through the outer housing wall thereof, an electrical insulation layer, which surrounds the electrically conductive inner conductor on the radially outer surface thereof, and a metallic outer tube, in which the electrically conductive inner conductor and the electrical insulation layer are accommodated.
US12000312B2
Device for expanding a fluid, wherein the device (1) is provided with an expander element (2) for expanding the fluid, a generator (3) and a transmission (4) between the two, characterized in that the generator (3) is a liquid-cooled generator and the expander element (2) is heated using liquid, wherein the device (1) is further provided with a common liquid circuit (8) for the generator (3) and the expander element (2), wherein the liquid circuit (8) comprises a liquid pump (10) which can pump up liquid from a liquid reservoir (11), wherein the liquid circuit (8) also comprises a liquid line (9) which runs from the liquid reservoir (11) and which incorporates the liquid pump (10), the generator (3) and the expander element (2).
US12000307B2
A blade for a turbine engine includes an aerodynamic airfoil extending radially outwards, a blade tip, a blade root, and a platform connected to the root by an upper end. A maximum radial distance between the blade tip and the platform defines a maximum extent of the bearing surface of the airfoil. The blade is partially covered by a protective strip to combat oxidation and corrosion. The strip extends between a lower limit situated on at least one portion of the platform and an upper limit situated on the blade root. The blade tip is not covered by the protective strip.
US12000298B2
A device for pressurizing a turbomachine downstream enclosure, the device being fed by means of a pressurizing air flow and including: a first shaft portion, a second shaft portion coupled to the first shaft portion via internal splines and external splines and extending, at a distance, inside the first shaft portion. The device includes at least a first passage made through the splines, and at least one orifice passing right through the second shaft portion, the orifice being arranged upstream of the first passage, in fluidic communication with the first passage, and opening out inside the second shaft portion so as to allow the pressurizing air flow to circulate from the first passage, between the first and second shaft portions, towards the downstream enclosure.
US12000294B2
The invention concerns a bypass turbomachine (1) with a primary flow path and a secondary flow path, comprising: —a low-pressure body comprising a low-pressure compressor (120) connected to a low-pressure turbine (122) via a low-pressure shaft (124), —a high-pressure body comprising a high-pressure compressor (130) connected to a high pressure turbine (132), via a high-pressure shaft (134), —a low-pressure power take-off system (220) comprising an electrical generator (226), configured to take power (W12) from the low-pressure body, wherein—the turbomachine comprises a debris removal system (500), located between the two compressors (226, 236), —the low-pressure power take-off system (220) is configured to take power (W12) from the low-pressure shaft (124) using the resistive torque of the electrical generator (226), in order to avoid a risk of surging.
US12000288B2
A flow path component assembly includes a flow path component that has a platform that extends from a first circumferential side to a second circumferential side. The platform has a first radius of curvature between the first circumferential side and the second circumferential side. A coating is arranged on a portion of the platform near the first circumferential side. The coating has a second radius of curvature. The second radius of curvature is larger than the first radius of curvature.
US12000284B1
A longwall mining swing arm plow. The swing arm plow includes a plow panel attached to a walker-shield connecting bar by a hinge and a sweeping actuator attached to the walker-shield connecting bar at a first end and the swing-arm plow at a second end to push the swing-arm plow in an arc around the hinge.
US12000283B2
A method for monitoring and controlling a downhole pressure of a well during formation of a borehole of a well is provided. The method can include monitoring a downhole pressure of a well during formation of a borehole of the well using a millimeter wave drilling apparatus including a waveguide configured for insertion into the borehole. The monitoring can include determining the downhole pressure. The downhole pressure can include an amount of pressure present at a bottom of the well. The method can also include determining a lithostatic pressure of rock surrounding the well at the bottom of the well. The method can further include controlling the downhole pressure relative to the lithostatic pressure of the rock surrounding the well at the bottom of the well. Related systems performing the methods are also provided.
US12000277B2
Systems and methods are provided for geosteering in directional drilling based on water detection. An exemplary method includes determining a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for an electromagnetic communication between devices on a bottom hole assembly, and determining a distance to water based, at least in part, on the SNR. Adjustments to geosteering vectors for the bottom hole assembly are determined based, at least in part, on the distance to water.
US12000275B2
Systems and methods include a computer-implemented method for displaying well information. Geological boundaries are identified for a group of multiple wells in a region including a reference well. Each well has geological boundaries at depths different from boundaries in the reference well. A framework of the geological boundaries of the reference well multiple wells is treated as a set of datums for shifting pressures relative to the reference well. Geological boundaries of the group of multiple wells are matched, including identifying tops and bases of geological layers for each well. Depth shifts for depths having corresponding pressure data are determined. The depth shifts are redatumed based on differences in depth of the geological layers of each well. A display of a graph is presented in a graphical user interface (GUI). The graph maps pressures of the group of multiple wells at different depths and based on redatuming of each well.
US12000274B2
Systems and methods for wireless downhole telemetry are provided. The system includes a tubular located in a wellbore; a pressure controller located at or near a surface of the wellbore to send a digital command via a change in a pressure applied to the tubular; and a receiver disposed in the wellbore, wherein the receiver includes a mechanical pressure switch to detect the change in the pressure applied to the tubular.
US12000273B2
A method and system are described for communicating within a system, which may be along tubular members and used during gravel pack operations. The method includes constructing a communication network and installing the communication nodes along the gravel pack system. The communication nodes are used to monitor the formation of the gravel pack for voids or gaps during the gravel pack operations. Once the gravel pack is installed, the gravel pack operations may be used for hydrocarbon operations, such as hydrocarbon exploration, hydrocarbon development, and/or hydrocarbon production.
US12000266B2
Apparatus for measuring the profile of a wellbore includes a cylindrical body having first and second ends threaded for connection in line with a drill string. A passage extends through the body between the first and second ends. A plurality of arms are pivotally coupled on an outer surface of the cylindrical body. Each of the arms is biased to pivot so as to move a free end thereof radially away from the outer surface of the body. The plurality of arms are angularly spaced apart around the cylindrical body and arranged in a plurality of tiers. Each of the tiers comprises three or more of the arms. The tiers are spaced apart axially from one another along the cylindrical body. Sensors are operable to directly or indirectly measure radial extension of each of the arms from the cylindrical body. A holding mechanism is operable to hold the arms in a retracted configuration and to selectively release the arms to pivot away from the cylindrical body. The arms may be extended while withdrawing a drill string containing the apparatus from a wellbore to monitor a profile of a wall of the wellbore.
US12000265B2
Generally, a sonde, associated components and methods are described which can be used in conjunction with an inground tool having an inground tool housing that defines an inground tool cavity such that the inground tool cavity is exposed to an ambient pressure environment which surrounds the inground tool during an inground operation. A sonde housing assembly includes an exterior configuration that is receivable within the inground tool cavity. The sonde housing assembly at least partially defines a sonde interior and is further configured for receiving the pressure sensor body of a pressure sensor in a pressure sealed engagement. A sonde electronics package is supported within the sonde interior and is at least configured to receive the pressure signal and transfer a corresponding pressure signal from the sonde.
US12000261B2
Systems and methods presented herein facilitate operation of well-related tools. In certain embodiments, a variety of data (e.g., downhole data and/or surface data) may be collected to enable optimization of operations related to the well-related tools. In certain embodiments, the collected data may be provided as advisory data (e.g., presented to human operators of the well to inform control actions performed by the human operators) and/or used to facilitate automation of downhole processes and/or surface processes (e.g., which may be automatically performed by a computer implemented surface processing system (e.g., a well control system), without intervention from human operators). In certain embodiments, the systems and methods described herein may enhance downhole operations (e.g., milling operations) by improving the efficiency and utilization of data to enable performance optimization and improved resource controls of the downhole operations.
US12000254B1
Swing valves have a passage and a sleeve. The passage has a receptacle, and the sleeve is pressure fitted into the receptacle. The sleeve is adapted to conduct flow through the valve and comprises a first end, a second end, and a valve seat. The first end of the sleeve is pressure fitted into the receptacle. The second end projects out of the receptacle. The valve seat is on the face of the second sleeve end. The second sleeve end also is adapted to couple with a sleeve cap extending over and across the second sleeve end to shut off flow through the sleeve.
US12000253B2
A fracturing apparatus and a fracturing system are provided. The fracturing apparatus includes: a plunger pump configured to pressurize a fracturing fluid to form a high-pressure fracturing fluid; a turbine engine coupled to the plunger pump and configured to provide a driving force to the plunger pump; an auxiliary unit including a driving electric motor, the auxiliary unit being configured to provide the fracturing apparatus with at least one selected from the group consisting of start-up assist function, lubrication function, cooling function, and air supply function; and a power supply electrically coupled to the driving electric motor of the auxiliary unit to provide driving power.
US12000246B2
Method for evacuating hydrocarbon from a subsea process module (210), the subsea process module having an upper fluid connection point (222) and a lower fluid connection point (232), the method comprising: connecting (110) a receiving container line (220) to the upper fluid connection point (222) of the subsea process module (210); connecting (120) a liquid adding line (230) to the lower fluid connection point (232) of the subsea process module (210); displacing (130) hydrocarbon by a liquid displacement medium added through the liquid adding line (230); removing (140) the liquid adding line from the lower fluid connection point (232); connecting (150) a gas adding line (260) to either the upper fluid connection point (222) or a lower fluid connection point (232); connecting (160) a receiving container line (220) to the lower fluid connection point (232) and or another lower fluid connection point; diluting (170) the remaining hydrocarbon by a gas medium added through the gas adding line (260).
