US12113038B2
A thermal compression flip chip (TCFC) bump may be used for high performance products that benefit from a fine pitch. In one example, a new TCFC bump structure adds a metal pad underneath the TCFC copper pillar bump to cover the exposed aluminum bump pad. This new structure prevents the pad from corroding and reduces mechanical stress to the pad and underlying silicon dielectric layers enabling better quality and reliability and further bump size reduction. For example, a flip chip connection may include a substrate; a metal pad on a contact side of the substrate and a first passivation layer on the contact side of the substrate to protect the metal pad from corrosion.
US12113037B2
In certain aspects, a three-dimensional (3D) memory device includes a first semiconductor structure, a second semiconductor structure, a third semiconductor structure, a first bonding interface between the first semiconductor structure and the second semiconductor structure, and a second bonding interface between the second semiconductor structure and the third semiconductor structure. The first semiconductor structure includes an array of NAND memory strings and a first semiconductor layer in contact with sources of the array of NAND memory strings. The second semiconductor structure includes a first peripheral circuit of the array of NAND memory strings including a first transistor, and a second semiconductor layer in contact with the first transistor. A third semiconductor structure includes a second peripheral circuit of the array of NAND memory strings including a second transistor, and a third semiconductor layer in contact with the second transistor. The second semiconductor layer is between the first bonding interface and the first peripheral circuit. The second peripheral circuit is between the second bonding interface and the third semiconductor layer.
US12113035B2
Provided a semiconductor device comprises, a plurality of semiconductor patterns spaced in a first direction; a plurality of mold insulating layers between the plurality of semiconductor patterns, a plurality of silicide patterns contacting the plurality of semiconductor patterns; and a plurality of first metal conductive films between the plurality of mold insulating layers and connected to each of the silicide patterns, wherein each of the silicide patterns includes a first sidewall that faces the semiconductor pattern, and a second sidewall which faces the first metal conductive film, the first sidewall of the silicide pattern and the second sidewall of the silicide pattern extends in the first direction, and the first sidewall of the silicide pattern and the second sidewall of the silicide pattern are curved surfaces.
US12113025B2
A method includes forming a redistribution structure over a carrier, the redistribution structure having conductive features on a surface of the redistribution structure distal the carrier; forming a conductive pillar over the surface of the redistribution structure; attaching a die to the surface of the redistribution structure adjacent to the conductive pillar, where die connectors of the die are electrically coupled to the conductive features of the redistribution structure; and attaching a pre-made substrate to the conductive pillar through a conductive joint, where the conductive joint is on the conductive pillar and comprises a different material from the conductive pillar, where the conductive joint and the conductive pillar electrically couple the redistribution structure to the pre-made substrate.
US12113023B2
Disclosed herein are microelectronic structures including bridges, as well as related assemblies and methods. In some embodiments, a microelectronic structure may include a substrate and a bridge.
US12113020B2
Exemplary semiconductor processing methods include forming a via in a semiconductor structure. The via may be defined in part by a bottom surface and a sidewall surface formed in the semiconductor structure around the via. The methods may also include depositing a tantalum nitride (TaN) layer on the bottom surface of the via. In embodiments, the TaN layer may be deposited at a temperature less than or about 200° C. The methods may still further include depositing a titanium nitride (TiN) layer on the TaN layer. In embodiments, the TiN layer may be deposited at a temperature greater than or about 300° C. The methods may additionally include depositing a fill-metal on the TiN layer in the via. In embodiments, the metal may be deposited at a temperature greater than or about 300° C.
US12113019B2
A microelectronic device comprises pillar structures extending vertically through an isolation material, conductive lines electrically coupled to the pillar structures, contact structures between the pillar structures and the conductive lines, and interconnect structures between the conductive lines and the contact structures. The conductive lines comprise one or more of titanium, ruthenium, aluminum, and molybdenum. The interconnect structures comprise a material composition that is different than one or more of a material composition of the contact structures and a material composition of the conductive lines. Related memory devices, electronic systems, and methods are also described.
US12113013B2
A device includes: a first dielectric material; a first metal line in the first dielectric material; a second dielectric material disposed on the first dielectric material and the first metal line; a second metal line in the second dielectric material; and a plurality of metal vias disposed on a same level and connecting the first metal line and the second metal line, wherein the plurality of metal vias comprise a first top via and a bottom via having different sidewall profile angles.
US12113009B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor element, a first lead including a mounting portion for the semiconductor element and a first terminal portion connected to the mounting portion, and a sealing resin covering the semiconductor element and a portion of the first lead. The mounting portion has a mounting-portion front surface and a mounting-portion back surface opposite to each other in a thickness direction, with the semiconductor element mounted on the mounting-portion front surface. The sealing resin includes a resin front surface, a resin back surface and a resin side surface connecting the resin front surface and the resin back surface. The mounting-portion back surface of the first lead is flush with the resin back surface. The first terminal portion includes a first-terminal-portion back surface exposed from the resin back surface, in a manner such that the first-terminal-portion back surface extends to the resin side surface.
US12113005B2
A method includes forming a plurality of dielectric layers, forming a plurality of redistribution lines in the plurality of dielectric layers, etching the plurality of dielectric layers to form an opening, filling the opening to form a through-dielectric via penetrating through the plurality of dielectric layers, forming an insulation layer over the through-dielectric via and the plurality of dielectric layers, forming a plurality of bond pads in the dielectric layer, and bonding a device to the insulation layer and a portion of the plurality of bond pads through hybrid bonding.
US12113003B2
The present application discloses a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a package structure including a first side and a second side opposite to the first side; an interposer structure positioned over the first side of the package structure; a first die positioned over the interposer structure; a second die positioned over the interposer structure; and a plurality of middle interconnectors positioned between the first side of the package structure and the first die and between the first side of the package structure and the second die. The plurality of middle interconnectors respectively includes a middle exterior layer positioned between the first side of the package structure and the interposer structure, a middle interior layer enclosed by the middle exterior layer, and a cavity enclosed by the interposer structure, the package structure, and the middle interior layer.
US12112996B2
Provided is a semiconductor device having high planarity in an in-plane direction. This semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a first plating film pattern, a second plating film pattern, and an insulating layer. The semiconductor substrate has a first surface, and a second surface on a side opposite to the first surface. The first plating film pattern includes a first portion that covers a first regional portion of the first surface, and a second portion that is stacked to cover a portion of the first portion. The second plating film pattern includes a third portion that covers a second regional portion different from the first regional portion of the first surface, and also includes a fourth portion that is stacked to cover a portion of the third portion. A portion between the second portion and the fourth portion is filled with the insulating layer.
US12112991B1
A system on wafer assembly structure and an assembly method thereof. The system on wafer assembly structure comprises: a wafer layer, a dielectric layer and a circuit board layer sequentially stacked, and each provided with a bonding region, a testing region and an alignment region, respectively, a first assembly, and a second assembly, wherein the first assembly is arranged on one side of the wafer layer far away from the dielectric layer, and comprises a bearing portion and at least one latch portion connected with each other, and the bearing portion is detachably connected with the wafer layer. The second assembly is at least partially arranged around the first assembly. The second assembly has a hole portion for accommodating a latch portion, and the inner diameter of the hole portion is larger than the outer diameter of the latch portion.
US12112989B2
Semiconductor device and the manufacturing method thereof are disclosed herein. An exemplary method comprises forming first and second semiconductor fins in first and second regions of a substrate, respectively; forming first and second dummy gate stacks over the first and second semiconductor fins, respectively, and forming a spacer layer over the first and the second dummy gate stacks; forming a first pattern layer with a thickness along the spacer layer in the first region; form a first source/drain (S/D) trench along the first pattern layer and epitaxially growing a first epitaxial feature therein; removing the first pattern layer to expose the spacer layer; forming a second pattern layer with a different thickness along the spacer layer in the second region; form a second S/D trench along the second pattern layer and epitaxially growing a second epitaxial feature therein; and removing the second pattern layer to expose the spacer layer.
US12112970B2
A substrate transfer apparatus includes a body portion having a holding region on a surface thereof corresponding to a substrate. The body portion moves so that the surface thereof approaches the substrate up to at least a first distance. A plurality of vacuum holes are distributed in the holding region and form negative pressure to provide suction force to the substrate disposed at the first distance. At least some of the plurality of vacuum holes are disposed at equal intervals at an edge of the holding region and have the same width. A plurality of air holes are distributed in the holding region and form positive pressure to provide a buoyancy force to the substrate close to the holding region at a second distance smaller than the first distance.
US12112965B2
A wafer supporting mechanism and a method for wafer dicing are provided. The wafer supporting mechanism includes a base portion and a support portion. The base portion includes a first gas channel and a first outlet connected to the first gas channel. The support portion is connected to the base portion and including a second gas channel connected to the first gas channel. An accommodation space is defined by the base portion and the support portion.
US12112962B2
An arrangement apparatus includes a stage, an arrangement part, and a control part. The stage supports a substrate. The arrangement part holds a die and arranges multiple dies on the substrate supported by the stage. The control part has a map data indicating arrangement positions of the dies and generated based on a positional relationship among patterns formed by an exposure apparatus, and controls, based on the map data, relative positions between the stage and the arrangement part when arranging the dies on the substrate.
US12112961B2
A system includes at least one sensor and at least one controller. The at least one sensor is configured to generate a first weight signal corresponding to a first weight of a first lot of substrates, and a second weight signal corresponding to a second weight of a second lot of substrates. The at least one controller is coupled to the at least one sensor to receive the first weight signal and the second weight signal. The at least one controller is configured to convert a weight difference between the first weight and the second weight into a number of substrates each having a predetermined weight. The at least one controller is further configured to, based on the converted number of substrates, control a processing apparatus to rotate the first lot of substrates and the second lot of substrates simultaneously.
US12112956B2
Provided are a chip interconnection package structure and method, including: forming a sacrificial pattern layer on a support structure; forming an interconnection winding pattern layer on the sacrificial pattern layer, wherein the interconnection winding pattern layer is corresponding to a sacrificial pattern of the sacrificial pattern layer in position; forming a first insulating layer on the interconnection winding pattern layer; forming a plurality of chips arranged at intervals on the first insulating layer, wherein the plurality of chips are respectively corresponding to the interconnection winding pattern of the interconnection winding pattern layer in position; and removing the support structure, and forming, on one side of the sacrificial pattern layer, a first interconnection hole penetrating through the sacrificial pattern, the interconnection winding pattern and the first insulating layer, and making the first interconnection hole aligned and communicated with a first interconnection pin of the chip corresponding in projection position.
US12112947B2
A method of crystallizing an amorphous silicon film includes depositing the amorphous silicon film on a seed layer formed over a substrate while heating the amorphous silicon film at a first temperature, and forming a crystal nucleus in an outer layer of the amorphous silicon film by causing migration of silicon in the outer layer by heating the amorphous silicon film at a second temperature higher than the first temperature.
US12112944B2
The disclosure provides a preparation method of GaN field effect transistor based on diamond substrate, and relates to the technical field of semiconductor manufacturing. The method includes the following steps: preparing a GaN heterojunction layer on the front-side of a SiC substrate; thinning the SiC substrate; etching the SiC substrate; growing a diamond layer; removing a sacrificial layer and the diamond layer on the sacrificial layer; preparing a source electrode, a drain electrode and a gate electrode on the front surface of the GaN heterojunction layer; etching the SiC substrate and the GaN heterojunction layer to form a source through hole communicated with the source electrode; and removing the through hole mask layer, and preparing back grounding metal to complete the preparation of the diamond substrate GaN transistor device.
US12112943B2
A method for forming a film that includes forming a boron nitride film on a substrate, and forming a boron-containing silicon film on the boron nitride film.
US12112935B2
An ion guide or ion trap that comprises a plurality of electrodes (102) is disclosed. The ion guide or ion trap includes a detector (205) that can detect light or particles (114) emitted from the ion guide or ion trap due to electrical breakdown, and a control circuit (111) that can control the ion guide or ion trap in response to the detector (205) detecting light or particles (114) emitted from the ion guide or ion trap.
US12112933B2
An imaging mass spectrometer according to one mode of the present invention includes: an analysis execution section (1, 31) configured to perform a mass spectrometric analysis on each of a plurality of measurement points set within a two-dimensional area on a sample, to collect mass spectrum data over a predetermined mass-to-charge-ratio range for each measurement point; a condition memory section (32) configured to store a data matrix creation condition to be used for creation of a data matrix based on the mass spectrum data acquired by the analysis in the analysis execution section; and a data matrix creation section (42) configured to begin, in the middle of an execution of the analysis by the analysis execution section or subsequently to the completion of the analysis, the creation of the data matrix based on mass spectrum data already collected until then, according to the data matrix creation condition stored in the condition memory section.
US12112932B2
An ion detector includes: a first electron multiplier for detecting first ions having a first polarity; a second electron multiplier for detecting second ions having a second polarity different from the first polarity; a first anode for capturing electrons emitted from the first electron multiplier; a second anode for capturing electrons emitted from the second electron multiplier; and a switching circuit including a first input terminal electrically connected to the first anode, a second input terminal electrically connected to the second anode, and an output terminal, the switching circuit selectively connecting one of the first input terminal and the second input terminal to the output terminal.
US12112930B2
A method includes placing a wafer on a wafer holder, depositing a film on a front surface of the wafer, and blowing a gas through ports in a redistributor onto a back surface of the wafer at a same time the deposition is performed. The gas is selected from a group consisting of nitrogen (N2), He, Ne, and combinations thereof.
US12112928B1
A PECVD apparatus includes a transfer chamber, a load lock, a cleaning chamber, a spin-drying chamber, a deposition chamber, and an unload lock; wherein the load lock, the cleaning chamber, the spin-drying chamber, the deposition chamber, and the unload lock are successively spirally arranged on a side wall of the transfer chamber; and a spiral conveyor device is arranged in the transfer chamber, wherein the spiral conveyor device includes a conveyor rod, a spiral drive mechanism, and a plurality of conveyor assemblies; wherein the conveyor rod is vertically arranged in the transfer chamber, and the plurality of conveyor assemblies are spirally arranged on the conveyor rod, and wherein the spiral drive mechanism is configured to drive the conveyor rod to undergo a spiral ascending or descending movement.
US12112927B2
A substrate processing apparatus (100), comprising a reaction chamber (50), an outer chamber (80) at least partly surrounding the reaction chamber (50) and forming an intermediate volume (70) therebetween, and a substrate support (40) within the reaction chamber (50), comprising a hollow inner volume (42), wherein the hollow inner volume (42) and the intermediate volume (70) are in fluid communication through a channel (45) extending from the hollow inner volume (42) to the intermediate volume (70).
US12112925B2
A plasma processing apparatus includes: a plasma processing chamber; a radio frequency power source; a sample stage on which a sample is mounted; an electrode which is arranged inside the sample stage and electrostatically chucks the sample; a DC power source which applies a DC voltage to the electrode; and a control device which controls an output voltage of the DC power source so that an electric potential difference between an electric potential of the sample and an electric potential of an inner wall of the plasma processing chamber is reduced to an electric potential difference within a predetermined range during interruption of plasma discharge.
US12112919B2
Systems, devices, and methods are discussed relating to plasma sources using load current switch timing of zero volt switching resonant topology.
US12112917B2
There is provided a sample holder which is for use in a charged particle beam system and which can prevent damage to a sample stage during transportation of a cartridge. The sample holder includes: the cartridge having the sample stage for holding a sample therein; and a holder base having a mounting portion to which the cartridge can be mounted. The cartridge has: a tilt mechanism for tilting the sample stage; and a lock lever which, when the cartridge has been taken out from the mounting portion, makes contact with the sample stage and limits tilt of the stage.
US12112903B2
A mechanical knob which may be designed and tuned according to various design conditions (size and the like of the knob) without restriction conditions such as a size, height, and the like, its push and rotation operations may be performed, and many parts are unnecessary unlike the conventional mechanical knobs. The mechanical knob apparatus includes a dial configured to transmit a force at which a user rotates or presses the knob to perform the rotation or push rotation of the knob as an exterior part of the knob exposed to the outside, a push operation unit coupled to the dial through a radial bearing to perform the push operation, and a rotation operation unit coupled to the dial to perform both the push operation and the rotation operation.
US12112878B2
An asymmetric spiral inductor is provided. The asymmetric spiral inductor includes a first winding, a second winding and a third winding. The first winding has a first end and a second end and is implemented in the ultra-thick metal (UTM) layer of a semiconductor structure. The second winding, which has a third end and a fourth end, is implemented in the re-distribution layer of the semiconductor structure and has a first maximum trace width. The third winding, which has a fifth end and a sixth end, is implemented in the UTM layer of the semiconductor structure and has a second maximum trace width smaller than the first maximum trace width. The second and third ends are connected through a first through structure, the fourth and fifth ends are connected through a second through structure, and the first and sixth ends are the two ends of the asymmetric spiral inductor.
US12112874B2
The present disclosure relates to an inductor including a coil, an inner core disposed inside the coil, and an outer core formed in a rectangular ring shape to accommodate the coil and the inner core therein, wherein the inner core is manufactured separately from the outer core, and at least one end of both ends of the inner core in an axial direction is spaced apart from the outer core.
US12112865B2
A system, comprising a bus bar having a first through-hole formed therein and a first current sensor that is disposed adjacent to the first branch. The first through-hole is arranged to define, at least in part, a first branch of the bus bar and a second branch of the bus bar. The first branch has different length and/or thickness than the second branch. The first current sensor is arranged to measure an electrical current through the bus bar.
US12112862B2
A method for manufacturing a spiral tube which is made of a resin material and spirally covers a periphery of a wire harness along an extending direction of the wire harness, the method includes extrusion molding a tube material which is made of the resin material, heating and softening the tube material and forming the spiral tube, and spirally wounding the spiral tube around the wire harness and cutting the spiral tube.
US12112855B2
Systems and methods are provided for secure messaging with constrained user actions. An example method includes causing presentation of an interactive user interface, the interactive user interface enabling messaging with end users, each end user being associated with a respective phone number. Selection of a particular end user is received via the interaction user interface and the interactive user interface is updated to include a selectable option which triggers transmission of a standardized consent message to a particular phone number associated with the particular end user. A reply message is received from the particular phone number indicating the affirmative consent. The interactive user interface is updated, with the updated interactive user interface including an input portion configured to receive arbitrary information for transmission to the particular phone number.
US12112842B2
An aspect of the invention provides a method and a product for determining a modification of the therapy management by using a processor unit which retrieves few data related to the blood glucose measurement performed over a predetermined time period; retrieve the medication delivery parameter executed by the delivery device over said predetermined time period; retrieve from the memory data associated to the CIR of the patient; and determine a modification to the therapy based on at least a part of the retrieved data.
US12112836B2
A computer implemented method for designing chemical reactions for catalyst construction is described. The method includes extracting historical data including historic chemical reaction data and historic catalyst construction yield data and converting the historic chemical reaction data into graph models to represent molecular structure data. The method also includes incorporating the graph models into a chemical reaction algorithm and training a vectorized cognitive deep learning network of the chemical reaction algorithm by using the graph models and a property of the historic chemical reaction data to produce a catalyst chemical reaction model. Further, the method includes validating the catalyst chemical reaction model by inputting the historic chemical reaction data and comparing a generated property corresponding to the catalyst chemical reaction model to the property of the historic chemical reaction data. Lastly, the method includes updating the training of the catalyst chemical reaction model.
US12112835B2
The invention relates to a method for determining polymeric product properties (1), wherein a prediction model (7) is provided for calculating polymeric product properties (1) based on production parameters on a computer system, which production parameters comprise formulation portions (2) specifying raw material portions for polymeric production and comprise processing parameters (3) specifying process properties during polymeric production, wherein user input is provided to the computer system, which user input comprises user production parameters (4) specifying a set of production parameters, user product parameters (5) specifying polymeric product properties and a proximity metric for quantifying conformity with the user product parameters (5), wherein the computer system applies the user production parameters (4) to the prediction model (7) to calculate resultant product properties (8), wherein the computer system applies the proximity metric to the resultant product properties (8) with respect to the user product parameters (5) to determine at least one proximity value indicating a match between the user product parameters (5) and the resultant product properties (8). The invention also relates to a corresponding computer system for determining polymeric product properties.
US12112833B2
Methods for index hopping sequence read filtering are provided. Each read in a plurality of reads from a multiplexed reaction comprises an insert portion, and first (molecular identifier) and second (sample index) non-insert portions. For each of a plurality of hashes, a hash data structure is formed with a representation of each read. Each representation comprises a hash of the first non-insert portion of the corresponding read. Read pairs are identified in the hash data structures. Each pair includes a first and second read sharing a common hash value but differing index values. An entry is added into a heterogeneous data structure, for each such pair, that includes the first and second non-insert portions of the first and second reads of the pair. Reads with first non-insert portion values appearing more than a threshold number of times in the heterogeneous data structure are removed from the plurality of reads.
US12112829B2
A memory array circuit includes a memory array and a set of dummy cells surrounding the memory array. The first memory array includes a first set of memory cells located in an inner area of the memory array and a second set of memory cells located along an edge of the memory array. Each dummy cell includes one or more active regions and multiple gate structures over the one or more active regions.
US12112827B2
A method includes measuring a linearity of a first pull-up circuit, a second pull-up circuit, a third pull-up circuit, a first pull-down circuit, a second pull-down circuit and a third pull-down circuit using an initial pull-up code and an initial pull-down code, each of the first pull-up circuit, the second pull-up circuit and the third pull-up circuit having a respective resistance value determined based on a respective pull-up code, and each of the first pull-down circuit, the second pull-down circuit and the third pull-down circuit having a respective resistance value determined based on a respective pull-down code, and determining a calibration setting indicator based on the measurement result, the calibration setting indicator indicating a calibration method of a transmission driver including the first pull-up circuit, the second pull-up circuit, the third pull-up circuit, the first pull-down circuit, the second pull-down circuit and the third pull-down circuit.
US12112823B2
A method for repairing a memory device with faulty memory cells. The method includes defining a RA environment comprising a location of each of the faulty memory cells and a plurality of SR and a plurality of SC. The method further includes repairing the faulty memory cells based on an RA training process using the defined RA environment and mapping of the location of each faulty memory cell with the plurality of SC or SR. The method further includes training, based on a determination that indicates the at least one faulty memory cell among the faulty memory cells is left unrepaired and the at least one SC or SR is remaining, a first NN to perform an action for repairing of the faulty memory cells such that a maximum number of faulty memory cells are reparable and a minimum number of SC and SR are utilized during the repairing.
US12112819B2
Apparatus might include an array of memory cells and a controller for access of the array of memory cells. The controller might be configured to cause the apparatus to apply a sense voltage level to a control gate of a memory cell of the array of memory cells, generate N determinations whether the memory cell is deemed to activate or deactivate while applying the sense voltage level, wherein N is an integer value greater than or equal to three, deem the memory cell to have a threshold voltage in a first range of threshold voltages lower than the sense voltage level in response to a majority of the N determinations indicating activation of the memory cell, and deem the memory cell to have a threshold voltage in a second range of threshold voltages higher than the sense voltage level in response to a majority of the N determinations indicating activation of the memory cell.
US12112814B2
Technology for open block boundary group programming of non-volatile memory such as NAND. The open block boundary group could potentially be read in response to a request from a host for the data stored in the group. In an aspect, the memory system will determine whether programming a group of memory cells in a selected block will result in an open block. If it will not result in an open block, then the memory system uses a first set of programming parameters to program the group. However, if it will result in an open block then the memory system uses a second set of programming parameters to program the boundary group. The programming parameters may include verify levels and/or a program voltage step size. The second set of programming parameters can tighten Vt distributions, which mitigates mis-reads if the boundary group is read.
US12112795B2
A memory device and operating method of the memory device are provided. The memory device comprises a memory cell storing data based on a first voltage, a row decoder selecting a wordline of the memory cell based on the first voltage, and a wordline predecoder configured to generate a “predec” signal, which is for generating a wordline voltage to be provided to the row decoder. The wordline predecoder is driven by the first voltage and a second voltage, which is different from the first voltage, receives a row address signal, associated with selecting the wordline, and an internal clock signal associated with adjusting operating timings of elements included in the memory device. The wordline predecoder performs a NAND operation on the row address signal and the internal clock signal, and provides the “predec” signal generated based on a result of the NAND operation to the row decoder.
US12112792B2
A memory device includes an array of memory cells configured on a die or chip and coupled to sense lines and access lines of the die or chip and a respective sense amplifier configured on the die or chip coupled to each of the sense lines. Each of a plurality of subsets of the sense lines is coupled to a respective local input/output (I/O) line on the die or chip for communication of data on the die or chip and a respective transceiver associated with the respective local I/O line, the respective transceiver configured to enable communication of the data to one or more device off the die or chip.
US12112790B2
A method for determining a target locking time for a delay locked loop of a memory apparatus are provided. The method includes, a system inputting a first set of input signals to the memory apparatus in accordance with a first set of first operational parameters and a set of second operational parameters, the system measuring a first set of output signals from the memory apparatus in response to the first set of input signals to determine whether the delay locked loop fails at any combination of the first set of first operational parameters and the set of second operational parameters, the system determining a first candidate operational parameter from the first set of first operational parameters under which the delay locked loop does not fail for each of the set of second operational parameters, and the system determining the target locking time based on the first candidate operational parameter.
US12112787B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for access based targeted refresh operations. A memory bank has a first sub-bank and a second sub-bank. A refresh control circuit detects an aggressor in one of the sub-banks. Responsive to an access in the other sub-bank, the refresh control circuit performs a targeted refresh operation based on the sub-bank based on the aggressor address.
US12112782B2
An approach for minimizing stack height and reducing resistance of an MRAM (Magnetoresistive random-access memory) is disclosed. The approach leverages an MRAM device with a T shape magnetic bottom electrode. The T shape magnetic bottom electrode can be made from a lower resistance metal such as cobalt. Furthermore, the method of creating the MRAM can include, depositing a low-k dielectric layer, forming bottom electrode via within the low-k dielectric layer, depositing bottom electrode metal liner on the bottom electrode via, depositing bottom electrode magnetic metal on the bottom electrode metal liner, planarizing the bottom electrode magnetic metal, depositing coupling layer and an MRAM stack on the bottom electrode magnetic metal, patterning and etching anisotropically the MRAM stack and depositing in-situ conformal dielectric layer and forming a top contact via on the MRAM stack.
US12112780B2
A recording medium includes a recording layer. The recording layer includes an aliphatic polymer, and a multiphoton absorption compound containing at least one bond selected from the group consisting of a carbon-carbon double bond, a carbon-nitrogen double bond, and a carbon-carbon triple bond, and having a multiphoton absorption characteristic. When the thickness of the recording layer is 100 μm, the transmittance of the recording layer in the thickness direction with respect to light having a wavelength of 405 nm is greater than or equal to 80%.
US12112779B1
According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk device includes a magnetic disk, a magnetic head that includes a write head configured to write data to the magnetic disk, a read head configured to read data from the magnetic disk, and a heater configured to adjust a flying height of the write head, and a controller that includes a first detection unit configured to detect the flying height of the write head, a second detection unit configured to detect a positioning error of the magnetic head with respect to a track of the magnetic disk, and a memory configured to store a first threshold and a second threshold.
US12112778B2
Various illustrative aspects are directed to a data storage device, comprising one or more disks; an actuator mechanism configured to position a selected head among one or more heads proximate to a corresponding disk surface of the one or more disks; and one or more processing devices. The one or more processing devices are configured to detect adjacent track interference (ATI) due to a write operation in an adjacent sector to a subject sector on the corresponding disk surface; and to generate a readback servo trajectory for the subject sector, based on a position error signal (PES) for the subject sector, a PES for the adjacent sector, and the ATI.
US12112769B2
Provided is a method of performing automatic interpretation based on speaker separation by a user terminal, the method including: receiving a first speech signal including at least one of a user speech of a user and a user surrounding speech around the user from an automatic interpretation service providing terminal, separating the first speech signal into speaker-specific speech signals, performing interpretation on the speaker-specific speech signals in a language selected by the user on the basis of an interpretation mode, and providing a second speech signal generated as a result of the interpretation to at least one of a counterpart terminal and the automatic interpretation service providing terminal according to the interpretation mode.
US12112768B2
A method, an apparatus, and logic to post-process raw gains determined by input processing to generate post-processed gains, comprising using one or both of delta gain smoothing and decision-directed gain smoothing. The delta gain smoothing comprises applying a smoothing filter to the raw gain with a smoothing factor that depends on the gain delta: the absolute value of the difference between the raw gain for the current frame and the post-processed gain for a previous frame. The decision-directed gain smoothing comprises converting the raw gain to a signal-to-noise ratio, applying a smoothing filter with a smoothing factor to the signal-to-noise ratio to calculate a smoothed signal-to-noise ratio, and converting the smoothed signal-to-noise ratio to determine the second smoothed gain, with smoothing factor possibly dependent on the gain delta.
US12112764B2
A method is disclosed to estimate the delay between an original signal and the corresponding captured signal. The signals are transformed and buffered to two sets of spectral descriptors for a similarity measure. The method advantageously offers robust delay estimation for inconsistent delays and adverse spectral distortions.
US12112762B2
An apparatus for encoding directional audio coding parameters including diffuseness parameters and direction parameters includes: a parameter calculator for calculating the diffuseness parameters with a first time or frequency resolution and for calculating the direction parameters with a second time or frequency resolution; and a quantizer and encoder processor for generating a quantized and encoded representation of the diffuseness parameters and the direction parameters.
US12112756B2
An interaction method triggered by a mouth-covering gesture and an intelligent electronic device are provided. The interaction method is applied to an intelligent electronic device arranged with a sensor. The intelligent electronic device includes a sensor system for capturing a signal of a user putting one hand on a mouth to make a mouth-covering gesture. The interaction method includes: processing the signal to determine whether the user puts the hand on the mouth to make the mouth-covering gesture; and in a case that the user puts the hand on the mouth to make the mouth-covering gesture, determining a mouth-covering gesture input mode as an input mode for controlling an interaction to trigger a control command or trigger another input mode, by executing a program on the intelligent electronic device.
US12112751B2
An electronic device, according to various embodiments, comprises a communication interface, a processor, and a memory. The memory may store instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to: obtain a user utterance; confirm context information associated with the user utterance; on the basis of the context information, select, as a target device, at least one external electronic device from among a plurality of external electronic devices; and via the communication interface, transmit at least a part of the context information to the at least one external electronic device selected as the target device. Various other embodiments are possible.
US12112742B2
Provided are an electronic device for correcting a speech input, and an operating method thereof. The method may include receiving a first speech signal; obtaining first text; obtaining an intent of the first speech signal and a confidence score of the intent, by inputting the first text to a natural language understanding model; identifying a plurality of correction candidate semantic elements capable of being correction targets in the first text; receiving a second speech signal; obtaining second text; identifying whether the second speech signal is a speech signal for correcting the first text; comparing the plurality of correction candidate semantic elements in the first text with a semantic element in the second text, based on the confidence score; and correcting at least one of the plurality of correction candidate semantic elements in the first text.
US12112739B2
Provided are an information processing device and an information processing method capable of responding to an utterance of a user with a correct pronunciation. The information processing device generates a response text indicating contents of a response to an utterance of a user on the basis of an utterance text indicating contents of the utterance of the user, and outputs the response text to which pronunciation information indicating a reading of a character string included in the response text is added.
US12112732B2
A sensing system for a keyboard. Each key sensor comprises passive and active resonant circuits. The passive resonant circuit has a resonant frequency and the active resonant circuit excites the passive resonant circuit at the resonant frequency. A sensor driver drives the active resonant circuit with an RF drive signal, a multiplexing system multiplexes the drive signal such that simultaneously driven key sensors are separated by at least (k−1) keys, and a detector detects a level of RF signal from a driven key sensor for sensing a position and/or velocity of a key.
US12112728B2
Holders and dispensers for guitar picks or plectra have an elongated base portion and an upper surface adapted for holding one or more of said picks or plectra, the base portion having right and left sides and having proximal and distal ends. The proximal end is configured for loading and dispensing picks. The base portion upper surface slopes upwards from the proximal to distal end; with the upper surface defining a plurality of pick positions. The side walls extend along the sides of said base portion rising above the base portion. The side walls have flanges each defining an elongated slots above the base portion. The proximal ends of the base portion and the channels are open to receive and dispense the picks and/or plectra. A key-ring slot may be present at the distal end.
