US12024296B2
Described are passenger seat reclining systems having a seat pan; a seat back fixed with respect to the seat pan; and at least one spreader. Motion track segments of the spreader may cause a particular recline motion. For example, the motion track segments may cause the seat body to rotate about an axis adjacent to the headrest during transition from an upright position to a reclined position of the passenger seat. Additionally or alternatively, the motion track segments may be configured such that the seat pan translates down and forward when the passenger seat transitions from an upright position to a reclined position, and such that the seat back is constrained to undergo less than less than 3 inches (7.62 cm) of rearward translation in recline travel when the passenger seat transitions from the upright position to the reclined position.
US12024294B2
An armrest assembly for a passenger seat is disclosed. The armrest assembly may be disposed in a stowed, collapsed or passenger configuration where the armrest assembly is of a first length, and also may be disposed in an extended or cargo configuration where the armrest assembly is of a second length that is greater than the first length. Such an armrest assembly may be used to convert all or a portion of a passenger compartment (e.g., of an aircraft) to a cargo compartment by disposing a plurality of armrest assemblies in their respective extended/cargo configuration. Any appropriate cargo may be disposed on/supported by one or more armrest assemblies in their extended/cargo configuration. A free distal end or distal end portion of each armrest assembly in its extended configuration may be anchored to/supported by an appropriate structure, such as an adjacent passenger seat or a bracket(s) attached to a wall.
US12024291B2
A component system for an aircraft, having at least one furnishing component, a plurality of component rails, a plurality of guide elements engageable with and movable relative to the component rails, a plurality of retaining elements connected to the guide elements and configured to be coupled to a hull structure of the aircraft or the at least one furnishing component, and a plurality of locking units arranged on the component rails and/or on the guide elements and configured to lock the guide elements to a particular rail. At least two component rails are arranged on the at least one furnishing component or the hull structure at a distance and parallel to each other such that the furnishing component is retractable via the component rails on guide elements or component rails that are spatially fixed in the aircraft and can be locked in a retracted position by the locking units.
US12024283B2
A circuit board assembly for association with an aircraft includes a circuit board and an electromagnetic interference component connected to the circuit board. The circuit board assembly may further include an enclosure having an electromagnetic signal permissive layer and an electromagnetic signal blocking layer. The electromagnetic signal permissive layer may include a housing that define a volume. The housing may enclose the electromagnetic interference component on the circuit board. The electromagnetic signal blocking layer defines a conductive barrier about the electromagnetic interference component.
US12024277B2
A landing gear system for an aircraft is disclosed. In various embodiments, the system includes a truss frame pivotally connected to a frame of the aircraft and configured to rotate about an axis; a retraction actuator configured to rotate the truss frame about the axis; a first truss link pivotally connected to the truss frame; a second truss link pivotally connected to the first truss link; a truss locking link pivotally connected to the truss frame and to the second truss link; and an articulation actuator configured to pivot the first truss link with respect to the truss frame.
US12024271B2
A vessel operation system includes an outboard motor or other propulsion apparatus on a hull, an electrically-driven trolling motor mounted externally to the hull, and a controller configured or programmed to control the outboard motor and the trolling motor. The outboard motor generates a thrust and electric power with an engine. The trolling motor generates a thrust by being driven by electric power from a battery that is charged by the electric power generated by the outboard motor. In a state in which the trolling motor is generating the thrust, the controller is configured or programmed to control the outboard motor so as to generate an assist thrust that hastens a behavior of the hull by the thrust generated by the trolling motor.
US12024268B2
A modular boat can be adapted to meet various desired shapes and uses, and can be transportable. The modular boat can include multiple sections configured to be joined together by rod-connection(s), by interlock-connection(s), or both. Each section can be joined to other section(s) to form and use the modular boat, and can be separated from the other section(s) for transportation. Each section can extend from bow to stern and can be joined to the other section(s) at a junction extending from bow to stern. Each rod-connection can include a hole extending perpendicular to the junction, through the sections across the modular boat, and a rod extending through the hole. Each interlock-connection can include a a key inserted into a slot of an adjacent section at the junction.
US12024266B2
A sea hose load analyzer system is disclosed. The sea hose load analyzer system also includes a transceiver interface. The sea hose load analyzer system also includes a memory storage. The sea hose load analyzer system also includes circuitry may include one or more processors configured to: receive load information of one or more sea hoses as node unit data via the transceiver interface, store the load information in the memory storage, and monitor additional node unit data via the transceiver interface.
US12024257B2
Example bicycle suspension components are described herein. An example suspension component includes a first tube and a second tube configured in a telescopic arrangement and defining an interior space, and a damper in the interior space. The damper includes a damper body defining a chamber, a damper member in the chamber, and a shaft coupled to the damper member. The example suspension component also includes an isolator coupling the shaft to a bottom end of the second tube, the isolator including an elastomeric member to absorb vibrations.
US12024246B2
A vehicle drive assist apparatus for a vehicle includes a target yaw rate calculation unit that sets a target yaw rate to cause the vehicle to travel along a horizontal curve; a reference steering wheel angle calculation unit that sets a reference steering wheel angle; a feedforward target steering wheel angle calculation unit that sets a feedforward target steering wheel angle; an estimated yaw rate calculation unit that sets an estimated yaw rate based on a lateral force component exerted on the vehicle traveling on the curve; and a feedforward correction gain calculation unit that sets a feedforward correction gain based on the ratio between the target yaw rate and the estimated yaw rate. The feedforward target steering wheel angle calculation unit sets the feedforward target steering wheel angle in consideration of the lateral force component by correcting the reference steering wheel angle with the feedforward correction gain.
US12024245B2
The disclosure discloses a single-leg robot mechanism for jumping on a wall and a control method. The mechanism includes a robot leg. A plurality of rotors is fixedly connected to a fuselage of the robot leg and is distributed in a mirror image arrangement with respect to the fuselage, and operating surfaces of the plurality of rotors are parallel to each other.
US12024244B2
An endless track for traction of an off-road vehicle, such as an agricultural vehicle, an industrial vehicle (e.g., a construction vehicle) or a military vehicle, is provided. The endless track a plurality of elastomeric lugs, such as drive/guide lugs projecting from the inner surface and/or traction lugs projecting from the ground-engaging outer surface. An elastomeric lug may have a material composition defining an arrangement of zones of different materials which comprises a plurality of zones of different elastomeric materials, may exhibit a desired variation of a material property (e.g., across the arrangement of zones of different materials. A zone of the elastomeric lug may have a dedicated function, such as a sacrificial zone or a wear indicator zone. An elastomeric drive lug may comprise an uneven drive surface, such as an angled or curved surface, for engaging a drive member of a drive wheel of the vehicle.
US12024243B2
This power steering valve (1) includes a sleeve (40), a spool (60) held in such a way as to be able to rotate within the housing (40), to which an input shaft U of a steering wheel S is coupled, a gerotor (30) fixed to the sleeve (10) and configured to be driven by hydraulic fluid which flows out from the predetermined opening of the sleeve (40), and a drive shaft (80) meshing with an inner rotor (32) of the gerotor (30) and pivotally supported in a swingable manner by the sleeve (40) with use of a pin (81), wherein an overall length Ld of the drive shaft (80) is formed to have a dimension defined by (¼)·Ls≤Ld≤(½)·Ls relative to an overall length Ls of the sleeve (40), and the pin (81) is arranged at a position nearer the gerotor (30) in an axial direction than a middle position in the sleeve (40).
US12024242B2
A valve assembly for use with a main pump, a reserve pump, a steering valve with a second load signaling connector, and a first pressure switch includes an adjustable first orifice and a flow control valve. The valve assembly further includes a fluid flow path running from a first high pressure connector via the first orifice, further via a control point, further via the flow control valve, to a first low pressure connector. The first orifice is loaded in the opening direction by the pressure at the first high pressure connector, and the first orifice is loaded in the closing direction by a spring and by the pressure at the first load signaling connector. The control point is connected permanently to the first measuring connector.
US12024236B2
Vehicles are disclosed that are configured to carry loads in a stabilized manner, such that the load is maintained in a substantially constant position or orientation relative to a predetermined reference point or frame even as the vehicle moves. A stabilization controller in such a vehicle receives information about movement of the vehicle relative to the reference point or plane from one or more sensors on the vehicle, and uses the information to control one or more movable objects by which the load is secured to the vehicle so as to maintain a relatively constant relationship between the load and the reference point or plane.
US12024232B2
A variable fender garnish structure of a vehicle is provided and includes a fender garnish coupled to an outer edge part of a wheel guard of a vehicle and made with a shape covering a wheel of the vehicle, a flap member positioned in the rear part of the fender garnish and rotatably coupled to the fender garnish, a driving member rotating the flap member, and a controller driving the driving member to control whether the flap member is rotated or not.
US12024230B2
An instrument panel support apparatus including a support portion configured by an on-board equipment or a fixing member fixed to the on-board equipment, and a connecting portion connecting the support portion and the end of the instrument panel. The connecting portion includes an engaging portion provided at the end of the instrument panel, and an engaged portion provided at the support portion so as to be engaged with the engaging portion when the instrument panel and the support portion are connected by pushing of one of the instrument panel and the support portion to the other of the instrument panel and the support portion in a predetermined direction. The engaging portion is configured to engage with the engaged portion in contact with the engaged portion or a periphery of the engaged portion by an elastic deformation of the engaging portion in the connecting portion.
US12024229B2
A lateral surface member structure (100) of a vehicle body (1) includes a tubular body (110) extending in a front-rear direction of the vehicle body (1) and an impact absorbing member (120) disposed inside the tubular body (110). The impact absorbing member (120) includes a web (121) extending along the front-rear direction and flat in a vehicle width direction, a vehicle outer flange (122) joined to a vehicle outer end portion of the web (121) and extending along the front-rear direction, and a vehicle inner flange (123) joined to a vehicle inner end portion of the web (121) and extending along the front-rear direction. The vehicle outer flange (122) and the vehicle inner flange (123) each include a rib (122R, 123R) disposed so as to sandwich the web (121) from above and below and extending along the front-rear direction.
US12024217B2
An anti-rollover structure, applicable to the cot body, includes a fixing element and a support element. The fixing element is adapted to be mounted on the outer bottom surface of the cot body. The support element is movably disposed at the fixing element and subjected to pressure from the cot body and thus protrudes from the cot body. The anti-rollover structure is structurally simple and easy to use. A carrying device and a baby carrier are further introduced. The carrying device and the baby carrier each have the anti-rollover structure.
US12024215B2
A container moving assembly includes a frame with a drive wheel pivotably attached to the frame about a steering axis. A pair of guide wheels are rotatably attached relative to the frame opposite the drive wheel. A platform lifting assembly is pivotable relative to the frame and includes an engagement platform for supporting a container.
US12024202B2
An autonomous vehicle location providing apparatus for providing a location of an autonomous vehicle which travels to a location of a user depending on a call of the user and a method thereof are provided. The autonomous vehicle location providing apparatus receives a call, a call location, and user information from a user's terminal and communicates with the user's terminal around an autonomous vehicle corresponding to the user information, while the autonomous vehicle travels to the call location depending on the call. The autonomous vehicle location providing apparatus provides a location of the autonomous vehicle which travels to a location of the user depending on a call of the user to recognize a customer who calls an auto-taxi.
US12024200B1
Embodiments relate to a steering system installed in an autonomous vehicle including a front wheel module configured to steer front wheels of the autonomous vehicle using a first motor, a rear wheel module configured to steer rear wheels of the autonomous vehicle using a second motor, a longitudinal axis module connecting the front wheel module to the rear wheel module and configured to steer each of the front wheel and the rear wheel of the autonomous vehicle inward using a third motor, and a controller configured to control a driving motor for providing a rotation power to the first to third motors and at least one of the front wheels and the rear wheels.
US12024199B2
An autonomous traveling system includes: an information storage unit storing beforehand, for each of points on a target route from a departure place to a destination, turnability information indicating whether an autonomous traveling body traveling autonomously along the target route can turn to change a traveling posture thereof; and a travel planning unit determining the traveling posture with respect to each of traveling sections connecting the points, and determines, from among the points, a turn execution point at which the autonomous traveling body turns in order to take the determined traveling posture in each of the traveling sections, based on the turnability information, wherein the autonomous traveling body includes a travel control execution unit executing control for causing the autonomous traveling body to turn every time the autonomous traveling body reaches the turn execution point and to advance in each of the traveling sections in the determined traveling posture.
US12024194B2
A vehicle control method includes recognizing an object, generating plurality of target trajectories which the vehicle travels using a plurality of models, and automatically controlling driving of the vehicle based on the target trajectory, the plurality of models include a first model which is a rule based model or a model based model, and a second model which is a machine learning based model, and the second target trajectory is selected, when the vehicle accelerates after a speed of the vehicle has been equal to or smaller than a predetermined value, under a condition in which driving of the vehicle is controlled based on a first target trajectory output by the first model and under a condition in which driving of the vehicle is controlled based on a second target trajectory output by the second model.
US12024192B2
Techniques associated with detecting non-deterministic behavior with a component and/or subcomponents of an autonomous vehicle are discussed herein. In some cases, a simulation system may be configured to simulate operations of the autonomous vehicle and to detect changes in behavior between instances and with respect to log data or expected results. The simulation system may flag or otherwise identify components and/or subcomponents responsive to detecting potentially non-deterministic behavior.
US12024189B2
A driving assistance apparatus includes a controller programmed to perform a deceleration assistance process of assisting in decelerating a vehicle before the vehicle arrives at a deceleration object, and to control a display apparatus to display, in a first display area, first notification information for notifying an occupant of the vehicle of the deceleration object that is a target for the deceleration assistance process. When a first object and a second object that is different from the first object are both detected as the deceleration object and the second object is the target for the deceleration assistance process but the first object is not the target for the deceleration assistance process, the controller is programmed to control the display apparatus to display, in a second display area, second notification information for notifying the occupant of the first object, the second display area is different from the first display area.
US12024186B2
An electronic apparatus is installed in a vehicle which is an example of a moving body. The electronic apparatus includes a manual operation unit configured to receive an input, a control unit configured to perform control according to the input received by the manual operation unit, and an opening/closing-information acquisition unit configured to acquire opening/closing information of an opening/closing part of a vehicle. When the opening/closing information acquired by the opening/closing-information acquisition unit indicates that the opening/closing part is in a closed state, the control unit disables the input received by the manual operation unit.
US12024179B2
The disclosure relates to a process of ascertaining an input variable of a vehicle actuator using a model-based predictive control. A processor unit accesses trajectory information and a state data set, which represents a state of surroundings of a vehicle, the vehicle, and/or the vehicle, by an interface. The processor unit carries out a secondary condition algorithm in order to calculate a secondary condition and an MPC algorithm for a model-based predictive control. By carrying out the secondary condition algorithm, a secondary condition is ascertained for the MPC algorithm based on the trajectory information and the state data set. By carrying out the MPC algorithm, an input variable is ascertained for an actuator of the vehicle based on the secondary condition. This is carried out such that in a future predicted trajectory, the vehicle follows the specified trajectory with a specified degree of reliability.
US12024176B2
A vehicle traveling control apparatus includes an imaging device, a sensor, an information storage, a traveling road detector, an imaging height detector, and a control unit. The traveling road detector detects that a vehicle is traveling on a road satisfying a condition. The imaging height detector detects a distance from a surface of the road to the imaging device position. The control unit includes a separation height estimator that estimates a height of a separation part, based on a result of the imaging height detector and the preset imaging device position, and a sensor height estimator that estimates a distance from an upper surface of the separation part to the sensor position, based on a result of the separation height estimator and the preset sensor position. The control unit stops detection by the sensor if a value estimated by the sensor height estimator becomes a threshold or less.
US12024170B2
Techniques for determining gaps for performing lane change operations are described. A first region in an environment of a vehicle can be determined. The first region can be associated with a first time period through which the vehicle is unable to travel and can correspond to a constraint space. A second region of the environment can be determined. The second region can be associated with a second time period and can correspond to a configuration space. A gap in the environment can be determined based on a portion of the configuration space that is exclusive of the constraint space. A trajectory can be determined based on the gap. The trajectory can be associated with performing a lane change operation and can be associated with a cost. The vehicle can be controlled to perform the lane change operation based at least in part on the trajectory and the cost.
US12024169B2
An automatic speed control device includes: an upper limit speed setting part for setting a first speed as an upper limit speed during running on a main road and setting a second speed slower than the first speed as the upper limit speed during running on a connecting road; a target speed setting part for setting a target speed to less than or equal to the upper limit; and a speed control part for controlling a vehicle speed based on the target speed. The speed control part makes the vehicle accelerate according to a depression amount of the accelerator pedal when the pedal is depressed. The upper limit speed setting part sets the upper limit speed to a speed faster than the second speed and less than the first speed when the vehicle speed has become faster than the second speed due to depression of the pedal.
US12024164B2
An autonomous driving control system and a method thereof are provided. The autonomous driving control system includes a strategy performing device that generates and performs a stop strategy of a vehicle on the basis of a target stop location, when a critical situation occurs during autonomous driving, a behavior controller that controls a behavior of the vehicle depending on the stop strategy, and an emergency module controller that runs a predetermined emergency module, when the critical situation occurs.
US12024154B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for an infotainment system. The infotainment system includes a first mobile device and an in-vehicle infotainment platform. The in-vehicle infotainment platform includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to receive, from the first mobile device, a first request to control, adjust or manage a first vehicle component. The electronic control unit is configured to receive, from the first mobile device, a second request to control, adjust or manage a second vehicle component. The electronic control unit is configured to control, adjust or manage the first vehicle component based on the first request. The electronic control unit is configured to control, adjust or manage the second vehicle component based on the second request.
US12024147B2
A brake system for a trailer has first and second pneumatic circuits for supplying air pressure to the wheel ends on the trailer. The air pressure to brake devices at the wheel ends is controllable via a first brake ECU. First and second pressure control valves control pressure from the pneumatic circuits to the respective wheel ends. The system further has a second ECU adapted to electrically control the actuation of the pressure control valves.
US12024146B2
A braking system for a vehicle, the braking system includes a brake provided in a wheel of the vehicle and configured to restrain rotation of the wheel, and a brake force control device configured to control a brake force of the brake. The brake force control device includes a road-surface condition acquisition portion configured to acquire a road-surface condition indicative of a condition of a road surface where the vehicle travels, and in a case where the road-surface condition acquisition portion acquires a plurality of conditions as the road-surface condition, the brake force control device controls the brake force in a mode different from respective controls on the brake force based on the conditions.
US12024140B2
Disclosed embodiments relate to a method for calibrating a coordinate system of a multi-axis deceleration sensor in a rail vehicle, including calibrating the vertical axis of the sensor to the vertical axis of the vehicle, measuring the acceleration along the longitudinal and transverse axis of the sensor during a braking process of the rail vehicle at a low speed and at a standstill over a time curve, determining an offset vector at a standstill, the offset vector consisting partly of a component in the longitudinal direction and partly of a component in the transverse direction of the sensor and representing the influence of the gravitational acceleration on the measured acceleration of the rail vehicle, and ascertaining at least one resulting acceleration vector of the coordinate system of the sensor about the vertical axis of the sensor such that the at least one resulting acceleration vector faces the vehicle longitudinal direction.
US12024139B2
A brake system for selectively actuating at least one wheel brake includes a reservoir and a power transmission unit for selectively providing pressurized hydraulic fluid for actuating at least a selected one of the wheel brakes during a braking event. A first electronic control unit at least partially controls at least one of the power transmission unit and a selected one of the pair of rear brake motors. A second electronic control unit at least partially controls at least one of the power transmission unit and an other one of the pair of rear brake motors. The first electronic control unit controls at least one SAP valve, an isolation valve, and a dump valve for a selected two of the wheel brakes, and the second electronic control unit controls at least one SAP valve, an isolation valve, and a dump valve for an other two of the wheel brakes.
US12024137B2
A vehicle has: a communicating portion that communicates a passenger compartment interior with a passenger compartment exterior; a discharging device that, by operating, discharging at least one of dust or liquid which is within the passenger compartment through the communicating portion to the passenger compartment exterior; and a control section that, in a case of judging that there are no vehicle occupants within the passenger compartment, operates the discharging device, and causes dust within the passenger compartment to be discharged to the passenger compartment exterior.
US12024135B2
The present disclosure relates to vehicle technology, and more particularly, to an unmanned vehicle and its sensor device and cleaning mechanism. The cleaning mechanism includes: a housing, a cleaning element, a driving component transmissively connected to the cleaning element and a control unit installed within a receiving cavity. The housing has a light transmissive element provided on a side surface thereof. The cleaning element is pivotable about one end thereof and mounted to the housing. The cleaning element, when pivoting, frictionally interacts with a surface of the light transmissive element that is away from the receiving cavity to clean the light transmissive element. The control unit is communicatively connected to the driving component for controlling the driving component.
US12024121B2
A vehicle control system includes an in-vehicle apparatus. The in-vehicle apparatus includes a drive device, an authentication unit, a determining unit, and an operation detecting unit. The authentication unit is configured to perform authentication of a mobile device on the basis of a wireless communication. The determining unit is configured to determine whether a vehicle is in a predetermined driving state. The operation detecting unit is configured to detect presence of an operation of the mobile device by receiving a signal transmitted from the mobile device. The in-vehicle apparatus is configured to execute a predetermined safety control, on a condition that the drive device is unlocked as a result of success in the authentication performed by the authentication unit, the vehicle is determined by the determining unit as being in the predetermined driving state, and the operation of the mobile device is detected by the operation detecting unit.
US12024119B2
A theft barrier assembly includes a plurality of panels. Each panel is pivotally disposed on a bottom side of a vehicle. Each of the panels is positionable in a deployed position to inhibit a person from sliding beneath the vehicle. Each of the panels is positionable in a stored position to facilitate normal operation of the vehicle. Each of a pair of actuating units is movably disposed on the bottom of the vehicle and each of the actuating units urges respective panels into the deployed position and the stored position. A receiver is integrated into the vehicle and the receiver is in electrical communication with each of the actuating units. A remote control is in remote communication with the receiver for remotely controlling the actuating units.
US12024114B2
An airbag cover structure for a steering wheel. The airbag cover structure with a lighting emblem includes: a mounting plate with an airbag cushion; an inner cover including an inner locking portion, a storage portion, and an inner hinge portion; an outer cover including an outer locking portion, an indicating portion, and an outer hinge portion; and an absorption area provided on the inner hinge portion of the inner cover, and configured to concentrate and absorb stress generated by a force that unfolds a bent portion of the outer hinge portion during deployment of the airbag cushion.
US12024099B2
An Ethernet plug connector for a motor vehicle to be plugged together along a plug-in direction with a mating plug connector. The Ethernet plug connector includes a plug connector housing having at least two contact chambers and a shield plate. A contact element is situated in each contact chamber, a counter contact element being pluggable into each contact element. A line is attached to each contact element at its rear end with respect to the plug-in direction. The lines attached to the contact element are combined in a rear section with respect to the plug-in direction to form an Ethernet cable and are enclosed by a shield conductor, the shield plate enclosing the predominant part of the plug connector housing. The shield plate includes a connector, using which it is electrically connected to the shield conductor of the Ethernet cable.
US12024092B1
A collision avoidance and/or pedestrian detection system for a large passenger vehicle such as commuter bus, which includes one or more exterior and/or interior sensing devices positioned strategically around the exterior and interior of the vehicle for recording data, method for avoiding collisions and/or detecting pedestrians, and features/articles of manufacture for improving same, is described herein in various embodiments. The sensing devices may be responsive to one or more situational sensors, and may be connected to one or more interior and/or exterior warning systems configured to alert a driver inside the vehicle and/or a pedestrian outside the vehicle that a collision may be possible and/or imminent based on a path of the vehicle and/or a position of the pedestrian as detected by one or more sensing devices and/or situational sensors.
US12024091B2
A tire state management system (10) is provided with an image data acquisition unit (210) for acquiring 1st image data acquired by imaging the outer surface at a first timing and second image data acquired by imaging the outer surface at a second timing later than the first timing, a damage portion acquisition unit (220) for acquiring a damage included in the 1st image data and a damage included in the 2nd image data, a vehicle operation information acquisition unit (230) for acquiring operation information of a vehicle on which a tire is mounted, and a maintenance prediction unit (240) for estimating a progress speed based on the damage included in the 1st image data and the progress speed included in the 2nd image data and predicting a maintenance timing for the tire based on the progress speed and the operation information.
US12024090B2
In some embodiments, an apparatus, comprises an unmanned vehicle configured to be disposed with a vehicle and a processor operatively coupled to the unmanned vehicle. The processor is configured to receive a first signal indicating a stop of the vehicle without a user request and a second signal indicating a location of the vehicle. The processor is configured to determine, based on the location of the vehicle, a target location in a pre-defined area surrounding the vehicle. The processor is configured to send a third signal to the unmanned vehicle to instruct the unmanned vehicle to move to the target location to alert other vehicles via a warning regarding occurrence of the stop.
US12024087B2
A vehicle indication device includes: a road surface drawing unit mounted on a vehicle and configured to draw one or more notification indications by light on a road surface in a direction of travel of the vehicle; and a control unit configured to, when a turn signal of the vehicle is on, cause the road surface drawing unit to either draw the one or more notification indications in a first color on the road surface or turn off display of the one or more notification indications in a case where the vehicle gives way to a pedestrian, and cause the road surface drawing unit to draw the one or more notification indications in a second color different from the first color on the road surface in a case different from the case where the vehicle gives way to a pedestrian.
US12024083B2
A recreational vehicle may include a chassis, at least one axle assembly, and a vehicle body. The vehicle body may be supported by the chassis. The axle assembly may be coupled to the chassis and may provide motive support and underbody clearance to the chassis. The chassis may include a plurality of longitudinal main rails that span at least a portion of a length of the recreational vehicle and define a length of at least one crawl space. The plurality of lateral crawl space cross members may extend between and interconnect the plurality of longitudinal main rails and define a width of the at least one crawl space. A floor of the recreational vehicle, the plurality of longitudinal main rails, and the plurality of lateral crawl space cross members may collectively define the at least one crawl space.
US12024080B2
Systems are provided for an assist pocket. In particular, an assist pocket formed into a vehicle pillar. Certain embodiments of the assist pocket may include a depression formed into the vehicle pillar dimensioned to accept fingers of an occupant, where a grip is formed along an edge of the depression and extends partially over the pocket. The assist pocket may be formed to help occupants ingress and egress a vehicle.
US12024079B2
A headrest adjusting device for headrest adjustment with respect to a backrest may have a headrest mounting bracket and a slide device movable mounted on the headrest mounting bracket. The headrest mounting bracket may have a seat belt retainer movable mounted on the headrest mounting bracket. A seat structure for a vehicle seat may also have the headrest adjusting device.
US12024072B2
A control circuit according to the application is suitable for controlling an tilt angle of a carrier, wherein the control circuit includes: a sensor module, sensing a current angle of the carrier with a horizontal plane; a drive module, driving and adjusting the tilt angle of the carrier; and a control module, electrically connected to the sensor module and the drive module to output a control signal based on the current angle of the carrier with the horizontal plane, so as to dynamically adjust the tilt angle of the carrier. The application also provides a child safety seat and a method for adjusting the tilt angle between the seat and the base of the child safety seat.
US12024068B2
A mode adjustment system capable of changing interior in a conveyance with less effort and time includes an input device that allows an occupant to select mode information in which position information of a seat and a shade are registered in advance, a mode switching device that receives the mode information from the input device and switches the positions of the seat and the shade based on the mode information, a seat adjustment device, and a shade adjustment device. The mode switching device includes a seat movement amount calculator calculating the movement amount of the seat and a shade movement amount calculator calculating the movement amount of the shade, the seat adjustment device adjusts the position of the seat based on the calculated movement amount of the seat, and the shade adjustment device adjusts the position of the shade based on the calculated movement amount of the shade.
US12024063B2
The invention relates to a method for operating a hydraulic brake system (10) in a motor vehicle with regenerative braking function. In the method, if a generator braking force of an electric machine (50) is present or incipient, a hydraulic connection (80) between a brake cylinder (16) and a wheel brake (28) is opened before a hydraulic fluid is displaced in the direction of the wheel brake (28) by means of the brake cylinder (16). The invention furthermore relates to a hydraulic brake system (10) for a motor vehicle with regenerative braking function, and to a method for controlling a hydraulic brake system (10) with regenerative braking function. The invention also encompasses a computer program product, a control unit and a motor vehicle.
US12024038B2
A parking aid system 1 includes: a plurality of power supply devices installed at every parking space, and a parking aid device 5 which is built into a vehicle 2. The parking aid device 5 includes an on-board communication device 21 which acquires a first positional information sent from a power supply device, and an alignment aid unit 23 which aids in alignment to a power supply unit of the power supply device based on the first positional information. The alignment aid unit 23 calculates a path of the vehicle 2, specifies a power supply unit on the path of the vehicle 2from among the power supply units of the plurality of power supply devices based on the first positional information, and executes authentication which permits transmission of electrical power with the power supply device of this specified power supply unit.
US12024035B2
Disclosed is a device for controlling a connection between an electrical socket and a battery. The device for controlling a connection includes a first contactor arranged between a first terminal of the battery and a first terminal of the electrical socket, a second contactor arranged between a second terminal of the battery and a second terminal of the electrical socket, a first computer and a second computer. The first computer includes a high-side switch, arranged between a power supply line and the first contactor, and a low-side switch arranged between the second contactor and a ground line, and the second computer includes a low-side switch arranged between the first contactor and the ground line, and a high-side switch arranged between the power supply line and the second contactor.
US12024026B2
A one pedal driving system for an electric vehicle including one or more electric motors includes a controller in wireless communication with one or more external vehicle networks. The controller executes instructions to receive, from the one or more external vehicle networks, an active zone notification that indicates the electric vehicle is traveling into a one pedal driving zone. The one pedal driving zone represents a section of roadway where the electric vehicle decelerates from an initial speed. The controller executes instructions to receive a pedal notification that a driver foot is removed from an accelerator pedal of the electric vehicle. In response to receiving the active zone notification and the pedal notification, the controller instructs the electric vehicle to decelerate from the initial speed by a regenerative braking torque that is created by the one or more electric motors to counteract a forward momentum of the electric vehicle.
US12024025B2
Presented are motor control systems, vehicles, and methods for generating motor heat while holding an offset motor torque during stationary vehicle operation. A method of operating an AC motor includes a resident or remote vehicle controller receiving a mode request to operate a vehicle in a stationary mode, and a temperature request including the AC motor generating motor heat during the stationary operating mode. The controller determines an offset motor torque to generate the motor heat and hold the AC motor's output member at a select position when operating the vehicle in the stationary mode. Using a DQ transform model of the AC motor, the controller selects multiple dq current trajectories located in respective dq operating quadrants of the DQ transform model based on the offset motor torque. The controller then commands a power inverter to transmit electrical current to the AC motor based on the select dq current trajectories.
US12024024B2
A wheel drive module comprises wheel (R), speed modulation gearbox (G), first electric motor (M1), and second electric motor (M2). First and second electric motors (M1, M2) jointly drive wheel (R) about wheel axis (A) by the speed modulation gearbox (G) and steer said wheel about steering axis (L). Wheel drive module comprises first motor electronics (10) for controlling first electric motor (M1) and second motor electronics (20) for controlling second electric motor (M2) and central electronics (30) connected to first and second motor electronics (10, 20), allowing a signal transfer. Wheel drive module comprises control logic for controlling first and second electric motors (M1, M2), which logic is provided by first and second motor electronics (10, 20), central electronics (30), application electronics (40) connected to the central electronics (30), allowing a signal transfer, or jointly by the central electronics (30) and the first and second motor electronics (10, 20).
US12024019B2
A transmission system is provided that includes a mechanical reverse assembly designed to selectively mechanically couple a reverse gearset to an output shaft of an electric machine and a first primary shaft. In the mechanical reverse assembly, a coupling device may be automatically shifted to attach the reverse gearset to the first primary shaft in a reverse drive configuration in any of a hybrid mode, a full electric vehicle (EV) mode, and a full internal combustion engine (ICE) mode.
US12024017B2
A selection controller for manual selection of an operating mode and/or operating characteristics of an audio control device is disposed within an interior of a vehicle. The selection controller includes a selector element that is designed to allow a user to make the manual selection. The selecting element can be arranged at least in a first position that is not elevated from a control surface of the audio control device and in a second position that is elevated from the control surface of the audio control device.
