US11492649B2
The present disclosure provides methods for generating sugars from a cellulosic biomass. The methods combine treatment of the biomass using a high-shear milling device and saccharification of the biomass to partially hydrolyze the biomass. The biomass can be saccharified either after or simultaneously with the high-shear milling treatement. The partially hydrolyzed biomass is then separated into a solids stream with saccharification enzymes, and a liquid stream with sugars. The solids stream and associated enzymes are further incubated under saccharification conditions to produce additional sugars, or are recycled and added to fresh biomass, which is saccharified under high-shear milling conditions. The methods result in improved conversion of cellulosic biomass to glucose.
US11492647B2
Disclosed are methods and compositions for increasing the triacylglycerol content of a cell by increasing the activity of a type 1 diacylglycerol acyltransferase (i.e., DGA2) and increasing the activity of a type 2 diacylglycerol acyltransferase (i.e., DGA1). In some embodiments, the triacylglycerol content of a cell is also modified my decreasing the activity of a triacylglycerol lipase in the same cell. Also disclosed are methods and compositions for increasing the triacylglycerol content of a cell by increasing the activity of a type 1 diacylglycerol acyltransferase (i.e., DGA2), or by increasing the activity of a type 3 diacylglycerol acyltransferase (i.e., DGA3).
US11492633B2
This disclosure provides tobacco plants having a mutation in PR50 and transgenic tobacco plants containing a PR50 RNAi, and methods of making and using such plants.
US11492625B2
The present invention is related to a nucleic acid molecule capable of binding to human C5a, wherein the nucleic acid molecule comprises a central stretch of nucleotides, wherein the central stretch of nucleotides comprises a nucleotide sequence of 5′ AUGn1GGUGKUn2n3RGGGHUGUKGGGn4Gn5CGACGCA 3′ [SEQ ID NO: 61], wherein n1 is U or dU, n2 is G or dG, n3 is A or dA, n4 is U or dU, n5 is U or dU and G, A, U, C, H, K, and R are ribonucleotides, and dU, dG and dA are 2′-deoxyribonucleotides.
US11492623B2
The present disclosure relates to double stranded RNA agents targeting the hepatitis B virus (HBV) genome, and methods of using such agents to inhibit expression of one or more HBV genes and methods of treating subjects having an HBV infection or HBV-associated disorder, e.g., chronic hepatitis B infection.
US11492622B2
The present disclosure, at least in part, relates to a miRNA based logic gate that comprises an engineered RNA carrier that comprises an nuclear export signal, a target site for a first miRNA and a pre-miRNA sequence for a second miRNA. Also provided by the disclosure are recombinant viruses (e.g., recombinant adeno-associated viruses (rAAV)) for delivery of the miRNA based logic gates.
US11492612B1
Provided herein are methods of determining a surgical margin and the site and size of a tissue to be resected from a subject, and methods of use thereof.
US11492611B2
Systems and methods for enhancing RNA translatability and stability are disclosed. Some embodiments describe RNA molecules exhibiting increased translatability and/or stability. Additional embodiments describe methods for screening RNA molecules for increased translatability and/or stability. Various embodiments utilize screening methods, including degenerative sequences to identify sequences or regions that increase the translatability and/or stability of RNA molecules.
US11492606B2
The present invention discloses a nitrilase mutant and its construction method and its application in the synthesis of chiral intermediate of pregabalin in the technical field of bioengineering. The present invention, respectively, takes turnip nitrilase BrNIT and arabidopsis nitrilase AtNIT as parent, using peptide fragment displacement method, displaces the sites 226-286 of BrNIT amino acid sequence and sites 225-285 of AtNIT amino acid sequence with sites 225-285 of Arabis alpina L. nitrilase AaNIT, obtain nitrilase mutants BrNIT225-285 and AtNIT225-285 of which the amino acid sequence is as shown in SEQ ID NO.1 or SEQ ID NO.3. Compared with wild type nitrilase, the activity of the nitrilase mutant provided by the present invention in catalyzing and hydrolyzing racemic IBSN and the stereoselectivity of the product show substantial improvement, it can satisfy the requirements of industrial application, and has good application prospect in efficient catalysis of racemic IBSN to synthesize 3-cyano-5-methylhexanoic Acid.
US11492602B2
The present invention provides a gene including an M13 p5 expressing cassette, which includes a promoter, a ribosome binding site (RBS) and a protein 5 (p5) coding region, wherein at least one base of sequences between the RBS and the p5 coding region is mutated. Using this gene may increase production of single-stranded DNA.
US11492598B2
The present disclosure provides a substrate for cell culture. Systems comprising the substrate, and methods for using and manufacturing the substrate are also disclosed herein.
US11492596B2
The invention is directed to methods for culturing cells so that the cells are induced to differentiate into cells that express a hepatic stellate phenotype. The invention is also directed to cells produced by the methods of the invention. The cells are useful, among other applications, for treatment of liver deficiencies, liver metabolism studies, and liver toxicity studies, fibrogenic studies, or to support hepatocyte function in co-culture setting.
US11492586B2
A first imaging unit obtains an image of at least one of a jet flow, droplets or satellite drops. Based on a feature value of the at least one of the jet flow, the droplets or the satellite drops in the image, a controller controls a timing of starting to supply charges from a charge supply unit to a final jet flow droplet in one period of vibrations of a vibration element or an amplitude of a drive voltage applied to the vibration element so as to cause variation of a side stream to fall within a reference range.
US11492576B2
The present invention discloses a process for preparing a sparkling alcoholic beverage resulting from the maceration of hops and/or its derivatives in wine with the addition of wine concentrate, vegetable water and/or water, fruit or vegetable concentrate and/or sugar, in order to reduce the alcohol content of wine, and which is gasified by a second alcoholic fermentation and/or addition of carbon dioxide. Through this process a sparkling alcoholic beverage having between 5 and 15% alcohol, a sugar content between 0.1 and 200 g/L, with a total acidity between 4 and 8 g/L is obtained having hops aroma, flavor and bitterness combined with aromas inherent to wine.
US11492566B2
The present invention provides a lubricant composition comprising a base oil of lubricating viscosity, wherein the base oil comprises an ether base stock of formula (A), where: Ra and Rb are aliphatic hydrocarbyl groups and may be the same or different; the lubricant composition further comprising at least one aminic anti-oxidant and at least one phenolic anti-oxidant. In some embodiments, the ether base stock has the formula (1), where: R1 R2, R3, R4, R5 and R6 are as defined herein. The lubricant composition may be used for lubricating a surface in an internal combustion engine as well as for improving the fuel economy performance and/or piston cleanliness performance of an engine and/or a vehicle, such as an automotive vehicle associated with an internal combustion engine.
US11492556B2
The present disclosure relates to co-processing at least a fossil-based feed, pyrolysis liquid and a distillation residue from tall oil distillation in an oil refinery conversion process.
US11492531B1
Sand consolidation for a subterranean formation can be achieved by adding a curable resin to a drilling fluid. The curable resin can be a furan- or epoxy- or silane-based resin. The drilling fluid can form a filtercake on a wellbore wall. A filtercake-removal fluid can provide a dual function to remove the filtercake and cure the curable resin, which consolidates formation particles. A curing agent can also be included in the filtercake-removal fluid. Sand consolidation can also be achieved by adding the curable resin to the filtercake-removal fluid. The resin can penetrate into the formation as the filtercake is being removed and then cure.
US11492528B2
Provided is a heat dissipation sheet capable of effectively enhancing adhesiveness and long-term insulation reliability. The heat dissipation sheet according to the present invention contains first inorganic particles having an aspect ratio of 2 or less, second inorganic particles having an aspect ratio of more than 2, and a binder resin. In this heat dissipation sheet, a content of the second inorganic particles is larger than a content of the first inorganic particles in 100% by volume of a region having a thickness of 15% on a first surface side in a thickness direction, and the content of the first inorganic particles in 100% by volume of the region having a thickness of 15% is larger than the content of the first inorganic particles in 100% by volume of a central region having a thickness of 70%.
US11492527B2
An object is to provide a mixed refrigerant having three types of performance, i.e., a refrigerating capacity (also referred to as refrigeration capacity and cooling capacity) and a coefficient of performance that are equivalent to those of R410A, and a sufficiently low GWP. Provided as a means for a solution is a composition comprising a refrigerant, the refrigerant comprising trans-1,2-difluoroethylene (HFO-1132(E)), trifluoroethylene (HFO-1123), and 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoro-1-propene (R1234yf), and R32.
US11492523B2
The present invention relates to an acryl-based adhesive composition containing an acryl-based copolymer, which is formed by polymerization of a monomer mixture that contains a (meth)acryl-based monomer having an acetoacetyl group, a (meth)acryl-based monomer having a hydroxy group, a (meth)acrylate monomer having an alicyclic group, and an alkyl (meth) acrylate-based monomer; and a curing agent containing a metal chelate compound and an isocyanate compound, in which the acryl-based adhesive composition has a glass transition temperature of −30° C. or greater after curing; and a polarizing plate and a display device prepared using the same.
US11492518B2
A hot-melt adhesive composition comprises a mixture of silylated polymers, a tackifying resin and a catalyst, in specific contents, having self-adhesive properties after crosslinking to moisture. A self-adhesive article comprises a support layer and at least one self-adhesive layer obtained after crosslinking to the moisture in the adhesive composition according to the invention. The self-adhesive article can be used to bond low-energy substrates, in particular plastic substrates, notably thermoplastic substrates having low surface energy.
US11492515B2
The present invention is an assembly layer for a flexible device. The assembly layer is derived from precursors that include about 0 to about 50 wt % C1-C9 alkyl(meth)acrylate, about 40 to about 99 wt % C10-C24 (meth)acrylate, about 0 to about 30 wt % hydroxyl(meth)acrylate, about 0 to about 10 wt % of a non-hydroxy functional polar monomer, and about 0 to about 5 wt % crosslinker.
US11492500B2
In certain embodiments, the invention is directed to apparatus comprising a liquid-impregnated surface, said surface comprising an impregnating liquid and a matrix of solid features spaced sufficiently close to stably contain the impregnating liquid therebetween or therewithin, and methods thereof. In some embodiments, one or both of the following holds: (i) 0<ϕ≤0.25, where ϕ is a representative fraction of the projected surface area of the liquid-impregnated surface corresponding to non-submerged solid at equilibrium; and (ii) Sow(a)<0, where Sow(a) is spreading coefficient, defined as γwa−γwo−γoa, where γ is the interfacial tension between the two phases designated by subscripts w, a, and o, where w is water, a is air, and o is the impregnating liquid.
US11492499B2
Provided is a composite resin composition for steel plates for a fuel tank, including: 30 to 65% by weight of a polymer resin; 1 to 15% by weight of a curing agent; 2 to 20% by weight of a corrosion-resistant additive; 1 to 15% by weight of an adhesion promoting agent comprising a polyphosphazene polymer compound; and a residual solvent. A composite resin-coated steel plate for a fuel tank, and a manufacturing method for a composite resin-coated steel plate are provided.
US11492494B2
A method of increasing the strength of a carbonate rock is described. The carbonate rock may be located within a subterranean carbonate formation or may be located on a building exterior. The method involves contacting the carbonate rock with a composition comprising a zinc salt or a silicon alkoxide. This may increase the hardness of the carbonate rock by 10% or more.
US11492487B2
A thermoplastic resin composition and a molded article formed of the same. The thermoplastic resin composition includes: about 100 parts by weight of a polycarbonate resin; about 5 to about 20 parts by weight of a rubber modified aromatic vinyl copolymer resin; about 0.5 to about 3 parts by weight of a maleic anhydride-grafted rubber polymer; about 50 to about 100 parts by weight of glass fibers; about 10 to about 30 parts by weight of barium sulfate; and about 5 to about 20 parts by weight of a phosphorus flame retardant. The thermoplastic resin composition can have high specific gravity and good properties in terms of impact resistance, weather resistance, flame retardancy, fluidity, and the like.
US11492486B2
To provide a flame retardant resin composition having excellent flame retardancy and excellent resin physical properties. There is provided a flame retardant resin composition, including: an aromatic polycarbonate resin; an inorganic filler; a phosphate ester flame retardant; an organic sulfonic acid flame retardant; a drip preventing agent; and a polyorganosiloxane-containing graft copolymer, in which a content of the aromatic polycarbonate resin is 40 to 95 pts.mass to 5 to 60 pts.mass of the inorganic filler, and a content of the phosphate ester flame retardant, a content of the organic sulfonic acid flame retardant, a content of the drip preventing agent, and a content of the polyorganosiloxane-containing graft copolymer are respectively 1 to 30 pts.mass, 0.01 to 2.5 pts.mass, 0.05 to 1.5 pts.mass, and 0 to 10 pts.mass to the total 100 pts.mass of the aromatic polycarbonate resin and the inorganic filler.