US12000239B2
An apparatus for flowing and mixing cement within a subterranean formation includes a housing, a flow control device, and baffles. The housing is configured to contain a cement additive. The housing includes a first end and a second end. The first end is configured to couple to a cement retainer. The flow control device is disposed at the second end of the housing. The baffles are disposed within the housing.
US12000231B1
The fluid containment system attaches to the wellhead below the rotating control device to catch fluids. The fluid containment system provides a pan below the outlet of the body in which the rotating head assembly is secured. A curtain attaches to the fluid containment system to at least partially enclose the wellhead. The curtain directs the escaped fluids to the pan. An opening in the curtain provides an outlet for the body allowing fluids within the pipe to flow from the body. Conduits attach to outlets of the pan to transfer the fluids from the pan to a tank.
US12000228B2
A casing removal system includes a flow diversion valve. The flow diversion valve includes a flow switch that engages an upper end of an inner casing. When the flow switch engages the upper end of the inner casing, the flow diversion valve opens and at least a portion of the fluid flow through the casing removal system exhausts to the annulus. The remaining fluid flow below the flow diversion valve is insufficient to operate a mud motor that drives a casing cutter. In other embodiments, when the flow switch is not engaged with the inner wall of casing, the flow diversion valve prevents fluid flow to components that are downhole of the valve and when the flow switch is engaged with the inner wall of casing, the flow diversion valve allows for fluid flow to components that are downhole of the valve.
US12000227B1
A stimulation tool for dislodging material from a perforation formed through a tubular disposed in a wellbore includes a main body formed at least in part from a material that is buoyant in a wellbore fluid, a ballast, a magnet, and a pressure pulse generator. The tool is configured to descend downhole by force of gravity when the ballast is attached and couple, by the magnet, to an interior surface of the tubular upon arrival at a downhole location proximate the perforation. When the tool is coupled by the magnet to the interior of the tubular, the tool transmits pressure pulses from the pressure pulse generator into the perforation, thereby dislodging material from the perforation. The tool de-couples from the interior surface and releases the ballast, thereby permitting the tool to ascend uphole, driven at least partially by a buoyant force exerted by the wellbore fluids.
US12000226B2
A process is described for milling a window in the casing (2) of an oil or gas producing well, for example in order to drill a lateral well branching off from the main well. A wireline milling tool is first used, in a relatively low cost operation, to create a small window (14) or notch in the casing (2). Provided a small window (14) or notch can be created successfully, an expensive heavy duty coil tubing milling operation can then be conducted to create the full window, some 4-6 feet in length. Previous attempts to create a full window using wireline tools have encountered difficulties due to there being no circulating drilling fluid to remove metal swarf and due to the need for the tool to be supported by casing during the milling operation, when the integrity of the casing is being compromised by drilling the window. The proposed wireline tool has an actuator (4) with relatively small stroke length and a relatively small container (8) to manage the swarf produced by the milling process.
US12000225B2
A section mill having a tubular mill body is attached to a carrier pipe string such as a coiled tubing string. A translatable elongated tubular piston mandrel is positioned within the mill body to receive a flow of fluid from a central fluid bore in the carrier pipe string. The tubular piston mandrel has attached upper and lower pistons respectively positioned within upper and lower piston chambers in the mill body. The pistons move the piston mandrel vertically upward and downward in response to fluid pressure generated by fluid from the tubular piston mandrel. Longitudinally adjustable plungers are attached to the tubular piston mandrel. Cutter shoes are mounted to the adjustable plunger by pivotally attached yoke links. The yoke links and cutter shoes pivot radially inward and outward by upward and downward movement of the tubular piston mandrel and the attached adjustable plungers.
US12000219B2
A method of making-up tubular string components can include inputting to an image processor image data output from at least one camera, the image processor in response detecting positions of a tubular and a mark on another tubular, threading the tubulars with each other while inputting position data from the image processor to a controller, and the controller terminating the threading in response to the position of the mark relative to the position of the first tubular being within a predetermined range. Another method of making-up tubular string components can include, in response to inputting image data to an image processor, the image processor detecting longitudinal positions of two tubulars, threading the tubulars with each other, and a controller terminating the threading in response to the longitudinal position of one tubular relative to the longitudinal position of the other tubular being within a predetermined range.
US12000210B2
A ladder is provided having a base section and a fly section slidably coupled with the base section. The base section includes a first pair of spaced apart rails and a first plurality of rungs extending between and coupled to the first pair of spaced apart rails. The fly section includes a second pair of spaced apart rails and a second plurality of rungs extending between and coupled to the second pair of spaced apart rails. The various rungs may be coupled with their associated rails in an offset relationship such that they are not centered along a longitudinal center axis line of the rails. A rung lock device may be used which includes an arm pivotally coupled with the base section and configured to selectively engage various rungs of the second plurality of rungs to maintain the fly section in a desired position relative to the base section.
US12000209B2
A rolling curtain mounting housing and an electric rolling curtain are provided. The rolling curtain mounting housing includes a housing body, the housing body is disposed with an accumulator compartment, the accumulator compartment is disposed with an accumulator placement opening. The rolling curtain mounting housing is further disposed with a cover plate, the cover plate is configured to close the accumulator placement opening. The housing body includes an accumulator installation part and a housing extension part connected with each other, the housing extension extends outwards relative to the accumulator installation part, the accumulator installation part is disposed with the accumulator compartment. The cover plate further covers a side surface of the housing extension part on a same side as the accumulator placement opening when the cover plate closes the accumulator placement opening. The provided electric rolling curtain is more convenient to replace the accumulator.
US12000204B2
A dynamic facade system for controlling shading, characterized in that said facade system comprises a block (30) composed of an outer glass panel (31), an intermediate framework (32) inside which a series of steel cables (33) are fixed, and an inner framework (34) that incorporates an inner glass panel (35); said outer glass panel (31), said intermediate framework (32) and said inner framework (34) being joined to one another: said system comprises modules (10) fixed on said cables (33); said modules (10) comprise a first outer structure (12); said first outer structure (12) comprises a frame-shaped square base (15) and at least one first wing (16); said at least one first wing (16) is movably connected to said frame-shaped square base (15) by means of a first hinge (20); characterized in that said first hinge (20) is made with a shape memory element with passive configuration.
US12000198B2
A lid system is a system including a plurality of lids of a vehicle, the system including: a first lid that covers a power supply port that receives AC power, the first lid being openable and closable; a second lid that covers a power supply port that receives DC power, the second lid being openable and closable; a lid opener for opening the first and second lids; a position detecting unit that detects a current position of the vehicle; and an ECU that controls the lid system. The ECU obtains positions of power supply facilities of the AC power or the DC power, specifies a power supply facility located at a position close to the current position detected by the position detecting unit, and performs a prescribed process for opening, by the lid opener, the lid corresponding to an energy source supplied by the specified power supply facility.
US12000190B2
Self-closing pivot hinges and devices such as doors for closing off an opening between two rooms or in a building façade using such hinges include a spring that extends into a hinge housing along the longitudinal direction of the hinge housing, which lends a self-closing function, and a cam element and a ball that is pressed against the cam element by the spring. The cam element is shaped so that it creates support positions in which the ball rests.
US12000173B1
A system may include a lock assembly having a shell and a plug rotatable with respect to the shell and a lock operating object for operating the lock assembly including a key. The system may further include an audit enhancement assembly configured to facilitate creation of an audit trail of operation of the lock assembly by the lock operating object, and may include a motion sensor configured to sense rotational motion of the lock operating object and/or the plug of the lock assembly. The audit enhancement assembly may include processing circuitry in communication with the motion sensor, and memory circuitry in communication with the processing circuitry to receive and record a value derived from a motion signal from the motion sensor and a temporal value associated with a motion signal event.
US12000172B2
A vehicle door handle includes an external visible surface having a display element. The display element includes a surface having a plurality of individually controllable pixels that are controllable via a control unit depending on a user interface. Displaying content on the display element of such a vehicle door handle involves the display content being predetermined or pre-stored display content retrieved via the user interface.
US12000169B2
Apparatus and methods for counteracting, e.g., drift of automatic swimming pool cleaners are detailed. In particular, a drifting cleaner may recover its movement by altering traction speed of the motive element(s) on one side of its body. Such alteration may occur when the cleaner is travelling along a generally horizontally-oriented pool bottom, climbing up or down a wall, or otherwise moving within a pool.
US12000168B2
The side load picket driver is loaded from the side instead of from the bottom. The side load star picket driver is closed at the top end and open at the bottom end and has a slot down the full-length on one side of the star picket driver so that the star picket can be loaded from the side instead of the open end. There are two handles, welded to each side of the star picket driver for the operator to grip the driver and pound the star picket into the ground.