US12112721B2
Various embodiments disclose a method and an apparatus including a display, a memory including information on a number of duty cycles per one refresh period for emitting light by pixels of the display corresponding to each of a plurality of refresh rates of the display, and a processor, wherein the processor is configured to control the electronic device to perform an operation according to a first number of duty cycles based on the display operating at a first refresh rate, and perform an operation according to a second number of duty cycles based on the display operating at a second refresh rate, wherein the first number is less than the second number based on the first refresh rate being higher than the second refresh rate.
US12112718B2
A video display includes a display panel with gate drivers and source drivers. Each of said the source drivers is arranged to receive a discrete-time continuous-amplitude signal representing a video stream over a transmission medium and to decode the signal using demodulation to produce a plurality of samples for output on outputs of the source drivers. At least one of the source drivers is arranged to extract a gate driver timing control signal from the signal and to output the gate driver control signal to the gate drivers in order to synchronize the gate drivers with outputs of the source drives, whereby the video stream is displayed on the display panel of the display unit.
US12112716B2
A method for driving a pixel matrix is provided, and the pixel matrix includes multiple sub-pixels arranged in a matrix. Voltages applied along any one of data lines change in polarity once every four sub-pixels or every two sub-pixels, any one of the data lines controls voltage inputs of sub-pixel respectively connected to two sides thereof or controls voltage inputs of two sub-pixels both connected to one side thereof. The method includes: receiving an image data and acquiring original pixel data according to the image data; generating a first driving voltage and a second driving voltage according to the original pixel data; and loading the first driving voltage or the second driving voltage to the pixel matrix along any one of the data lines. The invention also provides a display device corresponding to the method. The invention can avoid crosstalk, bright dark lines and improve display effect.
US12112711B1
The disclosure provides a processor and a pixel degradation compensation method thereof. The processor includes a processing circuit and a pixel degradation compensation circuit. The pixel degradation compensation circuit generates a current degradation value based on current sub-pixel data. The current degradation value represents the degradation effect of the current sub-pixel data on a corresponding sub-pixel in a display module. The pixel degradation compensation circuit may adjust the current degradation value to generate an adjusted degradation value corresponding to the current sub-pixel data. The adjusted degradation value is accumulated to a total degradation value corresponding to the current sub-pixel data. The pixel degradation compensation circuit compensates the current sub-pixel data based on the total degradation value corresponding to the current sub-pixel data so as to generate compensated current sub-pixel data to the display module.
US12112707B2
A pixel circuit includes a driving circuit, a first control circuit and a second control circuit. The driving circuit is configured to receive a data signal in response to a scan signal, and generate, in response to a first enable signal, a driving signal according to a first voltage and the data signal. The first control circuit is configured to: receive a first input signal in response to a first control signal, and transmit a third input signal in response to the first input signal; and receive a second input signal in response to a second control signal, and transmit a second enable signal in response to the second input signal. The second control circuit is configured to transmit the driving signal to an element to be driven in response to one of the third input signal and the second enable signal.
US12112706B2
A driving transistor is configured to control driving current for the light-emitting element. A first capacitive element and a second capacitive element are connected in series between a gate and a source of the driving transistor. A first switching transistor is configured to switch connection/disconnection between a data line and an intermediate node located between the first capacitive element and the second capacitive element. A second switching transistor is configured to switch connection/disconnection between the gate and a drain of the driving transistor. A third switching transistor is configured to switch connection/disconnection between the intermediate node and a reference power line. A fourth switching transistor is configured to switch supply/non-supply of driving current from the driving transistor to the light-emitting element. A fifth switching transistor is configured to switch connection/disconnection between an anode of the light-emitting element and a reset power line.
US12112704B2
A pixel circuit is disclosed that includes first through sixth transistors, first and second capacitors, and a light emitting element. A gate electrode of the second transistor receives a first gate signal. A gate electrode of the third transistor receive a second gate signal. Gate electrodes of each of the fourth and fifth transistors receive a third gate signal. A gate electrode of the sixth transistor receives an emission signal. First electrodes of the first transistor and the first capacitor each receive a first power supply voltage. A cathode electrode of the light emitting element receives a second power supply voltage. A first electrode of the fourth transistor receives an initialization voltage.
US12112703B2
A pixel circuit, a display device, and a mobile terminal including the display device are disclosed. The pixel circuit includes one or more first switch elements configured to be turned on in response to a first gate signal; one or more second switch elements configured to be turned on in response to a second gate signal; one or more third switch elements configured to be turned on in response to a third gate signal; an internal gate signal generator configured to receive the first gate signal and the second gate signal to output the third gate signal; and a driving element configured to drive a light emitting element.
US12112701B2
A display device includes a display panel including a first pixel, a second pixel, and a connection line connecting the first pixel and the second pixel. Each of the first pixel and the second pixel includes a light emitting element, a first transistor including a first electrode, a second electrode electrically connected to the light emitting element, and a gate electrode, a second transistor connected between a first driving voltage line and a connection node and including a gate electrode connected to an emission line, a third transistor connected between a second driving voltage line and the connection node and including a gate electrode connected to the emission line, and a capacitor connected between the gate electrode of the first transistor and the connection node. The connection node of the first pixel is electrically connected to the connection node of the second pixel through the connection line.
US12112678B2
A hybrid pulse-width-modulation pixel includes a light controller responsive to a variable power signal specifying different powers and a pixel controller. The pixel controller is operable receive a pixel luminance signal comprising multiple bits specifying a desired light-controller luminance, generate the variable power signal in response to the pixel luminance signal, and drive the light controller to emit light at different luminances in response to the variable power signal for different time periods. The pixel controller is operable to provide the variable power signal at a constant first power for a first time period and provide the variable power signal at a constant second power different from the constant first power for a second time period.
US12112677B2
The present application discloses a drive circuit. The drive circuit includes: a first module, configured to generate image data; and a second module, configured to set a state value corresponding to the next image data based on a frame refresh rate corresponding to the current image data, a state value corresponding to the current image data and a state value corresponding to the previous image data.
US12112675B2
The present invention discloses a display panel grayscale compensation method, a grayscale compensation device, and a grayscale compensation system. The grayscale compensation method, by acquiring at least one set of image data corresponding to bonding point grayscale values of the display panel, and by dividing the display panel into a main display region and sub-display regions through the image data, can determine grayscale compensation values corresponding to pixels in the sub-display region according to the average gamma value of each sub-display region, which can increase precision of a single grayscale compensation of the pixels in the display panel.
US12112671B2
An electronic device includes a communication module configured to communicate with an external device having a battery capacity greater than a battery capacity of the electronic device, a display, and at least one processor. The processor is configured to control the communication module to transmit a communication start request to the external device, and in a case where the electronic device receives notification information from the external device, change an operation mode of the electronic device from a first mode to a second mode. The display performs displaying a normal operation of the electronic device in the first mode, and the display performs displaying based on the notification information in the second mode.
US12112660B2
A signage system that is used to mount a sign atop a post so that the sign is higher than the post. A wire frame connects the sign to the top of a post. The wire frame has support sections that extend into a sign through the bottom edge of the sign. The wire frame also has mounting sections that extend away from the sign and are sized and shaped to engage the open top end of a post. The wire frame further includes lateral sections that extend between the support sections and the mounting sections. The lateral sections are aligned along a common line that runs parallel to the bottom edge of the sign. The support sections, lateral sections, and mounting sections are all coplanar.
US12112659B2
A product sample display structure holding multiple vertical shafts, each vertical shaft supporting a wing support bracket that may be positioned at a selected vertical location on the shaft. Vertically adjusting the wing support brackets allows the structure to hold wings of varying heights or from different manufacturers. A display board clamp includes a block having perpendicular slots offset from the midline of the blocks.
US12112650B2
Autonomous and manually operated vehicles are integrated into a cohesive, interactive environment, with communications to each other and to their surroundings, to improve traffic flow while reducing accidents and other incidents. All vehicles send/receive messages to/from each other, and from infrastructure devices, enabling the vehicles to determine their status, traffic conditions and infrastructure. The vehicles store and operate in accordance with a common set of rules based upon the messages received and other inputs from sensors, databases, and so forth, to avoid obstacles and collisions based upon current and, in some cases, future or predicted behavior. Shared vehicle control interfaces enable the AVs to conform to driving activities that are legal, safe, and allowable on roadways. Such activities enable each AV to drive within safety margins, speed limits, on allowed or legal driving lanes and through allowed turns, intersections, mergers, lane changes, stops/starts, and so forth.
US12112649B2
Methods and systems are provided for assisting operation of a vehicle by automatically initiating activation of an automated functionality, such as autoland functionality of an aircraft, in the absence of user input within one or more monitoring periods. One method involves identifying a triggering event, identifying a monitoring period associated with the triggering event, monitoring one or more components for user input within the monitoring period associated with the triggering event, and automatically initiating activation of an automated functionality associated with the vehicle in the absence of user input within the monitoring period associated with the triggering event. In some implementations, the monitoring period adaptively and dynamically varies during operation.
US12112648B2
A system for determining a vehicle operating state is provided. The system includes at least two particle detectors, a controller and a memory. A sample volume used by each particle detector of the at least two particle detectors configured to be collected in a different location relative to the vehicle than another sample volume used by another particle detector of the at least two particle detectors and at least one sample volume is configured to be collected in an environment where particles are disturbed by the vehicle. The controller is configured to determine at least one operating state of the vehicle based at least in part on a comparison of output signals of the at least two particle detectors. The at least one memory is used to store at least operating instructions implemented by the controller in determining the at least one operating state of the vehicle.
US12112647B2
Various embodiments of the present technology generally relate to unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) scale rendered analysis, orthomosaic, and 3D mapping and landing platform systems. More specifically, some embodiments relate to systems, methods, and means for the collection and processing of images captured during a UAV flight sequence. In some embodiments, the UAV landing platform retrieves flight information and initial map information over a unidirectional virtual private network from a multitenant cloud-based scheduling application. The UAV landing platform sends the initial map information to a UAV over a WiFi, Bluetooth, or radio frequency network and initiates a drone flight sequence once the drone flight sequence has been approved by a local user. The UAV landing platform receives property image data from a UAV after a UAV flight sequence has ended and transmits the received property image data back to the cloud application.
US12112646B2
A method for controlling flight of an aircraft system comprises deriving a liability map using mapping data related to one or more ground hazard categories, wherein each ground hazard category is associated with a type of hazard on a ground surface. The liability map comprises a plurality of risk liability values (L1 and/or L2) associated with the one or more ground hazard categories. The liability map is used to control one or more parameters for controlling flight of the aircraft system.
US12112645B2
Disclosed is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) positioning method based on a millimeter-wave radar, including a calibration stage and a positioning stage. The calibration stage includes: acquiring ground coordinates of the unmanned aerial vehicle; and extracting feature points from radar point cloud data and get the ground coordinates of the feature points. The positioning stage includes: acquiring radar point cloud data of a current frame and pre-processing; acquiring UAV motion data and fuse the data with radar point cloud data; extracting characteristic line segment from radar point cloud data; registering the characteristic line segment of the current frame with the characteristic line segment of the previous frame, and finding matching feature points and newly added feature points; and obtaining the ground coordinates of UAV and the ground coordinates of newly added feature points based on the ground coordinates of matched feature points on the map.
US12112631B2
A parking guidance system and a method for allocating a parking space for a vehicle and for navigating the vehicle to the parking space are provided. The system has a detection unit for detecting an occupancy state of a parking space and/or a parking area containing a plurality of parking spaces, at least one mobile terminal with which a request from at least one vehicle driver for a parking space for his vehicle to reach a destination can be transmitted to the parking guidance system, which request comprises instantaneous position data of the vehicle. The parking guidance system is designed to select an available parking space in accordance with the request and to transmit a selection suggestion for a parking space to the mobile terminal and comprises a navigation system designed to determine a route from the location of the vehicle at the time of the parking space request to the available parking space. The parking guidance system is designed to select parking spaces in a manner that is fed back to the route guidance.
US12112612B2
Pest control systems and methods are described. The systems comprise a portable electronic device which is configured to identify one or more of multiple PCDs within a range of a portable electric device which have been activated, and to provide an indication to a user corresponding to at least one of the identified activated PCDs.
US12112597B2
The present disclosure relates to a computer implemented method performed by a gaming system. In particular, the present disclosure relates to a scheme for further improving an attraction power of a game provided in relation to the gaming system. The present disclosure also relates to a corresponding gaming system and a computer program product.
US12112582B2
A method of collecting vehicle data by a vehicle, may include acquiring the vehicle data of the vehicle; receiving information on whether consent to provision of information is provided for collection of the vehicle data; and transmitting a piece of the vehicle data in which the consent to provision of the information is given, to a vehicle data management server by use of a communication device of the vehicle.
US12112579B2
A connected component platform (CCP) is disclosed. The CCP receives user information and sensor derived data. The system also includes an overall data evaluator to access a performance database and use the user information in conjunction with information from the performance database to evaluate the received user information as a method to develop user guidance data in the area of suspension tuning and suspension maintenance recommendations. The system further includes a data evaluation results formator to receive the user guidance data from the overall data evaluator, format the user guidance data into a user accessible digital format, and output the user guidance data in the user accessible digital format.
US12112578B2
Provided is a system and method for creating a luggage manifest using a b-type message and a passenger name record number, the method including: a) identifying, by at least one of at least one processor, a baggage source message (BSM) associated with an arrival of a luggage item of a passenger, wherein the BSM includes an airport code associated with an airport and travel data of a first mode of travel carrier of the luggage item; b) matching, by at least one of the at least one processor, a passenger name record (PNR) number of the passenger included in the BSM with a PNR number in a manifest for a second mode of travel different from the first mode of travel, wherein the second mode of travel is local to the airport code; c) based on a match being found in b), extracting, by at least one of the at least one processor, an International Air Transport Association (IATA) license plate number from the BSM; and d) creating, by at least one of the at least one processor, a luggage item manifest record for the luggage item, wherein the luggage item manifest record includes the IATA license plate number and the PNR number of the passenger, and wherein the luggage item manifest record is accessible by predetermined electronic acquiring devices configured to scan an originating hardcopy bag tag identifier (OH-BTI) associated with or printed on an originating hardcopy bag tag from the first mode of travel carrier that is attached to the luggage item.
US12112577B2
Provided is a system and method of optical character recognition of a bag tag, the method including: a) obtaining, by at least one of at least one processor, image data representative of at least one image of printed passenger information associated with an airline travel carrier on an originating hardcopy bag tag or a printed instrument comprising at least a portion of the printed passenger information on the originating hardcopy bag tag to create a digital passenger information (DPI) data record linked to the airline travel carrier, wherein the originating hardcopy bag tag is issued for a luggage item of a passenger, and wherein the DPI data record comprises an International Air Transport Association (IATA) license plate number, a passenger name record (PNR) number, an airline code, an airline name, a name of the passenger, or any combination thereof; b) accessing, by at least one of the at least one processor, passenger return flight information from a computer system associated with the airline travel carrier, based on the DPI data record; and c) printing, by a printing device, a return leg travel IATA bag tag for a return flight associated with the passenger return flight information.
US12112575B2
A method and apparatus for detecting a liveness based on a phase difference are provided. The method includes generating a first phase image based on first visual information of a first phase, generating a second phase image based on second visual information of a second phase, generating a minimum map based on a disparity between the first phase image and the second phase image, and detecting a liveness based on the minimum map.
US12112574B2
An apparatus for providing a virtual or augmented reality experience, includes: a screen, wherein the screen is at least partially transparent for allowing a user of the apparatus to view an object in an environment surrounding the user; a surface detector configured to detect a surface of the object; an object identifier configured to obtain an orientation and/or an elevation of the surface of the object, and to make an identification for the object based on the orientation and/or the elevation of the surface of the object; and a graphic generator configured to generate an identifier indicating the identification for the object for display by the screen, wherein the screen is configured to display the identifier.
US12112572B2
Systems and methods for warning a user that media assets associated with another user depict the user with an undesired expression are provided. A plurality of media assets associated with a first user and depicting a second user may be identified. A set of expressions of the second user that the second user has indicated as undesirable may be retrieved. The depictions of the second user in the plurality of media assets and the expressions that the second user has indicated are undesirable may be compared. If it is determined that one or more of the media assets depict the second user with an undesirable expression, a notification may be generated to the second user indicating that one or more media assets of the first user depict the second user with an expression that the second user has indicated as undesirable.
US12112566B2
A video monitoring system captures image frames of a patient in various positions. The captured image frames are analyzed by the system for changes in a patient's position or movement, frames in which the system detects one or both of patient movement and repositioning are retained. The system analyzes an area of interest within each image frame that corresponds to an area in the camera's view field with the patient. Sequential image frames are compared for motion, only frames without motion, where the patient is still, are analyzed.
US12112557B2
This application relates to a method for processing image data of a microbial culture medium to recognize colony forming unit (CFU). In one aspect, the method includes receiving, at a processor, captured image data of the microbial culture medium from a user device, and preprocessing, at the processor, the captured image data. The method may also include counting, at the processor, the number of CFUs included in the preprocessed image data to derive result data including the counted number of CFUs. The method may further include automatically inputting information included in the result data into a predetermined template to generate document data corresponding to the captured image data, and transmitting at least one of the result data or the document data to the user device.
US12112556B2
An image recognition method includes: obtaining a target three-dimensional (3D) image; inputting the target 3D image to a first recognition model; and obtaining the image type of the target 3D image outputted by the first recognition model. The first recognition model is configured to perform image recognition on the target 3D image to obtain an image type of the target 3D image. A convolutional block of the first recognition model is the same as a convolutional block of a second recognition model, and configured to perform image recognition on the target 3D image. The second recognition model is obtained by training an original recognition model using a target training sample, the target training sample including cubes obtained by rotating and sorting N target cubes obtained from a 3D sample image, N being a natural number greater than 1.
US12112552B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for lane marker detection. A set of feature tensors is generated by processing an input image using a convolutional neural network. A set of localizations is generated by processing the set of feature tensors using a localization network, a set of horizontal positions is generated by processing the set of feature tensors using row-wise regression, and a set of end positions is generated by processing the set of feature tensors using y-end regression. A set of lane marker positions is determined based on the set of localizations, the set of horizontal positions, and the set of end positions.
US12112542B2
To present a region which is not fully monitored, provided is a monitoring device comprising a detection means, an estimation means, a determination means, and a presentation means. The detection means detects a person from an image. The estimation means estimates a region which is being viewed by the person who is detected by the detection means. On the basis of the region estimated by the estimation means, the determination means determines a region which requires special attention within a monitoring area. The presentation means presents information indicating the region which requires special attention determined by the determination means.
US12112541B2
A bed system includes: an imaging device; a bed on which the imaging device is to be installed; and a controller configured to process an image acquired by the imaging device to predict a possibility of overturning of a user, in which, when it is determined that a state of the user is a first state, the controller predicts the possibility of overturning of the user based on a first parameter, when it is determined that the state of the user is a second state, the controller predicts the possibility of overturning of the user based on a second parameter, the first state is a state of the user different from the second state, and the first parameter is different from the second parameter.
US12112539B2
A video processing method, an electronic device and a storage medium are provided, and relate to the field of artificial intelligence, and particularly relates to the fields of deep learning, model training, knowledge mapping, video processing and the like. The method includes: acquiring a plurality of first video frames, and performing fine-grained splitting on the plurality of first video frames to obtain a plurality of second video frames; performing feature encoding on the plurality of second video frames according to multi-mode information related to the plurality of second video frames, to obtain feature fusion information for characterizing fusion of the multi-mode information; and performing similarity matching on the plurality of second video frames according to the feature fusion information, and obtaining a target video according to a result of the similarity matching.
US12112537B2
A group captioning system includes computing hardware, software, and/or firmware components in support of the enhanced group captioning contemplated herein. In operation, the system generates a target embedding for a group of target images, as well as a reference embedding for a group of reference images. The system identifies information in-common between the group of target images and the group of reference images and removes the joint information from the target embedding and the reference embedding. The result is a contrastive group embedding that includes a contrastive target embedding and a contrastive reference embedding with which to construct a contrastive group embedding, which is then input to a model to obtain a group caption for the target group of images.
US12112533B2
A method and an apparatus for data calculation in a neural network model, and an image processing method and apparatus. The method for data calculation includes: reading weight data shared by a group of data processing of a data processing layer in a neural network model, into a GroupShared variable of a thread group of a graphics processing unit (GPU), dividing input data of the data processing layer based on the number of threads in the thread group, reading, for each group of input data, weight data corresponding to the group of input data for a data processing in the group of data processing from the GroupShared variable, and performing, by each thread in the thread group, the data processing by using a group of read input data and weight data corresponding to the group of input data, to obtain a calculation result corresponding to the group of input data.
US12112515B2
A method for generating a labeled set of images for use in machine learning based stray light characterization for space-related optical systems. The method includes (a) obtaining a set of images simulated for a space-related optical system, wherein the images of the set of images contain stray light simulated for the space-related optical system, (b) for each image of the set of images, identifying one or more clusters of light contained in the respective image and labeling the respective image by the one or more clusters of light, wherein the one or more clusters of light include at least one cluster of stray light, and (c) creating, based on the labeled images of the set of images, a plurality of new labeled images by applying transformations to the labeled images to generate an augmented set of labeled images.
US12112513B2
A non-standard user interface object identification system includes an object candidate extractior that extracts one or more objects from an image, a first similarity analyzer that determines object type candidates of the one or more objects in accordance with similarities between the one or more objects and a standard user interface (UI) element, a second similarity analyzer that selects object type-specific weight values in accordance with layout characteristics of the one or more objects and determines object types of the one or more objects using the object type candidates and the object type-specific weight values, and an object identifier that receives type and characteristic information of a search target object and identifies the search target object in accordance with characteristic information and the object types of the one or more objects.
US12112510B2
This disclosure relates generally to coding and decoding of 3-dimensional (3D) mesh and specifically to fast and efficient packing of parts of a 3D mesh into a map in a 2-dimensional (2D) space. In one example, a 3D mesh frame is decomposed into charts. The charts are iteratively projected and packed into a 2D map to achieve improved compactness by using an image filtering technology. The image filtering technology may involve perform efficient convolution and correlation processing using fast Fourier transform.
US12112505B2
A computer-implemented method for determining whether a camera component of a camera is damaged is described. The method comprises obtaining information relating to one or more damage indicators; obtaining, from the camera, at least one image which has been taken when light from a light source has been incident on the camera component; dividing the image into one or more areas; analysing each area to determine whether it comprises at least one of the one or more damage indicators; and based on said analysing, providing an indication of whether the camera component is classified as damaged or undamaged.
US12112503B2
The present application discloses a method and an apparatus for calibrating external parameters of an image acquisition device, a device and a storage medium, and relates to the technical field of vehicle positioning. The specific implementation solution is as follows: acquiring an image captured by the image acquisition device; determining a plurality of marking points on a calibration plate in the image; determining a first conversion matrix based on coordinates of each of the marking points in the image pixel coordinate system and the calibration plate coordinate system; determining a second conversion matrix based on coordinates of at least one wheel grounding point of the vehicle in the calibration plate coordinate system and the vehicle body coordinate system; and determining external parameters of the image acquisition device by using the first conversion matrix and the second conversion matrix.
US12112502B2
According to one embodiment, a three-dimensional map estimation apparatus includes a processor that selects an imaging apparatus from a plurality of imaging apparatuses and then estimates a position and orientation for a moving object on which the selected imaging apparatus is mounted based on images captured by the selected imaging apparatus. The processor outputs a first position and orientation estimation result for the moving object based on images from selected imaging apparatuses. The processor calculates a second position and orientation estimation result indicating an estimated position and orientation for the moving object using the first position and orientation estimation result. The processor estimates a three-dimensional map for the surroundings of the moving object based on the second position and orientation estimation result.
US12112497B2
A navigation system for a host vehicle may include a processor programmed to: receive from a camera onboard the host vehicle at least one captured image representative of an environment of the host vehicle, wherein the camera is positioned at a first location relative to the host vehicle; receive point cloud information from a LIDAR system onboard the host vehicle, wherein the LIDAR system is positioned at a second location relative to the host vehicle; analyze the at least one captured image and the received point cloud information to detect one or more objects in the shared field of view region; determine whether a vantage point difference between the first location of the camera and the second location of the LIDAR system accounts for the one or more detected objects being represented in only one of the at least one captured image or the received point cloud information.
US12112484B2
There is provided a method for generating a learning model, the method including: acquiring an endoscopic image captured by an endoscope and manipulation information regarding a manipulation of an endoscope operator in each stage of operation of the endoscope by the endoscope operator operating the endoscope; and generating a learning model learned so as to output the manipulation information of a next stage in a case where the endoscopic image and the manipulation information are input, based on training data including the acquired endoscopic image and manipulation information, and the manipulation information of the next stage.
US12112483B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for anatomic structure segmentation in image analysis, using a computer system. One method includes: receiving an annotation and a plurality of keypoints for an anatomic structure in one or more images; computing distances from the plurality of keypoints to a boundary of the anatomic structure; training a model, using data in the one or more images and the computed distances, for predicting a boundary in the anatomic structure in an image of a patient's anatomy; receiving the image of the patient's anatomy including the anatomic structure; estimating a segmentation boundary in the anatomic structure in the image of the patient's anatomy; and predicting, using the trained model, a boundary location in the anatomic structure in the image of the patient's anatomy by generating a regression of distances from keypoints in the anatomic structure in the image of the patient's anatomy to the estimated boundary.
US12112482B2
Various embodiments are generally directed to techniques for image segmentation utilizing context, such as with a machine learning (ML) model that injects context into various training stages. Many embodiments utilize one or more of an encoder-decoder model topology and select criteria and parameters in hyper-parameter optimization (HPO) to conduct the best model neural architecture search (NAS). Some embodiments are particularly directed to resizing context frames to a resolution that corresponds with a particular stage of decoding. In several embodiments, the context frames are concatenated with one or more of data from a previous decoding stage and data from a corresponding encoding stage prior to being provided as input to a next decoding stage.
US12112470B2
Systems and methods for generating a probabilistic tree of vessels are provided. An input medical image of vessels of a patient is received. Anatomical landmarks are identified in the input medical image. A centerline of the vessels in the input medical image is determined based on the anatomical landmarks. A probabilistic tree of the vessels is generated based on a probability of fit of the anatomical landmarks and the centerline of the vessels. The probabilistic tree of the vessels is output.
US12112465B2
A measurement and reconstruction method for a turbine blade strain field of with integrates an imaging technology and an infrared photoelectric measurement technology. The imaging technology is mainly responsible for the measurement of the strain field on a target blade surface, so as to use a digital image processing technology to obtain blade strain field data. The infrared photoelectric measurement technology is mainly aimed at the strain at blade edges, which uses temperature difference between the blade edges and blade gaps to perform strain measurement. Measurement results of the two modes are finally converted into blade strain parameters, thereby reconstructing the target blade strain field based on host computer software.
US12112464B2
An autonomous and non-autonomous vehicle tire imaging and inspection system and methods thereof installed onboard a vehicle providing frequent status for inner and outer tire sidewalls, tire tread wear and tread depth, recorded in memory, transmitted to an onboard diagnostics unit, displayed on a dashboard and optionally transmitted to a network. Autonomous and non-autonomous vehicle vehicles may require passing a safety compliance inspection before driving and receive an insurance compliance approval to operate said vehicles.
US12112462B2
A detection unit configured to detect a detection target from an image to be processed by detection processing capable of adjusting at least one setting, a correction cost estimation unit configured to estimate a correction cost needed for correction needed in a case where a result of detection by the detection unit is corrected, an adjustment cost estimation unit configured to estimate an adjustment cost needed in a case where the setting of the detection processing is adjusted to the detection target, and a display control unit configured to perform control to display the correction cost and the adjustment cost on a display unit in a comparable manner are included.
US12112459B2
A system and a method include a display and a control unit including one or more processors configured to create a filter, and apply the filter to spectrum graphs of digital images to create modified spectrum graphs of the digital images. The digital images being digital charts including grid lines and data lines. The control unit is configured to convert the modified spectrum graphs to modified digital images. The modified digital images being modified digital charts that include the data lines, and at least some of the grid lines are removed from the digital charts of the digital images.
US12112439B2
Systems and methods for immersive and collaborative video surveillance, in the commercial security industry are provided. Some methods can include receiving a video data stream from a surveillance camera in a monitored region via a cloud network, a user interface device of or coupled to a virtual reality headset displaying the video data stream, and the user interface device receiving user input corresponding to a movement of a user's body to navigate the video data stream and simulate the user navigating the monitored region from within the monitored region.
US12112436B2
In a computer-implemented method of implementing real-world limitations in shared environment, an environment engine is configured to receive a user selection of a shared environment, wherein the shared environment represents a real-world environment. The environment engine retrieves spatial data associated with the shared environment and retrieves environmental sensor data associated with the shared environment. The environmental sensor data is contemplated to capture a varying ambient environment of the shared environment, which includes at least one of audio data and image data associated with the real-world environment. The environment engine is further configured to render a first user avatar and a second user avatar within the shared environment.
US12112419B2
The technique of this disclosure suppresses a reduction in visibility of a predetermined object in virtual viewpoint image data. An image processing apparatus includes: an image capturing information acquisition unit configured to acquire image capturing information indicating a position and orientation of each of a plurality of image capturing apparatuses; an object information acquisition unit configured to acquire object information indicating a position and orientation of an object to be captured by the image capturing apparatuses, the object having a specific viewing angle; and a determination unit configured to determine, based on the acquired image capturing information and the position and orientation of the object indicated by the acquired object information, an image to be used for generating a virtual viewpoint image according to a position and orientation of a virtual viewpoint among a plurality of images based on capturing by the image capturing apparatuses.
US12112418B2
Mesh-tracking based dynamic 4D modeling for machine learning deformation training includes: using a volumetric capture system for high-quality 4D scanning, using mesh-tracking to establish temporal correspondences across a 4D scanned human face and full-body mesh sequence, using mesh registration to establish spatial correspondences between a 4D scanned human face and full-body mesh and a 3D CG physical simulator, and training surface deformation as a delta from the physical simulator using machine learning. The deformation for natural animation is able to be predicted and synthesized using the standard MoCAP animation workflow. Machine learning based deformation synthesis and animation using standard MoCAP animation workflow includes using single-view or multi-view 2D videos of MoCAP actors as input, solving 3D model parameters (3D solving) for animation (deformation not included), and given 3D model parameters solved by 3D solving, predicting 4D surface deformation from ML training.
US12112412B1
A digital language and a process for defining a digital language are disclosed to describe stylistic intent across multiple image files. The digital language is implemented as part of an image and brand style system for defining, selecting, manipulating, and combining digital images by using inference from each image's self-declaring, stylistic, visual role among a communal group, that can be expressed at the file level itself, from the point of inception, and is resilient from pixel transformation while remaining agnostic of creative tool, thereby allowing any delivery medium to change the visual style of the images without the loss of aesthetics. This results in the ability to change multiple images and branded works using a new and consistent style/palette.
US12112392B2
In one illustrative configuration, a system and method of air quality monitor minimization/optimization is disclosed. The method may include providing at least a first air quality monitor on a site. The first air quality monitor may be configured to generate a first set of attached parameters. The method may further include providing a SCADA system, on the site, configured to generate a set of SCADA data. The SCADA data, the first set of attached parameters may be processed to determine a redundant/sub-optimized air quality monitor, which may be removed. In other illustrative configurations, the system and method may be utilized to locate and/or quantify emissions.
US12112390B2
The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for controlling an electrical system using setpoints. Some embodiments include control methods that monitor an adjusted net power associated with the electrical system and adjust the setpoint based on a comparison of the adjusted demand to the setpoint. If the adjusted demand has not exceeded the demand setpoint, the setpoint is reduced. If the adjusted demand has exceeded the demand setpoint, the setpoint is increased.
US12112386B2
Provided is a process of inferring insurability scores, the process including: receiving a request for an insurance comparison webpage; sending instructions to present one or more webpages of a website having a plurality of user inputs configured to receive a plurality of attributes of the user; receiving the attributes; determining an insurability score with an insurability model based on the received attributes of the user; and sending instructions to display a value indicative of the insurability score.
US12112377B2
Disclosed are a system and method, also referred to herein as an architecture, for efficiently communicating a high volume of data from a server over an electronic communications network to geographically disperse recipients, where one or more of those recipients may receive a customized version of that data, e.g., content, timing and/or form. As the data is generated, timing information and/or changes to information regarding customizations is incorporated forming a data stream which is communicated to local data publishers (“LDP's”). Upon receipt, the LDP's extract the data, customization, or timing information and act accordingly when transmitting the received data to the recipients. Customization is applied to update local control databases which specify the customizations for subsequently received data before transmission. By acting on the messages in real time, e.g., as they are received, the LDP's, even if they don't receive the messages at the same time, then perform the same functions in the same relative order relative to the data stream.