US11492485B2
There are provided a resin composition that is suitable for the production of a flame-retardant molded article and that can provide high flame retardancy even with a small amount of flame retardant added, and a flame retardancy determination method for determining the flame retardancy of a resin composition. The resin composition of the present invention contains a thermoplastic resin, a cellulosic material, and a phosphate flame retardant and satisfies relational expressions (1) and (2) (where in expressions (1) and (2), TP, TB, and TCMP are temperatures at weight loss rate peaks in thermogravimetric analysis, TP is a temperature (° C.) at a weight loss rate peak of the thermoplastic resin, TB is a temperature (° C.) at a weight loss rate peak of the cellulosic material, and TCMP is a temperature (° C.) at a weight loss rate peak of the resin composition. When the resin composition has two weight loss rate peaks, TCMP is a temperature at a peak on a lower temperature side).
US11492480B2
The invention provides a fluoroelastomer composition that can be crosslinked at an industrially sufficient rate without the use of a graphene having specific surface properties and can provide a fluoroelastomer molded article having higher tensile strength and better abrasion resistance than conventional fluoroelastomer molded articles even though having a similar tensile modulus to conventional fluoroelastomer molded articles. The fluoroelastomer composition contains a fluoroelastomer that contains a crosslinkable group-containing monomer unit and an elongated sheet-shaped graphene. The graphene exhibits a ratio (L/W) of a maximum length (L) and a width (W) of 2 to 105, and the graphene exhibits a ratio (L/T) of the maximum length (L) and a thickness (T) of 1×101 to 1×107.
US11492475B2
A polypropylene film which is capable of suppressing blocking in a rolled polypropylene film. The polypropylene film has a first surface and a second surface, contains a polypropylene resin as a main component, and is configured such that: the Svk value (SvkA) of the first surface is 0.005 μm or more and 0.030 μm or less; the Spk value (SpkA) of the first surface is more than 0.035 μm and 0.080 μm or less; the Svk value (SvkB) of the second surface is 0.005 μm or more and 0.030 μm or less; and the Spk value (SpkB) of the second surface is 0.015 μm or more and 0.035 μm or less.
US11492474B2
In an embodiment, a slit film tape composition includes a propylene-based elastomer comprising 1-16 wt % ethylene based on a total weight of the propylene-based elastomer, the propylene-based elastomer having a melt flow rate (MFR) of 1-50 g/10 min; a polypropylene comprising 10-100 mol % propylene based on a total weight of the polypropylene, the polypropylene having a MFR of 2-35 g/10 min; and a filler. In another embodiment, a slit film tape composition includes a propylene-based elastomer comprising from 5-30 wt % ethylene based on a total weight of the propylene-based elastomer, the propylene-based elastomer having a MFR of 35-60 g/10 min; a polypropylene comprising 10-100 mol % propylene based on a total weight of the polypropylene, the polypropylene having a MFR of 2-35 g/10 min; and a filler.
US11492471B2
A propylene polymer satisfying (a) below, a soft propylene copolymer satisfying (b) below, and a polyolefin containing a structural unit derived from an unsaturated carboxylic acid and/or a derivative thereof, wherein (a) a melting point is 100° C. or more, and (b) an MFR is in the range of 0.01 to 100 g/10 min, at least one of the following requirements (b-1) and (b-2) is satisfied: (b-1) a syndiotactic triad fraction s 60% or more, and (b-2) a structural unit derived from propylene is 55 to 90 mol % and a structural unit derived from at least one olefin having 2 to 20 carbon atoms (excluding propylene) is contained at 10 to 45 mol % (with provisos), and the relation between an intrinsic viscosity [η] (dL/g) and the MFR satisfies the relation: 1.50×MFR−0.20≤[η]≤2.65×MFR−0.20.
US11492468B2
According to at least one embodiment of the present disclosure, polyethylene formulations and modified polyethylene compositions are provided. Embodiments of the polyethylene formulation may include a free radical generator; and a multimodal polyethylene composition. The multimodal polyethylene composition may include a peak in a temperature range of 95° C. to 120° C. in the elution profile via improved comonomer composition distribution (iCCD), wherein a polyethylene fraction area is an area in the elution profile beneath the peak of the polyethylene fraction between 95° C. and 120° C., and wherein the polyethylene fraction area comprises at least 20% of the total area of the elution profile and a molecular weight (Mw) of less than 80,000 g/mol in the temperature range of from 95° C. to 120° C. on an elution profile via iCCD. The modified polyethylene composition may be the reaction product of the free radical generator and the multimodal polyethylene composition.
US11492464B2
A light-curable composition is provided which may be used as a photopolymerizable material in an additive manufacturing process. The additive manufacturing process involves heating the light-curable composition which has a viscosity at 20° C. of at least 20 Pa·s. The light-curable composition includes a photopolymerizable matrix material, at least one thermoplastic polymer dissolved therein, and at least one photoinitiator. Polycaprolactone or a derivative thereof is used as the dissolved thermoplastic polymer.
US11492462B2
The present invention relates to a flame-retardant composition, a method for preparing the same and an article therefrom. The composition may include at least one thermoplastic polyurethane, at least one primary flame retardant, and at least one metal carbonate particle.
US11492457B2
Described herein are fluoropolymer compositions comprising a compound of Formula I wherein X1 is selected from O or S; L is a divalent linking group comprising at least one aromatic ring; and X2 is selected from the group consisting of a hydroxyl group, an amino group, a thiol group, and a nitrile group. In one embodiment, the phthalonitrile-containing compound is used to crosslink a dehydrohalogenated polymer, and optionally with a polyhydroxy curative. In another embodiment, the phthalonitrile-containing compound is added to a composition comprising (i) a fluorinated elastomeric gum, wherein the fluorinated elastomeric gum comprises a fluoropolymer having a cure-site and (ii) a peroxide curing system.
US11492454B2
A material susceptible to dielectric heating has a base polymeric thermoplastic material (1) and a dielectric heating susceptor (2, 3) which increases susceptibility to heating by irradiation with electromagnetic, for example RF or microwave, radiation. The dielectric heating susceptor has a polymeric material (2) such as PVDF which is different from the base polymeric material and has a higher dielectric loss factor than the base polymeric material. The dielectric heating susceptor also comprises electrically polarisable entities such as carbon black dispersed within the base polymeric material without forming a conductive network. The two susceptor materials in combination with the base polymer are particularly effective together at improving susceptibility to electromagnetic radiation heating of the whole material.
US11492451B2
The present invention relates to a super absorbent polymer and a manufacturing method thereof. More particularly, the present invention relates to a manufacturing a fine powder reassembly in which excellent physical properties are maintained.
US11492450B2
The present disclosure relates to dual-headed organoaluminum compositions having the formula (I) and processes to prepare the same. In at least one aspect, the compositions having the formula (I) may be used during olefin polymerization.
US11492448B2
A method for preparing a product includes combining starting materials including A) a siloxane oligomer having silicon bonded hydrogen atoms, B) an alkoxysilane having at least one aliphatically unsaturated group capable of undergoing hydrosilylation reaction and C) a cobalt catalyst. The method can be used to produce a compound of formula (I). This compound can be used in a hydrosilylation reaction with a vinyl-functional polyorganosiloxane. The resulting product includes an ethyltrimethoxysilyl functional polyorganosiloxane useful in condensation reaction curable sealant compositions.
US11492446B2
An object of the present invention is to reduce or eliminate a defect (e.g., a void) by achieving (i) a semipreg and a prepreg each of which allows a reduction in residual volatile component and (ii) methods for producing the semipreg and the prepreg, respectively, and consequently to achieve (iii) a fiber-reinforced composite material which has high heat resistance and superior mechanical strength and a (iv) a method for producing the fiber-reinforced composite material. The present invention attains the above object by providing, for example, a semipreg containing: powders of an imide oligomer; and reinforcement fibers, the imide oligomer being represented by a specific general formula (1).
US11492443B2
Provided are integrated processes for the conversion of ethylene oxide to polypropiolactone. System for the production of polypropiolactone are also provided.
US11492442B2
The present invention provides organic compounds having pseudocapacitive performance and methods of preparing said compounds. The organic compounds can include perylene diamine (PDI) subunits and hexaazatrinaphthylene (HATN) subunits.
US11492438B2
A block copolymer including a polymer block (A) containing more than 70 mol % of a unit derived from an aromatic vinyl compound, and a polymer block (B) containing 30 mol % or more of a unit derived from a conjugated diene compound is provided. The block copolymer satisfies the conditions: (1): a content of the polymer block (A) in the block copolymer is 1 to 70% by mass; (2): a maximum width of a series of temperature regions where tan δ measured in accordance with JIS K7244-10 (2005), under conditions including a strain amount of 0.1%, a frequency of 1 a measurement temperature of −70 to 100° C., and a temperature rise rate of 3° C./min, is 1.0 or more is less than 16° C.; (3): a temperature at a peak position of tan δ in the condition (2) is 0° C. to +50° C.; and (4): a mobility parameter M indicating a mobility of the polymer block (B) is 0.01 to 0.25 sec.
US11492434B2
A hydrogel precursor composition includes 10 wt % to 40 wt % N-isopropylacrylamide, 0.5 wt % to 2 wt % N,N′-methylenebisacrylamide, a solvent, and a photoinitiator. The hydrogel precursor composition is photocurable and thermally responsive. A thermally responsive hydrogel is formed by photopolymerizing the hydrogel precursor composition. The thermally responsive hydrogel may be used to mimic the activity of muscle fibers.
US11492419B2
A clathrate of 1-methylcyclopropene with α-cyclodextrin, obtained as a solid particulate product, is modified by comminuting, classifying, or both to obtain a modified particulate. When subjected to identical atmospheric disgorgement conditions of humidity and temperature, identical masses of the modified and unmodified particulates exhibit different rates of 1-methylcyclopropene disgorgement. Specifically, we have found that a smaller mean particle size is inversely related to a greater rate of 1-methylcyclopropene release.
US11492415B2
The present invention relates to a polypeptide including an Fc variant produced by substituting a portion of the amino acid sequence of the Fc domain of a human antibody with a different amino acid sequence. The present invention also relates to an antibody including the polypeptide. The Fc variant can find application in a wide range of antibodies and Fc-fusion constructs. In one aspect, the antibody or Fc fusion construct of the present invention is a therapeutic, diagnostic or laboratory reagent, preferably a therapeutic reagent. The Fc variant is suitable for use in the treatment of cancer because its in vivo half-life can be maximized by optimization of the portion of the amino acid sequence. The antibody or Fc fusion construct of the present invention is used to kill target cells that bear a target antigen, for example cancer cells. Alternatively, the antibody or Fc fusion construct of the present invention is used to block, antagonize or agonize a target antigen. For example, the antibody or Fc fusion construct of the present invention may be used to antagonize a cytokine or a cytokine receptor.
US11492414B2
Monoclonal antibodies, or antigen-binding fragments thereof, that bind to ERG, and more specifically, to an epitope formed by amino acids 42-66 of ERG3 are disclosed. The monoclonal antibodies can be non-human antibodies (e.g., rabbit or mouse) or humanized monoclonal antibodies having the CDR regions derived from those non-human antibodies. In other embodiments, the monoclonal antibodies are chimeric, having the light and heavy chain variable regions of a non-human ERG antibody. Methods of using the antibodies to detect ERG, or fusion proteins comprising all or part of an ERG polypeptide, such as an ERG polypeptide encoded by a TMPRSS2/ERG, SLC45A3/ERG, or NDRG1/ERG fusion transcript, are also provided, including methods of detecting ERG or ERG fusion events in a clinical setting. The antibodies can also be used to inhibit the activity of ERG or fusion proteins comprising all or part of an ERG polypeptide, such as an ERG polypeptide encoded by a TMPRSS2/ERG, SLC45A3/ERG, or NDRG1/ERG fusion transcript and to treat malignancies associated with overexpression of ERG or an ERG fusion event, such as prostate cancer, Ewing's sarcoma, acute myeloid leukemia, acute T-lymphoblastic leukemia, endothelial cancer, and colon cancer.
US11492405B2
The present specification discloses a pharmaceutical composition comprising an active agent that causes reduction of the level of systemic immunosuppression in an individual for use in treating a disease, disorder, condition or injury of the CNS. The pharmaceutical composition is administered by a dosage regimen comprising at least one course of therapy, each course of therapy comprising in sequence a treatment session followed by an interval session of non-treatment.
US11492404B2
The present invention relates to therapeutic and prophylactic methods based on inhibition of CIS in NK cells. In particular, the present invention relates to treating or preventing a NK-responsive condition by administering to a subject a CIS inhibitor, or administering CIS-inhibited NK cells. The invention further relates to methods for identifying a CIS inhibitor, and for determining a likelihood of cancer response to treatment with CIS inhibition.