US12000167B2
A portable and expandable fence system to provide a protective barrier around a campfire is disclosed. The fence system comprises a plurality of slats coupled together via a plurality of hinged connectors that allow the fire fence to be easily expanded and retracted in an accordion-like manner. In an expanded configuration, a first portion of the plurality of slats are substantially parallel to one another and a second portion of the plurality of slats are substantially parallel to one another, but positioned diagonally opposite to the first portion of slats. In a retracted configuration, the plurality of slats form a compacted cylindrically-shaped structure, wherein the plurality of slats are each relatively parallel to one another, substantially vertical in relation to the ground, and in contact with one another. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the system further comprises a plurality of additional safety features.
US12000164B2
A mobile lighting device is disclosed with extendable boom sections. The boom sections are stored in a horizontal position and then pivot to a vertical position before being extended upward. A light section is positioned at the uppermost end of the last extendable boom section. A variety of safety features are also disclosed.
US12000156B2
A tile aligning and lippage tuning system that uses a single piece base and strap which is designed to break away from the base when sufficient pressure is applied and is also designed to stretch along a thin wall region before separation of the strap from the base occurs.
US12000153B2
A casing bead apparatus includes a base panel with at least one opening through the base panel. With the apparatus mounted at a vertical wall, the base panel is disposed along the vertical wall. A stop bead wall extends from the base panel. The stop bead wall includes a first side, a second side opposite the first side, and a flange at a distal end of the stop bead wall distal from the base panel and extending partially over the base panel. A spacing element is disposed at the second side of the stop bead wall. An adhesive element is disposed at the spacing element. With the apparatus mounted at the vertical wall, the adhesive element engages a horizontal surface perpendicular to the vertical wall to adhesively attach the apparatus at the horizontal surface and the spacing element is disposed between the stop bead wall and the horizontal surface.
US12000147B2
A dynamic acoustic locking ceiling baffle and a dynamic acoustic locking ceiling system, that includes a single piece of material folded into acoustic locking ceiling baffles, using locking pieces and locking mechanisms, to quickly and easily install the acoustic locking ceiling baffle onto construction ceiling hangers to provide an aesthetically pleasing image, along with a reduction in unwanted noise or room acoustics.
US12000136B2
A collapsible living compartment comprising a frame supporting and a floor which is connected to a sidewall formed from two or more panels, wherein at least one of panels includes a supporting member and a passage embedded within a space defined between two outer skins, and at least part of the space is filled with insulating material.
US12000121B2
A water conservation system includes a showerhead, a water conservation tank, and a sensor. The system further includes a first valve configured to direct water towards the conservation water tank in an open position and configured to prevent water from flowing towards the conservation water tank when in a closed position. The system further includes a second valve configured to direct water towards the showerhead in an open position and configured to prevent water from reaching the showerhead in a closed position. A controller is configured to direct the first valve to the open position and the second valve to the closed position upon the detection of water flow by the sensor and the configured to direct the first valve to the closed position and the second valve to open position upon the occurrence of an event that occurs after the initial detection of water flow by the sensor.
US12000119B2
There is described a securing device (10) for releasably securing a first object to a second objection. The device comprises a casing (12) and a coupling magnet (22) housed in the casing. The casing is configured for being inserted in a passageway formed by aligned openings (54, 60) of the first and second objects when assembled together, for blocking separation of the first object and the second object from one another. The coupling magnet (22) is moveable from an initial position to a working position to form a magnetic coupling for holding the casing in the passageway. The first and second objects can respectively be a tooth (50) of a mining or excavation bucket and an adaptor (52) of the bucket for the tooth (50). A fixed magnet (28) can be provided in the casing (12), the fixed magnet (28) being oppositely poled with respect to the coupling magnet (22) for damping the movement of the coupling magnet to its working position. There is also provided a removal tool (178) for removal of the securing device from its securing position. The removal tool includes a coupling magnet (180) for being moved from a retracted position to a coupling position for magnetically coupling with the securing device (10) for releasing the coupling magnet (22) of the securing device from its working position and withdrawal of the securing device.
US12000112B2
Method for controlling a hydraulic system for a working machine, the system including a first electric machine connected to a first hydraulic machine the first hydraulic machine including an input side and an output side a second electric machine connected to a second hydraulic machine the second hydraulic machine including a high-pressure side and a low-pressure side the high-pressure side connected to the input side; a hydraulic consumer coupled to the output side via a supply line and configured to be powered by the first hydraulic machine; a first return line hydraulically coupling the hydraulic consumer to the input side and to the high-pressure side; wherein the method includes detecting a return flow from the hydraulic consumer through the first return line; and controlling the second hydraulic machine to maintain a pressure in the first return line at a pressure level higher than a predetermined minimum pressure level.
US12000106B2
Apparatuses for constructing displacement aggregate piers are disclosed. In one example, a mandrel is provided comprising a tamper head that has cutting teeth on the leading edge thereof. In another example, hydrojet nozzles are provided within one or more of the cutting teeth of the tamper head. In yet another example, the mandrel comprises grout tubes (or grout injection lines) and/or grout inspection lines. In yet another example, the mandrel and/or tamper head can comprise cutting teeth, hydrojet nozzles, grout tubes (or gout injection lines), grout inspection lines, and any combinations thereof.
US12000105B2
A system and method for a marine wrapper including a substrate, the substrate having an inner surface and an outer surface; and a coating fixedly adhered to the outer surface of the substrate, the coating including a bio-enhancing material to encourage marine growth on the outer surface of the substrate.
US12000104B1
This patent provides designs for an ecologically friendly gravity retaining walls using a wide variety of building materials. This patent provides a method to build gravity walls using random fill. Where fill material is placed and then grouted in a specific way to form a solid mass. The primary problem with grouting loose fill to form a solid mass is that it needs confinement. This patent presents steps to create a confined space for grouting a structural section to provide horizontal support of an external mass. This is accomplished by dividing the wall into three sections. From front to back, these are the face, the structural section, and the back drainage sections. By grouting these separately and tying them together with modified concrete covered rebar a complete wall can be built in a very efficient manner. Initially planter blocks were included, now those claims are submitted under application Ser. No. 18/507,899.
US12000100B2
Snow-clearing trailer (1) having a chassis (5) extending longitudinally in a chassis direction (I-I) and having a drawbar (9). Pivoting means (11) allow the selective pivoting movement of the chassis (5) and the drawbar (9) with respect to one another. A drawbar locking bar (12) of fixed length can be attached to the drawbar (9) and to the chassis (5) so as to immobilize the drawbar (9) on the chassis (5) in a transport position. Detection means (13) generate an attachment signal when the drawbar locking bar (12) is attached to the drawbar (9) and to the chassis (5). The detection means (13) and disabling means are arranged in such a way that when the detection means (13) generate an attachment signal, the disabling means prevent any actuation of the pivoting means (11).
US12000098B2
A composite silt fence configured for capturing pollutants in one embodiment comprises a silt fence fabric including i) a polymeric geotextile fabric particulate filtering layer defining the hydraulic flow capacity for the silt fence, ii) a pollutant capturing layer coupled to the polymeric geotextile fabric particulate filtering layer and configured to capture some select pollutants in water from flow that has passed through the polymeric geotextile fabric particulate filtering layer, and iii) a backing layer coupled to the pollutant capturing layer; and a plurality of stakes secured to the silt fence fabric at spaced locations. The silt fence fabric yields higher hydraulic flow than existing fence constructions with greater sediment retention and pollutant containment features.
US12000097B1
A machine for removing and filling roadway joints includes a laterally expandable main frame mounted to a vehicle, a horizontal track beam suspended from the main frame, a joint seal removing assembly suspended from a track beam, and a joint filling assembly attached to an end of the track beam. The joint seal removal assembly includes a pair of guide wheels for maintaining alignment with the roadway joint. The joint seal removal assembly includes a rotary broom, a joint seal router, a rotary abrader, a sandblaster, high-pressure air blaster, a high pressure water blaster and a heat lance. The joint filling assembly includes a guide wheel and a sealant applicator for dispensing sealant into the roadway joint.
US12000095B1
A system for pavement slab analysis based on data regarding transfer of force through a sensing volume responsive to exertion of weight on the sensing volume by passing objects including a precast pavement slab defining the sensing volume and having a top surface, a plurality of strain gauges embedded in the pavement slab within the sensing volume, and load-transferring connector(s) attaching the pavement slab to an adjacent slab. The strain gauges are distributed across an XY coordinate plane parallel to the top surface. The system also includes a processing element and computer-readable instructions for receipt of electrical signals from the strain gauges and to analysis of the electrical signals to determine one or more of the following: (A) risk of a structural defect in the pavement slab, (B) risk of a problem with underlying sub-grade beneath the pavement slab, and (C) movement of the passing objects across the top surface.
US12000090B2
A treated article includes fibers, a sizing agent, and a retention aid. The sizing agent includes a wax or a component thereof having an acid value of from 10 mg to 220 mg, KOH/g as measured in accordance with USP 401. The retention aid includes a nitrogen-containing polymer independently selected from the group consisting of (i) a nitrogen-containing polymer of Formula I, (ii) a polyethyleneimine, (iii) a polyaminoamide, (iv) a copolymer formed from the reaction product of epichlorohydrin and dimethylamine, and (v) combinations thereof.
