US12032929B2
A cross domain generalization system for industrial artificial intelligence (AI) applications is disclosed. A target encoder subsystem obtains target data from a target machine product and generates lower dimensional data for obtained target data using a target artificial intelligence (AI) model. The generated lower dimensional data are corresponding to a plurality of target embeddings data. The target encoder subsystem further applies the plurality of target embeddings data into a source classifier AI model. A source classifier subsystem predicts a quality of the target machine product by generating class labels for each of the plurality of target embeddings data based on a result of the classifier AI model. The goal of the present invention is to learn features or representations such that the correlation with a label space is similar both in source and target domains while being invariant of data distributions.
US12032926B2
An architecture for a chopper stabilized multiplier-accumulator (MAC) uses a chop clock and common Unit Element (UE), the MAC formed as a plurality of MAC UEs receiving X and W values and a sign bit exclusive ORed with the chop clock, a plurality of Bias UEs receiving E value and a sign bit exclusive ORed with the chop clock, and a plurality of Analog to Digital Conversion (ADC) UEs which collectively perform a scalable MAC operation and generate a binary result. Each MAC UE, BIAS UE and ADC UE comprises groups of NAND gates with complementary outputs arranged in NAND-groups, each NAND gate coupled to a differential charge transfer bus through a binary weighted charge transfer capacitor. The analog charge transfer bus is coupled to groups of ADC UEs with an ADC controller which enables and disables the ADC UEs using successive approximation to determine the accumulated multiplication result.
US12032924B2
An improved translation experience is provided using an auxiliary device, such as a pair of earbuds, and a wirelessly coupled mobile device. Microphones on both the auxiliary device and the mobile device simultaneously capture input from, respectively, a primary user (e.g., wearing the auxiliary device) and a secondary user (e.g., a foreign language speaker providing speech that the primary user desires to translate). Both microphones continually listen, rather than alternating between the mobile device and the auxiliary device. Each device may determine when to endpoint and send a block of speech for translation, for example based on pauses in the speech. Each device may accordingly send the received speech for translation and output, such that it is provided in a natural flow of communication.
US12032917B2
A computing device may execute a conversational agent that may receive language input. The conversational agent may analyze the language input based on configured goals to determine conclusions regarding the language input. The conversational agent may determine whether to modify the truth of one or more of the conclusions, and whether to include or omit the one or more conclusions or modified conclusions in an output response. The conversational agent may also store justifications for including or omitting each conclusion or modified conclusion. The conversational agent may output a response that indicates the conclusions and/or modified conclusions that were selected for output. A user may request that the conversational agent output the justifications for generating the output response. The conversational agent may output the justifications based on receiving the request.
US12032902B2
In some implementations, a device may identify a text from a document that includes structured information, wherein the structured information is a set of patent claims. The device may extract a first one or more parts and a second one or more parts, wherein the first one or more parts are one or more grammatical parts and the second one or more parts are one or more legal parts. The device may insert the first one or more parts and the second one or more parts into a structured model data object, wherein the structured model data object is a claim model data object. The device may generate structured output text from the structured model data object, wherein the structured output text corresponds to one or more patent document parts. The device may provide the structured output text.
US12032895B2
An oscillation circuit design support method is provided for designing an oscillation circuit condition in a circuit board equipped with an integrated circuit (IC) chip for oscillation and an oscillator. The method includes receiving an input of IC chip information about an IC chip for oscillation, providing sample oscillator data and sample oscillation circuit condition data that are determined in accordance with the IC chip information, receiving an input of frequency measurement information measured based on the sample oscillation circuit condition data when an oscillator corresponding to the sample oscillator data is installed at a circuit board, and a providing information relating to matched oscillation circuit condition data determined based on at least the frequency measurement information.
US12032894B2
A method and apparatus for identifying net text in a net list at each hierarchical level of the net list is disclosed. The identified net text is then associated with the hierarchical level in which the net text was found. Each cell in the net list can then be optimized by exploding the net list of at least one cell. Once exploded, the identified net text together with the associated hierarchical level of each progeny cell of each exploded cell is associated with the net list of the exploded cell.
US12032890B2
A method to place repeaters on existing structured routes based on user specified locations. Location can be specified in multiple ways. For example, a set of fixed repeating distances (starting from a driver), number of repeaters (spread evenly on net routing), an absolute cutline dissecting the existing nets routing (e.g., x or y coordinate measure from the origin of the cell), relative cutline dissecting the existing nets routing (e.g., x or y coordinate measured from the origin of the nets bounding box), etc. can specify location. A repeater legalization procedure allows a user to arrange repeaters in various forms thus legalizing them to meet specific design requirements. A preview mode is provided where results are presented in the form of annotations (e.g., cartoon drawings) displayed on a canvas (e.g., display screen) rather than in the form of real layout objects in a database.
US12032888B2
Systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products to facilitate batched quantum circuits simulation on a graphics processing unit are provided. According to an embodiment, a system can comprise a first processor that executes computer executable components stored in memory. The computer executable components can comprise a generalization component that generates a first defined matrix representation of a qubit gate and that employs a control mask to generate a second defined matrix representation of a multi-qubit gate. The computer executable components can further comprise an execution component that executes a kernel overhead operation using the first defined matrix representation and the second defined matrix representation to generate a batched kernel.
US12032878B2
Method for determining laser machining parameters for the machining of a material using a laser machining system comprises the following steps: a) providing said central unit with a learning machining function capable of learning on the basis of said plurality of machining data samples, said learning machining function comprising an algorithm capable of defining the following laser machining parameters for said machining result sought and for said machining system: a polarization, an pulse energy Ep, a diameter at the focal point w, a Gaussian order p, a pulse repetition rate PRR of pulses n, a wavelength; b) making said learning machining function to learn so as to said laser machining system can machine said material to be machined according to the machining result sought.
US12032876B2
A device for simulating a controlled machine or installation includes a process simulation apparatus designed to perform simulation steps that simulate a physical process of the machine or installation, and a controller simulation apparatus designed to perform simulation steps that simulate a controller of the machine or installation. The process simulation apparatus and the controller simulation apparatus exchange particular output values so as to simulate the controlled machine or installation in the respective simulation steps. The controller simulation apparatus transmits an item of information to the process simulation apparatus, which item of information describes a result time for an end of a simulation step performed by the controller simulation apparatus, while the process simulation apparatus is designed to adjust a duration of at least one of the simulation steps depending on the result time.
US12032860B2
The present disclosure provides a system. The system includes a memory device configured to store memory data. The memory device includes a plurality of valid memory blocks that comprises a first valid memory block and a second valid memory block. The system also includes a controller, having a processor and a memory, operatively coupled to the first and second valid memory blocks. The controller is configured to, in an operation on redundant array of independent disks (RAID), generate an address chain in a check code factor of the plurality of valid memory blocks, the address chain comprising a first address point pointing to the first valid memory block. The controller is also configured to generate, in the first valid memory block, a second address pointer, the second address pointer pointing to the second valid memory block.
US12032859B2
Examples described herein generally relate to hosting virtual memory backed kernel isolated containers. A server includes at least one physical processor and at least one physical computer memory addressable via physical memory addresses. The at least one physical computer memory stores executable code configured to provide at least one host including a kernel and at least one kernel isolated container within the at least one host. The host allocates virtual memory having virtual memory addresses to a respective container of the at least one kernel isolated container. The host pins a subset of the virtual memory addresses to a subset of the physical memory addresses. The host performs a direct memory access operation or device memory-mapped input-output operation of the respective container on the subset of the physical memory addresses. At least part of the physical computer memory that is not pinned is oversubscribed.
US12032852B2
Disclosed herein is a method of writing data to, and reading data from, one or more buffers. The method comprises: determining a write rate of writing data into a first buffer; determining a read rate of reading data from the first buffer; determining, using the write rate and the read rate, a portion of the first buffer; writing data into the portion of the first buffer; starting to read data from the first buffer when the writing of data to the portion of the first buffer has finished; and writing data into a remaining part of the first buffer, different from the portion of the first buffer. The portion of the first buffer is determined such that the reading of data from the first buffer does not overtake the writing of data into the first buffer.
US12032847B2
To replicate a source LUN to a different storage system platform, a first storage system transmits a request to replicate a LUN along with attributes for the LUN to a second storage system. The second storage system maps the attributes to attributes used and understood by the platform of the second storage system. The second storage system then creates a destination LUN based on the mapped attributes. Since the destination LUN is created with similar attributes as the source LUN, the destination LUN can store the replicated data of the source LUN while still being accessed and recognized as a LUN by the second storage system. The second storage system also stores any proprietary attributes received from the first storage system so that the proprietary attributes can be supplied to the first storage system to recover the source LUN after a data loss event.
US12032839B2
The disclosure describes techniques for hierarchical power management of memory of an artificial reality system to reduce power consumption by the memory. An example device may be a peripheral device configured to generate artificial reality content for display or a head-mounted display unit (HMD) configured to output artificial reality content for display. The device includes memory divided into multiple memory blocks configurable to operate in a plurality of power modes. The device also includes memory block controllers controlling memory blocks. Each memory block controller controls which power mode in which the corresponding memory block is to operate, independent of any of the other memory blocks. The device includes a memory power controller configured to configure control registers of the memory block controllers to direct the memory block controllers to select one of the plurality of power modes for the memory blocks when the memory blocks are not being accessed.
US12032838B2
Disclosed is an operation method of a memory device which performs a self-refresh operation. The method includes receiving a deep-sleep mode enter command from a memory controller, changing a magnitude of an internal voltage of the memory device from a first voltage to a second voltage smaller than the first voltage, in response to the deep-sleep mode enter command, and entering a self-refresh mode under control of the memory controller, and the internal voltage is maintained at the second voltage during the self-refresh mode.
US12032831B2
A memory system includes a volatile first storing unit, a nonvolatile second storing unit in which data is managed in a predetermined unit, and a controller that writes data requested by a host apparatus in the second storing unit via the first storing unit and reads out data requested by the host apparatus from the second storing unit to the first storing unit and transfers the data to the host apparatus. The controller includes a management table for managing the number of failure areas in a predetermined unit that occur in the second storing unit and switches, according to the number of failure areas, an operation mode in writing data in the second storing unit from the host apparatus.
US12032812B1
A system described herein may maintain one or more models that associate respective objects and triggers with sets of actions. The system may receive visual information from a User Equipment (“UE”), may determine that the visual information received from the UE depicts the particular object, and may identify that the one or more triggers are met. The system may provide, to the UE, based on identifying that the visual information received from the UE depicts the particular object, and further based on identifying that the one or more triggers are met, an augmented reality (“AR”) virtual assistant that performs the particular set of actions with respect to the particular object.
US12032811B2
A system and method displays to a user nearby other user's compatible with that user.
US12032809B2
A computing system may receive, via a first front-end software module running on a first client station associated with a first user, a request to assign an action item to a second user. The action item may comprise an embedded link to a second front-end software module that can be used to complete the action item. The computing system may then cause a second client station associated with the second user to present the action item to the second user, receive an indication that the second user has selected the embedded link of the action item, responsively cause the second client station to begin running the second front-end software module, and receive input from the second user that facilitates completion of the action item. In turn, the computing system may cause the first and/or the second client station to present an indication that the action item has been completed.
US12032803B2
A computer system displays a first view of a three-dimensional environment. While displaying the first view, the computer system detects a first movement of a first hand that meets first criteria, and in response, displays a first virtual object that includes a first plurality of selectable controls at a first position in the first view, wherein the first position corresponds to a location of the first hand after the first movement in a physical environment. While displaying the first virtual object at the first position, the computer system detects a second movement of the first hand, and in response, displays movement of a representation of the first hand in the first view in accordance with the second movement of the first hand relative to a position of the first virtual object in the first view.
US12032801B2
Adjusting a cursor speed may include a sensor with at least one capacitance sense electrode, a controller in communication with the sensor, memory in communication with the controller, and programmed instructions stored in the memory and configured, when executed, to cause the capacitance controller to detect movement of an object moving proximate the sensor at an object speed, apply a cursor speed to a cursor depicted in a display based at least in part on a cursor-to-object speed relationship, detect a trigger event in the detected object movement, and change the cursor-to-object speed relationship in response to detecting the trigger event.
US12032790B2
A display device includes: a substrate; a display layer disposed on the substrate and including a plurality of light emitting areas; a code pattern layer disposed on the display layer and including a plurality of position code patterns; and a reflective layer that receives first light incident from the outside having a first wavelength band and reflects the first light to generate second light having a second wavelength band, wherein a second peak wavelength of the second light is smaller than a first peak wavelength of the first light.
US12032788B2
Disclosed herein is a touch display device including a panel driver configured to drive gate lines and data lines of a panel and drive and sense touch electrodes, and a timing controller configured to control a drive timing and an output of the panel driver, wherein the timing controller time-divisionally drives each frame period into a plurality of display operation periods and a plurality of touch operation periods such that each display operation period and each touch operation period alternate and, during at least one compensation period of a first compensation period adjacent to an immediately preceding touch operation period and a second compensation period adjacent to an immediately following touch operation period in each display operation period, compensates at least one of a data signal and a gate signal, which is to be supplied to a compensation area, according to a variation in state of a panel.
US12032781B1
The disclosure provides a touch device and an operation method thereof. A touch panel of the touch device is divided into a plurality of stylus connection areas. During a first discovery period, the stylus connection areas detect a stylus one by one in a first scan order. When the stylus is located in one of the stylus connection areas (a hit area), the first discovery period is ended to enter a normal period, and the hit area establishes a connection to the stylus. When the connection between the stylus and the touch panel is interrupted, the normal period is ended to enter a second discovery period, and the first scan order is adjusted to a second scan order according to the hit area in the normal period. During the second discovery period, the stylus connection areas detect the stylus one by one in the second scan order.
US12032780B2
A method includes generating, by a drive sense circuit, an analog drive sense signal based on an analog reference signal, wherein the analog reference signal has a magnitude that is substantially less than a supply rail power of the drive sense circuit. The method further includes driving, by the drive sense circuit, a load with the analog drive sense signal.
US12032775B2
A display device includes: a plurality of first electrode patterns; a plurality of second electrode patterns; a plurality of first touch signal lines; and a plurality of second touch signal lines. The plurality of first electrode patterns respectively include a plurality of first electrode cells physically separated from each other and arranged in a first direction. The plurality of second electrode patterns include a plurality of second electrode cells physically separated from each other and arranged in a second direction crossing the first direction. The plurality of first touch signal lines are connected to the first electrode cells. The plurality of second touch signal lines are connected to the second electrode cells. The first and second electrode patterns and the first and second touch signal lines are all positioned at the same layer on a substrate. The first touch signal lines are independently connected to each first electrode cell.
US12032774B2
A combination touch and transducer input system is provided, which facilitates user input into an electronic system with a finger and/or a transducer (e.g., a stylus). The system includes a transducer configured to generate an electric field, and a sensor including an array of electrodes and a controller. The transducer is configured to transmit digital data, such as pen pressure data and switch status data, to the sensor. For example, the transducer comprises electronic circuitry configured to encode the digital data in a signal for transmission to the sensor. The sensor controller is configured to operate both in a touch sensing mode and in a transducer sensing mode. During the touch sensing mode, the controller determines a position of a proximate object (e.g., a finger) by capacitively sensing the object with the array of electrodes. During the transducer sensing mode, the controller determines a position of the transducer based on a signal received by the array of electrodes from the transducer, and also receives and decodes the digital data encoded in the received signal. Digital data can be encoded in a signal using any suitable digital modulation techniques, such as a Frequency-Shift Keying (FSK) technique.
US12032771B1
A capacitance module may include at least one capacitance electrode; a controller in communication with the electrode; memory in communication with the controller, and programmed instructions stored in the memory and configured, when executed, to cause the controller to detect, with at least one capacitance electrode, a broadcasted signal from an electronic display component.
US12032769B2
A force sensing processing method of a touchpad is provided. The comparison values obtained by subtracting the force induction quantities of different frames are used to determine whether the achievement conditions are met. If it is met, a processing step is executed to respond the event to be triggered by the changing trend of the user's force. When the force changes rapidly and the force sensing amount cannot be quickly returned to the originally set trigger threshold value, the force changing trend detected by the comparison values are be used to provide the processing steps in real time, so as to improve the user experience.
US12032763B2
A touch sensor includes a substrate layer, a plurality of sensing electrodes on the substrate layer, and at least one device hole penetrating through one or more of the sensing electrodes. A functional device of an image display device may overlap the device hole so that an optical interference by the touch sensor may be prevented.
US12032757B2
An object of the present disclosure is to provide an electronic pen that is excellent in portability by being reduced in size, that has a side switch functioning stably, and that is easy to maintain. A pusher part of an electronic pen body part is inserted into an insertion part of an operator, and the operator is thus attached to the pusher part of the electronic pen body part in a state of being fitted into an operator opening part of an outer casing. The operator opening part of the outer casing is formed in a side surface thereof at a position corresponding to a button switch of the electronic pen body part being loaded into the outer casing and placed at a fixed position. Therefore, the button switch can reliably be depressed through the operator, and the side switch of the electronic pen is realized.
US12032756B2
An input device includes: a housing; a tip electrode protruding outside of the housing and configured to transmit a downlink signal to the outside; a reception electrode inside the housing and configured to receive an uplink signal from the outside; and a communication circuit electrically connected to the tip electrode and the reception electrode and configured to receive the uplink signal from the reception electrode or to transmit the downlink signal to the tip electrode, wherein a surface of the reception electrode has a concave-convex structure.
US12032754B2
An information processing apparatus performs control, in a first control mode, so that a first display item is displayed on a display region of a display unit, the first display item indicating a position based on inertial information of a controller. The information processing apparatus performs control, in a second control mode, so that a second display item is displayed on the display region, the second display item indicating a position according to a first operation performed on a specified operation member in a first area of the display region. The information processing apparatus performs, in a case where the position indicated by the first display item is included in a second area of the display region in the first control mode, switching from the first control mode to the second control mode in response to a specified operation.
US12032747B1
The present disclosure is directed to devices and methods for detecting dimming gestures using infrared detection. Infrared signals are detected using a thermal metal-oxide-semiconductor (TMOS) infrared (IR) sensor solution. The TMOS IR sensor is highly accurate and has low power consumptions compared to traditional IR sensors that utilize IR receivers.
US12032746B2
The technology disclosed relates to a method of realistic displacement of a virtual object for an interaction between a control object in a three-dimensional (3D) sensory space and the virtual object in a virtual space that the control object interacts with. In particular, it relates to detecting free-form gestures of a control object in a three-dimensional (3D) sensory space and generating for display a 3D solid control object model for the control object during the free-form gestures, including sub-components of the control object and in response to detecting a 2D sub-component free-form gesture of the control object in the 3D sensory space in virtual contact with the virtual object, depicting, in the generated display, the virtual contact and resulting rotation of the virtual object by the 3D solid control object model.
US12032742B2
Embodiments herein provide haptic button assemblies with a shape memory alloy actuator (SMA) in which the haptic button has a low profile while still providing a satisfying tactile response or sensation to a user. Advantageously, the haptic button assemblies may have a profile that, for example, enables the assembly to be incorporated into the free space along an edge of a portable computing device. The haptic assemblies may for example, be arranged to move the button perpendicularly with respect to the edge of the device.
US12032740B2
In example embodiments, a method includes obtaining a first measurement of at least a first physiological parameter of a user from a time before presentation of an information item to the user. The information item may be, for example, a notification, an advertisement, or an emergency alert, among other possibilities. A second measurement of the first physiological parameter is obtained from a time after a beginning of the presentation of the information item to the user (e.g. during the presentation). Based at least on a comparison between the first and second measurements, a determination is made of whether the user has perceived the information item. The determination may also be based on a corruption coefficient indicating an amount by which an activity of the user is likely to interfere with the first physiological parameter.
US12032728B2
Interaction with a Computer is provided via an autonomous virtual embodied Agent. The Computer outputs Digital Content, which includes any content that exists in the form of digital data and is representable to a User. A subset of, or all, Digital Content is configured as Shared Digital Content which is representable to both the User and to the Agent.
US12032716B2
In some examples, a system is to receive, from a client device, a query comprising a representation of blockchain information of an entity associated with an electronic device that advertised the representation. The system is to further determine whether a client entity associated with the client device has a privilege to access response information that is responsive to the query, and in response to determining that the client entity has the privilege to access the response information, send, to a blockchain network, a request containing the blockchain information to obtain the response information.
US12032713B1
Systems and methods are provided for sending and receiving encrypted submessages. A method for sending and receiving encrypted submessages includes generating a first submessage comprising a first portion of content stored onto a first computer, generating a second submessage comprising a second portion of the content, encrypting the first submessage and the second submessage, transmitting the encrypted first submessage to a second computer via a first path, transmitting the encrypted second submessage to the second computer via a second path, wherein the first submessage and the second submessage are transmitted to the second computer in a batched manner, transmitting an encryption key to the second computer, wherein the encryption key is transmitted to the second computer in real time, wherein the encryption key indicates a decrypting algorithm to decrypt the encrypted first submessage, and wherein the second computer recreates the content by decrypting the encrypted first submessage.
US12032701B2
Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for managing operations of data processing systems to prevent implementation of malicious configurations. An example method includes constructing, by a data processing system, a validated change log and reconstructing known good configurations by replaying the validated configuration changes from the validated change log. The example method further includes making a determination, by the data processing system, regarding whether the source of a configuration change request has enough privilege to make the configuration request, and validating the request should the source have enough privilege.
US12032700B2
A system including an embedded removable-boot-drive plug-in device and an embedded removable-boot-drive host device is disclosed. Additionally, a method of using the embedded-removable-boot-drive system is disclosed. The system and method provide security to, and accessibility of, stored data and/or boot-drive devices.
US12032699B2
A storage device and an operating method are provided. The storage device includes a non-volatile memory comprising a first area configured to store a plurality of normal firmware images and a second area configured to store a plurality of trusted firmware images, a firmware table configured to store information about the plurality of normal firmware images and the plurality of trusted firmware images, and a storage controller configured to control the non-volatile memory, perform a self-test for the storage device and write at least one of the plurality of trusted firmware images over a boot image based on a result of the self-test. The firmware table is configured to store a first hash value calculated before encryption of the plurality of trusted firmware images, and a second hash value calculated after encryption of the plurality of trusted firmware images.
US12032695B2
Redundancy in a malware signature list is reduced by processing a plurality of pairs of records in a known malware signature list, where each pair of records comprises a file identifier and an associated malware detection. At least one of the file identifiers and the associated malware detections are mapped to symbols representing the file identifiers and the associated malware detections, the symbols taking less memory than the file identifiers and the associated malware detections. The mapped symbols representing the file identifiers and the associated malware detections are processed to remove at least some malware detections that are not needed to provide a desired degree of representation of each file identifier in the processed known malware signature list, and a processed known malware signature list is stored.
US12032690B2
A method is provided for protecting a machine learning model from a side channel attack. A weighted sum vector having first and second elements is initialized. A weight vector for a connection between a node of a first layer and a node of a second layer is multiplied with an input vector to the node of the first layer. A first element of the weight vector includes a weight, and a first element of the input vector includes the input. A second element of the weight vector is a negation of the first element of the weight vector and the second element of the input vector equals the first element of the input vector. A multiplication result is added to the weighted sum vector to produce a computed weighted sum vector. An output vector including the computed weighted sum vector is provided to the node of the second layer.
US12032683B2
Log entries and baseline log entries have timestamps, and can be structured over columns of respective data types. Temporal inconsistency can be identified by comparing a probability distribution of time differences between the timestamps of the log entries with a probability distribution of time differences between the timestamps of the baseline log entries. Data type inconsistency can be identified by comparing a data type of each column of the log entries with a data type of a corresponding column of the baseline log entries. Columnar inconsistency can be identified by comparing a number of the columns of the log entries with a number of the columns of the baseline log entries. In response to identification of temporal, data type, and/or columnar inconsistency, that an abnormality exists in collecting the log entries is detected.
US12032678B2
An information processing architecture for implementation in a vehicle includes a software segregation unit which is configured to provide a first security domain and a second security domain which are assigned in each case to different operational areas of the vehicle and have their own data processing environments which are segregated from one another to run a multiplicity of computer applications. The software segregation unit is further configured to provide a synchronization instance, wherein the synchronization instance has a central dataset which is synchronized with data generated in the respective security domains independently from one another via data exchange and is selectively readable by both security domains.
US12032672B2
According to an embodiment of the present application, there is provided an image verification method and apparatus, an electronic device and a computer-readable storage medium, which can be applied to the technical field of network security and the field of image processing and recognition. The image verification method includes: displaying a first image portion and a second image portion, the first image portion being rotatable with respect to the second image portion, the first image portion and the second image portion being obtained by cropping an original image and rotating the cropped first image portion with respect to the second image portion; receiving an operation for rotating the first image portion; rotating the first image portion based on the operation; and determining whether an angle of the first image portion relative to the second image portion matches with the original image, in response to determining that the operation is ended.
US12032671B2
A computer-implemented method and system for verifying the identity of a user in an identity authentication and biometric verification system which includes collecting information from the user regarding the user's identity, which is then electronically authenticated. Upon authentication, personal information regarding the verified identity of the user is retrieved from a source database which is used to verify the identity of the user, via user interaction. Upon successful verification and authentication, biometric data regarding the user is electronically collected.
US12032668B2
The disclosed embodiments relate to a system that authenticates and/or identifies a user of an electronic device based on passive factors, which do not require conscious user actions. During operation of the system, in response to detecting a trigger event, the system collects sensor data from one or more sensors in the electronic device. Next, the system extracts a feature vector from the sensor data. The system then analyzes the feature vector to authenticate and/or identify the user, wherein the feature vector is analyzed using a model trained with sensor data previously obtained from the electronic device while the user was operating the electronic device.
US12032666B2
Before or after a first-type authentication has been completed, disclosed devices, systems, and methods may conduct a second-type authentication to authenticate a user such that the user can log into a secure device and/or access secure content. An example system may cause a wearable device to activate a biosensor, which extends along a full internal circumference of the wearable device when worn, to detect at least a first sEMG signal on the user's skin responsive to the user performing a first gesture. The system may also generate or receive a first user signature based on the first sEMG signal and determine whether the first user signature matches stored authentication training data. In response to determining that there is a match, the system may complete the second-type authentication to authenticate the user.
US12032654B1
A real-time event transcription system and related methods provides for determining the existence, sequencing and timing of an event and/or event elements, for detecting and compensating for latency issues and cheating while providing synchronized user engagement, wherein users who are observing an event interact with a stream of stimuli generated over the course of the event, each user's interactions precisely recorded and accurately timestamped, accounting and/or compensating for various delays that may cause different users to encounter the stimuli at different times. Embodiments further provide for methods to determine and synchronize stimuli and reaction timing across a plurality of geographical locations, transmission methods and media.
US12032645B2
The disclosed embodiments generally relate to techniques for tailoring messages for network communication. More specifically, the disclosed embodiments relate to systems and methods to provide customized information updates based on recipient preferences. For example, a recipient may prefer receiving updates less frequently than the system creates updates and/or may prefer to receive different levels of data in the updates. In some embodiments, a deltasnap technique is provided which allows for more efficient tailoring of the rate that update messages are provided. In some embodiments, a partitioning technique is provided which allows for more efficient tailoring of the content of update messages. In some embodiments, the deltasnap technique is provided in combination with the partitioning technique which allows for more efficient tailoring of the rate and content of the update messages.
US12032643B2
A method of inferring user intent in search input in a conversational interaction system is disclosed. A method of inferring user intent in a search input includes providing a user preference signature that describes preferences of the user, receiving search input from the user intended by the user to identify at least one desired item, and determining that a portion of the search input contains an ambiguous identifier. The ambiguous identifier is intended by the user to identify, at least in part, a desired item. The method further includes inferring a meaning for the ambiguous identifier based on matching portions of the search input to the preferences of the user described by the user preference signature and selecting items from a set of content items based on comparing the search input and the inferred meaning of the ambiguous identifier with metadata associated with the content items.
US12032638B2
Techniques for providing an enhanced search to generate a feed based on a user's interests are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system/process/computer program product for providing an enhanced search to generate a feed based on a user's interests includes receiving a plurality of interests associated with a user, searching online content including one or more websites (e.g., news or other content websites, social networking sites, and/or other online content) based on the plurality of interests associated with the user, receiving a plurality of web documents (e.g., links to websites, social networking sites, and other online content) based on the search for online content, ranking the plurality of web documents based on a document score and a user signal, and generating a content feed that includes at least a subset of the plurality of web documents based on the ranking.
US12032637B2
Single-click delta analysis is disclosed. A user query of status information collected from one or more monitored devices is received from a user. In response to receiving an indication from the user to determine a variance between different portions of the collected status information, a target query and a baseline query are generated using the user query. The generated target query and the generated baseline query are performed, respectively, against data in a data store including the status information collected from the one or more monitored devices. A target set of status information results and a baseline set of status information results are obtained in response to performing, respectively, the generated target query and the generated baseline query. The obtained target and baseline sets of results are combined. Output indicative of a variance between the target and baseline sets of status information results is provided based at least in part on the combining.
US12032636B2
Biases in search and retrieval (i.e., situations where searchers seek or are presented with information that significantly deviates from the truth) may be detected by comparison to one or more authoritative sources. Once bias or potential bias is detected, techniques may be applied to indicate and/or compensate for the bias. Such techniques may allow users to more easily assess the veracity of search results, and increase the chances that users will locate accurate answers to their questions.
US12032635B2
Methods, apparatuses, and systems for collecting and validating web traffic data, including receiving preprocessed log data representing an activity of a device interacting with a data service; validating the preprocessed log data in accordance with a predetermined format, the format comprising a field indicative of a predetermined data type and a field indicative of a predetermined validation condition associated with the predetermined data type; and generating metadata associated with validated preprocessed log data.
US12032633B2
Systems and methods for identification and retrieval of content for visual search are provided. An example method includes receiving data specifying a digital supplement. The data may identify a digital supplement and a supplement anchor for associating the digital supplement with visual content. The method may also include generating a data structure instance that specifies the digital supplement and the supplement anchor and, after generating the data structure instance, enabling triggering of the digital supplement by an image based at least on storing the data structure instance in a database that includes a plurality of other data structure instances. The other data structure instances may each specify a digital supplement and one or more supplement anchors.
US12032628B2
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to fingerprint an audio signal via exponential normalization. An example apparatus includes an audio segmenter to divide an audio signal into a plurality of audio segments including a first audio segment and a second audio segment, the first audio segment including a first time-frequency bin, the second audio segment including a second time-frequency bin, a mean calculator to determine a first exponential mean value associated with the first time frequency bin based on a first magnitude of the audio signal associated with the first time frequency bin and a second exponential mean value associated with the second time frequency bin based on a second magnitude of the audio signal associated with the second time frequency bin and the first exponential mean value. The example apparatus further includes a bin normalizer to normalize the first time-frequency bin based on the second exponential mean value and a fingerprint generator to generate a fingerprint of the audio signal based on the normalized first time-frequency bins.
US12032622B2
A method for classifying a set of source files of reality capture data into an asset class of digital reality capture assets may include receiving, from a user device, a set of payloads including metadata of the set of source files of the reality capture data corresponding to a region of interest captured by a camera. The method may include classifying the set of source files of the reality capture data into the asset class of the digital reality capture assets, based on the set of payloads including the metadata of the set of source files of the reality capture data. The method may include providing, to the user device, information identifying the asset class of the digital reality capture assets to which the set of source files are classified to permit a digital reality capture asset, corresponding to the asset class, of the region of interest to be generated based on the set of source files.
US12032619B2
An electronic device obtains a collection of images and obtains a media item. The electronic device selects a subset of the collection of images, including: selecting an initial subset of the collection of images, wherein the initial subset of the collection of images is based on descriptors associated with the collection of images and/or the media item; obtaining a set of preferences for a user of the media-providing service; and selecting the subset of the collection of images from the initial subset of the collection of images based on the set of preferences for the user of the media-providing service. The electronic device concurrently presents: a respective image of the subset of the collection of images; and the media item.
US12032617B2
An ontology creation apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a first selection unit that receives an input operation that is performed based on information that represents definitions of candidate classes of ontology; an acquisition unit that acquires a candidate class of a subject when the selected class is determined as the object, based on information that represents definitions of properties that indicate connection relationships between classes that serve as objects and classes that serve as subjects; a second selection unit that receives an input operation for selecting an instance that belongs to a class of a subject when the selected class is determined as an object, based on the candidate; a relationship setting unit that sets a connection relationship between instances that belong to the selected class and the selected instance; and an output unit that creates and outputs ontology that indicates the selected class, the instance, and the set connection relationship.
