US12026767B2
A purchase management system 100 comprises a central database arrangement 110 and a purchasing authorization database module 130, arranged to communicate with a transaction authorization module 405. The central database arrangement 110: receives, from a purchasing entity 200, purchasing rules applying to a purchasing group 250; adds a selected purchasing group 250 as metadata linked to a first transaction ID; adds the purchasing rules applying to said purchasing group 250; and transfers the metadata to the purchasing authorization database module 130. The purchasing authorization database module 130 receives a purchase approval request from the transaction authorization module 405; decides on the purchase approval request based on whether the requested purchase fulfils the purchasing rules; responds to the transaction authorization module 405 with approval or rejection of the purchase approval request; and transfers the transaction information to the central database arrangement 110. The central database arrangement 110 transfers the transaction information to the purchasing entity 200, thereby allowing the information about the purchase to be automatically entered into administrative systems of the purchasing entity 200.
US12026762B2
A system and method for automatically negotiating Internet access between a user and one of a plurality of Internet connection providers. Users can buy or bid for Internet bandwidth, for example, through a server or website or by direct communications with an Internet access point such as, for example, a WIFI access point.
US12026751B2
A processor (21) receives an output from at least one component (3, 5, 6) of a lighting system (2), the output indicating usage of the lighting system (2) by a user. The processor (21) accesses a database (40) of available lighting system products. The processor (21) selects a lighting system product from the database (40) in view of the usage of the lighting system (2) by the user. The processor (21) arranges for an indication of the selected lighting system product to be provided to the user.
US12026746B2
Techniques for providing webpages based on tracking consumer device interactions are discussed herein.
US12026739B2
Multiple on-line coupons are automatically tested on items of interest to a customer, without requiring the customer to perform any action or to look for such coupons in various sources. Such testing can be automatically initiated and performed on items within the customer's shopping cart. Alternatively or additionally, testing can be automatically initiated and performed while the customer is browsing a page for an item on an e-commerce website, before the customer has even placed items in his or her shopping cart. The best coupon or coupons are then presented to the customer, or automatically applied to provide the customer with the appropriate discounts.
US12026738B2
Techniques are disclosed for determining application experience of a user. One embodiment presented herein includes a computer-implemented method, which includes receiving, at a computing device, eye tracking data of a user interacting with at least a first page of an application. The computer-implemented method further includes determining, based at least on the eye tracking data, at least a current user experience regarding the first page. The computer-implemented method further includes predicting, based on evaluating the current user experience, that the user is likely to discontinue use of the application. The computer-implemented method further includes determining, based at least on the prediction, an intervention that reduces a likelihood of the user discontinuing use of the application, and interacting with the user according to the intervention.
US12026733B2
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for mobile location based sales lead identification. Sales lead information may be provided based on a reference location, such as a sales resource real time location. Additional location information, demand information, competitive information, activity history, follow-up tasks, sales resource ownership information and past promotions relating to a particular sales lead may be additionally provided. The mobile location based sales lead information may allow a sales resource to efficiently manage their time during and in between sales visits, and prepare effective sales pitches to sales leads.
US12026729B1
Method, system, device, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for match evaluation. In some examples, a computer-implemented method includes: collecting a first set of operator data during a first time period prior to user acquisition; collecting a second set of operator data during a second time period after user acquisition; determining a first set of telematics inferences including an predicted profitability; determining a second set of telematics inferences including an actual profitability; determining and continually updating one or more match evaluations based at least in part upon one or more differences between the first set of telematics inferences and the second set of telematics inferences; and modifying the one or more predictive models based at least in part upon the one or more match evaluations.
US12026725B2
A system providing self-service access to locked merchandise comprising: (a) providing a fixture that restricts access to the locked merchandise, wherein the fixture can automatically lock or unlock, allowing or restricting access to the locked merchandise; (b) providing a means of uniquely identifying an individual attempting to access the merchandise; (c) measuring a set of behaviors of the individual during any time the fixture is an open mode; (d) assessing whether the set of behaviors of the individual are suspicious or not relative to a set of suspicious event thresholds; (e) storing the individual and their set of behaviors as accessible records in at least one database; and (f) providing an algorithm which determines future access privileges of the individual to the enclosure based on a set of variables. Additionally, a system for maximizing sales of and minimizing theft of merchandise in a retail environment, the system comprising: (a) providing a merchandise fixture, wherein the merchandise fixture can allow or restrict access to the merchandise; (b) presenting a questionnaire to an individual; (c) providing a means of uniquely identifying the individual attempting to access the merchandise; and (d) allowing or restricting access to the merchandise based on the individual's responses to the questionnaire.
US12026724B2
Techniques for enabling the creation of a digital asset representation of physical goods (e.g., luxury items) produced in limited quantities or heirloom-goods associated with restricted ownership rules. Anti-counterfeiting mechanisms are proposed for both classes of goods. The provenance of both classes of goods is traced using cryptography and decentralized ledger technology. For example, mechanisms to restrict ownership of heirloom-goods are proposed based on the combination of the DNA biological fingerprint of the patron who originated the goods and smart contract technology. The goods can be represented as digital tokens on the blockchain, binding manufacturing evidence to the token. For heirloom-goods that have restricted ownership rules, persons seeking to acquire the good via the digital token and smart contract are required to prove that they satisfy the entitlement rules based on a biological relationship to the patron.
US12026723B2
Systems and techniques are provided for electronic payment network security. Payment data including an origin and a destination for a payment in an electronic payment network may be received. A route of the payment in the electronic payment network may be estimated based on the origin and the destination. The estimated route of the payment in the electronic payment network may be input to a neural network. Fraud probabilities may be determined using the neural network. A fraud probability may include a value indicating a probability of fraud in the payment in the electronic payment network.
US12026714B2
A method for payment authorization includes receiving, by a payer device registered with payer identification, merchant identification and transaction information transmitted to the payer device from a merchant device registered with the merchant identification. The method further includes deriving a transaction request using a payer token, the merchant identification and transaction information, and sending the transaction request to an authorization server, using the payer device; validating the transaction request and forwarding the transaction request to an acquirer system, using the authorization server; receiving authorization and approval codes from the acquirer system for a transaction referenced by the transaction information, using the authorization server and transmitting the approval codes to the merchant and payer devices based upon the authorization, using the authorization server. During registration the authorization server stores payer card and PAN data and issues a token to the payer, sending card and PAN to an acquirer during a transaction.
US12026711B2
This disclosure describes techniques that enable a security assurance network to secure entry of sensitive payment data associated with a merchant transaction. A security assurance webserver is configured to receive order context data associated with the merchant transaction, and selectively establish a secure webpage on the client workstation that overlays a presentation of a merchant webpage. The security assurance webserver may receive encrypted payment data via the secure webpage for transmission to an application server within a security assurance network, and in response, facilitate a processing of the payment data via the application server. In turn, the application server may transmit a payment message indicating whether the payment data was successfully processed.
US12026706B2
An arbitraged enhanced payment processing system in association with a distributed enhanced payment processing system includes a merchant point of sale (POS) terminal system and a remote payment management system. The POS terminal system initiates a transaction that includes receiving a payment amount, a purchaser account identifier, a virtual electronic payment indicator, and a merchant ID via a payment client. Subsequently, the POS terminal system outputs the transaction to the remote payment management system which generates a token for the transaction. The payment management system then provides the purchaser account identifier, a merchant account identifier, and the payment amount to a payment processing servicer. Upon receiving a payment processing servicer response, the payment management system outputs the response and token to the POS terminal system.
US12026705B2
In order to validate a user to facilitate conducting a high-valued financial transaction via wireless communication between an electronic device (such as a smartphone) and another electronic device (such as a point-of-sale terminal), the electronic device may authenticate the user prior to the onset of the high-valued financial transaction. In particular, a secure enclave processor in a processor may provide local validation information that is specific to the electronic device to a secure element in the electronic device when received local authentication information that is specific to the electronic device (such as a biometric identifier of the user) matches stored authentication information. Moreover, an authentication applet in the secure element may provide the local validation information to an activated payment applet in the secure element. This may enable the payment applet to conduct the high-valued financial transaction via wireless communication, such as near-field communication.
US12026694B1
Authentication methods and systems using RFID-enabled payment cards are disclosed herein where a server receives a request corresponding to authorization of a payment associated with a payment card from an electronic terminal. The server identifies an electronic device of a user associated with the payment card. The server then transmits an instruction to the electronic device to cause an RFID reader of the electronic device to determine whether an RFID tag corresponding to the payment card is located within a predetermined proximity to the electronic device. When the payment card is located within the predetermined proximity, the server executes a first authentication protocol. Moreover, when the payment card is not located within the predetermined proximity, the server executes a second authentication protocol, wherein the second authentication protocol is more restrictive than the first authentication protocol.
US12026693B2
The disclosed embodiments include methods and systems for providing payment token transactions by a mobile device. The mobile device may be operable to obtain a payment token, where the payment token is associated with one or more payment token parameters and the mobile device may be configured to communicate with a financial service provider system over a first network when connectivity to the first network is available to the mobile device. The mobile device may provide the payment token to a contactless payment terminal (CPT) associated with a merchant, during a purchase transaction involving a product provided by the merchant, where the mobile device may communicate the payment token to the CPT over a local network that is different from the first network such that connectivity between the mobile device and the first network is not required.
US12026690B2
A specific solution includes: as an electronic device is folded, dividing a display screen of the electronic device into a first screen and a second screen; when the electronic device is in a folded state, detecting that the electronic device is in a landscape state or a portrait state; and if the electronic device is in the landscape state, displaying a first interface in response to horizontal unfolding of the electronic device, where the first interface includes a payment mode of one or more applications; or if the electronic device is in the portrait state, displaying a second interface in response to vertical unfolding of the electronic device, where the second interface includes any one of a lock screen interface, a main interface, or an interface displayed before the electronic device is folded.
US12026688B1
Systems and methods for performing a transaction with a headless point-of-sale or automated teller machine (ATM) device are disclosed using a card having a second communications path to a financial services provider. A card having a display and radio frequency (RF) communications module may be authenticated with a headless point-of-sale device using a short-range RF communications link. Characteristics of the card may be set prior to the transaction. Transaction information may be provided to the display of the card from the headless point-of-sale device. A customer may confirm the transaction at the card using a touch-sensitive input area. During the processing, a communication may be made over the second communications path to authorize the transaction independently of the transaction processing path. A transaction may then be completed at the headless point-of-sale device.
US12026683B2
In general, the invention relates to a method involving allowing access to a financial application by a third-party extension based on a single license to use the financial application, where the third-party extension was developed by a third-party developer using one or more tools in a software development kit (SDK) for the financial application and where the financial application stores first transaction data obtained for a first user of the financial application, monitoring operations performed on the financial application by the third-party extension to detect operations that migrate transaction data to a competitive application, using distributed computing software adjust a risk index that is associated with the third-party extension, determining that the risk index exceeds a pre-defined threshold, and controlling future access to the financial application by the third-party extension.
US12026681B2
The disclosure relates to a life prediction system for a fan of a lamp. The system comprises a fan signal detecting module to detect at least one working parameter of the fan; and a micro control unit to receive the working current signal, the environment temperature signal and the working rotation speed signal of the fan. The detecting module comprises a current detecting unit to detect a working current of the fan and output a working current signal; a temperature detecting unit to detect a working environment temperature of the fan and output an environment temperature signal; and a rotation speed detecting unit to detect and output a working rotation speed signal of the fan. The micro control unit calculates a predicted residual life of the fan based on the received working current signal, the environment temperature signal, the working rotation speed signal, through the life model of the fan.
US12026670B2
Systems and methods for aligning a mobile device and a document are disclosed. An exemplary method comprises the steps of determining a model identifier from the mobile device; associating the model identifier with a device configuration from a source; receiving an image of the document taken by the camera of the mobile device; identifying a document type; associating the document type with a document configuration from the source; selecting an alignment feedback schema based on the device configuration and the document configuration; generating alignment feedback based on the image processing; detecting for a data connection between the mobile device and the document; and generating a connection indication when the data connection is detected.
US12026659B2
A management system for managing the utilization of item receptacles in a distribution network. Items can be transferred to recipients at a limited number of item receptacles in unit delivery facilities of the distribution network. Item retrieval behavior is tracked to determine a recipient score for known recipients. Based on the recipient scores, subsequent items to be transferred can be placed in a receptacle or a storage area based on the associated recipient score. Placement in receptacles can be prioritized to recipients with low scores indicating that the item will likely be retrieved quickly, while items addressed to recipients with high scores may not be placed into a receptacle if receptacles are scarce.
US12026658B2
A method of selling goods to a customer, comprising: loading a variety of goods into a plurality of dispenser robots; receiving an order for goods by a customer over a communications network; causing a delivery vehicle to move along a guideway to at least one location of at least one dispenser robot in the plurality of dispenser robots responsive to receiving the order; causing dispensing of goods from the at least one dispenser robot into the delivery vehicle; causing the delivery vehicle to load onto an aerial tramway responsive to causing dispensing of the goods; causing the delivery vehicle to move to a destination point on aerial tramway; and causing presenting the goods in the delivery vehicle to the customer at the destination point.
US12026653B2
Various examples are directed to using a web-based analytics system to determine a carbon footprint metric for a product. The web-based analytics system may import indirect carbon footprint data from an environmental compliance system and quantity structure data describing the product from an accounting system table. The web-based analytics system may identify, using the quantity structure data, a first constituent component for the product and import first constituent component carbon footprint data for the first constituent component. The web-based analytics system may identify an activity for the product and import activity carbon footprint data describing a carbon footprint for the activity. The web-based analytics system may determine the carbon footprint metric for the product using the first constituent component carbon footprint data, the activity carbon footprint data, and the indirect carbon footprint data.
US12026652B2
Systems and methods are provided for generating engagement recommendations suggesting ways that one or more creators of content may maximize subscribership and/or subscription-based revenue, as well as support recommendations suggesting ways that the one or more creators of content may realize successful support of their content creation. Engagement recommendations can involve suggestions regarding when and/or how to engage one or more subscribers that results in a positive impact to subscribership and/or subscription-based revenue. Support recommendations can involve suggestions regarding when and/or how to elicit support in line with preferred indicia of success set forth by the one or more creators.
US12026649B2
Systems and methods for measuring and visualizing threshold of user workload. Exemplary implementations may: manage environment state information describing units of work assigned to individual users within the collaboration environment, individual units of work having individual start dates and individual end dates; determine threshold information including individual values of a threshold parameter for the individual users; effectuate presentation of a user interface based on the values of the work unit parameter, the values of the threshold parameter for the individual users, and/or other information; and/or perform other operations.
US12026621B2
A computer-implemented method for training a machine-learning network, wherein the network includes receiving an input data from a sensor, wherein the input data includes data indicative of an image, wherein the sensor includes a video, radar, LiDAR, sound, sonar, ultrasonic, motion, or thermal imaging sensor, generating an adversarial version of the input data utilizing an optimizer, wherein the adversarial version of the input data utilizes a subset of the input data, parameters associated with the optimizer, and one or more perturbation tiles, determining loss function value in response to the adversarial version of the input data and a classification of the adversarial version of the input data, determining a perturbation tile in response the loss function value associated with one or more subsets of the adversarial version of the input data, and output a perturbation that includes at least the perturbation tile.
US12026617B2
A processor-implemented method of performing a convolution operation is provided. The method includes obtaining input feature map data and kernel data, determine the kernel data based on a number of input channels of the input feature map, a number of output channels of an output feature map, and a number of groups of the input feature map data and a number of groups of the kernel data related to the convolution operation, and performing the convolution operation based on the input feature map data and the determined kernel data.
US12026611B2
A method of quantizing parameters of a neural network includes calculating, for each of the parameters, a bit shift value indicating a degree outside a bit range of a fixed-point format for quantizing the parameters, updating the fixed-point format based on the calculated bit shift values of the parameters, and quantizing parameters updated in a learning or inference process according to the updated fixed-point format.
US12026609B2
A resistive processing unit (RPU) that includes a pair of transistors connected in series providing an update function for a weight of a training methodology to the RPU, and a read transistor for reading the weight of the training methodology. In some embodiments, the resistive processing unit (RPU) further includes a capacitor connecting a gate of the read transistor to the air of transistors providing the update function for the resistive processing unit (RPU). The capacitor stores said weight of training methodology for the RPU.
US12026606B2
A fractal calculating device according to an embodiment of the present application is included in an integrated circuit device. The integrated circuit device includes a universal interconnect interface and other processing devices. The calculating device interacts with other processing devices to jointly complete a user specified calculation operation. The integrated circuit device may also comprise a storage device. The storage device is respectively connected with the calculating device and other processing devices and is used for data storage of the computing device and other processing devices.
US12026604B2
Provided are a method for pre-allocating memory, an electronic device, and a medium. The method comprises: attempting to obtain a memory block identifier from a list of idle memory block identifiers for each output from each layer; if the memory block identifier is obtained, storing an identifier of the output and the memory block identifier into a mapping table and deleting the memory block identifier from the list of idle memory block identifiers; or if not obtained, creating a new memory block identifier, storing an identifier of the output and the new memory block identifier into a mapping table, and putting the new memory block identifier into a general list of memory block identifiers; for each input to a current layer, putting a memory block identifier corresponding to the input into the list of idle memory block identifiers if the input is not used as an input to a subsequent layer.
US12026596B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in computerized security and content monitoring, hosting and providing devices, systems and/or platforms. The disclosed systems and methods provide a novel framework that adaptively distinguishes between known people versus unknown people based on a dynamically applied, anonymous facial recognition methodology. The disclosed framework provides such functionality by recognizing faces within captured images without storing any information or annotations regarding or revealing the captured person's identity. The framework is configured to adaptively learn to distinguish between faces seen for the first time and faces it has previously seen by locally processing a captured image and only sending face embeddings to a network location for future comparisons of subsequently, anonymously captured images.
US12026592B2
A machine learning model training method includes receiving a problem type to be processed, determining a machine learning model corresponding to the problem type, receiving sample data to train the determined machine learning model, analyzing training results of the determined machine learning model obtained after training is completed and displaying the training results that meet preset conditions, and providing a machine learning model corresponding to the training result that meets the preset conditions.
US12026589B1
A computer-implemented method for correcting one or more errors in a quantum computing system can include obtaining, by a computing system comprising one or more computing devices, a plurality of weighted detection graphs, each of the plurality of weighted detection graphs being descriptive of a plurality of error detection measurements and having a plurality of weights, each of the weights respectively determined according to an error probability. The method can include generating, by the computing system, a plurality of reweighted detection graphs based at least in part on a correlation between physical errors in the quantum computing system. The method can include correcting, by the computing system, one or more errors in a quantum computing system based at least in part on a global decoding of the plurality of reweighted detection graphs.
US12026588B2
Methods are disclosed for controlling charge stability in a device for quantum information processing. According to examples, a device for quantum information processing comprises a first plurality of confinement regions confining spinful charge carriers for use as qudits. The device further comprises a second plurality of confinement regions confining spinful charge carriers, each confinement region of the second plurality of confinement regions adjacent to a confinement region of the first plurality of confinement regions. The device further comprises one or more charge reservoirs, wherein each confinement region of the second plurality of confinement regions is attachable to a charge reservoir. According to examples, a method for controlling charge stability comprises selectively tuning the relative energy levels of the first plurality of confinement regions and adjacent confinement regions of the second plurality of confinement regions such that, if a spinful charge carrier leaks from a confinement region of the first plurality of confinement regions, then the spinful charge carrier is replaced to ensure that the confinement region of the first plurality of confinement regions again contains a spinful charge carrier for use as a qudit. Control apparatus and computer-readable media are also described herein.
US12026587B2
A quantum computing system and methods for performing fault-tolerant quantum computing. A fusion controller sequentially performs a series of fusion measurements on different fusion sites of a plurality of fusion sites to obtain a respective series of classical measurement results. The series of fusion measurements is performed on quantum modes of a logical qubit. For respective fusion measurements of the series of fusion measurements, a basis for performing the respective fusion measurement is selected based on classical measurement results of previous fusion measurements. The series of classical measurement results are in the memory medium.
US12026578B2
An example barcode reader includes a housing and an imaging assembly positioned at least partially within the housing. The imaging assembly has a field of view (FOV) including a first portion of the FOV and a second portion of the FOV. The imaging assembly is configured to capture one or more images of the FOV associated with image data. The barcode reader also includes a processor communicatively coupled to the imaging assembly. The processor is configured to process the image data of the first portion of the FOV and to initiate an identification session when a target enters the first portion of the FOV and configured to not initiate the identification session when the target enters the second portion of the FOV.
US12026571B2
An RFIC module is provided that includes a substrate, an RFIC mounted on the substrate and performing passive communication, and an impedance matching circuit formed on the substrate and performing impedance matching between the RFIC and an antenna. Further, the RFIC module includes a chip capacitor as an imparting circuit other than the RFIC on the substrate.
US12026568B2
The invention concerns a RFID label for marking containers or equipment, preferably in a laboratory environment and including in particular cylindrical bottles, vials, syringes, etc., by adhering the RFID layer to a surface thereof. The RFID label has a flat flexible support material base (11), at least one RFID microelectronic device (5c) included in the flat support material base (11), and at least one antenna (5a,5b) connected with the at least one RFID microelectronic device (5c) and included in the flat support material base (11). The flat support material base (11) has a number of predefined cuts (8) distributed about its outer periphery and/or the at least one RFID microelectronic device (5c) includes a tamper detection function and a conductive loop (5d) connected with tamper detection function terminals of the RFID microelectronic device (5c) is included in the flat support material base (11).
US12026563B1
A system includes a memory device and a processing device. The processing device is operatively coupled to the memory device to perform operations including receiving, from a user device, a request for content accessible via a dynamic barcode, identifying, from a database, a mode variable specifying a mode of operation for updating the content, obtaining, from a mode table of the database corresponding to the mode of operation, mode table data, and causing, based on the mode table data, the content to be provided to the user device.
US12026562B2
Systems and methods for implementing an industry opinionated managed service are disclosed. A request from a client is received that includes a set of application programming interface (API) parameters comprising an industry type selection. An API managed service is implemented based on the set of API parameters, which includes creating a client-specific API and provisioning a set of backend resources based on the set of API parameters. The API managed service is deployed to an operational cloud, and one or more commands are processed at the operational cloud through the client-specific API utilizing the provisioned set of backend resources.
US12026549B2
A method of scheduling an operating system of a vehicle control unit includes determining a runnable function according to a first task requested from an application for a vehicle; executing the first task by operating with any one of a first thread and a second thread according to the determined runnable function for a first period in the first core; and when operating with the second thread in the first core, executing a first backup task corresponding to the first task in a second core that is different from the first core for the first period.
US12026544B2
An automatic agent may be trained using reinforcement learning. A secret task may be obtained for a simulated user, and the secret task may be unknown to the automatic agent. At least one instruction to complete the secret task may be obtained from the simulated user according to at least one RL policy. At least one action may be generated by the automatic agent based on the at least one instruction and the at least one RL policy. Rewards may be determined for the simulated user and the automatic agent in response to determining that the at least one action successfully completes the secret task. The at least one RL policy may be adjusted based on the determined rewards.
US12026538B2
Provided is a distributed and associative container platform system which has an advantage of providing flexible movement of services and infinite extension of computing resources by interconnecting regionally distributed multiple container platforms and enhancing security.
US12026537B2
A CPU is allocated in view of service requirements of a virtual machine. An IaaS platform generates a virtual CPU and a virtual machine on a physical CPU of a compute node and allocates the virtual CPU to the virtual machine. This IaaS platform includes a resource allocation determination unit 32 configured to generate an instruction to cause the virtual CPU allocated to the virtual machine to occupy a physical CPU of a designated compute node in a case where load to be imposed on a process which is to run on the virtual machine is higher than a predetermined value, and generate an instruction to pin the virtual CPU at the physical CPU in a case where latency requirements of the process are stricter than a predetermined value, and generate an instruction not to pin the virtual CPU at the physical CPU in a case where the latency requirements of the process are laxer than a predetermined value, and a virtual machine generation management unit 34 configured to generate a new virtual machine on the physical CPU of the compute node in response to the instruction from the resource allocation determination unit.
US12026532B2
A data parallel pipeline may specify multiple parallel data objects that contain multiple elements and multiple parallel operations that operate on the parallel data objects. Based on the data parallel pipeline, a dataflow graph of deferred parallel data objects and deferred parallel operations corresponding to the data parallel pipeline may be generated and one or more graph transformations may be applied to the dataflow graph to generate a revised dataflow graph that includes one or more of the deferred parallel data objects and deferred, combined parallel data operations. The deferred, combined parallel operations may be executed to produce materialized parallel data objects corresponding to the deferred parallel data objects.
US12026525B2
Methods and systems for dynamic dashboard administration are presented. Embodiments include displaying a dashboard through a graphical user interface (‘GUI’); receiving user instructions to manipulate one or more elements of the dynamic dashboard; capturing the manipulation of the one or more GUI elements; parsing, according to a gesture taxonomy and gesture ontology, the captured manipulation into one or more gesture triples; storing the gesture triples in an enterprise knowledge graph of a semantic graph database; identifying, in dependence upon the gesture triples, dashboard insights; updating the dashboard in accordance with the dashboard insights.
US12026524B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for processing listening resuming of music application, a device, a computer readable storage medium, a computer program product and a computer program. The method includes: acquiring a playing characteristic parameter of a program subject to playing interruption if occurrence of an event where the program is subjected to playing interruption is monitored, and determining, according to the playing characteristic parameter, whether the program subject to playing interruption satisfies a preset counting rule for listening resuming; if yes, recording the program subject to playing interruption in a listening resuming module for a user to perform a listening resuming operation.
US12026516B1
A method comprises fetching, by fetch circuitry, an encoded XOR3P instruction comprising at least one opcode, a first source identifier to identify a first register, a second source identifier to identify a second register, a third source identifier to identifier a third register, and a fourth source identifier to identify a fourth operand, wherein the first register is to store a first value, the second register is to store a second value, and the third register is to store a third value, decoding, by decode circuitry, the encoded XOR3P instruction to generate a decoded XOR3P instruction, and executing, by execution circuitry, to execute the decoded XOR3P instruction to perform a rotate operation on the third value based on the fourth operand to generate a rotated third value, perform an XOR operation on the first value, the second value, and the rotated third value to generate an XOR result, perform a rotate operation on the XOR result based on the fourth operand to generate a rotated XOR, and store the rotated XOR result.
US12026512B2
Techniques are provided for microservice configuration information retrieval and storage using a generation-based cache. One method comprises obtaining, by a first microservice, a data item from a second microservice with a corresponding generation counter; maintaining, by the first microservice, the data item in a cache with the corresponding generation counter; invalidating, by the first microservice, one or more entries in the cache having a lower generation counter value than a current generation counter; and in response to a request for the data item, performing, by the first microservice: processing the requested data item, if the requested data item is in the cache after the invalidation; and if the requested data item is not in the cache after the invalidation: (i) retrieving the requested data item from the second microservice, (ii) processing the retrieved data item and (iii) placing the retrieved requested data item in the cache with a corresponding generation counter value.
US12026509B2
In some implementations, a system may receive, from a software repository, a difference file indicating changes, to software code, that was submitted to the software repository. The system may parse the difference file to determine files, associated with the software code, affected by the changes and to determine content associated with the changes. The system may apply rules, from a rule dictionary, based on comparing identifiers, associated with the files, with identifiers included in the rules and based on comparing the content, associated with the changes, with content included in the rules. The system may generate software review checklist items based on applying the rules and output the software review checklist items for display. The system may receive, based on input from a user, confirmation of the changes and commit the changes to the software repository based on the confirmation.
US12026506B2
A system and related method, including a first processor core, a second processor core and a control circuitry to receive requests to update existing firmware of the first processor core to a new firmware. The control circuitry loads existing firmware onto the second processor core and migrates data associated with the existing firmware on the first processor core to the second processor core. The control circuitry stops the transaction execution by the first processor core while causing the second processor core to execute transactions in place of the first processor core. The control circuitry restarts the first processor core, replaces the existing firmware on the first processor core with the new firmware, and migrates data of the existing firmware on the second processor core to the first processor core. The control circuitry stops the transaction execution of the second processor core and causes the first processor core to execute transactions.
US12026505B1
A first firmware source code portion corresponding to an immutable firmware portion of specific firmware to be deployed with embedded devices is identified. A second different firmware source code portion corresponding to a mutable firmware portion of the specific firmware to be deployed with the embedded devices is identified. The first firmware source code portion is used to generate the immutable firmware portion of the specific firmware. The second firmware source code portion is used to generate the mutable firmware portion of the specific firmware. The immutable firmware portion of the specific firmware is caused to be installed in fixed storage drives of an embedded device in the embedded devices. The mutable firmware portion of the specific firmware is caused to be installed in swappable storage drives of the same embedded device.
US12026504B2
A control system for a vehicle includes: a power source; a first power line; a second power line; a first relay; a second relay; at least one first control device; and at least one second control device. The first control device is configured to transmit a trigger signal to the second control device on condition that the first control device has detected that the first relay has been turned from off to on, and enable a first update program after transmitting the trigger signal. The first update program is an updated version of the first current program. The second control device is configured to enable a second update program on condition that the second control device has received the trigger signal from the first control device. The second update program is an updated version of the second current program.
US12026500B2
An external communication unit receives, from a server, update information including information indicating an update target device whose software is to be updated among devices and information indicating a generation source device among the devices, the generation source device being installed with generation source software that is a source for generating update data to be used for updating update target software installed in the update target device. An update data generating unit generates, on the basis of the update information, the update data using the generation source software installed in a host device of the update data generating unit, when the host device is the generation source device. A software update unit updates, on the basis of the update information, the update target software installed in a host device of the software update unit using the generated update data, when the host device is the update target device.
US12026496B2
Various examples are directed to systems and methods for upgrading a cloud-implemented database management application. A cloud service may receive a request from a first user group to upgrade the database management application for the first user group. The cloud service may determine a first version of the database management application used by the first user group and access an upgrade strategy map. Using the upgrade strategy map, the cloud service may determine a set of target versions of the database management application suitable for upgrading from the first version. The cloud service may access an indication of a selected target version from the set of target versions and initiate execution of a first instance of the selected target version for the first user group at the cloud environment. The first instance may access a first data persistence associated with the first user group.
US12026475B2
Examples are described herein for facilitating responses to computing device service requests. In various examples, natural language processing may be performed on a plurality of incoming computing device service requests associated with a plurality of computing devices. A plurality of embeddings corresponding to the plurality of computing device service requests may be generated based on the natural language processing. Based on distances between each of a particular subset of the embeddings in an embedding space, a trending service issue associated with the computing device service requests corresponding to the particular subset may be predicted. The trending service issue may be provided to a computing device servicer associated with resolving a new incoming computing device service request.
US12026471B2
The present disclosure relates to automated chatbot generation for different domains from available human-to-human chat logs. The systems and methods may be configured to cluster user utterances as well as agent utterances from the human chat logs. A data miner mines intents and entities from the user utterance clustering and mines actions from agent utterances. The intents, entities and actions mined are used to generate a set of stories or flows which are further used by a machine learning engine to train the chatbot. The stories or flows are also generated automatically by mapping the intents with the actions.
US12026468B2
Techniques for out-of-domain data augmentation for training chatbot systems in natural language processing. In one particular aspect, a method is provided that includes receiving a training set of utterances for training a machine-learning model to identify one or more intents for one or more utterances, and augmenting the training set of utterances with out-of-domain (OOD) examples. The augmenting includes: generating a data set of OOD examples, filtering out OOD examples from the data set of OOD examples, determining a difficulty value for each OOD example remaining within the filtered data set of the OOD examples, and generating augmented batches of utterances comprising utterances from the training set of utterances and utterances from the filtered data set of the OOD based on the difficulty value for each OOD. Thereafter, the machine-learning model is trained using the augmented batches of utterances in accordance with a curriculum training protocol.
US12026459B2
A method may include obtaining a document and using a first prediction model to generate text block scores for text blocks in the document, where a first text block of the text blocks is associated with a first text block score of the plurality of text block scores. The method also includes updating, in response to the first text block score for the first text block failing to satisfy a criterion, a modified version of the document with an indicator to set the first text block as a hidden text block in a presentation of the modified version. The method also includes generating a summarization of the first text block based on the words in the first text block and updating the modified version of the document to include the summarization. The method also includes providing the modified version of the document to a user device.