US12024010B2
A self-propelled earth working machine includes a traveling gear, a machine frame supported by the traveling gear, a power source accommodated on the machine frame for providing power for a travel operation and/or for an earth working operation, a working apparatus accommodated on the machine frame for earth working, and a cooling device for cooling a functional device of the earth working machine. The cooling device includes at least one heat exchanger system for transferring heat from a cooling medium to air, and a ventilator system, which is on the one hand designed and situated to produce a cooling air flow passing the heat exchanger system and which is on the other hand designed and situated to produce in the area of the power source a ventilation air flow flowing away from the power source. The heat exchanger system and a ventilation volume, in which the ventilation air flow flows away from the power source, are situated on the suction side of the ventilator system, the ventilation volume being situated downstream of the heat exchanger system relative to the cooling air flow, so that the ventilation air flow generated by the ventilator system meets the cooling air flow downstream of the heat exchanger system and upstream of the ventilator system.
US12024007B2
A frame structure of a battery housing for a vehicle driven by an electric motor. The frame structure is composed of individual profiled hollow-chamber sections which are designed to be at least two-chambered in the z-direction and are welded together to enclose a battery volume. The end faces of two profiled hollow-chamber sections are designed to be stepped, such that an end face portion of each of the two profiled hollow-chamber sections borders a lateral surface portion of the respective other profiled hollow-chamber section.
US12024006B2
A battery module includes: a stacked structure including a plurality of stacked battery cells; and a front cover and a rear cover respectively disposed on a front side and a rear side of the stacked structure, configured to cover the stacked structure, and including a cover surface facing the stacked structure, a first fastening portion laterally protruding from a first side of the stacked structure in a stacking direction of the plurality of stacked battery cells, and a second fastening portion laterally protruding from a second side of the stacked structure in the stacking direction.
US12024003B1
Devices and systems in the technical field of vehicles for improving pickup truck bed covers are described. One device includes a first connecting assembly, a second connecting assembly, and a first plate, a second plate and a plurality of extension plates arranged in sequence. The first connecting assembly is configured to movably connect the first plate and the second plate, and the second connecting assembly is configured to movably connect the second plate and the extension plate as well as two adjacent extension plates. The first connecting assembly and the second connecting assembly are flexibly connected to reduce the possibility of damage to the connection due to vibration and improve the service life.
US12024002B2
A solar pickup truck bed cover, including a supporting system, a solar panel, a power storage system and a fixing clamp assembly; the solar panel is connected to the cargo hopper through the supporting system; the power storage system includes a power storage box, the power storage box is connected to the supporting system through the fixing clamp assembly. The solar panel includes a large panel, a medium panel and a small panel, the supporting system includes a large panel frame, a medium panel frame and a small panel frame, the large panel is connected to the large panel frame, the medium panel is connected to the medium panel frame, and the small panel is connected to the small panel frame.
US12024001B2
Sunshade system for a vehicle roof assembly, comprising a flexible sunscreen having at least a main part with two opposite lateral edges with guiding strips attached thereto. Each guiding strip comprises inwardly foldable parts foldable inwardly towards a centerline of the sunshade in an acute angle with the main part of the guiding strips and being folded flat in the same plane as the main part when the sunscreen is wound on the shaft. A foldable first hinge part extends in longitudinal direction of said strip formed as a depression. Two opposed longitudinal guides are provided with locking members and with guide chambers for engaging the inwardly foldable part of the flexible sunscreen. Each guiding strip is made of thermoplastic material and comprises at least a second hinge part extending parallel to the first hinge part, longitudinally along the guiding strip.
US12023998B2
An automatic door opening and closing system is provided with: an image capture unit that captures an image of a road surface around the vehicle, including around a door; a door lock unit that locks the door into a closed state; a drive unit that opens/closes the door; an operation unit to which a door opening operation is input; a notification unit that notifies an occupant who has operated the operation unit of information; and a control device. When a door opening operation is input to the operation unit, the control device detects an obstacle present on the road surface around the door using a captured image acquired by the imaging unit. In response to detecting the obstacle, the control device performs at least one of notification of the obstacle detection by the notification unit and invalidation of the door opening operation input to the operation unit.
US12023986B2
A vehicular compartment temperature control system includes an insulated compartment disposed within a vehicle. The system includes at least one cooling element at the insulated compartment and operable to cool an interior cavity of the insulated compartment. A temperature sensor senses temperature within the insulated compartment. An output of the temperature sensor is provided to a control to determine temperature of the interior cavity. The control, responsive to receiving a signal indicative of a user selected temperature that is selected by a user via operating a user input of the vehicular compartment temperature control system, and responsive to determination that the determined temperature of the interior cavity of the insulated compartment is greater than the user selected temperature by at least a threshold amount, controls the at least one cooling element to adjust temperature of the interior cavity of the insulated compartment toward the user selected temperature.
US12023979B2
Currently, some work vehicles and/or off-road vehicles come from the manufacturer lacking tow hooks—or even a strong point on the rear bumper assembly and/or the chassis to install a tow hook. A non-limiting example of this sort of vehicle is the Toyota Tundra. It is highly desirable for such a vehicle to be able to be towed by another vehicle and/or have connection points for recovery from stuck in a natural hazard like mud or water. A novel and improved sway bar bushing bracket with a tow hook design is disclosed. In particular, the manufacturer-installed sway bar bushing bracket may be replaced with a reinforced sway bar bushing bracket with an integrated tow hook that may serve as a more robust sway bar bushing bracket, as well as providing a strong connection point with a tow hook.
US12023974B2
In accordance with one aspect of the present disclosure, a suspension strut for use on a work machine is provided. The suspension strut may have a forged one piece cylindrical inner housing that includes a hollow rod which forms a circumferential piston at an open end and a lower clevis at a closed end of the hollow rod. The suspension strut may further have a forged one piece cylindrical outer housing that includes a hollow barrel having an interior and an exterior surface, a closed end that forms an upper clevis, an open end, and a port on an outside surface of the hollow barrel. Further, the inner and outer housing may be coupled by a disk shaped end cap attached to the open end of the hollow barrel having an inner diameter that is slideably engaged with an outer surface of hollow rod.
US12023972B1
An amphibious vehicle having a frame that includes a plurality of floatable members. Mounted to the frame is one or more power sources. Also mounted to the frame and connected to the power source are a plurality of propellers with each of the plurality of propellers having a thrust vector configured to be adjusted to provide agitation and propulsion. In addition, mounted to the frame are a plurality of ground engaging devices and one or more pumps.
US12023961B2
An article of manufacture comprising: (a) a body at least a portion of which is a multi-phase material (MPM) defining a traction surface; (b) the MPM comprising at least first and second zones comprising first and second materials, M1, M2, respectively, at or near the traction surface, the M1 and M2 having first and second Young moduli respectively, the first and second moduli differing by at least a factor of 3; and (c) wherein each of the second zones has a center, and wherein the second zones have a center-to-center radial distribution function having a peak at between 10 μm and 10 mm.
US12023960B2
A rubber composition for tires according to an embodiment includes a diene rubber, a filler, and a fatty acid ester of a polyoxyalkylene glyceryl ether, and 50 mass % or more of the filler is carbon black. A tire according to an embodiment includes the rubber composition for tires.
US12023957B2
A method for producing an automobile rim made of aluminum or an aluminum alloy for a wheel of an automobile, the automobile rim having a rim bed bounded on opposite sides by an outer flange and an inner flange, a hub with a center recess and a bolt circle, as well as a rim center connecting the rim bed and the hub to one another, the rim center being designed with a plurality of spokes spaced apart in the circumferential direction with respect to the longitudinal center axis of the automobile rim. The automobile rim is produced in one piece and continuously in a casting mold by die casting of a casting material, wherein the automobile rim has, at least in some areas, a low wall thickness not exceeding 15 mm.
US12023951B2
The present disclosure is directed towards a security sheet (10) for displaying personal data (11) comprising a plastic substrate (12) comprising first and second outer surfaces (13, 14). A first opaque region (21) extends partially across the plastic substrate (12) between the first and second outer surfaces (13, 14). A first window (50) is at least partially surrounded by the first opaque region (21). A security device (51) comprises a transparent first device region (52) and a second device region (53) formed from a second device insert (55). The first and second device regions (52, 53) have different optical detection characteristics. The security device (51) is arranged in the plastic substrate (12) such that, when viewed in reflected light incident upon the first outer surface (13), at least part of the first device region (52) is visible at least partially around the second device region (53) in the first window (50).
US12023949B2
Serialized firearm parts, such as silencers, are identified using plates permanently affixed to the parts by welding, brazing, riveting, pinning and welding or other permanent techniques. Methods of effecting repair or replacement of silencers and silencer parts employ removing the plates by drilling or machining the welds and permanently affixing the plate to a replacement part.
US12023937B2
A fluid ejection die may include a fluid actuator, a substrate supporting the fluid actuator, a chamber layer supported by the substrate and a bypass passage in the substrate. The substrate may include a closed inlet channel having an inlet opening for connection to an outlet of a fluid source and an outlet channel having an outlet opening of a first size for connection to an inlet of the fluid source. The chamber layer includes a recirculation passage to supply fluid for ejection by the fluid actuator through an ejection orifice and to circulate fluid across the fluid actuator from the closed inlet channel to the outlet channel. The bypass passage is of a second size less than the first size and connects the inlet channel to the inlet of the fluid source while bypassing any fluid actuator provided for ejecting fluid through an ejection orifice.
US12023933B2
An inkjet printer includes a printer body, a waste ink container, and a cover member. The waste ink container includes a first engagement portion. The cover member constitutes a part of a housing of the inkjet printer and includes a second engagement portion. The second engagement portion is engageable with the first engagement portion.
US12023931B2
A manufacturing method of a liquid ejection head includes steps of providing an ejection orifice forming member on one surface of a wafer, with an energy-generating element being provided on the one surface of the wafer; forming a recess on the other surface of the wafer; and dicing the wafer along a plurality of dicing lines. The plurality of dicing lines include a dicing line extending in one direction and a dicing line extending in a direction crossing the one direction, and the recess is formed on each of positions overlapping the dicing lines except for an intersection part where the dicing line extending in the one direction intersects the dicing line extending in the direction crossing the one direction.
US12023927B2
There is provided a drive board a manufacturing cost of which can be reduced while enhancing a liquid ejection performance. The drive board according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is a drive board which is applied to a liquid jet head, and outputs a drive signal to a jet section, and includes a first wiring layer and a second wiring layer opposed to each other along a direction perpendicular to a board surface, at least one drive device which is mounted on the first wiring layer, and is configured to generate the drive signal, a first power supply wiring line which is arranged in the first wiring layer, and is a wiring line configured to supply drive power toward the drive device, a differential line which is arranged in the first wiring layer, and is a line configured to transmit a differential signal toward the drive device, and a second power supply wiring line which is arranged in the second wiring layer, which is electrically coupled to the first power supply wiring line via a first through hole, and is opposed to a first area in the differential line. A wiring width in the second power supply wiring line is larger than a line width of the first area in the differential line.
US12023920B2
It is possible to perform formation of a first pattern, a second pattern, a third pattern and a fourth pattern, a control unit is configured to execute first control and second control or first control and third control, the first control of forming a first patch in which the first and third patterns are disposed without performing conveyance operation, the second control of forming a second patch in which the first and second patterns are disposed and a third patch in which the third and fourth patterns are disposed and the third control of forming a fourth patch in which the first and fourth patterns are disposed and a fifth patch in which the second and third patterns are disposed.
US12023917B2
A printing apparatus includes a case configured to receive roll paper of a rolled recording medium, a cover rotatably attached to the case to be used to open or close the case, a transport section including a transport motor provided to the case and a transport roller provided to the cover, the transport section being configured to pull the recording medium from the roll paper and transport the recording medium along a recording medium path, and a cut section including a first blade and a first blade motor configured to move the first blade provided to the cover and a second blade provided to the case, the cut section being configured to cut the recording medium. The first blade motor includes a first blade motor shaft, and the first blade motor is provided to the cover such that a first extension line extending from the first blade motor shaft and a second extension line extending from at least part of the recording medium path in a width direction of the recording medium intersect each other when the cover is closed.
US12023907B2
An apparatus for treating a relief precursor having a back side and a relief side. The apparatus includes a housing, a treating means for treating the relief precursor with at least one liquid, a removal means for removing debris and/or liquid from the relief precursor, the removal means arranged downstream of the treating means, and a conveying mechanism configured for transporting the relief precursor in a transport direction through the housing. The removal means includes a liquid removal and guidance body mounted for removing liquid from the back side of the relief precursor. The conveying mechanism is configured for pulling the relief precursor over and against said liquid removal and guidance body whilst the relief precursor is moved in the transport direction, such that in operation liquid is removed from the back side.
US12023900B2
The present disclosure relates to a recyclable polyethylene-based laminated packaging material with openability and a method of manufacturing the same including a multi-layered polyethylene film C in which a surface layer A and a sealant layer B are bonded to each other. The sealant layer B is a layer in which a polyolefin plastomer layer b1, a mixed resin layer b2 obtained by mixing a high-density polyethylene resin and a low-density polyethylene resin, and a composition layer b3 containing a resin composition obtained by mixing medium-density polyethylene and low-density polyethylene are sequentially laminated. Also disclosed is a method of manufacturing the same.
US12023885B2
An apparatus for depositing a piece of band-like elastomeric element on a forming support in a process for building a tyre for vehicle wheels. The apparatus operates by feeding a piece of band-like elastomeric element having a predetermined nominal length towards the forming support along a predetermined feeding direction and measuring the actual length of the piece along the feeding direction. If the actual length is lower than or equal to a circumferential length of a deposition surface defined on the forming support, the piece is deposited on the deposition surface while the forming support rotates about a rotation axis thereof. During such deposition the piece is pressed on the deposition surface with a pressing force selected as a function of the actual length.
US12023882B2
A method for producing a polarizing lens having a high luminous transmittance and degree of polarization with astigmatism kept low, and a polarizing film and a polarizing lens. The method for producing a polarizing lens includes: contracting a polarizing film at a maximum rate of contraction of 5% or more and 30% or less under moist conditions; processing the polarizing film into a curve; drying the polarizing film at temperature T1; providing a mold having a cavity in which the polarizing film is placed in the inside; injecting a curable composition into the cavity; curing the curable composition to obtain a polarizing lens in which the polarizing film is placed in the inside; and annealing the polarizing lens at temperature T2, wherein a relationship between the temperature T1 and the temperature T2 satisfies the following expression (1): T1>T2 . . . (1).
US12023880B2
A method is provided for treating a surface of a molded part produced in a 3D printing method. In the method, the molded part is introduced into a pressure-tight container (20), negative pressure, preferably a vacuum to a large extent, is generated in the container after introducing the molded part, a solvent is heated up to a specified solvent temperature, and the heated solvent is introduced from a solvent container (40) into the container under negative pressure. In such a method, the temperature of the molded part is lower than the solvent temperature, and the solvent is evaporated or is introduced as a vapor upon being introduced, the solvent vapor condensing on the surface of the molded part. Also provided is a device for carrying out the method.
US12023872B1
Personalized insole manufacturing apparatus and method includes a foot pressure pattern measuring unit configured to measure user's foot pressure pattern, a foot pressure pattern image acquisition unit configured to capture an image of the foot pressure pattern printed on the foot pressure pattern measuring unit and combine the captured image with a foot shape image, a foot pressure pattern pressure calculation unit configured to divide the combined image into a predetermined number of areas, and calculate a pressure level for each area, an insole attachment calculation unit configured to calculate data of an attachment pad corresponding to the foot pressure pattern, and an insole attachment output unit configured to visually show the attachment pad or data calculated by the insole attachment calculation unit.
US12023867B2
A method for generating a material for a partial replacement includes receiving an image of a sample of an original material needing to be replaced, generating a representative data set for the original material based on the image received, accessing a reference database comprised of a plurality of different materials and including reference texture data or reference characteristic data for each of the plurality of different materials, comparing the representative data set to the reference data in the reference database, identifying at least one of the plurality of different materials correlated to the representative data set, determining the identified correlated material is not available, sending a request to generate a replacement material, and generating the replacement material.
US12023864B2
A method for manufacturing an optical element (100) from a curable material (50) using an additive manufacturing technology comprising steps of: providing a first portion of curable material (50), forming a first part of the optical element by irradiating the surface (55) of the curable material with a first curing surface energy, the first curing surface energy being strictly lower than a first predetermined energy threshold and higher than a second predetermined threshold, and forming, after the irradiation of the first part with the first curing surface energy, at least a second part of the optical element, distinct from the first part of the optical element, by irradiating, with at least a second curing surface energy, the surface of the curable material, the second curing surface energy irradiating both the second part of the optical element (100) and at least a portion of the first part of the optical element, the sum of the first curing surface energy and the at least second curing surface energy being higher than or equal to the first predetermined energy threshold. A manufacturing system (1) for manufacturing an optical element.
US12023862B2
A three-dimensional print head apparatus including a hopper, a nozzle, a barrel, and a heating system. The apparatus may further include a fume extraction system and a dry air purge system. The hopper may have a cavity and a lower aperture. The nozzle may have an upper aperture and a lower aperture. The heating system may be positioned along the barrel, and the dry air purge system may be in fluid communication with the hopper.
US12023861B2
In an example of a method for three-dimensional (3D) printing, a polymeric build material is applied to form a build material layer. A fusing agent is selectively applied, based on a 3D object model, onto the build material layer to form a patterned portion. A hydrophilic agent is selectively applied, based on the 3D object model, onto at least a portion of the patterned portion. The hydrophilic agent includes from 1 wt % to 12 wt % of a hydrophilic polymer dissolved in an aqueous liquid vehicle, wherein the hydrophilic polymer has a molar mass ranging from 1000 g/mol to 12,000 g/mol and is water-absorbent at a water to hydrophilic polymer weight ratio from 2:1 to 1000:1. The build material layer is exposed to energy to selectively coalesce the patterned portion and form a 3D object layer having a hydrophilic portion.
US12023858B2
An optically clear resin for additive manufacturing includes an optically clear ceramic precursor having a pre-defined refractive index. Each molecule of the ceramic precursor has at least two photopolymerizable functional groups, at least one of the photopolymerizable functional groups being functionalized with a refractive index-tuning group thereby causing the ceramic precursor to have the pre-defined refractive index.
US12023854B2
A method for the construction of three-dimensional fibre-reinforced structures from a pre-existing object, where said method comprises the following steps: —acquisition of the initial three-dimensional geometry of the pre-existing object and of the relative spatial coordinates of its position with respect to a numerically controlled machine (10) equipped with at least one printhead (12); definition of the path to be followed by the above-mentioned printhead (12) in order to add the desired amount of material to the pre-existing object to obtain a desired final object; —deposit of the material on the pre-existing object by means of said printhead (12) by layering the composite material on the pre-existing object according to programmed trajectories, where such programmed trajectories are calculated according to the path that said printhead (12) must follow to add the desired amount of material to the pre-existing object; —extraction of the reinforced object after operations are concluded.
US12023852B2
A method and an apparatus for additive casting of parts is disclosed. The method may include: depositing, on a build table, a first portion of a mold, such that, the depositing may be performed layer by layer; pouring liquid substance into the first portion of the mold to form a first casted layer; solidifying at least a portion of the first casted layer; depositing a second portion of the mold, on top of the first portion of the mold; pouring the liquid substance into the second portion of the mold to form a second casted layer, on top of at least a portion of the first casted layer; and solidifying at least a portion of the second casted layer. The method may further include joining the first and second casted layers prior to the pouring of a third casted layer.
US12023848B2
A pipe expanding plier is disclosed, and it includes a fixed handle, a movable handle, a mounting base, a pipe expanding head, and a pushing cone. One end of the pushing cone is provided with a rotating shaft, which is connected with the movable handle through a block. The mounting base is provided with a cavity. A gear ring, a gear ring shell and a shell reset element are provided in the cavity, and the gear ring is connected to the rotating shaft, and the gear ring is located in the gear ring shell, and a pawl assembly is provided in the gear ring shell, a reset block and a linkage block are provided on the gear ring shell, the shell reset element is arranged between the reset block and an inner wall of the cavity, and the linkage block extends out of the cavity to be matched with the movable handle.
US12023835B2
An injection moulding machine having a machine controller and a control unit, capable of starting up the injection moulding machine from a switched-off mode or a standby mode into a production operation for producing injection-moulded parts and to shut down back into a switched-off or standby mode. Start-up and shutdown of the injection moulding machine are each divided into a number of phases, and a sequence of specific machine movement commands and/or specific machine mode change commands is pre-programmed for each phase of start-up and for each phase of shutdown. One or more control elements are provided on the control unit which, when actuated, activate a pre-programmed sequence so that a phase of start-up or shutdown can be started, the functions of start-up or shutdown of the injection moulding machine associated with the machine movement command and/or the machine mode change command of this sequence then being triggered.
US12023826B2
Provided a method for supplying a resin by which appropriate replacement of a cartridge enables resin supply to be performed appropriately. The method for supplying a resin includes: a primary resin supplying step of supplying a liquid resin contained in a first cartridge to a supply target, the first cartridge having a remaining amount of liquid resin smaller than a target supply amount appropriate for one-time resin supply to the supply target; a cartridge replacing step of replacing, after the primary resin supplying step, the first cartridge with a second cartridge already subjected to dripping out; and a secondary resin supplying step of supplying a liquid resin contained in the second cartridge to the supply target after the cartridge replacing step.
US12023814B2
The present technology relates to a mobile object and a control method that enable improvement of work efficiency. The mobile object controls a drive system that performs maintenance work in accordance with a maintenance plan generated in response to a work cost related to main work according to a work plan, or related to the maintenance work for maintenance of a work mobile object that performs the main work. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a maintenance mobile object that performs maintenance work for maintenance of a work mobile object that performs main work.
US12023813B2
A control system (1) includes: a control device (100) that controls a robot (200); a three-dimensional sensor (300) that acquires positional information of a worker and the robot (200), which are included in a viewing-field area in a three-dimensional space; and a support device (400) that provides a user interface (411) for virtually setting a cooperation region in which the worker and the robot (200) are allowed to work. The control device (100) controls stopping or the speed of the robot (200) on the basis of whether or not the position of the worker or the robot (200) calculated on the basis of the positional information is included in the cooperation region, which is set by using the user interface (411), as well as the relative positional relationship between the worker and the robot (200) calculated on the basis of the positional information.
US12023811B2
The present disclosure provides a robot control device including a detection section that detects an external force applied to a movable part of a robot, on the basis of a parameter obtained from a joint driving the movable part, and a driving control section that controls an interaction of the robot, according to the detected external force. With this configuration, in a case where a user touches the robot, the robot can perform an interaction according to the touch.
US12023810B2
The present invention relates to a system (100) for active motion displacement control of a robot, the system comprising: a DCL device (110), which is configured to set a desired position of a portion of a kinematic chain; a MDB device (120), which is configured to generate a motion profile for at least one actor device (130) coupled to the portion of the kinematic chain based on the set desired position of the portion of the kinematic chain; the actor device (130), which is configured to move the portion of the kinematic chain to an actual position based on the generated motion profile; a sensor device (140), which is configured to measure the actual position of the portion of the kinematic chain and, thereon based, provide position data of the portion of the kinematic chain; wherein the MDB device (120) is further configured to determine an estimated offset and provide a feedback path to a control loop used by the MDB device (120) based on the provided position data of the portion, the desired position of the portion, and the estimated offset.
US12023807B2
A system for controlling the position of an articulated robotic arm includes a robotic catheter procedure system having the articulated robotic arm and a controller coupled to the articulated robotic arm. The system further includes a patient table positioned proximate to and separate from the articulated robotic arm and a tracking system coupled to the controller and configured to measure a change in a position of the patient table. The controller is configured to adjust the position of the articulated robotic arm based on the measured change in position of the patient table.
US12023805B2
Disclosed is a small actuator for a robot, including an intermediate case including a driving motor and a plurality of reduction gears, a front case having a through-hole, a housing coupled to the intermediate case and including a rear case having at least one tapping hole, a rotation part that has a tapping hole, is connected to the protruding final reduction gear, and is rotated at a final reduction ratio, a first tapping screw that passes through the tapping hole of the rotation part and is fastened to a rotary shaft of the protruding reduction gear, and at least one second tapping screw that passes through one side of the front case and the intermediate case and is fastened to the tapping hole of the rear case.
US12023804B2
A robot arm includes a first member, and a second member translating along an axis located in the first member or rotating around the axis, and the first member has a base, a drive unit generating a drive force, a joint portion having a driven pulley and transmitting the drive force to the second member, a belt transmitting the drive force generated by the drive unit to the driven pulley, a sensor provided in a position overlapping with a region surrounded by the driven pulley and the belt in a plan view along the axis and detecting vibration, a wire routed to the region and coupled to the sensor, and a supporting member provided in the region and supporting the wire.
US12023796B2
A tool box assembly includes at least one case, at least one tool holder mounted in and rotated relative to the at least one case, and multiple hand tools mounted in the at least one tool holder. The at least one case has a first pivot portion and multiple locking elements. Each of the locking elements has a second pivot portion, a connecting portion, and a press portion. The at least one tool holder has a third pivot portion. When the press portion is pressed, each of the locking elements is rotated about the connecting portion, so that the third pivot portion is detached from the second pivot portion, and the at least one tool holder is detached from the at least one case. Thus, the at least one tool holder and the hand tools are used individually.
US12023795B1
A storage belt attachment having a plurality of pockets formed with an elastic strip stretched across the pockets to make them particularly suitable for storing construction items such as drill bits. The attachment includes a first strip having a rigid fabric having a width and a length, an elastic second strip overlaid and stretched taut on a first surface of the first strip and connected to the first strip by a plurality of parallel seams set at equidistant intervals along the length of the first strip, thereby forming a plurality of pockets, and a third strip including a rigid fabric overlaid across a top end of the elastic second strip length to form an opening at a top entrance at the width of each pocket.
US12023793B2
A power tool, in particular a chipping hammer, containing a tool-fitting element for receiving and holding a tool, in particular a chisel, and an apparatus for selectively turning the tool-fitting element. The apparatus contains an impact-mechanism housing having a connecting device, a coupling element having an attachment device, and an uncoupling element for reversibly separating the coupling element from the impact-mechanism housing, wherein the coupling element is settable reversibly in a first or second position, and wherein, in the first position, the coupling element is connected releasably to the impact-mechanism housing such that the tool-fitting element is prevented from turning about an axis of rotation and, in the second position, the coupling element is movable relative to the impact-mechanism housing such that the tool-fitting element is able to be turned about an axis of rotation relative to the impact-mechanism housing.
US12023787B2
An electric powered work machine in one aspect of the present disclosure includes a motor, a tool driver, a command receiver, a diagnosis circuit, and a result transmitter. The diagnosis circuit executes a failure diagnosis of the electric powered work machine in response to the command receiver receiving a diagnosis command signal from a diagnosis device. The result transmitter transmits a diagnosis result signal to the diagnosis device. The diagnosis result signal indicates a result of the failure diagnosis that is executed by the diagnosis circuit.
US12023786B2
A screw bit body allowing for torque force application onto a socket fastener. The screw bit body includes a plurality of laterally-bracing sidewalls, a plurality of intermittent sidewalls, a first base, and a second base. The laterally-bracing sidewalls and plurality of intermittent sidewalls are radially distributed about a rotation axis of the screw bit body with each further including a first lateral edge, a second lateral edge, a bracing surface, and an engagement cavity. The engagement cavity creates a gripping point to prevent slippage in between the screw bit body and the socket fastener. The engagement cavity traverses normal and into the concave surface and the convex surface. The engagement cavity includes an angled driving portion and a concave portion. The angled driving portion is positioned adjacent to the first lateral edge with the concave portion being positioned opposite to the first lateral edge, across the angled driving portion.
US12023752B2
The present disclose provides a method of resistance spot welding that can inhibit Liquid Metal Embrittlement-induced cracking in zinc-coated steel plates irrespective of the plate thicknesses. One aspect of the present disclosure provides a method of resistance spot welding that includes welding a workpiece with a resistance spot welding apparatus. The workpiece includes two or more steel plates in an overlapping state. The two or more steel plates include at least one steel plate coated with zinc. The welding includes causing a cooling rate of a high-tensile steel plate among the two or more steel plates to be higher than a cooling rate of an other steel plate among the two or more steel plates. The high-tensile steel plate has a tensile strength higher than a tensile strength of the other steel plate.
US12023751B2
A robot control device for a robot system including: a robot having a plurality of internal drive axes; a processing head retained to a leading end of the robot and having a processing tool and a tool drive axis to move the processing tool; and an external driving mechanism having one or more external drive axes and positions the robot. The robot system causes the processing tool to make contact with a processing target and conducts predetermined processing on the processing target. The control device controls the internal and external drive axes to position the processing head at a target position and controls the tool drive axis to make the processing tool make contact with the processing target, and the robot control device detects contact between the processing tool and the processing target by monitoring torque of the internal drive axis, the tool drive axis and the external drive axis.
US12023739B2
An additive manufacturing apparatus is provided and may include at least one build unit; a build platform; and at least one collector positioned on the apparatus such that the at least one collector contacts an outer surface of a build wall as the build wall is formed during a build. Methods are also provided for manufacturing at least one object.
US12023735B2
Some implementations of the disclosure are directed to an additive manufacturing build plate structure for metal build surface stabilization during 3D printing and facile release of 3D printed objects. The build plate includes a body having a recessed section formed through a first surface of the body, the recessed section including a bottom surface within the body and sidewalls extending to the bottom surface. The recessed section is configured to be filled with a solid form of a metal or metal alloy that provides a printing surface for forming a 3D object in a 3D printing device. The recessed section includes a locking mechanism configured to prevent lift-up of the solid form of the metal or metal alloy during 3D printing in the 3D printing device.
US12023731B2
A powder production method includes providing at least one elongated member including a ductile material; providing a rotating or vibrating cutter configured to repeatedly cut an end of the at least one elongated member to produce particles; and advancing the at least one elongated member or the cutter towards the other of the at least one elongated member or the cutter to cut the particles from the at least one elongated member to produce a powder comprising a plurality of the particles. The particles produced by the method can have a diameter ranging from about 10 μm to about 200 μm.
US12023728B2
A method includes ejecting a plurality of drops of a build material from a nozzle of a 3D printer. The build material cools and solidifies after being ejected to form a 3D object. The method also includes controlling an oxidation of the drops, the 3D object or both to create different oxidation levels in first and second portions of the 3D object.
US12023726B2
Molding material mixes that contain a polyurethane binder based on phenolic resins of the benzyl ether type and polyisocyanates are characterized by the inclusion of a polybutadiene derivative. In one case, the polybutadiene derivative has epoxide groups and hydroxyl groups. In another case, the polybutadiene derivative has succinic acid anhydride groups. Molds, cores and risers are produced using these molding material mixes. Inclusion of the polybutadiene derivatives results in a reduction of sand adhesions in the molding process.
US12023725B2
An apparatus for threading a tool unit onto an elongate structural element. The apparatus has a holding arrangement for holding it on a feed device, a tool unit to be threaded onto the elongate structural element. The tool unit has a tool axis and a vibration unit connected to the tool unit and configured to generate a periodic force in at least one first spatial direction that runs transversely with respect to the tool axis. First and second coupling components, held elastically on one another, are provided. The first coupling component is connected to the holding arrangement, the second coupling component is connected to the tool unit. The vibration unit is operated, during a feed movement of the holding arrangement for threading the tool unit onto the elongate structural element, to add an additional, periodically varying transverse component to a feed force acting on the tool unit.
US12023720B2
A method for setting a roll gap of sinusoidal corrugated rolling for a metal composite plate includes steps of: determining entrance thicknesses, exit thicknesses, a width, and a rolling temperature of a difficult-to-deform metal slab and an easy-to-deform metal slab; detecting a roll speed and an entrance speed of a metal composite slab, obtaining a roll radius and friction factors; determining parameters of a sinusoidal corrugating roll and a quantity of complete sinusoidal corrugations on the sinusoidal corrugating roll; then calculating a time required for a complete corrugated rolling; calculating a rolling force at any time during the sinusoidal corrugated rolling of the metal composite plate; and calculating the roll gap S of the corrugated rolling at any time according to the rolling force F, and configuring a rolling mill to have the roll gap S according to an actual rolling schedule before normal production.
US12023719B2
Provided is a rolling die that increases the durability of a nitrided molded surface. The rolling die (1) includes a tool base material that is made of steel and has a molded surface (2) on which a plurality of working teeth (10) is formed. The tool base material includes a nitride layer (15) in which nitrogen is diffused. The nitride layer (15) is disposed to reach a position that is 20 to 70 μm in depth from the molded surface (2). The molded surface (2) has a surface hardness of at least 1100 HV. The rate of depth change from the depth (D1) of the nitride layer (15) at crests (11) of the working teeth (10) to the depth (D2) of the nitride layer (15) at roots (13) of the working teeth (10) is not higher than 30%.