US12112375B2
Systems are provided for compressing portfolios of open option positions. Market participants may provide constraints, such as net delta and gamma values within a specific tolerance. A compression engine uses a linear, integer and/or linear-quadratic programming solver to analyze portfolios of multiple market participants and identify multilateral option spread trades that result in portfolios that are compressed subject to the constraints.
US12112373B2
In one implementation, a system to provide a secure crossing network for trading digital blockchain assets outside of an exchange can include a crossing network program that is configured to provide a crossing network for the digital blockchain assets and a computer system with a secure enclave that is configured to provide the trusted execution environment within which processing of programs is secure from observation and manipulation by other operations outside of the secure enclave. The execution of the crossing network program in the secure enclave receiving, from client devices, crossing network orders to trade assets within the crossing network; matching at least a portion of the crossing network orders in an order book; obtaining, using a pricing oracle, pricing information for transactions in the exchange; and determining a reference price for the matched orders within the crossing network based on the pricing information from the exchange.
US12112372B2
A system for error detection m a trading network comprises a memory operable to store a plurality of trader profiles, wherein a particular trader profile is associated with a particular trader. The particular trader profile comprises first contact data associated with a first client device and second contact data associated with a second client device. The memory is further operable to store at least one trading order associated with the particular trader. The system further comprises a processor communicatively coupled to the memory and operable to detect an alert associated with the first client device. In conjunction with detecting the alert, the processor is operable to determine a current status of the at least one trading order and to generate a status message regarding the determined status. The processor is further operable to transmit the status message to the second client device, wherein the transmission is based at least in part on the second contact data.
US12112369B2
A system may identify, using a machine learning model, a series of recurring events associated with an account and may generate, using the machine learning model, a prediction of a future date on which a predicted event, associated with the series of recurring events, is to occur. The system may determine that a condition associated with the account is satisfied and may determine that a current date is within a threshold number of days of the future date based on the prediction of the future date. The system may transmit, to a user device, a notification based on determining that the current date is within the threshold number of days of the future date and that the condition associated with the account is satisfied, wherein the notification includes information for presentation of an input element that enables an action to be performed in connection with the account.
US12112367B2
The invention relates to two computer implemented methods providing virtual fitting room functionality to a human. The two computer implemented methods allow for a simple and efficient garment selection process by the human.
US12112360B2
Embodiments herein provide a method for dynamically generating consumption artifacts for platforms using independent processing of usage event data streams. The method includes (i) obtaining usage event data streams through calls to an API, (ii) updating a technical lifecycle event map, (iii) initializing time streams of consumption impacts at a configurable time stream interval, (iv) performing independent logic processing for each category of time stream of consumption, (v) invoking specific algorithms and data models for a plurality of computation modules to process each consumption event in real-time across multiple timestreams, and (vi) mapping the processed technical data to predefined technical structures using a headless API to dynamically generate a set of consumption artifacts that are associated with usage consumptions to transmit to external systems.
US12112356B2
Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for intelligent assessment models for non-fungible electronic resources. The present invention is configured to receive, from a user input device, a request to value a non-fungible token (NFT) of a resource, wherein the NFT is recorded in a distributed ledger; retrieve, using a valuation engine, one or more attributes associated with the NFT from one or more metadata layers of the NFT; initiate a machine learning model on the one or more attributes associated with the NFT; predict, using the machine learning model, a value of the NFT; and transmit control signals configured to cause the user input device to display the value of the NFT.
US12112354B1
Techniques are disclosed, using one or more computers. for bidding on digital advertising space associated with media content on a digital platform. Popularity is determined of a plurality of electronic communication and associated clips on a digital platform. A clip is detected which meets a threshold for approaching an activity level of user activity indicating the popularity of the clip. The clip meeting the threshold is labeled as a non-fungible token (NFT) indicating available digital advertising space associated with the clip. In response to the labeling of the clip, monetary bidding is received, based on the NFT by entities buying digital advertising space for digital advertising content associated with the NFT.
US12112353B2
Methods, systems, and devices for providing in-flight communication sessions. In some examples, a communication session delivery system may provide network access service or other types of content once a passenger has completed a brand interaction. The brand interaction may be any number of options that a brand partner may require in exchange for access to content. The communication session delivery system may choose from a plurality of reward offers and then display the chosen offers to a passenger. The chosen offers may be selected based on profile information of a passenger and characteristics targeted by a brand partner. The passenger may then choose an offer and perform the required brand interaction. Once the brand interaction has been verified, the passenger may receive the reward associated with the offer.
US12112351B2
The embodiments disclose a method for displaying contextual targeted advertising to healthcare professionals including receiving in a master database a plurality of words that includes titles and keywords associated with plural distinct medical healthcare professional specialties, generating, with a first processor, plural taxonomy and vocabulary based on the received plurality of words of the plural distinct medical healthcare professional specialties, tracking, with a second processor, a context of frequent browsing and reading history of online life sciences content of a healthcare professional user, identifying, with the second processor, a distinct medical healthcare professional specialty associated with the healthcare professional user based on matches in the master database with the context, comparing, with a third processor, contextual targeted advertising with the matches, and converting, with the third processor, advertising queries from advertisers to displayed targeted advertising presented to healthcare professional user based on the matches.
US12112346B2
A system for and method of generating alternative pricing is provided. A user accesses an online portal to set a pricing scheme for products. The user inputs a credit card price for one or more products along with a desired cash discount rate or amount. The invention can then generate a second price for each product and check said prices for compliance against one or more rules and regulations set by credit card issuers, state governments, and/or federal governments. Some embodiments of the invention include notifying the user of non-compliance and automatically providing iterative pricing checks to find the best compliant price. The invention can also generate a reference or point-of-sale code which can be utilized by a consumer to view a final resulting price list.
US12112344B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques that utilize artificial intelligence (AI) to preemptively identify and prioritize risks for retailers from shrink loss. Specifically, features of the present disclosure provide actionable prescriptions to prevent shrink based on the output of a hybrid machine learning (ML) system that accurately identifies shrink risk factors and implements a cost-effective shrinkage control plan to reduce the retail theft. The shrinkage control plan may then be displayed to the user on a display device (or user interface) in order to allow for the user (e.g., store manager) to implement the recommendations developed by the recommendation engine.
US12112339B1
Disclosed herein is a compliance evaluation system, which may implement a software-based compliance evaluation tool for accurate notation, capture, and reporting of all potential compliance problems within a technical, a procedural or a process domain associated with a software program. The compliance evaluation system may enable a rapid and pro-active response to reported potential compliance problems by routing the reported potential compliance problems to appropriate analyst computers before the potential compliance problems become real and serious for company and vendors.
US12112338B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for implementing assistance for customer service agents are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving, by a computing device, customer interaction data that reflects an interaction between a first user and a second user. The actions further include receiving, by the computing device, a customer summary file that reflects characteristics of the first user. The actions further include, based on the customer interaction data and the customer summary file, determining, by the computing device, instructions for the second user to continue interacting with the first user during the interaction between the first user and the second user. The actions further include, based on determining the instructions, providing, for output to the second user, the instructions for the second user to continue interacting with the first user.
US12112334B2
Embodiments of the disclosure are directed to methods and systems for enabling generation and management of a secondary account. The secondary account may be generated in relation to a primary account, such that at least a portion of a transaction conducted using the secondary account may be charged to the primary account. In some embodiments, the secondary account may be associated with a number of protocols to be applied to a transaction. When a transaction is initiated using the secondary account, a service provider may consult an itinerary to dynamically generate a set of protocols which is relevant to the transaction based on a time period during which the transaction is initiated. In some embodiments, portions of the transaction may be split up and transmitted to different authorization entities for authorization.
US12112333B2
A secure authentication system, computer program recording medium and method enable secure transaction with authentication to eradicate fraud. A customer is authenticated via a customer application executed on a communication device. A customer-paced communication session is enabled between the customer application and a transaction system via a network connection. A customer continuity factor is monitored in maintaining the communication session. In response to receiving a customer request via the customer application, a level of trust in current authentication of the customer is determined based on the user continuity factor. In response to the level of trust being below a trust threshold, the customer is directed via the customer application to provide a customer request comprising a customer-supplied image having a specified contextual element. The communication session is re-authenticated to process the user input by the transaction system based on verification of the received user-supplied image.
US12112323B2
A system, method and computer-readable medium for providing comprehensive security to business systems by distributing the security for accessing the business systems across databases at a plurality of locations. The distributed security simplifies security maintenance and is used to control all aspects of a business. The generation of bills, pings converter boxes, schedules pay per view, etc. are handled by the distributed security.
US12112318B2
A system that can transfer tokens of multiple classes from issuers to recipients is disclosed. The system generates class-specific token specification that include parameters that must be satisfied for the first user to acquire, from another user of the system, any token that is created according to the class-specific token specification. The system will save the records for each of the class-specific token specifications to a digital ledger that is accessible to users of the system. When a transfer request is received for a particular token, the system will execute a smart contract by (a) accessing the digital ledger to verify that a class-specific token specification exists which corresponds to the class of the particular token, and (b) in response to the verifying write, to the digital ledger, a first ledger entry that includes a record indicating that the amount of the particular token has been transferred to the recipient.
US12112316B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to a method for submitting a tokenization request via an access device. Embodiments allow tokens to be retrieved for complex mobile devices as well as basic card-type devices. Token requests can be formatted as authorization request messages and transmitted along authorization communication channels.
US12112314B2
A method for utilizing an object distributed ledger executed by a computing entity includes obtaining, in accordance with a securely passing process, control over a secure first pending transaction associated with a transaction item. The method further includes determining a set of candidate contingent assets for the secure first pending transaction based an identity of the transaction item, an identity of a requesting computing entity, and an authenticated value of the transaction item. The method further includes facilitating selection of at least one candidate contingent asset of the set of candidate contingent assets utilizing an asset selection approach to produce a set of selected contingent assets. The method further includes generating a non-fungible token (NFT) in accordance with the securely passing process to represent a corresponding set of smart contracts of the set of selected contingent assets in the object distributed ledger.
US12112313B2
Methods and systems of managing payment cards are disclosed. A financial institution computing system includes a token database storing a plurality of tokens and token information, a network interface circuit enabling the financial institution computing system to exchange information over a network; and a token management circuit. The token management circuit enables a graphical user interface on a customer device over the network that can be used to generate new token requests, re-provision token requests, and management requests. The management requests enable and disable tokens, such that transactions against a payment card account using an enabled token are completed, and transactions against the payment card account using a disabled token are denied.
US12112311B2
A system and method are disclosed in which a symbol associated with an ATM of a plurality of ATMs is made available to a customer in response to a request for access to the ATM. The symbol identifies the ATM to the user in locations having multiple ATMs, thus avoiding confusion for the user. The symbol may be used for any of the possible transactions between the user and the ATM, such as balance inquiries, deposits, transfers, and cash withdrawals.
US12112289B2
Disclosed are a method and device for managing a project by using cost payment time point settings. A project is efficiently operated by dividing a project based on a minimum unit task and designing a plurality of child projects connected in sequential order such that a plurality of child projects proceed in order.
US12112288B2
Techniques for forecasting solar power generation include a computing device determining a clear-sky solar power generation level for a photovoltaic installation; receiving, from a first measurement device, measurement data indicating an amount of cloud cover at a first location of the first measurement device, wherein the first measurement device and the photovoltaic installation are located in a same geographical area; and generating a solar power generation forecast for the photovoltaic installation based on the clear-sky solar power generation level and the measurement data.
US12112285B1
Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for measuring employee engagement. An example method includes receiving, by communications circuitry, an exogenous event report and identifying, by a frequency modulator and based on the exogenous event report, a frequency at which to deliver an employee survey to an employee. The example method further includes causing, by an engagement engine, delivery of the employee survey to the employee based on the identified frequency and receiving, by communications circuitry, a response to the employee survey. The example method further includes storing the received response in a memory as a measure of employee engagement.
US12112282B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for automated commercial parking site management. In one embodiment, a method can include determining, by one or more processors coupled to memory, a first request to park a tractor and a trailer, determining that a commercial parking site has a first available parking location for the tractor, determining that the commercial parking site has a second available parking location for the trailer, and causing presentation of a request to confirm a first parking reservation at a device associated with the first request, where the first parking reservation includes a first cost for the first available parking location and the second available parking location. The method may include determining that the first parking reservation is confirmed, and sending navigation directions to an address for the commercial parking site.
US12112274B2
A system and method incorporating Robotic Processing Automation (RPA) and machine leaning to finding telecom expense management information accessed through a site or portal such that RPA bots are able to learn the most effective way to access the information using the minimum amount computing resources and allowing for the RPA bot to self-modify to optimize and adjust to changing environments on the site or portal with minimal or even no manual intervention.
US12112272B2
IOT Big Data information management and control systems and methods for distributed performance monitoring and critical network fault detection comprising a combination of capabilities including: IOT data collection sensor stations receiving sensor input signals and also connected to monitor units providing communication with other monitor units and/or cloud computing resources via IOT telecommunication links, and wherein a first data collection sensor station has expert predesignated other network elements comprising other data collection sensor stations, monitor units, and/or telecommunications equipment for performance and/or fault monitoring based on criticality to said first data collection sensor station operations, thereby extending monitoring and control operations to include distributed interdependent or critical operations being monitored and analyzed throughout the IOT network, and wherein performance and/or fault monitoring signals received by said first data collection sensor station are analyzed with artificial intelligence, hierarchical expert system algorithms for generation of warning and control signals.
US12112252B1
Devices, systems, and methods are provided for brand matching using multi-layer machine learning. A method may include generating, based on a first embedding vector and a second embedding vector as inputs to a twin neural network, a third embedding vector and a fourth embedding vector; generating, based on the first embedding vector and the second embedding vector as inputs to a difference neural network, a difference vector indicative of a difference between the first embedding vector and the second embedding vector; generating a concatenated vector by concatenating the third embedding vector with the fourth embedding vector and the difference vector; generating, based on the concatenated vector as an input to a feedforward neural network (FFN), a score between zero and one, the score indicative of a relationship between a first entity and a second entity.
US12112249B2
A system, computer program product, and method are presented for performing multi-objective automated machine learning, and, more specifically, to identifying a plurality of machine learning pipelines as Pareto-optimal solutions to optimize a plurality of objectives. The method includes receiving input data directed toward one or more subjects of interest and determining a plurality of objectives to be optimized. The method also includes ingesting at least a portion of the input data through one or more machine learning (ML) models. The method further includes aggregating the plurality of objectives into one or more aggregated single objectives. The method also includes determining a plurality of Pareto-optimal solutions, thereby defining a plurality of ML pipelines that optimize the one or more aggregated single objectives. The method further includes selecting one ML pipeline from the plurality of ML pipelines.
US12112232B1
Media playback process initiated from an engraved plaque attached to a tombstone, urn, mausoleum, or crypt is a special process that causes one or more media files pertaining to a deceased person or pet to play on a visitor's smart phone after the visitor has scanned a special engraved plaque or scanning code attached to the deceased person or pet's tombstone, urn, mausoleum, or crypt. The special process includes: a first person selling a subscription or one-time sale to a second person, first person building a database, first person creating a special scanning code, first person engraving the special engraved plaque or scanning code, first person attaching the special engraved plaque or scanning code to the tombstone, urn, mausoleum, or crypt, third person scanning the special engraved plaque or scanning code, and third person watching one or media files on their smart phone.
US12112231B2
A dynamic two-dimensional code group generation method for generating a two-dimensional code group for dynamically displaying, repeatedly in sequence, a plurality of two-dimensional codes arranged in a time series includes a base identifying step of determining a first setting value of a base two-dimensional code serving as a base from among first setting values identified by evaluation values each associated with a corresponding one of the two-dimensional codes in the two-dimensional code group; and a data block arrangement step of generating and arranging a data block in a storage two-dimensional code identified on the basis of a second setting value corresponding to the first setting value determined in the base identifying step, the data block being based on content of target information to be coded.
US12112225B2
Example aspects include methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable medium for receiving, by an antenna of a tag tracking/detection system, a tag signal of a tag in the tag tracking/detection system; determining, based on a strength or pattern of the tag signal, whether the tag signal comprises a reflected signal that is reflected by one or more reflective surfaces, wherein the one or more reflective surfaces are configured to focus tag signals of tags in a target location of the tag tracking/detection system toward the antenna of the tag tracking/detection system; and generating an output signal responsive to the tag signal comprising the reflected signal that is reflected by the one or more reflective surfaces, wherein the output signal is indicative of the tag being detected in the target location.
US12112218B2
There are provided a chart manufacturing apparatus, a chart manufacturing method, a program, and an image forming system that do not need to switch backgrounds in a case of measuring a chart using two types of backgrounds having colors different from each other. The chart manufacturing apparatus that forms, on a transparent substrate, a chart (102) measured by applying a first background color and a second background color, forms a first measurement background image (130) on a transparent substrate (100) using a coloring material corresponding to a first background color, forms a first patch group (122) including one or more first patches (126) using a coloring material of a first color at a position corresponding to the first measurement background image, and forms a second patch group (120) including one or more second patches (124) at a position where the first measurement background image is not formed.
US12112211B2
Embodiments of this disclosure disclose a method and system for optimizing resources for cloud-based scalable distributed search data analytics service. The method may include generating a computing capacity rightsizing recommendation on the computing capacity based on the computing utilization metrics and generating a memory capacity rightsizing recommendation on the memory capacity based on the memory utilization metrics. The method may further include determining a recommended instance type for the service resource unit based on the computing capacity rightsizing recommendation and the memory capacity rightsizing recommendation. The method may further include performing a storage volume check on the service resource unit to obtain a storage volume check result. The method may further include determining whether to accept the recommended instance type as a final optimization recommendation based on the storage volume check result, the computing capacity rightsizing recommendation, and the memory capacity rightsizing recommendation.
US12112208B1
A method for automated switching of workloads on computing devices to increase returns such as rewards or transaction fees in a cryptocurrency blockchain network is disclosed. A plurality of signals impacting the profitability of mining for a plurality of different cryptocurrencies and plurality of different mining pools are monitored. In response to the plurality of signals indicating a different cryptocurrency and mining pool combination is more profitable, the computing device workload is automatically switched. Switching cost may be calculated and used to prevent unprofitable switches. The signals may be used to train a machine learning model that may be used to predict future profitability for automatic switching.
US12112207B2
Examples disclosed herein relate to selection of a set of nodes in a HPC system for running one or more computational jobs. In some examples, the selection of the set of nodes includes gathering information about a cluster of nodes in a high-performance computing system. The HPC system may be in a production state with one or more computational workloads getting executed thereon. In some examples, periodically sending one or more test-computing jobs for execution on each node to measure one or more performance metrics thereof. Receiving measured performance metrics from each node, in response to the one or more test-computing jobs executed thereon. Recording in a database, the measured performance metrics received from each node. Selecting the set of nodes from the cluster of nodes, based on the database, and based on a request received to nm one or more computational jobs on the HPC system.
US12112193B2
In some examples, a system includes an operating system (OS) kernel, one or more hardware processors, and a kernel scheduler. The kernel scheduler receives a first indication that a first thread is to wait for an event, receives a second indication that the first thread has transitioned to a blocked state in which the first thread is blocked on the event, and receives a third indication from a second thread delivering the event, the third indication to unblock the first thread. In response to the third indication, the kernel scheduler causes a transition of the first thread from the wait state to an active state if the first thread is in the wait state and has not yet transitioned to the blocked state, and causes a transition of the first thread from the blocked state to a ready state if the first thread is in the blocked state.
US12112192B2
One or more computer operations are triggered and executed when multiple sets of conditions that define a split trigger and that are evaluated at multiple locations are satisfied. The operations may involve allocating or deallocating computing resources (e.g., by establishing or tearing down a persistent connection), generating a message to be displayed on a computing device, altering stored data, and/or other activity. In an illustrative client/server computing environment, a first set of client conditions of a first split trigger is evaluated at a client device, using parameters observable at the client without interaction with a server. When the first of client conditions is satisfied, the client transmits a signal to a server that then evaluates a first set of server conditions of the first split trigger. If the first sets of client conditions and server conditions are satisfied, the computer operation(s) associated with the split trigger are executed.
US12112188B2
The technology disclosed herein enables customized hardware initialization code to be provided over a computer network and used to enable a virtual machine to boot in a more secure manner. An example method may include: receiving a request to start a virtual machine; transmitting, by a processing device, configuration data of a host device over a computer network to a service, wherein the configuration data comprises a resource identifier of the host device; receiving hardware initialization code over the computer network from the service, wherein the hardware initialization code comprises the resource identifier; updating, by the processing device, the virtual machine to comprise the hardware initialization code; and causing the virtual machine to execute in a trusted execution environment of the host device, wherein the virtual machine executes the hardware initialization code and uses the resource identifier.
US12112187B2
Scalable visualization of a containerized application in a multiple-cluster environment is disclosed. Deployment information that identifies a deployment status on a plurality of clusters of a set of resources that compose a containerized application is obtained. User interface imagery that identifies the set of resources, wherein each resource in the set is represented in the user interface imagery by only one corresponding resource representation, irrespective of a number of clusters on which the resource is deployed, is generated. A corresponding group deployment status indicator based on a deployment status of the resource on each cluster on which the resource was to be deployed is determined for at least one resource. The corresponding group deployment status indicator is included in association with the resource representation that corresponds to the resource. The user interface imagery is presented on a display device.
US12112185B2
According to an embodiment, a communication apparatus includes a task and a notification unit. The task stores, in a storage unit, notification information to be notified to a virtual machine as a notification destination via a virtual machine monitor after execution of predetermined processing. The notification unit collectively notifies the virtual machine monitor of a plurality of pieces of notification information stored in the storage unit.
US12112184B2
A value-added content providing method for a computer system includes receiving an input message indicating to present a pop-up window in a display area of the computer system; obtaining a content area in the display area according to the input message; analyzing the content area to generate an analysis content; and providing and displaying a value-added content in the pop-up window according to the analysis content.
US12112183B2
Methods and apparatus for contention window size adjustment are described. A method includes: receiving a first group of feedback signals indicating a first state corresponding to data transmitted in a first band used by a carrier, the first group of feedback signals comprising at least one first feedback signal; receiving a second group of feedback signals indicating a second state corresponding to data transmitted in the first band used by the carrier; determining a first scaling factor α for one of the at least one first feedback signal; determining a ratio of the first group of feedback signals to the first group of feedback signals and the second group of feedback signals; and comparing the ratio to a threshold to determine a contention window size (CWS) of the first band, wherein the first scaling factor α substitutes a weight of the one of the at least one first feedback signal in determination of the ratio of the first group of feedback signals to the first group of feedback signals and the second group of feedback signals.
US12112179B1
The apparatus employs adaptive machine learning for dynamic reconfiguration of process parameter. It consists of a processor and memory. Initially, it detects a dependency factor as a function of a plurality of operational factors of a process. Then it determines a primary factor and at least a secondary factor as a function of the dependency factor. Using at least a processor, modify a processor, the primary factor as a function of a specified modification protocol. Further, it eliminates the at least a secondary factor. Last, using the at least a processor, it generates using the at least a processor, a modification set of the operational factors.
US12112166B2
The present disclosure provides a data processing method and an apparatus and a related product for increased efficiency of tensor processing. The products include a control module including an instruction caching unit, an instruction processing unit, and a storage queue unit. The instruction caching unit is configured to store computation instructions associated with an artificial neural network operation; the instruction processing unit is configured to parse the computation instructions to obtain a plurality of operation instructions; and the storage queue unit is configured to store an instruction queue, where the instruction queue includes a plurality of operation instructions or computation instructions to be executed in the sequence of the queue. By adopting the above-mentioned method, the present disclosure can improve the operation efficiency of related products when performing operations of a neural network model.
US12112163B2
A memory interface circuit includes an instruction decoder configured to receive an instruction from a processor to generate a corresponding control code. An execution circuit is configured to receive the control code from the instruction decoder and access a memory and generate an arithmetic result according to the control code.
US12112162B2
For performing incremental analysis, analysis tools may reuse analysis information computed earlier for intermediate representation (IR) objects that remain unchanged between versions of program. But identification numbers (IDs) of unchanged IR objects change over versions due to changes with each run of incremental analysis, thereby making it difficult to reuse analysis information as tools require IDs of unchanged IR objects from previous versions. Present disclosure provides method and system for mapping IR objects for facilitating incremental analysis. The system first extracts attributes associated with each IR object present in previous version to create data structure for storing IR objects. The system then determines unchanged lines between versions to create line number map. Thereafter, system uses line number map to create ID-based IR mapping between ID of each unchanged IR object present in each unchanged line in current version and ID of each IR object stored in data structure.
US12112157B2
A firmware upgrade method and a firmware upgrade system based on a multi-stream transmission mode of a DisplayPort interface are provided. The firmware upgrade method includes: configuring a host to obtain firmware information of the displays through a DisplayPort auxiliary channel, and select a target display for firmware upgrade; and executing a firmware upgrade process including: configure the host to send a upgrade start command and firmware upgrade data to the target display; and configuring each display to: determine whether the upgrade start command and the firmware upgrade data reach the target display, and if not, send the upgrade start command and the firmware upgrade data to the next display, if so, execute a firmware upgrade preparation process according to the upgrade start command, and write the firmware upgrade data into the firmware storage device of the target display.
US12112150B2
A code repository stores application code. A code management determines, based at least in part on requested features selected in a graphical user interface, code requirements that include attributes of application code needed to achieve the requested features. The code management system determines, based at least in part on the determined code requirements and the metadata for each entry of application code stored in the code repository, one or more candidate application code entries from the code repository. The code management system presents the candidate application code entries for user selection in the graphical user interface. After receipt of a user selection of a selected application code, the selected application code is provided to a computing device associated with the user.
US12112144B2
Methods and systems that facilitate automatic generation of Application Programming Interface (API) specification from web traffic. Methods include obtaining a plurality of API requests and responses to the plurality of API requests. Methods include processing these API requests and responses to API requests to identify one or more attributes, such as, for example, variables, query parameters, response status codes, and response schemas. Methods include identifying variables using a tree data structure to represent resource paths. Methods include identifying query parameters based on resource items in resource paths. Methods include determining that the API call does not conform to the API specification by comparing one or more attributes of the API call with the attributes of the API specification.
US12112132B2
Various embodiments of the present invention provide methods, apparatus, systems, computing devices, computing entities, and/or the like for performing natural language processing operations using an attention-based text encoder machine learning model that is trained using a multi-task training routine that is associated with two or more training tasks (e.g., a multi-task training routine that is associated with two or more sequential training tasks, a multi-training routine that is associated with two or more concurrent training tasks, and/or the like).
US12112131B2
Embodiments described herein provide a system and method for extracting factual information. The system transforms a query into a natural language prompt in a format of a query subject and a queried relation. The system encodes, via an embedding layer of a pre-trained language model, the natural language prompt into a first embedding. The system encodes, via the adapter model, the first embedding into a second embedding based on a probability that the second embedding returns the factual information when the second embedding is fed the first attention layer of the pre-trained language model. The system decodes, by the first attention layer of the pre-trained language mode, the second embedding into a response to the query. The system extracts the factual information from the decoded response to the query.
US12112130B2
A text style transfer system is described that generates different stylized versions of input text by rewriting the input text according to a target style. To do so, the text style transfer system employs a variational autoencoder to derive separate content and style representations for the input text, where the content representation specifies semantic information conveyed by the input text and the style representation specifies one or more style attributes expressed by the input text. The style representation using counterfactual reasoning to identify different transfer strengths for applying the target style to the input text. Each transfer strength represents a minimum change to the input text that achieves a different expression of the target style. The transfer strengths are then used to generate style representation variants, which are each concatenated with the content representation of the input text to generate the plurality of different stylized versions of the input text.
US12112129B2
A method of training a neural network as a natural language processing, NLP, model, comprises: inputting annotated training data to first architecture portions of the neural network, the first architecture portions being executed respectively in a plurality of distributed client computing devices in communication with a server computing device, the training data being derived from text data private to the client computing device in which the first architecture portion is executed, the server computing device having no access to any of the private text data; deriving from the training data, using the first architecture portions, weight matrices of numeric weights which are decoupled from the private text data; concatenating the weight matrices, in a second architecture portion of the neural network executed in the server computing device, to obtain a single concatenated weight matrix; and training, on the second architecture portion, the NLP model using the concatenated weight matrix.
US12112126B2
Disclosed is a platform that manages worker users in a temporary staffing environment via an artificial machine learning model. The temporary staffing platform matches available workers to available shifts/gigs. Additional features include generating provisional or near-miss matches and informing workers how to turn those near-misses into full matches, plotting a gig-career path to develop additional skills, gamify development, and automatically generate resumes. The platform generates a set of skill tags associated with each shift/gig performed by the user. Designing of resume text files by the artificial machine learning model includes procedurally generated descriptions of experience the a user has based on the recording of each shift/gig performed by the user and the skill tags associated with each recorded shift/gig, wherein a format of the resume text file is formulated by the artificial machine learning model evaluating a mix of skill tags and employers amassed by the user.
US12112124B1
A computing system that facilitates generating customized health forms for a patient is disclosed herein. Subsequent to receiving a patient identifier from a client computing device, a server electronic health records application (EHR) transmits clinical data assigned to the patient identifier to a server health form application. Based on the clinical data assigned to the patient, the server health form application generates a customized health form for the patient using form data. The server health form application then transmits the customized health form to a client health form application for presentment on a display of the client computing device. The server health form application updates the customized health form for the patient as the patient responds to questions and as the server health form application receives sensor data from the client computing device.
US12112109B2
A safety control device intended to process a control signal and generate a safety control order. The device has: a control input, a protection circuit, a coupler having an emitter circuit designed to emit a second signal and a receiver circuit for providing a third signal, a switch, a pulse generator designed to cyclically control opening and closure of the switch, and a processing circuit designed to execute a method for safely processing the third signal. Also disclosed are a contactor having such a control device and a method for safely processing a control signal.
US12112108B2
Various embodiments of a method and apparatus for determining parametric timing yield and bottlenecks are disclosed which take into account correlation between electrical circuit paths through common timing arcs of an integrated circuit chip under design. Monte Carlo samples of timing arc delays are generated and used in computing timing yield and identify yield bottlenecks.
US12112098B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for sharing and synchronizing virtual content. A method may include receiving, from a host application via a wearable device comprising a transmissive display, a first data package comprising first data; identifying virtual content based on the first data; presenting a view of the virtual content via the transmissive display; receiving, via the wearable device, first user input directed at the virtual content; generating second data based on the first data and the first user input; sending, to the host application via the wearable device, a second data package comprising the second data, wherein the host application is configured to execute via one or more processors of a computer system remote to the wearable device and in communication with the wearable device.
US12112090B1
A system including a secondary visual digital display on the customer-facing side of a cash register or point-of-sale terminal display. The customer-facing digital display presents advertising content, videos, informational content, or any other form of content that the business or location owner or operator would like to have displayed to customers. An application program, as described below, is stored and/or loaded on memory storage in the secondary display and run by a microprocessor in the secondary display, or alternatively, is stored and/or loaded on a separate device, and run by a microprocessor in the secondary display or in the separate device. The content may be displayed based upon context. The content can be programmed and managed by the business or location owner or operator, by a third party service that creates and provides content for sale to business/location owners and operators, or by a third party service/operator that manages a system (including, but not limited to, the obtaining and downloading of content) as part of a negotiated contract with the owner or operation of a business or location (or multiple businesses or locations).
US12112089B2
Aspects of the present invention relate presentation of digital content, in a see-through display, representing a known location in an environment proximate to a head worn computer. In embodiments, a wearable head device comprises a see-through display and one or more processors configured for determining a geo-spatial location associated with the wearable head device, receiving from one or more sensors a geo-spatial location associated with a second wearable device, presenting virtual content on the see-through display, receiving from one or more sensors a signal associated with a movement of the second wearable head device, presenting a movement path of the second wearable head device on the see-through display, presenting an event indicator on the see-through display, and presenting attributes associated with a geo-spatial location on the see-through display.