US11492401B2
The present invention relates to antibody-based molecules, including full-length antibodies, antigen-binding domains thereof, and antibody derivatives that are capable of binding to and activating human muscle-specific tyrosine protein kinase (MuSK). The present invention further discloses methods of treating neuromuscular conditions using the aforementioned MuSK antibodies.
US11492397B2
Disclosed are compositions and methods related to IL-25 binding molecules.
US11492392B2
The present invention provides monoclonal antibodies that bind to the complement factor 5 (C5) protein, and methods of use thereof. In various embodiments of the invention, the antibodies are fully human antibodies that bind to C5 protein. In some embodiments, the antibodies of the invention are useful for inhibiting or neutralizing C5 activity, thus providing a means of treating or preventing a C5-related disease or disorder in humans. In some embodiments, the invention provides for an anti-C5 antibody that has improved pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic properties, e.g., a half-life of more than 10 days.
US11492388B2
The present disclosure provides, among other aspects, codon-altered polynucleotides encoding Factor VIII variants for expression in mammalian cells. In some embodiments, the disclosure also provides mammalian gene therapy vectors and methods for treating hemophilia A.
US11492386B2
Fusion compounds and methods of using same are provided which bind and neutralize human receptor activator of nuclear factor kappa-B ligand and are agonistic to parathyroid hormone receptor 1 signaling, said compounds are useful as agents for bone healing or treating conditions associated with bone mass loss or degeneration including treating osteoporosis.
US11492381B2
Coccidioidomycosis is most often diagnosed serologically and the quantitative complement-fixing antibody test (CF) is considered prognostically useful. Because CF is complex, labor-intensive, and poorly standardized, an enzyme-linked immunoassay (ELISA) alternative would be attractive. The present invention features an antibody-binding domain that is restricted to a 200 amino acid recombinant peptide of the known antigen responsible for CF activity. Overlapping truncations of this peptide do not bind CF antibodies, suggesting that the responsible epitope(s) are conformational. Further, anchoring the antigenic peptide to the ELISA plate by means of a C-terminal tag instead of allowing the peptide to randomly adhere to the plastic plate improves sensitivity of antibody detection by one to two logs in different sera. The newly developed ELISA shows a significant quantitative correlation with CF. This ELISA shows potential as the basis for a new quantitative assay for coccidioidal antibodies.
US11492378B2
The present invention relates to an antibacterial protein EFAL-2 derived from bacteriophage Ent-FAP-4 (Accession number: KCTC 12854BP), which has the ability to kill Enterococcus faecium and an amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 2, a pharmaceutical composition containing the same as an active ingredient, and a method for preventing or treating diseases caused by Enterococcus faecium using the pharmaceutical composition.
US11492376B2
The present invention relates to a novel Toxoplasma gondii GRA8-derived recombinant peptide, and a pharmaceutical composition and functional food for preventing or treating cancer, which includes the same as an active ingredient. The Toxoplasma gondii GRA8-derived recombinant peptide according to the present invention is a novel recombinant peptide in which a specific mitochondrial targeting sequence and an ATP5A1/SIRT3 sequence of GRA8 are conjugated to an acidity-triggered rational membrane (ATRAM), and has considerably improved efficacy in which an inhibitory concentration 50 (IC50) is improved up to 200-fold (in vitro) or 500-fold (in vivo), compared with a conventional GRA8-derived peptide (rGRA8). In addition, since the peptide treatment shows a notably distinct therapeutic effect in mouse models with cancer, the peptide may be effectively used in a pharmaceutical composition or functional food for preventing or treating cancer.
US11492375B2
The present disclosure provides novel macrocyclic peptides which inhibit the PD-1/PD-L1 and PD-L1/CD80 protein/protein interaction, and thus are useful for the amelioration of various diseases, including cancer and infectious diseases.
US11492369B2
It was found that a salt formed of an acid and a base having characteristics set forth below can inactivate a deprotecting agent, thereby suppressing redundant peptide elongation: (i) the base is different in type from a base used as a deprotecting agent, and (ii) a conjugate acid of the base has a pKa smaller than that of a conjugate acid of a base used as a deprotecting agent.
US11492365B2
This disclosure relates to GLP-1 agonists of Formula (I): including pharmaceutically acceptable salts and solvates thereof, and pharmaceutical compositions including the same.
US11492361B2
The invention relates to compounds of Formula (I), salts thereof, combinations, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, as well as therapeutic methods of treatment and prevention.
US11492354B2
Disclosed are compounds of Formula (I), methods of using the compounds for inhibiting HPK1 activity and pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds. The compounds are useful in treating, preventing or ameliorating diseases or disorders associated with HPK1 activity such as cancer.
US11492339B2
A process is provided for converting mevalonic acid into various useful products and derivatives. More particularly, the process comprises reacting mevalonic acid, or a solution comprising mevalonic acid, in the presence of a solid catalyst at an elevated temperature and pressure to thereby form various biobased products. The process may also comprise: (a) providing a microbial organism that expresses a biosynthetic mevalonic acid pathway; (b) growing the microbial organism in fermentation medium comprising suitable carbon substrates, whereby biobased mevalonic acid is produced; and (c) reacting the biobased mevalonic acid in the presence of a solid catalyst at an elevated temperature and pressure to yield various biobased products.
US11492338B2
Chemical compositions, and related methods for synthesizing furan, such as oleo-furan, surfactants, include calcium, magnesium, ammonium and/or lithium cations and one of a number of furan derivatives. Methods for synthesizing such furan surfactants containing calcium, magnesium, ammonium and/or lithium cations can include chemical reagents and purification procedures to prepare furan surfactants containing calcium, magnesium, ammonium and/or lithium cations. These furan surfactant compositions can be free of dioxane and ethoxylate.
US11492331B2
Certain embodiments are directed hydrophilic redox substrates for leukocyte esterase (LE). In certain aspects a hydrophilic redox leukocyte esterase substrate or a small molecule enzyme substrate for use in methods and/or devices to electrochemically detect and/or measure LE activity in a sample.
US11492329B2
Electrolytes and polymers for a lithium battery can include a fluorinated aryl sulfonimide salt or fluorinated aryl sulfonimide polymer.
US11492327B2
New aminooxylipids of general formula I, wherein n1=5-30 and X is polymethylene linker of the general formula II where n2=2-10, or X is polyethylene glycol linker of the general formula III, wherein n3=1-14 are provided. A method of preparation of the aminooxylipids of general formula I characterized in that the acylation of N-tert-butoxycarbonyl-polymethylenediamine {(CH3)3C—O—(C═O)—HN—(CH2)n—NH2, n=2-13}, or N-tert-butoxycarbonyl-polyethyleglycoldiamine {(CH3)3C—O—(C═O)—HN—(CH2)2—[O—(CH2)]n—O—(CH2)2NH2, n=1-14} with in position C(2) symmetrically branched fatty acids of general formula IV, wherein n1=5-30, in the presence of condensation reagent, or from acid of general formula IV derived acylchloride of general formula V wherein n1=5-30, produces N-Boc-aminolipids of general formula VI, wherein n1=5-30 a X is polymethylene linker of the general formula II or X is polyethylene glycol linker of the general formula III.
US11492324B2
The present invention relates to a process for purifying ethylenediamine, in which a) a mixture comprising water (H2O), ethylenediamine (EDA) and N-methylethylenediamine (NMEDA) is introduced into a rectification column (NMEDA removal column), where the mixture introduced comprises at least the amount of water as required for the formation of a high-boiling azeotrope of EDA and water at the appropriate bottom temperature; and the EDA-comprising bottom product from the NMEDA removal column is introduced into a second rectification column (EDA dewatering column), wherein the pressure at the top of the EDA dewatering column is adjusted such that the boiling temperature of the mixture obtained at the top is 10° C. or higher than the bottom temperature of the NMEDA removal column, which comprises (i) partly or fully condensing the vapors from the top of the EDA dewatering column in a condenser which is cooled with a medium which is at least partly evaporated during the condensation and the vapor thus formed is used at least partly to heat the evaporator of the NMEDA removal column; and/or (ii) introducing the vapors from the top of the EDA dewatering column into the NMEDA removal column.
US11492323B2
The invention relates to a process for the manufacture of an alkylfluoroacrylate starting from alkylfluoroacetate and an oxalic acid ester, wherein an alkane liquid under the reaction conditions is applied as the solvent in one of the reaction steps.
US11492314B2
The present disclosure belongs to the technical field of organic materials, and provides an organic compound. An adamantane spirofluorenyl and an anthryl are connected to obtain a novel compound for an organic electroluminescence device. In this compound, adamantane in the adamantane spirofluorene greatly increases the density of electron clouds on the fluorenyl through the hyperconjugation effect, which reduces the HOMO energy level of the compound and improves the hole migration ability. Both the adamantane spirofluorene and the anthryl have high hole mobility, so when the two are connected, the overall hole mobility of molecules is further improved, which is beneficial to reducing the working voltage of the device and improving the luminous efficiency. The present disclosure further provides an electronic component and an electronic apparatus including the compound. The organic compound can improve the performance of the electronic component.
US11492306B2
Processes for treating effluent streams in alkylation processes are described. One or more process streams rom HF alkylation processes, H2SO4 alkylation processes, or ionic liquid alkylation processes can be thermally oxidized in a thermal oxidation system. The thermal oxidation system can replace at least one of the caustic wash unit, the neutralization unit, and the acid gas treatment unit.
US11492300B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses for coating a material by contacting the material with a coating material and a solvent are disclosed herein. The coated material can be obtained by evaporating the solvent: by heating the coated material directly or indirectly with electromagnetic radiation; by heating with heat generated from a heat source that heats an internal container for the material to be coated and/or coated material; and/or in an interior volume of a coating container having a side wall, by heating a portion of the side wall of the coating container and/or internal container with a heat source that is positioned outside of the interior volume of the coating container.
US11492297B2
A method for forming cement-based cementitious material includes: pouring a cement paste into a mold; applying an electrical current to the cement paste to perform an electro-osmotic reaction; and transferring the reacted cement paste into a water tank for curing, thereby obtaining a functionally graded cement-based cementitious material. A pair of electrodes is placed in the mold and connected to an external power source. The compressive strength of the functionally graded cement-based cementitious material in the middle is lower than that at either of both ends.
US11492292B2
The invention relates to radiation-treated reinforcement fibers, reinforced asphalt and portland cement concrete, and grout, methods for producing the same and application for their use. The radiation treatment includes exposing reinforcement fibers to electromagnetic energy, e.g., gamma rays, and/or electron-beam (E-beam) radiation. As a result of the treatment, the radiation-treated reinforcement fibers have a modified or deformed surface, e.g., an abraded and/or porous surface, as compared to reinforcement fibers without a radiation treatment.
US11492288B2
A glass coating composition for a fuel cell gasket is described. The coating comprises: a glass component effective to form an alkaline solution in the presence of an equivalent amount of water by weight, a binder component, a liquid carrier which is greater than 50% by volume: water, and a retarder effective to inhibit hardening of the composition. The glass coating composition is particularly useful in fuel cell gaskets and provides improved resistance to solidification in an aqueous dispersion.
US11492283B2
Provided is a method for producing a glass material by a containerless levitation technique, which enables production of a large-sized glass material. The method includes the steps of: preparing a forming member and a cover member 20, the forming member including a gas jetting portion 11 in which a plurality of gas jet holes 12 for use in levitating a block of glass raw material are formed, the cover member 20 which is capable of covering a peripheral portion of a gas jetting surface 13 of the gas jetting portion 12 and in which a controlling surface 21 controlling, near the peripheral portion of the gas jetting surface 13, a flow of gas jetted through the gas jet holes 12 is formed and an opening 25 capable of releasing the gas to outside is formed; placing the block of glass raw material on top of the gas jetting surface 13 and covering the peripheral portion of the gas jetting surface 13 with the cover member 20; and heating the block of glass raw material to melting while holding the block of glass raw material levitated by jetting the gas through the gas jet holes 12 and then cooling the melted block of glass raw material.
US11492282B2
One aspect relates to a process for the preparation of a quartz glass body. The process includes providing silicon dioxide particles, making a glass melt out of the silicon dioxide particles in an oven and making a quartz glass body out of at least part of the glass melt. The oven has a gas outlet through which gas is removed from the oven, wherein the dew point of the gas on exiting the oven through the gas outlet is less than 0° C. One aspect further relates to a quartz glass body which is obtainable by this process. One aspect further relates to a light guide, an illuminant and a formed body, which are each obtainable by further processing of the quartz glass body.
US11492275B2
A water treatment device includes: a water electrolyzer configured to produce oxygen gas by electrolyzing water; a pressurization mechanism pressurizing raw water by being supplied with the oxygen gas produced in the water electrolyzer; and a processor to which the raw water pressurized by the pressurization mechanism is supplied, the processor including a reverse osmosis membrane.
