US12080067B2
In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a stream of F video frames, where each of the F video frames includes N patches that are non-overlapping, generating an initial embedding vector for each of the N×F patches in the F video frames, generating a classification embedding by processing the generated N×F initial embedding vectors using a self-attention-based machine-learning model that computes a temporal attention and a spatial attention for each of the N×F patches, and determining a class of the stream of video frames based on the generated classification embedding.
US12080057B2
An image analysis apparatus (102) includes: an icon placement unit (107) accepting an instruction for placing, on a screen, a plurality of icons including a plurality of input source icons each indicating an input source of image data being a target of analysis, a plurality of image processing icons each indicating an image processing engine for the image data, and at least one output destination icon indicating an output destination of a processing result by an image processing engine, and placing the plurality of icons on the screen in accordance with the instruction; a connection unit (110) accepting a connection instruction for connecting icons placed on the screen; and a data flow setting unit (111) setting a flow of data between the icons in accordance with the connection instruction and displaying the flow on the screen.
US12080047B2
A tangible, non-transitory machine-readable medium includes machine readable instructions that, when executed by processing circuitry, cause the processing circuitry to receive an inquiry regarding digital content. The inquiry is indicative of a request for the digital content or a request for a determination to be made regarding the digital content. The instructions, when executed, also cause the processing circuitry to process the inquiry by analyzing aggregated result data generated using a series of neural network layers based on the digital content and metadata associated with the digital content. Furthermore, the instructions, when executed, cause the processing circuitry to generate response data to the inquiry using a neural network based on analyzing the aggregated result data.
US12080046B2
A method includes receiving a pointer to a plurality of images of a web page, the web page configured to display the plurality of images in a first arrangement; retrieving, using the pointer, the plurality of images of the web page; executing at least one machine learning model using the plurality of images from the web page as input to generate at least one image performance score for each image of the plurality of images, the at least one machine learning model trained based on a training set of images labeled based at least on interaction data corresponding to images of the training set of images; and rearranging the plurality of images on the web page to a second arrangement according to the at least one image performance score generated for each image of the plurality of images of the web page.
US12080045B2
An obstacle recognition method and apparatus, a computer device, and a storage medium are provided. The method comprises: acquiring point cloud data scanned by LiDAR and time-sequence pose information of a vehicle (S101); determining a spliced image of a bird's eye view according to the point cloud data, the time-sequence pose information, and a historical frame embedded image (S102); inputting the spliced image into a preset first CNN model to obtain a current frame embedded image and pixel-level information of the bird's eye view (S103); determining recognition information of at least one obstacle according to the current frame embedded image and pixel-level information (S104).
US12080042B2
Methods for retrieving images from a database are provided. A query image is obtained. A plurality of patches are extracted from the query image. A set of weightings is obtained according to a plurality of bases of a sparsity-based dictionary. The set of weightings includes a plurality of non-zero weightings. The patches are encoded with the set of weightings to obtain an encoding matrix. The database is searched based on the encoding matrix to retrieve the images corresponding to the query image. The database and the dictionary are dynamically updated to adapt to the query image encountered.
US12080033B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for a hybrid image compression technique. The technique may be used to reduce the size of sparse binary images in a lossless fashion for transmission over a low-bandwidth channel and using less power. In embodiments, a received image is partitioned into pixel blocks. Sequences of empty blocks are encoded as a skip counter that indicates the length of the sequence. Non-empty blocks are encoded using one of several block encoding techniques selected based on the length of the resulting block encoding. In embodiments, a loss report may be included in the compressed data stream if blocks are lost due to buffer overflow. In embodiments, the block skip counter is encoded using a variable length code that maps more common skip values to shorter bit widths. In embodiments, the variable length code may be changed periodically to adapt to the characteristics of recent images.
US12080029B2
Methods of calibrating a light-field imaging system, a light-field imaging system to perform the calibration methods, a calibration target for the calibration methods, and methods of projecting a light-field image into object space with a calibrated light-field imaging system. An exemplary calibration method is performed with a light-field imaging system including a microlens array (72) and an image sensor (76). A z-stack of light-field images of a calibration target may be captured using the image sensor, while the calibration target is on the stage and located at a plurality of different z-positions. A total magnification of the imaging system and a microlens magnification of the microlens array may be determined from each light-field image of the z-stack.
US12080028B2
A method including generating a captured facial object and a captured pose from a captured image. The method also includes obtaining a base facial object and a base pose from a base image. The method also includes generating base pose angles using the captured pose, and captured pose angles using the captured pose. The method also includes obtaining selected base images using the base pose angles and the base facial object. The method also includes generating selected captured images using the captured pose angles and the captured facial object. The method also includes comparing the selected base images to the selected captured images to establish a comparison. The method also includes outputting a match output using the comparison.
US12080021B2
Disclosed is a computer-implemented method of training a likelihood-based computational model for determining the position of an image representation of an annotated anatomical structure in a two-dimensional x-ray image, wherein the method encompasses inputting medical DRRs together with annotation to a machine learning algorithm to train the algorithm, i.e. to generate adapted leamable parameters of the machine learning model. The annotations may be derived from metadata associated with the DRRs or may be included in atlas data which is matched with the DRRs to establish a relation between the annotations included in the atlas data and the DRRs. The thus generated machine learning algorithm may then be used to analyse clinical or synthesized DRRs so as to appropriately add annotations to those DRRs and/or identify the position of an anatomical structure in those DRRs.
US12080020B2
Based on deep neural net and possibly on an active shape model approach, the complete outline of an anatomy may be determined and classified. Based on certain features, an algorithm may assess whether the viewing angle of the C-arm is sufficient or not. In a further step, an algorithm may estimate how far away from the desired viewing angle the current viewing angle is and may provide guidance on how to adjust the c-arm position to reach the desired viewing angle.
US12080019B2
A farming machine includes one or more image sensors for capturing an image as the farming machine moves through the field. A control system accesses the image(s) and creates a labelled three-dimensional point cloud representing the field. The control system identifies and treats plants based on the labelled point cloud. To do so, the control system applies pre-processing functions to the labelled point cloud to determine characteristics of the field and/or modify labels in the point cloud. Point clusters in the point cloud are identified as plants, crops, weeds, ground, etc., using the determined characteristics and modified labels. The control system derives feature values for the plants based on the determined characteristics and labels. If the feature value indicates that the plant should be treated, the farming machine actuates a treatment mechanism to treat the plant.
US12080018B2
A tracking apparatus, method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium thereof are provided. The tracking apparatus generates a map information of simultaneous localization and mapping corresponding to a regional space based on a real-time image. The tracking apparatus calculates a first spatial position and a first orientation of a first display related to the image capturing device in the regional space based on the map information. The tracking apparatus calculates a human pose of a first operating user in the regional space. The tracking apparatus transforms the real-time image to generate a first transformed image corresponding to the first operating user based on the first spatial position, the first orientation, and the human pose, wherein the first transformed image is displayed on the first display.
US12080017B2
An information processing device system according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: at least one memory configured to store instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to: acquire a customer identifier (ID) that identifies a customer at a store; generate action information that represents an action of the customer in the store; and assign points in association with the customer ID based on the action information.
US12080015B2
A method of determining volume of a cargo space of a vehicle in real-time includes generating an initial spatial model of the cargo space using images from a plurality of cameras including cameras for capturing at least one of depth and color, positioned in and around the cargo space, where the images are stitched together into a dense point cloud in real-time, generating an updated spatial model of the cargo space using the images, upon detection of items being loaded or unloaded into the cargo space, where the updated spatial model includes changes to the cargo space, estimating a volume of loaded items in the updated spatial model, and determining a remaining volume of the cargo space based on the estimated volume of the loaded items and a total volume of the cargo space, where the total volume is calculated based on the initial spatial model.
US12080004B2
Systems and methods for registration of image pairs, including camera response function normalization are disclosed and include selecting a pair of images from a set of images, each of the pair of images having associated metadata, determining a camera response function for each of the images in the pair of images using the associated metadata, normalizing each camera response function for across the set of images, and applying the normalized camera response function to the pair of images. A deformation map is generated in a multi-scale process using registration parameters, to deform one of the pair of images to align with another of the pair of images. The image pairs may be selected by identifying image pairs having an overlap that exceeds an overlap threshold, having a sequential proximity in an image series satisfying a proximity threshold, and/or having estimated image capture attitudes within an attitude threshold.
US12080003B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for registering a first three-dimensional medical image dataset taken with a first image capturing device with a second 3D dataset taken with a second image capturing device.
US12080002B2
Example systems and methods correctly align or register a first image with a second image using user input to identify location(s) of interest in the overlay image. The system can ask a user to select a vertebral level of interest on a screen displaying the baseline and/or the overlay image. Then, the user input can be advantageously to guide subsequent image registration steps. The systems and methods herein may also be used to augment an existing image-recognition algorithm.
US12079999B2
In an object tracking device, an object detection unit detects an object from video data using a plurality of object detection programs of different detection accuracy. The object tracking unit tracks the object from the detected position of the object by the object detection unit. The control unit controls the object detection programs used by the object detection unit based on the detection result of the object by the object detection unit and the tracking result of the object by the object tracking unit.
US12079993B1
A system for remotely analyzing information, uses a computer, receiving eye data from a remote user. The computer processing the eye data to compare the eye data with information indicative of physical impairments. The computer uses the comparing to determine physical impairments in the user based on the eye data received remotely.
US12079991B2
Provided is a system, method, and computer program product for creating a deep-learning model for processing image data. The method includes establishing dense connections between each layer of a plurality of layers of a convolutional neural network (CNN) and a plurality of preceding layers of the CNN, downsampling an input of each downsampling layer of a plurality of downsampling layers in a first branch of the CNN, and upsampling an input of each upsampling layer of a plurality of upsampling layers in a second branch of the CNN by convolving the input.
US12079990B2
A leg muscle strength estimation system includes: an obtainer that obtains an image including a user that is walking as a subject of the image; and an estimator that estimates a leg muscle strength of the user based on the obtained image.
US12079986B2
A medical image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry and an input interface. The processing circuitry obtains the spatial distribution of the wall shear stress values at each position of blood vessels. Moreover, the processing circuitry displays, from an arbitrary angle, a display image formed by assigning the wall shear stress values to a three-dimensional image. The input interface receives an input operation for changing the angle. During the display of the display image formed by assigning the wall shear stress values to the three-dimensional image, the processing circuitry changes the display form of the display image between a rotational display in which the display image is displayed while changing the angle with time, and a nonrotational display in which the angle is not changed.
US12079982B2
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for defect detection are provided. An image, depicting an object for evaluation to determine whether the object has a defect, is inputted into a segmentation model to identify an object region of interest of the object. An object region area of the object region of interest is calculated. A convex hull area of a convex hull encompassing the object region of interest is calculated. A ratio of the object region area to the convex hull area is determined. The ratio is compared to a threshold to determine whether the object has the defect or does not have the defect.
US12079980B2
An optical inspection system is provided for an ultraviolet laser and associated optics forming a planar laser sheet directed to a glass sheet. The planar laser sheet intersects a surface of the glass sheet thereby causing the surface of the glass sheet to fluoresce and form a visible wavelength line on the surface. A camera has an image sensor for detecting the visible wavelength line. A control system in configured to receive image data indicative of the visible wavelength line, analyze and triangulate the data to determine a series of coordinates associated with the line, and create a three-dimensional map of the surface of the glass sheet as a function of the series of coordinates. Methods for using an optical inspection system, for gauging a surface using an optical inspection system, and for providing optical reflectance information for a surface using an optical inspection system are also provided.
US12079979B2
A method for characterizing structures etched in a substrate, such as a wafer is disclosed. The method includes the following steps: illuminating the bottom of at least one structure with an illumination beam issued from a light source emitting light with a wavelength adapted to be transmitted through the substrate, acquiring, with an imaging device positioned on the bottom side of said substrate, at least one image of a bottom of the at least one structure through the substrate, and measuring at least one data, called lateral data, relating to a lateral dimension of the bottom of the at least one HAR structure from the at least one acquired image. A system implementing such a method is also disclosed.
US12079975B1
A method, system, and readable storage medium for monitoring welding camera, the method comprises: determining that a device to be welded is in a welding process, and acquiring a set of images of the device to be welded; obtaining a sharpness change rate according to the set of images by utilizing an image resolution algorithm; and inputting the sharpness change rate into a sharpness stress mapping model to obtain a stress change of the device to be welded.
US12079973B2
A hybrid method of low light image enhancement in an electronic device comprises downsampling a high resolution, low light image to obtain a low resolution, low light image and inputting the low resolution, low light image into a low light enhancement model of a deep neural network to obtain a low resolution, enhanced image where semantic information such as true colors, edges, and brightness level are recovered. The high resolution, low light image, the low resolution, low light image, and the low resolution, enhanced image are each input into a mathematical model that performs upsampling and super-resolution tasks to generate a high resolution, enhanced image.
US12079972B2
A method of performing scene-dependent lens shading correction (SD-LSC) is provided. The method includes collecting scene information from a Bayer thumbnail of an input image; generating a standard red green blue (sRGB) thumbnail by processing the Bayer thumbnail of the input image to simulate white balance (WB) and pre-gamma blocks; determining a representative color channel ratio of the input image based on the scene information and the sRGB thumbnail; determining an ideal grid gain of the input image based on the representative color channel ratio and a grid gain of the input image; merging the ideal grid gain and the grid gain of the input image to generate a new grid gain; and applying the new grid gain to the input image.
US12079958B2
The method is used for creating an all-in-focus image of a portion of an iridocorneal angle of an eye starting from a plurality of images (610), these images being shallow field-depth images of that portion taken with different focus planes but with a same image frame; the method comprises the steps of: A) pre-processing (620) said plurality of images so to obtain a plurality of single-channel images if the images of said plurality are color images, B) calculating (630) an initial focus map starting from said plurality of single-channel images, C) creating (640) an initial estimated all-in-focus image starting from said initial focus map and said plurality of single-channel images, D) calculating (650) an initial edge map starting from said initial focus map and said plurality of single-channel images, E) iterating (660) a regularization process until a stop regularization condition is met, wherein the regularization process comprises removing one or more edge points of the initial edge map by considering a reference model of an iridocorneal angle of an eye, F) creating (670) said all-in-focus image starting from said plurality of images and a focus map last calculated in step E; the reference model expresses at least one geometrical parameter of a surface of an iridocorneal angle of an eye.
US12079956B2
A method of fusing images includes obtaining an optical image of a first scene with a first camera. A thermal image of the first scene is obtained with a second camera. The optical image is fused with the thermal image to generate a fused image.
US12079954B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, that use generative adversarial models to increase the quality of sensor data generated by a first environmental sensor to resemble the quality of sensor data generated by another sensor having a higher quality than the first environmental sensor. A set of first and second training data generated by a first environmental sensor having a first quality and a second sensor having a target quality, respectively, is received. A generative adversarial mode is trained, using the set of first training data and the set of second training data, to modify sensor data from the first environmental sensor by reducing a difference in quality between the sensor data generated by the first environmental sensor and sensor data generated by the target environmental sensor.
US12079935B2
A method for authenticating a communication session in a metaverse environment may be provided. The method may include authenticating a user device and an entity associated with the virtual kiosk in order to initiate the communication session. The authenticating of the user device may include confirming that a selected base 3D mesh matches a pre-selected base 3D meshes stored within an identity profile associated with the user's device. In response to the confirming, the method may include authenticating the user's device. The method may further include authenticating the virtual kiosk by distorting the pre-selected base 3D mesh to generate a distorted base 3D mesh and comparing the distorted base 3D mesh to a static distorted base 3D mesh stored at the user's device. The method may also include confirming that the generated distorted base 3D mesh matches the static distorted base 3D mesh and authenticating the virtual kiosk.
US12079929B2
A model generation system generates three-dimensional (3D) models for objects based on two-dimensional (2D) images of the objects. The model generation system may receive object images and generate a 3D object model for the object based on the object image. The model generation system may generate an object skeleton for the object based on the object image. The model generation system may use the object skeleton to generate pixel partitions representing parallel cross sections of the object. The model generation system may apply a machine-learning model (e.g., a neural network) to the object image to determine parameters for a shape that would best represent each parallel cross section and then generate the 3D object model for the object based on the shapes of each cross section, the object image, and the object skeleton.
US12079924B2
A dynamic image virtualization system and method configured to utilize an AI model in order to conduct a reduced latency real-time prediction process upon at least one input image, wherein said prediction process is designated to create free-viewpoint 3D extrapolated output dynamic images tailored in advance to the preferences or needs of a user and comprising more visual data than the at least one input image.
US12079921B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for integrating imaging data from multiple sources to create a single, accurate model of a patient's anatomy. One method includes receiving a representation of a target object for modeling; determining one or more first anatomical parameters of the target anatomical object from at least one of one or more first images of the target anatomical object; determining one or more second anatomical parameters of the target anatomical object from at least one of one or more second images of the target anatomical object; updating the one or more first anatomical parameters based at least on the one or more second anatomical parameters; and generating a model of the target anatomical object based on the updated first anatomical parameters.
US12079911B2
A method for image synthesis, a device for image synthesis and a storage medium. The method includes: performing a convex hull extraction on a target object image in an image to be processed to obtain a first boundary frame line; zooming out the first boundary frame line to obtain a second boundary frame line; determining, according to the target object image, at least one target ray where at least one connection point is located in synthesizing a first preset material with the target object image; determining the at least one connection point between the first preset material and the target object image; and synthesizing the first preset material and the target object image. The position of the first preset material in the synthesis result subjected to the image synthesis can be relatively reasonable, an image synthesis effect expected by a user can be achieved.
US12079904B2
Manipulating images using computationally expensive machine learning schemes can be implemented using server-generated models of the machine learning schemes that are transmitted to a client device for application. The schemes can include convolutional neural networks having a kernel comprising a plurality of low-rank matrices.
US12079901B2
Systems and methods for image processing are described. Embodiments of the present disclosure identify a first image depicting a first object; identify a plurality of candidate images depicting a second object; select a second image from the plurality of candidate images depicting the second object based on the second image and a sequence of previous images including the first image using a crop selection network trained to select a next compatible image based on the sequence of previous images; and generate a composite image depicting the first object and the second object based on the first image and the second image.
US12079889B2
A for capital management with custom assemblies and schedulable cost lines. This method and system allow a user to offset intervals for the recurring costs associated with the replacement or repair of capital assets (e.g., doors, electrical, heating, ventilation, air conditioning (HVAC), furnishing, mechanical, roofing, plumbing, windows, etc.) in a building and maintain ongoing interval periods for further estimates ongoing basis upon industry estimates of the useful those assets.
US12079888B2
The enclosed is a description of a computer-implemented method for aggregation of carbon emission data. A server receives data entries recording user actions from an application of a client device. The server assigns each data entry to one or more communities of the application. The user actions recorded are converted by the server to carbon emission equivalents. The carbon emission equivalents of a community to which a particular user belongs are aggregated for the particular user. The server establishes a data stream with the client device of the particular user and transmits the carbon emission equivalents of the community and a totality of carbon emission equivalents of the application to the client device. The carbon emission equivalents of the community and the totality of carbon emission equivalents, including communities the user is excluded from, are displayed on the client device on a master dashboard of the application.
US12079878B2
Systems and methods provide for an automated system for analyzing damage and processing claims associated with an insured item, such as a vehicle. An enhanced claims processing server may analyze damage associated with the insured item using photos/video transmitted to the server from a user device (e.g., a mobile device). The mobile device may receive feedback from the server regarding the acceptability of submitted photos/video, and if the server determines that any of the submitted photos/video is unacceptable, the mobile device may capture additional photos/video until all of the data are deemed acceptable. To aid in damage analysis, the server may also interface with various internal and external databases storing reference images of undamaged items and cost estimate information for repairing previously analyzed damages to similar items. Further still, the server may generate a payment for compensating a claimant for repair of the insured item.
US12079877B2
Systems and methods provide for an automated system for analyzing damage and processing claims associated with an insured item, such as a vehicle. An enhanced claims processing server may analyze damage associated with the insured item using photos/video transmitted to the server from a user device (e.g., a mobile device). The mobile device may receive feedback from the server regarding the acceptability of submitted photos/video, and if the server determines that any of the submitted photos/video is unacceptable, the mobile device may capture additional photos/video until all of the data are deemed acceptable. To aid in damage analysis, the server may also interface with various internal and external databases storing reference images of undamaged items and cost estimate information for repairing previously analyzed damages to similar items. Further still, the server may generate a payment for compensating a claimant for repair of the insured item.
US12079873B2
Systems and methods for converting live weather data to a weather index for offsetting weather risk. Weather data source systems generate one or more weather data streams that include weather forecast model and observations data. A data distribution system receives a weather index request, identifies at least one instrument and at least one location associated with the request. Weather risk indication data is extracted among the weather data streams associated with the identified location based on predefined parameters associated with the identified instrument. The extracted data is converted into a set of weather index values corresponding to the location, based on a predetermined algorithm associated with the identified instrument. A weather index presentation package is generated that includes the set of weather index values for distribution to at least one user device. The weather index presentation package being distributed is updated concurrent with changes to weather risk indication data.
US12079870B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to computing hardware and software for analyzing and processing data associated with delisted stock trading. A computing platform may receive, from a client computing device, a request to provide recommended parameters for the sale of a first delisted stock, which may include a recommended time to sell and a sale price, and may identify, using a delisting recommendation engine, the recommended parameters. The computing platform may send, to the client computing device, the recommended parameters. The computing platform may receive a request to sell the first delisted stock under conditions of the recommended parameters and may cause execution of smart contract ledgering between a buyer and a seller to identify final sale parameters. Thereafter, the computing platform may cause execution of a transfer of the first delisted stock from the seller to the buyer and a transfer of funds from the buyer to the seller.
US12079864B2
In a method for changing a user's bank account information in merchant account databases a server receives a login request including a user identification and first user authentication information. The server further receives a request to change bank account information from a first bank account to a second bank account for merchant accounts of the user and network login information for the first bank account. The server accesses an account information database for the first bank account and downloads transaction information for merchant transactions involving the first bank account. The server identifies a set of merchant user accounts involved in the merchant transactions and receives account login information for a data site associated with a selected account. The server accesses the data site and changes a bank account identification stored therein from the first bank account to the second bank account.
US12079856B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for providing shopping information by product and an electronic device performing the same and, more particularly, to a method for providing shopping information by product using an AI recognition model obtained by machine learning of an artificial neural network, and an electronic device performing the same. A method for providing shopping information by product, according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, comprises: an image acquisition step in which a camera-associated app linked to a camera module acquires a product image through the camera module; a recognition step in which an AI recognition model obtained by machine learning of an artificial neural network receives the product image and recognizes product information; a transmission step in which a communication module transmits the product information to a server; a receiving step in which the communication module receives, from the server, shopping information corresponding to the product information; and a display step in which a display module displays the shopping information on a screen.
US12079855B2
Systems and methods for generating and using seasonal affinity scores is disclosed. A set of user-specific historical transaction data is obtained and a user-specific affinity score including at least one of a user-specific season affinity score or a user-specific seasonal theme affinity score is determined by determining one or more product affinity scores for a set of product taxonomies and combining the one or more product affinity scores with one or more product index scores to generate the user-specific affinity score. The product affinity scores are determined by a trained scoring calculation model configured to receive the set of user-specific historical transaction data. One or more interface elements are selected based on the user-specific affinity score and an interface is generated including the one or more interface elements.
US12079849B2
Computing devices with dual computing architectures for use in a subscription model are disclosed. For example, a computing device comprises a first computing architecture comprising a first set of computing resources dedicated to executing one or more first computing tasks, wherein the one or more first computing tasks are associated with a subscription-based user of the computing device. The computing device further comprises a second computing architecture comprising a second set of computing resources dedicated to executing one or more second computing tasks, wherein the one or more second computing tasks are associated with a subscription-based provider of the computing device.
US12079848B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for a method of evaluating specialty goods. The method receives data representing a graph specifying relationships between producers and institutions. Based on the relationships specified in the graph and a first set of weights, the method determines a convolution value for a producer such that the convolution value inherits attributes of institutions for which the producer has a relationship. The method receives data describing a specialty good from a producer and inputs the convolution value and the data describing the specialty good into a machine learning module with a second set of weights. The first set of weights and the second set of weights are trained from known evaluations of specialty goods of the producer. From the machine learning module, the method receives a value of the specialty good.
US12079844B2
Systems and methods are described herein for resolving advertisement placement conflicts. Specifically, a number of parameters may be entered into a system in order to distribute advertisements into advertisement slots. In many instances, a combination of these parameters causes a conflict in the system where all the parameters cannot be applied in order to place advertisements into advertisement slots. The conflict may be resolved by using an advertisement assignment model to determine which parameters may be relaxed in order to arrive at an optimal solution that violates a smallest number of parameters having the least priority. When such a solution is found, the advertisement assignment model may be modified and advertisements may be placed into advertisement slots based on the modified advertisement assignment model.
US12079842B2
A method is described of facilitating targeted content delivery in a network comprising a service provider network (SPN) and a user profile data database external to the SPN. The method comprises: receiving, from a demand side platform, segment definition data comprising a list of user attributes and corresponding user attribute values associated with a targeted content delivery process; and communicating, to a server, the segment definition data, wherein the server has access to the database, to identify one or more candidate users to be targeted based on matching the user attribute values with user attribute values in the database. The method also comprises receiving, from the server, a list of identifiers, wherein each identifier is usable to identify one or more candidate users to be targeted; and communicating the list of identifiers to an entity in the SPN which is responsible for facilitating the delivery of targeted content.
US12079841B2
In general, embodiments of the present disclosure provide for a configurable relevance service platform via a relevance test driver. In embodiments, test configuration data associated with at least one test scenario for a relevance service is received via at least one relevance test driver that interfaces with a relevance test service. Additionally, one or more promotions relevant to a user identifier are determined based at least in part on the test configuration data, and output data associated with the one or more promotions is transmitted to the relevance test service.
US12079834B2
A method for processing a transaction initiated using an electronic wallet application may include storing a virtual payment device configured to initiate a transaction. A rewards inquiry may be communicated to an issuer. A rewards inquiry response may be received from the issuer containing a rewards amount associated with the virtual payment device. The rewards amount may be displayed. A transaction may be initiated with a merchant using the virtual payment device. A redemption request may be communicated to the issuer. A redemption response including an updated rewards amount may be received from the issuer and include a difference between the rewards amount and the rewards amount applied toward the transaction. A system and computer program product are also disclosed.
US12079817B2
A method for modeling agent awareness in an agent based model, the method including the steps of tracking a ratio of indicators for each agent and varying the ratio of indicators for an agent upon the occurrence of a triggering event for that agent. The method further includes using the ratio as a factor to model the agent's awareness.
US12079794B2
There is disclosed a method and system for performing a transaction between a buyer and a seller. A payment request may be received from a first device associated with the seller. An identifier of a second device associated with the buyer may be determined. Data corresponding to the payment request may be transmitted to the second device. The second device may request that the buyer present a payment card to the second device. Payment card data may be received, where the payment card data was read by an NFC interface of the second device communicating with the payment card. After receiving the payment card data, a request may be transmitted to complete the transaction. A notification of the transaction result may be transmitted to the first device.
US12079789B1
Techniques are described for performing forensic assisting and tracing of transaction data from an automated teller machine (ATM) to detect suspicious activity and potential security threats. The techniques include a forensic assisting and tracing (FAST) ATM configured to intercept data packets including transaction data generated by the ATM; map, store, and index the transaction data; and analyze metadata for the transaction data to generate reports on the operation of the ATM for a higher-level hub server. In some examples, a plurality of FAST ATMs may be networked to the hub server such that the hub server receives reports from each of the individual FAST ATMs and analyzes the reports to identify larger, global trends of suspicious activity and potential security threats.
US12079788B2
A method for issuing a personalized financial transaction card including receiving customer information and card information from a customer at the branch location, the card information including a card PIN, inputting the customer information and at least some the card information into a data processing terminal at the branch, communicating the customer information and the card information across a network to a card services provider, entering the PIN into a PIN database, generating a reference number, storing the reference number and at least some of the customer data and card data in a card file, retrieving the PIN from the PIN database, using the retrieved PIN to apply calculations to the card file, securely sending the card file from the card services provider across the network to the branch location, and using information from the card file, printing the financial transaction card for the customer at the branch location.
US12079781B2
Various embodiments described herein relate to remote monitoring and management of assets from a portfolio of assets based on an asset model. In this regard, a request to generate a dashboard visualization associated with a portfolio of assets is received. The request includes an asset descriptor that describes one or more assets in the portfolio of assets. In response to the request, aggregated data associated with the portfolio of assets is obtained based on the asset descriptor. Contextual data is also determined for the portfolio of assets based on asset relationship data for the aggregated data. Based on the contextual data, prioritized actions for the portfolio of assets are determined. Furthermore, the dashboard visualization is provided to an electronic interface of a computing device, the dashboard visualization comprising the prioritized actions for the portfolio of assets.
US12079778B1
Method, system, device, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for classifying a vehicle trip. In one aspect, a computer-implemented method includes: obtaining a first set of historic telematics data associated with work; obtaining a second set of historic telematics data associated with personal use; training a classification model; obtaining a set of unlabeled telematics data associated with an unlabeled vehicular trip; and classifying the unlabeled vehicular trip by at least: identifying a first set of baseline operation features associated with the first set of historic vehicular trips; identifying a second set of baseline operation features associated with the second set of historic vehicular trips; identifying a set of representative operation features associated with the unlabeled vehicular trip; comparing the set of representative operation features against the first set of baseline operation features and the second set of baseline operation features; and classifying the unlabeled vehicular trip.
US12079776B2
A spatial event map system including server-side data processor that maintains a spatial event map which locates events in a workspace. The spatial event map includes a log of events, entries in the log having a location of an object of the event in the workspace and a time. The system includes logic to send messages including a location of an object of the event in the workspace and a time of the event to client-side network nodes; and to receive messages identifying events that create or modify an object, and to add corresponding entries to the log of events. The events can include history events that are sent to the other client-side network nodes, and added to the log for the corresponding history events, and ephemeral events that are sent to other client-side network nodes without adding corresponding entries in the log.
US12079773B2
A healthcare and wellness management system, which can be used to collect and analyze data related to a user's health. Using software applications and sensors embedded on a hardware platform, the system collects psychological and physiological data regarding a subject such as mood or stress level, food intake, and vital signs. The system may generate a health parameter based on the collected data. The system may initiate actions based on the gathered data. Multiple users may be ranked relative to one another based on their health parameters.
US12079772B2
Systems and methods for providing automated inventory management of medicine and healthcare items stored within bins in care facilities are disclosed. A method includes providing an interactive storage device for attaching to a bin, and outputting, via an audiovisual element, a visual representation of a local inventory of the bin, receiving a user input, determining a change to the local inventory according to the user input, updating the local inventory in a non-volatile data store according to the change, synchronizing the local inventory with one or more nodes via a communication interface, and receiving, from the one or more nodes via the communication interface, periodic updates for a local cache comprising locations and inventories of one or more remote bins.
US12079770B1
Described is a multiple-camera system and process for determining an item involved in an event. For example, when a user picks an item or places an item at an inventory location, image information for the item may be obtained and processed to identify the item involved in the event and associate that item with the user.
US12079769B2
Automated techniques provide for recalibrating cameras in a real space in which puts and takes of items are tracked. The method includes first processing one or more selected images selected from a plurality of sequences of images received from a plurality of cameras calibrated using a set of calibration images that were used to calibrate the cameras previously. The first processing includes a process step to match one or more features from the selected images with features extracted from the set of calibration images using a trained neural network classifier. The features correspond to points located at displays or structures that remain substantially immobile. Camera calibrations can be updated when transform information between features matched meets or exceeds a threshold.
US12079765B2
One variation of a method for tracking and maintaining inventory in a store includes: accessing a image of an inventory structure in the store; identifying a top shelf, in the inventory structure, depicted in the image; identifying a set of product units occupying the top shelf based on features detected in the image; identifying a second shelf, in the set of shelves in the inventory structure, depicted in the image, the second shelf arranged below the top shelf in the inventory structure; based on features detected in the image, detecting an understock condition at a slot—assigned to a product type—on the second shelf; and, in response to the set of product units comprising a product unit of the product type, generating a prompt to transfer the product unit of the product type from the top shelf into the slot on the second shelf at the inventory structure.