US12112071B2
A nonvolatile memory device includes a first pin that receives a first signal, a second pin that receives a second signal, third pins that receive third signals, a fourth pin that receives a write enable signal, a memory cell array, and a memory interface circuit that obtains a command, an address, and data from the third signals in a first mode and obtains the command and the address from the first signal and the second signal and the data from the third signals in a second mode. In the first mode, the memory interface circuit obtains the command from the third signals and obtains the address from the third signals. In the second mode, the memory interface circuit obtains the command from the first signal and the second signal and obtains the address from the first signal and the second signal.
US12112063B1
A memory controller includes a request queue and associated logic for efficiently managing the request queue based on various timing constraints of the memory device. A single request queue for the memory device stores read and write requests spanning different banks of the memory device. In each memory controller cycle, selection logic may select both a row request and a column request (relating to a different bank than the row request) for issuing to the memory device based on a set of timing status bits. Following issuance of requests, the memory controller updates the queue to maintain the queued requests in a time-ordered, compressed sequence. The memory controller furthermore updates the timing status bits that are used by the selection logic to select requests from the queue based on a history of past memory requests.
US12112060B2
Methods, systems, and devices for multi-host communications are described. In some examples, a memory system may be coupled with multiple host systems. The memory system may facilitate communications between the multiple host systems For example, a first host system may be coupled with a first buffer of the memory system and a second host system may be coupled with a second buffer of the memory system. The first host system may have read and write access to the first buffer and read access to the second buffer. In response to a write operation being initiated by the first host system, data may be written to the first buffer. The second host system may read the data written to the first buffer. The second host system may take an action or respond based on the data read from the first buffer.
US12112055B2
An embodiment of an electronic storage system includes one or more storage drives, at least one or more of the storage drives supporting erasure coding (EC); and a controller including logic to control local access to the one or more storage drives. The controller, in response to a write command, is to for one or more storage drives, allocate an intermediate buffer in the storage drive's non-volatile memory (NVM) to store intermediate data. The controller is to issue commands to a first storage drive to read old data, compute the intermediate data of the first storage drive as XOR of the old data and new data received in the write command, and atomically write the intermediate data of the first storage drive to the intermediate buffer of the first storage drive and write the new data to the first storage drive's NVM. The controller is to read the intermediate data of the first storage drive from the intermediate buffer of the first storage drive. The controller is further to issue commands to one or more EC storage drives to read the old data, compute result data as the old data XOR a galois field coefficient of the one or more EC storage drives multiplied by the intermediate data, and atomically write the old data to the intermediate buffer of the one or more EC storage drives and write the result data to the one or more EC storage drive's NVM. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
US12112054B2
Disclosed is a method for preforming the data mirror comprising: receiving from an application executing on a computing device a request to write data to a first local persistence memory of the computing device; issuing an async write operation to mirror the write request to write a same data to a second local persistence memory of the computing device by using a supplemental device; performing a write operation to write the data to the first local persistence memory by using a central processing unit (CPU) from the processing resource of the computing device; in response to determining that the write operation is completed and the async write operation is completed, determining a status check result indicating if the async write operation is successful; and sending the status check result to the application.
US12112051B2
A valid node management method, a memory storage device and a memory control circuit unit are disclosed. The method includes: establishing a valid node management table corresponding to a first physical management unit; storing valid node management data in the valid node management table, wherein the valid node management data reflects a distribution status of a valid node in the first physical management unit; receiving an operation command from a host system, wherein the operation command is configured to change a data storage status of the first physical management unit; and updating the valid node management data in the valid node management table in response to the operation command.
US12112049B2
A self-managed DRAM module configured to reduce energy consumption. A module is described that includes a plurality of DDR channels and a management engine configured to read and write data blocks to DDR channels according to a process that includes: allocating a set of sub-channels for each DDR channel, wherein each sub-channel includes a subset of the set of DRAM chips; wherein a write operation of a data block includes: encoding the data block to generate an ECC codeword; and writing the ECC codeword into the subset of DRAM chips of a specified sub-channel; and wherein a read operation of the data block includes: reading the ECC codeword from the subset of DRAM chips of the specified sub-channel; and decoding the ECC codeword to obtain the data block.
US12112048B2
The present disclosure generally relates to improving adaptive tuning of different clock rates of a memory device. Rather than clock rates only being determined off of one parameter such as workload, the clock rates now will be determined using multiple parameters. The tuning may be based on system parameters to allow the system to withstand challenges that arise during the operation. The clock frequency table is maintained in the device controller. The table holds the clock frequency of each component. The disclosure proposes modifying the table according to different system environment parameters to maintain performance or reduce power consumption. Adaptive tuning allows a more flexible system design that can adapt according to the current system status. Adaptive tuning also reduces peak power consumption, improves performance, and better quality of service (QoS) compatibility characteristics.
US12112047B2
Techniques lock a storage area in a storage system including a first storage node and a second storage node. Such techniques involve adjusting a value of at least one of a first counter at the first node and a second counter at the second node in response to receiving a data access request for the storage area at at least one of the first node and the second node. Such techniques further involve allocating a lock flag to the first node in response to a ratio of the value of the first counter to the value of the second counter being greater than a first threshold, the lock flag indicating that the storage area is locked by the first node. Accordingly, storage resources required by nodes that are accessed more frequently in statistics are effectively reduced, and the efficiency of applying stripe lock reduction are improved.
US12112040B2
A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes causing a plurality of I/O queues to be created between an initiator and a storage target device. The created I/O queues are reserved for I/O requests for which adjustments of current priorities of extents of data associated with the I/O requests are to be performed. The method further includes determining identifying information of an I/O request sent from the initiator to the storage target device and determining whether the I/O request was sent from the initiator to the storage target device using one of the created I/O queues. In response to a determination that the I/O request was sent using a first of the created I/O queues having one of the adjustments associated therewith, a tiering manager of the storage target device is instructed to perform the adjustment on the current priority of the extent of data associated with the I/O request.
US12112035B2
In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprises: displaying a particular view of a plurality of views of a continuous content stream of individually actionable content items; wherein the plurality of views, each including a different subset of the individually actionable content items, responds to different sets of signaling gestures; automatically recognizing, while the continuous content stream is being displayed, a mode change from a control mode to a signal mode in the particular view of the plurality of views; receiving a touch input in the particular view of the plurality of views and, in response, generating output data indicating a signaling gesture classification that is accepted by the particular view and is for the touch input; updating, according to the output data, the particular view of the plurality of views; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.
US12112033B2
In an electronic device capable of running multiple software applications concurrently, applications, documents, cards, or other activities can be selected for hibernation so as to free up system resources for other activities that are in active use. A determination is made as to which activities should hibernate, for example based on a determination as to which activities have not been used recently or based on relative resource usage. When an activity is to hibernate, its state is preserved on a storage medium such as a disk, so that the activity can later be revived in the same state and the user can continue with the same task that was being performed before the activity entered hibernation.
US12112022B2
A user interface augmentation system includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to perform operations including: searching a system screen for a base point UI serving as a base point for display of an additional user interface (UI) to be added to the system screen; displaying a new screen with a transparent background in such a way as to overlap the system screen; and displaying the additional UI at a position based on the base point UI on the new screen.
US12112008B2
Methods and systems for simulating light interaction and physical materials in a graphical user interface (GUI) of a resource-constrained device are provided. Simulating physical materials, such as glass and metal, in a GUI can allow a user to feel more natural in interacting with the GUI. The user experience can be further enhanced if the simulated physical materials in the GUI can interact with the device's environment in a manner similar to how the actual physical materials would interact. However, continually polling various sensors can be resource-intensive, especially for resource-constrained mobile devices. Accordingly, a mobile device can intelligently determine whether to begin a reduced detail mode, and then render user interface objects in the reduced detail mode to conserve resources.
US12112002B2
A touch panel includes a substrate, a plurality of peripheral traces, a plurality of marks, a touch sensing electrode, a plurality of first intermediate layers, and a plurality of second intermediate layers. The peripheral traces and the marks are disposed in a peripheral area of the substrate. The first intermediate layers are disposed between the peripheral traces and the substrate, and the second intermediate layers are disposed between the marks and the substrate. Each of the first intermediate layers and the second intermediate layers includes a metal nanowire, and the touch sensing electrode is electrically connected with the peripheral traces. A touch sensor tape is also proposed.
US12111982B2
Tracking motion using inertial sensors embedded in commercial grade wearables like smartwatches has proved to be a challenging task, especially if real-time tracking is a requirement. Present disclosure provides system and method wherein data from sensors are obtained and scaled. Further, Euler Rodrigues Matrix (ERM) is generated based delta value obtained using sensor data. The scaled sensor data and ERM are used for generating feature vectors. Windowing technique is applied for subsets of feature vectors to obtain label for each window and machine learning model is trained with the label and window. Further, during real-time, sensor data is obtained, and steps of ERM, feature vectors generation, and application of windowing technique are repeated, and coordinates are estimated for each window in real-time based on which trajectories are tracked in real-time for each window.
US12111979B2
A method for generating mark information in a virtual environment includes displaying a target-perspective picture showing the virtual environment, a sight bead pointing to an aiming position, and receiving a mark operation triggered on a mark control interface. The method further includes, in response to receiving the mark operation, generating, according to the received mark operation, mark information on a virtual object to which the aiming position points. The virtual object on which the mark information is generated is a movable object, a virtual prop, a virtual building, or a virtual landscape object in the virtual environment. The generated mark information is visible at a position of the virtual object in the virtual environment to one or more teammates of the virtual character.
US12111977B2
A method includes displaying a first screen of a keyboard area having an upper pseudo-image part, a lower pseudo-image part, and multiple image-pixel keys, changing a Unicode character in one of the upper pseudo-image part and the lower pseudo-image part into a first non-blank Unicode character in the first screen in response to a first image-pixel key input, displaying a second screen of the keyboard area different from the first screen, providing the upper pseudo-image part in a text input area in response to a first image-part key input, providing a word in the text input area in response to at least one letter key input, and providing the lower pseudo-image part in the text input area in response to a second image-part key input.
US12111973B2
The present disclosure provides AR systems and methods. The computer-implemented method comprises displaying, on a mobile device, a rendered virtual object in an augmented reality (AR) scene, and detecting, using an input device of the mobile device, a gesture having a detected speed. The method further includes identifying the gesture, wherein the gesture is identified as a first command to implement a first function related to the virtual object responsive to the detected speed of the gesture being less than a speed threshold, and the gesture is identified as a second command to implement a second function related to the virtual object responsive to the detected speed of the gesture being greater than the speed threshold. The second command and second function are different from the first command and the first function, respectively. The identified gesture is then processed.
US12111971B2
The disclosure includes a first information acquiring device configured to acquire motion information related to a motion of an occupant; a second information acquiring device configured to acquire operation information related to an input operation to a predetermined onboard device, the input operation being based on the motion of the occupant; a memory configured to store the motion information and the operation information in association with each other; a motion detecting device configured to detect the motion of an occupant; and a controller configured to, when the motion information related to the motion of the occupant detected by the motion detecting device is stored in the memory, output command information related to an operation command to the onboard device by referring to the operation information stored in association with the motion information.
US12111968B2
Provided is a haptic waveform storage system including a sensor configured to measure a target object to generate a sensing signal including tactile texture information, a waveform extraction unit configured to extract a basic frequency and an envelope from the sensing signal and generate haptic waveform information including information about the basic frequency and the envelope, and a library storage unit configured to store the haptic waveform information.
US12111965B2
A handheld controller is suitable for controlling an electronic device. The handheld controller includes a first body, a second body and a connecting portion. The first body is suitable for being held by a hand of a user. The connecting portion connects the first body and the second body. The second body is electrically connected to the first body through the connecting portion, and the connecting portion is suitable for being clamped between fingers of the user.
US12111962B2
The present disclosure generally relates to user interface for electronic devices, including wearable electronic devices, and device settings based on user identification.
US12111961B2
A micro data capture device can be configured to operate as a unidirectional connection from a first computing device to a second computing device. The micro data capture device can include a data capture side comprising a first universal serial bus (USB) interface configured to connect to the first computing device so as to extract data from the first computing device. The micro data capture device can further include a monitoring apparatus comprising an interceptor configured to copy data from the data capture side so as to define the unidirectional connection. Further, the micro data capture device can define a data storage side comprising a second USB interface configured to connect to the second computing device so as to transfer data to the second computing device. The data storage side can be configured to receive data from the data storage side via the monitoring apparatus. In some cases, the data capture side has only volatile memory, and the data storage side includes non-volatile memory. Further, the data capture side can be physically separate from the data storage side.
US12111953B2
Systems and methods for privacy and sensitive data protection. An image of a document is received at a pre-processing stage and image pre-processing is applied to the image to ensure that the resulting image is sufficient for further processing. Pre-processing may involve processing relating to image quality and image orientation. The image is then passed to an initial processing stage. At the initial processing stage, the relevant data in the document are located and bounding boxes are placed around the data. The resulting image is then passed to a processing stage. At this stage, the type of data within the bounding boxes is determined and suitable replacement data is generated. The replacement data is then inserted into the image to thereby remove and replace the sensitive data in the image.
US12111946B2
A cloud environment is provided generally having at least one private data center possessing a controller/routing system and nonvolatile mass storage, a plurality of data objects retained in the nonvolatile mass storage, and a public cloud storage service provider linked to the controller/routing system. The public cloud storage service provider possessing a database containing policy decisions and metadata of the plurality of data objects. The private data center is not in possession of the policy decisions and the metadata for the plurality of data objects, rather the public cloud storage service provider is. The private data center in possession of the plurality of data objects, whereas the public cloud storage provider is not. The public cloud storage service provider adapted to be communicatively linked to an end-user computing system by way of the controller/routing system. The data center is independent of the public cloud storage provider.
US12111943B2
Methods and systems for providing secure file sharing are described herein. A computing device may receive data from a resource provider in response to a request received by the resource provider. The data may include information about a user of a client device that made the request for a file and information about the file, and the request may be for access to the file and made by the user with an owner of the requested file being unknown to the user. The computing device may parse the received data to identify a subset of data. The subset of data may be configured to enable the owner to determine whether to permit the user to access to the file. Further, the computing device may provide a notification, which includes at least some of the subset of data, to an endpoint device of the owner.
US12111933B2
A system includes a database, a memory, and a processor. The database stores data associated with a known security threat. The memory includes a threat model associated with a software application. The processor identifies, based on natural language processing of the data associated with the known security threat, one or more attributes of software susceptible to the known security threat. The processor also identifies, based on natural language processing of the threat model, one or more attributes of the software application. The processor additionally determines, based on a comparison between the one or more attributes of software susceptible to the known security threat and the one or more attributes of the software application, that the software application is susceptible to the known security threat. In response, the processor updates the threat model to reflect the susceptibility of the software application to the known security threat.
US12111925B1
The presently disclosed subject matter includes a system for monitoring a set of command lines or calls to executable scripts configured to be executed by an operating system. Each command line from the set of command lines is associated with an executable script configured to be executed by an operating system. The apparatus classifies, via a machine learning model, a command line from the set of command lines into an obfuscation category and prevents the operating system from executing the command line and generates a notification signal when the obfuscation category indicates that the command line is part of a cybersecurity attack. The apparatus allows the operating system to execute the command line or call to the executable script when the obfuscation category indicates that the command line is not part of a cybersecurity attack.
US12111920B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for detecting a synthetic identity. The method includes receiving an identity verification request relating to an individual. The identity verification request includes one or more individual identifiers of the individual. The method also includes comparing at least one of the one or more individual identifiers to one or more known synthetic indicators. The one or more known synthetic indicators including at least one of a synthetic identifier type or a synthetic identifier value that correspond to one or more known synthetic identities. The method further includes determining a synthetic identity determination based on the comparison of the at least one of the one or more individual identifiers to the one or more known synthetic indicators. The synthetic identity determination indicates whether an identity verification request is a potential synthetic identity.
US12111908B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods to identify an electronic control unit transmitting a message on a communication bus, such as an in-vehicle network bus, are provided. ECUs transmit messages by manipulating voltage on conductive lines of the bus. Observation circuitry can observe voltage signals associated with the transmission at a point on the in-vehicle network bus. A distribution can be generated from densities of the voltage signals. ECUs can be identified and/or fingerprinted based on the distributions.
US12111907B2
In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a storage device and a processor. The storage device stores a plurality of images captured by a camera. The processor: accesses visual data associated with an image captured by the camera; determines a tile size parameter for partitioning the visual data into a plurality of tiles; partitions the visual data into the plurality of tiles based on the tile size parameter, wherein the plurality of tiles corresponds to a plurality of regions within the image; compresses the plurality of tiles into a plurality of compressed tiles, wherein each tile is compressed independently; generates a tile-based representation of the image, wherein the tile-based representation comprises an array of the plurality of compressed tiles; and stores the tile-based representation of the image on the storage device.
US12111906B2
Methods and apparatuses are described for generating a digital image using an unencrypted key. A server computing device generates an initial digital image comprising a plurality of image areas. The server computing device converts an unencrypted key associated with a remote computing device into an encrypted key using an encryption algorithm. The server computing device assigns a color value to each character of the encrypted key. The server computing device maps each character of the encrypted key to one of the plurality of image areas of the initial digital image. The server computing device generates an updated digital image by applying, to each of the plurality of image areas, a color that corresponds to the color value assigned to the character of the encrypted key that is mapped to the image area. The server computing device stores the updated digital image in a database record.
US12111892B2
A streamlined workflow for digital rights management (DRM) licensing for content such as media assets is achieved via an authentication server establishing an authenticated session that is referenced by other processes, whereby a content grant may include a key to desired encrypted content with a portion of the content or content meta-data. The authentication server verifies the user's identity and provides a session grant including a session security mechanism, such as a token, session key, or negotiated secret. The session grant may be used to obtain a content authorization from a content router. The content authorization includes an address at which the content may be found and may be decorated with security mechanisms. The session grant and/or content authorization may include an entitlement record reflecting the user's entitlements to access content. The session grant and/or content authorization may be used to obtain a content grant from a content server.
US12111891B2
Systems and methods for optionally restricting the rendering of particular content items. An example method comprising: receiving a plurality of content rendering options supported by a client device; determining a content item to be rendered, the content item being associated with a restriction attribute; selecting a content rendering option supported by the client device in view of the restriction attribute; generating a token comprising data associated with the selected content rendering option and the content item; receiving a client request from the client device, wherein the client request is associated with the content item and indicates a chosen content rendering option; comparing the data of the token with the chosen content rendering option indicated by the client request to determine a match; and granting the client device access to perform the chosen content rendering option on the content item based on the outcome of the determination of the match.
US12111890B2
A method for detecting abnormal behavior involves constructing words and text documents based on data acquired from mobile phone sensors during defined time intervals. The time intervals are defined based on data from mobile phone sensors indicative of usage patterns of the mobile phone user. Words are constructed for each time interval as a vector including the time interval and sensor-based feature levels. Each sensor-based feature level is mapped to a range of values of a sensor-based feature that are extracted from the sensor data. The text document is constructed from the words based on the time intervals and the sensor-based feature levels. A current routine for each time interval is determined using topic modeling based on the words that most frequently appear in the text document. An alert is generated if the current routine for any time interval deviates from a past routine for a corresponding past time interval.
US12111887B2
A device, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium are described. The method includes receiving a dataset including hand written Arabic words and hand written Arabic alphabets from one or more users. The method further includes removing whitespace around alphabets in the hand written Arabic words and the hand written Arabic alphabets in the dataset. The method further includes splitting the dataset into a training set, a validation set, and a test set. The method further includes classifying one or more user datasets from the training set, the validation set, and the test set. The method further includes identifying the target user from the one or more user datasets. The identification of the target user includes a verification accuracy of the hand written Arabic words being larger than a verification accuracy threshold value.
US12111884B2
Systems and methods for machine learning are described. Embodiments of the present disclosure receive state information that describes a state of a decision making agent in an environment; compute an action vector from an action embedding space based on the state information using a policy neural network of the decision making agent, wherein the policy neural network is trained using reinforcement learning based on a topology loss that constrains changes in a mapping between an action set and the action embedding space; and perform an action that modifies the state of the decision making agent in the environment based on the action vector, wherein the action is selected based on the mapping.
US12111881B2
A plurality of rating values corresponding to the performance of each of a plurality of pipelines for a dataset of a plurality datasets is stored. The distance between each pair of datasets within the plurality is determined in a latent space. The distance corresponds to an expected value of a regret incurred when a selected pipeline is rated for a performance of the pipeline for a first dataset. The regret is a monotonically decreasing function of the rating value, according to the pipeline's performance. The plurality of datasets is clustered in the latent space, and a representative dataset in each cluster is identified. In response to receiving a new dataset, a set of preferred pipelines is selected from the plurality, according to a set of rating values corresponding to each of the selected pipelines' performance on the representative dataset. The new dataset is processed in the set of preferred pipelines.
US12111880B2
Various embodiments set forth systems and techniques for changing a face within an image. The techniques include receiving a first image including a face associated with a first facial identity; generating, via a machine learning model, at least a first texture map and a first position map based on the first image; rendering a second image including a face associated with a second facial identity based on the first texture map and the first position map, wherein the second facial identity is different from the first facial identity.
US12111867B2
Methods, systems, and media for associating scenes depicted in media content with a map of where the media content was produced are provided. In some embodiments, a method for presenting map information with video information is provided, the method comprising: receiving a request for a video from a user device; determining if there is location information associated with portions of the video; in response to determining that there is location information associated with the video, causing first map information corresponding to the location information to be presented in a first format during presentation of the video; receiving an indication that the first map information has been selected; in response to receiving the indication, causing second map information corresponding to the portion of the video that was being presented to be presented by the user device, wherein the second map information is presented in a second format.
US12111865B2
A system for sorting event data includes an interface and a processor. The interface is configured to receive a small set of video frame data from a vehicle event recorder. The processor is configured to determine that the small set of video frame data indicates to fetch more vehicle event recorder data; determine a categorization based at least in part on the more vehicle event recorder data; and in response to the categorization, route the more vehicle event recorder data to a reviewing queue.
US12111858B1
A text interaction record including interaction text from one or more messages between a client machine and a service provider is received at a database system. A search vector including a text embedding representing the interaction text in a multi-dimensional vector space may be determined based on the interaction text via a processor at the database system. A reference interaction record including reference interaction text may be retrieved from the database system based on the search vector. The reference interaction record may include a reference vector representing the reference interaction text in the multi-dimensional vector space. Recommended reply text is determined based on the interaction text and the reference interaction text by a large language model configured to generate the recommended reply text in response to a prompt that includes one or more natural language instructions.
US12111857B2
A computerized personal assistant includes a natural language user interface, a natural language processing machine, an identity machine, and a knowledge-base updating machine. The knowledge-base updating machine is configured to update a user-centric artificial intelligence knowledge base associated with the particular user to include a new or updated user-centric fact based on the computer-readable representation of the user input, wherein the knowledge-base updating machine updates the user-centric artificial intelligence knowledge base via an update protocol useable by a plurality of different computer services.
US12111856B2
This disclosure relates generally to long-form answer extraction and, more particularly, to long-form answer extraction based on combination of sentence index generation techniques. Existing answer extractions techniques have achieved significant progress for extractive short answers; however, less progress has been made for long form questions that require explanations. Further the state-of-art long-answer extractions techniques result in poorer long-form answers or not address sparsity which becomes an issue longer contexts. Additionally, pre-trained generative sequence-to-sequence models are gaining popularity for factoid answer extraction tasks. Hence the disclosure proposes a long-form answer extraction based on several steps including training a set of generative sequence-to-sequence models comprising a sentence indices generation model and a sentence index spans generation. The trained set of generative sequence-to-sequence models is further utilized for model long-form answer extraction based on a union of several sentence index generation techniques comprising a sentence indices and a sentence index spans.
US12111855B1
A computer-implemented method, in accordance with one embodiment, includes collecting data from a plurality of predefined functional areas in a particular geographical area in which a plurality of physical objects are located, at least some of the data relating to vandalism. Wrangling is performed on the data to correlate the data from the functional areas with respective ones of the physical objects. The wrangled data corresponding to each of the physical objects is transformed into features corresponding to a the functional areas. For each of the physical objects, the features are processed according to predefined rules for generating a rank for each of the functional areas. Dynamic weights are computed for at least some of the features to account for data drift by comparing historical data with latest data. The ranks and dynamic weights are transformed into a vandalism score for each of the physical objects, which is output.
US12111854B2
A database manager is disclosed that retrieves database records having binary encoded data from a database and instantiating objects in an in-memory database. Binary encoding compresses data, allowing many subrecords to be stored a single blob field of a database record. Retrieving chunks from storage reduces transfer time by reducing the size of data and the number of operations needed to retrieve all the subrecords. The database manager receives database access requests from a database application. Changes made to the database objects and committed by the application are written back to the persistent database as versioned delta records. In a subsequent session, loading the database from storage includes first loading the most recent snapshot record, then applying changes to the data stored in delta records. The changes stored in the delta records are applied to the data in the snapshot record in the order in which they were made.
US12111853B1
Embodiments disclosed herein describe systems and methods to generate statuses of higher level integrated logical clusters from one or more output files generated by the clusterwares of a plurality of lower level physical clusters. The systems and methods provide an interactive dashboard graphical user interface (GUI) rendering the statuses of the higher level logical clusters. In response to a drill down selection by the system administrator, the systems and methods may render resource level statuses of the plurality of resources forming the higher level logical cluster. Therefore, by using a single dashboard, a system administrator can seamlessly transition between statuses at different level of abstractions for multiple resources distributed across multiple geographically diverse datacenters. Furthermore, the dashboard allows the system administrator to perform failover operations.
US12111851B1
A method may include obtaining position data and associated time entries for multiple individuals. The method may also include, for each of the individuals, associating instances of the position data with categories of locations to generate a context vector, where the context vector includes text strings describing a context of a given individual. The method may also include, for each of the individuals, squeezing the context vector to combine consecutive categories of locations to generate a count vector, where the count vector includes the text strings and a count of the consecutive categories of locations. The method may also include classifying each of the individuals based on a comparison of the count vector to a known class of individuals, and adjusting at least one factor directing flow of multiple people in a different manner based on the classification.
US12111844B2
Embodiments provide systems, methods and computer program products for cloud replication of data. One embodiment includes, accessing a virtual table definition and a data collection definition, the virtual table definition comprising a definition of a set of virtual table fields and a mapping of the set of virtual table fields to a set of target data types; automatically creating a virtual table according to the virtual table definition, the virtual table comprising the set of virtual table fields populated with the data of interest according to the data collection definition; and sending the virtual table and the mapping to a cloud computing environment. One embodiment further includes, in the cloud computing environment, storing the set of virtual table fields as a set of physical table fields in a physical table in a cloud hosted database, the set of physical table fields having the set of target data types.
US12111841B2
One example method includes measuring a journal distribution lag of a journal, evaluating a first operational measure at a production site, and evaluating a second operational measure at a replication site operable to communicate with a production site, based on the journal distribution lag, and the evaluation of the first operational measure and the second operational measure, determining a scale out for a consistency group of the replication site, and implementing the scale out of the consistency group.
US12111836B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media that utilize a consolidated graphical user interface for visually presenting the state of a user profile with respect to a workflow journey. For instance, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems provide, for display within a graphical user interface of a client device, a visual representation of a workflow journey comprising a plurality of nodes and one or more edges connecting the plurality of nodes. Additionally, the disclosed systems receive, via the graphical user interface of the client device, an identifier associated with a user profile. The disclosed systems further modify, within the graphical user interface of the client device, the visual representation of the workflow journey to reflect a state of the user profile with respect to the workflow journey.
US12111835B2
A query generation and processing system includes a relational data store, a query generator, and a query processor. The relational data store stores data ingested from data sources in a first and second datasets. The query generator interprets a data expression in a simplified query language to generate a query in a structured query language based on identifying quads corresponding to the first and second datasets in the data expression and determining an implicit join between the quads based on an unambiguous relationship obtainable from a schema of the first and datasets, in which the data expression does not expressly identify a join between the first quad and the second quad. The query processor generates a query pipeline that uses the data of the first and second datasets stored by the relational data store to execute the query generated by the query processor.
US12111822B2
A method comprises: setting an first entry and an second entry in a database; receiving a first online transaction; responsive to determining a lock of the database is in progress, suspending the first online transaction; updating the first entry; removing the lock; receiving a second online transaction; responsive to determining that the first field is greater than zero, decrementing the first field by an amount indicated in the second online transaction; and responsive to determining the second entry is greater than zero, decrementing the second entry.
US12111809B2
In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for generating a data cube for analytics. A map-reduce program running in a data processing cluster can read each line of a source data, and generate a key-value pair for each of a plurality of data combinations in that line of data. Values paired with the same key can be aggregated to generate one or more frequency values or one or more aggregate values, for representing the result of a query on the source data. Each query result can be stored in an output file, and can be encapsulated into a data cube cached in a distributed file system of the data processing cluster. The data cube can map a query from a client application to an output file, and can return a pre-computed result in the output file from the data cube to the client application.
US12111802B2
Various embodiments of the present invention provide methods, apparatuses, systems, computing devices, computing entities, and/or the like for facilitating efficient and effective execution of database management operations. For example, various embodiments of the present invention provide methods, apparatuses, systems, computing devices, computing entities, and/or the like for facilitating efficient and effective execution of database management operations using distributed database update management techniques that utilize at least one of a field value temporal scoring machine learning model, total field utility measures, and distributed database update routines.
US12111796B2
A system and method for maintaining a comprehensive catalog of metadata records that describes hierarchical file data held in one or more file systems includes a Modular Change Processor (MCP) that captures event notifications pertaining to contents of affected directories within the file systems, coalesces the translated event notifications, and transmits to the catalog, instructions to mark metadata corresponding to the affected directories as ‘out-of-sync’. An Enumerator Computer (EC) receives from the catalog, identities of directories having metadata marked ‘out-of-sync’; receives from the file systems, updated contents of the ‘out-of-sync’ directories; generates replacement metadata for the updated contents; and sends the replacement metadata to the catalog, optionally with instructions to replace the metadata marked ‘out-of-sync’ with corresponding replacement metadata and to mark the replacement metadata as ‘in-sync’.
US12111795B2
A method for managing replication of cloned files is provided. Embodiments include determining, at a source system, that a first file has been cloned to create a second file. Embodiments include sending, from the source system to a replica system, an address of the first extent and an indication that a status of the first extent has changed from non-cloned to cloned. Embodiments include changing, at the replica system, a status of a second extent associated with a replica of the first file on the replica system from non-cloned to cloned and creating a mapping of the address of the first extent to an address of the second extent on the replica system. Embodiments include creating, at the replica system, a replica of the second file comprising a reference to the address of the second extent on the replica system.
US12111791B2
A data model is trained to predict compressibility of binary data structures based on component entropy and predict relative compression efficiency for various compression algorithms based on component size. A recommendation engine in a storage system uses the data model to predict compressibility of binary data and determines whether to compress the binary data based on predicted compressibility. If the recommendation engine determines that compression of the binary data is justified, then a compression algorithm is recommended based on predicted relative compression efficiency. For example, the compression algorithm predicted to yield the greatest compression ratio or shortest compression/decompression time may be recommended.
US12111790B1
A network system to analyze a combined output of various input files from data-based applications. The system provides custom profiling of the data from each application based on an application of one or more sets of rules. The system stores the data from any other number of applications in a base level of granularity to allow direct comparison of the data from each application output. Because the data is stored at a same level of granularity, the data may be compared or processed regardless of the application from which the data is received. The system applies rules to compare the data across the applications to identify outliers, trends, or commonalities. The system may also search for and identify data fitting a specific rule across the applications to extract, modify, or label the data. The system provides a visualization of the data based on the rules applied.
US12111788B2
A central processing unit which achieves increased processing speed is provided. In a CPU constituted of a RISC architecture, a program counter which indicates an address in an instruction memory and a general-purpose register which is designated as an operand in an instruction to be decoded by an instruction decoder are constituted of asynchronous storage elements.
US12111784B2
Embodiments herein describe a NoC where its internal switches have buffers with pods that can be assigned to different virtual channels. A subset of the pods in a buffer can be grouped together to form a VC. In this manner, different pod groups in a buffer can be assigned to different VCs (or to different types of NoC data units), where VCs that transmit wider data units can be assigned more pods than VCs that transmit narrower data units.
US12111776B2
A multi-dimensional memory cluster. In some embodiments, the memory cluster includes a first node, having an external port for making a connection to a host; a second node, connected to the first node by a first memory-centric connection; the second node storing a service level descriptor; the first node being configured to: receive, from the host, a first request, addressed to the second node, for the service level descriptor; and forward the first request to the second node, the second node being configured to: receive the first request; and send a first response, to the first node, the first response including the service level descriptor of the second node.