US11492267B2
Systems and methods for direct recycling and upcycling of spent cathode materials using Flame-Assisted Spray Pyrolysis Technology (FAST). In illustrative embodiments, cathode layers are separated and collected from spent battery cells. The cathode laminate is ground to a powdered form and treated to remove contaminants by sifting into a hot stream of air which heats the powders, burning off contaminants. After cooling and particle collection, the powders may be dispersed into leaching solution to dissolve metal oxides and create an acid metal solution or ground into nano-sized primary particles and mixed with dispersing liquids to form a solution. The solution may be mixed with glycerol and additional metal salts to create a final precursor solution, which may undergo spray pyrolysis followed by drying and calcination to create cathode materials with high consistency and repeatability, or mixed with an alkaline metal salt solution and undergo electrodeposition to recover desired metal salts.
US11492266B2
Provided herein are processes for producing positive electrode active substance particles for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries which is excellent in life characteristics of a battery with respect to a repeated charging and discharging performance thereof, as well as a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery. In particular, provided herein are processes for producing a positive electrode active substance for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries comprising lithium transition metal layered oxide having a composition represented by the formula: Lia(NixCoyMn1-x-y)O2 wherein a is 1.0≤a≤1.15; x is 0
US11492258B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a bis(fluorosulfonyl)amide alkali metal salt powder having high purity while suppressing reduction in yield due to thermal decomposition, etc. The method for producing a bis(fluorosulfonyl)amide alkali metal salt powder according to the present invention comprises precipitating a bis(fluorosulfonyl)amide alkali metal salt by conducting distillation using a thin-film evaporator while adding a poor solvent for the bis(fluorosulfonyl)amide alkali metal salt such as an aromatic hydrocarbon solvent and a linear or branched aliphatic hydrocarbon solvent to a solution formed by dissolving the bis(fluorosulfonyl)amide alkali metal salt in a good solvent for the bis(fluorosulfonyl)amide alkali metal salt such as an ester solvent and nitrile solvent.
US11492254B2
A system and method of producing hydrogen, including converting hydrocarbon to methane via steam and pre-reforming catalyst in a pre-reformer, converting the methane to hydrogen and carbon dioxide by steam reforming via a reforming catalyst in a membrane reformer, diffusing through hydrogen through a tubular membrane in the membrane reformer.
US11492250B2
In an embodiment an electronic device includes a carrier board having an upper surface, an electronic chip mounted on the upper surface of the carrier board, the electronic chip having a mounting side facing the upper surface of the carrier board, a flexible mounting layer arranged between the upper surface of the carrier board and the mounting side of the electronic chip, the flexible mounting layer mounting the electronic chip to the carrier board, wherein the mounting side has at least one first region and a second region, and wherein the electronic chip has at least one chip contact element in the first region and at least one connection element arranged on the at least one first region and connecting the at least one chip contact element to the upper surface of the carrier board, wherein the flexible mounting layer separates the second region from the connection element.
US11492245B2
A fluid mixture dispensing system using a membrane to seal multiple reservoirs is disclosed. The multiple reservoirs each contain a respective ingredient. The reservoirs are coupled to respective orifices in a plate. The respective ingredients are dispensable via the respective orifices. The membrane seals the respective orifices. The ingredients are dispensed into one or more channels formed between the membrane and the plate. In specific embodiments, the membrane is an integral part of a cartridge which contains the multiple reservoirs. In specific embodiments, the cartridge includes an inlet and an outlet. A solvent flows from the inlet to the outlet through the one or more channels, and the ingredients are dispensed into the solvent in the one or more channels.
US11492241B2
A pipe coil lifting device includes a superstructure with a central longitudinal member and at least two supports attached to opposite sides of the central longitudinal member, with two channels at the outside long-edges of the superstructure attached to the supports, with a convex upper surface attached to the supports of the superstructure.
US11492239B2
A fully electric lift device includes a base assembly, a lift assembly, a platform assembly, tractive elements, an energy storage device, and a control system. The lift assembly is coupled with the base assembly and is driven by an electric linear actuator for a lifting function. The platform assembly is positioned at a top of the lift assembly and can be raised or lowered as the lift assembly performs the lifting function. The tractive elements are rotatably coupled with the base assembly and can be driven by an electric wheel motor to perform a driving function. The control system includes a controller that operates the electric wheel motor and the electric linear actuator to perform the driving function and the lifting function using power drawn from the energy storage device. The lift assembly and the tractive elements use only electrical energy to perform the lifting and driving functions.
US11492237B2
The invention relates to a continuous cable winch comprising a drive unit (20) and an output unit (60) for applying a drive force to a cable, which output unit is coupled to the drive unit (20). According to the invention, it is proposed that the drive unit (20) has a frequency converter (30) with a primary side (32) for drawing current from a power supply system (33) and a secondary side (36) for outputting an AC voltage (UU, UV, UW), an AC motor (40) for driving the continuous cable winch (10) at a variable rotation speed (ω1), which AC motor is supplied with the AC voltage (UU, UV, UW) by the frequency converter (30), a control unit (50) which is interconnected with the frequency converter (30) and the AC motor (40) for the purpose of controlling the drive unit (20), wherein the control unit (50) is designed to change the rotation speed (ω1) of the AC motor (40) by means of the frequency converter (30).
US11492236B2
A method for positioning a straddle carrier for containers and a container to be placed behind a container that has already been placed. The straddle carrier is moved by means of travel supports, travel drives, and a controller that interacts with same, and measurement signals from sensors arranged on the straddle carrier are processed by the controller in order to move and position the straddle carrier and the container to be placed.
US11492234B2
A spreader for lifting an intermodal transport container includes a main beam extending in a longitudinal direction, the main beam formed of a first, upper C-beam of a relatively thicker material thickness and a second, lower C-beam of a relatively thinner material thickness; and an indicator configured to provide an indication if a distance in a transversal direction between a pair of twist-locks is set in a wide-body position when lowered onto respective lifting castings provided with top openings separated by a transversal distance corresponding to a standard position.
US11492233B2
A modular sill assembly includes a top layer, a bottom layer, a first fastener, and a second fastener. The top layer includes a first top plate and a second top plate. The first and second top plates define a door channel therebetween. Each of the first and second top plates includes a top surface, a bottom surface, and a blind bore. The blind bore is defined in the bottom surface and extends towards the top surface. The blind bore is threaded. The bottom layer includes a first base plate that defines a through bore. The first fastener extends through the first base plate and is threadably received in the blind bore of the first top plate to secure the first top plate to the first base plate. The second fastener extends through the first base plate and is threadably received in the blind bore of the second top plate to secure the second top plate to the first base plate.
US11492230B2
An illustrative example embodiment of an elevator sheave liner includes a liner body having a first surface configured to engage an elevator load bearing member and an oppositely facing second surface. The liner body includes a plurality of blind holes in the second surface including at least a first blind hole and a second blind hole. The first blind hole has a first depth and the second blind hole has a second, different depth. A material of the liner body has a first thickness between the first blind hole and the first surface and a second, different thickness between the second blind hole and the first surface.
US11492219B2
A sheet feeding apparatus includes a tray that stores a recording medium in a closed state in which the tray is placed in an apparatus body, the tray being capable of being pulled out from the apparatus body in a predetermined pulling direction; a transport unit that is provided on the apparatus body and that transports the recording medium in a direction crossing the pulling direction when the tray is in the closed state; a first contact portion provided on the tray and having a contact surface spaced from the transport unit when viewed in the pulling direction, the first contact portion being located upstream of the transport unit in the pulling direction and the contact surface being in contact with an upstream end portion of the recording medium stored in the tray in the pulling direction when the tray is in the closed state; a second contact portion disposed at a position that is upstream of the transport unit in the pulling direction and at which the second contact portion overlaps the transport unit when viewed in the pulling direction, the second contact portion having a contact surface that is in contact with the end portion when the tray is in the closed state; a first overlapping portion provided on the first contact portion and disposed downstream of the second contact portion in the pulling direction, the first overlapping portion overlapping the second contact portion when viewed in the pulling direction; and an urging portion that urges the second contact portion downstream in the pulling direction so that the second contact portion abuts against the first overlapping portion when the tray is in the closed state.
US11492214B1
A glove collecting device includes a guiding member including an internal space, an inlet at one end, and an outlet at the other end, wherein the end adjacent to the inlet of the guiding member is bent inwards such that the end adjacent to the inlet extends from the inlet towards the outlet to form an interlayer and the interlayer includes a plurality of holes; and an adaptor member disposed externally of the outlet and including a hollow connector distal the outlet, and a channel through the connector for communicating with the space of the guiding member.
US11492208B2
A rotative lumber piece charger for transferring lumber pieces. The rotative lumber piece charger comprises: a driving shaft rotating about a longitudinal axis and a transfer wheel comprising a main body mounted to the driving shaft and rotating therewith. The rotative lumber piece charger also comprises a lumber piece grasping assembly rotatably connected to the main body and rotatable with respect to the main body about a lumber rotation axis. The lumber piece grasping assembly is operative to grasp a section of a corresponding one of the lumber pieces, temporarily retain the section of the lumber piece and release the lumber piece. The rotative lumber piece charger further comprises an angular orientation control system connected to the lumber piece grasping assembly. The angular orientation control system rotates the lumber piece grasping assembly about the lumber rotation axis.
US11492198B2
A storage system includes a rack with a plurality of layers, each layer including an aisle and a plurality of rows extending from the aisle defining storage locations for items. A shuttle usable with the rack includes a first cart movable along the aisle and a second cart configured to be carriable by the first cart and to be movable along a row. The second cart is configured to carry an item between the first cart and the storage locations. A conveyor is located on one of the first or second carts to move the item onto or off the first cart. Related methods of storing and/or retrieving items from a rack are also disclosed. A rack system is disclosed and is readily assembled without welding, transferring loading so that the weight of the rack and any item stored therein is supported by the upright elements via support brackets.
US11492197B2
An automated storage and retrieval system includes at least one relay module for relaying storage containers between a port column and an access station. The relay module is arranged below a port column. The relay module includes a port station, a first conveyor, a second conveyor, each arranged at a side of the port station, and a lateral displacement device. The port station receives storage containers dropped off from and to be picked up through the port column. The first conveyor is adapted to transport storage containers to an access station. The second conveyor is adapted for transporting storage containers from the access station. The lateral displacement device is arranged to transport storage containers between the port station and the first conveyor, and between the second conveyor and the port station.
US11492196B2
An apparatus is provided with an outer frame with a series of wheels, and first and second support arms connected to the outer frame and extending upwardly. The apparatus has first and second rails to slidably receive an upper lip of a portable waste receptacle, with the first rail supported by the first support arm for translation relative to the first support arm. The apparatus has a dumping system with a lifting assembly and a power assembly. The dumping system is connected to the outer frame and the first rail to move the first and second rails along the first and second support arms between a load position and a dumping position. A controller is in communication with the dumping system to control the position of the first and second rails via the dumping system.
US11492195B2
A disposable oil filter containment sheath is provided for use during oil changes for combustion engines. The sheath has a closed bottom, a cylindrical sidewall, and an open top. The resilient sheath is rolled to an initial collapsed position for placement on the bottom of an oil filter mounted on the engine, and it is partially unrolled along the filter. The filter can then be loosened to allow oil to drain into the sheath for capturing a reservoir. After the filter is removed from the engine, the sheath is completely unrolled and tied at the top so as to fully enclose and contain the oil filter and oil. The sheath and its contents are then ready for disposal.
US11492183B2
Disclosed is a chemical container capable of discharging gas generated from a chemical by stably securing a discharge passage of the gas even when the posture or tilt of the chemical container is variously changed, i.e. when the chemical container is turned over or falls sideways, whereby it is possible to prevent an excessive increase in internal pressure of the chemical container due to generation of the gas. The chemical container includes a container body having a storage compartment configured to store a chemical, an exhaust port disposed at one side of the container body, the exhaust port being configured to connect the storage compartment and the outside of the container body to each other in such a manner that fluid movement therebetween is possible, an exhaust tube disposed in the storage compartment so as to be connected to the exhaust port in such a manner that fluid movement therebetween is possible, and an exhaust buoyancy unit. The exhaust buoyancy unit has a buoyancy body disposed in the storage compartment in the state of being connected to the exhaust tube so as to float on the chemical stored in the storage compartment, an exhaust channel provided inside the buoyancy body, the exhaust channel being configured to connect the storage compartment and the exhaust tube to each other in such a manner that fluid movement therebetween is possible, and a filter membrane coupled to the buoyancy body, the filter membrane being configured to transmit gas through the exhaust channel and to block the chemical, thereby preventing the chemical from passing therethrough.