US12026457B2
The present disclosure relates to utilizing a dynamic visual elements system to improve operations and interfaces of client applications by detecting when user accounts associated with tokenized or alternative account information are provided for user accounts, generating dynamic visual elements based on the tokenized account information, and intelligently integrating the dynamic visual elements into one or more user interfaces associated with fillable forms. In some implementations, the dynamic visual elements system generates and integrates selectable visual elements and/or visual overlay elements into user interfaces with respect to tokenized user account information in a manner that reduces visual clutter as well as eliminates user confusion regarding tokenized user accounts and their relationship to regular user accounts.
US12026440B1
A method for use of airport runway capacity includes receiving, at an air traffic control system at an airport, airport data related to movement areas of the airport, time data related to a time period, aircraft data related to a plurality of aircraft expected to operate into and out of the airport during the time period, and environmental data related to environmental conditions predicted for the airport during the time period. The method further includes computing a probability distribution for inter-aircraft spacing by applying the airport data, the time data, the aircraft data, and the environmental data to a trained Bayesian network, producing the probability distribution for the inter-aircraft spacing as an output observation of the trained Bayesian network, and, using the probability distribution and a confidence value, identifying an inter-aircraft spacing value for the plurality of aircraft expected to operate into and out of the airport during the time period.
US12026438B2
A method of modelling system behaviour of a physical system, the method including, in one or more electronic processing devices obtaining quantified system data measured for the physical system, the quantified system data being at least partially indicative of the system behaviour for at least a time period, forming at least one population of model units, each model unit including model parameters and at least part of a model, the model parameters being at least partially based on the quantified system data, each model including one or more mathematical equations for modelling system behaviour, for each model unit calculating at least one solution trajectory for at least part of the at least one time period; determining a fitness value based at least in part on the at least one solution trajectory; and, selecting a combination of model units using the fitness values of each model unit, the combination of model units representing a collective model that models the system behaviour.
US12026416B2
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a management program used in a management system managing terminal devices, the management system including a management device managing the terminal devices, information processing devices performing data communication with the terminal devices, and a storage device performing data communication with the management device and the information processing devices, the management program, when executed by a computer of the information processing device, causes the information processing device to perform: registering, in the storage device, device registration information including: device identification information identifying a connected terminal device that is the terminal device communicably connected to the information processing device; device setting information related to device setting of the connected terminal device; and application date information indicating an application date when the device setting is applied to the connected terminal device.
US12026415B2
A printer includes a wireless communication controller, a memory configured to store first terminal information, in which the first information terminal wirelessly connected to the printer, a printing unit, and a controller configured to perform packet output processing of periodically outputting a first packet, packet acquisition processing of acquiring a second packet, the second packet including second terminal information of a second information terminal that receives the first packet, information determination processing of determining whether the second terminal information is the first terminal information stored in the memory, request processing of making a request for the print data from the second information terminal in a case where it is determined that the second terminal information is the first terminal information, and printing processing of causing the printing unit to print the print data obtained from the second information terminal in response to the request.
US12026411B2
A cloud server offering a first cloud print service is capable of storing print data obtained from the outside, transmitting a registration request to a second cloud print service different from the first cloud print service, acquiring print data from the second cloud print service registered based on the registration request, and storing the print data acquired from the second cloud print service and the print data received from the outside through a different method. The stored print data is transmitted to a printing apparatus.
US12026410B1
A printing system that operates responsive to data bearing records enables providers of printable content records to have printed copies of the content records produced and delivered to designated record recipients. Central system circuitry (22) is in operative connection with at least one data store (24), and includes record data corresponding to the content records and records regarding printing operations, the locations thereof and other record data. The central system circuitry operates to cause printed copies of the content records produced by respective printing operations located in geographic proximity to respective record recipients. The exemplary system further enables a content record provider to operate the system to host content records so that printed copies of the records may be obtained by record requesters located in widely dispersed geographic locations.
US12026402B2
Systems and methods utilize discovery log entry identifiers (DLEIDs) to identify individual discovery log page entries (DLPEs) in a discovery log page, for example, to allow a name server to manipulate DLPEs and perform specific operations, including zoning operations. Thus, DLEIDs advantageously reduce data flow and repetitive full discovery log page requests and responses and associated processing times; especially, in scenarios where changes to data are minimal Further, a DLEID-based get log page command may be used to perform push and pull registrations, e.g., to query a specific set of end devices. Advantageously, this reduces messages size and, thus, the number of messages that need to be exchanged, e.g., during an addition or deletion of end devices, especially in larger environments.
US12026397B2
A memory module according to some embodiments is operable in a computer system including a memory controller coupled to a memory channel. The memory module comprises a volatile memory subsystem, non-volatile (NV) memory subsystem and a module controller coupled to the volatile memory subsystem and the NV memory subsystem. The volatile memory subsystem includes dynamic random access memory (DRAM) devices and is configurable to communicate with the memory controller via the memory channel during memory read or write operations. The module controller is configured to output data strobe signals to accompany data from the volatile memory subsystem during a memory read operation and to output to accompany data strobes output by data buffers in response to data strobe signals from the memory controller during a system-initiated operation to transfer data from the NV memory subsystem to the volatile memory subsystem.
US12026396B2
A memory device includes a first word and a second word. The first word has a first subset of a plurality of elements. The first subset of the plurality of elements each have a first set of sequential index values along a first dimension of a tensor, a first single index value for a second dimension of the tensor, and a second single index value for a third dimension of the tensor. The second word has a second subset of the plurality of elements. The second subset of the plurality of elements each have the first set of sequential index values along the first dimension of the tensor that is the same as the first word, the first single index value for the second dimension of the tensor that is the same as the first word, and a third single index value for the third dimension of the tensor that is different than the second single index value for the first word. The second word is adjacent to the first word in memory.
US12026391B2
A copy control device for controlling a data copy between a plurality of cloud systems each including one or a plurality of storage devices collects predetermined information for determining data duplication between storage devices, accepts a copy process request for a data copy from a storage device in a copy source cloud system to a copy destination storage device in a different cloud system, determines duplication between copy target data designated in the copy process request and data in the different cloud system on the basis of the collected predetermined information, instructs the different cloud system to copy duplicate data from the storage device having the duplicate data to the copy destination storage device, and instructs the copy source cloud system to copy remaining data of the copy target data to the copy destination storage device.
US12026390B2
In one example, a processing system may identify a type of data contained in a first dataset that is to be stored in a storage array, wherein the storage array comprises a plurality of storage zones, and wherein the plurality of storage zones includes at least two different types of storage technologies. The processing system may generate a metadata file for the first dataset that contains self-describing information for the first dataset, wherein the metadata file is generated based on the type of the data, and wherein the self-describing information defines a manner, a time, and a location for storing the first dataset. The processing system may send the first dataset to a first storage zone of the plurality of storage zones, wherein the self-describing information includes an instruction to send the first dataset to the first storage zone for at least a defined period of time.
US12026384B2
Aspects of a storage device including a memory and a controller are provided. In certain aspects, the controller may determine that data stored on a first block satisfies a threshold data-error condition, the data comprising invalid data and valid data. For example, the first block may have a high ratio of valid data to invalid data that satisfies or exceeds a threshold value. In certain aspects, the controller may determine a close block boundary associated with the first block, wherein the close block boundary is configured to bifurcate the first block into a first portion and a second portion, wherein the first portion comprises the data. For example, the controller may determine a boundary defined by a data length, an indirection mapping unit, a physical program boundary, etc.
US12026381B2
Preserving identities and policies across replication, including: receiving, at a first storage array, a first data frame comprising data associated a dataset stored at the first storage array and an identifier of a quality of service level associated with the first data frame; generating, at the first storage array, a second data frame comprising a portion of the dataset and the identifier of the quality of service level associated with the first data frame; and transmitting the second data frame to a second storage array.
US12026380B2
A processing system including a parallel processing unit selectively allocating pages of memory for interleaving across configurable subsets of channels based on a mode of allocation. In some embodiments, in a first mode, a page of memory is allocated to and interleaved across a plurality of channels, and in a second mode, a page of memory is allocated to and interleaved across a subset of the plurality of channels.
US12026378B2
Systems and methods are described herein for an efficient storage layout of recorded content associated with a particular user. Content segments, unique to the user and encoded/transcoded at different bit rates, may be stored/partitioned based on the likelihood of a particular bit rate version of content being requested by the user and a duration of playback for the content segment. Content that is more frequently requested may be concatenated in a single storage location on more high performance hardware. Further, content that is played back for a longer duration of playback may also be grouped together and stored on more high performance hardware. Content that is more likely to be played for only a short time may be stored within a plurality of storage containers.
US12026376B2
A method and a device are provided. The device includes a first memory, a second memory having a storage characteristic different from that of the first memory, and a processor operatively connected to at least one of the first memory and the second memory. The processor is configured to generate a logical storage area in a data area of the first memory, store designated data in the generated logical storage area, and enter a recovery mode to store the data stored in the logical storage area in the second memory, format the first memory, and move the data stored in the second memory to the data area of the first memory.
US12026366B2
A system including a user interface that includes a processor in communication with a display and an input interface, the processor programmed to output on the display the user interface including a keyboard layout, wherein the keyboard layout includes at least a keyboard includes a collection of characters, in response to a first input from the input interface, output a first portion of the keyboard layout associated with a first subset of characters of the keyboard layout, wherein the first subset does not include all of the characters, in response to a second input from the input interface, select a second subset of characters, wherein the second subset of characters is from and include less characters than the first subset of characters and the second subset includes two or more characters, and output a character on a text field associated with the user interface based on the selection of the second subset.
US12026360B1
A method for rendering context based information on a user interface includes receiving a user request to extract the context based information from a database. The database includes a plurality of documents and the request includes at least one search criteria required to determine a context of the user request. The method includes generating a list of documents corresponding to the context of the user request and rendering on a viewing portion of the user interface the list of documents corresponding to the context of the user request.
US12026356B2
Systems and methods are provided for customizing user interface controls around a cursor. One example method includes receiving, at a computing device, a request to display an indicator menu and identifying at least one user interface element of a program being executed at the computing device. An interaction frequency for each identified user interface element is generated. In response to the request and for each identified user interface element, a spatial relationship between an indicator of the computing device and the identified user interface element is determined. Based on the interaction frequency value and the determined spatial relationship, an element set comprising one or more of the identified user interface elements is generated. The indicator menu comprising at least a portion of the element set is generated for display. The indicator menu is displayed proximate the indicator on a display of the computing device.
US12026340B1
A system includes a touchscreen display computing device including a touchscreen display and at least one processor. The touchscreen display may be communicatively coupled to the at least one processor. The touchscreen display computing device may be installed in a vehicle. The at least one processor may be configured to: receive vibration data from a vibration sensor installed onboard the vehicle; calculate, in real time, at least one slew setting associated with an adjustable sensitivity of the touchscreen display based at least on the vibration data; adjust, in real time, the adjustable sensitivity of the touchscreen display based at least on the at least one slew setting; receive, from a user in real time, a touch input from the touchscreen display using the adjusted adjustable sensitivity; and output an instruction based at least on the touch input.
US12026332B2
The display panel includes at least one first touch area group and multiple touch wires; the at least one first touch area group includes two rows and N columns of touch electrodes; and each touch wire is electrically connected to a respective one touch electrode. The display panel further includes a first detection circuit and a second detection circuit; and each touch electrode is separately electrically connected to the first detection circuit and the second detection circuit by a respective one touch wire. The touch short-circuit detection stage includes a first detection stage. The detection method includes providing, at the first detection stage, a short-circuit detection signal for a touch electrode in the first touch electrode row by the first detection circuit; and determining, according to a short-circuit feedback signal generated by the second detection circuit, whether adjacent ones of the touch electrodes located in a same column are short-circuited.
US12026321B2
A portable computer device includes a computer body, a keyboard, a backlight circuit board and a metal layer. The computer body has a wireless transceiver and a system ground terminal. The keyboard is mounted on the computer body. The backlight circuit board is disposed under the keyboard and is electrically connected to the computer body. The backlight circuit board has a plurality of light sources and a circuit trace. The circuit trace is electrically connected to the plurality of light sources. The wireless transceiver is located at a side of the backlight circuit board. The metal layer is formed on a position of the backlight circuit board where there is no circuit trace and is adjacent to the wireless transceiver. The metal layer is electrically connected to the system ground terminal for suppressing electromagnetic interference of the backlight circuit board to the wireless transceiver.
US12026320B2
The invention relates to a combination of an input device for a computing device and a set of support elements, wherein the set of support elements includes at least two support elements, wherein the combination includes fasteners to fasten any number of support elements of the set of support elements to the input device, wherein the support elements are fastenable to the input device at a location on the input device to set a tilt angle of the input device, and wherein the set of support elements is configured such that a single support element can be fastened to the input device and such that a plurality of support elements can be fastened to the input device as a stack of support elements thereby allowing to set different tilt angles of the input device.
US12026318B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for determining a pressure reference value, and a chip and an electronic device. The method includes: consecutively acquiring N pressure signals by a pressure sensor; acquiring consecutive N pressure values on the basis of the N pressure signals; and determining a latest pressure reference value on the basis of the consecutive N pressure values and time characteristics of the consecutively acquired N pressure signals; wherein each of the pressure values is a difference between a sampling value corresponding to a pressure signal and the pressure reference value, and the consecutively acquired N pressure signals are acquired within a duration where a pressure is applied to the pressure sensor once, N being a positive integer greater than 0.
US12026312B2
A tactile stimulation interface includes a surface which the user explores by touch with the fingers, an actuator for applying a force to the surface, and a controller for controlling the actuator. The controller sends the actuator signals corresponding to the forces to be applied to the surface according to the tactile stimulation to be generated on the surface, the forces being determined by a time reversal method. The controller is configured such that, for at least one given tactile pattern, the actuator is controlled such as to generate pulses, in at least one area of the surface, by focusing at least one acoustic wave at a point. The location of the point on the surface varies over time, such as to provide tactile stimulation for the finger according to the given tactile pattern.
US12026311B2
Systems and methods for decoding intended symbols from neural activity in accordance with embodiments of the invention are illustrated. One embodiment includes a symbol decoding system for brain-computer interfacing, including a neural signal recorder implanted into a brain of a user, and a symbol decoder, the symbol decoder including a processor, and a memory, where the memory includes a symbol decoding application capable of directing the processor to obtain neural signal data from the neural signal recorder, estimate a symbol from the neural signal data using a symbol model, and perform a command associated with the symbol.
US12026301B2
There is provided a method for determining an intended orientation and/or position of a user's head when the orientation of the user's head is being changed involuntarily by vibratory or buffeting forces transmitted through the user's body from a point of contact of the user's body with said forces. The method comprising: determining a force variable at the point of contact due to said forces; predicting, using an adaptive filter comprising a first input, a first output, a filter coefficient input, and at least one filter coefficient, an involuntary component of orientation of the user's head at a predetermined time due to the sensed variable, wherein the first output is equal to the involuntary component of orientation and the first input comprises the force variable; determining, using at least one tracking system, an orientation variable of the user's head at the predetermined time; subtracting a first value from a second value, the first value equal to the first output and the second value equal to the orientation variable, to provide a third value equal to the filter coefficient input; and updating the at least one filter coefficient based on the filter coefficient input. FIG. 2 to be published with the application.
US12026298B2
A computer implemented method of navigating a digital representation of a spatial environment by a user in which a portion of the digital representation is rendered by a rendering computer system for visualization by the user. The method including accessing a digital model of the spatial environment including a specification of each of a plurality of virtual resources in the spatial environment, each specification identifying at least a location of a resource in the spatial environment and at least one trigger criterion for determining when a resource is accessed by the user; monitoring the satisfaction of trigger criteria for the plurality of virtual resources; and responsive to the monitoring, determining the portion of the digital representation for rendering by the rendering computer system for visualization by the user.
US12026293B2
Methods, systems, and devices for providing computer implemented services using managed systems are disclosed. To provide the computer implemented services, the managed systems may be deployed to a location and operate in a predetermined manner conducive to, for example, execution of applications that provide the computer implemented services. When deployed to a location, the managed systems may be housed in a managed system frame. The managed system frames may include systems to guide placement of managed system in preferred frame units, remotely identify occupancy of the frame units, and/or the frame units against unexpected removals of or insertion of devices in the frame units.
US12026276B2
An endpoint in an enterprise network is instrumented with sensors to detect security-related events occurring on the endpoint. Event data from these sensors is augmented with contextual information about, e.g., a source of each event in order to facilitate improved correlation, analysis, and visualization at a threat management facility for the enterprise network.
US12026267B2
Systems and methods are provided for obtaining a request for a data object or a data structure from a client; determining an access level of the client and one or more access permissions of the requested data object or data structure; determining whether to transmit the requested data object or data structure to the client based on the access level of the client and the one or more access permissions; and transmitting the requested data object or data structure to the client.
US12026262B2
Provided is a storage system capable of properly deleting derivative data stored at a plurality of sites. A CPU executes a creation process of creating data based on data stored in a storage device at a local site and storing the created data in the storage device of a node at one of the plurality of sites. Further, the CPU collects, from each of the plurality of sites, history information created at each of the plurality of sites to indicate the history of each creation process. When deleting deletion-specified data, the CPU identifies deletion derivative data according to the history information created at each of the plurality of sites, and deletes the deletion-specified data and the deletion derivative data from the storage device at each of the plurality of sites. The deletion derivative data is derivative data derived from the deletion-specified data.
US12026261B2
In one approach, a request for software evaluation is received by an evaluation server from a user device. The request relates to software to be installed on the user device. In response to receiving the request, the evaluation server sends data associated with the software to an authenticity server. The evaluation server receives, from the authenticity server, a result from the evaluation of the software. The evaluation server determines based on the result whether a security threat is associated with the software. In response to determining that there is a security threat, the evaluation server sends a communication to the user device that causes the software to be quarantined.
US12026259B2
A method for provisioning a plurality of electronic devices with a respective provisioning data set includes, in a test provisioning stage: generating at least one test application key in plaintext and encrypting the at least one test application key using a first wrapping key for generating at least one encrypted test application key; encrypting the first wrapping key using the secret device master key for generating an encrypted first wrapping key; provisioning one or more of the plurality of electronic devices with a respective first provisioning data set, wherein the respective first provisioning data set comprises the at least one test application key in plaintext, the at least one encrypted test application key and the encrypted first wrapping key; and testing a security function of the electronic device on the basis of at least a portion of the first provisioning data set.
US12026256B2
Evaluating samples is disclosed. A sample is received. A system component dependency graph is built for the sample. The system component dependency graph includes a plurality of nodes and at least one edge. A first node included in the plurality of nodes is one of: (1) a system component, (2) an indirect call component, or (3) a system event. The edge is an indirect call instruction. A verdict for the sample is determined based at least in part on the system component dependency graph.
US12026255B1
Adversarial attacks on a machine learning model are detected by receiving vectorized data input into the machine learning model along with outputs of the machine learning model responsive to the vectorized data. The vectorized data corresponds to a plurality of queries of the machine learning model by a requesting user. A confidence level is determined which characterizes a likelihood of the vectorized data being part of a malicious act directed to the machine learning model by the requesting user. Data providing the determined confidence levels can be provided to a consuming application or process. Multi-tenant architectures are also provided in which multiple machine learning models associated with different customers can be centrally monitored.
US12026252B2
An information management system includes one or more client computing devices in communication with a storage manager and a secondary storage computing device. The storage manager manages the primary data of the one or more client computing devices and the secondary storage computing device manages secondary copies of the primary data of the one or more client computing devices. Each client computing device may be configured with a ransomware protection monitoring application that monitors for changes in their primary data. The ransomware protection monitoring application may input the changes detected in the primary data into a machine-learning classifier, where the classifier generates an output indicative of whether a client computing device has been affected by malware and/or ransomware. Using a virtual machine host, a virtual machine copy of an affected client computing device may be instantiated using a secondary copy of primary data of the affected client computing device.
US12026238B1
A system and method for license optimization of a software application in an organization. A usage data of a feature of a software application from one or more disparate sources is received. Subsequently, a usage insight of the feature of the software application is determined based on the usage data. A license optimization recommendation is provided to a user based on the usage insight of the feature of the software application. Further, the license optimization recommendation is provided using a machine learning model. Also, the license optimization recommendation comprises reallocation of a license tier of the software application. The system and method further forecasts a number of licenses required based on the usage insight of the feature of the software application in an organization.
US12026236B2
A system is disclosed for securely communicating between a user device and a target device, which includes a user input receiving user inputs and a user device memory for storing at least one fixed dataset having a plurality of data bits and an inherent entropy. At least one predetermined harvest process is stored in ser device memory, which is operable within a main harvest process to distill the dataset to a predetermined bit length to define a private key of the user at a predetermined key length. A processor operates to execute the main harvest process to receive a unique user Personal Information Number (PIN) acquired by the user and having a plurality of digits associated therewith, and wherein the at least one predetermined harvest process is dependent on the user PIN and the value of at least one of the digits therein, such that the at least one predetermined harvest process is parameterized by the value of the at least one of the digits and operates differently for each value of the at least one of the digits. The processor applies the at least one predetermined harvest process to the dataset to distill the dataset down to the predetermined key length to define the private key, and then stores the private key to the user device. A target device memory and an encryption engine on the target device interface with a proximity-based link. The private key is transferred to the target device via the proximity-based link and an interface on the target device stores the transmitted private key in the target device memory.
US12026235B2
Examples are disclosed that relate to target classification systems, weapons, and methods for classifying a target. One example provides a target classification system comprising a user device, a user input device, a pose sensor fixed to the user device, a processor, and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor. A visual alignment aid indicates a line of sight to one or more of a plurality of targets. The user input device is configured to receive at least a first input type and a second input type. The instructions are executable to receive a user input and determine the pose of the line of sight. The one or more targets are tagged with a first target classification when the first input type is received and tagged with a second target classification when the second input type is received. The instructions are further executable to output targeting data to another device.
US12026219B2
The disclosed concepts achieve privacy for data operated on by an algorithm in an efficient manner A method includes receiving a first algorithm subset, receiving a second algorithm subset, generating two shares of a first mathematical set based on the first algorithm subset and transmitting the two shares of the first mathematical set from a first entity to a second entity. The method can include generating two shares of a second mathematical set based on the second algorithm subset, transmitting the two shares of the second mathematical set from the second entity to the first entity, receiving first split data subset of a full data set and receiving a second split data subset of the full data set. The system, based on these subsets of data, generates a first output subset and a second output subset which are combined for the final output.
US12026215B2
In some implementations, a device may detect loading of a first web page associated with a domain, and may create an inline frame element that references a second web page associated with the domain. The second web page may require an authenticated user session to access particular content of the second web page. The device may insert the inline frame element into code for the first web page, and may transmit a request for the second web page based on inserting the inline frame element into the code for the first web page. The device may receive a response to the request for the second web page, and may determine whether there is an authenticated user session for the domain based on the response. The device may selectively perform an action based on determining whether there is an authenticated user session for the domain.
US12026207B2
An electronic device is provided, which includes a network interface, a memory, and a processor. The processor is configured to receive a query associated with a user profile from the external device, to determine whether the received query corresponds to at least one item included in the user profile, to transmit a response including the at least one item to an external device when the query corresponds to the at least one item, to generate a new item, which corresponds to the query and which is not included in the user profile when the query does not correspond to the at least one item, and to transmit a response determined based on the new item, to the external device.
US12026204B2
An automatic incident dispatcher calculates an incident signature of a new incident, calculates a degree of variance (DoV) of the new incident from an incident signature of the previously classified incident, compares the calculated DoV to a predetermined threshold, and determines that the new incident belongs to a same class as a class of the previously classified the new incident if the calculated DoV is less than or equal to the threshold.
US12026202B2
Sets of objects may be received which are desired to be stored using a nested hash map, where the nested hash map may include multiple levels, and where each set of objects in the sets of objects may correspond to a level in the nested hash map. The nested hash map may be created from a bottom level of the nested hash map to a top level of the nested hash map, which may include: creating a first hash map at a first level of the nested hash map, creating a first shared pointer which points to the first hash map, and creating a second hash map at a second level which is immediately above the first level, where the second hash map maps at least one object to the first shared pointer.
US12026200B2
A video-processing technique uses machine-trained logic to detect and track people that appear in video information. The technique then ranks the prominence of these people in the video information, to produce ranking information. The prominence of a person reflects a level of importance of the person in the video information, corresponding to the capacity of the person to draw the attention of a viewer. For instance, the prominence of the person reflects, at least in part, an extent to which the person appears in the video information. The technique performs its ranking based on person-specific feature information. The technique produces each instance of person-specific feature information by accumulating features pertaining to a particular person. One or more application systems make use of the ranking information to control the presentation of the video information.
US12026197B2
Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant are provided. In accordance with one example, a method includes, at an electronic device with one or more processors and memory, receiving a first natural-language speech input indicative of a request for media, where the first natural-language speech input comprises a first search parameter; providing, by a digital assistant, a first media item identified based on the first search parameter. The method further includes, while providing the first media item, receiving a second natural-language speech input and determining whether the second input corresponds to a user intent of refining the request for media. The method further includes, in accordance with a determination that the second speech input corresponds to a user intent of refining the request for media: identifying, based on the first parameter and the second speech input, a second media item and providing the second media item.
US12026193B2
Computer-implemented methods, computer-readable storage media, and computer systems for associating received medical imaging data with stored medical imaging data. Medical imaging data associated with a patient is received from a client device. The medical imaging data includes an image object, one or more data objects related to the image object, and metadata associated with the patient encoded in Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine (DICOM) format. The metadata includes personal information about the patient, and time and location at which the DICOM image file was captured. The received metadata is compared with existing metadata associated with multiple existing patients to identify a subset of the existing patients who may be a potential match to the patient. Selection of an existing patient from among the subset is requested. When received, the medical imaging data is associated with the existing patient.
US12026190B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, for providing map data that causes a user device to display a map of an area that includes a physical entity location and a access locations for the physical entity, wherein the physical entity location is indicated by an icon of a first type and each access location is indicated by an icon of a second type that is different from the icon of the first type.
US12026188B2
Systems for generating content summaries in a web content management service, wherein in one embodiment a digital page editor and a component browser are launched to enable selection of a first content item. A summary of the first content item is automatically generated according to parameters that may have default values or values set by a user. The parameters may specify a size for the summary as a percentage of the first content item's size, as a particular number of lines, characters or words, as a size for a particular type of device, etc. The automatically generated summary is provided to the digital page editor, which can edit it and add it to the digital page. The summary is stored in a content repository as an independent summary content item with its own metadata.
US12026186B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to a method, system, and computer program product for query system management. In a method, a question that is to be processed by a group of query systems is received. A group of answers to the question are received from the group of query systems, wherein the group of answers comprise an answer to the question from each of the query systems associated with the group of query systems. An association relationship is determined between the question and a query system from the group of query systems, wherein the association relationship is determined based on user feedback to the answer that is provided by the query system, and wherein the association relationship includes an association between the query and the query system and is used for selecting the query system for answering the question and further questions that are determined to be similar.
US12026176B2
A method for performing disaster recovery in a clustered environment comprises identifying, at a master device, a first indexer from a set of indexers to serve as a primary indexer for responding to queries pertaining to a subset of data. The method also comprises assigning, at the master device, a generation identifier indicating that the first indexer is the primary indexer for the subset of data. Responsive to an event prompting a change in a primary indexer designation for the subset of data, the method comprises identifying, at the master device, a second indexer from the set of indexers to serve as the primary indexer for responding to queries pertaining to the subset of data. Further, the method comprises assigning, at the master device, a new generation identifier indicating that the second indexer is the primary indexer for the subset of data.
US12026173B1
A system for extracting and providing information from a source document includes a memory and a processor. The memory stores data associated with the source document. The processor is configured to classify the source document as a determined document type from a plurality of document types. The processor extracts data from the source document based at least in part upon the determined document type and store that extracted data as a first extracted data in the memory. When a request for information is received, the processor then determines if the first extracted data includes all the requested information and if it does not, the processor extracts second extracted data from the image file and stores the second extracted data along with the first extracted data and the image file in the memory. The requested information is then provided to the requesting process from the first and second extracted data.
US12026161B2
A multidimensional database query engine processes a query request by forming a logical plan of subqueries for retrieving and assembling the data called for by the query request. A multi-pass analysis identifies a granularity of facts needed to fulfill the query request. A recursive analysis parses the query request and identifies components comprising the full query request. The analysis derives a subquery from each component, and identifies dependencies on other subqueries. The subqueries are arranged in a tree structure based on the dependencies. The tree represents subqueries as nodes, with query operations denoted by parent nodes for the dependent subqueries. The result is a hierarchical tree of subqueries associated based on operations between the subqueries and dependent subqueries descending from their parent subqueries.
US12026160B2
The subject technology receives a query, the query including a set of statements for performing the query. The subject technology populates a compilation context based at least in part the query. The subject technology invokes a compiler to perform a compilation process based on the compilation context. The subject technology performs a lookup operation on a stored plan cache for an exact match based on information from the compilation context. The subject technology, in response to determining an exact match, determines whether the particular query plan requires re-compilation based on a data dependent optimization. The subject technology determines whether a plan cache entry corresponding to the particular query plan includes a data property constraint. The subject technology determines whether the data property constraint still holds based on a set of data properties.
US12026158B2
A computerized-method for reducing wait-time in a multichannel-contact-center. For each query that is not resolved by a bot: a. selecting a digital-channel-type from a plurality of digital-channel-types; b. operating an aggregator module on the selected digital-channel-type to aggregate the received query and similar pending queries into a group-of-queries; c. operating a tracker-module on the group-of-queries to identify a query-resolution and to send a notification as to the query-resolution to the customer via the digital-channel-type that the query has been received; and d. repeating operations a.-c. until a query-resolution has been identified or all digital-channel-types in the plurality of digital-channel-types have been selected.
US12026154B2
Various embodiments provide methods, systems, apparatus, computer program products, and/or the like for managing, ingesting, monitoring, updating, and/or extracting/retrieving information/data associated with an electronic record (ER) stored in an ER data store and/or accessing information/data from the ER data store.
US12026152B1
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for performing one or more database operations. An exemplary method comprises: receiving, at a transaction manager, a client request to perform one or more database operations with client data, the transaction manager in communication with a database coordinator and a system datastore, sending the client request to the database coordinator to obtain a storage identifier based on the client request; receiving, at the transaction manager, the storage identifier from the database coordinator, sending an operation request to the system datastore, the operation request comprising instructions for the system datastore to perform the one or more database operations using the storage identifier, and receiving an indication of whether the operation request was successfully performed.
US12026151B2
Techniques a provided for performing multi-system operations in which changes are asynchronously committed in multiple systems. Metadata about the multi-system operation is injected into the commit logs of one system involved in a multi-system operation. An event stream is generated based on the commit logs of the one system, and is used to drive the operations that one or more other systems need to perform as part of the multi-system operation. A reconciliation system reads the logs of all systems involved in the multi-system operation and determines whether the multi-system operation completed successfully. Techniques are also provided for using machine learning to generate models of normal execution of different types of operations, detect anomalies, pre-emptively send expectation messages, and automatically suggest and/or apply fixes.
US12026149B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide computer systems, computer apparatuses, computer methods, and computer program products for generating optimized transfers of the transferable data objects. Such transfers may involve any number of distinct users and objects associated therewith. Preferred transfer(s) of transferable data objects may be identified such that the transfers satisfy the preference associations of all associated users, and/or based on particular criteria to be satisfied, maximized, or minimized.
US12026145B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for providing percentile-based alerts from historical event-occurrence data. An embodiment of a method includes identifying a baseline result of an aggregation operation performed with respect to a detection set of attributes of event records. Each baseline result corresponds to a baseline set of one or more event records from a baseline time period within a baseline time window. The method includes determining a subject result of the aggregation operation performed with respect to the detection set of attributes of a subject set of the event records corresponding to a subject time period. The method includes determining, based on the baseline result and the subject result, whether the subject result indicates an alert condition for the detection set for the subject time period, and if so then outputting one or more alerts.