US12000089B2
The present invention is directed to forming fabrics. The forming fabrics may include a series of repeat units. Each of the repeat units may include a set of binding warp yarns including a first set of binding warp yarns and a second set of binding warp yarns, wherein a binding warp yarn from the first set is paired with a binding warp yarn from the second set; a set of spring warp yarns, wherein each spring warp yarn is between a first pair of binding warp yarns and a second pair of binding warp yarns; a set of top weft yarns including odd and even top weft yarns, wherein the top weft yarns interweave with the binding warp yarns and the spring warp yarns to form a top fabric layer, wherein the spring warp yarns interweave only with the top weft yarns; a set of bottom weft yarns; and a set of bottom warp yarns, the bottom warp yarns interwoven with the bottom weft yarns to form a bottom fabric layer. The binding warp yarns from the first and second set and the spring warp yarns interweave with the top weft yarns to relatively form a plain weave pattern in defined zones such that (a) the first set of binding warp yarns only pass over even top weft yarns; (b) the second set of binding warp yarns only pass over odd top weft yarns; (c) the first binding warp yarn in the pair is offset from the second binding warp yarn in the pair by at least three top weft yarns to create an overlap in the warp path of the pair of binding warp yarns; and (d) each spring warp yarn passes over even and odd top weft yarns. The binding warp yarns from the first and second set and the bottom warp yarn interweave with the bottom weft yarns.
US12000087B2
Various techniques are described for enhanced combustion of hot water extraction (HWE) derived liquor. For example, the HWE derived liquor can be pre-treated prior to introduction into a combustion chamber. The pre-treatment can include subjecting HWE derived liquor to filtration to remove suspended solids, evaporation to produce a first stage concentrated HWE liquor; additional concentration to produce a second stage concentrated HWE liquor; additional filtration to remove additional suspended solids; and pre-heating to produce a preheated HWE liquor. The preheated HWE liquor can be atomized and combined with pre-heated combustion air supplied into a combustion chamber to effect combustion of the HWE derived liquor.
US12000085B2
A method for live area printing for textiles including manufacturing a textile blank with a white or uncolored live area that is assembled into a textile article. A design or image printed on the live area in a subsequent, single print run without the addition of a previously applied overlay required to set-off the ink such that customizable imagery or designs having a background color matched to the textile blank are reproduced upon the textile blank live area.
US12000082B2
A clothing treatment apparatus includes: a cabinet; a first clothing treatment chamber for accommodating clothes in the cabinet; a machine chamber for supplying steam or air to the first clothing treatment chamber; and a door assembly for opening and closing an opening. The door assembly includes: a first panel having a second clothing treatment chamber for treating clothes formed therein, the first panel being open at one side and being pivotably connected to the cabinet; a second panel for opening and closing the open one side of the first panel; and a partition plate, disposed between the first panel and the second panel, for applying pressure to each of the clothes placed on the first panel and the clothes placed on the second panel.
US12000081B2
A dryer appliance and a method of operating the same are provided. In one aspect, the dryer appliance includes a drum rotatably mounted within a cabinet. The drum defines a chamber that is in fluid communication with a conditioning system of the dryer appliance that circulates heated air through the chamber. A controller is configured to receive a command to initiate an appliance travel cycle and implement a responsive action to prepare the dryer appliance for travel. The responsive action may be the automated adjustment of one or more operating parameters of the dryer appliance, such as performing a load sensing procedure, drying the chamber, closing the water supply valves, etc. In addition, the responsive action may include providing a user instruction to prepare the dryer appliance, e.g., by cleaning the lint filter, emptying the condensate collection tank, removing hoses and cables, addressing any error codes, etc.
US12000073B2
A combination washer/dryer appliance may include a cabinet, a tub, a laundry basket, a heater, and a controller. The laundry basket may be rotatably mounted within the tub and define a chamber for receipt of articles for washing or drying. The controller may be operably coupled to the heater and configured to initiate a wash/dry operation. The wash/dry operation may include initiating a wash/dry operation for articles within the laundry basket. The wash/dry operation may include a wash cycle and a dry cycle. The wash/dry operation may further include determining completion of the wash cycle and directing a tumble cycle of the laundry basket in response to determining completion of the wash cycle. The wash/dry operation may still further include determining a user drying preference during the tumble cycle of the laundry basket and adjusting the wash/dry operation based on the determined user drying preference.
US12000069B2
Disclosed is a cruciform-shaped reinforcing structure with at least two arms of intersecting C-Beams having continuous warp fiber reinforcement across the length of each arm.
US12000065B2
The present invention discloses a method for preparing a PET/PTT parallel complex filament with high self-crimpiness, wherein PET and PTT are sliced, dried and crystallized, and then fused separately and subjected to extrusion molding through a parallel-type spinneret plate; oil is applied after cooling; then level 1-3 drafting and heat setting treatment are adopted; and during drafting, a total drafting rate is controlled to be 3 to 3.5, wherein the level-1 drafting rate is 2.8 to 3.0 at a temperature controlled to be 75 to 80° C., according to the method for preparing the PET/PTT parallel complex filament with high self-crimpiness, methods like multi-level drafting for increasing the drafting rate are adopted, and the effects of improving the fiber strength, moderately lowering the breaking elongation, and greatly improving the self-crimpiness are achieved.
US12000054B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method and apparatus for producing a carbon nanomaterial product (CNM) product that may comprise carbon nanotubes and various other allotropes of nanocarbon. The method and apparatus employ a consumable carbon dioxide (CO2) and a renewable carbonate electrolyte as reactants in an electrolysis reaction in order to make CNTs. In some embodiments of the present disclosure, operational conditions of the electrolysis reaction may be varied in order to produce the CNM product with a greater incidence of a desired allotrope of nanocarbon or a desired combination of two or more allotropes.
US12000053B2
Methods and systems for generation and deployment of a structurally altered gas molecules derived from water are provided. An example method includes combining purified water with a compound mixture. The compound mixture is non-reactive with the water and a conductor of an electric field and a magnetic field. The method includes applying the magnetic field and the electric field to the combination of the purified water and the compound mixture to cause generation of the structurally altered gas molecules. The structurally altered gas molecules have a higher probability of attraction of electrons into areas adjunct to the structurally altered gas molecules than molecules of the purified water. The method further includes introducing the structurally altered gas molecules into an environment of a chemical process. The structurally altered gas molecules facilitate electron transfers during the chemical process, thereby increasing output of the chemical process.
US12000051B2
In a sliding member, fatigue resistance of a surface layer formed by dispersing a hard material in a soft metal matrix is improved. A sliding member includes a base material layer and a surface layer, the surface layer includes a metal matrix and a hard material harder than the matrix and dispersed in the matrix, the hard material has a gradient in hardness, and the gradient in hardness gradually decreases from an inner side to a surface of the hard material.
US12000047B2
A substrate processing system includes a first chamber including a substrate support. A showerhead is arranged above the first chamber and is configured to filter ions and deliver radicals from a plasma source to the first chamber. The showerhead includes a heat transfer fluid plenum, a secondary gas plenum including an inlet to receive secondary gas and a plurality of secondary gas injectors to inject the secondary gas into the first chamber, and a plurality of through holes passing through the showerhead. The through holes are not in fluid communication with the heat transfer fluid plenum or the secondary gas plenum.
US12000038B2
Process for manufacturing a printhead for a 3D manufacturing system that uses metal electrodeposition to construct parts. The printhead may be constructed by depositing layers on top of a backplane that contains control and power circuits. Deposited layers may include insulating layers and an anode layer that contain deposition anodes that are in contact with the electrolyte to drive electrodeposition. Insulating layers may for example be constructed of silicon nitride or silicon dioxide; the anode layer may contain an insoluble conductive material such as platinum group metals and their associated oxides, highly doped semiconducting materials, and carbon based conductors. The anode layer may be deposited using chemical vapor deposition or physical vapor deposition. Alternatively in one or more embodiments the printhead may be constructed by manufacturing a separate anode plane component, and then bonding the anode plane to the backplane.
US12000029B2
Provided is a titanium copper foil which has required high strength when used as a spring, and has improved etching uniformity, and which can be suitably used as a conductive spring material for use in electronic device parts such as autofocus camera modules. The titanium copper foil contains from 1.5 to 5.0% by mass of Ti and from 10 to 3000 pm by mass of Fe, the balance being Cu and inevitable impurities, wherein the titanium copper foil has crystal orientation having A of from 10 to 40, in which A is represented by the following equation (1) when measuring a rolled surface by an X-ray diffraction method: A=β{220}/(β{200}+β{311}) Equation (1) in which the β{220}, the β{200}, and the β{311} represent half-value widths of X-ray diffraction peaks at a {220} crystal plane, a {200} crystal plane, and a {311} crystal plane, respectively.