US12079752B2
Sourcing is a practice of locating and selecting entities based on set criteria. Determining most appropriate supplier entities at the lowest cost can develop a competitive advantage. However, existing sourcing techniques lack effective ways to target best suppliers for right part bundling and to efficiently optimize sourcing cost for sustained savings. Present disclosure leverages machine learning and optimization methods with technology data to provide a computationally efficient solution. Relationships between parts and corresponding attributes are obtained for parts bundling and best supplier locations are mapped for selected part bundles. A sourcing cost minimizer is used in conjunction with an iterative process to grow or limit supplier capacity by constraining award amount, bundle mix, or number of supplier entities based on multiple alternative scenarios being defined to systemically minimize cost and manage risks driven by changes in customer demand or manufacturing location.
US12079741B2
Systems and methods may involve processing of entity data by machine learning models to produce one or more entity and/aggregate risk scores and/or aggregate anticipated risk scores, which may be compared to one or more thresholds to determine when one or more predefined actions should be taken. The entity data may be collected for various entities related to an exam registration and delivery process, which may include a candidate, an exam, a test center, an exam registration event, a proctor, and an exam delivery event. The exam registration and delivery process may include multiple states—each being associated with a different set of entities. Aggregate risk scores for a given state may be calculated using only entity data for the set of entities associated with that state. The predetermined actions taken may also be dependent on the current state.
US12079733B2
Anon-volatile memory structure capable of storing weights for layers of a deep neural network (DNN) and perform an inferencing operation within the structure is presented. An in-array multiplication can be performed between multi-bit valued inputs, or activations, for a layer of the DNN and multi-bit valued weights of the layer. Each bit of a weight value is stored in a binary valued memory cell of the memory array and each bit of the input is applied as a binary input to a word line of the array for the multiplication of the input with the weight. To perform a multiply and accumulate operation, the results of the multiplications are accumulated by adders connected to sense amplifiers along the bit lines of the array. The adders can be configured to multiple levels of precision, so that the same structure can accommodate weights and activations of 8-bit, 4-bit, and 2-bit precision.
US12079731B2
A method (and structure and computer product) for an audiovisual source separation processing, including receiving video data including images of a plurality of sound sources, receiving an optical flow data of the video data, the optical flow data indicating motions of pixels between frames of the video data, and encoding the received video data into video localization data comprising information associating pixels in the frames of video data with different channels of sound.
US12079730B2
Techniques regarding generating molecular structures with attributes of interest are provided. For example, one or more embodiments described herein can comprise a system, which can comprise a memory that can store computer executable components. The system can also comprise a processor, operably coupled to the memory, and that can execute the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can comprise a transfer learning component that determines a molecular structure of a compound by employing a transfer learning process that utilizes lessons learned from an unconditional generative machine learning model to train a conditional machine learning model that regards a target attribute profile.
US12079721B2
Systems and methods for rails and obstacles detection based on forward-looking electrooptical imaging, novel system architecture and novel scene analysis and image processing are disclosed. The processing solution utilizes a deep learning semantic scene segmentation approach based on a rails and switches states detection neural network that determines the railway path of the train in the forward-looking imagery, and an objects and obstacles detection and tracking neural network that analyzes the vicinity of the determined railway path and detects impending obstacles.
US12079714B2
In an aspect, an artificial intelligence advisory system for textual analysis. The system includes at least a server configured to receive at least a user datum from a user client device. The system includes an advisory module operating on the at least a server configured to receive at least an advisory input from an advisor client device and generate at least an advisory instruction set as a function of the at least a user input datum and the at least an advisory input. The system includes an artificial intelligence advisor operating on the at least a server configured to generate at least a textual output as a function of the at least an advisory instruction set and the at least a user input datum and receive at least a user input as a function of the at least a textual output.
US12079711B2
Apparatus and methods for processing neural network models are provided. The apparatus can comprise a plurality of identical artificial intelligence processing dies. Each artificial intelligence processing die among the plurality of identical artificial intelligence processing dies can include at least one inter-die input block and at least one inter-die output block. Each artificial intelligence processing die among the plurality of identical artificial intelligence processing dies is communicatively coupled to another artificial intelligence processing die among the plurality of identical artificial intelligence processing dies by way of one or more communication paths from the at least one inter-die output block of the artificial intelligence processing die to the at least one inter-die input block of the artificial intelligence processing die. Each artificial intelligence processing die among the plurality of identical artificial intelligence processing dies corresponds to at least one layer of a neural network.
US12079709B2
A neuromorphic system for switching between a multitude of functional operations includes a controlling unit and a neuron unit. The controlling unit provides a first input and a second input and regulates a multitude of bias currents. The neuron unit receives the bias currents. An input neuron group receives the first input and the second input. An excitatory neuron group is stimulated by the input neuron group. An inhibitory neuron group is electrically connected to the excitatory neuron group, and the inhibitory neuron group and the excitatory neuron group stimulate each other. An output neuron is electrically connected to the excitatory neuron group and stimulated by the excitatory neuron group to generate an output. The bias currents control the excitatory neuron group, the inhibitory neuron group and the output neuron to be in one of a high-activity state, a middle-activity state and a low-activity state.
US12079698B2
A method for identifying a scene, comprising a computing device receiving a plurality of data points corresponding to a scene; the computing device determining one or more subsets of data points from the plurality of data points that are indicative of at least one sub-scene in said scene, said at least one sub-scene displayed on a display device that is part of said scene, wherein said at least one sub-scene does not represent said scene; the computing device categorizing said scene, disregarding said at least one sub-scene, wherein the categorizing includes interpreting said scene by a computer vision system such that said at least one sub-scene is not taken into account in the categorizing of said scene.
US12079697B2
A method and system for adaptively generating experimental product formulations for accelerating a formulation design of a target product includes constructing a formulation objective function based on a plurality of distinct product-informative formulation parameters of the target product; generating, via a formula-generating machine learning model, a distinct set of product formulation parameter values based on the formulation objective function; constructing a corpus of experimental findings data based on the distinct set of product formulation parameter values generated by the formula-generating machine learning model; automatically adapting the formula-generating machine learning model based on the corpus of experimental findings that accelerate the formulation design of the target product; and generating, via the adapted formula-generating machine learning model, an adapted set of product formulation parameter values that satisfies the one or more formulation objectives thereby enabling an accelerated creation of the target product.
US12079694B2
In one embodiment, a method is provided. The method includes storing a set of training data. One or more machine learning models are trained based on the set of training data. The method also includes receiving, from a computing device, a request to access the set of training data. The method further includes determining whether the computing device is allowed to access the set of training data. In response to determining that the computing device is allowed to access the set of training data, the method includes transmitting a training token to the computing device. The training token grants a training environment with access to the set of training data for a period of time.
US12079691B2
The present disclosure provides a quantum convolution operator, comprising: a quantum state encoding module, a quantum entanglement module, a quantum convolution kernel module, a measuring module, and a computing module; the quantum state encoding module is configured to encode a current group of input data onto qubits; the quantum entanglement module is configured to associate quantum state information of different qubits; the quantum convolution kernel module is configured to extract feature information corresponding to the quantum state information; the measuring module is configured to measure a quantum state of a preset qubit and obtain a corresponding amplitude; the computing module is configured to compute a convolution result corresponding to the current group of input data according to the measured quantum state and its amplitude.
US12079686B2
Methods, systems and apparatus for targeting many-body states on a quantum computer. In one aspect, a method includes an adaptive phase shift method that includes preparing the quantum system in an initial state, wherein the initial state has non-zero overlap with the target eigenstate; preparing an ancilla qubit in a zero computational basis state; and iteratively applying a quantum eigenstate locking circuit to the quantum system and ancilla qubit until the state of the quantum system approximates the target eigenstate, wherein the quantum eigenstate locking circuit comprises a phase gate that, at each n-th iteration, is updated using a current average energy estimate of the quantum system.
US12079685B2
Embodiments of the disclosure relate generally to imaging devices and indicia reading devices. An imaging apparatus comprises an image sensor, an optical window positioned in front of the image sensor and a light source enclosing a perimeter of the optical window such that an illumination cone of the light source overlaps a portion of a near field of view cone of the imaging apparatus. The portion of the near field of view cone extends from a surface of the optical window to a threshold distance from the optical window. The light source is configured to produce a first illumination along a first direction extending towards a scene to be imaged.
US12079680B2
A physical card may include a substantially planar body that may include a front surface, a back surface, and one or more side surfaces. The front surface may include a background formed primarily in a first color, and a plurality of embossed characters each having one or more front surfaces aligned substantially in parallel relative to the background. The plurality of embossed characters may include one or more side surfaces extending from the background at a lower edge to the front surface at an upper edge, wherein the one or more front surfaces of at least a first embossed character of the plurality of embossed characters are formed primarily in a second color different from the first color and the one or more side surfaces of at least the first embossed character are formed primarily in the first color to limit a viewing angle of the plurality of embossed characters.
US12079678B2
A method for manufacturing a card body for a chip card, includes the steps of: supplying a metallic base body with two opposite main faces and a circumferential peripheral face connecting the two main faces, wherein in the base body a module opening for receiving a chip module has already been produced or will still be produced in a module opening zone, and producing a slot on the peripheral face between the two main faces. The slot is formed from the peripheral face up to the module opening or up to the module opening zone. An entry angle (α) of the slot into at least one of the two main faces is not equal to ninety degrees with respect to the main face.
US12079676B2
An information code that records information read by a first reader and a second reader, includes: a plurality of bar areas; and a plurality of space areas disposed between the plurality of bar areas. The plurality of the bar areas and the plurality of space areas provide a barcode for recording a first information recognized by the first reader. At least one of the plurality of bar areas and the plurality of space areas provide a second information recognized by the second reader in a format including a hash value with an arrangement of a plurality of colors defined so as not to change a discrimination between the bar areas and the space areas by the first reader.
US12079668B2
Techniques for monitoring operating statuses of an application and its dependencies are provided. A monitoring application may collect and report the operating status of the monitored application and each dependency. Through use of existing monitoring interfaces, the monitoring application can collect operating status without requiring modification of the underlying monitored application or dependencies. The monitoring application may determine a problem service that is a root cause of an unhealthy state of the monitored application. Dependency analyzer and discovery crawler techniques may automatically configure and update the monitoring application. Machine learning techniques may be used to determine patterns of performance based on system state information associated with performance events and provide health reports relative to a baseline status of the monitored application. Also provided are techniques for testing a response of the monitored application through modifications to API calls. Such tests may be used to train the machine learning model.
US12079657B2
Examples for handling ownership of process threads include acquiring ownership of a set of process threads to assign ownership of a subject process thread to an ownership agent. In some examples, acquiring ownership may include acquiring ownership of process threads with a wait event. During acquiring ownership of the set of process threads, one or more process threads that are acquired may be released to attend to an event that has occurred. A thread coordinator that handles ownership during acquiring phase may release and rebid one or more process threads. Upon acquiring all the process threads, the ownership of the subject process thread is assigned to an ownership agent. With a set of ownership conditions, the process threads are acquired efficiently within reduced time and with reduced deadlocks.
US12079655B2
A secure investigation platform in a sovereign cloud includes a request processing system that receives requests to investigate an incident. A control message processing system creates a workspace, within the sovereign cloud, so that an investigation can be conducted within that workspace. An investigation pack, which includes investigative resources used in the investigation, is identified and the workspace is pre-configured with the identified investigation pack. The control message processing system performs investigation tasks within the workspace using the investigation pack.
US12079653B2
Examples described herein are generally directed to facilitating access to container state through multiple protocols. According to an example, a distributed state store is provided in which container state is accessible by multiple client containers via nodes of the distributed state store across which the container state is replicated. Responsive to receipt from a first client container of a storage request via a first application programming interface (API) method of the distributed state store that is associated with a first protocol, the container state is stored within the distributed state store. Responsive to receipt from a second client container of an access request via a second API method of the distributed state store that is associated with a second protocol, the container state is returned to the second client container via the second protocol.
US12079645B2
Systems and methods for automated generation and customization of interfaces are disclosed herein. The method includes receiving a request to launch an interface and identifying a subject of the interface and a viewing user of the interface. Based on attributes of one or both of the subject and the viewing user, a page is selected and customized. One or several containers associated with the page are identified. Data associated with the containers is retrieved and customized, and the container is likewise customized. A customized view is generated based on the customized page, the customized one or more containers, and the customized data.
US12079629B2
A method of score prediction uses hierarchical attention. Word features, positioning features, participant embedding features, and metadata are extracted from a transcript of a conversation. A word encoder vector is formed by multiplying weights of a word encoder layer to one or more word features. A sentence vector is formed by multiplying weights of a word attention layer to word encoder vectors. An utterance encoder vector is formed by multiplying weights of an utterance encoder layer to the sentence vector. A conversation vector is formed by multiplying weights of an utterance attention layer to utterance encoder vectors. The utterance encoder vector is combined with one or more positioning features and one or more participant embedding features. A predicted net promoter score is generated by multiplying weights of an output layer to the conversation vector combined with the metadata. The predicted net promoter score is presented in a list of conversations.
US12079628B2
An apparatus and method for loop flattening and reduction in a SIMD pipeline including broadcast, move, and reduction instructions. For example, one embodiment of a processor comprises: a decoder to decode a broadcast instruction to generate a decoded broadcast instruction identifying a plurality of operations, the broadcast instruction including an opcode, first and second source operands, and at least one destination operand, the broadcast instruction having a split value associated therewith; a first source register associated with the first source operand to store a first plurality of packed data elements; a second source register associated with the second source operand to store a second plurality of packed data elements; execution circuitry to execute the operations of the decoded broadcast instruction, the execution circuitry to copy a first number of contiguous data elements from the first source register to a first set of contiguous data element locations in a destination register specified by the destination operand, the execution circuitry to further copy a second number of contiguous data elements from the second source register to a second set of contiguous data element locations in the destination register, wherein the execution circuitry is to determine the first number and the second number in accordance with the split value associated with the broadcast instruction.
US12079611B2
A system can determine to uninstall a patch that is installed on a computer, wherein an image of an operating system of the computer and a package that was used to install the patch are cryptographically signed. The system can further identify a first stored location of the package, and a second stored location of the image of the operating system. The system can further extract a file manifest from the package at the first stored location. The system can further extract versions of files identified on the file manifest from the image of the operating system at the second stored location, resulting in extracted versions of files. The system can further store the extracted versions of files to a temporary storage location. The system can further move the extracted versions of files in the temporary storage location to respective original running locations of the versions of files.
US12079608B2
Implementations disclosed describe methods and systems to perform the methods of deploying and executing machine learning models on target-specific computational platforms. Optimization techniques include but are not limited to alignment of kernel operations with hardware instructions of a target processing device, reduction of kernel dimensions near boundaries of data, efficient reuse of a small number of memory components during neural network operations, run-time quantization of data and neural network parameters, and other methods.
US12079606B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for building libraries for invoking smart contracts on a blockchain. The method generally includes compiling first source code in a first programming language defining a smart contract comprising a set of operations to be executed on a blockchain into bytecode for the smart contract based on one or more of information about a compiler to be used to compile the first source code or dependencies specified in the first source code. The bytecode for the smart contract is wrapped in second source code in a second programming language. The second source code is compiled into a portion of a library package through which the smart contract can be programmatically invoked, wherein the portion of the library package specifies version information associated with the smart contract. The library package is deployed for use with the blockchain.
US12079593B2
Power saving floating point Multiplier-Accumulator with a high precision accumulation detection mode
A floating point multiplier-accumulator (MAC) multiplies and accumulates N pairs of floating point values using N MAC processors operating simultaneously, each pair of values comprising an input value and a coefficient value to be multiplied and accumulated. The pairs of floating point values are simultaneously processed by the plurality of MAC processors, each of which output a signed integer form fraction with a first bitwidth and a second bitwidth, along with a maximum exponent. The first bitwidth signed integer form fractions are summed by an adder tree using the first bitwidth to form a first sum, and when an excess leading 0 condition is detected, a second adder tree operative on the second bitwidth integer form fractions forms a second sum. The first sum or second sum, along with the maximum exponent, is converted into floating point result.
US12079588B2
A method for providing automatic interpretation may include receiving, by a processor, audible speech from a speech source, generating, by the processor, in real-time, a speech transcript by applying an automatic speech recognition model on the speech, segmenting, by the processor, the speech transcript into speech segments based on a content of the speech by applying a segmenter model on the speech transcript, compressing, by the processor, the speech segments based on the content of the speech by applying a compressor model on the speech segments, generating, by the processor, a translation of the speech by applying a machine translation model on the compressed speech segments, and generating, by the processor, audible translated speech based on the translation of the speech by applying a text to speech model on the translation of the speech.
US12079583B2
A computer-implemented method can comprise accessing a trained learning machine, evaluating, using the machine learning model, the transcript to output a first sentiment score related to the first party in the unique domain, accessing digital engagement data representing engagement of the first party with digital assets associated with the second party, evaluating the one or more sentiment score values and the digital engagement data to output a value indicative of a likelihood of the first party to take a particular action, and determining whether the value is above a threshold, and if so, automatically sending a notification to a computer device associated with the second party.
US12079582B1
The present disclosure provides a college admissions platform. The college admissions platform can have an application portal, a research request marketplace, an essay editing marketplace, and an essay sorter.
US12079578B2
Disclosed herein are embodiments of systems, methods, and products that generate semantic resolutions of wireless signals. An analytic server may train a plurality of inductive classifiers generate a respective set of deduction rules. For example, the analytic server may train a first inductive classifier to mine a first set of deduction rules matching service set identifiers (SSIDs) with business entities. As another example, the analytic server may train a second inductive classifier to mine a second set of deduction rules matching proximal groupings of wireless signals (also referred to as hyperclusters) with business entities. Upon receiving an unresolved wireless signal, the analytic server may apply at least one of the first and second set of deduction rules to assign a semantic meaning to the wireless signal.
US12079574B1
Devices and techniques are generally described for evaluation of text data using large n-grams. In various examples, a first vector may be generated for first text data, wherein each element of the vector comprises a value indicating whether the first text data includes a respective n-gram included in a corpus of text data. First label data indicating that a user associated with the first text data has connected to a first computer-implemented service more than a threshold number of times during a past time period may be determined. A first machine learning model may be trained based at least in part on the first vector and the first label data. The first machine learning model may be used to determine a first probability associated with a first n-gram of the first vector. In some examples, at least a first user associated with the first n-gram may be determined.
US12079573B2
Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for classifying information in conversations and extracting information from the conversations. An Engagement Intelligence Platform (EIP) analyzes transcripts of conversations to find different states and information associated with each of the states (e.g., identification that the interest rate was quoted, and the quoted value of the interest rate). The EIP analyzes the conversation and labels (e.g., “tags”) the text where the conversation associated with the label took place, such as, “An interest rate was provided.” The labels are customizable, so each client can define its own labels based on business needs. Further, the EIP extracts data from the conversation (e.g., the interest rate is “3%”).
US12079568B2
A domain-specific language interpreter and live updating visual interface for rapid interactive exploration, filtering, and analysis of a dynamic data set. It includes a multi-line editor that allows a user to enter and edit input on any line at any time, and a grid view display. As the user enters an expression in the multi-line editor, it continually parses and executes the expression with respect to the domain-specific language, recognizing data tags and operations. Each data tag is associated with values for identifiers of the data set, and each operation can be applied to the values. The grid view display updates with a live display of identifiers and result values for the input expression according to the current contents of the multi-line editor user input interface.
US12079566B2
In some aspects described herein, a computer-based system that is capable of constructing digital documents is provided. In some implementations, a machine learning system is provided that learns certain terms within a document. The terms may be, for example, part of a document that forms a legally-binding contract between two entities. In one implementation of the machine learning system, the machine learning system interoperates within a user interface to show predictions of certain terms within the document to the user. Further, the machine learning system may capture user answers relating to certain terms and provide feedback into the system that learns during operation of the system, improving user interactions, accuracy and reducing the number of user interactions.
US12079564B1
Described herein is a computer implemented method. The method includes accessing a set of one or more source objects, wherein each source object is associated with a source content segment of a document-format design. The method further includes generating a first pagination candidate that includes a first candidate page associated with a first subset of source objects and a second candidate page associated with a second subset of source objects from the one or more source objects and splitting the first candidate page by: determining a first split level; determining a third subset of source objects based on the first split level; determining a fourth subset of source objects based on the first split level; generating a third candidate page that is associated with the third subset of source objects; and generating a fourth candidate page that is associated with the fourth subset of source objects.
US12079558B2
On-the-fly multi-bit flip-flop (MBFF) generation is provided by selecting at least two flip-flop blocks from a plurality of candidate flip-flop blocks; identifying a control block from a plurality of candidate control blocks, the control block being identified based on operational specifications of the selected flip-flop blocks; and generating a multi-bit flip-flop instance based on the selected flip-flop blocks and the identified control block.
US12079547B2
A platform for design of a lighting installation generally includes an automated search engine for retrieving and storing a plurality of lighting objects in a lighting object library and a lighting design environment providing a visual representation of a lighting space containing lighting space objects and lighting objects. The visual representation is based on properties of the lighting space objects and lighting objects obtained from the lighting object library. A plurality of aesthetic filters is configured to permit a designer in a design environment to adjust parameters of the plurality of lighting objects handled in the design environment to provide a desired collective lighting effect using the plurality of lighting objects.
US12079539B2
A control unit is adapted to perform a process related to an electric power tool, based on sound input to a microphone. The control unit performs a process related to the electric power tool, based on a result of subjecting input sound to a sound recognition process or a result of subjecting the sound to sound analysis. When a user operation switch is in an on state, the control unit does not perform a sound recognition process, and, when the user operation switch is in an off state, the control unit performs a sound recognition process. Further, when the electric power tool is not in a state of being gripped by the user, the control unit does not perform a sound recognition process, and, when the electric power tool is in a state of being gripped by the user, the control unit performs a sound recognition process.
US12079535B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for synchronizing a document markup modification across a plurality of devices. One method comprises subscribing to one or more events occurring in a first document markup application and receiving a notification indicating a modification to a document markup in the first document markup application. A markup object associated with the modified document markup may be extracted and translated to a cross-compatible markup object. The cross-compatible markup object is transmitted to a second document markup application to be rendered and displayed to a user.
US12079532B2
An electronic device displays a home screen user interface that includes a plurality of application icons for different applications. While displaying the home screen user interface, the electronic device detects availability of a wireless peripheral for pairing with the electronic device, and in response to detecting the availability of the wireless peripheral for pairing with the electronic device, displays, overlaid on the home screen user interface, a connection user interface that includes information identifying the wireless peripheral. While displaying the connection user interface overlaid on the home screen user interface, the electronic device detects a single input directed to the connection user interface, and in response to detecting the single input, initiates pairing of the wireless peripheral with the electronic device.
US12079531B2
A system can include an optical device and an accessory device. The optical device can include a housing, an objective lens at a first end of the housing and supported by the housing, an ocular lens at a second end of the housing and supported by the housing, and an optical path defined from the objective lens through the housing to the ocular lens, and a display device supported by the housing proximate the second end of the housing. The display device can include a display, hardware logic circuitry to process display data and to display the display data on the display, an input port, and a display holder to position the display in the optical path in the presence of a signal from the accessory device and to position the display out of the optical path in the absence of a signal from the accessory device.
US12079528B2
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium stores computer-readable instructions for a terminal device including a processor. The computer-readable instructions, when executed by the processor, causes the terminal device to perform: generating a plurality of sets of label data for creating a plurality of print labels, each set of label data including print data and attribute specification information; acquiring a plurality of sets of medium type information for a plurality of printing devices, each set of medium type information indicating a type of a printing medium mounted in the corresponding printing device; determining a plurality of output destinations for the plurality of sets of print data from among the plurality of printing devices on the basis of the plurality of sets of label data and the plurality of sets of medium type information; and transmitting each of the plurality of sets of print data to the corresponding output destination.
US12079527B2
A method of controlling an image forming system, the method including: determining whether or not a connection state enabling communication between an image forming apparatus and a second operation device has been established, in a case where an instruction is issued from a first operation device to the image forming apparatus; and displaying, in a case where it is determined in the determining that the connection state has been established, on a display of the first operation device, a selection screen for selection of whether or not the image forming apparatus is to be allowed to operate according to the instruction.
US12079526B2
An output apparatus, an information processing system, an output method, and a non-transitory recording medium. The output apparatus receives setting information related to use of the output apparatus from a user terminal of a user and controls based on the setting information, whether to output electronic data received from a service providing system, or to receive list information indicating a list of electronic data from the service providing system and output the electronic data selected from the list information by the user.
US12079519B2
Techniques are provided for implementing a distributed control plane to facilitate communication between a container orchestration platform and a distributed storage architecture. The distributed storage architecture hosts worker nodes that manage distributed storage that can be made accessible to applications within the container orchestration platform through the distributed control plane. The distributed control plane includes control plane controllers that are each paired with a single worker node of the distributed storage architecture. The distributed control plane is configured to selectively route commands to control plane controllers that are paired with worker nodes that are current owners of objects targeted by the commands. If ownership of an object has changed from one worker node to another worker node, then subsequent commands will be re-routed to a control plane controller paired with the other worker node now owning the object.
US12079517B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses include receiving a write command including user data. The write command is directed to a portion of memory including a first block and a second block. A buffer is allocated for executing the write command to the first block. The buffer includes multiple buffer decks and the buffer holds the user data written to the first block. User data is programmed into the first block to a threshold percentage. The threshold percentage is less than one hundred percent of the first block. A buffer deck is invalidated in response to programming the first block to the threshold percentage. The buffer deck is reallocated to the second block for programming the user data into the second block. The buffer deck holds user data written to the second block.
US12079507B2
A storage device comprises a plurality of bitwise-modifiable memory cells. A control device is also provided, which, in order to modify existing data content written to a group of memory cells with new data content to be written, is designed to compare the existing data content and the data content to be written in order to obtain a comparison result. The control device is designed to determine a subset of the group of memory cells for modification and a remaining length based on the comparison result, and to write the data content to be written to the subset, leaving the remaining set at least partially unchanged. For modifying the existing data content, the storage device is designed to read from a memory location of the storage device and to verify the correctness of the memory location.
US12079506B2
A memory expander includes a memory device having a first memory region corresponding to a first host and a second memory region corresponding to a second host. A controller communicates with the first host and the second host through a compute express link (CXL) interface. The controller receives a first CXL communication packet from the first host and performs a target data transfer operation of transferring target data stored in the first memory region to the second memory region, in response to the first CXL communication packet.
US12079505B2
Determining storage consumption in group of storage resources, including for the group of data units within a group of storage resources: for each data unit in the group of data units, determining whether the data unit is associated with one or more client entities; and for each data unit associated with one or more client entities, determining a category for the data unit; calculating storage consumption for a client based on the category of each data unit; and reporting the calculated storage consumption.
US12079502B2
An illustrative method includes a data protection system identifying one or more attributes of a storage element within a storage system, determining, based on the one or more attributes of the storage element, a data protection policy for a dataset associated with the storage system, and applying the data protection policy to the dataset.
US12079500B1
Techniques and mechanisms described herein provide for global deduplication in a cloud-based storage system. According to various embodiments, a global segment reference map can be created for data segments when a data segment has not been previously added to the global segment reference map. For each data segment not added to the global segment reference map, those data segments can be deleted from a cloud storage location.
US12079492B2
A memory device includes at least one memory bank, a plurality of data pins coupled to a plurality of package pins, a data input/output (IO) circuit, at least one bank IO circuit and a plurality of switches. The package pins correspond to a first bit order, and the data pins correspond to a second bit order. The data IO circuit is configured to communicate a first data with the data pins, wherein the first data is arranged in the first bit order. The bank IO circuit is configured to communicate a second data with the memory bank, wherein the second data is arranged in the second bit order. The plurality of switches perform at least one swapping operation on the first data to generate the second data or to perform the at least one swapping operation on the second data to generate the first data.
US12079490B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for frequency transitioning in a memory interface system. Techniques disclosed include receiving a signal indicative of a change in operating frequency, into a new frequency, in a processing unit interfacing with memory via the memory interface system; switching the system from a normal mode of operation into a transition mode of operation; updating control and state register (CSR) banks of respective transceivers of the system through a mission bus used during the normal mode of operation; and operating the system in the new frequency.
US12079483B2
A method for accessing a flash memory module includes: selecting a block in the flash memory module; selecting a specific encoding/decoding setting from a plurality of sets of encoding/decoding settings at least according to an erase count of the block, wherein the plurality of sets of encoding/decoding settings include different error correction code (ECC) lengths, respectively; utilizing the specific encoding/decoding setting to encode a data to generate an encoded data; and writing the encoded data into the block.
US12079480B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, a device, and a computer program product for latency processing. The method includes: in response to that a data persistence operation occurs in a system, acquiring a record for the operation, wherein the record includes an actual latency of the operation and a group of measurements of a group of states of the system within a predetermined time period of the occurrence of the operation. The method further includes: in response to that the actual latency of the operation is greater than a first threshold, generating an estimated latency of the operation by using a trained predictor on the basis of the group of measurements. The method further includes: determining a difference between the actual latency and the estimated latency, and in response to that the difference is less than a second threshold, identifying one or more states from the group of states on the basis of the record and the estimated latency. When there is a high-latency problem in the data persistence operation of the system, the solution of the present disclosure can identify the most major factors that lead to this problem, and thus can provide targeted repair measures to users.
US12079478B2
A method for random data distribution in a memory array from a source row to a destination row includes receiving a plurality of pairs of addresses, where each pair includes a source address of a source cell in the source row and a destination addresses of a destination cell in a destination row, storing the source address in cells of a column associated with the destination cell, creating a Boolean algebra expression defining a correlation between each one of the source addresses and a value stored in each one of the source cells, where applying the Boolean algebra expression on any one of the source addresses provides a value of one of the source cells, concurrently applying the Boolean algebra expression on a plurality of columns storing the source addresses and concurrently writing a plurality of results on the destination row.
US12079476B2
A data processing method, apparatus, device, and readable storage medium are provided. The method includes: acquiring historical I/O data (S101), where the historical I/O data is data of a solid-state drive that is accessed within a preset time period; using a prediction model to learn the historical I/O data to obtain a prediction result (S102), where the prediction result includes a data intensity of the solid-state drive to be accessed within a future window period, and the future window period is determined according to a cycle in which the solid-state drive is accessed; and managing the solid-state drive according to the prediction result (S103).
US12079471B2
A device includes an arbiter circuit configured to receive a first request for a resource. The first request is associated with a first credit cost. The arbiter circuit is further configured to receive a second request for the resource. The second request is associated with a second credit cost. The arbiter circuit is further configured to select the first request for the resource as an arbitration winner. The arbiter circuit is further configured to decrement a number of available credits associated with the resource by the first credit cost. The arbiter circuit is further configured to, in response to the number of available credits associated with the resource falling to a lower credit threshold, wait until the number of available credits associated with the resource reaches an upper credit threshold to select an additional arbitration winner for the resource.
US12079469B2
A software developer can use a local browser, running on a local machine of the developer in a first location to access a real device (e.g., a smart phone) at a second location, such as a datacenter. The developer can select and control the remote device, in the second location. A mirrored display of the remote device can be generated on the local machine by transmitting a video feed of the screen of the remote device to the local machine. The developer can interact with the mirrored display, and the interactions can be transmitted to the remote device. The developer can activate an accessibility mode via the local machine to test accessibility features of a program.
US12079459B2
Systems and methods for amplifying the intelligence of networked human populations, maximizing the accuracy of collaborative forecasts and group insights. This includes systems and methods for sending and presenting a forecasting query for a future event to a plurality of participants, each using a networked computing device, the forecasting query describing a future event to be collaboratively predicted by the population of human participants. An initial forecast response is collected from each participant and analyzed by a central server. A plurality of unique overlapping subsets of responses are determined by the server. Unique overlapping subsets of unique initial forecast responses are then displayed, at substantially the same time, on each computing device. A second forecast response is collected from each participant and a final forecast is determined.