US12032614B2
Described herein are systems, methods, and other techniques for evaluating a classifier model. The classifier model may be provided with a set of elements to be classified into N classes. Classification results may be obtained from the classifier model. N class-specific precisions and N class-specific recalls for the N classes may be computed based on the classification results. N class-specific precision weights and N class-specific recall weights corresponding to the N classes may be obtained. A weighted f-measure may be computed by weighting the N class-specific precisions with the N class-specific precision weights and weighting the N class-specific recalls with the N class-specific recall weights.
US12032611B1
This disclosure describes systems and techniques receiving a request for information from a user and, in response, outputting the requested information along with unsolicited, interesting content that is related to, yet nonresponsive to, the requested information. In some instances, if the requested information is unknown, the techniques may output an indication that the information is unknown, followed by the additional, unsolicited, interesting content.
US12032607B2
A context-based recommendation system for feature search automatically identifies features of a feature-rich system (e.g., an application) based on the program code of the feature-rich system and additional data corresponding to the feature-rich system. A code workflow graph describing workflows in the program code is generated. Various data corresponding to the feature-rich system, such as help data, analytics data, social media data, and so forth is obtained. The code workflow graph and the data are analyzed to identify sentences in the workflow. These sentences are used to a train machine learning system to generate one or more recommendations. In response to a user query, the machine learning system generates and outputs as recommendations workflows identified based on the user query.
US12032600B1
A method of analyzing measurement data includes sorting EDSs into similarity clusters including a representative RDS; labeling the similarity clusters; sorting the EDSs or RDSs into sub-clusters; selecting one of the EDSs or RDSs in each of the sub-clusters as a search seed representative of the sub-cluster; sorting measurement EDSs from measurement data into measurement clusters including a representative measurement RDS; determining for each search seed a most similar one of the measurement EDSs or RDSs; identifying the determined most similar one of the measurement EDSs or RDSs for each search seed as a classification segment corresponding to the search seed; sorting new measurement EDSs or RDSs into classification clusters with the classification segments; classifying all the new measurement EDSs or RDSs in each classification cluster the same as the corresponding classification segment; and determining whether patterns of interest are in the measurement data stream based on the classification clusters.
US12032598B2
A computer-implemented method of identifying an individual independently of the individual's personally identifying information includes providing independent data stores for elements of personal identifying information for a population and fuzzy searching the data stores independently for the elements. Each data store associates each element value and its known variations with a unique static code. The search returns the unique static code associated with each of the elements found and a new independent code is generated if no code is found. The returned 10 codes are concatenated to form a person code. The person codes link information to produce a relationship between disparate data without a master database of people and PII.
US12032594B2
Systems and methods are provided for replicating data between different services used to update databases. One example system includes a database and a computing device coupled in communication with the database, wherein the computing device is configured to perform a create, update or delete operation on the data included in the database and to post an entry representative of the operation to an outbox data structure. The computing device is also configured to retrieve the entry from the outbox data structure; publish the entry as a first message to a message bus, thereby informing a different data system of the operation in the database; receive a second message from the message bus indicative of a create, update or delete operation at a database included in a different data system; and direct a service of the system to perform the create, update or delete operation of the second message.
US12032591B2
Examples of the present disclosure relate to content delivery using distributed ledger and AI-based transcoding technologies. In examples, a content distribution network (CDN) receives content from a content source for distribution to client devices. A content record is generated for the content, which comprises a content hash for the content. The content record may be stored in a distributed ledger. A smart contract associated with the content may be generated, where the smart contract facilitates CDN analytics or accounting for CDN service payments, licensing fees, or royalty payments, among other examples. The smart contract may be associated with the content hash and may be executed based on any of a variety of triggers, such as content playback and/or distribution via the CDN.
US12032585B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to using machine learning techniques to predict storage configurations for historical data. In some embodiments, a computer system stores representations of historical data according to a current set of storage parameters. The representations may include snapshots of historical data in a data repository at different points in time. The computer system may receive queries for historical data specifying points in time from which to retrieve the historical data. In some embodiments, the computer system responds to the queries using the stored representations and determines performance metrics for the responses. In some embodiments, the computer system trains a machine learning model using the performance metrics. Based on output of the trained model, the computer system updates the current set of storage parameters. The updating may affect subsequent storage of representations in the data repository, which may advantageously improve query response times and decrease repository storage size.
US12032584B2
Provided are a data management method and system for a security protection terminal, a device and a medium. The method includes: respectively generating an initial universally unique identifier for each security protection terminal; determining a target search field, calculating corresponding search field identifier information, and inputting the same into the initial universally unique identifier to obtain a target universally unique identifier; storing data corresponding to the security protection terminals in corresponding sub-databases based on a horizontal partitioning and modulus mode according to the target universally unique identifier; and receiving a data search request, and locating to the sub-databases based on the horizontal partitioning and modulus mode according to the target search field identifier information, thereby facilitating subsequent data search in the sub-databases.
US12032577B2
A cardinality query associated with a specific attribute is received. One or more in-scope attribute cardinality partitions is enforced on session record analytics. Vertical data compression is performed to eliminate a time dimension. Horizontal data compression is performed to eliminate one or more out-of-scope attributes. One or more like in-scope session records is aggregated. Magnitudes of each in-scope attribute of each enforced cardinality partition are summed. The sum is returned as a response to the cardinality query.
US12032576B2
Techniques to process a query and perform a join of tables that are distributed across nodes of a network. The join can be performed by analyzing a Where clause. An active flag structure can have flag values that identify table entries satisfying criteria of the Where clause. Keys of surviving entries of a first table can be used to generate a request for a second table to be joined. The request can be for second flags for the second table when the Where clause has criteria for the second table. A response can be used to update the first flags to change a first flag to False. After updating, data can be retrieved for first flags that are True. Requests can use identifiers associated with the first table that identify a location for sending the request, e.g., using RDMA or MPI.
US12032571B2
In a method for AI model optimization, an optimization device receives an original AI model and search configuration information that comprises a plurality of search items each indicating its search categories for performing optimization information search on the original AI model. The device obtains a plurality of search operators corresponding to the plurality of search items, and arranges the search operators in an operation sequence based on the search configuration information. The device then executes the search operators in the arranged operation sequence on the original AI model to obtain an optimized AI model. In the execution of the operation sequence, each search operator, except for the first search operator in the operation sequence, is executed utilizing operation results of a preceding search operator in the operation sequence, the operation results including generated network structures and search space information.
US12032568B2
Some embodiments may be associated with facilitating extensibility for an enterprise portal in a cloud computing environment. A computer processor of a multi-level extensibility framework server may provide to a user a graphical view of existing services of the enterprise portal using information from the business enterprise portal data store and a sample data model. The processor may also receive from the user extension information for at least one of the technical layers and, based on the received extension information, automatically generate and provide an intelligent extension proposal to the user. The processor may also display simulated results to the user based on the intelligent extension proposal and the sample data model. The processor may then receive from the user a confirmation of the intelligent extension proposal and automatically transfer extension fields, entities, and mapping to multiple technical layers of the enterprise portal.
US12032566B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to providing, based on a partial query string, a plurality of autosuggestions that are diverse in nature such that the user is more likely to see the preferred complete query terms and therefore more likely to select one of the preferred suggestions which will increase search efficiency. As described herein, such functionality relates to generating cluster groups of candidate suggestions, each cluster including sub-topics, then performing the search based on a selected cluster or sub-topic. To generate the cluster groups, systems and methods, as described herein, analyze the similarity between candidate suggestions as well as the popularity of generated sub-topics. The cluster groups and sub-topics may be displayed visually, and in certain embodiments the cluster groups are ordered vertically from top to bottom and aligned to the left side of the display, while sub-topics are ordered horizontally from left to right following the cluster label.
US12032553B2
A data processing method is provided. The method includes obtaining an operation instruction, the operation instruction including operation type information and target data unit information corresponding to a target data unit; querying a target data group in a data group set according to the target data unit information, the data group set including at least one data group, the data group including at least one data unit; obtaining locked-state information of the target data group; performing locking detection on the target data unit based on the locked-state information and the operation type information to obtain a detection result; performing locking processing on the target data unit based on the detection result; and executing the operation instruction after the locking processing is performed, to perform an operation corresponding to the operation type information on the target data unit.
US12032548B2
A method of maintaining a probabilistic filter includes, in response to receiving a key K1 for adding to the probabilistic filter, generating a fingerprint F1 based on applying a fingerprint hash function HF to the key K1, identifying an initial bucket Bi1 by selecting between at least a first bucket B1 determined based on a first bucket hash function H1 of the key K1 and a second bucket B2 determined based on a second bucket hash function H2 of the key K1, and inserting the fingerprint F1 into the initial bucket Bi1; and resizing the probabilistic filter. Resizing the probabilistic filter includes incrementing a resize counter value, determining a bucket B′ for the fingerprint F1 based on a value of the fingerprint F1 and the resize counter value, and inserting the fingerprint F1 into the bucket B′ in the probabilistic filter.
US12032542B2
A data storage management system is enhanced to accommodate, and moreover to optimize, the storing and retention of deduplicated secondary copies at write-once read-many (WORM) enabled storage platforms. Enhancements include without limitation: user interface (UI) options to enable WORM functionality for secondary storage, whether used for deduplicated or non-deduplicated secondary copies; enhancements to secondary copy (e.g., deduplication copy, backup) operations; and pruning changes. The storage manager is generally responsible for managing the creation, tracking, and deletion of secondary copies, with and without deduplication. Media agents that store secondary copies to and prune them from the WORM-enabled storage platforms also are enhanced for communicating and interoperating with both bucket-level and object-level WORM-enabled storage platforms to implement the features disclosed herein.
US12032537B2
A first group of chunk identifiers associated with a first content identifier structure of a first metadata element and a second group of chunk identifiers associated with a second content identifier structure of a second metadata element are determined. A common sequence of chunk identifiers across at least a portion of the first group of chunk identifiers associated with the first content identifier structure and the second group of chunk identifiers associated with the second content identifier structure is determined. A portion of the first group of chunk identifiers associated with the first content identifier structure and a portion of the second group of chunk identifiers associated with the second content identifier structure is updated to reference a common sequence identifier in place of the determined common sequence of chunk identifiers.
US12032532B2
In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for automatic inference of a cube schema from a tabular data for use in a multidimensional database environment. A cube schema inference component can successively perform column-wise splits to calculate information gain ratios between each pair of a plurality of columns in the tabular data. A cross correlation matrix can be constructed from the information gain ratios between each pair of columns. The system can determine relationships among the plurality of columns based on the cross correlation matrix; create a hierarchy directed graph to represent the relationships; and further transform the hierarchy directed graph into a cube schema that can be used to create a cube for loading the tabular data, or to map the tabular data into an existing cube in the multidimensional database environment.
US12032530B2
Data resiliency in a cloud-based storage system, including: receiving, for storage within a first tier of cloud storage of the cloud-based storage system, one or more segments of data; generating, for each of one or more shards of data of the one or more segments of data, self-describing information for recoverability of the one or more shards of data; and storing, within a second tier of cloud storage of the cloud-based storage system, both the one or more shards of data and the generated self-describing information for recoverability of the one or more shards of data.
US12032529B2
Methods of cloning data backup across namespaces are disclosed. One or more source files are cloned from a first namespace to a second namespace, as one or more destination files. When the cloning of the source file(s) is performed, a data structure including source file information and destination file information is generated. A source synthetic file is cloned from the first namespace to the second namespace, as a destination synthetic file, where the source synthetic file uses the source file(s) as one or more base files on the first namespace. When the cloning of the source synthetic file is performed, the data structure is looked up to obtain the source file information and the destination file information. Based on the source file information and the destination file information, synthetic information of the destination synthetic file is updated to use the destination file(s) as one or more base files on the second namespace.
US12032527B2
A device configured to identify a file in a network device, to generate a first set of block hash codes for data blocks for a first instance of the file, and to generate a second set of block hash codes for data blocks for a second instance of the file. The device is further configured to determine the first set of block hash codes matches the second set of block hash codes and to generate an entry in a file list for the instances of the file. The device is further configured to count the number of entries that are associated with the file and to determine the number of entries is greater than the redundancy threshold value. The device is further configured to delete one or more instances of the file in response to determining that the number of entries is greater than the redundancy threshold value.
US12032523B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for compressed sensing using neural networks. One of the methods includes receiving an input measurement of an input data item; for each of one or more optimization steps: processing a latent representation using a generator neural network to generate a candidate reconstructed data item, processing the candidate reconstructed data item using a measurement neural network to generate a measurement of the candidate reconstructed data item, and updating the latent representation to reduce an error between the measurement and the input measurement; and processing the latent representation after the one or more optimization steps using the generator neural network to generate a reconstruction of the input data item.
US12032518B2
A method for context-based file selection that includes receiving a request pertaining to searching one or more files for a user; in response to receiving the request, identifying file request context information associated with the request, wherein the file request context information pertains at least in part to a topic; analyzing, based on the file request context information, contents of the one or more file; in response to analyzing the contents of the one or more files, extracting, from the contents of the one or more files, information pertaining to the file request context information; determining one or more suggested contents based on the extracted information; and providing, for display to the user, a display portion of a user interface for presentation pertaining to the one or more files and the one or more suggested contents, the display portion including a representation of at least one of the one or more files and at least one of the one or more suggested contents.
US12032513B2
A computerized method useful for data ownership and management includes the step of providing a digital document. The method includes the step of providing a user to generate data. The method includes the step of aggregating the generated data based on a user instruction. The method includes the step of enabling a second party to enhance the generated data to generate a derivative dataset. The method includes the step of applying a set of rules with respect to the management of the user generated data. Applying the set of rules includes the step of applying a first rule that enables the user to own, control and manage said data. The method includes the step of applying a second rule that enables the user to own, control and manage said aggregated data. The method includes the step of applying a third rule that enables the user and other parties to have joint and fractional ownership of the aggregated data or the derivative asset. The method includes the step of applying rule a fourth rule that provides the distributed funds to parties with a partial ownership in aggregated data or the derivative data set.
US12032506B2
The present disclosure relates generally to multi-processor arrangements and, more particularly, to a point of serialization for broadcast communications within multi-processor arrangements.
US12032503B2
A signal switching method applicable to a first electronic device includes: receiving a voltage of a second electronic device through a power supply contact pin of the first electronic device; comparing the voltage with a threshold; when the voltage is greater than the threshold, connecting a first bus of the first electronic device to at least one signal contact pin, and disconnecting a second bus of the first electronic device from the at least one signal contact pin; and when the voltage is not greater than the threshold, connecting the second bus to the at least one signal pin, and disconnecting the first bus from the at least one signal contact pin.
US12032502B2
A first electronic device for communication with a second electronic device on a single wire interface, includes: a memory; and a processor executing an application stored in the memory. The processor is configured to: receive, from the second electronic device, interrupt signals related with a frequency and a time space, over the single wire interface; decode an input data associated with the interrupt signals based on an interrupt protocol table; and provide the decoded input data to the application on the first electronic device.
US12032487B2
A processor maintains an access log indicating a stream of cache misses at a cache of the processor. In response to each of at least a subset of cache misses at the cache, the processor records a corresponding entry in the access log, indicating a physical memory address of the memory access request that resulted in the corresponding miss. In addition, the processor maintains an address translation log that indicates a mapping of physical memory addresses to virtual memory addresses. In response to an address translation (e.g., a page walk) that translates a virtual address to a physical address, the processor stores a mapping of the physical address to the corresponding virtual address at an entry of the address translation log. Software executing at the processor can use the two logs for memory management.
US12032477B2
A method and apparatus is provided for generating and applying a deep learning model based on a deep learning framework, and relates to the field of computers. A specific implementation solution includes that a basic operating environment is established on a target device, where the basic operating environment is used for providing environment preparation for an overall generation process of a deep learning model; a basic function of the deep learning model is generated in the basic operating environment according to at least one of a service requirement and a hardware requirement, to obtain a first processing result; an extended function of the deep learning model is generated in the basic operating environment based on the first processing result, to obtain a second processing result; and a preset test script is used to perform function test on the second processing result, to output a test result.
US12032463B2
Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a digital data monitor comprising: a dial with indices indicating points in time; and a plurality of segments representing information about digital data or data streams arranged within and/or around the dial. Each of the segments is assignable to one index or a plurality of indices of the dial conveying a point in time and/or a time interval.
US12032423B2
Systems and methods for maintaining knowledge of a network address (e.g., a MAC address) for a playback device while changing power states are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for maintaining knowledge of the network identity of a playback device while changing power states includes determining that a playback device is entering a sleep state, sending state information from the playback device to a central data repository over a network responsive to the determination that the playback device is entering sleep state, where state information includes a MAC address, receiving the state information about the playback device at a waking device from the central data repository, waking the playback device periodically at predetermined time intervals while in sleep state to listen for messages addressed to the MAC address, and receiving a wake-up message at the playback device from the waking device and responding by changing from sleep to active state.
US12032420B2
A storage system and method for data-driven intelligent thermal throttling are provided. In one embodiment, the storage system comprises a memory and a controller. The controller is configured to determine a temperature of the memory, estimate a future temperature curve based on the temperature of the memory, and determine a memory throttling delay to apply based on the estimated future temperature curve. Other embodiments are provided.
US12032418B2
A touchpad apparatus including a holder bracket; a holder body; a plurality of elastic articles; and a touchpad printed circuit board (PCB) coupled to the first side of the holder body, the touchpad PCB including a switch member positioned at a first end of the touchpad PCB, wherein, when the holder body is in a first positional state, the plurality of elastic articles are in a first elastic state such that the switch member is disengaged, wherein, when the holder body is in a second positional state, the plurality of elastic articles are in a second elastic state such that the switch member is engaged to provide a signal indicating the second positional state of the holder body.
US12032417B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing including first and second housings, a display including a first display region connected to the first housing and a second display region connected to the second housing, and a hinge module connected to the first housing and the second housing. The hinge module may include a rotation bracket including a first accommodation space providing a first rotation axis and a second accommodation space providing a second rotation axis, a rotation member including a first rotation member connected to the first display region and a second rotation member connected to the second display region, and a rail member including a first rail member connected to the first rotation member and configured to rotate in the first accommodation space, and a second rail member connected to the second rotation member and configured to rotate in the second accommodation space.
US12032411B2
A foldable display screen is disclosed. The foldable display screen includes a first substrate and a second substrate spliced to form a complete substrate; a flexible display screen having a first display area on front surfaces of the first substrate and the second substrate, a second display area on a back surface of the second substrate, and a side-surface bending display area between the first display area and the second display area; and a transparent protective structure covering the side-surface bending display area.
US12032410B2
A display method for a flexible display includes receiving, by a terminal from a user, a first operation of enabling a first application on a flexible display, where the flexible display is in a first physical state, displaying, by the terminal, an application window of the first application in a first effective display area on the flexible display, detecting, by the terminal, that the flexible display is switched from the first physical state to a second physical state, and displaying, by the terminal, the application window of the first application in a second effective display area on the flexible display, where the second effective display area is different from the first effective display area.
US12032408B2
A display device comprising: a display panel comprising a first non-folding area, a second non-folding area, and a folding area, wherein the display device is configured to operate in a first mode in an unfolded state, and the display device is configured to operate in a second mode in a folded state; an insulation plate under the display panel and comprising a folding portion corresponding to the folding area; and a digitizer under the insulation plate, the folding portion comprising: a first area; a second area; and a third area, wherein each of the first area and the third area comprises a first stress control pattern comprising first grooves defined in an upper surface of the insulation plate, and the second area comprises a second stress control pattern comprising at least one of second grooves or openings defined in a lower surface of the insulation plate.
US12032406B2
A portable information handling system housing integrates a display having an edge-to-edge presentation of visual images at a housing portion with an inactive portion of a display panel along a perimeter of the display supported by a backplate flange extension region that extends from a backlight outer perimeter associated with an active area of the display panel to the perimeter of the housing portion. Openings formed in the backplate extension flange region provide access for sensors through the display panel inactive area with backlight illumination leakage to the opening blocked by optically dense adhesive.
US12032398B2
Disclosed herein is an adaptive voltage regulator that includes a voltage regulator circuit configured to provide a regulated output voltage at an output node of the adaptive voltage regulator circuit. The adaptive voltage regulator also includes an adaptation circuit coupled to the output node that is configured to adapt a charging characteristic associated with a charging of the output node to a predefined output voltage as a function of a load coupled to the output node. The adaption circuit may be configured to selectively provide additional charging current that charges the output node to the predefined output voltage depending on the load.
US12032395B2
An all-inclusive fluid flow device that can variably magnify differential pressure, measure, and control a flow of a fluid is described. Various procedures, including measuring, controlling, balancing, or calibration procedures can leverage a variably magnified differential pressure measurement. Differential pressure measurements can be measured across the fluid flow device such that a first pressure measurement is taken upstream of the fluid flow device while a second pressure measurement is taken downstream of the fluid flow device. Moreover, one or more of the various pressure measurements, and in particular the downstream pressure measurement, can be performed at stagnation zone where the flow has stagnated. Such can provide significant magnification and/or turndown capabilities and the magnification can vary based on a damper position and/or apertures dimensions.
US12032394B2
A valve assembly used to control fluid flow rate. The valve assembly comprises a valve plunger and a shield. The valve plunger forces fluid having a flow rate to flow between an inlet and an outlet in response to an applied actuator force. The actuator force is applied to a first side and the fluid is applied to a second side of the valve plunger. The shield minimizes or eliminates a destabilizing force caused by static pressure, created by fluid interaction on the second side. The shield is either coupled to, formed in, or suspended from underneath the valve plunger and extends a length into the outlet. The valve assembly further comprises an orifice between the inlet and the outlet wherein the orifice comprises at least one planar surface and at least one non-planar surface. The shield shields a section of the second side from the fluid.
US12032393B2
A system. The system includes a power source, a control module of a machine, and a fluid component. The fluid component is configured to establish an electrical connection between the power source and the control module during performance of a fluid operation on the machine when the machine is powered down.
US12032386B2
Method for safeguarding a communication between a first vehicle 3 and a second vehicle 4, wherein the first vehicle 3 has a first communication device and the second vehicle 4 has a second communication device, wherein the first vehicle 3 forms a leading vehicle and the second vehicle 4 forms a following vehicle, wherein data are interchanged between the first communication device and the second communication device by way of a wireless communication connection, wherein the communication connection has a transmission quality, wherein a future transmission quality is estimated and/or determined for the communication connection, wherein if the future transmission quality is below a minimum transmission quality then a countermeasure to improve the transmission quality is performed.
US12032382B2
A method for transporting a plurality of articles with a transportation container that can be carried in a transport container of one of a plurality of robots. The plurality of articles is placed in the transportation container. The transportation container is placed in a pickup location at a first location. A robot is navigated to the first location and the transportation container is autonomously moved from the pickup location to the transport container of the robot. The robot is navigated over an outdoor transportation network to a second location and the transportation container is autonomously moved from the transport container to a recipient location at the second location.
US12032376B2
Systems and methods can support an autonomous pool skimming system. The pool skimming system may have a body with two or more hulls. Two or more paddlewheels may be coupled to the body. An independent motor may drive each paddlewheel. The motors may be independently controllable to support steering. The pool skimming system may have one or more processing units, two or more distance sensors, one or more solar cells, and a power supply operable to power the processing units and the motors from energy supplied by the solar cells. One or more processing modules may configure the processing units to plan and execute a traversal path across the surface of a body of water, such as a swimming pool, to collect debris into a removable basket. A portion of the traversal path may be established according to signals from distance sensors.
US12032369B2
A method of analytical calculation of power supply reliability indexes of a power distribution network includes (A1) acquiring parameters of the power distribution network; (A2) building a reliability calculation model, which includes treating the power distribution network as a node-branch calculation unit and numbering nodes and branches in the power distribution network; (A3) building correlation matrices, and calculating a power supply path matrix and a tie-line matrix, wherein the correlation matrices are a node-branch association matrix, a section switch matrix and a fuse matrix; (A4) deriving a fault incidence matrix through the power supply path matrix, the section switch matrix, the fuse matrix and the tie-line matrix, and calculating the reliability indexes of the nodes and the power distribution network; and (A5) identifying vulnerable links by performing sensitivity analysis through partial derivative transformation for quantifiable parameters or perturbation transformation for unquantifiable parameters on an expression of the reliability indexes.
US12032368B2
An information processing system comprises an input device that holds measurement data and that transmits the measurement data to a recorder; the recorder that receives and records the measurement data transmitted by the input device; and an information processing device that generates, by using a recording result obtained by the recorder and complementary data including missing data corresponding to measurement data that is not included in the recording result obtained by the recorder but that is held by the input device, a new recording result in which the missing data was complemented, wherein the recorder transmits, to the input device, request information for requesting the complementary data, the input device receives the request information transmitted by the recorder and transmits the requested complementary data to the recorder, and the information processing device generates a new recording result by using the complementary data transmitted to the recorder by the input device.
US12032360B2
Disclosed are a method, apparatus and system for presenting a spraying operation, wherein the method comprises: acquiring a spray coefficient of an operating device at an operation position corresponding to a sampling point, wherein the spray coefficient is used for representing a spray quantity of the operating device at the operation position (S102); acquiring color information corresponding to the spray coefficient of the operation position (S104); and presenting the operation position and the color information corresponding to the operation position (S106). The method solves the technical problems that a spray quantity at a specific position in a target region cannot be determined, and spray efficiency is low.
US12032352B2
A safety apparatus and method for monitoring the position of a servo joint in a servo joint driving system are introduced. The safety apparatus includes modules for measuring powerline signals to determine a servo motor position and/or speed safely. By analyzing the synchronization between the motor and powerline signals, loss of synchronization, unexpected resistance experienced by the motor, and other fault conditions are detected so that power can be cut from the servo motor for safety. The safety apparatus and method achieve a functional safety position and/or speed generating and monitoring and reduce reliance on expensive position sensors and encoders. Robots utilizing the safety apparatus and a method of its use are also disclosed.
US12032343B2
A machine control system including a first data processing device having a first central processing unit, which implements a control agent, the first data processing unit communicating control commands to the machine and receiving process and environmental data from the machine, which contain state information about the state of the machine and/or an environment of the machine. A second data processing device receives the state information from the first data processing device and implements a copy of the control agent. The second data processing device ascertains, with the aid of one or multiple graphics processing units and/or one or multiple tensor processing units, an update of the copy of the control agent by reinforcement learning, using the state information, and communicates the update to the first data processing device.
US12032339B2
A process for blanking an applique for a watch dial, comprises a step of blanking with a laser beam a first part of the outline of this applique, defining a pointed zone or/and a thin groove of at least a first hollow or/and the point or/and the drawn-out portion of at least a first projecting part, and a step of blanking by means of a stamp a second part of said outline which is complementary with the first part. This hybrid blanking technology makes it possible to obtain appliques having, at the end of the blanking process according to the invention, an outline which defines at least one hollow having a pointed zone or/and a thin groove or/and which defines at least one projecting part forming a point or/and a drawn-out portion with configurations and particular dimensions that cannot be obtained by blanking merely by stamping.
US12032332B2
A magenta toner is provided. The magenta toner comprises toner particles each comprising a binder resin and a colorant. From 1.0% to 25.0% by number of the toner particles have a CH rate of 25.0% or more in absolute value. The CH rate is calculated from the following formula (1): CH rate(%)=[(In−Iave)/Iave]×100 Formula (1) where, in a Raman spectrum of each toner particle, In represents an integrated intensity within a wavenumber region of from 2,750 to 3,250 cm−1 when an intensity at a wavenumber λ within a wavenumber region of from 1,200 to 3,250 cm−1 is s normalized to 1, where a total intensity of all the toner particles is maximum at the wavenumber λ; and Iave represents an average of the In.
US12032328B2
An image forming apparatus that forms an image on a recording material includes a frame body, an image forming unit, a first electric component unit, a first electric component board, a second electric component unit, and a second electric component board. The second electric component board communicates with the first electric component board and controls the image forming unit. The first electric component unit pivots about a first pivot axis positioned on a first side in a width direction. The second electric component unit pivots about a second pivot axis positioned on a second side in the width direction. When the first electric component unit and the second electric component unit are in closed states, the second electric component unit is positioned between the first electric component unit and the image forming unit in a front-back direction of the image forming apparatus.
US12032323B2
An image forming apparatus includes an electrophotographic photoreceptor that includes a conductive substrate and a photosensitive layer disposed on the conductive substrate, the electrophotographic photoreceptor having an outermost surface layer that contains a binder resin, a charge-transporting material, and a fluorine-containing resin particle, the fluorine-containing resin particle containing 0 or more and 30 or less carboxy groups per 106 carbon atoms, a charging device that charges the electrophotographic photoreceptor, an electrostatic latent image forming device that forms an electrostatic latent image on the electrophotographic photoreceptor that is charged, a developing device that houses a developer containing a toner and that develops, with the developer, the electrostatic latent image formed on the electrophotographic photoreceptor into a toner image, a transfer device that transfers the toner image onto a transfer-receiving medium, and an optical discharging device that, after the toner image is transferred onto the transfer-receiving medium and before the electrophotographic photoreceptor is charged, irradiates the electrophotographic photoreceptor with discharging light with a light quantity of 1.0 μW or more and 50.0 μW or less to perform discharging.
US12032321B2
An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body, and an opening/closing cover configured to expose an opening portion of the apparatus body by being opened. The apparatus body includes a main body frame, a plurality of conveyance units being detachably attached to the main body frame through the opening portion, a control board configured to control the plurality of conveyance units, and a relay board configured to be electrically connected to the control board. The plurality of conveyance units respectively include a plurality of first connectors. The relay board includes a plurality of second connectors that are arranged to face the opening portion and that are configured to be connected to the plurality of first connectors, the relay board being arranged at a position not interfering with attachment/detachment loci in which the plurality of conveyance units are attached to and detached from the main body frame.
US12032315B2
A technology aimed at improvement of paper discriminating accuracy is provided. In an image forming apparatus, a control unit derives a discriminating result for types of paper. To be specific, the control unit derives the discriminating result for types of paper using a first detection value based on absorption by the paper of the light having the first wavelength and a second detection value based on absorption by the paper of the light having the second wavelength. The first wavelength ranges from 750 nm to 1100 nm. The second wavelength ranges from 400 nm to 500 nm.
US12032311B2
An image formation apparatus includes: a transferrer that forms a toner image on an image formation surface of paper; a fixer that fixes the toner image on the paper; a paper conveyor that conveys the paper between an upstream side of the transferrer and a downstream side of the fixer in a paper conveyance direction; and a paper pre-heater that heats, on the upstream side of the transferrer in the paper conveyance direction, the image formation surface of the paper.
US12032308B2
An image forming apparatus includes (i) a housing including a first connector, (ii) a drum unit, (iii) a development unit including a containing portion containing toner and movable between an abutment position and a separation position, (iv) a detection unit including a light emitting element, a light receiving element, and a second connector electrically connected to the light emitting element and the light receiving element, and mounted on the development unit, and (v) a connection member connected to the first connector and the second connector to electrically connect the first connector and the second connector each. A length of the connection member is longer than a first distance from the first connector to the second connector when the development unit is located at the abutment position, and is longer than a second distance from the first connector to the second connector when the development unit is located at the separation position.
US12032303B2
An EUV lithographic apparatus includes a wafer stage and a particle removing assembly for cleaning a wafer for an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithographic apparatus. The wafer stage includes a measurement side and an exposure side. The particle removing assembly includes particle removing electrodes, an exhaust device and turbomolecular pumps. The particle removing electrodes is configured to direct debris from the chamber by suppressing turbulence such that the debris can be exhausted from the wafer stage to the outside of the processing apparatus. In some embodiments, turbomolecular pumps are turned off in the measurement side of the wafer stage so that an exhaust flow can be guided to an exposure side of the wafer stage. In some embodiments, the speed of voltage rise to the electrodes of the wafer chuck is adjusted.
US12032302B2
In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device a semiconductor wafer is retrieved from a load port. The semiconductor wafer is transferred to a treatment device. In the treatment device, the surface of the semiconductor wafer is exposed to a directional stream of plasma wind to clean a particle from the surface of the semiconductor wafer. The stream of plasma wind is generated by an ambient plasma generator and is directed at an oblique angle with respect to a perpendicular plane to the surface of the semiconductor wafer for a predetermined plasma exposure time. After the cleaning, a photo resist layer is disposed on the semiconductor wafer.