US12000028B2
Provided is a rail vehicle axle having an excellent fatigue limit and notch factor. A rail vehicle axle according to the present embodiment has a chemical composition consisting of, in mass %, C: 0.20 to 0.35%, Si: 0.20 to 0.65%, Mn: 0.40 to 1.20%, P: 0.020% or less, S: 0.020% or less, Sn: 0.07 to 0.40%, N: 0.0200% or less, Cu: 0 to 0.30%, Ni: 0 to 0.30%, Cr: 0 to 0.30%, Mo: 0 to 0.08%, Al: 0 to 0.100%, V: 0 to 0.060%, and Ti: 0 to 0.020%, with the balance being Fe and impurities, and satisfying Formulae (1) and (2): 0.58≤C+Si/8+Mn/5+Cu/10+Cr/4+V≤0.67 (1) Si+0.9Cr≥0.50 (2) where, each element symbol in Formulae (1) and (2) is substituted by the content (mass %) of a corresponding element.
US12000027B2
Methods and compositions are provided for improving metal dusting corrosion, abrasion resistance and/or erosion resistance for various materials, preferably for applications relating to high-temperature reactors, including dense fluidized bed reactor components. In particular, cermets comprising (a) at least one ceramic phase selected from the group consisting of metal carbides, metal nitrides, metal borides, metal oxides, metal carbonitrides, and mixtures of thereof and (b) at least one metal alloy binder phase are provided. Ceramic phase materials include chromium carbide (Cr23C6). Metal alloy binder phase materials include β-NiAl intermetallic alloys and Ni3Sn2 intermetallic alloys, as well as alloys that contain α-Cr and/or γ′-Ni3Al hard phases. Preferably, bimetallic materials are provided when the cermet compositions are applied using a laser, e.g., a laser cladding method such as high power direct diode (HPDD) laser, or by plasma-based methods such as plasma transfer arc (PTA) welding and powder plasma welding (PPW).
US12000026B2
Provided are an aluminum alloy sheet for automotive structural member which is excellent and well-balanced in strength, formability, and crushability, an automotive structural member, and a method for manufacturing an aluminum alloy sheet for automotive structural member. An aluminum alloy sheet for automotive structural member is an Al—Mg—Si-based aluminum alloy sheet containing, in mass %, Mg: 0.4% or more and 1.0% or less, Si: 0.6% or more and 1.2% or less, and Cu: 0.6% or more and 1.3% or less with the remainder being Al and inevitable impurities and having an earing ratio of −13.0% or less.
US12000025B2
738LC composition belongs to Ni-based super-alloy family. The alloy has been successfully used for hot section of turbine engine. Blades, Vanes and heat shields are made out of the alloy which can sustain a working temperature of 700 to 850 deg C. Additive manufacturing processes like Selective laser melting or PBF-L are not successful in using the alloy powder due to cracking issues. 738LC is also known to fall under the category of non-weldable alloys due to high content of gamma prime phase. The invention of the new composition is outside the standard 738LC with different concentration, morphology and size distribution of gamma prime phase. The invention has shown to eliminate the cracking issue in AM laser based process. The room temperature tensile properties observed are much better than cast 738LC properties.
US12000023B2
Nickel-based alloys having improved localized corrosion resistance, improved stress-corrosion cracking (SCC) resistance and impact strength are disclosed. The improvements come from the provision of compositions that are resistant to deleterious phase formation and from the addition of alloying elements that improve corrosion resistance, impact strength, and SCC resistance. The nickel-based alloys of the present invention have controlled amounts of Ni, Cr, Fe, Mo, Co, Cu, Mn, C, N, Si, Ti, Nb, Al, and B. When subjected to post-cladding heat treatments or welding, the nickel-based alloys retain their corrosion resistance and possess desirable impact strengths.
US12000021B2
An α+β type titanium alloy wire contains, in mass %, Al: 4.50 to 6.75%, Si: 0 to 0.50%, C: 0.080% or less, N: 0.050% or less, H: 0.016% or less, O: 0.25% or less, Mo: 0 to 5.5%, V: 0 to 4.50%, Nb: 0 to 3.0%, Fe: 0 to 2.10%, Cr: 0 to less than 0.25%, Ni: 0 to less than 0.15%, Mn: 0 to less than 0.25%, and the balance being Ti and impurities, the contents of Al, Mo, V, Nb, Fe, Cr, Ni, and Mn satisfying an equation, in which an average aspect ratio of an α crystal grain is 1.0 to 3.0, a maximum crystal grain diameter of the α crystal grain is 30.0 μm or less, an average crystal grain diameter of the α crystal grain is 1.0 to 15.0 μm.
US12000019B2
A gold powder comprising gold having a purity of 99.9% by mass or more and having an average particle size of 0.01 μm or more and 1.0 μm or less, a content of a chloride ion is 100 ppm or less, and a content of a cyanide ion is 10 ppm or more and 1000 ppm or less. A total of the content of a chloride ion and the content of a cyanide ion is preferably 110 ppm or more and 1000 ppm or less. The gold powder has improved adaptability to various processes including bonding or the like with a content of a chloride ion, that is, an impurity, optimized. A gold paste using this gold powder is suitably used in various uses for bonding such as die bonding of a semiconductor chip, sealing a semiconductor package, and forming an electrode/wire.
US12000012B2
Disclosed in the present invention is a method for extracting nickel from a high matte nickel leaching residue. The method comprises: firstly, adding a crushed material of a high matte nickel leaching residue to an organic solvent in which sulfur is dissolved, heating same for reaction, and carrying out solid-liquid separation to obtain a first filtrate and a first filter residue; adding the first filter residue to a copper sulfate solution, heating same for reaction, and carrying out solid-liquid separation to obtain a second filtrate and a second filter residue; and evaporating, condensing and concentrating the second filtrate, and filtering same to obtain copper sulfate crystals and a nickel-containing filtrate. Throughout the whole reaction, only a small amount of sulfur and copper sulfate are consumed, and the organic solvent can be recycled.
US12000009B2
A method for the manufacturing of an object. The method includes receiving a desired alloy composition for the object, depositing a plurality of foils in a stack to form the object, applying heat to the stack at a first temperature to bond the plurality of foils to each other, and applying heat to the stack at a second temperature to homogenize the composition of the stack. The homogenized stack has the desired alloy composition.
US12000008B2
The present disclosure relates to a high-strength hot-dip galvanized steel sheet having excellent surface quality and electrical resistance spot weldability, and a method for manufacturing the same. A galvanized steel sheet according to an aspect of the present disclosure is a galvanized steel sheet including a base steel sheet and a zinc-based plating layer formed on a surface of the base steel sheet, wherein a ratio (a/b) of a hardness of a surface layer portion (a) to a hardness of an internal portion (b) of the base steel sheet may be less than 0.95.
US12000006B2
Alloy compositions for 3D metal printing procedures which provide metallic parts with high hardness, tensile strengths, yield strengths, and elongation. The alloys include Fe, Cr and Mo and at least three or more elements selected from C, Ni, Cu, Nb, Si and N. As built parts indicate a tensile strength of at least 1000 MPa, yield strength of at least 640 MPa, elongation of at least 3.0% and hardness (HV) of at least 375.
US12000001B2
Compositions and methods for detecting bladder cancer are provided. In some embodiments, methods of detecting low grade bladder cancer are provided. In some embodiments, methods of monitoring recurrence of bladder cancer are provided. In some embodiments, the methods comprise detecting androgen receptor (AR) and/or uroplakin 1B (UPK1B).
US11999998B2
The present invention relates to a novel modification of a 5-methylcytosine nucleic acid catalyzed by a Cmd1 enzyme and an application thereof. The present inventors have for the first time discovered Cmd1, a 5mC-modifying enzyme, which can link a glyceryl group to a 5mC methyl carbon of a methylated nucleic acid through a carbon-carbon single bond, and this is a new epigenetic modification.
US11999996B2
A method of detecting a target polynucleotide sequence in a given nucleic acid analyte characterised by the steps of: a. annealing the analyte to a single-stranded probe oligonucleotide A0 to create a first intermediate product which is at least partially double-stranded and in which the 3′ end of A0 forms a double-stranded complex with the analyte target sequence; b. pyrophosphorolysing the first intermediate product with a pyrophosphorolysing enzyme in the 3′-5′ direction from the 3′ end of A0 to create partially digested strand A1 and the analyte; c. (i) annealing A1 to a single-stranded trigger oligonucleotide B and extending the A1 strand in the 5′-3′ direction against B; or (ii) circularising A1 through ligation of its 3′ and 5′ ends; or (iii) ligating the 3′ end of A1 to the 5′ end of a ligation probe oligonucleotide C; in each case to create an oligonucleotide A2; d. priming A2 with at least one single-stranded primer oligonucleotide and creating multiple copies of A2, or a region of A2; and e. detecting a signal derived from the multiple copies and inferring therefrom the presence or absence of the polynucleotide target sequence in the analyte.
US11999987B2
The present disclosure concerns a co-culture of bacterial cells for making a fermented product from a biomass. The co-culture comprising a first recombinant lactic acid bacteria (LAB) cell expressing at least one bacteriocin and a second recombinant lactic acid bacteria (LAB) cell capable of converting, at least in part, the biomass into the fermented product. The second recombinant LAB cell is immune to the bacteriocin produced by the first recombinant LAB cell. The co-culture can be used, optionally in combination with a yeast host cell, to make a fermented product. The present disclosure also provides processes for making the fermented product by using the co-culture as wells kits and media comprising the co-culture.