US12079452B2
The disclosure is directed to a document management system having a label management user interface. The document management system may be configured to display document content in either a document view mode or a document edit mode in which document content is displayed in a content panel of the graphical user interface. When in the document view mode and an authenticated user has edit permissions with respect to a current document, the graphical user interface is configured to display a label management user interface including an array of user-selectable label graphical objects and a list of recommended labels selected in accordance with a label score that is based on a set of multiple heuristics. Using the label management user interface, the user may transition from recommended label operations to a dynamic search operation and to a custom label creation operation without leaving the context of the current interface.
US12079449B2
Systems and methods for dynamically updating user interfaces are disclosed. A system can identify a set of samples of a joint-probability distribution of a plurality of conditional events to occur during a live event, and provide a user interface for presentation at a computing device with user interface elements each indicating a respective conditional event. The system can receive a first selection of a first conditional event from the computing device, and dynamically generate, based on the set of samples and responsive to the first selection, a respective probability value for a combined selection of conditional events including the first conditional event and each other conditional event. The system can provide instructions to update the user interface to include a respective indicator corresponding to the respective probability value for each combined selection.
US12079421B2
A display device including: a display unit having a plurality of pixels; a plurality of touch electrodes disposed on the display unit; a touch line connected to a first end of each of the plurality of touch electrodes; a common voltage line spaced apart from the plurality of touch electrodes; and a plurality of switching elements connected between the common voltage line and a second end of each of the plurality of touch electrodes.
US12079412B2
The present disclosure relates to interactive projection systems. In one implementation, an interactive projection system may include a surface having a plurality of sensors embedded therein, the plurality of sensors configured to detect local pressure disturbance on the surface; a projector configured to project a user interface onto the surface; and at least one processor. The at least one processor may be configured to perform operations, including receiving a detection of a local pressure disturbance from at least one of the plurality of sensors, based on a location of the detected local pressure disturbance, determining a change in the user interface, and transmitting a command to the projector to modify a projected user interface according to the determined change.
US12079408B2
A touch display panel has a display area and a non-display area and includes pixel units located in the display area and two antenna layers. The pixel units are arranged in an array, and the two antennas are stacked and insulated from each other. Each antenna layer includes a plurality of antenna groups, and each of gaps between adjacent pixel units is provided with an antenna group. Extending directions of the antennas in each antenna layer are same and extending directions of the antennas in the two antenna layers are perpendicular to each other.
US12079397B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and computer-readable media for providing enhanced accessibility to access keys across a variety of keyboard layouts (or other character input devices). In particular, systems described herein involve determining access key characters to display in conjunction with selectable inputs via a graphical user interface (GUI) of a computing device where the access key characters are selectively determined based on display characters that are mapped to specific keys on a particular keyboard layout. This enables access key characters of all kinds (not limited to Latin-based types) to be provided in conjunction with selectable icons in a way that enables an individual to use the access keys with any type of keyboard or other input device.
US12079394B2
An interactive electronic device includes a display module designed to display a graphical interface on a display surface, a detection module designed to determine a position of a user interaction element in a preset detection module volume and a processing module suitable for controlling the interactive electronic device as a function of the determined position of the interaction element according to at least a first operating mode. In the first mode of operation, a projected surface, corresponding to the orthogonal projection of the preset detection volume on the plane including the display surface, is offset from the display surface of the graphical interface.
US12079393B2
An apparatus, method and computer program is described comprising: detecting one or more parts of a hand of a user within a first defined distance of a touch sensitive tactile display; determining based, at least in part, on the detected parts of the hand of the user, an expected type of user interaction with the display, including determining an expected number of parts (e.g. digits or fingers) of the hand that will make contact with the display as part of the expected type of user interaction; and providing tactile feedback to the user when the user makes contact with the display dependent, at least in part, on the expected type of user interaction.
US12079392B2
One variation of a method for modifying haptic feedback response includes, during a set-up period: at a calibration system, applying a target selection force, to a target location on a surface of a touch sensor; at the touch sensor, triggering vibration cycles across haptic actuators to oscillate the touch sensor surface; capturing a haptic waveform representing oscillations at the first target location on the surface during the vibration cycles; interpreting a vibration cycle for the haptic actuators corresponding to a target haptic intensity at the target location based on the haptic waveform. The method also includes, during a deployment period, following the set-up period: detecting a force magnitude for a touch input applied proximal the target location on the surface; and in response to the force magnitude exceeding the target selection force, triggering the vibration cycle at the haptic actuators to oscillate the surface at the target haptic intensity.
US12079389B2
A vibrating device and an operation method thereof. The vibrating device includes multiple electromyography sensors, a force sensor, multiple vibrators and a controller. The electromyography sensors are respectively disposed at different positions of a user to obtain multiple pieces of electromyography information respectively. The vibrators are disposed adjacent to or overlapping with the electromyography sensors. During a setting period, the controller makes the vibrators vibrate according to a preset vibration waveform. During the setting period, the controller records multiple pieces of force information generated by the force sensor corresponding to multiple different applied forces of the user and the pieces of electromyography information generated by the electromyography sensors. The controller obtains multiple characteristic frequency parameters according to the corresponding pieces of electromyography information. The controller establishes a relational model between the characteristic frequency parameters and the pieces of force information.
US12079382B2
An apparatus configured to be worn on a head of a user, includes: a screen configured to present graphics to the user; a camera system configured to view an environment in which the user is located; and a processing unit configured to determine a map based at least in part on output(s) from the camera system, wherein the map is configured for use by the processing unit to localize the user with respect to the environment; wherein the processing unit of the apparatus is also configured to obtain a metric indicating a likelihood of success to localize the user using the map, and wherein the processing unit is configured to obtain the metric by computing the metric or by receiving the metric.
US12079374B2
Before deployment, artifacts and/or binaries are generated by the process of compilation from source code files are double signed with signatures. Immediately before deployment, a copy of the artifacts and/or binaries is made for the planned deployment and the double signed signatures are checked to ensure source code integrity and security.
US12079373B2
A method includes receiving a request from an internet content provider to provide data about a subscriber associated with an IP address, where the data allows the internet content provider to maintain stateful and persistent information about an HTTP session with a user endpoint device associated with the IP address determining whether the Internet content provider is a trusted Internet content provider pre-authorized to receive at least some of the data about the subscriber, determining a subset of the data about the subscriber that is allowed to be shared with the Internet content provider, when the Internet content provider is determined to be a trusted Internet content provider, providing the subset of the data to the Internet content provider, when the subset of the data is determined, and denying the request to provide the data, when the Internet content provider is determined not to be a trusted Internet content provider.
US12079371B1
A system can include a processor in communication with a data store. The processor can obtain personal identifiable information (PII) data and segregate the PII data into two or more secondary representations. The processor can generate a plurality of co-occurrence matrices based on the two or more secondary representations. The processor can perform a convolution between each of the plurality of co-occurrence matrices and one of a plurality of Gaussian kernels, wherein each of the plurality of Gaussian kernels comprises a different width. The processor can generate a tertiary representation of the PII data by performing a linear combination of the plurality of co-occurrence matrices. The processor can generate a vector based on the tertiary representation and perform a lossy tokenization process on the vector to generate a token. The processor can store the token at the data store.
US12079368B2
The invention provides methods and apparatus for securing personalized or sensitive information appearing in digital images. Digital images containing information to be secured is processed and divided into a plurality of image cells. At least one image cell from the plurality of image cells is selected and redacted or altered to render the information to be secured with the selected image cells in decipherable. The invention also provide method and apparatus for transmitting or streaming unredacted image cells alone or in combination with redacted image cell for secured viewing on a user browser or computer.
US12079358B2
The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for integrated data privacy services. An example method includes sending a block command for an object to each application in a multiple-application landscape that includes a master data distribution application. A blocking status is received from each application that indicates whether the application successfully blocked the object in response to the block command. An overall blocking status is determined based on the received blocking statuses. In response to determining that at least one application failed to block the object, an unblock command is sent to each application. An unblocking status is received from each application and an overall unblocking status is determined. In response to determining that at least one application failed to unblock the object, a redistribution request is sent to the master data distribution application to redistribute the object to applications that failed to unblock the object.
US12079354B2
A computing device includes a high-security OS application, a low-security OS communication application, and a user interface application. The high-security OS application runs on a high-security operating system. The low-security OS communication application and the user interface application run on a low-security operating system whose security level is lower than the high-security operating system. A data communication between the high-security OS application and the low-security OS communication application is performed by an in-chip applications communication or a wired communication. Data transmitted from the high-security OS application to the low-security OS communication application is encrypted. The low-security OS communication application is configured to decrypt the encrypted data and control, based on the decrypted data, contents displayed on a display. The user interface application configured to display, on the display, contents determined based on data input from an application that runs on the low-security operating system.
US12079351B2
The disclosed embodiments include computer-implemented processes that predict a credit score for a customer in real-time based on an application of a trained machine-learning or artificial-intelligence process to encrypted event data at a third-party computing cluster. For example, an apparatus may transmit encrypted event data to a third-party computing system. The third-party computing system may apply a trained artificial intelligence process to encrypted feature data that includes the encrypted event data, and the apparatus may receive, from the third-party computing system, encrypted output data representative of a predicted credit score during at least one temporal interval. The apparatus may decrypt the encrypted output data using a homomorphic decryption key, and transmit a notification that includes the decrypted output data to a device. An application program executed at the device may present a graphical representation of at least a portion of the decrypted output data within a digital interface.
US12079349B2
In one or more embodiments, one or more systems, one or more methods, and/or one or more processes may: prohibit data communications, via a serial communication port of an information handling system, with an operating system executing on the information handling system; determine that a serial communication cable has been connected to the serial communication port; receive, via the serial communication port, first biometric data associated with a user from an integrated circuit of the serial communication cable; retrieve encrypted information associated with the user from a nonvolatile memory medium; decrypt the encrypted information associated with the user to determine second biometric data; determine that the first biometric data matches the second biometric data; and in response to determining that the first biometric data matches the second biometric data, permit the data communications via the serial communication port.
US12079344B2
A platform creating a third-party secure testing region for security experts to build and test proof-of-concepts thereby allowing the security expert or security team to report and retest the cybersecurity vulnerability and relay said vulnerability to the product team who can remediate the problem. The platform of the present invention also allows for automatic retesting of the vulnerability as soon as remediation is finished. Further, the present invention may optionally include an automatic proof-of-concept generator or automatic threat detector.
US12079343B2
Various systems and methods for operating a drone are described herein. A system for operating a drone includes a trusted execution environment (TEE) circuit to: store a firmware of the drone; and determine whether the firmware is valid; and a processor subsystem to: access a flight plan authorization when the firmware is determined to be valid; and navigate the drone according to the flight path authorization.
US12079338B2
The present disclosure provides a system and a method of fileless malware detection, and the method of the fileless malware detection includes steps as follows. The execution of the writable section in the memory is intercepted; the executable code corresponding to the execution is extracted from the writable section; whether the executable code is malicious is analyzed.
US12079337B2
In the embodiments described herein, a malicious code detection module identifies potentially malicious instructions in memory of a computing device. The malicious code detection module examines the call stack for each thread running within the operating system of the computing device. Within each call stack, the malicious code detection module identifies the originating module for each stack frame and determines whether the originating module is backed by an image on disk. If an originating module is not backed by an image on disk, the thread containing that originating module is flagged as potentially malicious, execution of the thread optionally is suspended, and an alert is generated for the user or administrator.
US12079329B2
The described technology is generally directed towards processing structured data corresponding to system information such as alerts, logs, events, health check data and the like, to identify stateful flows from the structured data. Identical flows are combined, similar flows, based on similarity scores obtained from stateful flows are combined, and incremental stateful flows are combined. Neural networks can be used to identify the similar flows and incremental flows. A distribution can be obtained based on counts of the different stateful flows that remain after combining the identical, similar and incremental stateful flows; a neural network that accounts for subtle differences can be used to provide a more accurate distribution than simple counts. Anomalous stateful flows can be identified from the distribution, with some action taken for an anomalous stateful flow, e.g., to send a notification or other output to a support engineer of the like for proactive issue detection.
US12079327B2
In a processing apparatus, a determination unit determines whether a jump destination address of a jump instruction in a process execution program being executed corresponds to a sensitive address region. When the determination unit determines that the jump destination address does not correspond to the sensitive address region, the security control unit executes control to allow the execution of the jump instruction and record a jump source address and the jump destination address of the jump instruction in jump history information as a jump execution record. When it is determined that the jump destination address corresponds to the sensitive address region, the security control unit searches for a “suspicious record” in the jump history information. The suspicious record is a jump execution record corresponding to an “unusual jump destination address”.
US12079324B2
An information processing device 10 includes a configuration information storage unit which stores cluster configuration information making it possible to identify which cluster each information processing device in a system including multiple information processing devices belongs to, a verification information management unit which manages a first value corresponding to a content of a program of each of the information processing devices in the system; and a verification unit which derives a second value for a program in the information processing device by a method identical to a method of deriving the first value in response to reception of a verification request, and transmits the second value to a transmission source of the verification request, wherein the verification unit verifies the program in the information processing device by comparing the second value received from the information processing device with the first value.
US12079320B2
Systems and techniques for providing login from an alternate electronic device are presented. A system can receive hash data associated with first fingerprint data and a timestamp from a first electronic device in response to a determination that the first electronic device satisfies a defined criterion associated with a terminal computing request. The system can also form a correlation between the first electronic device and a second electronic device within a geographic area associated with the first electronic device based on the timestamp, first location data associated with the first electronic device, and second location data associated with the second electronic device. Furthermore, the system can initiate display of a graphical user interface on the second electronic device in response to a determination that second fingerprint data provided to the second electronic device within a timeframe associated with the timestamp matches the first fingerprint data associated with the hash data.
US12079316B2
Systems and methods for coordinating secure delivery of goods. A coordination processor communicates with a package storage system and delivery provider device to deliver goods to a user. In response to a user ordering one or more goods, the coordination processor provides the delivery provider device with a delivery provider code usable to access a secure storage container at the package storage system. The coordination processor also provides the user with a first user code. Once the goods are positioned in the storage container, an alert is transmitted to the user device. The user can then input the first user code at the package storage system. In response to validating the first user code a second, different, user code can be transmitted to the user device. The user can input the second user code in order to access the secure storage container and retrieve the goods.
US12079313B2
Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing software licensing management and authentication. In various examples, a computing system might receive a request for an unlock code for a requested service from a user using a client device on which a first software is executed, the request comprising a generated unique identifier associated with the requested service and/or the first software. The generated unique identifier comprises licensing information associated with the requested service and/or the first software. In response to receiving the generated unique identifier, the computing system might determine whether the user should have access to the requested service using the first software based at least in part on the licensing information. If so, the computing system might generate an unlock code associated with the requested service using the first software, might deduct cost associated with the licensing information, and might send the unlock code to the user.
US12079308B1
Mitigating the reality gap through training and utilization of at least one difference model. The difference model can be utilized to generate, for each of a plurality of instances of simulated state data generated by a robotic simulator, a corresponding instance of modified simulated state data. The difference model is trained so that a generated modified instance of simulated state data is closer to “real world data” than is a corresponding initial instance of simulated state data. Accordingly, the difference model can be utilized to mitigate the reality gap through modification of initially generated simulated state data, to make it more accurately reflect what would occur in a real environment. Moreover, the difference representation from the difference model can be used as input to the control policy to adapt the control learned from simulator to the real environment.
US12079301B2
A command queue is configured to receive a command from a software application. A configuration storage is configured to store a plurality of configurations. A matrix multiplication unit is configured to perform matrix multiplication operations. Memory is configured to store matrices. A control engine is configured to retrieve the command from the command queue; retrieve a configuration from the configuration storage based on the command; generate, based on the command and the configuration, instructions for the matrix multiplication unit to perform a set of matrix multiplication operations on first and second matrices stored in the memory; send the instructions to the matrix multiplication unit to configure the matrix multiplication unit to output results of the set of matrix multiplication operations; and store the results in a third matrix in the memory.
US12079295B2
A vehicle identification system may perform operations that include: receiving a scan request that includes an image that comprises image data; identifying one or more vehicles within the image based on the image data based on computer vision and object recognition; generating bounding boxes based on the identified vehicles; cropping the image based on one or more of the bounding boxes; classifying a vehicle depicted within the cropped image; and presenting a notification that includes a display of the classification of the vehicle at the client device.
US12079287B2
A method of selectively providing different types of search engine results to different searchers is provided. A browsing history for each of a plurality of unique identities is logged. A unique identity is associated with a rich segment experience responsive to the browsing history for the unique identity satisfying correlation criteria of the rich segment experience. The rich segment experience is configured to present curated segment-specific information with other search results on a search result web page. Responsive to receiving a search query from the unique identity previously associated with the rich segment experience, the rich segment experience is presented with other search results on the search result web page. Responsive to receiving the search query from a different unique identity not previously associated with the rich segment experience, other search results are presented without the rich segment experience on the search result web page.
US12079286B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for selection of a model to describe a user. In one aspect, an exemplary method comprises, creating data on preferences of the user based on previously gathered data on usage of a computing device by the user and a base model that describes the user, wherein the base model is previously selected from a database of models including a plurality of models, determining an accuracy of the data created on the preferences of the user, wherein the determination is based on observed behaviors of the user, when the accuracy of the data is determined as being less than a predetermined threshold value, selecting a correcting model related to the base model, and retraining the base model, and when the accuracy of the data is determined as being greater than or equal to the predetermined threshold value, selecting the base model to describe the user.
US12079285B2
A learning device includes processing circuitry configured to use a web browser to crawl one or more web pages from an originating web page, and to accept input of log information obtained from the web browser until an ending web page is reached, and generate a training model using, as training data, any one or more feature amounts among a feature amount of each web page included in the log information, a feature amount about an operation performed on the web browser on a path reaching the ending web page, and a feature amount about an event occurring on the path reaching the ending web page.
US12079284B2
The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer-implemented methods for generating data regulation-compliant data from application interface data. One example method includes receiving a request for creation of document data. The request includes personal data of a user. Document data, including at least some of the personal data, is created based on the request. The document data is encoded into an encoded document that does not include any personal data of the user and includes structural information that describes the structure of the document data. A request to use the encoded document is received and the encoded document is decoded. A synthetic document is generated using the structural information included in the encoded document. Generation of the synthetic document includes insertion of synthetic user data into the synthetic document at positions in the synthetic document that correspond to positions of personal data within the document data.
US12079283B2
An example operation may include one or more of generating, by an organization node, an item traceability graph comprising a plurality of expandable nodes, and executing, by the organization node, a smart contract to: acquire user role-based behavior results from the blockchain, and adjust expandability settings of the plurality of the expandable nodes based on the user role-based behavior results.
US12079276B2
Systems and methods for management of event metadata. The methods may include maintaining a plurality of data storage systems in communication with an external metadata management system. The methods may also include operating the metadata management system to store tagged event metadata corresponding to the plurality of data storage systems. Event metadata corresponding to a data storage system includes information associated with at least one data operation event executed on data residing in that data storage system.
US12079269B2
Visually guided machine-learning language model and embedding techniques are described that overcome the challenges of conventional techniques in a variety of ways. In one example, a model is trained to support a visually guided machine-learning embedding space that supports visual intuition as to “what” is represented by text. The visually guided language embedding space supported by the model, once trained, may then be used to support visual intuition as part of a variety of functionality. In one such example, the visually guided language embedding space as implemented by the model may be leveraged as part of a multi-modal differential search to support search of digital images and other digital content with real-time focus adaptation which overcomes the challenges of conventional techniques.
US12079267B2
An image processing method and apparatus is provided for obtaining an image captured by an image capturing apparatus; determining characteristic data of the captured image based on inputting the obtained image into an image analysis model trained with images including a predetermined type of characteristic data; and identifying, based on the determination performed by the image analysis model, metadata including a numeric value regarding the predetermined type of the captured image.
US12079260B2
The subject technology for maintaining differential privacy for database query results receives a query for a database that contains user data. The subject technology determines that the query is permitted for the database based at least in part on a privacy policy associated with the database. The subject technology determines that performing the query will not exceed a query budget for the database. The subject technology, when the query is permitted and performing the query will not exceed the query budget, performs the query on the database and receiving results from the query. The subject technology selects a differential privacy algorithm for the results based at least in part on a query type of the query. The subject technology applies the selected differential privacy algorithm to the results to generate differentially private results. The subject technology provides the differentially private results.
US12079255B1
Systems and methods for updating a status indication in a system providing dynamic indexer discovery
The present invention is related to a method for providing dynamic indexer discovery. The method comprises receiving, from an index manager, a status indication associated with a plurality of indexers, wherein each of the plurality of indexers indexes events of raw machine-generated data received from a plurality of data collectors. The method further comprises determining a weight associated with each of the plurality of indexers and selecting an indexer from the plurality of indexers. Subsequently, the method comprises allocating data to the indexer in accordance with a respective weight assigned to the indexer and transmitting the allocated data to the indexer.
US12079242B2
Systems and methods for scaling application and/or storage system functions of a distributed storage system based on a heterogeneous resource pool are provided. According to one embodiment, the distributed storage system has a composable, service-based architecture that provides scalability, resiliency, and load balancing. The distributed storage system includes a cluster of nodes each potentially having differing capabilities in terms of processing, memory, and/or storage. The distributed storage system takes advantage of different types of nodes by selectively instating appropriate services (e.g., file and volume services and/or block and storage management services) on the nodes based on their respective capabilities. Furthermore, disaggregation of these services, facilitated by interposing a frictionless layer (e.g., in the form of one or more globally accessible logical disks) therebetween, enables independent and on-demand scaling of either or both of application and storage system functions within the cluster while making use of the heterogeneous resource pool.
US12079225B2
Provided is a conversation information generation device capable of easily generating supplemental information that supplements conversation information. A conversation device (100) includes a graph database (106) that structurally stores a plurality of node information by using edge information indicating a mutual relationship. The conversation device (100) then extracts a word from text information to be supplemented, and determines whether the word is a specific word needed to be supplemented. When the word is determined as the specific word, the conversation device (100) references the graph database (106) and generates supplemental information for supplementing the word on the basis of the edge information deriving from the node information coinciding with the word and of other node information.
US12079224B2
Database systems and methods are provided for assigning structural metadata to records and creating automations using the structural metadata. One method of assigning structural metadata involves determining a candidate group of semantically similar conversations based on unassigned conversations, determining a clustering performance metric associated with the candidate group based on a relationship between the candidate group and a plurality of existing groups of semantically similar conversations, and when the clustering performance metric is greater than a threshold, automatically assigning one or more unassigned conversations to the candidate group based on the representative utterances associated therewith and automatically updating one or more associated records at a database system to include metadata identifying the candidate group.
US12079221B2
A data request workflow system comprises vehicle operational data. A file delivery request comprises a data request for a subset of the vehicle operational data. A file processing system receives the vehicle operational data and includes at least one set of predefined file editing rules. The file processing system automatically applies at least one set of predefined file editing rules to filter out a predefined sub-set of the vehicle operational data and to automatically edit data that is part of the data request per predefined criteria for each type of vehicle operational data to provide a converted data file to be transmitted to a user that submitted the file delivery request.
US12079217B2
Some techniques described herein relate to utilizing a machine-learning (ML) model to select respective samples for queries of a query sequence. In one example, a method includes receiving a query in a query sequence, where the query is directed toward a dataset. Samples are available as down-sampled versions of the dataset. The method further include applying an agent to select, for the query, a sample from among the samples of the dataset. The agent includes an ML model trained, such as via intent-based reinforcement learning, to select respective samples for queries. The query is then executed against the sample to output a response.
US12079213B2
Techniques are disclosed hereafter for efficiently enforcing a “WITHOUT OVERLAP” range constraint by confirming primary-key integrity for a new or modified row (the “target row”) by checking just two neighboring index entries, using a new “two-sided halted range scan” of the same key index on entities which have range-endpoints data as part of their primary key. Techniques are described for reducing search time and resources in situations where a query specifies an entity and a point within a non-overlapping range. Techniques are also described for optimized handling of queries that do not specify a primary key but have both a range condition and a filter on a non-key column.
US12079209B1
A method for managing multiple checkpoints stored in a memory unit, the method may include (a) managing a checkpoint tree, by a memory controller; the checkpoint tree comprises reference nodes and active nodes; wherein a reference node of the reference nodes holds a snapshot of a parent checkpoint taken at the time that a child checkpoint was created from the parent checkpoint; wherein an active node of the active nodes that is associated with the parent node stores changes to the parent checkpoint introduced after a creation of the active node; and wherein the parent checkpoint and the child checkpoint belong to multiple checkpoints stored in the checkpoint tree; (b) receiving access requests to access key value (KV) pairs of one or more checkpoints of the multiple checkpoints; and (c) responding to the access requests based, at least in part, on the checkpoint tree.
US12079205B2
Methods for snapshot isolation query transactions in distributed systems are performed by systems and devices. Distributed executions of queries are performed in a processing system according to an isolation level protocol for data management and data versioning across one or more data sets, one or more compute pools, etc., within a logical server via a single transaction manager that oversees the isolation semantics and data versioning. Read transactions of queries are performed lock-free via the isolation semantics, and instant rollbacks, point-in-time queries, single-phase commits in the distributed systems are also provided. Abort and clean up operations are performed based on a distributed abort protocol and a determined oldest active transaction for the system in which the single transaction manager does not track read-only transactions, and client nodes do not maintain commit tables for transactions.
US12079200B2
Methods and systems for authentication, immutability and trusted timestamping of large audit event logs reported by electronic platforms are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method involves: audit log events aggregation into timeframe aligned data blocks, reporting of data block hashes into blockchain database for authentication, immutability and trusted timestamping. An aspect of the method involves achieving authentication, immutability and trusted timestamping guarantees for audit log events with low computational and networking overhead due to utilization of blockchain database consensus protocol only for batched event data blocks rather than for separate events. Multiple events during specific period of time are grouped into separate data block and cryptographic hash of the whole block is reported to blockchain database to ensure its authentication, immutability and trusted timestamping.
US12079199B2
Embodiments provide systems, methods, and apparatus for reducing the impact of user-entered data errors in a data management system (DMS) such as for diabetes. Embodiments include storing user-entered data received from a user into a primary DMS database; storing secondary data received from a source other than the user into a secondary tracking database; associating the secondary data with one or more events described by the user-entered data; cross-checking the user-entered data against the associated secondary data; evaluating user-entered data based on the cross-checking results; presenting for review evaluated user-entered data; treating user-entered data in the primary DMS database based on review results; and determining a diabetes management plan based on the treated user-entered data. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US12079194B1
A database system stores a table as a set of column files in a columnar format in a manner that improves the write performance of the table and avoids use of separate metadata repository. In embodiments, each column file groups values into entity chunks indexed by an entity index. Each chunk includes a live value index that determines which rows in chunk has live values. New values are written to the column file by appending an updated copy of the entity chunk. The entity index to refer to the newly written chunk as the latest version. This approach avoids expensive in-place updating of individual column values and allows the update to be performed much more quickly. In embodiments, the database system encodes metadata such as table schema information using file naming and placement conventions in the file store, so that a centralized metadata repository is not required.
US12079191B1
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for modifying suggestion metadata in an electronic document. A copy request is received to copy a portion of the electronic document. The portion of the electronic document includes a suggestion having metadata that indicates the suggestion was made by a first user. The copy request is received from a second user. A paste request to paste the copied portion is received from the second user. Responsive to determining to modify the metadata of the suggestion, the indication that the first suggestion was made by the first user is replaced with an indication that the first suggestion was made by the second user.
US12079189B2
A test query of a database is performed in response to determining that a performance associated with a user database query of the database does not satisfy a first performance threshold. In response to a determination that the performance of the test query satisfies a second performance threshold, a database buffer cache of the database is resized. Resizing the database buffer cache includes: determining a metric based at least in part on a storage size of the database and an index size of the database, and resizing the database buffer cache of the database based on the metric and a size of the database buffer cache.
US12079183B2
Methods and systems allow for the deployment of private (i.e., not necessarily publicly available) and reversible (or replaceable) smart contracts to create the stateless blockchain overlay layer. For example, the stateless blockchain overlay layer allows developers to deploy private smart contracts as overlays on top of any existing blockchain. The deployment of these private smart contracts is instantaneous, reversible, and free. Furthermore, the private smart contracts may be called at any block, including past ones. The private smart contracts may be used to expose arbitrary blockchain-based computation at arbitrary block heights to their developers.
US12079178B2
A snapshot storage proxy receives a request from an object storage interface component to access a snapshot volume, wherein the request is formatted to interact with object storage data, and wherein the snapshot volume is stored as non-object storage data; translates the request from the object storage interface into a snapshot volume request, wherein the snapshot volume request is formatted to interact with non-object storage data; and accesses the snapshot volume in view of the translated snapshot volume request.
US12079172B2
Disclosed herein is a method of managing data in a database management system comprising a first, master storage, node and a second node for performing operations on data stored in the database. The method comprises configuring the second node to perform a set of steps. The second node is configured to write data indicative of one or more operations on data to a set of log files. The second node segments the set of log files into a set of log file chunks For each of the log file chunks, the second node may transmit data from the database associated with a log file chunk to the first node and thereafter transmit the log file chunk to the first node. The segmenting and transmitting of the set of log files and their associated data may be performed asynchronously to the updating of the set of log files.
US12079171B2
Symbolic link based placeholders are used for cloud stored data synchronization. To synchronize cloud stored data, placeholders may be implemented as bidirectional symbolic links to a location that has a custom virtual file system (VFS) mounted. When a symbolic link is opened, the operating system may be directed to the custom VFS. The custom VFS may hydrate the file through a synchronization engine, and place the hydrated file at the location of the original symbolic link. The custom VFS may then redirect back to the primary file system of the operating system to allow the operation on the file to complete. Complexity and resource consumption may be reduced by passing placeholder requests instead of all requests through the custom VFS.
US12079169B2
Methods and systems are presented for providing an asynchronous communication system for facilitating computing services to computer nodes across multiple availability zones. Each computer node includes a client application configured to receive a service request and to generate a request file based on the service request. The client application uploads the request file to a folder hosted by a file sharing system and shared with a processing server. When a new request file is detected in the folder, the processing server downloads the request file from the file sharing system. Based on performing one or more computing services according to the request file, the processing server generates a response file including output data from the computing services. The processing server uploads the response file to the folder hosted by the file sharing system. The client application downloads the response file and presents the output data on a device.
US12079165B2
A method and an apparatus are provided for executing applications. Based on a first user input, a first window including number keys is displayed. Based on a second user input selecting a key, a second window is displayed including a list of applications. Based on an application being selected, the selected application is mapped to the selected key and an icon image corresponding to the selected application is displayed in the selected key. After the selected application is mapped, a third user input is received corresponding to the selected key. In response to the third user input, a function is performed associated with the selected application in case that a duration of the third user input is longer than or equal to a threshold duration, and an operation different from the function is performed in case that the duration is shorter than the threshold duration.
US12079164B2
In some aspects, a computing system may generate a content-defined tree. A content-defined tree may be a tree of cryptographic hashes where each leaf is a hash of a chunk (e.g., data chunk) of a data object, and each parent node (e.g., interior node) is the hash of a concatenation of the hashes of the parent's children nodes. To create parent nodes for the leaf nodes, a computing system may group leaf nodes together based on a rolling hash (e.g., a rolling hash of the hashes of the leaf nodes) satisfying a condition. Each parent node may include a hash that represents the concatenation of the hashes of the leaf nodes that fall under the corresponding parent node.
US12079160B2
The present disclosure provides a method, system, and device for generating and managing archived data. To illustrate, an archive request including an indication of a first set of files is received from an entity device. Archive information is generated based on the first set of files and stored at a first storage location and the first set of files are transmitted to an archival storage location. After the storage at the archival storage location, the archive information is accessed from the first storage location based on a retrieval request from the entity device and a request is transmitted to the archival storage location based on the archive information. The first set of files are received from the archival storage location and stored at a second storage location. A notification is sent to the entity device indicating the first set of files are available at the second storage location.
US12079158B2
An integrated circuit includes a plurality of kernels and a virtual machine coupled to the plurality of kernels. The virtual machine is configured to interpret instructions directed to different ones of the plurality of kernels. The virtual machine is configured to control operation of the different ones of the plurality of kernels responsive to the instructions.