US12023718B2
Apparatus for cleaning a surface with a liquid jet, the apparatus having: a primary fluid conduit having a longitudinal axis and two ends, a fluid-intake end and a fluid-exit end; a first motor-driven drive assembly configured to engage the primary fluid conduit and turn the primary fluid conduit about the primary-fluid-conduit longitudinal axis; a first motor configured to engage the first motor-driven drive assembly; a section of the primary fluid conduit being inside of an adjacent penetration sleeve; a section of the penetration sleeve being inside of a piston sleeve; the piston sleeve configured to engage the penetration sleeve and move the penetration sleeve back and forth along a penetration-sleeve linear path over a primary-fluid-conduit exterior surface; an actuator configured to engage the piston sleeve and move piston sleeve back and forth along the piston-sleeve linear path; a penetration-sleeve end being attached to an extension sleeve that has a first end and a second end; the extension-sleeve second end being attached to a swivel rod that has a first end and a second end; the primary-fluid-conduit fluid-exit end being attached to a fixed nozzle having a first end and a second end; the fixed-nozzle second end being attached to a swivel nozzle; the swivel-rod second end being attached to the swivel nozzle; the swivel nozzle configured to pivot between a fully extended position and a fully retracted position as the swivel rod respectively extends and retracts as the penetration sleeve moves back and forth; the swivel nozzle being attached to a nozzle pipe; the nozzle pipe being attached to a nozzle configuration that is configured to open and close a flapper door having a fluid exit orifice; and a continuous fluid-flow channel that extends from the primary-fluid-conduit fluid-intake end through the swivel nozzle.
US12023717B2
A cleaning roller device is provided. The cleaning roller device comprises a transversely-arranged cleaning roller, a roller bearing device, and a roller driving device capable of driving the cleaning roller to rotate around the central axis of the cleaning roller on the roller bearing device, wherein a front-end central pipe and a rear-end central pipe are respectively arranged along the front-end central axis and the rear-end central axis of the cleaning roller and are respectively connected to rotary joints. The rotary joints are used for respectively connecting external pipelines communicated with a water source and a steam source; the front end of the cleaning roller is provided with a solid barrel fragment outlet and a barrel fragment outlet sealing cover, and the rear end of the cleaning roller is provided with a liquid outlet; a feed port is formed in the wall of the cleaning roller.
US12023716B2
A sorting layout for piece goods contains a sorting mechanism and an end position configuration. The end position configuration contains a plurality of end positions, which are arranged in cylinder fashion. The end position configuration also has end positions arranged one on top of another. The sorting mechanism is adapted to pick up piece goods being sorted and to sort them into any one of the end positions of the end position configuration.
US12023714B2
A system is provided for processing documents. In particular, the system incorporates a feeder for feeding documents to a device for further processing of the documents. For instance, the system finds particular application in the field of document imaging in which a variety of documents of varying sizes and orientation are to be fed to an imaging system, such as a document scanner. The system may provide a sorting station that receives documents from a workstation and sorts the documents to a plurality of sort locations. The system may export the image data for the documents to a fileserver so that a remote operator can provide instructions for the processing of the documents so that the documents can be subsequently processed according to the instructions provided by the operator.
US12023708B2
Provided herein is a device for forming a conductive film. The device includes a deposition device and an air supply. The deposition device is configured to form a wet film having conductive nanostructures and a fluid carrier on a web. The web is moved in a first direction while forming the wet film. The air supply is disposed at a side of the web and configured to apply an air flow onto the wet film. The air flow is directed onto the wet film in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction to reorient a direction of some conductive nanostructures in the wet film to define reoriented conductive nanostructures.
US12023704B2
A sprayer head may be removably mounted onto a concentrate tank of a hose end sprayer. The sprayer head may include a valve assembly having a valve body having a first axis of rotation selectively movable between a closed orientation, a wet mode orientation, and a dry mode orientation. A metering plate may include a first annular series of spaced-apart flow-metering holes with each successive respective flow-metering hole has an increasing hole diameter adapted to withdraw a selectively adjustable amount of a concentrate from the concentrate tank when the valve body is in either the wet mode orientation or the dry mode orientation. The metering plate has a second axis of rotation which is non-coaxial with the first axis of rotation.
US12023701B2
An energy gathering device and an ultrasonic humidifier relate to a field of humidifier technology. The energy gathering device includes an energy gathering tube and an energy gathering floating body. The energy gathering device is arranged in a mist outlet tube. The mist outlet tube is disposed inside a water tank of an ultrasonic humidifier. The energy gathering floating body includes an energy gathering cavity. A first end of the energy gathering cavity is communicated with a second end of the energy gathering cavity. An extension direction of the energy gathering cavity is same as an extension direction of a tube cavity of the mist outlet tube. The energy gathering tube is fixed in the energy gathering cavity. A tube cavity of the energy gathering tube is communicated with the energy gathering cavity of the energy gathering floating body.
US12023700B2
An ejector device for ejecting droplets of fluid onto a surface includes an ejector mechanism attached to a fluid reservoir through a fluid loading plate that is configured to pierce the reservoir and channel the fluid to a rear surface of the ejector mechanism by capillary action. The ejector mechanism may have a centro-symmetric configuration with a lead free piezo actuator and may be covered by an auto-closing cover.
US12023698B2
Provided is a dispensing apparatus capable of cleaning a nozzle, and more particularly, to a dispensing apparatus capable of cleaning a nozzle having the function of cleaning a nozzle of an apparatus for dispensing a viscous solution with a cleaning solution. The dispensing apparatus capable of cleaning a nozzle can effectively supply and manage a cleaning solution while effectively cleaning the viscous solution that are likely to be attached to the nozzle.
US12023696B2
A spray system includes nozzles spaced along a distribution line. Each nozzle actuates the position of one or more internal valves based on a spray command received from a system control module. Sensors generate position information regarding the actuation of the valves. The actual valve positions are compared to expected valve positions to determine a deviation between the two. The deviation can be compared to a threshold to determine a status of that nozzle. A normal nozzle status can be generated based on the deviation being less than the threshold. An abnormal nozzle status can be generated based on the deviation being equal to or exceeding the threshold.
US12023695B2
In exemplary embodiments of the present invention, various novel dispensing devices can be provided. Such devices can involve a range of sprayer heads and sprayer/foamer systems incorporating such heads. Novel sprayer/foamer heads can include buffers of various types. By using a buffer, a user need not continually be pumping the device in order for the device to be spraying or foaming. In exemplary embodiments of the present invention, such a buffer can be spring loaded, spring loaded combination, elastomeric or gas. In exemplary embodiments of the present invention, the buffer can be in line or adjacent to a piston chamber. If adjacent, it can be connected to the piston chamber with a one way valve, to provide for spray after a downstroke of the piston has been completed, or without, to allow spraying to cease once a user releases the trigger or other actuator. In exemplary embodiments of the present invention, such novel sprayers and foamers can be mounted upside down, in various “Flairomop” devices, used to clean floors or the like. When using a buffer, a piston chamber can be designed to deliver greater amount of liquid per unit time than can be possibly dispensed through the nozzle or nozzles. The fraction of liquid that cannot be sent through the nozzle(s), due to their inherent restriction, can thus be sent to the buffer for dispensing after the piston downstroke has been completed. A volume of the piston chamber, a volume of the buffer, a pressure response of the buffer, the throughput of the nozzle, and the minimum opening pressure of the outlet valve can be arranged to restrict the outlet pressures of liquid droplets exiting the nozzle within a defined range.
US12023686B2
A filter includes a dust collecting unit, and the dust collecting unit includes: a filter media formed in a wrinkle shape including a plurality of bent parts folded up and down in a direction parallel to a plurality of parallel patterns and a connection part; a conductive coating layer pattern including a plurality of parallel patterns; and a first power source electrically connected to a first end and a second end of the conductive coating layer pattern and configured to apply a voltage, wherein the connection part connects the adjacent bent parts, a parallel pattern of the plurality of parallel patterns is disposed in the connection part, and the plurality of parallel patterns includes a first and a second adjacent parallel patterns, and a first current flowing through the first adjacent parallel flows in a direction opposite to a second current flowing through the second adjacent parallel pattern.
US12023685B2
In a method and device for separating components in a corona discharge zone an air stream containing water molecules is passed between at least one ionizing electrode and at least one non-ionizing electrode; and high voltage is applied to the electrodes to create a corona discharge zone consisting of a plasma region wherein ozone is formed and a dark region where predominantly hydrogen peroxide is formed. The air flow entering the corona discharge zone is divided into two separate air flows, a first of which passes through the corona discharge plasma region, and a second of which passes through the dark corona discharge region; and a negative pressure gradient is applied to the plasma region only so as to remove the ozone and thereby separate the ozone from the hydrogen peroxide.
US12023682B2
A gyratory crushing apparatus for frangible or friable material comprises: a bowl having a chamber for receiving the material and a discharge opening disposed at the base with a central axis and a gyratory axis extending at an angle to the central axis; a crushing head and a drive assembly. The discharge opening defines a throat with a circumferential wall and the crushing head is disposed within the discharge opening. The crushing head has a crushing face in spaced relation to the circumferential wall of the throat defining a nip between the circumferential wall and the crushing face. The drive assembly includes a transmission and a rotatable eccentric shaft for driving the crushing head within the bowl and about the gyratory axis in a notating motion. The bowl also comprises a feed section and a discharge section, each defined by a wall and spaced by a mid-section, wherein thickness of a wall defining the mid-section is greater than a thickness of the discharge section wall.
US12023677B2
The present invention provides a sample tube for polymerase chain reaction. The sample tube includes a sample tube body having an annular side wall and a bottom wall connected to annular side wall, wherein the annular side wall and the bottom wall form an accommodating space for accommodating a reaction mixture; and a first extension member extending from the bottom wall to the accommodating space, wherein, to carry out PCR, the reaction mixture immerses the first extension member, such that the light from the light source enters into the reaction mixture via the bottom and the bottom wall of the sample tube and the first extension member sequentially.
US12023670B2
Embodiments include systems, apparatuses, and methods to efficiently separate analytes in a sample and elute fractions of the separated analytes. In some embodiments, a method includes introducing a sample in a capillary with a first end ionically coupled to a first running buffer and a second end ionically coupled to a second running buffer to form a pH gradient. The method includes applying a voltage between the first running buffer and the second running buffer, to separate a plurality of analytes in the sample. The method includes disposing the second end of the capillary in a collection well including a chemical mobilizer and applying a voltage to elute one or more analytes from the plurality of analytes in the sample, that have been separated, into the collection well. Embodiments include detection methods to monitor separation of analytes, mobilization of analytes, and/or elution of fractions containing analytes.
US12023661B2
Nitrogen heterocyclic carbine ligands and ruthenium catalysts thereof, a preparation method therefor and an application thereof are provided. The structures of the nitrogen heterocyclic carbine ligands are represented by formulas Ia and Ib, respectively, and the corresponding ruthenium catalyst structures are represented by IIa and IIb, respectively. After simultaneously introducing large-steric hindrance and electron-rich groups into the described nitrogen heterocyclic carbine ligand structures, the catalytic activity, stability and application range of the ruthenium complex catalysts thereof are significantly improved.
US12023660B1
A method of forming TiO2—ZnO nanoparticles coated by a copper (II) complex includes forming a mononuclear copper complex by treating a ligand with Cu2+ ions; and immobilizing the mononuclear copper complex on TiO2—ZnO nanoparticles to obtain the TiO2—ZnO nanoparticle coated by the copper (II) complex. The TiO2—ZnO nanoparticles coated by a copper (II) complex thus produced have improved catalytic effectiveness and increased efficiency by reducing catalytic reaction time and temperature, particularly in methods of catalyzing oxidation of an alcohol or of catalyzing decarboxylative bromination of an acid.
US12023659B2
CHA-type zeolite in which the molar ratio of silica to alumina is less than 13, and the content of sodium is 100 ppm or more and 2000 ppm or less is provided. Such a CHA-type zeolite is obtained by a manufacturing method including obtaining a crystallized product by crystallizing a composition which includes a structure-directing agent source containing at least N,N,N-trialkylcyclohexylammonium cation, an alumina source, a silica source, a sodium source, and water and in which the molar ratio of silica to alumina is 20 or less and in which the molar ratio of potassium to sodium is less than 0.05, removing N,N,N-trialkylcyclohexylammonium cation from the crystallized product, and contacting the crystallized product with an ammonium-salt-containing solution having an ammonium concentration of 1 mass percent or more.
US12023655B2
An oxide of sulfur oxygen transfer reagent is provided. A method of producing olefins from hydrocarbons with a concomitant production of water (oxidative dehydrogenation), using the oxide of sulfur oxygen transfer reagent is also provided. The sulfur oxygen transfer reagent can be used as an oxygen transfer reagent, and therefore acts as a non-metal carrier, for oxygen in a redox looping reactor for an oxidative dehydrogenation process such as the conversion of ethane to ethylene. The reduced forms of oxides of sulfur, formed in in this oxidative dehydrogenation process, can be re-oxidized with air and generate useful process heat. Also provided are methods of using the oxide of sulfur oxygen transfer reagent, and an apparatus for effecting the oxidative dehydrogenation of the hydrocarbon feed. Methods of producing the oxide of sulfur oxygen transfer reagent are also provided.
US12023654B2
The present disclosure discloses a catalyst and a method for preparing 2-ethoxyphenol by catalytic depolymerization of lignin. The catalyst comprises sepiolite as a carrier and tungsten, nickel and molybdenum as active components supported on sepiolite. The catalyst for preparing 2-ethoxyphenol by catalytic depolymerization of lignin in the present disclosure can catalytically depolymerize lignin, realize the directional preparation of 2-ethoxyphenol from lignin, and co-produce lignin oil. It has a comparatively high selectivity for 2-ethoxyphenol and can achieve a lignin conversion rate of more than 95%, a 2-ethoxyphenol selectivity of more than 20% in a liquid product, and a yield of more than 100 mg/g of lignin.
US12023647B2
Provided is a method for reusing an adsorbent which can stably exhibit purification ability by regenerating a used absorbent, in order to keep the composition of a purified syngas constant. The present invention concerns a method for regenerating a zeolite adsorbent which adsorbs a carbon dioxide gas from a syngas comprising the carbon dioxide gas and reduces the concentration of the carbon dioxide gas in the syngas, comprising: a step of recovering a used zeolite adsorbent; a step of calcining the used zeolite adsorbent at a temperature of 300° C. to 600° C. in an oxygen atmosphere to produce a regenerated zeolite adsorbent; and a step of reusing the regenerated zeolite adsorbent.
US12023640B2
The invention relates to an aqueous dispersion of microcapsules, said microcapsules comprising a hydrophobic core and a polymeric shell wherein said polymeric shell is formed of the reaction product of (i) at least one monofunctional or multifunctional α,β-unsaturated carbonyl compound, and (ii) at least one nanocellulose or microcrystalline cellulose. The invention also relates to a process for the manufacture of such an aqueous dispersion, as well as consumer products containing an aqueous dispersion of microcapsules according to the invention.
US12023635B2
The present invention relates to the phantom comprises water, an oil, an emulsifier and a water coagulating agent, and having a scattering coefficient of 5 to 20 cm−1 at a wavelength of 750 to 1000 nm.
US12023633B2
Membranes, methods of making the membranes, and methods of using the membranes are described herein. The membranes can comprise a support layer, and a selective polymer layer disposed on the support layer. In some cases, the support layer can comprise a gas permeable polymer and hydrophilic additive dispersed within the gas permeable polymer. In some cases, the selective polymer layer can comprise a selective polymer matrix and carbon nanotubes dispersed within the selective polymer matrix. The membranes can exhibit selective permeability to gases. As such, the membranes can be for the selective removal of carbon dioxide and/or hydrogen sulfide from hydrogen and/or nitrogen.
US12023632B2
A process for reducing injector deposits in an internal combustion engine fuelled with a fuel composition, the process comprising contacting a fuel composition with a metal-selective membrane situated in the fuel delivery system. The reduction of such deposits provides an increase in fuel efficiency, fuel thermal stability, boost in engine cleanliness, improves fuel economy and enables the possibility of using a reduced amount of expensive detergent in the fuel composition.
US12023626B2
The present invention provides a system for capturing and recycling carbon dioxide in an exhaust gas, which includes a CO2 capture unit into which an exhaust gas containing CO2 is input, and which captures the CO2 as a high concentration enriched gas and separates a first treatment gas; a mineralization process unit which mineralizes the CO2 after receiving the high concentration enriched gas captured in the CO2 capture unit and discharges a second treatment gas; a mixing tank which receives the first treatment gas and the second treatment gas and mixes them so that the contained CO2 has a predetermined concentration; a photo-culture process unit which receives the resulting third treatment gas from the mixing tank to perform a photo-culture process using microalgae; and a control unit which controls the flow rates and the CO2 contents of the gases supplied and discharged to/from the CO2 capture unit, the mineralization process unit, the mixing tank and the photo-culture process unit.
US12023625B2
An absorption type carbon dioxide removal and concentration device can remove or concentrate a carbon dioxide throughout four seasons and can be manufactured with a relatively simple structure. The device includes a carbon dioxide removal rotor that holds a carbon dioxide absorbent. The rotor is divided into at least a treatment zone and a regeneration zone. Air to be treated is ventilated through the treatment zone, so that carbon dioxide contained in the air to be treated is absorbed by a holding absorbent of the rotor portion, so that the CO2 can be separated and removed from the air to be treated. In the regeneration zone, regeneration air is ventilated, so that the carbon dioxide absorbed by the holding absorbent in the treatment zone is desorbed with the regeneration air to regenerate the holding absorbent. A total heat exchanger recovers latent heat and sensible heat from the regeneration exhaust.
US12023613B2
Fibrous filter medium that includes a melt-blown filter layer comprising melt-blown fibers and a high-efficiency glass-containing filter layer comprising glass fibers.
US12023608B2
The present disclosure is related to hybrid desalination systems and associated methods. The hybrid desalination system can comprise a first desalination unit comprising a reverse osmosis unit and a second desalination unit fluidically connected to the first desalination unit, wherein the second desalination unit comprises a humidification-dehumidification desalination apparatus. The present disclosure is also related to systems and methods for the formation of solid salts using a humidifier. According to certain embodiments, the flow velocity of a gas in the humidifier can be relatively high during the formation of the solid salt. In some embodiments, the humidifier comprises a multi-stage bubble column humidifier.
US12023607B2
In order to enable stable provision of an upward release tube-type ceramic filter used in a molten metal bath and having a side wall with a height of 300 mm or greater, this method for manufacturing a ceramic filter, which is an upward release tube-type integrally molded article for removing unwanted substances from molten metal, has: a step for kneading a mixture of an aggregate comprising ceramic particles, a prescribed binding agent, and water to prepare a base material; a step for integrally forming an upward release tube-type ceramic filter precursor from the prepared base material; step for drying the precursor; a step for providing a retainer for the dried precursor for supporting a side wall of the precursor; a step for subsequently sintering the precursor; and a step for removing the retainer after sintering.
US12023601B2
A CO2 extraction process for Cannabis sativa that uses liquid CO2 in combination with co-solvent admixtures to purify cannabis botanicals in high yield and purity. The extraction process allows for multiple extractions, or washes, to be performed with the same solvent CO2, which may be seamlessly recycled and purified between subsequent extraction cycles. A variety of in-line filtration vessels, pumps, vacuums, and controllable valves are used to yield a pure product while allowing a high level of user control over the process.
US12023600B2
A system for processing essential oils includes a mixing tank, three winterization vessels, three respective filtering vessels, a fine filtering vessel, a holding tank, an evaporator, an essential oil reservoir, a solvent reservoir, and a solvent filtering vessel. The evaporator can include a heat exchanger configured to heat a plate down which a mixture including the oils flows, to evaporate other components of the mixture. Fluids can be advanced through the system using a pressurized inert gas.
US12023593B2
A system and method is provided that automatically annotates gameplay based on triggering events that occur during a gameplay session. The system may automatically annotate the gameplay in real-time, such as during a gameplay session associated with an electronic-sports tournament. For example, the system may obtain and parse a game log corresponding to the gameplay session, identify triggering events based on the game log, obtain an annotation rule associated with the triggering event, generate an annotation item based on the annotation rule, and cause the annotation item to be presented in association with video of the gameplay session. An annotation item may be displayed interactively such that, when selected, causes the system to take an action. The action may include obtaining additional information relating to the selected annotation item; saving, sharing, liking/disliking or commenting on the selected annotation item; removing the selected annotation item from a display, and/or other actions.
US12023591B2
Systems and methods for application development via a graphical user interface (GUI) using an Entity-Component-System (ECS) architecture are provided herein. In some embodiments, a method for application development may include receiving a selection of at least one actor to be part of a game scene; displaying a representation of the at least one actor in the game scene; receiving a selection of one or more behaviors to associate with each of the at least one actors in the game scene; storing the selected one or more behaviors as associations with each of the at least one actors, wherein the associations are stored in a hash table; updating, each of that at least one actors and their associated behaviors; and automatically creating an executable video game based on the at least one actor and associated behaviors in an ECS architecture without the need for user written software code.
US12023586B2
A non-limiting example game system includes a processor incorporated within a main body apparatus, and the processor simultaneously controls a player character and a competitive partner character to advance a golf game. The player character is moved, when hitting a ball, toward a next hitting position. During movement, the player character interferes with movement or hitting of the competitive partner character according to an operation of a player. Moreover, when the player character executes a special shot, a shape or a property of a game filed is changed so as to interfere with movement or hitting of the competitive partner character. On the other hand, the competitive partner character interferes with movement or hitting of the player character or another competitive partner character. A victory or defeat of a competition game A is determined based on the time and the number of strokes both required from execution of a tee shot up to a cup-in. That is, a game element is introduced between hitting processing and hitting processing, and the required time affects a victory or defeat of the game.
US12023578B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for generating a game effect, an electronic device, and a computer-readable medium, and the method includes following steps: acquiring an effect setting operation of a user, the effect setting operation including a setting operation of a multimedia material, a setting operation of a scoring rule, and a setting operation of an ending rule; and generating a configuration file of a game effect according to the multimedia material, the scoring rule, and the ending rule. The configuration file is used to indicate presentation of the game effect on a target video; and during the presentation of the game effect, the multimedia material is presented on the target video, scoring is performed and displayed according to the scoring rule, and a game is over in a case that the ending rule is satisfied.
US12023577B2
A game processing system according to an aspect is a game processing system for processing a game having a first mode and a second mode, the system comprising: a storage storing a game parameter relating to the game; and one or more computer processors. The one or more computer processors execute computer-readable instructions to: provide, in the first mode, an interaction with a virtual character in accordance with first detection information obtained by an information processing device not mounted on a head of a player; provide, in the second mode, an interaction with the virtual character in accordance with second detection information obtained by a head mounted display mounted on the head of the player; and update the game parameter in accordance with progress of the game in the first mode and the second mode.
US12023569B2
A playground apparatus has a first platform assembly, a second platform assembly, and a pole structure. The first platform assembly includes a first platform structure disposed at a distance from the surface. The second platform assembly is disposed spaced apart from the first platform assembly. The second platform assembly includes a second platform structure disposed at a distance from the surface. Further, the pole structure is disposed between the first platform assembly and the second platform assembly, and includes a lever portion having at least one support structure for supporting one or more child.
US12023567B2
The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces for managing, modifying, and/or outputting workout content.
US12023562B2
A game of skill which consists of rings being tossed at one or more targets and more particularly to the construction of the equipment including the targets and rings for use in such a game, and a method of play, more particularly, to a ring toss game. Nine pegs are formed into a rectangular pattern having three columns and are attached onto the target, wherein the rectangular pattern includes four corners with four of the pegs located at each of the corners. A plurality of corner circles is located on the base, wherein one of the four corner pegs is located within one of the plurality of corner circles. A plurality of horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines is located on the base.
US12023561B2
A golf tool holder is disclosed herein. The golf tool holder includes a housing and a fastener, such as a clip, configured to fasten the golf tool holder to a waistband or a belt of a golfer. The golf tool holder includes a divot repair tool holder, at least one tee holder, a golf ball holder and a ball marker holder. As such, the golf tool holder holds essential golf tools in specific places, thereby providing the golfer with easy access to the essential tools during golf play and allowing the golfer to remain focused on the golf game.
US12023557B2
The invention comprises a plurality of indicator members rotatably coupled to an inner slide assembly, the inner slide assembly coupled to an inner channel member, the inner channel member further coupled to an outer channel member. In this configuration, system is mounted to a mounting surface through the outer channel member, the inner channel member is configured in a first state to freely traverse along a vertical axis of the outer channel member and in configured in a second state fixed at a single point on the vertical axis, and inner slide assembly is configured in a first state to freely traverse along a vertical axis of the inner channel member and in a second state fixed at a single point on the vertical axis.
US12023548B2
On-demand data is provided for real-time exercise experience including identifying available classes, receiving exercise class selection, retrieving associated leaderboard data, decompressing leaderboard data, and delivering exercise class content including leaderboard data to an exercise apparatus. Systems and methods further include receiving a class end condition, gathering data from the selected exercise class, compressing the gathered data, and appending the compressed data to stored leaderboard data. Compressing includes sampling a points from each user's workout through a recursive process including identifying a first point, last point and at least one mid-point of the workout, and for each successive pair of sampled points, identifying a mid-point that is furthest away from a line segment between the pair of sampled points, and adding the mid-point to the plurality of points if a distance between the mid-point and the line segment is greater than a predetermined threshold.
US12023542B2
A training apparatus has exercise equipment mounted to a side surface or a roof of a land vehicle or for mounting to a surface such as a wall of a building or ship. The exercise equipment includes a support structure which is attached to the surface or roof. In some embodiments the support structure is maneuverable by pivoting with respect to the surface or roof, whilst remaining attached thereto, between a stowed condition and an exercising condition.
US12023527B2
An apparatus for a personal protective respiratory device according to various aspects of the present technology include a wearable housing having air filtration system and an air sterilizing system for providing filtered and sterilized airflow to a user. One or more internal fans generate a mass flow rate of air through the duct system. Filtered and sterilized air exits the housing above the user's forehead and is directed onto a face shield to create an elevated pressure zone of air in the region around the user's face. Both dispelled air from the housing and exhaled air from the user flow downwardly along an inner surface of the face shield and away from the user. The face shield may include an edge filter to capture respiratory droplets. A head gown may be coupled to the housing and head shield to provide additional protection against respiratory droplets.
US12023526B2
An escape system for descending a person from a window is disclosed. The escape system may be mounted above a window through which a person may egress and descend to the ground. The escape system includes a fenestration unit having a frame and a human support embedded into the frame in a stowed position. The human support carries a person during descent. A cable is wound about a shaft supported by the frame. The cable is connected to the human support. The escape system further includes a speed limiting device connected to the shaft that controls the speed of descent.
US12023516B2
An applicator for delivery of radiotherapy seeds to a tumor of a patient through an elongate needle (104). The elongate needle comprises a needle handle (204) and a needle tube having a given length for insertion into the patient. The applicator comprises an elongate applicator tube (106) designed to pass through the elongate needle, wherein the elongate applicator tube defines an internal channel which receives one or more radiotherapy seeds (110), an applicator handle (210) configured to be attached to the needle handle (204); and a stylet (108) within the elongate applicator tube. The elongate applicator tube is longer than the elongate needle.
US12023510B2
In embodiments a wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD) system is worn by an ambulatory patient. The WCD system analyzes an ECG signal of the patient, to determine whether or not the patient should be given an electric shock to restart their heart. If the WCD system determines that such a shock should be given, then it also determines whether or not a High Frequency (H-F) noise criterion is met by the ECG signal. If that H-F noise criterion is not met, the patient can be shocked. If, however, that H-F noise criterion is met, then the WCD system can confirm before shocking, by sensing another portion of the ECG signal, analyzing again, and so on. Thanks to the confirmation before shocking, the possibility is diminished that the ECG signal will indicate that a shock is needed falsely, due to H-F noise. This can further reduce false patient alarms, and so on.
US12023496B2
This invention relates to a closed-loop adaptive AC stimulation neural network control method and system, involving the technical field of AC stimulation neural regulation. This system is composed of an individualized navigation module, AC stimulation module, EEG acquisition module and adaptive coupling module. After the magnetic resonance image and functional magnetic resonance image of the regulation object are input into the individualized navigation module, the functional connectivity network is generated to finalize regulatory targets. The position of stimulating electrodes and the magnitude of the stimulating current are determined according to the target to be regulated. The stimulating frequency is determined according to the EEG of the regulation object and then input into the AC stimulation module for regulation.
US12023493B2
A closed-loop spinal cord electrical stimulation system includes a spinal epidural electrical stimulation electrode, a low limb electrical stimulation electrode, a closed-loop electrical stimulator and a controller. The spinal epidural electrical stimulation electrode, the low limb electrical stimulation electrode and the controller are electrically connected to the closed-loop electrical stimulator respectively. The spinal epidural electrical stimulation electrode is used for applying a first electrical stimulation to the spinal epidural site, and the low limb electrical stimulation electrode is used for applying a second electrical stimulation to a low limb. The voltage of the first electric stimulation is 400-600 mV, the voltage of the second electric stimulation is 1 V-1.5 V, and the stimulation frequency of the both is 10-20 Hz. The stimulation system can send electrophysiological signals similar to sensorimotor neural circuitry to the subject with spinal cord injury, and can activate and remodel the neural circuit.
US12023485B2
An electrode contact for an electrode lead for neurostimulation comprises a contact body including a contact surface for contacting human or animal neural tissue. The electrode contact furthermore comprises an arm section for contacting at least one electrical supply lead, wherein the arm section, originating from the contact body, extends laterally in a first spatial direction which runs parallel to a main extension plane of the contact surface. The arm section includes at least one cut-out for guiding through the at least one electrical supply lead.
US12023483B2
An electrical stimulation device according to an embodiment includes: an elongated element having working channels; a plurality of electrical stimulators each including a longitudinal member extending along the longitudinal direction of the working channel, and a tip which is installed at the distal end of the longitudinal member and configured to apply electrical stimulation to a subject; and a control unit that independently controls the plurality of electrical stimulators to vary the range of electric stimulation applied to the subject.
US12023479B2
A tubular pulsatile ventricular assist device (PVAD) system for providing forward flow of blood in a pulsatile, peristaltic, and non-hemolytic manner to help reduce the amount of blood clotting associated with current ventricular devices on the market. The system can encircle a portion of a blood vessel, and the system can sequentially apply a pressure through each port in a particular pre-determined patter so as to selectively occlude the lumen, thereby creating a pulsatile, peristaltic movement along a length of system. Said movement causes blood to flow through the portion of the blood vessel.
US12023468B2
A device for injecting a medicament is provided. The device has a housing with a container within it which can hold a medicament. At its proximal end the container has a needle and a stopper. The device includes a plunger which at one end can engage the stopper. At the opposite end, the plunger can engage a first resilient member to move the stopper within the container to inject the medicament from the container. The device includes a collar with distal and proximal ends, the distal end engaging with a carriage and causing its rotation and the proximal end engaging with a second resilient member. The second resilient member can engage with a skin sensor which has distal and proximal ends. At the proximal end, the skin sensor can contact an injection site. The housing has a cap which can reduce or prevent movement of the skin sensor.
US12023465B2
An infusion set includes a base (221) and a flexible catheter (242) movable from a first catheter position disposed substantially entirely within the base (221) to a second catheter position in which a free end of the catheter (242) is disposed externally of the base (221). An introducer needle (234) is located within the catheter (242) and is movable between a first introducer needle position disposed substantially entirely within the base (221) and a second introducer needle position in which a free end of the introducer needle (234) is disposed externally of the base (221). A spring (281) is activated to move the catheter (242) from the first to the second catheter position and the introducer needle (234) from the first to the second introducer needle position to facilitate insertion of the catheter (242). The introducer needle (234) is thereafter moved by the spring (281) back to the first introducer needle position to store the introducer needle (234) within the base (221) with the free end of the catheter (242) remaining disposed externally of the base (221).
US12023464B2
A cassette for holding fluid path components for a fluid injector may include a body defining at least one feature for holding at least one fluid path component for the fluid injector; and a connecting member for removably connecting the body of the cassette to the fluid injector, the connecting member operatively connected to the body, wherein the connecting member comprises at least one pivotable connecting feature protruding from the body, and wherein each of the at least one pivotable connecting feature is configured for removably connecting to a corresponding connecting feature receiver on the fluid injector such that the body is pivotally movable relative to the fluid injector between a first, unlatched position and a second, latched position in which the at least one fluid path component on the body of the cassette is positioned for operative connection to a corresponding feature of the fluid injector.