US11999986B2
The invention relates to a process for the conversion of lignocellulose into an organic acid including an alkaline pretreatment step and a fermentation step, wherein liquid phase obtained in the fermentation step is recycled to the alkaline pretreatment step and/or the fermentation step. Organic acid is recovered as its magnesium of calcium salt from solid phase obtained in the fermentation step.
US11999980B2
The present invention provides a composition comprising an isolated polypeptide having non-specific nuclease (NSN) activity for degrading nucleic acids comprising or consisting of at least 70% amino acid sequence identity to SEQ ID NO:2, wherein said polypeptide has NSN activity in a solution of about 4° C., and a cation complexing agent such as EDTA. Said composition may have preferentially a neutral to basic pH. A kit comprising said composition and a method using said composition are also disclosed.
US11999977B2
The present invention provides crude enzyme extracts, cocktails and compositions from Alkanivorax borkumensis and methods for the enzymatic treatment and bioremediation of petroleum hydrocarbon polluted ecosystems.
US11999974B2
The disclosure relates to compositions and methods for treatment of diseases associated with aberrant lysosomal function, such as fronto-temporal dementia (FTD). The disclosure also provides expression constructs comprising a transgene encoding progranulin or a portion thereof. The disclosure provides methods of treating FTD by administering such expression constructs to a subject in need thereof.
US11999972B2
Stem cells can be efficiently proliferated by culturing the stem cells in the presence of a novel recombinant fibronectin fragment.
US11999954B2
Disclosed herein are programmable, conditionally activated small interfering RNA constructs (Cond-siRNAs) and methods of making and using the same as therapeutic agents. The Cond-siRNA comprises a sensor strand, a core strand, and a guide strand, which crossover to form a sensor duplex and a RNAi duplex attached to each other to form a single structure. Upon binding an input strand to the sensor strand, the Cond-siRNA is activated and releases RNAi targeting a desired gene.
US11999953B2
The present invention features antisense oligonucleotides (AONs) for the treatment of diseases and disorders associated with the deleterious effects of transposable element insertion (e.g., long interspersed nuclear element-i (LINE-1), Arthrobacter luteus element (Alu), short interspersed nuclear element variable number tandem repeat Arthrobacter luteus element (SINE-VNTR-Alu) or (SVA), or endogenous retrovirus (ERV). In one aspect, the invention provides one or more antisense oligonucleotides complementary to a transposable element present in an intronic sequence within a gene. In another aspect, the invention provides a method for treating a subject having a genetic disorder associated with the insertion of a transposable element, the method involving administering to the subject one or more antisense oligonucleotides of any aspect delineated herein.
US11999940B2
A system and method for the production of microbial consortiums and by-product material is provided. A physical containment system comprising phase spaces arranged in a discrete order to favor specific biological reactions is also provided. Phase profiles and phase data sets include the pre-determined physical and biological parameters for the phase space transitions. Movement of material from one phase to the next is hydraulically balanced enabling working fluid to continuously move in a fixed direction and rate of flow. Continuous monitoring of phase profiles and phase data sets provide feedback to the system enabling alteration of the conditions in the system to control reactions therein.
US11999932B2
The present invention is related to the field of fluidic devices, and in particular, microfluidic cell culture systems. The present invention provides pumping, recirculation and sampling for a microfluidic device or devices. The present invention provides solutions to the control of microfluidics for both terrestrial and space applications, including the control over the movement of fluids in zero gravity or microgravity.
US11999930B2
A fluid mixing system includes a support housing having an interior surface bounding a chamber. A flexible bag is disposed within the chamber of the support housing, the flexible bag having an interior surface bounding a compartment. An impeller is disposed within the chamber of the flexible bag. A drive shaft is coupled with the impeller such that rotation of the drive shaft facilitates rotation of the impeller. A drive motor assembly is coupled with the draft shaft and is adapted to rotate the drive shaft. An adjustable arm assembly is coupled with the drive motor assembly and is adapted to move the drive motor assembly which in turn moves the position of the drive shaft and impeller. An electrical controller can control movement of the adjustable arm.
US11999925B2
A plastic cleaning method for cleaning a plastic article in an automatic dishwashing machine is provided, comprising: selecting an automatic dishwashing composition for cleaning plastic, wherein the automatic dishwashing composition, comprises: a builder; a phosphonate a nonionic surfactant; and a dispersant polymer comprising: (a) 60 to 98 wt % of structural units of formula I wherein each R1 is independently selected from a hydrogen and a —CH3 group; and (b) 2 to 40 wt % of structural units of formula II wherein each R2 is independently selected from an alkyl group with at least 4 carbon atoms and wherein each R3 is independently selected from a hydrogen and a methyl group.
US11999923B2
The present invention relates to a process for reducing an amount of intact phospholipids in a triacylglyceride oil comprising incubating the oil with a polypeptide having phospholipase A1 activity, wherein the polypeptide comprises a polypeptide having at least 80% identity to the mature amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1.
US11999917B2
The present disclosure provides fuel additives including Mannich-based quaternary ammonium salt additives, fuel compositions including such additives, and Methods of improving performance of fuel injector using such additives.
US11999901B2
A composition for use as a multifunctional wax dispersant can treat subterranean formations for the recovery of oil and gas from oil and gas wells. A process can be used for the preparation thereof. A method for treating a crude oil with a wax dispersant composition according to the present invention reduces interfacial tension between the crude oil and the treatment fluids in the recovery of oil and gas from crude oil and gas wells.
US11999899B2
A solvent blend for breaking down and reducing the viscosity of petroleum substance consists essentially of one or more methyl esters of C14-C18 fatty acids, one or more C9-C20 low aromatic hydrocarbon solvents, and one or more C4-C8 high aromatic hydrocarbon solvents, with the high aromatic solvent fraction being dispersed within the solvent blend in droplet form. The solvent blend may be produced by mixing the high aromatic solvent fraction into an intermediate or base blend consisting essentially of the methyl ester fraction and the low aromatic solvent fraction, with the base blend being produced by mixing the lower aromatic solvent fraction into the methyl ester fraction such that the lower aromatic solvent fraction is dispersed within the methyl ester fraction in droplet form.
US11999895B1
A perfluoro compound includes perfluorobutyl ethylene (PFBE) and a fluoroalkane. The perfluoro compound has an azeotropic point between 40 degrees Celsius and 60 degrees Celsius, inclusive.
US11999893B2
A polymerizable mixture which can be used to form a dielectric material for the preparation of passivation layers in electronic devices comprises a first monomer and a second monomer which may react to form a copolymer providing excellent film forming capability, excellent thermal properties, and excellent mechanical properties. The polymerizable mixture can be used in a method for forming copolymers and the copolymers can be used in an electronic device as dielectric material. The copolymers can also be used in a manufacturing method for preparing a packaged microelectronic structure and microelectronic devices comprising the packaged microelectronic structure.
US11999890B2
Pre-texturing agents, etchants, and photoresist stripping agents may be formulated to include one or more surfactants, from one or more surfactant classes, such as siloxane derivatives of amino acids that have surface-active properties.
US11999885B2
Provided are fluorescent microparticles and/or nanoparticles that have a polymeric matrix and at least one porphyrinic macrocycle associated therewith. The porphyrinic macrocycles associated with the presently disclosed fluorescent microparticles and/or nanoparticles are in some embodiments selected from the group consisting of porphyrins (including 17,18-didehydrophorbines), chlorins (including phorbines), bacteriochlorins (including bacteriophorbines), and isobacteriochlorins (including isobacteriochlorins containing a fused “E” ring). In some embodiments, the porphyrinic macrocycles have structures selected from Formulas I and H. Also provided are populations made up of a plurality of distinct fluorescent microparticles and/or nanoparticles, methods of making and using the same, sets of separately detectable fluorescent microparticles and/or nanoparticles and methods for preparing and using the same, porphyrinic macrocycle-containing dyads conjugated to particles and methods for using the same to calibrate multi-laser flow cytometers, align and/or calibrate confocal fluorescence microscopes, and/or differentially labeling cells and/or other biomolecules, and biomolecules such as antibodies, fragments, and derivatives thereof covalently conjugated to the presently disclosed fluorescent microparticles and/or nanoparticles and/or to the presently disclosed porphyrinic macrocycle-containing dyads.
US11999879B2
An adhesive film and a display member including the same are disclosed. The adhesive film is formed of an adhesive composition including: a copolymer of a monomer mixture including a hydroxyl group-containing (meth)acrylate and a comonomer; and nanoparticles. The adhesive film has a creep at −20° C. of about 50 μm to about 100 μm and a gel fraction of about 50% to about 75%.
US11999877B2
The present disclosure relates to relates to silicon nitride (SiN) chemical-mechanical polishing (CMP) compositions with SiN removal rate enhancers. The SiN CMP compositions increase the SiN polishing rate while suppressing the tetratethylorthosilicate (TEOS) polishing rate, thus providing a high SiN/TEOS selectivity ratio and reducing any defects on the surfaces of polished substrates.
US11999875B2
A polishing liquid containing: abrasive grains containing a metal oxide; at least one hydroxy acid compound selected from the group consisting of a hydroxy acid having a structure represented by General Formula (A1) below and a salt thereof; and water: [In the formula, R11 represents a hydrogen atom or a hydroxy group, R12 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, or an aryl group, n11 represents an integer of 0 or more, and n12 represents an integer of 0 or more; however, a case where both of R11 and R12 are a hydrogen atom is excluded.]