US12032300B2
An overlay metrology system may include illumination sources configured to generate one or more pairs of mutually coherent illumination beams and illumination optics to direct the pairs of illumination beams to an overlay target at common altitude incidence angles and symmetrically opposed azimuthal incidence angles, where the overlay target includes two or more grating structures distributed along one or more measurement directions. The system may further include imaging optics to image the overlay target onto detectors when implementing the metrology recipe, where an image of a particular one of the two or more grating structures is generated exclusively with a single non-zero diffraction order of light from each of the illumination beams within the particular one of the pairs of illumination beams. The system may further include a controller to determine overlay measurements based on images of the overlay target.
US12032299B2
A metrology method relating to measurement of a structure on a substrate, the structure being subject to one or more asymmetric deviation. The method includes obtaining at least one intensity asymmetry value relating to the one or more asymmetric deviations, wherein the at least one intensity asymmetry value includes a metric related to a difference or imbalance between the respective intensities or amplitudes of at least two diffraction orders of radiation diffracted by the structure; determining at least one phase offset value corresponding to the one or more asymmetric deviations based on the at least one intensity asymmetry value; and determining one or more measurement corrections for the one or more asymmetric deviations from the at least one phase offset value.
US12032297B2
A method of determining a parameter of a lithographic apparatus, wherein the method includes providing first height variation data of a first substrate, providing first performance data of a first substrate, and determining a model based on the first height variation data and the first performance data. The method further includes obtaining second height variation data of a second substrate, inputting the second height variation data to the model, and determining second performance data of the second substrate by running the model. Based on the second performance data, the method determines a parameter of the apparatus.
US12032294B2
A device includes a chemical solution flow path in which a chemical solution containing polymers flows; a laser beam irradiator configured to irradiate a laser beam to the chemical solution flow path such that an optical path is intersected with a flow direction of the chemical solution in the chemical solution flow path; a light receiving element provided in the optical path passing through the chemical solution flow path; a detector configured to detect, based on a signal output from the light receiving element, an abnormality in a state of polymers corresponding to a majority of the polymers contained in the chemical solution or configured to detect a ratio between a chemical solution containing the polymers and another chemical solution in the chemical solution flow path.
US12032293B2
A composition for forming an organic film contains a polymer having a partial structure shown by the following general formula (1A), and an organic solvent. The polymer is crosslinked by dehydrogenative coupling reaction involving hydrogen atoms located at the trityl position on the fluorene ring in each partial structure. Thus, the present invention provides: a composition for forming an organic film the composition containing such a thermosetting polymer with high carbon content as to enable high etching resistance and excellent twisting resistance; a patterning process using the composition; and a polymer suitable for the composition for forming an organic film
US12032287B2
The present invention is a resist material containing: (i) a compound (i-1), which is a (partial) condensate or a (partial) hydrolysis-condensate of a metal compound shown by the following general formula (A-1), or a compound (i-2), which is a reaction product of the compound (i-1) and a dihydric or trihydric alcohol shown by the following general formula (A-2), (ii) a photo-acid generator, (iii) a basic compound, and (iv) an organic solvent. An object of the present invention is to provide a metal-containing resist material having high sensitivity and high resolution particularly in EUV and electron beam lithography; and a patterning process using this material. M(OR1A)4 (A-1) R2A(OH)m (A-2)
US12032283B2
The present invention provides an imprint apparatus that forms a pattern in an imprint material on a substrate using a mold including a pattern region, the apparatus comprising: a stage configured to be movable while holding the substrate; and a dispenser configured to discharge the imprint material, wherein a sensor, a receptor, and a mark are provided around a holding region where the substrate is held, in an upper surface of the stage, and the upper surface of the stage includes a first region that passes below the pattern region during movement of the stage between a position below the dispenser and a position below the mold, and a second region that does not pass below the pattern region during the movement, and the sensor, the receptor, and the mark are arranged in the second region.
US12032282B2
An imprint apparatus in which contamination in an apparatus due to an uncured material or the like can be minimized is provided. The imprint apparatus includes: a first irradiation unit configured to irradiate an imprint material on a substrate with light for performing curing in a state in which the imprint material is brought into contact with a pattern portion having a concave and convex pattern formed in a mold; and a second irradiation unit configured to irradiate a peripheral region of the pattern portion of the mold after the irradiation of the light using the first irradiation unit.
US12032278B2
In a general aspect, integrated spatial phase imaging is described. In some aspects, an integrated imaging system includes a sensor device and one or more processors. The sensor device is configured to generate a first set of data indicative of a first set of attributes of an object and a second set of data indicative of a second set of attributes of the object. The one or more processors are configured to: generate a first set of primitives based on the first set of data; generate a second set of primitives based on the second set of data; generate a combined data set based on the first set of primitives and the second set of primitives; and determine a plurality of features of the object based on the combined data set.
US12032277B2
A phosphor wheel according to the present disclosure includes: a first substrate having a first main surface and a second main surface opposite to the first main surface, the first substrate including a metal material; a phosphor ring provided on the first main surface of the first substrate; a second substrate having a third main surface and a fourth main surface being opposite to the third main surface, the second substrate including a metal material; a plurality of heat dissipation fins disposed on the fourth main surface of the second substrate; and a motor mounted on the first substrate. The second main surface of the first substrate and the third main surface of the second substrate are joined by brazing. The motor is mounted on the first substrate with a gap interposed between the motor and the second substrate.
US12032272B2
A camera module comprising a polymer composition that includes a polymer matrix containing a liquid crystalline polymer and a mineral filler is provided. The liquid crystalline polymer contains repeating units derived from naphthenic hydroxycarboxylic and/or dicarboxylic acids in an amount of about 10 mol. % or more of the polymer. Further, the polymer composition exhibits a melt viscosity of from about 30 to about 400 Pa-s, as determined at a shear rate of 400 seconds−1 and at a temperature 15° C. higher than the melting temperature of the composition in accordance with ISO Test No. 11443:2005.
US12032271B2
An image capture device is disclosed that includes a body defining a peripheral cavity and a removable door assembly that is configured to close and seal the peripheral cavity. The door assembly includes a door body; a locking mechanism; and a biasing member that is configured for engagement with the locking mechanism to resist unlocking of the locking mechanism until a threshold force is applied, at which time, the biasing member is moved from a normal position, in which the biasing member extends at a first angle in relation to the locking mechanism, to a deflected position, in which the biasing member extends at a second angle in relation to the locking mechanism. When locked, the door assembly is rotationally fixed in relation to the body of the image capture device, and when unlocked, the door assembly is rotatable in relation to the body of the image capture device.
US12032230B2
This invention relates to an optical filter for use in eyewear such as ski googles, as well as eyewear using the filter. For improving visibility in snow dominated locations, the filter has a transmission spectrum having a first transmission peak in the wavelength range of 620 nm-670, with a maximum at approximately 650 nm.
US12032226B2
An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens sequentially disposed in numerical order along an optical axis of the optical imaging system from an object side of the optical imaging system toward an imaging plane of the optical imaging system, wherein the optical imaging system satisfies 0.5
US12032222B2
The disclosed optical apparatus includes a first movable member movable in an optical axis direction a holding member holding an optical element and movable with respect to the first movable member in the optical axis direction, a guide member held by the first movable member and guides the holding member in the optical axis direction, a second movable member movable in the optical axis direction independently of the first movable member, and a drive unit configured to drive the holding member in the optical axis direction. The drive unit is held such that displacement of the drive unit with respect to the second movable member in the optical axis direction is restricted by the second movable member.
US12032220B2
A lens barrel includes: a first lens holding frame; a fixed barrel holding the first lens holding frame and including an elongated window provided radially; and a first step-type eccentric roller rotatably fixed to the first lens holding frame. The first step-type eccentric roller includes usable and non-usable regions on a periphery substantially perpendicular to the rotation axis, a distance from a center of the rotation axis to any point within any one of the usable regions is constant, and the distance is different for each of the usable regions, and the first step-type eccentric roller is fixed to the first lens holding frame by rotating the first step-type eccentric roller about the rotation axis, changing an engagement position between one of the usable regions and a side forming the polygonal shape of the elongated window, and moving the lens group parallel to an optical axis to perform shift adjustment.
US12032218B2
A sealed structure (e.g., sealing module, sealing projection, etc.) transitions the direction of one or more cables passing through the structure. Sealant (e.g., a gel block) is disposed within the structure to seal one or more cables extending along a transition path within the sealed structure. Ducts and/or cables may be anchored to the sealed structure. The sealed structure may be mechanically secured to a closure at a selected rotational orientation.
US12032215B2
Disclosed is an optical device including a first lens and a second lens. The first lens of the optical device is joined to an end surface of an optical waveguide of an optical element to emit light emitted from the optical element. The second lens is optically coupled with the first lens to convert the light emitted from the first lens into collimated light.
US12032214B2
An optical communication system comprises N server racks, first and second distribution frames, and first and second optical fiber cables. Each of the first and second optical fiber cables has N optical connector groups for racks and an optical connector group for distribution frame including M optical connectors. The closer the number of an optical connector of the M optical connectors is to the last number, the longer a wiring distance from the optical connector group for distribution frame to a corresponding optical connector group of the N optical connector groups for racks in the first optical fiber cable. The closer the number of an optical connector of the M optical connectors is to the last number, the shorter a wiring distance from the optical connector group for distribution frame to a corresponding optical connector group of the N optical connector groups for racks in the second optical fiber cable.
US12032204B2
A photonic structure is provided. The photonic structure includes a semiconductor substrate, and an oxide structure embedded in the semiconductor substrate, and an optical coupling region directly above the buried oxide layer. A side surface of the oxide structure is exposed from an edge of the semiconductor substrate. The optical coupling region is tapered to a terminus of the optical coupling region at the edge of the semiconductor substrate.
US12032202B2
In various embodiments, the beam parameter product and/or beam shape of a laser beam is adjusted by directing the laser beam across a path along the input end of a cellular-core optical fiber. The beam emitted at the output end of the cellular-core optical fiber may be utilized to process a workpiece.
US12032180B2
Disclosed are systems for directing energy according to holographic projection. Configurations of waveguide arrays are disclosed for improved efficiency and resolution of propagated energy through, tessellation of shaped energy waveguides.
US12032172B2
The present invention relates to a retention apparatus comprising a) a retention body, which delimits an inner region at least on a first side and a further side opposite to the first side, and b) at least one spring element; wherein the retention body comprises, on the first side, a first receiving portion facing the inner region and, on the further side, a second receiving portion facing the inner region; wherein the retention apparatus is embodied to retain at least one optical module, which has a light input side and an opposing light output side, by means of the first receiving portion, the second receiving portion, and the at least one spring element in a retention state, in such a way that the at least one optical module in the retention state is retained a. in a first direction extending from the light input side to the light output side by means of an interlock of i. the at least one optical module with the first receiving portion and ii. the at least one optical module with the second receiving portion, and b. in the opposite direction to the first direction by means of a spring force of the at least one spring element directed against the at least one optical module. Further, the invention relates to a luminaire having the retention apparatus according to the invention; a printing machine having the luminaire according to the invention; a production method using the luminaire according to the invention; and uses of the retention apparatus according to the invention; and of the luminaire.
US12032167B2
Provide are an optical element that can improve a utilization efficiency of light while increasing an optical path length, an image display unit, and a head-mounted display. The optical element includes, in the following order: a first absorptive linearly polarizing plate; a first reflective linearly polarizing plate; a first retardation plate; a partially reflecting mirror; a second retardation plate; and a second reflective linearly polarizing plate, in which a turning direction of circularly polarized light that is reflected from the first reflective linearly polarizing plate in a case where light transmits through the first retardation plate and is incident into the first reflective linearly polarizing plate is opposite to a turning direction of circularly polarized light that is reflected from the second reflective linearly polarizing plate in a case where light transmits through the second retardation plate and is incident into the second reflective linearly polarizing plate.
US12032162B2
An image projector is provided for which assembly work and optical axis adjustment are easy while visibility at both sides of an image is secured. This image projector includes a lighting substrate, a lens part that adjusts an optical axis of emitted light from light-emitting elements, and an image display part which displays an image on a display surface and through which the emitted light is transmitted. The display surface of the image display part has a central region and side regions located on both sides. In the lens part, a first lens region corresponding to the central region and second lens regions corresponding to the side regions are integrally formed. Radiation directions of light having passed through the second lens regions are more inclined toward laterally outer sides than a radiation direction of light having passed through the first lens region.
US12032161B2
Systems and apparatus for managing stray light in augmented reality, mixed reality, enhanced reality, and similar applications.
US12032152B1
Disclosed is a panoramic night vision system having an articulating bridge system having two independently rotatable hinges and tube subassemblies that rotate to bring the sides of the subassemblies towards the center of the panoramic night vision system and above the users eyes for protection of the subassemblies and increased user experience. Implementing the articulating bridge system permits independent actuation of panoramic subassemblies and provides three stowed positions.
US12032140B2
A lens module includes first to seventh lenses each having refractive power and sequentially disposed in numerical order from the first lens to the seventh lens starting from an object side of the lens module, wherein each of the first and second lenses has a meniscus shape and an image-side surface that is convex, and the seventh lens has one or more inflection points on an image-side surface thereof.
US12032139B2
An optical image capturing system includes, along the optical axis in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, and a fifth lens. At least one lens among the first to the fifth lenses has positive refractive force. The fifth lens can have negative refractive force, wherein both surfaces thereof are aspheric, and at least one surface thereof has an inflection point. The lenses in the optical image capturing system which have refractive power include the first to the fifth lenses. The optical image capturing system can increase aperture value and improve the imaging quality for use in compact cameras.
US12032132B2
The present disclosure provides a camera optical lens including, from an object side to an image side in sequence: a first lens having a positive refractive power, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, a seventh lens, and an eighth lens; and the camera optical lens satisfies conditions of: 0.95≤f/TTL; 4.00≤f2/f≤6.00; and −15.00≤(R7+R8)/(R7−R8)≤−2.50. The camera optical lens can achieve good optical performance while meeting the design requirements for large aperture, ultra-thinness and long focal length.
US12032129B2
Disclosed is a camera optical lens, including nine lenses, and the nine lenses from an object side to an image side are: a first lens with a negative refractive power, a second lens with a positive refractive power, a third lens with a positive refractive power, a fourth lens with a negative refractive power, a fifth lens with a negative refractive power, a sixth lens with a positive refractive power, a seventh lens with a negative refractive power, an eighth lens with a positive refractive power and an ninth lens with a negative refractive power. The camera optical lens satisfies: −1.60≤f1/f≤−0.50, 3.00≤d13/d14≤15.00. The camera optical lens has good optical performance, and meets the design requirements of wide-angle and ultra-thin.
US12032128B2
The present disclosure provides a camera optical lens including, from an object side to an image side in sequence: a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, a seventh lens, and an eighth lens; wherein the first lens has a positive refractive power, the camera optical lens satisfies conditions of: 0.95≤f/TTL; 3.00≤f2/f≤5.50; and 3.00≤(R13+R14)/(R13−R14)≤25.00. The camera optical lens can achieve good optical performance while meeting the design requirements for long focal length and ultra-thinness.
US12032126B2
An optical imaging system includes a first lens having a concave image-side surface, a second lens having a concave image-side surface, and a third lens having a positive refractive power. The optical imaging system includes a fourth lens having a positive refractive power and a concave object-side surface, a fifth lens, a sixth lens having a positive refractive power, and a seventh lens having a concave object-side surface. The first lens to the seventh lens are sequentially disposed at intervals from an object side toward an imaging plane.
US12032120B2
Embodiments of the disclosure relate to primer compositions for increasing the adhesion between a polarizing film laminate to a cast-polymerized lens. The chemisorptive primers may react with cast-polymerized lens monomers and/or interact with the polarizing film laminate to provide exceptionally strong adhesion between the film laminate and the ophthalmic lens.
US12032119B2
An optical stack structure includes a metal nanowire layer and an organic polymer layer. A crosslinking degree of the organic polymer layer is greater than or equal to 80% and less than or equal to 100%, and a content of volatile organic compounds in the organic polymer layer is less than or equal to 1%. The content of the volatile organic compounds in the organic polymer layer is defined as a difference between a thermal weight loss of the organic polymer layer measured at a measuring temperature and a water content of the organic polymer layer measured at the measuring temperature.
US12032108B2
The present invention provides a method of calibrating gamma-ray and photon counting detectors, including, but not limited to, monolithic crystal detectors. The method of the present invention is based on the observation that measurement of fan beam datasets allows the synthesis of collimated beam data to derive MDRFs by use of an algorithm that finds the common or intersecting data subsets of two or more orthogonal calibration datasets. This makes the calibration process very efficient while still allowing the full benefits of maximum-likelihood event-parameter estimation that incorporates the statistical nature of the light sensor measurements.
US12032096B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide an optical sensing system, a method for adjusting a receiving aperture in the optical sensing system, and an adjustable iris in the optical sensing system. The exemplary optical sensing system includes a transmitter configured to emit light beams to an environment. The optical sensing system further includes a receiver configured to receive the light beams returning from the environment. The receiver includes an adjustable iris including a plurality of rotary blades each driven by a MEMS actuator. The plurality of rotary blades collectively form an adjustable receiving aperture for the returned light beams to pass through. The plurality of rotary blades are configured to rotate in order to vary the adjustable receiving aperture during operation of the optical sensing system. The optical sensing system also includes a detector configured to detect the light beams that pass through the adjustable iris.
US12032093B2
A radome for on-board radar devices 1 is provided with heater wires 3 wired in parallel so as to be separated from each other in a plane direction of an electromagnetic-wave-transmitting base member. A line pitch d of the heater wires 3 arranged in parallel in an electromagnetic-wave transmission region R of the base member is set to 0.2 to 2.5 times a wavelength of electromagnetic waves of the radar of an on-board radar device. A surface occupancy rate of the heater wires 3 arranged in parallel in the electromagnetic-wave transmission region R of the base member is set to be greater than 10% to 35%. The present invention provides a radome for on-board radar devices with which it is possible to obtain an electromagnetic-wave transmission property required of a radome, and to melt snow satisfactorily with a high heater performance.
US12032091B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for estimating target ranges, angles of arrival, and speed using optimization procedures. Target ranges are estimated by performing an optimization procedure to obtain a denoised signal, performing a correlation of a transmitted waveform and the denoised signal, and using a result of the correlation to determine an estimate of a distance between the sensor and at least one target. Target angles of arrival are estimated by determining ranges at which targets are located, and, for each range, constructing an array signal from samples of received echo signals, and using the array signal, performing another optimization procedure to estimate a respective angle of arrival for each target of the at least one target. Doppler shifts may also be estimated using another optimization procedure. Certain of the optimization procedures use atomic norm techniques.
US12032088B2
A device for a radar sensor is disclosed, the device comprising: transmission circuitry configured to generate transmission signals with a linear frequency chirp modulation in a predetermined frequency band for output to a radar antenna; reception circuitry configured to receive reflection signals corresponding to reflection of the transmitted radar signals from one or more physical objects; and control circuitry configured to select a frequency range within said predetermined frequency band and/or a timing pattern for said transmission signals; wherein said device is configured to: receive a further signal from a further radar sensor; determine, from said further signal, a frequency range and/or timing pattern in use by said further radar sensor for transmission of further transmission signals; and select a frequency range within said predetermined frequency band and/or a timing pattern for said transmission signals which does not conflict with the frequency range and/or timing pattern of said further transmission signals.
US12032084B2
A control device (DC) equips a mobile unit (BM) comprising radio signal receivers (R11-R12) and acoustic signal receivers (R21-R22) and having to move to a target location defined relative to an object (V) emitting radio signals and acoustic signals. This device (DC) periodically determines the distance and direction separating a predefined location of the mobile unit (BM) from the target location by analyzing received radio signals, then commands suitable for moving the mobile unit (BM) to a predefined distance from the target location on the basis of this distance and direction, then periodically determines the distance and direction by analyzing received acoustic signals, then commands suitable for moving the mobile unit (BM) towards the target location on the basis of this distance and direction, until the predefined location is placed at the target location.
US12032078B2
A wireless hotspot device is equipped with a directional antenna. A method optimizes a bitrate of the device in a mobile network with distributed cells, each cell covered by a fixed transceiver. The method includes: rotating the antenna substantially azimuthally at least 90 degrees, in steps of N degrees, wherein N is a fixed or variable number; scanning for available cells for each step of rotation; observing a signal to noise ratio for each available cell in each step; saving an optimized azimuthal direction for each available cell, the optimized direction corresponding to the highest signal to noise ratio; repeating the steps for a number of frequency bands, setting up a data connection and running a speed test for all optimized directions of each frequency band; automatically selecting an azimuthal operation position of the antenna based on the speed tests; and moving the antenna to the operation position.
US12032067B2
Systems and methods for identifying travel way features in real time are provided. A method can include receiving two-dimensional and three-dimensional data associated with the surrounding environment of a vehicle. The method can include providing the two-dimensional data as one or more input into a machine-learned segmentation model to output a two-dimensional segmentation. The method can include fusing the two-dimensional segmentation with the three-dimensional data to generate a three-dimensional segmentation. The method can include storing the three-dimensional segmentation in a classification database with data indicative of one or more previously generated three-dimensional segmentations. The method can include providing one or more datapoint sets from the classification database as one or more inputs into a machine-learned enhancing model to obtain an enhanced three-dimensional segmentation. And, the method can include identifying one or more travel way features based at least in part on the enhanced three-dimensional segmentation.
US12032062B2
An obstacle detection apparatus that detects an obstacle existing around a vehicle is provided to include an ultrasonic sensor and a controller. The ultrasonic sensor is provided in the vehicle at a position having a predetermined height from a road surface. The ultrasonic sensor includes a plurality of ultrasonic elements configured to transmit an exploration wave toward outside of the vehicle, and receive a reflected wave reflected by an obstacle as a reception wave. The controller is configured to derive (i) an obstacle distance and (ii) an obstacle height based on an intensity of the reception wave received by each of the plurality of ultrasonic elements and a phase difference in the reception wave received by each of the plurality of ultrasonic elements.
US12032057B2
Distance measurement system for a vehicle, wherein the distance measurement system includes a measurement unit for non-contact determination of a distance to an object and the measurement unit includes: a sensor unit configured to emit a signal and to receive a signal reflected by the object; an evaluation unit determining a distance between the measurement unit and the object from the signals emitted and received by the sensor unit; and a signal deflection apparatus arranged in the area of the sensor unit with a reflector surface deflecting the signal emitted by the sensor unit in a direction deviating from the propagation direction of the signal, in particular at an essentially right angle to the propagation direction of the signal, in the direction of the object.
US12032054B2
A system in a vehicle includes a radar system with a uniform linear array (ULA) of antenna elements and a uniform rectangular array (URA) of antenna elements to receive the reflected signals resulting from the emitted radio frequency energy. The ULA is arranged perpendicular to the URA. Processing circuitry estimates one or more elevation angles using the reflected signals received by the ULA of antenna elements and estimates an azimuth angle corresponding to each of the one or more elevation angles using the one or more elevation angles and the reflected signals received by the URA of antenna elements. Each of the one or more elevation angles and the corresponding one of the azimuth angles is referred to as an angle of arrival (AOA) of the reflected signals from an object. Control of an operation of the vehicle is based on each AOA of each object.
US12032047B2
A radiofrequency transducer assembly includes an antenna structure of the birdcage type. This antenna structure has longitudinally extending segments, which are arranged in a cylindrical configuration around a center axis, and at least one transversally oriented circular electrical coupling between the longitudinally extending segments. An electrically conductive shield surrounds the antenna structure of the birdcage type. The radiofrequency transducer assembly comprises a pair of electrically conductive bridges between a longitudinally extending segment of the antenna structure and the electrically conductive shield, which thereby jointly form an inductive loop.
US12032038B2
A load short-circuit detection method is a load short-circuit detection method executed in a load drive device including: a power storage element that stores electric power for driving a load; a first switch that is connected to a low-potential side of the load and controls a current flowing through the load; and a voltage detection circuit that detects a voltage of a current flow path flowing from the power storage element to a low-potential side power supply via the first switch. The load short-circuit detection method includes: PWM-driving the first switch at a predetermined duty ratio; and detecting that the load is being short-circuited in a case where a state in which the voltage of the current flow path detected by the voltage detection circuit is lower than or equal to a predetermined threshold voltage continues for a predetermined period of time or longer.
US12032035B1
The invention relates to a method, implemented in a management system of an electric battery of a vehicle, for estimating the resistive state of health of at least one electrical energy storage element, the method comprising the next steps: —determining (10) at least one operating range for which the direct current resistance of the element changes linearly with respect to the state of charge of the element and to temperature; —measuring (14) the variation in the strength and the voltage of an electric current generated by the element during a running phase of the vehicle; —calculating (16), based on the measured values of variation in strength and voltage, at least one direct current resistance value of the element; and —calculating (18) at least one value of the resistive state of health of the element based on the calculated direct current resistance value.
US12032020B2
The present application discloses a calibration data generation circuit and an associated method. The calibration data generation circuit includes: a first delay unit, having a first delay amount; and a first scan path, including: a first scan flip-flop, including: a scan data input terminal; a clock input terminal, arranged for receiving a clock signal; and an output terminal; and a second scan flip-flop, including: a scan data input terminal, coupled to the output terminal of the first scan flip-flop; a clock input terminal, arranged for receiving a delayed clock signal formed by the clock signal passing through the first delay unit; and an output terminal; wherein when the calibration data generation circuit operates, the first scan flip-flop and the second scan flip-flop are configured in a scan shift mode.
US12032014B2
The disclosed technology relates generally to semiconductor devices, and more particularly to semiconductor devices including a metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) transistor and are configured for accelerating and monitoring degradation of the gate dielectric of the MOS transistor. In one aspect, a semiconductor device configured with gate dielectric monitoring capability comprises a metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) transistor including a source, a drain, a gate, and a backgate region formed in a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor device additionally comprises a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) including a collector, a base, and an emitter formed in the semiconductor substrate, wherein the backgate region of the MOS transistor serves as the base of the BJT and is independently accessible for activating the BJT. The MOS transistor and the BJT are configured to be concurrently activated by biasing the backgate region independently from the source of the MOS transistor, such that the base of the BJT injects carriers of a first charge type into the backgate region of the MOS transistor, where the first charge type is opposite charge type to channel current carriers.
US12032010B1
An electrometer is disclosed. The electrometer includes a housing, a vapor cell, a micro-optical system, an electric field generator, and a control electronic subsystem. The vapor cell has a top and a bottom and includes a vapor of quantum particles. The micro-optical system is configured to route laser fields through the vapor cell in a direction transverse to the top and the bottom. The electric field generator is configured to provide an electric field in the vapor cell. The housing includes a surface adapted to mate to a portion of a fuselage surrounding a hole.
US12031984B2
A detection device using a lateral flow strip for detection and a detection method thereof are provided, which relates to the technical field of a detection device using a lateral flow strip. An upper rotor, a middle rotor and a lower rotor are respectively provided with upper paddle(s), middle paddle(s) and lower paddle(s) along respective circumferential directions. Each upper paddle is provided with a test tube with openings at both ends thereof for placing the lateral flow strip. The middle paddle blocks a bottom one of the openings of the test tube. Each lower paddle is provided with a sample tube for placing sample solution. The bottom opening of the test tube is opposite to a top opening of the sample tube up and down.
US12031979B2
A system and method includes a test container for detecting a target substance in a consumable sample, where the test container includes a test container body defining a test container top, a test container bottom opposing the test container top, a first chamber proximal the test container top, and a second chamber proximal the test container bottom, a magnetic diaphragm situated between the first chamber and the second chamber, the magnetic diaphragm obstructing flow of the consumable sample, and the magnetic diaphragm including a magnetic element embedded in the magnetic diaphragm, and a driving element geometrically complementary to the first chamber, the driving element including a consumable sample grinding feature protruding from a surface of the driving element.
US12031974B2
A blood clotting time measurement cartridge that can keep an amount of blood constant while simplifying a configuration and easing a blood injection operation, and a blood clotting time measuring device using the cartridge. The cartridge includes a measurement flow channel wherein blood is housed and transmission of light detects whether there is blood in a predetermined position, an introduction opening on one end side of the channel from which blood is introduced, a communication opening on the other end through which it is possible to cause, by suction or pressurization of air or blood introduced from the introduction opening, the blood in the channel to make a reciprocating motion so as to pass through the predetermined position, a partition wall that partitions a blood injection space connected to the introduction opening, and an absorption member on an outer side of the partition wall that absorbs blood beyond the wall.
US12031967B2
In one illustrative configuration, a method of locating an emission source of a target substance at a site is disclosed. The method may include obtaining predicted substance concentrations of the target substance from a prediction model to generate a mapping of a weighted mean of the plurality of the predicted substance concentrations grouped in a predetermined number of feature groups. A simulated plume model is generated for each emission source present at the site to calculate representative circular normal distributions for each air quality monitor. By performing an analysis of the plurality of representative circular normal distributions in relation to the mapping, a target emission source is identified.
US12031961B2
A binary pump in which an operation controller causes each of two liquid delivery pumps to execute, while a secondary discharge process is executed, a suction process, a first pre-pressurizing process, and a standby process. The operation controller causes each of the two liquid delivery pumps to execute a second pre-pressurizing process before proceeding from the secondary discharge process to the primary discharge process. Furthermore, the operation controller causes, as long as continuous liquid delivery by each of the two liquid delivery pumps is not interrupted, at least one of the two liquid delivery pumps to execute avoidance operation of interrupting the standby process and proceeding to the second pre-pressurizing process by using the operation state of each of the two liquid delivery pumps, so as to avoid overlap of execution time zones of the primary discharge processes of the two liquid delivery pumps.
US12031954B2
A method of measuring millisecond-scale blast and impact characterization in soft materials includes embedding one or more sensors in soft material, wherein the one or more sensors have mechanical properties approximately matching the soft material; applying a constant current to the one or more sensors; subjecting the soft material to a shock or impact event; measuring a response as a change in voltage; and converting the measured voltage to strain or pressure.
US12031945B1
Tubular member inspection apparatus, systems and methods for inspecting tubulars of a variety of diameters. One apparatus includes a frame, at least one magnetic flux generator contained in a coil annulus, and a detector assembly supported by the coil annulus. The coil annulus and the detector assembly each have inlet and outlet openings for passing a tubular member there through. The detector assembly has one or more magnetic detectors (magnetic, eddy current, or both) configured to be spaced a first distance from the tubular member during an inspection. The one or more magnetic detectors are each contained in one or more detector shoes removably attached to corresponding one or more detector shoe supports by one or more quick-acting couplings. Another apparatus includes an adjustable iris.
US12031936B2
A gas sensor element has an electrolyte layer, a first insulator, a second insulator, a measurement gas chamber, and a reference gas chamber. The electrolyte layer includes a holding plate and a solid electrolyte body. The first insulator is laminated on one side of the electrolyte layer, and the second insulator is laminated on the other side of the electrolyte layer. At least a part of the boundary portion between the placement hole and the solid electrolyte body is sandwiched between a first sandwiching portion of the first insulator and a second sandwiching portion of the second insulator.
US12031931B2
A structure includes an insulating layer on a semiconductor substrate, and a first through-hole and a second through-hole formed in the insulating layer. The second through-hole is formed in the insulating layer at a set distance from the first through-hole. The structure also includes a first electrode portion and a second electrode portion. The first electrode portion is formed by filling the first through-hole. The first electrode portion includes a probing pad on the insulating layer. The probing pad is wider than an opening area of the first through-hole. The second electrode portion is formed by filling the second through-hole. The second electrode portion includes a probing pad on the insulating layer. The probing pad is wider than an opening area of the second through-hole.
US12031927B2
Provided is a method of analyzing a diffraction pattern of a mixture, the method including: a first step of fitting, through use of a fitting pattern including a term obtained by multiplying a known target pattern indicating a target component by a first intensity ratio, and a term obtained by multiplying an unknown pattern indicating a residual group consisting of one or more residual components by a second intensity ratio, and having the first intensity ratio, the second intensity ratio, and the unknown pattern as fitting parameters, the fitting pattern to the observed pattern by changing the first and the second intensity ratio in a state where the unknown pattern is set to an initial pattern; and a second step of fitting the fitting pattern to the observed pattern by changing the unknown pattern while restricting the changes of the first and the second intensity ratio.
US12031925B2
The present invention relates to an X-ray analysis apparatus and a method of X-ray analysis. The X-ray analysis apparatus enables a user to carry out a plurality of X-ray analysis applications, for analysing a sample by measuring X-ray diffraction and/or X-ray fluorescence, using the same X-ray source. The apparatus comprises an X-ray source for irradiating the sample with X-rays, the X-ray source comprising a solid anode and a cathode for emitting an electron beam. It also comprises a focusing arrangement for focusing the electron beam onto the anode, and a controller. The controller is configured to receive X-ray analysis application information and to control the X-ray analysis apparatus to selectively operate in either a first X-ray analysis mode or a second X-ray analysis mode based on the X-ray analysis application information. In the first X-ray analysis mode the X-ray source operates at a first operating power and has an effective focal spot size that is less than 100 μm. In the second X-ray analysis mode the X-ray source operates at a second operating power that is higher than the first operating power, and the area of the effective focal spot is larger than the area of the effective focal spot in the first X-ray analysis mode.