US11492172B1
A collapsible container for receiving delivery packages is disclosed herein. The collapsible container comprises a bottom, and collapsible front and rear walls. Further, the collapsible container comprises sidewalls mounted to the front wall and the rear wall. Each of the sidewalls comprises a rail. Additionally, the collapsible container comprises an elongated rod slidable along the rails. The collapsible container comprises a top cover mounted to the rear wall. The top cover comprises a hook and an electronic keypad electronically mounted to the hook. The front wall and the rear wall are collapsed and the sidewalls and the top cover are placed over the front wall and the rear wall to form a flat structure such that the collapsible container can be used as a floor mat. The collapsible container provides an efficient and easy to use method for a user to secure delivery packages to their front porch.
US11492153B2
Disclosed herein is a packaging machine that according to one embodiment includes a rollers block with a plurality of roller assemblies distributed in series along a horizontal longitudinal axis of the machine and a transmission block with a motor and a transmission mechanism configured for transmitting the rotation of the motor to all the roller assemblies. At least one roller assembly is independent of the rest of the roller assemblies, is movable with respect to the transmission block, and is configured for cooperating with the transmission mechanism in an operative position, in which the transmission mechanism transmits the rotation of the motor of the transmission block to the roller assembly.
US11492151B2
An atmospheric suit includes a torso portion with one or more layers, and fibers of a first material arranged in each of the one or more layers. Optical fibers are interspersed with the fibers of the first material in each of the one or more layers.
US11492150B1
A system and method for vaporizing space debris in space. The system includes a spacecraft body, a primary solar concentrator mounted to the spacecraft body that collects and focuses solar flux from the sun, and a secondary solar concentrator positioned at a focal point of the primary solar concentrator that refocuses the focused solar flux. A manipulator arm coupled to the spacecraft body grabs the space debris in space and positions it at a location where the refocused solar flux vaporizes the debris. The secondary solar concentrator can be a point-source concentrator, the primary solar concentrator can be a parabolic mirror, a Fresnel lens or a light focusing element or assembly, and the space debris can be a retired spacecraft or launch vehicle upper stage or component.
US11492143B2
A modular and scalable system to transfer space articles between space orbits. In one embodiment, the system employs a rendezvous vehicle which docks with a space article in an initial orbit, the connected stack then docking with a locomotive vehicle which maneuvers to a targeted orbit where the space article is detached. In one feature, the rendezvous vehicle and locomotive vehicle use a common propellant and the space article is a satellite.
US11492139B2
An aircraft navigation light includes: a navigation lighting arrangement, having: a power input, couple able to an aircraft on-board power supply network, at least one navigation light source, and a power conditioning circuit, coupled between the power input and the at least one navigation light source for conditioning a power flow from the power input to the at least one navigation light source; an auxiliary power supply, coupled to the power conditioning circuit for diverting power from the navigation lighting arrangement; and a power supply output, coupled to the auxiliary power supply, for supplying power from the auxiliary power supply to an exterior aircraft light, external to the aircraft navigation light.
US11492136B2
An uplock is disclosed including a hook configured to engage a capture pin mounted on an aircraft component. The hook is mounted for movement between a closed position and an open position. The uplock further includes an indicator system configured to detect whether a pin is engaged with the hook when the hook is in the closed position.
US11492131B2
An aircraft including a nacelle configured as a housing for an engine and disposed at a fixed location relative a wing member; a proprotor housing coupled to the nacelle, the proprotor housing configured to selectively rotate between a horizontal orientation and a non-horizontal orientation; a door hingedly coupled to the proprotor housing by a first hinge joint and hingedly coupled to the nacelle by a second hinge joint. An aspect includes an aircraft with a proprotor coupled to a wing member, the proprotor comprising a forward portion and an aft portion; wherein the forward portion is configured to selectively pivot between a horizontal orientation and a non-horizontal orientation about a conversion axis C; and wherein when the forward portion is in a non-horizontal orientation, the aft portion is in a horizonal orientation.
US11492130B2
A redundant propulsion device includes a propeller and electric motors. The electric motors are configured to drive the propeller. The electric motors are disposed with respect to a propeller shaft of the propeller so that, around the propeller shaft, at least one of the electric motors is disposed at each of the locations in the longitudinal direction of the propeller shaft. The electric motors are disposed at positions such that an output shaft of each of the electric motors does not overlap an output shaft of any other one of the electric motors as viewed in the longitudinal direction of the propeller shaft from the propeller.
US11492126B2
An aircraft galley chiller is adapted to fit within a service column of the aircraft. The condenser is elongated, oriented vertically, and includes a bank of fans to increase airflow. The evaporator is also elongated and includes a bank of fans. The evaporator and condenser are oriented with the same plane to produce a footprint that fits within the service column. The evaporator includes a heater element to periodically heat and de-ice the evaporator.
US11492116B2
A tiltrotor aircraft has a vertical takeoff and landing flight mode and a forward flight mode. The aircraft includes an airframe having at least one wing. First and second oppositely disposed booms extend longitudinally from the at least one wing. Forward rotors are coupled to the forward ends of the booms and aft rotors are coupled to the aft ends of the booms. The forward rotors are reversibly tiltable between a vertical lift orientation, wherein the forward rotors are above the booms, and a forward thrust orientation, wherein the forward rotors are forward of the booms. The aft rotors are reversibly tiltable between a vertical lift orientation, wherein the aft rotors are below the booms, and a forward thrust orientation, wherein the aft rotors are aft of the booms.
US11492115B2
Provided are a display control system, a display control device, and a display control method, which are capable of appropriately controlling a display state of an image photographed by a camera included in an unmanned aerial vehicle. A sensing data acquisition module acquires an aerial vehicle photographing image photographed by the camera included in the unmanned aerial vehicle in flight. A determiner determines whether an operator of the unmanned aerial vehicle is viewing the unmanned aerial vehicle with his or her eyes based on sensing data on at least one of the unmanned aerial vehicle or the operator. A display controller controls a display state of the aerial vehicle photographing image on a display depending on whether determination that the operator is not viewing the unmanned aerial vehicle with his or her eyes is continued.
US11492114B1
A Handy Base Station (HBS) which is capable of connecting through a base portion into a power socket (e.g., lamp socket). The HBS may have a plurality of functional modules capable of being detachably mounted in a housing. One of the functional modules may be a light emitter such as a light emitting diode (LED). Another module may be a a communication module which may communicate using a wire line or wirelessly using standard wireless communication protocols. Further disclosed is a combination unit which has the HBS located on a pole such as a utility pole with a landing pad for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to allow the UAV a recharging location between deliveries and to allow the HBS to guide the UAV on its flight.
US11492100B2
An information apparatus includes a schedule obtainment unit that obtains flight schedule information transmitted from terminals. Allocation unit allocates an airspace and a permitted flight period to drone based on the obtained flight schedule information. If there is a predetermined commonality in the airspaces and the flight directions of multiple drones, allocation unit causes those multiple drones to share the airspace under the condition that formation flight in which distances therebetween are controlled is performed. Allocation unit determines an arrangement in which multiple drones are aligned in the order in which drones withdraw from formation flight as the arrangement of multiple drones during formation flight. Also, allocation unit determines an arrangement in which drone that does not include a formation flight function is in front and drone that includes formation flight function follows therebehind.
US11492088B1
A boat has a rear platform including a pivotable hatch. A marine outboard engine has a bumper connected to the engine unit housing. When mounted to the boat, the marine outboard engine is located under the hatch and is pivotable from a trim range to a tilt range. When the hatch is in a closed position and the marine outboard engine is in the tilt range, pivoting the marine outboard engine upwardly to a first engine position causes the bumper to abut a bottom surface of the hatch. Pivoting the marine outboard engine upwardly from the first engine position to a second engine position causes the bumper to push up on the bottom surface of the hatch and to slide against the bottom surface of the hatch, thereby pivoting the hatch from the closed position to an open position.
US11492085B2
The present invention discloses a device carrying platform based on an underwater robot. The device carrying platform comprises a mounting rack and more than two mounting seats. The mounting rack comprises a mounting plate and more than two mounting columns fixed to the bottom of the mounting plate, the mounting plate is provided with a plurality of mounting holes, the mounting plate is hinged with a protective screen, the protective screen is provided with an opening, and the opening is hinged with a screen door. The plurality of mounting seats arranged on the mounting rack can be used for mounting devices and instruments of various models, and a first butting part and a second butting part in a mounting groove are matched with each other, so that devices and instruments needed to be mounted are fixed.
US11492083B2
A computer implemented method and apparatus for a marine vessel data system, the method comprising: receiving data from at least one sensor configured to measure vibration and operationally arranged to the marine vessel to provide time-domain reference sensor data; maintaining the time-domain reference sensor data within a data storage system; generating a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) on the time-domain reference sensor data to provide a plurality of reference spectra files in frequency-domain, wherein each reference spectra file comprises spectra data defined by amplitude information and frequency information, and each spectra file is associated with condition information determined based on collection of the time-domain reference sensor data; normalizing each reference spectra file by converting the frequency information to order information using the condition information to provide normalized reference spectra files; and training a convolutional autoencoder type of neural network using the normalized reference spectra files.
US11492071B2
A Steerable Crank System including a Steerer Base firmly connected to the chassis/mainframe of a machine, said Steerer Base containing and supporting Grooved Cog Wheel situated in-line and parallel to the power driving direction in a manner that allows said Grooved Cog Wheel to rotate around its axis and drive the machine power, said Steerer Base containing and supporting a Fork in a manner that allows said Fork to rotate around its main axis and by that rotation movement it controls the steering, said Fork containing a 2nd axis supporting and housing a Crank Shaft in a manner that allows said Crank Shaft to rotate around its own axis, on said Crank Shaft attached a Butterfly Connector, said Butterfly Connector coupling together said Crank Shaft and Grooved Cog Wheel.
US11492070B2
A cardan joint steering titanium alloy hand and foot cooperatively operated bicycle capable of being ridden with one leg comprises a bicycle front wheel, a front wheel fork frame, a bicycle rear wheel, a frame body, a seat cushion assembly, a steering handlebar, paired chain wheels and a rear wheel fork frame. The upper end of a front fork rotating shaft and the lower end of an assisting stem are connected through a cardan joint component, symmetric ratchet wheels are provided on the two sides of the bicycle rear wheel, the paired chain wheels are fixed to the two sides of a frame middle shaft, pedal shaft pins are symmetrically provided on the outer sides of the paired chain wheels, and the paired chain wheels and the symmetric ratchet wheels are connected through symmetric chains.
US11492062B2
A shock absorber assembly including a first sheath slidingly housing inside it a first piston which is filled with hydraulic fluid, the first piston having a first stem extending from the first sheath and a first head contained inside the first sheath, a second sheath slidingly housing inside it a second piston which is filled with hydraulic fluid, the second piston having a second stem extending from the second sheath and a second head contained inside the second sheath. The first and second sheaths are fluidly connected to each other by means of at least one upper duct and a first interconnection duct passing through a control body. The control body houses at least one damping valve including a damping plate having holes suitable to allow a calibrated passage of the hydraulic fluid channelled by the first and second sheaths towards the control body; the control body houses a control valve connected to actuator means to be movable, in a regulation stroke, from an unlocked position, in which it does not interfere with the upper duct to a locked position, wherein the upper duct is occluded.
US11492045B2
A connection structure of an electric vehicle includes a cross member provided in a width direction of a vehicle body, a side member provided in a vehicle body length direction, and a joint member inserted into the cross member and connected to the side member. The joint member includes an insert portion inserted into the cross member, and a clamping portion connected to the side member.
US11492032B2
A steering column for a motor vehicle may comprise a guide box in which a steering spindle is mounted so as to be rotatable about a longitudinal axis and which guide box is adjustably held by a support unit that is able to be connected to the body of the motor vehicle, a pivot bearing in which the guide box in a front region is mounted so as to be pivotable about a pivot axis that lies horizontally so as to be transverse to the longitudinal axis, and an actuation lever that is mounted in a first lever bearing in a rear region of the guide box and in a second lever bearing of the support unit. To increase stiffness and resonance frequency, the pivot bearing may be mounted so as to be displaceable transversely to the pivot axis in a displacement plane parallel to the longitudinal axis.
US11492031B2
A transpallet is provided for ground handling of goods stored on a support platform, comprising at least one motorized wheel, an electromechanical parking braking system of the wheel adapted to take on a stop configuration when not energized and a release configuration when energized and an electric power supply assembly adapted to supply electric power to the motorized wheel and to the electromechanical parking braking system. An on-board electronic control unit is arranged for the selective handling of the transpallet movement in a motorized mode of movement, a manual mode of movement or a stop mode, depending on the charge level of the electric power supply assembly.
US11492030B2
A mobility apparatus includes a frame, a body surrounding the frame having a front side, a rear side, a top side, a bottom side, and first and second lateral sides, a seat located on the top side of the body, a plurality of wheels attached to the frame, a motor for driving at least one of the plurality of wheels attached to the frame, a battery for supplying electricity to the motor, and a controller for directing movement of the mobility apparatus. The top side of the body includes seats for children to ride the mobility apparatus. The mobility apparatus may also include a tether cord or handrails for directing movement of the mobility apparatus, or the mobility apparatus may follow a transmitter or autonomously drive.