US12023458B2
The valve has: a body projecting an inlet duct and an outlet duct; a seat in the inlet duct and cooperating with a sealing ball; a helical spring between the sealing ball and a supporting ball; a rotor mounted on the body and having a cam surface, cooperating with the supporting ball; a locking member having a magnet and housed within each cavity of the rotor, and to be moved between operative and inoperative positions; a spring in each cavity and forcing the locking member into the operative position; and retention housings, each of two of the latter being opposite to each other, receiving one of the locking members in the operative position, in a rotational position of the rotor.
US12023456B2
A balloon catheter includes an outer shaft, an inner shaft, and an inflatable balloon. The inner shaft is inserted inside the outer shaft. A part of the inner shaft extends from a leading end of the outer shaft. The balloon includes a base end side joint portion joined to the outer shaft and a leading end side joint portion joined to the inner shaft. The inner shaft has an extension portion configured to in an axial line direction. The extension portion is provided further to a base end side than the leading end side joint portion.
US12023453B2
Embodiments disclosed herein relate to an aspiration catheter comprising a catheter body that can have a first end and a second end and an aspiration lumen extending through the catheter body. The aspiration lumen can have an aspiration opening located in a distal portion of the aspiration catheter. The catheter can have an assistive jet element extending through a wall of the aspiration lumen. The assistive jet element can have an assistive jet channel. The assistive jet element can be adaptable to draw blood through the assistive jet element from a location outside of the catheter body adjacent to the assistive jet element and into the aspiration lumen when suction is applied to the aspiration lumen and can be configured to break apart a thrombus or obstruction in the aspiration lumen.
US12023451B2
The present disclosure pertains to systems and methods for delivering sensory stimulation to a subject for facilitating sleep onset. The system comprises one or more sensors for generating output signals indicating one or more physiological parameters of a subject; a sensory stimulator for delivering sensory stimulation to the subject; and one or more physical processors configured to: determine an initial state of the subject based on the output signals from the sensor, the initial state corresponding to at least one physiological parameter of the subject; determine one or more stimulation parameters of sensory stimulation to be delivered to the subject by the sensory stimulator based on the initial state of the subject; and cause the sensory stimulator to deliver the sensory stimulation to the subject based on the determined one or more stimulation parameters.
US12023450B2
The disclosure provides for a device and method for vibrational, electrical, and magnetic therapy. The device may include a main controller board, a power source, a power switch harness connected to the power source, a vibration module comprising two to more motors capable of generating a multidirectional mechanical vibration, and an input controller. The device may further produce a micro-electrical current and a micro-magnetic field.
US12023448B2
A connection device allows connection of an anesthetic container (400) to an anesthetic vaporizer (300) in a fluid-tight manner. A port section (1000) of the anesthetic vaporizer can be detachably connected to an adapter (1100) of the port section. With the adapter connected to the port section, a vaporizer-side channel section and a container-side channel section together form a continuous channel for anesthetic. The area of the surface of the port section that points towards the adapter is formed by a vaporizer-side contact profile (K.1, K.8), and the area of the surface of the adapter that points towards the port section is formed by a container-side contact profile (K.25, 28, 31). One contact profile has a projection (1), and the other contact profile has a corresponding recess (25) that contact with one another without an intermediate space. The projection positive-lockingly meshes with the recess.
US12023447B2
A humidifier for humidifying a flow of pressurized breathable gas to be delivered to a patient includes a dock and a humidification tub. The dock includes a device compartment that is configured to at least partially removably receive an RPT device that is configured to supply the flow of pressurized breathable gas. The dock also includes a humidification compartment that is fluidly connected to the device compartment. The humidification tub is configured to contain a supply of water and is at least partially removably received within the humidification compartment so that, in an operational configuration, the humidification tub is arranged to receive the flow of pressurized breathable gas and output the flow of pressurized breathable gas with increased humidity. The dock also includes a heater fixed to the humidification tub. The heater is configured to heat the supply of water.
US12023445B2
A heat and moisture exchanger (HME) for engaging a patient's nose while retrofit into a plenum chamber of a patient interface. The HME includes a frame configured to couple to a ridge of the patient's nose, and a cradle coupled to the frame. The cradle is configured to be positioned proximate to the patient's nares. The HME also includes an HME material coupled to the cradle. The HME material is configured to retain moisture exhaled by the patient. Air is configured to pass through the HME material when entering and exiting the patient's nares. The HME engages and is secured to the patient's nose independently of any other structure.
US12023438B2
A mist inhaler device (200) for generating a mist for inhalation by a user. The device includes a mist generator device (201) and a driver device (202). The driver device (202) is configured to drive the mist generator device (201) at an optimum frequency to maximise the efficiency of mist generation by the mist generator device (201).
US12023436B2
The claimed subject matter provides a control component that regulates output of an electronic vaporizer used to simulate smoking. The control component manages power to a heating element. A power detect component collects a parameter of the heating element to determine actual power output thereof. The control component dynamically adjusts the power source based on the actual power output.
US12023435B2
A nebulizer including a host having a head portion, a cup body having a nebulizing module disposed on a bottom thereof, an engaging member, a mouthpiece having a first opening, a second opening, and a tongue plate, and a sensor element is provided. The engaging member includes a first, a second, and a third engaging opening communicated with one another. The cup body is coupled to the engaging member through the first engaging opening. The engaging member, inside which a first partition wall is disposed, is coupled to the host through having the third engaging opening engaged with the head portion. The mouthpiece is coupled to the engaging member through having the second opening engaged with the second engaging opening. The tongue plate, disposed inside the mouthpiece and abuts against the first partition wall, divides an inner space of the mouthpiece into a first and a second channel.
US12023432B2
A fluid management system includes a pump connectable to a fluid source. An inflow line removably connects to a cannula for delivering a fluid flow from the pump into a surgical site, such as a joint cavity. A flow pressure sensor is coupled to measure flow pressure in the inflow line and produce a measured pressure value, A controller is connected to the pump and the flow pressure sensor, and the controller maintains a pressure set point by controlling a pump speed based on a backpressure-adjusted pressure value calculated by subtracting a backpressure value selected from a backpressure table from the measured pressure value. The BAPV is monitored to determine whether the BAPV deviates outside an initial BAPV range, and corrective measure are taken should such deviations occur.
US12023427B2
A peritoneal dialysis apparatus includes a filter and a dialysis fluid circuit in fluid communication with the filter. The peritoneal dialysis apparatus also includes a pump for pumping fresh dialysis fluid to a peritoneum of a patient via the dialysis fluid circuit and pumping used dialysis fluid from the peritoneum of the patient through the dialysis fluid circuit and the filter. The peritoneal dialysis apparatus further includes a selective air access in fluid communication with the dialysis fluid circuit and a control unit configured to control the pump during a peritoneal dialysis treatment and a filter cleaning sequence. The control unit forms a fluid mixture during a filter cleaning sequence by opening the selective air access to mix air with a physiologically safe fluid. The fluid mixture is transferred across insides and/or outsides of the filter at least one time.
US12023424B1
Ultraviolet light is outputted in a space by one or more ultraviolet light sources. The presence of one or more people in the space is detected by one or more sensors. An ultraviolet light level delivered in the space while the space is occupied with one or more people is calculated based on a first output of the one or more ultraviolet light sources and a second output of the one or more sensors.
US12023423B2
An airborne pathogen extraction system that provides for continuous airborne pathogen particle extraction from a specifically targeted area in a room or a specifically targeted area proximate to a user. The pathogenic particles are filtered and/or disinfected before the air is returned proximate to the originating location, or are directed an area away from the user(s). The airborne pathogen extraction systems and methods lower the chances of contagion or infection from airborne pathogens, such as viruses.
US12023416B2
Methods of manufacturing collagen fibers comprising any one, a combination or all of the following: at least partially decellularizing a collagenous tissue; homogenizing the collagenous tissue; separating at least a portion of collagen fibers from the collagenous tissue; exposing the collagen fibers to an acidic solution before or after the separating; and forming at least one of a suture, a woven structure, a knitted structure, or a bioprosthetic device with the collagen fibers.
US12023415B2
A device is disclosed. The device contains a first light source configured to excite fluorescence emission of a first contaminant on a surface, and a first optical sensor configured to capture one or more images of the fluorescence emission of the first contaminant.
US12023409B2
Compositions and kits for oral administration of a phosphodiesterase-4 (PDE4) inhibitor and one or more additional active agents that reduces or eliminates a side effect associated with the PDE4 inhibitor are provided. Also provided are methods for use of these compositions and kits for treating conditions treatable with a PDE4 inhibitor therapy and for increasing patient compliance with treatment with PDE4 inhibitors.
US12023408B2
A solid dispersion of amorphous efinaconazole and a method for preparing the same are proposed. The solid dispersion includes an amorphous form of efinaconazole and at least one stabilization carrier selected from hydroxypropyl methylcellulose (HPMC), hydroxypropyl cellulose (HPC), ethyl cellulose (EC), hydroxypropyl methylcellulose acetate succinate (HPMC-AS), polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP), polyacrylic acid (PAA), saccharin, and malonic acid. The solid dispersion undergoes minimal thermodynamic deformation when exposed to ambient temperature and humidity, achieving improved stability, while maintaining the inherent improved stability and bioavailability of amorphous efinaconazole.
US12023402B2
Described herein are oral care compositions, comprising a peroxydone complex, a dispersant, and a polyvinylpyrrolidone copolymer structure-building agent.
US12023398B2
Provided is a composition including: an acrylamide compound (A1) having a molecular weight of 150 or greater but 250 or less; and a multifunctional polymerizable compound (A2), wherein a content of the multifunctional polymerizable compound (A2) is 15% by mass or greater but 35% by mass or less.
US12023390B2
The present invention is directed towards isomerically pure 18F-labelled (6S)- or (6R)-5-methyltetrahydrofolate radiopharmaceuticals, wherein the phenyl group within the folate structure, has been replaced by an 18F-labelled N-heterocycle, for use in diagnostic imaging of a cell or population of cells expressing a folate-receptor in vitro or in vivo or for use in monitoring of cancer or inflammatory and autoimmune diseases and therapy thereof.
US12023371B2
The invention relates to compositions and methods for the manufacture and optimization of modified mRNA molecules via optimization of their terminal architecture.
US12023367B2
Described herein are pharmaceutical compositions, medicaments and methods for providing effective immunomodulation with chimeric proteins including FasL moieties for selective and long-lasting regulation of the immune response.
US12023365B2
The present invention is related to the novel oral dosage form for sustained release of crocin-1, a active constituent of Crocus sativus extract or fraction and a process for preparing the same wherein the extract is wet-granulated using excipients, biodegradable polymers and/or non-biodegradable polymers alone or in combination. The said formulations are useful for the treatment of chronic inflammatory diseases wherein NLRP3 inflammasome is involved.
US12023358B2
A biological catalyst for the regeneration of tissues, obtainable directly from an adipose starting material, includes adipose material in liquid solution in a quantity of between 1.0 and 1.5 grams per millilitre of adipose starting material, in which a quantity of between 2 and 30 milligrams of proteins is present, said proteins comprising at least: from 0 to 60 picograms of PDGF, from 300 to 1300 picograms of VEGF, from 10 to 100 picograms of TGFb1, from 3000 to 7500 picograms of FGFb, from 400 to 4000 picograms of IL-1 RA. The biological catalyst is obtained from a method including at least the steps of collecting an adipose starting material; centrifuging the adipose material, to separate the collected material at least into an oily fraction, an aqueous fraction and a cellular fraction; removing the surface oily fraction; collecting the aqueous fraction and the cellular fraction, in which the above-mentioned proteins are found.
US12023356B2
Provided is a stem cell filtrate preparation useful for hair regeneration, alleviation of pain caused by a disease of an interosseous joint, such as osteoarthrosis or rheumatoid arthritis, and treatment of the disease, and in addition, restoration of a damaged muscle, and prevention or treatment of decubitus. The stem cell filtrate preparation according to one aspect of the present invention is characterized by including a filtrate of a stem cell from which a cell membrane is removed. The stem cell may be at least one selected from at least one selected from an adipose-tissue-derived mesenchymal stem cell, an epithelial stem cell, a pigmented stem cell, an iPS cell, and an ES cell. Furthermore, the stem cell filtrate preparation includes an adipocyte or an effective component extracted from cellular fat.
US12023351B2
A modified nano-silica gel for improving symptoms caused by bacteria and viruses and a preparation method and an application thereof. The patented nano-silica gel is modified by a modified compound to obtain a modified nano-silica gel to effectively reduce an amount of toxins excreted by sows, thereby providing piglets with a safe environment that is more suitable for survival. The modified nano-silica gel of the invention comprises: a nano-silica gel with a content of 13.0-92.3 wt %; a modified compound with a content of 0.15-3.50 wt %, the modified compound is an organic compound, a weight ratio of the nano-silica gel to the modified compound is 620:1 to 3.5:1; and water with a formula of H2O and a content of 7.5-86.8 wt %; the nano-silica gel, the modified compound and the water are stirred and mixed at a temperature of 40-80° C. to prepare the modified nano-silica gel.
US12023349B2
The present disclosure provides a method for extracting a Lactarius hatsudake Tanaka polysaccharide compound, and relates to the field of active substance extraction. This method includes: carrying out freeze-drying, pulverization, degreasing, water extraction, deproteinization, alcohol precipitation, and resin adsorption in sequence on Lactarius hatsudake Tanaka fruiting bodies to obtain a Lactarius hatsudake Tanaka refined polysaccharide mixture; to the Lactarius hatsudake Tanaka refined polysaccharide mixture, adding anhydrous ethanol dropwise to perform alcohol precipitation purification, and gradually collecting precipitates, to obtain Lactarius hatsudake Tanaka polysaccharide-10/40/60/80 active ingredients; and performing preparation via liquid chromatography on the Lactarius hatsudake Tanaka polysaccharide-10/40/60/80 active ingredients respectively, followed by dialysis and post-treatment to obtain Lactarius hatsudake Tanaka polysaccharide LHP-1, Lactarius hatsudake Tanaka polysaccharide LHP-2, Lactarius hatsudake Tanaka polysaccharide LHP-3, Lactarius hatsudake Tanaka polysaccharide LHP-4, and Lactarius hatsudake Tanaka polysaccharide LHP-5.
US12023348B2
A method of treating an inflammation or a hyperproliferative disease in a subject in need thereof is disclosed. The method comprising administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of a compound selected from the group consisting of: a compound represented by Formula I: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, a compound represented by Formula II: and a compound represented by Formula III: wherein the variables in Formulae I, II and III are as defined in the specification.
US12023342B2
Disclosed herein are formulations of pirfenidone or pyridone analog compounds for aerosolization and use of such formulations for aerosol administration of pirfenidone or pyridone analog compounds for the prevention or treatment of various fibrotic and inflammatory diseases, including disease associated with the lung, heart, kidney, liver, eye and central nervous system. In some embodiments, pirfenidone or pyridone analog compound formulations and delivery options described herein allow for efficacious local delivery of pirfenidone or pyridone analog compound. Compositions include all formulations, kits, and device combinations described herein. Methods include inhalation procedures, indications and manufacturing processes for production and use of the compositions described.
US12023330B2
Described herein are methods and systems for using an alkaloid, such as manzamine A, for anti-proliferative effects at relatively low and non-cytotoxic concentrations (up to 4 μM) wherein manzamine A blocks cell cycle progression in cervical cancer cell lines and regulates cell cycle-related genes, including restoration of p21 and p53 expression inducing apoptosis.
US12023327B2
The present disclosure relates to methods of treating gastrointestinal stromal tumors to a subject in need thereof, comprising administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of ripretinib or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
US12023324B2
Disclosed herein are controlled release compositions comprising riluzole and the uses thereof.
US12023323B2
Compounds with anti-viral properties are provided that are based on the following structures: A variety of heteroaromatic groups have been found to be biologically active against viral infections. In some embodiments, a dimeric compound is provided with each monomer linked by a repeating glycol linking group.
US12023311B2
There is provided herein a pharmaceutical formulation having one or more component comprising valproic acid (VPA) and/or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof; and one or more secondary acid, and optionally comprising one or more pharmaceutically acceptable excipient. There is also provided uses of such formulations.
US12023306B2
Provided herein are fixed-dose combination (FDC) compositions comprising therapeutically effective amounts of at least one cannabinoid and spilanthol whether as essentially pure isolates or synthetics or as components of essential oils or plant extracts or combinations thereof. The compositions are formulated as pharmaceutical compositions, nutraceuticals, cosmeceuticals, nutricosmetics, cosmetics, or food products. The pharmaceutical compositions are useful for the treatment of a gastro-enteric disease selected from the group consisting of irritable bowel disease, Crohn's disease, colitis, irritable bowel syndrome, and acute and chronic pancreatitis or of sepsis. Other pharmaceutical uses are as anti-allergic, anti-inflammatory, immunomodulator, antioxidant, anti-microbial, antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral, antinociceptive, analgesic, anesthetic, anti-cancer, apoptosis inducing, antiscorbutic, antipyretic, anti-malarial, addiction mitigatory, anxiolytic, anti-depressant, diuretic, anti-diarrheal, vasodilator or aphrodisiac agents. The pharmaceutical compositions of this invention exhibit a synergistic effect.
US12023302B2
An apparatus for promoting vascular circulation, including a garment configured to at least partially surround an anatomical structure of a patient. A compression element is coupled to the garment and configured to compress at least a portion of the anatomical structure when the compression element is actuated. A controller is configured to selectively actuate the compression element over a plurality of cycles. Each cycle has an actuated time during which the compression element is arranged to exert a first pressure and an unactuated time during which the compression element is arranged to exert a second pressure different than the first pressure, and the controller is configured to use a random value in determining the deflated time of one or more of the cycles.
US12023290B2
A rehabilitation assisting apparatus has a main body, a waist assisting unit mounted above the main body, and two leg assisting units separately disposed side by side above the main body. Each of the leg assisting units is pivotally connected with the waist assisting unit. An upper rocking plate of the waist assisting unit can be driven to roll leftward and rightward to rehabilitate or train a waist of a user. A leg lifting bracket of each of the leg assisting unit can be driven to pitch upward and downward to rehabilitate or train a leg of the user.
US12023280B2
The invention relates to a method for controlling an eye surgical laser for the separation of a volume body with a predefined posterior interface and a predefined anterior interface from a cornea, comprising controlling the laser by means of a control device such that it emits pulsed laser pulses in a shot sequence in a predefined pattern into the cornea, wherein the interfaces of the volume body to be separated are defined by the predefined pattern and the interfaces are generated by means of an interaction of the individual laser pulses with the cornea by the generation of a plurality of cavitation bubbles generated by photodisruption, wherein the predefined pattern is generated by means of a mesh-like guidance of the emitted laser pulses and the control device controls the shot sequence of the laser such that a common overlap area of the cavitation bubbles is generated between adjacent cavitation bubbles. Further, the invention relates to a treatment device, to a computer program as well as to a computer-readable medium.
US12023272B2
A fecal management applicator, a fecal management assembly, and a fecal management method are described herein. A fecal management applicator may include a handle portion, and a head portion extending from the handle portion. The head portion may include an inner head wall portion that extends axially from the handle portion and an outer head wall portion that extends radially outwardly from the inner head wall portion and curves over the inner head wall portion. The fecal management applicator may define a channel that extends continuously through the handle portion and the head portion along an entire axial length of the fecal management applicator.
US12023258B2
An intervertebral implant includes a first endplate member and a second endplate member, and a distal wedge member and a proximal wedge member that couple the first and second endplate members together. The distal wedge member is configured to move in an expansion direction that causes the fusion cage to move from a contracted position to an expanded position.
US12023255B2
An expandable intervertebral implant is provided for insertion into an intervertebral space defined by adjacent vertebrae. The expandable intervertebral implant includes a pair of outer sleeve portions and an inner core disposed between the outer sleeve portions. Movement of the inner core relative to the outer sleeve portions causes the outers sleeve portions to deflect away from each other, thereby engaging the expandable intervertebral implant with the vertebrae and adjusting the height of the intervertebral space.
US12023252B2
Prosthetic device suitable for being implanted in a bone or joint site of the human body, including a prosthetic body, wherein the prosthetic device includes or can be added with antibiotic or a medical substance.
US12023250B2
Devices and methods for providing localized pressure to a region of a patient's heart to improve heart functioning, including: (a) a jacket made of a flexible biocompatible material, the jacket having an open top end that is received around the heart and a bottom portion that is received around the apex of the heart; and (b) at least one inflatable bladder disposed on an interior surface of the jacket, the inflatable bladder having an inelastic outer surface positioned adjacent to the jacket and an elastic inner surface such that inflation of the bladder causes the bladder to deform substantially inwardly to exert localized pressure against a region of the heart.
US12023244B2
The disclosure generally relates to delivery devices for transcatheter delivery of a prosthesis. The delivery device includes a hollow shaft on which the prosthesis is supported. A handle assembly maintains the shaft. The delivery device further includes a guide wire that is selectively directed through the handle assembly and shaft. The guide wire directs the shaft to a target site at which the prosthesis is to be deployed. In practice, an operator managing the inner catheter controls the prosthesis positioning. The delivery devices disclosed herein are configured to ergonomically also allow the operator to control the position of the guide wire as the position of the guide wire influences the deployment position of the prosthesis. In this way, a second operator for positioning the guide wire can be omitted. Embodiments of the disclosure are believed to improve positioning predictability and ease of use.
US12023242B2
Embodiments of a prosthetic heart valve are disclosed. An implantable prosthetic valve can include an annular frame having an inflow end, an outflow end and a central longitudinal axis extending from the inflow end to the outflow end. The valve can include a support layer, where a first portion of the support layer extends circumferentially around the central longitudinal axis along an outer surface of the frame and a second portion of the support layer extends circumferentially around the central longitudinal axis axially beyond the inflow end of the frame. The valve can further include a valvular structure, where at least a portion of the valvular structure is connected to the second portion of the support layer and is unsupported by the frame.
US12023240B2
A prosthetic heart valve for replacing a native valve includes a stent extending between a proximal end and a distal end and including a plurality of struts forming cells, the stent having a collapsed condition and an expanded condition. At least one runner is coupled a cell, the at least one runner being configured to transition from a first configuration to a second configuration when the stent moves from the collapsed condition to the expanded condition, the at least one runner projecting radially outwardly from the cell in the second configuration. A valve assembly is disposed within the stent, the valve assembly including a plurality of leaflets, a cuff at least partially disposed on a luminal surface of the stent, and a covering material disposed on an abluminal surface of the stent and covering the at least one runner in the second configuration.
US12023238B2
The present invention relates to a posterior chamber phakic intraocular lens (1) comprising a central optical part (2), a peripheral haptic part (3) having distal support elements (4) arranged for supporting the intraocular lens (1) on a ciliary zonule, elongated flexible footplates (5) mounted on the support elements (4), each having a distal lateral border (53) arranged for stabilizing the intraocular lens (1) into a ciliary body (98), and manipulation pockets (6) on a surface of the support elements (4), each being associated with one of the elongated flexible footplates (5).
US12023237B2
A visceral double-barreled main body stent graft and methods for its use, the stent graft comprises, a main body stent graft having distal and proximal ends, the main body stent graft's length ranges from about 100-120 mm and diameter at the proximal end ranges from about 30-45 mm, first and second lumens defined at the main body stent graft's distal end, the first lumen's diameter ranges from about 18-20 mm, the second lumen's diameter ranges from about 16-18 mm, the first and second lumens have about the same length from about 50-70 mm, the first lumen is secured to the second lumen along a shared length, and the main body stent graft defines a tubular wall that is contiguous with the first and second lumens such that any fluid entering the main body must exit through one of the first or second lumens.
US12023235B2
Excessive dilation of the annulus of a mitral valve may lead to regurgitation of blood during ventricular contraction. This regurgitation may lead to a reduction in cardiac output. Disclosed are systems and methods relating to an implant configured for reshaping a mitral valve. The implant comprises a plurality of struts with anchors for tissue engagement. The implant is compressible to a first, reduced diameter for transluminal navigation and delivery to the left atrium of a heart. The implant may then expand to a second, enlarged diameter to embed its anchors to the tissue surrounding and/or including the mitral valve. The implant may then contract to a third, intermediate diameter, pulling the tissue radially inwardly, thereby reducing the mitral valve and lessening any of the associated symptoms including mitral regurgitation.
US12023224B2
An insertion system includes a handle assembly and a nose assembly removably attached to the handle assembly and including an insertion end. The handle assembly includes a main body, a nose interface and an actuating element. The nose assembly includes a nose, a positioning rod extending from the nose to a distal end, a cutting sheath surrounding a distal end of the positioning rod and including a cutting edge, an actuation member having a proximal end coupled to the actuating element when the nose assembly is attached to the handle assembly and a distal end attached to the cutting sheath, a ventilation tube positioned distal to the distal end of the positioning rod and proximal to the insertion end. The cutting sheath retracts from around the ventilation tube and along the positioning rod when the actuating element on the handle assembly is moved.
US12023212B2
An oral hygiene system including a head with a base portion with arms extending to support a sweep and flossing filament. The system may include removeable heads with different configurations directed to different oral environments and uses.
US12023207B2
A surgical lighting system includes a central shaft, a surgical light head, an extension arm, a load balancing arm, and a yoke assembly. The extension arm is pivotably mounted to the central shaft. The load balancing arm is pivotably mounted to the extension arm. The yoke assembly supports the light head for multi-axis movement relative to the load balancing arm. The surgical light head includes a plurality of light emitting elements that are arranged to emit light downward to a region of interest and an optical signal generating component configured to capture data associated with the region of interest and generate an optical signal based on the captured data. Optical fiber cables and rotatable joints transmit the optical signal associated with the captured data from the surgical light head to one or more of the yoke assembly, the load balancing arm, the extension arm, and the central shaft.
US12023202B2
The invention provides for a method of obtaining a composite 3D ultrasound image of a region of interest. The method includes obtaining preliminary ultrasound data from a region of interest of a subject and identifying an anatomical feature within the region of interest based on the preliminary ultrasound data. A first imaging position and one or more additional imaging positions are then determined based on the anatomical feature. A first 3D ultrasound image is obtained from the first imaging position and one or more additional 3D ultrasound images are obtained from the one or more additional imaging positions, wherein a portion of the first 3D ultrasound image overlaps a portion of the one or more additional 3D ultrasound images, thereby forming an overlapping portion comprising the anatomical feature. Spatial registration is performed between the first 3D ultrasound image and the one or more additional 3D ultrasound images based on the anatomical feature the 3D ultrasound images are then blended based on the spatial registration, thereby generating a composite 3D ultrasound image.
US12023190B2
The disclosure herein relates to systems, methods, and devices for medical image analysis, diagnosis, risk stratification, decision making and/or disease tracking. In some embodiments, the systems, devices, and methods described herein are configured to analyze non-invasive medical images of a subject to automatically and/or dynamically identify one or more features, such as plaque and vessels, and/or derive one or more quantified plaque parameters, such as radiodensity, radiodensity composition, volume, radiodensity heterogeneity, geometry, location, and/or the like. In some embodiments, the systems, devices, and methods described herein are further configured to generate one or more assessments of plaque-based diseases from raw medical images using one or more of the identified features and/or quantified parameters.
US12023183B2
A radiography system includes a correction marker that is used to obtain a marker image included in at least one of a plurality of projection images obtained by tomosynthesis imaging, is provided in an irradiation path of radiation in a radiation emitting unit, and is disposed at the position where the marker image is included in a region other than a reconstructed region in the projection image, the reconstructed region being a region used in a case in which the tomographic image is reconstructed from the plurality of projection images among the regions included in the plurality of projection images.
US12023179B2
Systems and methods for monitoring patients with a chronic disease are described. A patient management system may sense physiological signals from a patient using one or more implantable or other ambulatory sensors, and generate from the physiological signals a chronobiological rhythm indicator (CRI) such as indicating a circadian rhythm. A reference CRI associated with a prior hospital admission event of the patient may be provided to the patient management system, which compares the CRI to the reference CRI and generates a readmission risk score indicating the patient's risk of subsequent hospital readmission due to a worsened condition of the chronic disease. The readmission risk score may be provided to a user or a process, or used to initiate or adjust a therapy delivered to the patient.
US12023177B2
A system for imaging a portion of a body can include a mount configured to hold an imaging device carrier. The mount can include a plurality of discreet positions configured to hold the imaging device carrier, for example.
US12023174B2
In an example, a method of detecting cyanide exposure of an individual includes: measuring a thiocyanate level of the individual which includes placing saliva of the individual in contact with a chemical indicator to measure the thiocyanate level and measuring thiocyanate (SCN−) catalyzed by enzyme rhodanese of the individual; comparing the measured thiocyanate level to a preset thiocyanate threshold to determine whether the measured thiocyanate level is above the preset thiocyanate threshold indicating a level of cyanide poisoning for which a medical procedure is recommended to manage health effects of the exposure; and performing the medical procedure if the measured thiocyanate level is above the preset thiocyanate threshold and not performing the medical procedure if the measured thiocyanate level is not above the preset thiocyanate threshold.
US12023173B2
A method is described for making determinations on or classifying the pain of an estimation subject on the basis of the brainwaves of the estimation subject. This method includes: (a) stimulating the estimation subject at a plurality of levels of stimulation intensity; (b) acquiring brainwave data for the estimation subject; (c) extracting a brainwave feature quantity from the brainwave data or the analysis data; (d) for plugging the feature quantity into a Sparse model analysis, making the feature quantity approach a quantitative level and/or a qualitative level for pain, and estimating or making a determination on a pain level. Another method is described including comparing of brainwave data or analysis data from the 2,000 msec following the earliest of an induced brainwave component, an initial-event-related voltage component, and 250 msec after a target stimulus has been applied.
US12023170B2
This invention discloses a sensor for measuring parameters of sweat from a skin, comprising a flexible structure comprising a fluid passage having inlet and outlet, the flexible structure being detachably attached to the skin and configured such that sweat enters the inlet as the sweat releases from the skin and flows through the fluid passage into the outlet; a thermal actuator disposed on the flexible structure over the fluid passage and configured to operably provide heat to flow of the sweat through the fluid passage; a first thermistor disposed on the flexible structure over the fluid passage between the inlet and the thermal actuator and configured to operably measure a first temperature of the sweat thereon; and a second thermistor disposed on the flexible structure over the fluid passage between the thermal actuator and the outlet and configured to operably measure a second temperature of the sweat thereon.
US12023164B2
A headpiece, acquisition device, system and method for making electroencephalography (EEG) measurements. The EEG headpiece fits, or adjusts to fit, on a person's scalp, each of a plurality of electrodes is located in the headpiece corresponding to selected respective positions on the scalp, the electrodes are electrically connected to at least one electrical transmitter, and the headpiece is attached to the scalp after the electrodes have been located in the headpiece.
US12023159B2
A blood collection device may include a syringe with hemolysis protection. The syringe with hemolysis protection may be coupled to a catheter assembly and used for blood draw. The blood collection device may include the syringe, which may include a distal end, and a flow restrictor. The flow restrictor may include a distal end and a proximal end. The proximal end of the flow restrictor may be coupled to the distal end of the syringe, which may protect against hemolysis.
US12023157B2
A whole blood filtration device is provided with a filter membrane separating a feeding volume and a clean side of the filter membrane from each other. The feeding volume communicates with a first feeding side opening and with a second feeding side opening. The filter membrane has pores with a pore size that ensures permeability of the filter membrane to blood plasma/serum and that retains blood cells. The first feeding side opening can be coupled to a first blood pump for feeding blood from the first feeding side opening into the feeding volume so that blood plasma/serum permeates the filter membrane and blood cells, retained by the filter membrane, exit from the feeding volume through the second feeding side opening.
US12023150B2
An implantable micro-biosensor includes at least one counter electrode, a first working electrode, a chemical reagent layer, and at least one second working electrode. The chemical reagent layer reacts with an analyte to product a product, such that a first sensing section of the first working electrode is driven to perform a measurement action. A second sensing section of the second working electrode is driven to perform an interference-eliminating action to consume interference. The second working electrode cooperates with the counter electrode to permit the counter electrode to be driven to perform a regeneration action to regenerate silver halide.
US12023148B2
In a system and method for monitoring movement, a movement monitoring device is configured to engage with a rotating belt of a treadmill. The movement monitoring device includes a rotational tracking device to measure rotational motion of the belt and send the rotational motion measurement to a computing device, and a vertical tracking device to measure vertical motion of the belt and to send a vertical motion measurement to the computing device. The system further includes a computing device for receiving the rotational motion measurement and the vertical motion measurement and to generate a Symmetry Index for the user on the rotating belt of the treadmill, the Symmetry Index being a comparison of more than one measure of symmetry for a first leg and a second leg of the user derived from the rotational motion measurement and the vertical motion measurement.
US12023147B2
Techniques to detect a non-alert state of a user may include receiving sensor data from an ear-worn electronic device disposed at least partially in the ear of a user, determining an alertness state of the user based on the sensor data, and providing alert data in response to the alertness state comprising a non-alert state to a user stimulation interface of the ear-worn electronic device or to an external device.