US12111771B2
Linked clone read performance (e.g., retrieving data) is improved at least by minimizing the number of input/output (I/O) operations. For a child clone, a local logical extent and an inherited logical extent are generated. The local logical extent comprises a logical block address (LBA) for data in a data region of the child clone and a physical sector address (PSA) corresponding to the LBA for the data in the data region of the child clone. The inherited logical extent spans logical extents that are accessible to the child clone. The inherited logical extent comprises an LBA for data in a data region of an ancestor of the child clone and a corresponding identifier (ID) of the ancestor. Data for an LBA in a read request may be rapidly found in the child clone (local logical extent) or an ancestor (inherited logical extent).
US12111752B2
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.
US12111750B1
Parameter values in source code can be automatically validated using the techniques described herein. For example, a system can receive source code that includes a call to an action. The action can have a parameter that is set to a selected value in the source code. The parameter can be defined in definition data. The system can also receive a file that separate from the source code and includes metadata for the parameter. The system can extract the metadata from the file and modify the definition data to include the metadata. The system can then execute a validation process on the selected value for the parameter. The validation process can involve retrieving the metadata from the modified definition data, evaluating the selected value using the metadata to determine whether the selected value is invalid, and if it is invalid, outputting an error notification indicating that the selected value is invalid.
US12111737B2
A method includes determining, by a secondary backup storage system, that a first backup operation has completed and produced a first protection copy of assets stored in a client storage array, where a primary backup storage system is used to obtain a snapshot-based backup from the client storage array and provide the snapshot-based backup to the secondary backup storage system, where the first protection copy is generated using the snapshot-based backup. The method includes identifying a second backup operation that was started before the first backup operation was started, determining that the second backup operation successfully produced a second protection copy, and generating linking metadata that links the first protection copy to the second protection copy in response to determining that the second backup operation successfully produced the second protection copy, where linking metadata is used to restore at least a portion of the assets during a restore operation.
US12111731B2
Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems include detecting a failure of a first memory subsystem of a plurality of memory subsystems. A first recovery instruction is sent to a second memory subsystem of the plurality of memory subsystems. The first recovery instruction directs the second memory subsystem to recover a first subset of data stored by the first memory subsystem. A second recovery instruction is sent to a third memory subsystem of the plurality of memory subsystems. The second recovery instruction directs the third memory subsystem to rebuild a second subset of data stored by the first memory subsystem. The first and second subsets of data differ from one another.
US12111721B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for error detection and recovery when streaming data are described. A system includes one or more companion direct memory access (DMA) subsystems for transferring data. When an error is detected for a component of the companion DMA subsystem(s), the operations performed by the other components need to gracefully adapt to this error so that operations face only a minimal disruption. For example, while one or more consumers are still consuming a first frame, a companion router receives an indication of an error for a second frame, causing the companion router to send a router frame abort message to a route manager. In response, the route manager waits until the consumer(s) are consuming the second frame before sending them a frame abort message. The consumer(s) flush their pipeline and transition to an idle state waiting for a third frame after receiving the frame abort message.
US12111720B2
An embodiment may involve, based on a pre-defined trigger associated with a particular application, reading error data from a resource that is used by the particular application, wherein persistent storage contains definitions of a plurality of error scenarios, a plurality of fix scripts, and associations between each of the plurality of error scenarios and one or more of the plurality of fix scripts; applying one or more rules to the error data, wherein the rules involve pattern matching or parsing; based on applying the one or more rules, determining a particular error scenario represented in the error data, wherein the particular error scenario is one of the plurality of error scenarios; determining, based on the associations, a particular fix script associated with the particular error scenario, wherein the particular fix script is one of the plurality of fix scripts; and causing execution of the particular fix script.
US12111715B2
The present invention provides a memory structure, which is disposed on a first circuit board and connected electrically to a system power supply of a second circuit board. The memory structure comprises a plurality of memory unit, a power control component, and a display component. The power control component receives a first voltage of the system power supply. The power control component includes a power management unit and a linear voltage stabilizing unit. The display component includes a light-emitting unit and a control unit. The power control component provides a second voltage to the plurality of memory units using the power management unit. The linear voltage stabilizing unit provides a third voltage to the light-emitting unit and the control unit. The power management unit distributes the power supply to the plurality of memory units, the light-emitting unit, and the control unit for further usage.
US12111708B2
The present invention is directed to a docking station system. The docking station system includes a housing that is constructed from outer walls. The housing defines a first compartment, a second compartment, and a third compartment. The docking station system further includes docking station circuitry disposed in the first compartment, one or more battery modules disposed in the second compartment, and uninterruptible power supply (UPS) circuitry disposed in the third compartment. The aforementioned UPS circuitry and docking station circuitry cooperate to enable certain functionalities. The certain functionalities can be one or more of smart shutdown, load shedding, or remote management functions.
US12111702B2
A keyboard and an electronic device are provided. The keyboard includes a button switch, a keyboard frame, and a mechanical part. The keyboard frame includes a transverse frame and a longitudinal frame. The transverse frame extends in a row direction and is continuously disposed. The longitudinal frame extends in a column direction and is connected between two adjacent transverse frames. A plurality of longitudinal frames are arranged in a staggered manner in the column direction. The mechanical part includes a transverse support rib and a longitudinal support rib. On a side that is of the keyboard frame and that is connected to the mechanical part, the longitudinal frame protrudes relative to the transverse frame, the longitudinal frame abuts and is attached to the transverse support rib, and an adhesive-accommodating gap for accommodating adhesive is formed between the transverse frame and the transverse support rib.
US12111694B2
A display panel and a display terminal are provided. An arc line segment having a plurality of radii of curvature is used, and the radius of curvature of the arc line segment gradually decreases in a direction away from a center of the arc line segment, so that degumming stress and forming stress caused by bending deformation of the display panel can be reduced, and an angle between each linear segment and a tangent plane at the center of the arc line segment is reduced simultaneously, thereby resolving a problem of serious light leakage at a periphery of an existing display panel due to deformation.
US12111692B2
A display device includes: a display panel including a folding area and a first non-folding area extended from a first folding line located on a first side of the folding area; a digitizer layer disposed on the display panel and including electrode patterns; and a step covering layer disposed between the display panel and the digitizer layer, wherein the step covering layer includes a first metal plate, a second metal plate, and a first non-metal plate, wherein the first metal plate overlaps the folding area, wherein the second metal plate overlaps the first non-folding area, and wherein the first non-metal plate overlaps the first non-folding area and is disposed on a first surface of the second metal plate.
US12111687B2
Embodiments relate to a base film that is colorless, transparent, and excellent in mechanical properties and optical properties, particularly with low moisture permeability, a process for preparing the same, and a cover window and a display device comprising the same. The cover window comprises a base film comprising a polyamide-based polymer and having a moisture permeability of 300 g/m2·day or less; and a functional layer.
US12111678B2
A one-handed joystick for excavators allows an operator to make all necessary motions with a single hand and arm for manipulating an excavator tool. The one-handed joystick includes a rotatable cylinder bar, a rotatable ring and an industrial joystick base. The rotatable cylinder bar is grasped with a hand. The industrial base is moved front to back, or right to left. The following are preferable hand/arm motions. A downward hand curl is associated with a bucket digging motion; an upward hand curl is associated with a bucket dump; a forearm forward push is associated with a boom/stick extension; a forearm reward pull is associated with a boom/stick retraction; a left-hand movement is associated with swinging the excavator left; a right-hand movement is associated with swinging the excavator right; a clockwise hand twist is associated with a stick/boom extension; and a counter clockwise hand twist is associated with a stick/boom retraction.
US12111676B2
A bandgap circuit that is area efficient and has a low power consumption. The bandgap circuit includes a voltage generator circuit, and a sample and hold circuit coupled to the voltage generator circuit. The voltage generator circuit includes a pair of transistors each connected in a diode configuration and biased with a respective current source of a plurality of current sources of the voltage generator circuit. During a sample phase, the sample and hold circuit samples a first voltage between a first base and a first emitter of a first transistor of the pair of transistors and a second voltage between a second base and a second emitter of a second transistor of the pair of transistors. During a hold phase subsequent to the sample phase, the sample and hold circuit generates an output voltage as a combination of the sampled first and second voltages.
US12111673B2
A control system for a multi-phase power system includes a first phase line, a second phase line, and a third phase line. The control system includes a plurality of regulator controls including a first regulator control configured to control a first tap changer associated with the first phase line, a second regulator control configured to control a second tap changer associated with the second phase line, a third regulator control configured to control a third tap changer associated with the third phase line, and an electronic processor coupled to the first regulator control, the second regulator control, and the third regulator control. The electronic processor is configured to regulate the voltage of the multi-phase system using the first, second, and third regulator controls.
US12111670B2
Provided is a display device. The display device includes: a display panel; a motor-driven module, which is configured to be connected to the display panel and drive the display panel to move; a control module, which is configured to control the motor-driven module; a first module and a second module disposed opposite to each other in a first direction, where the first module and the second module are able to move relatively in a second direction; a first unit, which is disposed on a side of the first module facing the second module; a second unit, which is disposed on a side of the second module facing the first module; and in response to a position relationship between the first unit and the second unit, providing, by the control module, a first control signal for the motor-driven module, where the first direction intersects the second direction.
US12111655B2
A multifunctional vehicle includes a traveling input device that is operated by a driver of the multifunctional vehicle; an information processing device that processes operation information of the traveling input device and that switches and executes a normal driving mode for driving the multifunctional vehicle and a remote driving mode for driving the other vehicle; wearable glasses that communicate with another vehicle directly or via the information processing device; and a communication device that communicate with the other vehicle. In the normal driving mode, a vehicle control of the multifunctional vehicle is executed using control information generated based on the operation information. In the remote driving mode, the control information is transmitted to the other vehicle via the communication device. The wearable glasses are configured to display a surrounding image of the other vehicle during execution of the remote driving mode by the information processing device.
US12111652B2
In an example, a system, a method and/or an apparatus are provided. A first power distribution component and a second power distribution component are connected to a busway system including a busway. Whether first electrical power of the first power distribution component and second electrical power of the second power distribution component meet one or more conditions is determined. In response to a condition of the one or more conditions not being met, supply of electrical power from the second power distribution component to the busway system is inhibited.
US12111645B2
Aspects of the disclosed technology encompass the use of a deep learning controller for monitoring and improving a manufacturing process. In some aspects, a method of the disclosed technology includes steps for: receiving a plurality of control values from two or more stations, at a deep learning controller, wherein the control values are generated at the two or more stations deployed in a manufacturing process, predicting an expected value for an intermediate or final output of an article of manufacture, based on the control values, and determining if the predicted expected value for the article of manufacture is in-specification. In some aspects, the process can further include steps for generating control inputs if the predicted expected value for the article of manufacture is not in-specification. Systems and computer-readable media are also provided.
US12111640B2
Computer systems support a production process with a first sub-process to process a chemical substance at a production site and with a second sub-process to analyze a physical sample of the chemical substance at a laboratory site. A process control system provides first type data (A) to identify physical samples, and a manufacturing system provides second type data (B) that are required to control a production process. Connector modules transmit the data (A, B) in a message to a laboratory system to obtain laboratory data, as an analysis result. The connector module that is associated with the laboratory system distributes the data according to the types. A control signal module derives a control signal for controlling the production process. This control signal closes a control loop for adjusting the first sub- process until the laboratory data shows compliance.
US12111636B2
In a case where the target article is transported between areas, a management control unit executes path setting control, a first area control unit executes first area transport control, a connection control unit executes connecting transport control, and a second area control unit executes second area transport control. With the path setting control, an overall path from a departure point to a destination point is set on the basis of transportation status information of a first area transport facility, a second area transport facility, and a plurality of connecting transport facilities. With the second area transport control, a partial path from a second transfer position of a target connecting transport facility to the destination point is set on the basis of transportation status information of the second area transport facility.
US12111633B2
A method for controlling a robot is provided. The method includes the steps of: acquiring at least one of sound information and action information for a robot from a user in a serving place; determining identification information on the user on the basis of at least one of the sound information and the action information; and determining an operation to be performed by the robot on the basis of the identification information.
US12111630B2
The exemplified methods and systems facilitate manufacturing of a new class of mechanical, loading-bearing components having optimized stress/strain three-dimensional meta-structure structures (also referred to herein as “Meshagons”) as finite-element-based 3D volumetric mesh structures. The resulting three-dimensional meta-structure structures provide high strength, ultra-light connectivity, with programmable interlinkage properties (e.g., density/porosity of linkages).
US12111623B2
A rotating equipment system with in-line drive-sense circuit (DSC) electric power signal processing includes rotating equipment, in-line drive-sense circuits (DSCs), and one or more processing modules. The in-line DSCs receive input electrical power signals and generate motor drive signals for the rotating equipment. An in-line DSC receives an input electrical power signal, processes it to generate and output a motor drive signal to the rotating equipment via a single line and simultaneously senses the motor drive signal via the single line. Based on the sensing of the motor drive signal via the single line, the in-line DSC provides a digital signal to the one or more processing modules that receive and process the digital signal to determine information regarding one or more operational conditions of the rotating equipment, and based thereon, selectively facilitate one or more adaptation operations on the motor drive signal via the in-line DSC.
US12111619B2
Example embodiments allow for networks of hybrid controllers that can be computed efficiently and that can adapt to changes in the system(s) under control. Such a network includes at least one hybrid controller that includes a dynamic sub-controller and a learned system sub-controller. Information about the ongoing performance of the system under control is provided to both the hybrid controller and to an over-controller, which provides one or more control inputs to the hybrid controller in order to modify the ongoing operation of the hybrid controller. These inputs can include the set-point of the hybrid controller, one or more parameters of the dynamic controller, and an update rate or other parameter of the learned system controller. The over-controller can control multiple hybrid controllers (e.g., controlling respective sub-systems of an overall system) and can, itself, be a hybrid controller.
US12111615B2
Holographic and diffractive optical encoding techniques for forming reflection or transmission holograms. The encoding device includes a substrate having an interference pattern that can propagate light along a light propagation path from one side of the substrate to another side of the substrate. Furthermore, an optical element may be used to propagate light according to a four-dimensional light field coordinate system.
US12111605B2
An image forming apparatus, having a cartridge and a main body, is provided. The cartridge has a cartridge-side coupling to transmit a driving force to a drivable member in the cartridge. The cartridge is detachably attached to the main body. The main body includes a body-side coupling movable between a connecting position, at which the body-side coupling is connected with the cartridge-side coupling, and a separated position, at which the body-side coupling is separated from the cartridge-side coupling; a joint cam movable between a first position, at which the joint cam locates the body-side coupling at the connecting position, and a second position, at which the joint cam locates the body-side coupling at the separated position; and a rotator having a dent. The dent allows entry of an end portion of the joint cam there-into when the joint cam is located at the first position.
US12111604B2
An example image forming apparatus includes a main body including an opening and an accommodation portion, a development cartridge detachable from the main body, a tray on which to mount the development cartridge, the tray being movable between a mounting position inserted into the main body through the opening, a withdrawal position extracted from the main body, and an accommodation position at which the development cartridge is accommodated in the accommodation portion, and an elastic support member to elastically support the development cartridge with respect to the tray while the tray moves between the mounting position, the withdrawal position, and the accommodation position.
US12111592B2
A flange member is adapted such that a first distance between a first position at which a part thereof on an upstream side in a recording material conveyance direction comes into contact with a film inner surface and a nip center that is an intersection of a first virtual line and a second virtual line is longer than a second distance between a second position at which a region of an outer surface of the flange member facing the film inner surface intersects the first virtual line and the nip center, and a film guide is adapted such that a third distance between a third position that faces the film inner surface on the upstream side and the nip center is longer than a fourth distance between a fourth position that faces the film inner surface on the downstream side and the nip center on the first virtual line.
US12111589B2
A fixing device includes a fixing member that has an outer peripheral surface and an inner peripheral surface, is rotatably provided, comes into contact with, of a recording material on which an image is formed, a surface on which the image is formed, and fixes the image to the recording material, a rotating member that is rotatably provided and includes, at an outer peripheral portion, a contact surface coming into contact with the inner peripheral surface of the fixing member, and a removing member that is disposed to be in contact with the outer peripheral surface of the fixing member, is rotatably provided, and removes an attached object attached to the outer peripheral surface using a rotation speed difference with respect to the fixing member.
US12111587B2
A developing device includes a developer cartridge and a developing unit. The developer cartridge, in some instances, may include a shutter. This shutter may have a wall for closing a developer supply hole, and be movable, with respect to a developer cartridge casing, between an open position where the supply hole is opened by the wall and a closed position where the supply hole is closed by the wall. The shutter may further include a protrusion that is movable with respect to the wall of the shutter between a first position and a second position in an axial direction. The protrusion, in the first position, is engageable with a developing unit and, in the second position, would be disengaged from the developing unit.
US12111582B2
A semiconductor substrate stage for carrying a substrate is provided. The semiconductor substrate stage includes a base layer, a magnetic shielding layer disposed on the base layer, a carrier layer disposed on the magnetic shielding layer, a receiver disposed on the carrier layer, a storage layer disposed between the base layer and the magnetic shielding layer, and a magnetic shielding element disposed on the carrier layer and surrounding the receiver.
US12111578B2
A mirror for an illumination optical unit of a projection exposure apparatus comprises a spectral filter in the form of a grating structure, wherein the grating structure has a maximum edge steepness in the range of 15° to 60°.
US12111571B2
In an embodiment there is provided a method for simultaneous dual-sided direct imprinting of surface relief structures on a substrate, the method utilising an imprinting arrangement comprising first and second rotatable cylinders, each rotatable cylinder being arranged to carry at least one mould having a surface relief structure, at least one rotatable cylinder comprising a resilient layer located between a cylindrical outer surface of the respective rotatable cylinder and the respective mould, and the rotatable cylinders being movable with respect to one another and arranged to form an imprinting nip therebetween, the imprinting nip having an imprinting contact area, wherein the method comprises the steps of: a) providing to the imprinting nip a substrate comprising first and second sides each having a curable medium thereon; b) directly imprinting surface relief structures into the curable medium on both the first and second sides of the substrate by passing the substrate through the imprinting nip and engaging, in the imprinting contact area, a first mould on the first rotatable cylinder with the curable medium on the first side of the substrate and a second mould on the second rotatable cylinder with the curable medium on the second side of the substrate; and c) illuminating at least a part of the curable media on the first and second sides of the substrate with curing radiation to at least partially cure the curable media on the substrate.
US12111560B2
An imaging lens including: a plurality of lenses; and a coating provided on at least a part of the plurality of lenses. In a near-infrared light wavelength region, by the coating, light transmittance on a short wavelength side of a near-infrared light peak wavelength region including 1550 nm is reduced from light transmittance at a short wavelength end of the near-infrared light peak wavelength region as a wavelength is decreased, and light transmittance on a long wavelength side of the near-infrared light peak wavelength region is reduced from light transmittance at a long wavelength end of the near-infrared light peak wavelength region as the wavelength is increased.
US12111557B1
Opto-mechanical assemblies, systems, devices and methods for pointing laser and other optical beams, and for directing the field of view of sensors are disclosed. The assemblies consist of thin rotating optical elements of a type that diffracts the optical beam over a wide field of regard in two dimensions, and the angle of incidence of the optical beam or line of sight impinging on the optical elements are dynamically controlled maximizing the diffraction efficiency of the optical elements.
US12111553B2
The present application discloses an array substrate and a display panel. The array substrate includes a substrate, a light-shielding layer, a touch trace, and a data line. The light-shielding layer is disposed on the substrate. The touch trace is disposed on the substrate. The data line and the touch trace are disposed on different layers, and at least one of the data line and the touch trace is disposed on a same layer as the light-shielding layer. An orthographic projection of the data line on the substrate at least partially covers an orthographic projection of the touch trace on the substrate. The orthographic projection of the data line on the substrate and the orthographic projection of the touch trace on the substrate are staggered.
US12111549B2
According to one embodiment, in a display device, one of the gate electrodes includes a first linear portion extending along the second direction, and a first projection portion projecting from the first linear portion and extending along the first direction, one of the first light shielding layers includes a second linear portion extending along the second direction, and a second projection portion projecting from the second linear portion and extending along the first direction, the first linear portion overlaps the second linear portion, the first projection portion overlaps the second projection portion, and the first projection portion and the second projection portion overlap at least one of the plurality of select lines.
US12111545B2
A display device with a high aperture ratio is provided. The display device includes, in a pixel, a first transistor, a second transistor, a first insulating layer, a second insulating layer, a conductive layer, a pixel electrode, a layer containing a liquid crystal material, and a common electrode. The first insulating layer is positioned over a channel formation region of the first transistor. The conductive layer is positioned over the first insulating layer. The second insulating layer is positioned over the first transistor, the second transistor, the first insulating layer, and the conductive layer. The pixel electrode is positioned over the second insulating layer, the layer containing a liquid crystal material is positioned over the pixel electrode, and the common electrode is positioned over the layer containing a liquid crystal material. The common electrode overlaps with the conductive layer with the layer containing a liquid crystal material and the pixel electrode therebetween. The pixel includes a first connection portion where the conductive layer is electrically connected to the first transistor and a second connection portion where the pixel electrode is electrically connected to the second transistor. The conductive layer, the pixel electrode, and the common electrode each have a function of transmitting visible light.
US12111539B2
A backlight module and a display panel are provided. The backlight module includes a backplate, multiple light-emitting sets, a diffuser plate, and an optical film. The diffuser plate and the optical film are stacked. The multiple light-emitting sets are fixedly coupled to the backplate and arranged in array on the backplate. The multiple light-emitting sets are disposed in a gap between the diffuser plate and the backplate. The multiple light-emitting sets each include at least two lamp sources, and the at least two lamp sources are configured to emit different colors to cooperate to emit a white light.
US12111538B2
A display device including a lower cover; a circuit substrate on the lower cover; a plurality of light sources disposed on a first portion of the circuit substrate; a reflection layer disposed on a second portion of the circuit substrate; a first adhesive disposed between the second portion of the circuit substrate and the reflection layer; a light regulator including light regulating patterns disposed in the reflection layer; and an optical sheet disposed on the light sources.
US12111537B2
A lighting device includes a substrate, a first conductive portion, a second conductive portion disposed with a spacing as to the first conductive portion, a first reflective layer having a first opening coinciding with the first conductive portion and a second opening coinciding with the second conductive portion, a light-emitting part connected to the first conductive portion through the first opening, a non-light-emitting part connected to the second conductive portion through the second opening, and a second reflective layer. The second reflective layer includes a first reflective portion disposed around the light-emitting part, and a second reflective portion disposed around the non-light-emitting part.
US12111532B2
The present invention relates to an optical body and a display device including the same, and more specifically, the present invention relates to an optical body, which can minimize optical loss thereof and maximize luminance enhancement thereof, and a display device including the same.
US12111517B2
A multifocal ophthalmic lens wherein a first surface of the lens is shaped to form a surface power map and a second surface of the lens is shaped to form a second surface power map. The first surface power map and the second surface power map together form a lens power map. The first surface power map, the second surface power map, or the lens power map comprises a spiral. The spiral has a variation across at least a portion of the lens. Methods of making and using such lenses are also provided.
US12111515B2
Eyewear having a frame, a hinge, and a hyperextendable temple. An extender is coupled to the hinge and the temple, and the extender extends with respect to the hinge allowing hyperextension of the temple with respect to the frame. A cam is configured to leverage the temple away from the frame during hyperextension and reduce wear. A cosmetic trim may include a recess that receives a protrusion of the frame in the open position, and which protrusion moves out of the recess during hyperextension and creates the cam.
US12111514B1
An electronic eyewear device is presented that includes an eyewear body comprising a frame configured to be worn on the head of a user. The frame includes an optical elements section and spaced-apart first and second temples. The eyewear body includes onboard electronic components carried by the eyewear body that comprises a heat source that generates heat during electrically powered operation of the components. A thermal management device that includes a heat sink within a first temple and a thermal coupling disposed within the first temple and is thermally coupled to the heat source and the heat sink and receives heat from the heat source.
US12111509B2
A bobbin for winding optical fiber includes: a body around which an optical fiber is wound; a flange that extends in a radial direction from the body; and a seal that is bonded to an axially outer side surface of the flange. The flange has a void penetrating the flange. A part of the seal covers at least a part of the void. At least a part of a portion of the seal is non-adhesive. The portion covers the void.
US12111504B2
An optical waveguide alignment method includes a step of covering an end portion of an optical fiber, an end portion of a PLC, and a microlens with an adhesive before curing in a state in which at least one microlens is disposed between incidence and emission end faces of end portions of the optical fiber and the PLC, a step of causing light for alignment to be incident on at least one of the optical fiber or the PLC so that light enters a portion covered with the adhesive between the optical fiber and the PLC, and a step of curing the adhesive after the microlens moves onto an optical path between the optical fiber and the PLC due to radiation pressure of light. The optical fiber and the PLC are optically connected via the adhesive and the microlens, and the optical fiber, the PLC, and the microlens are mechanically connected by the adhesive.
US12111502B2
The present disclosure relates to a fiber optic connector for use with a fiber optic adapter. The fiber optic connector includes a connector housing having an end defining a plug portion. A ferrule assembly is mounted at least partially within the connector housing. The ferrule assembly includes a ferrule located at the plug portion of the connector housing. A sealing member is mounted about an exterior of the connector housing for providing a seal between the connector housing and the adapter. The fiber optic connector further includes first and second separate retaining mechanism for retaining the fiber optic connector within the fiber optic adapter.
US12111501B2
The present invention provides a dust-proof device for protecting insertion interfaces arranged in the optical receptacle. The dust-proof device comprises a coupling portion and a flexible arm connected to the coupling portion, wherein the flexible arm may swing or scroll at a location where the coupling portion is connected to the flexible arm. Alternatively, in another embodiment, the present invention further provides an optical receptacle having a plurality of coupling structures respectively having a first insertion interface at a first side and a second insertion interface at a second side, each first insertion interface or second insertion interface may couple to the dust-proof device so as to form an optical connector module for preventing the optical receptacle from being contaminated.
US12111495B2
Structures for an edge coupler and methods of fabricating a structure for an edge coupler. The structure comprises an edge coupler including a first waveguide core and a second waveguide core adjacent to the first waveguide core in a lateral direction. The first waveguide core includes a first section with a first thickness and a first plurality of segments projecting in a vertical direction from the first section. The second waveguide core includes a second section with a second thickness and a second plurality of segments projecting in the vertical direction from the second section.
US12111490B2
An illumination device includes a plurality of light sources arranged in a row, a light guide plate having a plate shape and including a first end face at an outer peripheral end face of the light guide plate and a first main surface included in a pair of main surfaces of the light guide plate, the first end face facing the plurality of light sources and being configured to receive incident light, the first main surface being configured to emit light, and a plurality of first lenses disposed at the first main surface, arranged along a first direction, and extending along a second direction, the first direction being an arrangement direction of the plurality of light sources, the second direction intersecting the first direction and extending along the first main surface.
US12111480B2
An image shake correction device includes: a movable member; an imager that is fixed to the movable member; a support member that supports the movable member to be movable in a direction along a circumferential direction of a circle whose center is a center of a light receiving surface of the imager; and two movement restrictors that restrict a movement range of the movable member, each of the two movement restrictors includes a recess portion or a through-hole and an insertion member as defined herein, a shape of the recess portion or the through-hole is as defined herein, and a second diagonal line overlaps an extension line of a first diagonal line and the center of the light receiving surface overlaps a line connecting the first diagonal line and the second diagonal line as defined herein.
US12111472B2
The present disclosure relates to an optic system for head wearable devices. The optic system comprises a first light emitter for emitting a plurality of first light signals, the first light emitter varies a direction of projection between a first spatial dimension limit and a second spatial dimension limit in a first dimension; a first light redirector; and a second light redirector. A geometry of the first light redirector is configured such that a light signal emitted by the first light emitter in proximity to the first spatial dimension limit has a total optical path length from the first light emitter to the eye of the viewer substantially equal to a total optical path length of another light signal emitted by the first light emitter in proximity to the second spatial dimension limit from the first light emitter to the eye of the viewer.
US12111469B2
A head-up display system includes a hologram projector adapted to project a holographic image, a waveguide positioned in front of the hologram projector, wherein the holographic image projected by the hologram projector passes through the waveguide, a glare control prism positioned in front of the waveguide assembly, and a waveplate positioned between the waveguide and the glare control prism, the waveplate adapted to adjust the polarization of the holographic image.
US12111468B2
There is provided a near-to-eye display device, including: a pixel island array, a micro-lens array and a filter layer. The pixel island array and the micro-lens array are fixed with respect to and spaced apart from each other, and the micro-lens array includes plural micro-lenses. The pixel island array includes plural pixel islands in one-to-one correspondence with the plural micro-lenses, and each pixel island emits light to the corresponding micro-lens such that the light reach a predetermined viewing position after passing through the corresponding micro-lens. The plural pixel islands emit light of plural colors, and the filter layer includes plural filter portions in one-to-one correspondence with the plural pixel islands. Each filter portion is located between the corresponding pixel island and the corresponding micro-lens, and is close to the corresponding micro-lens. Each filter portion and light emitted by the corresponding pixel island have a same color.
US12111467B2
An electronic device may have a spatial light modulator. Control circuitry in the electronic device may use the spatial light modulator to generate images. A light source may be used to produce illumination for the spatial light modulator. An optical system may direct the illumination onto the spatial light modulator and may direct corresponding reflected image light towards eye boxes for viewing by a user. Head-mounted support structures may be used to support the spatial light modulator, light source, and optical system. The light source may include light-emitting elements such as light-emitting diodes or lasers. Multiple light-emitting elements may be provided in the light source in a one-dimensional or two-dimensional array. During operation, the control circuitry can individually adjust the light-emitting elements.
US12111461B2
A method for designing a wide-angle optical system having at least one freeform optical surface without rotational symmetry to create a custom 2D object-image mapping. The method is based on iteratively adjusting the at least one freeform optical 2D surface shape to have the exact 2D object-image mapping required and then adjusting the optical element surfaces to meet the other required optical specifications. The iterative method is applied until both the desired 2D object-image mapping and the other required optical specifications are reached.
US12111460B2
This lens driving device is configured separately from a lens unit including a liquid lens, and is provided with: a fixed part; a movable part; a support part that supports the movable part with respect to the fixed part; a driving unit that is formed from a voice coil motor comprising a coil and a magnet and that moves the movable part in an optical axis direction with respect to the fixed part; and a lens deformation unit that is connected to the movable part and that applies, in association with the movement of the movable part, a force to the liquid lens in the optical axis direction. The movable part has a plurality of movable units, and the driving unit drives the movable units independently so as to change the curvature of the liquid lens or to change the optical axis of the liquid lens.
US12111454B2
A laser scanning microscope includes a light source configured to emit an illumination light beam. The illumination light beam has a transverse light intensity profile comprising an intensity minimum. The laser scanning microscope further includes a scanning device configured to scan the illumination light beam along a closed trajectory in a target area of a specimen, and a detector configured to detect fluorescence light emitted by a fluorophore within the target area of the specimen. The fluorophore is excited by the illumination light beam. The laser scanning microscope further includes a processor configured to determine an intensity distribution of the fluorescence light as a function of time and to determine a position of the fluorophore within the target area based on the intensity distribution of the fluorescence light.
US12111444B2
There is provided an optical element comprising a base material comprising a resin material and a stack covering of layers disposed on the base material. In the optical element of the present disclosure, the stack covering comprises an optical multi-layered part composed of a high refractive index layer comprising Ta2O5 and a low refractive index layer comprising SiO2, the high refractive index layer and the low refractive index layer being alternately stacked in a form of 4 or more layers. Of a plurality of high refractive index layers, a first high refractive index layer situated most closely to the base material has a fissured structure.
US12111443B2
Described herein is a method for producing a contact lens comprising a central photochromic zone that has a diameter of about 13 mm or less and is concentric with the central axis of the contact lens. The method comprises: applying a first polymerizable fluid composition containing at least one photochromic compound on a central portion of the molding surface of a female mold half to form a circular layer; partially photocuring, in situ, the circular layer in the female mold half by using a visible light; dispensing a second polymerizable fluid composition over the partially-cured circular layer on the molding surface of the female mold half; and a step of thermally curing the second polymerizable fluid composition and the partially-cured circular layer immersed therein in the mold cavity formed between the molding surfaces of the female mold half and a male mold half.