US12026143B2
A method of storing data, comprises extracting data from a first storage of a storage system; containerizing the data to form a container image, the container image being self-contained and configured to be moved and stored as a unit; and storing the container image in at least one second storage different from the first storage. The data may be deduplicated data and containerizing may be by an OCI-compliant process, such as Dockerizing. A system and a non-transitory storage medium are also disclosed. A method of storing data also comprises receiving, by a storage system, a container image, the container image being self-contained and including metadata and a data file containing data. The container image is configured to be moved and stored as a unit and is received from a second system separate from the storage system, via a network. The container image is stored by the storage system.
US12026139B2
One example method includes identifying a column of a table, and the column includes multiple entries, setting a proposed uniqueness for the column, setting a confidence tolerance for the proposed uniqueness, estimating a sub-sample size for the column based on the proposed uniqueness and the confidence tolerance, based on the sub-sample size, sampling a subset of the entries in the column and, based on the sampling, determining whether or not the column is a primary key for the table.
US12026123B2
A system and method for data discovery. A method includes performing a scan of a plurality of snapshots, each snapshot corresponding to a respective disk of a plurality of disks; identifying a plurality of data store files in the plurality of disks based on file metadata found during the scan; and detecting at least one data store based on the identified plurality of data store files, wherein each of the at least one data store is in a disk of the plurality of disks including one of the plurality of data store files.
US12026119B2
A cryptocurrency miner includes a serial bus, compute modules, and a controller. Each compute module includes upstream ports, downstream ports, a pass-through buffer coupling the upstream ports to the downstream ports, and a serial bus interface coupled to the serial bus via the first upstream ports and the first downstream ports. The controller controls operation of the compute modules via commands on the serial bus. The serial bus includes bus segments between respective upstream and downstream ports of the compute modules.
US12026117B2
A data transfer system, which comprises a system host and an adaptor including a local host, is provided. The adaptor is connectable to a local device inserted into the adaptor and includes a switch unit configured to perform address translation and Requestor (Req) ID translation for data transfers between the local device and the system host. The system host checks, when the local device is inserted or removed while the system host is in operation, a type of a protocol applied to the local device and reloads a device driver based on a result of the check. The device driver includes a pre-sleep state storage configured to store an insertion and removal state of the local device immediately before the system host and the adaptor enter a sleep state.
US12026115B2
In an embodiment, a current source is coupled to a first current terminal of a switch, the second current terminal of which is coupled to a first data line in a communication system. An edge detector has a first input, a second input, and an output, in which the first input is coupled to a second data line in the communication system, the second input is coupled to the first data line, and the output is coupled to a control terminal of the switch. The first and second data lines may be positive and negative data lines, respectively, of the communication system.
US12026114B2
The present disclosure provides a port controller and an electronic device. The port controller is compatible with a Universal Serial Bus (USB) Type-C standard and is used in a device operable as a sink device. The port circuit is communicable with an external main controller. A transceiver is communicable with a source device via a configuration channel (CC) pin of a receptacle. A control unit is capable of negotiating with the source device via the transceiver. A pin control circuit controls a state of the CC pin and monitors the state of the CC pin. A power supply circuit receives a bus voltage supplied from the source device and generates a power supply voltage of the main controller.
US12026110B2
Examples described herein relate to a device indicating a number of available interrupt messages that is more than physical resources available to store the available interrupt messages and allocating one or more physical resources to provide one or more interrupt messages based on allocation of the one or more interrupt messages to a destination entity. The destination entity can request a maximum permitted allocation of interrupt messages regardless of interrupt message use level. The destination entity can request a maximum permitted allocation of interrupt messages regardless of interrupt message use level and allocate the requested maximum permitted allocation of interrupt messages for use in a configuration region of a device. However, based on unavailability of a physical resource to store a first interrupt message, allocation of the first interrupt message to a destination entity may not be permitted.
US12026100B2
A method at a computing device for sharing data, the method including defining a dynamically linked data library (DLDL) to include executable code; loading the DLDL from a first process, the loading causing a memory allocation of shared executable code, private data and shared data in a physical memory location; mapping the memory allocation of shared executable code, private data and shared data to a virtual memory location for the first process; loading the DLDL from a second process, the loading causing mapping of the memory allocation of shared executable code and the shared data for the first process to be mapped to a virtual memory location for the second process; and allocating private data in physical memory and mapping to a virtual memory location for the second process.
US12026099B2
A cache stores, along with data that is being transferred from a higher level cache to a lower level cache, information indicating the higher level cache location from which the data was transferred. Upon receiving a request for data that is stored at the location in the higher level cache, a cache controller stores the higher level cache location information in a status tag of the data. The cache controller then transfers the data with the status tag indicating the higher level cache location to a lower level cache. When the data is subsequently updated or evicted from the lower level cache, the cache controller reads the status tag location information and transfers the data back to the location in the higher level cache from which it was originally transferred.
US12026095B2
In accordance with various aspects of the invention, a recall transaction is issued if a tag filter entry needs to be freed up for an incoming transaction. Directory entries chosen for a recall transaction are pushed into a fully associative structure called victim buffer. If this structure gets full, then an entry is selected from entries inside the victim buffer for the recall.
US12026094B2
A system and method access memory blocks in a memory by receiving a memory transaction request from a processing device. First hash bits of the memory transaction request are compared with second hash bits of a first memory block of a memory. Data associated with the first memory block is output to the processing device based on the comparison of the first hash bits with the second hash bits.
US12026092B2
A data storage device may include a storage and a controller. The storage a storage including a first region of a first physical address range and a second region of a second physical address range. The controller may generate map data including a plurality of map segments, a first segment entry and a second segment entry, and store, in the second region, the map data except for a first map segment. Each of the map segments includes a set of physical addresses corresponding to a plurality of sequential logical addresses. The first segment entry includes a first segment physical address associated with the first map segment and belonging to the first physical address range, and the second segment entry includes a second segment physical address associated with a second map segment and belonging to the second physical address range.
US12026081B2
A method for validating a software, particularly a driver-assistance software. The method includes receiving of a sensor signal that is to be processed by the software; determining of a reference signal by an adaptive filter based on the sensor signal, the reference signal representing an anticipated sensor signal; determining an error signal based on the sensor signal and the reference signal, the error signal representing a performance of the software; determining an anti-sensor signal by a machine-learning unit based on the sensor signal, the machine-learning unit being trained with sensor signals already evaluated; controlling of the adaptive filter by a control unit based on the determined error signal and the adaptive anti-sensor signal; and validation of the software based on the determined error signal.
US12026077B2
Various embodiments of the present technology generally relate to the characterization and improvement of software applications. More specifically, some embodiments relate to systems and methods for modeling code behavior and generating characterizations of the code behavior and interrelations based on the code models. Some embodiments include user interfaces that provide views into the characterizations and interrelations of the application features and components that can give developers insights quickly and efficiently into applications which may be used for future developments and modifications to the application and to avoid introducing bugs into the application.
US12026073B2
A method for repairing a memory device includes: performing error detection on memory units of the memory device; temporarily storing each of unit addresses of detected error units in registers until the number of the detected error units reaches a first preset number, where the detected error units are damaged memory units, and each of the detected error unit occupies a respective one of the registers, and each of the unit addresses comprises a row address; successively selecting one of the registers as a target register; determining whether a row addresses in the target register exists in a reference storage module, where a repaired row address or an unrepaired row address is stored in the reference storage module; and repairing error units that are not repaired through the row addresses according to a result of the determination.
US12026069B2
Provided are a computer program product, system and method for restoring volumes in a data storage system. A virtual restoration of a volume of data stored in storage is performed using a target volume. In one embodiment, the virtual restoration includes configuring metadata associated with the target volume, to map the target volume to the recover volume as a virtual restoration of the recover volume. In response to a request by a host for data stored on the recover volume, physical restoration of data of the recover volume is performed using the target volume. In one embodiment, the physical restoration includes transferring data to the target volume from the recover volume to which the target volume is mapped by the virtual restoration. In addition, transferred data is relabeled as target volume data instead of recover volume data.
US12026068B2
The application provides a method for data reading and writing processing, data center, disaster recovery system and storage medium. The method includes receiving, by a first data center, a data reading request including a first user identification; determining, in response to the data reading request, whether a writing user identification set stored in the first data center includes the first user identification, the writing user identification set including user identifications corresponding to data writing requests; and under a condition that the writing user identification set includes the first user identification, forwarding the data reading request to a second data center, to read, in the second data center, data to be read as indicated by the data reading request, the second data center being configured to receive and process a data writing request sent by a user terminal or forwarded by the first data center.
US12026067B2
The present invention aims to reduce the amount of backup to be transferred, and reduce the recovery time, in the case of a server device built in a virtual environment. A VM 10 connects a plurality of volumes 21 and 22, starts up software installed on the volume 21 from the volume 21, stores DB data in the volume 22, and acquires snapshots of the volumes 21 and 22 at different intervals for each, thereby backing up the images 31 and 32.
US12026056B2
Snapshot capability-aware discovery of tagged application resources is described. A backup server inputs an identifier of an application's resource from the application's host. If the backup server determines that the application resource identifier was input with a snapshot capable tag, and that the application's resource satisfies any of the snapshot policy rules, the backup server identifies the data protection policy for the satisfied snapshot policy rule. The backup server outputs a request to the application's host to use the identified data protection policy to create a snapshot of the application's resource that was input with any associated snapshot capable tag.
US12026054B2
Various methods, apparatuses/systems, and media for dynamically restoring a state of an application are disclosed. The system may include a processor; and a memory operatively connected to the processor via a communication interface, the memory storing computer readable instructions, when executed, causes the processor to: receive a service bind request by a service framework from an application to bind to a service provided by a service provider among a plurality of service providers; transmit the received service bind request with callback uniform resource locator to an open service broker; cause the open service broker to transmit the service bind request to the service; register, by the service, the callback uniform resource locator; and dynamically bind, in response to registering, the application to the service.
US12026041B2
An interface circuit includes a signal processing circuit configured to process a reception signal received from a host device and a transmission signal to be transmitted to the host device. The signal processing circuit includes multiple signal processing devices and a calibration device. The calibration device is coupled to the signal processing devices and configured to sequentially calibrate a characteristic value of each signal processing device in a calibration procedure.
US12026039B2
An apparatus comprises a processing device configured to receive a request for access to a first computing device and to determine, utilizing a time-varying password generation algorithm, a password for a repair mode user account on the first computing device, the repair mode user account having restricted access to user data stored on the first computing device. The processing device is also configured to access, utilizing the determined password, the repair mode user account on the first computing device. The processing device is further configured to record one or more actions performed on the first computing device while the first computing device is being accessed using the repair mode user account, and to provide the recorded one or more actions for viewing on a second computing device different than the first computing device.
US12026034B1
A packaging technology to improve performance of an AI processing system resulting in an ultra-high bandwidth system. An IC package is provided which comprises: a substrate; a first die on the substrate, and a second die stacked over the first die. The first die can be a first logic die (e.g., a compute chip, CPU, GPU, etc.) while the second die can be a compute chiplet comprising ferroelectric or paraelectric logic. Both dies can include ferroelectric or paraelectric logic. The ferroelectric/paraelectric logic may include AND gates, OR gates, complex gates, majority, minority, and/or threshold gates, sequential logic, etc. The IC package can be in a 3D or 2.5D configuration that implements logic-on-logic stacking configuration. The 3D or 2.5D packaging configurations have chips or chiplets designed to have time distributed or spatially distributed processing. The logic of chips or chiplets is segregated so that one chip in a 3D or 2.5D stacking arrangement is hot at a time.
US12026033B2
A system and method for efficiently transferring data between devices. In various embodiments, a host computing device receives parallel data, encodes the parallel data as a count of pulses as serial data, and conveys the serial data to a peripheral device. The peripheral device decodes the received serial data to determine the parallel data, which is sent to processing logic. The devices send the encoded pluses on a bidirectional line, so the pulses are capable of being sent in both directions. The devices send the encoded pulses on the bidirectional line using a non-zero base voltage level. The devices are capable of using a voltage headroom when conveying encoded pulses between one another. Therefore, a full voltage swing between a ground reference voltage level and a power supply voltage level is not used when conveying the encoded pulses, which reduces power consumption.
US12026032B2
According to various embodiments, an electronic device may comprise: a connection circuit configured to connect to an external electronic device, a processor configured to: transmit, to a low power control circuit, a first control signal including power saving state information for the electronic device and a second control signal including charging enabled state information based on a power state of the electronic device being a power saving state, and a charging function setting state for the external electronic device being determined as a charging enabled state based on the external electronic device being connected to the connection circuit, and the low power control circuit being configured to cut off first power to a data input/output control circuit based on the power saving state information for the electronic device included in the first control signal and to supply second power to the external electronic device connected to the connection circuit based on the charging enabled state information included in the second control signal.
US12026031B2
A power supply control apparatus controls a temperature of a device having a cooling mechanism and a heat generating component. The power supply control apparatus includes a nonvolatile storage unit that stores information indicating a specific characteristic including a thermal resistance and a thermal capacity of the device for each current of the heat generating component, a current measurement unit configured to measure a current flowing through the heat generating component, a temperature measuring unit configured to measure a current temperature of the heat generating component, and a control unit configured to perform cooling control on the device. The control unit estimates a temperature rise value after a certain delay time based on the current, the temperature, and the information on the specific characteristic, and performs the cooling control on the device based on an estimated temperature after the delay time.
US12026025B2
An information processing device includes a body in a plate shape, and a storage unit that includes a storage device and is removably attached to the body. The body includes a housing part in a recessed shape that is recessed in a thickness direction of the body, the housing part storing the storage unit, and a first connector provided on a bottom surface of the housing part. The storage unit includes a second connector connected to the first connector to be removably attached in the thickness direction.
US12026022B2
A display apparatus comprises a display device including a display panel and a back cover on a rear surface of the display panel, and a curvature variation device at the back cover to vary a curvature of the display device, the curvature variation device may include an arc member at a rear region of the display device parallel to a first direction, a supporting plate at the rear region of the display device, a rotation driver on the supporting plate, a rectilinear driver on the supporting plate to perform a rectilinear motion, a rotation link part coupled to a center portion of the arc member on the supporting plate to rotate the center portion of the arc member based on a rectilinear motion of the rectilinear driver, and a holder part rotatably supporting the center portion of the arc member on the supporting plate.
US12026021B1
An apparatus and method provide a cable chain system with automatic latching and unlatching that facilitates the hot-swapping of individual drives, and also the hot-swapping of an entire JBOD sled. Between an installed position and a first extended position, the apparatus maintains the connection of the sled to the shared rack infrastructure, which facilitates the hot-swapping of individual drives in the first extended position. With additional movement to a second extended position, the apparatus releases the sled, allowing the sled to be disconnected from the shared rack infrastructure.
US12026014B2
Disclosed are a display apparatus and an interface display method. The display apparatus includes a display, a rotating assembly in connection with the display and configured to drive the display to rotate to a rotation station, and a controller in communication with the display and the rotating assembly.
US12026010B2
Disclosed is an electronic device comprising: a first housing; a second housing coupled to the first housing and configured to be slidable a specified reciprocating distance; a bendable support which forms the same plane according to retracted/expanded states; a flexible display; a sensing member; and a conductive member which is bendable such that the contact of the conductive member with the sensing member can be changed according to the sliding operation of the second housing.
US12026007B2
A data transfer system includes a slave device, and a host device that is connected to the slave device via at least a power supply line, a clock line, a command line, and a data line. A CMD line is continuously driven to a low level in a period from when the supply of at least a first clock is stopped to when the second clock is supplied (period form timing t5 to timing t6).
US12026005B2
Embodiments are described for a data processing tool configured to cease operations of a plurality of database readers when detecting a congestion condition in the data processing tool. In some embodiments, the data processing tool comprises a memory, one or more processors, and a plurality of database readers. The one or more processors, coupled to the memory and the plurality of database readers are configured to determine a congestion condition in at least one data pipeline of a plurality of data pipelines of the data processing tool. Each data pipeline of the plurality of data pipelines connects a database reader and a transformer of the data processing tool, a transformer and a database writer of the data processing tool, or two transformers of the data processing tool. The one or more processors are further configured to refrain from reading data from one or more databases responsive to the congestion condition.
US12026001B2
A method and system are directed to designing a low-dropout regulator (LDO) circuit and using the LDO circuit to detect recycled counterfeit integrated circuits. The LDO circuit includes, in part, a reference path circuit and a stressed path circuit. Each of the reference path circuit and the stressed path circuit is coupled to a control signal that can enable the corresponding path circuit for the LDO. LDO parameters can then be measured while the reference path circuit and the stressed path circuit is enabled respectively. The difference between the LDO parameters measured while the reference path circuit is enabled and while the stressed path circuit is enabled is used to determine if an integrated circuit comprising the LDO circuit is a recycled counterfeit.
US12025992B1
A system and method for autonomously controlling a set of unmanned aerial vehicles is provided. The autonomous ground control system may include a communications module and a fleet configuration module in communication with one or more user interface applications. The autonomous ground control system may receive one or more flight commands and generate fleet configuration instructions and safety information. The autonomous ground control system may provide the fleet configuration instructions to each unmanned aerial vehicle in the set in order to carry out the fleet configuration instructions in real time.
US12025988B1
A method of sending scheduling information to a robotic device is provided, comprising: generating, with an application of a communication device, at least one scheduling command, the application comprising a graphical user interface; transmitting, with the application, the at least one scheduling command to a router, wherein the router is configured to transmit the at least one scheduling command to a cloud service; receiving, with a processor of a robotic device, the at least one scheduling command from the cloud service; generating or modifying, with the processor of the robotic device, scheduling information of the robotic device based on the at least one scheduling command; and suggesting, with the processor of the robotic device, a schedule of the robotic device based on previously received operational instructions and times of executing the instructions by the robotic device.
US12025984B2
A fully tested autonomous system works predictably under ideal or assumed environment. However, behavior of the system is not fully defined when component(s) malfunction or fail (e.g., sensor failures) and the like which leads to inefficient task execution. Present disclosure provides system and method for imperfect sensing-based analysis of agents deployed in environments for traversal task execution, specifically, in unknown environments. The system estimates performance metric (e.g., task execution time) and safety metrics (e.g., number of collisions encountered while executing the task) related to task of traversal of the vehicle/agent from its current position to a target location. The system also incorporates sensitivity of each sensor(s), for given task, when they malfunction. The sensing malfunction can be both independent and/or co-related with malfunction of other sensors. Such a model helps to identify the most critical component in the agent(s), thereby increasing reliability of the system and meet safety standards.
US12025982B2
An optical sensor for an aircraft includes two detectors, a light source, and a controller. The detectors are oriented along detector paths and have tilt angles and fields of view. The detectors are configured to detect light reflected from an illumination volume and to generate detector signals that correspond to intensities of detected light. The tilt angles are equal such that each detector is oriented in an opposite direction within a plane containing a light source path and the detector paths. The light source is oriented along the light source path and is configured to illuminate the illumination volume which overlaps with the fields of view within a predetermined distance range. The controller is configured to receive the detector signals, detect whether a cloud is present based upon the detector signals, determine a cloud phase, and calculate a density of the detected cloud.
US12025981B2
Systems and methods for implementing one or more autonomous features for autonomous and semi-autonomous control of one or more vehicles are provided. More specifically, image data may be obtained from an image acquisition device and processed utilizing one or more machine learning models to identify, track, and extract one or more features of the image utilized in decision making processes for providing steering angle and/or acceleration/deceleration input to one or more vehicle controllers. In some instances, techniques may be employed such that the autonomous and semi-autonomous control of a vehicle may change between vehicle follow and lane follow modes. In some instances, at least a portion of the machine learning model may be updated based on one or more conditions.
US12025977B1
Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for efficient safety mechanism selection for achieving functional safety. A functional safety system automates the process of achieving a target diagnostic coverage level using recursive method to sequentially analyze each layer of a target environment and add additional safety mechanisms if a target diagnostic coverage level is not met. The functional safety system implements the additional safety mechanisms based on a ranking determined based on one or more selected parameters. The parameters may indicate a preference for achieving specified goals, such as higher efficiency, increased coverage, reduced cost, reduced area, and the like. The functional safety system adds the additional safety mechanisms based on the ranking, such as by adding the highest ranked safety mechanism, followed by subsequently ranked safety mechanism.
US12025973B2
An industrial integrated development environment (IDE) comprises a development interface that affords a user a great deal of control over the editing tools, workspace canvases, and project information rendered at a given time. The industrial IDE system also includes various graphical features that assist the user to easily discern the various online and offline states of industrial control programs developed using the IDE system. Collaboration tools supported by the IDE system facilitate communicative and coordinated editing of control programs by multiple developers, and the IDE system conveys the resulting online and offline states of these programs using intuitive graphical indicators.
US12025972B2
The present invention relates to a computer implemented system configured for controlling and monitoring of a pump, the system comprising a pump system, at least one sensor providing an operating state data signal representative of a mechanical, fluidicly, electrical operating state and/or other system data of the pump and/or pump system and a control module controlling the mechanical, fluidicly and/or operating state of the pump in response to a received control signal. The invention also comprises a digital twin module being configured for retrieving said operating state data signal and store the data in the IoT data base.
US12025969B2
Systems and methods are provided for machining dental prostheses including, over a network, receiving data concerning a dental prosthesis, selecting a material from which to machine the dental prosthesis, and determining machining instructions for machining the dental prosthesis based on a nominal enlargement factor corresponding to the selected material. The method can also include storing the machining instructions, receiving a request from a milling machine for a dental prosthesis to be milled by the milling machine, and associating the dental prosthesis with the milling machine. The method can also include selecting a material blank comprised of the selected material, determining a material blank enlargement factor of the selected material blank, modifying the machining instructions according to a difference between the nominal enlargement factor and the material blank enlargement factor, and machining the dental prosthesis according to the modified machining instructions.
US12025968B2
A method includes disposing an intervention service tool within a tubular. The intervention service tool includes an anchoring system, a shifting system, and a linear actuator system. The tubular includes a shifting profile geometry disposed within the tubular at a first location. The anchoring system, the shifting system, and/or the linear actuator system is actuated. Shifter system pressure, linear actuator system force/pressure, and displacement of the shifting system is measured. A known graph of the shifting profile geometry is compared to one or more of a measured pressure, a measured force, or a measured displacement. A position of a key disposed on the shifting system is determined relative to the shifting profile. The shifting profile geometry is engaged with the key based on the position of the key. The shifting profile geometry is positioned at a second location that is different from the first location.
US12025961B2
An order may be received for an apparatus such as a power converter or other power device, where the apparatus may be housed in a packing box. A configuration device may be programmed with information responsive to details of the order and an ID associated with the apparatus. A label or other identifying object may be created or configured (e.g., printed) and attached to the apparatus or may otherwise accompany the apparatus prior to dispatch of the packing box. The label may provide details of operating parameters of the apparatus responsive to the details of the order. Upon receipt and unpacking of the packing box, the configuration device may be connected to the apparatus, thereby to causing the apparatus to become configured.
US12025956B2
An apparatus for a wrist-worn device includes a frame and a screen fixed to the frame. The frame is configured to be removably secured to the wrist-worn device so that the screen is positioned in adjacent, overlying relationship with a face of the wrist-worn device. The screen is configured to perform one or more of the following: magnify the face of the wrist-worn device, protect the face of the wrist-worn device, provide an anti-glare surface for the face of the wrist-worn device, and provide a privacy screen for the face of the wrist-worn device.
US12025955B2
An intermittent display mechanism for a timepiece includes a mobile component in motion, an energy source for supplying a light emission source coupled with a light guide, and light emission control means. The light emission control means includes a flexible body bearing a flexible piezoelectric film or coating coated in an electrically insulating shell and attached to a fixed structure and including a distal zone overhanging with respect to the structure, arranged to interfere mechanically, at periodic or random times, with the mobile component during the travel thereof and move away from the rest position thereof before starting vibration of the flexible body and the piezoelectric film or coating, which constitutes an energy source, to convert the mechanical energy supplied by the mobile component into electrical energy supplied to the light emission source.
US12025950B2
A resin fine particle includes a polyester resin; and a basic dye, in which a volume average particle diameter of the resin fine particle is 0.05 μm or more and 1 μm or less, and a ratio of a concentration of the basic dye in a center of gravity portion of the resin fine particle to a concentration of the basic dye in a surface layer portion having a depth of 10 nm or less from a surface of the resin fine particle is 0.8 or more.
US12025948B2
A drum cartridge includes: a drum frame to which a developing cartridge is attachable; a photosensitive drum rotatable about an axis extending in a first direction; a memory having an electrical contact surface; and a resilient member positioned between the electrical contact surface and the drum frame. The resilient member is configured to expand and compress in a second direction crossing the electrical contact surface between a first state and a second state, the resilient member having a shorter length in the second state than in the first state. A distance between the drum frame and the electrical contact surface in the second direction when the resilient member is in the second state is smaller than a distance between the drum frame and the electrical contact surface in the second direction when the resilient member is in the first state.
US12025941B2
To accomplish engagement between a coupling member and a drive transmission member of main assembly. A drum unit includes a photosensitive drum and a coupling member which is provided adjacent to an end portion of the photosensitive drum and which is connected with the photosensitive drum so as to be capable of drive transmission. the coupling member is inclinable relative to a rotational axis of the photosensitive drum, and an inclination angle relative to photosensitive drum is reduced with rotational driving operation.
US12025940B2
An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of light emitting portions configured to expose to light a photosensitive drum, a detection unit configured to detect an opening of a maintenance door, a output unit configured to output image data for controlling turning on and off of the plurality of light emitting portions, a drive unit configured to drive the plurality of the light emitting portions based on the image data, wherein the photosensitive drum stops rotating when the detection unit detects that the maintenance door is open, wherein the output unit output the image data indicating turning off of the plurality of light emitting portions when the detection unit detects that the maintenance door is open, and a power supplied to the drive unit is maintained in a case where the maintenance door is opened.
US12025933B2
A heating device has a first rotating member that is heated by a heat source, and a second rotating member that forms a nip portion with the first rotating member, such that a recording material is heated up at the nip portion. The heating device further has: a first cover disposed along an outer peripheral surface of the first rotating member, so as to surround the first rotating member, and a second cover, disposed between the first cover and the first rotating member, and having a protruding portion that protrudes towards the first rotating member. In a longitudinal direction of the first rotating member, a length of the first rotating member is a first length, and a length of the protruding portion is a second length that is smaller than the first length.
US12025927B2
An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image forming portions; a rotatable endless belt; a plurality of stretching rollers including an inner roller and a steering roller; an outer roller; a steering mechanism; a position changing mechanism; and a controller. In a case that a changing operation for changing a position of the inner roller is performed by the position changing mechanism during execution of a job for forming the toner images on a plurality of recording materials, the controller controls the steering mechanism so that a tilting operation for tilting the steering roller in a predetermined amount in interrelation with the changing operation is executed.
US12025925B2
Disclosed is a method of metrology such as alignment metrology. The method comprises obtaining pupil plane measurement dataset at a pupil plane relating to scattered radiation resultant from a measurement of a structure. The method comprises determining a measurement value or correction therefor using the pupil plane measurement dataset and a sensor term relating to sensor optics used to perform said measurement.
US12025919B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a forming a photoresist layer over a semiconductor substrate and selectively exposing the photoresist layer to actinic radiation. After selectively exposing the photoresist layer to actinic radiation, storing the semiconductor substrate in a semiconductor substrate container under an ambient of extreme dry clean air or inert gas. The method also includes after the storing the semiconductor substrate, performing a first heating of the photoresist layer.
US12025907B2
A projection lens includes a lens barrel that accommodates an optical system from which light incident from the housing exits, and that has a first rotary tube that rotates around an optical axis and a first fixed tube at which the first rotary tube is rotatably mounted; and a first conduction portion for performing electrical conduction, the first conduction portion having a fixed electrode that is provided at the first fixed tube and a rotary electrode that is provided at the first rotary tube and that rotates as a result of rotating the first rotary tube, the rotary electrode being disposed at a position that faces the fixed electrode and contacting the fixed electrode at least at a rotation position that has been preset.
US12025906B2
A support for video-photographic equipment includes: at least one leg telescopically extendible between a retracted configuration and an extended configuration and has a first section, a second section engaged in a sliding manner with the first section; and a third section engaged in a sliding manner with the second section; a blocking device on one of the sections of the leg, interacting with the above-mentioned sections to block or unblock relative axial sliding thereof and is provided with a control element connected to the second section and actuable to control the blocking device, a transmission device connecting the first, second and third sections, and includes at least first and second redirection elements secured to the second section in longitudinally opposite positions, a securing element fixed to the third section and at least one wire extending between the first and second redirection elements and the securing element.
US12025897B2
According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a liquid crystal display device includes a lower substrate including a black matrix and a color filter; an upper substrate disposed to be opposite to the lower substrate; a thin film transistor which on the upper substrate to be opposite to the color filter, and including a gate electrode, an active layer, a source electrode, and a drain electrode; at least one insulting layer disposed on the thin film transistor; a pixel electrode disposed on the insulating layer and electrically connected to the drain electrode; and a common electrode spaced apart from the pixel electrode, and the gate electrode includes a first gate conductive layer including a transparent conductive material, a second gate conductive layer including a first transition metal oxide and a second transition metal oxide, and a third gate conductive layer formed of an opaque conductive layer.
US12025892B2
An electronic device having a peripheral area is provided. The electronic device includes a substrate; and a first conductive line disposed on the substrate in the peripheral area and including a first section and a second section electrically connected to the first section. An overlapping region is defined as a region that the first section overlaps the second section in a top view of the electronic device. The first section has a first minimum width inside the overlapping region and a second minimum width outside the overlapping region. The second section has a third minimum width outside the overlapping region. The first minimum width is greater than the second minimum width and greater than the third minimum width.
US12025872B2
Provided is a display module, including: a back panel including a bottom board and a side frame disposed on the bottom board; a display assembly at least partially located in an accommodation space enclosed by the side frame and the bottom board; a cover board located on a side of the display assembly away from the bottom board and supported by the side frame; and a bonding layer bonding the cover board to the side frame. The side frame is detachably coupled to the bottom board.
US12025870B2
A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a display panel having a display portion, a connecting portion, and a bending portion; a main support layer; and an auxiliary support layer including a main portion and a folded-back portion connected to the main portion as a unitary structure. An edge portion of the display apparatus includes a stacked structure. The stacked structure includes the connecting portion; the folded-back portion on the connecting portion; at least a part of the main portion on a side of the folded-back portion away from the connecting portion; a part of the main support layer; and a part of the display portion on a side of the part of the main support layer away from the main portion. Layers of the stacked structure is curved toward a back side of the display apparatus.
US12025864B2
A composite substrate for an electro-optic element is disclosed. The composite substrate includes: an electro-optic crystal substrate having an electro-optic effect; a low-refractive-index layer being in contact with the electro-optic crystal substrate and having a lower refractive index than the electro-optical crystal substrate; and a support substrate bonded to the low-refractive-index layer at least via a bonding layer. A plurality of interfaces located between the low-refractive-index layer and the support substrate includes at least one rough interface having a roughness that is larger than a roughness of an interface between the electro-optic crystal substrate and the low-refractive-index layer.
US12025855B2
Techniques for providing wearable electronic devices with electrical components are disclosed. The electrical components can provide electrical technology to eyewear to facilitate audio support including enhanced hearing. The electrical components can operate independently or together with other electrical components provided elsewhere. The wearable electronic devices with electronic components can, for example, provide audio output, audio enhancements, or event-related audio content.
US12025854B1
Circumambient illumination eyewear has a frame that includes a bridge which extends between temple ends across a midsection, and stems. A pair of lenses are mounted on the frame such that each lens covering an eye-space that is positioned over the user's eyes when the user is wearing the eyewear. At least one illumination strip is disposed around each of the pair of lenses so that the at least one illumination strip extends entirely around each of the pair of lenses, and emits at least 50 lumens into the workspace. A battery is operably connected to the illumination strip via a dimmer switch.