US12031915B2
An example device includes an array of sensor modules. A sensor module includes a body to be positioned in alignment with a planar target, a light source coupled to the body to emit light to the planar target along a source optical path, and a plurality of light sensors coupled to the body. Each light sensor is to sense a different wavelength of light received from the planar target along a sensor optical path. The sensor optical path is different from the source optical path. The bodies of the array of sensor modules are arranged in a planar tiling pattern with respect to a longitudinal axis of the planar target.
US12031913B2
Efficient simultaneous laser-irradiation-fluorescence detection is performed for a plurality of channels of a microchip and simple and highly sensitive parallel analysis of a plurality of samples is enabled. In a microchip 1 made of an optically transparent solid material m1 with a refractive index n1, a plurality of channels 2 filled with a material m2 with a refractive index n2 and a plurality of channels 3 filled with a material m3 with a refractive index n3 are alternately arranged in parallel on the same plane. Here, m1, m2 and m3 are selected such that a relation of n2
US12031912B2
A microarray chip imaging detector comprises a housing configured to receive a microarray chip. The detector includes a laser assembly supported by the housing and oriented at an angle relative to the microarray chip, the laser assembly configured to transmit an excitation beam along a first axis to samples on the microarray chip. The detector also includes a camera supported by the housing and positioned along a second axis, the camera configured to receive fluorescent light emitted from fluorophores in the samples on the microarray chip, the second axis oriented at an angle less than 30 degrees relative to the first axis. The housing includes a plurality of baffles positioned between the microarray chip and the camera, and a plurality of laser beamstops to receive the excitation beam reflected off the microarray chip.
US12031886B2
A sensor assembly for measuring a torsion of a rotor blade of a wind turbine generator system includes a first light source configured to generate light and a first transmitter-side polarizer disposed downstream thereof in a direction of light propagation and configured to generate linearly polarized light as a first transmission light. A second light source is configured to generate unpolarized light as a second transmission light. First and second detector elements are arranged and adapted to receive the first and second transmission light. A first receiver-side polarizer is disposed upstream of the first detector element in the direction of light propagation and a second receiver-side polarizer is disposed upstream of the second detector element in the direction of light propagation. An orientation of a polarization plane of the first receiver-side polarizer and an orientation of a polarization plane of the second receiver-side polarizer are different from one another.
US12031885B2
A method and system for monitoring and detecting a gas leak in a gas stick assembly is provided. The method includes measuring a pressure in a mass flow controller of the gas stick assembly at different time points and determining whether there is a difference in pressure at the different time points that exceeds a difference threshold.
US12031883B2
A testing method, for a camera-based autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle control system, includes while the vehicle control system operates with at least one control input from at least one camera during a first laboratory test of the vehicle control system, automatically controlling an electronic simulator configured to generate signals indicative of dynamic virtual lane markers based on speed information from a speed schedule or a feedback signal from a laboratory instrument, and displaying the virtual lane markers on a transparent or semi-transparent screen or monitor, within view of the at least one camera, and at screen or monitor coordinates reflective of relative locations of the at least one camera and the screen or monitor.
US12031880B2
A duplex visual tester for testing multiple fiber optic cable runs includes a housing having a first LED and a second LED in a duplex fiber connection. The first LED and the second LED are in electronic communication with a power source, a battery, an on/off switch, and a timer configured to pulse the first LED and the second LED. The first LED and the second LED are installed in the duplex fiber connection. The first LED has a first color, and the second LED has a second, different color, wherein the first color and the second color have the same luminosity. Preferably, the timer pulses the first LED and the second LED at between eight and ten Hz, such that the first color and second color can be seen in the fiber optic cable run.
US12031877B2
A measuring arrangement is disclosed that ensures safe installation and removal of a sensor relative to a wall of a measuring volume. The sensor is movably arranged in a mounting adapter that is fixedly arranged in the wall. The sensor is held in the mounting adapter by the connection of a coupling ring to the mounting adapter. A recess is provided for guiding a peg element. The position of the peg element in the recess is adjustable in, or counter to, the insertion direction of the sensor by a rotary and/or insertion movement of the coupling ring. The sensor and coupling ring are movable together by pressurization so that the peg element is arranged in a first locking position when pressurization by the medium is present in the measuring volume.
US12031873B2
A temperature sensor that is insensitive to process variation and mismatch is disclosed. The temperature sensor includes a PTAT voltage generator, a sampling and gain boosting circuit, a filter and a controller. The PTAT voltage generator utilizes a plurality of current sources, each of which is in electrical communication with the same diode, or diode stack. The output of the PTAT voltage generator is sampled and amplified with the sampling and gain boosting circuit. The output of the sampling and gain boosting circuit is then filtered using a low pass filter. The selection of the current mirrors, the sampling timing and other signals are provided by the controller. In some simulations, the output from the temperature sensor was accurate to within 1.5° C., using a one temperature calibration process.
US12031859B2
According to examples, an optical fiber-based sensing membrane may include at least one optical fiber, and a substrate. The at least one optical fiber may be integrated in the substrate. The substrate may include a thickness and a material property that are specified to ascertain, via the at least one optical fiber and for a device that is contiguously engaged with a surface of the substrate, includes the substrate embedded in the device, or includes the surface of the substrate at a predetermined distance from the device, a thermal and/or a mechanical property associated with the device, or a radiation level associated with a device environment.
US12031858B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide an aerial optical fiber cable inspection method, an aerial optical fiber cable inspection device, and a program which can identify a cable sagging section from vibration sensing results. In the aerial optical fiber cable inspection method according to the present invention, a vibration distribution waveform along the longitudinal direction of an aerial optical fiber cable measured using an optical fiber vibration sensing device is received as an input, a standard deviation of the amplitude of vibration at each position in the vibration distribution waveform is calculated, and a section with a standard deviation larger than that of other sections is identified as a cable sagging section.
US12031853B2
An illumination system can be configured for use with a liquid level gauge. A mounting bracket can be configured to secure a LED assembly to a frost-proof extension of the liquid level gauge, with the LED assembly disposed adjacent to a second edge face of the frost-proof extension that is opposite a liquid tube. The LED assembly can be thereby configured to illuminate the liquid tube via the second edge face of the frost-proof extension.
US12031852B2
A magnetic flowmeter for sensing process fluid flow includes a flow tube configured to receive the process fluid flow there through and a plurality of electrodes disposed to contact process fluid. At least one electromagnetic coil is disposed proximate the tube. A flow tube liner is provided in the flow tube having an interior surface configured to contact process fluid and an exterior surface mounted to the flow tube. The flow tube liner has at least one adhesion feature in the exterior surface which promotes adhesion between the flow tube liner and the flow tube. A method is also provided.
US12031849B2
An illuminated sensor target includes a light source. Actuating the light source illuminates the sensor target. The illuminated sensor target is recognized by one or more sensors of a vehicle during a calibration process, and is used to calibrate the one or more sensors of the vehicle during the calibration process. The illuminated sensor target is illuminated during at least part of the calibration process, which may involve rotation of the vehicle about a turntable, with the illuminated sensor target positioned within a range of the turntable along with other sensors targets, which may also be illuminated.
US12031846B2
A device for the generation of an output signal value making use of sensor signal values of at least three redundant sensors comprises a computing device that is configured to calculate absolute magnitudes of the differences between all possible pairs of the sensor signal values, and to determine the output signal value taking the calculated absolute magnitudes into consideration.
US12031845B2
A level including level vial(s) having enhanced visibility are provided. The level may include a level vial including a material that is attracted to the interface or border of a globule within the level vial which improves visibility of the interface. The level may include a solid level indicator having easy to see end surfaces that are generally vertically oriented when in the level position. The end surfaces of the solid level indicator may allow the user to more easily compare the position of the solid level indicator to indicating lines formed on the level vial. The level may include a level vial including a first liquid and an immiscible second liquid forming a globule with the first material. The globule formed from the second material may improve visibility compared to a typical air bubble.
US12031837B2
The present application discloses a method and device for updating a map. The method for updating a map according to the present embodiment includes: in a process of movement of a robot, when it is detected that an actual environment is different from an environment that is indicated by a global map that has already been established, starting up map updating, and establishing an initial local map; determining a locating point according to acquired sensor data and the global map, and optimizing the initial local map according to the locating point, to obtain an optimized local map; and covering a corresponding area of the global map by using the optimized local map, to complete updating of the global map. The embodiments of the present application improve the locating accuracy, ensure the speed and efficiency of the map updating, and save time.
US12031835B2
A head-up display system includes a first plurality of on-board sensors adapted to detect vehicle driving characteristics, a wireless communication module adapted to receive information from external sources, a driver monitoring system adapted to track a driver's eyes, and a controller in electronic communication with the first plurality of on-board sensors and the wireless communication module, the controller adapted to determine if the vehicle is performing a parking maneuver, and, when the vehicle is performing a parking maneuver, to capture images of an environment surrounding the vehicle, detect objects within the environment, identify location markers for a parking space and objects within the environment surrounding the vehicle adjacent to the parking space, determine the position of the vehicle relative to the identified location markers and objects, and display, with a projection module a parking assist graphic adapted to provide guidance to a driver of the vehicle.
US12031834B2
A method for measuring an inter-vehicle distance includes acquiring a driving image photographed by a photographing device of a first vehicle which is being driven; detecting a second vehicle from the acquired driving image; detecting first feature points of a second vehicle region in a first frame corresponding to a frame in which the second frame is detected before a frame in which the second vehicle is not detected among a plurality of frames constituting the driving image, when the second vehicle is not detected from the driving image; detecting second feature points in a second frame corresponding to a current frame by tracking the detected first feature points; calculating a feature point change value between the first feature points and the second feature points; and calculating an inter-vehicle distance from the photographing device of the first vehicle to the second vehicle based on the calculated feature point change value.
US12031833B2
Systems, methods, devices, and models for range estimation and analysis in battery powered vehicles are described. Energy consumption over vehicle trips is collected, to evaluate weighting factors for a weighted sum. The weighted sum is evaluated based on determined weighting factors and expected trip data, to determine an energy consumption of a trip or trips of a vehicle. Determined energy consumption for trips is used for evaluating suitability of the vehicle for performing the trips.
US12031818B2
A UAV data processing and management system is provided including an encoder broadcaster and data manager which provides end users with a single interface for searching and sharing any video or imagery source, from any device with no client software required. Data inputs to the resource can include UAV video, photos, traffic cameras, fixed surveillance systems, iOS and Android device pictures, and other data (e.g., texts, emails) and inputs from all forms of social media, such as Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, etc. The cloud based manager is built with collaboration and sharing in mind while at the same time maintaining data privacy, security protection, chain-of-custody control and audit trail maintenance. Analytic tools are integrated accordingly as “plug-ins” or as a store of available app resources which are easily removed, added and customized based on user needs and system requirements and cost constraints.
US12031814B2
A method is provided. The method includes obtaining sensor data indicative of a set of objects detected within an environment. The method also includes generating a state graph based on the sensor data. The state graph includes a set of object nodes and a set of property nodes. The method further includes obtaining user input data generated based on a natural language input. The method further includes updating the state graph based on the user input data to generate an enhanced state graph. The enhanced state graph includes additional nodes generated based on the user input data. The method further includes generating a set of instructions for a set of mechanical systems based on the enhanced state graph. The method further includes operating the set of mechanical systems to achieve a set of objectives based on the set of instructions.
US12031812B2
A method and system for scanning an outer surface of a three-dimensional object, the outer surface being reflective, the method comprising the following steps: (a) projecting a light pattern on the object with a relative movement between the light pattern and the object; (b) recording with cameras images of the light pattern reflected by the outer surface during the relative movement; (c) processing the recorded reflection images by identifying the outline of the light pattern and determining from the outline characteristics of the outer surface; wherein the light pattern comprises at least one homogenously illuminated strip extending transversally to a direction of the relative movement with at least one border with a non-straight profile so as to form a non-constant width of the strip; and in step (c) the speed of the relative movement is taken into account for determining a three-dimensional definition of the outer surface.
US12031800B2
A method of controlling a self-propelled flying device that seeks a target. A desired time to reach the target is obtained. The position of the target is acquired. A bias value is calculated, and the flight of the device towards the target is adjusted for a period of time using the bias value. The bias value is calculated so that the device reaches the target at the desired time.
US12031797B2
A pressure pad accessory controller for a weapon includes a rail interface, a pressure pad portion, a keypad having one or more user-depressible control elements disposed on the pressure pad portion, and one or more electrical connectors for operably coupling the keypad to one or more accessory devices.
US12031796B2
An electronic indicator on a see-through optical scope indicates whether an optical system is canted. The indicator may include illuminable visual indicators positioned on opposite sides of a field of view through the optical scope. The indicator may be visual, haptic, or aural. The visual indicator may include one or more LEDs positioned on the periphery of the field of view, and may be optically coupled to an appropriate position on the face of the reticle using a suitable waveguide. The LEDs are coupled to a microprocessor which is, in turn, coupled to a solid-state electronic inclinometer that is incorporated into the internal structure of the optical system. The microprocessor is configured to selectively illuminate one or more of the visual indicators based on the output of the inclinometer, thereby indicating how the reticle is canted, if at all.
US12031795B2
Cheek risers for rifles have a shell configured to closely receive at least a portion of the tapered butt, the shell defining a stud aperture configured to receive the stud when the shell closely receives the butt, and an adjustable cheek rest connected to the shell and operable for vertical position adjustment with respect to the shell. The stud aperture may be circular. The stud aperture may be configured to closely receive a sling stud. The shell may have an upper portion and a lower portion selectably and removably connected to each other. The upper portion and lower portion may be unitary and connected via a live hinge. The upper portion and lower portion may include a separable hinge interface on one side, and a connection facility on an opposed side. The separable hinge interface may include a pin element and a hook element configured to engage the pin element.
US12031786B1
A suppressor for reducing muzzle flash during firing of a firearm. The suppressor includes an auto purge channel configured to direct gas to a distal end of the suppressor adjacent an exit point of a projectile. In one example, the auto purge channel enables gas to saturate an area of the suppressor in front of the projectile. For example, the auto purge channel directs gas to the distal end of the suppressor at a speed that is greater than a speed of the projectile. In another embodiment, the projectile travels through combustion gasses transferred by the auto purge channel to reduce muzzle flash. In yet another example, the auto purge channel runs parallel to a central bore of the suppressor.
US12031779B2
In some respects, concepts disclosed herein generally concern systems, methods and components to detect a presence of a liquid externally of a desired primary flow path through a segment of a fluid circuit, e.g., throughout a cooling loop. Some disclosed concepts pertain to systems, methods, and components to direct seepage or leakage of a liquid coolant toward a lead-detection sensor. As but one example, some disclosed liquid-cooled heat exchangers incorporate a leak-detection sensor, which, in turn, can couple with a computing environment that monitors for detected leaks, and, responsive to an indication of a detected leak, invokes a task to control or to mitigate the detected leak.
US12031777B2
A tube-in-tube heat exchanger utilizes a selectively permeable tube having a selective permeable layer to allow the refrigerant to transfer into an ionic liquid to generate heating or cooling. The ionic liquid then provides heating or cooling to a heat transfer fluid through a non-permeable layer or tube. The system may be configured as a shell and tube design, with the third fluid free to flow on the outside of the shell, or as a shell and tube-in-tube, with a central tube containing a first liquid, a second tube containing a second liquid, and an outer shell containing the third liquid. The selectively permeable tube may include an anion or cation selectively permeable layer and this layer may be supported by a support layer or tube.
US12031763B2
An ice maker, may include a first tray forming a part of a plurality of ice-making cells; a second tray forming another part of the plurality of ice-making cells; and a heater arranged on the first tray or the second tray, wherein the heater supplies heat to the plurality of ice-making cells.
US12031760B2
A freezing device including a compressor that compresses sucked refrigerant using a compression mechanism and discharges compressed refrigerant includes a compressor, an inverter, and a controller. The compressor includes a motor, a low pressure unit, a compression space, a high pressure unit, a communication flow path, and a flow control valve. The inverter drives or stops the motor. The controller controls the inverter and the flow control valve. The controller performs, in stop control in which an operation of the compressor is stopped, braking control in which driving of the compression mechanism is prevented or suppressed, and pressure equalization control in which pressure in the high pressure unit is equalized with pressure in the low pressure unit.
US12031755B2
A refrigeration system includes a main fluid loop and a secondary fluid loop. The main fluid loop includes a compressor and a heat exchanger that circulate a first working fluid. The secondary fluid loop circulates a second working fluid. The secondary fluid loop is in thermal communication with the main fluid loop at the heat exchanger. The secondary fluid loop includes a pump, a thermal energy storage, and a coil fluid line. The secondary fluid loop includes a multi-position valve configured to move between positions that selectively fluidly connect the heat exchanger, the pump, the thermal energy storage, and the coil fluid line.
US12031751B2
A system and methods for heating and cooling are provided. The system may include an energy collector and an adaptive panel connected to the energy collector. The adaptive panel may a radiative cooling layer configured to dissipate heat from the energy collector. The radiative cooling layer may further include a thermo-responsive polymer configured to adjust transparency depending on temperature. The system may include a solar heating layer configured to absorb solar irradiation that passes through the radiative cooling layer and transfer heat to the energy collector.
US12031750B2
A mounting system may include a frame associated with a power-generating device, the frame including an opening. The mounting system may include a bracket mounting assembly. The bracket mounting assembly may include a top member having a first surface, a clamp, and a single bolt passing through both the top member and the clamp such that the clamp moves along an interface between the first and a second surfaces as the single bolt is tightened. The clamp may include the second surface corresponding to the first surface, an arm projecting away from the top member, and a flange at least proximate a top of the arm. The flange may include an ear at the top of the arm and a tab on a bottom side of the ear projecting back towards the top member, the tab positioned to interface with the opening on the frame.
US12031744B1
An upblast rain cap may have an inverted bottom cone joined to a top cap. The wall of the bottom cone is at an angle of less than 45 degrees with respect to a vertical axis. The joined cone and cap are held above a lower support coupler by a spar. The height of the bottom cone above the support coupler forms a side discharge area. The coupler attaches to the top of a vertical conveyance pipe through which exhaust air flows. A gutter is formed around the edge of the top cap. The gutter has a vertical opening that is aligned with the top of the spar. When rain falls, water flows over the top cap to the gutter, through the opening in the gutter, down the outside edge of the spar and down the outside of the support coupler.
US12031741B2
A heat recovery air-conditioning hot water system and a refrigerant flow control method therefor. The heat recovery air-conditioning hot water system includes a compressor, a condenser, heat exchangers, an indoor unit, a first throttling device, a second throttling device, a first reversing valve, and a second throttling device, wherein the first reversing valve is used to control the refrigerant switching of the indoor heat exchanger, so as to realize the switching of cooling and heating modes; the second reversing valve is used to control the refrigerant switching of the outdoor heat exchanger, so as to realize the operation switching of cooling and heating modes of the outdoor heat exchanger; and an exhaust pipe of the compressor is respectively connected to the first reversing valve, the second reversing valve, and the water-side heat exchanger by means of a water-side high-pressure air pipe.
US12031739B2
A device management system includes a device installed in a building, a control terminal connected to the device, and a management apparatus connected to the control terminal via a network. Both the control terminal and the management apparatus are configured to be capable of acquiring a control command that is created by a user. The control command that is created by the user is acquired by at least one of the control terminal and the management apparatus. Based on the control command that is acquired, control of the device is shared and executed in at least one of the control terminal and the management apparatus.
US12031730B2
A hydronic system includes a partition, a first conduit embedded in a first side of the partition, a second conduit embedded in a second side of the partition, a first sheet of finishing material covering the first conduit, a second sheet of finishing material covering the second conduit, and at least one valve and at least one pump. The at least one valve and at least one pump are configured to control a flow of a fluid inside the first conduit and the second conduit. When the hydronic system is operating in an isolating mode, the fluid flows in a first closed loop through the first conduit and the fluid flows in a second closed loop through the second conduit. When the hydronic system is operating in a heat exchange mode, the fluid flows between the first conduit and the second conduit in a third closed loop.
US12031724B2
A turbine engine that includes a compressor section, combustion section, and turbine section. The combustion section includes a combustor liner defining a combustion chamber. At least one fuel nozzle and at least one heat shield are located in the combustion chamber. The at least one heat shield includes an internal air flow passage and a pin bank.
US12031709B2
An assembly, in particular an underwater optical assembly is provided. The assembly comprises a tubular wall mount, a housing and a seal. The wall mount has a cylindrical bore portion and the housing comprises a head and a stem rearwardly protruding from the head along an axis. The head defines a chamber with a window for dry housing an optical device in the chamber and the stem comprising an enclosed channel in fluid communication with the chamber. The stem has a cylindrical stem portion mated to the bore portion. The assembly is configured such that in an assembled configuration the stem portion fits the bore portion in an axial direction, the head is located in front of at least the bore portion of the wall mount, the housing being attached to the wall mount and plugging the wall mount with the seal extending substantially radially between the stem portion and the bore portion sealing the assembly circumferentially watertight. The head has a radial head size and the stem has a radial stem size, wherein the head size is larger than the stem size. The head has one or more circumferential walls forwardly protruding from a substantially radial rear wall, the stem rearwardly protruding from the rear wall. The stem and the one or more circumferential walls each have a thickness in radial direction, defining a rear wall area between a radial outside of the stem and a radial inside of the one or more circumferential walls, wherein the rear wall has, for at least half the radial area a thickness in axial direction that is less than a thickness in radial direction of the circumferential wall, and preferably less than a thickness in radial direction of the stem.
US12031706B1
A modular lighting system includes a base that includes three cable connectors, a first cable connected to a first cable connector and connecting the base to a first adjacent base, a second cable connected to a second cable connector and connecting the base to a second adjacent base, a third cable connected to a third cable connector and connecting the base to a lighting unit, and the lighting unit. The first adjacent base is disposed upstream from the base, and the second adjacent base is disposed downstream from the base. The first, second, and third cables are interchangeable such that they can connect to any of the three cable connectors. Power transmitted along the third cable is less than power transmitted along the first cable and than power transmitted along the second cable.
US12031705B2
A lighting apparatus includes a fixing bracket, a driver plate, a driver circuit, a driver container, a manual switch, a shielding cover, a cover plate and a light source. The fixing bracket has a first wall, a second wall and a third wall. The first wall and the third wall are connected on two sides of the second wall. The first wall has a door opening. The driver circuit is mounted on the driver plate. The driver container is fixed to the fixing bracket. The driver container has a driver opening facing to the first wall. The manual switch disposed on the driver plate. The manual switch has a switch pin to be moved for selecting a setting of the driver circuit. The shielding cover conceals the manual switch so that users do not touch the manual switch directly from outside of the lighting apparatus.
US12031697B2
A street pole comprising an antenna section with a coaxially mounted antenna around a pole. The antenna section having a length L and comprising at least one of the following features: —suspension with O-rings wherein the O-rings are each mounted at a distance Dr of 0.5*(1−½√2)*L from a respective end of the antenna; —a fix suspension at bottom; —a reduced outer diameter of the pole at at least one end (i.e. top end and/or bottom end) of the antenna; and—one of i) an extruded cable sleeve with opening in circumference over its full length for easy assembling and to spring mount the cable sleeve around the pole, and ii) a grooved pole with specifically shaped grooves for collecting residual particles at preferred locations.
US12031695B1
A fluid removal assembly for an aircraft light is provided. The fluid removal assembly includes a condensate removal valve including a housing; a set of helical compression springs; and a stem disposed within the housing. The stem is configured to translate in a first direction responsive to the aircraft being pressurized and a first force, from the pressurization, forcing the stem to translate in the first direction; and translate in a second direction opposite the first direction responsive to the aircraft being depressurized and a second force from the set of helical compression springs forcing the stem to translate in the second direction. The condensate removal valve is configured to: responsive to an aircraft being depressurized, drain a fluid from one or more components of the aircraft light, the aircraft light being installed in the aircraft; and responsive to the aircraft being pressurized, maintain a pressure within the aircraft.
US12031692B2
A vehicle light fixture includes: one light source including a light emitting layer partitioned into a plurality of segments capable of emitting light individually; and a control unit for causing the light emitting layer to emit light in a different light emitting state by performing control of selecting the segment for emitting light from among the plurality of segments, and control of at least one of brightness and a light emission timing of the selected segment.
US12031681B2
The present invention relates to a knob cap for a high-pressure tank including a coupling groove portion corresponding to a knob of a liner of the high-pressure tank formed in a lower surface of a body; a peripheral wing portion extending outward in a lower end of an outer circumferential surface of the body to be in contact with a surface of the liner; and a thickness conversion portion formed in the outer circumferential surface of the body to change a thickness between a center line and the outer circumferential surface.
US12031679B2
A valve for closing a gas container includes a valve body with a continuous longitudinal bore along a longitudinal axis and a displaceably-guided valve tappet mounted therein. The valve body extends longitudinally parallel to the axis from a connection region with a connection-side end face to a fastening region with a gas-container-side end face having a smaller diameter than the connection region. The connection region has a stop face that stops a gas container base-body head when the fastening region has been inserted into an opening in the head. The valve body laterally has a double groove in the fastening region that includes two grooves that follow one another longitudinally and that a sealing lug facing away from the longitudinal axis separates to allow the head to be pressed gas-tightly with the fastening region in the double groove region when the fastening region is introduced into the head.
US12031671B2
A device for monitoring a lubrication of a tool may include: a housing including: a lubricator connector configured to connect the housing to a lubricator and including a lubricant inlet opening, a chamber configured to receive a lubricant from the lubricator through the lubricant inlet opening, a tool connector configured to connect the housing to a lubricant fitting of a tool and including a lubricator outlet opening through which the lubricant leaves the chamber; and a pressure transducer configured to measure a lubricant pressure in the chamber of the housing and generate an output pressure signal related thereto.
US12031670B2
A fitting for a lubrication point of a device to be lubricated and a connector for removably connecting to such fitting to provide a lubricant from a lubrication device via the fitting to the device to be lubricated are disclosed. The fitting comprises an integrated circuit for providing an identification code to identify the fitting, and a first electrical contact for establishing an electrical path between the integrated circuit and a processor of the connector when a connection between the fitting and the connector is established. The connector comprises the processor and a second electrical contact for establishing the electrical path. The integrated circuit is adapted for transmitting data, including the identification code, via the first electrical contact to the processor.
US12031661B2
A pipeline reconditioning system and process is provided for reconditioning corroded or damaged pipelines. The reconditioning system includes a mobile topside unit storing and providing reservoirs and supplies of substances used in the pipeline reconditioning and the equipment for the reconditioning system, a management and towing units that are securely anchored in the pipeline at remote access points, and a towed delivery system array that includes a deployment sled that processes the substances and dispenses the reconditioning material, such as a composite epoxy resin with chopped glass or basalt filament fibers, between access points to the pipeline interior.
US12031660B2
A system for use in maintaining a pipe includes a motorized apparatus including a body assembly and at least one maintenance device. The at least one maintenance device includes a sprayer, a heater, and an infrared sensor. The system includes at least one controller configured to apply the at least one coating material to the interior surface of the pipe at a work location using the sprayer, heat the interior surface of the pipe at the work location using the heater to begin a cure of the at least one coating material, generate one or more infrared images of the work location using the infrared sensor while using the heater to cure the at least one coating material, and perform a non-destructive evaluation (NDE) of the work location based on the one or more infrared images.
US12031651B2
An adapter for mounting cable hangers to a mounting structure includes: a plurality of mounting panels, each mounting panel including a mounting hole, the mounting panels attached to each other at edges thereof, each mounting panel being disposed at an angle relative to its adjacent mounting panels; a base attached to the edge of endmost ones of the mounting panels; wherein the mounting panels and the base define an interior of the adapter; the adapter further comprising at least one pair of fingers extending into the interior of the adapter, each pair of fingers being configured to cooperate to grasp a cable.
US12031646B2
A tubing coupler. The coupler includes a tubular body and a a stock body portion that is grooveless. The tubing coupler also includes a first engagement end with a first set of grooves disposed thereon to engage with an inside portion of a first piece of tubing. A method of making a customized part with the tubing coupler. The method includes securing at least a portion of the tubing coupler inside a first piece of carbon fiber tubing.
US12031641B2
A monitoring system (500) of an on/off type actuator device (1) for activating a valve for fluid pipelines is described, the actuator device (1) being configured to move a valve member of said valve between a first position and a second position. The actuator device (1) comprises at least one fluid cylinder (6) configured to control a linear movement of an actuator rod (8). The monitoring system (500) comprises a plurality of sensors mounted on the actuator device (1) and configured to detect a plurality of operating parameters of the actuator device, and an electronic processing and control unit (50). The electronic processing and control unit (50) is configured to impart a micro-movement to the valve member, to detect signals indicative of the values of said operating parameters during said micro-movement of the valve member, and as a function of said values of said detected operating parameters to estimate if said actuator device (1) is capable of applying a torque or force value sufficient to make said valve member perform the entire movement from the first position to the second position. The micro-movement is such as to constitute only the start of movement of the movable member of the valve, corresponding only to the overcoming of mechanical clearances and dissipative and deformation effects internal to the actuator (1), and furthermore is such as not to substantially involve any alteration in the flow of fluid controlled by the valve. In this way, it is possible to estimate the state of health of the actuator device (1) without causing variations in the flow of fluid through the aforesaid valve.
US12031636B2
A valve control assembly includes a valve body having an inlet adapted to be coupled to a source of process fluid having a first temperature, an outlet, and a fluid flow path extending between the inlet and the outlet, and a bonnet coupled to the valve body. An inlet port, an outlet port, an annular plenum, an inlet passage, and an outlet passage are integrally formed in the valve body or the bonnet. The inlet port is adapted to be coupled to source of media and the annular plenum is disposed between the inlet port and the outlet port, immediately adjacent a portion of the fluid flow path. The inlet passage directs the media from the inlet port to the annular plenum, which changes a temperature of the process fluid flowing through the fluid flow path from the first temperature to a second temperature different from the first temperature.
US12031634B2
A pipe stopper includes an expandable stopper body defining a stopper cavity and configurable in an expanded configuration and a contracted configuration; a pressure assembly comprising a pressure housing and a piston, the piston slidably engaged with a housing cavity of the pressure housing, the piston operatively connected to the expandable stopper body; and a locking assembly comprising a locking ring movable between a locked configuration and an unlocked configuration, wherein the locking ring is configured to engage the expandable stopper body in the locked configuration to prohibit contraction of the expandable stopper body and to secure the pipe stopper in the expanded configuration.
US12031627B2
There are provided a transmission control device and a transmission control method that controls a prime mover in a system including the prime mover and a gear transmission. A processing circuitry of the transmission control device executes a process including: determining whether to fall into a predetermined situation at a time of acquiring a shift command; when it is determined as being the predetermined situation, starting a separation control that adjusts an output of the prime mover such that a dog is separated from an abutment surface against which the dog abuts at the time of acquiring the shift command; and after the separation control is completed and before the dog at the first transmission gear position moves out of an accommodation space at the first transmission gear position, starting a synchronous control relating to the dog and transmission gears.
US12031623B2
A planetary gear for a planetary gearset has a gear body and a planetary gear shaft defining a planetary gear rotational axis (APR) of the planetary gear. The gear body includes a gear rim having a first number (n1) of teeth and a second number (n2) of ribs. The ribs extend between the planetary gear shaft and the gear rim, and planetary gear contact projections are arranged on the ribs and project beyond the gear rim along the planetary gear rotational axis (APR). Also disclosed is a planet carrier for such a planetary gear, including an insert for removing torque from the carrier body, which insert is connected to the first disk-shaped body. The first disk-shaped body forms a first free planet carrier face on which a number of reinforcing ribs are arranged.
US12031617B2
Disclosed is a gear including an input shaft; an output shaft an outer wheel; an inner wheel positioned concentrically in relation to the outer wheel; a pressure means extending between the outer wheel and the inner wheel; and at least one revolving transmitter configured to push the pressure means away from the inner periphery of the outer wheel and push the pressure means onto the outer periphery the inner wheel.