US11999861B2
Thermoset compositions and methods for forming three-dimensional articles via an additive fabrication process, and articles made therefrom are disclosed herein. In an embodiment, a composition comprises a first network-forming component comprising a TPA-based polyester comprising a backbone and having at least 2 polymerizable groups, one or more first network monomers, and a first network initiator. The backbone of the TPA-based polyester comprises the reaction product of a terephthalic acid and a polyol. The composition may further comprise a second network-forming component.
US11999858B2
The present invention relates to pigments which comprise niobium-doped titanium dioxide as well as a layer encapsulating the niobium-doped titanium dioxide, to polymer materials containing same and to the use of said pigments as laser absorbing additive in products comprising at least one polymer material and said encapsulated niobium-doped titanium dioxide containing pigments.
US11999856B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for preparation of a high temperature-resistant bismuth yellow pigment. The method comprises: mixing an oxide which served as a matrix and dopan with a bismuth source, a vanadium source, or a molybdenum source, and then placing the mixture into a mill for grinding to obtain a precursor; further calcining and crushing the precursor to obtain the high temperature-resistant bismuth yellow pigment powder. The bismuth yellow pigment has a bright color, a b* value greater than 90, a stable performance, and a high heat-resistance above 800° C. The method is environmentally friendly without waste, and reaction conditions are simple. Doping of BiVO4 crystal lattices by incorporation of oxides can be achieved, so that the particle size and distribution of the bismuth yellow pigment can be effectively controlled while the color performance of the bismuth yellow pigment is greatly improved.
US11999853B2
Disclosed herein are synthetic leathers, artificial epidermal layers, artificial dermal layers, layered structures, products produced therefrom and methods of producing the same.
US11999848B2
This patent document discloses a modified polymer having increased hydrophilicity and a method of preparing the same. A polyarylene ether ketone polymer having a plurality of repeating units, wherein one or more units of the plurality of repeating units contains a hydrophilic N-substituted imine, which is derived from a ketone in the one or more units.
US11999839B2
A polyethylene composition for preparing filaments and fibers, made from or containing: A) from 65% to 97% by weight of a copolymer of ethylene having: 1) a density of 0.925 g/cm3 or higher; and 2) a MI2 value of 0.5 g/10 min. or greater; and B) from 3% to 35% by weight of a polyolefin composition made from or containing: BI) from 5% to 35% by weight of a propylene homopolymer; BII) from 20% to 50% by weight of an ethylene homopolymer or a copolymer of ethylene with up to 5% by weight of alpha-olefin comonomers, containing 5% by weight or less of a fraction soluble in xylene at 25° C.; and BIII) from 30% to 60% by weight of a terpolymer of ethylene, propylene, and 1-butene containing from 30% to 85% by weight of a fraction soluble in xylene at 25° C.
US11999836B2
Disclosed are cellulose-based 5 flexible aerogels and xerogels containing bacterial cellulose nanorods, ribbons, fibers, and the like, wherein the gels have tunable optical, heat transfer, and stiffness properties. Further disclosed are highly transparent and flexible cellulose nanofiber-polysiloxane composite aerogels featuring enhanced mechanical robustness, tunable optical anisotropy, and low thermal conductivity.
US11999834B2
A precursor composition comprising, before cure, an acrylic ethylene monomer (AEM), a foaming agent, and one or more of a strengthening additive, a thermal ablation additive, or a reflectivity additive. The precursor composition is cured to form a protective article comprising a foamed protective material. A method of forming a protective article is also disclosed, as is an aerospace structure comprising the foamed protective material.
US11999833B2
A process for producing a polyurethane or polyisocyanurate construction board, the process comprising (i) providing an A-side reactant stream that includes an isocyanate-containing compound; (ii) providing a B-side reactant stream that includes a polyol, where the B-side reactant stream includes a blowing agent that includes a pentane and a blowing agent additive that has a Hansen Solubility Parameter (δt) that is greater than 17 MPa−0.5; and (iii) mixing the A-side reactant stream with the B-side reactant stream to produce a reaction mixture.
US11999827B2
[Problem] To provide a polycarbosilazane making it possible to form a silicon-containing film which is bearable to acid etching, and a composition comprising the polycarbosilazane. [Means for Solution] The present invention provides a polycarbosilazane comprising a repeating unit of —[R1R2Si—(CH2)n]— and —(R3R4Si—NR5)—, wherein R1, R2, R3 and R4 are each independently a single bond, hydrogen or C1-4 alkyl; R5 is independently a single bond or hydrogen; and n is 1-2, and a composition comprising the polycarbosilazane. The present invention also provides a method for forming a silicon-containing film, comprising coating the composition above a substrate and heating.
US11999811B2
The present technology relates to a polymer comprising at least one ester repeating unit and one ether repeating unit for use in an electrochemical cell, particularly in electrochemical accumulators such as lithium batteries, sodium batteries, potassium batteries and lithium-ion batteries. More specifically, the use of this polymer as a solid polymer electrolyte (SPE), as a matrix for forming gel electrolytes, or as a binder in an electrode material are also contemplated.
US11999801B2
The present invention relates to multispecific antibodies comprising at least three antigen binding sites wherein the third binding site is disulfide stabilized by introduction of cysteine, method for their production, pharmaceutical compositions containing said antibodies and uses thereof.
US11999794B2
Provided are compositions and methods for treating diseases associated with expression of mesothelin. Also provided are a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) specific to mesothelin, vectors encoding the same, and recombinant T cells comprising the mesothelin CAR. Further provided are methods of administering a genetically modified T cell expressing a CAR that comprises a mesothelin binding domain.
US11999791B2
The invention concerns methods for preventing the reduction of disulfide bonds during the recombinant production of disulfide-containing polypeptides. In particular, the invention concerns the prevention of disulfide bond reduction during harvesting of disulfide-containing polypeptides, including antibodies, from recombinant host cell cultures.
US11999790B2
This disclosure relates to anti-human OX40 (TNF Receptor Superfamily Member 4, or TNFRSF4) antibodies, antigen-binding fragments, and the uses thereof.
US11999788B2
A therapeutic or prophylactic agent for radiation damage associated with radiation exposure, comprising an eosinophil-removing agent as an active ingredient and the like are provided as a technique for efficiently treating or preventing radiation damage associated with radiation exposure. According to the therapeutic or prophylactic agent comprising an eosinophil-removing agent according to the present invention, by suppressing migration and/or infiltration into target tissue and/or proliferation in the tissue of eosinophils and/or inhibiting the activity or function of the eosinophils, pathological conditions such as inflammatory responses and fibrosis of tissue can be suppressed to effectively treat or prevent radiation damage. Moreover, effective radiation therapy can be performed by suppressing radiation damage.
US11999784B2
The present disclosure relates to methods for the treatment, prevention and diagnosis of peripheral T-cell lymphoma using compounds that specifically bind NKp46. Included in particular are compounds that bind NKp46 and deplete tumor cells that express NKp46 at their surface, and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same. The disclosure also relates to the use of antibodies that specifically bind NKp46 in diagnostic and theranostic assays in the detection and treatment of peripheral T-cell lymphoma.
US11999778B2
The present disclosure in various aspects provides methods for making pharmaceutical compositions for treating neurodegenerative diseases (e.g., demyelinating diseases), such as but not limited to multiple sclerosis, neuromyelitis optica, and transverse myelitis. The pharmaceutical compositions impact specific antibody-mediated processes involved in the biology of neurodegenerative disease. In certain aspects, the disclosure provides pharmaceutical compositions for treating neurodegenerative disease, which are based on inhibiting the action of pathologic antibodies, or alternatively providing antibodies to stimulate neuroprotection or repair processes.
US11999775B2
Provided are chimeric VEGF-binding proteins and nucleic acids (e.g., a vector) encoding chimeric VEGF-binding proteins, methods and host cells for producing these proteins and nucleic acids, and pharmaceutical compositions containing these proteins and nucleic acids. Also provided are methods of treating an angiogenic disease or disorder that include administering at least one of the chimeric VEGF-binding proteins or at least one of the nucleic acids (e.g., a vector) encoding a chimeric VEGF-binding protein.
US11999764B2
The present invention relates to a new class of sucrose esters and a method for their preparation.
US11999763B2
Organometallic complexes are described which are useful as pre-polymerization catalysts which may form part of olefin polymerization catalyst systems. The catalyst systems find use in the polymerization of ethylene, optionally with one or more C3-12 alpha-olefin comonomers. The organometallic complexes are broadly represented by formula I: wherein L is a bridging group containing a contiguous chain of atoms connecting P with Cy, wherein the contiguous chain contains 2 or 3 atoms and wherein Cy is a cyclopentadienyl-type ligand. The olefin polymerization catalyst system is effective at polymerizing ethylene with alpha-olefins in a solution phase polymerization process at high temperatures and produces ethylene copolymers with high molecular weight and high degrees of alpha-olefin incorporation. Pre-metallation compounds, metallation processes and synthetic methods to make the organometallic complexes as well as polymerization processes are also described.