US12111439B2
A seabed object detection system is provided. The system can include a receiver array. The receiver array can include a plurality of receivers disposed on a plurality of streamers. The plurality of streamers can include a central port side streamer, a central starboard side streamer, an auxiliary port side streamer and an auxiliary starboard side streamer. The system can include a source array. The source array can include a plurality of sources. The plurality of sources can include a central port side source, a central starboard side source, an auxiliary port side source, and an auxiliary port side streamer.
US12111435B2
A system, computer-readable storage medium and method of reflection seismic survey in a wireless seismic network within a survey area is described. The method includes detecting, in each of a plurality of wireless seismic sensor nodes, seismic reflection signals from a seismic energy source; recording, in each of a plurality of wireless geophones, detected seismic signals; transmitting, by the geophones, the recorded seismic signals as digital data, using a combination of Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) and Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA), to a central data receiving device; changing the seismic energy source location for seismic reflection; and repeating the detecting, recording and transmitting a number of times for each change in seismic energy source.
US12111434B2
The present disclosure is directed to a MEMS-based rotation sensor for use in seismic data acquisition and sensor units having same. The MEMS-based rotation sensor includes a substrate, an anchor disposed on the substrate and a proof mass coupled to the anchor via a plurality of flexural springs. The proof mass has a first electrode coupled to and extending therefrom. A second electrode is fixed to the substrate, and one of the first and second electrodes is configured to receive an actuation signal, and another of the first and second electrodes is configured to generate an electrical signal having an amplitude corresponding with a degree of angular movement of the first electrode relative to the second electrode. The MEMS-based rotation sensor further includes closed loop circuitry configured to receive the electrical signal and provide the actuation signal. Related methods for using the MEMS-based rotation sensor in seismic data acquisition are also described.
US12111431B2
An object is to provide intensity information and energy information while reducing processing load and power consumption. In a radiation detector, a radiation detection element, in which a plurality of pixels each configured to generate an electric charge corresponding to energy of X-rays penetrating a subject is two-dimensionally arranged, and a plurality of read circuits each configured to output an intensity signal of transmitted X-rays based on the electric charge generated by each of the plurality of pixels are stacked with each other, and some read circuits thinned out from a plurality of read circuits each generate a spectral signal related to a spectrum of a transmitted X-ray based on the electric charge and output the spectral signal.
US12111430B2
A radiation detector includes a support table in which an attachment surface having an arc surface shape is formed, a sensor panel which has a rectangular plate shape and in which pixels that include TFTs and detect radiation are two-dimensionally arranged, a circuit board, a flexible cable, and a reduction structure. The sensor panel is attached to the attachment surface while being curved following the arc surface shape. The flexible cables connect a curved side of the sensor panel and a reading circuit board and are arranged along the curved side. The flexible cable is bent to dispose the reading circuit board at an angle of 90° with respect to the sensor panel. The reduction structure reduces a bias of a stretching force applied to the flexible cable caused by the curved side.
US12111424B2
A safety laser scanner (10) for detecting objects in a monitored zone (20) is provided that has a light transmitter (12) for transmitting a scan beam (16), a movable deflection unit (18) for the periodic scanning of the monitored zone (20) by the scan beam (16), a light receiver (26) for generating a received signal from the scan beam (22) remitted by the objects, a front screen (38), and a control and evaluation unit (32) that is configured to acquire information on the objects in the monitored zone (20) from the received signal and to recognize an impaired light permeability of the front screen (38) in a front screen monitoring by evaluating a front screen reflection beam (54) that is generated from the scan beam (16) by reflection at the front screen (38), At least one light deflection unit (56, 58) is provided in the optical path of the front screen reflection beam (54) that guides the front screen reflection beam (54) to the front screen (38) again in a region (60) to be tested so that a twice-reflected front screen reflection beam (62) is produced by reflection at the region (60) to be tested.
US12111419B1
A system for using wireless signals to detect objects of a certain type, such as concealed weapons, leverages the fact that different objects have different resonance characteristics. The system transmits wireless signals of different frequencies, and returns from such signals are measured. The return of a signal from an object at a resonant frequency of the object will be stronger than a return of a signal from the object at a non-resonant frequency. The system analyzes the returns in an effort to determine when a return is sufficiently large to indicate that it was reflected from an object of interest. When an object of interest is detected, the system adjusts a characteristic of the system, such as antenna orientation or pulse shape, based on an estimated location of the object, and then runs a test to confirm the detection of the object, thereby eliminating at least some false positives.
US12111417B2
An OFDM radar sensor including multiple transmission channels and at least one reception channel, and a method for operating such an OFDM radar sensor. At least for first transmission channels, the signal form of the signal to be transmitted, which includes a sequence of OFDM symbols in question, is progressively computed in portions for each transmission channel, and multiple buffer memories are used in alternation for storing a computed portion of the signal form and for reading out a previously computed and stored preceding portion of the signal form, which is converted from digital to analog and transmitted. A particular portion of the signal form is computed and stored in one of the buffer memories while a preceding portion of the signal form is being read out from another of the buffer memories and converted from digital to analog, and transmitted on the transmission channel in question.
US12111413B2
This document describes techniques, apparatuses, and systems for multi-channel joint interference mitigation. Radar radiation received by a radar system may include interference from other nearby radar systems. The interference can result in reduced sensitivity of the radar system. The techniques, apparatuses, and systems described herein mitigate the interference by identifying a set of samples of the radar radiation with interference. The interference can be estimated and mitigated by comparing this set (e.g., with interference) to a set of samples without interference and suppressing the interference without suppressing the detected signal. Further, the interference can be analyzed to determine if the interference contains detection information of one or more objects (e.g., other vehicles with radar systems causing interference). In this manner, interference mitigation may be obtained without losing information included in the set of samples including interference.
US12111407B2
A system having a locator device and a plurality of tag devices is disclosed. The locator device comprises an antenna array allowing it to determine an angle of arrival for incoming signals from each of the plurality of tag devices. The system also defines a sequence of time slots, where each time slot has a specific function. The sequence may start with a locator time slot, where the locator device transmits a packet that informs all of the tag devices that this is the start of the sequence. A sync slot follows the locator time slot, where new tag devices may transmit a sync request to the locator device. Upon receipt of a sync request, the locator device assigns the new tag device a tag slot. Following the sync slot are a plurality of tag slots, where each tag device transmits an AoA packet during its assigned tag slot.
US12111406B2
A system includes a transmitter node and a receiver node. Each node of the transmitter node and the receiver node are time synchronized to apply Doppler corrections associated with said node's own motions relative to a stationary common inertial reference frame. The stationary common inertial reference frame is known to the transmitter node and the receiver node prior to the transmitter node transmitting a plurality of signals to the receiver node and prior to the receiver node receiving the plurality of signals from the transmitter node. The receiver node performs adaptive digitization of the signals to account for a speed of the platform.
US12111404B2
Techniques are discussed herein for transmission of location information by a user equipment (UE) to other UEs. A UE receives Satellite Positioning System (SPS) signals and determines whether the SPS signals are reliable. The UE determines a location estimate to be transmitted to other UEs using the SPS signals if the SPS signals are determined to be reliable and using non-SPS information if the SPS signals are determined to be not reliable. The location information is transmitted to other UEs in a message that includes an indication of the source of information used to generate the location estimate. A UE that receives the message may determine its location estimate based, at least in part, on the indication of the source of information, e.g., by determining whether SPS signals are reliable based, at least in part, on the indication of the source of information received in the message.
US12111399B2
The disclosed systems, and methods are directed to a LiDAR system comprising a radiation source for emitting a plurality of output beams, a microelectromechanical (MEM) component having a reflective surface for receiving the plurality of output beams and for reflecting the plurality of output beams towards the region of interest, a detection system for detecting a plurality of input beams from the region of interest, the detection system comprising a fibre optic array arranged to transmit the plurality of input beams to at least one photodetector, the fibre optic array comprising a plurality of optical fibres, each optical fibre having a receiving end, the receiving ends of the plurality of optical fibres being arranged in a two dimensional array and a receiving lens for focussing a given input beam of the plurality of input beams to a given receiving end of a given optical fibre of the fibre optic array.
US12111394B2
The present application presents various techniques for improving the performance of range tracking motion compensation method for high resolution radar imaging. Three improved techniques are described herein: improved cross-correlation alignment through updates to the reference range profile to follow the target's changing illumination angle; improved cross-correlation alignment through local peak boosting; and, improved polynomial smoothing through subdivision into multiple windows.
US12111389B2
Devices, systems, and methods are provided for radar elevation angle validation. A radar elevation angle validation device transmit, from a radar, one or more signals towards a corner reflector situated in a direction of the radar. The radar elevation angle validation device may receive, at the radar, reflected signals from the corner reflector. The radar elevation angle validation device may measure signal energy of at least one of the reflected signals. The radar elevation angle validation device may access a baseline dataset based on the measured signal energy. The radar elevation angle validation device may retrieve a radar elevation angle from the baseline dataset corresponding to the measured signal energy. The radar elevation angle validation device may compare the radar elevation angle to a validation threshold. The radar elevation angle validation device may determine a radar validation status based on the comparison.
US12111385B2
Techniques and architectures for managing radar sensor processing chains. A first high-frequency radio signal is received with a first RF receiver in the plurality of RF sensor suites on a host platform. The received high-frequency radio signal is converted to a lower second frequency range. A chirplet transform is performed on the signal in the second frequency range. Stored relative location information for a second RF receiver in the plurality of RF sensor suites is retrieved. Radar waveform information corresponding to the second RF receiver in a processing stream corresponding to the first RF receiver is extracted by utilizing the retrieved information and results from the chirplet transform. A point cloud is generated based on the converted signal in the second frequency range and the extracted radar waveform information.
US12111373B2
The invention provides for a method of training a neural network (322) configured for providing a further processing location (326). The method comprises providing (200) a labeled medical image (100), wherein the labeled medical image comprises multiple labels each indicating a truth processing location (102, 104, 106). The method further comprises inputting (202) the labeled medical image into the neural network to obtain one trial processing location. The one trial processing location comprises a most likely trial processing location (108). The method further comprises determine (204) the closest truth processing location (106) for the most likely trial processing location. The method further comprises calculating (206) an error vector (110) using the closest truth processing location and the most likely trial processing location. The method further comprises training (208) the neural network using the error vector.
US12111371B2
A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) coil device is provided. The device includes a first receiver coil portion, a second receiver coil portion, and a locking mechanism. The second receiver coil portion is configured to fit with the first receiver coil portion to provide a receiver coil assembly. The second receiver coil portion is moveable relative to the first receiver coil portion. The locking mechanism is configured to limit relative movement between the first receiver coil portion and the second receiver coil portion when the first receiver coil portion and the second receiver coil portion are fit together.
US12111367B2
The invention provides a cable abnormality assessment system, a slave device, and a cable abnormality assessment method. A cable abnormality assessment system is provided with a diagnosis control unit for assessing a cable abnormality on the basis of link-up information between a communication unit and another machine connected to the other end of a cable, and first and second information that are the respective results of abnormality diagnosis by a signal line diagnosis unit with regard to one and the other of two pair signal lines of the cable.
US12111365B2
The first battery module and the second battery module are connected by a bus-bar. A cell voltage sensing circuit shared by at least some battery cells of the first battery module and at least some battery cells of the second battery module measures a voltage of each battery cell.
US12111360B2
A battery pack includes a plurality of cells, a first detection unit configured to detect a first electrical parameter of a cell, a second detection unit configured to detect a second electrical parameter of a cell group, a storage unit at least configured to store a third electrical parameter of the cell, and a control unit configured to acquire the first electrical parameter, the second electrical parameter, and the third electrical parameter, dynamically adjust a discharge capacity parameter of the battery pack based on the third electrical parameter, the first electrical parameter, and the second electrical parameter, and transmit the discharge capacity parameter to a load connected to the battery pack to enable the load to adjust the current operating state based on the discharge capacity parameter.
US12111359B2
A method of monitoring joint and contact conditions in an automatic transfer switch includes: collecting electrical signals at a plurality of measurement locations associated with a plurality of power sources and a load over a predetermined period, the electrical signals including voltages and load current; obtaining deltas between source voltages and corresponding load voltage measured at the measurement locations over the predetermined period; comparing the deltas with thresholds obtained during healthy condition; determining that the deltas fall outside of the thresholds; and in response to determining that the deltas fall outside of the threshold, transmitting an alert to a user, the alert indicating a detection of one or more failure modes at the measurement locations.
US12111357B2
A diagnostic apparatus diagnoses a symptom of anomaly in a device that operates for making or breaking a circuit. The diagnostic apparatus includes a factor probability calculation unit that calculates a factor probability. The factor probability calculation unit calculates a factor probability for each matter that may be a factor in a symptom observed in the device, the factor probability being a probability that the matter truly corresponds to a factor for the observed symptom. The diagnostic apparatus can obtain useful information for improving the operating state of the device.
US12111349B2
The present disclosure discloses a mixed signal test device based on graphical control. A Tester-On-board architecture is used to extend a power generation and measurement unit, an analog waveform generation and collection unit and an analog waveform control unit on a digital waveform pattern generation and measurement board. The logic control unit is configured to generate and measure a digital pattern of a System on Chip (SOC) to be tested to achieve generation and collection of the digital waveform, is configured to control the analog waveform control unit to achieve generation and collection control of an analog waveform of the SOC to be tested, and is configured to control the power generation and measurement unit to achieve generation and collection control of power of the SOC to be tested, so that generation and measurement of the digital pattern of the SOC to be tested, generation and collection control of the analog waveform, and generation and collection control of the power are simultaneously concurrently executed. The mixed signal test device based on graphical control is easy and efficient in resource coordination and control.
US12111347B1
A simple low-profile waveguide load pull tuner uses a horizontally only moving reflective probe and an adjustable attenuator placed between the DUT and the tuning probe. Both controls are using stepper attenuators mounted on the waveguide. This simplifies the design and minimizes the cost of manufacturing. The tuner has wideband 50 Ohm tuning capability allowing minimum risk of transient spurious oscillations. A de-embedding adapter removal calibration method allows generating thousands of calibrated points in a small fraction of the time needed for calibration of the full permutations.
US12111344B2
A method, and a system and/or computer program implementing the method, for predicting short circuit events in an electric grid, the method including: distributing a plurality of cable mounted sensors on each phase carrying cable of the electric grid, measuring one or more instantaneous voltage and instantaneous current by each of the plurality of cable mounted sensors, determining electricity generation sources feeding the electric grid, determining voltage output for each electricity generation source feeding the electric grid, and determining cable length from each electricity generation source where short-circuit current may be higher than permitted short circuit current.
US12111337B2
A capacitive voltage sensor assembly includes a first electrode extending along a longitudinal axis, a tubular section surrounding a portion of the first electrode and positioned radially outward from the longitudinal axis and the first electrode, the tubular section including an insulating layer, an inner conductive layer, and an outer conductive layer, and a mass of dielectric insulating material at least partially enclosing the first electrode and the tubular section. The mass of dielectric insulating material fills through openings formed in the tubular section.
US12111336B2
A modular vertical probe card having different probes is provided, and includes a first guiding board unit, a second guiding board unit, and a plurality of conductive probes that pass through the first and the second guiding board units. The conductive probes have a same probe length. Each of the conductive probes includes a stroke segment located between the first guiding board unit and the second guiding board unit, a connection segment, and a testing segment, the latter two of which are respectively connected to two ends of the stroke segment. The stroke segments of the conductive probes have N number of shapes different from each other to allow the conductive probes to have a same contact force and to be configured to meet N number of electrical transmission requirements different from each other, in which N is a positive integer greater than one.
US12111333B2
A sensor arrangement for position determination of a rail vehicle includes at least two sensors that can be attached to the rail vehicle. Each of the sensors is configured to ascertain a position speed and to be disposed on the rail vehicle at different positions transverse to the direction of travel. At least one processing apparatus which is connected to the sensors is configured to process the position speeds ascertained by the sensors. An apparatus for position determination of a rail vehicle, a rail vehicle, and a method for position determination for a rail vehicle are also provided.
US12111325B2
Improved analyte detection system within a blood gas analyzer, the improved system comprising and/or consisting of at least one CO-oximetry system that is formed as an integrated, unitary structure(s) with an electrochemical sensor module, and methods of use related thereto.
US12111312B2
Test cells with first and second sorbent materials defining a first flow path for a solution, a second flow path distinct from the first flow path for a sample, and a test site with immobilized antigens or antibodies or other ligand-binding molecules located at the junction of the sorbent materials for identifying one or more ligands. In one embodiment, a single highly sensitive immunoassay device is provided that detects the presence in a body fluid sample of two or more COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease 2019) antibodies including immunoglobulin M (IgM) and/or immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies to nucleocapsid protein (NP) and spike protein receptor binding domain (RBD), and optionally spike protein S1 subunit (S1) COVID-19 virus antigens. The immunoassay device is sensitive in detecting early infection using IgM antibody detection and continuing infection using IgG antibody detection. Additionally, successful inoculation is distinguished from infection after inoculation by comparing NP and RBD results.
US12111309B2
Wound sampling devices for detecting infection status may be used for point-of-care devices that can be placed at a wound site and detect an infection marker, infection status, or wound healing status by displaying a visible signal such as a color change.
US12111301B2
A method includes receiving sensor data pertaining to each of multiple plants in a growing area from a mobile sensory platform that includes (i) a propulsion system configured to move the mobile sensory platform along a ground of the growing area and (ii) multiple sensors configured to capture the sensor data associated with the multiple plants. The method also includes processing the sensor data using a predictive model to identify one or more issues affecting at least one of the plants. The method further includes generating a graphical user interface that includes a graphical representation of the growing area. In addition, the method includes identifying, using one or more markers in the graphical representation of the growing area, one or more locations of the at least one of the plants having the one or more issues. The sensor data includes information about a three-dimensional structure of each of the plants.
US12111296B2
A supercritical fluid chromatograph includes a liquid sender that supplies a mobile phase including a supercritical fluid to a supply flow path, first and second back pressure regulators that are respectively provided in first and second flow paths into which a path from the liquid sender branches and an analysis column provided at a position farther upstream than the first back pressure regulator in the first flow path. An analysis assistance device includes a storage a receiver, a first calculator, and a presenter.
US12111295B2
A drop tower apparatus and method of use is provided. The drop tower apparatus includes a base, a frame, a top member, rails, a sled, a triggering system, and a test fixture. The frame extends from the base. The top member is disposed on the frame opposite the base and has a winch. The rails extend from the base to the top member and are disposed within the frame. The sled is configured to slide vertically along the length of the rails and is releasably connected to the winch of the top member. The test fixture is configured to receive a sample for testing. The winch of the top member raises the sled to a desired height, the sled is released at the desired height and slides along the rails resulting in an impact on a sample placed in the test fixture.
US12111291B2
A structure diagnosis apparatus 1 for diagnosing a state of a structure in which there is a small change in the natural frequency includes: a natural vibration extraction unit 2 configured to acquire, from a plurality of sensors 21 that a structure is provided with 20, vibration information indicating vibration generated in the structure 20, and extracting natural vibration using the vibration information; a spectral shape extraction unit 3 configured to extract spectral shape information indicating a shape of a spectrum using the natural vibration; an index calculation unit 4 for calculating an index indicating a relationship between the spectral shape information and reference spectral shape information that is a preset reference; and a state estimation unit 5 for estimating the state of the structure based on the index.
US12111285B2
First product ion spectrum data is acquired by dissociating a precursor ion derived from a sample component by collision between the precursor ion and an inert gas molecule to generate product ions, and detecting the product ions after separating the product ions according to a mass-to-charge ratio; second product ion spectrum data is acquired by dissociating the precursor ion by a reaction of the precursor ion with hydrogen radicals to generate product ions, and detecting the product ions after separating the product ions according to a mass-to-charge ratio; and a set of product ions having a predetermined mass difference is extracted in the first product ion spectrum data and the second product ion spectrum data.
US12111274B1
An electron paramagnetic resonant (EPR) instrument able to determine chemical properties of a sample using paramagnetic resonance is provided. In one embodiment, the instrument is able to measure the paramagnetic concentration of a wide variety of practical substances, ranging from food and beverages to biological specimens and solid-state electronic materials. The disclosed device can be portable and perform a measurement faster than commonly used techniques to quantify this parameter, including methods that use vibrating sample magnetometers and currently available electron paramagnetic resonance spectrometers.
US12111265B2
Disclosed herein are methods and systems for distinguishing a nuisance gas from a target gas or group of target gases, which involve a configuration of a light source (120) and paper tape (110) such that light (112) emitted from the light source (120) can reflect off the paper tape (110). The light (112) can emit in at least three wavelengths selected from red, green, blue, and ultra-violet wavelengths, and pattern recognition can be used to identify and/or distinguish the nuisance gas from the target gas or from the group of target gases.
US12111263B2
A method of super-resolution microscopy is provided. The method includes mapping three-dimensional location of each single emission event in a plurality of single emission events from a series of optical images of a sample to create a point cloud. The point cloud is filtered or refined. Clusters within the point cloud are identified and characterized allowing for an assessment of molecular architecture.
US12111262B2
Provided herein include various examples of an apparatus, flow cells that include these examples of the apparatus, and methods of making these examples of the apparatus. The apparatus can include a molding layer over a substrate and covering sides of a light detection device. The molding layer comprises a first region and a second region, which, with the active surface of the light detection device, form a contiguous surface. A waveguide integration layer is between the contiguous surface and a waveguide. The waveguide integration layer comprises optical coupling structures over the first and second regions, to optically couple light waves from a light source to the waveguide. The waveguide utilizes the light waves to excite light sensitive materials in nanowells. A nanostructure layer over the waveguide comprises the nanowells. Each nanowell shares a vertical axis with a location on the active surface of the light detection device.
US12111252B2
A method for sorting flexible polyurethane foams including: a) providing two or more calibration samples of conventional flexible polyurethane foams, two or more calibration samples of high resilience (HR) flexible polyurethane foams, and two or more calibration samples of viscoelastic flexible polyurethane foams, and obtaining a mid-infrared (MIR) spectrum of each calibration sample; b) carrying out a spectral pre-processing of the spectra of all the calibration samples and, then a first PCA to define a first library; c) carrying out a spectral pre-processing of the infrared spectra of conventional and HR calibration samples and, then a second PCA to define a second library; d) obtaining the MIR spectrum of a sample of polyurethane foam and, based on the first and second libraries, classifying the sample of polyurethane foam as a conventional, HR or viscoelastic polyurethane foam, or as a foam that is neither a conventional, a HR or a viscoelastic polyurethane foam.
US12111243B2
A hydrodynamic focusing device comprises first and second flow channels; a wall at least partially defining an envelopment region connected in-line between the first and second flow channels which collectively define a flow direction extending therethrough; and a chimney comprising a body and a sample fluid inlet, extending from the wall and into the envelopment region. The sample fluid inlet faces at least partially perpendicular to the flow direction in the envelopment region, such that the sample fluid inlet is configured to supply a sample fluid into the envelopment region in a direction that is at least partially perpendicular to the flow direction. The body and the sample fluid inlet each have an elongate profile which has a rounded leading edge facing the first flow channel and opposing long edges connecting the leading and trailing edges and tapered towards the trailing edge.
US12111234B2
A device and method use a heat source to generate heat energy and transfer the generated thermal energy to a plurality of electronic components in a non-contact manner through air to cause the plurality of electronic components to vibrate simultaneously. The device and method use a mechanical resonance detector to detect vibration resonances of the plurality of electronic components simultaneously. The device and method use a post-processing processor to compare the detected vibration resonances of the plurality of electronic components with a reference vibration resonance of a normal product to simultaneously determine whether the plurality of electronic components have defective electronic components.
US12111231B2
Disclosed are a helium detection device and a helium detection equipment. The helium detection device includes a helium injection mechanism, a replacing mechanism and a finger-clamp mechanism, a sealing nozzle can be plugged into one end of a helium injection tube of the helium injection mechanism, and the finger-clamp mechanism includes a clamping assembly capable of clamping or releasing the sealing nozzle.
US12111222B2
The present application provides an adapter (20) for a manifold gauge assembly (1) for use on a fluid system, for example an HVAC-R system. The manifold gauge assembly (1) comprises a manifold (3) for connection to the fluid system, and a pressure gauge (14) arranged to detect a fluid pressure in the manifold (3). The adapter (20) comprises a tube (23) having connectors (27, 28) for fluidly connecting the adapter (20) to the pressure gauge (14) and to the manifold (3). The adapter also includes an electronic pressure sensor (21) arranged to detect a fluid pressure in the tube (23), and a communications unit (22) configured to receive data from the electronic pressure sensor (21) and to communicate with a remote device (32).
US12111221B2
A dynamic torque sensing device of a thread-on freewheel structure includes a thread-on freewheel sensing body (1), a stationary housing (2) and a sensor (12). The thread-on freewheel sensing body and the stationary housing are rotatable relative to each other, and the sensor is configured to sense a torque of the thread-on freewheel sensing body. The thread-on freewheel sensing body includes a thread-on freewheel sensing body relatively stationary portion (101), a thread-on freewheel sensing body relatively rotating portion (102) and a thread-on freewheel sensing body intermediary portion (103). The thread-on freewheel sensing body relatively stationary portion, the thread-on freewheel sensing body intermediary portion and the thread-on freewheel sensing body relatively rotating portion are sequentially arranged along an axial direction of the thread-on freewheel sensing body. The thread-on freewheel sensing body intermediary portion is configured to connect the thread-on freewheel sensing body relatively stationary portion to the thread-on freewheel sensing body relatively rotating portion.
US12111215B2
An imaging device (1) according to the present disclosure includes a pixel array unit (10) that includes a pixel, an analog signal generation unit, an A/D conversion unit (23), and a switch. The analog signal generation unit generates an analog signal based on a temperature around the pixel array unit (10). The A/D conversion unit (23) converts the analog signal into a digital signal. The switch cuts off the analog signal to be supplied to the A/D conversion unit.
US12111212B2
Systems and methods are provided for a UV-VIS spectrophotometer, such as a UV-VIS detector unit included in a high-performance liquid chromatography system. In one example, a system for the UV-VIS detector unit may include a first light source, a signal detector, a flow path positioned intermediate the first light source and the signal detector, a second light source, and a reference detector. The first light source, the signal detector, and the flow path may be aligned along a first axis, and the second light source and the reference detector may be aligned along a second axis, different than the first axis.
US12111207B2
Embodiments are directed to optical measurement systems that utilize multiple emitters to emit light during a measurement, as well as methods of performing measurements using these optical measurement systems. The optical measurement systems may include a light generation assembly that is configured to generate light via a light source unit, and a photonic integrated circuit that includes a launch group having a plurality of emitters. Each of these emitters is optically coupled to the light generation assembly to receive light generated from the light generation assembly, and may emit this light from a surface of the photonic integrated circuit. The optical measurement system may perform a measurement in which the light generation assembly generates light and each of the plurality of emitters simultaneously emit light received from the light generation assembly.
US12111204B2
Apparatus, systems, and techniques for extending distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) range in undersea optical cables over multiple spans, as well as providing span-specific DAS information, are provided.
US12111201B2
In an embodiment a sensor system includes a housing, an electronic circuit and an ultrasonic distance sensor, wherein the electronic circuit and the ultrasonic distance sensor are arranged in the housing, and wherein the sensor system is configured to measure a distance between the sensor system and a surface of a material in a container by an echo propagation time of an ultrasonic burst in air.
US12111198B2
Disclosed is a method for detecting an event-based state, such as foam formation or a working stirring mechanism in a container during a radar-based measurement of a fill level of a filler located in a container. The method includes: generating an analysis curve and detecting a specified characteristic value of the analysis curve within at least one specified sub-region of the measurement region. The characteristic value can be the amplitude of a local maximum or the area under the analysis curve for example. A change or a dispersion of the characteristic value is ascertained over proceeding measurement cycles. The fill level measuring device detects the event-based state if the change or the dispersion exceeds a corresponding threshold. Thus, the occurrence of different events in the container can be imparted to a system controller automatically and without additional measurement instruments.
US12111190B2
An optical fiber sensor includes optical sensor elements, for instance a plurality of multiplexed Bragg gratings, a broadband optical source, an interferometer with at least one polarization-maintaining fiber section with which a birefringence modulator, a signal generator and a receiver are associated. The optical birefringence in the propagation medium, i.e., in the polarization-maintaining fibre, combined with the birefringence of the birefringence modulator, produce in the interferometer the path difference and thereby the interference fringes which, appropriately processed according to the known technique, allow the measurement to be traced. The use of a birefringence modulator associated with the polarization-maintaining fiber allows a high-speed modulation of the interferometer, thus allowing high sampling rates of the sensor without having variations in responsivity depending on the alignment of the sensors with the interferential fringes of the interferometer.
US12111185B2
Angular position sensor system comprising: a cylindrical magnet rotatable about a rotation axis; and an angular position sensor device comprising: a substrate comprising a plurality of magnetic sensitive elements configured for measuring a first magnetic field component in a first direction and a second magnetic field component in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; and a processing circuit configured for calculating the angular position; the sensor device being oriented such that the first direction is oriented in a circumferential direction, and the second direction is either parallel or orthogonal to the rotation axis; the sensor device being located at a predefined position where a magnitude of a third magnetic field component orthogonal to the first and second magnetic field component is negligible over the 360° angular range.
US12111171B2
In some implementations, a mobile device transmit traffic information to a server for analysis. The traffic information includes movement information including detected stops and durations of detected stops. The traffic information is analyzed to detect traffic patterns that indicate locations of stop signs and/or stop lights. The traffic information is analyzed to determine durations of stops at stop signs and/or stop lights. The durations of stops is associated with a time of day and/or day of the week. In some implementations, navigational routes is determined based stop sign and/or stop light information, including the delays attributable to detected stop signs and/or stop lights.
US12111169B2
The navigation system of the present disclosure is configured to receive a short command from a vehicle occupant and extrapolate relevant details associated with the command using an artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML) algorithm. These relevant details may be obtained from a mobile device associated with the occupant and in communication with the navigation system, an external database in communication with the navigation system, etc. Communication links may be wired, wireless through the cloud, near field, etc. Further, each occupant's identity may be determined via near field key fob recognition, microphone voice recognition, camera facial recognition, or via the detection of the mobile device associated with the occupant. Levels of complexity may be added, with multiple occupants being identified and issuing different commands, multiple external information sources subsequently being consulted, and multiple sub-routes to multiple destinations being planned and followed.
US12111165B2
Methods and systems autonomously parking and retrieving vehicles are disclosed. Available parking spaces or parking facilities may be identified, and the vehicle may be navigated to an available space from a drop-off location without passengers. Special-purpose sensors, GPS data, or wireless signal triangulation may be used to identify vehicles and available parking spots. Upon a user request or a prediction of upcoming user demand, the vehicle may be retrieved autonomously from a parking space. Other vehicles may be autonomously moved to facilitate parking or retrieval.
US12111164B2
Systems and methods are described ensuring that a user will be able to consume selected media content in its entirety. In particular, a media guidance application described herein determines an amount of time (102) required to reach a destination (116) and compares this time to an amount of time required to consume media content (104). If the amount of time (104) exceeds the amount of time (102) required to reach the destination, it calculates a route (120) for a current trip in which the length of time required to traverse a calculated route corresponds to the play length of the selected media asset.
US12111160B2
A navigation planning method and apparatus comprising a chart data receiving terminal configured to receive a chart data including position information of one or a plurality of targets; a waypoint receiving terminal configured to receive a plurality of waypoints including a latest waypoint for a navigation route of a movable body; a potential waypoint receiving terminal configured to receive a potential waypoint being movable on the chart; and processing circuitry configured to: determine a position of the potential waypoint as a next waypoint following the latest waypoint, the potential waypoint being movable, wherein the potential waypoint is determined by: receive a current position data of the potential waypoint; receive position information of the plurality of targets located within a predetermined distance from the current position of the potential waypoint; calculate an angle between a first bar and a second bar on the chart, wherein the first bar is to connect the latest waypoint with the potential waypoint and the second bar is to connect the potential waypoint with the plurality of targets; and output an activating signal when the calculated angle is equal to a predetermined value.
US12111153B2
Methods and apparatus for prosing a sensor IC package having first and second sets of magnetic field sensing elements and a third set of magnetic field sensing elements located between the first and second positions, wherein the first, second, and third sets of magnetic field sensing elements have a first axis of sensitivity and a second axis of sensitivity, wherein the first and second axes of sensitivity are orthogonal. The sensor IC package is positioned in relation to a target comprising a two-pole magnet and the first and second axes of sensitivity are perpendicular to an axis about which the target rotates. Differential signals are processed to determine an absolute position of the target. A first secondary angle position is generated from the first and third sets of magnetic field sensing elements.