US12025853B2
The invention relates to a 9 million pixel black light full-color lens comprising a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, a diaphragm, a seventh lens, an eighth lens, a ninth lens, a tenth lens, an eleventh lens and an equivalent prism which are sequentially arranged from front to back along a light incident direction. The invention overcomes the poor resolution with visible light and infrared light, large chromatic aberration in imaging magnification and the like of the existing black light full-color lens, improves imaging effect (i.e. resolution) with visible light and infrared bands by adopting a structure of eleven spherical lenses, cooperated with the equivalent prism, simultaneously adopting a wide-spectrum optimization design for lenses, and provides a high-resolution video stream for image fusion, consequently a bright and colored image is output in a low illumination environment is obtained.
US12025851B2
A camera module includes: a magnet disposed on a lens module; a bearing member disposed in a ball guide portion formed between the lens module and a housing that accommodates the lens module; a coil disposed in the housing to face the magnet; and a yoke member disposed on the housing to interact with the magnet to generate a biased magnetic force.
US12025848B2
Provided is a vehicle camera module including a lens, circuit board having an image sensor, front housing, and rear housing. The lens has a lens barrel and lens elements assembled. The front housing has front and rear sides to which the lens and the circuit board are assembled, respectively. The rear housing is coupled rearwardly of the front housing to seal the lens and circuit board. The front housing includes posts protruding rearward and a pin protruding distally of the post and having a smaller cross-sectional area than the post. The circuit board includes a plated through-hole configured to at least partially receive the pin. The front housing and circuit board are pre-assembled such that pin and plated through-hole have an assembly clearance, the lens and image sensor are optically aligned in a pre-assembled state, and the assembly clearance is fixedly soldered through a laser solder-jet bonding process.
US12025843B2
An optical processing structure of an optical fiber, includes: an optical fiber that includes a core, a cladding, and a coating, the coating being partially removed; and a thermally conductive protective material made of a silicone-based thermally conductive compound and provided around the cladding in a coating removed region of the optical fiber. Further, the thermally conductive protective material contains a filler having a refractive index higher than a refractive index of the cladding, and the filler is present in a region where evanescent light seeping out of the cladding is present when cladding mode light propagating in the cladding is totally reflected.
US12025839B2
A crimping method includes covering an outer periphery of the back post is with reinforced fibers. The reinforced fibers are crimped to a front section of a back post. The reinforced fibers are twisted in a circumferential direction of the back post, such that the reinforced fibers extend on the outer periphery of the back post in a non-axial direction. The twisted reinforced fibers are crimped to a rear section of the back post. A crimping device includes a connector including a back post having at least one guiding rib with at least one notch. At least one crimp sleeve is used to crimp reinforced fibers of an optical fiber cable to the back post, and a portion of the reinforced fibers is gathered in the at least one notch.
US12025828B2
A high backscattering optical fiber comprising a perturbed segment in which the perturbed segment reflects a relative power such that the optical fiber has an effective index of neff, a numerical aperture of NA, a scatter of Rp→r(fiber) that varies axially along the optical fiber, a total transmission loss of αfiber, an in-band range greater than one nanometer (1 nm), and a figure of merit (FOM) in the in-band range. The FOM being defined as: F O M = R p → "\[Rule]" r ( fiber ) α fiber ( NA 2 n eff ) 2 .
US12025822B2
The present disclosure relates to an optical laminate or a reddening-resistant layer. The present disclosure can provide an optical laminate that does not cause a so-called reddening phenomenon even when driven or maintained under extremely harsh conditions (e.g., very high temperature conditions), or a reddening-resistant layer applied thereto.
US12025819B2
A picometer optical comb and a device and a method for generating the same, wherein the picometer optical comb is a special grating with continuously variable widths of adjacent grating lines, wherein the width of each grating line is different from that of the adjacent grating line by a fixed difference in the magnitude of picometer to nanometer. The picometer optical comb provides a reference for picometer measurement. The picometer optical comb can generate a diffraction optical field distribution different from that of a traditional grating, which brings a new diffraction effect, achieves new diffraction optical functions, and provides tools such as picometer photolithography, picometer measurement, picometer imaging and the like. The picometer optical comb plays an important role in the fields of semiconductor photolithography, life science, interaction of light and substances in picometer scale.
US12025809B1
Provided are a device and method for automatic diopter adjusting. The device and method are applied to VR glasses and achieve a desirable automatic VR diopter adjustment effect. The device includes: a barrel holder, a display module, a diopter adjusting lens assembly, at least two guide slots, an adjusting ring, a processor, a pupil image acquisition unit, and a transmission assembly. The pupil image acquisition unit acquires a pupil image displayed by the display module and transmits the pupil image to the processor. The processor determines whether diopter adjustment is needed, generates adjustment driving information, and drives the transmission assembly according to the adjustment driving information to work. The transmission assembly drives the adjusting ring to rotate, thereby driving the diopter adjusting lens assembly to rotate to adjust a distance between the diopter adjusting lens assembly and the display module, and realize adjustment on the diopter.
US12025801B2
Provided is an optical lens assembly and an electronic apparatus having the optical lens assembly. In the optical lens assembly for an electronic apparatus, which is worn by a user to see an image generated from a display, the optical lens assembly includes at least one negative lens and at least one positive lens arranged along an optical axis of the image, and a flat semi-transparent mirror reflecting image light generated from the display and transmitting external real image light, in which each of the at least one negative lens and the at least one positive lens is a rotationally symmetric lens with respect to the optical axis.
US12025790B2
An active situational sensor uses a Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) Micro-Mirror Array (MMA) to steer an optical beam to different off-axis sections of a parabolic mirror, an “OAP”, to re-direct and focus optical radiation into a spot-beam onto a conical shape of a fixed mirror, which redirects the spot-beam to scan a FOR. The sensor may rapidly scan a 360° horizontal FOR with a specified vertical FOR or any portion thereof, move discretely between multiple specific objects per frame, vary the dwell time on an object or compensate for other external factors to tailor the scan to a particular application or changing conditions in real-time. The MEMS MMA may be configurable to shape the spot-beam to adjust size, focus or intensity profile or to produce deviations in the wavefront of the spot-beam to compensate for path length differences or atmospheric distortion. The MEMS MMA being configurable to produce and independently steer a plurality of spot-beams of the same or different wavelengths.
US12025789B2
A display system includes an image display device and a pair of shutter glasses. The image display device includes a display panel, a display communication circuit and a control circuit. The control circuit is configured to control the display communication circuit to transmit a shutter glasses control signal, and configured to control the display panel to alternately display a normal image and a compensate image according to a timing control signal. The pair of shutter glasses includes a pair of shutters, a glasses communication circuit and a shutter control circuit. The glasses communication circuit is configured to receive the shutter glasses control signal. The shutter control circuit is configured to alternately open and close the pair of shutters according to the shutter glasses control signal.
US12025786B2
A portable variable focus microscope includes a housing having a lower section and an upper section secured together. A lens is removably disposed on at least one lens retention feature of the upper section. The scope further includes a slide platform and a height adjuster, where rotation of the height adjuster within the scope housing adjusts a relative distance between the slide platform and the lens to adjust a focus of the lens. The scope may be used in conjunction with a mobile data device to capture an image of a sample on a slide received in the scope. A program including a CNN algorithm may be employed to identify contaminants in the sample.
US12025783B2
A zoom optical system comprises, in order from an object side: a first lens group having positive refractive power; a front-side lens group; an intermediate lens group having positive refractive power; and a rear-side lens group. The front-side lens group is composed of one or more lens groups and has a negative lens group. At least part of the intermediate lens group is a focusing lens group. The rear-side lens group is composed of one or more lens groups. Upon zooming, the first lens group is moved with respect to an image surface and distances between the first lens group and the front-side lens group, between the front-side lens group and the intermediate lens group, and between the intermediate lens group and the rear-side lens group change. The following conditional expressions are satisfied: −0.750
US12025780B2
There is provided an imaging lens with excellent optical characteristics which satisfies demand of a low profile and a low F-number. An imaging lens comprises in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens with positive refractive power, a second lens with negative refractive power, a third lens with positive or negative refractive power, a fourth lens with negative refractive power, a fifth lens with positive refractive power, and a sixth lens with negative refractive power, wherein said first lens is formed in a meniscus shape having an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region, said second lens has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region, said sixth lens has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region, and the predetermined conditional expressions are satisfied.
US12025775B2
The disclosure discloses an optical imaging system. The optical imaging system includes, sequentially from an object side to an image side along an optical axis, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens. The first lens has a focal power, and an object side surface thereof is a convex surface; the second lens has a focal power; the third lens has a focal power, and an image side surface thereof is a convex surface; the fourth lens has a focal power, an object side surface thereof is a convex surface, and an image side surface thereof is a concave surface; the fifth lens has a positive focal power, and an object side surface thereof is a convex surface; and the sixth lens has a negative focal power, and an object side surface thereof is a concave face.
US12025769B2
A computer system provides location-based weather services. Weather data is processed to determine one or more weather values for a location. The one or more weather values are compared to baseline weather data for the location to identify a weather event, wherein the weather event is identified in response to determining that the one or more weather values deviate from a corresponding one or more baseline values of the baseline weather data by a threshold amount. A request is received from a user device for weather information for the location. Information relating to the weather event is provided to the user device. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and program product for providing location-based weather services in substantially the same manner described above.
US12025757B2
Structures operable to detect radiation are described. The structure may two screens with a phosphor layer, respective. The structure may further include a photosensor array disposed between the first screen and the second screen such that the photosensor array directly contacts the first screen or is directly attached to the first screen using an optical adhesive and directly contacts the second screen or is directly attached to the second screen using an optical adhesive.
US12025747B2
A computer-implemented method comprises: generating first output using a first sensor of a vehicle comprising an infrared camera or an event-based sensor, the first output indicating a portion of surroundings of the vehicle; providing the first output to a LiDAR of the vehicle having a field of view (FOV); configuring a resolution of the LiDAR based at least in part on the first output; generating a representation of at least part of the surroundings of the vehicle using the LiDAR; providing, to a perception component of the vehicle, second output of a second sensor of the vehicle and third output of the LiDAR, the perception component configured to perform object detection, sensor fusion, and object tracking regarding the second and third outputs, wherein the first output bypasses at least part of the perception component; and performing motion control of the vehicle using a fourth output of the perception component.
US12025744B2
One example system comprises a plurality of substrates disposed in an overlapping arrangement. The plurality of substrates includes at least a first substrate and a second substrate. The system also comprises a first waveguide disposed on the first substrate to define a first optical path on the first substrate. The first waveguide is configured to guide light along the first optical path and to transmit, at an output section of the first waveguide, the light out of the first waveguide toward the second substrate. The system also comprises a second waveguide disposed on the second substrate to define a second optical path on the second substrate. An input section of the second waveguide is aligned with the output section of the first waveguide to receive the light transmitted by the first waveguide. The second waveguide is configured to guide the light along the second optical path.
US12025743B2
In one embodiment, a lidar system includes a light source configured to emit pulses of light. The lidar system also includes a scanner configured to scan at least a portion of the emitted pulses of light along an interlaced scan pattern, including: (i) scanning the portion of the emitted pulses of light substantially parallel to a first scan axis to produce multiple scan lines of the interlaced scan pattern; and (ii) distributing the scan lines along a second scan axis in an interlaced manner, where the interlaced scan pattern is an n-fold interlaced scan pattern that includes n sub-scans, where: n is an integer greater than or equal to 2, each sub-scan includes two or more of the scan lines of the interlaced scan pattern, and the n sub-scans are scanned sequentially where a first sub-scan of the n sub-scans is scanned prior to a second sub-scan.
US12025739B1
This application discloses a frequency modulated continuous wave LiDAR and an autonomous driving device. The LiDAR includes a light source module, a silicon photonic chip and a refraction module, and the silicon photonic chip includes a light splitting module, a coupling module and multiple transceiving units. The light splitting module receives a laser beam coupled into the silicon photonic chip, divides the laser beam into multiple beams of detection light, and transmits the multiple beams of detection light to corresponding multiple transceiving units, and the transceiving units emit the received detection light outward. The refraction module is configured to refract the detection light emitted by the multiple transceiving units to emit multiple beams of detection light in a staggered manner in a second direction, where the second direction is a direction perpendicular to the terminal surface of the transceiving unit.
US12025728B2
An object detection radar apparatus is installed in a vehicle and is configured to detect an object. The object detection radar apparatus includes a transceiver configured to: transmit a radar signal to the outside of the vehicle based on a first mode or a second mode different from each other in terms of detection range, and receive a radar signal reflected from the object; and a processing unit configured to: detect the object based on the reflected radar signal when the first mode is activated, and recognize the object based on the reflected radar signal when the second mode is activated.
US12025712B2
Satellite relaying for geolocation and mitigation of GNSS denial are provided, where a method comprises: receiving, by a processing device from a communication satellite along a communication path, a message initiated at a transmission time by a transmitting device, the communication path having a target device with an unknown distance to the communication satellite; determining, by the device, a reception time upon receiving the message; determining, by the device, a time of travel of the message associated with only traversal of a portion of the communication that is path between the communication satellite and the target device based on a difference between the transmission time and the reception time; calculating, by the device, a distance between the communication satellite and the target device based on the time of travel; and performing, by the device, one or more actions based on the distance between the communication satellite and the target device.
US12025711B2
There is disclosed in one example a mobile computing apparatus, including: a hardware platform including a processor and a memory; a user display; a global positioning system (GPS) driver; a network interface; and instructions encoded within the memory to instruct the processor to: receive a device location from the GPS driver; via the network interface, query a cloud-based wireless access point (WAP) reputation service for WAP reputation data of nearby WAPs; and drive to the user display an image of nearby WAPs having overlaid thereon WAP reputation data for the nearby WAPs.
US12025709B2
A method for determining at least one alignment of an optoelectronic sensor of a motor vehicle relative to the vehicle involves emitting light beams into surroundings of the vehicle by a transmitter device, and receiving light beams reflected at an object by a receiver unit of the sensor. The received light beams are represented as scan points in a sensor image of the surroundings of the vehicle generated by the optoelectronic sensor, and each scan point is assigned to a receiver element. A sensor coordinate system is determined in the generated image using at least two received scan points of the first receiver element, and a reference coordinate system is determined in the generated image using at least one scan point of the first and second receiver elements. An angular deviation is determined by a comparison of the coordinate systems for determining the at least one alignment of the sensor.
US12025705B2
A distance measuring device is a distance measuring device that performs processing on a time-series luminance signal generated on the basis of a sensor output corresponding to reflected light of laser light. The distance measuring device includes a storage circuit and a determination circuit. The storage circuit stores a first time-series luminance signal based on reflected light from a first measurement target of laser light and a second time-series luminance signal based on reflected light from a second measurement target of laser light. The determination circuit determines, on the basis of correlation between the first time-series luminance signal and the second time-series luminance signal, whether the first measurement target and the second measurement target are the same measurement target.
US12025702B2
A light detection and ranging (LIDAR) device includes a light emitter configured to emit light pulses into a field of view and a detector configured to detect light in the field of view. The light emitter emits a first light pulse. The detector detects, during a first measurement period, at least one reflected light pulse that is indicative of reflection by a retroreflector based on a shape of a reflected light pulse, a magnitude of a reflected light pulse, and/or a time separation between two reflected light pulses. In response to detecting the at least one reflected light pulse indicative of reflection by a retroreflector, the light emitter is deactivated for one or more subsequent measurement periods. Additionally, the LIDAR device may inform one or more other LIDAR devices by transmitting to a computing device information indicative of the retroreflector being within the field of view of the light emitter.
US12025701B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide an optical sensing system, a method for controlling the optical sensing system, and a controller for the optical sensing system. The exemplary method for controlling the optical system includes dividing a detection range of the optical sensing system into a plurality of sections, where each section covers a different range of distances to the optical sensing system. For each divided section, the transmitter of the optical sensing system transmits an optical signal to each section of the plurality of sections. The receiver of the optical sensing system then receives the optical signal returned from the corresponding section of the plurality of sections. After receiving the retuned optical signal from each divided section, these optical signals are then combined to form a detection signal of the detection range of the optical sensing system.
US12025699B2
Improvements to airborne weather radar systems onboard an aircraft that apply forecasting modeling techniques to output a forecast of future 3-dimensional (3D) radar reflectivity returns, forecasted composite radar image data, forecasted changes to potentially hazardous weather cells, including forecasts of future expected hail size and forecast which regions of airspace may be associated with future convective storms. The range of the forecast may be limited to approximately the range of the weather radar, which may be a few hundred nautical miles. Depending on the type and speed of the aircraft, the forecast duration may be approximately thirty minutes or less, e.g., the amount of time to reach the limits of the radar range.
US12025692B2
A sensing device includes a fixed member, a rotation member disposed at both ends of the fixed member, a camera installed on the fixed member, and respective radar units installed on the rotation members, where the respective radar units are configured to sense respective objects at edges of a viewing angle of the camera and respective objects outside of the viewing angle of the camera.
US12025690B2
Methods, devices and instruction-carrying storage operate to track a target object over time and space. The tracking techniques involve obtaining a point cloud of reflection points at time n, a target from time n−1, state information including previous location information for the target and previous group distribution for previous reflection points associated with the target at time n−1; predicting a location of the target at time n based on the state information; determining a gate around the target and which of the multiple reflection points are within the gate; determining, for each of the multiple reflection points determined to be within the gate, a likelihood that the corresponding reflection point is associated with the target; determining current group distribution for the reflection points determined to likely be associated with the target; and outputting the determined current group distribution and current location information of the target.
US12025689B2
A method of sensing a target in a target detection system having processing circuitry and a multiplexer coupled to the processing circuitry and to a plurality NT of transmit antennas forming a sparse transmit uniform linear array (ULA), the multiplexer being configured to generate multiplexed and phase modulated transmit signals (T1 . . . TNT) based on signals from a local oscillator. The processing circuitry receives signals via a plurality NR of receive antennas forming a dense receive ULA. The method includes transmitting the transmit signals via the transmit antennas as a general radiation pattern corresponding to a block circulant probing signal matrix, and receiving via the receive antennas receive signals resulting from backscattering of the transmit signals transmitted towards K targets. The method further includes processing the received reflection signals to determine the presence, range and/or angular position of a target within a field of view of the transmit antennas.
US12025687B2
A system for calibration management is described. The system includes at least one measurement instrument for testing a device under test and a monitoring device. The monitoring device is connected with the measurement instrument. The monitoring device collects parameters from the measurement instrument during the testing. The monitoring device creates a calibration fingerprint based on the parameters collected, which is indicative of the calibration status of the measurement instrument. The system includes an interface via which information based on the calibration fingerprint is outputted, indicating if a new calibration of the measurement instrument is necessary or not. Further, a method of managing calibration of a measurement instrument is described.
US12025683B2
Apparatus and methods provide sensing of quadrants, angles, or distance using magnetoresistive elements. A quadrant or angle sensor can have magnetoresistive elements split into multiple angles to generate an output with reduced harmonics. A distance sensor can have magnetoresistive elements split and spaced apart to generate an output with reduced harmonics. A biasing conductor can alternatingly carry different amounts of current (different in at least one of magnitude or direction) for DC offset compensation or cancellation.
US12025681B2
A method for determining a sensitivity of a Hall sensor element in consideration of an interdependency between the temperature dependence of the sensitivity and the temperature dependence of the operational quantity of the Hall sensor element includes: identifying a reference sensitivity and a reference value of the operational quantity of the Hall sensor element; determining an instantaneous value of the operational quantity of the Hall sensor element on the basis of a drive signal of the Hall sensor element; and determining the sensitivity of the Hall sensor element on the basis of the reference sensitivity, the reference value of the operational quantity, the identified instantaneous value of the operational quantity, and the interdependency.
US12025678B2
A controller transmits a message on a channel at a time the channel is predicted to be unoccupied according to a time ordered series of symbols. Each of the symbols represents a group of discrete time durations during which the channel has been occupied by a periodic signal and a corresponding feature of the periodic signal during the discrete time durations.
US12025665B2
A ground and test (G&T) device includes a test device housing having load and line conductors and a plurality of upper terminals and plurality of lower terminals carried by the test device housing and configured to engage the load and line conductors when the test device housing in installed within the compartment of the switchgear frame. A lower ground bus bar is carried by the test device housing and a plurality of grounding bars selectively connect either the upper terminals to the lower ground bus bar or connect the lower terminals to the lower ground bus bar. A ground shoe assembly is connected to the lower ground bus bar and configured to engage a grounding circuit carried by the switchgear frame.
US12025653B2
An artificial intelligence (AI)-based constrained random verification (CRV) method for a design under test (DUT) includes: receiving a series of constraints; obtaining a limited constraint range according to the series of constraints; generating a series of stimuli according to the limited constraint range; and verifying the DUT by the series of stimuli; wherein at least one of the step of obtaining the limited constraint range according to the series of constraints and the step of generating the series of stimuli according to the limited constraint range employs an AI algorithm.
US12025643B2
A method, system and apparatus for compensating for non-ideal isotropic behavior of a field probe are disclosed. A method includes, during a calibration procedure, for each of a plurality of positions of the field probe relative to a source, each position denoted by a set of angles (θ,ϕ), performing the following steps: measuring a field by the sensors of the probe, storing the measurements and the set of angles (θ,ϕ) for each measurement, computing a correction factor for the set of angles (θ,ϕ) based on the measurement, and storing the correction factors. During a measurement procedure, each sensor measures a component of the field. A set of angles is determined based on the sensor measurements, and a correction factor is determined based on the set of angles. The correction factor may then be multiplied by the sensor measurements to obtain the corrected field measurements.
US12025640B2
A current detection device includes: a first conductor providing a part of a current path between a first inverter and a first rotary electric machine; a second conductor providing a part of a current path between a second inverter and a second rotary electric machine; a third conductor providing a part of a current path between a DC power supply and a converter; and first to third elements respectively arranged to face the first to third conductors. Each of the first to third elements is configured to detect a magnetic flux generated by an electric current flowing through a corresponding conductor in a coreless manner. A maximum value of the electric current in the second conductor is smaller than maximum values of the electric current in the first and third conductors. The second conductor is arranged between the first conductor and the third conductor in a predetermined direction.
US12025633B2
A two-wire reference accelerometer includes integrated mechanical transducing and self-calibration capability based on gravity only. The reference accelerometer includes an external two-wire connector and an internal three-wire transducer that responds to both steady-state acceleration and time-varying accelerations by producing a modulated transducer output signal having a steady-state waveform when the transducer senses steady state acceleration and a time-varying waveform when the transducer senses time-varying accelerations. A signal conditioning circuit conditions the transducer output signal and applies it to the two-wire electrical connector as a modulated reference accelerometer output signal. The transducer and the signal conditioning circuit can operate without modification in either a DUT calibration mode or a self-calibration mode. The self-calibration mode determines the 1 g output sensitivity of the reference accelerometer from first and second readings of the reference accelerometer output signal taken while the reference accelerometer rests on a non-accelerating surface in respective non-inverted and inverted orientations.
US12025626B2
There is provided a specimen analyzer that can measure carry-over without degrading a specimen processing capability. A specimen analyzer according to the present invention measures a first sample including a first specimen and a first internal reference material, subsequently measures a second sample including a second specimen and a second internal reference material, and calculates an amount of the second specimen included in the second sample using an amount of the first internal reference material measured when the first sample has been measured and an amount of the second internal reference material measured when the second sample has been measured.
US12025623B2
The present invention inter alia provides a method, and use thereof, of diagnosing and/or predicting atherosclerosis or CVD by detecting the lipid concentrations or lipid ratios of a biological sample and comparing it to a control and has identified specific lipid markers that are more specific and sensitive in detecting and predicting atherosclerosis and CVD than currently utilized clinical markers. Also provided is an antibody towards said lipids, and the use thereof for predicting, diagnosing, preventing and/or treating atherosclerosis or CVD. The invention additionally relates to kits comprising lipids and/or an antibody thereto, for use in the prediction and/or diagnosis of atherosclerosis or CVD.
US12025616B2
Tumor invasion and metastasis is accompanied by significant activations of specific proteolysis enzymes. Tumor area is known to have increased infiltration of immunoglobulins G (“IgG”), so IgG may undergo proteolysis in this area. Serine proteases usually cleave peptide bonds between positively charged amino acids lysine and arginine. Since the intact PLG molecules as well as its fragments have lysine binding sites, they can bind to damaged IgG or fragments thereof with free C-terminal lysine that can appear in a circulation after proteolysis in the malignant tumor area. In the present invention we demonstrated the increased binding of damaged IgG or fragments thereof with free C-terminal lysine to fragments of PLG in samples from patients with breast cancer, ovarian cancer, lung cancer, colorectal cancer, prostate cancer vs. samples from healthy donors, and thus we proposed a novel diagnostic method.
US12025615B2
Provided herein are methods for classifying how a subject having a cancer will respond to immunotherapeutic (IT) therapy based on the subject's immunosignature or frameshift signature. Also provided herein are methods for classifying a subject having a cancer as having a good prognosis or a poor prognosis based on the subject's immunosignature or frameshift signature.
US12025613B2
The present invention relates to a monoclonal antibody capable of binding to biotin. In one embodiment the monoclonal antibody according to the invention also does not bind to a biotin moiety on a biotinylated molecule, wherein the biotin moiety is attached to the molecule via the carbon atom of the carboxyl function of the valeric acid moiety of biotin. Also disclosed is a method for generation of an antibody as discloed herein. The monoclonal antibody according to the invention is of specific use in a method for measuring an analyte in a sample, wherein a (strept)avidin/biotin pair is used to bind a biotinylated analyte specific binding agent to a (strept)avidin coated solid phase.
US12025607B2
Methods, systems, and compositions for wellbore cementing are provided. A method may comprise: analyzing an industrial byproduct and one or more additional components to generate data about physical and/or chemical properties of the industrial byproduct; determining a concentration of the byproduct and the one or more additional components based on the data to provide a settable composition having a twenty-four destructive compressive strength at 100° F. to 200° F. of about 50 psi or greater.
US12025606B2
The invention relates to a system and method for analyzing drilling fluid from a drilling rig for accessing subterranean hydrocarbons. The system and method involve analysis for chloride by replacing conventional chemical titration with electrical conductivity titration.
US12025602B2
A system for autonomous crop monitoring, the system comprising a mobile platform having one or a plurality of imaging devices configured to autonomously travel a path to scan a plurality of inspection regions in a field of crop and obtain images of the inspection regions; and a processor configured to analyze the acquired images to detect an agricultural condition that requires attention (ACRA) and determine the location of that ACRA.
US12025600B2
Mercury that may be contaminated radioactively is converted with radionuclides of other elements to a gaseous state of aggregation, which increases the distance between the mercury atoms and reduces the shielding effect of the mercury with respect to the radionuclides of other elements contained in the mercury. The method disclosed, enables the radiological characterisation of the radiation listing of mercury, without prior processing, in particular homogenization, of the sample being necessary. In particular, the method enables continuous measurement of the entire mass to be characterized and includes preparing a predefined quantity of mercury, evaporating at least one fraction of the prepared mercury, and measuring the radioactive γ-radiation emitted by the gaseous mercury.
US12025595B2
A thermal modulator for a chromatographic system includes a cooler, a thermal valve, a thermal buffer, a heater, and a capillary. The thermal valve thermally-engages the cooler. The thermal buffer thermally-engages the thermal valve. The heater thermally-engages the thermal buffer. The capillary thermally-engages the heater and is configured to transport an analyte in a first direction.
US12025581B2
A method of detecting and/or discriminating mismatched or complementary nucleic acids using a field-effect transistor (FET). The FET comprises source and drain electrodes formed on substrate and separated by a channel that includes a thin semiconducting film. One or more nucleic acid molecules are immobilized to thin semiconducting film. The FET includes a gate electrode in contact with solution containing the sample (or located on the surface of the device). Samples possibly containing target nucleic acid are exposed to the FET of the biosensor device and current response is measured after samples containing target nucleic acid have been exposed to the FET of the biosensor device. Measured current response in the FET is used to detect and/or discriminate whether target nucleic acid is present as well as complementary or mismatched. Measured current response may also be used to differentiate among different mismatches.
US12025579B2
The application provides a method of detecting an analyte in a sample. The method comprises disposing a binding agent in an electrochemical compartment. The binding agent is configured to bind to an interfering species. The method further comprises disposing a solution comprising a sample in the electrochemical compartment. The sample comprises an analyte and the interfering species. The method then comprises applying a voltage across first and second spaced apart electrodes disposed in the solution, and thereby causing a current to flow through the solution between the electrodes. Finally, the method comprises measuring the current and/or voltage and thereby detecting the analyte.
US12025559B2
Minimizing image sensor input/output pads in a pulsed laser mapping imaging system is disclosed. A system includes an emitter for emitting pulses of electromagnetic radiation and an image sensor comprising a pixel array for sensing reflected electromagnetic radiation. The system includes a plurality of bidirectional pads comprising an output state for issuing data and an input state for receiving data. The system includes a controller configured to synchronize timing of the emitter and the image sensor. The system is such that at least a portion of the pulses of electromagnetic radiation emitted by the emitter comprises a laser mapping pattern.
US12025552B1
A quality detection method for porous metal material is provided, and the method includes: acquiring a sectional image of a porous metal material, converting the sectional image to a grayscale image; obtaining a shadow region of each of pore regions and a correction weight value of the shadow region to determine a first qualification index; acquiring an optimal preset clustering K value, and determining a pore diameter distribution uniformity index, and determining a second qualification index based on the pore diameter distribution uniformity index; determining a quality evaluation index of the porous metal material based on the first qualification index and the second qualification index; and determining whether quality of the porous metal material is qualified based on the quality evaluation index. The method realizes the quality detection of the porous metal material and effectively improves the accuracy of the quality detection result of the porous metal material.
US12025548B2
The present technology relates to systems and associated methods for measuring properties of particles in a solution. In one or more embodiments, a particle measurement system is configured to generate a reference signal, communicate the reference signal across a plurality of resistors and overlapping pairs of electrodes that define detection regions for particulates traveling through a microchannel, and measure various properties of the particles based on detecting changes in the communicated reference signal.
US12025538B2
Various embodiments relating to methods for evaluating injury mitigation performance of helmets that are used for sports (e.g., whitewater kayaking and rafting) are described. In one embodiment, a method for evaluating injury mitigation performance of a helmet includes applying a first impact configuration to a first helmet and applying a second impact configuration to a second helmet of the same model as the first helmet. The method further includes generating acceleration data based on impacts that occur as part of the first impact configuration and the second impact configuration. The method further includes determining concussion risk values based on the generated acceleration data. The method also includes determining a concussion risk metric based on the concussion risk values and exposure values.
US12025537B1
Provided is an indoor test device for simulating a vibration pile sinking process and testing a bearing capacity thereof and a test method thereof. The indoor test device comprises a container, a soil located in the container, a vibration penetration system and a balanced vibration damping system, the vibration penetration system is vertically arranged above the soil in the container, and the balanced vibration damping system is located right above the vibration penetration system and coaxially arranged with the vibration penetration system. The indoor test device and the test method apply to researching on the vibration pile sinking process and testing the bearing capacity thereof in different types of soil, and adapts to different frequencies and different exciting forces.
US12025524B2
A torque sensor apparatus includes a torque sensor; a sensor accommodation unit disposed at one side of a rack housing and having therein a space in which the torque sensor is disposed; a sensor cover screw-coupled to the sensor accommodation unit and configured to cover the space; and a wire harness coupled to the sensor cover and electrically connected to the sensor.
US12025517B2
The invention relates to a pressure sensor and related method for the compensation of a pressure, wherein the pressure sensor has a pressure measuring cell, with a housing and an electronic sensor system and an electronic evaluation system disposed within the housing, as well as at least one first temperature sensor for measuring a first temperature and a second temperature sensor for measuring a second temperature, wherein the pressure sensor has a compensation unit connected to the at least two temperature sensors, and wherein the compensation unit determines a compensation for the pressure taking into account at least the first temperature and the second temperature.
US12025511B2
A sensor, comprising a deformable substrate, comprising a structural metamaterial in a first configuration; a plurality of raised structures disposed throughout the substrate, wherein the plurality of raised structures are invertible; a responsive material layer, wherein the responsive material layer is disposed on the plurality of raised structures and is configured to invert the plurality of raised structures in the presence of an external stimuli; and a plurality of second configurations of the deformable substrate that correspond to a plurality of inverted raised structures.