US12079153B2
Generally, this disclosure provides systems, devices, methods and computer readable media for dynamic configuration and enforcement of access lanes to I/O controllers. The System may include a plurality of Input/Output (I/O) controllers and a plurality of lanes. The system may also include a lane mapping module configured to multiplex at least one of the I/O controllers to at least one of the lanes based on a configuration. The system may further include a first processor configured to detect a change request, the change request to modify the configuration from an existing configuration to a new configuration; and a second processor configured to: verify that the new configuration is valid based on a stock keeping unit (SKU) associated with the system; and, if the verification is successful, store the new configuration in non-volatile memory and reset the system.
US12079149B2
In accordance with embodiments disclosed herein, there are provided methods, systems, mechanisms, techniques, and apparatuses for presentation of direct accessed storage under a logical drive model; for implementing a distributed architecture for cooperative NVM Data protection; data mirroring for consistent SSD latency; for boosting a controller's performance and RAS with DIF support via concurrent RAID processing; for implementing arbitration and resource schemes of a doorbell mechanism, including doorbell arbitration for fairness and prevention of attack congestion; and for implementing multiple interrupt generation using a messaging unit and NTB in a controller through use of an interrupt coalescing scheme.
US12079148B2
Ensuring the appropriate utilization of system resources using weighted workload based, time-independent scheduling, including: receiving an I/O request associated with an entity; determining whether an amount of system resources required to service the I/O request is greater than an amount of available system resources in a storage system; responsive to determining that the amount of system resources required to service the I/O request is greater than the amount of available system resources in the storage system: queueing the I/O request in an entity-specific queue for the entity; detecting that additional system resources in the storage system have become available; and issuing an I/O request from an entity-specific queue for an entity that has a highest priority, where a priority for each entity is determined based on the amount of I/O requests associated with the entity and a weighted proportion of resources designated for use by the entity.
US12079146B2
A memory module includes a memory substrate including a main connector and an auxiliary connector, configured to be connected to an external device; and a plurality of memory chips mounted on at least one of a first surface or a second surface of the memory substrate, wherein the main connector is disposed on one side of the memory substrate, and the auxiliary connector is disposed on the second surface of the memory substrate.
US12079145B2
A processor distributes memory timing parameters and data among different memory modules based upon memory access patterns. The memory access patterns indicate different types, or classes, of data for an executing workload, with each class associated with different memory access characteristics, such as different row buffer hit rate levels, different frequencies of access, different criticalities, and the like. The processor assigns each memory module to a data class and sets the memory timing parameters for each memory module according to the module's assigned data class, thereby tailoring the memory timing parameters for efficient access of the corresponding data.
US12079143B2
Dynamically managing protection groups, including: identifying a protection group of storage resources, the protection group associated with a protection group management schedule that identifies one or more protection group management operations to be performed; detecting a membership change in the protection group; and updating, in dependence upon the change in the protection group, the protection group management schedule.
US12079137B2
The present disclosure relates to devices and methods for using a banked memory structure with accelerators. The devices and methods may segment and isolate dataflows in datapath and memory of the accelerator. The devices and methods may provide each data channel with its own register memory bank. The devices and methods may use a memory address decoder to place the local variables in the proper memory bank.
US12079131B2
A memory system is provided to include a memory device including a plurality of memory blocks and a controller for dynamically changing a size of a write buffer based on whether a current workload is a sequential workload or a mixed workload. The controller includes a workload detecting unit suitable for changing current workload from the sequential workload to the mixed workload based on a read count, or from the mixed workload to the sequential workload based on a write count and a write buffer managing unit suitable for reducing the size of the write buffer when the current workload is changed to the mixed workload.
US12079130B2
This application discloses a method and apparatus for processing data based on a block chain. The method includes adding transaction data in at least two blocks into an execution queue according to a block height sequence and transaction data sequence numbers; executing contract services and acquiring a read cache and a write cache of a parallel transaction generated by executing each contract service, the at least two pieces of transaction data comprising target transaction data; determining a write cache of a merged transaction in block caches, and acquiring a read cache of an updated transaction; determining a write cache of the transaction to be merged of the target transaction data according to the read cache of the updated transaction; and merging the write cache of the transaction to be merged of the target transaction data into a block cache to which the target transaction data belongs.
US12079128B2
Methods, systems, and devices supporting techniques for pre-fetching information using pattern detection are described. Some memory systems may support pre-fetching information, such as logical-to-physical (L2P) mapping tables, data, or both, if a sequential pattern of read commands is detected. In some examples, the memory system may store a list of logical addresses indicated by received read commands and may determine whether the list corresponds to a sequential pattern independent of intervening write-alike commands. The list may store previous logical addresses for read commands, allowing the memory system to determine whether subsequent read commands form a sequential pattern. Additionally or alternatively, the memory system may track a ratio of hibernate commands to other commands (e.g., sequential read commands) and may refrain from pre-fetching L2P mapping tables for a detected sequence if the tracked ratio satisfies (e.g., exceeds) a threshold ratio.
US12079127B2
Systems and methods for random fill caching and prefetching for secure cache memories are provided. The system dynamically de-correlates fetching a cache line to the processor from filling the cache with this cache line, due to a demand memory access, in order to provide greater security from information leakage due to cache side-channel attacks on cache memories. The system includes a random fill engine which includes a random number generator and an adjustable random fill window. Also provided is an adaptive random fill caching system which dynamically adapts the random fill window to a wide variety of computational workloads. Systems and methods for cache prefetching to improve system performance using adaptive random fill prefetching and random fill prefetching are also provided.
US12079126B2
A microprocessor includes a cache memory, a store queue, and a load/store unit. Each entry of the store queue holds store data associated with a store instruction. The load/store unit, during execution of a load instruction, makes a determination that an entry of the store queue holds store data that includes some but not all bytes of load data requested by the load instruction, cancels execution of the load instruction in response to the determination, and writes to an entry of a structure from which the load instruction is subsequently issuable for re-execution an identifier of a store instruction that is older in program order than the load instruction and an indication that the load instruction is not eligible to re-execute until the identified older store instruction updates the cache memory with store data.
US12079122B2
An example apparatus for sequential garbage collection can include a memory device including a plurality of memory blocks associated with a plurality of logical block addresses (LBAs). The example apparatus can include a controller coupled to the memory device. The controller can be configured to monitor a quantity of read operations and a quantity of write operations associated with a plurality of command sizes performed on a portion of the plurality of memory blocks. The controller can be configured to monitor a quantity of read operations and a quantity of write operations associated with a particular LBA. The controller can be configured to determine a type of garbage collection operation to perform based on the monitoring.
US12079119B1
Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for auto-scaling volatile memory allocation in an electronic network. The present invention is configured to access metadata of at least one volatile memory component, wherein the metadata is associated with at least one application; determine a current volatile memory allocation for the metadata; determine a current metadata format of the metadata; apply the metadata to a volatile memory allocation machine learning model; generate, based on the application of the metadata to the volatile memory allocation machine learning model, a new volatile memory allocation for the metadata; and apply the new volatile memory allocation to the metadata of the at least one volatile memory component, wherein the application of the new volatile memory allocation to the metadata comprises at least one of an upscaling, a downscaling, or a constant.
US12079117B2
A system and method for providing access to third-party application programming interfaces (APIs) as a service. In particular, an API access manager can be configured to execute one or more serverless functions selected form a database of serverless functions in order to obtain data from one or more third-party APIs. Execution of different versions of the serverless functions (e.g., original and refactored) can be compared to determine whether the versions are equivalent and deterministic.
US12079112B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to conducting automated web service testing in a continuous integration and delivery test deployment environment using artificial intelligence (AI) generated test data. In some embodiments, a computing platform may receive, from a developer computing platform, a test code request, receive, from a web service computing platform, a training data set, configure a test data set based on the training data set and the test code request, use AI engine to apply one or more corrections to the test data set based on the test code request and to produce a corrected test data set, execute the test code using the corrected test data set to produce test code output results, and send, to the developer computing platform, the test code output results.
US12079111B2
A method, a system, and computer program product for automatic implementation of solutions for deployment errors in continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines. A deployment log including a deployment error indicating a failure to deploy a software product including a software configuration at a computing device comprising a computing device configuration is received. The deployment error is processed to determine a pattern of the deployment error. A match between the deployment error and a past deployment error is determined based on the pattern of the deployment error and a frequency of occurrence of the pattern within a set interval of time. An output indicating a solution for the deployment error is provided based on the match between the deployment error and the past deployment error. The solution for the deployment error is implemented by modifying the software configuration or the computing device configuration.
US12079096B2
In one example, a method of data restore testing is disclosed. The method may determine whether to validate a request to restore a backup of production data. The request may be for a database backup, a file system backup or another data type. The method may generate a database instance that restores a backup database data if the request is for database data and may generate a file system instance to restore a backup file system if the request is for a backup of a file system. The method may lockdown access to the restored backup, validate the integrity of the restored backup relative to production data. The validation may be based on a checksum of the restored backup and a checksum of the production data, for example.
US12079095B2
Systems and methods for force-supplying cached API call data are disclosed. A system may comprise a memory storing instructions and at least one processor configured to execute instructions to perform operations including: receiving initial order data from a user device, the initial order data comprising a product identifier, a user identifier, and a promotion identifier; determining an initial reduction amount based on the received product identifier and promotion identifier; mapping the initial reduction amount to a cache identifier; caching the initial order data and the cache identifier; receiving an order request from a device associated with the user identifier, the order request being associated with the promotion identifier; calling an API to complete the order request; detecting a failure of the API attempting to complete the order request; retrieving the cache identifier; determining a final reduction amount; and completing the order request using the final reduction amount.
US12079092B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a communication circuit, a processor, and a memory. The memory may store instructions that, when executed, allow the processor to connect to an external electronic device by using the communication circuit, receive, from the external electronic device, backup data including application information and application-related data, install a plurality of applications by using the application information, and on the basis of priority orders, sequentially restore configurations of the plurality of applications by using the application-related data.
US12079088B2
A registry writer is instructed via a copy service on a host to prepare for generation of a snapshot. The registry writer is responsible for saving system hive files to disk before the snapshot is generated. A reporting of the system hive files is received from the registry writer. Communications are exchanged with an API exposed by an operating system of the host to identify user hive files. The system hive files reported by the registry writer and the user hive files identified using the API exposed by the operating system are backed up from the snapshot to secondary storage.
US12079086B2
The disclosure relates to a transceiver device for communicating between a network protocol controller and a network bus, the transceiver device comprising: transceiver circuitry configured to transmit and receive data on the network bus using a first physical layer protocol; and monitoring circuitry configured to determine a measured property of the network bus, in which the transceiver device is configured to: determine whether the measured property indicates an error condition; and reconfigure the transceiver circuitry to transmit and receive data on the network bus using a second physical layer protocol in response to determining the error condition.
US12079077B2
Methods, systems, and devices for device fault condition reporting are described. A host system may transmit, to a memory system, a command to perform an operation. The memory system may receive the command and identify a fault condition associated with performing the operation. The memory system may transmit, to the host system, a message that indicates the fault condition. After the memory system transmits the message, the memory system may enter a safe mode of operation based on identifying the fault condition.
US12079074B2
A device capable of operating in a wireless communication environment. The device may be configured to determine a plurality of control signaling bits. The device may determine a plurality of cyclic redundancy check (CRC) bits based on the plurality of control signaling bits. The device may apply a channel coding scheme to the plurality of control signaling bits and the plurality of CRC bits. The plurality of CRC bits may be distributed among the plurality of control signaling bits prior to applying the channel coding scheme. The device may transmit the channel coded plurality of control signaling bits and CRC bits.
US12079071B2
A processing circuit coupled to an imaging device includes a bus interface circuit configured to communicatively couple the processing circuit to the imaging device over a multidrop differential serial link, detector circuits configured to detect a plurality of sequentially occurring signaling states of the multidrop differential serial link, the plurality of sequentially occurring signaling states related to transmissions of data packets over the multidrop differential serial link, and a controller. The controller is configured to discard data packets received after the imaging device is powered on or initialized and until the imaging device is indicated to be in an active operating state, count sequences of transitions between a first signaling state of the multidrop differential serial link and a second signaling state of the multidrop differential serial link, and indicate that the imaging device is in the active operating state after a preconfigured number of data packets have been discarded.
US12079070B2
In some aspects, a method includes obtaining feature importance data associated with an alert and indicating relative importance of each of multiple sensor devices and of one or more simulated features. The method includes identifying a group of the sensor devices that have greater relative importance than a highest relative importance of any of the one or more simulated features. In some aspects, a method includes obtaining a reference list of alerts that are similar to a reference alert and a list of alerts predicted to be similar to the reference alert and ranked by predicted similarity to the reference alert. The method includes determining a score indicating similarity of the list to the reference list. A contribution of each alert in the list to the score is determined based on whether that alert appears in the reference list and the rank of that alert in the list.
US12079069B2
A set of data changes to a storage associated with a source system is received. for recording the received set of changes, one or more data logs among a plurality of data logs stored in different nodes of a storage system is dynamically selected based at least in part on a dynamic analysis of metrics of the different nodes of the storage system. The data changes are logged in the one or more selected data logs. A reference to a portion of the one or more selected data logs associated with storing the data changes is recorded in a locator register log.
US12079064B2
A chip-to-chip process variation aware power efficiency optimization method that includes determining, using an adaptive voltage scaling (AVS) module of a processing unit in a system, an optimal voltage identification (VID) based on chip process variation. The method outputs the optimal VID from the AVS module to a voltage regulator of the system. The method adjusts a direct current (DC) load line setting based on the optimal VID of the processing unit in the system. The method regulates, using the voltage regulator of the system, a voltage supplied to the processing unit based on the DC load line setting.
US12079061B2
A new peripheral component interconnect express (PCIe) link state can enhance power saving capabilities of a PCIe link operating in a flow control unit (FLIT) mode. A device can operate a data link with a host in a FLIT mode using fixed-sized packets, the data link being in a partial width link state (PLS) in which a first set of lanes of the data link are in an electrical idle state and a second set of lanes of the data link are in an active state available for data traffic with the host. The device can transition one or more lines of the second set of lanes from the PLS to a partial width standby link state (PSLS) in which the one or more lines of the second set of lanes are in a standby state that has lower power consumption than the active state.
US12079057B2
A communication device assists location services by receiving a virtual boundary condition from the operating system. The virtual boundary condition is received by a wireless communication chipset (e.g., a Wi-Fi chipset) of the communication device. The Wi-Fi chipset measures one or more distances between the communication device and one or more wireless communication devices (e.g., Wi-Fi access points) using a wireless communication distance measuring protocol (e.g., Wi-Fi Fine timing measurement or FTM), determines that the virtual boundary condition has been satisfied by the one or more measured distances, and notifies the operating system that the virtual boundary condition has been satisfied by the one or more measured distances.
US12079053B2
The present application is directed at pin programming od controllers for power converters and provides for the programming of a plurality of different controller parameters using a single programming resistor. The value of the programming resistor is used as a pointer to select a table storing a plurality of different settings for the controller.
US12079049B2
An information handling system with an antenna cooling system, comprising a processor; a memory; a power management unit (PMU) operatively coupled to the processor; a wireless interface adapter with a radio module within a chassis of the information handling system; and an active antenna system with an antenna mounted at an aperture in a wall of the chassis of the information handling system; a thermally conductive and radio frequency (RF) transparent window formed seamlessly within the aperture in the wall of the chassis of the information handling system and where the thermally conductive and RF transparent window is configured to permit antenna RF transmission while dissipating heat generated by the active antenna system.
US12079047B2
A hinge includes a stationary seat and two rotating units. Each rotating unit includes a linkage module that has an extension body that has a arcuate slide rail, a rotating bracket module that is rotatable and that has a fixing pin, and a sliding module that includes a connecting frame, a positioning pin, and a linkage member. The connecting frame has a curved groove that engages the arcuate slide rail such that movement of the rotating units between an opened and a closed state results in movement between the arcuate slide rail and the curved groove. The linkage member has a through hole, and an elongated slot which the fixing pin passes through to connect the rotating bracket module such that movement of the rotating units between the opened and closed states results in movement between the fixing pin and the elongated slot.
US12079042B2
A flexible display device includes a flexible display module including a flexible display panel; a first frame and a second frame supporting the flexible display module; and a fixing coupler and an aligning coupler coupling the flexible display module with the first frame and the second frame, and the fixing coupler includes: a first fixing coupler fixing at least a portion of the first frame and at least a portion of the flexible display module; and a second fixing coupler fixing at least a portion of the second frame and at least a portion of the flexible display module, and the aligning coupler includes: a first aligning coupler fixed to another portion of the flexible display module; and a second aligning coupler fixed to another portion of the first frame and detachably coupled to the first aligning coupler.
US12079041B2
The present disclosure relates to a display panel including a display area that can be stretched by including a plurality of stretching units and a peripheral area positioned at an edge of the display area. Each of the stretching units includes: a plurality of islands separately disposed to include a plurality of pixels disposed therein; a plurality of bridges extended from the islands to connect adjacent islands or to connect the islands with the peripheral area; and a plurality of openings disposed adjacent to the bridges, between the bridges, and between the bridges and the islands, wherein areas of the islands are gradually increased toward the peripheral area.
US12079036B2
An electronic device may have a display mounted in a housing. The display may have a display panel with an array of pixels on a flexible substrate. A display cover layer may overlap the display panel. The flexible substrate may have a protruding portion that forms a tail. The tail may be coupled to a printed circuit on which a display driver integrated circuit and/or other circuitry is mounted. When the display is mounted in the housing, the tail may be bent back on itself to create a bend. The bend may be embedded in a molded polymer member. The molded polymer member may be attached to the housing with adhesive and may directly contact an inner surface of the display cover layer.
US12079035B2
A portable system for carrying a monitor and a computing device inside a case. The case can be made from two shells attached together by a hinge. A monitor can be housed in each shell, the monitors operatively connected to each other. The monitor and any other components in the first shell can be connected to the monitor and any other components in the second shell via cables fed through a conduit connecting the first shell to the second shell. The conduit is on the inside of the case to protect the cables when the case is in the closed configuration. One or both shells can further have an auxiliary door through which a thin component, such as a keyboard, tablet, laptop, and the like can be inserted into the case. One or both shells can be equipped with ports for power, and communicating and networking with other devices.
US12079029B2
A network adapter includes a network port for communicating with a communication network, a hardware clock, and circuitry. The circuitry is coupled to receive from the communication network, via the network port, one or more time-protocol packets that convey a network time used for synchronizing network devices in the communication network, to align the hardware clock to the network time conveyed in the time-protocol packets, and to make the network time available to one or more time-service consumers running in a host served by the network adapter.
US12079028B2
Methods and structures are described for detecting clock anomalies, including anomalies in which the clock oscillates at a faster than expected rate or exhibits a shorter than expected clock phase instance. Example methods include starting a timer responsive to the start of a clock phase, wherein the timer duration is shorter than an expected duration of the clock phase. If the clock phase ends before the timer expires, a fast clock detection signal is asserted. Example structures include fast clock detection logic coupled to a clock signal. The logic includes a timer, circuitry to start the timer responsive to the clock signal entering a monitored phase, and error detection circuitry to assert a fast clock detection output if the monitored phase ends before the timer expires. In some embodiments, the timer duration may be based on a measured duration of a previous clock phase.
US12079019B2
A system includes a digital controller in a voltage regulator. The system also includes a passgate array including two or more passgate transistors, where the passgate array is configured to provide a load current to a load, and where the digital controller is configured to activate and deactivate each passgate transistor in the passgate array. The system also includes a feedback loop configured to provide an error signal to the digital controller, the error signal based on a difference between an output voltage of the voltage regulator and a programmed voltage for the voltage regulator. The digital controller is configured to activate or deactivate a passgate transistor based at least in part on the error signal. The digital controller is also configured to activate at least one passgate transistor and deactivate at least one passgate transistor responsive to a clock cycle.
US12079014B2
A lighter than air platform an unfinned envelope having two or more propulsion elements coupled with the unfinned envelope proximate to the center of gravity. At least one navigation sensor is configured to monitor an actual flight path of the unfinned envelope, and at least one perturbation sensor is configured to monitor one or more perturbations of the unfinned envelope. A navigation controller is configured to guide the unfinned envelope with coordinated propulsion of the two or more propulsion elements. The navigation controller includes a navigation comparator that compares the actual flight path with a specified flight path of the unfinned envelope and determine a navigation instruction. A perturbation comparator compares the navigation instruction with the monitored one or more perturbations to determine a perturbation compensation. A propulsion coordinator controls propulsion values of each of the propulsion elements based on the navigation instruction and the perturbation compensation.
US12079013B2
Systems and methods for taking, processing, retrieving, and/or displaying images from unmanned aerial vehicles are disclosed, including an unmanned aerial vehicle, comprising: an image capture device; and a controller configured to: determine a flight plan of the unmanned aerial vehicle, the flight plan configured such that the unmanned aerial vehicle and fields of view of the image capture device are restricted to a geographic area within boundaries of a geographic location identified by coordinates of the geographic location; execute the flight plan; and capture, with the image capture device, one or more aerial images restricted to fields of view within the boundaries of the geographic location while executing the flight plan, such that items outside of the boundaries are not captured in the one or more aerial images.
US12079007B1
Provided is a robotic refuse container, including a chassis; a set of wheels coupled to the chassis; a refuse container coupled to the chassis for collecting refuse; a rechargeable battery; a plurality of sensors; a processor; and a tangible, non-transitory, machine-readable medium storing instructions that when executed by the processor effectuates operations including: detecting, with at least one sensor disposed on the robotic refuse container, an amount of refuse within the refuse container; instructing, with the processor, the robotic refuse container to navigate to a location to empty the refuse upon detecting the amount of refuse exceeds a predetermined refuse amount in the refuse container; and emptying, by a separate device, the refuse within the refuse container at the location.
US12079006B2
A network comprises a network apparatus constructed and arranged for each of a plurality of vehicles in radio frequency (RF) communication with each other, the network apparatus comprising: at least one first transceiver; at least one second transceiver configured to exchange RF signals with the at least one first transceiver; receiver circuitry configured to determine timing information from the acquired RF signals; memory storing information related to fixed distances between the at least one first transceiver and the at least one second transceiver; a processor coupled to the memory to access the stored information related to the fixed distances, and to the receiver circuitry to receive the timing information determined from the RF signals, the processor being configured to determine a relative position of the vehicle with respect to a receipt of the RF signals based on the stored information related to the fixed distances between each of at least three spatially separated antenna and on the timing information determined by the receiver circuitry; and a control system configured to control operation of the vehicle in response to the relative position of the vehicle, determined by the processor.
US12078992B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for controlling spraying of chemicals by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). An unmanned aerial vehicle system includes one or more processors configured to perform operations of autonomously performing a flight path by the UAV and dispersing a chemical by the UAV along portions of the flight path. The UAV may include a chemical spray system having one or more spray booms with multiple nozzles for dispersing a chemical. The chemical spray system may include one or more tanks attached to the body of the UAV and a pump fluidly connected to the tanks to disperse chemical via the spray booms.
US12078979B1
Methods and systems stowing one or more photovoltaic (PV) modules based on a weather event forecasts are provided. In one embodiment, a method may include receiving a weather event forecast, such as a snow event forecast, for a location of a tracking system that includes a plurality of PV modules, determining that the weather event forecast for the location of the tracking system exceeds a threshold level of severity, and automatically positioning the plurality of PV modules at the location of the tracking system into a stow configuration. In some embodiments, the method may further require receiving confirmation of the weather event from a sensor at the location of the tracking system before positioning the PV modules in the stow configuration.
US12078975B2
Provided is an apparatus for generating a operation plan of a hydrogen production system comprising a hydrogen production apparatus, comprising: a demand predicting unit for generating a predicted demand amount for each of a plurality of types of hydrogen with a different environmental load of production over a target period of the operation plan; and an operation planning unit for generating the operation plan, which is for generating a plurality of types of hydrogen with a different environmental load of production by the hydrogen production apparatus, based on a predicted hydrogen demand amount of each of the plurality of types of hydrogen.
US12078974B2
The present application relates to a method, apparatus, computer device and storage medium for controlling a cooking device. The method includes: scanning a coded pattern preset on a to-be-cooked food to obtain to-be-cooked food information characterizing the to-be-cooked food; sending a standby instruction to the cooking device when the to-be-cooked food information meets a preset standby condition, so as to bring the cooking device into a standby state; sending a cooking instruction to the cooking device when the cooking device is in the standby state and the preset cooking condition is met, so as to control the cooking device to cook the to-be-cooked food; and receiving state information fed back by the cooking device, wherein the state information is configured to characterize the cooking state of the cooking device.
US12078973B2
A sampling device receives, from a transducer computing device located within a predefined proximity to an equipment in an operating environment, a vibration sample from the operating environment. The sampling device predicts, using a model, (1) an anomalous designation or a non-anomalous designation for the vibration sample and (2) a cluster assignment, to a particular cluster of a set of clusters, for the vibration sample when the model predicts the non-anomalous designation for the vibration sample. The sampling device transmits, to a computing device of the equipment, instructions to cease to perform the operation responsive to predicting the anomalous designation.
US12078966B2
A dial including a projection piece projecting in a radial direction and a pin projecting from the projection piece. In addition, an electronic device including a case having a switch provided on an outer circumferential surface, and a dial arranged in the case, in which the dial includes a projection piece that projects from an outer circumferential surface opposing the switch and comes in contact with an inner circumferential surface of the case.
US12078962B2
A toner comprising a toner particle comprising a core particle comprising a binder resin and a diester wax, and a shell on a surface of the core particle, wherein the following formulas (1) and (2) are satisfied, where Sp is a partition coefficient of the shell and Wp is a partition coefficient of the diester wax: Sp≤0.40 (1), and 16.00≤Wp−Sp≤20.00 (2).
US12078958B2
Provided is an image forming apparatus that is capable of carrying out a scattered-toner recovery mode in which, while image formation is prevented from being performed, scattered toner that has dropped from a filter and adhered to an outer peripheral surface of a developer carrying member is recovered by a cleaning unit through intermediation of an image bearing member. A fixed magnet of the developer carrying member has a first pole that faces the image bearing member, a second pole that faces the filter, and an intermediate pole between the first pole and the second pole.
US12078957B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a fan, a duct including an air intake port, an air discharge port, and a body portion having a tubular shape and forming an air passage through which air taken in through the air intake port is flown to the air discharge port, the body portion including a holed wall portion to which a plurality of through holes are formed, the plurality of through holes being passed through between an inner surface, forming the air passage, of the holed wall portion and an outer surface, that is on an opposite side from the inner surface, of the holed wall portion, and a noise absorbing member attached to the outer surface of the holed wall portion so as to cover the plurality of through holes, the noise absorbing member having a noise absorbing property.
US12078952B2
According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a toner cartridge detachably mountable to a receiving device, the toner cartridge comprising a container including a accommodating portion for accommodating the toner and a discharge opening for discharging the toner from the accommodating portion into the receiving device; and an open/close member including a closing portion for closing the discharge opening and an engaging portion movable relative to the closing portion, the open/close member being rotatable relative to the container between (a) an opening position for causing the closing portion to open the discharge opening and (b) a closing position for causing the closing portion to close the discharge opening, wherein the engaging portion is movable relative to the closing portion between (c) a engaging position for engagement with the receiving device to receive a force for moving the open/close member from the opening position to the closing position when the toner cartridge is dismounted from the receiving device and (d) a retracted position retracted from the engaging position, and wherein the engaging portion is movable from the retracted position to the engaging position with rotation of the open/close member from the closing position to the opening position.
US12078943B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, an intermediate transfer belt, and current supply devices. If (i) a current balance of a current supplied to the intermediate transfer belt is Ia-Ib where Ia is a sum of current densities of positive currents supplied from an outer to an inner peripheral surface of the intermediate transfer belt and Ib is a sum of current densities of positive currents supplied from the inner to the outer peripheral surface and (ii) an electric resistance of the intermediate transfer belt relative to the current balance is larger when the current balance is a negative of a predetermined value than when it is a positive of the predetermined value, a control unit performs constant current control on a discharge current supplied to the intermediate transfer belt during a print job such that, based on current supply detection, the current balance is positive.
US12078938B2
A method of predicting thermally induced aberrations of a projection system for projecting a radiation beam, the method comprising: calculating a change in temperature of the projection system from a power of the radiation beam output from the projection system using a dynamic linear function; and calculating the thermally induced aberrations from the calculated change in temperature using a static non-linear function.
US12078934B2
Disclosed is a system and method for generating EUV radiation in which a laser is used in a multistage process to illuminate without altering a target material and then irradiate the target material to alter a target material with the illumination stage being used to determine the timing for firing during the irradiation stage or stages.
US12078927B2
Provided is an imprint method of performing an imprint process including a contacting step of bringing a mold into contact with an imprint material on a substrate, a curing step of curing the imprint material, and a separating step of separating the mold from the cured imprint material. The method includes acquiring global alignment information, performing a pre-alignment measurement including moving, based on the acquired global alignment information, a second shot region to a measurement position at which a measurement device performs measurement, and measuring a first relative positional shift between the second shot region and the mold using the measurement device, and moving, based on the global alignment information and the measured first relative positional shift, a first shot region to an imprint position at which the imprint process is performed, and starting the contacting step.
US12078914B1
Various embodiments include a locking mechanism for a camera. The locking mechanism may be used to provide a clamping force that prevents one or more components of the camera from moving along one or more axes in some examples. According to various embodiments, the locking mechanism may include a ferromagnetic plate fixedly attached to a carrier (e.g., a lens carrier, an image sensor carrier, etc.), an electromagnet for electromagnetically interacting with the ferromagnetic plate, and a flexure to which the electromagnet may be attached. The flexure may further be attached to a stationary structure of the camera. In some embodiments, the camera may be operable such that, in a lock mode of the camera, the electromagnet is electrically driven to generate a magnetic field that attracts the ferromagnetic plate, thereby providing a clamping force that prevents the carrier from moving along an optical axis of the camera.
US12078906B2
Onboard EC window controllers are described. The controllers are configured in close proximity to the EC window, for example, within the IGU. The controller may be part of a window assembly, which includes an IGU having one or more EC panes, and thus does not have to be matched with the EC window, and installed, in the field. The window controllers described herein have a number of advantages because they are matched to the IGU containing one or more EC devices and their proximity to the EC panes of the window overcomes a number of problems associated with conventional controller configurations.
US12078894B2
An array substrate and a display device are disclosed in the present application, the substrate includes a plurality of pixel units, one pixel unit at least comprises a first sub-pixel unit; a pixel electrode at least comprises a first pixel sub-electrode, the first pixel sub-electrode is arranged in the first sub-pixel unit, and comprises a plurality of branch electrodes; wherein the first sub-pixel unit at least comprises a first electrode sub-region and a second electrode sub-region, widths of the branch electrodes in the first electrode sub-region and the second electrode sub-region are different.
US12078893B2
A novel display panel that is highly convenient or reliable is provided. The display panel includes a first pixel, a second pixel, and a functional layer. The first pixel includes a first display element, and the second pixel includes a second display element. The functional layer includes a first pixel circuit and a second pixel circuit. The first display element includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a layer containing a liquid crystal material. A first distance is provided between the first electrode and the functional layer. A second distance is provided between the second electrode and the functional layer. The first electrode and the second electrode each include a region overlapping with the layer containing a liquid crystal material. The second distance is shorter than the first distance. The second display element includes a third electrode, a fourth electrode, and the layer containing a liquid crystal material. A third distance is provided between the third electrode and the functional layer. A fourth distance is provided between the fourth electrode and the functional layer. The fourth distance is shorter than the third distance and longer than the first distance.
US12078891B2
According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal device includes a first liquid crystal cell and a second liquid crystal cell. The first liquid crystal cell and the second liquid crystal cell each include a first strip electrode, a second strip electrode, a third strip electrode and a fourth strip electrode. The extension direction of each of the first strip electrode and the second strip electrode in the first liquid crystal cell is different from the extension direction of each of the first strip electrode and the second strip electrode in the second liquid crystal cell. The extension direction of each of the first strip electrode and the second strip electrode is orthogonal to the extension direction of each of the third strip electrode and the fourth strip electrode.