US12023146B2
Determining lung capacity of includes capturing an audio waveform of the user performing an utterance presented to a user. A video of the user performing the utterance can be captured. The captured audio waveform and the video are analyzed for compliance. Based on the audio waveform, an indicator of respiratory function is determined. The indicator is compared with a reference indicator to determine health of the user. A machine learning model such as neural network can be trained to predict the indicator of the respiratory function based on input features comprising audio spectral and temporal characteristics of utterances. Determining the indicator or respiratory function can include running the trained machine learning model.
US12023145B2
Systems and methods for estimating a ventilatory threshold for a patient and estimating likelihood of pulmonary arterial hypertension are provided. An example method includes determining ratios of minute ventilation to rate of oxygen uptake based on breath-by-breath data for a patient. The example method also includes determining a ventilatory threshold based upon the determined ratios and determining a score based upon an end-tidal partial pressure of carbon dioxide (PetCO2) value at the determined ventilatory threshold and a minute ventilation/carbon dioxide production relationship (VE/VCO2) value at the determined ventilatory threshold. The method also includes using the score to estimate a likelihood that the patient has pulmonary arterial hypertension and causing the estimated likelihood to be displayed on a user interface.
US12023136B2
A method, including: receiving observation data from one or more data-capturing devices, the observation data representing a presence of an individual; processing the observation data to generate identity data representing the identity of the individual, and to detect at least one physiological characteristic or behavioural characteristic of the individual; retrieving behavioural profile data of the individual based on the identity data; and comparing the detected characteristic to at least one expected characteristic represented by the behavioural profile data of the individual to identify an abnormality of the individual.
US12023132B2
Apparatuses and methods for monitoring vital signs. Movement data for a selected body location of a person in a vehicle is generated using a movement sensor positioned remotely with respect to the person. Input data is formed for a machine learning system using the movement data. The input data is processed using the machine learning system to remove noise from the input data and generate a target output that identifies a vital sign of the person.
US12023129B2
This optical measurement system 100 is provided with a plurality of optical measurement units 1 and a control device 2 that controls the optical measurement unit. The control device includes a communication unit 24 that obtains specific state information 30 on whether or not the optical measurement unit is in a measurable state by communication for each of a plurality of optical measurement units, a display unit 25 that collectively displays the obtained state information for each of the plurality of optical measurement units, and a control unit 21 that controls a plurality of optical measurement units so that a simultaneous measurement is performed.
US12023128B2
A system and method for eye tracking includes receiving an input image including at least a portion of a person's retina, finding a spatial transformation between the input image and a reference image, the reference image including at least a portion of the person's retina and calculating a change in orientation of an eye of the person corresponding to the spatial transformation. A processor may calculate, from the change in orientation an orientation of the person's eye associated with the input image, a direction of gaze associated with the input image, a gaze target associated with the input image and/or a ray of gaze associated with the input image.
US12023118B2
A connector system is provided to connect a carriage that includes a rotatable drive member to a surgical instrument that includes a driven member, comprising. a mechanical interface that includes a drive transmission member configured to receive a rotational drive force provided by the drive member at the internal surface region and to provide a corresponding rotational drive force to the driven member at the external surface region; and a support to mount an end portion of an optical fiber to the mechanical interface with a center axis of the first end portion aligned with an axis of rotation of the drive transmission member.
US12023105B2
A neuro-navigation accessory system includes components programmed to work with existing neural navigational software. The components include trackers or motion sensors, modified surgical instruments with motion sensors incorporated into the instruments, CT/MRI opaque fiducial(s), surgical head clamps(s), ready-to-use, surgery specific kits, magnetic-field calibration apparatus for magnetic navigation, and internal reference arrays.
US12023104B2
A method for generating intraoperative surgical guidance during a knee arthroplasty includes: preceding resection of a first bone and a second bone in a knee of a patient, generating a first ligament tension curve for a first ligament in the knee; generating a second ligament tension curve for a second ligament in the knee; storing a first target tension curve for the first ligament based on the first ligament tension curve; and, succeeding resection of the first bone and succeeding placement of a first test implant on the first bone, generating a third ligament tension curve for the first ligament; characterizing a first phase difference between the third ligament tension curve and the first target tension curve; and in response to the first phase difference exceeding a threshold negative phase difference, outputting a first prompt to a surgeon to further resect the first bone proportional to the first phase difference.
US12023101B2
A joint prosthesis and/or trial implant alignment system (10) for intraoperatively assisting an alignment of a joint prosthesis and/or trial implant (12) during a surgical procedure is disclosed. The system comprises patient-specific pre-operative data (14) forming a three-dimensional image (14) containing bone structure (32) and a predetermined alignment of the joint prosthesis and/or trial implant (12) thereon. A patient imaging device (16) is for producing patient-specific intraoperative data 18 which forms a two-dimensional image 18 showing bone structure (32) and a real-time position of the joint prosthesis and/or trial implant (12) thereon. Registration means (20) registers the intraoperative data 18 with the pre-operative data (14) based on geometry of said bone structure and/or geometry of said joint prosthesis and/or trial implant (12). A display device (22) for displaying an output of the registration means (20), thereby enabling a visual indication of the said real-time alignment of the joint prosthesis and/or trial implant (12) relative to the said predetermined alignment.
US12023100B2
An eye imaging device including a housing with an opening that can be in contact with a head of an observer, a first photographic optical system arranged in the housing and configured to image a left eyeball of the observer from a side, a second photographic optical system arranged in the housing opposite to the first photographic optical system and configured to image a right eyeball of the observer from a side, a third photographic optical system arranged slidable in the housing in a direction in which the first photographic optical system and the second photographic optical system face each other and configured to image the left eyeball and the right eyeball of the observer from a front, and a storage unit configured to store images captured by the first photographic optical system, the second photographic optical system, and the third photographic optical system is provided.
US12023093B2
A novel microwave ablation applicator includes a flexible tubular shaft and a partially encapsulated antenna. The applicator is adapted to be used with an endoscope in order to access remote targets deep within an organ of a patient. Microwave power is emitted from the antenna in a desired radiation pattern by circulating an attenuating liquid through the shaft and across a portion of the antenna. Microwave ablation systems and methods are described.
US12023091B2
Devices and methods for tissue lesion assessment and/or creation based on dielectric properties are disclosed. In some embodiments, one or more probing frequencies are delivered via electrodes including an electrode in proximity to a tissue (for example, myocardial tissue). Measured dielectric properties (such as impedance properties), optionally together with other known and/or estimated tissue characteristics, are used to determine the lesion state of the tissue. In some embodiments, a developing lesion state is monitored during treatment formation of a lesion (for example, ablation of heart tissue to alter electrical transmission characteristics).
US12023090B2
A medical device includes an elongated sleeve having a longitudinal axis, a proximal end and a distal end. A cutting member having a plurality of sharp edges is formed from a wear-resistant ceramic material is carried at the distal end of the elongated sleeve. A motor drive is coupled to the proximal end of the elongated sleeve to rotate the sleeve at cutting member at high RPMs to cut bone and other hard tissue. An electrode is carried in a distal portion of ceramic cutting member for RF ablation of tissue when the sleeve and cutting member are is a stationary position. In methods of use, (i) the ceramic member can be engaged against bone and then rotated at high speed to cut bone tissue, and (ii) the ceramic member can be held in a stationary (non-rotating) position to engage tissue and RF energy can be delivered to the electrode to create a plasma that ablates tissue.
US12023085B2
Surgical systems include an ultrasonic device, a generator coupled to the ultrasonic device, and a return pad. The generator is configured to control supply of the ultrasonic energy to the ultrasonic device and control supply of an energy pulse to the ultrasonic device at different times. The ultrasonic device generates a current pulse signal in response to the energy pulse. The generator also measures a current feedback signal at the return pad, the current feedback signal resulting from the current pulse signal, and estimate a tissue property of tissue grasped by the ultrasonic device based on the current feedback signal.
US12023083B2
An electrosurgical system for generating high-frequency alternating current for an ablation of body tissue, containing a high-frequency voltage supply unit which is or is to be electrically connected to a first and second electrode, and which is configured to supply the electrodes with a high-frequency alternating voltage. The electrosurgical system further includes a feedback unit which is electrically connected to the first and second electrodes and which is configured to generate and transmit an output signal dependent on the electrical resistance between the first and second electrodes. The electrosurgical system also includes a control unit that is configured to control the high-frequency voltage supply unit in such a way as to be able to automatically switch between at least one first and one second operating mode.
US12023080B1
A bone screw may be insertable into a bone. The bone screw may have a distal member with bone-engaging threads, a proximal member configured to slidably engage the distal member, and a tension member with a proximal end coupled to the proximal member, and a distal end coupled to the distal member such that, in response to motion of the distal member away from the proximal member, the tension member elongates and urges the distal member to move toward the proximal member.
US12023072B2
The invention relates to an anterior cervical plate, a lifter and an internal fixation system for use in ACAF. Fusion windows are formed at a head end and a tail end of the anterior cervical plate, wherein each of the fusion windows has a width of more than 8 mm, and a height of more than 10 mm. At least one elongated lifting groove is provided at a central longitudinal axis. It further comprises an auxiliary plate which covers a front side of the plate body when in use. The lifter comprises a lifting nail and a screwdriver. The lifting nail has a first travel control body and a second travel control body. The screwdriver is provided with a screwdriver sleeve head sleeved outside of the second travel control body and making the screwdriver to rotate with it. The internal fixation system comprises the anterior cervical plate and the lifter.
US12023067B2
A surgical access device assembly includes a cannula hub and a cannula tube. The cannula tube extends distally from the cannula hub along a longitudinal axis. The cannula tube defines a working channel. The cannula tube includes a tissue engagement feature and a balancing feature. The balancing feature is configured to promote lateral stability of the cannula tube and the cannula hub relative to the body cavity wall of the patient. The balancing feature includes a proximal portion of the cannula tube having a first wall thickness. The balancing feature also includes a distal portion of the cannula tube having a second wall thickness that is greater than the first wall thickness. At least a portion of the proximal portion is proximal relative to the tissue engagement feature. At least a portion of the distal portion is distal relative to the tissue engagement feature.
US12023049B2
Methods and devices for consistently and accurately controlling the depth of the graft tunnel. A sheath is inserted into the bone until a stop member on the sheath contacts the bone. A cutting member is then deployed to drill a larger bore in the tunnel until making contact with the distal end of the sheath. The cutting member may be drawn retrograde within the tunnel, or driven antegrade from an opening opposite the opening in which the sheath resides. The drill and the sheath can then be removed, leaving the tunnel that includes a tunnel portion sized to fit a graft so that the graft fits tightly within the tunnel portion and is flush with the opening of the tunnel.
US12023043B2
Exemplary microfracture pick systems may include a microfracture pick, a strike plate, and a punch extension. The strike plate may be secured to a handle of the microfracture pick, and the punch extension is connectable to the strike plate. The punch extension is configured to apply an “off-axis” impact force to the microfracture pick. The “off-axis” impact force is generally aligned with an axis of a strike tip of the microfracture pick, thereby substantially preventing the strike tip from skiving across a bone surface during surgical uses.
US12023038B2
A device for treating tissue includes a capsule defining a channel extending therethrough and clip arms. Each of the arms includes a proximal part releasably coupled to a distal part, a proximal portion of the distal part configured to be received within the channel of the capsule so that the arms move proximally and distally relative to the capsule between a tissue receiving configuration, in which distal ends of the arms are separated from one another, and a tissue clipping configuration, in which distal ends of the arms are moved toward one another. The proximal portion of each of the arms is configured to release from the corresponding distal part to lock the distal part of each of the arms over a portion of target tissue to be clipped while the proximal parts of the arms are removed from the body.
US12023032B2
A method is used to manufacture an anvil of a surgical circular stapler. The anvil includes a head and a shank extending proximally from the head. The method includes forming the head of a surgical circular stapler using a metal injection molding process. The method also includes forming an annular array of staple forming pockets in the head. The method also includes machining the shank of the surgical circular stapler. The method also includes coupling together the head and the shank of the surgical circular stapler that were separately manufactured.
US12023030B2
Devices and methods for reconnecting or supporting torn, damaged or weak tissue are disclosed. The disclosed embodiments can be used on long slender tissue such as ligaments, tendons, nerves, vessels, intestines, muscles, bones, appendages and any other elongate tissue within the body, of both humans and other animals. The devices can wrap around elongate tissue and is capable of supporting the tissue or keeping two severed ends in close proximity to one another. The devices can be used in addition to or in lieu of sutures. The devices can function similar to a Chinese Finger Trap and are capable of decreasing in diameter upon extension, thus constricting upon the tissue. The multiple coils of the devices can make sufficient surface contact on the ligament or tendon, using friction to keep the device in place, while also allowing access for diffusion of oxygen and nutrients.
US12023026B2
A staple cartridge configured to defeat a staple firing lockout is disclosed. Also disclosed is a staple cartridge configured to defeat a jaw closure lockout.
US12023023B2
A surgical instrument for use by an operator in a surgical procedure includes an elongate shaft, an end effector extending from the elongate shaft, and a control system. The end effector is articulatable relative to the elongate shaft between a home state position and an articulated position. The control system includes a processor and a memory coupled to the processor to store program instructions. The processor can alert the operator when the end effector reaches the home state position from the articulated position.
US12023014B2
A ratcheting handle for a medical instrument is provided that includes a ratchet shifter, a tool connector, a ratchet coupler, and a rear power housing. The handle provides clockwise and counterclockwise ratcheting. In one aspect, the ratcheting handle may include a drive shaft removeably connected to a power tool or, alternatively, to a handle grip for manual manipulation.
US12023011B2
A device is configured to provide a large visible area and work area in the body of a patient for access to the interior of a body. The device has at least one outer part having an outer tube. An inner tube passes into the outer tube through this outer tube having at an outer tube distal end an expanding part which is expandable beyond the outer diameter of the outer tube.
US12023004B2
An attachment for an imaging device may include a first sheath including a proximal end, a distal end, and a lumen extending between the proximal end and the distal end; a second sheath positioned around an exterior of the first sheath; and a connector coupled to the first sheath and configured to be coupled to the imaging device.
US12022984B2
The present disclosure relates to an autonomous cleaning robot. The autonomous cleaning robot may include a main body (1), a cleaning assembly, a cleaning cloth and an obstacle-assisting wheel. The cleaning assembly is mounted on the main body (1). The cleaning assembly may include a first cleaning subassembly (2) removable and provided on the main body (1). The cleaning cloth is removable and provided on the first cleaning subassembly. The obstacle-assisting wheel is rotatably mounted on the cleaning assembly and protruding from the cleaning cloth.
US12022980B2
A blender with a display panel is provided to effectuate presentations of visual content. Exemplary implementations may: receive a first type of user input through the control interface; make detections regarding the user input received through the control interface; effectuate presentation of visual content on the display panel, responsive to a first detection of the first type of detections; and/or perform other operations.
US12022976B2
A gyratable grilling device allows attached food to be rotated about two different axes and the height between attached food and a heat source to be adjusted for desired cooking results. The gyratable grilling device includes an extension arm, a support lever, a support sleeve, a plurality of food-attaching assemblies, an anchoring fulcrum, and a locking mechanism. The extension arm, through connection to the support lever, allows attached food to be rotated about one axis. The support lever, through connection to the support sleeve and the anchoring fulcrum, allows attached food to be rotated about another axis. The plurality of food-attaching assemblies allows food to be attached to the extension arm. The anchoring fulcrum allows the gyratable grilling device to be mounted to a structure. The locking mechanism holds the support sleeve at a specific angle to achieve a desired height between the attached food and the heat source.
US12022965B2
An illuminable display assembly including (a) a housing having a base securable to a support surface, a platform detachably mounted to the base, and a generally enclosed interior bounded from above by the platform. The platform includes a plurality of illuminable windows spaced apart from each other therealong. The display assembly further includes (b) a plurality of retractable tethers mounted to the platform in the interior of the housing. The tethers fasten corresponding display containers to the platform and urge the display containers to predetermined positions adjacent corresponding windows. The display assembly further includes (c) a lighting system including one or more interior light sources in the interior of the housing for illuminating the windows and display containers from below.
US12022958B2
A folding chair frame structure includes left and right supporting frame units, front and rear connecting frame units, and a pair of armrest supporting rods. A top of each armrest supporting rod has a spherical head. Each armrest supporting rod has an engaging groove below the spherical head. A pair of armrest rods is pivotally connected to respective rear parts of the left and right supporting frame units. A front end of each armrest rod has a joint. A lower end of the joint has an accommodating chamber. A side wall of the accommodating chamber has at least one receiving opening. An engaging plate is detachably inserted in the receiving opening. The engaging plate has a through hole. When the spherical head is inserted in the accommodating chamber and passes through the through hole, the engaging plate is engaged with the engaging groove.
US12022933B2
A makeup system includes a first carrier for holding a first palette of makeup and a second carrier for holding a second palette of makeup. The first carrier is joined with the second carrier and joined in a manner to allow the two carriers to be folded together. The system further includes a third carrier joined with the first carrier or the second carrier. The third carrier includes a support for supporting a sheet, which sheet can include a guide on how to apply the makeup that is included in the first and/or second palettes.
US12022932B2
A refill for a container device for cosmetic product that includes a vessel configured to contain such a product, the vessel including a lateral wall. The lateral wall of the vessel has, over at least part of its outside surface, a member made of elastomer material connected to the vessel and which is at least partly in relief in relation to the outside surface of the lateral wall of the vessel. The refill thus formed is able to be held in a casing of suitable shape, by virtue of the members in relief of elastomer material formed on the outside wall of the vessel. The invention also relates to a casing for a cosmetic product container device including a casing and such a refill.
US12022931B2
A mechanism for a container for applying a cosmetic product is designed to cause the cosmetic product to exit by at least one rotational movement. The mechanism includes at least one plastic sheath and one plastic casing external to the sheath, the plastic material of the sheath and the plastic material of the casing are selected from polypropylene and/or polyethylene terephthalate.
US12022925B2
A sandwich construction, integrated multi-layered case for an electronic device is provided herein, including methods of production and protecting an electronic device.
US12022922B1
The present invention relates to the field of chain straps, in particular to an easy-to-disassemble length-adjustable chain strap, including: several middle chain links, wherein one end of each middle chain link is inserted with a connecting needle with an end exposed to the outside of the middle chain link; and one part of each pulling component is fitted into each middle chain link, and the other part of the pulling component is rotatably inserted into one edge link I correspondingly. According to the present invention, the length of the chain strap can be easily and conveniently adjusted by hand without using any tools under normal conditions. The way of adjusting the length of the chain strap is: gently pulling the edge link I outward with fingers and then rotating the same at a small angle to directly disassemble two adjacent middle chain links.
US12022913B2
The footwear includes a base having a toe portion, a heel portion opposing the toe portion, a base left and right side, and a bottom surface to engage the ground when worn by a user. The footwear additionally includes a base top surface opposing the base bottom surface, a toe box permanently coupled to the toe portion of the base at the top surface, and a counter permanently coupled to the heel portion of the base at the top surface. The footwear further includes a left and right support structure permanently coupled to the top surface of the base between the toe box and the counter on each side of the base, and a detachable left and right panel configured to detachably connect to the respective left and right support structure.
US12022911B2
An insole having, a base layer, a top layer fixedly secured to the base layer, a middle layer comprised of the base layer and the top layer positioned between the base layer and the top layer, a pressure projection extending upwardly from within the middle layer and extending past an upper surface of the upper layer, the projection including a disc fixedly secured within the middle layer, an annular ring fixedly secured atop the disc, a circular metal insert fixedly secured atop the disc within the annular ring, the circular metal insert having a horseshoe-shaped aperture therein. The insole may also include projections either positioned proximate an inside arch and/or positioned proximate an outside arch. The insole may also comprise a projection positioned proximate to a midfoot region.
US12022908B2
A knitted component for an article of footwear may have an overfoot portion and an underfoot portion, a first yarn, where the first yarn at least partially forms the overfoot portion and at least partially forms the underfoot portion, and a second yarn, where the second yarn at least partially forms the overfoot portion and at least partially forms the underfoot portion. The first yarn may include a first material composition with a first melting point and the second yarn may include a second material composition with a second melting point. The first melting point may be at least 20 degrees Celsius higher than the second melting point.
US12022907B2
An article of footwear includes a sole structure and an upper secured to the sole structure. The upper is configured to receive a foot of a wearer and has a peripheral region. Further, the upper includes a ribbon structure formed of a plurality of ribbon sections, and a plurality of ribbon loops extending from a peripheral region of the upper.
US12022902B2
The present invention relates to a self-customized microLED wig. More specifically, one self-customized microLED wig comprises: a base plate (100) wrapped around the circumference of a wearer's head; hair parts (200) configured on the base plate; and a transparent microLED display skin (300) configured to cover the outer surfaces of the hair parts, wherein a master part (400) and a remote slave (500) are configured inside the base plate (100) so as to control the transparent microLED display skin (300), and a smart phone (600) is configured to enable the wearer to finally and selectively control the transparent microLED display skin (300), whereby the present invention is a useful invention which enables colors of the hair parts (200) to be variously changed according to the wearer's current situation.
US12022889B2
A smoking system including a mouthpiece with a flavor releasing mechanism in its inner volume is provided. The mouthpiece includes a rigid material (e.g., glass or ceramic) that may be coupled to a smokable rod or cone. A force-applying member is located within the inner volume adjacent the flavor ball and is coupled to an elongate movable member extending out an end of the mouthpiece. Movement of the elongate movable member causes the force-applying member to apply a force to the flavor ball causing the ball to burst. Once the flavor ball bursts, the ball releases its flavoring substance into smoke passing through the mouthpiece to enhance the smoking experience.
US12022882B2
Disclosed is an electronic cigarette with automatic preheating in anticipation of a smoking action and a control method thereof, where the electronic cigarette includes a liquid storage chamber, a battery, a vaporizing device, a control circuit, and a preheating element, the control circuit is provided with electronic components including a gravity sensor, a temperature detection unit, and a microcontroller, and is configured as: when the gravity sensor senses a certain range of a movement change of the electronic cigarette, the microcontroller predetermines that the movement change indicates a smoking action, the microcontroller determines whether to preheat according to a real-time temperature value detected by the temperature detection unit, if the smoking action is indicated and preheating is required, the preheating element is controlled to heat for a preset heating period or until a preset target temperature value is reached, the electronic cigarette enters a standby smoking state.
US12022877B2
A power supply unit for an aerosol generation device includes: a power supply configured to supply power to a heater configured to heat an aerosol source; a receptacle configured to receive power for charging the power supply from a plug connected to an external power supply; a charger configured to control charging of the power supply by power received by the receptacle; and a controller. The receptacle and the power supply are connected in parallel with the charger, and the charger is configured to supply power from the receptacle and the power supply to the controller via the charger.
US12022870B2
The vaporizer includes a tube element defining an inner volume for receiving an amount of liquid aerosol-forming substrate, a mesh in the inner volume of the tube element, and a heater outside, the heater including an electrical resistive heater, and the heater is configured to heat the mesh and the received amount of liquid aerosol-forming substrate to a temperature sufficient to volatilize at least a part of the received amount of liquid aerosol-forming substrate.
US12022867B2
Embodiments of the invention relates to an electronic cigarette, comprising a cigarette cartridge; a cigarette rod, which is connected to the cigarette cartridge and which is used to supply electricity to the cigarette cartridge; a decorative part, wherein there is at least one decorative part arranged along the periphery direction partially or fully encircling the cigarette rod. The decorative part of the electronic cigarette is arranged encircling the cigarette rod of the electronic cigarette. When the electronic cigarette slips and falls onto the ground, the decorative part will touch the ground first, providing a cushioning and shock-absorbing effect, thereby protecting the cigarette rod such that inner elements of the cigarette rod may work normally.
US12022863B2
An audio output device having a housing dimensioned and adapted so that the audio output device removably integrates with a hookah pipe, through a waterproof seal. The housing slidably receives an interconnector that connects the ashtray portion to the base portion of the hookah pipe. The audio output device may be wirelessly controlled by way of a smart device to create a user-desired audio ambiance while the user simultaneously experiences the joys of the hookah pipe.
US12022858B2
The invention provides a heat-not-burn cigarette product. The heat-not-burn cigarette product of the invention includes a cigarette product and a heater in matched use with the cigarette product. A sucking resistance when the cigarette product and the heater in matched use with the cigarette product are used together is P1, and a sucking resistance of the cigarette product is P2, wherein a ratio of P2/P1 is greater than or equal to 50%.
US12022854B2
Cooking apparatus, cooking apparatus controlling system, and method of controlling cooking apparatus
A cooking apparatus, a cooking apparatus controlling system, and a method of controlling a cooking apparatus are provided. The cooking apparatus controlling system includes a first cooking apparatus having a user interface configured to receive a user command from a user and a second cooking apparatus separated from the first cooking apparatus and configured to receive the user command input to the first cooking apparatus and operate according to the user command. The user interface receives one or more of a user command related to the first cooking apparatus and a user command related to the second cooking apparatus. The first cooking apparatus includes a first communicator. The second cooking apparatus includes a second communicator configured to communicate with the first communicator.
US12022848B2
Pennycress seed, seed lots, and seed meal having reduced fiber content and improved suitability for use in producing animal feed are provided.
US12022846B2
A mixing device suitable to mix substances or liquid or semi-liquid compounds to increase the volume thereof, including a hub which develops along a central axis and three mixing spokes connected to the hub, wherein each of the spokes comprises an external lateral fin and two upper and lower connection segments, which connect respective upper and lower ends of the lateral fin to the hub.
US12022841B2
[Problem] To provide: a film which is for aging meat and which is relatively easy to treat and allows meat to be aged more safely and effectively; and a film which is for preserving meat and can effectively suppress the deterioration of color or the like of fresh meat. [Solution] The present invention relates to a film for preserving meat, the film being characterized by: (1) including a hydrogen generating layer containing hydrogen generating particles which can generate a molecular hydrogen upon reacting with water; and (2) using the film in a state in which the hydrogen generating layer is directly contacted with the surface of the meat.
US12022840B2
A process for inhibiting foodborne pathogens and reducing foodborne disease involves contacting a living animal, a dressed carcass, or a cut of meat with an effective amount of a bacillus strain exhibiting antibacterial activity. Strains of antibacterial bacillus that are particularly effective for inhibiting Vibrio were discovered. These include Bacillus licheniformis OBT 618 and Bacillus amyloliquefaciens OBT 712.
US12022836B2
An organoleptically pleasing snack food chip that contains a low amount of carbohydrates, a good source of protein, and delivers a crunchy texture includes from about 15% to about 35% of almond flour; from about 20% to about 40% of a source of protein; from about 1% to about 5% of a starch; from about 0.1% to about 2% of a leavening agent; from about 20% to about 55% of oil; and has a moisture content between about 0.1% and about 3%. The almond flour may include a mixture of different types of almond flour. The source of protein may include one or more of one or more milk proteins, one or more plant proteins, and one or more seed proteins.
US12022835B2
The subject of present invention is a hood with a condenser for a commercial oven, particularly a combination steam-convection oven, comprising a housing, an air inlet for supplying cooling air from the outside, a fan drawing in the cooling air through the air inlet, a cooling air outlet for expelling the air drawn in by the fan, a steam condenser in the form of a heat exchanger with a coil having at least one inlet opening for supplying steam from the inside of a commercial oven to the coil and at least one outlet opening for draining the condensate coming out of the coil, characterised in that it comprises a radial fan (3) that blows cooling air radially onto the at least one coil (5) surrounding the fan (3), wherein the at least one coil (5) surrounding the fan having an external finning (6).
US12022824B2
Effective delivery of an insecticide to a growing plant can sometimes be problematic. Topical delivery of an insecticide at the post-emergence stage of growth can sometimes be ineffective. It can also be difficult to deliver an insecticide to the roots of a growing plant, such as to combat a subsurface insect infestation. Accordingly, soil blends having insecticidal activity can comprise a soil medium, a porous soil additive, and an insecticide dispersed within the soil medium. Such soil blends may be used in conjunction with cultivating a variety of plants. Methods for producing the soil blends can comprise providing a soil medium and a porous soil additive, and dispersing the porous soil additive and an insecticide within the soil medium.
US12022816B2
A horseshoe having a front end and a back end includes a base plate having a first stiffness, an intermediate layer having a second stiffness, the second stiffness being less than the first stiffness, the intermediate plate being disposed adjacent the base plate, a top plate disposed adjacent the intermediate layer and a heel wedge capable of articulating relative to the base plate.
US12022805B2
A system configured to receive video and/or images from an image capture device over a livestock path, generate feature maps from an image of the video by applying at least a first convolutional neural network, slide a window across the feature maps to obtain a plurality of anchor shapes, determine if each anchor shape contains an object to generate a plurality of regions of interest, each of the plurality of regions of interest being a non-rectangular, polygonal shape, extract feature maps from each region of interest, classify objects in each region of interest, in parallel with classification, predict segmentation masks on at least a subset of the regions of interest in a pixel-to-pixel manner, identify individual animals within the objects based on classifications and the segmentation masks, and count individual animals based on identification, and provide the count to a digital device for display, processing, and/or reporting.
US12022789B2
A wheat variety designated 6PTSW65, the plants and seeds of wheat variety 6PTSW65, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety 6PTSW65 with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety 6PTSW65 with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by backcrossing, mutagenesis or transformation of variety 6PTSW65 are disclosed. Methods for producing other wheat varieties or breeding lines derived from wheat variety 6PTSW65 and to wheat varieties or breeding lines produced by those methods are also provided.
US12022784B2
A plant pot assembly including a pot portion. At least one sidewall extends upward from a sidewall bottom section to an upper rim and a dividing that, with the bottom section, upper rim, and sidewalls defines a soil cavity and basin cavity. The dividing structure defines a drain aperture connecting the soil cavity and the basin cavity. A basin portion includes a basin floor, a basin front, a basin back, at least one basin sidewall, and an elevated portion. The at least one sidewall defines an opening in the basin cavity whereby the basin portion may be inserted into the basin cavity. In a first basin position, the fluid may flow from the soil cavity, through the drain aperture, and into the basin cavity. In a second basin position, the fluid may not flow from the soil cavity into the basin cavity.
US12022774B1
A flowering plant growing system utilizes a flowering plant growth assembly that enables the limbs of a flowering plant to be retained and supported along a bud platform to spread the growth out in a planar configuration. This type of growth arrangement may stimulate the plant to produce buds that are distributed across the bud platform and may grow up from the bud platform toward a cover. The height of the bud platform and cover may be adjustable as they are secured to vertical supports by retainers.
US12022773B2
Lawn mowers and attachments for lawn mowers are provided. An attachment includes a body including one or more sidewalls defining an internal volume configured to receive clippings from the lawn mower, wherein the body defines an opening; and a cover coupled to the body at the opening and moveable between an open position, whereby the opening is open, and a closed position, whereby the opening is closed, wherein the cover is selectively lockable in the open position, and wherein the cover is biased to the closed position by a spring.
US12022765B2
A seed dispensing system is provided with a photoelectric sensor for monitoring the dispensing of seeds from a seed dispenser comprising a discharge conveyor with conveyor flights that transport seeds through the seed dispenser. The sensor outputs a signal representative of obstructions to the flow of light in an optical path of the sensor, and a computing unit is adapted to distinguish portions of the output signal that are attributable to the passage of one or more seeds from portions of the output signal that are attributable to the passage of a conveyor flight.
US12022760B2
Systems, methods and apparatus for imaging and characterizing a soil surface and a trench in the soil surface formed by an agricultural implement. The sensors are disposed on the agricultural implement in data communication with a processor to generate the soil surface and trench images which may be displayed to the operator. In one embodiment, the sensors include one or more time of flight cameras for determining a depth of the trench and other characteristics of the surrounding soil surface and the trench, including detection of seeds, soil or other debris in the trench and moisture lines within the trench. The system may control operating parameters of the implement based on the generated images.
US12022758B2
A method for controlling an agricultural vehicle includes receiving, via a processor, a first signal from a user interface indicative of a value of at least one parameter. The method also includes determining, via the processor, a path of the agricultural vehicle toward a guidance swath based at least in part on the at least one parameter. In addition, the method includes outputting, via the processor, a second signal to a display of the user interface indicative of instructions to present a graphical representation of the path of the agricultural vehicle. Furthermore, the method includes controlling the agricultural vehicle, via the processor, based at least in part on the at least one parameter upon receiving at least a third signal from the user interface indicative of acceptance of the value of the at least one parameter.