US12025510B2
Tires formed of one or more tire plies are disclosed. In some implementations, tire plies may include a temperature sensor that may detect a temperature of a respective tire ply. The temperature sensor may include one or more split-ring resonators (SRRs), each having a resonance frequency that changes in response to one or more of a change in an elastomeric property or a change in the temperature of a respective one or more tire plies. In some aspects, the temperature sensor may include an electrically-conductive layer dielectrically separated from a respective one or more SRRs.
US12025505B2
The present disclosure relates to a compact temperature sensor displaying a temperature-resistance relationship. The temperature sensor comprises cross-coupled CMOS technology exhibits negative resistance, resulting in resistance-sensitive temperature sensing and amplification. The temperature sensor can be tuned to operate across a wide range of temperatures via modulation of a biasing current. The present disclosure further relates to subthreshold operation of CMOS technology.
US12025492B2
A display panel has a display area and a non-display area surrounding the display area, and includes photosensitive components and a photosensitive driving circuit. The photosensitive components are used to sense ambient light, and the photosensitive driving circuit is connected to the photosensitive components to drive the photosensitive components. The photosensitive driving circuit is disposed in the non-display area, and at least a part of the photosensitive components is disposed in the non-display area.
US12025488B2
Distributed fiber optic sensing systems (DFOS) methods, and structures that employ DVS/DAS point sensors and a two-stage processing methodology/structure that advantageously enable point sensors to send sensor data at any time—thereby providing significant processing advantages over the prior art.
US12025483B2
Method and systems for determining acceptance criteria for identification of occluding particles in a lumen of a device are provided. The methods and systems can be used in methods of identifying an occluded device in an inspection method. The acceptance criteria can be calculated based on mass flow measurements of an occluded representative device.
US12025474B2
A measuring device includes first and second component groups rotatable about an axis relative to each other. The first component group has a scanning component, having a first substrate, and the second component group has a scale component, having a second substrate and an angle scale. The measuring device can determine a relative angular position between the component groups. The measuring device has a passive sensor array having conductor track structures. The conductor track structures are applied on the first substrate by an additive process so that the sensor array determines a torsional load of the first substrate about the axis. Alternatively, the conductor track structures are applied on the second substrate by an additive process so that the sensor array determines a torsional load of the second substrate about the axis.
US12025473B2
A method, as applied to a program-controlled measuring instrument, determines an observable property of an object. The program-controlled measuring instrument has a diagnostic measurement program that is executed by a user. The diagnostic measurement program stores data related to the execution of the diagnostic measurement program and maintains the data for remote transmission to a remote service entity.
US12025471B2
Estimating a difference in height between floors in a building for use in estimating a height or an altitude of one of the floors. A height difference is estimated between a first floor and a second floor based on outdoor temperatures of first and second time periods, an indoor temperature of the first or second time period, and first and second estimated differences in height between the first and second floors that is based on measurements of pressure from mobile devices when the mobile devices were on the first and second floors during the first and second time periods.
US12025470B2
A triangulation device for measuring a measurement object by a projection of a structured light pattern onto the measurement object. The triangulation device includes a projector projecting the structured light pattern decomposable into different spatial frequencies onto the measurement object. The projector comprises a matrix of pixel elements and a lens system which determines a wavefront with a wavefront aberration from a reference wavefront, and a camera including a lens system and an imaging sensor, the camera being configured to receive the structured light pattern projected by the projector onto the measurement object, and a processing unit configured to provide distance information by evaluating imaging information provided by the camera. The wavefront aberration comprises a primary spherical aberration coefficient Z9, wherein the primary spherical aberration coefficient Z9 is larger than 0.5λ, wherein λ is a wavelength of the projected structured light pattern.
US12025467B2
A calibrating method and system for an auxiliary measuring instrument which is designed to form together with a ground-based, stationary, surveying device having range-and-direction measuring functionality, a total station, a system for surveying and/or staking out object points. The auxiliary measuring instrument including a body which has a code for determining the orientation by using a pivoting movement of the body about a resting contact end of the auxiliary measuring instrument.
US12025465B2
Techniques related to generating map data explicitly indicating a total drivable surface, which may include multiple types of drivable surfaces, are described herein. For instance, a given portion of a map may include map data indicating a combination of various drivable surfaces, such as road segments, lane properties, intersections, parking areas, shoulders, driveways, etc. Examples include joining these different types of drivable surfaces into combined map data that explicitly indicates a total drivable surface, such as a perimeter boundary indicating or representing a transition from a drivable surface to a non-drivable surface. The map data indicating the total drivable surface may be searched to determine information related to a drivable surface boundary, such as location and type. This boundary information may be used in various contexts, such as when planning a trajectory or remotely controlling a vehicle.
US12025459B2
Provided are methods and apparatuses for navigation guidance and establishing a three-dimensional real scene model, a device and a medium, which relate to the field of artificial intelligence and, in particular, intelligent transportation technologies. A specific implementation includes: determining a navigation route of a navigation device and candidate three-dimensional real scene data corresponding to the navigation route; where the candidate three-dimensional real scene data includes candidate location information, candidate three-dimensional model data and a candidate observation viewing angle; matching real-time positioning information of the navigation device with the candidate location information in the candidate three-dimensional real scene data to obtain target three-dimensional real scene data; and simulating target three-dimensional model data in the target three-dimensional real scene data at a target observation viewing angle in the target three-dimensional real scene data and at a location corresponding to the real-time positioning information to obtain a real-time navigation guidance image.
US12025454B1
Implementations described herein relate to various techniques for localization of user(s) in environment(s). In particular, processor(s) can utilize a multi-scan technique, a semantic segmentation technique, or a combination of these techniques. In utilizing the multi-scan technique, the processor(s) can initially determine a subset of candidate maps that are predicted to correspond to an environment of a user, and from a superset of candidate maps. Further, the processor(s) can obtain vision data that captures the environment, process the vision data to determine a narrower subset of candidate maps and to determine a given map, from the narrower subset of candidate maps corresponding to the environment. In utilizing the semantic segmentation technique, the processor(s) can additionally, or alternatively, determine semantic properties of the environment. The semantic properties can be utilized to initially constrain the subset of candidate maps and/or utilized in subsequently determining the given map.
US12025450B2
Various examples are directed to systems and methods for routing an autonomous vehicle. A comparison engine may access first route data describing a first route and second route data describing a second route. The comparison engine may generate first normalized route data using the first route data, where the first normalized route data comprises a first plurality of normalized positions along the first route. The comparison engine may also generate second normalized route data using the second route data, where the second normalized route data comprises a second plurality of normalized positions along the second route. The route comparison engine may compare a first position from a first plurality of normalized positions with a first corresponding position from the second plurality of normalized positions and may instruct an autonomous vehicle to begin executing an autonomous vehicle route based at least in part on the comparing.
US12025449B2
A network system dynamically determines a route, including start and end points, for vehicles in a transportation network. The transportation network receives a service request from a user of the transportation network including an origin location for the trip and a destination location for the trip. The transportation network then generates a waypoint plan for one or more vehicles, which includes the requested origin and destination in addition to any previously requested origins and destinations included in the vehicles current route. The network system then determines a directionality for each of the waypoints in the waypoint plan and retrieves candidate start and end points that have an associated directionality within a threshold angle of the directionality of each waypoint and are proximate to the waypoint. The network system evaluates each combination of retrieved candidate points to select a route for the vehicle.
US12025445B2
A sensor system having a MEMS gyroscope. The sensor system includes a seismic mass for acquiring a measuring signal, a drive circuit, an acquisition circuit for reading out and demodulating the measuring signal, whereby a rate of rotation signal and a quadrature signal phase-shifted relative to the rate of rotation signal is generated, and a digital processing circuit for compensating an offset of the digitized rate of rotation signal using the digitized quadrature signal. The acquisition circuit and the digital processing circuit encompass a rate of rotation circuit, and a quadrature circuit for generating and processing the quadrature signal and generating a compensation signal for the offset compensation of the digitized rate of rotation signal. At least part of the quadrature circuit is operable in at least one other operating mode than the rate of rotation circuit, independently of the operating mode of the rate of rotation circuit.
US12025437B2
A stretchable strain sensor based on vertical graphene having a stretch ratio of more than 50% and is capable of recognizing timbre with frequency greater than f hertz, f being 100, 800 or 2500, and having a sensitivity factor greater than 100 at 50% stretch, wherein the vertical graphene comprises a bottom plane layer and a vertical layer and contains high-density reticular cracks, wherein the directions of the cracks can be transverse, vertical and oblique directions, wherein the reticular cracks divide the vertical graphene into a plurality of small blocks, and adjacent small blocks are electrically connected through the vertical layer in stretched state, the cracks widen, but still can be bridged by the vertical layer, the two sides of the cracks still remain electrically connected, the sensor remains effective, wherein average diameter range of the plane of each small block is between 5 and 20 microns.
US12025433B2
A detection device for an least semiautomated detection of multiple object data sets of at least one object is described. The detection devices includes a movement device for generating a defined relative movement between at least one object data detection unit and the at least one object.
US12025432B2
Systems and methods are provided for ultrasonic imaging of composite parts. One embodiment is a method that includes providing an object having multiple layers of fibers and resin, inducing ultrasonic waves at locations along the object, and attenuating the ultrasonic waves at the regions due to regions interspersed among the layers that each exhibit an elastic modulus distinct from an elastic modulus of the fibers and distinct from an elastic modulus of the matrix. The method further includes receiving the attenuated ultrasonic waves, and analyzing the attenuated ultrasonic waves to determine depths of the regions.
US12025431B2
A three dimensional (3D) measuring device. The 3D measuring device includes a rotational supporting shaft, a supporting frame configured to support the supporting shaft, a beam irradiator arranged at the supporting shaft for irradiating beam of light onto an object, a capturer arranged at the supporting shaft to be at a distance from the beam irradiator and configured to capture the beam projected on the object, and at least one processor configured to control rotation of the supporting shaft and obtain a 3D shape of the object based on image information obtained by the capturer as the supporting shaft is rotated.
US12025423B2
A camera information calculation device includes a hardware processor. The hardware processor functions as a first calculation unit and a second calculation unit. The first calculation unit calculates, based on a first image and a first video, first camera positional information indicating a position of a first camera. The first image includes a first object taken by the first camera. The first video includes the first object taken by a third camera. The second calculation unit calculates, based on a second image and a second video, second camera positional information indicating a position of a second camera disposed away from the first camera. The second image includes a second object taken by the second camera. The second video includes the second object taken by the third camera.
US12025415B1
A less-lethal projectile include a rear portion and a front portion. The rear portion can be a base member having a head, a waist, and a skirt configured to obturate a rifled barrel bore of an airgun. The front portion can be a hollow cylindrical cap sealingly engaged with the head such that the cap and the base member define an interior cavity in which a payload is received. The cap can include a plurality of fins and grooves configured to stabilize the projectile during flight toward a target and open without shattering the cap to release the payload from the cavity upon impact of the projectile with the target.
US12025413B1
Methods and systems for aided target shooting are disclosed, including providing a lighted target aide having a target aide body having a light source; a power source at least partially disposed within the target aide body and switchably coupled to the light source; and an insertion member coupled to the target aide body, wherein the insertion member is configured to removably couple the lighted target aide to a target; placing the lighted target aide in an illuminated state; attaching the lighted target aide to the target by inserting the insertion member into the target or attaching the insertion member to the target; and using light emitted from the lighted target aide as a guide when shooting an arrow or ammunition to the target. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US12025406B2
A scope mount apparatus for attaching an optical scope to a firearm is provided. The scope mount apparatus includes at least one base with at least one fastening element for attaching the base to the firearm. The scope mount apparatus also includes two scope rings operatively connected to the at least one base. An integral sighting system is mounted with respect to the base. The scope mount apparatus is configured such that an unobstructed line of sight extends between the scope rings and the base. The unobstructed line of sight contacts or intersects the sighting system so that a user of the firearm has the option of using either a scope in the scope rings or the integrated sighting system to aim at a target.
US12025402B1
A projectile launching device having a bowstring carrier operably coupled with a bowstring carrier traverse assembly. The bowstring carrier traverse assembly having a motor operable with a spool and a connecting component, wherein when the bowstring is not retaining a bowstring and the bowstring carrier is in the cocked position, the traverse assembly selectively returns the bowstring carrier to the at-rest position.
US12025399B2
Provided herein is a string shooting device having a string capable of generating lift when propelled from the string shooting device and a guide to readily attach and detach the string from the string shooting device. A string shooting device described herein includes: a body; a housing attached to the body; a pair of wheels, where at least one of the pair of wheels is a driven wheel; and a string, where the string includes a surface texture configured to increase air friction in response to the string being propelled through the air by the pair of wheels. The string of an example embodiment defines an axis along which the string extends, and where the string includes a plurality of fibers extending away from the axis.
US12025397B2
A firearm magazine carrying device includes a base and clip, where the clip portion can fold into the base. When the device is attached to or integrated into a firearm magazine baseplate, it allows the attachment of a firearm magazine to an article of clothing, pocket, bag, or other places where it is desired to secure a firearm magazine, without the aid of a carrier, pouch, or other devices.
US12025394B2
A training pistol and method of providing the same having fixedly and adjustably removable base extensions to emulate the feel of a corresponding live fire pistol, a trigger mechanism configured to be fit in a compact pistol to provide a large number and sophistication of sear surfaces and biasing members such as helical springs and lasers into a compact pistol to provide training for an end user such as concealed carry holder or law enforcement personnel.
US12025393B2
The present device is a shortened recoil system designed to replace the AR-15 type recoil system, comprising the standard recoil systems of many commonly used rifles including the AR-10, AR-15, M-16 and M-4. This shortened recoil system removes or replaces the parts of the traditional recoil system located in the stocks of these rifles and place the entire recoil system within the receiver, while maintaining the alignment of the recoil system with the barrel of the rifle. A major advantage of the present system is that it allows the rifle to be fired with a folded stock or even with no stock at all, as no part of the present recoil system is located within the stock.
US12025391B2
A firearm operating system includes a forward bolt with an internal cavity, a carrier disposed on a rear side of the forward bolt where the carrier includes a cavity, a short cam pin, a plurality of bearings, a retracted configuration, and a deployed configuration. At least a portion of a forward section of the short cam pin is disposed within the internal cavity of the forward bolt. At least a portion of a rear section of the short cam pin is disposed within the cavity of the carrier. Movement from the retracted configuration to the deployed configuration includes movement in a forward/aft direction of the short cam pin relative to the forward bolt and movement of the plurality of bearings.
US12025389B2
A trigger assembly for a firearm is disclosed wherein the firearm includes a receiver, a safety selector and a hammer. The trigger assembly includes a trigger having a pivot axis, a front hook which is constructed and arranged to move with trigger rotation, a rear hook which is cooperatively arranged with the front hook and a spring which is positioned between the front hook and the rear hook. The front hook and the trigger are constructed and arranged relative to the safety selector and relative to the hammer in order to allow the hammer to be recocked from an upright position with the safety selector in a “SAFE” position. This particular construction provides a trigger assembly which is constructed and arranged as a two-stage, drop-in trigger assembly which is compliant with the European Standard for an M4/M16 (AR) platform.
US12025388B2
A heat exchanger with a heat-exchange core in which a first fluid and a second fluid circulate, at least one header tank configured to duct the second fluid from or to the heat-exchange core. The header tank has at least a shoulder oriented toward the outside of said header tank, and at least one header tank corner. At least one fastening member for fastening the header tank is positioned at least partly at the periphery of the heat-exchange core and includes at least one peripheral groove delimited by a base wall and a lateral wall and in which the shoulder of the header tank is at least partially housed. Part of the corner portion faces an upper face of the shoulder opposite to the groove of the fastening member and at a non-zero distance from this upper face so that a space is left between the corner portion and the upper face of the shoulder.
US12025375B2
Methods for drying a substrate. The methods include the following steps: (a) emitting infrared radiation towards a substrate moving through a process space using an emitter unit comprising at least one inflated emitter, (b) generating at least two process gas streams of a process gas directed towards the substrate, (c) drying the substrate by the action of infrared radiation and process gas on the substrate, and (d) extracting moisture-laden process gas from the process space via an extraction duct, forming an exhaust air stream leading away from the substrate. To specify a drying method which is reproducible and effective and leads to an improved result, in particular in terms of homogeneity and speed of drying of the substrate, the at least two process gas streams are guided to the infrared emitter before they act on the substrate, and an exhaust air stream is spatially assigned to each process gas stream.
US12025364B2
A cooling system including an air distribution plenum, a heat exchanger, a first fan, a second fan, an air damper, and a first air duct. The air distribution plenum is provided with a first side and a second side and defines first aperture and a second aperture. The first side forms a number of passages fluidly connected to a first compartment and a second compartment. The first fan is coupled to the air distribution plenum and configured to direct air from the heat exchanger through the first aperture to the number of passages. The second fan is coupled to the air distribution plenum and configured to direct air from the heat one or more of the number of compartments. The air damper is configured to selectively block the air from at least one of the first fan and the second fan.
US12025358B2
An apparatus for making ice cubes that comprises at least one elongated mould (102) that defines a space (117) for an ice column, which space (117) is at least substantially closed at least while a liquid substance is being refrigerated. A supplying device (118) is provided for supplying the liquid substance to the at least one elongated mould (102). A refrigerating device (111) is provided for freezing the liquid substance inside the at least one elongated mould (102) An elongated element (101) is configured to extend through said at least one mould (102) in a longitudinal direction of said at least one mould (102). The elongated element (101) is configured to rotate around a longitudinal axis of the elongated element (101).
US12025357B2
Provided are a refrigeration heat reclaim unit and method, comprising a heat exchanger, comprising a refrigerant inlet that receives a flow of refrigerant having a first state; a refrigerant outlet that outputs the flow of refrigerant having a second state; a water loop inlet that receives a flow of liquid at a first temperature; a water loop outlet that outputs the flow of liquid from the reclaim heat exchanger at a second temperature that is greater than the first temperature in response to the flow of refrigerant. The refrigeration reclaim unit also comprises a refrigerant flow control device having outputs to the refrigerant inlet and an air-cooled condenser, respectively for controlling the flow of refrigerant to at least one of the refrigerant inlet and the air-cooled condenser for maintaining a predetermined flow quality value at the refrigerant outlet.
US12025350B2
A geothermal system including a multitube vertically-sealed underground heat-exchanger includes: a geothermal well formed by vertically excavating a foundation; a heat pump which is arranged in the foundation, and which includes a circulating pump; and a connection tube, an auxiliary facility, and a multitube vertically-sealed underground heat-exchanger which are buried and installed in the geothermal well, and which are connected to the heat pump such that a thermal fluid thermally restored in the geothermal well is supplied to the heat pump through the circulating pump, and the thermal fluid that has undergone heat exchange in the heat pump is recovered back to the geothermal well and thermally restored therein.
US12025346B2
The present invention relates to a smoke tube boiler including: a mix chamber which includes a mixing space in which combustion gas and air are mixed, a mix chamber body having a flat shape, and a flat plate-shaped burner disposed in a horizontal direction above a combustion chamber; and a heat exchanger which includes an outer shell forming an outer wall of a water tank into and from which a heat medium is introduced and discharged and which accommodates the heat medium, a plurality of tubes formed in a flat shape that are configured to allow combustion gas generated in the combustion chamber to flow therein and cause a heat exchange to occur between the combustion gas and the heat medium flowing outside the tubes, turbulators coupled to an inner side of the tube and configured to induce occurrence of a turbulent flow in the flow of the combustion gas, and multi-stage barriers disposed between the outer shell and the tube and configured to induce a heat medium flow direction to be alternately changed between a radially inward direction and a radially outward direction.
US12025343B2
A gas detection and purification device is provided for being carried by a user and includes a body, a purification module, a gas-guiding unit, and a gas detection module. The gas detection module detects a gas nearby the user to obtain a gas detection data, and the gas detection module controls the operation of the gas-guiding unit based on the gas detection data, guides the gas into the body, guides the gas to pass through the purification module for being filtered and purified to become a purified gas, and discharges the purified gas to a region nearby the user.
US12025339B2
This present invention relates to a unique HVAC air filter holder designed to prevent or reduce air from escaping or otherwise bypassing the HVAC air filter. The HVAC air filter holder comprises a filter securing device, and is a material that is compressible, moldable, expansible or the like such that it can be secured around the perimeter of the air filter.
US12025336B1
A dual pressure damper used as an air intake damper in an air intake duct, The intake duct is used for introducing intake air into a room. The dual pressure damper helps maintain a negative air pressure “N” in the room. In particular, the room is used for plant oil extraction. The intake air vents toxic gases from the room and out an exhaust duct. The dual pressure damper includes a low pressure damper blade and a high pressure damper blade. A torsion coil spring includes a long torque arm attached to the low pressure damper blade and a short torque arm attached to the high pressure damper blade. The torque arms are used to open and close the damper blades at different incoming air pressures.
US12025328B2
An outdoor unit of an air-conditioning apparatus includes: a refrigerant circuit in which a compressor and an outdoor-side heat exchanger are connected by a refrigerant pipe; an outdoor-side fan that sends air to the outdoor-side heat exchanger; and a controller including an inverter circuit configured to drive the compressor. The controller includes: a first heat generating component; a second heat generating component that generates a smaller amount of heat than the first heat generating component; a temperature detection circuit provided in the first heat generating component to detect a temperature thereof; a temperature acquisition module that acquires the temperature detected by the temperature detection circuit; and an estimate calculation module that calculates a temperature estimate of the second heat generating component based on the temperature acquired by the temperature acquisition module, and calculates an estimate of a life of the second heat generating component based on the temperature estimate.
US12025317B2
A method for releasably connecting a fitted device (200) to a piece of furniture (320) uses a connecting device (110). The fitted device (200) includes an attachment element (220) disposed on its housing (5), and the connecting device (110) includes an at least two-part connecting element (14) and a mounting gauge (130). The method involves inserting the fitted device (200) into an installation recess (310) adjacent to the piece of furniture; aligning the fitted device (200) relative to the piece of furniture (320); positioning the mounting gauge (130) on the attachment element (220); connecting, guided by the mounting gauge (130), a first part (122) of the connecting element (14) to the piece of furniture; removing the mounting gauge (130); and fixing the fitted device (200) on the piece of furniture (320) by connecting a second part (125) of the connecting element (14) to the first part.
US12025311B2
Known micromixers for fuel injection (e.g., in a gas turbine engine) experience early burning or have limited operability. Accordingly, a micromixer is disclosed that utilizes an air nozzle, in combination with one or more fuel jets, to produce short flames that minimize the emission of nitrogen oxides, while providing additional benefits, such as mechanical robustness, aerodynamic efficiency, resistance to flame damage, suitability for additive manufacturing, wider operating ranges, operation with a variety of gaseous fuels, and/or amenability to control using conventional mechanisms.
US12025309B2
A method for operating a premix gas burner wherein an air flow rate and/or a fuel gas flow rate are controlled so as to generate heat with the premix burner in accordance with a heat demand related value. The fuel gas comprises hydrogen and the method further provides a desired air excess factor relation of the air/fuel gas mixture which defines the relation between a desired air excess factor and an input variable like the heat demand related value, an air flow rate related value, or a fuel gas flow rate related value. The desired air excess factor is not a constant factor but varies for different input variable values. The fuel gas flow rate and/or the air flow rate are controlled such that an actual air excess factor converges towards the desired air excess factor while meeting the heat demand.
US12025305B2
A solute concentration decision method for deciding a planned value CI of a concentration of a solute in a solution to be supplied to a first drum among one or more steam drums for temporarily containing steam generated in a boiler of a steam turbine plant includes a step of deciding the planned value CI of the concentration of the solute in the solution to be supplied to the first drum, on the basis of a target concentration of the solute in the solution in the first drum and a capacity coefficient of the solute in a drum unit including the first drum and an evaporator for generating steam contained in the first drum.
US12025296B2
Apparatus and methods for deployment of fixtures. The apparatus may include a system for controlling deployed fixtures. The system may receive user commands different devices in different formats. The fixtures may be independently addressable. The fixtures may be magnetically supported by a fixture support. A brace may join two or more fixture supports without reducing space available to support fixtures. The brace may join a fixture support to a fixture support accessory. An accessory may include a variable-angle junction. The fixture may include articulating joints for controlling the direction of a beam. The fixture may include a lens having an electrically controllable beam spread angle. The fixture may be stowable in the fixture support. The fixture may be slidable along a cord to adjust a height of the fixture. The fixture may include an extendable ring. The system may coordinate motions of the fixtures to follow a target. The fixture may include an elongated board. The elongated board may include a non-polar power socket.
US12025291B2
The present disclosure discloses a lighting lamp, the lighting lamp includes a housing, a control system and a first light source module, the housing has a light exiting port, the first light source module includes a light guide plate and a first red green blue (RGB) light source, the control system controls the first RGB light source to emit first light of a first predetermined color, the light guide plate is installed on the light exiting port, the light guide plate includes a first plate surface facing outside of the housing, a second plate surface facing inside of the housing, and an outer peripheral surface connecting the first plate surface and the second plate surface, the first RGB light source faces the outer peripheral surface, wherein the first light enters the light guide plate through the outer peripheral surface, and exits the light guide plate through the first plate surface.
US12025284B2
A vehicle lighting unit ensures support rigidity of a substrate connection part in the front-rear direction without increasing components. The vehicle lighting unit includes a light source part, a power feeding member, a heat dissipation member, and a socket. The light source part has a light-emitting element, and a substrate connected to the light-emitting element. The power feeding member supplies power to the light source part. The heat dissipation member is mounted with the light source part. The socket is assembled on the rear side opposite to the front surface of the heat dissipation member mounted with the light source part. In the vehicle lighting unit, the substrate and the power feeding member are electrically connected by the substrate connection part. The heat dissipation member integrally has an extension support unit that supports at least the substrate connection part in placement in a front-rear direction of the heat dissipation member.
US12025279B2
The disclosure provides a gas filling method. The gas filling method includes the following steps: an effective heat mass calculation step, which uses the heat capacity of the piping and the detection value of the gas temperature sensor to calculate the value of the effective heat mass related to the temporary pressure loss caused by the piping before gas-filling is started; a pressure loss parameter calculation step, which uses the detection value of the pressure sensor when the flow rate of the gas in the piping changes to calculate the value of the pressure loss parameter related to the pressure loss caused by the piping after the gas-filling is started; and a filling condition changing step, which changes the filling condition into a condition that is defined based on the value of the pressure loss parameter and gas-filling is continued.
US12025273B2
A head for a pressurised gas tank comprises a structure having an opening, a head comprising a base disposed in the opening, and a valve assembled with the base. The base comprises a boss disposed outside the tank, at least one first channel comprising an axial part along the axis which is not open connected with the inside of the tank, and at least one radial part. The at least one radial part is pierced radially in the boss until the radial part joins the axial part. The valve has a substantially annular shape comprising a first bore corresponding to the boss in order to be able to be engaged on the boss, and at least one second channel, one end of which opens into the first bore axially in line with said at least one radial part. A tank comprising such a head is also provided.
US12025256B2
The present disclosure relates to a low-spill coupling assembly including a female coupling device and a male coupling device.
US12025251B2
A pipe support system includes a pair of leg supports spaced apart from one another. Each of the pair of leg supports includes an elongated base and a column. The pipe support system also includes a strut coupled to each column of the pair of leg supports and at a first height above the elongated bases. A support platform coupled to each column of the pair of leg supports and at a second height above the elongated bases. The support platform defines a longitudinal axis, and the second height is different from the first height. The pipe support system further includes one or more rollers coupled to the support platform. The one or more rollers are disposed around the support platform and rotatable around the longitudinal axis.
US12025249B2
A telescopic joint for connecting two pipes in a separating vessel of a fluid catalytic cracking unit includes a first pipe and a second pipe; wherein the two pipes are connected together at their ends by a sliding ring comprising a first portion extending substantially parallel to the first and second pipes, and a second portion extending substantially perpendicular to the first and second pipes, to thereby form an L profile; the first pipe comprises a fitting seat fixed at its end, and a flanged ring, the flanged ring and the fitting seat being configured to surround at least partially the second portion of the sliding ring; and the telescopic joint comprises a first plurality of gaskets positioned in a first space between the second portion of the sliding ring and the fitting seat and distributed in a direction parallel to the second portion of the sliding ring.
US12025248B1
A method and assembly for improving and maintaining a seal between an insulating rod and a flange in a desalter entrance bushing assembly. The assembly includes an insulating rod with a shoulder for a biasing component, a hub nut with a spring seat for a biasing component, a biasing component, and a flange to which the insulating rod can create a fluid tight seal. The shoulder and spring seat can form approximately 90-degree platforms on which the biasing component can apply force when the hub nut is appropriately secured to the flange. The method includes threading the hub nut containing the biasing component into the flange. The nut is secured to a predetermined torque and the biasing component ensures that the seal is maintained during temperature and pressure fluctuations.
US12025247B2
A mounting assembly including two end pieces whose ends are able to be fitted along an axis and a mounting belt disposed around the second end piece in a pre-mounted configuration before the fitting of the first end piece by an opening delimited by a first edge of the belt. The end pieces have respectively a first and a second centering surface able, in the fitted state, to axially overlap and to come into contact to limit the relative clearances of the end pieces. The belt carries a retaining lug which extends outside the belt. In the pre-mounted state, the end pieces are retained in the fitted state by the combination of contact of the centering surfaces and cooperation of the free end of the retaining lug with a bearing surface of the first end piece located on the side of the first edge of the belt.
US12025241B2
A valve system includes, but is not limited to, a rotary valve; an actuator coupled with the rotary valve, wherein the actuator comprises a power connection fed from electronics associated with the actuator or coupled to the actuator; an actuator cap coupled with the actuator, the actuator cap configured to allow the power connection to pass through; a valve collar configured to be attached to the actuator cap, wherein the valve collar comprises an electronic feedthrough passage for the power connection; a sensor housing adjacent to the rotary valve and configured to support one or more sensors; and a retainer portion coupled with the rotary valve, the retainer portion configured to couple with the actuator cap through mating of respective retainer pins and apertures to allow electrical connection between the power connector and the sensor connector while remaining fixed with respect to the valve collar.
US12025238B2
A core rod has internal and external profiles disposed in a housing assembly. A power spring in cooperation with the core rod within the housing assembly is connected to a power spring stopper that is fixed to the housing assembly with at least one shear screw. An inner axial cycling piston bar includes an external profile for mating engagement with the internal profile of the core rod. The inner axial cycling piston bar is connected to a piston in cooperation with a cycling spring, and the piston is configured to move in an upward direction. When a downward force exerted by the cycling spring exceeds the upwardly applied cycling force, the piston, the inner axial cycling piston bar, and the external profile move in a downward direction, thereby causing the core rod to move an incremental distance in the downward direction, which compresses the power spring by the incremental distance.
US12025237B2
A capacity control valve includes a valve housing. A main valve including a valve body is driven by a solenoid, and a main valve seat which is provided between a discharge port and a control port and with which the valve body 51 is allowed to contact. A pressure sensitive valve member forming a pressure sensitive valve with a pressure sensitive body is disposed in a pressure sensitive chamber. The control port and a suction port communicate through an intermediate communication passage by opening the pressure sensitive valve. A slide valve body slides relative to the pressure sensitive valve member to open and close a through-hole communicating with the intermediate communication passage. The slide valve body partitions the pressure sensitive chamber into a Pd side space and a Pc side space, and a Pd-Pc flow passage providing communication between two spaces and is formed in the slide valve body.
US12025230B2
A sealing system including an annular support, an annular sealing element and an annular shielding element; a first and a second lip of the sealing element interact slidingly with an abutment surface of the shielding element and each include: a root portion which extends perpendicularly in cantilever fashion from a flange portion of the annular support; a flexing portion, which extends in cantilever fashion from the root portion in an oblique direction with a thinner radial thickness, delimited by an annular internal surface facing the abutment surface and by an annular external surface facing towards the support, consisting of surfaces of revolution generated by segments of circumference; and a contact portion including a wedge-shaped overhang and a step portion flanking the overhang, which forms with the abutment surface a first and a second angle (α, β), the first angle facing the annular support and being smaller than the second angle.