US12031610B2
A clamping cable lockout device includes a pair of clamp jaws that are supported by a body and an arm movable relative thereto. A jaw release permits a one-way ratcheting of the arm relative to the body to reduce the distance between the jaws unless the jaw release is actuated to a release position. The device also has a cable having an end secured to the body and a free end. A cable securing mechanism is supported by the body and has a lockable cover selectively permitting access thereto such that, when the cable securing mechanism receives the free end of the cable and the cover is closed, a closed loop by the cable which can only be made smaller. The lockable cover has a blocking arm that, when lockable cover is in the closed position, prevents actuation of the jaw release to the release position.
US12031606B2
Disclosed is a shock absorber including: a cylinder which is filled with a working fluid; a piston which is slidably provided in the cylinder and divides an inside of the cylinder into two chambers; a piston rod which is connected to the piston and extends outside the cylinder; a first passage and a second passage through which the working fluid flows due to movement of the piston; a first damping force generating mechanism which is provided in the first passage and generates a damping force; and a second damping force generating mechanism which is provided in the second passage and generates a damping force. The second damping force generating mechanism includes a sub valve provided on one side of the second passage, and a volume variable mechanism that changes a volume of a volume chamber provided in parallel with the second passage.
US12031605B2
A shock absorber includes a first damping force generation mechanism provided in a first passage, and a second damping force generation mechanism provided in a second passage, in which the second damping force generation mechanism includes a first valve seat formed on a case member having a cylindrical part and a bottom part, a disc valve in which a separable part on an outer circumferential side is separably disposed on a first valve seat, and a second valve seat provided on a side of the disc valve opposite to the first valve seat and configured to support the disc valve on a radial inner side of the separable part, and the second passage includes a piston rod passage part formed by cutting out or penetrating the piston rod, and a chamber passage part which allows communication from the piston rod passage part to a case inner chamber.
US12031604B2
A controllable vibration damper with damping force control may include a damper tube housing that is filled with damping medium. The controllable vibration damper may also include a damping valve element that is structurally and fluidically connected to the damper tube housing for damping force control. The damping valve element may be configured as a pilot-controlled pressure-limiting valve having a pilot valve. Further, a two-stage pre-throttle valve assembly placed in front of the pilot valve. The damping valve element may be arranged internally with respect to the damper tube housing in some cases. In other cases, the tamping valve element may be arranged externally with respect to the damper tube housing.
US12031593B2
A flexible coupling assembly for a power transmission system including a first shaft defining an axis, configured for connecting to a first rotating member, the first shaft adjoining and passing through a first flexible diaphragm coupling and lockably connecting to a quill shaft by a locking flange and the quill shaft being configured for connecting to a second rotating member, including a first mating portion for receiving the locking flange of the first shaft within a circumferential opening, wherein the quill shaft is disposed within a primary diaphragm coupling shaft.
US12031592B2
A soft actuator includes a power input shaft, and multiple electromagnetic clutches are coaxially installed in series on the power input shaft. A bending elastic part is arranged between the thrust plate of each electromagnetic clutch and the gear frame of the electromagnetic clutch. The bending elastic part is installed on the sleeve of the gear frame and in contact with the baffle of the gear frame. The bending elastic part is connected with the clutch output gear of the electromagnetic clutch through the gear frame. The gear frame is fixedly connected with the clutch output gear and rotates coaxially.
US12031585B2
A bearing box for a rotating roller for supporting or transporting a high-temperature object. The bearing box includes a bearing and seal units disposed therein. A cooling jacket is disposed at an outer periphery of the bearing box so that the cooling jacket covers at least a portion of an axial region of the bearing and at least a portion of an axial region of the seal unit. The cooling jacket has a cooling water inlet and a cooling water outlet, and the bearing box is cooled by cooling water supplied to the cooling jacket through the cooling water inlet.
US12031580B2
A deep groove ball bearing includes an outer ring, an inner ring, a retainer and steel balls, where the retainer is disposed between the outer ring and the inner ring, sockets are disposed on the retainer, the steel balls are disposed in the sockets, the retainer is formed by two retainer bodies which are separated from each other, grooves are formed in the retainer bodies at intervals, the grooves in one retainer body are combined with the grooves in the other retainer body to form the sockets, each retainer body is provided with a plurality of sub-connectors which are separated from each other, a first connecting block and a second connecting block are formed at two ends of each sub-connector respectively, two grooves are formed in each sub-connector, and a positioning table is disposed between the two grooves in each sub-connector.
US12031579B2
A sliding member includes a metal substrate and a sliding layer formed on one surface of the metal substrate. The sliding layer has a matrix phase containing Cu and Sn and hard particles dispersed in the matrix phase and containing a Laves phase constituted of a composition of Co, Mo and Si.
US12031577B2
A crankshaft with improved seizure resistance is provided. A crankshaft having journals 11 and pins 12 includes a compound layer containing iron and nitrogen on its surface, wherein, in the compound layer, for both the journals 11 and pins 12, the porosity area ratio of the thinner one of a region from the surface to a depth of 3.0 μm and a region across the total thickness of the compound layer is not higher than 10.0%, and both the journals 11 and pins 12 have such a surface geometry that the arithmetical mean deviation of the primary profile, Pa, is not larger than 0.090 μm.
US12031571B2
An anchor device (1) with a base part (2) for attachment to an object (10), such as a load or a loading surface. The anchor device (1) has a connecting part (6) which is held on the base part (2) and can be pivoted relative to the base part about a swivel axis (4). The base part (2) has a bearing surface (8) for contact with the object. A snap mechanism (29), which has at least one snap position (30) along a pivoting movement (28) of the connecting part about the swivel axis, is provided. The snap mechanism generates a braking force (32) in the direction of the pivoting movement in front of the snap position which is reduced in the direction of the pivoting movement behind the snap position.
US12031567B2
A connecting device may be provided comprising a positive connecting element and a negative connecting element, wherein the positive connecting element has an elevation arranged on a base surface and the negative connecting element has a depression introduced into a contact surface, into which the elevation of the positive connecting element can be introduced, wherein the positive and the negative connecting element may be connected to one another by rotation relative to one another.
US12031553B2
An electronic device may include an electronic circuit, a heat sink thermally coupled to the electronic circuit, and spaced apart cooling fins extending from the heat sink. Each cooling fin includes a circuit board and a cooling device mounted thereon. The cooling device may have a conductive trace layer on the circuit board defining an electromagnet, a mounting member extending upwardly from the circuit board, a fan blade coupled to an upper end of the mounting member to be movable in a rocking motion about an axis defined by the mounting member, and a permanent magnet carried by the fan blade and responsive to the electromagnet.
US12031552B2
A compressor, for use alone or as a component part of a turbocharger. The compressor comprises a compressor housing and a compressor wheel mounted in the compressor housing. An internal surface of the compressor housing defines an axial inlet. The axial inlet comprises an annular groove for reducing compressor noise.
US12031551B2
An assembly, comprising a basin, a submersible pump, having an outlet, disposed within the basin, and an adapter. The adapter comprises a housing having a first side and a second side, a reducing passage extending axially through the housing from the first side to the second side, wherein the reducing passage has a varying inner diameter such that a first inner diameter transitions to a second inner diameter, a plurality of fastener receiving holes extending transversely through the housing and disposed radially and circumferentially around the reducing passage, and a plurality of fastening elements extending from the housing at the second side. The submersible pump outlet is connected to the adapter on the second side and an existing discharge line connected to the adapter on the first side. The adapter provides a transition from a diameter of the submersible pump outlet to a diameter of the existing discharge line.
US12031549B2
The present invention relates to an air compressor for a vehicle and, more specifically, to an air compressor for a vehicle wherein the entire operation of the air compressor may be stabilized by a cooling unit in which a portion of the compressed air that moves through a connection pipe conveying primarily compressed air exchanges heat with a cooling water flowing part to cool the driving unit.
US12031546B2
A scroll casing of a centrifugal compressor includes a scroll part forming a scroll passage of the centrifugal compressor. The scroll part has a near-circular scroll cross-section which includes a first arc portion extending from a connection position with a hub-side passage surface of a diffuser passage of the centrifugal compressor (first position) to a one-direction side (side toward fourth position), a second arc portion formed on the one-direction side of the first arc portion so as to include at least a part of a region between an outermost end in the radial direction (second position) and an innermost end in the radial direction (fourth position), and a third arc portion formed on the one-direction side of the second arc portion so as to include an end position of the scroll part on the one-direction side (fifth position) and satisfies a relationship of R2>R3, where R2 is a curvature radius of the second arc portion, and R3 is a curvature radius of the third arc portion.
US12031527B1
A mechanical energy amplification system having a frame that supports a cylindrical rotary reactor magnet assembly, an oscillating reactor magnet assembly, and an input impulse magnet assembly, which rotates a shaft of both the rotary reactor magnet assembly and the oscillating reactor magnet assembly when pivoted back and forth, and generating a greater output energy than an energy input at the input impulse magnet assembly by pivoting an output pivot shaft by the rotation of the shafts of the rotary reactor magnet assembly and the oscillating reactor magnet assembly.
US12031516B2
Electric power supply kit (10) for an irrigation system (100) for land, said irrigation system (100) comprising at least one conduit (110, 111) adapted for the passage of an irrigation fluid and at least one electrical device (120) comprising at least one rechargeable power supply battery (130), said electric power supply kit (10) comprising at least one hydroelectric turbine (20) in fluid communication with said irrigation fluid adapted to generate an alternating electric current voltage as said irrigation fluid passes into said at least one conduit (110, 111), at least one voltage regulator (30) adapted to be powered with said alternating electric current, adapted to stabilize said alternating electric current voltage in a direct electric current voltage, and adapted to supply said at least one power supply battery (130) of said at least one electrical device (120) with said direct electric current voltage.
US12031507B2
An augmented aerospike nozzle includes a throat, a centerbody extending aft of the throat, an inner expansion surface defined by the centerbody, an outer expansion surface outboard of the inner expansion surface, and an expansion cavity defined between the inner expansion surface and the outer expansion surface. An engine includes a high pressure chamber and the augmented aerospike nozzle. A vehicle for supersonic flight includes the engine with the augmented aerospike nozzle.
US12031495B1
A method of determining fuel leak of fuel injectors of an injection system of a combustion engine, said method including determining a baseline pressure based on a predetermined integral response threshold and for each fuel injector determining a primary reference integral response by obtaining the associated primary reference integral response by obtaining the current integral response while running the engine at the baseline pressure with the respective fuel injector fluidly isolated.
US12031494B2
A method and system for controlling operation of a two-stroke engine having a turbocharger includes the two-stroke engine comprising an electronically controlled exhaust valve. A throttle position sensor generates a throttle position signal corresponding to a position of a throttle plate of a throttle. A boost box is coupled to the two-stroke engine. A boost box pressure sensor is coupled to the boost box and generates a boost box pressure signal corresponding to a pressure within the boost box. A controller is coupled to the boost box pressure signal controlling a position of the electronically controlled exhaust valve in response to the boost box pressure signal and the throttle position signal.
US12031493B2
A system has first and second fuel stores for first and second fuels, an engine, a fuel distribution system, first and second flow rates of the fuel contributing to a total flow rate of fuel; and a controller for controlling the relative fractions of the total flow rate of fuel to the engine according to the required power output of the engine such that the relative fraction of the total flow rate of fuel to the engine represented by the second flow rate increases with increasing required power output of the engine. The fuels are selected such that using only the second fuel results in a lower engine temperature than using only the first fuel, for the same mechanical power and/or the second fuel has a lower specific energy than the first and/or the second fuel produces more water during combustion than the first fuel per unit of fuel energy.
US12031489B2
A system and a method for configuring at least one variable geometry mechanism (VGM) of an aircraft engine are provided. Pass-off testing data for the aircraft engine is obtained, the pass-off testing data indicative of an actual value of at least one operating parameter of the aircraft engine. Based on the pass-off testing data, at least one trim value to be used to adjust a setting of the at least one VGM to bring the actual value of the at least one operating parameter towards a target value is determined, a running line of the aircraft engine being substantially constant when the actual value of the at least one operating parameter is at the target value. The setting of the at least one VGM is adjusted, during pass-off testing of the aircraft engine, using the at least one trim value.
US12031488B2
A combustion engine including a combustion chamber, a first bleed air supply, a second bleed air supply, a thermal bus and a turbomachine. The first bleed air supply being fluidly coupled to a first fluid from a portion of the combustion engine upstream of the combustion chamber. The second bleed air supply being fluidly coupled to a second fluid portion of the combustion engine downstream of the combustion chamber. The turbomachine having a compressor and a turbine. The compressor being fluidly coupled to the first bleed air supply. The turbine being fluidly coupled to the second bleed air supply.
US12031477B2
Methods and apparatus for power generation and/or thermal management on a high speed flight vehicle include circulating a power generation loop working fluid through a power generation loop, which absorbs heat associated with the flight vehicle. A generator operably coupled to the power generation loop generates electrical power. Additionally, a heat transport loop working fluid may circulate through a heat transport loop to provide thermal management through heat transfer.
US12031475B2
A turbocharging assembly is described. The turbocharging assembly includes a compressor having a compressor wheel and a turbine having a turbine wheel. The turbine wheel and the compressor wheel are mounted back-to-back on a shaft. The shaft is coupled to a power converter provided in front of the compressor wheel. Additionally, the turbocharging assembly includes a housing extension encasing the power converter. The housing extension is connected with a compressor housing. The power converter includes a rotor and a stator. The stator is mounted to the housing extension. Further, the turbocharging assembly includes a filter silencer arranged between the compressor and the power converter. Yet further, the turbocharging assembly includes a blower mounted to the shaft. The blower is arranged at a side of the power converter facing away from the compressor.
US12031472B2
The cooling water temperature control device includes a thermo valve 2 that opens a main flow passage R1 when the temperature of a sensed region R1a in the main flow passage R1 reaches or exceeds an operating temperature set in advance, a sub-valve 3 that opens and closes a sub-flow passage R2 bypassing the thermo valve 2, and a control unit 6 that opens the sub-valve 3 when the temperature of the cooling water on an upstream side of the thermo valve 2 is a predetermined temperature. One end on the upstream side of the sub-flow passage R2 is connected to the sensed region R1a in the main flow passage R1 or to a downstream side of the sensed region R1a, and the operating temperature of the thermo valve 2 is set to be equal to or lower than the predetermined temperature.
US12031468B2
A system and method for treating turbine exhaust gas includes an exhaust gas discharge structure, a catalytic exhaust gas treatment device, at least two heat exchangers and a district heating system. The catalytic exhaust gas treatment device is positioned at least partially within the exhaust gas discharge structure. A first heat exchanger is positioned at least partially within the exhaust gas discharge structure and upstream of the catalytic exhaust gas treatment device to remove heat from an exhaust gas by transferring heat to a working fluid. A second heat exchanger is positioned at least partially within the exhaust gas discharge structure downstream of the catalytic exhaust gas treatment device to remove heat from the exhaust gas that has passed though the device by transferring heat to the working fluid. A pump drives the working fluid between the first heat exchanger, the district heating system and the second heat exchanger.
US12031466B2
A water drainage assembly for an aftertreatment system includes: a tube having an inlet structured to be coupled to an outlet conduit of an aftertreatment system; a drain port extending through the tube; a first baffle disposed in the tube, a first baffle first end attached to an inner surface of the tube at a first location, wherein at least a portion of the first baffle is inclined downwards with respect to gravity; and a second baffle disposed in the tube below the first baffle, a second baffle first end being coupled to the inner surface of the tube at a second location that is opposite to and below the first location, wherein at least a portion of the second baffle is inclined upwards with respect to gravity.
US12031461B2
A shift gate for a sliding cam system may include at least two shift grooves for engagement of at least one actuator pin. The two shift grooves run against a direction of rotation and transform from a first inlet portion for the actuator pin into a second outlet portion for the actuator pin. The two shift grooves cross one another in an intersection region between the two portions. In the intersection region, the two shift grooves each have a maximum axial shift stroke that is greater than half a total axial shift stroke, in particular a slide travel, of the shift gate.
US12031458B2
An efficient internal combustion engine including a housing such as a cylinder block, cylinder covers and one or more pairs of working piston and auxiliary piston, moving in the working cylinder and auxiliary cylinder respectively. For each pair of working piston and auxiliary piston, the engine also has rods operatively connected to working piston and auxiliary piston, intake valve, operatively connected to the intake channel in the cylinder block, exhaust valve, operatively connected to the exhaust channel in the cylinder block, and two bypass valves located between the working cylinder and auxiliary cylinder. The engine also has a crankshaft that also functions as a camshaft, rod pushers for pushing special nozzles and valves, flywheel, Hydro-compensators and preferably a high pressure fuel pump (HPFP). No cylinder heads or separate camshafts are used in the present invention.
US12031455B2
Turbine comprising a casing and a nozzle including a metal outer shroud integral with the casing, a metal inner shroud, and a plurality of nozzle sectors of CMC forming a ring extending between the metal outer shroud and the metal inner shroud, each sector including a mast, an inner platform, an outer platform and at least one airfoil having a hollow profile defining an inner recess, each of the inner and outer platforms having an opening communicating with said inner recess, and the mast passing through said openings and the inner recess and being attached to said casing and connected with said nozzle sector. The mast comprises at least one fastening projection having at least one portion extending from a radially outer end of the mast in a direction opposite to the center of the mast and in a plane orthogonal to the radial direction.
US12031452B2
An airfoil includes a metal body that has holes, a cover panel carried on the metal body, and push fasteners that extend through the cover panel and into the holes to lock the cover panel on the metal body. Each of the push fasteners includes flexible barbs that engage sides of the holes to resist retraction of the fasteners from the holes. The heads of the push fastener are embedded in recesses in the cover panel.
US12031445B2
An apparatus is provided for an aircraft propulsion system. This apparatus includes a variable area nozzle apparatus. The variable area nozzle apparatus includes a plurality of panels, a plurality of inter-panel members and an actuation system. The panels are arranged circumferentially about an axial centerline. The panels include a first panel and a second panel. The inter-panel members are arranged circumferentially about the axial centerline. The inter-panel members include a first inter-panel member between and connected to the first panel and the second panel. The first inter-panel member is configured from or otherwise includes an elastomeric material. The actuation system is configured to move the panels and the inter-panel members between a restricted flow arrangement and an unrestricted flow arrangement. The actuation system includes a first linkage and a second linkage. The first linkage is coupled to the first panel. The second linkage is coupled to the second panel.
US12031444B2
A sealing assembly (1) for a turbine engine comprising a first element (2) and a second element (3), the first and second elements (2, 3) being concentric and in relative rotational movement with respect to each other about an axis of rotation (X), the sealing assembly (1) comprising at least one first wiper (4a) and an abradable member (5), the first wiper (4a) being annular in shape and carried by the first element (2), the first wiper (4a) extending radially towards the abradable member (5) and continuously around the axis of rotation (X), the abradable member (5) being annular in shape and carried by the second element (3), the abradable member (5) extending tangentially opposite the first wiper (4a), the first wiper (4a) comprising primary angular portions (11), each extending tangentially along a primary angular sector (11′), the primary angular portions (11) each having, in cross-section, a first constant profile, characterised in that the first wiper (4a) comprises secondary angular portions (13) each extending tangentially along a secondary angular sector (13′), the secondary angular portions (13) each having, in cross-section, a second profile different from the first profile, the number of secondary angular portions (13) being equal to the number of primary angular portions (11), the secondary angular portions (13) being interposed between the primary angular portions (11).
US12031440B2
An accumulator fixing device for a compressor includes a bracket body, a first arm portion extending from the bracket body and coupled to an accumulator, and a second arm portion extending from the bracket body and coupled to a housing of a compressor. The bracket body has a cavity formed concavely on one surface facing the compressor to reduce vibration generated and transmitted from the compressor.
US12031435B2
A tunnel reinforcement system having a plurality of structural supports positioned at spaced intervals along the length of a tunnel. Each structural support has a plurality of structural segments connected in an end to end relationship. Each structural segment has a plurality of bars connected to a first end and a second end, in which the first end comprises a first butt plate having one or more apertures, and the second end comprises a second butt plate having one or more apertures. The one or more apertures of the first butt plate or the second butt plate of a structural segment are coaxially aligned with the one or more apertures of the first butt plate or the second butt plate of another structural segment in an end to end relationship. The first butt plate or the second butt plate of a structural segment is attachable to the first butt plate or the second butt plate of another structural segment in an end to end relationship. Each structural support defines a geometric supporting framework.
US12031427B2
A downhole receptacle for tracer installation, comprises a housing and a tracer material arranged within the housing. The tracer material is water soluble. And the housing has an outer shape that corresponds to an outer shape of a standard gas lift valve. Further a method for the installation of a downhole receptacle for a tracer includes the steps of (a) running completion with at least one side pocket mandrel with or without a pre-installed dummy gas lift valve; and (b) replacing the dummy gas lift valve with a downhole receptacle for a tracer or installing a downhole receptacle into the side pocket mandrel.
US12031421B2
A modular solution mining method may include the steps of: providing an injection wellbore, the injection wellbore including a horizontal injection portion, in which the horizontal injection portion includes a toe end and heel end; providing a production wellbore, in which the production wellbore includes a horizontal production portion that is proximate to the toe end; injecting a solvent into the horizontal injection portion; generating a turbulent solvent flow proximate to the toe end to generate a mineral solution and an initial cavern proximate to the horizontal production portion; and motivating the mineral solution from the initial cavern, into the horizontal production portion, and to a surface location. Optionally, the method may include the step of repositioning the turbulent solvent flow to be closer to heel ends to generate mineral solution and subsequent caverns further from horizontal production wellbore.
US12031420B2
The present disclosure provides a fracturing system comprising fracturing equipment. The fracturing equipment comprises a power supply platform, a gas turbine engine, one or more rectifiers, and a power system comprising at least one of the following: a generator, an energy storage, and an electricity supplier. At least two of the gas turbine engine, the power system, and the one or more rectifiers are arranged on the power supply platform. A first end of the power system is connected to the gas turbine engine. A second end of the power system is connected to the one or more rectifiers. The power system is configured to output a voltage to the one or more rectifiers directly without passing through a rectifier transformer.
US12031416B2
A tool includes a mandrel and at least one gate. The mandrel includes a bore, and the mandrel is able to connect in-line with at least one sand control device of a bottom hole assembly such that the mandrel is coaxial with the at least one sand control device. The mandrel also includes a flow path configuration, such as, at least one flow path connecting the at least one sand control device to the bore, at least one flow path connecting the bore to at least two sand control devices, and at least one flow path connecting the bore to the at least one sand control device and to another device of the bottom hole assembly. The at least one gate has an initial position, and the at least one gate is configured to move from the initial position into a different position to control fluid flow.
US12031413B2
A method for increasing CO2 sequestration efficiency in depleted reservoirs using a CO2 thickener is provided. The method may include the steps of introducing a thickened CO2 mixture into the depleted reservoir, where the thickened CO2 mixture comprises a mixture of CO2 and a CO2 thickener. The method may include using CO2 is in a liquid or supercritical state upon introduction into the depleted reservoir. The method may also include the step of using a CO2 thickener comprising a methyl acrylate-based copolymer, a CO2 solvent, and a solvent.
US12031406B2
A hydraulic accumulator system is provided to remove the motors or engines from the red zone while maintaining sufficient capacity within the red zone to quickly close the designated blowout preventer or other gate valves. Additionally, a single point is provided outside of the red zone to charge the local storage units or to open or close the designated blowout preventer or other gate valves when time is not a critical consideration.
US12031400B2
An engineered composite system designed to be passive or inert under one set of conditions, but becomes active when exposed to a second set of conditions. This system can include a dissolving or disintegrating core, and a surface coating that has higher strength or which only dissolves under certain temperature and pH conditions, or in selected fluids. These reactive materials are useful for oil and gas completions and well stimulation processes, enhanced oil and gas recovery operations, as well as in defensive and mining applications requiring high energy density and good mechanical properties, but which can be stored and used for long periods of time without degradation.
US12031398B2
A filter sub for a wellbore drilling system includes a filter having an uphole end for receiving a drilling fluid, and a downhole end opposite the uphole end, the filter defining a plurality of apertures through which the drilling fluid flows out of the filter, each aperture exhibiting a size that retains debris of a predetermined size within the filter, and a flapper pivotably attached to the filter at the downhole end with an actuatable hinge. The flapper is pivotable at the actuatable hinge between a closed position, where the flapper occludes the downhole end and thereby prevents debris accumulated within the filter from escaping the filter, and an open position, where the flapper exposes the downhole end and thereby allows the debris to escape the filter and be discharged from the filter sub.
US12031394B2
A rod coupling remover device is a device having a body having a top end, a bottom end, and a shaft opening running from the top end and the bottom end, a bifurcated threaded portion about the bottom end of the body, a retractable wedge, a shaft opening running from a top end to a bottom end of the body, and a threaded shaft member coupled to the retractable wedge at the bottom end of the body. The threaded shaft member passes through the shaft opening of the body in which the retractable wedge is movable into and out of the shaft opening of the body.
US12031393B2
A drilling rig includes a drill floor with a well center opening, a derrick having a drilling machine which is suspended above the well center opening, a pipe supply area which is arranged adjacent to the well center opening on the drill floor, and a pipe handling machine. The pipe supply area has at least one pipe rack which horizontally stores pipe sections. The pipe handling machine moves at least one of the pipe sections between a horizontal storage position in the at least one pipe rack and a vertical position or a substantially vertical position above the well center opening.
US12031385B2
A drill head and a method having a body connected to a rotary drive of a drilling device, for loosening the ground at a face of the borehole, having a discharge device for discharging the loosened ground to a suction unit for suctioning a conveying medium, wherein the discharge device has at least one opening in the region of the drilling tools The at least one opening is connected to a suction box which has, at an end opposite the opening a connector opening for connecting to a conveying line, that acceleration exerted on the loosened ground in the region of the suction box moves loosened ground through the opening into the suction box wherein the loosened ground acquired by the conveying medium in the opening and/or in the suction box and is discharged.
US12031381B2
A downhole tool, comprising: a mandrel having first and second opposing ends and an outer mounting surface, the first end comprising a male threaded portion; a tool component mountable on the mounting surface by sliding said tool component onto the mounting surface from the first end of the mandrel; and a load sleeve defining a torque shoulder, wherein the load sleeve is mountable on the mandrel and securable adjacent the male threaded portion of the first end of the mandrel such that the torque shoulder and the male threaded portion define a pin connector to facilitate connection with a box connector of a separate component.
US12031376B2
A door assembly of a vehicle includes a first door panel located in a first guide groove and movable at least partially across a door opening from a first side of the door opening toward a second side of the door opening, and a second door panel spaced apart from the first door panel and located in a second guide groove. The second door panel is movable at least partially across the door opening from the first side toward the second side. One or more first magnetic elements are located at the first door panel, and one or more second magnetic elements disposed at the second door panel. A magnetic force between the one or more first magnetic elements and the one or more second magnetic elements urges the first door panel into contact with a sidewall of the first guide groove.
US12031375B2
An emergency bi-fold door closing prevention system includes a building having an access opening with an upper edge. A bi-fold door is hingedly mounted to the building wall and includes a plurality of panels each being laterally elongated. The plurality of panels includes a bottom panel having a bottom edge that is positionable adjacent to a floor surface to define a closed position. A safety line assembly is attached to and extends between the building wall adjacent to the upper edge and the bi-fold door adjacent to the bottom edge. The safety line has an extendable length. The length of the safety line assembly extends when the bi-fold door moves toward the closed position below a threshold velocity. The length of the safety line assembly is inhibited from extending when the bi-fold door moves toward the closed position above the threshold velocity.
US12031374B2
A vehicle is provided that includes a cabin interior, a seat configured to hold a passenger, a window having a movable panel actuatable between open and closed positions, and an actuator to power the window between the open and closed positions. The vehicle also includes an imaging device located in the cabin interior and oriented to capture images of a passenger seated on the seat and at least a portion of the movable panel of the window, and a controller processing the images to determine one or more characteristics of a face of the passenger. The controller further processes the images to monitor a position of the movable panel.
US12031373B2
A door system includes a controller for controlling the door system. A user computer system transmits information to the controller over a wireless connection to modify operating parameters for controlling the operation of the door system. During installation of the door system sensors may be utilized to determine if the door system has been installed properly. The sensors may be used to identify if the door system is mounted level and plum, and to review the movement, vibration, speed, acceleration, force, or the like of the sensors, and thus, the components to which the sensors are operatively coupled in order to make adjustments to the door assembly. Furthermore, the operating parameters of the installed door system, may be cloned and provided to other door systems in order to quickly clone and distribute the operating parameters of one or more door systems to one or more other door systems.
US12031372B2
A sliding door assembly comprises a sliding door leaf, a sliding door rail, and a door operating assembly for operating the door leaf. The door operating assembly has a drive unit to drive the door leaf along the sliding door rail. The sliding door leaf has at least one wagon member attached thereto. The wagon member is connected with the drive unit. An electric component is mounted to the sliding door leaf. A cable arrangement transfers power and/or communication signals between the door operating assembly and the electric component. The cable arrangement comprises a flexible portion with an end section that is fixed in relation to the sliding door leaf to allow the flexible portion to extend to compensate for the movement of the sliding door leaf.
US12031363B2
A handle mechanism is to be mounted on a slidable plate and to slide the slidable plate relative to a chassis. The handle mechanism includes a handle and an engagement component. The handle is adapted to be pivotably disposed on the slidable plate so as to have an engaged position and a disengaged position. The engagement component is slidably disposed on the handle and adapted to contact the chassis to slide the slidable plate into the chassis. The engagement component has a contact surface, and the contact surface has an edge located away from an axis of the handle. A distance between the edge of the contact surface of the engagement component and the axis of the handle in the engaged position is smaller than a distance between the edge of the contact surface of the engagement component and the axis of the handle in the disengaged position.
US12031362B2
An articulable panel in an aircraft galley includes one or more latches to secure the articulable panel in three dimensions and maintain the structural, load bearing integrity of the overall structure. The latches include color-coded indicators for a quick visual verification that the latches are secured.
US12031355B2
A surface mounted electric strike for selectively retaining a door latch of a door is provided. The electric strike comprises a housing mounted to a surface of the door frame, wherein the housing defines a cavity configured for receiving the door latch. A keeper is mounted within the housing and movable between a latched position and an unlatched position. The keeper includes a keeper body portion and an extended lobe portion having a terminal end. An actuating assembly is configured for moving between a first mode and a second mode, wherein when the actuating assembly is in the first mode the keeper is prevented from moving toward the unlatched position, and wherein when the actuating assembly is in the second mode the keeper is permitted to move toward the unlatched position.
US12031352B2
A pendulum mass damper is directed to damping oscillation of tall buildings, towers or similar flexible structures requiring a low frequency tuned mass damper (TMD) for reducing a e.g. wind or earthquake induced displacement response of the structure. A mass (1) is balanced by a first spring system (2a, 2b, 2c) and supported by a carrying part (4) to maintain a vertical position, the carrying part (4) carrying the mass in the vertical direction extends between the mass and a position (C) below the mass, i.e. the weight of the mass is carried or supported from or at a point or level below the mass, wherein the mass at the position (C) below the mass is fixed and/or connected to a unit (5) constituting a base of a supporting system for the mass which unit is floating i.e. the unit can move either horizontally or both horizontally and vertically.
US12031344B2
A sanitary installation is described that comprises at least one sanitary space, which can be closed, and whose pivot door is configured as a double-leaf angled door having a leaf composed of a material that is preferably transparent over its full area and having a leaf composed of an opaque material.
US12031343B2
A joist alignment tool is provided. The device includes a first planar base perpendicularly affixed to a second planar base at a junction. A first pair of sidewalls extend from opposing sides of the first planar base defining a first channel therebetween. A second pair of sidewalls extend from opposing sides of the second planar base defining a second channel therebetween. An opening is disposed through one of the second pair of sidewalls at the junction. A first aperture is disposed through one of the first pair of sidewalls, and a second aperture is disposed through one of the second pair of sidewalls. A first clamp is engaged with the first aperture and can frictionally engage an object disposed within the first channel. A second clamp is engaged with the second aperture and can frictionally engage an object disposed within the second channel.
US12031338B2
A polyvinyl chloride polymer (PVC) composite material is described herein. The PVC composite material includes 40-60 parts by weight of PVC, 40-60 parts by weight of calcium carbonate, 0.2-0.6 parts by weight of composite foaming agent, 3-5 parts by weight of foam regulator, 2-4 parts by weight of toughener, 0.8-1.2 parts by weight of lubricant, and 2-3 parts by weight of stabilizer. Meanwhile, the present invention provides a foam board made of the PVC composite material and flooring. The resulting PVC products have a high-strength structure and a good foaming property, bring the comfort to feet as the resilient flooring does, have a satisfied sound reduction and can be easily installed as the hard flooring could.