US12078886B2
A display apparatus including a frame, light emitting diode chips separated from each other and regularly arranged in a matrix on the frame, an optical part including a display panel and at least one of a phosphor sheet and an optical sheet, a light guide plate disposed between the frame and the optical part to cover the light emitting diode chips, at least one reflector disposed between the frame and the light guide plate to reflect at least part of light emitted from the light emitting diode chip to direct at least part of light emitted therefrom to the light guide plate, and a first-type electrode and a second-type electrode, in which at least one of the light emitting diode chips is a flip-chip type and includes a first-type semiconductor layer electrically connected to the first-type electrode and a second-type semiconductor layer electrically connected to the second-type electrode.
US12078873B2
A method for designing a progressive addition lens and the related technology, the lens including a near portion for viewing a near distance, a distance portion for viewing a farther distance, and an intermediate portion between the near and distance portions and having a progressive refraction function, wherein transmission astigmatism is added to the near and intermediate portions out of the distance portion, the near portion, and the intermediate portion, the method including a mode selection step of determining, according to a prescription power, whether to select an AS-oriented mode wherein the amount of transmission astigmatism to be added is set so the amount of horizontal refractive power is larger than the vertical refractive power, or select a PW-oriented mode in which the amount of transmission astigmatism to be added is set so the amount of vertical refractive power is larger than the horizontal refractive power.
US12078870B2
Techniques for providing eyewear with electrical components are disclosed. The electrical components can provide electrical technology to eyewear without having to substantially compromise aesthetic design principles of the eyewear. The electrical components can be partially or completely internal to eyewear. The electrical components can also be attached to the eyewear as an after-market enhancement. The electrical components can operate independently or together with other electrical components provided elsewhere. Apparatus for presenting after-market electrical components are also disclosed.
US12078864B2
A lens driving module includes a base, a shield can, a driving mechanism, a space maintaining element and a damping element. The base has an opening. The shield can is coupled to the base and has a central aperture corresponding to the opening. The driving mechanism is disposed in the shield and configured to drive a lens unit to move. The space maintaining element is in physical contact with the shield can. The space maintaining element includes a plastic frame portion and a metal structure portion. The metal structure portion includes pins extending toward the base. The metal structure portion is insert-molded with the plastic frame portion to form the space maintaining element. The damping element is connected to the pins and the lens unit. The pins of the metal structure portion are located closer to the optical axis than part of the metal structure portion without the pins.
US12078862B2
A device and method of compensating for the temperature dependence of a facet lens used for determining the topography of an eye. According to the invention, temperature sensors are present for determining the temperature of the facet lens. In addition, the temperature dependence of the beam angles of the beam bundles is stored in a control and evaluation unit, which, in addition to the temperature of the facet lens transmitted by the temperature sensors, are taken into account by the control and evaluation unit when evaluating the recordings of the image recording unit. The device and method are described in the context of facet lenses that are used to determine the topography of an eye. However, in principle, they are usable wherever an existing temperature dependence, in particular of optical components, should be compensated for.
US12078860B2
A fiber optic cable spool is disclosed herein. The fiber optic cable spool may include a first radial flange located at a first axial end of the fiber optic cable spool, a second radial flange located at a second axial end of the fiber optic cable spool, and a drum that extends axially between the first and second radial flanges. The fiber optic cable spool may also include a storage compartment located within the drum. The first radial flange may define a first opening for accessing the storage compartment within the drum. The drum may have a circumferential drum surface that defines a second opening for accessing the storage compartment within the drum.
US12078856B2
A photonic structure is provided. The photonic structure includes a guiding region, a sensing region, and logic region. The guiding region has a first side and a second side opposite to the first side. The sensing region is disposed on the second side of the guiding region. The logic region is disposed on a side of the sensing region opposite to the guiding region. The guiding region, the sensing region, and the logic region are stacked along a vertical direction. A method for manufacturing the photonic structure is also provided.
US12078854B2
An optical transceiver assembly includes an optical transmitter, an optical receiver, and a first multi-fiber ferrule exclusively connected to the optical transmitter via a first set of at least two optical fibers operable to transport respective optical signals away from the optical transmitter. The assembly includes a second multi-fiber ferrule exclusively connected to the optical receiver via a second set of at least two optical fibers operable to transport respective optical signals to the optical transmitter. The first set of at least two optical fibers is separate from the second set of at least two optical fibers.
US12078847B2
The present disclosure is directed to a board mounted active component assembly that includes a printed circuit board to which a connector is mounted and electrically connected. In one aspect, the connector includes a housing defining an adapter port for receiving an optical plug. The connector also includes a fiber optic transceiver module secured within the housing such that the transceiver module is optically aligned with an optical plug received in the adapter port. The fiber optic transceiver module includes a transmitter optical sub-assembly (TOSA) and a receiver optical sub-assembly (ROSA) with leads connected to a circuit on the printed circuit board.
US12078846B2
A butt closure base includes a base housing defining a plurality of cavities. A first gel is disposed in each of the plurality of cavities. The butt closure base further includes a plurality of wedge assemblies, each of the plurality of wedge assemblies removably insertable into one of the plurality of cavities. Each of the plurality of wedge assemblies includes an outer cover, and a second gel. The butt closure base further includes a plurality of cable entry passages, each of the plurality of cable entry passages defined between one of the plurality of cavities and one of the plurality of wedge assemblies. The butt closure base further includes a plurality of bushings, each of the plurality of bushings disposed in one of the plurality of cable entry passages.
US12078839B1
An optical module and an electronic device are provided. The optical module includes a substrate, a first light guide plate, a first light-emitting element, a reflective layer, a first pattern layer, a first light-shielding structure, and a beam splitting layer. The first light guide plate has first and second surfaces opposite to each other. The second surface faces the substrate. The first light-emitting element has a light output surface facing a side portion of the first light guide plate. The reflective layer is arranged between the substrate and the first light guide plate. The first pattern layer is formed on the first light guide plate. The first light-shielding structure covers a part of the substrate, and the first surface of the first light guide plate. The beam splitting layer is disposed above the first light guide plate and the first light-shielding structure.
US12078832B2
To suppress a phenomenon where an optical axis of the optically anisotropic layer is tilted when the optically anisotropic layer is produced by using a liquid crystalline compound showing smectic phase as a materials showing a higher level of orderliness. An optically anisotropic layer wherein a polymerizable composition, containing one or more polymerizable rod-like liquid crystal compound showing a smectic phase, is fixed in a state of smectic phase, and a direction of maximum refractive index of the optically anisotropic layer is inclined at 10° or smaller to the surface of the optically anisotropic layer, a method for manufacturing the same, a laminate and a method for manufacturing the same, a polarizing plate, a liquid crystal display device, and an organic EL display device.
US12078830B2
In some implementations, an optical interference filter includes a substrate; and a set of layers that are disposed on the substrate, wherein the set of layers includes: a first subset of layers; and a second subset of layers; wherein: each of the first subset of layers includes an aluminum nitride (AlN) material, a stress of each of the first subset of layers is between −1000 and 800 megapascals, the first subset of layers has a first refractive index with a first value, each of the second subset of layers includes at least one other material, the second subset of layers has a second refractive index with a second value that is different than the first value, and the optical interference filter has an effective refractive index greater than or equal to 95% of a highest value of the first value and the second value.
US12078828B2
Laminate, optical filter, solid image pickup element, image display device, infrared sensor, and kit
A laminate includes: a near infrared light absorbing layer that includes a near infrared absorbing colorant; and a color filter layer that is arranged adjacent to the near infrared light absorbing layer in a thickness direction and includes a chromatic colorant, in which in at least one of the near infrared light absorbing layer or the color filter layer, a content of a compound in which an acid group selected from a sulfo group, a phosphate group, or a carboxyl group is bonded to a colorant skeleton is 0.1 to 99.9 mass % with respect to a total mass of compounds having a colorant skeleton.
US12078823B2
A texture image acquiring device, a display device and a collimator are disclosed. The texture image acquiring device includes a collimator and an image sensor. The collimator includes a lens array and diaphragm component. The diaphragm component includes a first diaphragm layer and a second diaphragm layer. The lens array is configured to allow light rays to be converged and incident on the diaphragm component. The diaphragm component is configured to allow light rays to pass through, and to restrict an angle of light rays capable of passing through the diaphragm component. The image sensor is configured to sense light rays incident on the image sensor for acquiring a texture image.
US12078821B2
An optical product can be configured to be an anti-counterfeit feature such as a patch, a window, or a thread on a banknote. The optical product can be configured, when illuminated, to reproduce by reflected or refracted light, a 3D image of at least a part of a 3D object. The optical product can include a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. The second surface can include a plurality of portions. Each portion can correspond to a point on a surface of the 3D object. Each portion can include features corresponding to non-holographic elements on the optical product. A gradient in the features can correlate to an inclination of the surface of the 3D object at the corresponding point. An orientation of the features can correlate to an orientation of the surface of the 3D object at the corresponding point.
US12078819B2
Various embodiments include perimeter sheet spring suspension arrangements for cameras. A perimeter sheet spring suspension arrangement may be used to suspend a moveable platform of the camera from a base structure of the camera, and allow a lens group of the camera to move laterally. According to some embodiments, the perimeter sheet spring suspension arrangement may include one or more tabs that may be used as bumpers that cushion lateral movement of the moveable platform.
US12078808B2
An augmented reality display apparatus and an augmented reality display device comprising the same. The apparatus comprises: a display system (12) configured to display a target image; a depth acquisition assembly (11) configured to acquire depth position information of a target object, the target object including at least one of a human eye, the target image, and a real environment within a field of view of the human eye, the depth position information of the target object including at least one of position information of a depth plane at a gaze position of human eyes, position information of a depth plane where the target image is to be displayed, and position information of a depth plane of the real environment; a processor (13) fixedly connected to the display system (12), the processor (13) being configured to determine displacement information of the display system (12) based on the depth position information of the target object acquired by the depth acquisition assembly (11); a spectacle frame (15) connected to the display system (12) and the depth acquisition assembly (11); and a lifter (14) fixedly connected to the spectacle frame (15), the lifter (14) being connected to the processor (13) by a cable, a driver (142) in the lifter (14) being fixedly connected to the display system (12), the lifter (14) being configured to drive the display system (12) to move to a target position relative to the spectacle frame (15) based on the displacement information determined by the processor (13), the target position being a final arrival position of the display system (12) indicated by the displacement information.
US12078800B2
A holographic system comprises a display device and a waveguide pupil expander. The display device is arranged to display a hologram and to output spatially modulated light in accordance with the hologram. The waveguide pupil expander is configured to receive spatially modulated light from the display device at the input port thereof and to expand the viewing window of the system. The waveguide pupil expander comprises first and second substantially planar reflective surfaces arranged in parallel having an optically transparent material therebetween. The first reflective surface is fully reflective and the second reflective surface is partially reflective such that light is guided from the input port to an output port at the second reflective surface by a series of internal reflections. The optically transparent material is formed by a layered glass structure arranged to maintain the integrity of the waveguide in the event of breakage of glass.
US12078796B2
An endoscope light source device includes a light source device and a light source controller. A first light and a second light are narrow band light in a blue region. A third light is in a green region. A fourth light is in a red region. A first light amount ratio is a ratio of a sum of the light amounts of the first light and the second light, the light amount of the third light, and the light amount of the fourth light. A second light amount ratio is a light amount ratio of the first light and the second light. The light source controller adjusts the light amount ratio of the first light and the second light to achieve the second light amount ratio so as to adjust the color representation from a yellow region to a red region in an image of an object.
US12078794B2
An endoscope includes a first frame, a second frame, a first clearance, an enlarged diameter section, a distal end constituent member, and a second clearance, and a set height of the enlarged diameter section is set to be greater than a magnitude of the first clearance to which the second clearance is added.
US12078791B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide a method of tilting characterization. The method includes measuring a first tilting shift of structures based on a first disposition of the structures. The structures are formed in a vertical direction on a horizontal plane of a product. A second tilting shift of the structures is measured based on a second disposition of the structures. The second disposition is a horizontal flip of the first disposition. A corrected tilting shift is determined based on the first tilting shift and the second tilting shift.
US12078785B2
There is provided an imaging lens with excellent optical characteristics which satisfies demand of a low profile and a low F-number. An imaging lens comprises in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens with negative refractive power having an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region, a second lens with positive refractive power in a paraxial region, a third lens with the negative refractive power in a paraxial region, a fourth lens with the positive refractive power in a paraxial region, a fifth lens having a flat object-side surface and a flat image-side surface that are aspheric, and a sixth lens with the negative refractive power having an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region.
US12078784B2
The present disclosure discloses an optical imaging lens assembly including, sequentially from an object side to an image side along an optical axis, a first lens having refractive power, a concave object-side surface and a concave image-side surface; a second lens having positive refractive power; a third lens having refractive power and a convex object-side surface; a fourth lens having positive refractive power; and a fifth lens having negative refractive power. An effective focal length f1 of the first lens and a radius of curvature R1 of the object-side surface of the first lens satisfy 0.7≤f1/R1<1.5.
US12078778B2
A display device includes a display panel having a first area, a second area, and a bendable area between the first area and the second area, wherein the bendable area is bent so that the second area is disposed below the first area, a driving integrated circuit (IC) disposed below the second area, a window disposed on the first area, and a window protection layer disposed on the window, wherein, one side of the window protection layer and one side of the window are spaced apart from a first boundary between the first area and the bendable area in a horizontal direction, and the one side of the window protection layer and the one side of the window are spaced apart from each other in the horizontal direction.
US12078772B2
A method includes collecting a first set of borehole gravity data at a first time step along a length of a first wellbore and collecting a second set of borehole gravity data at the first time step along a length of a second wellbore. The method also includes interpolating a third set of borehole gravity data at the first time step in an area between the first wellbore and the second wellbore using the first and the second sets of borehole gravity data. Further, the method includes determining a first fluid saturation and a fluid saturation change over time in a reservoir containing the first wellbore and the second wellbore using the first set, the second set, and the third set. Moreover, the method includes controlling wellbore production operations or wellbore injection operations at the first wellbore based on the fluid saturation change.
US12078768B2
A system (100) for attaching devices of subsea equipment to a line (10) comprising a line holding mechanism (11,110) and a line holding unit (404). The line holding unit (404) comprises a 5 longitudinal slit (403) for receiving the line (10), multiple gripping elements (13,130,230), and at least one resilient element (12,120,220), related to one subsea device. The resilient element(s) is/are configured to force the multiple gripping elements (13; 130,230) in a direction towards the line (10), whereby the line holding unit (404) is locked to the line (10) in a locking position. By the invention an improved latching device and an accompanying system for attaching and 10 detaching subsea equipment to and from a line is obtained.
US12078766B2
A device for the detection of gamma rays presents a high resolution in the three-dimensional position of the impact of the gamma ray within one or more scintillation crystal blocks coupled to an array of photosensors, for the determination of the impact energy of said gamma ray, the determination of the instant in time when said impact occurred, the interaction depth and the determination of the time-of-flight. Advantageously, in said device, the scintillation crystal detection blocks are optically isolated, in such a way that the scintillation light can only exit said blocks via the output region; and the scintillation crystal detection blocks and the array of photosensors are disposed in direct optical coupling.
US12078760B2
Disclosed are devices and methods that may be used for the calibration of sensors of a vehicle. A calibration system disclosed herein includes a trigger device configured to detect a first sensing event. The calibration system further includes a plurality of sensor targets. Additionally, the calibration system includes a processor configured to reveal the plurality of sensor targets within a given region in response to the first sensing event. The calibration system may be configured to detect light from a LIDAR striking a light sensors. In response to detecting the light from the LIDAR, a plurality of lights, both visible and infrared, may be illuminated to correspond with a position and timing of the LIDAR pulse.
US12078757B2
A vision first light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system captures an image including a targeted object and uses the image to determine a predicted location of the targeted object. Based on the predicted location, the vision first LIDAR system directs a tracking beam onto the targeted object and detects a portion of the tracking beam reflected by the targeted object. The vision first LIDAR system includes an image sensor to capture the image for predicting the location of the targeted object and includes a distance sensor to determine a distance to the targeted object using the tracking beam.
US12078743B2
A radar signal processing device includes: a processing circuitry configured to generate a processing signal based on a beat signal obtained from a transmitted signal and a received signal, generate a smoothed signal by filtering the processing signal using a smoothing filter in a time domain; and detect an interference signal included in the beat signal based on the processing signal and the smoothed signal.
US12078740B2
A device is arranged for determining a first distance according to a ranging protocol using a measurement message from a second device. A cooperating device (130) has a directional antenna (133) and is located at a trusted distance (150) sharing a connecting direction (160) with the first device. The cooperating device determines a third direction of the same measurement message, and transfers support data to the first device based on the third direction. The first device first determines a first angle (161) between the first direction and the connecting direction and obtains a third angle (163) between the third direction and the connecting direction using the support data. Then a verification test is performed on the first distance (151), the trusted distance (150), the first and the third angle. The first distance is reliable when said distances and angles correspond to a viable spatial constellation (100) of the devices.
US12078738B2
Method, systems, and computer-readable media containing instructions which, when executed by a computing device, cause it to receive data from an inertial measurement unit, including GPS data, velocity data, and bearing data, receive data from a digital magnetic compass, including bearing data, receive data from a Doppler sensor, including velocity data and distance data, determining whether GPS location data is in consensus with a previous derived multi-source reckoning system location, determining a consensus distance value from a weighted average of data from the inertial measurement unit and the Doppler sensor, determine a consensus heading value from a weighted average of data from the inertial measurement unit and the digital magnetic compass, determine a consensus geolocation value from a weighted average of data from the inertial measurement unit and the previous derived multi-source reckoning system location, and determine a derived multi-source reckoning system location.
US12078737B2
A surveying system for a construction site has a restricted antenna system with a plurality of fixed location antennas each defined by a set of location data associated with a specific deployment position. The surveying system also has a computing device with a data processor and a display screen. A communications module establishes a data transfer link with the restricted antenna system over which spatial data for distances between current positions of the computing device and one or more of the plurality of fixed location antennas are received. The computing device is loadable with project drawings corresponding to the construction site and displayable on the display screen. A position marker is overlaid on the display of the project drawing at a position thereon corresponding to a computing device location value derived from the spatial data and the location data of one or more of the fixed location antennas.
US12078734B2
A method for detecting a probe signal at an estimated code delay and an estimated doppler frequency includes: (i) dividing a period of the probe signal into sections each of a predetermined duration; (ii) assigning to each section one of a multiple code categories, each code category being indicative of a signal pattern of the probe signal within the section; and (iii) selecting multiple phase categories for a sinusoidal signal, each phase category being indicative of a range of phases in the sinusoidal signal. Thereafter, the method includes (i) receiving a signal from which the probe signal is to be detected; (ii) dividing the received signal into sections each of the predetermined duration; (iii) assigning each section of the received signal both a corresponding code category and a corresponding phase category, based respectively on the estimated code delay and the doppler frequency; and (iv) separately accumulating sections of the received signal according to the assigned code and phase categories of each section.
US12078733B2
A navigation satellite system reception apparatus can eliminate multipath signals without direct waves of invisible satellites and can implement time synchronization. A satellite orbit information acquisition unit acquires orbit information of a satellite, an installation position information acquisition unit acquires position information of an installation position, an azimuth meter acquires azimuth information of an azimuth in which a wall surface of a nearby obstruction extends, and an azimuth mask generation unit calculates a mask region for selecting a satellite to be a target of processing based on the azimuth information. A positioning and time synchronization processing unit calculates an azimuth and an angle of elevation of each satellite, selects a satellite to be a target of processing bas, and performs the positioning processing or the time synchronization processing based on a satellite signal received from the selected satellite.
US12078731B2
A method of supporting flight operations of aircraft includes accessing a data stream of geographic positions of aircraft on respective flights. The geographic positions are determined using a satellite navigation system and obtained from automatic dependent surveillance broadcast (ADS-B) position reports, or estimated independent of the ADS-B position reports. The geographic positions are tracked to determine a number of the respective flights for which the geographic positions change from being obtained from the ADS-B position reports, to being estimated independent of the ADS-B position reports. The method includes determining an outage in which the satellite navigation system is unavailable to the aircraft, based on the number of the respective flights for which the geographic positions change from the ADS-B position reports to estimated independent of the ADS-B position reports, and based on a threshold. And an outage notification is generated that is output to alert users of the outage.
US12078725B2
Apparatus and associated methods relate to detecting jams when an intensity of a reflected signal exceeds a predetermined intensity threshold and an intensity window metric based on historic intensity value(s) fails to exceed an intensity window threshold for more than a predetermined time threshold. In an illustrative example, a jam detection unit (JDU) may emit a signal and detect a reflection of the signal. The JDU may, for example, compare intensity of the reflected signal to the intensity threshold. The JDU, for example, may compare the intensity threshold with at least one historic intensity value to determine the intensity window metric. If the intensity value exceeds the intensity threshold and the intensity window metric has not exceeded the intensity window threshold for longer than the time threshold, then the JDU may, for example, generate a jam signal. Various embodiments may advantageously detect jams based on intensity of a reflected signal.
US12078722B2
A distance measurement device includes: an emission and exposure controller which controls emission timing and an emission period of irradiation light for an emitter and controls exposure timing and an exposure period of reflected light for a solid-state image sensor; and a data processor which includes a calculator that calculates distance data and light intensity data based on signals of pixels outputted by a light receiver. The emission and exposure controller controls the exposure timing to perform exposure to reflected light from a first distance and not to perform exposure to reflected light from a second distance longer than the first distance in a distance measurement range. The data processor includes a determination unit which determines reliability of the distance data in accordance with a signal amount of the light intensity data for each of the pixels.
US12078710B2
Occupancy sensing using ultra-wideband (UWB) keyless infrastructure is provided. Channel impulse response (CIR) measurements are received from a plurality of UWB transceiver nodes arranged about a plurality of locations. A classification model it utilized to predict occupancy of each of the plurality of locations based on CIR tensors formed from the CIR measurements for each of the UWB transceiver nodes.
US12078705B2
An automated segmentation system for medical imaging data segments data into muscle and fat volumes, and separates muscle volumes into discrete muscle group volumes using a plurality of models of the medical imaging data, and wherein the medical imaging data includes data from a plurality of imaging modalities.
US12078704B2
The disclosure relates to techniques for executing a measurement sequence in an MRI system, wherein a plurality of measurement subsequences are to be executed within the measurement sequence, each measurement subsequence comprising measurement blocks to be interleaved on a time scale of the MRI system. For each measurement subsequence a respective time value defines when the next measurement block is to be executed on a global time scale by the MRI system. The measurement subsequences are stored in a container ordered according to their respective time values, and the first measurement subsequence is accessed from the subsequence list for execution by the MRI system in run-time.
US12078703B2
Disclosed herein is a medical system (100, 300, 500) comprising a memory (110) storing machine executable instructions (120) and a predictor algorithm (122) configured for outputting predicted field of view alignment data (128) for a magnetic resonance imaging system (502) in response to inputting one or more localizer magnetic resonance images (124) and subject metadata (126). The predictor algorithm comprises a trainable machine learning algorithm. The medical system further comprises a processor (104) configured for controlling the medical system. Execution of the machine executable instructions causes the processor to: receive (200) the one or more localizer magnetic resonance images and the subject metadata; and receive (202) the predicted field of view alignment data from the predictor algorithm in response to inputting the one or more localizer magnetic resonance images into the predictor algorithm and in response to inputting the subject metadata.
US12078699B2
A cage with a fastening system (1) in a magnetic resonance device (MRD) is disclosed, said cage in an MRD comprising (a) M pole pieces (45) (M≥2); (b) N side magnets (20) (N≥2), said side magnets substantially enclosing said pole pieces and thereby defining a magnetic envelope and enclosed volume therein; (c) N side walls (10), said side walls substantially enclosing said side magnets; (d) P face walls (30) (P≥2); and (e) a plurality of fastening rods (100); wherein each of said fastening rods physically interconnects at least one pair of side walls, passing through at least one of said side magnets and at least one of said pole pieces.
US12078694B2
An electronic device including a mounting device configured to couple to a surface, a head removably coupled to the mounting device and including a housing, a magnet attached to the mounting device, and a sensor disposed within the housing. The sensor detects a magnetic field associated with the magnet when the head is in a first position relative to the mounting device and detects the magnetic field associated with the magnet when the head is in a second position relative to the mounting device, the second position being different than the first position.
US12078691B2
The present disclosure relates to a housing assembly for accommodating printed circuit boards (PCBs). The housing assembly comprises a first housing portion configured to accommodate a first PCB, a second housing portion configured to accommodate a second PCB, and a separating portion for separating the first housing portion from the second housing portion. The separating portion comprises a first separating region in which the first housing portion and the second housing portion overlap and a second separating region that extends beyond the second housing portion and covers the first housing portion. The second separating region comprises one or more convection openings.
US12078690B2
A method is provided for determining a coupling between magnetometers of an array of N magnetometers, for example with optical pumping, where each magnetometer includes a field cancellation system capable of being activated to operate the magnetometer in zero field. This method includes a first phase during which one of the N magnetometers is a measuring magnetometer whose field cancellation system is activated and the other N-1 magnetometers have their field cancellation system deactivated. This first phase includes generation by the magnetometers, of a plurality of reference magnetic fields of known amplitudes and distinct directions, the measurement, by the measuring magnetometer, of the ambient magnetic field on a plurality of measurement axes, and determination of coupling coefficients between the measuring magnetometer and each of the N magnetometers from said measurement and said known amplitudes.
US12078686B2
The electric leakage detection method disclosed herein includes: total voltage measurement of measuring a total voltage Vt which is an electrical potential difference between a total positive terminal open to be connectable with an external device and a total negative terminal open to be connectable with the external device; electric leakage voltage measurement of measuring an electric leakage voltage VL which is an electrical potential difference between a reference terminal (the total negative terminal) and the electric leakage occurring position (the third single battery); and an electric leakage occurring position determination of determining the electric leakage occurring position by calculating a ratio (VL/Vt) of the electric leakage voltage VL to the total voltage Vt. This allows the number of single batteries between the reference terminal and the electric leakage occurring position to be estimated, and a detailed electric leakage occurring position to be determined.
US12078684B2
Systems and methods for monitoring and management of an electronic device are discussed here. An authentication request is received from a user for access to an electronically secured compartment of an electronic device. Authentication data is obtained from the user. An authentication request that includes a device identifier for the electronically secured compartment and the authentication data is transmitted to a cloud-based authentication service. Access to the electronically secured compartment is provided upon receipt of an indication of an association between the user and the electronically secured compartment from the cloud-based service provider.
US12078678B2
Manufacturers perform tests on chips before the chips are shipped to customers. However, defects can occur on a chip after the manufacturer testing and when the chips are used in a system or device. The defects can occur due to aging or the environment in which the chip is employed and can be critical; especially when the chips are used in systems such as autonomous vehicles. To verify the structural integrity of the IC during the lifetime of the product, an in-system test (IST) is disclosed. The IST enables self-testing mechanisms for an IC in working systems. The IST mechanisms provide structural testing of the ICs when in a functional system and at a manufacturer's level of testing. Unlike ATE tests that are running on a separate environment, the IST provides the ability to go from a functional world view to a test mode.
US12078672B2
Heat spreaders for use in semiconductor device testing, such as burn-in testing, are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a heat spreader is configured to be coupled to a burn-in testing board including a plurality of sockets. The heat spreader includes (i) a frame having a plurality of apertures, and (ii) a plurality of heat sinks movably positioned within corresponding ones of the apertures. When the heat spreader is coupled to the burn-in testing board, the heat sinks are configured to extend into corresponding ones of the sockets to thermally contact semiconductor devices positioned within the sockets. The heat spreader can promote a uniform temperature gradient across the burn-in board during testing of the semiconductor devices.
US12078668B2
Systems and methods for testing circuit operations are provided. Aspects include a circuit comprising a power source, a switching element, and a load. A sensing element is arranged between the switching element and the load and the sensing element is communicatively coupled to a microcontroller, wherein the microcontroller is configured to perform a diagnostic operation for the circuit comprising obtaining, from the sensing element, first sensor data associated with the load responsive to operating the switching element, wherein the first sensor data comprises electrical values associated with the load, obtaining, from the sensing element, second sensor data associated with an output of the switching element, wherein the second sensor data comprises electrical values associated with the output of the switching element, and analyzing the first sensor data and the second sensor data to determine a fault condition for the circuit.
US12078663B2
Provided is an overcurrent detection circuit for detecting an overcurrent flowing upon turning on of a switching element, the overcurrent detection circuit including a main current detection unit configured to detect whether an input signal according to a main current is higher than or equal to a set detection threshold, and a condition control unit configured to control at least one of a waveform of the input signal in the main current detection unit or the detection threshold to control a comparison condition in the main current detection unit, in which the condition control unit is configured to set the comparison condition to a first condition during a period from the turning on of the switching element until elapse of a first period, and set the comparison condition to a second condition during a period from the elapse of the first period until elapse of a second period.
US12078659B2
A semiconductor device includes a temperature sensor circuit having a sensor element, internal circuits, sensor terminals connected to the sensor element, and normal terminals connected to the internal circuits. A semiconductor inspection apparatus inspects, by using a probe card having first probes and second probes, the semiconductor device mounted on a stage in a first state in which the first probe is in contact with the sensor terminal and the second probe is not in contact with the semiconductor device and in a second state in which the first probe is in contact with the sensor terminal and the second probe is in contact with the normal terminal. The semiconductor inspection apparatus measures an output value of the sensor element in the first state to calculate temperature characteristics of the sensor element, and grasps a temperature of the sensor element in the second state based on the temperature characteristics.
US12078655B2
A voltage sensor is disclosed for high and medium voltage use, wherein a voltage divider is arranged in a housing with external creepage distance enlarging ribs. To implement structures for creepage path enlargement to a sensor housing in a very effective and easy way, the voltage divider is arranged in a housing or in housing modules which is or are covered at least partly by at least one shrinking tube of insulating material such that the shrinking creepage enlarging structures are implemented at least at outer surface of the shrinking tube.
US12078648B2
Disclosed is a sample measurement device comprising a first processing unit that performs a first measurement on a sample contained in a first container in a first cycle; a second processing unit that performs a second measurement on a sample contained in a second container in a second cycle different from the first cycle; and a relay section which is disposed between the first processing unit and the second processing unit and in which the second container is positioned, wherein the first processing unit performs a transferring operation of transferring the second container to the relay section, and the second processing unit performs a receiving operation of receiving the second container that has been transferred to the relay section from the relay section.
US12078644B2
An organic salt of the present disclosure contains terephthalic acid and at least one kind of primary alkylamine. An alkyl group constituting the primary alkylamine has 6 or more and 17 or less carbon atoms. The organic salt of the present disclosure can be used to detect a hydroxy radical contained in a gas, for example. The present disclosure provides: an organic salt that makes it possible to detect a hydroxy radical more easily as well as to detect a hydroxy radical generated in a living body; and a hydroxy-radical sensor adopting the organic salt.
US12078633B2
The present invention provides a method to quantitatively measure the response of a patient to an immune-modulator drug that will aid clinicians in the determination of the optimal combination/posology of immunosuppressant/immune-modulator drugs. In addition, this method will open the possibility for clinicians to make the necessary adjustments in immunosuppressive therapy, as a way to avoid organ rejection to actually take place. Furthermore, this method will significantly reduce side effects of immunosuppressant drugs, optimizing therapeutic scheme and dosages, enabling the determination of the most effective immunosuppression regimen at the lower dosages for each patient individually and monitoring of treatment efficiency along time, thus opening the door to treatment personalization.
US12078626B2
A method and kit for detecting the presence of diesel exhaust fluid in fuel is disclosed. The method includes obtaining a fuel sample, combining the fuel sample with a buffered urease solution to make a test solution, agitating the test solution, allowing the test solution to separate into layers and convert urea to ammonia. The method also includes adjusting a pH of the aqueous layer of the test solution, isolating the aqueous layer, immersing, agitating and then removing a reagent strip, and allowing the aqueous layer to develop a color change for an indication of presence of ammonia from any DEF contamination.