US12111152B2
The present disclosure discloses a magnetic flexible tactile sensor structure based on a folding magnetization method, which comprises a flexible body containing a permanent magnetic material; the flexible body has a negative Poisson's ratio structure, and its set area has undergone folding magnetization treatment. The present disclosure also discloses a sensor composed of the above-mentioned sensing structure. The sensor provided by the present disclosure can be applied in sealed and wireless scenarios. The present disclosure can detect the size and position of force. The flexible sensor has broad prospects in the application of the touch skin of robots. The function between the magnetic field-based sensing magnet and the Hall element is contactless. In some cases where it is difficult to establish isolation of the connection lines, it can also be used as an unfettered tactile sensor.
US12111149B2
The present invention relates to an opto-mechanical camera position tracking device which gathers real-time positional data of camera in three dimensional (3D) space and zoom value of the camera lens without using any line of sight or markers and has zero drift. The said camera tracking device attaches to an existing camera crane, detects the necessary positional and optical data, processes it, and sends it to a rendering engine for seamless, real-time visualization.
US12111143B2
A simulated round of ammunition is configured so that it can be inserted into an actual or simulated firearm just like a regular live round of ammunition. The simulated round of ammunition includes elements that enable the simulated round of ammunition to generate a haptic effect that mimics the forces one would feel when firing a regular round of live ammunition. The simulated round of ammunition can include a linear motor, a voice coil or some other similar device which can cause a movable member to move in response to application of electric power. Movements of the movable member are used to generate the haptic effect. In some instances, the movable member may be configured to impact a mechanical stop to help generate the haptic effect.
US12111142B2
The present invention provides a high-precision spherical single-headed bullet, including a spherical warhead, a circular cylindrical bullet support and a cardboard bullet support which are arranged in a smoothbore tube; an inner cavity of the smoothbore tube is filled with a propellant; the cardboard bullet support is arranged above the propellant at the rear end of the smoothbore tube in a closed manner; one end of the cardboard bullet support away from the propellant is provided with the circular cylindrical bullet support; an inner cavity of the circular cylindrical bullet support is provided with a firing hole; and the spherical warhead is arranged at the upper end of the firing hole of the circular cylindrical bullet support. According to the present invention, the spherical warhead has natural relative stability in flight, higher shooting accuracy and strong penetrating power, and is low in price and easy to process.
US12111138B2
A hybrid-layered apparatus for a bulletproof structure includes a viscous absorber layer, a first elastic layer, a viscous-elastic foundation layer, and a second elastic layer, orderly arranged in a lamination manner The viscous absorber layer contains a semi-liquid viscous material. The first elastic layer, laminated fixedly to the viscous absorber layer, has a first predetermined toughness. The viscous-elastic foundation layer, laminated fixedly to the first elastic layer by opposing the viscous absorber layer, has predetermined elasticity and compressibility. The second elastic layer, laminated fixedly to the viscous-elastic foundation layer by opposing the first elastic layer, has a second predetermined toughness. In addition, the first predetermined toughness is higher than the second predetermined toughness.
US12111131B2
A crossbow includes a frame including a riser, a first and a second cam, a first and a second flexible limb, a first power cable, a second power cable, and a drawstring. Each cam has a larger diameter portion and a smaller diameter portion. The first power cable has a first end attached to a mounting position on the riser and a second end attached to the smaller diameter portion of the first cam. The second power cable has a first end attached to a mounting position on the riser and a second end attached to the smaller diameter portion of the second cam. The drawstring is attached to the larger diameter portion of the first cam and the larger diameter portion of the second cam. The drawstring wraps at least one full wind around the larger diameter portions of the cams when the crossbow is undrawn.
US12111126B2
A trigger assembly for providing a straight pull trigger may be provided. The trigger assembly may comprise a trigger shoe, a safety plunger, and a safety blade. The trigger shoe may comprise a trigger shoe cavity disposed between a trigger shoe first side and a trigger shoe second side. The trigger shoe may further comprise a safety plunger pocket. The safety plunger may be disposed in the safety plunger pocket. The safety blade may be slidably disposed in the trigger shoe cavity and be connected to the safety plunger. The safety plunger may retract into the trigger shoe from a safety plunger first position to a safety plunger second position when the safety blade slides in the trigger shoe from a safety blade first position to a safety blade second position.
US12111121B2
A die-cast cooling device for protecting a computer assembly is disclosed. The die-cast cooling device includes a cooling plate, a plurality of die-cast fins, an opening formed on the cooling plate, and a cover coupled to the cooling plate. The cooling plate extends between two side walls, and the cooling plate and the side walls are arranged to form a protective space for computing components. The plurality of die-cast fins are formed on the cooling plate, extending away from the protective space. The opening provides access to the protective space. The cover is movable between a closed position and an open position, the cover preventing access to the protective space in the closed position, and the cover providing access to the protective space in the open position.
US12111111B2
The invention relates to a heat exchanger assembly with at least one multi-pass heat exchanger, comprising a first distributor (1) with a first connection part (1a) for connecting to a fluid line (9), a second distributor (2) with a second connection part (2a) for connecting to a fluid line (9), and at least one first deflection distributor (4), as well as a plurality of tube lines (5) through which a fluid, in particular water, can flow, wherein the first distributor (1) and the second distributor (2) are arranged at one end (A) of the heat exchanger assembly, the deflection distributor (4) is arranged at the opposite end (B) and the tube lines (5) extend from the one end (A) to the opposite end (B), and wherein the first connection part (1a) is arranged at a lowest point (T) or at least near to the lowest point (T) of the first distributor (1) and the second connection piece (2a) is arranged at a lowest point (T) or at least near to the lowest point (T) of the second distributor (2). In order to allow for the heat exchanger assembly to be quickly filled with the fluid and quickly emptied, a third connection part (3) is arranged on the first distributor (1) and/or on the second distributor (2) at a highest point (H) or at least near to the highest point (H) of the respective distributor (1 or 2), and at least one ventilation opening (10) is provided at a highest point (T) or at least near to the highest point (T) of the deflection distributor (4) for pressure equalisation with the environment.
US12111105B2
A batch sample preparation apparatus (10) for preparing a geological sample for analysis is described and claimed. The apparatus (10) comprises a dryer (12) having a drying (chamber 52), a sample inlet (20) and at least one sample outlet (22), (24) communicating with the drying chamber (52), to a comminution device (14) in selective fluid communication via valves (26), (28) with the dryer (12) to selectively receive dried sample. The apparatus (10) has a source of fluid (74) introduced at the dryer (12) so that sample material may be transported from the dryer (12) to the comminution device (14) by fluid flow, which fluid flow also extracts the sample material from the comminution device (14) for collection and subsequent analysis.
US12111096B2
A refrigerator includes: a cabinet forming a storage space; a door for opening and closing the storage space and provided with a receiving space; a see-through portion extending through the door and communicating with the receiving space; a door light for illuminating a rear space of the door; a transparent panel assembly for shielding the see-through portion and becoming transparent or opaque so as to selectively visualize the see-through portion according to On/Off states of the door light; and a heat insulating member, formed along a perimeter of the transparent panel assembly, for insulating a perimeter portion of the transparent panel assembly.
US12111093B2
A refrigerator includes a lowermost storage liner, an evaporator, an air supply duct, and at least one air supply fan. A storage compartment and a cooling chamber positioned under the storage compartment are defined in the storage liner. The evaporator is disposed in the cooling chamber and is configured to cool air passing through the evaporator so as to form cooling air supplied to the storage compartment. The air supply duct is disposed in a space defined by the storage liner and is configured to convey the cooling air cooled by the evaporator to the storage compartment. The air supply fan is disposed in the air supply duct and is configured to promote air circulation between the cooling chamber and the storage compartment.
US12111080B2
The invention provides a heat-storage medium conveying system for a solar-thermal power plant. The system includes a high-level tank subsystem including a high-level tank used to store the heat-storage medium. The system further includes a heat-storage medium transport subsystem. The high-level tank subsystem is connected with the heat-storage medium transport subsystem. The heat-storage medium transport subsystem includes a low-level tank. A mounting height of the low-level tank is lower than that of the high-level tank. A volume of the low-level tank is smaller than a volume of the high-level tank. The heat-storage medium can enter the low-level tank from the high-level tank partially or completely by its own gravity. The low-level tank is provided with a conveying pump, and the heat-storage medium is pumped out of the low-level tank through the conveying pump. The invention solves the problems such as construction cost, operation and maintenance cost brought about by using the vertical long-shaft submerged molten salt pump, while avoiding the potential safety hazards in the design of large and small tanks or high-level and low-level tanks.
US12111075B2
An easy-to-clean heated humidifier is proposed. The easy-to-clean heated humidifier is configured to be easily cleaned by separating a water container from the humidifier. The easy-to-clean heated humidifier includes: a lower main body including a heating means, and a dial configured to adjust an amount of humidification; and an upper main body provided at an upper end of the lower main body, including an outer casing, and an inner casing located inside the outer casing, having a partial opening to allow water in the outer casing to flow into the inner casing, and configured to vaporize the water in the inner casing by the heating means.
US12111047B2
A luminaire includes a housing with a light exit aperture, wherein the housing houses a first light source which emits visible light and a second light source which emits ultraviolet (UV) light. The second light source is disposed within the housing between the first light source and the light exit aperture and allows at least some of the visible light emitted by the first light source to pass therethrough.
US12111041B2
A height adjustable lamp assembly includes a frame, a reel supported by the frame, a canopy surrounding the frame and the reel, an electrical cord wound around the reel, and a lamp. The frame includes a mounting plate configured to couple to a mounting location and a base plate coupled to the mounting plate. The base plate defines a cord aperture. A lower end of the electrical cord extends through the cord aperture. The lamp is coupled to the lower end of the electrical cord. Winding the electrical cord around the reel or paying out the electrical cord from the reel adjusts a height of the lamp.
US12111030B2
Disclosed is a fastener for a lamp, which is engaged with a pocket part provided in a bracket when being inserted into the pocket part in a first direction, including a first fastening part engaged with the pocket part such that the fastener is prevented from being moved with respect to the bracket in a second direction that is an opposite direction to the first direction when the fastener is inserted into the pocket part, and a second fastening part engaged with the pocket part such that the fastener is prevented from being moved with respect to the bracket in the first direction when the fastener is inserted into the pocket part.
US12111028B2
The present disclosure provides a water-resistant decorative lighting system having a plurality of lamp assemblies and a wiring harness having two or more insulating conductors and configured to electrically connect the plurality of lamp assemblies. Each lamp assembly of the plurality of lamp assemblies includes a lamp holder, a light source, a waterproofing device, and an outer bulb. The lamp holder comprises a hinged portion connected between a first and second side portions. The lamp holder is configured to move about the hinged portion from an open position to a closed position. Each side portion includes a locking mechanism. The light is configured to fit within the lamp holder when the lamp holder is in the closed position. The outer bulb is detachably attachable to the lamp holder.
US12111021B2
There is provided a light emitting diode, LED, filament lamp (100) which provides LED filament lamp light (100′). The LED filament comprises a first linear array of LEDs (101) and a second linear array of LEDs (106), and a carrier (103). The first linear array of LEDs (101) are arranged on a first surface (102) of the carrier (103) and includes only first LEDs (104) which are configured to emit first white light (105). The second linear array of LEDs (106) are arranged on a second surface (107) of the carrier (103), opposite to said first surface (102), and includes only second LEDs (108) which are configured to emit color controllable light (109). The LED filament light (100′) comprises the first white light (105) and/or the color controllable light (109).
US12111016B2
A corner structure of a liquefied gas storage tank is provided, wherein the corner structure is installed at a corner of the storage tank for storing liquefied gas to support sealing walls. The corner structure includes: a stationary member secured to an inner surface of a hull structure wall; a movable member disposed on the stationary member such that the sealing walls are joined thereto; and an insulating member interposed between the sealing walls and the hull structure wall. The stationary member includes a stationary member body bent at a curved portion thereof in an opposite direction to the movable member, and the movable member includes a movable member body bent at a bent portion thereof in an opposite direction to the stationary member. The stationary member and the movable member are coupled to each other by a fastening member that penetrates the curved portion and the bent portion.
US12111012B2
Provided is a tank including a polymeric upper dome having a neck with a through passage, a polymeric lower dome having a neck with a through passage, a polymeric shell having a first end connected to the upper dome and a second end connected to the lower dome, and a connection attached to each of the upper and lower domes in the through passages of the necks, wherein the upper dome, lower dome, and shell form a cavity.
US12111001B2
A sanitary fluid transport coupling can include a plurality of fluid conduits, each fluid conduit having a distal end and a proximal end, a support element adapted to secure a spaced relationship between the plurality of second conduits at the distal end of the plurality of fluid conduits, and an overmolded element disposed adjacent the support element. The overmolded element can form a fitting that can form a fluid connection with another fluid conduit, fluid container, or isolated environment.
US12110995B2
A tube clamp for bioprocessing, comprising: a first clamp member (102) having a first end joined to a second end by a crescent shaped body comprising: an interior (118) having a groove (116) extending along the crescent shaped body and including a lower surface joined to a sidewall and a top surface joined to the sidewall by a tapered surface (124), wherein the tapered surface is angled at forty-five degrees relative to the lower surface and the top surface; an exterior surrounding the interior, the exterior including an exterior surface joined to an exterior sidewall by an exterior taper, the exterior taper is angled at forty-five degrees relative to the exterior surface and the exterior sidewall and the exterior sidewall is joined to the top surface; a closure region (112) joined to the first end; and an attachment region (110) joined to the second end; and a second clamp member having a first end joined to a second end by a crescent shaped body comprising: an interior including a groove extending along the crescent shaped body and including a lower surface joined to a sidewall and a top surface joined to the sidewall by a tapered surface (146), wherein the tapered surface is angled at forty-five degrees relative to the lower surface and the top surface; an exterior surrounding the interior, the exterior including an exterior surface joined to an exterior sidewall by an exterior taper (154), the exterior taper is angled at forty-five degrees relative to the exterior surface and the exterior sidewall and the exterior sidewall is joined to the top surface; a closure region joined to the first end; and an attachment region (130) joined to the second end.
US12110991B2
Methods and apparatus for making lined pipelines in which pipes are joined together by attaching fittings at their ends and joining the fittings together. Within the joint there is a fit-up sleeve which forces liners against respective fittings and provides corresponding seals. Other seals can be provided by inserting sealing rings which force different portions of the liners against different portions of the fittings. The fit-up sleeve and sealing rings may force the liners against castellations which prevent movement of the liners. The fit-up sleeve may cooperate with insertion rims on the fittings to provide very accurate spacing, or touching edges which can be desirable if automatic welding is employed. The seals provided by the fit-up sleeve also eliminate backdraughts and assist welding operations. Furthermore, the fit-up sleeve permits pigging through the pipe joint and therefore along the length of the resulting lined pipeline. It is foreseen that the need for CRA components and CRA welding can be largely if not wholly dispensed with.
US12110988B2
A device for controlling the flow of a fluid through a conduit from an upstream side of the device to a downstream side of the device. The device includes a valve housing having defined therein a valve aperture, a valve member movably mounted relative to the valve aperture. The valve member is arranged to be displaced reciprocally in a direction to selectively open and close the valve aperture. The device also includes a magnet mounted on or relative to the valve member, with the magnet being displaced by displacement of the valve member. A plurality of magnetic field sensors are mounted on the valve housing.
US12110973B2
The present invention relates to a valve system, comprising a first valve and a second valve, wherein both valves each have a housing with a plurality of housing openings, and a valve body arranged rotatably in the housing with at least one connection channel for providing a fluid connection of at least two of the housing openings, characterized in that the valve body of the first valve and the valve body of the second valve are mechanically coupled with each other by means of a coupling device of the valve system, wherein the coupling device is designed in such a way that the valve bodies can be rotated jointly by means of the coupling device when the valve system is in a first operating state and rotated independently of each other by means of the coupling device when the valve system is in a second operating state.
US12110966B2
A mechanical assembly includes a shaft having a central axis and an outer member having a bore disposed about the shaft, either the shaft or the outer member having a gland defined by a circumferential surface and at least one radial surface and the other one of the shaft and the outer member being angularly displaceable about the central axis. A seal has an annular body disposed within the gland and is formed of an flexible material, preferably a plastic or elastomeric material, the annular body having a main body portion with inner and outer radial ends. An inner sealing lip extends radially inwardly from the inner end of the main body portion and is configured to engage with the shaft. An outer sealing lip extends radially outwardly from the outer radial end of the main body portion and is configured to engage with the outer member.
US12110965B2
A fluid sealing system for a rotary mechanical device including a pillar lantern ring having a bottom and a top end cap with pillars or columns connecting the end caps is formed by additive manufacturing. The bottom annular end cap has an outside face and an opposed inside face defining a height therebetween and the upper annular end cap has an inside face and an opposed outside face defining a height therebetween with a plurality of integrally formed substantially cylindrical axial columns connecting the two opposed inside faces of the two end caps.
US12110958B2
The disclosure relates to a belt pulley decoupler for a motor vehicle drive train that includes a hub constituent part configured for attachment to a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine, a flexible drive element pulley supported in a spring-damped manner relative to the hub constituent part, and a vibration absorber. The vibration absorber includes a mounting plate that extends from a fastening region, which is supported on the hub constituent part and connected to the hub constituent part in a positively locking and/or non-positive manner, radially outwards to a collar region which receives at least one mass element. The fastening region has a plate portion which is supported axially on a flange element of the hub constituent part and which is held relative to the hub constituent part via an axially running dome portion formed either by the mounting plate or the flange element.
US12110952B2
An electric axle is provided. The electric axle includes, in one example, an electric machine rotationally coupled to a layshaft via a first gear reduction and a differential rotationally coupled to the first gear reduction, a first axle shaft, and a second axle shaft. In the electric axle, the electric machine is positioned laterally between at least two drive wheels that are rotationally coupled to the first axle shaft and the second axle shaft and a rotational axis of the electric machine is axially offset from rotational axes of the at least two drive wheels.
US12110950B1
A transmission comprises: a first planetary stage including a first ring gear defining first internal teeth; a ground component defining second internal teeth; a compound planetary stage including a one-way clutch with an inner race and an outer race, the outer race having a first tapered surface; and an adaptor defining external teeth and a second tapered surface, the adaptor being movable into at least a first position where the first tapered surface and the second tapered surface are connected with each other, and into a second position where instead the first internal teeth are gear coupled with the second internal teeth.
US12110939B2
Disclosed is an anti-vibration device. An anti-vibration device according to the embodiment of the present disclosure reduces vibration between an object and an installation surface on which the object is installed, and the anti-vibration device includes a first elastic member, a first support member disposed to cover the first elastic member and fastened to the first elastic member, a second elastic member disposed on an upper portion of the first support member, and a second support member disposed to cover the second elastic member and fastened to the first support member.
US12110938B2
A vibration isolation table of the disclosure may include a lower structure including a plurality of block structures, a middle structure on the lower structure, and an upper structure on the middle structure. The plurality of block structures may be spaced apart from one another such that a space is formed between adjacent ones of the plurality of block structures. At least one of the lower structure and the upper structure may include high attenuation concrete.
US12110935B2
An assembly bearing for a motor vehicle assembly includes an inner part, an elastomer supporting body in which the inner part is embedded, and an outer part that surrounds the supporting body. In embodiments, the outer part includes a first part and a second part that are clipped to at least one fastening element connected to the supporting body.
US12110932B2
This disc brake includes a first shim that has a first flat plate portion and claw portions curved from an outer edge side of the first flat plate portion and attached to an outer circumferential surface of a rear plate; and a second shim that has a second flat plate portion disposed in a manner of being sandwiched between the first flat plate portion and the rear plate, and a bent portion curved from an outer edge side of the second flat plate portion to the first flat plate portion side. Relative movement of the second shim with respect to the first shim on a plane parallel to the second flat plate portion is restricted. A leading end portion of the bent portion of the second shim is disposed within a projection plane of a largest flat surface portion of the rear plate in a disc axial direction.
US12110928B2
A dog clutch arrangement for a motor vehicle having a clutch body. The clutch body has first teeth in a first toothing and an axially movable sliding sleeve arrangement with second teeth in a second toothing. The sliding sleeve arrangement has a shift ring and a sleeve with the second toothing, and the shift ring and the sleeve are decoupled over a predetermined path by a decoupling element
US12110926B2
A rotor bearing having a rolling bearing raceway in an unhardened core region of a rolling bearing ring element that further includes an outer layer hardened to a surface hardening depth wherein the rolling bearing raceway is formed by a roll, wherein a diameter of the roll is 8 to 25 times the surface hardening depth.
US12110920B2
A bearing for use between an outer member and an inner member that is movable relative to the outer member. The bearing includes a generally cylindrical plastic body having a plurality of undulations that form gradual radially inward and radially outward waves relative to a circular path.
US12110915B2
A system for attaching layers of material together comprised of a self-piercing rivet, a layer having a clearance hole through which the self-piercing rivet passes on assembly, and a layer free of a clearance hole and into which the self-piercing rivet is at least partially inserted. The system may include a third layer free of a clearance hole. The system may also include three layers wherein the clearance hole is formed in the middle layer. If the clearance hole is formed in the middle layer, the width of the hole may be greater than the diameter of the self-piercing rivet to avoid contact between the rivet and the middle layer. The layer having the clearance hole may be a hard material such as steel. One or more of the layers may be material that is difficult to pierce or can be damaged if pierced.
US12110911B1
Apparatus, systems and methods for pumping fluids, including for the purpose of controlling temperature and pressure in a propellant tank include a type of novel ejector, consisting of a typical ejector and an isolation valve integrated on the inlet of secondary fluid to an ejector, or suction chamber. The inlet valve is actuated by the application of the primary motive fluid pressure to a motive nozzle. The ejector is configured to operate when submerged in the secondary fluid.
US12110907B2
A heating device is for a vacuum line in which pumped gases are intended to circulate. The heating device includes at least one radiating body to radiate in the infrared when it is heated to a temperature above 150° C. The at least one radiating body is arranged in the pumping path of the gases.
US12110902B2
A centrifugal compressor impeller includes a plurality of blades on a front side that extend from a first axial side to an outer radial end of the impeller. The centrifugal impeller includes a back side having a nonlinear backwall. The backwall can include a flat area hear a bore of impeller, a flat area near a tip of the impeller, and a convex surface between the flat areas of the bore and the tip. In some forms the impeller further includes a concave surface between the convex surface and the tip to form an s-shape. A transition or inflection point can denote the change from convex to concave. The convex and/or concave surfaces can take any variety of forms such as constant radius sections and/or compound curves.
US12110883B2
A piston compressor containing a housing with a compression chamber in it, having an inlet and an outlet and a piston arranged movably back and forth in an axial direction in the compression chamber between an upper dead point and a lower dead point, delimited by a kinematic mechanism with which the piston is connected. The drive is formed exclusively by an electromagnetic linear drive of the piston.
US12110882B2
Disclosed is a capacity control valve includes a valve housing. A main valve including a valve body is driven by a solenoid, and a main valve seat which is between a discharge port and a control port and with which the valve body can contact, a pressure sensitive valve member forms a pressure sensitive valve, together with a pressure sensitive body disposed in a pressure sensitive chamber. The control port and a suction port communicate with each other through an intermediate communication passage by opening and closing of the pressure sensitive valve. The pressure sensitive valve member has a through-hole communicating with the intermediate communication passage, and has an opening and closing member attached thereto such that the opening and closing member is restricted in movement with respect to the valve housing by restriction device and slides relative to the pressure sensitive valve member to open and close the through-hole.
US12110875B2
The invention refers to a combined power generator for near shore area wherein on a support frame are mounted, at the base a vertical wave turbine coupled by a ratchet coupling to a wind turbine coupled in its turn by a speed raising coupling to an electric generator and above a photovoltaic platform with solar tracking system, with bi-facial photovoltaic panels, with a system of mirrors for the reflection of light on the back of the bi-facial photovoltaic panels, a hybrid controller and an inverter for taking over the electricity from the electric generator and the photovoltaic panels respectively and the transformation to the corresponding parameters for sending into the electrical network. By placing the three convertors vertically the energy efficiency on the surface unit in near-shore areas increase. Other advantages of the installation are: constructive simplicity, low price of construction, maintenance and operation, wave breaker.
US12110867B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wind turbine control based on reinforcement learning are disclosed. The method comprises receiving data indicative of a current environmental state of the wind turbine, determining one or more controlling actions of the wind turbine based on the current environmental state of the wind turbine and a reinforcement learning algorithm, and applying the determined one or more controlling actions to the wind turbine.
US12110866B2
This disclosure is directed to a method for operating a wind turbine which includes a speed-variable drive system. The system includes an electrical machine and a pulsewidth modulation-controlled converter. The speed-variable drive system is connected to an electrical grid. In the event of a transient grid fault, a frequency of the pulsewidth modulation is determined in response to a current in an electrical circuit connected to the converter.
US12110865B2
A method 100 for controlling a ramp rate of a wind park with a plurality of wind turbines, the method comprising: determining 102 a generating pool of the wind park that includes wind turbines of the plurality of wind turbines that are online; for each wind turbine in the generating pool, measuring and/or determining a first set of quantities of the wind turbine, the first set of quantities including at least an average wind speed value at the wind turbine; based on the first set of quantities measured and/or determined for each wind turbine in the generating pool, determining a pre-shutdown pool that includes wind turbines of the generating pool for which the average wind speed value at the wind turbine exceeds a first wind speed threshold; for each wind turbine in the pre-shutdown pool, measuring or determining a power of the wind turbine; based on the power of the wind turbines in the pre-shutdown pool, computing 104 a total power of the pre-shutdown pool; controlling the wind turbines of the generating pool of the wind park based on the total power of the pre-shutdown pool; controlling the ramp rate of the wind park based at least in part on controlling the wind turbines of the generating pool of the wind park; wherein the controlling of the wind turbines of the generating pool is configured to limit and/or reduce the absolute value of the time derivative of the total power generated by the wind park below a predetermined upper bound of the absolute value of the time derivative of the total power generated by the wind park.
US12110839B1
A variable area nozzle assembly includes a fixed center plug, a fixed outer nozzle, and an inner nozzle. The fixed center plug includes a seal. The inner nozzle is disposed between the fixed center plug and the fixed outer nozzle. The inner nozzle includes an inner nozzle body. The inner nozzle body forms a primary duct between the inner nozzle and the fixed outer nozzle. The inner nozzle body forms a secondary duct and a gap. The gap is a nozzle outlet of the secondary duct. The secondary duct is disposed between the inner nozzle body and the fixed center plug upstream of the seal. The inner nozzle body forms a plurality of apertures. The inner nozzle body is translatable between a first position and a second position. In the first position, the primary duct has a first cross-sectional area and the plurality of apertures are isolated from the gap by the seal. In the second position, the primary duct has a second cross-sectional area and the plurality of apertures are connected in fluid communication with the gap.
US12110833B1
An apparatus for diagnosing a blow-by gas recirculation system may include a head portion of an engine configured to form a combustion chamber, a head cover provided on an upper portion of the head portion, a crankcase formed on a lower portion of the combustion chamber, an intake line through which an intake-air flows to the combustion chamber, a breather hose connecting the crankcase and the intake line at an upstream side of a compressor mounted on the intake line, a PCV hose connecting the crankcase and a surge tank, and a controller configured to determine an abnormality of the breather hose based on a modelled crankcase pressure determined from an atmospheric pressure and an intake flow rate introduced through a throttle valve and a measured crankcase pressure measured from a pressure sensor configured to measure an internal pressure of the crankcase.
US12110831B2
A gas turbine is configured such that: in the case where the rotation speed of the turbine shaft is a predetermined rotation speed, when the magnitude of a load is set to a predetermined load, a compressed air quantity that is supplied to a primary combustion field in a combustor and a fuel quantity that is supplied to the combustor are controlled to quantities for an equivalent ratio that allows misfire to avoided; and when the magnitude of the load is set to no load, the compressed air quantity that is supplied to the primary combustion field in the combustor and the fuel quantity that is supplied to the combustor are reduced compared to when the magnitude of the load is set to the predetermined load, while the equivalent ratio that allows the misfire to be avoided is kept.
US12110819B1
A side housing for a rotary internal combustion engine, has: a side wall defining first threads, the first threads extending around a central axis; a side plate having a rotor-engaging side facing away from the side wall and a back side opposite the rotor-engaging side and facing the side wall; and a nut rotatable relative to the side plate about the central axis, the nut and the side plate axially locked to one another, the nut defining second threads extending around the central axis, the side plate secured to the side wall via a threading engagement between the first threads of the side wall and the second threads of the nut.
US12110817B2
The thermostat device has a housing, a valve body provided around the periphery of a thermo-element inserted inside the housing, and a frame that supports one end of a coil spring that biases the valve body, wherein the housing has a hollow body having an opening at one end, a pair of legs rising from the opening edge of the body, and a hooking portion protruding inwardly at the tip of the legs; the hooking portion has an engaged portion located in the center of the width direction of the legs and an auxiliary portion connected to the engaged portion and located at both ends of the width direction of the legs, wherein an end face of the root side of the legs in the engaged portion is located farther from the tip of the legs than an end face of the leg-root side in the auxiliary portion.
US12110807B1
A hollow vane assembly including an open body including an interior; at least one cover support structure formed in said open body proximate the interior; a cover brazed to the open body to form at least one flow passage; and at least one ply formed in the cover.
US12110804B2
A gas turbine engine comprises a fan mounted to rotate about a main longitudinal axis; an engine core, comprising in axial flow series a compressor, a combustor, and a turbine coupled to the compressor through a shaft; a reduction gearbox that receives an input from the shaft and outputs drive to the fan so as to drive the fan at a lower rotational speed than the shaft; wherein the compressor comprises a first stage at an inlet and a second stage, downstream of the first stage, comprising respectively a first rotor with a row of first blades and a second rotor with a row of second blades, the first and second blades comprising respective leading edges, trailing edges and tips, and wherein the ratio of a maximum leading edge radius of the first blades to a maximum leading edge radius of the second blades is greater than 2.8.
US12110800B2
Clearance control systems with electromagnetic actuators are disclosed. An example electromagnetically-actuated clearance control system for a gas turbine engine comprises an electromagnetic coil coupled to a first end of a facesheet, the electromagnetic coil to generate a magnetic field in response to a connection of a power supply, a ferromagnetic sheet coupled to a second end of the facesheet, the ferromagnetic sheet drawn radially-inward toward the electromagnetic coil when the magnetic field is generated, a first end of the ferromagnetic sheet coupled to a first compression spring and a second end of the ferromagnetic sheet coupled to a second compression spring, the first and second compression springs to compress in response to the ferromagnetic sheet being drawn radially-inward.
US12110791B2
Downhole tool is provided that includes a body, an intake port for receiving fluid from external the body, a pump, a filtration device, and an exit port. The pump is in fluid communication with the intake port for withdrawing fluid through the intake port. The filtration device has a particulate removing filter, and a flow line extending from the intake port to the filtration device. The filtration device is contained within the body and is in fluid communication with the intake port. The exit port is in fluid communication with the filtration device for ejecting the fluid to external the body.
US12110782B2
In some aspects, the disclosed technology provides solutions for computing a residual noise signal from received gravitational field signal data. In one aspect, a process of the disclosed technology includes steps for receiving a magnetic field signal, wherein the magnetic field signal is generated by measurements produced by a magnetometer disposed in a drilling tool chassis, receiving a gravitational field signal, and processing the magnetic field signal to generate a clean magnetic field signal. In some aspects, the process can further include steps for calculating a residual signal based on the clean magnetic field signal and the gravitational field signal. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided.
US12110780B2
Methods, devices and systems are disclosed for magnetically ranging while drilling with a coiled tubing unit or drill pipe by way of a an electrically conducive but environmentally electrically insulated wire installed through a coiled tubing spool or drill pipe complete with electrically insulative subs in the coiled tubing bottom hole assembly or drill pipe. The method and systems allow for the injection of excitation current into the formation by way of selectively electrifying various drill stem components, thereby facilitating current collection on a target tubular which radially emanates a magnetic field about the target well tubular(s). The method and devices allow for the construction of complex downhole current injection configurations which allow for modification of the bottom hole assembly to maximize target well signal generation in the presence of adverse environmental conditions.