US11492027B2
Systems and methods are provided for worker protection system with ultra-wideband (UWB) based anchors. One or more wayside units placed on or near a track may be configured to form a work zone network, based on ultra-wideband (UWB) communications, corresponding to a work zone in an area surrounding or in proximity to the one or more wayside units. When the work zone network is formed, at least one wayside unit of the one or more wayside units may be configured to obtain ranging information to a train traversing the track, based on communications of UWB signals with at least one train-mounted unit deployed on the train, and the one or more wayside units are configured to generate, based on the ranging information, notifications relating to the train and/or the work zone.
US11492021B2
A hybrid cable/rail transportation system comprising: at least one portion of the system configured as a cable transportation system; at least one portion of the system configured as a rail transportation system, a first trolley coupled to the supporting cable and comprising a first coupling device for coupling to the cabin; a second trolley coupled to the rail and comprising a second coupling device for coupling to the cabin; a plurality of transportation units wherein each transportation unit comprises a cabin, each cabin comprising a roof provided with a coupling system configured for coupling the cabin to the first trolley along the system portion configured as a cable transportation system and to the second trolley along the system portion configured as a rail transportation system; wherein the coupling system arranged on the roof of the cabin, the first coupling device of the first trolley and the second coupling device of the second trolley are configured for allowing a progressive passage of the cabin from the first to the second trolley, or vice-versa, without stopping the support.
US11492016B2
A method for controlling autonomous driving in an autonomous vehicle includes detecting a situation in which autonomous driving is impossible while the vehicle operates in an autonomous driving mode, outputting a control-right handover request warning alarm and then activating a minimal risk maneuver driving mode, determining a human driver gaze validity based on the detected situation, determining a human driver intervention validity upon determination that the human driver gaze is valid, and determining control-right handover of the autonomous vehicle based on the human driver intervention validity. Thus, the control-right may be reliably transferred from a system to a human driver.
US11492011B2
An autonomous driving control device includes: a plurality of control devices that each have a first storage unit and a processing unit; a load control unit; a second storage unit; and a failure detection unit. The programs include autonomous driving programs and other programs. When a failure is detected, the load control unit unloads at least some of the other programs from the first storage unit of a normal control device, and loads the autonomous driving program corresponding to that loaded in the first storage unit of a failed control device from the second storage unit into the first storage unit of the normal control device.
US11492009B2
Provided is a vehicle control device configured to execute specific control while at the same time sequentially switching the specific control that defines an operation to be executed by each of a plurality of surrounding environment acquisition devices configured to acquire information on a surrounding environment of a vehicle, a recognition/determination ECU configured to generate a path on which the vehicle is to travel, and an integrated control ECU configured to control the vehicle based on the generated path along with an elapse of time since detection of an anomaly, when the anomaly is detected in any one of the plurality of surrounding environment acquisition devices, the recognition/determination ECU, and the integrated control ECU.
US11492005B1
Methods and systems for controlling an occupant output system associated with a vehicle are provided. The methods and systems receive vehicle or occupant context data from a source of vehicle context data, generate occupant message data based on the vehicle or occupant context data and determine if an occupant associated with the occupant output system is vision or hearing impaired. When the occupant is determined to be vision or hearing impaired, the methods and systems decide on an output modality to assist the occupant, and generate an output for the occupant on the output device, and in the output modality, based on the occupant message data.
US11491999B2
A method for controlling an operating mode of a vehicle is presented. The method includes determining a current range of the vehicle while the vehicle is operating in a first operating mode. The method also includes determining a distance to a destination. The method further includes controlling the vehicle to operate in a second operating mode instead of the first operating mode when the range is less than the distance to the destination.
US11491992B2
A road abnormality detection apparatus includes: a memory; and a processor having hardware, wherein the processor is configured to: receive, from a traveling vehicle, a road image indicating an image of a surface of a road or a periphery of the road and image capturing position information indicating a position where the road image is captured; recognize a road facility included in the road image and a position of the road facility based on the road image and the image capturing position information; determine whether or not abnormality exists in the road facility by comparing the road facility included in the road image and correctness information that is prepared in advance; and accumulate, in the memory, facility position information indicating the position of the road facility that the abnormality exists in when it is determined that the abnormality exists in the road facility.
US11491991B2
A method for determines the drive train sensitivity of a drive train of a motor vehicle. A vehicle body is placed in longitudinal oscillations in the direction of travel and a parameter for the drive train sensitivity is determined as a function of the determined longitudinal accelerations of the vehicle body and the resultant angular accelerations of a transmission input shaft of a transmission of the motor vehicle.
US11491984B2
An apparatus for providing a traveling in a vehicle is provided. The apparatus includes a plurality of sensors configured to obtain information about the vehicle and information about an external object, a steering device, an input device configured to receive a lane change command from a driver of the vehicle, and a control circuit configured to be electrically connected with the one or more sensors, the steering device, and the input device. The control circuit is configured to control the vehicle to travel along a deviated path in a driving path of the vehicle based on at least one of the information obtained by the plurality of sensors or an operation of the steering device, to complete a lane change, and to control the vehicle to travel along a deviated path in a target lane of the changed lane in response to the received lane change command.
US11491980B2
A vehicle drive system executes a basic drive force control in which a vehicle drive device applies, to an own vehicle, a drive force in accordance with a request of a driver, a first drive force changing control for changing the drive force applied in the basic drive force control, based on a variation in a wheel rotational speed, and a second drive force changing control for changing the drive force applied in the basic drive force control for a purpose different from a purpose of changing the drive force in the first drive force changing control. The first drive force changing control is configured such that a change amount of the drive force in the first drive force changing control is determined based on the wheel rotational speed from which is eliminated a variation in the wheel rotational speed caused by execution of the second drive force changing control.
US11491978B2
A driving assistance device to properly recognize a relative positional relationship between mobile objects without the use of map information. The driving assistance device includes a relative position judgment section for judging a relative positional relationship of an object of interest and a first neighboring object relative to a second neighboring object, based on object-of-interest information and neighbor information, to make a judgment as a first judgment on a relative positional relationship between the object of interest and the first neighboring object, based on the aforementioned judgment result.
US11491977B2
A driver assistance system includes a detector configured to detect pedestrians or obstacles in a front detection area and a rear detection area of a vehicle; an accelerator pedal sensor configured to detect a position of an accelerator pedal of the vehicle; and a controller configured to selectively activate the front detection area and the rear detection area according to a gear state of the vehicle, when there is the pedestrians or the obstacles in the activated detection area, to recognize an acceleration pedal change amount from an acceleration pedal position detected through the accelerator pedal sensor, to determine whether emergency braking of the vehicle is necessary based on the recognized acceleration pedal change amount, and when the emergency braking is necessary, to perform the emergency braking for the vehicle.
US11491975B2
A vehicle control device includes an oncoming vehicle detection sensor configured to detect an oncoming vehicle that approaches an own vehicle, and a controller configured to automatically apply brakes to the own vehicle to avoid a collision with the oncoming vehicle detected by the oncoming vehicle detection sensor under a condition that the own vehicle is at least partially in an opposite lane or a planned path of the own vehicle is at least partially in the opposite lane. The controller is configured to set, between the own vehicle and the oncoming vehicle, a virtual area that moves with the oncoming vehicle and that extends in an advancing direction of the oncoming vehicle, and automatically brake the own vehicle to avoid coming into contact with the virtual area to avoid the collision between the own vehicle and the oncoming vehicle.
US11491967B2
A control system for a hybrid vehicle which includes an internal combustion engine and an electric motor and whose drive mode is switchable between an electric vehicle mode and a hybrid vehicle mode includes: an on-board learning unit mounted on the hybrid vehicle and configured to perform a learning action; a position determination unit configured to determine whether the hybrid vehicle is located in a low emission area where operation of the internal combustion engine is supposed to be restricted; and a learning control unit configured to at least partially stop the learning action of the on-board learning unit when determination is made that the hybrid vehicle is located in the low emission area.
US11491962B2
A hydraulic braking system for a vehicle includes a master brake cylinder, a hydraulic unit and a plurality of wheel brakes, the hydraulic unit including at least one brake circuit for brake pressure modulation in the wheel brakes. A bistable solenoid valve is associated with at least one wheel brake, which valve is looped into the corresponding fluid channel, immediately upstream of the associated wheel brake, and in a de-energized open position enables brake pressure modulation in the associated wheel brake, and in a de-energized closed position seals a current brake pressure in the associated wheel brake, wherein a hydraulic force brought about by the sealed-in brake pressure acts in a seat-opening manner in the corresponding bistable solenoid valve.
US11491960B2
A force-feedback brake pedal system for cooperative braking of an electric or hybrid vehicle having jointly a regenerative braking system and a frictional braking system includes a brake pedal which is pivotally mounted around a shaft or a bearing, an electronic circuitry which is in electrical communication with the regenerative braking system and the frictional braking system of the vehicle, an actuator for providing force feedback in accordance with the regenerative breaking and friction breaking of the vehicle, the actuator is in mechanical communication with the brake pedal. The force-feedback brake pedal system further includes a compliant element arranged between the brake pedal and the actuator, and a position sensor which, during operation, measuring the deflections of the compliant element and transmitting data to the electronic circuitry.
US11491957B2
An electronic hydraulic brake device may include: a brake unit including a main brake unit configured to provide braking hydraulic pressure to a plurality of wheel cylinders through an operation of a motor, and an auxiliary brake unit connected to the main brake unit so as to be filled with high braking hydraulic pressure, and configured to provide braking hydraulic pressure to the plurality of wheel cylinders when an operation error of the main brake unit occurs; a first control unit configured to control the operation of the brake unit, and configured to control the auxiliary brake unit to operate when an operation error of the main brake unit occurs; and a second control unit configured to assist a part of the control of the main brake unit controlled by the first control unit and the control of the auxiliary brake unit.
US11491941B2
A vehicle occupant protection control device includes: a seat state detector configured to detect directions of first and second seats inside a vehicle; and a vehicle occupant protection controller configured to open at least one of a first bag body that is opened on a first side in a width direction of the first seat and a second bag body that is opened on a second side diagonal to the first side in a width direction of the second seat in a state in which the first seat faces the second seat when the seat state detector detects that the first seat faces the second seat and an impact on the vehicle is detected or predicted. A first vehicle occupant sitting on the first seat is pressed on the second side in accordance with the opening of the first bag body or a second vehicle occupant sitting on the second seat is pressed on the first side in accordance with the opening of the second bag body.
US11491937B2
An airbag control apparatus includes: an airbag, an airbag driver that deploys the airbag, and a processor that estimates a vehicle momentum and a crash progress degree based on a longitudinal acceleration and a vehicle speed upon a vehicle crash, determines deployment of the airbag based on the vehicle momentum and the crash progress degree and controls the airbag driver when the deployment of the airbag is determined.
US11491936B2
A collision detection device includes an impact absorber and a collision detector. The impact absorber extends along a vehicle width direction between a bumper face and a bumper beam of a vehicle, and is configured to absorb impact by being deformed upon collision of the vehicle. The collision detector extends along the vehicle width direction, includes a lower collision detector and an upper collision detector, and is configured to detect that the collision has occurred by being deformed upon the collision of the vehicle. The upper collision detector has greater flexibility than the lower collision detector.
US11491933B2
An integrated controller (A) for a vehicle, and a vehicle (B), where the integrated controller (A) includes a box body (10), a high-voltage power distribution module (900) disposed in the box body (10), and a left driving motor controller (300), a right driving motor controller (400), an air compressor motor controller (500), a steering motor controller (600), and a DC-DC voltage converter (700) that are all connected to the high-voltage power distribution module (900); and the box body (10) is provided with a plurality of input/output interfaces corresponding to the high-voltage power distribution module (900), the left driving motor controller (300), the right driving motor controller (400), the air compressor motor controller (500), the steering motor controller (600), and the DC-DC voltage converter (700).
US11491932B2
Integrated components of an electrified vehicle electrical system and electrical distribution method
An electrified vehicle electrical system includes, among other things, a contactor enclosure, and contactor contacts housed within the contactor enclosure. A resistor is housed within the contactor enclosure or is housed within a relay enclosure outside the contactor enclosure.
US11491918B2
The invention relates to a sensor module for a vehicle, the sensor module comprising at least one housing which houses at least one first detection device that is adapted to collect information about the vehicle's environment; the housing comprising one base adapted to be fixed to the vehicle, at least one cover joined to the base and at least one optical face joined to both the cover and the base; characterized in that the first detection device comprises at least one sensor, a casing which receives the sensor and an electric motor adapted to rotate the casing at sufficiently high-speeds.