US12025228B2
A sealing structure is configured in the following manner. When a packing having a pair of sealing portions formed at opposite edge portions of the outer peripheral surface thereof is installed in a land portion of a spool, the outside diameter of the packing is made smaller than the diameter of a slide surface of a spool hole. In a state in which the outer periphery of the land portion opposes the slide surface and a pressurized fluid is supplied from a gas supply channel to the first space of first and second spaces that are partitioned by the land portion, the edge portion of the packing positioned near the first space is elastically elongated in a radial direction due to pressure of the pressurized fluid and thereby narrows a gap formed between the first sealing portion and the slide surface of the spool hole or abuts the slide surface.
US12025224B1
An improvement to the Waissi type opposed piston internal combustion (IC) engine is proposed. The engine has at least one pair of aligned and opposed cylinders with one reciprocating double-headed piston assembly in each cylinder pair. The reciprocating motion of the piston is transmitted to the driveshaft by a rotating crankdisk, which is mounted off-centered to the driveshaft. When the crankdisk rotates, the flat linear sections on the outer perimeter of the bearing ring prevent the bearing ring from rotating, hydrodynamic lubrication conditions are created on both the outer flat linear interfaces and the inner perimeter of the bearing ring.
US12025221B2
A park lock mechanism for a motor vehicle includes a park lock pawl for selectively forming a form-locking connection to a lock region, the park lock mechanism having a locking mode, in which the park lock pawl is moved into a locking position, and a driving mode, in which the park lock pawl is moved into a driving position. The park lock pawl is pivotable about a pawl axis from the locking position into the driving position. A locking pawl spring device preloads the park lock pawl into the driving position. A locking pawl actuation device has a locking pawl actuator with a locking pawl actuator shaft and has a locking pawl cone, the locking pawl cone being movable along a cone axis by the locking pawl actuator. The cone axis is parallel to the pawl axis. The locking pawl cone is movable along the cone axis between a cone driving position and a cone locking position. The parking lock pawl is forced into the locking position against the preload of the locking pawl spring device by the locking pawl cone in the cone locking position. A locking cone lever is provided for moving the locking pawl cone along the cone axis, the locking cone lever being freely rotatable by the locking pawl actuator shaft.
US12025219B2
A hydrostatic traction drive includes a hydrostatic pump and a hydrostatic motor connected to each other in an open circuit. One of the pump and motor is pressure-regulated while the other is torque-controlled or regulated in terms of pivot angle. A braking mode is therefore possible in which the secondary-side braking torque can be adapted to the permissible primary-side supporting torque of a primary machine coupled to the pump. To further increase the braking power, even in a high rotational phase of the primary machine, the permissible drag torque thereof can be temporarily exceeded. To further increase the braking power and therefore to have high-performance braking during operation, further means for converting energy can be provided in order to adjust a secondary-side braking torque and a primary-side supporting torque independently of each other.
US12025196B2
The invention relates to a brake device having a frame, at least one pair of mutually opposing braking elements, at least one actuation element in operative connection with each braking element, and a spring device, wherein each braking element has three joint sections which are arranged in a row and are connected to one another via flexure bearings, and the middle joint section of which has a contact section, and the two joint sections adjoining the middle joint section are each connected integrally to the frame via a flexure bearing, wherein a force is exerted on each braking element by means of the spring device, by means of which force the respective contact section can be pressed with a defined force against an element to be braked, and a force which counteracts the force exerted on the braking elements by the spring device acts on the braking elements by means of a continuous energy input into the actuation elements and, when the energy input into the actuation elements is absent, the force exerted by the latter on the braking elements is removed.
US12025195B2
A brake disk or drum has at least one working surface which opposes a braking member such as a brake pad or shoe. A plurality of spaced, raised island formations are provided across the working surface, with channels extending between the island formations. Each raised island formation has an outer surface which contacts a brake pad or brake shoe during braking.
US12025193B2
A braking and/or clamping device for a shaft guided in relation to a basic body, includes an actuating assembly (10) and a shaft-coupling assembly (80). The actuating assembly comprises a split housing (11) which has two bending plates (15, 16) which can bulge elastically in certain regions. The bending plates each have gripper jaws (23, 24) with frictional surfaces (31, 32). A sealed pressure chamber (37), which can be filled with a pressure medium, is situated between the bending plates. Parts of a shaft-coupling assembly project between the clamping zones, said parts establishing and establish the linking to the braked or clamped shaft. When the pressure in the pressure chamber is relieved, the frictional surfaces of the actuating assembly can be applied to the frictional surfaces of the shaft-coupling assembly, thereby providing the braking and/or clamping force.
US12025191B2
A first drive cam groove extends from a drive cam specific position to one side in a circumferential direction. A second drive cam groove extends from the drive cam specific position to the other side in the circumferential direction, and an inclination angle of a groove bottom with respect to one end surface of the drive cam main body is larger than that of the first drive cam groove. A first driven cam groove extends from a driven cam specific position to one side in a circumferential direction. A second driven cam groove extends from the driven cam specific position to the other side in the circumferential direction, and an inclination angle of a groove bottom with respect to one end surface of the driven cam main body is larger than that of the first driven cam groove.
US12025164B2
A coupling seat provides a seat space in which the coupling head of a coupling bolt can be releasably locked and moved linearly in the seat space. The seat has a wall that surrounds the seat space, and the dome has a locking structure to fasten the coupling seat in an installation opening in a component. The seat has an open end and a closed end with a locking structure for the head of the coupling bolt. The locking structure of the dome comprises latching bars that are arranged opposite each other on an inner wall of the seat space and parallel to a longitudinal axis of an inner dome cross-section and form an undercut opposite the insertion direction. The locking structure permits movement of a coupling bolt along the latching bars in the seat space transverse to the insertion direction.
US12025162B2
A set including a first panel, a second panel, a back panel, and a mechanical locking device for locking of a first edge surface of the first panel to a second edge surface of the second panel at a junction plane. The mechanical locking device includes at least one rod-shaped element at the first edge surface and at least one insertion groove at the second edge surface, the rod-shaped element is configured to be inserted into the insertion groove. The mechanical locking device includes a first panel groove on a first panel surface on the first panel and/or a second panel groove on the second panel surface of the second panel. The back panel is configured to cooperate with at least one of the panel grooves, and a locking gear configured to cooperate with the back panel and a panel groove, for locking of the first panel to the second panel.
US12025161B2
Disclosed herein is a joint structure of a telescopic cylinder, the joint structure including a telescopic unit, an extension unit and a first fixing unit, wherein the telescopic unit includes a first main body, a first combined structure and at least one first fixing structure; the extension unit includes a second main body, a second combined structure and at least one second fixing structure; the first combined structure is screwed to the second combined structure; and the first fixing unit includes at least one first fixing body, and the first fixing body is simultaneously arranged in the first fixing structure and the second fixing structure and interferes with the first main body and the second main body so as to prevent the first combined structure and the second combined structure from spiral movement.
US12025153B2
An impeller seat for a pump, the impeller seat comprising an inlet wall, an inlet radius, and a guide pin connected to and extending radially inwards from the inlet wall. The guide pin includes a tip radius. A 40%-circle is offset radially inwards from a circular intersection forty percent of the difference between the inlet radius and the tip radius. The guide pin comprises a leading edge configured for scraping off pollutants from an impeller of the pump, and, at least between the inlet wall and the 40%-circle, comprises a pre-leading edge located upstream the leading edge of the guide pin, seen in the direction of rotation of the pump and seen in an axial direction.
US12025150B2
A multistage pump includes a pump casing, a shaft, a first impeller, a second impeller, and a pipe. The shaft is rotatably disposed within the pump casing and has a longitudinal axis. The first impeller is disposed within the casing at a first position along the shaft. The second impeller is disposed within the casing at a second position and along the shaft. The pipe is detachably attached to the pump casing, and has an inlet and an outlet, the inlet disposed at the discharge of the first impeller and the outlet disposed at an eye of the second impeller, such that discharge from the first impeller can be conveyed to the eye of the second impeller.
US12025149B2
A ducted fan that includes a housing with a cylindrical shape, a ring motor in the housing, and fan blades extending radially inward from an inner circumferential surface of the ring motor. The housing includes a first housing that covers a first side in an axial direction of the ring motor and a second housing that covers a second side in the axial direction of the ring motor. The second housing includes through holes penetrating the second housing at a portion on the second side in the axial direction with respect to the ring motor. The housing includes an outer circumferential wall including first and second wall portions located in outer circumferential portions of the first and second housings. The outer circumferential wall includes opening portions defined by a gap between the first and second wall portions.
US12025132B1
A pump for fluid material includes a housing and a rotor member within the housing mounted to rotate between a passageway end plate and a drive end plate each having inward facing cam surfaces. The housing, plates, and rotor member in assembly form a passageway between a passageway cam surface and a first side of the rotor member. This places the passageway's intake opening and discharge opening in communication with each other along the passageway. The rotor member's vane elements are configured to slide laterally and move reciprocally as the rotor member rotates, moving the fluid material being fed into the intake opening, through the passageway, and finally out the discharge opening.
US12025130B2
According to one embodiment, a rotary compressor includes a compression mechanism unit. When H is the length of a middle shaft part, Hp is the length of a bearing hole, Dp is the inner diameter of the bearing hole, Dc is the outer diameter of a crank part, Dm is the outer diameter of the middle journal part, C1 is the axial length of a first chamfered part provided to a middle shaft part-side end edge of the crank part, C2 is the axial length of a second chamfered part, C3 is the axial length of a third chamfered part, and C4 is the axial length of a fourth chamfered part, Dp is larger than Dc and Dm, and the relationships of [Equation 1] H≤Hp, [Equation 2] H>Hp−C1−C2−√{square root over ((Dp2−Dc2))}, and [Equation 3] H>Hp−C3−C4−√{square root over ((Dp2−Dm2))} are all satisfied.
US12025124B2
An electric pump includes a motor unit rotationally driving a drive shaft, and a pump unit. The pump unit includes a pump rotor that sends the fluid by a driving force of the driving shaft, and a pump housing that covers at least one side of the pump rotor. The pump housing includes an attachment surface extending in the axial direction and in contact with an attached body, first and second flow paths respectively on the suction side and the discharge side, and a partition wall positioned between pump-side openings of the first flow path and the second flow path facing the pump rotor, and extends in a direction along the attachment surface, and locations of attachment-side openings of the first flow path and the second flow path on the attachment surface are displaced from each other on the attachment surface in the axial direction.
US12025110B2
A structure for preventing an electric discharge between devices without any need for a dedicated device when mounted on an artificial satellite is provided. A charging mitigation device for reducing a potential difference between two or more physical objects includes an electric thruster (100) configured to generate plasma (PL), wherein the two or more physical objects are covered with the plasma (PL) generated from the electric thruster (100).
US12025107B1
A system to generate power, the system comprising a shaft configured for one-directional rotation around a horizontal axis, an inertial object coupled to the shaft where the inertial object has an uneven distribution of mass around the shaft, an electric generator configured to extract rotational kinetic energy from the shaft, and an electric motor configured to provide restorative energy to the shaft. The power generation method comprises steps of providing a power generation system, placing the shaft in an initial position, and inducing shaft rotation. Once shaft rotation is induced, the method alternates between steps of power generation and power consumption. More power is generated than consumed, resulting in a surplus of power supplied to the grid.
US12025106B2
The present application relates to the technical field of a wheel, and particularly to a stored energy transmission mechanism and stored energy-driven wheel. In particular, a stored energy transmission mechanism is integrated with a rotating component, which is used to drive the rotating component. The stored energy transmission mechanism includes a center shaft, an elastic component, a transmission cover, a flywheel, and a flywheel seat. The elastic component is sleeved outside the center shaft and positioned in the transmission cover, with one end being fixedly connected with the center shaft and the other end being fixedly connected with the transmission. When the transmission cover is rotated and fitted with the center shaft, it can tighten the elastic component to store energy.
US12025103B2
A wind turbine rotor blade, with a length, a rotor blade root, a rotor blade tip, a pressure side, a suction side, a leading edge, a trailing edge, and an air guide for heated air to guide heated air inside of the rotor blade and along a longitudinal direction of the rotor blade from the rotor blade root in the direction of the rotor blade tip. The wind turbine rotor blade additionally comprises at least one passively controllable air control element in the area of the air guide. The invention further relates to a wind turbine with at least one wind turbine rotor blade.
US12025099B2
A wind-turbine-blade-pitch system for a wind turbine comprises at least one electric motor which can be configured to be addressed by an inverter. The inverter can be configured to be addressed by a rectifier. The rectifier and the inverters are configured to be arranged locally separated from each other in the wind-turbine-blade-pitch system. The power distribution device and at least one power-storage system are connected via one or more electrical supply lines. The power distribution device can be configured to supply the at least one electric motor with electrical energy from the power storage system, via the one or more electrical supply lines.
US12025097B2
Techniques for controlling the yaw of a wind turbine system by controlling a plurality of yaw drive actuators. When the yaw drive actuators are applying the same torque to all the motors, this can lead to some motors overspeeding, if the motor is not engaged when the yaw system is activated. Therefore, if the actual motor speed reference of a yaw drive actuator is higher than a specific motor speed reference, then an output signal to reduce the actual motor speed reference is applied to the yaw drive actuators with an actual motor speed reference higher than the specific motor speed reference.
US12025095B2
An electrical power generating assembly for a wind turbine. The electrical power generating assembly comprises a gearbox comprising a gearbox output shaft, a generator comprising a rotor that is coupled to the gearbox output shaft; and a current measuring module located between the gearbox and the generator. The current measuring module comprises: an electrical pickup mounted to the electrical power generating assembly, wherein the electrical pickup includes an electrical contact that engages with a slip ring associated with the rotor. The current measuring module further comprises: a first current measuring device mounted with respect to the electrical pickup to detect current flowing at least through the electrical pickup; and a second current measuring device mounted with respect to the electrical pickup to detect current flowing through at least a component associated with the gearbox output shaft.
US12025093B2
The invention relates to a wind turbine (2) comprising: a nacelle (8) provided on the top of a tower (12), a rotor including a hub (6) and a number of blades (4), a main shaft (16) configured to be driven by the rotor about a main axis and supported on the nacelle (8), a generator (28) having a generator rotor and generator stator, and a gear system (25) arranged to increase the rotational speed between said rotor and said generator rotor. The gear system (25) comprises: a fixed ring gear (50), an input member (53) coupled to or driven by the main shaft (16) having a plurality of radially movable tooth segments (52,63) carried in guiding slots and engageable at outer ends with the ring gear (50), a central output member (55) within the input member (53) having an outer eccentric profile acted on and driven by inner ends of radially movable tooth segments (52,63), whereby rotary movement of the input member (53) drives the radially movable tooth segments (52,63) through engagement with the ring gear (50) and effects rotation of the central output member (55).
US12025090B2
A reactive blade turbine system works vertically, horizontally, or at an angle and clockwise or counterclockwise according to blade angle and locking position and adjusts to variations in fluid flow such as changes in tidal currents to generate power more efficiently regardless of direction of fluid flow.
US12025079B2
Some embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a rocket engine, comprising a primary chamber and a double contour nozzle attached to the primary chamber. In some embodiments, the double contour nozzle comprises an inner contour nozzle comprising a conical contour; an outer contour nozzle comprising a bell contour and at least one propellant injection orifice; and a contour break point between the inner contour nozzle and the outer contour nozzle. Ins some embodiments, the outer contour nozzle comprises a radius of curvature of less than 0.75 and a tangency angle of 40 to 90 degrees on a surface adjacent to the contour break point.
US12025078B2
Omnivorous solar thermal thrusters and adjustable cooling structures are disclosed. In one aspect, a solar thermal rocket engine includes a solar thermal thruster configured to receive solar energy and one or more propellants, and heat the one or more propellants using the solar energy to generate thrust. The solar thermal thruster is further configured to use a plurality of different propellant types, either singly or in combination simultaneously. The solar thermal thruster is further configured to use the one or more propellants in both liquid and gaseous states. Related structures can include valves and variable-geometry cooling channels in thermal contact with a thruster wall.
US12025073B2
An internal combustion engine includes: a cylinder in which a piston reciprocates; a stepped portion that is formed on an upper end portion of an inner peripheral surface of the cylinder; and a ring member having a cylindrical shape provided to the stepped portion. The thickness of the ring member decreases toward the bottom dear center of the piston, and an outer peripheral surface of the ring member is an inclined surface, where a lower end of the outer peripheral surface is positioned closer to the center in the radial direction of the ring member than an upper end of the outer peripheral surface.
US12025067B2
An internal combustion engine includes transfer passages between a pre-chamber and a main combustion chamber, and a control unit configured to control a pre-chamber supply system coupled to the pre-chamber and a main combustion chamber supply system coupled to the main combustion chamber, wherein the control unit is configured to control the pre-chamber supply system such that a supply volume exceeds a volume of the pre-chamber and that a surplus of the supply volume is communicated to the main combustion chamber, such as during a transient operating condition.
US12025056B2
An evaporative cooling pack formed from first and second corrugated media sheets is provided. The evaporative cooling pack cools a flow of air using a cooling fluid. The first and second corrugated media sheets have flutes that extend at different angles relative to a reference line and at such relative angles and have flute pitches that inhibit nesting of the adjacent sheets.
US12025055B1
A turboprop engine includes a main nacelle body, a rotatable hub provided on the main nacelle body, a plurality of propellers connected to the rotatable hub, and a nacelle extension coupled to the main nacelle body, the nacelle extension including at least one wall defining an air intake inlet. The air intake inlet is movable in an airflow axis with respect to a trailing edge of a propeller in the plurality of propellers to vary a distance between the air intake inlet and the trailing edge of the propeller during various phases of operation of the turboprop engine.
US12025054B2
A pump mixer separator unit is provided in communication with a stripping gas line that provides an inlet stripping gas flow and a fuel line that provides an inlet fuel flow. The pump mixer separator unit includes a first pump in fluid communication with the stripping gas line and the fuel line to form a fuel/gas mixture flow and generate a first pressure rise from the inlet fuel flow to the fuel/gas mixture flow; and a second pump in fluid communication with the first pump, wherein the second pump receives the fuel/gas mixture flow from the first pump, wherein the second pump separates the fuel/gas mixture flow into an outlet stripping gas flow and an outlet fuel flow and generates a second pressure rise from the fuel/gas mixture flow to the outlet fuel flow, wherein the first pump includes a supplemental pump feature for drawing an inlet fuel flow through the fuel line during operation.
US12025049B2
The thermostat device includes a housing including a first flow inlet that receives a coolant from a radiator, a second flow inlet that receives a coolant through a bypass passage, and a flow outlet of coolant in which each coolant is mixed; a thermo-element that is accommodated in the housing and moves in an axial direction depending on a temperature of the coolant from the second flow inlet; a control valve that controls amount of the coolant introduced from the first flow inlet as the thermo-element moves; a valve seat that is formed at a tip portion of an annular protrusion formed to protrude in a moving axis direction of the thermo-element in the housing and with which the control valve is in contact in a valve-closed state; and an annular groove formed by an annular gap provided outside of the valve seat and continuous in a circumferential direction.
US12025045B2
An exhaust gas system for an internal combustion engine includes at least one component which delimits an exhaust gas flow volume via an outer wall and, on an inner side of the outer wall which faces the exhaust gas flow volume, supports at least one shielding element. An intermediate space is formed between the outer wall and the shielding element. At least one connecting molding on the shielding element is directed toward the outer wall and is connected fixedly to the outer wall.
US12025027B2
A turbine blade includes: a pin fin passage formed inside a trailing edge portion of an airfoil part, extending toward a trailing edge of the airfoil part, and opening to outside of the airfoil part at the trailing edge; and a plurality of pin fins connecting a pair of facing inner walls constituting the pin fin passage. The pin fin passage includes a first region and a second region on the trailing edge side of the first region. The plurality of pin fins includes a plurality of first pin fins disposed in the first region and a plurality of second pin fins disposed in the second region. A first diameter of the first pin fins is larger than a second diameter of the second pin fins. A first pin pitch of the first pin fins is larger than a second pin pitch of the second pin fins.
US12025008B2
Combination of an open and a hidden excavation for constructing a vertical orthogonal top exhausting air duct structure of a deeply-buried subway station is provided. Four horizontal air ducts: left and right piston air ducts, an exhaust air duct, and a fresh air duct are thrown out of the underground, respectively, leading to left and right piston air shafts, an exhaust air shaft, a fresh air shaft, and an entrance/exit of fire-fighting. The fourth underground floor is communicated with the hall floor of the station main body, and the fifth underground floor is communicated with the running tunnel and the platform floor of the station main body. During operation, the train will enter and exit the station through the fifth underground floor of the air duct, and the piston air and heat will enter the four transverse air ducts through the air duct main body.
US12025003B2
A boom for supporting a drilling and bolting tool includes a first portion, a second portion, an actuator for moving the second portion relative to the first portion in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis. The second portion includes an elongated shaft having a proximal end and a distal end, the proximal end supported by a shaft support for movement relative to the first portion in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis, the distal end configured to support the drilling and bolting tool.
US12025000B2
A subsea wellhead system includes: a hanger including a first fiber optic cable; a tree including a second fiber optic cable; a seal sub configured to be coupled to the tree and engaged with the hanger, the seal sub including a fiber optic communications line configured to be communicatively coupled to the first and second fiber optic cables; a transducer configured to be disposed at a downhole location and configured to be communicatively coupled to the first fiber optic cable; a first photodetector disposed in the hanger and configured to convert a light signal traveling through the first fiber optic cable from downhole to an electrical signal communicated to the electrical connection; and a first optical transmitter disposed in the seal sub and configured to convert the electrical signal traveling through the electrical connection into a light signal communicated to the second fiber optic cable.
US12024994B1
An apparatus for evaluating an obstruction in a conduit of a tubular includes a first cylindrical rod connected to a deployment device configured to deploy the first cylindrical rod into the conduit of the tubular; a second cylindrical rod connected to the first cylindrical rod; an outer sleeve movable between a first position and a second position; and an impression block connected to the second cylindrical rod. The impression block is configured to obtain an impression of the obstruction. The second cylindrical rod has a diameter larger than a diameter of the first cylindrical rod, when the outer sleeve is concentrically disposed around the second cylindrical rod in the first position and concentrically disposed around the first cylindrical rod after an interaction between the outer sleeve and the obstruction. The outer sleeve includes a plurality of panels connected to one another by a plurality of stretchable elements.
US12024985B2
A first interval inflow control device and a second interval inflow control device are positioned on a production tubing string proximate to a first subterranean interval and a second subterranean interval, respectively. The inflow control devices each include a central bore, a sand screen surrounding an inner tube, a plurality of ports connect the annular space between an inner surface of the sand screen and an outer surface of the inner tube, and a sliding sleeve configured to translate between an open position and closed position. A first shifting tool is configured to engage with and axially translate the sliding sleeve of the first interval inflow control device and a second shifting tool is configured to engage with and axially translate the sliding sleeve of the second interval inflow control device. The second shifting tool has an outer diameter less than the bore of the first interval inflow control device.
US12024984B2
A system for exploiting natural gas hydrate with downhole gas-liquid synergic depressurization includes a casing configured to form an exploitation well. An upper end of the exploitation well is connected to a produced gas collection pipeline, and the produced gas collection pipeline is configured to be connected to a produced gas recovery system. A perforated channel is distributed in a section of the casing located in a natural gas hydrate reservoir. A tubular string component assembly is mounted in the exploitation well, and includes an outer string, a production tubular string and an auxiliary riser. A first check valve is mounted at the bottom of the outer string, a gas supply pipeline is connected into an upper portion of the outer string, and a flow controller is mounted in the gas supply pipeline. The production tubular string is mounted in the outer string.
US12024976B1
A conductor running and cementing bracket (CRCB) includes a plurality of support beams for supporting a conductor upon engagement with a conductor landing joint disposed on the conductor, wherein the plurality of support beams comprise a first set horizontally fixed to a second set. The CRCB further includes a side door elevator to grip the conductor thereby preventing further downhole movement at a landing level and a plurality of adjustable conductor extension sleeves arranged on the second set and extendable to variable lengths to accommodate conductors of varying diameters. The landing level of the conductor is below a rotary table level configured to hold a drill pipe via a rotary slip. Once the side door elevator is gripping the conductor, the conductor landing joint is removed and a drill pipe with a stinger is run into a wellbore. Upon running the drill pipe, a cementing operation is conducted.
US12024966B2
A wireline pressure control string for use in performing wireline operations on a hydrocarbon well is disclosed. The wireline pressure control string includes a pumpdown assembly having a pumpdown sub and at least one pumpdown valve. The pumpdown sub includes a body and a through bore which extends axially through the body and is fluidly connectable to the well bore. The pumpdown valve includes an inlet which is fluidly connectable to a pumpdown fluid source and an outlet which is fluidly connected to the through bore. The wireline pressure control string may also include a connector positioned below the pumpdown assembly for releasably securing the wireline pressure control string to the wellhead assembly. In certain embodiments, the pumpdown valve may be connected to the pumpdown fluid source with a flexible flowline.
US12024964B2
A gripper mechanism for a downhole tool is disclosed that includes an eccentric linkage mechanism. In operation, an axial force generated by a power section of the gripper expands the linkage mechanism, which applies a radial force to the interior surface of a wellbore or passage. A sliding portion allows the gripper to slide along a surface of the formation in response to the radial force applied to the interior surface of the wellbore or passage.
US12024963B2
An object release device including a housing defining a longitudinally extending through bore and an object bore intersecting the through bore and a supply bore intersecting the object bore, an object shuttle disposed in the supply bore, and a motive arrangement attached to the shuttle through a driver. A method for actuating a downhole tool including sending a signal to the motive arrangement and moving the shuttle to align an object with the object bore. A borehole system including a borehole in a subsurface formation, a string in the borehole, an object release device disposed within or as a part of the string.
US12024961B2
A remote intelligent active drilling pressure control system and method. The system includes a drilling pump, a rotary blowout preventer, a ground simple throttle control manifold, a wellhead back pressure compensation manifold, a graded filling device, a downhole storage-type pressure measuring device, a ground multi-parameter online monitoring system, a drilling hydraulic calculation system, an MPD intelligent control platform and a remote monitoring and control system. The present invention provides a wellbore pressure control thought of “plugging and control integration”, improves the pressure resistance of a formation by circularly plugging while drilling, realizes active control of a wellbore pressure, effectively broadens a “drilling safety density window” of the formation, and reduces the requirements on the pressure control precision of a wellbore pressure control device.
US12024949B2
A system is provided for interconnecting a ladder to a vehicle. The system may include a first portion for interconnecting to an upper portion of a vehicle rear door and a second portion for interconnecting to a lower portion of the vehicle rear door. The system provides a ladder interconnection wherein no penetrations are made into the vehicle.
US12024947B2
A window shade mounting system comprising: a mounting bracket having a first slot for receiving a portion of a hanger band; a roller shade bracket attached to the hanger band; a roller window shade assembly attached to the roller shade bracket; a defined cavity defined by the support band, hanger band or both; and, wherein the support band and the hanger band have the same cross section.
US12024941B2
An automatic device and an automatic method for filling with gas other than air the insulating glazing unit composed of at least two glass panes and at least one spacer frame. The device comprises mechanisms for flattening the glass panes when they are not sufficiently flat, for example in the case of laminated or tempered panes. This allows to perform in an optimum manner the filling with gas and to process insulating glazing units with special spacer frames.
US12024940B2
A pre-formed glazing unit for installation in an opening defined in a structure such as a shed, greenhouse or other temporary building comprises a face panel having a periphery enclosing the face panel and a mounting flange for attachment to an inward side of the structure around a peripheral edge of the opening in use, the mounting flange being connected to the periphery of the face panel by a connecting wall. The connecting wall is integrally formed with the face panel and the mounting flange and extends away from the mounting flange to space the face panel from the mounting flange in an outward direction. The face panel and/or a top panel of the connecting wall may be inclined and/or a bottom panel of the connecting wall may include a drip-inducing formation to direct water away from the structure in use. A double-glazed variant is also disclosed.
US12024938B2
A spindle drive for a closure element of a motor vehicle. The spindle drive including a drive unit and a spindle-spindle nut transmission and including a spindle and a spindle unit for generating drive movements. The spindle drive including first and second drive sections, including first and second drive connections and configured to move relative to another between a retracted state and mi extended state over an adjustment path along a longitudinal axis of the drive unit. The spindle disposed in the second drive section and is axially fixed relative to the first drive connection, and the spindle nut is disposed in the first drive section and is axially fixed relative to the second drive connection. The spindle drive includes a support sleeve radially surrounding the spindle nut in the extended state and is mounted such that the spindle nut is axially moved relative to the two drive connections.
US12024936B2
A device for preventing a human body from being jammed by using a change in capacitance, includes: a sensor unit which detects a change in capacitance corresponding to a gap between an external conductor pressed by a human body approaching a driven object and an internal conductor; a signal processing unit which compares a detection signal of the sensor unit with a reference value and outputs a jamming occurrence signal indicating the human body being jammed in the driven object; a motor driving unit which drives a motor to move the driven object; and a control unit which controls the motor driving unit to stop or move the driven object in the opposite direction when the jamming occurrence signal is received from the signal processing unit, thereby preventing a safety accident caused by the human body being jammed.
US12024930B2
A closure latch assembly having a latch mechanism is provided. The latch mechanism includes a ratchet and a pawl assembly pivotally supported for movement between a ratchet holding position whereat the pawl assembly is positioned to hold the ratchet in its striker capture position and a ratchet releasing position whereat the pawl assembly is located to permit movement of the ratchet to its striker release position. The pawl assembly has a carrier and a pawl configured for rotation relative to one another about a pawl pin and a roller carried by the carrier. The roller is disposed between the pawl and the ratchet for selective rolling movement therebetween. The roller is disposed into abutment with a closing surface of the ratchet while the pawl assembly is in the ratchet holding position and is spaced from closing surface while the pawl assembly is in the ratchet releasing position.
US12024926B2
Systems, devices, and methods are provided herein for handless operation of a door. For example, a system is disclosed having a foot pedal assembly configured to be disposed at a bottom edge of the door, the foot pedal assembly configured to generate a signal, and a push-lock assembly configured to attach to a door handle external to a mounting rose of the door handle, the push-lock assembly configured to receive the signal from the foot pedal assembly and translate the signal into rotational movement configured to operate the door handle.
US12024922B2
A lock indicator and a mechanical lock assembly, comprising: a switch; a transmitter coupled to a power source; and a bolt member moveable between a retracted position and an extended position with respect to the housing, wherein the switch is configured to engage the bolt member and is actuatable by the bolt member to determine the position of the bolt member, and the transmitter is configured to transmit a signal indicative of the position of the bolt member to a remote device.
US12024916B2
A convertible hammock-shade tent configurable as a shade tent and a hammock has a top tier comprising a plurality of perimeter sleeves and a pair of loop sets formed on a rear surface of the top tier. Each of the pair of loop sets run diagonally across the rear surface of the top tier. A pair of tent post are provided wherein each tent post is attachable to the top tier by running through one of the pair of loop sets and each of the pair of tent post having a pair of ends configured for securing the tent post to ground. a. wherein the top tier and tent posts can be configured for use as a shade tent wherein the top tier comprises a shade tent canopy; and b. wherein the top tier can be configured for use as a hammock, wherein (i) the top tier comprises a hammock panel having a panel first end and a panel second end wherein the panel first end is attached to a first erecting structure and the panel second end is attached to a second erecting structure.
US12024908B2
A spacer for fixation to a construction element, for maintaining a relative distance to another construction element, and for restricting at the maintained distance a movement about a position that is relative to another construction element, the spacer having a structure that: a) provides resiliency and generates a force for enhancing a distance relative to another nearby construction element when distance to that other construction element is reduced to a predetermined distance, and b) provides restriction of a movement of the structure in at least one direction that is different from the direction of predetermined distance.
US12024903B2
A machine for distributing material from a package of compressed loosefill insulation material is provided. The machine includes a lower unit having a front panel. A shredding chamber is bounded on one side by the front panel and the shredding chamber receives compressed loosefill insulation material from a source of compressed loosefill insulation material. The shredding chamber including a plurality of shredders for shredding, picking apart, and conditioning the loosefill insulation material. A discharge mechanism is mounted to receive the conditioned loosefill insulation material exiting the shredding chamber and to distribute the conditioned loosefill insulation material into an airstream. A removable front access assembly covers a portion of the front panel of the lower unit and includes a control panel having a plurality of control devices. Removal of the removable front access assembly makes the plurality of shredders and the discharge mechanism within the lower unit accessible for inspection, replacement, or repair.