US12029144B2
The disclosed technology generally relates to semiconductor devices, and more particularly to an encapsulation layer for a semiconductor device having a chalcogenide material, and methods of forming the same. In one aspect, a method of fabricating a semiconductor device comprises providing a substrate having an exposed surface comprising a chalcogenide material. The method additionally comprises forming a low-electronegativity (low-χ) metal oxide layer on the chalcogenide material by cyclically exposing the substrate to a low-χ metal precursor and an oxygen precursor comprising O2, wherein the low-χ metal of the metal precursor has an electronegativity of 1.6 or lower.
US12029133B2
Patterned magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) stacks are formed by performing a main etch through a plurality of MRAM layers disposed on a substrate, where the main etch includes using ion beam etching (IBE). After the main etch, gapfill dielectric material is deposited in spaces between the patterned MRAM stacks, and the gapfill dielectric material is selectively etched or otherwise formed to an etch depth that is above a depth of an underlayer. After the gapfill dielectric material is formed, at least some of the gapfill dielectric material and any electrically conductive materials deposited on sidewalls of the patterned MRAM stacks are removed by performing an IBE trim etch.
US12029129B2
Disclosed herein is an apparatus and method for fine tuning properties of a thin film. The method of forming a piezoelectric film includes (a) depositing a first piezoelectric film layer on a surface of a substrate by a first physical vapor deposition (PVD) process. The method includes (b) depositing a second piezoelectric film layer, on top of and in contact with the first piezoelectric film layer, by a second PVD process. A temperature of the substrate is (c) reduced after forming the first piezoelectric film layer and before forming the second piezoelectric film layer. The temperature is reduced by performing a process for a first period of time. Processes (a), (b) and (c) are additionally performed one or more times. Process (c) is performed for a second period of time. The second period of time is different than the first period of time.
US12029126B2
A compound containing Sn, Te and Mg, and further containing either one or both of Sb and Bi.
US12029123B2
A semiconductor structure includes an optical component and a thermal control mechanism adjacent to the optical component and configured to control a temperature of the optical component. The thermal control mechanism includes a conductive structure, a first thermoelectric member and a second thermoelectric member opposite to the first thermoelectric member. The first thermoelectric member and the second thermoelectric member are electrically connected to the conductive structure. The first thermoelectric member and the second thermoelectric member have opposite conductive types. The semiconductor structure further includes a first dielectric layer surrounding the optical component and a portion of the thermal control mechanism, wherein the conductive structure is over the first dielectric layer, and the first thermoelectric member and the second thermoelectric member are surrounded by the first dielectric layer. The semiconductor structure further includes a first via extending through the first dielectric layer and electrically connected to the conductive structure.
US12029118B2
A novel organic compound, a benzofuropyrimidine derivative or a benzothienopyrimidine derivative is provided. The organic compound has a structure in which a benzothienocarbazolyl ring, a benzofurocarbazolyl ring, an indolocarbazolyl ring, or an indenocarbazolyl ring is bonded to the 8-position of a benzofuropyrimidine ring or a benzothienopyrimidine ring directly or through an aromatic hydrocarbon ring. That is, the organic compound is represented by General Formula (G1) below.
US12029117B2
Organic electroluminescent device comprising an anode, a cathode, at least one emission layer and an organic semiconducting layer; wherein the organic semiconducting layer is arranged between the at least one emission layer and the cathode; wherein the organic semiconducting layer comprises; a) a first organic compound comprising a first C10 to C42 arene structural moiety and/or a first C2 to C42 heteroarene structural moiety, wherein i) the dipole moment of the first organic compound, computed by the TURBOMOLE V6.5 program package using hybrid functional B3LYP and Gaussian 6-31G* basis set, is from 0 to 2.5 Debye; and ii) the LUMO energy level of the first organic compound in the absolute scale taking vacuum energy level as zero, computed by the TURBOMOLE V6.5 program package using hybrid functional B3LYP and Gaussian 6-31G* basis set, is in the range from −1.7 eV to −2.1 eV; and b) a second organic compound comprising a second C10 to C42 arene structural moiety and/or a second C2 to C42 heteroarene structural moiety and in addition at least one polar group selected from phosphine oxide and phosphine sulfide, wherein in) the dipole moment of the second organic compound, computed by the TURBOMOLE V6.5 program package using hybrid functional B3LYP and Gaussian 6-31G* basis set, is from 1.5 to 10 Debye; and iv) the LUMO energy level of the second organic compound in the absolute scale taking vacuum energy level as zero is less than 0.25 eV higher or lower than the LUMO energy level of the first organic compound; wherein it is provided that the first organic compound and the second organic compound are different from each other.
US12029114B2
A light-emitting element containing a light-emitting material and having high light emission efficiency is provided. The light-emitting element includes a host material and a guest material. The host material includes at least a first molecule and a second molecule having the same molecular structure. The guest material has a function of exhibiting fluorescence or converting triplet excitation energy into light emission. The first molecule and the second molecule each include a first skeleton, a second skeleton, and a third skeleton, and the first skeleton and the second skeleton are bonded to each other through the third skeleton. The first skeleton includes at least one of a π-electron rich heteroaromatic skeleton and an aromatic amine skeleton and the second skeleton includes a π-electron deficient heteroaromatic skeleton. The first molecule and the second molecule have a function of forming an excited complex.
US12029111B2
The present disclosure provides an oxygen heterocyclic compound, an application thereof, and an electronic device using the same. The oxygen heterocyclic compound has a structural formula as represented by following formula 1: The oxygen heterocyclic compound comprises an aromatic amine portion and an oxygen heterocyclic portion. The aromatic amine portion effectively promotes the hole injection and transport performance. The oxygen heterocyclic portion is conducive to the formation of molten evaporation materials.
US12029105B2
The embodiments of the disclosure disclose a flexible display apparatus. The flexible display apparatus includes a flexible substrate, a display device and a flexible encapsulation layer. The flexible substrate includes a first organic layer, an inorganic buffer layer, and a second organic layer, the inorganic buffer layer is between the first organic layer and the second organic layer, and the first organic layer includes inorganic nano-particles; the display device is located between the flexible substrate and the flexible encapsulation layer; the flexible encapsulation layer is configured to encapsulate the display device.
US12029103B2
A flexible display apparatus is provided. The flexible display apparatus includes a unitary flexible display panel having a display area, a peripheral area, and a bendable area connecting the display area and the peripheral area, wherein the bendable area includes one or more wire-free portions configured to absorb impact applied on the bendable area; a support sandwiched between the display area and the peripheral area, wherein the support has a first side, a second side facing the first side, and a third side connecting the first side and the second side, the display area is on the first side, the peripheral area is on the second side, and the unitary flexible display panel is bend about the third side; and a driving circuit in the peripheral area and connecting to a plurality of signal lines extending through the bendable area into the display area.
US12029096B2
A display device includes a substrate including an active area including a plurality of pixels, and a non-active area; a plurality of light emitting elements in the active area on the substrate; an emission driver and a plurality of emission clock lines in the non-active area; a connection pattern on the emission driver and the plurality of emission clock lines in the non-active area and formed of the same material as an anode; an encapsulation layer on the plurality of light emitting elements and the connection pattern; a touch sensing unit on the encapsulation layer in the active area; a low potential power line disposed more outwardly than the plurality of emission clock lines in the non-active area; and a shielding layer between the connection pattern, and the emission driver and the plurality of emission clock lines in the non-active area and electrically connected to the low potential power line.
US12029091B2
A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a main display region, a sub display region, a plurality of first pixel repeating units disposed in the main display region, and a plurality of second pixel repeating units disposed in the sub display region. A bend line boundary is firmed between the main display region and the sub display region. The bend line boundary includes a plurality of bending units. Each bending unit corresponds to at least one second pixel repeating unit, so that the pixel repeating units of the sub display region are consistent with the pixel repeating units at its edge, and a display difference is reduced.
US12029081B2
An organic light-emitting display apparatus includes: a substrate; a plurality of organic light-emitting diodes on the substrate; a spacer arranged between the plurality of organic light-emitting diodes and protruding away from an upper surface of the substrate; a conductive layer overlapping the spacer; and a contact area exposing the conductive layer on one side of the spacer, wherein a common layer of the plurality of organic light-emitting diodes and the conductive layer are connected to each other through the contact area.
US12029079B2
A display device includes a display area and a peripheral area outside the display area, and includes: a substrate; a first semiconductor layer located in the display area and arranged on the substrate; a second semiconductor layer arranged on the first semiconductor layer; a data line located in the display area and extending in a first direction; an input line located in the peripheral area; a connection line located in the display area and electrically connecting the data line and the input line to each other; and a shielding layer located in the display area and located between the first semiconductor layer and the connection line in a cross-section view. The shielding layer overlaps at least a portion of the connection line in a plan view.
US12029074B2
A display panel and a method for fabricating the same are discussed. The display panel can include a first area in which pixels are disposed, and a second area in which pixels having lower pixels per inch (PPI) than the first area are disposed and a plurality of light-transmitting portions are disposed. The light-transmitting portions include circular or elliptical light-transmitting portions arranged in a zigzag pattern along a second direction crossing a first direction in the second area. Each of the pixel groups in the second area includes a second electrode, and the second electrode is removed from the light-transmitting area to expose light-transmitting portions.
US12029070B2
Provided is an organic light emitting display device. The organic light emitting display device includes a display area including a plurality of pixels and a non-display area enclosing the display area, the organic light emitting display device comprises an organic light emitting display panel including a plastic base member, a back plate which is disposed below the organic light emitting display panel and includes a polymer material, a support substrate which is disposed below the back plate and includes a hole formed so as to correspond to a part of the display area, and a microphone module below the support substrate. The microphone module includes a diaphragm which is disposed to overlap at least a part of the hole, a core which is disposed below the diaphragm and is formed of a magnet, and a coil which encloses around the core.
US12029061B2
A flexible electronic device is provided in this disclosure. The flexible electronic device includes a base layer, an electronic unit, and a cover layer. The electronic unit is disposed on the base layer, and the cover layer is disposed on the electronic unit. The base layer has a thickness T1 and a Young's modulus E1, and the cover layer has a thickness T2 and a Young's modulus E2, wherein the thickness T1, the thickness T2, the Young's modulus E1, and the Young's modulus E2 comply with following expression: E2/E1≤156.21×(T2/T1)−4.28.
US12029060B2
A display panel includes: a driving substrate, a plurality of first electrodes, a hole transport layer, an organic light emitting layer, a second electrode layer and a color film layer. The hole transport layer includes a first portion and a second portion, the first portion is disposed between adjacent ones of the plurality of first electrodes and is located on a surface of the driving substrate; the second portion is disposed on a surface of each of the first electrodes away from the driving substrate; a minimum distance between an upper surface of the first portion away from the driving substrate and the driving substrate is smaller than an minimum distance between an upper surface of the second portion away from the driving substrate and the driving substrate.
US12029054B2
A solid-state imaging apparatus includes a pixel array part in which a plurality of pixels are two-dimensionally arranged, in which each pixel has a first photoelectric conversion region formed above a semiconductor layer, a second photoelectric conversion region formed in the semiconductor layer, a first filter configured to transmit a light in a predetermined wavelength region corresponding to a color component, and a second filter having different transmission characteristics from the first filter, one photoelectric conversion region out of the first photoelectric conversion region and the second photoelectric conversion region photoelectrically converts a light in a visible light region, the other photoelectric conversion region photoelectrically converts a light in an infrared region, the first filter is formed above the first photoelectric conversion region, and the second filter has transmission characteristics of making wavelengths of lights in an infrared region absorbed in the other photoelectric conversion region formed below the first filter the same.
US12029049B2
A memory device includes a substrate, an electrical channel layer, a first electrode, a resistive switching layer, a second electrode, and a conductive structure. The electrical channel layer is disposed on the substrate. The first electrode is disposed on the substrate and extends into the electrical channel layer. The resistive switching layer is disposed between the first electrode and the electrical channel layer. The second electrode is disposed on the electrical channel layer. The conductive structure connects the electrical channel layer and the second electrode.
US12029048B2
A resistive memory device includes: memory cells overlapping one another in a vertical direction within a cell array region and each including a switching element and a variable resistive element; first conductive lines each being connected to the switching element; a second conductive line connected to the variable resistive element and conductive pads arranged in a connection region and connected to respective one ends of the first conductive lines, respectively, and having different lengths in the second horizontal direction. A lower conductive pad from among the conductive pads includes a first portion covered by an upper conductive pad, and a second portion not covered by the upper conductive pad, and a thickness of each of the first and second portions in the vertical direction is greater than a thickness of each of the first conductive lines in the vertical direction.
US12029047B2
The present application relates to a semiconductor structure and its forming method. The semiconductor structure comprises a substrate; a first transistor, including a first channel region disposed within the substrate, and a first end disposed at surface of the substrate, the first end being adapted to connect with a first-type storage cell; and a second transistor, including a second channel region disposed within the substrate, and a second end disposed at surface of the substrate, the second end being adapted to connect with a second-type storage cell, the first channel region and the second channel region having different areas.
US12029045B2
Embodiments of the present invention include multiple independent terminals for a plurality of devices in a stack configuration within a semiconductor. In one embodiment, a semiconductor comprises: a first device at a first semiconductor level within a multi terminal device stack; wherein the first device is coupled to a first terminal; a second device at a second semiconductor level within the multi terminal device stack, wherein the second device is coupled to a second terminal; a third terminal is coupled to the second device and a fourth terminal is coupled to the first device, wherein the first terminal and second terminal are independently coupled to the first device and second device respectively. The first terminal, the second terminal, the third terminal and the fourth terminal couple components included in the multi terminal stack to components not included in the multi terminal stack.
US12029041B2
A semiconductor device and method of fabricating the same are disclosed. The method includes depositing a polysilicon gate layer over a gate dielectric formed over a surface of a substrate in a peripheral region, forming a dielectric layer over the polysilicon gate layer and depositing a height-enhancing (HE) film over the dielectric layer. The HE film, the dielectric layer, the polysilicon gate layer and the gate dielectric are then patterned for a high-voltage Field Effect Transistor (HVFET) gate to be formed in the peripheral region. A high energy implant is performed to form at least one lightly doped region in a source or drain region in the substrate adjacent to the HVFET gate. The HE film is then removed, and a low voltage (LV) logic FET formed on the substrate in the peripheral region. In one embodiment, the LV logic FET is a high-k metal-gate logic FET.
US12029040B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a stack of word lines and insulating patterns. Cell pillars extend vertically through the stack of word lines and insulating patterns with memory cells being formed at the junctions of the cell pillars and the word lines. A ratio of the thickness of the word lines to the thickness of immediately neighboring insulating patterns is different at different locations along one or more of the cell pillars. Related methods of manufacturing and systems are also disclosed.
US12029038B2
In one aspect, a method for forming a 3D memory device is disclosed. A selective epitaxial sacrificial layer is formed above a substrate, and a dielectric stack is formed above the selective epitaxial sacrificial layer. A first opening extending vertically through the dielectric stack and the selective epitaxial sacrificial layer is formed. A portion of the first opening extending vertically through the selective epitaxial sacrificial layer is enlarged. A memory film and a semiconductor channel are subsequently formed in this order along sidewalls and a bottom surface of the first opening. The selective epitaxial sacrificial layer is removed to form a cavity exposing a portion of the memory film. The portion of the memory film exposed in the cavity is removed to expose a portion of the semiconductor channel. A selective epitaxial layer is epitaxially grown from the substrate to fill the cavity and be in contact with the portion of the semiconductor channel.
US12029024B2
A semiconductor memory device includes an active pattern on a substrate, the active pattern including a source/drain pattern in an upper portion thereof, a gate electrode on the active pattern and extended in a first direction, the gate electrode and the source/drain pattern adjacent to each other in a second direction that crosses the first direction, and a shared contact coupled to the source/drain pattern and the gate electrode to electrically connect the source/drain pattern and the gate electrode. The shared contact includes active and gate contacts, which are electrically connected to the source/drain pattern and the gate electrode, respectively. The gate contact includes a body portion coupled to the gate electrode and a protruding portion, which protrudes from the body portion in the second direction and extends into and buried in the active contact.
US12029018B2
The present invention is directed at electromagnetic shielding that is particularly suitable for applications in electric vehicles. The electromagnetic shielding is relatively lightweight and can be integrated into a carpet or textile type construction.
US12029013B2
A cooling plate for cooling high power density electronics has an internal cavity and an opening for fluid exchange with the cavity. A mounting structure is positioned within the opening. A coaxial port is attached to the mounting structure, the coaxial port having a center conduit and a ring conduit surrounding the central conduit such that rotational axis of the center conduit coincides with rotational axis of the ring conduit. A single coaxial port can serve to deliver cooling liquid to the cooling plate and return warmed fluid from the cooling plate. The coaxial port center conduit connected with a fluid distribution panel. Fluid distribution is regulated by the panel before it exits the port through the ring conduit.
US12029012B2
A fluid immersion cooling system includes a fluid tank that contains a layer of a dual-phase coolant fluid and one or more layers of single-phase coolant fluids. The dual-phase and single-phase coolant fluids are immiscible, with the dual-phase coolant fluid having a lower boiling point and higher density than a single-phase coolant fluid. A substrate of an electronic system is submerged in the tank such that high heat-generating components are immersed at least in the layer of the dual-phase coolant fluid. Heat from the components is dissipated to the dual-phase coolant fluid to generate vapor bubbles of the dual-phase coolant fluid. The vapor bubbles rise to a layer of a single-phase coolant fluid that is above the layer of the dual-phase coolant fluid. The vapor bubbles condense to droplets of the dual-phase coolant fluid. The droplets fall down into the layer of the dual-phase coolant fluid.
US12029011B2
A heat dissipating device includes a power distribution assembly and two convergence delivery assemblies. The power distribution assembly includes a first cooling reservoir, a second cooling reservoir, multiple cooling pumps disposed on the first cooling reservoir, and a serial pipeline and a cooling head corresponding to each of the cooling pumps respectively. The two convergence delivery assemblies separately communicate with first cooling reservoir and the second cooling reservoir, and are separately arranged on two sides of the power distribution assembly. The serial pipeline is connected with the cooling head to communicate between the first cooling reservoir and the second cooling reservoir.
US12029010B2
A water block for cooling a heat-generating component has a body defining an internal fluid conduit for circulating fluid within the water block. The body defines a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet for feeding fluid into and discharging fluid from the internal fluid conduit respectively. The body includes: an external thermal transfer surface configured to be in contact with the heat-generating component; an opposite external surface on an opposite side of the body from the external thermal transfer surface; and at least one hollow fin extending from the opposite external surface, the at least one hollow fin defining at least one external fin passage, each of the at least one hollow fin defining an internal fin recess that forms part of the internal fluid conduit of the water block.
US12029009B1
A cooling system configured to remove heat from a chimney of a server cabinet. The cooling system including a first chimney portion adjacent to the server cabinet, a second chimney portion extending from a top of the first chimney portion, wherein the second chimney portion is disposed above the server cabinet, a chimney heat exchanger disposed in the second chimney portion and above the server cabinet, a fluid inlet for providing a working fluid to the chimney heat exchanger, a fluid outlet for discharging the working fluid from the chimney heat exchanger, and an air handler heat exchanger connected to the chimney heat exchanger by a return air plenum, wherein the chimney heat exchanger has an upstream surface that receives waste heat generated by a server disposed in the server cabinet and a downstream surface that discharges air to the return air plenum.
US12029005B2
A system including an active cooling system is described. The active cooling system includes a cooling element in communication with a fluid and configured to use vibrational motion to direct a fluid toward a surface of heat-generating structure(s). Heat is transferred from the heat-generating structure to the fluid. The system is configured such that the fluid follows a path from the surface of the heat-generating structure(s) past a structure having a lower temperature than the surface of the heat-generating structure. The structure absorbs heat from the fluid. The structure is within the system and distal from the active cooling system.
US12028997B2
An electronic assembly is provided. The electronic assembly may include an electronic module mounted to a laminate, a cooling apparatus directly above the module, a single thermal interface material positioned between and directly contacting the module and the cooling apparatus, and a rotating cover rotatably attached to a top frame secured to the laminate, wherein the rotating cover includes an open position and a closed position.
US12028994B2
A telecommunications cabinet (100) for enclosing telecommunications equipment (110) of a telecommunications network, the telecommunications cabinet comprising: an electric water pump (140); a water detector (160), wherein the water detector is configured to cause activation of the electric water pump upon detecting water; a power supply (150) for powering the electric water pump; and a fluid conduit (170), coupled to the electric water pump, extending from within the cabinet to an outside of the cabinet via an aperture (180) in the cabinet so as to convey water out of the cabinet.
US12028991B2
A printer deposits material onto a substrate as part of a manufacturing process for an electronic product; at least one transported component experiences error, which affects the deposition. This error is mitigated using transducers that equalize position of the component, e.g., to provide an “ideal” conveyance path, thereby permitting precise droplet placement notwithstanding the error. In one embodiment, an optical guide (e.g., using a laser) is used to define a desired path; sensors mounted to the component dynamically detect deviation from this path, with this deviation then being used to drive the transducers to immediately counteract the deviation. This error correction scheme can be applied to correct for more than type of transport error, for example, to correct for error in a substrate transport path, a printhead transport path and/or split-axis transport non-orthogonality.
US12028986B2
A method for mounting an electronic component on a resin base material, the method including: (1) preparing the resin base material having a wiring pattern formed of a conductive paste; (2) supplying a solder paste which contains solder particles and a thermosetting resin in a state before curing to a predetermined portion of the resin base material; (3) placing the electronic component on the solder paste; and (4) heating the resin base material to heat the solder paste to a temperature in a range from 105° C. to 130° C., inclusive to melt the solder particles, and starting a curing exothermic reaction of the thermosetting resin, wherein a melting temperature of the solder particles is in a range from 90° C. to 130° C., inclusive, and a peak temperature of the curing exothermic reaction of the thermosetting resin is in a range from 135° C. to 165° C., inclusive.
US12028976B2
The present disclosure provides a method for manufacturing a board-to-board connection structure. The method includes defining a first through hole in a first circuit board, disposing a first connector within the first through hole by a first conductive paste, and connecting the first connector to a second circuit board on which a second connector is installed, thereby realizing a connection of the two circuit boards, and reducing a height of the two circuit boards after the connection. That is, the height of the board-to-board connection structure is reduced. Additionally, since the first connector is received within the first through hole, the first connector is not easy to be damaged and oxidized. The present disclosure further provides a board-to-board connection structure manufactured by the above method.
US12028974B2
A ceramic carrier substrate for an electrical/electronic circuit. The substrate includes ceramic layers arranged one above the other in an interconnected structure and conductor tracks arranged on and/or in individual ceramic layers and connected to one another as the conductor structure for the electrical/electronic circuit. The interconnected structure is formed by a firing operation. A first conductor substructure is formed in a first interconnected structure subassembly which comprises at least one of the ceramic layers, and a second conductor substructure is formed in a second interconnected structure subassembly which is directly adjacent to the first interconnected structure subassembly and comprises at least one of the ceramic layers. The second conductor substructure substantially consists of high-current conductor tracks and is configured to contact a power circuit. The first conductor substructure substantially consists of signal conductor tracks and is configured to contact a drive circuit for the power circuit.
US12028969B2
A power module and a carrier board are disclosed. The carrier board includes a circuit board body and a prefabricated substrate. The circuit board body includes a wiring layer. The prefabricated substrate is embedded in the circuit board body and includes an insulation layer and a metal layer, the metal layer is disposed on the insulation layer. The insulation layer is formed by a ceramic material. The metal layer is connected to the insulation layer through a sintering process. A surface of the insulation layer, which has contact with the at least one metal layer, has at least a part exposed outside of the at least one metal layer, the part of the insulation layer exposed to the outside of the at least one metal layer is an outer edge portion, and the outer edge portion is extended into the circuit board body along a horizontal direction.
US12028968B2
Provided is an example of a technology capable of accurately controlling impedance. Provided is a substrate including a first through hole that penetrates a substrate from a first face to a second face of the substrate, and is electrically connected to a transmission line through which a signal is transmitted, a second through hole that is provided adjacent to the first through hole in plan view of the substrate, penetrates the substrate from the first face to the second face, and is electrically connected to a ground, and an adjustment unit that adjusts a distance between the first through hole and the second through hole in plan view of the substrate to adjust an impedance of a connection end of the first through hole with the transmission line.
US12028965B2
A circuit board, including: a substrate; a first line layer, a first protective layer, a first conductive ink layer and a first conductive layer successively formed on the substrate; and a second line layer, a second protective layer, a second conductive ink layer and a second conductive layer successively formed on a second face opposite a first face. The first protective layer includes at least one first opening for exposing a first grounding line of the first line layer; and the orthographic projection of the first conductive ink layer on the substrate covers the orthographic projection of the first opening on the substrate. The second protective layer includes at least one second opening for exposing a second grounding line of the second line layer; and the orthographic projection of the second conductive ink layer on the substrate covers the orthographic projection of the second opening on the substrate.
US12028964B2
A shielded printed wiring board includes a substrate film including a base film and printed circuits including a ground circuit formed on the base film; an electromagnetic wave shielding film including a shielding layer and an insulating layer; and a reinforcing member including a conductive adhesive layer and a metal reinforcing plate, wherein the ground circuit of the substrate film is sufficiently electrically connected to the metal reinforcing plate of the reinforcing member. The shielded printed wiring board of the present invention includes a substrate film including a base film and printed circuits including a ground circuit formed on the base film; an electromagnetic wave shielding film including a shielding layer and an insulating layer; a connecting member including a metal foil and a conductive filler fixed to the metal foil with an adhesive resin; and a reinforcing member including a conductive adhesive layer and a metal reinforcing plate, wherein the electromagnetic wave shielding film is arranged on the substrate film in such a manner that the insulating layer of the electromagnetic wave shielding film is located on the shielding layer of the electromagnetic wave shielding film, the connecting member is arranged on the electromagnetic wave shielding film in such a manner that the conductive filler of the connecting member penetrates the insulating layer of the electromagnetic wave shielding film and that the conductive filler of the connecting member is in contact with the shielding layer of the electromagnetic wave shielding film, the reinforcing member is arranged on the electromagnetic wave shielding film and the connecting member in such a manner that the conductive adhesive layer of the reinforcing member is in contact with the insulating layer of the electromagnetic wave shielding film and the metal foil of the connecting member, and the ground circuit of the substrate film is electrically connected to the metal reinforcing plate of the reinforcing member.
US12028962B2
A semiconductor component system includes a motherboard and a cooling system mounted to the motherboard. The cooling system includes sidewalls projecting from the motherboard. A sub-motherboard extends between the sidewalls and is spaced apart from the motherboard. The sidewalls and the sub-motherboard define a cooling channel over the motherboard. A connector is attached to the sub-motherboard and is configured to receive a semiconductor device daughterboard. The connector has contacts to electrically couple the semiconductor device daughterboard to the sub-motherboard.
US12028951B2
A method for modifying a brightness level of an automobile vehicle backup light includes: receiving electronic signals in a brightness evaluator and light controller defining at least one image captured within a field-of-view (FOV) of an automobile vehicle camera; dividing the at least one image into multiple independent zones; evaluating an environmental brightness level of individual ones of the multiple independent zones; comparing a brightness level of at least one backup light of the automobile vehicle to the environmental brightness level; and sending a control signal to the at least one backup light to modify the brightness level of the least one backup light.
US12028950B1
Systems and methods described herein may provide a system that enables game play or other application sessions from a set of candidate game hosts and environments to consumption devices of a user's choice while the user moves about their home between the different environments. The system may employ methods to determine where a user is located within the home, availability and selection of candidate game hosting and target environments, homing and direction of related I/O and audio-visual (AV) content for consumption. The solution accommodates multiple users simultaneously within the home, whether in single player, multiplayer using the same screen, or multiplayer using separate screen games. The solution may configure AV and input/output (I/O) such that multiple users can consume one or multiple games in the home simultaneously, whether in separate locations or when seated together in front of the same consumption device.
US12028949B2
A LED driver chip includes driver circuits, each being coupled to a different pin and including a fault-detection circuit. Each fault-detection circuit includes a force circuit forcing current to a force node, and a sense circuit including a current sensor coupled to the force node, and a comparator comparing a voltage at the force node to a reference voltage to generate a comparison output. Control circuitry, in a pin-to-pin short detection mode, activates the force circuit of a first of the driver circuits and activates the sense circuit of a second of the driver circuits, in a pin-to-ground short detection mode, activates the force and the sense circuit of the same driver circuits. The comparison output of the comparator of the activated sense circuit, if is higher or if lower of the reference voltage, indicates if short between pin or to ground, respectively, is present.
US12028947B2
An LED lighting device is disclosed. The example LED lighting device includes at least one LED circuit having at least two LEDs, where an LED of the at least two LEDs is configured to emit a different color temperature of white light than at least one other LED of the at least two LEDs. The example LED lighting device also includes a switch directly connected to the at least one LED circuit and configured to be manually switched by a user to change the color temperature of white light that is emitted from the at least one LED circuit. Switching the switch changes the color temperature of light emitted from the at least one LED circuit by dimming or increasing a brightness of the LED that is configured to emit the different color temperature of white light than the at least one other LED of the at least two LEDs.
US12028945B2
A programmable lighting system includes a plurality of color channels configured to generate light of different colors, and a light driver configured to drive the plurality of color channels according to a dimmer setting and a correlated color temperature (CCT) setting, and to maintain a constant maximum lumen output across a range of CCT values based on a dim-stop limit.
US12028944B2
The invention discloses a method for controlling a bleeder connected to a phase-cut dimmer and a circuit connected to a phase-cut dimmer. The method includes detecting an input voltage of the bleeder to obtain a detection voltage, and comparing the detection voltage and a preset reference voltage, wherein during a first time period, the detection voltage is less than the preset reference voltage, a start point of the first time period is a first moment, and an end point of the first time period is a second moment; delaying a first preset duration on the basis of the second moment to turn off the bleeder; and advancing a second preset duration on the basis of the first moment to turn on the bleeder.
US12028939B2
A closed loop carrier sense multiple access multiuser request to send and clear to send handshaking system is provided to efficiently allocate licensed and unlicensed spectrum for a plurality of mobile devices and across different base stations and mobile network operators. A user equipment device can be connected to a base station device via a first frequency in licensed spectrum, and a second frequency in unlicensed spectrum. The air interface on the first frequency can then be used to coordinate physical and virtual carrier sensing on a second frequency among a plurality of user equipment devices. Moreover, carrier sensing results from a plurality of UEs can be reported a base station device via the first frequency in licensed spectrum. The base station device can then schedule multiple user multiple input, multiple output (MU-MIMO) transmissions to a plurality of UEs on the second frequency in unlicensed spectrum.
US12028938B2
A data processing method, a communication method, a memory, a communication terminal, a communication apparatus, and a communication device are disclosed. The data processing method may include: obtaining uplink data of a communication terminal and controlling the communication terminal to turn off a communication module thereof configured to receive or transmit a first network signal which is an M-th generation mobile communication network signal (S101); and transmitting the uplink data to a communication device externally connected to the communication terminal, and transmitting downlink data received by the communication device to the communication terminal (S102), where the communication device is configured to receive or transmit a second network signal which is an N-th generation mobile communication network signal, where N>M, and N and M are both positive integers.
US12028937B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for converging IoT technology with a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transfer rate beyond a 4G system, and a system therefor. The present disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (e.g., smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart or connected cars, health care, digital education, retail business, and services associated with security and safety) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for configuring an efficient hierarchical layer 2 architecture and main functions thereof in a next-generation mobile communication system.
US12028934B2
A method and a terminal device for keeping a subscriber identity module card in a standby state, including receiving an enabling request to enable dual standby of a first subscriber identity module (SIM) card and a second SIM card in the terminal device, wherein the first SIM card is software-implemented, and wherein the second SIM card is hardware-implemented, accessing a first network for the first SIM card by invoking a third-party interface of an operating system of the terminal and using a data file associated with the first SIM card, and implementing a dual standby of the first SIM card and the second SIM card.
US12028933B1
Described herein are techniques, devices, and systems for receiving, by a mobile device and from a subscriber identity module (SIM), an input associated with an unstructured supplementary service data (USSD) code. The input can be provided by the SIM based on application data stored in the SIM. The SIM can receive the application data via an over-the-air (OTA) platform. The mobile device can transmit, to a service provider core network, a request associated with the USSD code. The mobile device can receive a subscription value based on the USSD code. The subscription value can be a mobile station international subscriber directory number (MSISDN) or an internet protocol (IP) multimedia subsystem (IMS) public user identity (IMPU).
US12028929B2
A method and an apparatus for selecting a session management network element, where a mobility management network element may obtain information about one or more first session management network elements, and support selecting a session management network element in a home routed mode or an enhanced topology mode.