US12078622B2
In a quantitative determination device 10 for brominated flame-retardant compounds, a storage section 41 holds a relative response factor 411 representing a relationship of a measured intensity of a compared compound to that of a reference compound selected from target compounds. A standard-sample measurer 43 acquires the intensity of the reference compound by measuring a standard sample, using an analyzer 10, 20. A target-sample measurer 45 acquires the intensities of the reference and compared compounds by measuring a target sample, using the analyzer. A reference-compound quantity determiner 46 determines a quantitative value of the reference compound in the target sample. A compared-compound quantity determiner 47 determines a quantitative value of the compared compound based on the quantity of the reference compound in the standard sample, intensity of the reference compound acquired by the standard-sample measurer, intensity of the compared compound acquired by the target-sample measurer, and relative response factor of the compared compound.
US12078618B2
A gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer includes a gas chromatograph having a column that separates a sample into components, a mass spectrometer provided in a vacuum housing, and an interface that introduces a sample that has been separated into components in the gas chromatograph into the mass spectrometer, and the interface includes a partition wall fixed to the vacuum housing to close an opening formed in the vacuum housing, a line pipe that is fixed to the partition wall to penetrate the partition wall, includes a sample outlet line of the column and introduces the sample into the mass spectrometer, a heater that heats the line pipe in an axial direction, and a fixer that fixes the heater being in contact with the partition wall.
US12078617B2
A tensile tester includes a tester body having at least one detector and a controller, and the controller includes a first branch setting unit that sets a first branching condition at a first branch point at which a test condition branches into two or more test conditions in association with a detection result of the detector, a first condition setting unit that sets a first test condition that is a test condition before the first branch point, and a second condition setting unit that sets a second test condition that is a test condition after the first branch point.
US12078615B2
A photoacoustic detector unit comprises a housing having an opening, and also a photoacoustic transducer designed to convert optical radiation into at least one from a pressure signal or a heat signal. The photoacoustic transducer covers the opening of the housing, such that the photoacoustic transducer and the housing form an acoustically tight cavity. A pressure pick-up is arranged in the acoustically tight cavity.
US12078607B2
A method of characterizing a wide-bandgap semiconductor material is provided. A substrate is provided, which includes a layer stack of a conductive material layer, a dielectric material layer, and a wide-bandgap semiconductor material layer. A mercury probe is disposed on a top surface of the wide-bandgap semiconductor material layer. Alternating-current (AC) capacitance of the layer stack is determined as a function of a variable direct-current (DC) bias voltage across the conductive material layer and the wide-bandgap semiconductor material layer. A material property of the wide-bandgap semiconductor material layer is extracted from a profile of the AC capacitance as a function of the DC bias voltage.
US12078602B1
A self-contained emitter assembly according to one embodiment is provided to generate and emit X-rays underwater for facilitating X-ray imaging. The self-contained emitter assembly may be operable by a user underwater without connection to an external power supply and/or control circuitry.
US12078601B2
A metrology system may arrange metrology measurements for a plurality of metrology targets distributed in a plurality of fields on one or samples into a signal vector, where the metrology measurements associated with the metrology targets in each of the plurality of fields are grouped within the signal vector. The system may further decompose the signal vector into reconstruction vectors associated with different spectral components of the signal vector. The system may further classify a subset of the reconstruction vectors as components of a metrology model, where a sum of the components corresponds to a metrology model describing the metrology measurements on the one or more samples. The system may further generate control signals to control one or more processing tools based on the metrology model.
US12078594B2
The present disclosure describes a flow cell, a read head, and a skid attachment for measuring real-time molecular weight for downstream process control. In an embodiment, the flow cell comprises a hollow cylindrical tube, an inlet flange connected to an inlet of the tube, and an outlet flange connected to an outlet of the tube. In an embodiment, the read head comprises at least one push rod, at least two line contacts, where the at least one push rod is configured to push an outer side wall of a flow cell against the at least two line contacts. In an embodiment, the skid attachment comprises a plurality of arms connected to an enclosure configured to house at least a multi-angle light scattering instrument comprising a read head.
US12078590B2
A concentration measurement method performed in a concentration measurement device including an electric unit having a light source and a photodetector, a fluid unit having a measurement cell through which a gas flows, and a processing circuit for calculating a concentration of the gas based on an intensity of a light passing through the measurement cell. The concentration measurement method includes a step of determining an absorption coefficient of the measurement gas using a reference absorption coefficient determined in association with the reference gas and a correction factor associated with the measurement gas, and a step of obtaining a concentration of the measurement gas flowing in the measurement cell using the absorption coefficient of the measurement gas. When the absorption peak wavelength of the measurement gas is longer than the peak wavelength of the light source, a reference gas having a longer absorption peak wavelength than the peak wavelength of the light source is used, and when the absorption peak wavelength of the measurement gas is shorter than the peak wavelength of the light source, a reference gas having a shorter absorption peak wavelength than the peak wavelength of the light source is used.
US12078589B2
An objective of the present invention is to provide an optical measurement device capable of performing remote optical measurement. An optical measurement device may include a light source that generates irradiation light with a beam shape, a beam control unit configured to control an irradiation direction of the irradiation light L1, a condensing unit configured to condense returned light generated by irradiating a part of a measurement target with the irradiation light, and a detection unit configured to detect information regarding the measurement target included in the returned light condensed by the condensing unit. The beam control unit can control the irradiation direction of the irradiation light for measurement to any direction, and thus the condensing unit can efficiently receive the faint returned light from the measurement target.
US12078581B2
A biological material measuring instrument is described. The biological material measuring instrument includes a rotating body and a main body. The rotating body includes one or more cartridge holders having cuvettes in which a reagent and an analyte in a sample react. The main body includes a pair of light-emitting parts and light-receiving parts to optically measure the analyte in the sample. The rotating body further includes a light-emitting optical waveguide for guiding the light of the light-emitting parts to the cuvette, and a light-receiving optical waveguide for guiding.
US12078577B2
A sectioning apparatus (1) for sectioning frozen tissue specimens, the apparatus (1) comprising: a frame (2) comprising two opposing side walls (3a, 3b) extending in a longitudinal direction (L) of the apparatus (1); a blade unit (6) mounted between the side walls (3a, 3b) of the frame (2) in a transverse direction (T) of the apparatus (1); a clamping unit (7) integral with or fixed to each side wall (3a, 3b) of the frame (2) that is adapted to clamp one end of the blade unit (6); a specimen stage (8) for mounting a tissue specimen; a drive mechanism for providing relative movement between the specimen stage (8) and the blade unit (6) in use of the apparatus (1); wherein the clamping unit (7) has a dimension in the transverse direction (T) that is greater than a dimension of the side wall (3a,3b) of the frame (2) in the transverse direction (T).
US12078576B2
A carrier for holding a biological sample includes a substrate. The substrate is configured to engage a first sample chamber comprising a first opening characterized by a first opening diameter or a second sample chamber comprising a second opening characterized by a second opening diameter that is greater than the first opening diameter. The substrate includes an upper portion, a lower portion, and an intermediate portion disposed between the upper portion and the lower portion. The lower portion is disposed below the upper portion and comprises a bottom surface configured to receive a biological sample. The intermediate portion is characterized by a first substrate diameter and the lower portion is characterized by a second substrate diameter that is less than the first substrate diameter.
US12078568B2
The present disclosure provides a vibration exciting system and an apparatus for testing an aero-engine rotor, relating to the field of aero-engines, to improve the universality of the vibration exciting system. The vibration exciting system comprises a mounting ring, fixing parts, holders, guide rails, and nozzle assemblies. The mounting ring is configured to be annular; one ends of the fixing parts are fixedly connected to the mounting ring; the holders are slidably mounted at the other ends of the fixing parts, the plurality of holders being arranged circumferentially of the mounting ring; each guide rail connects two adjacent holders, connection positions of the guide rail and the holders being adjustable; and the nozzle assemblies are mounted on the holders. The radius size of a spraying area enclosed by the nozzle assemblies is adjusted by adjusting the positions of the holders on the fixing parts.
US12078566B2
A pressure measurement device is configured to adjust a gas pressure in an external gas cavity that is fluidly coupled thereto and measure the adjusted gas pressure in the external gas cavity. The pressure measurement device includes a port, a pressure control module, a port pressure sensor, and a gas discharging port. The pressure measurement device is fluidly coupled to the external gas cavity through the port. The pressure control module is coupled to the port through a gas passage and configured to operably provide pressurized gas to the external gas cavity or draw gas from the external gas cavity. The port pressure sensor is coupled to the port and configured to measure a gas pressure at the port. The gas discharging port is coupled to the port and the pressure control module, and configured to operably discharge gas from the port or the pressure control module to an external environment.
US12078565B2
A piezoelectric sensor includes an elastic body having a first surface, a regulatory section which is disposed at a position where the regulatory section faces the first surface of the elastic body, and which is configured to limit a deformation of the elastic body, and a first piezoelectric element which is partially fixed to the regulatory section, and which deforms in accordance with the deformation of the elastic body, wherein the first piezoelectric element outputs a voltage signal which increases and decreases from a reference voltage in accordance with a direction of the deformation.
US12078563B2
A tribometer and technique for determining torque at a physical interface of multiple rotating components. The tool and technique include aligning components about a rotational axis for independent rotation of each component. The components are in physical interface during the rotating with a resultant frictional torque. The torque may be measured by one or more torque meters during the rotating. This measured torque may be compared against an estimated torque for tool accuracy. Further, parameters such as load, temperature, component material, rotating rpm differentials and others may be varied to determine effect on measured frictional torque.
US12078558B1
A system may include a strain gauge bar securable within a puck recess formed in an outer surface of a downhole drill bit. The strain gauge bar may be configured to collect data indicating a downhole force applied to the downhole drill bit during drilling operations. Further, the strain gauge bar may have a body portion and at least one wedge feature protruding from the body portion. The at least one wedge feature may be insertable into at least one wedge recess formed in the bottom surface of the puck recess. The system may also include a strain puck cap securable within the puck recess. The strain puck cap may be configured to apply pressure to the strain gauge bar to drive the at least one wedge feature of the strain gauge bar into the at least one wedge recess and pre-load the strain gauge bar.
US12078557B2
According to an aspect, a force sensor includes: a plurality of first electrodes that are arranged along a substrate; an elastic body that is in contact with the first electrodes; a second electrode that is in contact with the elastic body, the elastic body being interposed between the second electrode and the first electrodes; and a third electrode that is provided on the substrate side of the second electrode and configured to be electrically coupled to the second electrode. The elastic body includes a conductive particle that electrically couples the first electrodes and the second electrode when force is applied that causes the first electrodes and the second electrode to be approached. The third electrode has a continuous lattice shape that separates at least the first electrodes adjacent in one direction from each other.
US12078546B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing electromagnetic radiation sensing using sequential beam splitting. The apparatuses can include a micro-mirror chip having a plurality of light reflecting surfaces, an image sensor having an imaging surface, and a beamsplitter unit located between the micro-mirror chip and the image sensor. The beamsplitter unit includes a plurality of beamsplitters aligned along a horizontal axis that is parallel to the micro-mirror chip and the imaging surface. The beamsplitters implement the sequential beam splitting. Because of the structure of the beamsplitter unit, the height of the arrangement of the micro-mirror chip, the beamsplitter unit, and the image sensor is reduced such that the arrangement can fit within a mobile device. Within a mobile device, the apparatuses can be utilized for human detection, fire detection, gas detection, temperature measurements, environmental monitoring, energy saving, behavior analysis, surveillance, information gathering and for human-machine interfaces.
US12078545B2
The present disclosure relates to a microbolometer comprising an array of pixels, each pixel comprising one or more detection cells, each detection cell comprising an absorption layer (530) forming a quarter-wave cavity (533) having a height (h) of between 1.5 and 5 μm, wherein the pitch of the detection cells in at least one axis in a plane of the pixel array is in the range 2.4 h to 3.6 h.
US12078544B2
A temperature calibration method of an infrared thermal image camera and a calibration method of a temperature sensing system of an infrared thermal image camera are provided. The temperature calibration method of the infrared thermal image camera includes: providing a temperature sensing system to measure an object under test, so as to obtain an uncalibrated temperature; and calibrating the uncalibrated temperature to obtain a calibrated temperature, according to the uncalibrated temperature and a temperature calibration function. The temperature calibration function is obtained through a regression analysis.
US12078539B2
A measurement system is disclosed which includes a flow chamber configured to propagate a sample in a flow stream, one or more optical sources configured to irradiate the sample in the flow stream, one or more detector systems each configured to receive resultant light from the sample and, in response, generate a photon signal, the one or more detector systems each including one or more photon sensors each adapted to generate an electronic pulse in response to receiving a photon and a circuit operating in the giga hertz supporting the one or more photon sensors thus configured to count each individual photon in the resultant light from the sample.
US12078533B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium that automatically performs actions in an aquaculture environment based on light sensed by underwater cameras. One of the methods includes obtaining images of a surface of water captured by a camera that faces upwards from a depth towards the surface of the water within an enclosure that encloses aquatic livestock. An ambient light metric is determined at the depth from the images of the surface of the water. A determination is made as to whether the camera satisfies one or more depth criteria. Based on determining that the depth of the camera satisfies the one or more depth criteria, it is determined that, based on the ambient light metric at the depth, one or more action criteria are satisfied, then initiating performance of an action to be performed for the aquatic livestock.
US12078528B2
Systems, and methods for automatically identifying an underground optical fiber cable length from DFOS systems in real time and pair it with GPS coordinates that advantageously eliminate the need for in-field inspection/work by service personnel to make such real-time distance/location determinations. As such, inefficient, error-prone and labor-intensive prior art methods are rendered obsolete. Operationally, our method disclosure involves driving vehicles including GPS to generate traffic patterns and automatically mapping traffic trajectory signals from a deployed buried fiber optic cable to locate geographic location(s) of the buried fiber optic cable. Traffic patterns are automatically recognized; slack in the fiber optic cable is accounted for; location of traffic lights and other traffic control devices/structures may be determined; and turns in the fiber optic cable may likewise be determined.
US12078525B2
A vibration sensor assembly having a rigid surface and a transducer integrated with the rigid surface. The transducer measures structure-borne sound waves that cause vibration motion of the rigid surface. The rigid surface may be glass, metal or plastic and may be part of an interior part or panel, or an exterior panel, of a vehicle.
US12078523B2
In some implementations, one or more devices may determine whether an electrical circuit is closed or open, the electrical circuit including electrodes of the sensor device, the electrical circuit being closed based on the electrodes being immersed in a lubricant in a cavity of a component of a track assembly of the machine, the electrical circuit being open based on the electrodes not being immersed in the lubricant in the cavity. The one or more devices may generate sensor data based on determining that the electrical circuit is open, the sensor data indicating that a level, of the lubricant in the cavity, does not satisfy a level threshold. The one or more devices may cause the machine to perform an action based on the sensor data indicating that the level does not satisfy the level threshold.
US12078522B2
A system, methods, and apparatus for preventing receptacle overfilling are presented. The system can include a sensor member configured to couple with a receptacle and sense a material level within the receptacle, such as via a sight glass of the receptacle. The system can include a controller in operable communication with the sensor member and configured to instantiate the shutoff of material flow from a material dispensing system if a particular material level is detected by the sensor member. The system can include an intermediate member configured to relay communications between the sensor member and the controller. The intermediate member can be coupled to a fluid line and can further act as a holster for the sensor member, such as by facilitating the coupling of the sensor member to the intermediate member and/or the fluid line.
US12078512B2
A dual channel detector. The first channel includes a first sensor and the second channel includes a second sensor, which are deposited on a substrate. The first and second sensors measure the same physical quantity, but output different measurement signals. The sensors are connected to evaluation units via contact points.
US12078511B2
Provided is a mounting member that allows a sensor such as a vibration sensor to be reliably and easily mounted to a moving member such as a nut of a motion guidance apparatus without need of removing the motion guidance apparatus from equipment, and without need of post-processing even when a motion guidance apparatus such as a ball screw is already mounted to the equipment, and a motion guidance apparatus including this mounting member. A mounting member for mounting a sensor to a motion guidance apparatus having a shaft member extending in a longitudinal direction and a moving member that is mounted so as to be movable along the longitudinal direction with respect to the shaft member, the mounting member including: a fixing portion that can be fixed to a fastening hole formed in the moving member; and a sensor mounting portion to which the sensor is mounted.
US12078506B2
The region segmentation apparatus and method for map decomposition of a robot according to the exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure segment the grid map into a plurality of regions in consideration of the graphic characteristic of the space and obstacles disposed in the space.
US12078505B2
A roadway mapping device for a vehicle includes a camera unit for detecting image data and a control unit. The control unit is configured to determine roadway regions in the image data detected by the camera unit. The control unit is further configured to transform the image data, including the determined roadway regions, into a bird's-eye view by utilizing inverse perspective imaging and to project same onto a plane. The control unit is further configured to add the determined roadway regions to a grid map in the plane. Furthermore, the control unit is configured to align at least two grid maps from two different journeys with respect to each other and to combine them to create a final grid map of the roadway regions.
US12078500B2
A solar loading-based system includes a memory, a disturbance prediction module, a cabin temperature estimation module and a thermal control module. The memory stores a cabin thermal load model of an interior cabin of a host vehicle and a solar load prediction model. The disturbance prediction module: receives signals indicative of states of cabin thermal actuators and comfort metrics; and predicts an effect of solar loading over a known portion of a predicted route including predicting cabin temperatures based on the solar load prediction model, the states of the cabin thermal actuators, and the comfort metrics. The cabin temperature estimation module, based on the cabin thermal load model, determines a first comfort metric based on the predicted cabin temperatures. The thermal control module controls cabin thermal actuators to adjust cabin states, including the first comfort metric, to respective target values based on the predicted effect of solar loading.
US12078494B2
A control device of a vehicle controls an actuator of the vehicle to cause the vehicle to travel based on a follow-up route. The control device includes a width information obtaining unit that obtains a road width in which the vehicle can pass on a road on which the vehicle travels. The control device includes a locus follow-up control unit that creates a follow-up route based on the obtained road width. The locus follow-up control unit derives a control amount for causing the vehicle to travel along the follow-up route.
US12078489B2
The invention relates to a weight and reference quaternion correction unscented quaternion estimation method, comprising: obtaining measurement data as quantity measurement through a gyro and a star sensor; establishing a quaternion-based discrete spacecraft nonlinear state space model; estimating an error quaternion, a gyro drift and a corresponding error covariance at a k moment by using an unscented quaternion estimator based on parameter and reference quaternion correction at a k−1 moment; and setting a filtering time as Ntime, if k
US12078486B1
Systems and methods for navigation with magnetic field sensors are provided. For example, a system includes a magnetic gradient sensor that measures a magnetic gradient. The system also includes one or more inertial sensors that provide inertial measurements. Additionally, the system includes a magnetic field sensor that measures magnetic fields. Further, the system includes one or more processors that execute computer-readable instructions that direct the one or more processors to estimate a magnetic field based on the measured magnetic gradient and a velocity estimate from the inertial measurements. The computer-readable instructions also direct the one or more processors to calculate an error for the magnetic field and other navigation parameters using an additional magnetic field measurement from the magnetic field sensor.
US12078482B2
A hybrid position sensor for determining the position of a hybrid target includes a main transducer for obtaining a first signal indicative for a position of the hybrid target within a first range and with a first resolution using a first or second technology; a support transducer for obtaining a second signal indicative for the position of the hybrid target within a second range and with a second resolution using the second technology if the main transducer is using the first technology and vice versa, wherein the first range is smaller than the second and the first resolution is higher than the second, and wherein the first technology is magnet based and the second technology is an inductive technology; a combiner for combining the obtained first signal and second signal to determine the position of the hybrid target.
US12078481B2
An inductive sensor includes a first circuit board having a sensor element configurable in a plurality of different coil configurations. The sensor element includes a transmit coil and a plurality of receive coils. The first circuit board includes interconnect points positioned at a same location on the first circuit board for each of the plurality of different coil configurations. The inductive sensor includes a second circuit board spaced apart from the first circuit board along the axial direction. The second circuit board includes processing circuitry associated with the sensor element and configurable in a plurality of different configurations. The second circuit board includes interconnect points positioned at a same location on the second circuit board for each of the configurations of the processing circuitry. Furthermore, each interconnect point on the second circuit board is aligned with a corresponding interconnect point on the first circuit board along circumferential and radial directions.
US12078479B2
A 3D scanner system includes a scanning device capable of recording first and second data sets of a surface of an object when operating in a first configuration and a second configuration, respectively. A measurement unit is configured for measuring a distance from the scanning device to the surface. A control controls an operation of the scanning device based on the distance measured by the measurement unit, where the scanning device operates in the first configuration when the measured distance is within a first range of distances from the surface and the scanning device operates in the second configuration when the measured distance is within a second range of distances; and a data processor is configured to combine one or more first data sets and one or more second data sets to create a combined virtual 3D model of the object surface.
US12078467B2
Disclosed is a system for assisting blasting. The system includes at least one wireless blasting-related device that is deployable or deployed proximate to or within a portion of physical media intended to be blasted as part of a commercial blasting operation. The blasting-related device includes a device-based magnetic induction (MI) signal receiver with a magnetometer configured for through the earth (TTE) MI communication, and the blasting-related device includes a device-based MI signal source with a device-based antenna configured for TTE MI communication. The device-based MI signal source is configured to communicate with a vehicle-based MI signal receiver in a blast support vehicle that includes a set of vehicle-based magnetometers.
US12078466B2
This avalanche triggering system includes a portable unit configured to be carried by an operator, the portable unit comprising a gas storage device configured to store an oxidizing gas and a combustible gas; an explosion unit which is configured to be launched by the operator or to be transported by a drone and which includes a flexible envelope configured to be filled with an explosive gas mixture, the flexible envelope being deformable between a rest configuration in which the flexible envelope has a first inner volume and an inflated configuration in which the flexible envelope has a second inner volume which is greater than the first inner volume, the explosion unit further including an ignition device configured to trigger the explosion of the explosive gas mixture contained in the flexible envelope; and a control unit configured to remotely control the ignition device.
US12078462B2
A low energy cartridge has a case having a sidewall with an interior surface defining a projectile receptacle along a bore axis and having a forward open case mouth, a projectile having an exterior sidewall closely received in the projectile receptacle and defining a rotational axis, a propellant receptacle defined by the case and having a passage communicating with the projectile receptacle, the projectile exterior sidewall being non-circular in cross section across the rotational axis, and the case sidewall interior surface having a rotational engagement feature configured to rotationally engage the non-circular projectile exterior sidewall. The projectile may be slidably received in the projectile receptacle for propulsion from the forward open case mouth. At least one of the projectile and the sidewall interior surface may have a helical surface feature, such that spin is imparted to the projectile upon propulsion from the case.
US12078460B2
In a gas generator, a closing member includes: a first region exposed to a side of a second combustion chamber in a closed state, a second region in contact with a partition member from a side of the first combustion chamber in the closed state, and an engagement region that engages an engaged member fixed in a housing in the closed state; and the closing member is configured to have one or a plurality of communication holes be in a closed state by the closing member being supported at the partition member in the second region due to combustion pressure of a first gas generating agent and to have the closed state released by at least a part of the closing member, the closing member including a displacement portion that is formed continuously so as to be included at least a part of the first region, being displaced in a direction from the side of the second combustion chamber toward the side of the first combustion chamber by combustion pressure of a second gas generating agent acting on the first region.
US12078456B1
An anti-ballistic barrier system with a plurality of support mounts and an anti-ballistic shield configured to extend across a targeted area. The plurality of support mounts is configured to couple the shield to a support structure adjacent the targeted area. A plurality of extendable connectors extends between the anti-ballistic shield and the plurality of support mounts. A polyester shield cover may extend over the anti-ballistic shield. The plurality of extendable connectors may be positioned at regular intervals around a perimeter of the shield and may be formed of a material having an elongation percentage property of at least 100%. The anti-ballistic shield may be movable between a retracted position in which a majority of the targeted area is exposed and an extended position in which the anti-ballistic shield extends across a majority of the targeted area.
US12078455B2
A laser weapon system is described. Particularly, embodiments describe subsystems of a laser weapon system including those necessary for laser generation, operational control, optical emission, and heat dissipation configured to provide a lightweight unit of reduced dimensions.
US12078439B2
A combination back strap and grip extender mountable on a grip of a firearm. The grip defines a magazine well. The combination comprises a strap positionable lengthwise along and overlying an anterior portion of said grip. The strap has first and second ends oppositely disposed. The first and second ends are removably attachable to said grip. The grip extender is mounted on said second end of said strap. The grip extender comprises a collar defining a lumen aligned with said magazine well when said strap overlies said grip.
US12078432B2
A heat sink comprising a heat exchange device having a plurality of heat exchange elements each having a surface boundary with respect to a heat transfer fluid, having a fractal variation therebetween, wherein the heat transfer fluid is induced to flow with respect to the plurality of fractally varying heat exchange elements such that flow-induced vortices are generated at non-corresponding locations of the plurality of fractally varying heat exchange elements, resulting in a reduced resonance as compared to a corresponding heat exchange device having a plurality of heat exchange elements that produce flow-induced vortices at corresponding locations on the plurality of heat exchange elements.
US12078430B2
A connector suitable to be connected to a multi port extruded tube comprises a socket suitable for an end section of a multi port extruded tube to inserted into the socket along a linear insertion direction, whereby the socket contains an end section receiving space suitable to receive the end section of a multi port extruded tube, the end section receiving space bordering a first opening suitable for a multi port extruded tube to extend through it, whereby a cap arranged inside the socket such that the cap can slide from a forward position that is closer to the first opening to a backward position that is further away from the first opening, the cap having an outer circumferential surface whereby a sealing is provided inside the socket that contacts the outer circumferential surface of the cap in the forward position of the cap.
US12078428B2
A heat exchanger including a sealed housing and a body positioned inside the housing, the body including a stack of least one first assembly of first and second plates pressed against each other, between which flows a first fluid, and at least one second assembly of third and fourth plates pressed against each other, between which flows a second fluid, the first and second assemblies being arranged so that they transfer heat between the first and second fluids. This configuration limits the risk of leaks and mixing of the two fluids.
US12078425B2
A device for storing heat energy/cold energy, including a container having a wall (102) with a first interface (110) suitable for letting a fluid into the device (100) and a second interface (111) suitable for letting the fluid out of the device (100), with a plurality of storage elements (104) being arranged in the container and configured to store heat energy/cold energy supplied by the fluid. The container has at least one perforated internal wall (105) with openings of dimensions smaller than the dimensions of the storage elements (104) and defining a first compartment (131) and at least one second compartment (132) in the container, with the plurality of storage elements (104) being distributed in the first compartment (131) and in said at least one second compartment (132).
US12078424B2
The heater block of the present disclosure can transfer heat from a heat transfer fluid to a received fuel fluid, air passing in proximity to the heater block or combinations thereof. These heat transfers reduce, substantially prevent or prevent the freezing of water within the received fuel fluid and/or the air as it enters an intake member of a gas burning unit.
US12078419B2
One embodiment is a cooling system for regulating temperature of a surface of a metallurgical furnace. The cooling system includes a plurality of spray conduits. Each spray conduit has one or more control valves and has a plurality of nozzles. A plurality of temperature sensors are disposed proximate the surface of the metallurgical furnace. A control system adjusts the control valves of the plurality of spray conduits in response to temperature information derived from the plurality of temperature sensors.
US12078417B1
In various aspects, a preheater, a directed flow chemical vapor infiltration/chemical vapor deposition (CVI/CVD) furnace, and/or an installation jig are described. In one example, a preheater includes a central inlet; a circuitous gas flow path downstream of the central inlet; a plenum section downstream of the circuitous gas flow path; and an outlet diffuser plate defining a plurality of apertures fluidly configured to couple the preheater to a furnace working zone, wherein the outlet diffuser plate is downstream of the plenum section, wherein the circuitous gas flow path is fluidly coupled to the plenum section by an outer circumferential slot opening.
US12078407B2
The disclosure relates to a door for a freezer or refrigerator cabinet, including an insulating glass unit with at least two panes, which are joined by means of spacers for the creation of a gas-filled intervening space. The panes each have a transparent region and all spacers are designed to be free of desiccant, and a desiccant reservoir, which is in fluidic connection with the intervening space between the at least two panes.
US12078393B2
An air conditioning system is provided. The system has a high-pressure pipe, a low-pressure pipe, an indoor heat exchanger, an outdoor heat exchanger, a leak-free thermal expansion valve and a variable capacity compressor. The variable capacity compressor has a shell, a first cylinder and a second cylinder. The shell has a suction port and an exhaust port. The first cylinder has a first suction hole connected to the suction port and a first exhaust hole connected to the exhaust port. The second cylinder has a second suction hole connected to the suction port, a second exhaust hole connected to the exhaust port, and a pressure relief hole connected to the high-pressure pipe and the low-pressure pipe in an on-off manner. Before the variable capacity compressor is started, the high-pressure pipe and the low-pressure pipe are connected and also disconnected after the first preset duration.
US12078388B2
A system for enhancing overall energy production of CSPs through amplification of solar heat collection. In one embodiment, the system comprises a linear solar-thermal concentrator for concentrating solar light comprising a curved surface, two side walls, and an opening; a fluid conduit disposed within the linear solar-thermal concentrator that carries a working fluid through the linear solar-thermal concentrator; and a convection cover disposed over the opening of the linear thermal concentrator that traps heat convection energy within the linear solar-thermal concentrator.
US12078381B2
An air handling device includes a plurality of tunnels defining a plurality of separate air flow pathways. At least one tunnel of the plurality of tunnels is an active tunnel and at least one tunnel of the plurality of tunnels is a redundant tunnel. The air handling device further includes a first air select at a first end of the plurality of tunnels and a second air select on a second end of the plurality of tunnels, wherein the first end is opposite to the second end. The air handling device also includes a plurality of dampers within each of the first and second air selects, wherein the plurality of dampers are configured to change an air flow therein to block air flow through the active tunnel and allow air flow through the redundant tunnel.
US12078378B1
A variable capacity chiller or hydronic heat pump with a compressor, a pump, and a condenser fan where system capacity is controlled by the speed of the compressor, pump, and/or condenser fan based on the flow rate and ΔT between the returning water temperature and leaving water temperature, where the compressor, pump, and fan adjust automatically to match the changing load conditions to match the capacity to the load, and which includes a psychrometric climate controller that manages a chiller or chiller heat pump to heat or cool a heat transfer fluid in communication with indoor heat exchanger(s) and where the setting for the entering or leaving heat transfer fluid temperature can be automatically varied based on psychrometric data or on information derived from such sensors, and when in heating mode, to dynamically manage an external backup resistance heat source to accurately match any shortfall of heating capacity.
US12078369B2
The present disclosure relates to an air conditioner anti-frosting control method and apparatus. The air conditioner anti-frosting control method includes: acquiring a frosting map of a unit and a meteorological condition of an area where the unit is located, and calculating an average defrosting frequency of the unit according to the frosting map; determining a target defrosting frequency according to the average defrosting frequency; and determining a heat exchange temperature difference according to the target defrosting frequency, and controlling the unit to operate according to the heat exchange temperature difference.
US12078368B2
Methods, apparatuses, and systems for monitoring gas leaks are disclosed herein. An example Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) may comprise: a sampling tube fluidly coupled to a first opening defined in a conduit; and a sensor assembly fluidly coupled to the sampling tube. The sampling tube is positioned exterior to the conduit and extending along a direction of a gravitation force. The sensor assembly is configured to receive one or more gases that have a greater density in comparison to the ambient air and sense the one or more gases to generate a signal.
US12078367B2
A system that modifies an environmental condition of a building zone is provided. The system includes an airside processing circuit and a waterside processing circuit. The airside processing circuit drives a damper actuator to a first setpoint based on an air flow rate setpoint and a first pressure measurement, receives an air flow error signal based on the air flow rate setpoint and a second pressure measurement, determines a setpoint based on the air flow error signal, and drives the damper actuator to the second setpoint. The waterside processing circuit drives a valve actuator to a first setpoint based on a fluid flow rate setpoint and a first flow rate measurement, receives a fluid flow error signal based on the fluid flow rate setpoint and a second flow rate measurement, determines a second setpoint based on the fluid flow error signal, and drives the valve actuator to the second setpoint.