US11491912B2
A vehicle lighting device and a method of controlling luminance thereof are provided. The vehicle lighting device includes a camera module configured to capture an image of the driver's face, a sensing unit configured to detect the surroundings of a vehicle, a lighting unit including at least one light source to illuminate the interior of the vehicle, and a controller. The controller is configured to acquire information on a daytime mode and a nighttime mode through the sensing unit, to acquire information on an infrared brightness level or information on the size of the pupil of the driver's eye based on the image of the driver's face captured by the camera module, and to control the luminance of the lighting unit in response to the acquired information.
US11491909B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide for displaying notifications on a display of an autonomous vehicle. In one instance, a distance from the vehicle to a destination of the vehicle or a passenger may be determined. When the distance is between a first distance and a second distance, a first notification may be displayed on the display. The second distance may be less than the first distance. When the distance is less than the second distance, a second notification may be displayed on the display. The second notification provides additional information not provided by the first notification.
US11491888B2
A charging station for charging electric vehicles, wherein the charging station comprises a network connection point, via which the charging station is connected to an electricity supply network, for the take-up of electric power from said electricity supply network, wherein the network connection point assumes a connection capacity value, up to which a maximum take-up of power from the electricity supply network can be executed by the charging station, at least one charging terminal, for the charging of one electric vehicle respectively, at least one controllable load to the at least one charging terminal, and a control device for controlling the charging station, wherein the control device is designed to determine an equivalent storage capacity of a virtual precharge store, and to control the charging of electric vehicles in accordance with the connection capacity value and the equivalent storage capacity, wherein the equivalent storage capacity describes a value which corresponds to a storage capacity of a virtual electrical precharge store which, for a predefined charging period, can deliver an additional charging capacity, which is dictated by the storage capacity, in order to increase a charging capacity which is restricted by the connection capacity value.
US11491878B2
A system for restricting power to a load to prevent engaging a circuit protection device for an electric aircraft includes an energy source. The energy source is communicatively coupled to a load, wherein the load includes a portion of a propulsion system. The system includes sensors configured to sense an electrical parameter. The system includes an aircraft controller communicatively connected to the energy source, wherein the aircraft controller is configured to receive an electrical parameter, compare the electrical parameter to a current allocation threshold, detect that the electrical parameter has reached a current allocation threshold, generate a current allocation threshold notification as a function of the detection, wherein the current allocation threshold notification indicates that the electrical parameter has reached the current allocation threshold.
US11491872B2
A vehicle and a method for controlling the vehicle are provided. The vehicle includes a first camera configured to capture a front image of the vehicle; a head-up display configured to project an image onto a windshield of the vehicle; an input device configured to input a boundary line for setting an area in which the image is projected from the windshield; and a controller configured to determine a projection area in which the image is projected based on the inputted boundary line, to determine an interest area of the front image based on the determined projection area and a speed of the vehicle, and to display the determined interest area in the determined projection area on the head-up display.
US11491868B2
An axle assembly having a gear reduction unit that is configured to operatively connect an electric motor to a drive pinion. The gear reduction unit includes at least two gear sets. A shift collar is rotatable with the drive pinion and moveable along the drive pinion to couple a gear set to the drive pinion.
US11491857B2
Apparatus and method for converting a gas-powered vehicle to an electric vehicle. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: a motor case comprising: an inner surface forming a central cavity with a volume sufficient to enclose a first type of electric motor, the volume of the central cavity formed, at least in part, based on dimensions of a crankshaft of a gas-powered engine to be replaced by an electric motor; an outer surface coupled to the inner surface through a material layer comprising a material from which the motor case is fabricated; a plurality of internal connection elements to fixedly couple the motor within the motor case; and a set of external connection elements coupled to or formed on the outer surface of the motor case, the set of external connection elements arranged in accordance with connection points of a vehicle chassis, the set of external connection elements to be used to couple the motor case to the chassis at the connection points and to couple various gas-powered engine accessories. In one implementation, a second set of external connection elements are used to connect accessories, including accessories which are in combination with the electric motor and accessories which are not used, but which are coupled to the motor case for aesthetic purposes.
US11491851B2
The principles and embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to complexly curved laminates made from a complexly curved substrate and a flat substrate, such as automotive window glazings, and methods of cold forming complexly-curved glass products from a curved substrate and a flat substrate. In one or more embodiments, the laminate includes first complexly-curved glass substrate with a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, a second complexly-curved glass substrate with a third surface and a fourth surface opposite the third surface with a thickness therebetween; and a polymer interlayer affixed to the second convex surface and third surface, wherein the third surface and fourth surface have compressive stress values respectively that differ such that the fourth surface has as compressive stress value that is greater than the compressive stress value of the third surface.
US11491847B2
A heating apparatus is provided. The heating apparatus includes a positive temperature coefficient (PTC) heating element and a power controller configured to generate and apply a pulse width modified signal to the PTC heating element. The power controller is configured to vary a current of the pulse width modified signal linearly with respect to a temperature of a space being heated by the PTC heating element.
US11491838B2
A suspension system for a rear axle of a vehicle provided with a frame equipped with at least two side members, the suspension system connecting the axle to said side members and comprising a left side and a right side, each comprising an axle-holder assembly, a bellows, a leaf spring, first and second bars, and a torsion bar interposed between said left and right sides. The aforementioned elements of the suspension system being arranged to provide a functional layout having reduced costs and overall dimensions.
US11491835B2
An amphibious pumping vehicle has a floatable vehicle body, a ground engaging propulsion structure, a fluid pump, a plurality of fluid nozzles comprising a first fluid nozzle connected by a fluid conduit to the fluid pump and at least one second fluid nozzle connected to the fluid conduit, a valve structure in the fluid conduit, the plurality of fluid nozzles and the valve structure co-operating to provide directional control and motive power for the vehicle when floating, and a power source configured to provide power to both the ground engaging propulsion structure and the fluid pump.
US11491820B2
A monofilament made of glass-resin composite has improved properties in compression, in particular at high temperature, and comprises glass filaments embedded in a crosslinked resin. The glass transition temperature of the resin is equal to or greater than 190° C. The elongation at break of the monofilament, measured at 23° C., is equal to or greater than 4.0%. The initial tensile modulus of the monofilament, measured at 23° C., is greater than 35 GPa. The real part of the complex modulus of the monofilament, measured at 190° C. by the DMTA method, is greater than 30 GPa. Pneumatic or non-pneumatic tires are reinforced with such a composite monofilament.
US11491818B2
The disclosure discloses a high-precision wheel assembling device, which is high in size and shape precision, good in dynamic balance, high in fatigue strength, good in rigidity and elasticity, light in weight, attractive in appearance and recyclable in material.
US11491815B2
A security sheet including at least one paper substrate, at least one watermark produced in the paper substrate, the watermark having an exterior outline, at least one aperture of regular edge, produced by ablation of the paper substrate, and at least one security film that is at least partially superposed on the watermark and on the aperture. In the sheet, the at least one aperture lies inside the watermark, such as bounded by its exterior outline.
US11491814B2
A prism layer has an uneven surface that includes at least one display region. An interface layer is adjacent to the uneven surface. The interface layer has a difference in refractive index from the prism layer such that a refractive index of a side of an interface between the uneven surface and the interface layer at which the prism layer is located is higher than a refractive index of a side of the interface at which the light interference layer is located. The display region includes inclination elements. The inclination elements adjacent to each other in an array direction contact each other in a plan view facing a plane along which the prism layer expands. The inclination elements include first inclination elements among which the inclination angle increases by the even angles along the array direction.
US11491809B2
A printing apparatus includes: a roll sheet container that contains a roll sheet around which a recording sheet is wound; a first sheet guide that makes contact with a first surface of the recording sheet; a second sheet guide that makes contact with a second surface of the recording sheet; and a transport roller that transports the recording sheet. The first and second sheet guides are disposed so as to face each other to form a sheet route along which the recording sheet is to pass. The transport roller transports the recording sheet that passed along the sheet route. The second sheet guide includes: a projection that protrudes toward the roll sheet container; and a pushing section that extends from the projection along an outer circumference of the roll sheet and in a direction away from the first sheet guide.
US11491801B2
A printer includes a thermal head, an electrical connector capable of being connected to and disconnected from the thermal head, and a head cover of the thermal head. The head cover moves between a first position and a second position different from the first position to connect and disconnect the thermal head and the electrical connector.
US11491797B2
In some examples, a print materials container can include a dispense mechanism to dispense print materials directly to an in-situ reservoir of a printing device, a lock feature to engage a fill port during connection of the dispense mechanism to the fill port, and a valve integrated with the dispense mechanism for connecting the dispense mechanism to the fill port of the reservoir and comprising an output opening offset from a center axis of a tip of the dispense mechanism. The valve can open responsive to rotation of the valve opening with respect to the lock feature such that opposite openings align.
US11491794B2
A recording apparatus includes an apparatus main body including: a transport unit that transports a medium; a liquid ejecting head that is provided above a transport path for the medium and performs recording by ejecting liquid onto the medium; and an accommodating unit that accommodates a waste liquid container configured to store waste liquid discharged from the liquid ejecting head, wherein a front surface of the apparatus main body is provided with a front wall and an operable operation unit, which are adjacent to each other in a width direction, and the accommodating unit is located between the front wall and the liquid ejecting head in a depth direction at a position that does not overlap the operation unit in the width direction.
US11491792B2
A modular service station for servicing at least one inkjet printhead of an inkjet printing system, the service station comprising: a frame with mounted thereon at least one capping element and at least one wiping element, a means for horizontal movement of the at least one inkjet printhead between a printing position and a servicing position, the means for horizontal movement configured to enable a wiping process, a means for vertical movement of the at least one inkjet printhead, the means for vertical movement configured to enable capping, unclogging or purging processes in respect to the at least one inkjet printhead, and a waste ink tank in hermetic communication with the at least one capping element. A method of servicing an inkjet printhead of an inkjet printing system is also disclosed.
US11491782B2
A memory circuit for a print component including a plurality of I/O pads, including an analog pad, to connect to a plurality of signal paths which communicate operating signals to the print component. The memory circuit includes a controllable selector connected in line with one of the signal paths via the I/O pads, the selector controllable to disconnect the corresponding signal path to the print component, and a memory component to store memory values associated with the print component. A control circuit, in response to a sequence of operating signals received by the I/O pads representing a memory read, to operate the controllable selector to disconnect the signal path to the print component to block the memory read of the print component, and provide an analog signal to the analog pad to provide an analog electrical value at the analog pad representing stored memory values selected by the memory read.
US11491768B2
Provided is an interlayer film for laminated glass capable of enhancing the sound insulating property over a wide range of temperature from 0° C. to 40° C. An interlayer film for laminated glass according to the present invention is an interlayer film for laminated glass having a one-layer structure or a two or more-layer structure, the interlayer film includes a resin layer, and a ratio of a first storage modulus G′ at a peak temperature of a maximum peak of tan δ to a second storage modulus G′ at a temperature 100° C. higher than the peak temperature of the maximum peak of tan δ is 50 or more and 500 or less in viscoelasticity measurement at a frequency of 1 Hz in a shearing mode.
US11491766B2
A hybrid metal composite (HMC) structure comprises tiers comprising fiber composite material structures, and additional tiers longitudinally adjacent one or more of the tiers and comprising perforated metallic structures and additional fiber composite material structures laterally adjacent the perforated metallic structures. Methods of forming an HMC structure, and related rocket motors and multi-stage rocket motor assemblies are also disclosed.
US11491764B2
The present invention provides an iron-aluminum-based plated steel sheet, and a manufacturing method therefor, the iron-aluminum-based plated steel sheet comprising a base steel sheet and a plated layer formed on the surface of the base steel sheet, wherein the alloy plated layer comprises: a diffusion layer comprising an Fe—Al-based intermetallic compound having a cubic structure; and an alloyed layer formed on the diffusion layer and composed of an alloy phase differing from that of the cubic structure, the thickness of the diffusion layer is 3-20 μm, and the thickness of the diffusion layer is greater than 50% of the total thickness of the plated layer.
US11491763B2
A structure adapted to traverse a fluid environment exerting an ambient fluid pressure is provided. The structure includes an elongate body extending from a root to a wingtip and encapsulating at least one interior volume containing an interior fluid exerting an interior fluid pressure that is different from the ambient fluid pressure. A method of retrofitting a structure adapted to traverse a fluid environment exerting an ambient fluid pressure, the structure comprising an elongate body extending from a root to a wingtip and having at least one interior volume is also provided. The method includes sealing the elongate body to encapsulate the at least one interior volume containing an interior fluid; associating at least one valve with the at least one interior volume; and modifying interior fluid content via the at least one valve to produce an interior fluid pressure that is different from the ambient fluid pressure.