US12031336B2
A mat assembly includes a center section and four ramps that create a unitary mat assembly for any desired use. The center section includes a top plate that provides the desired kind of mat surface for use and a sponge layer underlying the top plate to provide the center section with a cushioned feel during use. Each ramp includes a flange that extends from an end portion of the ramp, the flange configured to be joined between the top plate and sponge insert. The ramps can be joined to each other using a connector or a mitered connection.
US12031332B2
Roofing materials and related methods are provided. A roofing material comprises a first layer, and a second layer on the first layer. The first layer comprises a first thermoplastic polymer. The first layer has a first color. The second layer comprises a second thermoplastic polymer. The second layer has a second color. The second layer comprises a plurality of openings or a plurality of thermoplastic polymer pieces. The first layer is exposed through the second layer.
US12031329B2
A method of constructing a reinforced concrete floor structure or wall structure, including: fabricating a precast panel substantially from concrete including a first set of parallel conduits extending through the panel, wherein the conduits open to opposite sides of the panel; moving the panel into its final position on a building site; and inserting tensioning cables through the conduits and tensioning the precast panel in the direction of the conduits to form a reinforced floor structure or wall structure, and a dowel connecting system for joining adjacent precast building panels, the system comprising elongated hollow dowel members cast in at the edges of two or more precast building panels such that when the building panels are positioned adjacent to each other their respective dowel members are co-linearly aligned; and a dowel piece to be inserted into a recess of the co-linearly aligned dowel members and to extend across the building panels, wherein the recess of the dowel members is adapted to be filled with grout to anchor the dowel piece therein and thereby structurally joining adjacent building panels.
US12031315B2
A concrete ceiling element for producing a concrete ceiling is disclosed. The concrete ceiling element has a flat basic structure that has an upper side and at least one FRC plate. The concrete ceiling element has at least one FRC ridge. The FRC ridge is arranged on the upper side and connected in sections to the basic structure. Furthermore, a concrete ceiling and a method for producing a concrete ceiling or a concrete ceiling element are provided.
US12031314B2
There is disclosed a method of constructing a building, comprising installing: wall structure of the building, the wall structure comprising a panel having opposed skins and a core within which extends at least one cavity; and a ceiling structure of the building, such that the ceiling structure is adjacent the wall structure, and the wall structure bounds a space at a side of the space and the ceiling structure bounds the space at a top of the space, and such that: the space is sheltered and/or isolated from the elements; and/or lock-up is attained in respect of said space, the method further comprising: thereafter installing at least one service line through at least one said cavity of said panel and/or installing at least one service line which comprises at least one said cavity of that panel; and thereafter installing a roof structure of the building over the ceiling structure, wherein a connector is secured between the wall structure and the ceiling structure to form therebetween a connection which is such that the connector engages both the ceiling structure and at least one of the skins so as to direct, to the skin(s) engaged thereby, loading exerted by the ceiling structure, and wherein said at least one said cavity is accessed through said connector and/or through said ceiling structure, to install the service line(s).
US12031302B2
An excavator according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a lower traveling body, an upper turning body with an attachment mounted on the lower traveling body, and a controller installed in the upper turning body. The controller is configured to restrict movement of the lower traveling body based on information about terrain around the upper traveling body.
US12031301B2
A shovel includes a lower traveling body, an upper turning body turnably mounted on the lower traveling body, and a controller configured to control a projection device that projects light onto a ground surface. The controller is attached to the upper turning body, and is configured to control the projection device so as to enable visualization of the relationship between the current shape of the ground surface and the shape of a target surface.
US12031291B2
A blade control method includes: acquiring a design surface indicating a target shape of an excavation object to be excavated by a blade supported by a vehicle body of a work vehicle, the design surface including a first surface present in front of the work vehicle and a second surface having a slope different from a slope of the first surface; acquiring an observed pitch angle indicating an inclination angle of the vehicle body in a longitudinal direction; and calculating a planned pitching angle indicating a deviation between the observed pitch angle and a design surface pitch angle indicating an inclination angle of the second surface in a state in which the vehicle body is positioned on the first surface and the blade is positioned above the second surface.
US12031286B2
A portable cofferdam system for isolating a working area from water such as a culvert. The portable cofferdam system generally includes a first sidewall and a second sidewall each having an interior side, an exterior side, an upper edge, a lower edge and a rear edge. A middle wall is connected to the sidewalls opposite of the rear edges of the sidewalls forming a substantially U-shaped structure. An opening formed between the rear edges of the first sidewall and the second sidewall to allow for positioning about or near the inlet of an object or area to be kept dry such as the inlet of a culvert.
US12031281B2
A vision guide with a light guiding rod including rope member formed by twisting plural strands; light guiding rod of circumferentially light emitting type being adheringly wound around spiral indentations formed between strands on outer circumference of rope member with core layer made of acrylic-based resin and clad layer made of fluorine-based resin; and light source attached to end portion of light guiding rod, wherein amount of change luminance of light guiding rod in test time over duration of 1000 hours by accelerated weathering tester is contained within range of ±10%; amount of change in each numerical value of chromaticity [x, y] is contained within range of ±0.02; flexural modulus of elasticity of light guiding rod under atmosphere of −20 degrees Centigrade is contained at range of 0.5-5.0×103 MPa; rope member is formed by twisting strands at twisting angle from 10°-20°; and spiral indentations are uniformly formed with pitch from 100 mm-200 mm.
US12031277B2
A pavement anti-skid performance evaluation method based on envelope feature is provided. A surface profile image of a to-be-tested piece is acquired as a blank background image. A motion trajectory image of a sliding piece on the to-be-tested piece is acquired. The blank background image is treated to obtain a surface texture profile curve of the to-be-tested piece. The motion trajectory image is differenced with the blank background image to obtain a difference image, which is treated to obtain a trajectory envelope curve of motion of the sliding piece on the to-be-tested piece. An arithmetic mean of the trajectory envelope curve and an arithmetic mean of the surface texture profile curve are calculated, and the anti-skid performance is evaluated based on a height difference Δh between above two arithmetic means. A pavement anti-skid performance evaluation device based on envelope feature is also provided.
US12031269B2
An aqueous composition comprising: sulfuric acid; an alkanesulfonic acid; and a peroxide. Said composition being capable of delignifying biomass under milder conditions than conditions under which kraft pulping takes place.
US12031259B2
A washing machine includes a drum for receiving laundry which washing machine not only prevents the laundry from becoming entangled in a complicated manner when the drum is rotated, but also beat-washes the laundry sufficiently. The washing machine includes a partition plate that is fixed to the inner circumferential surface of the drum and that divides the internal space of the drum into two washing compartments. The drum receives two washes in the respective washing compartments, and is rotated while reversing its rotation direction repeatedly. The partition plate and drum are rotated counterclockwise to an angle within a predetermined range and clockwise to an angle within a predetermined range. This allows the washing machine to repeat an operation of causing one of the two washes to slip down from a high position to be beat-washed and the other wash to be immersed in cleaning fluid for stain decomposition.
US12031251B2
An annular discharge device for discharging a gluing composition onto glass fibres includes at least one distribution circuit for the gluing composition and a plurality of spray nozzles fluidically connected with the distribution circuit and distributed over the perimeter of the annular discharge device for discharging the gluing composition onto the glass fibres intended to pass into the annular discharge device defined by an axis of revolution, each spray nozzle being oriented towards the interior of the annular discharge device with an angle of inclination determined in relation to the plane of revolution of the annular discharge device. At least two spray nozzles arranged consecutively on the perimeter of the annular discharge device are disposed so as to have an orientation with respect to the plane of revolution of the annular discharge device each with a different angle of inclination with respect to one another.
US12031227B2
Various technologies are described herein pertaining to electrochemical etching of a semiconductor controlled by way of a laser that emits light with an energy below a bandgap energy of the semiconductor.
US12031226B2
An article for a gas turbine engine according to an exemplary embodiment of this disclosure, among other possible things includes a substrate and a nickel phosphorous coating disposed on the substrate. The nickel phosphorus coating has a columnar microstructure. A method of applying a coating to an article for a gas turbine engine is also disclosed.
US12031219B2
A carbon dioxide electrolytic device of an embodiment includes: an electrolysis cell including a cathode, an anode, a gas supply flow path, a solution supply flow path, and a separator; a CO2 gas supply unit configured to supply CO2 gas to the gas supply flow path; an electrolytic solution supply unit configured to supply an electrolytic solution to the solution supply flow path; and a rinse material supply unit configured to supply a rinse material to the gas supply flow path. The gas supply flow path has a first opening, a second opening, and an auxiliary flow path provided to a part of a flow path between the first opening and the second opening, and configured to make at least the rinse material flow therethrough. A switching mechanism configured to switch a flow direction of the rinse material in the auxiliary flow path is connected to the gas supply flow path.
US12031218B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method and apparatus for producing a carbon nanomaterial product (CNM) product that may comprise carbon nanotubes and various other allotropes of nanocarbon. The method and apparatus employ a consumable carbon dioxide (CO2) and a renewable carbonate electrolyte as reactants in an electrolysis reaction in order to make CNTs. In some embodiments of the present disclosure, operational conditions of the electrolysis reaction may be varied in order to produce the CNM product with a greater incidence of a desired allotrope of nanocarbon or a desired combination of two or more allotropes.
US12031211B2
A device of executing vacuum processing is provided with: a chamber including a single main chamber executing the vacuum processing and being capable of keeping the chamber as a whole in a depressurized state; a plurality of feeding rollers so arranged as to hang down a plurality of threads in the main chamber with keeping the threads from each other; a plurality of winding bobbins respectively winding the plurality of threads independently, the winding bobbins arranged in the chamber horizontally apart from the plurality of threads vertically hung down; and a plurality of movable arms being respectively movable in the chamber from a first position horizontally apart from the plurality of threads vertically hung down, via a second position in contact with any of the plurality of threads, to a third position to make the threads in contact be in contact with corresponding winding bobbins.
US12031200B2
A method of manufacturing a fin material made of an aluminum alloy for heat exchangers with no fin buckling deformation and having excellent buckling resistance in a temperature range of 400° C. to 580° C. before a filler alloy melts at the time of brazing is provided. The fin material made of an aluminum alloy for heat exchangers contains 1.0 to 2.0 mass % of Mn, 0.7 to 1.4 mass % of Si, and 0.05 to 0.3 mass % of Fe, with the balance being Al and unavoidable impurities, in which a number density of intermetallic compounds having a circle-equivalent diameter of 0.025 to 0.4 μm is 3.0×106 particles/mm2 or more, and an amount of solid solution of Mn is 0.3 mass % or less.
US12031196B2
The aim of the present invention is to provide a metal powder for an electroconductive paste with which a low-resistance electrode film can be formed. One embodiment of the present invention relates to a platinum-containing or platinum-alloy-containing metal powder for an electroconductive paste, the metal powder including a metal element or metal elements other than Pt, wherein the metal elements other than Pt include at least Ca, and may further include Al and Zr, and the total content of the Ca, Al and Zr among the metal elements other than Pt is 10-900 mass ppm.
US12031193B2
Use of a smectite clay that has been pre-treated with a dispersant as a binder, in particular the use of a smectite clay that has been pre-treated with a dispersant as a binder to form iron ore pellets.
US12031191B2
This grain-oriented electrical steel sheet includes a base steel sheet, a forsterite-based primary film disposed on a surface of the base steel sheet, and a phosphate-based tension-imparting film containing no chromium, which is disposed on a surface of the primary film. In a case where a Ti content and a S content are respectively expressed as XTi and XS, by mass %, the forsterite-based primary film satisfies Expression (1) and Expression (2). A strain-introduced magnetic domain control is performed on the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet 0.10≤XTi/XS≤10.00 Expression (1) XTi+XS≥0.10 mass %. Expression (2)
US12031183B2
Methods of deconvolving a feature profile of a physical system are provided herein. The present method may include: optimizing a regression between a) a feature profile of a first plurality of distinct components and b) a reference matrix of feature signatures for a second plurality of distinct components, wherein the feature profile is modeled as a linear combination of the reference matrix, and wherein the optimizing includes solving a set of regression coefficients of the regression, wherein the solution minimizes 1) a linear loss function and 2) an L2-norm penalty function; and estimating the fractional representation of one or more distinct components among the second plurality of distinct components present in the sample based on the set of regression coefficients. Systems and computer readable media for performing the subject methods are also provided.
US12031175B2
The invention generally relates to droplet based digital PCR and methods for analyzing a target nucleic acid using the same. In certain embodiments, methods of the invention involve forming sample droplets containing, on average, a single target nucleic acid, amplifying the target in the droplets, excluding droplets containing amplicon from the target and amplicon from a variant of the target, and analyzing target amplicons.
US12031173B2
Provided are methods and yeast cultures for producing polyol lipids and polyol lipid compositions.
US12031169B2
Provided herein are compounds, compositions, and methods for recovery of one or more water-immiscible compounds from microbial biomass.
US12031168B2
The present description is related to the field of protein production. It introduces novel host cells with low protease activity, a novel protease regulator, its use in expression systems and protein production, and a method of producing host cells for protein production.
US12031157B2
The present invention provides improved and/or shortened methods for expanding TILs and producing therapeutic populations of TILs, including novel methods for expanding TIL populations in a closed system that lead to improved efficacy, improved phenotype, and increased metabolic health of the TILs in a shorter time period, while allowing for reduced microbial contamination as well as decreased costs. The methods may comprise gene-editing at least a portion of the TILs to enhance their therapeutic efficacy. Such TILs find use in therapeutic treatment regimens.
US12031156B2
The invention is directed to modified T cells, methods of making and using isolated, modified T cells, and methods of using these isolated, modified T cells to address diseases and disorders. In one embodiment, this invention broadly relates to TCR-deficient T cells, isolated populations thereof, and compositions comprising the same. In another embodiment of the invention, these TCR-deficient T cells are designed to express a functional non-TCR receptor. The invention also pertains to methods of making said TCR-deficient T cells, and methods of reducing or ameliorating, or preventing or treating, diseases and disorders using said TCR-deficient T cells, populations thereof, or compositions comprising the same.
US12031153B2
Provided herein are pluripotent stem cells comprising particular combinations of transcription factor for the production of oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (OPCs). Also provided herein are methods of producing the pluripotent stem cells and methods of using the pluripotent stem cells to produce (OPCs) and oligodendrocytes.
US12031149B2
RNA molecules comprising a guide sequence portion having 17-25 contiguous nucleotides containing nucleotides in the sequence set forth in any one of SEQ ID NOs: 1-6601 and compositions, methods, and uses thereof.
US12031138B2
A microorganism which is genetically modified so that it produces a first essential biomass precursor by metabolizing CO2 using a recombinant carbon fixation enzyme is disclosed. The microorganism produces a second biomass precursor by metabolizing an organic carbon source and not by metabolizing CO2. The microorganism does not use the organic carbon source for producing the first essential biomass precursor.
US12031137B2
Described herein are compositions and methods for modulating cellular senescence of a cell or induction of the senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP) in a cell. The methods generally comprise modulating the level or activity of IRE1a as a mean to control cellular senescence and induction of the SASP. Also described are methods for treating and preventing ocular vascular diseases comprising contacting cells in an eye of a subject with a biguanide compound and ophthalmic compositions comprising a biguanide compound.
US12031134B2
The present invention relates to methods and compositions comprising an inhibitor of KLF11 signaling for treatment of gastrointestinal motility disorders, obesity and diabetes.
US12031130B2
The present invention provides a delivery technique for delivering a gene modification tool capable of providing a high gene modification efficiency in cells. The composition according to the present invention is a composition for inducing gene modification at a target gene locus in a cell, the composition containing 1) a compound represented by formula (I) or a salt thereof; 2) a structural lipid; and 3) a guide RNA or a DNA including a sequence encoding the guide RNA, and/or an RNA-guided nuclease or a nucleic acid including a sequence encoding the RNA-guided nuclease. In formula (I), n represents an integer of 2 to 5, R represents a linear C1-5 alkyl group, a linear C7-11 alkenyl group, or a linear C11 alkadienyl group, and wavy lines each independently represent a cis-type bond or a trans-type bond.
US12031123B2
The disclosure provides recombinant bacterial host cells that metabolize and convert glycerol or volatile fatty acids (VFAs) to poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) or PHBV. The disclosure further provides methods of producing PHBV using the recombinant bacteria disclosed herein.
US12031118B2
A system and method with increased sensitivity to microorganism growth. The system includes signal processing electronic circuit connected to a consumable or vessel through two or more electrodes that fully penetrate the vessel and are in contact with the fluid contents. The electronic circuit is configured to detect a component of the total impedance of the sample, specifically the “out-of-phase” or imaginary reactance component, which has a sensitive response to organism growth in a frequency-dependent manner. The system detects changes in both the composition of charged molecules in the liquid matrix and the number of microorganisms based on monitoring the sample for change in this parameter. This results in a 5-70% reduction in time-to-detection (TTD). The system and method detect organisms in a plurality of vessel shapes, volumes, and matrix (or media) formats. The electrodes are fully immersed in a continuous body of liquid sample. The distance between electrodes may be adjusted or tuned to fit the needs of the vessel. The voltage inputs can also be adjusted to allow proper detection of the contents within the vessel.
US12031106B2
The present invention relates to the use of 1-(4,4-dimethylcyclohexyl)ethanone, 1-(4,4-dimethylcyclohex-1-en-1-yl)ethanone, 1-(4,4-dimethylcyclohexyl)ethanol, 1-(4,4-dimethylcyclohexyl)ethyl acetate and 1-(2-hydroxy-4,4-dimethylcyclohexyl)ethanone as a fragrance substance, in particular with a flowery and/or fruity olfactory characteristic. The present invention further relates to fragrance compositions and perfumed products comprising the compounds listed above. The present invention also relates to a method producing perfumed products and a method producing 1-(4,4-dimethylcyclohexyl)ethanol or 1-(4,4-dimethylcyclohexyl)ethyl acetate. Further, the invention relates to the compounds 1-(4,4-dimethylcyclohexyl)ethyl acetate, 1-(4,4-dimethylcyclohexyl)ethanol and 1-(2-hydroxy-4,4-dimethylcyclohexyl)ethanone.
US12031105B2
The present invention relates generally to corn dry-milling, and more specifically, to methods for producing a high protein corn meal from a whole stillage byproduct produced in a corn dry-milling process for making ethanol and a system therefore. In one embodiment, a method for producing a high protein corn meal from a whole stillage byproduct includes, in a corn dry-milling process for making ethanol, separating the whole stillage byproduct into an insoluble solids portion and a thin stillage portion. The thin stillage portion is separated into a protein portion and a water soluble solids portion. Next, the protein portion is dewatered then dried to define a high protein corn meal that includes at least 40 wt % protein on a dry basis.
US12031097B2
Disclosed are antifouling agents used in compositions and methods to reduce or prevent foulants in synthetic feedstocks derived from plastic. A method of reducing or preventing fouling in a plastic-derived synthetic feedstock composition may include adding an antifouling agent including a carboxylic acid anhydride or a copolymer of a dicarboxylic acid anhydride and alpha olefin to a synthetic feedstock composition derived from plastic pyrolysis containing a foulant to provide treated pyrolysate. The foulant may include, for example, nylon, polyvinyl chlorides, polyethylene terephthalate, polyamides, caprolactam, benzoic acid, phenol, p-cresol, dimethylphenol, isopropyl phenol, tert-butylphenol, dimethylethylphenol, napthalenol, varying lengths of alkenes and alkanes, propylene, tolune, pentene, butane, tetramethylindole, ethylbenzene, ethyldimethylpyrrole, dimethylfuran, tetrahydroquinoline, and any combination thereof.
US12031093B1
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method of producing pyrolysis oil that may reduce a content of impurities in pyrolysis oil. In the method of producing pyrolysis oil according to the present disclosure, in order to recycle polyethylene terephthalate (PET), monomers are recovered by depolymerizing polyethylene terephthalate with alcohol, and then a remaining depolymerization residue is used as an additive in pyrolysis production of waste plastics, such that a content of impurities in pyrolysis oil may be reduced.
US12031090B2
A method and an apparatus for manufacturing, with thermal treatment, biocoal which is non-energent, such as functional as a heat sink, by using a conveyor arrangement housed in an essentially Thompson Converter type process space. A to-be-processed feedstock is conveyed in the process space with the conveyor arrangement, which is closed relative thereto, in a longitudinal direction of the process space. A pyrolysis gas, generated from the to-be-processed feedstock present inside the conveyor arrangement as a result of heat transferring from the process space thereto, is conducted into a combustion chamber included in the process space for burning the gas, a thereby generated flue gas being removed from the process space by a discharge arrangement and a resulting non-energent biocoal being removed from the conveyor arrangement for further processing.
US12031089B2
Ceramic foundry media is provided. The ceramic foundry media have a size of about 80 mesh to about 10 mesh, an average largest pore size of less than about 20 microns, and a surface roughness of less than about 4 microns. The ceramic foundry media are formed by drip casting. A slurry of finely divided particles is flowed through nozzles and formed into droplets under the influence of vibration. Uniform sized, smooth surface, spherical green particles are formed. The green particles are dried and sintered to form the foundry media.
US12031075B2
Many embodiments implement quantum confined nanoplatelets (NPLs) that can be induced to emit bright and tunable infrared emission from attached quantum dot (QD). Some embodiments provide mesoscale NPLs with a largest dimension of greater than 1 micron. Certain embodiments provide methods for growing mesoscale NPLs and QD on mesoscale NPLs heterostructures. Several embodiments provide near unity energy transfer from NPLs to QDs, which can quench NPL emission and emit with high quantum yield through the shortwave infrared. The QD defect emission can be kinetically tunable, enabling controlled mid-gap emission from NPLs.
US12031072B2
A method of controlled production of luminescent diamond particles exhibiting luminescence in selected specific spectral ranges is provided. The method comprises taking diamond particles containing dopant atoms in the diamond core, irradiating the particles with high energy radiation, and annealing the irradiated diamond particles at a target temperature in the temperature range of about 1400° C.-2200° C. to form luminescent diamond particles where the specific spectral range of luminescence is controlled by the target temperature of the annealing process, the irradiation dose, and the type of dopant atoms. Duration of the annealing and the temperature ramp up and ramp down times should be short enough to minimize or prevent significant graphitization of the particles. Duration of the temperature ramp up time should be short enough to minimize formation of color centers that might form at temperatures below the target temperature.
US12031059B2
A mixture curable to provide an intumescent coating material. The mixture comprises a silicone polymer, a cross-linker, a diluent and an intumescent ingredient. The mixture comprises at least 50% by weight of the intumescent ingredient.
US12031056B2
Described herein are water-based varnishes and inks that include a high renewable carbon content polyamide in an aqueous dispersion and a water-insoluble particulate material. The inks and varnishes exhibit stable viscosity, that is, they are varnishes and inks that exhibit little to no viscosity change over an extended period of time. Further, the inks and varnishes exhibit little to no settling of the insoluble particulate material over an extended period of time. The water-based varnishes include an aqueous polyamide resin dispersion and an additive selected from a water-insoluble particulate material, and the polyamide resin has a renewable carbon content of ≥50 wt %.
US12031042B2
A asphalt binder modifier or a stand-alone asphalt binder and the method of making the asphalt binder or binder modifier are disclosed. The asphalt modifier or binder consisting of treated re-refined engine oil bottoms/VTB's treated by injecting air into re-refining engine oil bottoms/VTB's at temperatures between 150° F. and 550° F. The re-refined engine oil can be processed with ground tire rubber. The binder modifier was blended with various paving and roofing asphalts to form performance-enhanced modified asphalt binders used in paving, roofing, and industrial products.
US12031038B2
Provided are a tread rubber composition and a pneumatic tire, which exhibit excellent wet grip performance when thermally damaged. A tread rubber composition having acetone extractable contents before and after heat aging (denoted by “AEf” and “AEo”, respectively) that satisfy the following relationships 1) and 2): 1) AEf≥16.0%; 2) AEo/AEf×100≥95%.
US12031034B2
A container that dissolves. A shell defining the container sized to accommodate a volume of a consumable. The shell is water soluble. The shell defines walls extending upward from a closed bottom. The container includes a first water insoluble layer coating an exterior surface of the walls of the shell. One or more portions of the exterior surface are not coated with the first water insoluble layer promoting the dissolution of the container. The container includes a second water insoluble layer coating an interior of the shell.
US12031030B2
A process for preparing a sulfur copolymer, a sulfur copolymer, and a polymer composition containing one or more sulfur copolymers are provided. The process involves copolymerizing a cyclic monothiocarbonate compound of formula wherein R1 and R2 are independently of one another hydrogen. C1-C18-alkyl, C1-C18-alkyl substituted with halogen or interrupted with O or S; C6-C18-aryl or C6-C12-aryl substituted with C1-C4-alkyl, C1-C4-alkoxy, C1-C4-alkylthio or halogen; with elemental sulfur in the presence of a polymerization initiator.
US12031026B2
Provided herein are improved compositions and methods of making and using the same, the composition comprising a polymer and a ceramic present at a ratio of from 3:1 to 1:3 of polymer:ceramic by weight, wherein the composition comprises or is a composite of the polymer and the ceramic having improved printability and/or having an improved elastic modulus and/or improved stress at failure (e.g., as compared to a blend of the polymer and the ceramic). Improved medical implants incorporating the same are also provided.
US12031017B2
Provided is a hollow resin particle that can reduce the dielectricity and dielectric loss tangent of a resin layer by introducing an empty area thereinto, and can be obtained by forming a hollow portion in a simple manner. Also provided is a method of producing such hollow resin particle in a simple manner. A hollow resin particle according to an embodiment of the present invention is a hollow resin particle including a shell portion and a hollow portion surrounded by the shell portion, wherein the shell portion contains an aromatic polymer (P1) obtained by polymerizing a monomer composition containing an aromatic crosslinkable monomer (a), an aromatic monofunctional monomer (b), and a (meth)acrylic acid ester-based monomer (c) having a specific structure.
US12031016B2
This dispersion composition contains a water-based medium and a carboxymethyl cellulose having a carboxymethyl substitution degree of 0.20 or more and a cellulose-I crystallinity index of 50% or more, a water-based medium is easily dispersed even by low mixing power, and has a high viscosity.
US12031013B2
There is provided herein a resin composition comprising: (i) a silane coupling agent of the general formula (I): as described herein, and (ii) at least one resin which is interactive with one or more of the R1, R2 and X groups of silane coupling agent (i) wherein: R1 and R2 each represent a hydrogen atom or a monovalent organic group having 1 to 40 carbon atoms; R3 is independently a monovalent group selected from the group consisting of a straight chain alkyl containing from 1 to 12 carbon atoms, a branched chain alkyl containing from 3 to 12 carbon atoms, a cycloalkyl containing from 5 or 6 carbon atoms, an alkenyl containing from 2 to 12 carbon atoms, an aryl group containing 6 carbon atoms, or aralkyl containing from 7 to 12 carbon atoms, a straight chain alkyl containing 2 to 12 carbon atoms and a hydroxyl group, a branched chain alkyl containing 3 to 6 carbon atoms and a hydroxyl group, an alkyl group containing at least one oxygen atom having the structure: —R5—(OCH2CH2)m(OCH2CH(CH3))nOR6, and a divalent group formed from two R3 groups being bonded together through a covalent bond, with the provisos that (i) if two R3 groups are bonded together, then a is 2 or 3 and (ii) the sum of m+n is from 1 to 20; each R4 is independently a monovalent group selected from the group consisting of a straight chain alkyl containing from 1 to 12 carbon atoms, a branched chain alkyl containing from 3 to 12 carbon atoms, a cycloalkyl containing from 5 or 6 carbon atoms, an alkenyl group containing from 2 to 12 carbon atoms, an aryl group containing 6 carbon atoms or aralkyl group containing from 7 to 12 carbon atoms; R5 is divalent group selected from the group consisting of a straight chain alkylene containing from 1 to 10 carbon atoms, a branched chain alkylene containing from 3 to 10 carbon atoms, and a cycloalkylene containing from 5 to 10 carbon atoms; R6 is a monovalent group selected from the group consisting of a straight chain alkyl containing from 1 to 18 carbon atoms, a branched chain alkyl containing from 3 to 18 carbon atoms, a cycloalkyl containing from 5 to 18 carbon atoms, an alkenyl containing from 2 to 18 carbon atoms, an aryl group containing from 6 to 18 carbon atoms, an aralkyl containing from 7 to 18 carbon atoms and hydrogen, or R6 is a divalent group selected from the group consisting of an alkyl containing from 1 to 10 carbon atoms, a cycloalkyl containing from 5 to 10 carbon atoms and phenyl.
US12031010B2
Methods for preparing and compositions including untreated and surface-treated alkaline earth metal carbonate particulates are described. For example, a method for processing alkaline earth metal carbonate may include introducing alkaline earth metal carbonate into a stirred media mill, and dry grinding the alkaline earth metal carbonate in the stirred media mill to produce an untreated alkaline earth metal carbonate particulate having certain characteristics. In some examples, the method may include introducing carboxylic acid and/or carboxylic acid salt into the stirred media mill, and dry grinding the alkaline earth metal carbonate and the carboxylic acid and/or carboxylic acid salt in an integrated dry grinding and surface-treating process in the stirred media mill to produce a surface-treated alkaline earth metal carbonate particulate. In some examples, heating may be added during the dry grinding process.
US12031005B2
The subject application relates to polyurethane foam and methods of forming the same. A polyurethane foam may include a first polyol component and a second polyol component. The first polyol component may include a polyether polyol having a functionality of at least about 5. The second polyol component may include at least one component selected from the group of a polyether polyol having a functionality of not greater than about 4, and a polyester polyol having a functionality of not greater than about 4.
US12031004B2
The present invention relates to an aqueous dispersion, comprising or consisting of A) at least one cyclic olefin copolymer, B) at least one surfactant; optionally C) at least one adhesion promoter; optionally D) at least one film-forming resin; optionally E) at least one additive; and F) water. Additionally, the invention relates to methods of manufacturing the aqueous dispersion, to an article, which comprises at least one substrate and at least one coating layer obtained from the aqueous dispersion and applied onto the substrate; and to methods of improving MVTR of a substrate.
US12031001B2
A structured fluoropolymer film including a plurality of structures having a height at least two times a thickness of a corresponding unstructured fluoropolymer film and at least a 20% increase in displacement induction period when compared to the corresponding unstructured fluoropolymer film when measured in a biaxial tensile curve at a temperature of about 125° C. In addition, the structured fluoropolymer film has a methane permeability of less than 500 μg*μm/cm2/min. The structured fluoropolymer film exhibits a higher resistance to strain and retain barrier properties during manufacture and/or use.
US12031000B2
The present invention relates to a polyvinyl alcohol film comprising a vinyl alcohol-based polymer, wherein, when the polyvinyl alcohol film is measured by a solid echo method using pulse NMR at 60° C. for waveform separation of a free induction decay curve of 1H spin-spin relaxation into three curves derived from three components a component A, a component B, and a component C in order of short relaxation time, the component B has a resulting relaxation time of 0.03 milliseconds or more and 0.05 milliseconds or less, and a resulting component ratio of 30% or more and 50% or less. From the polyvinyl alcohol film according to the present invention, a polarizing film having good polarization performance can be manufactured without the occurrence of unevenness of dyeing.
US12030999B2
A method for producing a fiber-reinforced composite material containing a polyimide resin (A) having a predetermined repeating unit and a continuous reinforcing fiber (B), the method including the following steps (I) and (II) in this order: step (I): a step of laminating at least one polyimide resin (A) layer and at least one continuous reinforcing fiber (B) layer to obtain a laminated product; and step (II): a step of molding the laminated product by heating and pressurizing under a condition where a working parameter X expressed by the following expression (i) is 35 or more and 87 or less: X=(Tp−Tm)3×P1/2/1000 (i) wherein in the expression (i), Tp represents a temperature (° C.) during the molding, Tm represents a melting point (° C.) of the polyimide resin (A), and P represents a press pressure (MPa) during the molding.
US12030997B2
A production method includes a surface-crosslinking step of heating a mixture of a surface-crosslinking agent and a particulate dried polymer obtained with an acid group-containing unsaturated monomer as a main component. A moisture content of the particulate dried polymer is not greater than 15% by mass. A heating device including a rotary container and a plurality of heating tubes that are located within the rotary container, extend in an axial direction of the rotary container, and rotate together with the rotary container, is used in the surface-crosslinking step. The heating device includes a means for introducing and discharging a gas into and from the rotary container.