US12078361B2
A combination gas burner assembly includes a first burner forming a first profile shape and a second burner positioned above the first burner. The second burner forms a second profile shape different from the first profile shape. The first burner and the second burner form a perimeter of the gas burner assembly. The first profile shape overlaps with the second profile shape forming an overlapping portion of the perimeter.
US12078359B2
An oven is provided, which includes a domed ceiling, a baking stone located below the domed ceiling, a cooking chamber between the domed ceiling and the baking stone, a front opening that provides access to the cooking chamber for food and utensils, a combustion chamber adjacent to, and at least partially below, the cooking chamber, and a rear opening that provides access to the combustion chamber.
US12078354B1
An engine system is provided that includes an engine core, a fuel containment structure, a fuel containment plenum, a fuel delivery system and a plenum purge circuit. The engine core includes an engine housing structure which houses a compressor section, a combustor section and a turbine section. The fuel containment structure is outboard of and connected to the engine housing structure. The fuel containment plenum is formed by and located between the fuel containment structure and the engine housing structure. The fuel delivery system includes a plurality of fuel injectors, a fuel supply line and a fuel manifold fluidly coupling the fuel supply line to the plurality of fuel injectors. The fuel manifold is arranged within the fuel containment plenum. The plenum purge circuit is configured to purge fuel, when leaked into the fuel containment plenum from the fuel delivery system, out of the fuel containment plenum.
US12078349B2
A combustion system comprising: a combustion chamber extending in an axial direction between an inlet and an outlet, the combustion chamber configured to receive an airflow through the inlet and to discharge the airflow through the outlet; a fuel injection port configured to inject fuel into the airflow to form an air-fuel mixture; an ignition system for igniting the air-fuel mixture in the combustion chamber, the ignition system comprising an array of electrical plasma initiation points disposed downstream of the fuel injection port, and distributed radially and circumferentially around the combustion chamber, wherein each electrical plasma initiation point comprises a pair of electrodes configured to apply a voltage across an electrode gap between the pair of electrodes to produce plasma within the air-fuel mixture passing between the electrodes, thereby igniting the air-fuel mixture.
US12078346B2
A hollow nozzle including a tubular nozzle casing and a plurality of rotary vanes arranged radially along an inner surface of an inlet of the nozzle casing, through which compressed air is introduced, forming a hollow center at the center of the nozzle casing through which the compressed air flows, each of the rotary vanes including a first fuel injection hole through which a first type of fuel having a predetermined flame propagation speed is injected toward the hollow center, and a second fuel injection hole through which a second type of fuel having a higher flame propagation speed than the first type of fuel is injected, a combustor including the hollow nozzle, and a gas turbine including the combustor.
US12078339B2
A lamp for a vehicle includes a light source part, a first lens part including a plurality of first micro lenses receiving the light from the light source part, a second lens part including a plurality of second micro lenses that outputs light received from the first lens part to form a specific beam pattern, and a plurality of unit masks located between the first and second lens parts. The light from the light source part defines a first optical axis, and the light output from the second lens part defines a second optical axis inclined with respect to the first optical axis, such that it faces a road surface.
US12078337B2
Apparatus and methods for enhanced lighting. The apparatus may include a light-transmitting body. The apparatus may include a light projector. The projector may be configured to propagate into the light-transmitting body an incoming incoherent light. The projector may be configured to propagate into the light-transmitting body an incoming visible coherent light. Emerging coherent light within a visible wavelength rage attributable to the incoming visible coherent light may have a first intensity. The first intensity may be greater than a second intensity. The second intensity may be an intensity of any emerging coherent light that is within the wavelength range and is attributable to the incoming incoherent light. Emerging light may be light that emerges from the light-transmitting body.
US12078323B2
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of lamps, and discloses a non-welded and anti-deformation lamp base and a non-welded and anti-deformation light bulb. The lamp base of the present disclosure is integrally molded with the plastic insulating piece to replace a glass insulating piece of the traditional lamp base. The plastic insulating piece has both an environmental protection effect and an inward sinking deformation prevention effect, so that the quality of the light bulb is effectively improved.
US12078322B1
A light-emitting assembly and a lighting device are provided. The light-emitting assembly includes a transparent sleeve, an elastic support component, and a light strip. An accommodating cavity is defined in the transparent sleeve. The elastic support component is located in the accommodating cavity. The light strip is located in the accommodating cavity, the light strip includes a circuit board and at least one light source, the elastic support component is disposed on a first side of the circuit board in a thickness direction of the circuit board for supporting the circuit board, and the at least one light source is disposed on a second side of the circuit board facing away from the elastic support component. The light-emitting assembly and the lighting device are not easy to be broken and damaged.
US12078318B1
A solar lighting module for garden lamps detachably mounted onto the top end of a hollow lamp column of a garden lamp includes a top with an upper casing of a solar panel, at least one light emitting element and an integrated circuit board (PCBA) of a battery fixed in the upper casing, and a multiple of conductive springs installed on the integrated circuit board and passed upwardly through the top of the upper casing and a conductive terminal of the solar panel for an electrical connection to achieve the effect of quick assembly.
US12078317B2
Lighting systems may include a group charging station and a lighting device. The group charging stations may include a plurality of power devices operable to power the lighting device, the plurality of power devices including a first power device and a second power device, the first power device including a first plurality of electrical contacts, the second power device including a second plurality of electrical contacts, and a group charging platform operable to concurrently charge the plurality of power devices.
US12078316B1
A light system of a vehicle includes a first light housing including a first light source configured to emit first light from a face of the first light housing, a second light housing including a second light source configured to emit second light from a face of the second light housing, a gap located between the first light housing and the second light housing, and an aperture within the first light housing, wherein gap light travels from the aperture into the gap to illuminate the gap.
US12078308B2
Provided is a lighting device, comprising: a light source module comprising: at least one light source disposed on a printed circuit board; and a resin layer disposed on the printed circuit board so that the light source is embedded; a light reflection member formed on at least any one of one side surface and another side surface of the resin layer; and a diffusion plate having an upper surface formed on the light source module, and a side wall which is integrally formed with the upper surface and formed to extend in a lower side direction and which is adhered onto the light reflection member, wherein a first separated space is formed between the light source module and the upper surface of the diffusion plate, whereby flexibility of the product itself can be secured, and durability and reliability of the product can be also improved.
US12078306B2
A linear light fixture for use in a hazardous environment, the linear light fixture includes a housing body that defines a component compartment therein that is configured to receive electrical components. The linear light fixture also includes a light engine connected to the housing body and including a light emitting diode. The light engine is pivotable with respect to the housing body between a first position, wherein the light engine encloses the component compartment, and a second position, wherein access is provided to the component compartment. The light engine is separable from the housing body.
US12078305B2
A mirror assembly includes a transparent rim that surrounds a display. The rim has an outer perimeter and an inner perimeter, where the inner perimeter defines a hollow center. The rim has an angled edge surrounding the outer perimeter at a back side, and a raised edge that protrudes forward to define an edge's front surface that surrounds the outer perimeter of the rim at a front side. The display covers the front side of the hollow center of the rim. The display includes a digital display panel. Light sources disposed behind the display project light that propagates from the inner perimeter of the rim radially outwards within the rim. The light is re-directed by the angled edge to exit the rim from the edge's front surface.
US12078303B1
A light source module includes a circuit board, a plurality of point light sources fixed on both sides or one side of the circuit board, and a control circuit module configured for controlling ignition and extinction of the plurality of point light sources. The point light sources on each side of the circuit board are arranged in N parallel branches arranged from top to bottom. The point light sources on each parallel branch are arranged in an inverted V-shape, where N is a natural number less than or equal to 10. In the present disclosure, several parallel branches are configured to simulate different levels of a candle flame, and despite of a small number of point light sources required, a simple control circuit and a low cost, rich levels and changes in the flame are presented, and good simulation effect is achieved.
US12078300B1
Solid-state lighting devices, and more particularly to a three-dimensional (3D) light-emitting diode (LED) device and a method of manufacture are disclosed. A submount of the LED can have several submount portions that are angled with respect to each other, and LED chips can be mounted on each submount portion, such that the LED chips of the device are angled at different angles with respect to each other. In an embodiment, the LED device can include a heatsink that is in contact with each of the submount portions to channel heat away from the LED chips. The LED chips can be mounted on the submount portions when all submount portions are laying flat, and then the submount portions can be pushed or punched into their respective angles.
US12078295B2
The invention relates to a container (1) for pressurized fluid, in particular a gas cylinder, having a given internal volume (2), having a fluid distribution valve (3) having a member for selecting the flow rate (12) able to adopt a plurality of distinct positions each corresponding to a given fluid flow rate, and an electronic device (7) having means for measuring pressure, microprocessor (15)-based data processing means (5) for processing the pressure measurements, and display means (6) for displaying the remaining fluid calculated by the data processing means (5).
US12078288B2
Mounting a device to a surface is achieved using a mount coupled to the surface and including a swing arm hinged so that the swing arm is movable between an open position permitting insertion or removal of the device, and a capture position in which the swing arm holds the device. Ideally, hinges include a retainer such as a torque insert are a part of the mount.
US12078286B1
A device stand system for a portable electronic device includes a device holder assembly couplable with the portable electronic tablet device, a stand assembly, and a hinge assembly having an angular pivot range. The hinge assembly is coupled with and located between the device holder assembly and the stand assembly. The device holder assembly is pivotable through the angular pivot range of the hinge assembly relative to the stand assembly. Other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure.
US12078284B2
A method of manufacturing a preformed elbow insulation fitting includes applying an adhesive to an edge surface of each of a plurality of insulation gore components. After applying the adhesive, the plurality of insulation gore components are formed around a mold. When forming the plurality of gores around the mold, adjacent gores of the plurality of gores are adhered together to form a preformed insulation elbow around the mold. The preformed insulation embow can include a split line space between gore components running radially along a perimeter of the preformed insulation elbow. The preformed insulation elbow is then removed from the mold.
US12078266B2
A sample injection diaphragm valve is provided, as well as a plunger assembly and a method of operating the valve. The valve includes a valve head and a valve body. The valve includes a diaphragm positioned between the valve head and the valve body. The diaphragm has a process groove seated in the recess of the valve body for circulating fluid therein. Plungers are slidably fitted in plunger passages of the valve body. Each plunger is movable between a closed position wherein the plunger deforms the diaphragm and blocks fluid circulation between two process ports, and an open position wherein the plunger is retracted away from the diaphragm, thereby allowing fluid to circulate in the process groove. The plungers have linear lips extending across the top face of the plungers for pressing against the diaphragm when in the closed position.
US12078262B2
An operation valve includes a valve formed into a rod shape and including a barrel portion in which a flow path for a fluid is provided, a head portion in which an inlet of the flow path is provided, and a leg portion in which an outlet of the flow path is provided, a housing body housing the barrel portion, and an operation dial screw coupled to the housing body and moving the valve in an extension direction of the valve.
US12078255B2
The present disclosure relates to an actuator, an actuator assembly, a method of operating an actuator, a computer program and a system. In one aspect, an actuator may comprise a plurality of independently operable actuation elements and an operator having an operator surface. Each actuation element may have an actuation surface. The operator may be driveable to move the operator surface along a path to selectively engage with the respective actuation surface of each actuation element to actuate the actuation element.
US12078248B2
A sealing member and a toilet flange assembly are disclosed. The sealing member is made of an elastic material, and includes an upper ring portion, a connecting ring portion and a lower ring portion that are connected in sequence from top to bottom. The upper ring portion is fitted on a flange member. Upper and lower ends of the connecting ring portion are connected to the upper ring portion and the lower ring portion, respectively. An inner wall of the connecting ring portion is connected with a toilet drain pipe. The lower ring portion has a diameter less than that of the upper ring portion. An outer wall of the lower ring portion is connected with a ground drain pipe. The toilet flange assembly can solve the problem of fitting between toilet drain pipes of different diameters and ground drain pipes.
US12078245B2
A pattern for application to the face of the tensioner arm, guide or snubber in contact with a chain to intentionally break up the chain contact force between the back of the chain links and the tensioner arm, guide or snubber face. This is done to prevent alignment with the chain related orders which are causing NVH within the chain system or to increase overall NVH to obscure chain related orders.
US12078243B2
The hydraulic circuitry of a factory installed automatic automotive transmission is modified to replace an underdrive accumulator spring with a shorter spring and a separate lower rated spring washer operatively associated with the shorter replacement underdrive accumulator spring. The combined replacement spring and spring washer conjointly act on an underdrive accumulator piston to move it in two predetermined distances, in two separate continuous stages, namely, movement of the piston for a first predetermined distance is controlled by the spring washer, while movement of the piston for a second predetermined distance is controlled by the replacement spring. The spring washer has a lower spring rating than the replacement spring, so that less fluid pressure is required to move the piston the total distance traveled, resulting in less fluid pressure applied to an underdrive clutch than in the factory installed transmission. The spring ratings of the replacement spring and the spring washer are selected such that the total fluid pressure required to move the piston both the first and second predetermined distances is less than the fluid pressure required to overcome the resilient force of underdrive piston return springs acting on an underdrive apply piston so that a lower fluid pressure is applied to an underdrive clutch.
US12078240B2
A transmission (1) for a motor vehicle (2) includes a transmission housing (3) with an interior space (4) and an oil sump (6). At least one rotating transmission component (5a) is arranged in the interior space (4) of the transmission housing (3). At least one compensating tank (7) is configured for collecting oil from the interior space (4). The compensating tank (7) is fluidically connected to the oil sump (6) via at least one return (8). The particular return (8) delivers a predefined flow back into the oil sump (6) as a function of a power throughput of the transmission (1).
US12078224B2
A locking device for locking an object capable of sliding along a cable, the device includes the cable and a clamp, the cable passing through the clamp while extending along an axis, the clamp comprising: a fixed part connected to the object, a ring comprising an elastic material with fluid behavior, the ring comprising a central cavity through which the cable passes, an actuator configured to compress the ring between two shapes, in a first shape, referred to as the open shape, the cable being able to run freely in the central cavity and in a second shape, referred to as the closed shape, the cable being compressed by the ring.
US12078218B2
An electromagnetic brake comprises an electromagnet arranged about a central axis SA; a slide movable with respect to the electromagnet in a slide actuation direction upon actuation of the electromagnet, and an air gap provided between the electromagnet and the slide through which a magnetic field passes when the electromagnet is actuated, wherein the slide is arranged radially inside or outside of the electromagnet with respect to the central axis SA. The electromagnetic brake is silent.
US12078217B2
A caliper cover assembly and a production method thereof are provided. The caliper cover assembly includes a first bracket, a second bracket, and buckles; the first bracket and the second bracket are respectively integrally formed with the caliper cover body; the first bracket and the second bracket are symmetrically disposed, and are respectively provided with an installation hole; the buckles are provided in two; the two buckles are symmetrically and separately disposed on the first bracket and the second bracket, and fixedly connected with the first bracket or the second bracket through bolts passing through the installation holes respectively. Therefore, effects of a stable structure, a thermal conductivity, a convenient installation and a safety in use are achieved.
US12078214B2
A method for optimizing kinetic energy for an automobile, using an intelligent clutch (i-clutch) system, comprises dynamically receiving, at a controller [210], one or more parameters from at least one of a braking pressure sensor [202], a speed sensor [204] and an acceleration pressure sensor [206] of the automobile. Next, the controller [210] continuously determines an operating condition of the automobile based on the received one or more parameters. Subsequently, the controller [210] generates a trigger based on the determined operating condition of the automobile to activate an intelligent clutch (i-clutch) [212]. Lastly, the i-clutch [212] disconnects a prime mover and a driving shaft of the automobile, by disconnecting a transmission of the automobile and the driving shaft, to optimize kinetic energy of the automobile.
US12078213B2
A torque transmission device includes a first element, a second element, and a third element which are able to rotate about an axis of rotation; a first spring which is arranged between the first element and the third element; a second spring which is arranged between the second element and the third element; a first supporting seat positioned at a first end of the first spring; and a second supporting seat positioned at a first end of the second spring. The third element includes a torque transfer element directly transferring torque between the first spring and the second spring.
US12078210B2
A vehicle wheel bearing includes a wheel hub having a hub flange to which a wheel is mounted; at least one inner ring mounted to one side of the wheel hub in a press-fitting manner; an outer ring provided radially outward of the inner ring and having a mounting flange to be mounted to the vehicle body on an outer circumferential surface; one or more rolling elements provided radially inward of the outer ring; and a sealing member configured to prevent foreign matters from flowing into the wheel bearing. The sealing member includes a first sealing member mounted to the wheel hub or the inner ring; and a second sealing member mounted to the outer ring. One or more elastic sealing lips are provided in one or both of the first sealing member and the second sealing member.
US12078207B2
A driveshaft has an elongated monolithic composite tube with a front joint at one end thereof and a rear joint at an opposite end thereof. The tube has an inner layer formed of glass fibers coaxially wound on top of one other. The tube has outer layer wound directly on the inner layer. The outer layer is formed substantially of carbon fibers. A ratio of a thickness of the outer layer to the thickness of the inner layer is between 0.8 and 1.2.
US12078205B2
A motor vehicle drive wheel assembly comprising a fixed subassembly comprising two outer raceways; a rotating subassembly comprising a wheel hub, two inner raceways and two rows of rolling bodies that are arranged in two pitch planes PP1 and PP2. One of the inner raceways is formed on a rolling bearing ring that bears against a transmission bowl at an annular contact interface situated between the two pitch planes.
US12078203B2
Systems and methods related to hydrodynamic bearings for use in X-ray sources are provided. In one aspect, a hydrodynamic bearing system includes a sleeve assembly including a cross-member fluidically dividing a first interior cavity from a second interior cavity, a first shaft positioned in the first interior cavity, and a second shaft positioned in the second interior cavity. The hydrodynamic bearing system may further include a first journal bearing including a first fluid interface surrounding at least a portion of the first cantilever shaft and configured to support radial loads and a second journal bearing including a second fluid interface surrounding at least a portion of the second cantilever shaft and configured to support radial loads.
US12078199B2
A self-punching functional element serves for fastening to a workpiece, in particular to a high-strength sheet metal part, and comprises a functional section; and a fastening section that has a contact surface for an engagement of a setting device, an end face remote from the contact surface, and an outer peripheral surface connecting the contact surface and the end face. The end face is radially outwardly bounded by a punching edge for punching a slug out of the workpiece, and at least one projection is provided at the outer peripheral surface adjacent to the contact surface, said projection rising from the outer peripheral surface in a radial direction and extending further outwardly in the radial direction than the punching edge.
US12078195B2
A fastener structure includes a head portion, rod member and fitting member. The head portion has a lateral holding portion and vertical receiving portion. The rod member has a lateral attaching portion and engaging member. The rod member is penetratingly disposed at the receiving portion to allow the attaching portion to correspond in position to the holding portion. The fitting member is penetratingly disposed at the attaching portion and the holding portion to fit the head portion and the rod member together. To couple two objects together, the head portion drives an engaging portion of the rod member, such that the engaging portion penetrates one object before being fastened to the other object. To unfasten the objects, the head portion is moved reversely to remove the engaging portion from the other object, effecting separation of the objects, so as to achieve quick coupling and easy unfastening.
US12078193B2
Disclosed are Variable Displacement Power Controllers and applications generally in the field of fluid powered systems that provide for increased efficiency and effectiveness over known fluid systems, where fluid power generally refers to hydraulic or pneumatic power systems.
US12078189B2
A gas turbine engine apparatus includes an engine flowpath, a protuberance and a variable vane. The protuberance projects into the engine flowpath. The variable vane extends across the engine flowpath. The variable vane includes a pivot axis and an airfoil. The variable vane is configured to pivot about the pivot axis between a first position and a second position. The airfoil extends spanwise along a span line between a first end and a second end. The airfoil extends chordwise along a chord line between a leading edge and a trailing edge. A recess extends spanwise into the airfoil from the first end. The airfoil, at the first end, is spaced from the protuberance when the variable vane is in the first position. The airfoil, at the first end, is aligned with the protuberance and the protuberance projects into the recess when the variable vane is in the second position.
US12078187B2
An impeller includes a boss provided on a rotation axis and a blade provided on an outer circumferential side of the boss. The blade has a radially middle portion that is located midway between an outer circumferential edge and an inner circumferential edge in a radial direction of the blade from the rotation axis. A span-direction section of part of the blade that adjoins the leading edge is shaped such that part of a suction side of the blade that is located in an area between the radially middle portion and the outer circumferential edge is concave, and a span-direction section of part of the blade that adjoins the trailing edge is shaped such that part of the suction side of the blade that is located in the area between the radially middle portion and the outer circumferential edge is convex.
US12078185B2
A vertical pump features stationary bowl assembly, a rotating power transmission shaft, impellers and bottom wear-ring bearings. The stationary bowl assembly includes bowls, each bowl having a respective bowl bottom inside surface. The rotating power transmission shaft is configured to extend through the stationary bowl assembly. The impellers are arranged on the rotating power transmission shaft to rotate and draw material through the stationary bowl assembly, each impeller having a respective impeller bottom outside surface. Each bottom wear-ring bearing is arranged between the respective impeller bottom outside surface of each impeller and the respective bowl bottom inside surface of each bowl, made from a non-galling bearing material, and configured to maintain the alignment of the rotating power transmission shaft in relation to the stationary bowl assembly.
US12078182B2
A direct current induced draft fan includes: a volute, a wind wheel, a motor, and a locking assembly. The motor includes a motor body and a motor controller. The motor is disposed on the top of the volute, and the wind wheel is disposed in the volute. The motor is configured to drive the wind wheel to rotate. The motor controller is disposed on one side of the motor body and is fixed on the motor body through the locking assembly. The side wall of the motor controller extends from the motor body towards the volute.
US12078175B2
A compressor comprises a discharge valve which is provided so as to be coupled to a fixed scroll and open/close a discharge hole. The discharge valve includes a coupling portion which is coupled to one surface of the fixed scroll, the surface facing a muffler, and a head portion extending from the coupling portion and opening/closing the discharge hole. The head portion may be provided with a communicating hole for allowing the discharge hole and the muffler to be in communication with each other. Accordingly, a backflow of a compressed refrigerant is prevented during the operation of the compressor, and thus over-compression of the refrigerant can be prevented. Also, when the compressor stops operating, only a certain amount of the discharged refrigerant is allowed to flow backward to prevent a reverse rotation of an orbiting scroll and a decrease in the oil level of the oil stored in a case.
US12078171B2
A screw assembly for a triple screw pump includes a central screw and at least one lateral screw, both provided with one or more helicoidal threads. The lateral screw is arranged to mesh with the central screw, with a lateral screw axis being parallel to a central screw axis. The distance between the axes of the central screw and the lateral screw is greater than the half and lower than 3/5 of a central screw external diameter.
US12078170B2
The present disclosure relates to a cooling module in which a plurality of cooling water outlets through which cooling water is discharged are formed in an outer housing, an inner housing into which a first screw and a second screw are inserted inside the outer housing, and a communication hole formed in the inner housing communicates with a plurality of cooling water outlets, in which a cooling module or a cooling water system including a plurality cooling water outlets formed in one screw pump is simple, reduces the number of parts, and simplifies a package.
US12078167B2
A compressor for compressing a refrigerant is described. The compressor comprises a case having at least one curved portion and at least one opening, wherein the opening is located in the at least one curved portion, an electrical terminal arranged within the at least one opening and fixed to the case, wherein the at least one opening is an elliptical opening. Also, an electrical terminal for use with a compressor is described.
US12078164B2
The reciprocating compressor has a cylinder with a compression chamber where a piston can slide between a crank-side position and a head-side position; a piston rod is mechanically connected to the piston and during operation of the compressor, slides in a hole of the compression chamber; there is a small gap between the hole and the piston rod; in order to avoid leakage from this gap a jacket is arranged around the piston rod and is sealed on one side to the piston and on the other side to the cylinder at the gap.
US12078161B2
A pump-valve integrated machine for a pneumatic lumbar support of an automobile seat includes: an air pump; a pump valve connection base that is provided with a one-way air outlet structure, which is opposite to and in communication with an air outlet hole of the air pump; an electromagnetic air valve lower base that is fixed onto the air pump and is provided with a mounting groove and a ventilation hole are; a normally open electromagnetic air valve that is disposed on the electromagnetic air valve lower base and has an air inlet end corresponds to the ventilation hole; an electromagnetic air valve upper cover that is provided above the normally open electromagnetic air valve and has an air outlet connector corresponds to a valve core of the normally open electromagnetic air valve; and a control circuit board.
US12078157B2
A variable displacement piston pump, having: a housing, a pivot assembly to pivot between minimal and maximum pivot angles; a pump cover defining an actuator bore with an actuator piston, an actuator arm extending from the actuator piston to the pivot assembly; and an electronic control unit (ECU) coupled to the pump, the ECU having: a pump controller, a linear variable differential transducer (LVDT) coupled to the pump controller and the actuator piston, and an electrohydraulic solenoid valve (EHSV) coupled to the pump controller, the ECU is configured to: determine a pivot differential for the pivot assembly between a target pivot angle and a current pivot angle; determine a position differential for the actuator piston, corresponding to the pivot differential of the pivot assembly; control the EHSV to move the actuator piston by the position differential; and determine, from the LVDT, that the actuator piston moved by the position differential.
US12078154B1
The present disclosure generally pertains to devices and methods for generating thrust in vehicles, for instance in space applications. A heaterless, insertless hollow cathode utilizes AC and pulsed DC electric fields to ionize the propellant gas and generate a plasma plume. The cathode uses an argon microplasma generated in a quartz tube with a tungsten filament and brass ion collector. Free electrons are then drawn from the plasma plume and supplied to a thruster engine.
US12078152B2
A method for operating at least one wind turbine is provided, the wind turbine being electrically coupled to a power-to-gas converter and an electric grid, wherein a control unit determines a power level for the power generated by at least one generator of the at least one wind turbine and at least partially feeds the generated power to the power-to-gas converter when the determined power level reaches or exceeds a given lower threshold value, wherein the amount of power fed to the power-to-gas converter is kept constant when the determined power level reaches or exceeds a given upper threshold value.
US12078151B2
A wind turbine and operating method include a double-fed induction generator with a generator rotor and a generator stator, a power conversion assembly having respective rotor-side and line-side power converters, and a load. The generator rotor is coupled to the rotor-side power converter. The line-side power converter and the load are coupled to a grid via a low voltage winding of a transformer. A first sum of a rated current of the generator rotor and a rated current of the load is more than an upper current limit of the low voltage winding. When operating the generator at a sub-synchronous speed, a first current is provided to the generator rotor that is less than a normal generator rotor current, and a second current is provide to the load, wherein a second sum of the first current and the second current is equal to or less than the upper current limit of the low voltage winding.
US12078145B2
A fluidic structure configured to be mounted onto the hub of a fluidic turbine comprising a hub that rotates about a center axis, aligned to a main shaft that contributes torque to the main shaft of the turbine via the principle of lift and/or drag. The fluidic structure is mounted onto the hub of a primary turbine that contributes torque to the main shaft through increasing at least one of lift and drag, and the fluidic structure includes two or more curved fluidic elements that extend from an upstream tip that aligns to the center axis of rotation, to a downstream end at a radial position away from the center axis, and rotates about the center axis to contribute torque to the primary turbine; and a sensor positioned at or proximate to an upstream tip of the fluidic structure for determining environmental and turbine conditions and transmits information to a supervisory control and data acquisition system of the primary turbine.
US12078144B2
A rotor blade for a wind turbine includes a blade skin forming a suction surface and a pressure surface. An electric heating arrangement has a heating strip with a width-thickness relation configured to reduce bonding between ice and the blade skin by electrically heating a respective surface of the blade skin and to conduct lightning-strike currents of at least 10 kA. An energy transfer arrangement supplies electrical energy to the heating arrangement. An integrated lightning arrangement includes a lightning receptor mounted to a tip section of the blade and electrically connected to the heating strip such that the lightning strike is conducted from the lightning receptor to the heating strip. A grounding device is connected to a grounding arrangement of the wind turbine such that electrical energy of the lightning strike is conducted from the heating strip through the grounding device and into the grounding arrangement.
US12078140B2
A method and device for non-emission electric energy production, consisting in: generating negative pressure or vacuum inside a pressure vessel in its upper part constituting a vacuum chamber in whose space a turbine rotor is situated; setting a height of a liquid or water column in the lower part of the pressure vessel constituting a liquid or water column below the turbine rotor, wherein the vacuum chamber is directly connected with the liquid or water chamber situated below the vacuum chamber, and a conventional interface between them is determined by the upper surface of the liquid or water column; closing a first closing means and supplying a liquid or water by a means for supplying a liquid or water to the vacuum chamber.
US12078138B2
A remote startup system includes: a terminal; a center server configured to receive a startup request; and a vehicle having a driving device, the vehicle configured to receive a startup request, and start up the driving device, wherein at least one of the center server and the vehicle includes an information acquisition unit configured to acquire information on transmission availability state of a power transmission device that transmits power of the driving device in the vehicle to driving wheels, or information on an operation state of a rotation prevention device that prevents rotation of the driving wheels when a function of transmitting the startup request is activated or when the startup request is transmitted, and a permission determination unit configured to determine whether to permit the startup of the driving device based on the startup request, based on the information acquired by the information acquisition unit.
US12078136B2
A fuel injector includes a nozzle needle movable within an injector housing and including a flow guiding tip. The flow guiding tip includes an outer ramp surface, defining, in profile, a concave curve and a fuel trajectory line tangent to the concave curve and extending through a spray orifice inlet to direct fuel into the same. Related methodology is also disclosed.
US12078132B2
Provided is an evaporated fuel treatment device. The evaporated fuel treatment device includes a main body case and a lid. The lid includes a target port, and is configured to be attached to the main body case on an attachment surface defined in advance in the main body case. The target port is configured to guide a gas in a direction intersecting a flow direction of the gas in a target adsorption chamber. The lid is configured to be rotated along a rotation direction prior to being attached to the main body case, to thereby (i) allow selection of one attachment angle from two or more attachment angles and (ii) be attached to the main body case.
US12078126B2
An aero-propulsion system includes a drive shaft, a low-pressure compressor, a fan shaft driving a fan, a reduction device that couples the drive shaft and the fan shaft, and an inlet channel which extends between the fan and the low-pressure compressor, the inlet having a predetermined mean radius, a ratio between a mean radius of the inlet channel and the mean radius of the low-pressure compressor, on the one hand, and the reduction ratio of the reduction mechanism, on the other hand, being less than 0.35.
US12078124B2
The invention relates to a thrust reverser assembly for a turbojet engine, comprising a stationary structure having a main axis; a shroud, movable and capable of translational movement along the main axis between an attached position in which the shroud is attached to the stationary structure, and a spaced position in which the shroud is spaced from the stationary structure; at least one latch capable of holding the stationary structure and the shroud in the attached position; at least one actuator mounted between the stationary structure and the shroud and configured to move the shroud along the main axis between the attached position and the spaced position; and a seal configured to provide a seal between the stationary structure and the shroud in the attached position, wherein the seal has a tapered cross section.
US12078119B1
An engine controller performs air-fuel ratio sub-feedback control in which a target air-fuel ratio is switched from a rich air-fuel ratio to a lean air-fuel ratio when a rear air-fuel ratio detected by an air-fuel ratio sensor becomes less than or equal to a rich determination value, and the target air-fuel ratio is switched from the lean air-fuel ratio to the rich air-fuel ratio when the rear air-fuel ratio becomes greater than or equal to a lean determination value. To perform the sub-feedback control, the controller variably sets the lean determination value to a value indicating a leaner air-fuel ratio when an amount of overshoot of the rear air-fuel ratio to a richer value than a stoichiometric air-fuel ratio after switching the target air-fuel ratio from the rich air-fuel ratio to the lean air-fuel ratio is relatively large than when the amount of overshoot is relatively small.