US12028925B2
A User Equipment (UE) and a method performed by the UE for multi-connectivity are provided. The method includes receiving, from a Master Cell Group (MCG), a first Radio Resource Control (RRC) message comprising at least one Secondary Cell Group (SCG) Data Radio Bearer (DRB) configuration; starting a first timer upon receiving the first RRC message; and stopping the first timer when one of a plurality of conditions is satisfied, wherein the plurality of conditions include: transmitting an RRC reestablishment request message to the MCG; transmitting an SCG Failure Information message to the MCG before the first timer expires; and successfully adding an SCG based on the at least one SCG DRB configuration.
US12028924B2
A method for managing links, performed by a first communication node in a communication system, includes: obtaining, through an interface, communication status information including communication quality information for each link between the first communication node and at least one other communication node of the communication system; obtaining communication environment information including movement information and location information of each of the at least one other communication node; and obtaining a link probability computational model outputting a first link probability according to input of the communication status information by iteratively performing a machine learning operation based on the communication status information and the communication environment information, wherein the first link probability is used by the first communication node to control multi-connectivity with the at least one other communication node.
US12028919B2
Systems and methods are provided for extending coverage of a telecommunication network includes a user device and a cell site. The cell site includes a node management system communicatively coupled to the user device. The node management system is structured to receive one or more signal strengths associated with one or more target nodes, determine the one or more signal strengths are within a delta range threshold, determine one or more multi-technology thresholds associated with the one or more target nodes, determine a lowest multi-technology threshold based on the one or more multi-technology thresholds, and assign the user device to the one or more target nodes associated with the lowest multi-technology threshold determined.
US12028918B2
The present disclosure relates to example SMS processing methods in an Internet of Things, mobility management network elements, and terminal devices, to provide an SMS service for an Internet of Things terminal device. One example method includes receiving, by a mobility management network element in a packet switched (PS) domain, a non-combined registration request from a terminal device, where the non-combined registration request carries SMS only indication information. When determining that the mobility management network element in the PS domain cannot transfer an SMS for the terminal device through the PS domain, the mobility management network element in the PS domain sends a location update request to a mobility management network element in a circuit switched (CS) domain The location update request is used to implement registration of the terminal device with the CS domain.
US12028915B1
Attaching to additional access nodes and performing handovers responsive to path loss measurements and uplink transmit power levels meeting different thresholds. A wireless device attached to a first access node is experiencing one or more of a threshold path loss or a threshold uplink transmit power is instructed to enable dual connectivity, wherein the wireless device remains attached to the first access node. Embodiments include 5G EN-DC systems that are collocated or distributed.
US12028913B2
A communication apparatus is provided which operates as a base station. The communication apparatus communicates with a control apparatus for controlling a network comprised of a plurality of base stations. The communication apparatus is one of the plurality of base stations that is part of the network. The communication apparatus establishes, with another base station belonging to the network, a link to be used for communication with the other base station; and notifies, in a case where a plurality of the links is established with the another base station, the control apparatus of establishment of the link.
US12028909B2
A method of communicating between a terminal and a wireless network node comprising, at the terminal: checking validity of a timing advance; and if the timing advance is valid, causing sending of an uplink connection request within a preconfigured uplink resource.
US12028892B2
A flying device that flies by being controlled from an external location, the flying device including a determination unit that determines a communication quality on a first wireless communication channel used for transmitting data to a control device that controls the flying device within a prescribed range from a flight position at which the flying device is flying; and a transmission control unit that controls a type of data to be transmitted to the control device on the basis of the communication quality determined by the determination unit.
US12028889B2
A communication method includes: a first communication apparatus obtains first configuration information and sends the first configuration information to a second communication apparatus, where the first configuration information includes configuration information of a first sidelink radio bearer which is used to carry a first unicast service between the first communication apparatus and the second communication apparatus, and the first sidelink is a radio link between the first communication apparatus and the second communication apparatus.
US12028887B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, a user equipment (UE) may generate statistical modeling of sensing outcomes (e.g., may identify one or more measurement statistics), and may transmit values that are quantized based on the one or more measurement statistics. Measurement statistics may include one or more of mean and variance of sensing results (e.g., channel quality measurements such as signal to interference ratio (SIR)), auto-correlation of measurements or measurement statistics over time, auto-covariance, or the like. In some examples, a UE may incorporate channel measurement statistics into a waveform (e.g., the coordination report) or otherwise compress the measurements. The UE may measure its own self-interference, and may indicate (e.g., in the coordination message) resource availability that reflects the measured self-interference. A receiving UE may use the coordination message to schedule subsequent sidelink communications (e.g., with the transmitting UE or with other UEs).
US12028882B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. Embodiments disclosed herein provide a method for managing a resource in a wireless communication system. The method includes allocating, by a base station, the resource for a data transmission from a User Equipment (UE) by indicating at least one bandwidth part in a total bandwidth supported by the UE. The resource is further allocated by indicating a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) and a Physical Downlink Shared Control Channel (PDSCH) according to a configured subcarrier spacing and a CP length within the at least one bandwidth part, and by indicating an allocation of Resource Blocks (RBs) within the at least one bandwidth part.
US12028880B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for a user equipment (UE) to receive a message including transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states information associated with beam information for uplink or downlink resources. The UE may identify multiple channels or reference signals, or both, to which a TCI state is to be applied based on associated indications included with the TCI state information. In some examples, the TCI state information may also include indications of source reference signals for quasi co-location (QCL) assumptions for the indicated channels or reference signals. Based on applying the TCI state, the UE may determine beam information for uplink or downlink resources and may communicate with the base station accordingly.
US12028879B2
A communication method includes: a network device sends first configuration information to a terminal device, where the first configuration information includes configuration information of a non-anchor carrier; and when an anchor carrier is in a standalone deployment mode, the non-anchor carrier uses an in-band deployment mode or a guard-band deployment mode; or when an anchor carrier is in an in-band deployment mode or a guard-band deployment mode, the non-anchor carrier uses a standalone deployment mode.
US12028875B2
Physical downlink control channel blind detection method, user equipment and readable storage medium
A physical downlink control channel blind detection method, a user equipment and a readable storage medium are provided. The method includes: receiving an issued first Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling to determine an Aggregation Level (AL) of the PDCCH; receiving an issued second RRC signaling; determining a specific position of each CCE in the CORESET based on the configuration information in the second RRC signaling; determining positions of all PDCCH candidates, and obtaining a target PDCCH by blindly detecting the PDCCH; and obtaining a mapping position of a Downlink Control Information (DCI) corresponding to a UE at a time domain sampling point by blindly detecting the time domain sampling based on the target PDCCH.
US12028873B2
Method of terminal, terminal, method of base station, and base station in wireless communication system are provided. Method of a terminal in the wireless communication system includes receiving, from a base station via radio resource control (RRC) signaling, information for a rate matching resource, identifying resources that are unavailable for physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) reception based on the rate matching resource, monitoring a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) candidate except for at least one PDCCH candidate that overlaps with the identified resources, and receiving, from the base station, downlink control information (DCI) based on the monitoring of the PDCCH candidate.
US12028871B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, a broadcast message associated with initial access. The UE may monitor, for an additional message from the base station, a set of monitoring occasions that are non-consecutive across slots, based at least in part on the broadcast message. In some aspects, the set of monitoring occasions are non-consecutive across slots based at least in part on a stored rule that uses a subcarrier spacing. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12028867B2
Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for a wireless communication on an unlicensed spectrum. An access point (AP) of the wireless communication system includes a processor circuitry, and radio front end circuitry coupled to the processor circuitry. The processor circuitry is configured to schedule multiple transmission time intervals (multi-TTIs) in a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) in the unlicensed spectrum. The processor circuitry is configured to generate a downlink control information (DCI) to include the scheduled multi-TTIs and a hybrid automatic repeat and request acknowledgement (HARQACK) assessment information associated with the scheduled multi-TTIs. The radio front end circuitry is configured to transmit the DCI to a user equipment (UE) over the unlicensed spectrum.
US12028853B2
A method and device for determining a time-frequency pattern of a downlink positioning reference signal, a storage medium and a base station, the method including: determining a number of subcarriers M occupied by a time-frequency pattern of a positioning reference signal on each symbol according to a preset frequency domain multiplexed factor; generating, for multiple time slots scheduled by a user equipment, initial time-frequency patterns in a resource block where each time slot is located according to the number of subcarriers M, the initial time-frequency patterns occupying all symbols in the resource block, and occupying M subcarriers on each symbol; and filtering M initial time-frequency patterns in each resource block according to the attributes of the symbol in each resource block, so as to determine valid time-frequency patterns in each resource block. Therefore, a time-frequency pattern of a downlink positioning reference signal in a NR system may be determined.
US12028849B2
The present disclosure relates to a mobile terminal, a system and respective methods. The user equipment receives a SI configuration for an SI message, the configuration indicating a periodicity at which the SI message is being broadcasted, determines that receiving the SI message, to be broadcasted in one of plural first time windows that are reoccurring at the indicated periodicity, is unsuccessful, and transmits a SI request for the SI message after determining the unsuccessful receipt of the SI message. The SI request includes an indication of the at least one SI message to be broadcasted. Then, the user equipment receives the at least one SI message within at least one second time window occurs after the one of the plural first time windows and before the next of the first time window that is reoccurring at the indicated periodicity, and determines that receiving the SI message is successful.
US12028842B2
This application provides a data transmission method and a communications apparatus. The method includes: generating, by an access point, a physical protocol data unit PPDU, where a data part of the PPDU is carried on at least one resource unit RU; sending, by the access point, the PPDU to at least one station by using a channel bandwidth, where the channel bandwidth includes M basic bandwidths, the basic bandwidth is 2.16 GHz, M is an integer greater than or equal to 1, and the M basic bandwidths are divided into the at least one RU; and parsing, by the station, the data part that is of the PPDU and that is carried on the at least one RU. In embodiments of this application, it can implement an OFDMA technology in a high-frequency scenario, and improve channel utilization and transmission efficiency.
US12028839B2
A method of wireless communication by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving, from a base station, signaling indicating an assignment of resources in a physical time domain to a set of contiguous symbols in a virtual domain. Each symbol of the set of contiguous symbols may be associated with a respective orthogonal frequency-division multiplexed (OFDM) symbol of a respective one of multiple sets of one or more contiguous OFDM symbols in the physical time domain. Each set of OFDM symbols may be associated with a slot in the physical time domain. The method also includes mapping the physical time domain resources to the multiple sets of OFDM symbols based on the assignment of the physical time domain resources to the set of contiguous symbols. The method further includes receiving or transmitting the multiple sets of OFDM symbols on the physical time domain resources based on the mapping.
US12028834B2
Methods, systems, and devices for resource configuration and selection for device-to-device links in mobile communication technology are described. An exemplary method for wireless communication includes receiving, by a wireless device from a network node, a configuration for multiple resource pools that are associated with a carrier set, selecting, based on the configuration, a resource from the multiple resource pools, and performing, using the resource, a device-to-device link communication. Another exemplary method for wireless communication includes receiving, by a wireless device from a network node, a configuration for multiple resource pools that are associated with a carrier set, receiving, from the network node, a dedicated resource, and performing, using the dedicated resource, a device-to-device link communication.
US12028829B2
An information processing device provided in a mobile object, including: a processor for obtaining, while a communication unit connects to a first access point and executes wireless communication through the first access point, information representing a first communication quality being communication quality for wireless communication between the communication unit and the first access point, and information representing a second communication quality being communication quality for wireless communication between the communication unit and a second access point, switching, if a difference between the second communication quality and the first communication quality is greater than a predetermined quality reference value, a connection target of the communication unit from the first access point to the second access point, and preventing, such that the faster a moving speed of the mobile object is, the less often switching of the connection target occurs.
US12028821B2
A method for providing IQ mismatch (IQMM) compensation includes: estimating an overall frequency response of a compensation filter by stepping through a frequency range starting at an initial frequency and performing (1) through (3) at each step, a selected frequency at each step being a multiple of a subcarrier frequency of the initial frequency: (1) sending a single tone signal at the selected frequency, (2) determining a first response of a mismatched signal at the selected frequency and a second response of the mismatched signal at an image frequency of the selected frequency, and (3) estimating a frequency response of the compensation filter at the selected frequency based on the first response and the second response; generating time-domain filter taps based on the estimated overall frequency response of the compensation filter; determining a time delay based on the time-domain filter taps; and generating a compensated signal based on the time delay.
US12028803B2
An aggregation router for an aircraft may include processing circuitry. The processing circuitry may be configured to receive a first channel from a first airborne radio, and receive a second channel from a second airborne radio. The first and second channels may be WAN connections to wireless communication network resources on the ground. The processing circuitry may be further configured to aggregate the first and second channels for service to LAN connections on the aircraft, which LAN connections may include one or more short range wireless communication access points.
US12028796B2
Disclosed are methods and systems for a WLAN device to select an operating dynamic frequency selection (DFS) channel that minimizes the probability of radar interference by using aiding information. The aiding information may be a crowd-sourced database of geo-tagged radar zones including one or more DFS channels used within the geo-tagged radar zones that are detected by a plurality of WLAN devices. The WLAN device may query the crowd-sourced database for a geo-tagged radar zone that is nearby to determine if a radar operates on an overlapping DFS channel so it may switch to a different channel. In one aspect, the aiding information may be periodic special action frames broadcast by a WLAN beaconing device over the operating channel of the WLAN device. The special action frames may carry information on one or more channels used by a near-by radar and recommended alternative channels to use by the WLAN device.
US12028795B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may implement a power-efficient discovery procedure to establish a relay. In some cases, the UE may monitor a resource pool for a relay beacon from a relay device and measure a received power of the relay beacon. If the received power satisfies a threshold, the UE may monitor for a relay announcement from the relay device and establish a sidelink connection with the relay device based on the relay announcement. The relay beacon may support a two-stage discovery procedure, where the UE determines a relay device is available before processing a relay announcement to conserve power. Additional techniques for proximity-based discovery are described herein.
US12028794B2
A technique for transmitting system information for a time-division duplex, TDD, communication in a radio access network, RAN, is described. As to a method aspect of the technique, a master information block, MIB, is transmitted on an anchor carrier (602 1) of the TDD communication in the RAN. The MIB is indicative of a spectral resource (602-1; 602-2) allocated to a system information block, SIB, of the TDD communication in the RAN. The SIB is transmitted on the spectral resource (602-1; 602-2) indicated in the MIB.
US12028792B2
Methods and related systems for operating a climate control system for an indoor space are disclosed. In an embodiment, the method includes establishing a connection between a device and a hub of the climate control system along a first signal pathway, wherein at least a portion of the first signal pathway comprises a short-range radio connection between the device and a first component of the system. In addition, the method includes monitoring one or more parameters of the first signal pathway and one or more parameters of a second signal pathway extending between the device and the hub, wherein at least a portion of the second signal pathway comprises a short-range radio connection between the device and a second component of the system. Further, the method includes re-routing the connection between the portable device and the system hub from the first signal pathway to the second signal pathway.
US12028788B2
An object is to provide a communication system and a base station capable of predicting future communication quality in order to enable variations in communication quality due to variations in environment to be addressed. A communication system and a base station according to the invention learn an input and output relationship from surrounding environment information of the base station that can be acquired by a camera, a sensor, or the like, terminal information such as position information of a terminal and current communication quality to generate a learning model, and predict future communication quality using the learning model, the surrounding environment information, and the terminal information.
US12028784B2
Systems and methods are provided for identifying subscribers and/or content creators to each other while attending a real-world/live event. The real-world/live event may be in furtherance of content creation or in furtherance of providing preferential access to subscribers. Identification in the case of subscribers can be based upon subscribership information, commonality of one or more aspects of the subscribers and/or the content creators. For example, a subscriber may be identified with a level of prominence commensurate with the level at which he/she subscribers to a content creator to. Notifications and/or recommendations may be presented in an augmented reality experience along with augmented reality identifications of subscribers and/or content creators.
US12028780B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a network device that comprises a processing system including a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations. The operations include obtaining timing advance data regarding a communication device served by the network; the timing advance data is collected by a network element coupled to the network device, and the network element communicates with the communication device using control-plane signaling. The timing advance data is processed using location data regarding the network element to determine a geolocation of the communication device. The geolocation is stored at a storage device; the network device and storage device are included in a secure portion of the network. The geolocation is provided to equipment of a network customer accessing the secure portion of the network via a secure interface. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US12028774B2
A method for location service control and a communications unit are provided. The method includes: transmitting information related to a first valid time and/or control information, where the control information is used to control related behavior of obtaining location of a terminal.
US12028764B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide apparatus, methods, processing systems, and computer readable mediums for enabling L1 (physical layer) and L2 (medium access control (MAC) layer) inter-cell mobility. An example method generally includes transmitting, to a network entity, a report indicating a capability of the UE to support one or more inter-cell mobility procedures based on at least one of physical (PHY) layer or medium access control (MAC) layer signaling, receiving PHY layer or MAC layer signaling related to an inter-cell mobility procedure, and initiating at least one of the inter-cell mobility procedures based on the received PHY layer or MAC layer signaling.
US12028756B2
Embodiments of this application relate to the field of communications technologies, and in particular, to a cell configuration method and apparatus, to reduce signaling exchange in a cell migration process and improve cell migration efficiency. The cell configuration method includes: A first management function unit obtains a first message, where the first message includes information about a first cell and information about a first base station, the information about the first cell includes at least one of an identifier of the first cell or a managed object identifier of the first cell, and the information about the first base station includes at least one of an identifier of the first base station or a managed object identifier of the first base station; and the first management function unit configures a relationship between the first cell and the first base station based on the first message.
US12028755B2
A method performed by user equipment (UE) includes receiving a request to access a service unavailable through a first network cell associated with the UE, and receiving a message from an access device associated with the first network cell, wherein the message identifies a plurality of second network cells providing the service.
US12028749B2
The present disclosure relates to a transmission device and reception device for data in a wireless AV system. The transmission device comprises: a processor for encoding media data thereby generating a compressed bitstream; and a communication unit for: fragmenting the compressed bitstream and mapping the compressed bitstream to an MSDU; generating, for transmission of the MSDU, an MPDU frame sequentially comprising an MAC header, a frame body, and an FCS for the MAC header; generating, for the transmission of the MPDU frame, a PPDU sequentially comprising a preamble, at least one PSDU, and a TRN field; and transmitting the PPDU frame through a radio channel. A radio resource for transmission of actually necessary data can be secured by minimizing unnecessary overhead information (i.e., control-related information in the MAC header) from among data transmitted over radio.
US12028746B2
In certain embodiments, a current amount of an item available from a network resource may be monitored. Based on the monitoring indicating that the current amount fails to satisfy a first threshold, one or more sources may be identified. The one or more sources may be within a threshold proximity of the network resource, and distances between the one or more sources and the network resource may be determined. One or more requests for the amounts of the item to be transferred from the one or more sources to the network resource within time frames may be generated. For example, the time frames may be based on the distances. The one or more requests may be transmitted to the one or more sources.
US12028745B2
A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which a network slice usage service is provided. The network slice usage service may allow a network device to obtain a network slice usage value of a network slice. The network device may calculate a network slice load value based on the network slice usage value. The network device may also provide the network slice load value to other network devices of a core network.
US12028744B2
A method of controlling a radio-frequency (RF) transaction region comprises: determining a value of a characteristic associated with an ability of roadside equipment, associated with an RF transaction, to obtain information from a user equipment (UE) in the RF transaction region; determining, based on the value of the characteristic, a value of a parameter affecting the ability of the roadside equipment to obtain the information from the UE in the RF transaction region; and conveying the value of the parameter to the UE to affect transmission of messages from the UE to the roadside equipment.
US12028742B2
A method of wireless communication by a user equipment (UE) includes determining an original amount of uplink data stored in a non-compression buffer, the original amount of data designated to be transmitted to a network. The method also includes predicting, with a machine learning model, an amount of compression gain for the original amount of uplink data. The compression gain is obtained by compressing the original amount of uplink data during a time delay. The method further includes generating a buffer status report based on the original amount of uplink data and the predicted amount of compression gain. The method transmits the buffer status report to the network.
US12028740B2
A method for utilizing quality of service information in a network with tunneled backhaul is disclosed, comprising: establishing a backhaul bearer at a base station with a first core network, the backhaul bearer established by a backhaul user equipment (UE) at the base station, the backhaul bearer having a single priority parameter, the backhaul bearer terminating at a first packet data network gateway in the first core network; establishing an encrypted internet protocol (IP) tunnel between the base station and a coordinating gateway in communication with the first core network and a second core network; facilitating, for at least one UE attached at the base station, establishment of a plurality of UE data bearers encapsulated in the secure IP tunnel, each with their own QCI; and transmitting prioritized data of the plurality of UE data bearers via the backhaul bearer and the coordinating gateway to the second core network.
US12028739B2
A method for determining a network quality of service (QoS) flow, a network element, and a system include receiving, by a session management function network element, a policy and charging control (PCC) rule from a policy control function network element, where the PCC rule includes QoS parameters, the QoS parameters include standardized QoS parameter indication information and a non-standardized QoS parameter, and the non-standardized QoS parameter includes at least one attribute comprised in a standardized QoS parameter corresponding to the standardized QoS parameter indication information and a corresponding value of the at least one attribute, and determining, by the session management function network element based on the standardized QoS parameter indication information and the non-standardized QoS parameter, a QoS flow corresponding to the PCC rule.
US12028736B2
A method of delivering content to a user equipment (UE). The method comprises collecting radio operation data by a monitor application executing on a communication processor of the UE; sending the radio operation data by the monitor application to a data analysis application executing on a computer system; analyzing the data by the data analysis application to determine a device technology of the UE, a history of high throughput radio usage of the UE, a history of medium throughput radio usage of the UE, a history of low throughput radio usage, a history of communication latency, and a history of cell sites the UE attached to; and providing a report on the UE including the device technology of the UE and the history of radio usage of the UE by the computer system to a third party for use in delivering content in a format selected based on the report.
US12028735B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for beam indication set reuse. A method for a wireless communication that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving signaling configuring the UE with a beam indication set. The method includes receiving an indication to apply the configured beam indication set to multiple bandwidth parts (BWPs) and/or multiple component carriers (CCs). The method includes applying the beam indication set to a BWP or CC based on the indication. The beam indication set may be for uplink or downlink communications. The beam indication set may be a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state set or spatial relation set. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
US12028731B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe methods, apparatuses, storage media, and systems for configuration of System frame number (SFN) and Frame Timing Difference (SFTD) measurement in an E-UTRA (Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access)—NR Dual Connectivity (EN-DC) network, and an NE-DC network. Various embodiments describe how to configure and perform the SFTD measurement in the EN-DC or NE-DC network of various conditions to facilitate adequate SFTD measurements and improve measurement accuracy and system performance. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US12028728B2
Example measurement methods and apparatus are described. One example method includes obtaining a timer by a terminal device. The terminal device obtains two or more measurement configurations, where each of two or more measurement configurations includes a validity area and a measurement frequency corresponding to the validity area, and the validity area includes one or more cells. The terminal device measures, based on the measurement configuration, a measurement frequency corresponding to a validity area that matches a cell on which the terminal device camps, where the terminal device is in an idle state or in an inactive state, and the timer is not stopped and has not expired.
US12028721B2
Provided are a measurement method and apparatus using a multiple frequency partial band in a wireless communication system, and an operation method of a terminal for measuring quality of a cell in a wireless communication system, may include: receiving a plurality of beams including a reference signal, the plurality of beams transmitted by using one of a first bandwidth part (BWP) and a second BWP from a base station of the cell; determining a first beam quality measurement value representing quality of plurality of beams transmitted by using the first BWP; determining a second beam quality measurement value representing quality of plurality of beams transmitted by using the second BWP; and determining a cell quality measurement value indicating the quality of the cell, based on the first beam quality measurement value and the second beam quality measurement value.
US12028715B2
A gesture access system includes a local access assembly, a mobile device, an electronic storage medium, and a processor. The local access assembly is adapted to operate between an access state and a no-access state, and includes a controller to effect actuation between the states and a signal receiver. The mobile device includes an Inertial Measurement Unit sensor system configured to measure a motion of the mobile device to conditionally detect a device gesture indicative of an intent of a user to gain access. The storage medium is configured to store an application and a preprogrammed device gesture. The processor is configured to receive the measured motion from the sensor system, and execute the application to compare the measured motion to the preprogrammed device gesture, and depending upon the comparison, output a command signal to the controller of the local access assembly via the receiver to effect actuation between states.
US12028711B2
A wearable device can establish a verified session with a host device (e.g., by establishing that the wearable device is present in the vicinity of the host device and is currently being worn). The existence of such a verified session can be used to control user access to sensitive information that may be stored in or otherwise accessible to a host device. For example, the host device and/or application programs executing thereon can be configured to restrict a user's ability to invoke program functionality that accesses sensitive information based on whether a verified session with a wearable device is currently in progress.
US12028709B2
A subscriber device may perform a key exchange with a network operation center (NOC) computing device to receive a secret key. A list of group identifiers of personal devices for which the subscriber device is to handle events may be received at the subscriber device. The subscriber device may receive an encrypted event packet from a personal device via a direct communication connection. The subscriber device may decrypt the encrypted event packet at the subscriber device using the secret key to generate a decrypted event packet and extract a group identifier from the decrypted event packet. In response to determining that the group identifier is included in the list of group identifiers received from the NOC computing device, an event handler of a plurality of handlers stored in the subscriber device that corresponds to an event included in the decrypted event packet may be identified to handle the event.
US12028701B2
Methods and systems for designing and applying numerically optimized binaural room impulse responses
Methods and systems for designing binaural room impulse responses (BRIRs) for use in headphone virtualizers, and methods and systems for generating a binaural signal in response to a set of channels of a multi-channel audio signal, including by applying a BRIR to each channel of the set, thereby generating filtered signals, and combining the filtered signals to generate the binaural signal, where each BRIR has been designed in accordance with an embodiment of the design method. Other aspects are audio processing units configured to perform any embodiment of the inventive method. In accordance with some embodiments, BRIR design is formulated as a numerical optimization problem based on a simulation model (which generates candidate BRIRs) and at least one objective function (which evaluates each candidate BRIR), and includes identification of a best one of the candidate BRIRs as indicated by performance metrics determined for the candidate BRIRs by each objective function.
US12028696B2
The present technology relates to a sound processing apparatus and a sound processing system for enabling more stable localization of a sound image. A virtual speaker is assumed to exist on the lower side among the sides of a tetragon having its corners formed with four speakers surrounding a target sound image position on a spherical plane. Three-dimensional VBAP is performed with respect to the virtual speaker and the two speakers located at the upper right and the upper left, to calculate gains of the two speakers at the upper right and the upper left and the virtual speaker, the gains being to be used for fixing a sound image at the target sound image position. Further, two-dimensional VBAP is performed with respect to the lower right and lower left speakers, to calculate gains of the lower right and lower left speakers, the gains being to be used for fixing a sound image at the position of the virtual speaker. The values obtained by multiplying these gains by the gain of the virtual speaker are set as the gains of the lower right and lower left speakers for fixing a sound image at the target sound image position. The present technology can be applied to sound processing apparatuses.
US12028691B2
A method including a device of an installation performing steps to determine whether an audio stream is played back in the installation by only one piece of audio playback equipment or by a group of at least two pieces of audio playback equipment (11a, 11b); if the device detects that the audio stream is played back by a single piece of audio playback equipment, then the device generates an order for said piece of equipment to apply a given set of equalization parameters; and if the device detects that the audio stream is played back by a group of at least two pieces of audio playback equipment, then the device determines the equalization parameters to be applied by each piece of audio playback equipment of said group, and generates a respective order for each piece of audio playback equipment of said group to apply a respective given set of equalization parameters.
US12028679B2
Provided is an electrostatic clutch. The electrostatic clutch includes: multiple arrays of HIN electrodes, a respective pass-through channel being formed between any two arrays of the multiple arrays of HIN electrodes; and multiple arrays of biased electrodes, each array of the multiple arrays of biased electrodes moving back and forth in the respective pass-through channel such that electrostatic force is generated between the multiple arrays of biased electrodes and the multiple arrays of HIN electrodes. Such configuration allows microphone performance over a wide range of atmospheric pressures which is likely expected by applications. This is achieved electrostatically in a purely passive way having advantages over other designs which require complex electronics and active control. Physically decoupling the membrane and sense structure simplifies design of the sense structure as only small AC perturbations of the rotor is considered with no DC changes in rotor position.
US12028672B2
Disclosed is a headset for audio communication, a software application for an electronic device associated with a headset, and a method for controlling a headset feature. The headset is configured to be worn by a user. The headset comprises a speaker for sound transmission into the user's ear, a transceiver or a radio communication unit for communication with an external device, a connection to a location-based service software, the location-based service software is configured for controlling at least one headset feature based on location data of the headset, and a processing unit. The processing unit is configured for enabling the location-based service software to detect if the current location data of the headset indicates a change in location data corresponding to a certain change criterion and changing the at least one headset feature, if a change criterion associated with the change in location data is satisfied.
US12028671B2
A Universal Serial Bus (USB) audio device kit includes a USB peripheral audio device and a passive USB-to-analog audio adapter. The USB peripheral audio device includes a USB interface configured to communicatively interface the USB audio peripheral device with a USB host device. The passive USB-to-analog audio adapter is configured to electrically interface the USB peripheral audio device with analog audio equipment via the USB interface.
US12028670B2
Aspects describe an in-ear audio output device. The in-ear audio output device includes an acoustic chamber defined by an earbud housing shaped to fit in the lower concha of an ear of a wearer of the in-ear audio output device, the earbud housing comprising: a resistive port located on a first side of the earbud housing creating an opening in a wall of the earbud housing and a first feedforward microphone located on a second side of the earbud housing, the second side substantially opposite the first side of the earbud housing; and a stability band. The stability band includes at least one attachment feature that couples the stability band to the earbud housing and a first side substantially opposite the attachment feature that only partially covers the resistive port when the in-ear audio output device is positioned in the ear of the wearer.
US12028667B2
A system and method for an interactive three piece microphone with customizable features that may be quickly accessed by a user whereby the users' settings are automatically uploaded to the microphone providing a more personalized experience. The microphone may be used in a variety of situations where users may challenge one another as well as collect monetary rewards based on the location and type of performance they have.
US12028666B2
A bone conduction speaker is built into a seat of a vehicle and faces the skull of an occupant seated in the seat. An acoustic control ECU individually selects sound to be output from the bone conduction speaker for each of the occupants in the vehicle, according to attribute information of the occupant recorded in a portable terminal device carried by the occupant, and causes the selected sound to be individually output from the bone conduction speaker to each of the occupants.
US12028664B2
A configured mode of operation of a wireless sensor node unit can selectively activate a first subset of sensor channels of data and selectively deactivate a second subset of sensor channels of data. The configured mode of operation customizes the sensor functionality in the wireless sensor node unit in support of the delivery of data streams to customers.
US12028661B2
Network devices and associated methods are provided for synchronization in an optically switched network. The network device includes one or more ports in communication with a plurality of devices via an optical switch. The one or more ports receive a master clock signal having a first frequency from a first device of the plurality of devices. The network device includes a local clock in communication with the one or more ports and operating at a second frequency. The network device includes a synchronization manager in communication with the one or more ports and the local clock and configured to be enabled and disabled. When the synchronization manager is enabled, it receives the master clock signal via the one or more ports and transmits an instruction to the local clock to operate at the first frequency.
US12028658B2
One embodiment provides a method comprising receiving an input content, and receiving ambient contextual data indicative of one or more ambient lighting conditions of an environment including a display device. The input content has corresponding metadata that at least partially represents a creative intent indicative of how the input content is intended to be viewed. The method further comprises adaptively correcting the input content based on the ambient contextual data to preserve the creative intent, and providing the corrected input content to the display device for presentation. The adaptively correcting comprises applying automatic white balancing to the input content to correct color tone of the input content.
US12028653B2
A remote control system 1 having a function as an inspection system includes a plurality of cameras 25, 60 which are located in a location environment of a construction machine 10, a captured image processing unit 50a configured to cause a display unit 45 to display captured images, and a camera selection unit 50b configured to select an inspection camera from the plurality of cameras 25, 60 at a time of inspection of the construction machine 10. The captured image processing unit 50a is configured to receive an image captured by the selected inspection camera to include an image of a portion to be inspected and cause the display unit 45 to display the captured image.
US12028652B2
A vehicle image control apparatus for an image of a vehicle camera equipped with no image signal processor (ISP) and a method thereof, includes a first image controller equipped with a first ISP that performs image processing, supplies power to a camera device provided in a vehicle and equipped with no ISP, and the camera device obtains a surrounding image of the vehicle and transmits the surrounding image to the first image controller. The first image controller selectively shares the surrounding image with a second image controller equipped with a second ISP that performs image processing. Accordingly, it is possible to implement an efficient vehicle image-related system such that a plurality of controllers share one or more cameras equipped with no ISP.