US12110770B2
In one example, a method includes running a downhole system into a downhole environment that comprises a wellbore, and the downhole system is configured such that a reusable plug of the downhole system is positioned uphole of a perforation gun of the downhole system, then, with the perforation gun, perforating a casing at a stage of the wellbore, and the perforating is performed using a projectile, and the perforating is performed by firing the projectile from a chamber of the perforation gun.
US12110766B2
A downhole cleaning tool (120) for use in a drilled bore, such as an oil and gas well (100). The tool (120) comprises a tubular body (130) defining an internal bore (136) and at least one radially extending blade (148) defining a pocket (152) having sides and a base. A cam-activated radially extendable cleaning element (154) is mounted in the pocket (152) and is movable between a retracted position and an extended position. Multiple pockets (152) and cleaning elements (154) may be provided. The activating cam may be in the form of a pipe, which may be a single unitary part or may be in multiple parts. The parts of the multiple-part pipe may be axially spaced and may activate the cleaning elements in a staggered or sequential manner.
US12110757B2
A packer arrangement for a sealed passage of a drillstring therethrough. The drillstring has geometric differences between passing drill pipes and joint couplings. The packer arrangement includes a packer holder which forms a housing with an axially through-going center passage which has a flexible packer sleeve arranged in a portion thereof, an external annulus which encloses the packer holder, an internal annulus, and two actuators which apply an axial tensile force to the flexible packer sleeve. The flexible packer sleeve has a center portion and two end terminations which are axially displaceable in the packer holder. The internal annulus is delimited by the center portion of the flexible packer sleeve and by the packer holder. The internal annulus is in a fluid communication with the external annulus. Each of the two end terminations is coupled to one of the two actuators, respectively.
US12110754B2
A jarring tool used to dislodge a stuck tubular string or bottom hole assembly within an underground wellbore. A funnel element is placed underground either within, or as part of, a tubular string. A deformable ball may be seated within the funnel element to block fluid from passing within the tubular string. Hydraulic pressure may build within the tubular string until it exceeds the pressure the ball can withstand. This will cause the ball to deform and be expelled through the funnel element. With no ball to block its flow, fluid will be rapidly released through the funnel element. The rapid release of fluid will cause a powerful jarring or jolting to the tubular string or bottom hole assembly. Deformed balls may be captured in a cartridge chamber installed within the drill string and sized to create turbulent fluid flow within the drill string.
US12110749B1
A tractor assembly includes a toroidal shaped fluid filled membrane mounted over a body and a drive system coupled with the membrane. The drive system includes a helical flight that inverts the membrane when rotated against its inner surface. A mid-section of the body includes sleeve like portions that telescope with one another and shorten a length of the body. Fluid in the membrane is forced from the mid-section and radially expands a forward portion and into contact with an inner surface of the passage, so that when the membrane is inverted while in a passage, frictional contact between the membrane and inner surface of the passage creates a force that urges the tractor assembly through a passage.
US12110747B2
A shoe for use with a casing or liner string includes: a tubular body; a nose: mounted to an end of the tubular body, and having: a plenum formed therein, a front port extending longitudinally from the plenum to an exterior of the nose, and a side port extending transversely from the plenum to the exterior of the nose; and a valve repeatedly shiftable between a deployment position where the front port is open and the side port is closed and a cleaning position where the front port is closed and the side port is open. The valve shifts to the deployment position in response to forward flow through the shoe being less than a threshold flow rate. The valve shifts to the cleaning position in response to the forward flow through the shoe being greater than the threshold flow rate.
US12110746B2
A threaded joint for production of tubing includes a male element and female elements, having outer surface and inner surfaces, respectively, whose ends are configured with a trapezoidal tapered thread and with sealing surfaces, auxiliary surfaces and abutting end surfaces, which form an inner sealing assembly. The threads have characteristics described in the present disclosure. Auxiliary surfaces are provided between the sealing surfaces and the abutting end surfaces. The junction between the sealing surfaces and the auxiliary surfaces is configured in the form of a concave spherical surface on the male element and a convex spherical surface on the female element. This provides for the formation of a tight joint under high mechanical loads by virtue of improved coupling characteristics and the prevention of damage to the surfaces.
US12110742B2
A ladder having a first rail and a second rail. The ladder having a standard rung having a width permanently attached to the first rail and the second rail. The ladder having a first wide rung having a width greater than the width of the standard rung, which is permanently attached to the first rail and the second rail. The ladder having a second wide rung having a width greater than the width of the standard rung, which is permanently attached to the first rail and the second rail. The first wide rung and the second wide rung are disposed in a work zone of the ladder. The work zone of the ladder is where a user typically stands on the ladder while performing tasks. The standard rung is disposed outside the work zone.
US12110741B2
A mechanical multiple torque damping device includes a support module, a spindle coupling sleeve and a damping cylinder. The support module includes a mounting seat, a tubular support axle extending from the mounting seat, a friction ring sleeved on the support axle, and a screw shaft extending through the support axle. The spindle coupling sleeve is rotatably sleeved on the support axle to support a horizontal spindle. The damping cylinder is axially displaceable along the screw shaft relative to the friction ring during rotation with the horizontal spindle. A cylinder body of the cylinder has inner frictional surface sections in frictional contact with the friction ring to generate multiple frictional torques to the horizontal spindle.
US12110719B1
A Trunk-lid Tie-down arrangement holds a car trunk lid or hatch lift-gate at a partly open position for transporting an oversize package or other large cargo piece. One component is an insert plate formed stainless steel or another suitably strong rigid material, with a pair of eye openings. The second component is a length of a cordage or rope, favorably ten feet long. One of the eye opening is inserted into the vehicle's latch for the lid or lift gate and is held there. The cordage extends from the other eye opening and can be tied to the hasp for the locking latch. At the delivery destination, the insert plate is removed by unlocking the lid or hatch gate, and the package can be removed.
US12110718B2
A motor vehicle lock including a latch and a pawl assembly associated with the latch including a pawl, the pawl assembly, in a blocking state, blocks the lock latch in a locking position, and a trigger assembly; the trigger assembly configured to actuate the pawl assembly out of the blocking state during an opening process; and a draw-in assembly including a coupling lever pivotable to a coupling position, for coupling to the lock latch to lock the lock latch. The closing assembly including an ejector lever including an ejector contour for ejecting the coupling lever, in an ejection position, out of engagement from the pawl, and a trigger section, in an emergency actuation, configured to engage the ejector lever via at least part of the closing process to eject the coupling lever and disengaged from the ejector lever during at least part of the opening process.
US12110716B2
An aircraft seat module having a flight passenger seating area has a door unit which in at least one operating state is configured at least to close a passage region to the flight passenger seating area, and has a locking device for the door unit, which is configured to lock the door unit in an open position, in particular a maximally open stowage position, and to this end comprises at least one actuator device which has at least two movably supported locking elements, which are in each case adjustable between a locking position and an unlocking position, wherein that the locking device has a locking state indication unit which at least in the maximally open position of the door unit is configured to detect and indicate incomplete locking of at least one of the two locking elements.
US12110714B1
Disclosed is a lock, including a first transmission assembly, a second transmission assembly, a spindle, and a dead bolt. The second transmission assembly includes a first gear, and the spindle is connected to the first gear and the dead bolt. The first transmission assembly includes a second gear, a third gear, and a connector, the connector connects the second gear to the third gear, and the second gear is in meshed connection with the third gear. The third gear has a first position, a second position, and a third position in respect to the first gear.
US12110708B2
The Wireless Pool Water Level Monitor and Water Filler is a device that maintains the water level in a pool between predetermined limits: an upper limit and a lower limit. The device comprises a sensor system, and a valve actuation system. The sensor system monitors the water level of the pool. The valve actuation system controls the water flow into the pool. The device may further comprise a mobile app and a main broker server. The mobile app remotely monitors the data gathered by the sensor system and remotely controls the valve actuation system and the water flow to the pool. The main broker server stores the data gathered from the monitoring of the water level of the pool.
US12110706B2
A pool wave generator having a pool area and a plurality of chambers for generating a wave in the pool area. Exemplary embodiments include using exhaust valves in each chamber to control the performance of fans. Measuring the power consumed by the fans in real time allows determination of the amount of air to be evacuated from the pneumatic system (and thus an opening angle of the exhaust valves) so that the fans operate at maximum efficiency and with less instability. In an exemplary embodiment, a valve mounted on the fan inlet allows the incoming air flow to be controlled, thereby allow the motors to continue rotating at a given speed with little or no energy consumption when the valve is partially or fully closed.
US12110700B2
The invention relates to a scaffold support (10) comprising: a bracket (20) fixed to the wall surface (3); a screw axis member (30) having one end coupled to the bracket (20) and a male screw portion (31); an outer pipe (40) in which the other end portion of the screw axis member (30) is inserted and has a female screw portion (42) being screw-coupled to the male screw portion (31) of the screw axis member (30); a pipe rotary shaft (50) on the center of the end surface (43) of the outer pipe (40) having a polygonal head (51).
US12110698B2
Disclosed herein are various systems, sub-system, and methods for the manufacture of a wall module for using in building a modular construction unit, e.g., for using in building residential homes, commercial offices, educational or service facilities, etc. using a substantially entirely automated modular construction technique. According to the disclosure herein, the resulting wall module includes an internal wall frame including wall studs attached between a top plate and a bottom plate, with, in some embodiment, one or more framing sub-assemblies attached therein to define openings through the wall module. The wall frame has suitable panel members the respective surfaces thereof corresponding to the interior and exterior surfaces of the modular construction unit. The wall frames, when completely assembled, can be transported to be assembled with other constituent components of the modular construction unit to complete the manufacture of the modular construction unit.
US12110686B1
A building element for a semi-permanent and relocatable structure includes: (a) a member having a rectangular, cross-sectional shape, that encloses an interior portion which has open ends that include cornering portions, (b) a pair of flanges, one of which extends outwardly from each of the member's top corners, (c) a pair of member cavities, each extending between the member's open ends and being located proximate an interior, bottom corner and having an opening that provides access to the cavity, (d) a 90-degree, mitered bracket, with fasteners, configured to fit into the open end of a member cavities and join two members on their ends at a right angle, and (e) a detent formed in each of cavity and configured to provide a locking mechanism for the free end of the fastener.
US12110681B2
A fire resistant panel member and a related method for producing a fire resistant panel member where the panel member includes a first layer, a second layer covering at least a portion of a surface of the first layer, the first and second layers each comprising a pigmented polyester resin and a first organic peroxide, a third layer covering at least a portion of a surface of the second layer, a substantially rigid core member covering at least a portion of a surface of the third layer, and a fourth layer covering at least a portion of a surface of the core member, the third and fourth layers each comprising a polyester resin, a flame retardant, a second organic peroxide, and a fiber material, wherein the panel member is configured to have an ASTM E84 Class I fire and smoke rating.
US12110676B2
A stowable generator device including a housing defining at least one storage chamber having an opening. A closure element is configured to selectively cover and uncover the opening. Support structure is disposed within the storage chamber in a collapsed position and is selectively extendable through the opening into an expanded position when the closure element is moved away from the opening. At least one energy generating unit is connected to the support structure. The support structure and the generating unit are configured to reversibly stow inside the housing in the collapsed position.
US12110675B2
The invention is a system of raising an effluent level of a septic system drainfield. The system includes an outer housing comprising an inlet in fluid communication with a septic tank. The housing further includes an outlet that enables the effluent to exit the system at a higher elevation. The housing interior includes a hollow insert that extends above a bottom surface of the housing. A baffle is positioned within the interior of the housing to surround the insert, dividing the housing interior into two compartments with insert passing therethrough. In use, wastewater effluent enters the housing interior from a septic tank and gravity falls into the bottom of the housing. An air pump can then be initiated to pump air into the system, which lifts the effluent into the housing upper compartment, where it will exit the system at a higher elevation.
US12110674B1
A vacuum plumbing assembly includes a premanufactured, self-supporting accumulator assembly having an accumulator, a wastewater outlet conduit rigidly attached to the accumulator, an air intake conduit rigidly attached to the accumulator, and a sensor conduit rigidly attached to the accumulator. The wastewater outlet conduit, the air intake conduit, and the sensor conduit extend substantially parallel to one another from their respective first ends to their respective second ends, and are configured with the accumulator as a unit that is pre-manufactured, the unit being substantially rigid and sufficiently self-supporting to be transportable in a peripherally frameless configuration.
US12110664B2
A display system includes a display and a controller. The controller causes the display to display a third figure representing a relative relationship between a first figure indicating a direction of a working implement of a working machine and a second figure indicating a direction of a target topography from the working machine.
US12110663B2
A shovel includes a hardware processor configured to collect diagnostic data from a condition detecting sensor and to detect an abnormality based on the collected diagnostic data. The hardware processor is configured to continue to collect the diagnostic data, after detection of the abnormality during collection of the diagnostic data.
US12110662B2
A work machine includes: an informing device that informs an operator; an input device for inputting predetermined information; a notification device that gives a notification to a worker around the work machine; a controller; and a communication device that communicates with a mobile terminal carried by the worker. The controller determines whether or not an approval request for requesting approval of entry into a movable range of the work machine transmitted from the mobile terminal when the worker around the work machine operates the mobile terminal has been received; inform, by using the informing device, that the approval request has been received when it is determined that the approval request has been received; determine whether or not approval operation of approving entry into the movable range has been performed on the input device; set an interpersonal communication level representing a degree of interpersonal communication between the operator and the worker depending on whether or not the approval request has been received and whether or not the approval operation has been performed; decide a mode of notification in accordance with the interpersonal communication level; and give a notification in the mode of notification by using the notification device.
US12110656B2
Problem to Be Solved: To provide a frame of a construction machine that can prevent a crack caused by a torsion load. Solution: The frame comprises the center member including the bottom plate and a pair of left and right vertical plates disposed on a top surface of the bottom plate, a pair of left and right skirt members horizontally disposed on both left and right sides of the center member, and a plurality of beam members disposed between the center member and right skirt member and between the center member and left skirt member, respectively. The plurality of beam members include the plate beam member disposed in a perpendicularly erected manner against the bottom plate. The first and second bent parts are formed on the plate beam member. The plate beam member has the first part extending outward in a horizontal direction from the center member to the first bent part, the second part extending from the first bent part to second bent part, and the third part extending outward in a horizontal direction from the second bent part to the skirt member.
US12110652B2
A shovel includes: an arm rotatably attached to a boom rotatably attached to a revolving body; a bucket rotatably attached to the arm; a tilt mechanism configured to support the bucket that can be tilted to the arm; a bucket tilt angle sensor configured to detect a tilt angle of the bucket; and a tilt angle controller configured to control adjusting the tilt angle. The tilt angle controller adjusts the tilt angle by automatic control of the tilt mechanism so that a bucket line of the bucket becomes parallel to a target excavation surface. The automatic control of the tilt mechanism is enabled after moving the shovel and/or during rotating the shovel.
US12110643B2
A modular street barrier system comprising a plurality of L-shaped modules lying on parallel vertical planes and connected to each other by way of a plurality of rods and by a flexible thread-like element.
US12110633B2
A method for making a burnout fabric includes: (1) pre-treating a greige fabric; (2) processing the pre-treated greige fabric with a burnout paste containing sulfuric acid, synthetic gum tragacanth, and sodium alginate; and (3) post-treating the greige fabric after the burnout treatment to obtain a burnout fabric. The method according to the present invention is simple in process, low in cost, and easy to implement, and the burnout fabric obtained thereby has an attractive and clear pattern, featuring a three-dimensional effect and a high quality.
US12110623B2
An apparatus for feeding plate-shaped functional elements to a sewing or stitching machine comprises a first guide rail which extends in a longitudinal direction between a first end and a second end and which has a first delimiting surface and a first guide surface extending transversely with respect to the first delimiting surface, a second guide rail which extends in the longitudinal direction between a first end and a second end and which has a second delimiting surface, facing the first delimiting surface and extending parallel to the first delimiting surface, and a second guide surface extending transversely with respect to the second delimiting surface in the direction of the first guide rail; and a transporting device configured to move a functional element resting on the first and the second guide surface from the first end of the guide rails in the direction of the second end of the guide rails.
US12110622B2
Provided are an article having inorganic fibers and needle marks extending in the thickness direction and including vertical bundles composed of the inorganic fibers extending in the thickness direction.
US12110621B2
A support and control device, intended to be mounted in a circular knitting machine provided with a supporting structure, a rotating needle-holding unit, and a plurality of stitch formation components, includes a support body provided with a mounting portion, which allows the device to be mounted to the supporting structure, with a front side and a rear side. The front side faces the needle-holding unit and is provided with at least one cam for controlling the plurality of stitch formation components, which defines a guiding path which interacts with respective butts for controlling each of the stitch formation components; the rear side is opposite to the front side and faces the outside of the knitting machine. The front side is without undercuts or holes or hollow surfaces facing said needle-holding unit.
US12110620B2
A circular textile knitting machine includes a drive chain for each needle inserted in a respective longitudinal groove, located below a respective needle and operatively interposed between the respective needle and actuating cams. The drive chain includes a sub-needle arranged below the needle and engaged with the needle to be axially moved in the respective longitudinal groove together with the needle. The sub-needle includes a movable butt radially movable between an operating position, in which it is extracted to be engaged with respective first paths defined by first actuating cams and cause activation of the needle, and a non-operating position, in which it is retracted to not be engaged with the first paths. A selector is partly located below the sub-needle and partly alongside the sub-needle and is configured for oscillating between an active position, in which it pushes the movable butt into the operating position, and a rest position, in which it allows the movable butt to return into the non-operating position. The selector is axially uncoupled from the sub-needle and from the needle in a manner such that the needle and the sub-needle are never pushed or pulled axially by the selector. A selecting device acts upon command on the selectors so as to cause the passage thereof into the active position.
US12110618B2
A knitted fabric structure that includes a piezoelectric yarn having a piezoelectric material that produces a surface potential by input of an external force from an outside of the piezoelectric yarn; and an elastic yarn having stretchability knitted together with the piezoelectric yarn, wherein the piezoelectric yarn has a mixing ratio of 5% or more based on a whole of the knitted fabric structure.
US12110612B2
An electrode system for use in an AC-electrospinning process comprises an electrical charging component electrode and at least one of an AC field attenuating component and a precursor liquid attenuating component. The electrical charging component electrode is electrically coupled to an AC source that places a predetermined AC voltage on the electrical charging component electrode. In cases in which the electrode system includes the AC field attenuating component, it attenuates the AC field generated by the electrical charging component electrode to better shape and control the direction of the fibrous flow. In cases in which the electrode system includes the precursor liquid attenuating component, it serves to increase fiber generation, even if the top surface of the liquid precursor is not ideally shaped or is below a rim or lip of the reservoir that contains the liquid on the electrical charging component electrode.
US12110611B2
Methods of generating conditionally active biologic proteins, in particular therapeutic or diagnostic proteins, which are more active at an aberrant condition than at a normal physiological condition. The methods include discovery methods using libraries of proteins and assays employing physiological concentrations of components of bodily fluids. The conditionally active biologic proteins may be further evolved, conjugated to other molecules, masked, reduced in activity by attaching a cleavable moiety. Criteria for selecting starting proteins for the discovery methods, as well as formats of the proteins are also disclosed.
US12110609B2
Methods for forming a single crystal silicon ingot with reduced crucible erosion are disclosed. Solid-phase quartz is added to the melt to reduce erosion at the crucible-melt surface interface. The quartz may be synthetic quartz such as synthetic quartz rods. The quartz may be disposed near the crucible-melt surface interface. Quartz dissolves and suppresses the amount of quartz that dissolves from the crucible at the crucible-melt surface interface.
US12110605B2
The present disclosure relates to a film-forming metal solution for use in a method in which a solid electrolyte membrane having sulfonic acid groups is disposed between an anode and a substrate serving as a cathode, the solid electrolyte membrane is brought into contact with the substrate, and a voltage is applied between the anode and the substrate to deposit a metal onto a surface of the substrate from metal ions supplied into the solid electrolyte membrane and thereby form a metal coating on the surface of the substrate, the film-forming metal solution being adapted to supply metal ions into the solid electrolyte membrane, wherein the film-forming metal solution comprises an aqueous metal solution, a solvent, and a nonionic surfactant, and the nonionic surfactant has a linear hydrophilic group having ethylene oxide units and a hydrophobic group having a cyclic structure and a maximum length of 40 Å or less.
US12110603B2
The presently disclosed concepts relate to ultra-efficient EV battery recycling systems. Alkali metal extraction (and in particular lithium extraction) is accomplished using a solid electrolyte membrane. By using a solid electrolyte embedded in a matrix, alkali metals, in particular lithium, can be (energy-wise) efficiently separated from feed solutions. The energy used to initially extract lithium from a feed solution is stored as electrochemical energy, which electrochemical energy is reclaimed in subsequent extraction processing steps. This energy storage and energy reclamation is performed in continuous ultra-efficient ongoing cycles. Since irrecoverable energy losses incurred in each cycle are limited to negligible amounts of joule heating of the system components and feed solution, the system can be sustainably powered using locally-generated renewable energy.
US12110601B2
A method for producing a cement material wherein 1) a first acid is reacted with a first cement precursor to form a second cement precursor, and 2) the second cement precursor is converted to a cement material. The first cement precursor includes one or more of Ca, Si, or Al, and the reaction with the first acid produces a second cement precursor that includes one or more of Ca, Si, or Al, and the conjugate base of the first acid. The second step can be performed by thermally converting the second cement precursor to a cement material by sintering or thermally decomposing the second cement precursor at a temperature in the range of 500 to 2000° C. The first step can be performed in the presence of water as a wet slurry. The concentration of the first acid can be greater than 20% by weight.
US12110599B1
A vessel corrosion protection apparatus includes a specially shaped anode having a smaller diameter, longer portion and a shorter portion with radially extending ribs that are cast with the anode and configured to engage the inside surface of a section of pipe that extends away from the vessel outer wall. A vessel corrosion protection apparatus includes a specially shaped anode having a smaller diameter, longer portion and a shorter portion with radially extending ribs that are configured to engage the inside surface of a section of pipe that extends away from the vessel outer wall, the anode connected to a plate not made of anodic material and which has a face free from penetrations which would allow liquid penetration through the plate when the anode is attached to a vessel.
US12110578B2
Austenitic stainless steel includes 16 to 26 wt % of chromium (Cr), 8 to 22 wt % of nickel (Ni), 0.02 to 0.1 wt % of carbon (C), 0.2 to 1 wt % of niobium (Nb), and 2 to 3.5 wt % of manganese (Mn), and has an austenite matrix, wherein a nanosized niobium carbide (NbC) is precipitated in the austenite matrix, and the nanosized niobium carbide is uniformly dispersed in the austenite matrix. The austenitic stainless steel may further include 0.5 to 1.5 wt % of molybdenum (Mo).
US12110573B2
In accordance with one embodiment, a method comprises dissolving a sulfide of a first metal in a solvent comprising molten aluminum; aluminothermically reduce at least a portion of the sulfide through reactive vacuum distillation to form gaseous aluminum sulfide distillate and elemental first metal that remains in the molten aluminum; and at least one of (e.g., one, two, or all three of) (a) reacting the aluminum sulfide distillate with at least one material in the molten aluminum; (b) reacting the aluminum sulfide distillate with at least one material outside of the molten aluminum; or (c) condensing the gaseous aluminum sulfide distillate.
US12110571B2
The invention relates to a method for partial hardening of a steel sheet by cold deformation, where the partial hardening of a steel is done by a cold deformation with a multi-step rolling and annealing process and in order to have a steel sheet with a homogeneous thickness steel sheet is used with at least two areas having different values in mechanical and/or physical properties in longitudinal direction of the material.
US12110563B1
Multiple lamp primer set, detection method, and kit for simultaneous detection of multiple pathogens
The present disclosure relates to a multiple LAMP primer set, a detection method, and a kit for simultaneously detecting multiple pathogens, belonging to the field of microbial detection. The multiple pathogens are Vibrio harveyi, Vibrio parahaemolyticus, and Singapore grouper iridovirus. The detection primer set is as shown in SEQ ID NO.: 1-18. The present disclosure further provides an application, a kit, and a detection method of multiple LAMP primer sets in simultaneously detecting multiple pathogens. The method of the present disclosure can simultaneously detect whether a sample contains the Vibrio harveyi, the Vibrio parahaemolyticus, or the Singapore grouper iridovirus, has strong specificity, convenient and simple operation, and has no need for an expensive instrument and equipment.
US12110560B2
The present disclosure provides a method for monitoring residual disease in a subject. Generally, the method comprises determining a frequency of cancer mutations from a first sample obtained from a tumor biopsy from the subject; determining a frequency of the cancer mutations discovered in the first sample from a second sample comprising cell-free deoxyribonucleic acid (cfDNA) molecules that is obtained from the subject after the subject has undergone a course of treatment for cancer; and determining a presence or absence of cancer in the subject based on an analysis of the frequency of the cancer mutations from sequence data from the second sample.
US12110556B2
A kit for in vitro measurement of a at least one IL7R gene transcript in a blood sample, including specific reagents for measuring the transcript, and a control sample calibrated to contain the IL7R gene transcript corresponding to the mean quantity measured in a pool of reference blood samples from human patients in a state of septic shock when reference blood samples are taken, or who were in a state of septic shock within 72 h after taking the reference blood samples, and who were known to have survived, and/or a calibrated to contain the quantity of an IL7R gene transcript corresponding to the mean quantity measured in reference blood samples from patients in a state of septic shock when the reference blood samples are taken, or who were in a state of septic shock within 72 h after taking the reference blood samples, and not to have survived.
US12110555B2
This invention provides methods of diagnosis, predicting and diagnosing susceptibility to, predicting disease progression and treatment of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), including Crohn's disease and/or subtypes of Crohn's disease (CD) and/or Ulcerative Colitis (UC). In one embodiment, a method of the invention is practiced by determining the presence or absence of the genetic variants NOD2, TLR8, TLR2, CARD8, CARD15 and/or JAK3 to diagnose, predict and diagnose susceptibility and predict disease progression in an individual. In another embodiment, a method of the invention is practiced by determining the presence or absence of anti-Cbir1, anti-OmpC, ASCA, anti-I2 and/or pANCA in an individual. In another embodiment, the invention further associates the presence or absence of the risk variants with the expression of anti-Cbir1, anti-OmpC, ASCA, anti-I2 and/or pANCA for the diagnosis, prediction of susceptibility, prediction of disease progression and/or treatment of IBD, including CD and/or UC.
US12110538B2
Provided are a method for detecting a nucleic acid based on prokaryotic Argonaute protein and an application thereof. In particular, provided is a system for detecting a target nucleic acid molecule. The system comprises guide ssDNA, a gene-editing enzyme Pyrococcus furiosus Argonaute (PfAgo), and a fluorescent reporter nucleic acid.
US12110530B2
The present invention provides an improved process for high titer lactic acid production using simultaneous saccharification and co-fermentation process using acid treated lignocellulosic biomass. The process comprises of pretreating lignocellulosic biomass comprising C5 and C6 sugars with dilute acid and superheated steam at a temperature ranging from 150-210° C.; neutralizing the pretreated lignocellulosic biomass of step (i) with NaOH pellets; and adding cellulase enzyme in the range of 1.5 to 10 FPU/g, bacteria, nutrients and buffering agent to the neutralized slurry obtained in step (ii) for hydrolysis and co-fermentation of C5 and C6 sugars at a temperature ranging from 40-45° C. for a period of 120-144 hours to obtain lactic acid. The process of the present invention requires simple nutrients and results in high titer lactic acid production within shortest duration of time.
US12110519B2
The present disclosure relates to a novel spherical agglomeration method for proteins, and protein particles made by the spherical agglomeration method. By using continuous oscillatory baffled crystallizer, the method of the present disclosure is capable of maintain the biologically activities and providing protein particles with an average particle size between 1-500 μm.
US12110513B2
The present invention provides engineered pantothenate kinase (PanK) enzymes, polypeptides having PanK activity, and polynucleotides encoding these enzymes, as well as vectors and host cells comprising these polynucleotides and polypeptides. Methods for producing PanK enzymes are also provided. The present invention further provides compositions comprising the PanK enzymes and methods of using the engineered PanK enzymes. The present invention finds particular use in the production of pharmaceutical compounds.
US12110505B2
A method for preparing a leukocyte preparation from a leukocyte fraction and a correspondingly prepared or obtainable leukocyte preparation and its use. The methods include: a) sedimenting the leukocyte fraction removing leukocyte supernatant from the sediment, wherein the leukocyte supernatant is collected or remains in a leukocyte container, b) sedimenting the leukocytes in the leukocyte container, c) washing the sediment in the leukocyte container with a saline solution, and d) resuspending the sediment in the leukocyte container in a storage solution.
US12110504B2
Methods are provided for the cell-based delivery of collagen VII for the treatment of Epidermolysis Bullosa and corneal erosion. The disclosure also provides a composition and a pharmaceutical composition comprises, comprise, or alternatively consist essentially of, or yet further consist of a keratinocyte sheet or a corneal cell sheet.
US12110503B2
Provided herein are methods of producing a photoreceptor precursor (PRP) cell population derived from stem cells. Further provided herein are methods of using the PRP cell populations, such as for therapeutics.
US12110501B2
A neurogenesis stimulant containing a compound having a structure represented by the following formula. R1 to R3 each are an alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, and the broken line means presence or absence of a bond.
US12110499B2
The present disclosure provides improved compositions for the homology directed repair of the human globin locus for the prevention, treatment, or amelioration of at least one symptom of a hemoglobinopathy.
US12110492B2
The present disclosure relates to RNAi agents, e.g., double stranded RNAi agents or siRNAs, able to inhibit Complement Component C3 (C3) gene expression. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions that include C3 RNAi agents and methods of use thereof. The C3 RNAi agents disclosed herein may be conjugated to targeting ligands, including ligands that comprise N-acetyl-galactosanine, to facilitate the delivery to hepatocyte cells. Delivery of the C3 RNAi agents in vivo provides for inhibition of C3 gene expression. The RNAi agents can be used in methods of treatment of diseases, disorders, or symptoms mediated in part by C3 gene expression, including IgA nephropathy, C3 glomerulopathy, paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria, and/or other complement-mediated renal diseases.
US12110475B2
Described herein is a process for manufacturing ethoxylated polyethylene-imines. Also described herein are the ethoxylated polyethyleneimines and methods for using the ethoxylated polyethyleneimines.
US12110465B2
A device includes a desulfurization system which forms a hydrogen sulfide-containing acid gas; a system for extracting elemental sulfur and a hydrogen sulfide-containing tail gas as exhaust gas; a device for generating electricity and gypsum from the tail gas; and a gas line system for supplying acid gas from the desulfurization system to the system for extracting elemental sulfur and to the device for generating electricity and gypsum, and for supplying tail gas from the system for extracting elemental sulfur to the device for generating electricity and gypsum. The gas line system has a gas distributing apparatus which supplies acid gas solely to the system in a first position, supplies acid gas solely to the device in a second position, and supplies a first part of the acid gas to the system and a second part of the acid gas to the device in a distributing position.
US12110463B2
A method for powering a diesel engine with a fuel emulsion involves preparing the fuel emulsion by emulsifying a fuel and water in the presence of an emulsifier package, which contains a branched surfactant of the formula (I) as defined below and optionally, a propoxylated surfactant of the formula (II) as defined below. A fuel emulsion for powering a diesel engine is also provided.
US12110456B2
Methods and compositions suitable for forming electrodes and other components of energy storage devices are disclosed.
US12110443B2
A method of infusing salt can include heating salt to a temperature above the boiling point of water. The method can also apply a liquid additive solution to the heated salt to create an infused salt. The temperature of the heated salt can be sufficiently high that the salt remains above the boiling point of water for a first period of time after the liquid additive solution is applied thereto.
US12110439B2
A laminate including a vertically oriented liquid crystal cured film and a horizontally oriented phase difference film is provided. The vertically oriented liquid crystal cured film is a cured product of a polymerizable liquid crystal composition containing a polymerizable liquid crystal compound and a dichroic coloring matter. The composition includes, as the dichroic coloring matter, at least one type of dichroic coloring matter having maximum absorption between a wavelength of 400 nm and a wavelength of 750 nm. The vertically oriented liquid crystal cured film is a cured product of the polymerizable liquid crystal composition that is cured in a state in which the polymerizable liquid crystal compound is oriented in a vertical direction with respect to a flat plane of the liquid crystal cured film, and satisfies the following formula (1) and the following formula (2): 0.001≤AxC≤0.3 (1); AxC(z=60)/AxC>2 (2).