US12024899B2
A floor panel arranged to be installed according to the fold-down principle, with a first pair and a second pair of edges. The second pair of edges coupling parts are arranged to be coupled to each other by a downward movement with two contact zones at opposite sides of a male part which fits into a female part. The ratio between the horizontal distance between the middle of the first contact zone and the middle of the second contact zone, and the vertical distance between the middle of the first contact zone and the middle of the second contact zone is more than 5, and/or wherein well-defined support points are applied.
US12024894B2
A self-sealing fastener for installation of roofing materials for creating a substantially watertight seal around fastener penetrations where roofing materials or panels are affixed to an underlying roof deck by the fasteners. Also disclosed is a method for installing the self-sealing fastener for attachment of roofing materials to an underlying roof deck with the penetrations areas or holes created by the fasteners being substantially sealed against water penetration.
US12024886B1
An apparatus or assembly for use in a construction environment comprises an angled stabilization bracket and at least one clip removably mounted to the stabilization bracket. The angled stabilization bracket comprises a top portion having a first longitudinal edge and a second longitudinal edge opposing the first longitudinal edge, and a first side portion angularly extending from the first longitudinal edge; and a clip-receiving slot defined in the first side portion of the angled stabilization bracket. The at least one clip is slidably and removably disposed in the clip-receiving slot. The at least one clip further comprising at least one rebar-receivable and rebar-guiding passageway. The at least one clip is configured to receive and retain at least one rebar. The angled stabilization bracket is configured for attachment to a structure. The assembly is configured for use to ensure accurate placement or registration of vertical rebar in a construction environment.
US12024879B2
A waterproofing membrane system for waterproofing a concrete substrate is disclosed. The waterproofing membrane may comprise a first layer comprising a thermoplastic elastomeric waterproof material using advanced polymerization and squeeze technology. The second layer may comprise a carrier sheet that comprises a fabric. The third layer may comprise an adhesive to provide bonding of the first layer with a concrete substrate upon contact. In addition, the third layer may reduce migration of water and vapor traveling between the first layer and the concrete substrate. In some examples, the waterproofing membrane may also comprise a fourth layer to provide mechanical protection and ease of handling for the first layer, the second layer, and the third layer. In some examples, the first layer may comprise a thermoplastic polyolefin (TPO), the fabric may comprise polypropylene and/or polyethylene, the adhesive may comprise a C5 petroleum resin, and the fourth layer may be a protective coating comprising quartz sand (SiO2) having a reflectivity of 4.5%.
US12024876B2
A method, system and splice apparatus comprise a first wall bracket to couple to a first support member. A second wall bracket is coupled to a second support member, the first and second wall brackets comprising a composite material. A splice apparatus includes a first end, a second end, a first side, and a second side on an opposite side of the splice apparatus from the first side of the splice apparatus, the first end of the splice apparatus disposed proximate to a second end of the first wall bracket and the second end of the splice apparatus disposed proximate to a first end of the second wall bracket. The splice apparatus is fastened to at least one of the first wall bracket and the second wall bracket to maintain substantial alignment of the first wall bracket with the second wall bracket.
US12024875B2
An assembly for offsite construction of a building, a connector for use in such an assembly, along with a method of manufacture of such a connector, and a method of construction using the assembly. The connector includes first and second buttress elements defining, respectively, a first location portion and a second location portion. The first location portion and the second location portion are configured, respectively, to receive first and second structural elements extending at transverse angles to each other. The first and second buttress elements each has first and second opposite side walls defining an access space between them for a connector to be accessed. The second side wall of the first buttress element and the second side wall of the second buttress element together define a third location portion configured to receive a third structural element extending transversely to the first and second structural elements.
US12024871B2
A mechanical control logic actuator for a vacuum toilet includes: a pneumatic valve assembly configured to control an air path of the vacuum toilet and a sewage tank; a vacuum tank configured to provide vacuum compensation for the sewage tank; a first pressure tank configured to provide a power source for the pneumatic valve assembly; a second pressure tank configured to feed gas into the sewage tank; and a sewage pipe configured to discharge sewage in the sewage tank; wherein the first pressure tank controls the air path to be in a circulation state or in a cut-off state through the pneumatic valve assembly, the vacuum tank provides vacuum compensation for the sewage tank, the sewage in the toilet is pumped into the sewage tank, the second pressure tank feeds gas into the sewage tank, the sewage tank is pressurized and the sewage is discharged through the sewage pipe.
US12024869B2
An air release valve and an air pressure driven toilet water tank drain valve are provided. The air release valve includes a valve seat, a sliding block, and a push block. A bottom of the valve seat is provided with an air release channel, one end of the air release channel is an air inlet, and the other end of the air release channel forms an air release nozzle. The sliding block is located above the air release nozzle and is slidably arranged on the valve seat. The air pressure driven toilet water tank drain valve includes a drain valve body, an inner core tube, a limit device, a telescopic airbag, an air pump, the air release valve, a controller and an electronic induction switch. The air release valve with mechanical structure does not require power consumption and has low cost.
US12024867B2
A kitchen faucet with a garbage disposer includes a faucet unit, the garbage disposer, and a sensing unit. The faucet unit includes a water outlet passage unit, and the water outlet passage unit is disposed with a first control valve configured to control an opening and a closing of the water outlet passage unit. The garbage disposer is located under a water outlet of the water outlet passage unit of the faucet unit. The sensing unit is disposed on the faucet unit and is configured to generate a normal water outlet instruction and a garbage disposal instruction respectively according to a long sensing distance and a short sensing distance. The first control valve is configured to be opened and closed through the normal water outlet instruction, and the first control valve and the garbage disposer are respectively configured to be opened and closed through the garbage disposal instruction.
US12024864B2
A quick assembly and quick disassembly device for a faucet, configured for fastening of the faucet, comprises a base seat, an upper cover, and at least two locking blocks. The base seat comprises a mounting hole. The upper cover is sleeved outside of the faucet and is detachably connected to the base seat. Each of the at least two locking blocks comprises a first inclined surface pushed by at least two transmission members to enable the at least two locking blocks to move radially inward to abut the faucet. A position-providing notch between two adjacent locking blocks provides a space for a joint of a flexible hose so as to easily mount or detach the faucet. A distal end of the at least two elastic assemblies is disposed in at least two locking blocks to enable the at least two locking blocks to move outward to release the faucet.
US12024854B2
Disclosed embodiments include power machines with a lower implement pivotally coupled to an undercarriage frame by a lower lift arm structure and which include one or more cylinders or actuators that are operable to pivot the lower lift arm structure and lower implement relative to the undercarriage frame. A configuration of the one or more cylinders which mounts the cylinders behind the lower implement, with attachments to the undercarriage and to the lower lift arm structure at positions which allow the cylinders to be surrounded and protected by the undercarriage, reduces damage to the cylinders during operation.
US12024851B2
A loading machine includes a swing body and work equipment with a bucket. A control device of the loading machine includes a loading target specifying unit that specifies a position and shape of a loading target, an avoidance position specifying unit, and a movement processing unit. The avoidance position specifying unit specifies an interference avoidance position based on the position and shape of the loading target. The movement processing unit outputs an operation signal to drive only the swing body until the bucket reaches the interference avoidance position from a loading position above the loading target, to cause the bucket to move to the interference avoidance position. The movement processing unit outputs an operation signal to drive the swing body and the work equipment after the bucket has reached the interference avoidance position, to cause the bucket to move to an excavation position above an excavation target.
US12024847B2
A pile-driver assembly for driving a pile into the ground, preferably offshore, and a method of driving a pile into the ground using the pile-driver assembly is disclosed. The assembly includes a casing defining a chamber, the chamber being configured to house a fluid. The assembly further includes a positioning element configured to position the casing at or on the pile, wherein at least a portion of the positioning element is positioned between the chamber and the pile. The assembly further includes actuating means, wherein actuation of the actuating means displaces the chamber relative to the positioning element, such that the chamber moves away from the pile, and wherein the actuating means is configured to release the chamber for displacement towards the pile such that a force is exerted by the chamber on the positioning member, to controllably drive the pile into the ground.
US12024835B2
A brace and method for supporting a bollard panel in a vertical position includes a linear structural member having a panel connector to secure adjacent bollard panels to the linear structural member.
US12024833B2
Portable road segments, herein referred to as surface vehicles, include first and second surface vehicles. A female wedge mount is attached to the first surface vehicle. The female wedge mount has a concave contact surface including three or more female contact surface segments an at least two female wedge slots. A male wedge mount is attached to the second surface vehicle. The male wedge mount has a convex contact surface including three or more male contact surface segments and at least two male wedge slots that are aligned with the at least two female wedge slots, respectively, when the convex contact surface of the male wedge mount and the concave contact surface of the female wedge mount are in aligned contact with one another to form an adjacent connection between the first and second surface vehicles. A mechanism includes at least two pins that are movable along the at least two male and female wedge slots, respectively, between unlocked and locked positions.
US12024824B2
A method is provided for manufacturing a polyimide fiber paper intermediate structure, which includes: a short fiber preparing step for preparing shaved short fibers of a non-thermoplastic polyimide; and an intermediate structure forming step for forming a polyimide fiber paper intermediate structure in which the short fibers are temporarily bonded using a water-soluble and/or water-insoluble thermoplastic polymer having a melting point lower than a glass transition point of a polyimide.
US12024815B2
A laundry sorting and evaluation system includes a housing having an opening and defining a laundry path. First and second platforms are positioned within the housing, each operably connected to a motor. First and second cameras are respectively associated with the platforms and are configured to acquire at images of an item of laundry on each of the first and second platforms. A controller is configured to receive the images and produce an evaluation of a condition of the item of laundry based upon the received images.
US12024806B2
An embroidery data generation system includes a terminal apparatus and an embroidery data generation apparatus. A terminal controller acquires a generation condition of embroidery data inputted via an input device, transmits the acquired generation condition to the embroidery data generation apparatus via a terminal communication interface, and controls a display to display a preview image indicating an embroidery finish of an embroidery pattern based on image data transmitted from the embroidery data generation apparatus. An apparatus controller receives the generation condition transmitted from the terminal apparatus via an apparatus communication interface, generates the embroidery data for sewing the embroidery pattern based on the received generation condition, generates the image data for displaying the preview image on the display based on the received generation condition, and transmits the generated image data to the terminal apparatus having transmitted the generation condition.
US12024805B2
Novel fibrous structures that contain filaments, and optionally, solid additives, such as fibers, for example wood pulp fibers, sanitary tissue products comprising such fibrous structures, and methods for making such fibrous structures and/or sanitary tissue products are provided.
US12024804B2
A method of making a surgical braid. The method comprises moving a plurality of bobbins along an active track, the active track being an endless track; and selectively moving a bobbin to a passive track while continuing to move the remaining bobbins along the active track.
US12024800B2
A woven fabric that has the appearance of a neoprene fabric is obtained with a double face fabric in which the warp yarns passes at least three weft yarns on each side of the fabric.
US12024795B2
A method for growth of group III metal nitride crystals includes providing a manifold comprising including one or more transfer vessels, a source vessel containing a condensable mineralizer composition, and a receiving vessel, chilling a metallic surface within the one or more transfer vessels, the metallic surface comprising a composition that does not form a reaction product when exposed to the condensable mineralizer composition, transferring a quantity of the condensable mineralizer composition to the one or more transfer vessels via a vapor phase and causing condensation of the condensable mineralizer composition within the one or more transfer vessels, measuring the quantity of the condensable mineralizer composition within the at least one transfer vessel, transferring at least a portion of the condensable mineralizer composition to the receiving vessel, and forming at least a portion of a group III metal nitride boule by an ammonothermal crystal growth process that comprises exposing a seed crystal to a temperature of at least about 400 degrees Celsius, and exposing the seed crystal to a mineralizer that is formed from the condensable mineralizer composition transferred from the receiving vessel.
US12024793B2
An organic thin film includes an organic crystalline phase, where the organic crystalline phase defines a surface having a surface roughness (Ra) of less than approximately 10 micrometers over an area of at least approximately 1 cm2. The organic thin film may be manufactured from an organic precursor and a non-volatile medium material that is configured to mediate the surface roughness of the organic crystalline phase during crystal nucleation and growth. The thin film may be formed using a suitably shaped mold, for example, and the non-volatile medium material may be disposed between a layer of the organic precursor and the mold during processing.
US12024792B2
As the diamond crystal, a diamond crystal in a bulk form including dislocation concentration regions is formed. An interval between each of the dislocation concentration regions is from 10 nm to 4000 nm. The crystal orientation of crystal main face at the surface of the diamond crystal is any one of (100), (111), or (110). An external shape of the diamond crystal in a surface direction is a rectangle, a circle, or a circle having an orientation flat plane. The rectangle is set to have a side length of not less than 8.0 mm. The circle is set to have a diameter of not less than 8.0 mm.
US12024785B2
A wafer plating fixture for use in simultaneously electroplating a two substrates. The wafer plating fixture including: an electrically conductive carrier bus; a plurality of contact clips electrically coupled to the carrier bus and configured to hold the two substrates in place and electrically couple the two substrates to the carrier bus; and a non-conductive substrate backer to separate the two substrates coupled to the carrier bus. A method of electroplating a plurality of substrates. The method including: mounting two substrates to be plated onto a wafer plating fixture; mounting the wafer plating fixture on a continuous belt of plating system; dipping the wafer plating fixture with the two substrates held thereon into an electroplating bath; and applying a voltage to the two substrates via the wafer plating fixture.
US12024782B2
The present invention relates to the production of graphene from CO2 through electrolysis and exfoliation processes. One embodiment is a method for producing graphene comprising (i) performing electrolysis between an electrolysis anode and an electrolysis cathode in a molten carbonate electrolyte to generate carbon nanomaterial on the cathode, and (ii) electrochemically exfoliating the carbon nanomaterial from a second anode to produce graphene. The exfoliating step produces graphene in high yield than thicker, conventional graphite exfoliation reactions. CO2 can be the sole reactant used to produce the valuable product as graphene. This can incentivize utilization of CO2, and unlike alternative products made from CO2 such as carbon monoxide or other fuels such as methane, use of the graphene product does not release this greenhouse gas back into the atmosphere.
US12024781B2
The invention concerns a continuous pickling plant (101) for the treatment of metal products (109) in the form of a strip or tube which includes a plurality of acid solution process tanks (102) each divided into a plurality of turbulence cells (114) and a recirculation system of the acid solution. The plant also includes, upstream of the plurality of process tanks (102), a device for heating (124; 126) the metal product (109), namely an induction heating (124) system and/or a tunnel with water sprays (126). A solution with only two pickling tanks (102) is also presented. Devices are described (135; 136; 138, 138a) to increase turbulence in the tanks and to accelerate pickling, e.g. by adding fresh acid (146) in the first tank. The invention also concerns a related pickling process. The invention optimizes the effect of the acid and reduces the residence time of the strip (109) in the plant.
US12024778B2
The present invention relates to a method of deposition of thin metal layers on different substrates by electroless chemical method. In the method of the invention, the potential of the plating solution, i.e. a solution from which the metal deposition is carried out, is controlled with a redox buffer. The appropriate plating solution is also disclosed.
US12024776B2
A gas supply apparatus supplies a gas to a processing space where a gas processing is performed on a substrate. The gas supply apparatus includes: a gas supply source configured to supply a gas; a gas supply path configured to supply the gas to the processing space; an opening/closing valve configured to supply/stop the gas and provided in the gas supply path; a detector configured to detect a detectable index correlated with a Cv value of the opening/closing valve; an opening degree adjustment mechanism configured to adjust an opening degree of the opening/closing valve when the opening/closing valve is opened; and a controller configured to: store a relationship between the Cv value and the index; and control the opening degree by the opening degree adjustment mechanism such that when the index deviates from an appropriate range corresponding to an appropriate Cv value, the index falls within the appropriate range.
US12024774B2
A gas introduction apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a gas feeding block disposed above a chamber, the gas feeding block comprising a plurality of gas channels disposed therein to supply a gas to the chamber, a valve assembly coupled to one side surface of the gas feeding block, the valve assembly comprising a plurality of valves for selectively opening/closing at least one of the plurality of gas channels, and a gas introduction pipe coupled, at one end thereof, to the valve assembly while communicating with the chamber at the other end thereof. A buffer space is provided at least one of the plurality of gas channels such that the buffer space is disposed adjacent to the gas introduction pipe, to accumulate the gas.
US12024765B2
The invention relates to a method for manufacturing an aluminum alloy sheet, wherein an aluminum alloy is prepared with the following composition, in wt %: Mg: 4.0-5.2, Mn: 0.40-1.0, Zn: 0.15-0.40, at least one element selected from Ti, Cr, Cu and Zr, the content of the element, if selected, being 0.01-0.15 for Ti, 0.05-0.25 for Cr, 0.02-0.25 for Cu, 0.05-0.25 for Zr, Fe: <0.40, Si: <0.40, other elements or impurities <0.05 each and <0.15 in total, the remainder being aluminum. A rolling plate is cast by vertical semi-continuous casting, and said optionally homogenised plate is hot-rolled in two successive stages to obtain a sheet. The sheets obtained by the method according to the invention are advantageous, in particular for shipbuilding, since they demonstrate, after being exposed for 7 days to a temperature of 100° C., a weight loss of less than 15 mg/cm2 during a corrosion test according to the ASTM G67 standard.
US12024762B2
A non-oriented electrical steel sheet has a chemical composition in which α-γ transformation can occur and which contains at least, in terms of mass %, at most 0.010% of C, 1.50% to 4.00% of Si, 0.0001% to 1.0% of sol. Al, at most 0.010% of S, at most 0.010% of N, and a total of 2.50% to 5.00% of at least one selected from the group consisting of Mn, Ni, and Cu, with the balance including Fe and impurities, wherein when an average grain size of {411} crystal grains is defined as d411 and an average grain size of {111} crystal grains is defined as d111, d411/d111≥1.10.
US12024760B2
The invention relates to a precipitation-strengthened shape memory alloy (SMA) comprising a composition designed and processed such that the precipitation-strengthened SMA meets property objectives comprising a yield strength being more than about 1500 MPa at room temperature, a transformation temperature in a range of about −15 to 20° C., a misfit in a range of about 0.9-1.1%, wherein the property objectives are design specifications of the precipitation-strengthened SMA.
US12024759B2
An improved aluminum alloy for blending with a recycled aluminum alloy to form a material for high pressure vacuum die casting is provided. The improved aluminum alloy includes 10 to 12 wt. % silicon, 0.65 to 0.85 wt. % manganese, less than 0.05 wt. % iron, less than 0.05 wt. % magnesium, 0.2 to 0.4 wt. % strontium, less than 0.05 wt. % titanium, and less than 0.02 wt. % copper, based on the total weight of the improved aluminum alloy. The recycled aluminum alloy typically includes 0.60-1.0 wt. % silicon, ≤0.35 wt. % iron, ≤0.20 wt. % copper, 0.05-0.20 wt. % manganese, 0.40-0.8 wt. % magnesium, ≤0.20 wt. % chromium, ≤0.15 wt. % zinc, ≤0.05 wt. % titanium, ≤0.05 wt. % others (each), and ≤0.15 wt. % others (total). The material meets the specifications for an Aural 5S alloy.
US12024757B2
A hydrogen storage alloy suitable for a negative electrode of an on-board alkaline storage battery, and an alkaline storage battery using the alloy, which has an AB3-type crystal structure as a main phase, represented by: (SmxLayRz)1-a-bMgaTbNicCodMe. (R is selected from Pr, Nd; T is selected from Ti, Zr, Hf; M is selected from V, Nb, Ta, Cr, Mo, W, Mn, Fe, Cu, Al, Si, P, B; the following conditions are met: 0
US12024756B2
A method for extracting a rare earth metal from a mixture of one or more rare earth metals, said method comprising countercurrently contacting an acidic solution of the rare earth metal with a composition which comprises an ionic liquid to form an aqueous phase and a non-aqueous phase into which the rare earth metal has been selectively extracted.
US12024744B2
Embodiments of the present technology may allow for improved and more reliable tunneling junctions and methods of fabricating the tunneling junctions. Electrical shorting issues may be reduced by depositing electrodes without a sharp sidewall and corner but instead with a sloping or curved sidewall. Layers deposited on top of the electrode layer may then be able to adequately cover the underlying electrode layer and therefore reduce or prevent shorting. Additionally, two insulating materials may be used as the dielectric layer may reduce the possibility of incomplete coverage and the possibility of flaking. Furthermore, the electrodes may be tapered from the contact area to the junction area to provide a thin electrode where the hole is to be patterned, while the thicker contact area reduces sheet resistance. The electrode may also be patterned to be wider at the contact area and narrower at the junction area.
US12024742B2
The present invention pertains to hybrid RNase H2 proteins that include fragments of amino acid sequences from Pyrococcus abyssi (P.a.), Thermococcus kodakarensis (T.kod), and Pyrococcus furiosus organisms, as well as methods of using the same to improve mismatch discrimination and activity in a high-fidelity DNA polymerase buffer.
US12024737B2
Method of analysis for alleles of a target. In the method, a plurality of fluid volumes may be formed. Each fluid volume may contain a first primer pair to amplify a first allele of a target, a second primer pair to amplify a second allele of the target, a first reporter including a first photoluminophore and providing a primer of the first primer pair, and a second reporter including a second photoluminophore and providing a primer of the second primer pair. Each of the first and second reporters may include an oligomer having a quencher, and the oligomer may be configured to base-pair with the primer of the first primer pair and the primer of the second primer pair. The first and second alleles may be amplified using the first and second primer pairs. Photoluminescence may be detected. A level of each allele may be determined.
US12024731B2
The present disclosure provides methods for preparing β-substituted tryptophan compounds. The methods include: combining i) an unsubstituted indole or a substituted indole, ii) a β-substituted serine, and iii) a tryptophan synthase β-subunit (i.e., a TrpB); and maintaining the resulting mixture under conditions sufficient to form the β-substituted tryptophan. The TrpB contains at least one amino acid mutation which promotes formation of an amino-acrylate intermediate. New TrpB variants and new β-substituted tryptophan analogs are also described.
US12024728B2
The disclosure provides, e.g., compositions, systems, and methods for targeting, editing, modifying, or manipulating a host cell's genome at one or more locations in a DNA sequence in a cell, tissue, or subject.
US12024721B2
The present invention provides methods and kits for differentiating podocytes from pluripotent stem cells and from other cell types.
US12024718B2
The present invention provides improved and/or shortened methods for expanding TILs and producing therapeutic populations of TILs, including novel methods for expanding TIL populations in a closed system that lead to improved efficacy, improved phenotype, and increased metabolic health of the TILs in a shorter time period, while allowing for reduced microbial contamination as well as decreased costs. The methods may comprise gene-editing at least a portion of the TILs to enhance their therapeutic efficacy. Such TILs find use in therapeutic treatment regimens.
US12024714B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a method of inducing pluripotent stem cells to differentiate into clinically applicable retinal ganglion cells. The present invention provides a method for inducing pluripotent stem cells to differentiate into retinal ganglion cells that can be used for clinical application. Such method is a method for producing retinal ganglion cells with elongated axons comprising the following steps: (a) a step of inducing pluripotent stem cells to differentiate into retinal progenitor cells via floating culture; (b) a step of inducing the retinal progenitor cells obtained in step (a) to differentiate into retinal ganglion cells via floating culture; and (c) a step of allowing axons to elongate via adhesion culture of the retinal ganglion cells obtained in step (b).
US12024710B2
A recombinant microorganism of the genus Escherichia, comprises a genetic modification that increases expression of a nosZ gene encoding NosZ, which is a nitrous oxide reductase, in the recombinant microorganism, wherein the recombinant microorganism comprises a nosR gene encoding NosR, a nosD gene encoding NosD, a nosF gene encoding NosF, a nosY gene encoding NosY, and an apbE gene encoding ApbE, and wherein the nosR gene, the nosD gene, the nosF gene, the nosY gene and the apbE gene are derived from a microorganism of the genus Pseudomonas, the genus Paracoccus, or a combination thereof.
US12024706B2
Novel oligonucleotides that enhance silencing of the expression of a gene containing a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) relative to the expression of the corresponding wild-type gene are provided. Methods of using novel oligonucleotides that enhance silencing of the expression of a gene containing a SNP relative to the expression of the corresponding wild-type gene are provided.
US12024705B2
High-throughput methods for screening large populations of variant proteins are provided. The methods utilize large-scale arrays of microcapillaries, where each microcapillary comprises a solution containing a variant protein, an immobilized target molecule, and a reporter element. Immobilized target molecules may include any molecule of interest, including proteins, nucleic acids, carbohydrates, and other biomolecules. The association of a variant protein with a molecular target is assessed by measuring a signal from the reporter element. The contents of microcapillaries identified in the assays as containing variant proteins of interest can be isolated, and cells expressing the variant proteins of interest can be characterized. Also provided are systems for performing the disclosed screening methods.
US12024701B2
A system and method for growing and maintaining biological material including producing a protein associated with the tissue, selecting cells associated with the tissue, expanding the cells, creating at least one tissue bio-ink including the expanded cells, printing the at least one tissue bio-ink in at least one tissue growth medium mixture, growing the tissue from the printed at least one tissue bio-ink, and maintaining viability of the tissue.
US12024698B2
A system, device and method for electroporation of living cells and the introduction of selected molecules into the cells utilizes a fluidic system where living cells and biologically active molecules flow through a channel that exposes them to electric fields, causing the molecules to be transferred across the cell membrane. The device is structured in a manner that allows precise control of the cells location, motion, and exposure to electric fields within the flow channel device. The method is particularly well suited for the introduction of DNA, RNA, drug compounds, and other biologically active molecules into living cells.
US12024697B2
Disclosed herein is a single use continuous recovery, flow-through harvest vessel and corresponding method for harvesting culture medium and simultaneously either leaving the microcarrier beads behind in the vessel or flowing microcarrier beads and medium back into a bioreactor.
US12024696B2
The present disclosure provides a system, including methods and apparatus, for culturing, monitoring, and/or analyzing organoids. In an exemplary method of organoid culture, the method may comprise disposing a scaffold in a receptacle having an open side. A sealing member may be bonded to the open side of the receptacle to create a chamber. An organoid may be formed in the chamber using the scaffold. Fluid and/or at least one substance may be introduced into the chamber from an overlying reservoir for contact with the organoid.
US12024688B2
A method of creating a perfume composition sustainably, said method comprising the steps of forming the composition comprising ingredients having a known and acceptable sustainability rating determined according to a sustainability rating method defined by certain sustainability factors selected from a factor related to the environmental impact of both the individual ingredients and the formula containing said ingredients; a factor related to the origin of the ingredients; a factor related to the energy consumption used in production of the formula; and a factor related to the sustainable sourcing of the ingredients.
US12024683B2
A process for the production of ethylene-based polymers from waste plastics feedstocks includes the steps in this order of: providing a hydrocarbon stream A obtained by treatment of a waste plastics feedstock; providing a hydrocarbon stream B; supplying a feed C including a fraction of the hydrocarbon stream A and a fraction of the hydrocarbon stream B to a thermal cracker furnace having cracking coil(s); performing a thermal cracking operation in the presence of steam to obtain a cracked hydrocarbon stream D; supplying the cracked hydrocarbon stream D to a separation unit to obtain a product stream E containing ethylene; supplying the product stream E to a polymerisation reactor; and performing a polymerisation reaction to obtain an ethylene-based polymer; wherein in step (d): the coil outlet temperature is ≥800 and ≤870° C.; and the weight ratio of steam to feed C is >0.3 and <0.8.
US12024682B2
A method of recovering gaseous hydrocarbons from tank headspace includes flowing a hydrocarbon gas composition from headspace of a tank fed by a secondary separator into a compressor to form a compressed mixture. The method includes flowing the compressed mixture into a cooling unit to cool the compressed mixture, to form a cooled composition including liquid hydrocarbons. The method includes recovering the liquid hydrocarbons as a recovered liquid hydrocarbon stream.
US12024678B2
A receiver for irregularly shaped bricks cast from non-volatile bituminous material includes a receiver with a specialized storage chamber that can receive viscous bituminous material and a concave lid preferably modified with a radiant heating system that can accept and melt or soften arriving bricks. The lid includes multiple openings or other delivery routes that funnel the melted bituminous material to the chamber below. The radiant heating system can be electrical where cables or grids are embedded in the lid or where conductive materials coat or are distributed throughout the lid. Alternatively, the radiant heating system can be hydronic where channels or conduits are embedded in the lid to circulate heated liquid such as water or water mixed with propylene glycol. The receiver can also include blenders, skimmers, and additional heaters to further skim, blend, or process the bituminous material collected in the chamber.
US12024673B2
A breaker composition comprising: (i) an acid precursor, (ii) a delaying agent and (iii) an aqueous fluid wherein the breaker composition has an effective operating temperature range of from about 25° C. to about 180° C. A wellbore servicing system comprising (a) an aqueous-based drilling fluid, wherein the aqueous-based drilling fluid forms water-wet solids in the wellbore; and (b) a breaker composition comprising (i) an acid precursor, (ii) a delaying agent and (iii) an aqueous fluid. A method of dissolving a filtercake comprising contacting the filtercake with a breaker solution comprising (i) an acid precursor, (ii) a delaying agent and (iii) an aqueous fluid wherein the filtercake comprises calcium carbonate.
US12024668B2
Described herein are thermally conductive thermoplastic polymers comprising a polymer matrix, at least one thermally conductive filler, at least one tensile strength filler, and at least one impact strength filler.
US12024666B2
The invention relates to SiC-bound diamond hard material particles, a porous component formed with SiC-bound diamond particles, methods for producing same and the use thereof. Diamond hard material particles and components have a composition of 30 vol. % to 65 vol. % diamond, 70 vol % to 35 vol. % SiC and 0 to 30 vol. % Si, and a component has a porosity in the range of 10% to 40%
US12024655B2
Provided are THF-free primer formulations for solvent cement bonding comprising cyclopentanone and at least one additional organic solvent. The primer formulations are effective for solvent cement bonding plastic components together, wherein the plastic components may include ABS, PVC, or CPVC pipes and/or fittings.
US12024649B2
A method for reducing adhesion between a maskant and a substrate, wherein the maskant is adhered to a surface of the substrate, the method comprising applying a composition to the maskant.
US12024647B2
The present invention relates to modified-metal -particles for corrosion-protection coatings 16 a method for their production and their use anti-corrosive coating compositions and methods for their use. The coating compositions include modified metal particles and a binding agent. The modified metal particles can include zino, aluminum, magnesium, bismuth, tin, nickel, or manganese as well as their mixtures and alloys thereof and have an inorganically-based surface modification in the form of a coating layer capable of imparting cathodic corrosion protection. Suitable surface modifications include a coating layer formed by an inorganic oxide including silicon dioxide, titanium oxide, zirconium oxide, and mixtures thereof.
US12024643B2
The present invention provides a super-hydrophobic anti-pollution flashover coating with hydrophobicity transference, which is prepared from the following raw materials: a silicone resin, an organic solvent, silicon oxide, a flame retardant, a cross-linking agent, a coupling agent, a dispersing agent, a defoaming agent, a leveling agent, and a silicone resin curing agent. The present invention also provides a preparation method of the super-hydrophobic anti-pollution flashover coating with hydrophobicity transference. The anti-pollution flashover coating provided by the present invention has both super-hydrophobicity and hydrophobicity transference, which improves the hydrophobicity of a surface of an anti-pollution flashover coating layer, ensures the long-term effectiveness of an anti-pollution flashover coating layer, and prolongs a service life of an anti-pollution flashover coating layer, thereby solving the problem that existing anti-pollution flashover coatings have low hydrophobicity and are prone to contaminant accumulation on the surface and reducing the occurrence probability of pollution flashover accidents.
US12024638B2
The present invention is a composition comprising a blend of a PVA based latex and an EA/MMA based polyacrylic latex. The composition of the present invention is useful in a paint formulation for providing a coating with superior scrub resistance over a formulation comprising a blend of a PVA based latex and a BA/MMA based polyacrylic latex.