US12028648B2
An information processing apparatus, the information processing apparatus executing an information processing method comprising: receiving a request of image data from an external terminal; specifying, based on the request, a vehicle that provides image capturing data to generate the image data; specifying a parameter concerning a communication path to be used by the specified vehicle to transmit the image capturing data to the information processing apparatus; and transmitting the specified parameter to the specified vehicle.
US12028637B2
An image sensing system includes a camera module and an application processor. The camera module includes: an image sensor including a pixel array, the pixel array including color filters having a first pattern, the image sensor being configured to sense light incident on the pixel array to generate a first pattern image signal having the first pattern; a first converter configured to convert the first pattern image signal into a second pattern image signal having a second pattern different from the first pattern; and a second converter configured to convert the second pattern image signal into a third pattern image signal having a third pattern different from the first pattern and the second pattern. The application processor is configured to perform image processing on the third pattern image signal.
US12028634B2
An image sensor includes a first layer including a pixel array region having a plurality of pixels arranged in a plurality of row lines and a plurality of column lines; and a second layer including a row driver selecting at least a portion of the plurality of row lines, generating pixel control signals driving selected row lines, and outputting the pixel control signals to control signal lines, wherein the selected row lines share the control signal lines, at a branch point of the first layer, the selected row lines receive the pixel control signals from the control signal lines in common, and the pixel control signals simultaneously drive the selected row lines.
US12028633B2
An imaging device is provided which allows an increase in the degree of freedom of its layout. The imaging device includes a first semiconductor substrate including a sensor pixel for performing photoelectric conversion, and a second semiconductor substrate including a readout circuit for outputting a pixel signal according to an electric charge output from the sensor pixel. The second semiconductor substrate is laminated on the one surface side of the first semiconductor substrate so as to configure a laminated body. The second semiconductor substrate includes a first surface facing the first semiconductor substrate, and a second surface located opposite to the first surface. The first transistor included in the readout circuit is disposed in the first surface, and the second transistor included in the readout circuit is disposed in the second surface.
US12028628B2
An image sensor includes a pixel having an internal capacitor. Each of a plurality of pixels of the image sensor includes a photodetection circuit and an analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The photodetection circuit generates a detection signal. The ADC converts the detection signal using a ramp signal. The photodetection circuit includes a photodiode, a floating diffusion node and an overflow transistor. The floating diffusion node accumulates photocharges generated by the photodiode and includes a parasitic capacitor. The overflow transistor electrically connects the floating diffusion node to a first internal capacitor of the ADC.
US12028623B2
A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a first substrate including a pixel array including a plurality of pixels, and a second substrate disposed in a multilayer structure on the first substrate. The photoelectric conversion apparatus further includes a machine learning unit configured to execute processing using machine learning on a signal output from the pixel array, and a signal output unit configured to output a signal corresponding to temperature. Both the machine learning unit and the signal output unit are disposed on the second substrate.
US12028612B2
An error is reduced in phase difference detection of an imaging element including a phase difference pixel with an on-chip lens in common for a pair of pixels. The imaging element includes a pixel, an individual on-chip lens, a plurality of phase difference pixels, a common on-chip lens, and a pixel circuit. The individual on-chip lens individually collects incident light for each pixel. The phase difference pixels are arranged adjacent to each other to detect a phase difference. The common on-chip lens is arranged in common for the plurality of phase difference pixels and collects incident light in common. The pixel circuit is formed in a semiconductor substrate and generates an image signal on the basis of a transferred charge. Charge transfer units of the plurality of phase difference pixels are in a region between the common on-chip lens and the individual on-chip lens.
US12028603B2
To provide an image processing system that makes it easy to adjust the position and posture of a camera or the like, the image processing system includes an image acquisition unit configured to acquire an image signal formed by an imaging unit that captures an optical image having a low-distortion region and a high-distortion region, a characteristics information acquisition unit configured to acquire characteristics information regarding characteristics of the optical image, and a display signal generation unit configured to form information indicating a boundary between the low-distortion region and the high-distortion region based on the characteristics information acquired by the characteristics information acquisition unit, and generate a display signal for superimposing the information indicating the boundary on the image signal.
US12028602B2
An imaging apparatus includes an operation member, a setting unit configured to set the operation member to an enabled state or a disabled state a switching unit configured to switch an image capturing mode to a medical mode, and a control unit configured to perform, in a case where the image capturing mode is not the medical mode, control to allow the setting unit to set the operation member to the enabled state or the disabled state, and perform, in a case where the image capturing mode is the medical mode, control to set the operation member to the enabled state.
US12028592B2
An internet protocol (IP)-based ceiling or wall-mounted speaker with optional IP-based camera and/or alarm indicator is provided. The IP-based speaker has a detachable add-on device for accommodating different types of interchangeable camera configurations and other components such as flush mount camera, camera providing angled view, night vision-type camera for different services and configurations. Multiple IP-based speakers are connected to an IP device to exchange audio data via an Ethernet connection for cost effective, flexible and convenient installations. The IP-based speaker has a speaker cone for talkback features, and relay for remote relay control of doors or gates for security applications as well as public address applications.
US12028591B2
An imaging apparatus includes an imaging substrate, a connector substrate, and a housing. The imaging substrate is provided with an imaging device that produces image data. The connector substrate is movably connected to the imaging substrate. The connector substrate includes a terminal configured to be connectable in a first direction to an external connector to which the image data is output. The imaging substrate and the connector substrate are accommodated in the housing. The housing includes a restricting section that restricts a position of the connector substrate in the first direction. The connector substrate is configured to be movable within a predetermined range in a direction intersecting the first direction.
US12028588B2
The present disclosure is directed to devices and methods for synchronizing capturing of spectral images with the capturing of thermal images. A thermal imaging device of an aerial vehicle captures a sequence of thermal image of thermal images. Capturing of spectral images by a spectral imaging device of the aerial vehicle is synchronized with the capturing of the thermal images. Irradiance data indicative of a background temperature is sensed. A digital surface model of an area of interest is generated based on the sequence of spectral images. An emissivity of a target is estimated and a temperature of a pixel of the digital surface model of the target is estimated based on the sequence of thermal images, the irradiance data indicative of the background temperature and the estimated emissivity of the target.
US12028582B2
Techniques of providing an interactive programming guide with a personalized lineup are disclosed. In some embodiments, a profile is accessed, and a personalized lineup is determined based on the profile. The personalized lineup may include a corresponding media content identification assigned to each one of a plurality of sequential time slots, where each media content identification identifies media content for the corresponding time slot. A first interactive programming guide may be caused to be displayed on a first media content device associated with the profile, where the first interactive programming guide includes the personalized lineup.
US12028563B1
The present disclosure describes a monitoring device for determining one or more characteristics of one or more scheduled programs within one or more packetized elementary streams of one or more transport streams. The monitoring device receives the one or more transport streams from a service provider system and de-encapsulates the one or more packetized elementary streams from the one or more transport streams. The monitoring device determines the one or more characteristics of the one or more scheduled programs from the one or more packetized elementary streams. The one or more characteristics can be used by the monitoring device to adapt on a dynamic, real-time, or near real-time, basis to changes to the one or more transport streams.
US12028560B2
A content correction device, a content delivery server, a content correction method, and a recording medium for correcting a portion of content that requires complaint resolution without impairing quality or enjoyability. The content correction device includes: an acquisition unit acquiring complaint information; a specification unit acquiring the data of content that requires complaint resolution from a storage unit where the data of a plurality of delivered content is stored and specifying a relevant correction period in the time line of the content that requires complaint resolution, in which period the complaint to be resolved is included; and a corrected content generation unit acquiring from the storage unit the data of first content correcting the relevant correction period, generating, using at least a portion of the first content, second content that does not contain the complaint to be resolved, and storing the data of the second content in the storage unit.
US12028557B2
The embodiments disclose a method including capturing video footage of a youth sports event using at least one video camera with a mobile application installed, transmitting to at least one network server with internet and WI-FI connectivity mobile application multi-camera live-streaming video camera captured game footage, recording on at least one database coupled to the network server at least one video camera mobile application multi-camera live-streaming video camera captured game footage, using at least one network computer coupled to at least one network server configured for processing and displaying multi-camera live-streaming video camera captured game footage for live video streaming game broadcast on a plurality of subscribed viewer digital devices, and mixing advertising into the processed multi-camera live-streaming video camera captured game footage broadcast using the at least one network computer.
US12028551B2
A method of decoding an encoded video bitstream using at least one processor includes obtaining a coded video sequence from the encoded video bitstream; obtaining a first syntax element indicating a number of a plurality of layers included in the coded video sequence; obtaining a second syntax element indicating whether the plurality of layers included in the coded video sequence are all independent layers; based on the first syntax element indicating that the number of the plurality of layers is greater than one, and the second syntax element indicating that the plurality of layers are not all the independent layers, obtaining a third syntax element indicating an output mode; determining the output mode based on the third syntax element; determining one or more output layers from among the plurality of layers based on the determined output mode; and outputting the one or more output layers.
US12028550B2
A method, computer program, and computer system is provided for coding video data. Video data is received. One or more transform cores corresponding to a transform associated with the video data are identified. The one or more transform cores include one or more of a line graph transform (LGT) and a discrete sine transform (DST) The video data is decoded based on the identified transform core. The transform cores correspond to one or more from among an 8-bit transform core and a 10-bit transform core. The transform corresponds to one or more from among a 2-point transform, a 4-point transform, an 8-point transform, and a 16-point transform.
US12028542B2
A method of decoding a bitstream comprising decoding the bitstream into color values and metadata items indicating information about adaptive post-processing operations performed by a decoder, performing high dynamic range (HDR) adaptation operations on the color values based on the metadata items, and performing fixed post-processing operations to reconstruct an HDR video from the color values, wherein the HDR adaptation operations convert color values into a format expected by the fixed post-processing operations.
US12028537B2
Innovations in encoding or decoding when switching color spaces are presented. For example, some of the innovations relate to signaling of control information for adaptive color space transformation (“ACT”). Other innovations relate to ACT operations. These innovations can improve coding efficiency when switching between color spaces during encoding and decoding.
US12028532B2
A method for decoding an image signal according to the present invention may comprise the steps of: determining whether there is a brightness change between a current image including a current block and a reference image of the current image; if it is determined that there is a brightness change between the current image and the reference image, determining weight prediction parameter candidates for the current block; determining a weight prediction parameter for the current block on the basis of index information which specifies any one of the weight prediction parameter candidates; and performing a prediction on the current block on the basis of the weight prediction parameter.
US12028512B2
The present disclosure provides a method for inter-frame prediction of a coding unit in an image. The method may include obtaining a first MV candidate list corresponding to the coding unit and the first MV candidate list may be constructed based on a non-triangle prediction mode, such as a merge mode. The method may also include determining, based on the first MV candidate list, a second MV candidate list corresponding to the coding unit. The second MV candidate list may be a triangle candidate list used for inter-prediction using a triangle prediction mode. MVs in the second MV candidate list may be determined based on MVs in the first MV candidate list. The method may also include determining, based on the second MV candidate list, a target prediction unit of the current coding unit according to a triangle prediction mode.
US12028509B1
An optical target system for a device under test disposed in an optical path, the optical target system including a pupil, a lens system and a target configured to be adjustable in position along the optical path such that the object distance of the target with respect to the lens system, is adjustable, the lens system is disposed between the pupil and the target along the optical path, wherein a first virtual image cast behind the target is of a first size when the target is disposed at a first position along the optical path, a second virtual image cast behind the target is of a second size when the target is disposed at a second position along the optical path.
US12028502B2
Disclosed herein are systems, apparatus, methods, and articles of manufacture to present three dimensional images without glasses. An example apparatus includes a micro lens array and at least one processor. The at least one processor is to: determine a first position of a first pupil of a viewer; determine a second position of a second pupil of the viewer; align a first eye box with the first position of the first pupil; align a second eye box with the second position of the second pupil; render, for presentation on a display, at least one of a color plus depth image or a light field image based on the first position of the first pupil and the second position of the second pupil; and cause backlight to be steered through the micro lens array and alternatingly through the first eye box and the second eye box.
US12028497B1
An imaging system is configured to capture images of both obverse and reverse sides of a collectible item using a single image captured by a single camera. The reflective faces of two flat mirrors are positioned at a 90-degree angle, and a collectible item is positioned and secured between the mirrors such that parallel faces of the item or its case are oriented at a 45-degree angle between the flat mirrors. A camera is mounted to face the mirrors with its perspective being parallel to the faces of the item, looking into the mirrors. The camera can see mirrored reflections of both faces of the item simultaneously from a single perspective and can capture views of both faces in a single camera image. The single image can then be cropped and reverse-mirrored automatically or manually in software to extract images of the obverse and reverse sides of the item.
US12028496B2
A multi-mode document scanning system includes a scanning bed configured to transport a plurality of documents through a scanning area. A scanning camera is configured to image the documents. At least one illumination bank includes a plurality of illumination elements of at least two different light wavelengths interspersed on at least one illumination bank. An illumination source switching assembly controls at last some elements of one wavelength. A selection process selects a wavelength appropriate to a document to be scanned, and instructs a processor operatively coupled to the illumination source switching assembly to illuminate elements of that wavelength. A multi-mode scanning method of document scanning is also described.
US12028495B2
An image reading apparatus includes a main body, a cover, a reading unit, a cable, and a shield member. The cover pivots with respect to the main body and move between a first closed position and a first open position. The reading unit pivots with respect to the main body and reads an image of a sheet conveyed in the conveyance path. The cable bridges between the main body and the reading unit and configured to transmit an image signal from the reading unit. The cable includes an exposed portion located between the main body and the reading unit and exposed to an outside of the main body and the reading unit when the cover is located in the first open position. The shield member has conductivity, grounded, and disposed to cover the exposed portion of the cable.
US12028492B2
A reading apparatus comprising a lower case, a reading portion, a drive portion and a stay is used. The reading portion moves between an open position in which the lower case is open and a closed position in which the lower case is closed and accommodates a reading sensor. The drive portion moves the reading sensor in a moving direction. The stay is coupled to the reading portion rotatably in one end and coupled to the lower case rotatably in the other end and moves a rotation shaft with in a direction orthogonal to the shaft. The drive portion is located outside a movable range of the reading sensor. When the reading portion is in the closed position, the stay is disposed in an area in which the stay overlaps the drive portion in the moving direction and overlaps the drive portion in height direction.
US12028484B2
Location determination and telephone number distribution for emergency calls is enabled by a telephony system which maintains multiple pools of telephone numbers. Each pool corresponds to a different region such that the pools of telephone numbers are defined at the region-level rather than at the site-level. The telephony system determines the location of a calling device initiating an emergency call regardless of whether the calling device is at a known site. Based on the determined location of the calling device, one of the pools of telephone numbers which corresponds to that location is selected. The telephony system thereafter distributes a telephone number for the calling device to use for the emergency call from that selected pool of telephone numbers to facilitate an emergency call between the calling device and a local public safety answering point.
US12028483B2
Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for communications network security for handling proxy voice calls that employ a voicebot. According to one aspect disclosed herein, a call handling system can intercept, from a communications network, a call request that is directed to a called target device. The call handling system can determine that the call request was generated by a voicebot on behalf of a user equipment. The call handling system can suspend the call request from being routed to the called target device. The call handling system can generate a voicebot confirmation request that identifies the voicebot and the user equipment. The call handling system can provide the voicebot confirmation request to the called target. The call request can be suspended while the voicebot confirmation request is provided to the called target device.
US12028475B2
Systems, methods and non-transitory computer readable media for allowing a user to switch between wearable items that have been paired or associated with an electronic device, such as a smartphone, are described. In one embodiment, the wearable items automatically detect a removal of a first wearable item from a user's body and an attachment of a second wearable item to the user's body. Messages from the wearable items are transmitted to the electronic device to allow the electronic device to switch the active wearable item from the first wearable item to the second wearable item. The switch can occur while the electronic device is in a locked state, and the electronic device can synchronize the second wearable item with data received from the first wearable item. Other embodiments are also described.
US12028459B2
It is provided a multi-access edge computing node located within a cellular coverage area supported by a base station of a mobile network operator, the multi-access edge computing node comprising at least one memory to store a chained data block, where each data block is coded with data of a past transaction in respect of a good or service; and at least one stock processor configured with functions that: include a new data block, to record a current transaction in respect of a good or service, into the chained data block in response to a signature, generated from processing the data of the current transaction with the coded data of the past transactions stored in the chained data block, being validated by a group of external multi-access edge computing nodes, wherein the multi-access edge computing node and the group of external multi-access edge computing nodes are trusted, and communicate over a common channel.
US12028457B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for implementing a zero knowledge prover are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of executing a software program. The method further includes storing an execution trace that includes, for each address in memory, a value at each clock cycle during execution of the software program. The method further includes generating a sorted execution trace by sorting the execution trace. The method further includes determining a constraint for given values in the memory at adjacent clock cycles. The method further includes determining whether the sorted execution trace complies with the constraint and whether the sorted execution trace is a permutation of the execution trace. The method further includes providing, for output, data indicating whether the software program executed correctly while preventing outputting data included in the execution trace or the sorted execution trace.
US12028444B2
An ultra low power network device is disclosed. The network device utilizes a Near Field Communications (NFC) tag to enable ultra low power communications with a configuration tool. The configuration tool writes information to the NFC tag that is accessible by the processing unit on the ultra low power network device. Additionally, the processing unit can write information into the NFC tag that is readable by the configuration tool. By exchanging messaged in this manner, the ultra low power network device and the configuration tool may create a shared encryption key. The ultra low power network device utilizes this shared encryption key when transmitting BLUETOOTH® packets. The configuration tool may then transmit the shared encryption key to either another BLUETOOTH® device or to a remote server. The ultra low power network device may also periodically refresh the shared encryption key.
US12028440B2
A method and system are disclosed to audit smart contracts. The method includes: publishing, with a processing server, a smart contract bytecode with metadata on a blockchain; retrieving, with the processing server, the published smart contract bytecode with metadata from the blockchain; extracting, with the processing server, the smart contract bytecode from the published smart contract bytecode; and verifying the smart contract bytecode by comparing a computed hash of a high-level source code of the published smart contract bytecode with the metadata retrieved from the blockchain.
US12028439B2
Systems and methods for maintaining synchronization of repeater networks with Global Positioning System (GPS) signals using phase locked loops (PLLs) and based on generation of predicted control words for controlling local oscillator frequencies is described. The predicted control words can be generated based on performing a linear fit of control words generated over a predetermined duration of time. Phase locked loops with additional false GPS pulse identification and GPS signal loss compensation circuitry can enforce a false pulse count threshold and/or an error threshold. The additional circuitry and prediction of control words can overcome errors in GPS receiver outputs and maintain accuracy of signal timings across single frequency networks using inexpensive local oscillators.
US12028435B2
A system can determine that an entity is proximate to an interaction location based on a first location of an entity device associated with the entity. The system can cache historical interaction data in a processor device selected dynamically from the one or more processor devices. The historical interaction data can include data related to previously executed interactions that involve the entity and the interaction location during a predetermined period. The system can execute interaction instructions to generate an interaction recommendation relating to the interaction location by using the historical interaction data. The interaction instructions can be predetermined by the entity. The system can transmit the interaction recommendation to the entity device. The system can clear the cached historical interaction data from the processor device in response to determining that the entity is not proximate to the interaction location based on a second location of the entity device.
US12028433B2
A global architecture (GLP), as disclosed herein, is based on the thin server architectural pattern; it delivers all its services in the form of web services and there are no user interface components executed on the GLP. Each web service exposed by the GLP is stateless, which allows the GLP to be highly scalable. The GLP is further decomposed into components. Each component is a microservice, making the overall architecture fully decoupled. Each microservice has fail-over nodes and can scale up on demand. This means the GLP has no single point of failure, making the platform both highly scalable and available. The GLP architecture provides the capability to build and deploy a microservice instance for each course-recipient-user combination. Because each student interacts with their own microservice, this makes the GLP scale up to the limit of cloud resources available—i.e. near infinity.
US12028430B2
An event notification method, an apparatus, a server device, and a computer storage medium are disclosed. The method includes: receiving an event subscription request; determining whether an amount of times that an event notification rule is satisfied is equal to K, and if yes, sending an event notification to at least one notified party in the plurality of notified parties; and after the initial notification is performed, determining whether the amount of times that the event notification rule is satisfied is equal to P, and if yes, sending an event notification to at least one notified party in the plurality of notified parties. The initial notification and the re-notification are performed at different times, and the at least one notified party notified in the initial notification is at least partially different from the at least one notified party notified in the re-notification.
US12028429B2
Embodiments of the systems described herein can implement one or more visitor tearing processes. Visitor tearing can include, among other things, one or more processes by which multiple visitors that may appear to be the same visitor may be separated into different visitor profiles due to the leveraging of one or more unique persistent identifiers.
US12028424B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, generating a management manifest for a network function (NF) software application, wherein the NF software application is to be deployed in a cloud computing environment, based on the generating the management manifest, deriving a software package that includes the NF software application and the management manifest, and causing the software package to be outputted for deployment in the cloud computing environment, wherein inclusion of the management manifest with the NF software application in the software package facilitates utilization of the management manifest for monitoring and management of a system that results from deployment of the NF software application in the cloud computing environment. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US12028416B2
According to some embodiments, there is provided a Collective Perception Message, CPM, characterizing a plurality of Vulnerable Road Users based on a plurality of received VAMs, thereby allowing an ITS station to efficiently aggregate VAM messages from VRUs and retransmit information about the VRUs to other ITS stations. Consequently, the security is improved as some ITS stations may not be able to detect or identify VRU stations by themselves but thanks to the CPM, these stations can still be informed of the VRUs. According to other aspects, congestion is avoided while maintaining safety vis-à-vis VRUs thanks to the use of a different transmission scheme when the VRU is already characterized in a CPM sent to the ITS stations. Also, a receiving station can evaluate whether the content of a CPM can be trusted or not. Safety is thus improved. This is achieved thanks to the CPM that references a certificate.
US12028414B1
A medical device controller operating in conjunction with a medical device determines one or more current versions of executable code associated with one or more processors in a medical device. Medical devices may include infusion pumps, other patient treatment devices as well as vital signs monitors. The medical device controller determines one or more current versions of executable code and configuration information associated with the one or more processors in the medical device. The medical device controller further determines which of the processors in the medical device require updated executable code, and which of the processors in the medical device require updated configuration information. The medical device controller distributes to the medical device as required at least one of the updated executable code and the updated configuration information. The medical device deploys the distributed updates, and activates the updates at a clinically appropriate time.
US12028405B2
A method, system and computer readable medium include objects with media content. The method includes receiving, at one or mom servers, a request for the media content to be displayed at an endpoint. The method includes identifying information about an environment associated with the endpoint. The method includes identifying a set of objects to include in a container for the media content based on the information identified about the environment. At least one of the objects includes program code for completing a transaction during display of the media content. Additionally, the method includes sending, by one or more servers, the set of objects to the endpoint.
US12028404B2
Media streaming to a phone, tablet or other mobile device is improved by adapting requests for content in anticipation of the device's future location. If a device is expected to pass through an area with poor wireless signal quality, then requests for media content can be pre-emptively obtained beforehand at places and times where the available bandwidth is more favorable. Further, requests for content may be delayed during lower bandwidth conditions if the device is expected to soon encounter more bandwidth. Content requests can be therefore optimized (or at least improved) based upon the expected bandwidth that will be encountered during the anticipated upcoming movement of the device.
US12028395B2
Methods, systems, and media for associating multiple users with a media presentation device are provided. In some embodiments, the method comprises: receiving first user preferences; receiving second user preferences; receiving requests to associate the first user preferences and the second user preferences, respectively, with a media presentation device; causing the first user preferences and the second user preferences to be associated with identifying information of the media presentation device; receiving, from the media presentation device, a request to present a slideshow of images based on user preferences and identifying information of the first user device and a third user device; determining that the first user preferences are associated with the media presentation device; determining that user preferences of the third user device are not associated with the media presentation device; and causing content based on the first user preferences to be presented by the media presentation device.
US12028394B2
Disclosed herein are a method and apparatus for providing a cloud streaming service. The method for providing a cloud streaming service includes segmenting the frame to be provided through cloud streaming into a first area and a second area, generating a first elementary stream by encoding the first area, generating a second elementary stream by encoding the second area, and merging the first elementary stream and the second elementary stream and transmitting a merged stream based on a request from a user.
US12028393B2
In certain aspects, a wireless multimedia apparatus and an operation method thereof are disclosed. The wireless multimedia apparatus includes a system on chip (SoC), including a memory configured to store code and a processor coupled to the memory. When the code is executed, the processor is configured to determine that a router is available and connected to a multimedia provider. The processor is configured to connect to the router based on configuration information associated with the router and receive multimedia data from the multimedia provider via the router. The processor is configured to determine whether the router is still available. Responsive to the router being unavailable, the processor is configured to turn on a softAP based on the configuration information associated with the router to connect to the multimedia provider via the softAP. The processor is configured to receive the multimedia data from the multimedia provider via the softAP.
US12028386B1
The present disclosure provides a cloud computing system including an application stack including a plurality of service containers including: a unmodified service container in electronic communication with at least one other service container from the plurality of service containers; a test service container in electronic communication with at least one other service container from the plurality of service containers; and a modified test service container in electronic communication with either the at least one unmodified service container or at least one other modified test service container; and an application load balancer to: receive a service request to and from each of the plurality of service containers, a user; determine whether the service request received is from the at least one unmodified service container, the at least one test service container, the at least one modified test service container, the user, or the tester; and route the service request.
US12028381B2
A system is provided including a database and a server. The database stores a plurality of cloud computing service accounts created on a cloud computing platform, a plurality of roles associated with each cloud computing service account, and a plurality of policies associated with each role. The server is in data communication with the database and containing a role risk rating engine. The role risk rating engine is configured to: select a first role of the plurality of roles from the database; retrieve the plurality of policies associated with the first role; determine a risk rating for the first role based on the plurality of policies associated with the first role; store the risk rating of the first role in the database; receive a query requesting the risk rating of the first role; and in response to the query, transmit the risk rating of the first role.
US12028377B2
Methods, systems, and devices supporting active fingerprinting for transport layer security (TLS) servers are described. In some systems, a client device may transmit a same set of client hello messages to each TLS server. The client device may receive a set of server hello messages in response to the standard set of client hello messages based on the contents of each client hello message. For example, a server hello message may indicate a selected cipher suite, TLS protocol version, and set of extensions in response to the specific information included in a client hello message. The client device may generate a hash value (e.g., a fuzzy hash) based on the set of server hello messages received from a TLS server. By comparing the hash values generated for different TLS servers, the client device may determine whether the TLS configurations for the different TLS servers are the same or different.
US12028374B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving, at a device, a message over a communication network from a remote source, determining if the message includes executable code and initiating a virtual machine in an isolated portion of the memory of the device responsive to the determining the message include executable code. Aspects of the subject disclosure further include executing, by the virtual machine, the executable code within the isolated portion of the memory, monitoring, by an artificial intelligence module, activities of the executable code during the executing the executable code and determining if the executable code comprises malicious code responsive to the monitoring activities of the executable code. Aspects of the disclosure further include deleting the executable code from the device in response to a determination that the executable code comprises malicious code. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US12028373B2
A system for preventing communications from detected phishing domains receives a communication associated with a particular domain. The system determines that the particular domain is a phishing domain. In response, in one embodiment, the system registers the particular domain in a Domain Name System (DNS) server to block the communication and future communications associated with the particular domain from being received at computing devices operably coupled with the DNS server. In another embodiment, the system registers the particular domain in the DNS server, such that the communication and future communications associated with the particular domain are re-routed to a particular server to monitor phishing activities implemented on the communications, where the phishing activities comprise attempting to obtain login credentials and private information associated with receivers of the communication and future communications.
US12028369B2
A processing system may identify a plurality of user interaction data associated with a target category of a plurality of users, identify a relevant subset of user interaction data, compress the plurality of user interaction data to the relevant subset of user interaction data, train a machine learning model with the relevant subset of user interaction data, obtain additional user interaction data associated with an additional user, identify a relevant subset of the additional user interaction data, apply the relevant subset of the additional user interaction data as an input to the machine learning model, obtain an output of the machine learning model quantifying a measure of which the relevant subset of the additional user interaction data is indicative of the target category, and perform at least one action responsive to the measure of which the relevant subset of the additional user interaction data is indicative of the target category.
US12028359B1
A method of evaluating threats to a network may gather existing threat from a plurality of online sources, collect the existing threats in a database and format the data representing existing threats in the database for review. The method may determine a rating for each existing threat, evaluate attractiveness of honeypots to threats and adjusting the ratings for the threats based on the attractiveness of the honeypots. The method may evaluate applications on network, rank the threats based on the apps and communicate the rankings to a user.
US12028358B2
Methods, computer-readable media, software, and apparatuses may assist a consumer in keeping track of a consumer's accounts in order to prevent unauthorized access or use of the consumer's identified accounts. To discover the various accounts, the methods, computer-readable media, software, and apparatuses can monitor at least a consumer's email accounts, web browser history, and web cache. The discovered accounts may be displayed to the consumer along with recommendations and assistance for closing unused or unwanted accounts to prevent unauthorized access or use.
US12028356B2
A detection device includes processing circuitry configured to collect communication information in a network including clients and servers, generate a matrix representing states of access from the clients to the servers using the communication information collected, aggregate a plurality of the clients accessing a target server and generate statistical information of similarities between the aggregated clients in the matrix as a feature amount of the target server, learn, with regard to the target server which is a server for which it is known whether the server is a malicious server, a model for determining whether a server is a malicious server using the feature amount generated, and determine, with regard to the target server which is a server for which it is unknown whether the server is a malicious server, whether the target server is a malicious server using the feature amount generated and the model.
US12028354B2
The present application discloses a method, system, and computer system for predicting responses to DNS queries. The method includes receiving a DNS query comprising a subdomain portion and a root domain portion from a client device, determining whether to obtain target address information corresponding to the DNS from a predictive cache, in response to determining to obtain the target address information from the predictive cache, obtaining the target address information from the predictive cache, and providing the target address information to the client device.
US12028346B1
A method is described. The method includes adding privileges using discrete modular steps to an account based on a requested activity to be performed during a session. The method also includes logging the account into the session with the added privileges. The method further includes removing the privileges using discrete modular steps from the account after the session.
US12028342B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for user authentication using a connection information package provided by a blockchain network. One apparatus includes a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory comprising instructions executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to receive, from a smart contract, a set of connection information packages and to receive, from a first function, a request to authenticate a roaming user. The instructions are further executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to determine whether the first function is associated with a valid connection information package and to accept the request to authenticate the roaming user in response to the first function being associated with the valid connection information package.
US12028339B2
In an embodiment, systems, methods, and computer-readable mediums for creating applications that issue and verify verifiable credentials are provided. An issuer may desire to create a verifiable credential for certain parties which attest to some fact about which the issuer can speak authoritatively. The issuer provides information about the desired verifiable credential to a credential creating application that creates verification information for the verifiable credential and publishes the verification information to a public datastore such as a blockchain or distributed ledger. The creation application then creates a first application that can be used by the issuer to generate verifiable credentials according to the provided structure and purpose, and a second application that can be used by the verifiers to verify any credentials that they receive from holders using the published verification information. The verifiers may provide some benefit to the holders in response to verifying the credentials.
US12028332B2
A network appliance receives a communication from a client device that includes a request to establish a network connection to a server. Prior to initiating a network connection between the network appliance and the server, the network appliance accesses a server certificate issued by the server. In response to a determination, based on application of a policy to the server certificate, not to decrypt data transmitted between the client device and the server, the network appliance establishes only a single connection between the network appliance and the server. The network appliance transmits encrypted data between the client device and the server over the single connection.
US12028330B2
A method by a management server is described. The method includes receiving a credentials request from a requesting management node. The credentials request includes a public key of the requesting management node. The method also includes determining whether the management server has credentials encrypted for the requesting management node in a local cache. The credentials are encrypted using the public key of the requesting management node and cannot be decrypted by the management server. The method further includes sending the encrypted credentials to the requesting management node when the management server has the encrypted credentials. The requesting management node can decrypt the encrypted credentials using a private key.
US12028328B2
Techniques for providing a database performance report in a restricted access environment are disclosed. In some embodiments, a computer system performs a method comprising: receiving, from a computing device of a user, a request to generate a database performance report for a first database that is hosted on a cloud computing platform, the request including a service key; obtaining administrative credentials from a second database using stateless authentication and the service key; obtaining one or more database performance metrics of the first database from the first database using the administrative credentials; and generating the database performance report based on the one or more database performance metrics.