US12030995B2
A method of fabricating a cork composite material and a cork composite material. The method may comprise providing a plurality of cork particles in a volume and adding a dispersion of thermoplastic elastomer to the volume to provide a mixture of the dispersion of thermoplastic elastomer and the cork particles. The method may comprise agitating the cork particles and/or the mixture of the dispersion of thermoplastic elastomer and the cork particles and heating the mixture of the thermoplastic elastomer and the cork particles. The method may comprise allowing the mixture of the thermoplastic elastomer and the cork particles to cool. The steps of the method together may result in a plurality of coated cork particles being coated in a first layer of the thermoplastic elastomer.
US12030993B2
A polyimide and a method for manufacturing the polyimide are provided. The method for manufacturing the polyimide includes: mixing a diamine compound with a substance and an organic solvent, wherein the diamine compound includes an amide bond, and a molecular structure of the substance includes an ether dianhydride; and forming the polyimide by a cross-linking and curing process. A regular molecular chain arrangement, wherein the regular molecular chain arrangement has highly oriented in-plane crystallization and low free volume; a simple rigid planar structure; and intramolecular hydrogen bonds are introduced to prepare the polyimide that has high barrier performance, excellent heat resistance, and a low thermal expansion coefficient.
US12030979B2
The present invention relates to a process for producing translucent polyurethane and polyisocyanurate foams by reaction of a component A, comprising A1 at least one polyol reactive with component B; A2 optionally at least one amine; A3 water and optionally formic acid or at least one physical blowing agent or mixtures thereof; A4 at least one foam stabilizer; A5 optionally auxiliary and/or additive substances; A6 optionally at least one flame retardant; A7 at least one catalyst; and a component B, comprising B1 at least one aliphatic or cycloaliphatic polyisocyanate component or a combination thereof; and B2 optionally at least one hydrophilized isocyanate; and B3 more than or equal to 10 parts by weight and up to 70 parts by weight of an aromatic polyisocyanate component, wherein the parts by weight of B3 are based on the sum of the parts by weight of B1 to B3 which are normalized to 100 parts by weight. The invention is characterized in that the reaction of component A with component B is carried out at an isocyanate index of at least 150, wherein the obtained translucent polyurethane and polyisocyanurate foams have a light transmission according to EN ISO 13468-2:2006 of at least 10% and a haze of at least 70%, determined according to ASTM D1003-13, in each case measured at a layer thickness of 20 mm. The present invention further relates to the polyurethane and polyisocyanurate foams obtained by the process and to the use thereof as a construction element, as a wall element, as a floor element, in buildings, in vehicles or lamps.
US12030978B2
The present invention is directed to a reactive dye-dyeable polyurethane-urea elastic yarn including a reaction product of at least two polyols, a diisocyanate compound, a diamine chain extender, an amine chain terminator, and a diethylenetriamine compound, wherein one of the polyols is polyethylene glycol, which is included in an amount of 20 to 30.0 mol % based on the total amount of the polyols, a polyurethane-urea polymer includes 10 meq/kg to 45 meq/kg of primary amine ends, and the capping ratio (CR) of the diisocyanate to the polyols is 1.8 to 2.0.
US12030976B2
In at least one embodiment, a process of forming a polymer includes supplying a feed having one or more olefin monomers and a solvent; contacting the feed with a catalyst to form a reaction mixture; treating the reaction mixture in a first separator to form a first polymer-rich mixture; introducing the first polymer-rich mixture into a second separator; introducing a volatile component and/or inert component into the first separator, the second separator and/or a line between the first separator and the second separator; treating the first polymer-rich mixture to form a second polymer-rich mixture; and devolatilizing the second polymer-rich mixture to obtain the polymer.
US12030965B2
Provided are a modified conjugated diene-based polymer comprising a conjugated diene-based monomer-derived repeating unit; and a chain extender-derived part which is linked to both terminals of the conjugated diene based monomer-derived repeating unit, respectively, includes one or more urethane groups in a molecular chain, and has different functional groups at both terminals, wherein one of the functional groups is an alkyne group, wherein a terminal of the chain extender-derived part which is not linked to both terminals of the conjugated diene based monomer-derived repeating unit is an alkyne group, a manufacturing method thereof, a binder composition for a solid propellant comprising the same, a modified conjugated diene based binder for a solid propellant, and a manufacturing method thereof.
US12030960B2
The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing nanocellulose comprising the steps of: a) providing a cellulose-containing material wherein the cellulose-containing material contains less than 20 wt. % water, b) contacting the cellulose-containing material with oxalic acid dihydrate, and heating above the melting point of the oxalic acid dihydrate, to obtain cellulose oxalates, c) washing the mixture, d) preparing a suspension comprising the washed material from step c) and e) recovering nanocellulose from the suspension. The present invention relates also to a method of manufacturing nanocellulose intermediate which comprises the above described steps a)-c). The methods disclosed in the present invention are quick, simple, and direct. Pulp can be used as raw material. A considerable amount of free carboxyl groups are introduced. A high yield can be obtained. The methods are inexpensive.
US12030949B2
The present invention relates to combination therapies and to their use in the treatment of chronic airway disease, particularly use in the treatment of asthma. The combination therapies comprise (i) an antagonist of IL-5:IL-5R and (ii) an antagonist of IL-4:IL-4R and/or an antagonist of IL-13:IL-13R. The present invention also provides bispecific antibodies comprising an antigen binding domain that binds to IL-4Rα and an antigen binding domain that binds to IL-5. The bispecific antibodies may be used for the treatment of chronic airway disease, particularly asthma.
US12030946B2
The present invention provides therapeutic and diagnostic methods and compositions for cancer and for enhancing immune function in an individual having cancer. The invention provides methods of treatment, methods for determining whether an individual suffering from a cancer is responding to treatment comprising a PD-1 axis binding antagonist, predicting responsiveness of an individual suffering from a cancer to treatment comprising a PD-1 axis binding antagonist, and methods of selecting a therapy for an individual suffering from cancer.
US12030939B2
The invention provided herein relates to methods and uses of a bispecific antibody, which specifically binds the surface antigen CD3 of immune cells and the BCMA antigen on the surface of tumor cells and which may bind to human CD3 with high affinity, induce T cell proliferation, and mediate tumor cell killing effects. The bispecific antibody may be used to mediate the T cell-specific killing of target cells in in vitro tests.
US12030935B2
The present disclosure provides anti-Platelet-Derived Growth Factor Subunit B (PDGF-B) antibodies, and antigen-binding fragments thereof, as well as methods of use of such antibodies, or antigen-binding fragments thereof, for treating a subject having pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH).
US12030933B2
The present disclosure provides anti-bed bug monoclonal antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof as well as compositions and kits comprising the same. The present disclosure also provides methods of making monoclonal antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof and methods of using the same to detect bed bugs.
US12030924B2
Disclosed herein are extracellular vesicles comprising an immunomodulating component. Also provided are methods for producing the extracellular vesicles and methods for using the extracellular vesicles for treating cancer, GvHD, and autoimmune diseases.
US12030915B2
The invention relates to an isolated non-naturally occurring protein comprising the amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1, and wherein the amino acid in position 8, 47, 209 and/or 354 is substituted by any amino acid different from the amino acid indicated at that position in said sequence SEQ ID NO: 1.
US12030906B2
The present invention relates to novel salts and crystalline forms of (S)-2-ethylbutyl 2-(((S)-(((2R,3S,4R,5R)-5-(4-aminopyrrolo[2,1-f][1,2,4]triazin-7-yl)-5-cyano-3,4-dihydroxytetrahydrofuran-2-yl)methoxy)(phenoxy)phosphoryl)amino)propanoate for use in treating viral infections. In some embodiments, the viral infection is caused by a virus selected from the group consisting of Arenaviridae, Coronaviridae, Filoviridae, Flaviviridae, and Paramyxoviridae.
US12030901B2
Disclosed herein are compounds that can act as inhibitors of nicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferase (“NAMPT”), and methods for their use in treating or preventing diseases, such as pulmonary arterial hypertension (“PAH”). The compounds described herein can include compounds of Formula (II) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof: wherein the substituents are as described.
US12030894B2
A composition for an organic optoelectronic device, an organic optoelectronic device including the same, and a display device, the composition including a first compound represented by a combination of Chemical Formula 1 and Chemical Formula 2, and a second compound represented by a combination of Chemical Formula 3 and Chemical Formula 4:
US12030888B2
The present disclosure provides compounds of Formula I, methods of preparing the compounds, compositions, kits, and methods of using the compounds for treating or preventing microbial infections.
US12030885B2
This application relates to compounds of Formula (I): or pharmaceutically acceptable salts or stereoisomers thereof, which are inhibitors of PI3K-γ which are useful for the treatment of disorders such as autoimmune diseases, cancer, cardiovascular diseases, and neurodegenerative diseases.
US12030881B2
Provided, in part, are compounds of Formula I: pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, and pharmaceutical compositions thereof, which are useful in the treatment of conditions associated with the activity of sodium channels. Methods of treating a disease or condition relating to aberrant function of a sodium ion channel including neurological disorders (e.g., Dravet syndrome, epilepsy), pain, and neuromuscular disorders are also provided herein.
US12030873B2
This invention relates to the compound (2R)-2-(6-{5-chloro-2-[(oxan-4-yl)amino]pyrimidin-4-yl}-1-oxo-2,3-dihydro-1H-isoindol-2-yl)-N-[(1S)-1-(3-fluoro-5-methoxyphenyl)-2-hydroxyethyl]propanamide, and in particular to novel physical forms of the compound, a process for preparing the compound and synthetic intermediates for use in the process, and novel formulations containing the compound, as well as therapeutic uses of the compound.
US12030863B2
The invention provides compounds of formula (I) or salts thereof: wherein: A, B, C, D, W, X, Y and Z are as defined in the specification, and at least one of A, B, C, D, W, X, Y and Z is OR1; each R1 being independently H or C(═O)R2, and at least one R1 group being C(═O)R2; where each R2 is selected from: CHR3NHR4, where R4 is H and R3 is a group selected from CH3, CH2CH(CH3)2, CH(CH3)CH2CH3, CH2Ph, CH2-3-(1H-indole), CH2CH2SCH3, CH2OH, CHOHCH3, CH2SH, CH2SeH and CH2PhpOH, wherein said R3 group can optionally be substituted by one or more groups selected from halogen, cyano, nitro, ORA or C1-C4 alkyl; or R3 and R4 together with the C and N atoms to which they are attached form a 5-membered heteroalkyl ring, wherein said heteroalkyl ring can optionally be substituted by one or more groups selected from halogen, cyano, nitro, ORA or C1-C3 alkyl, wherein RA is C1-C4 alkyl optionally substituted with one or more halogen, cyano or nitro groups. The compounds are effective pro-drugs for urolithins and they enable the ready delivery of urolithins to the site in the digestive tract where they can be absorbed into the body.
US12030839B2
Compositions and methods of use related to metal organic frameworks (MOFs) and/or nanoparticles are generally described. In some embodiments, methods and compositions for the catalytic upgrading of alcohols using MOFs and/or nanoparticles associated with MOFs are generally described. In some embodiments, a catalytic MOF composition is provided, wherein the MOF composition comprises a MOF compound and a plurality of metal catalytic compounds. In some embodiments, an alcohol may be exposed to the MOF composition and/or a plurality of nanoparticles associated with the MOF composition such that the alcohol is converted to a higher order alcohol. Advantageously, in some embodiments, the alcohol conversion occurs at a relatively high turnover frequency and/or with a relatively high selectivity as compared to traditional methods for converting alcohols.
US12030836B2
Phenyl isocyanates are removed from a solvent stream obtained from an MDI and/or PMDI manufacturing process by reaction in the presence of a carbodiimidization catalyst to form the corresponding N,N-diphenylcarbodiimides. The N,N-diphenylcarbodiimides can be recycled into the MDI and/or PMDI manufacturing process where they can react with MDI and/or PMDI to form uretonimines. The uretonimines have at most minimal effect on the properties and usefulness of the MDI and/or PMDI product and so can be left in the MDI and/or PMDI product.
US12030830B1
The present disclosure provides a method of preparing olefins from methanol, in which methanol and phenol-like molecules are used as raw material, which is gasified and then passed into a two-stage fixed-bed catalytic reactor. The raw material reacts with a catalyst A (silica-aluminum molecular sieve) and a catalyst B (silica-aluminum or phosphorus-aluminum molecular sieve) in sequence to produce ethylene.
US12030825B2
Disclosed are methods of producing nutrient solutions having unique isotopic fingerprints; methods of producing traceable plants; and methods of identifying the source of a traceable plant that does not rely on expensive artificially separated isotopes. Plants grown with these nutrient solutions will have unique isotopic fingerprints that will be difficult or impossible to counterfeit.
US12030818B2
Glass ceramic components for electronic devices are disclosed, as are components including a glass ceramic material. A cover member including a glass ceramic material may be positioned over one or more device components such as an optical module or a component of a wireless communication or charging system. The cover member may have optical properties, electrical properties, magnetic properties, and/or mechanical properties compatible with the requirements of the one or more device components.
US12030816B2
Mineral binder compositions with accelerated setting and/or curing including a mineral binder, at least one free-radical initiator, and at least one catalyst for the at least one free-radical initiator. The mineral binder compositions accelerated setting and hardening and are especially useful for applications at low temperatures and even below 0° C.
US12030812B1
An underwater rapid repair material for marine steel structure comprises: 20 to 50 parts by weight of an alkali activation material, 3 to 12 parts by weight of a fast hardening waterborne polymer curing agent, 2 to 8 parts by weight of a fast hardening waterborne polymer precursor, 30 to 100 parts by weight of an aggregate, 1 to 5 parts by weight of an activator and 3 to 20 parts by weight of a water. The underwater rapid repair material provided by the present invention is not dispersed and segregated in water, with an initial setting time as low as 0.5 hours and a final setting time as low as 1.1 hours, after pouring 3 hours, the compressive strength and flexural strength can reach about 60 MPa and 10 MPa respectively, and has high bonding strength to steel and is not easy to fall off after solidification.
US12030807B2
The present invention relates to a glass-ceramic article comprising at least one substrate, such as a plate, made of glass-ceramic, said substrate being coated in at least one area with at least one enamel coating such that: 1) said enamel has a gloss at 60° of less than 40, 2) the coverage rate of said enamel in said area coated with said coating is 40 to 80%, 3) said enamel preferably: 3a) is free of pigments in the form of mica or aluminum oxide or silica particles coated with metal oxides or combinations of metal oxides, and 3b) has a roughness Ra greater than or equal to 0.4 μm and/or a luminosity L* greater than 50.
US12030798B2
The disclosure discloses an integrated riparian system for river/lake silt on-site treatment and application thereof, belonging to the technical field of silt treatment. The integrated riparian system includes three subsystems, namely a silt ecological treatment subsystem, a siphon drainage subsystem and a silt leachate advanced treatment subsystem. The silt ecological treatment subsystem is provided with plants, fillers, an aeration pipe and a water collection pipe from top to bottom, and a vent pipe is connected to the water collection pipe. A siphon in the siphon drainage subsystem is retractable and hump-shaped. The silt leachate advanced treatment subsystem includes a first-stage ecological treatment unit upflow wetland and a second-stage ecological treatment unit surface flow wetland. According to the disclosure, dewatering and harmlessness of silt, advanced treatment of silt leachate and purification of part of river/lake water are effectively realized through transpiration and absorption of the plants, filtration and adsorption of the fillers and degradation of microorganisms.
US12030793B2
The present invention relates to a portable hydrogen water mist sprayer comprising a water container which has an open-top coupling part protruding from the top center, a central case, the bottom of which becomes coupled to the top of the water container, and a top cap that becomes coupled to the top of the central case, and wherein an enclosed installation frame placed in the bottom of the central case and the bottom of the central case, which becomes coupled and fixed to the bottom of the central case, are coupled to the open-top coupling part of the water container for airtightness, and an airtightness frame that has a discharge guide groove and a discharge guide hole to selectively release the gas from hydrogen water production inside the water container is applied so that, in case the internal pressure of the water container exceeds a certain level, the gas from inside the water container can flow through the enclosed installation frame and airtightness frame and be discharged outside via the discharge guide groove and discharge guide hole. Accordingly, in case the internal pressure of the water container exceeds a certain level, infiltration of gas containing hydrogen components and/or water molecules into the electrical components involved in hydrogen production, such as the control unit, can be prevented, and the gas is discharged outside so as to substantially improve the safety and durability of the mist spraying device.
US12030792B2
A reverse osmosis desalination system has a combined displacement pump and displacement pressure recovery motor that propagate feed water with a structurally fixed recovery rate and structurally stabilized volume flow through continuously alternating discharging and recirculation intervals. Thereby enabled is an instantaneous discharge of the entire feed water concentrate and unmixed replacement with low salinity source water that intermittingly and effectively flushes the reverse osmosis membranes. This in turn provides for high recirculation peak salinity and recovery rate that are simple and reliably controlled without impairing membrane longevity.
US12030781B2
A method includes producing a substituted cyclosilane by combining in a solvent the following: (i) halogenated cyclosilane, (ii) at least one of tri-alkyl or tri-aryl silane, and (iii) a complexing agent that includes at least one of ammonium halide or phosphonium halide. The halogenated cyclosilane reacts to produce the substituted cyclosilane.
US12030776B2
Particles with suitable properties may be generated. The particles may include carbon particles.
US12030774B2
The present invention provides a surface-modified inorganic nitride having excellent dispersibility. Furthermore, the present invention provides a composition, a thermally conductive material, and a device with a thermally conductive layer which contain the surface-modified inorganic nitride. The surface-modified inorganic nitride of the present invention includes an inorganic nitride, and a compound which is represented by General Formula (1) and is adsorbed onto a surface of the inorganic nitride.
US12030773B2
A method for producing a wafer connection between a first and a second wafer. The method includes providing a first and second material for forming a eutectic alloy, providing a first wafer having a receiving structure for a die structure, filling the receiving structure with the first material, providing a second wafer having a die structure, the second material being situated on the die structure, providing a stop structure on the first and/or second wafer, so that when the two wafers are joined, a defined stop is provided, heating the first and second material at least to the eutectic temperature of the eutectic alloy, joining the first and second wafer so that the die structure is at least partly introduced into the receiving structure, the stop structure, the receiving structure, the die structure.
US12030767B2
A cooling device comprises a buffer circuit comprising a cooling unit for cooling coolant and a reservoir for buffering cooled coolant and a primary cooling circuit for providing coolant to a first heat exchanger. The first heat exchanger is arranged for exchange of thermal energy between the coolant and beverage in a dispensing line. The primary cooling circuit and the buffer circuit are connected to enable exchange of coolant. The cooling device comprises a coolant distribution module arrange to control exchange of coolant between the primary cooling circuit and the buffer circuit. The coolant distribution module may control at least one of valves as passive components and pumps as active components, in at least one of the primary cooling circuit and the buffer circuit. The coolant distribution module may operate based on coolant temperature in the primary cooling circuit.
US12030766B2
A hinge assembly is mountable on first and second large drums or barrels so that the first drum or barrel can be lifted or raised to drain liquid from the first drum or barrel into the second drum or barrel. The hinge assembly includes inner and outer plates which clamp to the rim of each drum to secure the hinge assembly to the drums. The plates may be adjustable to fit different rim dimensions. The hinge assembly does not penetrate, damage or alter the drums. An optional handle can be mounted to the hinge assembly to facilitate lifting of the first drum.
US12030757B2
Systems and methods for operating autonomous tug robots are disclosed. Robotic tugs disclosed herein are configured to autonomously maneuver to a desired location to pick up and retrieve an item, such as a load or a cart, nest the item within the robot, transport the item, and deliver the item to a desired location.
US12030743B2
Brake release sensors for an elevator can be replaced by an arrangement wherein the brake release is determined from the force caused by the brake. This is achieved by providing measuring device for measuring the weight of an elevator car between the brake and the motor body so that the weight of the elevator car is measured only when the brake is on.
US12030741B2
An illustrative example method of controlling an elevator system includes receiving a first request for elevator service from a requestor, receiving a second request for elevator service from the requestor while the first request is still pending, and controlling the elevator system to provide elevator service for only one of the first request or the second request.
US12030740B2
A sheet conveyance apparatus includes a sheet conveyance roller pair to convey a sheet, a first opening and closing guide that opens to a first opened position in which a first conveyance path through which a sheet is conveyed is opened and closes to a first closed position in which a sheet is conveyed in the first conveyance path, and a second opening and closing guide that opens to a second opened position in which a second conveyance path is opened and closes to a second closed position in which a sheet is conveyed in the second conveyance path. A first member is provided on the first opening and closing guide, and a second member is provided on the second opening and closing guide and pivots between a first position and a second position with respect to the second opening and closing guide.
US12030739B2
A method for providing a nonlinear line of weakness on a web material including providing: a base, a support, a blade, and a driving means. The base may comprise at least one counter component having a length (LCC) where the counter component comprises a nonlinear shape having a shape width (W). The support may be operatively engaged with the base. The blade may have a length (LB) and may be disposed on the support so as to either contact or to come in close proximity with the counter component. At least one of the counter component and the blade may have a nonlinear shape and at least one of the counter component and the blade may comprise multiple segments.
US12030736B2
The rewinding machine (1) comprises: a winding station (3) with winding members (5, 7) operated by winding motors (8.1, 8.2); an unwinder (31.1, 31.2) with an unwinding member (35.1, 35.2) operated by at least one unwinding motor (38.1, 38.2); guide roller (43.1, 43.2) along a feed path (P) of the web material (N, N2). There is associated with the guide roller (43.1, 43.2) at least one load sensor (42.1, 42.2), adapted to detect a parameter proportional to the tension of the web material (N; N2) guided around the guide roller (43.1, 43.2). There is also provided a control unit (71) adapted to modulate a difference in speed between the winding members (5, 7) and the unwinding member (35.1, 35.2) as a function of a signal coming from the load sensor (42.1, 42.2).
US12030733B2
A system for offloading a covered hopper railcar includes first and second auger-based conveyors. The first conveyor is adapted to fit partially under a covered hopper railcar's offloading gate when the covered hopper railcar is at rest on track rails such that a portion of the first conveyor is located to a side of the track rails. The first conveyor has a first opening in a top thereof adapted to be coupled to the offloading gate, and has a second opening in the portion thereof located to the side of the track rails. The second opening is in a bottom of the first conveyor. The second conveyor is coupled to the second opening of the first conveyor.
US12030731B2
A robotic work cell uses an object separating mechanism to disperse bulk objects into a 2D arrangement on a horizontal surface and uses a vision system to generate pick-up (positional) data and rotational orientation data for each sequentially selected target object of the 2D arrangement. A pick-and-place robot mechanism uses the positional data to pick-up each target object and uses the rotational orientation data to reorientate the target object during transfer to a designated hand-off location. A carousel-type robotic end-tool disposed on a 4-axis object-processing robot mechanism rotates a gripper mechanism around a vertical axis to move the target object from the hand-off location to a designated processing location, where an associated processing device performs a desired process (e.g., label application) on the target object. In one embodiment the gripper mechanism is selectively rotatable around a horizontal axis to facilitate processing on opposing surfaces of the target object.
US12030722B2
A traverser includes a base unit including a rail member, a moving unit configured to reciprocally move on the rail member between a first position and a second position, and a conveyance unit mounted on the moving unit and configured to convey a conveyance target object. The moving unit include a first travel roller that is a drive roller, and a drive mechanism configured to give a rotation driving force to the first travel roller. The drive mechanism includes a travel motor configured to supply the rotation driving force, and a friction transmission mechanism configured to transmit the rotation driving force of the travel motor to the first travel roller by a friction force.
US12030718B2
A system and method for controlling movement of transporting devices arranged to transport containers, the containers being stored in stacks arranged in a facility. A facility having pathways arranged in a grid-like structure above stacks, the transporting devices being configured to operate on the grid-like structure. A control unit configured to determine at least one task to be performed by at least one transporting device, wherein the at least one task is determined based on at least one of: transporting device battery condition, transporting device damage, transporting device maintenance issues, and transporting device service issues.
US12030716B2
A storage system is described where goods are stored in containers and the containers are stored in stacks. Above the stacks runs a grid network of tracks on which load handling devices run. The load handling devices take containers from the stacks and deposit then at alternative locations in the stacks or deposit then at stations where goods may be picked out. The framework may be provided with one or more of the following services: power, power control, heating, lighting, cooling, sensing, and data logging. A method of partitioning the storage system prevents the spread of fire or prevent damage caused by sprinkler activation.
US12030714B2
An attachment includes an implement and a plate coupled to the implement. The plate has a top end, a bottom end, and an attachment interface. The attachment interface includes (i) a hook extending from the top end of the plate and (ii) an aperture positioned proximate the bottom end of the plate. The hook is positioned to selectively engage a hook interface on the vehicle. The aperture is positioned to selectively receive a rotating locking arm on the vehicle to facilitate selectively coupling the plate and, thereby, the implement to the vehicle.
US12030713B2
The present invention provides a chemical liquid having excellent defect suppressing properties. The present invention further provides a chemical liquid storage body containing the chemical liquid. The chemical liquid of the present invention is a chemical liquid containing a compound other than an alkane and an alkene, and one or more organic solvents selected from the group consisting of decane and undecane, in which the chemical liquid further contains one or more organic components selected from the group consisting of alkanes having 12 to 50 carbon atoms and alkenes having 12 to 50 carbon atoms, and a content of the organic component is 0.10 to 1,000,000 mass ppt with respect to a total mass of the chemical liquid.
US12030707B2
Synthetic resin bottle (1) including tube-shaped body section (3) comprises eight decompression absorbing panels (8) disposed at equal intervals in body section (3) and pillar sections (9) respectively disposed between said decompression absorbing panels (8) and formed by arcuate wall surfaces (9a). Arcuate wall surfaces (9a) of pillar sections (9) in a cross section of body section (3) configure parts of one imaginary perfect circle (10). A total of circumferential lengths of arcuate wall surfaces (9a) of pillar sections (9) is 20 to 50% of a total circumferential length of perfect circle (10). Consequently, it is possible to realize the synthetic resin bottle having decompression absorbing performance in order to absorb a decrease in internal pressure, the exterior of the body section of the synthetic resin bottle being seen as a cylindrical shape whose shape is almost the same as that of a perfect circle.
US12030694B2
A storage box with rotatably changing compartments includes a box body, a partition board and a box cover. The box body includes a base plate and a vertical plate bent and extended from the base plate. A storage space is enclosed by the vertical plate and the base plate. The base plate includes a hinge portion. The partition board includes a board member and a rotating portion arranged on the board member, and the board member is rotatably attached to the hinge portion correspondingly, and the storage space is divided into a first compartment and a second compartment via the board member. The box cover correspondingly covers the box body. Accordingly, the internal space of the box body may be adjusted depending upon the actual needs to achieve easy operation and convenient use thereof.
US12030692B1
The disclosure pertains to a storage container system and a method of transforming the same. The system includes a container of a geometric shape, which is transformable and has a frame with two ends. The container houses sections in portions of the space divided at approximately equal distances from the two ends. Clasp catchers are located below the border of the upper surface, approximately at the midpoint of the borders, and on the bottom side of some of the sections including the sections closest to either of the two ends. The system can be laterally condensed or laterally enlarged where the frame transforms to house varied spaces of sections.
US12030690B2
A method for manufacturing a container including: forming a preform by injection molding, the preform having a bottom portion, a body portion, and a finish portion including a top sealing surface, threads, and a support flange; forming the preform such that the top sealing surface is made of a base layer, and such that the body portion and the bottom portion are both made of the base layer and an oxygen barrier layer; and forming the container from the preform by blow molding. The top sealing surface includes only the base layer. The body portion and the bottom portion both include an inner portion made of the base layer, an outer portion made of the base layer, and an oxygen barrier layer between the inner portion and the outer portion.
US12030688B1
A pharmaceutical container processing system for removing pharmaceuticals from a batch of containers includes a cutter to cut open the batch of containers. A holder has a plurality of container receivers defining container receiving spaces sized and shaped to hold the batch of containers. One or both of the holder or the cutter are movable between a loading position and a cutting position. In the loading position, the plurality of container receiving spaces are accessible to receive the batch of containers. In the cutting position, the cutter is in registration with the batch of containers held by holder to cut the batch of containers.
US12030687B2
Coil has been produced by coiling of a strip. The coil has two end faces and a lateral surface, and also a coil eye having an eye axis. The binding bands have a binding band width. Initially, while a first subregion of the lateral surface of the coil, as seen in the direction of the eye axis, is resting on a first rest, those binding bands which, as seen in the direction of the eye axis, surround the coil completely outside the first subregion are removed. Then, while a second subregion of the coil, as seen in the direction of the eye axis, is resting on the first rest or a second rest, those binding bands which were not removed are removed. The first and the second subregion, as seen in the direction of the eye axis, are spaced apart from one another at least by the binding band width.
US12030685B2
A bag-making and packaging machine works with a weighing machine installed upstream to manufacture bags containing article discharged from the weighing machine. The bag-making and packaging machine includes a forming unit, a transverse sealing unit, a conveyance unit, a communication unit, and a control unit. The communication unit receives from the weighing machine a signal relating to weighing and discharge of the article. The control unit has a disposal mode for disposing of the article in the weighing machine. When changing from a normal production mode to the disposal mode, the control unit performs control to skip, among operations in the normal production mode, the operation of the transverse sealing unit implemented in conjunction with the signal received by the communication unit from the weighing machine.
US12030684B2
Providing a packaging apparatus that can inhibit a reduction in printing quality with respect to a film. A packaging apparatus 1 includes: a film conveyance device 100 that conveys a film F; a moving mechanism that conveys a container C having an opening; a sealing device 40 that seals, with the film conveyed thereto by the film conveyance device, the opening of the container conveyed thereto by the moving mechanism; a printer 140 that is disposed upstream of the sealing device in a conveyance path of the film and prints information in a predetermined position on the film while being conveyed; and a controller that controls the operation of the film conveyance device. The film conveyance device has the accumulation mechanism 120. The accumulation mechanism is disposed between the printer and the sealing device in the conveyance path of the film and temporarily accumulates the film printed with the information. The controller controls the film conveyance device so that the accumulation mechanism accumulates at least the film that is utilized for one packaging operation in the sealing device.
US12030674B2
A fluid transfer interface is provided. The fluid transfer interface includes one or more of first and second interface portions. The first interface portion includes a first portion of a fluid connector and one or more ferromagnetic surfaces. The second interface portion includes an extendable second portion of the fluid connector and one or more electropermanent magnets, laterally disposed around the second portion of the fluid connector, configured to be magnetized or demagnetized in unison. The one or more electropermanent magnets are further configured to provide attraction force to the one or more ferromagnetic surfaces when magnetized and couple the first interface portion to the second interface portion and provide no attraction force to the one or more ferromagnetic surfaces when demagnetized and allow the first interface portion to be decoupled from the second interface portion.
US12030667B2
A flow booster for optimizing flow of fuel passing into an aircraft. The flow booster includes a fuel intake fluidly coupled to the fuel circuit, and includes a housing and a piston. The piston has a piston head slidably movable in the housing to define h a variable fuel inlet to receive the fuel. The fuel applies a fuel force to the piston. An intake tuner is operatively connected to the fuel M intake, and has a tuning force applied to the piston against the fuel force. A trigger is coupled to the intake tuner to vary the tuning force applied by the intake tuner. The flow regulator is coupled to sensors to receive fuel measurements. A flow regulator is operatively connected to the trigger to activate the trigger in response to the fuel measurements whereby the flow of the fuel into the aircraft is continuously adjustable during refueling.
US12030662B2
A propulsion system (1) for a helicopter, comprising a turboshaft engine (2) with a linked turbine and an electric machine (3) capable of operating as an electric motor, the turboshaft engine (2) and the electric machine (3) being capable of driving in rotation at least one main rotor (5) intended to be coupled to a rotating wing (6) characterised in that it comprises means of coupling and decoupling (14) in rotation between a rotor (3a) of the electric machine (3) and a rotor (2a) of the turboshaft engine (2), the means of coupling and decoupling (14) being capable of allowing the rotor (2a) of the turboshaft engine (2) to be driven in rotation with the aid of the electric machine (3), in a first state of the propulsion system (1), and capable of allowing the rotor (2a) of the turboshaft engine (2) and the rotor (3a) of the electric machine (3) to be decoupled in rotation, in a second state of the propulsion system (1).
US12030659B2
An anterior part of a nacelle of an aircraft propulsion assembly, which comprises an air intake lip, an outer panel extending an outer part of the air intake lip, an inner structure extending an inner part of the air intake lip, a front frame connecting the outer wall to the air intake lip or to the inner structure. The outer panel and the outer part of the air intake lip together form an outer wall of the anterior part. The front frame and the outer wall are connected to one another by assembly means located inside the anterior part. The anterior part constituted in this manner ensures laminar flow of the air on an outer surface of the anterior part and reduces drag. A nacelle of a propulsion unit, comprising an anterior part of this kind is also provided.