US11999761B2
An iodine compound represented by formula (3) and a polymerization inhibitor including the iodine compound, wherein R21 to R25 are as defined herein, X1 is an n1-valent group, and n1 is an integer of 1 to 10:
US11999760B1
A reversible photo-switchable isomerization of novel sterically hindered 2,2′,6,6′-tetraisopropyl-4,4′-bis((trimethylsilyl)ethynyl)azobenzene and its synthesis.
US11999724B2
The present invention relates to a novel method for producing diarylpyridine derivatives, and the object of the present invention is to provide a novel, industrially useful method. The present inventors developed a novel method for synthesizing pyridine rings without using palladium, a strong base, or a high-temperature reaction. In particular, they successfully developed a method that can be used to synthesize iminium salts as intermediates, synthesize cyano compounds from these iminium salts, and cyclize the cyano compounds into pyridines under very mild reaction conditions.
US11999721B2
The present invention provides pyrazole derivatives, e.g., a compound of Formula (I), and their uses in methods of treating malignant disease and disorders and methods for treating inflammatory diseases and disorders.
US11999716B2
Isoquinolinone compounds and derivatives inhibit WDR5 and associated protein-protein interactions, and the compounds and their pharmaceutical compositions are useful for treating disorders and conditions in a subject, such as cancer cell proliferation.
US11999715B2
Provided are compounds of Formula (I): Formula (I), including compounds of Formulas (II), (III), (IV), (V) and (VI), wherein X, R1, R2, R3, R4 and n are as defined herein, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, and methods for their use and production. These compounds can be useful, e.g., in the treatment of disorders responsive to the inhibition of apoptosis signal-regulating kinase 1 (ASK1).
US11999712B1
A compound 2-(Benzo[b]thiophen-3-yl)-1-butyl-4,5-diphenyl-1H-imidazole compound, its synthesis, and its use as an anti-microbial and anti-inflammatory agent.
US11999701B1
A 4,5-bis(4-chlorophenyl)-2-phenyl-1H-imidazole compound, its synthesis, and its use as an anticancer, anti-inflammatory, and/or antimicrobial agent.
US11999699B2
The present invention relates to compounds according to general formula (I) which act as inhibitors of NaV1.8 and can be used in the treatment of pain.
US11999694B2
Disclosed are prodrug compounds that can be converted to mesembrine under biologically relevant conditions, such as hydrolysis in vivo; and related methods of preparing and using these compounds. Stable preparations of isolated mesembrine stereoisomers are also provided.
US11999691B2
Disclosed are cyclopentene compounds and compositions containing one or more odorless lipophilic compounds cyclopentene compounds. The compositions can be applied to scalp where they stimulate hair follicles resulting in hair growth and visibly improved human hair.
US11999689B2
The present disclosure provides a method for extracting long chain dicarboxylic acid, the method comprising: (1) subjecting a long chain dicarboxylic acid fermentation broth to a primary membrane filtration treatment to give a first filtrate; subjecting the first filtrate to decolorization, crystallization, and solid-liquid separation to give a first solid; (2) redissolving the first solid in water to form a solution; subjecting the solution to decolorization, crystallization by acidification, and solid-liquid separation to give a second solid. By the method, the resulted long chain dicarboxylic acid product has a high purity and no residual organic solvent.
US11999682B2
Provided is a process for preparing polythiols by preparing a sulfhydration reaction medium, simultaneously carrying out radical sulfhydration reaction of at least one polyene and acid-catalyzed sulfhydration reaction of the polyene and recovering a mixture including at least two polythiols. Also provided is a mixture of polythiols obtained from the process described herein.
US11999675B2
Disclosed herein are novel compounds, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds and related methods of their use. The compounds described herein are useful, e.g., as liposomal delivery vehicles to facilitate the delivery of encapsulated polynucleotides to target cells and subsequent transfection of said target cells, and in certain embodiments are characterized as having one or more properties that afford such compounds advantages relative to other similarly classified lipids.
US11999661B2
An interface joint material based on industrial solid waste includes raw materials in parts by weight: portland slag cement, 80˜130 parts; metakaolin, 80˜130 parts; the industrial solid waste, 80˜130 parts; sodium silicate, 25˜35 parts; alkali, 8˜12 parts; acrylate, 30˜36 parts; a trivinyl ether compound, 1˜3 parts; inorganic sulfite, 1˜3 parts; persulfate, 1˜3 parts; a water reducing agent, 3˜6 parts, and water, 60˜80 parts. The interface joint material is suitable for a concrete interface of different components, with good bonding, high strength, and the advantages of pumping, fast hard, early strength, micro expansion and high ductility; In addition, the industrial solid waste is added into the interface joint material, which improves a utilization rate of the industrial solid waste in construction joint materials, and has significant for recycling of the industrial solid waste.
US11999654B2
A method for making an admixture for concrete includes the steps of providing a carbon nanomaterial comprised of carbon nanoparticles and wetting and dispersing the carbon nanomaterial in a liquid organic solvent/compound mixture comprised of amine based compounds configured to de-agglomerate and uniformly disperse the carbon nanoparticles. The method also includes the step of selecting the organic/solvent compound mixture to perform the wetting and dispersing step and to also perform at least one additional function in a particular type of concrete. An admixture for making concrete comprises a suspension of uniformly dispersed carbon nanoparticles having a predetermined percentage range by mass of the admixture in an organic solvent/compound mixture comprising an amine based compound having a predetermined percentage range by mass of the organic solvent/compound mixture.
US11999652B2
Provided is a glass for a magnetic recording medium substrate or for a glass spacer for a magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus, in which the total content of Li2O, Na2O, K2O, B2O3, and ZnO (Li2O+Na2O+K2O+B2O3+ZnO) is in a range of 0 mol % or more and 3 mol % or less, the mole ratio of the total content of Al2O3 and MgO relative to the total content of SiO2 and CaO [(Al2O3+MgO)/(SiO2+CaO)] is in a range of 0.30 or more and 0.6 or less, the total content of SiO2 and Al2O3 (SiO2+Al2O3) is in a range of 64 mol % or more and 85 mol % or less, and the total content of SiO2, Al2O3, MgO, and CaO (SiO2+Al2O3+MgO+CaO) is in a range of 87 mol % or more and 98 mol % or less.
US11999650B2
Processes for depositing functionalized nanoparticles upon a non-conductive substrate are disclosed herein. The processes may include the step of aerosolizing one or more particles into suspension within a gas, each of the one or more particles comprising functionalized nanoparticles having an electric charge. The processes may include the step the step of attracting the one or more particles onto a non-conductive substrate by a static electric charge opposite of the electric charge, wherein at least portions of the non-conductive substrate are having the static electric charge. The processes may include the step of depositing the functionalized nanoparticles onto the non-conductive substrate.
US11999648B2
Provided is a wavelength conversion member which is made of a phosphor powder dispersed in a glass matrix and has an excellent luminous efficiency. A wavelength conversion member is comprising: a phosphor powder dispersed in a glass matrix, wherein the glass matrix has a refractive index (nd) of 1.6 or more and a liquidus temperature of 1070° C. or below.
US11999643B2
Systems and processes for purifying and concentrating a liquid feed stream are disclosed. In the systems, the concentrated liquid output from the high pressure side of a reverse osmosis stage is used as the draw solution in the low pressure side of the reverse osmosis stage in a configuration called osmotically assisted reverse osmosis. This reduces the osmotic pressure differential across the membrane, permitting high solute concentrations to be obtained, hastening the purification of the liquid. Reduced system pressures are also obtained by arranging multiple osmotically assisted reverse osmosis stages in a cross-current arrangement. Overall system energy consumption is reduced compared to conventional thermal processes for high concentration streams.
US11999641B2
This disclosure relates to physical selection, deselection or outselection for smaller, less dense, sheared or compressed particles in sludge, wherein the first deselection step occurs at the reactor or at a clarification step, by separately deselecting for such particles and then a second deselection step occurs in an external selector. This double deselection promotes the more efficient removal of slow settling particles, while simultaneously allowing for maintenance of multiple solids residence times for fast and slow growing organisms. The deselection in a clarifier occurs typically at the periphery of the tank or at the surface of a blanket using a positive or negative pressure device. Structures such as slotted or perforated plates, pipes or manifolds can be used to assist in such deselection. Baffles can also be used for such deselection.
US11999635B2
A method for the sorption of phosphorous and/or nitrogen from a liquid, the method comprising the step of contacting the liquid with a composition comprising spongolite.
US11999629B2
A cleaning sachet for removing carbon deposit and rust on a gun element, and a cleaning method thereof, uses cleaning powder that includes aluminum oxide making up 75.000% to 99.989% by weight of the cleaning powder, zinc peroxide making up 0.010% to 9.000% by weight of the cleaning powder, and nano zinc oxide making up 0.001% to 6.000% by weight of the cleaning powder. A user can lay the cleaning sachet on a carbon-deposited and/or rusting area of the gun element before or after moistening the cleaning sachet with a lubricating oil, and then wipe the carbon-deposited and/or rusting area with the cleaning sachet after waiting a period of time. Therefore, the colloidal solution formed by mixing the lubricating oil and the cleaning powder and released out of the cleaning sachet can remove the carbon deposit and/or rust on the surface of the gun element.