US12024636B2
The present disclosure provides a method of manufacturing a conductive coating which includes preparing a conductive powder, preparing a wet conductive powder, preparing a base slurry, and performing a centrifugal mixing process. A graphite and a carbon black are uniformly mixed and performed on a powder refining process to obtain the conductive powder. The conductive powder and an additive are uniformly mixed to obtain the wet conductive powder. A neoprene and a solvent are uniformly mixed and performed on a ball milling process to obtain the base slurry. 45 parts by weight to 55 parts by weight of the wet conductive powder and 45 parts by weight to 55 parts by weight of the base slurry are centrifugal mixed in a centrifugal mixing process at 900 rpm to 1000 rpm to obtain the conductive coating having a viscosity between 55000 cP and 60000 cP.
US12024626B2
The present disclosure provides a thermoplastic copolymer composition capable of improving low noise properties without deterioration in mechanical properties, which is used in manufacture of a molded article, such as a constant velocity joint boot used as a component of an automobile. The composition includes a polyester elastomer; additives including silica and a siloxane-based polymer represented by Chemical Formula 1; and polytetramethylene glycol, where the additives are included in an amount of 1 to 4 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the polyester elastomer
US12024617B2
Provided is a cellulose composition, including a plurality of biocelluloses, wherein a diameter of the biocelluloses ranges from 20 to 30 nanometer, and a length of the biocelluloses ranges from 2000 to 3000 nanometer. The biocelluloses have good biocompatibility and can effectively enhance the efficiency of absorption and transmission of substances.
US12024616B2
A method of producing a thermoplastic elastomer includes providing a polyether composition comprising at least a first diol terminated polyether having a number average molecular weight of 400-6000 and up to 15 wt % of fumed silica having C1-C8 alkylsilyl groups or acrylate or methacrylate ester groups at its surface, combining the polyether composition with optional additional first polyether and either a) at least one dicarboxylic acid and at least one organic diol having a molecular weight less than 250 or b) at least one dicarboxylate terminated polyamide, to form a prepolymer composition, and allowing the prepolymer composition to polymerize to form a thermoplastic elastomer.
US12024615B2
Disclosed is a rubber composition which suppresses poor mixing or poor dispersion from occurring between an organic polymer material derived from natural rubber and an inorganic material such as silica and exhibits excellent viscoelastic properties, and a silane coupling agent composition used in the same. Also disclosed is a silane coupling agent composition comprising a protein modifying agent and a silane compound represented by Formula (1): wherein each of the variables is as defined herein.
US12024613B2
The invention describes a composition containing a) a functionalized polymer (10) that comprises at least one polymer segment (13) and at least two polymer aggregating segments (11,12) capable of forming non-covalent bonds based on a supramolecular interaction, b) an aggregating additive (20) that comprises at least one additive aggregating segment (21) capable of forming non-covalent bonds based on the same supramolecular interaction as the polymer aggregating segments (11,12), wherein the polymer aggregating segments (11,12) and the additive aggregating segment (21) are ditopic, wherein the polymer aggregating segments (11,12) and the additive aggregating segment (21) are designed such that they can form aggregates (31) that contain polymer aggregating segments (11,12) and additive aggregating segments (21), and wherein the aggregating additive (20) has a molecular weight of from 50 g/mol to 2000 g/mol. The invention also describes a method for the preparation of the composition according to the invention, the use of an aggregating additive (20) with a functionalized polymer (10), and the use of the composition according to the invention.
US12024604B2
The invention relates to a block co-polymer film having different morphologies within said film, uses thereof and processes for its preparation.
US12024603B2
A method of forming a composite material includes mixing granules of thermoplastic(s) and granules of reinforcing material(s) using a mixer with an interior friction coating. The friction generated by interaction between the granules and friction coating causes granules of at least one of the thermoplastic(s) to be heated to a liquid or semi-liquid state. The liquid/semi-liquid thermoplastic(s) act a binder for the mixed material. A system for forming such a composite material includes such a mixer with an interior friction coating. The system may also include a mould and/or a press for forming material produced by the mixer into a finished shape. The method and system may use post-consumer and post-industrial material as an input allowing such material to be recycled. In some cases, cross-contaminated or mixed post-consumer/post-industrial material may be recycled, potentially reducing environmental impacts.
US12024587B2
An alkylene oxide mixture containing greater than 50% by weight ethylene oxide is continuously polymerized in the presence of a double metal cyanide polymerization catalyst and an alkoxylated initiator having a hydroxyl equivalent weight of up to 200. The catalyst remains active, producing a polyol having an equivalent weight of up to 700 with a high oxyethylene content continuously at fast reaction rates.
US12024585B2
The invention relates to polycarbodiimides and to a process for their preparation using special catalysts.
US12024584B2
Caprolactam-derived solvents for use as processing solvents and/or coalescing agents for polyurethane dispersions (PUDs). The caprolactam-derived solvents are suitable for processing solvents and coalescing agents in PUDs created through traditional PUD manufacturing processes or as coalescing agents in PUDs created through solvent-free PUD manufacturing processes. Blends of more than one caprolactam-derived solvent may be used as the processing solvent and/or coalescing agent.
US12024581B2
A polyurethane composition reaction mixture including: (a) at least one organic isocyanate; and (b) at least one butylene oxide-based hydrophobic polyol; a process for making the above polyurethane composition; a polyurethane composite article composition, a process for making the above polyurethane composite article composition; and a process for making a composite article from the above polyurethane composite article composition.
US12024573B2
Provided is a method for manufacturing a polymer by a flow-type reaction, including introducing a liquid A containing an anionic polymerizable monomer and a non-polar solvent, a liquid B containing an anionic polymerization initiator and a non-polar solvent, a liquid C containing a polar solvent, and a polymerization terminator into different flow paths; allowing the liquids to flow in the respective flow paths; allowing the liquid A and the liquid B to join together at a joining portion; allowing a conjoined liquid MAB of the liquid A and the liquid B to join with the liquid C at downstream of the joining portion; subjecting the anionic polymerizable monomer to anionic polymerization while a conjoined liquid MABC of the conjoined liquid MAB and the liquid C is flowing to downstream in a reaction flow path; and allowing a polymerization reaction solution flowing in the reaction flow path to join with the polymerization terminator so that the polymerization reaction is terminated and a polymer is obtained, in which a polarity of a solvent of the liquid MABC is made higher than a polarity of a solvent of the liquid MAB. Also provided is a flow-type reaction system suited for performing the manufacturing method.
US12024566B2
An anti-SIRPα antibody that can be used as a tumor agent and an anti-tumor agent comprising the antibody as an active ingredient. An antibody that binds specifically to human SIRPα to inhibit binding of human SIRPα to CD47.
US12024557B2
The present invention relates to agents for use in the prophylactic or therapeutic treatment of myopia in a subject, wherein said agents are capable of decreasing epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) signaling and/or signaling of another receptor susceptible for amphiregulin in a subject in a direct or indirect manner. The present invention further relates to agents for use in the prophylactic or therapeutic treatment of hyperopia in a subject, wherein said agents are capable of increasing epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) signaling and/or signaling of another receptor susceptible for amphiregulin in a subject. Furthermore, the present invention relates to methods for the diagnosis of myopia or hyperopia in a subject, comprising the steps of (a) providing a biological sample from the subject; (b) determining the amphiregulin level in said sample; (c) comparing the level determined in step (b) to the amphiregulin levels found in emmetropic subjects or subjects going to be emmetropic; and (d) determining that the subject has myopia or is predisposed for the development of myopia in case the level determined in step (b) is higher than the amphiregulin levels found in emmetropic subjects or subjects going to be emmetropic; and determining that the subject has hyperopia or is predisposed for the development of hyperopia in case the level determined in step (b) is lower than the amphiregulin levels found in emmetropic subjects or subjects going to be emmetropic. Finally, the present invention relates to a method for identifying agents which associate with amphiregulin or fragments or variants thereof.
US12024549B2
The present invention provides a technique enabling modification of a soluble protein and in particular regioselective modification of a soluble protein. More specifically, the present invention provides a compound having an affinity substance to a soluble protein, a cleavable portion, and a reactive group represented by the following Formula (I): A-L-B-R (I) wherein A is an affinity substance to a soluble protein; L is a cleavable linker which is a divalent group comprising a cleavable portion; B is (a) a divalent group comprising a bioorthogonal functional group or (b) a divalent group comprising no bioorthogonal functional group; and R is a reactive group to the soluble protein; or a salt thereof.
US12024540B2
Polypetide, photoresist composition including the same, and method of forming pattern using the same
A polypeptide, a photoresist composition including the polypeptide, a photoresist including the polypeptide, and a method of forming patterns using the photoresist composition.
US12024534B2
The purification of monoalkyl tin trialkoxides and monoalkyl tin triamides are described using fractional distillation and/or ultrafiltration. The purified compositions are useful as radiation sensitive patterning compositions or precursors thereof. The fractional distillation process has been found to be effective for the removal of metal impurities down to very low levels. The ultrafiltration processes have been found to be effective at removal of fine particulates. Commercially practical processing techniques are described.
US12024523B2
The present application relates to novel compounds of formula (I) to their utility in treating and/or preventing clinical conditions including cardiovascular diseases (CVD), to methods for their therapeutic use, to pharmaceutical compositions containing them and to processes for preparing such compounds.
US12024515B2
The present disclosure relates to compounds according to Formula I (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt and/or solvate thereof, as well as compositions including such compounds and uses thereof, where R1 is an unsubstituted C1-C12 alkyl; and R2, R3, and R4 are each independently H or —C(O)—(unsubstituted C1-C12 alkyl). Among other things, the present disclosure evidences that the significant upregulation of CD20 by the inhibition of a-mannosidase enzymes by compounds of the present technology potentiates the activity of anti-CD20 mAbs and importantly sensitize cell lines that are resistant to the action of these antibodies.
US12024513B2
The present invention provides compounds of Formula (I): wherein all of the variables are as defined herein. These compounds are modulators of NLRP3, which may be used as medicaments for the treatment of proliferative disorders, such as cancer in a subject (e.g., a human).
US12024512B2
Improving the solubility of an organic compound. A cocrystal of (1) 6-ethyl-N-[1-(hydroxyacetyl)piperidin-4-yl]-1-methyl-4-oxo-5-(2-oxo-2-phenylethyl)-3-(2,2,2-trifluoroethoxy)-4,5-dihydro-1H-pyrrolo[3,2-c]pyridine-2-carboxamide and (2) L-malic acid or L-tartaric acid.
US12024511B2
Provided herein are substituted imidazo[1,2-a]pyridin-2-ylamine compounds, for example, of formula (A), and pharmaceutical compositions thereof; and methods of their use for treating, preventing, or ameliorating one or more symptoms of a Janus kinase-mediated disease.
US12024510B2
The present invention provides novel pyrazolopyridine-diamides of Formula (I), wherein, the definition of W1, W2, A1, A2, A3, B1, B2, D, Z1, E, R1, R2, R3, R4, m and n is as described in the description. The present invention also relates to the composition, combination, use and method of application of the compounds of Formula (I).
US12024508B2
The invention relates to a new family of compounds of the type 2,3-dihydroquinazolin-4(1H)-one and the use thereof as inhibitors of the toxic effects of intracellular-acting toxins, such as ricin, Shiga toxins or the cholera toxin, using retrograde transport to intoxicate the cells, or viruses or bacteria using retrograde and/or syntaxin 5-dependent transport to infect the cells, specifically viruses or bacteria entering into the cells by means of endocytosis, or intracellular parasites.
US12024506B2
The present invention relates to compounds of Formula I as defined herein, and salts and solvates thereof. (I) The present invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising compounds of Formula (I), and to compounds of Formula (I) for use in the treatment of proliferative disorders, such as cancer, as well as other diseases or conditions in which inhibition of a RAS-effector protein-protein interaction is implicated.
US12024502B2
Disclosed herein are compounds, compositions, and methods for selecting targeting β2AR receptors. The compounds, compositions, and methods may be used in the treatment of obstructive lung diseases.
US12024496B2
Disclosed herein are methods for synthesizing useful intermediates and/or products from 1,2,5,6-hexanetetrol (HTO), which itself can be derived from a sugar. In an aspect, a process is provided for production of THFDCA from 1,2,5,6-hexanetetrol (HTO). The process comprises the steps of (a) ring closing to form a ring compound and (b) oxidizing using a catalyst comprising platinum and bismuth to form an acid mixture. Step (a) may be performed before or after step (b).
US12024492B2
The present invention relates to a process for preparation of strobilurin compound, azoxystrobin and its intermediates using a catalyst selected from 1,8-Diazabicyclo[5.4.0]undec-7-ene or 1,5-Diazabicyclo[4.3.0]non-5-ene, salts thereof, or derivatives thereof.
US12024487B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing m-dialkylbenzaldehyde by using a reaction starting material containing 1,4-dialkylbenzene. The method for producing m-dialkylbenzaldehyde represented by formula (3), comprising a step of allowing carbon monoxide to react on a reaction starting material containing 1,4-dialkylbenzene represented by formula (1) in the presence of a Bronsted acid and a Lewis acid, wherein the reaction starting material is 1,4-dialkylbenzene represented by formula (1), or a mixture of 1,4-dialkylbenzene represented by formula (1) and 1,3-dialkylbenzene represented by formula (2), containing 10 mol % or more of the 1,4-dialkylbenzene represented by formula (1), wherein in formulae (1) to (3), R1 represents a methyl group or an ethyl group, and R2 represents a chain or cyclic alkyl group having 3 or more and 6 or less carbon atoms that has a tertiary carbon at the benzyl position.
US12024486B2
Modular dendrimers with cationic groups and lipophilic groups are provided herein. In some aspects, the dendrimers provided herein may be formulated in compositions which contain a nucleic acid and one or more helper excipients. In some aspects, these compositions may also be used to treat diseases or disorders with a therapeutic nucleic acid.
US12024469B2
Provided are a powder for laser manufacturing which can be stably manufactured and from which a three-dimensional manufactured object ensuring a manufacturing accuracy can be obtained and a using method thereof. A powder for ceramic manufacturing for obtaining a manufactured object by repeatedly sintering or fusing and solidifying in sequence a powder in an irradiation portion with laser light, in which the powder includes a plurality of compositions, at least one composition of the compositions is an absorber that relatively strongly absorbs the laser light compared to other compositions, and at least a part of the absorber changes to a different composition that relatively weakly absorbs the laser light by irradiation with the laser light and a using method of a powder in which the powder is used.
US12024466B2
To provide a thick film resistor paste for a resistor having a smaller resistance change rate and excellent surge resistance, a thick film resistor using the thick film resistor paste, and an electronic component provided with the thick film resistor. A thick film resistor paste comprises an organic vehicle and a conductive substance-containing glass powder comprising ruthenium oxide and lead ruthenate, the conductive substance-containing glass powder comprises 10 to 70 mass % of conductive substances, a glass composition of the conductive substance-containing glass powder comprises 3 to 30 mass % of silicon oxide. 30 to 90 mass % of lead oxide, 5 to 50 mass % of boron oxide relative to 100 mass % of glass components, and, a combined amount of silicon oxide, lead oxide and boron oxide by mass % is 50 mass % or more relative to 100 mass % of the glass components.
US12024464B2
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a glass for chemical strengthening that exhibits a high strength after chemical strengthening and is resistant to devitrification. The present invention relates to a glass for chemical strengthening that contains, expressed as mol % on an oxide basis, 55 to 70% SiO2, 10 to 25% Al2O3, 1 to 20% Li2O, 0 to 8% CaO, 0 to 8% SrO, and 0 to 5% ZrO2, in which the sum of the contents of CaO and SrO is 1.5 to 10%, the sum of the contents of Na2O and K2O is 3 to 11%, and the value X given by the formula ([Li2O]+[K2O])/[Al2O3] is 0.1 to 1.1.
US12024455B2
An apparatus for the mineralization of drinking water has a housing with an inlet and an outlet, a filter positioned in the housing, a container receptacle assembly affixed to or formed on the housing, a pump cooperative with the container receptacle assembly, and a manifold connected to an outlet of the pump and to an outlet of the filter. The filter is connected to the inlet of the housing and adapted to filter contaminants. The container receptacle assemblies adapted to connect with a bottle containing a mineral or supplement therein. The pump is adapted to pass the mineral or supplement in a measured amount from the bottle. The manifold is adapted to mix the mineral or supplement with the filtered water so as to discharge a mineralized drinking water through the outlet.
US12024450B2
Increased control and efficiency over the wastewater purification can be achieved through creating conditions that allow the operator to selectively prioritize the digestive function of microorganism in the activated sludge. The gas-dispersion return sludge is created using pure oxygen or oxygen containing trace amounts of ozone as a reactive gas, which is blended with return sludge to create a mixture of gas and liquid, which is passed through an atomizer or a cavitation pump to instantly render the reactive gas to an ultra-fine bubble state. At least a portion of the ultra-fine bubbles dissolve within the gas-dispersion return sludge, activating the dormant microorganisms. Due to a complete or an almost complete absence of biodegradable material in the gas-dispersion return sludge, the microorganism prioritize their digestive function, and when exposed to biodegradable pollutants present in wastewater, digest the pollutants using biochemical pathways different from the ones used in nature.
US12024449B2
A method comprises: removing most suspending solid pollutants after a primary treatment for the sewage which is then placed into a secondary biochemical treatment section; mixing the magnetic sludge carbon carrier and a solvent to prepare a mixed solution which is then placed into the secondary biochemical treatment section synchronously with the sewage; uniformly mixing the sewage, the magnetic sludge carbon carrier and the activated sludge in a biochemical treatment construction; performing a dreg-water separation in a sedimentation tank on the mixed solution flowing out of the secondary biochemical treatment section; and recycling magnetic particles with the magnetic separation apparatus. The sewage treatment process with a magnetic sludge carbon carrier cooperated with standard upgrading and capacity improvement, which not only addresses sludge removal in sewage treatment plants, but also is cooperated with standard upgrading and capacity improvement, has advantages of saving investment cost, good sewage treatment effect, environmental friendliness etc.
US12024441B1
A cathode active material for a lithium secondary battery has a structure of a lithium-nickel-based metal oxide. A crystal size in a (104) plane defined by Equation 1 is less than 200 nm. A thickness of a TM slab measured by a Rietveld method in a crystal structure of a space group R-3m by an X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis is 2.15 Å or less. A thickness of a Li slab thickness measured by the Rietveld method in the crystal structure of the space group R-3m by the XRD analysis is 2.585 Å or more.
US12024437B2
In a method for continuously generating silicon monoxide (SiO) gas, wherein a silicon monoxide gas-generating raw material in a raw material supply unit is continuously charged into a reaction chamber RM, an inert gas is flowed through the raw material supply unit so as to be directed toward the charging direction of the silicon monoxide gas-generating raw material. The method for continuously generating silicon monoxide gas prevents a decrease in yield of the silicon monoxide (SiO) gas-generating raw material.
US12024430B2
The system includes a methane reformer, a combined cycle power generator, and a switch. The reformer is configured to react methane with steam. The combined cycle power generator includes a steam turbine, a gas turbine, a power generator, and a water boiler. The steam turbine is configured to rotate in response to receiving steam. The gas turbine is configured to rotate in response to receiving a mixture of fuel and air. The power generator is configured to convert rotational energy from the steam turbine and the gas turbine into electricity. In a first position, the switch is configured to direct exhaust from the gas turbine to the reformer, thereby providing heat to the reformer. In a second position, the switch is configured to direct exhaust from the gas turbine to the water boiler, thereby providing heat to the water boiler to generate steam.
US12024402B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for a stairlift overspeed safety system are disclosed. The overspeed safety system may include a centripetal cam assembly, a trigger assembly, and a jammer assembly. The centripetal cam assembly may include a spring-loaded plate and a plurality of centripetal cams connected to the spring-loaded plate, configured to move to an extended position when the rail speed exceeds the speed threshold. The trigger assembly may include a trigger plate configured to be pushed by at least one of the centripetal cams when moved to the extended position. Pushing the trigger plate may cause a switch to open to shut off power to the motorized stairlift. The jammer assembly may include a jammer configured to wedge between teeth of a rack and pinion of the motorized stairlift to initiate a deceleration to stop movement of the motorized stairlift.
US12024399B2
A guiding device for an elevator door leaf that includes a body within which at least a first cavity open outwards of said body. The guiding device also includes a first spherical element rotatably inserted in the first cavity and arranged so as to protrude from the first cavity outwards and anti-friction means interposed between the first spherical element and at least one wall delimiting the first cavity to limit the movement of the first spherical element within the first cavity.
US12024388B2
A one-piece tape cutting device is provided, comprising: a tape shaft, a tape pressing part, a cutting part, a tape supporting part, a side plate, and a pressing plate, and all are integrally formed without being connected by any fasteners. the tape is sleeved on the outside of the tape shaft from the opposite side of the side plate, the pressing plate is stretched by the tape and away from the tape shaft, so that the tape is pressed by the pressing plate and does not rotate, the tape is restricted by the anti-dislodging piece and does not disengage, and the end of the tape is pulled through the gap between the tape supporting part and the tape pressing part, and non-adhesive surface of the tape faces the tape pressing part, and the cutting part can cut through the tape.
US12024387B2
A medium discharge device includes a discharge roller pair that is provided with a discharge driving roller and a discharge driven roller which drivably rotates in contact with the discharge driving roller, and a medium receiving tray which receives the medium that is fed and discharged by the discharge roller pair, in which the medium receiving tray includes a guide member which guides such that a tip end of the medium which is discharged from the discharge roller pair enters the medium mounting surface at a predetermined angle, and the guide member is provided to be elastically displaceable in an advancing and retreating direction with respect to the medium mounting surface of the medium receiving tray and is displaced in a direction coming close to the medium mounting surface according to raising of a pressing load due to the medium that is discharged to the medium receiving tray.
US12024386B2
An output tray for a printer, a printer comprising the output tray, and a kit of parts including the output tray. The output tray comprises a spool, a guide member, and a sheet attached between to the spool and the guide member. The guide member is movable between a stowed and one or more deployed positions. The sheet is deployed from a stored configuration to one or more in-use positions upon movement of the guide member.
US12024383B2
A sheet guide includes an endless belt, and a guide supported by a plurality of places of the endless belt, the guide configured to hold a downstream end of the sheet in a conveyance direction of the sheet, wherein the endless belt is configured to rotate to move the sheet held by the guide in the conveyance direction.
US12024381B2
A method for stripping a winding mandrel from a roll formed by wrapping a web around the winding mandrel includes the following phases: to support the formed roll so that an end of the respective winding mandrel is adjacent to a gripping and rotating means for the winding mandrel; to connect the gripping and rotating means to the end of the winding mandrel and through this means place the winding mandrel in axial rotation; and to apply, by means of a translation means, an axial force to the gripping and rotating means and to the mandrel and, according with the axial force, translate this mandrel by sliding it off the formed roll.
US12024374B2
A movement device for moving roller boxes, comprising: a support frame (10), movable along a vertical direction; a conveyor plane (11), solidly constrained to the support frame (10) with respect to the movement in a vertical direction and movable with respect to the support frame (10) along a horizontal transversal direction (X), in which the conveyor plane (11) is predisposed to translate objects (O) along a horizontal conveying direction (Y); three operating arms (21,22,23), solidly constrained to the support frame (10), each of which is provided with spindles (S) rotating about rotation axes which are coplanar, horizontal and perpendicular to the conveying direction (Y). A main arm (21) is provided with motorised spindles (S) and is movable along the transversal direction (X) between a first operating position and a second operating position, to selectively interact with one of two roller boxes (B1,B2).
US12024372B2
A system for transporting and evaluating flexible bags filled with product includes a running rail and a plurality of conveying elements mounted for movement along the running rail. A control system is configured such that each conveying element is independently movable along running rail, wherein the control system is further configured such that a first conveying element of the plurality of conveying elements and a second conveying element of the plurality of conveying elements are controlled such that a flexible bag is squeezed between the first conveying element and the second conveying element, and the control system is further configured to evaluate a squeeze force on the flexible bag and/or a dimensional spacing between the first conveying element and the second conveying element in order to identify the flexible bag as having a satisfactory seal or an unsatisfactory seal.
US12024370B2
An automated package processing system includes a conveyor, a package scale within a movement surface of the conveyor and outputting weight information for a package, a display, a shipping database containing shipping information comprising package recipients and package shippers, a printer within arms-reach of the scale and printing out labels containing a package recipient and a package shipper, at least one scanning device projecting a scanning field onto the scale weighing surface and outputting package measurement information indicating package volume characteristics, and a central processor communicatively connected to the scale, display, shipping database, printer, and scanning device. Each of the packages have package information and a respective package identifier. The central processor is programmed to determine automatically the package shipper and a total shipping cost based upon at least one of the package information and the shipping information independent of the weight of the package.
US12024365B2
A tray feeder mechanism comprising a plurality of trays within a tray feeder, each tray including a tray handle, and a gripper positioned within a gripping area defined by the tray handles, wherein the gripper is configured to remove a tray from the tray feeder when the tray feeder stops.
US12024364B2
There is provided a container maneuvering apparatus arranged to provide an interface between a container-conveying system and a container-storage system. More specifically, there is disclosed a container maneuvering apparatus arranged to load/unload a container into/from a carriage. Optionally, the carriage is a Magway carriage. The carriage can be made stationary before loading/unloading the container by the container-conveying system. The carriage and container can match velocities so that both are moving, but at the same velocity, whilst loading/unloading operations are performed by the container maneuvering apparatus.
US12024356B2
A multiple compartment container includes a push tab assembly having a series of push tabs connected together as a one-piece molded assembly. The container has lids that are molded in a single piece with the base of the container.
US12024354B2
Provided is an insulation liner for use inside a shipping carton that affords thermal insulation and shock absorption for an object to be shipped, a liner and carton system, a method of production of the insulation liner, and methods of use. The insulation liner includes a larger component folded into three panels, a smaller component folded into three panels, and standoffs disposed on the surfaces of both the larger component and the smaller component. The standoffs may be oriented inwardly or outwardly. When oriented outwardly they create an interstitial air space that reduces conduction allowing the insulation effect of the liner and carton system to equal or exceed that of a molded polystyrene container of an equal size.
US12024351B1
A fragrance infusing dice container and a method of infusing dice with a fragrance are disclosed herein. In particular, the container includes an enclosure defining an interior area within which a fragrance diffuser is disposed. A dice holder is also disposed within the enclosure with a plurality of dice retention openings sized to receive dice therein. The dice holder, and in particular, the dice retained thereby are fluidically arranged with the fragrance diffuser such that application of a scented oil to at least a portion of the fragrance diffuser causes the scented oil to at least partially diffuse and permeate within the enclosure and impart upon the dice.
US12024344B2
The present invention relates to a paper handle for a box, and a manufacturing method therefor. In order to implement this, the present invention has a box handle which has a holding part formed in the center of a body, and which has catching parts formed at both facing sides thereof so as to be insertedly fixed to fitting holes of a packaging box, wherein the body is folded at a predetermined width to form at least two layers so that both the long-side ends thereof face each other, and the catching parts are respectively formed on both short sides of the body and comprise a first wing part and a second wing part, which are continuous, formed by folding a plurality of points, having predetermined intervals in the longitudinal direction of the long side, orthogonally to the long side.
US12024341B1
The disclosure relates to a dispenser and a content container for dispensing a liquid material, such as a cosmetic cream contained in a content container. The dispenser includes a container body having a bottom and a sidewall extending from the bottom and arranging an opening opposite to the bottom. The container body is adapted for containing the collapsible content container. The dispenser includes a detachable dispenser head with a dispenser nozzle for dispensing the liquid. The dispenser head includes pressure sensitive locking means for releasable locking the dispenser head to a cooperating locking assembly arranged on the content container.
US12024339B2
Electrified vehicles may be powered by traction battery packs. An exemplary traction battery pack may include an enclosure assembly having a tray and a cover. One or more hinged locking plate assemblies may be utilized to secure the cover to the tray of the enclosure assembly. The hinged locking plate assemblies may be configured to exert a clamping or compression force across an interface between the cover and the tray, thereby enhancing retention and providing a leak-proof joint.
US12024338B2
The invention is directed to a support for a work of art comprising a base element for fixing the support to an interior wall of a shipping container and a clamping element for clamping the work of art and wherein the base element and the clamping element are fixed to each other by wire rope isolators.
US12024336B2
Hardened reusable shipping containers with a reversible label holder and methods of using the same are disclosed herein. A hardened reusable shipping container may have a base enclosure having a payload area that is configured to receive a payload and maintain a temperature of an environment surrounding the payload. The base enclosure may further have an exterior surrounding the payload area. The exterior may include multiple walls. One of the multiple walls may define a recess. The hardened reusable shipping container may have a plate having a first surface and a second surface opposing the first surface. The plate may be configured to be removably inserted into the recess and display one or more visuals on at least one of the first surface and the second surface.
US12024322B2
Apparatus for extracting pharmaceutical containers from a nest inside a tub includes an advancement line of the tubs, which stops the tubs at a rest station; a handling organ, and a pickup and transfer station. The station has a frame, with a housing for receiving and supporting a nest and rotatable about a first axis into a first operating position near the rest station and into a second operating position near the handling organ. A suction gripper collects at least a further nest containing pharmaceutical containers from a tub in the rest station and positions the further nest in the housing of a second frame stationary in the first operating position. The second frame then rotates into the second operating position for the handling organ to collect the pharmaceutical containers from the “nest.”
US12024320B2
A device for strapping objects with a flat strap includes a strap guide frame, a cover frame and an ejector. The strap guide frame has a channel that is open on a narrow side and a cover frame can be moved between a closed position and an open position relative to the strap guide frame. In the closed position, the strap guide covers the narrow side of the strap channel and in the open position, there is a gap. From a second side surface opposite of the open, narrow side, the ejector protrudes into the strap channel. The ejector is a flat component with two legs at an angle to one another, where the free end of the first leg is mounted to a mounting element and the free end of the second leg protrudes, with little play, into a flat opening that protrudes through the strap guide frame.
US12024317B2
A self-deployable array of panels includes a plurality of panels, each panel having a first compressed panel thickness state and a second expanded panel thickness state, and including a spring bias element biased to the second expanded panel thickness state. A plurality of locking hinges hingedly couple each of the panels to an adjoining panel. Each locking hinge is biased to an open position. A release of stored potential energy of both of the spring bias element biased to the second expanded panel thickness state, and the locking hinges biased to the open position causes the self-deployable array of panels to self-deploy from a folded stowed state. A single part offset locking hinge is also described.
US12024316B1
In accordance with various embodiments of the disclosed subject matter, a system and method is configured for scheduling and invoking power sharing among satellites within a constellation of satellites such that energy storage systems at a target satellite may by charged prior to the use of electric propulsion thrust activation or other high electricity demand operations (or such operations contemporaneously augmented) by power beams transmitted from other (source) satellites within the constellation.
US12024313B1
Systems and methods for calculating launch sites for a satellite constellation are provided. A carrier aircraft may be configured to launch a first satellite into the first orbit and a second satellite into the second orbit. In some embodiments, information about an accessible range of the aircraft may be received. Based on the received information, a geographical area that the aircraft can access without landing may be calculated. Using received information and the orbit parameters of the first orbit and the second orbit, a first launch site for launching the first satellite and a second launch site for launching the second satellite may be calculated. The first launch site may comprise a first geographical position and a first launch time, and the second launch site may comprise a second geographical position and a second launch time. Both launch sites may be within the calculated geographical area.
US12024312B2
A rework part for a composite structure is described. The rework part comprises an upper composite layer comprising an upper perimeter that extends beyond a damaged area of the composite structure, and a bottom composite layer between the composite structure and the upper composite layer, the bottom composite layer comprising a bottom perimeter that extends beyond the upper perimeter of the upper composite layer. The rework part further comprises a bottom adhesive layer adhering the bottom composite layer to the composite structure, and a rework part adhesive layer bonding the upper composite layer to either the bottom composite layer or to an intermediate composite layer.
US12024300B2
A system including an apparatus for determining the presence of ice on an external surface of a structure is provided. The apparatus includes a sensor that includes first and second parallel ink or paint conductive traces separated by a gap. The apparatus also includes a circuit configured to measure the impedance or change in impedance between the first and second parallel ink or paint conductive traces.