US12030654B2
An engine (100) is provided with a powertrain including a heat engine (1) and an output shaft (A1), an electric motor (2), a battery (40) for supplying the electric motor (2) and a propeller propulsion system including a propeller (3) and a propeller shaft (A3), to which the propeller (3) is coupled. The powertrain includes a system of clutches (E123, E14, E23, E324) designed for different configurations to selectively drive the propeller using the heat engine without transmission of the rotation of the electric motor to the propeller; using the electric motor without transmission of the rotation of the heat engine to the propeller; using combined transmission of the rotation of the heat engine and the rotation of the electric motor to the propeller. The electric motor includes a stator and a rotor mounted for rotation about a shaft rigidly connected, or capable of being coupled, to the propeller shaft.
US12030653B2
A load fluctuation detection unit that detects a load fluctuation of an aircraft, and an operating point control unit that controls a power operating point defined by a torque and rotation speed based on a flight state. The operating point control unit sets a target power operating point (62) for coping with a load with respect to an initial power operating point (61) in an operating point map (40) when the load has fluctuated. The operating point control unit moves the power operating point from the initial power operating point (61) on a first operating line (41) to the target power operating point (62) on a second operating line (42), to a return power operating point (63) on the first operating line (41) while keeping a torque T constant, and then to the initial power operating point (61) along the first operating line (41).
US12030651B2
A hybrid-electric powertrain system for aircraft includes a gearbox having a first rotary shaft for output to drive an air mover for aircraft thrust. The system includes a first prime mover connected by a second rotary shaft to the gearbox for power input to the gearbox. Further, the system includes a second prime mover connected by a third rotary shaft to the gearbox. The second prime mover can have a hollow core, and at least one of the first and second rotary shafts passes through the hollow core and the third rotary shaft.
US12030648B2
An ice removal apparatus for an aircraft is provided comprising a laminate structure encapsulating an electrically operable heater. The laminate structure comprises a plurality of layers and at least two layers are configured to be selectively movable relative to each other to increase the separation of the two layers, thereby removing ice.
US12030647B2
Thermal anti-icing systems are disclosed. An example anti-icing system includes a housing defining an inner recess, a first support fitting, a second support fitting spaced away from the first support fitting. The housing is positioned between the first support fitting and the second support fitting. The first support fitting, the second support fitting and an outer wall of the housing define a heating chamber that is fluidly separated from the inner recess.
US12030645B2
The present invention is a portable, intelligent, ergonomically adjustable body-seat cushion controlled wirelessly via a smartphone or tablet app. Multiple air bladders embedded in the body-seat cushion inflate/deflate at the direction of the app to manipulate the physical position of the user's neck, back, posterior, legs, and feet in order to: (1) alleviate pressure on the back and sit-bones; (2) lengthen the user from a normal sitting position to a lengthened sitting position; and (3) increase blood flow to the user's extremities. Positioning algorithms in the app use the user's anthropometric data (body measurements) and seat measurements (including available space above and in front of the seat) to generate one or more air bladder fill instructions to lengthen the user. The app then wirelessly transmits the positioning instructions as well as optional motion, temperature, and vibration instructions to one or more wireless receivers in the seat cushion.
US12030640B2
The present invention relates essentially to an arrangement of individual seats intended to be installed in an aircraft cabin and characterised in that the first seat faces inwards in the direction of the axis of the aircraft cabin and the second seat faces outwards away from the axis of the aircraft cabin and in that at least a portion of the first seat and of the corresponding first footwell are capable of defining at least a portion of a first bed surface which faces outwards away from the axis of the aircraft cabin and in that at least a portion of the second seat and of the corresponding second footwell are capable of defining at least a portion of a second bed surface which faces inwards in the direction of the axis of the aircraft cabin.
US12030638B2
An on-board toilet cubicle for an aircraft, including a front long side and a rear long side; a front short side and a rear short side, which are each connected at one end to the front long side and at their other end to the rear long side, the long sides and the short sides enclosing an interior of the toilet cubicle, and the front and the rear long sides each being wider than the front and the rear short sides; a toilet unit with a toilet opening; and an L-shaped door for accessing the on-board toilet cubicle, the L-shaped door having one door leg in the front long side and one door leg in the front short side, the toilet unit arranged adjacent to the rear long side, and the door leg in the front long side being wider than the door leg in the front short side.
US12030637B2
A system configured to transfer an individual between an area and a toilet within a lavatory includes a base, one or more rollers coupled to the base, and a seating assembly coupled to the base. The seating assembly includes a backrest, a toilet overlay seat configured to be disposed over the toilet, and a seat cover that is movable between a covering position over the toilet overlay seat, and a lavatory use position in which the toilet overlay seat is exposed. A counterbalance is coupled to one or both of the base or the seating assembly. The counterbalance is moveable between a stowed position and a deployed position in relation to the toilet.
US12030625B2
The aircraft includes a fuselage, a front wing and a rear wing provided to extend laterally from the fuselage for generating lift during cruise, a boom 18 supported by the front wing and the rear wing to be spaced apart from the fuselage, and at least one VTOL rotor that is supported on the boom, and having one or more blades for generating thrust in a vertical direction during take-off and landing, wherein the boom has a shape in a top view in which a barrel forms a curvature in a direction away from the fuselage with respect to a front end and a rear end while extending in a front-back direction, and has a cross section in a front view in which an upper side forms a round curvature, the boom being tapered from an upper side from a lower side, and the lower side is substantially flat.
US12030623B2
A spinner is described that can provide aerodynamic advantages for vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft. The spinner can be shaped with multiple faces divided by chines. The chines can run down the edge of the spinner to fairings that can cover rotor blades and/or couplings between rotor blades and the rotor hubs of the aircraft. During forward flight the rotor blades can be folded down into recesses on the spinner. The spinner and fairings can provide aerodynamic advantages in addition to protection for sensitive components within the rotor and blades apparatus. This improves efficiency and allows the aircraft to fly faster.
US12030622B2
An aircraft provided with a rotary wing driven by a mechanical kinematic linkage, the aircraft having a power plant provided with at least one engine, the mechanical kinematic linkage comprising a free-wheel associated with the engine, the free-wheel comprising a driving part and a driven part, the driving part being connected by a mechanical connection to a working shaft of the associated engine and the driven part being connected kinematically to the rotary wing. A disengageable connection is arranged in parallel with the free-wheel in order to transmit mechanical power between the rotary wing and the engine on request, the power plant having a braking system comprising an engine brake of the engine.
US12030615B2
A system for controlling the pitch of a propeller blade for an aircraft turbine engine is provided. The system generally includes a cup having an annular wall extending about a pitch setting axis of the blade, the annular wall having a lower axial end enclosed by a bottom wall, and an upper axial end that is open and configured so as to enable a root of the blade to be mounted in the cup; and a locking ring that extends around the pitch setting axis and is configured to be mounted around the root, the locking ring being a double dog ring that comprises two annular rows of outer dogs constituting active and safety dogs, respectively.
US12030609B2
A vessel speed control system includes a lever operator on which an operation is performed to increase or decrease a propulsion speed of the vessel, a transition operator on which a transition operation is performed to transition a normal operation mode to a speed control mode, and a controller configured or programmed to perform a control to prevent transition to the speed control mode even when the transition operation is performed on the transition operator during a restriction period of time including at least an acceleration/deceleration period of time during which a rotation speed of an engine or the propulsion speed of the vessel is changed by the lever operator in the normal operation mode.
US12030598B2
Aspects of the invention may be related to a computer system and a computerized method of controlling a marine vessel. Embodiments may include: receiving, by a controller, a position of the marine vessel from a positioning system; receiving, by the controller, geographical data, from at least one database, the geographical data may include at least a map of seabed depths; receiving, by the controller, a heading direction and speed of the marine vessel; calculating, by the controller, a safety zone ahead of the marine vessel based on the position, the heading direction and the speed of the marine vessel; identifying a location of a critical seabed depth inside the safety zone based on the received, the geographical data; and changing, by the controller, a state of a propelling unit of the marine vessel when a critical seabed depth was identified inside the safety zone.
US12030587B2
Various embodiments of a pedal for use on a device such as a bicycle or stationary bicycle are provided. A pedal may include a pedal body member having an internal cavity. The pedal may include an axle having a shaft adapted to extend into the internal cavity. A sliding bearing block may be secured to a distal end of the axle shaft. The pedal body member may be adapted for transverse or side-to-side rotatable movement relative to a longitudinal axis of the axle shaft. The pedal body member may be self-centering and include one or more springs to apply force to move the pedal body member toward a home or resting position relative to the axle shaft. The pedal may be adapted so that the user's foot can be placed on either a top surface or a bottom surface of the pedal body member.
US12030577B2
A method of controlling a personal mobility system includes displaying a virtual object on an augmented reality wearable device, the virtual object being located in a position in the field of view of the augmented reality device corresponding to a position in the real world. Proximity of the personal mobility system or a user of the personal mobility system with the position in the real world is detected. In response to the detection of proximity, a performance characteristic of the personal mobility system is modified.
US12030573B1
A system for compactly storing and easily transporting one or more two-wheeled vehicles, comprising a plurality of slender trays, wherein each tray comprises a tray base, one or more slotted wheel housing(s), a wheel securement subassembly; one or more cross-member(s); a plurality of casters and/or resting pads; wherein the tray bases are attached to the cross-member(s) at an orthogonal angle; wherein the casters and/or resting pads are each attached to the underside of the cross-member(s). Trays may be secured to the cross-members so that the front of each bicycle is oriented in an alternating fashion from one tray to the next. The longitudinal fore-aft position of each tray may also be in a staggered arrangement. Finally, vertical riser blocks placed between a cross-member and a tray may be further employed.
US12030572B2
A method for a steer axle knuckle of a vehicle is provided. The method comprises welding a steer arm and a tie rod arm to a knuckle body by linear friction welding. The method further includes, in one example, pairing a plurality of first contact surfaces of the knuckle body and a plurality of steer arm contact surfaces of the steer arm prior to the welding; pairing a plurality of second contact surfaces of the knuckle body and a plurality of tie rod arm contact surfaces of the tie rod arm prior to the welding. Each of the plurality of first contact surfaces, second contact surfaces, steer arm contact surfaces, tie rod arm contact surfaces is machined prior to the welding.
US12030569B2
An apparatus (104) and a method (800) for controlling steering of rear wheels (103) of a vehicle (100) are disclosed. The apparatus (104) comprises a control means (105) configured to receive a first signal indicative of a front wheel steering angle and a second signal indicative of a selected mode selected from at least a first mode and a second mode. The control means is also configured to determine a proposed rear wheel steering angle in dependence on the first signal and the second signal and to provide an output signal configured to cause steering of rear wheels (103) at the proposed rear wheel steering angle.
US12030563B1
A winch assembly for moving a first fifth wheel outwardly from a first trailer and engaging a king pin on a second trailer. The winch assembly includes a pair of parallel, spaced apart rails mounted on the underside of the first trailer. A slide out frame is mounted between the rails and attached to a front axle and a real axle, with wheels. The slide out frame includes the first fifth wheel adapted for engaging the king pin on the front of a second trailer. The first fifth wheel is attached to a pair of first cables on winch drums, driven by winch motors. The winch motors are used for rotating cable drums for retracting the first fifth wheel along a length of the trailer. Also, a pair of second cables on winch drums, driven by winch motors, are attached to the slide out frame. The second cables are used to extend the first fifth wheel outwardly from the rear of the first trailer for engaging the fifth wheel to the second trailer.
US12030559B2
A steering system includes a steering shaft that rotates along with an operation of a steering wheel; a motor configured to generate a torque that is applied to the steering shaft; and a control unit configured to control the motor. The control unit is configured to control the motor such that a rotation speed of the steering wheel decreases gradually to zero when automatic rotation of the steering wheel is stopped, in a case where the steering wheel is automatically rotated as an adjustment process of adjusting a rotational position of the steering wheel.
US12030557B2
A connector for a removable tailgate includes a shank, an actuator and a retainer. The shank has a thread, a passage and an opening from the exterior of the shank to the passage. The actuator is received within the passage and has a stop portion and a void, and is movable relative to the shank from a first position in which the void is aligned with the opening and a second position in which the stop portion is aligned with the opening. And the retainer is received in the opening and movable relative to the shank from an extended position in which the retainer extends outwardly from the exterior of the shank farther than the thread and a retracted position in which the retainer is received at least partially in the void and in which the retainer does not extend from the exterior of the shank beyond the thread.
US12030552B2
A method of assembling a frame for a personal electric vehicle includes assembling a safety cage defining an occupant interior by attaching together a plurality of tubular members including at least two left pillars and two right pillars each having lower end portions positioned along respective sides of the occupant interior. The method further includes positioning a floorpan adjacent a bottom of the occupant interior, the floorpan having a floorpan left side adjacent the lower end portions of the left pillars and a floorpan right side adjacent the lower end portions of the right pillars. Thereafter, the method includes fixing a left inboard surface of each left pillar to the floorpan left side and fixing a right inboard surface of each right pillar to the floorpan right side for securing the safety cage to the floorpan.
US12030546B2
A protective cover for use in connection with seated persons or pets in a moving conveyance protects the seated person from the effects of environmental elements, such as sun, rain and wind, motion effects, noise, interaction with other people and airborne contaminants, while providing a calming and restful environment for rest or sleep. The protective cover may incorporate antimicrobial treatments or materials to reduce organic load on the exposed side of the cover and the number of washings.
US12030544B2
A shopping trolley for self-service shopping, includes a frame (1) supported by wheels (51, 52) The frame includes longitudinal beams (2) which at an upper end portion are coupled to each other by a handrail (3) that extends transverse thereto. A suspension assembly (4) extends operatively intermediate of the wheels and the frame. A scale (7) that includes an upward facing weighing surface is operatively supported by the frame. The shopping trolley includes a removable shopping bag (9) with a bottom (91). A pair of releasable grips (8) are operable to secure the shopping bag in a position with its bottom (91) on the weighing surface of the scale. An electronic terminal (6) is in operative connection with the scale.
US12030541B2
The invention discloses a method and a system for state feedback predictive control of a high-speed train based on a forecast error. The method comprises: obtaining a speed prediction model of a high-speed train y ^ k + p = C A p x k + ∑ i = 1 p C A i - 1 B u k + p - i ; predicting speeds of the train at times k and k+p according to the speed prediction model; obtaining an actual speed output value of the train; determining a speed prediction error at time k according to the prediction speed of the train and the actual speed output value of the train; correcting a prediction speed of the train at time k+p, according to the speed prediction error, to obtain a corrected prediction speed of the train; calculating a control force uk of the train according to uk=λ−1(p)[yk+pr−yk−Kxk+ŷk]; and applying a control force to the train based on the control force uk. The disclosure may have features of strong adaptability and easy calculation, and achieve high-precision tracking of train speed.
US12030539B2
Devices, systems, and methods related to tracking location of operator control units for locomotives
According to various aspects, exemplary embodiments are disclosed of devices, systems, and methods related to tracking location of operator control units for locomotives. In exemplary embodiments, a system includes an operator control unit configured to receive one or more commands from an operator for controlling a locomotive. The operator control unit includes a receiver configured to receive geographical location information of the operator control unit. The system is configured to monitor a geographical location of the operator control unit.
US12030532B2
Running gear for a rail vehicle includes a first drive unit, a running gear frame and a wheelset, wherein the first drive unit is supported via a first spring device and a second spring device on a first wheelset bearing housing or on a first swing arm and via a third spring device and a fourth spring device on a second wheelset bearing housing or on a second swing arm, where a first damper device, arranged between the first wheelset bearing housing or the first swing arm and the drive unit, is advantageously connected in parallel with the first spring device, the second spring device, the third spring device and the fourth spring device, where the damping device has a damper and, connected in series therewith, a first stop buffer and a second stop buffer to achieve a space-saving drive bearing having effective suspension and damping.
US12030523B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for planning the future trajectory of an autonomous vehicle in an environment. In one aspect, a method comprises obtaining multiple types of scene data characterizing a scene in an environment that includes an autonomous vehicle and multiple agents; receiving route data specifying an intended route for the autonomous vehicle; for each data type, processing at least the data type using a respective encoder network to generate a respective encoding of the data type; processing a sequence of the encodings using an encoder network to generate a respective alternative representation for each data type; and processing the alternative representations using a decoder network to generate a trajectory planning output that comprises respective scores for candidate trajectories that represent predicted likelihoods that the candidate trajectory is closest to resulting in the autonomous vehicle successfully navigating the intended route.
US12030522B2
Techniques for collision avoidance using an object contour are discussed. A trajectory associated with a vehicle may be received. Sensor data can be received from a sensor associated with the vehicle. A bounding contour may be determined and associated with an object represented in the sensor data. Based on the trajectory, a simulated position of the vehicle can be determined. Additionally, a predicted position of the bounding contour can be determined. Based on the simulated position of the vehicle and the predicted position of the bounding contour, a distance between the vehicle and the object may be determined. An action can be performed based on the distance between the vehicle and the object.
US12030512B2
A collision warning system notifies an occupant of a vehicle about a predicted collision between the vehicle and an object moving relative to the vehicle. The system includes an object input device, a vehicle input device, and a road detection module for generating a road signal associated with a road geometry that is visible through the windshield and located within a field of view of the occupant. The system further includes an ARHUD for generating multiple images upon the windshield and overlaid onto the road geometry. The system further includes a computer including a processor and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions. The processor is programmed to determine a predicted collision between the object and the vehicle at a predicted time. The processor is further programmed to generate an actuation signal for actuating the ARHUD to generate the images upon the windshield and overlaid onto the road geometry.
US12030507B2
A method for predicting a trajectory of a target vehicle in an environment of a vehicle. The method includes the steps of a) capturing states of the target vehicle, capturing states of further vehicle objects in the environment of the vehicle and capturing road markings by a camera-based capture device; b) preprocessing the data obtained in step a), wherein outliers are removed and missing states are calculated; c) calculating an estimated trajectory by a physical model on the basis of the data preprocessed in step b); d) calculating a driver-behavior-based trajectory on the basis of the data preprocessed in step b); and e) combining the trajectories calculated in steps c) and d) to form a predicted trajectory of the target vehicle.
US12030505B2
A wellbeing system configured for assessing a mental wellbeing of a driver while driving the vehicle and deploying a countermeasure in response to a mindfulness level of the driver being beyond a desired range. The countermeasure may be configured to mitigate a probability of a mental wellbeing of the driver undesirably impacting operation of the vehicle.
US12030497B2
A method for controlling brake pressure during a shift of a vehicle out of park may include determining that a first status condition is met when the vehicle is in park with an electric parking brake applied, determining that a second status condition is met when the vehicle is not moving, responsive to detecting a shift of the vehicle out of park when the first and second status conditions are both met, directing a build-up of brake pressure until a brake pressure target is reached, and holding the brake pressure at the brake pressure target until a release condition is met.
US12030491B2
A processor unit (3) is configured for accessing speed data of a second vehicle (18), the speed data generated by a sensor of a first vehicle (1). The processor unit is also configured for creating a driving behavior profile of the second vehicle (18) based on the speed data and making a prediction about the future driving behavior of the second vehicle (18) based on the driving behavior profile of the second vehicle (18). Moreover, the processor unit is configured for determining a trajectory for the first vehicle (1) by executing an MPC algorithm, which includes a longitudinal dynamic model of the first vehicle and a cost function, such that the cost function is minimized. The prediction about the future driving behavior of the second vehicle (18) is taken into account in the determination of the trajectory.
US12030490B2
A vehicle control device includes a storage device configured to store a program, and a hardware processor. The hardware processor executes the program stored in the storage device to recognize a surrounding situation of a vehicle including a road division line and a surrounding vehicle, to control steering and acceleration/deceleration of the vehicle based on at least the road division line without depending on an operation of a driver of the vehicle, and to determine whether occlusion, in which at least a part of the road division line is shielded, has occurred, based on the road division line and a position of the surrounding vehicle present in front of the vehicle.
US12030489B2
An example operation includes one or more of determining a characteristic of an occupant in a transport and a current driving environment of the transport, wherein the characteristic includes a position of the occupant, determining that the current driving environment will lead to a collision of the transport, and based on a predicted result of the collision, sending a predicted state of the occupant based on the position, to an emergency service node.
US12030487B2
A vehicle includes: a detection sensor configured to acquire a front view of the vehicle, and configured to detect an obstacle in the front view; and a controller including at least one processor which is configured to process data obtained from the detection sensor. The controller may be configured to determine a predicted position of a collision between the vehicle and the obstacle, determine an avoidance position capable of avoiding a collision with the obstacle based on the collision prediction position, generate a plurality of avoidance paths corresponding to a plurality of predetermined conditions, respectively, based on the avoidance position, and control a steering angle adjustment unit to follow any one of the plurality of avoidance paths.
US12030476B2
The present disclosure relates to a safe driving support system based on a mobile Internet of Things (IoT) agent, and a processing method thereof. The safe driving support system based on a mobile IoT agent may provide an accident response service for preventing a traffic accident in advance by obtaining GNSS-based position information of each of vehicles, collecting various information on a driver's status and a vehicle driving status of the vehicle that is being driven in real time to construct big data, and analyzing and repeatedly learning the collected information. According to the present disclosure, it is possible to provide the ground for providing various services capable of decreasing traffic accidents by obtaining driving information of a short cycle using a GNSS platform and analyzing the driving information to apply the driving information to traffic safety and accident prevention activities.
US12030471B2
A method for monitoring a hydraulic brake system for a motor vehicle, wherein a diagnostic valve is omitted and, instead, air volume and leakage are identified by a volume balance during generation of a dynamic pressure. An associated brake system is also disclosed.
US12030469B2
A regenerative braking system for a vehicle includes a means 13 for storing details of one or more deceleration profiles for the vehicle; means for comparing 13, arranged to compare a current braking manoeuvre with the or a selected stored deceleration profile which generates an output signal, during the manoeuvre, representative of any deviation of the deceleration profile of the current braking manoeuvre from the ideal deceleration profile with which it is compared. This output can be used to drive a display 14 to provide feedback to a driver as to the efficiency of a braking manoeuvre. Multiple ideal deceleration profiles may be stored and the system arranged to compare a current braking manoeuvre with the most relevant stored profile. Profiles may be stored in association with spatial, temporal and/or environmental information.
US12030463B2
A sensor assembly includes a sensor including a sensor lens, the sensor lens defining an axis; a housing panel including an aperture centered on the axis, the sensor lens being recessed from the aperture along the axis; and an air nozzle positioned between the aperture and the sensor lens along the axis and oriented to blow horizontally across the sensor lens. The aperture and the sensor lens define a gap positioned on an opposite lateral side of the sensor lens from the air nozzle.
US12030462B1
This disclosure relates to an assembly structure of a windshield wiper. Abase includes a seat and a slot. A seat includes an accommodating space, a plurality of limiting grooves, a fastening portion and an elastic pressing piece. The slot is disposed on a bottom side of the seat for inserting a wiper blade. The linking set includes a seat plate. The seat plate includes a plurality of guiding blocks, a latch and an elastic arm. The latch is obliquely inserted into the seat and rotate to make the seat plate place in the accommodating space. The linking set is pushed by an external force to make the elastic arm move toward the fastening portion. The elastic arm is engaged with the fastening portion and abuts against the elastic pressing piece. The guiding blocks slide into the limiting grooves correspondingly.
US12030454B2
An airbag device includes a driver airbag cushion and a curtain airbag cushion. The curtain airbag cushion includes a first seam portion formed so as to extend vertically within a range in which the driver airbag cushion is projected outward in the vehicle width direction, a first chamber expanding so as to be thicker in the vehicle width direction than the first seam portion on the front side of the first seam portion, and a second chamber expanding so as to be thicker in the vehicle width direction than the first seam portion on the rear side of the first seam portion. The driver airbag cushion is expanded and deployed in a state separated from the first chamber while being in contact with a curved portion of the second chamber that is curved toward the first seam portion.
US12030416B2
A handle for a recreational vehicle is described that includes a handrail and a support arm. The handrail has a proximal end configured to be pivotably coupled relative to structure of a recreational vehicle and an opposite distal end. The support arm has a first end configured to be pivotably coupled relative to structure of a recreational vehicle and an opposite second end slidingly coupled relative to the handrail. With this configuration, the handrail can be pivoted from a storage position extending along the recreational vehicle and a use position extending outwardly from the recreational vehicle causing the second end of the support arm to slide towards the distal end of the handrail.
US12030393B2
A system for charging an energy store in a vehicle and a method for operating the system, wherein the system includes a first transmission unit having a primary coil, arranged outside the vehicle in a stationary manner, and a second transmission unit having a secondary coil, arranged in the vehicle, wherein energy is transmitted via inductive energy transmission from the primary coil to the secondary coil to charge the energy store. The second transmission unit has a signal generator for generating and coupling signals into the secondary coil for transmission via the secondary coil, and the first transmission unit has an evaluation unit, a first auxiliary coil, and a second auxiliary coil, wherein the evaluation unit is designed to ascertain a magnetic coupling and/or a relative position between the first transmission unit and the second transmission unit based on the signals received by the primary coil and the auxiliary coils.
US12030391B2
Techniques are disclosed for systems and methods to provide a configurable electric micro-mobility vehicle that can be configured with modular accessories. The micro-mobility vehicle is configurable by including a structure that is adapted to receive and secure one or more of the modular accessories within a short amount of time. The micro-mobility vehicle may include a battery compartment for receiving a modular battery pack and securing the battery pack to an electrical connector of the micro-mobility vehicle. The battery compartment may be physically coupled to a seat tube of the micro-mobility vehicle. The battery compartment may include an opening at one end of the battery compartment for inserting and removing a battery pack.
US12030386B2
A wheel drive module (1) is provided that has a wheel (30) and a transmission, wherein the transmission comprises a first and a second drive gear ring (15, 25) which are arranged such that they can rotate about a common rotation axis (R). The wheel (30) can be steered and driven by a respective rotation of the first drive gear ring (15) and the second drive gear ring (25). A wheel-receiving space (20) extending along the axis of rotation (R) is defined between the first drive gear ring (15) and the second drive gear ring (25), in which the wheel (30) is arranged at least sectionally.
US12030381B2
A measurement of the rotation speed of an object is made using a time-of-flight sensor configured to detect a passing of one or more of elements of the object through a given position. The time-of-flight sensor is further mounted on a one-person vehicle configured to protect the one-person vehicle against collisions through the making a time-of-flight measurement of a relative speed between the one-person vehicle and an obstacle.
US12030380B2
A method and a system of deploying an ignition interlock device (IID). The method comprises receiving a time series of breath alcohol content (BrAC) measurements that are unitarily sourced from a pre-identified user, each BrAC measurement of the time series including an alveolar breath component and an interferent breath component; estimating a dissipation rate of alcohol attributable to the pre-identified user in accordance with the time series of BrAC measurements; determining, responsive to estimating the dissipation rate of alcohol, at least a subset of the BrAC measurements as being based on the alveolar breath component but not the interferent breath component; and performing one of triggering and not triggering the IID into a lockout state based on the at least a subset of the BrAC measurements.
US12030377B2
An electric powertrain for a vehicle provides electric propulsion to the vehicle. The electric powertrain includes a first electric motor linked to a first gear module through a motor shaft, said first gear module including a primary shaft on which are arranged a first primary gear and a second primary gear, a second gear module including a secondary shaft on which are arranged a first secondary gear that is meshing with the second primary gear, at least one countershaft on which are arranged a first quaternary gear and a second quaternary gear, a coupling member arranged at the first extremity of the primary shaft.
US12030374B2
A bearing arrangement of a component on an axle carrier which is to be mounted on a body of a motor vehicle is provided, in the case of which bearing arrangement the axle carrier has two longitudinal elements as first structural elements and at least one transverse element as a second structural element, via which the longitudinal elements are connected to one another. The component is mounted on the axle carrier via a rubber bearing which has a bearing core and a rubber element which is formed from rubber and via which the component is mounted on the axle carrier. In the installed position of the component and the axle carrier, in the vehicle vertical direction, the bearing core is arranged below a lower side, which points downwards in the vehicle vertical direction, or above an upper side, which points upwards in the vehicle vertical direction, of one of the structural elements, and is attached via its two ends and, as a result, in double shear to the one structural element or the component.
US12030367B2
A heat pump system includes a cooling apparatus in which a coolant is circulated, a compressor to compress a refrigerant, a condenser connected to the compressor through a refrigerant line and configured to condense the refrigerant by heat-exchanging with the refrigerant and the coolant, an evaporator connected to the condenser through the refrigerant line and configured to evaporate the refrigerant by heat-exchanging with the refrigerant and the coolant, a gas injection device provided in the refrigerant line between the condenser and the evaporator and configured to selectively expand and flow the refrigerant and selectively supply some of the refrigerant to the compressor, a refrigerant connection line including a first end connected to the refrigerant line and a second end connected to the gas injection device between the compressor and the evaporator, and a chiller in the refrigerant connection line for adjusting a temperature of the coolant by heat-exchange.
US12030363B2
Disclosed is a vehicle air conditioner capable of increasing the aft flow effective region of an inner flow path by reducing the space occupied by support parts of doors for opening/closing a plurality of regions. The vehicle air conditioner comprises: an air-conditioning case in which an air flow path is formed; and a cooling heat exchanger and a heating heat exchanger provided in the air flow path of the air-conditioning case, wherein the air flow path is partitioned and divided into a plurality of regions, and has a plurality of doors for opening/closing each region and a shaft for driving the doors, and the distance between one door and the shaft is different from the distance between another door and the shaft.
US12030362B1
A suspension includes a trailing arm that is swingably attached to a vehicle frame of a utility vehicle and carries a wheel, and a shock absorber that connects the trailing arm and the vehicle frame. A first end, which is an end of the shock absorber, is attached to a side surface of the trailing arm facing inside in a width direction of the vehicle.
US12030360B2
A mobile drive unit includes a pivot between the front chassis unit and the rear chassis unit, thereby diminishing the total height of the unit.
US12030350B2
Methods for treating the surface of a cured inner liner are disclosed. By use of these methods a treated, cured inner liner is produced which has a lower surface with increased adherability to other materials (e.g., adhesives). Treated, cured inner liners resulting from such methods as well as tires containing the treated inner liners.
US12030349B2
A nozzle for seating a tubeless tire on a rim using pressurized gas includes a coupling neck configured to accept the pressurized gas from a pressurized tank, a choke point adapter connected to the coupling neck and a nozzle body configured with a nozzle output. Pressurized air introduced into the coupling neck pass through the nozzle and exits the nozzle output in a burst of the pressurized gas that is directed between the tubeless tire and the rim to inflate the tire. The choke point adapter has a chokepoint surface with a chokepoint angle of sufficient angle to aid in reducing the recoil of the tubeless tire seating device.
US12030347B2
A motorcycle tire set includes a front-wheel tire and a rear-wheel tire. Each of the front and rear-wheel tires includes a carcass, a band layer arranged radially outwardly of the carcass in the tread portion, and a tread rubber arranged radially outwardly of the band layer. The carcass includes a carcass ply including carcass cords. The band layer includes a jointless band ply in which a band cord is circumferentially wound spirally at an angle equal to or less than 5 degrees. The tread rubber includes a crown rubber portion. An angle θ1 of the carcass cords of the front-wheel tire is 65 degrees or more with respect to the tire circumferential direction. A rubber hardness of the crown rubber portion of the rear-wheel tire is greater than a rubber hardness of the crown rubber portion of the front-wheel tire.
US12030342B2
A rim for a bicycle wheel includes a radially inner portion disposed along an inner circumference of the rim, a first sidewall, and a second sidewall spaced apart form the first sidewall. The first sidewall and the second sidewall extend radially outward from the radially inner portion. The radially inner portion includes a stack of strips of material. The stack of strips includes a plurality of strips and a hole through the plurality of strips. The plurality of strips are nonparallel to each other. The plurality of strips are positioned about the hole through the plurality of strips.
US12030332B2
A printing system, including a printing apparatus that sends a print paper after printing to a post-processing machine and a web buffer that temporarily holds a print paper after printing, is provided with: a required print time calculation unit that calculates a required print time for each job; an increase and decrease amount calculation unit that calculates an increase and decrease amount of a consumption amount of the buffer per set for each job on the basis of a difference between a minimum processing time required for a process in a post-processing machine and the required print time; a predicted value calculation unit that obtains a predicted value of the consumption amount of the web buffer by accumulating increase and decrease amounts; and a conveyance control unit that controls a conveyance speed of print paper on the basis of the predicted value.