US12078113B2
A compressor module (200) wherein the compressor module (200) defines a working fluid flow duct (60) between a compressor module inlet (210) and a compressor module outlet (214). The compressor module comprises: a first heat exchanger (37) and a compressor rotor stage (24) each provided in the working fluid flow duct (60). The first heat exchanger (37) is provided in flow series between the compressor module inlet (210) and the compressor rotor stage (24). The compressor stage (24) is provided in flow series between the first heat exchanger (37) and the compressor module outlet (214). The first heat exchanger (37) is defined by a wall (226) having an external surface (282) which is located in the working fluid flow duct (60). There is provided a heat sink unit (236) which defines a portion (240) of the working fluid flow duct (60) in flow series between the compressor rotor stage (24) and compressor module outlet (214). The first heat exchanger (37) is in heat transfer communication with the heat sink unit (236). The first heat exchanger (37) is configured such that it is operable to transfer heat to the heat sink unit (236) from the working fluid (250) passing the first heat exchanger (37).
US12078105B2
A method for cooling a compressor section of a gas turbine engine includes sensing, via at least one first temperature sensor, a first temperature at the first location on a stationary assembly of the compressor section. The method also includes sensing, via at least one second temperature sensor, a second temperature at a second location on the stationary assembly of the compressor section. The second location is spaced apart from the first location. The method also includes determining, via a controller, a delta between the first temperature and the second temperature. Further, the method includes operating, via the controller, at least one cooling element when the delta exceeds a predetermined threshold, the at least one cooling element provided at the first location of the stationary assembly of the compressor section.
US12078104B2
A propulsion system includes a core engine generating a high energy gas flow, a condenser configured to extract water from the high energy gas flow and an evaporator transforming the extracted water into a steam flow. The steam flow is injected into a core flow path of the core engine increase mass flow.
US12078103B1
A thermal management system for a gas turbine engine includes an inlet, a compressor, a mixing unit, and a fuel source. The compressor includes a low pressure stage and a high pressure stage. The mixing unit includes a first valve port fluidically connected to a low pressure bleed line of the compressor and a high pressure bleed line of the compressor and having an adjustable inlet gate on each of these lines and an outlet fluidically connected to the inlet of the engine to prevent ice accretion in the inlet or de-ice the inlet. The fuel source is configured to provide fuel to the mixing unit to actuate the adjustable inlet gates to regulate the amounts of low pressure bleed air and high pressure bleed air directed to the outlet.
US12078101B2
A method for controlling a turbomachine including a temporary power-increasing device, the control method including a step wherein the flow rate of the coolant injected is adjusted as a function of the atmospheric pressure and/or of the ambient temperature and/or of at least one parameter such as the speed of rotation of a gas generator, the speed of rotation of a low-pressure turbine or of a power turbine, the gas pressure at the outlet of a compressor stage, the temperature at the inlet of the low-pressure turbine or of the power turbine, the engine torque, and/or the collective pitch of a helicopter rotor or the pitch of a propeller of a turboprop.
US12078096B2
A split cycle internal combustion engine comprising a compression cylinder accommodating a compression piston; a combustion cylinder accommodating a combustion piston; a crossover passage between the compression cylinder and the combustion cylinder arranged to provide working fluid to the combustion cylinder; a controller arranged to determine a peak temperature of combustion in the combustion cylinder based on a received indication of a peak temperature of combustion in the combustion cylinder; and a coolant system arranged to regulate a temperature of the working fluid supplied to the combustion cylinder; wherein, in response to determining that the peak temperature of combustion exceeds a selected threshold, the controller is configured to control the coolant system to regulate the temperature of the working fluid supplied to the combustion cylinder so that a peak temperature of combustion in the combustion cylinder is less than the selected threshold.
US12078093B2
Turbine fracturing equipment is provided. The turbine fracturing equipment includes: a turbine engine, having an exhaust end configured to discharge exhaust gas; an exhaust pipe having a first end and a second end, the first end of the exhaust pipe being configured such that the exhaust gas discharged from the exhaust end of the turbine engine enters the exhaust pipe, and the second end of the exhaust pipe being configured to discharge the exhaust gas in the exhaust pipe; and an exhaust gas energy recovery device, the exhaust gas energy recovery device including a thermal energy recovery mechanism configured to recover thermal energy of the exhaust gas and a kinetic energy recovery mechanism configured to recover kinetic energy of the exhaust gas, at least a part of the thermal energy recovery mechanism and at least a part of the kinetic energy recovery mechanism are arranged in the exhaust pipe.
US12078086B2
A chemical plant and operating method therefor; the chemical plant comprises a steam turbine having a shaft, a first pressure turbine stage and a second pressure turbine stage, each being arranged on the shaft and being connected in series in terms of the steam process; steam for driving the steam turbine is obtained from a reactor plant, said reactor plant producing a hydrogen-containing substance from a carbon-containing energy-carrier stream; the steam is heated in an overheating step before being supplied to the second pressure turbine stage; the steam turbine has a third pressure turbine stage which is arranged on the shaft and which is connected between the first pressure turbine stage and the second pressure turbine stage in terms of the steam process; and the steam passes through the overheating step after exiting the third pressure turbine stage.
US12078085B2
A new combined SEOL cycle is represented by the recovery vapor Generator (GVR) which completely substitutes the Regenerator, of the prior art, being capable of recovering the energy differential (QR) between the temperature at the end of expansion and the temperature at nearly complete condensation of the thermal fluid and then, by using this great energy differential, it is capable of producing water vapor, entirely reusable in the preheating of the mixture, considerably contributing to the increase of the overall energy yield of the cycle and to the increase of the unit power of the heat engine.
US12078083B2
A method of forming a ceramic matrix composite (CMC) vane comprises drawing a continuous fiber sheet over at least one contoured surface to form a single-folded sheet. The single-folded sheet comprises an airfoil portion, a first platform at a first end of the airfoil portion, and an integral transition region between the airfoil portion and the first platform. The method further comprises mounting the airfoil portion on a mandrel, attaching a second platform to a second, opposing end of the airfoil portion to form a vane preform, and densifying the vane preform.
US12078080B1
An airfoil assembly and a method of forming the airfoil assembly, the airfoil assembly having a trunnion, a spar, a skin, and an insert. The trunnion having a flared socket with an open top. The spar extending from the flared socket and through the open top. The spar having a first end located within the flared socket. The skin having a braided or woven fiber.
US12078077B2
An assembly is provided for a gas turbine engine. This gas turbine engine assembly includes a stationary engine structure. The stationary engine structure includes a diffuser, a combustor, an engine case and a plenum. The combustor is disposed within the plenum. The engine case forms a peripheral boundary of the plenum. A gas path extends sequentially through the diffuser, the plenum and the combustor. A first section of the stationary engine structure is formed as a first monolithic body. The first section includes the diffuser and the combustor. A second section of the stationary structure is formed as a second monolithic body. The second section is configured as or otherwise includes the engine case.
US12078060B2
Aspects of the subject technology relate to systems and methods for controlling a hydraulic fracturing job. Systems and methods are provided for receiving diagnostics data of a hydraulic fracturing completion of a wellbore, accessing a fracture formation model that models formation characteristics of fractures formed through the wellbore into a formation surrounding the wellbore during the hydraulic fracture completion with respect to surface variables of the hydraulic fracturing completion, selecting one or more subsurface objective functions from a plurality of subsurface objective functions for changing one or more of the formation characteristics of the fractures, and applying the fracture formation model based on the diagnostics data to determine values of the surface variables for controlling the formation characteristics of the fractures to converge on the one or more subsurface objective functions.
US12078058B2
Methods and systems for logging a wellbore having a casing using ultrasonic logging are described. Traditional ultrasonic logging involves using a piezoelectric transducer that is spaced from the inner surface of the casing by a least a distance referred to as the “far-field” distance. Logging in the “far-field,” as traditionally done, avoids destructive interference. The methods and systems described herein allow logging in the “near-field.” Logging in the near-field using the described methods and systems overcomes several difficulties associated with acoustic logging, particularly in attenuative, dispersive, and deviated environments.
US12078056B2
Described herein are systems and techniques for monitoring substances that are injected into an Earth formation whether that be CO2 from a carbon capture and storage (CCS) process, or water or steam injected for an enhanced oil recovery (EOR) process. Components located on an outside of a wellbore casing may be electrically isolated from components located on the inside of the wellbore casing. Data and/or power may be transferred through the wellbore casing wirelessly in order to increase the reliability of a data collection system because the need for wires to be placed on the outside surface of a wellbore casing is eliminated. The components located on the outside of the casing may receive electromagnetic (EM) or transmit EM fields as part of a system that collects data about substances that are injected into Earth formations during a CCS or EOR process.
US12078054B2
An experimental device and method for co-existence of overflow and lost circulation in a fractured formation during drilling of a deviated well are provided. An inner cavity of an outer pipe is provided with an inner pipe to form a deviated casing. An upper side of the outer pipe is provided with a mixture outlet. A middle-lower side of the outer pipe is provided with a leakage port and two overflow ports. The gap width can be changed by adjusting a bolt and a support block to be compatible with different types of fracture models. A gas injection system includes an air compressor and a gas flowmeter. An upper port of a liquid injection system is connected to a joint arranged at upper ends of the inner pipe and outer pipe through a water pump, a liquid flowmeter and a liquid regulating valve.
US12078042B2
The present invention is related to artificial lifting systems and production flow assurance from subsea oil wells. In this sense, the present invention provides an integrated subsea oil heating and pumping system hydraulically actuated by heated injection water, the system comprising at least one recoverable pumping module connected to a subsea base which, in turn, receives the produced fluids from at least one subsea producing well. The subsea base is connected to a production unit through a riser through which the produced oil flows and to an injection line that feeds the pumping module with water which, after activating the turbine and pump set, is injected through at least one injection well. The present invention further provides a hydraulically actuated subsea pumping method associated with the system described above.
US12078040B2
A bi-directional valve with valve elements having compliant features biasing them together to maintain a sealing interface that defines a fluid communication barrier within the valve. Parting the valve elements from one another removes the sealing interface allow fluid communication across the valve elements. The valve includes a side port and a choke member that selectively blocks fluid flow through the valve when moved adjacent the side port and selectively opens the valve to fluid communication when moved away from the side port. The choke member remains adjacent the side port until the valve elements are spaced a distance apart greater than that at which valve erosion or fluid cavitation occurs.
US12078036B2
A completion string includes at least one isolation packer positioned between well zones of a plurality of well zones, and a sand control assembly and a circulating assembly each disposed uphole of a washdown shoe in the bottom-most well zone. A top well zone includes a return valve assembly, a production packer, and a second circulating assembly and a second sand control assembly downhole of the production packer. The completion string also includes an outer string spanning from the bottom-most well zone to the top well zone, and an inner production string concentrically arranged within the outer string, creating an inner-annulus between the outer string and inner production string. The inner-annulus is continuous from the washdown shoe to the return valve assembly, and the inner production string includes a production valve disposed between the sand control assembly and the circulating assembly in each of the bottom-most and top well zones.
US12078035B2
An elastomer alloy includes a base polymer including hydrogenated nitrile butadiene rubber (HNBR) and at least one secondary polymer, which is at least one of paraffin wax, low-density polyethylene (LDPE), linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE), high-density polyethylene (HDPE), and a plastomer. The base polymer and the at least one secondary polymer are blended into a polymer matrix. The elastomer alloy also includes a plurality of smart fillers dispersed within the polymer matrix, at least one chemical foaming agent, and a curing activator.
US12078029B2
A wireline shifting tool comprising an anchor, a linear actuator, and a shifter may be at least partially controlled by one or more measurements indicating an amount of force applied to the anchor, the linear actuator, the shifter, or a combination thereof. For example, a processor may receive the one or more measurements and perform a seeking operation or cause a graphical user interface (GUI) to display information that may inform a user regarding operations associated with the wireline shifting tool.
US12078025B2
A multistage cementing assembly is used for cementing casing in a borehole. A subsurface tool on the casing holds a subsurface plug therein using a temporary retainer. The subsurface plug is located in a subsurface location below one or more stage tools or cementing collars on the casing. First stage cement passing down the casing can pass through a passage of the subsurface plug to flow out of a float valve. A wiper plug passed through the casing behind the cement is then engaged with the subsurface plug. Pressure buildup can release the two plugs as a unit from the temporary retainer. Before reaching the float valve, a deformable ring on the subsurface plug can engage in a locator ring on the casing to indicate the plug unit's location during operations. Eventually, additional stages can be cemented using the one or more stage tools uphole on the casing.
US12078018B2
A system for connecting a perforating gun to at least one other component in a perforating tool string includes a perforating gun that includes a gun housing and a charge carrier received within the gun housing wherein the charge carrier includes a first electrical connector, a tool connected end-to-end with the perforating gun where the tool includes an outer sleeve and a second electrical connector, a solid signal puck arranged with the perforating gun and the tool where the puck forms a pressure resistant barrier between the gun and the tool and wherein the solid signal puck includes a first endface oriented and a second endface and an outer periphery between the endfaces, and wherein the largest outer diameter of the outer periphery is at least 40% of the length between the first endface and the second endface of the puck.
US12078008B2
A closure system for door openings defined in a wall (P) and comprising: a quick-opening door (1) adjustedly installed within the door opening (H) and featuring a flexible roll-up sheet (11), an upper casing (12), and vertical uprights (3) equipped with guides (31) for the displacement of the flexible sheet (11); a fire door (2) installed at one side of the wall and comprising at least one fireproof layer (21, 23), for the opening and closure of the door opening (H), a perimeter frame constituted by the vertical uprights (3) and a rearward fireproof cover (4) of the upper casing (12) of the quick-opening door (1).
US12077999B1
The present oblique slide latch apparatus includes a housing, lever, and latch. A straight channel is positioned obliquely on the latch and is oblique relative to an axis along which the latch slides. The lever includes first and second pegs that capture inner and outer portions of a latch head to minimize wobble of the latch. The latch head is positioned within opposite sides of the lever.
US12077998B2
A button assembly for a release system comprises a housing and an actuator coupled to the housing and translatable along a first axis. The actuator comprises a contact surface configured for engagement by an operator to translate the actuator along the first axis, and a rack gear extending along the first axis and away from the contact surface. The button assembly further comprises a pinion gear coupled to the housing and rotatable about a second axis, orthogonal to the first axis. The pinion gear is meshed with the rack gear and with the extension member coupled to the pinion gear. The mesh between the pinion gear and the rack gear facilitates rotation of the pinion gear as the rack gear translates, with the rotation of the pinion gear facilitating movement of the extension member and movement of the latch between the engagement and disengagement positions.
US12077995B2
A remote cinching actuator, which includes an integral motor wherein its rotation will drive the two stage drive gears system, that are coupled to a cable lever. This cable lever is mechanically attached to a cinch lever within the side door latch by the cable. The lever will rotate on its pivot and move the cinch drive link. A bearing attached to the cinch drive link will move during the cinching operation, traveling through a canal of a cinch override lever, to maintain the traveling course of the cinch drive link and, thereby, allowing the interaction between the cinch drive link and a claw to rotate the claw to its closed/primary position. A vehicle side door latch, including an integral motor and a power release gear for performing a power release function of the latch wherein the rotation of the motor in a power release direction will drive the power release gear which in turn will hit a power release lever to move the pawl release lever, so that the former can interact with a pawl lifter, coupled to the latch pawl, thereby allowing the claw to rotate to its open position. The side door latch also consists of a cinch override lever which allows the cancellation of the cinching function at any time of the cinching travel by interacting with a cinch override clutch lever, and in turn with a cinch override clutch link which is attached to both, the pawl release lever and the cinch override clutch lever. These interactions within the latch will allow the disengagement of the cinch drive link from the latch claw.
US12077993B2
A detachable electronic device and a dock thereof are provided. The detachable electronic device includes a first machine body, a second machine body, and a dock. The dock includes a pair of fixing brackets, a pair of rotating axles, a latch module disposed between the rotating axles, a lock base, and a linkage kit. The latch module can be arranged in a locked state or an unlocked state to lock or release the second machine body. The lock base is slidably disposed on one of the fixing brackets. The linkage kit has one end fixed to the latch module, and the other another end slidably sleeved onto the lock base. When an anti-theft lock is locked to the lock base, the lock base restricts a displacement of the linkage kit, and the linkage kit restricts the latch module to the locked state.
US12077990B2
Disclosed herein is a safety device for attachment at an edge of a door leaf. The safety device comprises a pressure monitor and an electromagnetic lock element. The pressure monitor is configured, in response to a force being applied to the safety device, to issue a signal.
US12077973B2
A mounting assembly can include or use a pole attachment mount, first, second, and third arms, respectively including proximal ends that are respectively couplable to the pole attachment mount, the proximal end of the second arm located between the proximal ends of the first and third arms, a first face member, coupled to a distal end of the first arm and coupled to a distal end of the second arm and a second face member, coupled to a distal end of the third arm and coupled to a distal end of the second arm. Multiple mounting assemblies can be attached to a pole such as to provide a mounting surface for communications equipment and orienting the same such as to cover multiple azimuths around the pole.
US12077972B2
A brace for supporting a concrete form is disclosed. The brace includes a strongback couplable to an insulated concrete form, a platform coupled to the strongback, and an outrigger. The brace includes an adjustment mechanism having a casing portion coupled to the platform, a manipulable body housed within the casing portion, and a retaining body housed within the casing. The manipulable body extends through an opening of the casing portion and is coupled to the outrigger. The adjustment mechanism is manipulable by a single user located on the platform to reposition the outrigger to adjust a plumb of the concrete form.
US12077954B1
A thickening agent for toilet bowl water including a pellet assembly with a thickening agent assembly and a toilet tank assembly. Pellet assembly contains has a pellet member. The pellet includes a side stamp located below the pellet assembly. The pellet circles the thickening agent assembly. Thickening agent assembly includes a thickening agent. The protruding face of the thickening agent extends from a top surface of the pellet assembly. Toilet tank assembly includes a toilet tank and a toilet bowl. A side stamp is used to stick the pellet member and can be placed inside toilet tank for thickening water with thickening agent assembly when flushing toilet tank.
US12077953B2
A flexible plunger boot used with a plunger to unclog a drain includes a coupling section, bulbous seal, and periphery seal. The coupling section couples to the bottom end of the plunger. The bulbous seal has a hollow spherical shape with a maximum outside diameter that is larger than a diameter of a drain that the bulbous seal is inserted into and deforms inwardly to create an interference fit with the walls of the drain. The periphery seal has an annular ring shape that is smaller in diameter than the maximum outside diameter of the bulbous seal but larger in diameter than a drain opening whose diameter is too small for the bulbous seal to fit into. Whenever the periphery seal is pressed down against the surface surrounding the drain opening it flattens against the surface to create a mechanical seal with the surface.
US12077946B2
A construction machine capable of suppressing deterioration in work efficiency includes an angle detecting device that detects a relative angle between a lower travelling body and an upper slewing body, a travel lever that can be manipulated to make the lower travelling body travel, a display, a directional information generating unit that generates information related to a travelling direction of the lower travelling body based on a detected result of the angle detecting device, and a display controller. The display controller causes the display to display an arrow image indicating the travelling direction of the lower travelling body generated by the directional information generating unit when the travel lever is manipulated and does not permit the display to display the arrow image when the travel lever is not manipulated.
US12077935B2
Systems and methods include a wing tool configured to be operable from work vessel(s), the wing tool including thrusters capable of fluidizing sediments from a first seabed location and moving it to a second seabed location, the second seabed location including a trench or differently shaped collection sump previously made by the wing tool and/or an extraction pump. The extraction pump operates from a second work vessel having sufficient capacity to pump fluidized sediments from the trench. Certain systems include a separation unit that separates sand from silts and clays and water from collected sediment. Systems and methods for reclamation of reservoirs, moving sand waves, for pre-trenching and/or recovering marine pipelines and cables, for removing cover from marine archaeological sites and for disposing of contaminated bottom materials in an environmentally acceptable manner.
US12077926B2
A curb sweeping apparatus for releasable engagement with a blade of a blade-carrying machine such as a motor grader, for example, the blade being arcuate in cross-section and having a top edge and a bottom cutting edge, the sweeping apparatus being comprised of a height and depth adjustable mounting assembly, a carrier frame fixedly connected to the mounting assembly, and a motor-driven rotary sweeper comprised of a sweeper brush assembly rotatably mounted to the carrier frame and a sweeper motor mounted to the carrier frame and operably coupled to the sweeper brush assembly.
US12077919B2
A synthetic turf having a mat with a face arranged adjacent to a surface to coat, and a face opposite the face. The turf includes a plurality of blades made of a synthetic material that are connected to the mat. Above the face of the mat, an infill material is provided that is arranged among the blades. The infill material includes a predetermined percentage by volume of a vegetable material consisting of rachis of cereal ear. The infill material also includes a predetermined percentage by volume of a ligninic and/or resinous material of vegetable origin.
US12077918B2
An expansion joint system for bridging an expansion joint gap between two spaced-apart, underlying building or roadway structures. The expansion joint system includes a cover plate, at least one swing arm, sliding bearings engaged with the swing arms, and fasteners for engaging the swing arms to the cover plate. The swing arms include a receiving well configured for receiving a mechanical fastener to fasten the swing arms to the cover plate. The expansion joint system permits movement in response to a seismic or thermal event that causes expansion or contraction of the gap between structural members while maintaining coverage of the gap, and following a seismic or thermal event, the maintains a substantially-centered position of the cover plate.
US12077905B2
An elastic fiber treatment agent that contains, as a smoothing agent, a mineral oil with a content ratio of an aromatic component of less than 1% by mass and an aniline point of 70° C. to 110° C. The mineral oil has a mass ratio between the content of a naphthene component and the content of a paraffin component of such that naphthene component/paraffin component=30 to 50/70 to 50.
US12077904B2
A treatment method includes: preparing a vibration applying section including a contact member that has a base and a plurality of protruding portions which are provided so as to protrude from the base and which come into contact with a fabric and including a vibration generation source that applies a vibration to the contact member; and a vibration applying step of, in a state in which the protruding portions are made to be in contact with the fabric, driving the vibration generation source such that the protruding portions vibrate and applying vibration to the fabric via the protruding portions.
US12077895B2
A laundry treating apparatus includes a tub, a drum, and a rotator, the rotator includes a bottom portion positioned on a bottom surface, a pillar protruding from the bottom portion toward an open surface, and a blade disposed on an outer circumferential surface of the pillar, wherein one end of the blade faces toward the bottom portion, and the other end of the blade faces toward the open surface, and the blade includes a plurality of divided blades separated and spaced apart from each other between said one end and the other end.
US12077891B2
Embodiments of the present invention describe secured fiber-reinforced aerogels and laminate structures formed therefrom. In one embodiment a laminate comprises at least one fiber-reinforced aerogel layer adjacent to at least one layer of fiber containing material wherein fibers from said at least one fiber-reinforced aerogel layer are interlaced with fibers of said at least one fiber-containing material. In another embodiment a laminate comprises at least two adjacent fiber-reinforced aerogel layers wherein fibers from at least one fiber-reinforced aerogel layer are interlaced with fibers of an adjacent fiber-reinforced aerogel layer.
US12077875B2
A technique that ensures suppressing deterioration of a plating quality of a substrate caused by air bubbles accumulated on a lower surface of a membrane is provided. An air bubble removing method of a plating apparatus is an air bubble removing method for removing air bubble in an anode chamber 13 in a plating apparatus 1000 including a plating tank 10 and a substrate holder 30. The air bubble removing method includes: supplying a plating solution Ps from at least one supply port 70 disposed in an outer peripheral portion 12 of the anode chamber to the anode chamber and causing at least one discharge port 71 disposed in the outer peripheral portion of the anode chamber so as to face the supply port to suction the supplied plating solution to form a shear flow Sf of the plating solution along a lower surface on the lower surface 61a of a membrane 61 in the anode chamber.
US12077872B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, system and composition producing a magnetic carbon nanomaterial product that may comprise carbon nanotubes (CNTs) at least some of which are magnetic CNTs (mCNTs). The method and apparatus employ carbon dioxide (CO2) as a reactant in an electrolysis reaction in order to make mCNTs. In some embodiments of the present disclosure, a magnetic additive component is included as a reactant in the method and as a portion of one or more components in the system or composition to facilitate a magnetic material addition process, a carbide nucleation process or both during the electrosynthesis reaction for making magnetic carbon nanomaterials.
US12077869B2
A heat treatment apparatus includes: a treatment chamber unit that is, inside a furnace shell, detachably fixed to the furnace shell; and a power supply portion, in which the treatment chamber unit includes: a treatment container in which a heat treatment is performed on a workpiece; a heat insulating material provided inside the treatment container; a heater that has a heating element located inside the treatment container and has a terminal located outside the treatment container; and a busbar that is provided on the outside of the treatment container and is electrically connected to the terminal of the heater, the power supply portion is provided outside the treatment container, and the busbar and the power supply portion are detachably connected to each other.
US12077868B2
A metallic sheet with deposited structured images and method for manufacture (MSDIMM) that includes a substrate, at least one structural feature, and a metal layer. The structural feature is at least one cavity on the substrate's upper surface, or at least one material object that extends outward from the substrate's upper surface. The metal layer is deposited, either by sputtering or atomic deposition, onto the substrate's upper surface, and, as the metal layer is deposited, the metal layer interfaces with and follows the dimensions of the structural feature(s), thereby creating a visible image at the location(s) of the structural feature(s). The visible image can be any image, and is preferably either an artistic image, a textual image, or an authentication image. The MDSIMM can be used for a variety sf purposes, and is especially effective as a form of exonumia or currency.
US12077867B2
Provided is a surface structure having freezing-delaying performance and freezing layer-separating performance. The surface structure includes a microstructural layer formed in the form of microscale irregularities and a plurality of nanopores formed in the microstructural layer. A freezing-delaying layer is formed on a surface of the microstructural layer to delay a freezing phenomenon. Also, a hygroscopic material is accommodated in the nanopores, so that when a surface of the freezing-delaying layer starts to freeze, the hygroscopic material is discharged from the nanopores to form a hygroscopic material film, and thus adhesion between the freezing-delaying layer and ice is reduced to allow the ice to be detached from the freezing-delaying layer.
US12077859B2
Methods and apparatuses for depositing approximately equal thicknesses of a material on at least two substrates concurrently processed in separate stations of a multi-station deposition apparatus are provided.
US12077857B2
Exemplary embodiments of the disclosure provide improved reactor systems, assemblies, and methods for controlling a temperature within the reactor system, such as a temperature of a gas supply unit. Exemplary systems and methods employ an exhaust unit to cause movement of a fluid over a portion of the gas supply unit to better control the temperature of the gas supply unit.
US12077850B2
A chamber for a physical vapor deposition (PVD) apparatus includes a collimator configured to narrow filter sputtered particles into a beam, an electrostatic chuck configured to support a substrate in the chamber, a shield and a chamber plate. The chamber plate includes a nut plate portion having a plurality of nut plates and a plurality of cavities in the chamber plate that are configured to allow gas to ingress and egress, wherein the cavities and nut plates are provided in equal numbers. The chamber is configured to operate at a target pressure, and the number of nut plates and corresponding number of cavities are determined based on the target pressure.
US12077849B2
A method of depositing a layer on a substrate includes applying a first magnetic field to a cathode target, electrically coupling the cathode target to a first high power pulse resonance alternating current (AC) power supply, positioning an additional cylindrical cathode target electrode around the cathode, applying a second magnetic field to the additional cylindrical cathode target electrode, electrically coupling the additional cylindrical cathode target electrode to a second high power pulse resonance AC power supply, generating magnetic coupling between the cathode target and an anode, providing a feed gas, and selecting a time shift between negative voltage peaks associated with AC voltage waveforms generated by the first high power pulse resonance AC power supply and the second high power pulse resonance AC power supply. An apparatus includes a vacuum chamber, cathode target magnet assembly, first high power pulse resonance AC power supply, additional electrode, additional electrode magnet assembly, second high power pulse resonance AC power supply, and feed gas.
US12077836B2
A method of removing hydrogen interstitially dissolved within an object can include: positioning a sorption pad having a contact surface and comprising a sorptive material; urging the contact surface into metallurgical contact with the first target surface while at a treatment temperature that is greater than about 200 degrees Celsius; c) maintaining the metallurgical contact for a treatment period during which the hydrogen migrates from the target object to the sorptive material; and at the conclusion of the treatment period, separating the contact surface from the first target surface and moving the sorption pad and any hydrogen sequestered therein away from the object.
US12077835B2
In one aspect, the disclosure relates to a microwave-assisted comminution method for achieving more efficient beneficiation and later hydrometallurgical recovery of rare earth elements and other metals from coal fly ash particles. The method requires only a short processing time, is energy efficient, allows for better process control, and is environmentally advantageous compared to current methods. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present disclosure.
US12077833B2
A metal strip is provided having a casting-wheel side that has been solidified on an outer surface of a heat sink, an opposing, air side and a microstructure. The microstructure is at least 80 vol. % amorphous or has at least 80 vol. % nanocrystalline grains and a residual amorphous matrix in which at least 80% of the nanocrystalline grains have an average grain size of less than 50 nm and a random orientation. The air side of the metal strip has a surface crystallisation proportion of less than 23%.
US12077827B2
The present invention relates to methods for predicting the risk of developing pulmonary colonization/infection by P. aeruginosa. The inventors analyzed the respiratory tract microbiota from 65 patients sputum samples and compared microbiota data. The inventors found that patients that will remain uninfected from P. aeruginosa exhibited 3-fold higher abundance of Porphyromonas compared to the other groups. In particular, the present invention relates to a method for predicting the risk of developing pulmonary colonization/infection by P. aeruginosa in a subject suffering from cystic fibrosis (CF) comprising measuring the abundance of Porphyromonas genus bacteria in a biological sample obtained from said subject.
US12077826B2
Disclosed are compositions comprising a first lipid-conjugated oligonucleotide comprising a first lipid moiety, a first hybridization region, and a first primer region; a second lipid-conjugated oligonucleotide comprising a second hybridization region and a second lipid moiety, wherein the second hybridization region is the reverse complement of the first hybridization region; and a third oligonucleotide comprising a second primer region, a barcode region, and a capture sequence, wherein the second primer region is the reverse complement of the first primer region; compositions comprising a lipid-conjugated DNA oligonucleotide comprising a lipid moiety, a barcode region, and a capture sequence; and composition comprising a first lipid-conjugated DNA oligonucleotide comprising a lipid moiety and a first primer region; and a second DNA oligonucleotide comprising a second primer region, a barcode region, and a capture sequence, wherein the second primer region is the reverse complement of the first primer region. Also disclosed are membranes and cells comprising such compositions and uses of such compositions.
US12077819B2
The invention provides a novel additive for improved analysis by mass spectrometry. More specifically, ascorbic acid has been found to reduce or eliminate the presence of adducts commonly present in mass spectra. The improved processes and compositions of the invention allow for increased accuracy, sensitivity and throughput for samples analyzed by mass spectrometry.
US12077815B2
Provided herein and methods and apparatuses for sequencing nucleic acids. For example, provided is an analytical detection apparatus, including (a) a stage configured to support a flow cell; (b) a detector configured to observe a detection channel of the flow cell when the flow cell is supported by the stage; (c) a plurality of fluid delivery channels, wherein each of the fluid delivery channels fluidically connects a reservoir to the detection channel of the flow cell; and (d) a first heater configured to heat the plurality of fluid delivery channels.
US12077814B2
A method for low frequency somatic cell mutation identification and quantification, relating specifically to a method for transposon copy number and genome location identification. Specific sites of different transposon families are used, transposon insertion sequences are specifically enriched via library construction, high-throughput sequencing and bioinformatics analysis are used, and genome locations, copy numbers and types of transposons within samples are accurately identified. The method economically and accurately identifies copy numbers and genome locations of transposons.
US12077808B2
A microfluidic device includes a plurality of reaction wells; and a plurality of solid supports, and each of the solid supports has a reagent attached thereto. The reagent is attached to the solid support via a labile reagent/support bond such that the reagent is configured to be cleaved from the support via a cleaving operation.
US12077804B2
A microbial detection device and methods of use are provided. The device comprises a water-proof pouch that includes a first wall portion, a second wall portion, and a porous membrane filter disposed in the pouch between the first and second wall portions. The filter membrane divides the pouch into first and second compartments. A dry, cold water-soluble gelling agent is adhered to the pouch in the first compartment and an absorbent pad is disposed in the second compartment. A sealable sample port provides access to deposit a liquid into the first compartment.