US11491761B2
The present invention discloses a colorful board structure comprising a transparent substrate, an adhesive layer, a three-dimensional painted layer and a protective layer. The three-dimensional painted layer includes at least one colored layer and at least one transparent stacking layer including at least one raised part. The aforementioned colorful board structure is made of a multi-layer structure, and has the advantages of enhancing the stereoscopic effect of the pattern and the color expression. In addition, a manufacturing method of the colorful board structure is also disclosed.
US11491760B2
The breathable sheet of the present invention is comprised of a 4-methyl-1-pentene-based polymer or a resin composition containing the 4-methyl-1-pentene-based polymer as a main component. In addition, the breathable sheet of the present invention is preferably selected from the group consisting of a net, a mesh, a non-woven fabric, a woven fabric, and a perforated sheet.
US11491752B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a press-type strapping machine configured to strap a load when both the height of the load falls within a target height range and the compressive force applied to the load falls within a target compressive force range.
US11491748B2
A deformable, coated radius filler composed of a continuous or elongated fibrous structure and a tacky, resin surface coating formed by pulling a dry, continuous or elongated fibrous structure through a heated resin bath. The coated radius filler has an inner portion that is substantially free of resin and the resin surface coating has a substantially uniform thickness.
US11491746B2
Provided is a method for manufacturing a fiber reinforced resin molded article capable of effectively suppressing formation of a weld line, and such a manufacturing device thereof. Even with multiple gates (resin inlets), resin is poured from a second gate (second resin inlet) when resin flow is detected at the second gate (second resin inlet), and then the resin poured from a first gate (first resin inlet) and the resin poured from the second gate (second resin inlet) are made smoothly meet.
US11491742B2
An aramid fabric having excellent adhesion to a polyurethane matrix resin and excellent tensile strength is produced by the method including the steps of: (i) weaving a basket-structured aramid fabric by using aramid yarns as warp and weft yarns; and then (ii) dipping the woven aramid fabric in a sizing agent solution consisting of an aqueous polyurethane resin as a sizing agent and water, followed by squeezing and drying. In the present disclosure, the sizing agent is applied to the woven aramid fabric, thereby effectively preventing the deterioration in weaving efficiency. Further, the aramid fabric is woven in a basket weave, and thus the compactness of the aramid fabric is lowered and the wetting property of the aramid fabric with the polyurethane matrix resin is improved.
US11491741B2
A method for producing a composite material. The method includes the steps of producing an initial dry preform, formed from unidirectional continuous dry fibers, applying non-woven filaments to a first main face of the dry preform, and needling the filaments with a needling device. The needling device includes a plurality of needles, each provided with at least one notch, so that filaments are driven by the needles and arranged in a direction substantially perpendicular to the continuous fibers of the dry perform. The method includes the further step of impregnating the dry preform with an impregnation polymer, the impregnation polymer constituting the matrix of the composite material part.
US11491735B2
An apparatus for cold-shaping a glass sheet that includes: a plurality of vacuum chucks configured within a moveable table; a first automated pick mechanism proximate the table; an automated dispensing mechanism proximate the table; and a pressing apparatus. The first pick mechanism is configured to shape a glass sheet onto one of the chucks. The dispensing mechanism is configured to dispense a curable adhesive onto the glass sheet or a frame. One of the first pick mechanism and the dispensing mechanism is configured to position the frame onto the glass sheet such that the adhesive is disposed between the glass sheet and the frame. The pressing apparatus is configured to press the frame and the adhesive onto the glass sheet to define a finished glass sheet assembly. The glass sheet is bendable at ambient temperature. Methods for cold-shaping a glass sheet are also included in the disclosure.
US11491731B2
A method for producing a three-dimensional shaped article includes acquiring first shape data for indicating a shape of the three-dimensional shaped article, and identification information for identifying the three-dimensional shaped article, generating second shape data for indicating the shape of the three-dimensional shaped article representing the identification information by an arrangement of layers having different characteristics using the first shape data and the identification information, producing the three-dimensional shaped article according to the second shape data, and transmitting the identification information and production information of the three-dimensional shaped article to a server.
US11491729B2
A method for training a machine learning engine for modeling of a physical system includes receiving process data representing measurements of a physical system. The method includes applying a transform to values of the at least two variables of the process data to generate a dimensionless parameter having a parameter value corresponding to each measurement of the physical system for the at least two variables. The method includes training the machine learning engine using a set of generated training data including the non-dimensionalized parameter, to output a prediction of a value of a physical effect of the physical system for values of the variables that are not included in the process data. The method includes controlling an additive manufacturing process for the material by setting the at least one physical property to the value of the at least one process variable during fabrication of a part.
US11491727B2
A device for producing a skin care pack using hydrogel and a control method of the device are disclosed. The device includes a housing which is provided with a door for selectively opening and closing a work space for forming a skin care pack, and which maintains a forming temperature required for producing the skin care pack; a platform having a base supported on a floor plate of the work space of the housing; a former including one or more nozzle modules which are provided to be movable in the work space, and each of which includes a pump for receiving a heated hydrogel and then discharging it onto the platform through a nozzle, and includes a cooling device for cooling a pump motor of the pump; and a control unit for controlling the discharge of the hydrogel from the nozzle modules.
US11491716B2
Devices, systems, and methods are directed to the use of vapor phase change in binder jetting processes for forming three-dimensional objects. In general, a vapor of a first fluid may be directed to a layer of a powder spread across a build volume. The vapor may condense to reduce mobility of the particles of the powder of the layer. For example, the condensing vapor may reduce the likelihood of particle ejection from the layer and, thus, may reduce the likelihood of clogging or otherwise degrading a printhead used to jet a second fluid (e.g., a binder) to the layer. Further, or instead, the condensing vapor may increase the density of the powder in the layer which, when repeated over a plurality of layers forming a three-dimensional object, may reduce the likelihood of slumping of the part during sintering.
US11491713B2
A resin powder for solid freeform fabrication has a 50 percent cumulative volume particle diameter of from 5 to 100 μm and a ratio (Mv/Mn) of a volume average particle diameter (Mv) to the number average particle diameter (Mn) of 2.50 or less and satisfies at least one of the following conditions (1) to (3): (1): Tmf1>Tmf2 and (Tmf1−Tmf2)≥3 degrees C., both Tmf1 and Tmf2 are measured in differential scanning calorimetry measuring according to ISO 3146, (2): Cd1>Cd2 and (Cd1−Cd2)≥3 percent, both Cd1 and Cd2 are measured in differential scanning calorimetry measuring according to ISO 3146, and (3): C×1>C×2 and (C×1−C×2)≥3 percent.
US11491703B2
Systems and methods for 3D printing hollow bodies, such as bodies having an exterior cylindrical shape with a hollow interior, are described. Such systems and methods utilize rotatable hollow print base supports having an interior size and/or shape that matches the desired exterior shape of the final printed structure. The printed bodies, methods, and systems enable printing of the desired hollow printed body from the outside-to-inside. They also allow easy production, customization, and modification of internal structures within the printed hollow body.
US11491701B2
A method for producing a tubular body with reduced internal stress uses 3D printing. The tubular body has an outer wall with a stiffening structure extending along at least part of the outer wall. The method sets a printing plane for 3D printing with a 3D printer, and prints a tubular body layer in the printing plane with the 3D printer. The tubular body layer has an outer wall layer and a stiffening structure layer extending in the printing plane along a periphery of the outer wall layer. The stiffening structure layer has at least two portions spaced apart from one another. The method produces an outer wall with a stiffening structure for a tubular body with reduced internal stress.
US11491700B2
Disclosed herein is a method comprising transporting a conduit and a template through a guide tube; the template being disposed on an outer surface of the conduit between the conduit and the guide tube; and transferring a texture from the template to the conduit as the conduit and the template are transported through the guide tube. Disclosed herein too is an apparatus comprising a guide tube; the guide tube being operative to facilitate a transfer of a pattern from a template to a conduit; a first feed spool and a first take-up spool for feeding the conduit through the guide tube and for taking up the conduit after it has travelled through the guide tube respectively; and a second feed spool and a second take-up spool for feeding the template through the guide tube and for taking up the template after it has travelled through the guide tube respectively.
US11491694B2
Systems and approaches for controlling an injection molding machine having a mold forming a mold cavity and being controlled according to an injection cycle include obtaining a pattern for the injection cycle, operating the injection molding machine to inject a molten material into the mold cavity, and measuring a cavity pressure value of the mold cavity during the mold cycle. Upon measuring a nominal cavity pressure value, a pattern recognition portion of the injection cycle that is at least partially dependent on the obtained pattern commences where a driving force being exerted on the molten material is adjusted such that the measured cavity pressure matches the obtained pattern for the injection cycle.
US11491688B2
A method of making a foamed article comprises (a) injection molding a molten thermoplastic elastomer to form an precursor; (b) crosslinking the thermoplastic elastomer; (c) heating the thermoplastic elastomer to a first temperature to soften the thermoplastic elastomer; (d) infusing the thermoplastic elastomer with at least one inert gas at a first pressure that is sufficient to cause the at least one inert gas to permeate into the softened thermoplastic elastomer; and (e) while the article is softened, reducing the pressure to a second pressure below the first pressure to at least partially foam the precursor into a foamed article, wherein the foamed article is substantially the same shape as the precursor.
US11491686B2
Compression mold assembly for forming a preform of a cascade includes first and second die elements and an axis of alignment. Line of removal of a formed preform is positioned perpendicular to a plane perpendicular to the axis of alignment. First die portion includes first curved surface forming interior surface of first strong back and second die portion includes first curved surface forming interior surface of a second strong back of a cell of a formed preform. Second die portion includes second curved surface forming an interior surface of a first vane on forward side of the cell of the formed preform and first die portion further includes first wall member which extends along line of removal and a second wall member which extends angularly from first wall portion forming an interior surface of a second vane positioned on an aft side of the cell.
US11491684B2
For the exact lateral continuous positioning of material plies on a forming tool, a positioning device is provided to position a material ply on a forming tool during a production of a fiber composite component, comprising a positioning unit for positioning the positioning device in relation to a surface of the forming tool, a movement unit for moving the positioning device along a predetermined movement route along the forming tool, a route position detection unit for detecting the current route position of the positioning device on the movement route, and a material ply positioning unit for positioning the material ply in a direction transverse to the movement direction in dependence on the current route position detected by the route position detection unit.
US11491681B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a lumber handling and cutting apparatus, including an incoming material conveyor assembly, a material infeed assembly adjacent to the incoming material conveyor assembly, a cutting assembly adjacent to the material infeed assembly, a material outfeed assembly adjacent to the cutting assembly, an outgoing material conveyor assembly adjacent to the cutting assembly, and a printer assembly adjacent to the incoming material conveyor assembly and the material infeed assembly.
US11491680B2
A method for perforating a film of plastic material in which the film is perforated whilst it is slid through a perforating device by a plurality of pressurised hot gas jets having a temperature above the melting temperature of the main film, in which the hot gas jets are correlated with the sliding speed of the main film, and in which reinforcing bands obtained from an auxiliary film of plastic material are connected to the perforated main film, making the reinforcing bands adhere between parallel rows of base holes. During perforating, the main film of plastic material is pressed against a perforating template, making the main film of plastic material instantaneously penetrate openings of the perforating template by said hot gas jets. A hot gas perforating device and a suitable apparatus for perforating and stretching a film of plastic material are also provided.
US11491678B2
A device includes a blade, which is movable within an associated working space for cutting product units, and a conveying device in which the product units can be individually conveyed into the working space of the blade. The conveying device includes at least one two-part conveying channel associated with the blade, in which on one side first conveyor elements and on the other side second conveyor elements are guided, which are assigned to one another in pairs and which have each a recess for partially receiving a separated product unit. The sides of the first and second conveyor elements, which are facing one another, delimit therebetween the free working space, so that the blade is guidable within the working space partially or completely through the product units held in the first and second conveyor elements which correspond to one another.
US11491676B2
A cutting machine includes a cutting support for material to be cut, a vertically movable blade bar which bears a blade for cutting the cut material located thereon, a cutting drive for vertically moving the blade bar, a vertically movable clamping bar for pushing down the material to be cut and a pressing drive for vertically moving the clamping bar. The cutting drive and the pressing drive are formed by a single drive which rotates a cam disc to and fro, wherein the blade bar is motion-coupled to the cam disc via a first coupling mechanism which acts on the cam disc eccentrically to the axis of rotation thereof. The clamping bar is motion-coupled to the cam disc via a second coupling mechanism, the one end thereof acting on the outer contour of the cam disc.
US11491675B2
A rotating blade slicer is provided. The slicer includes a housing, a carriage assembly that is slidably movable along the housing with respect to the knife. A gauge plate is provided to set cutting depth. The carriage assembly movably supports a weighted plate that is slidably mounted upon the carriage assembly and is configured to be disposed upon an upper surface of a food product intended to be sliced by the knife. The weighted plate supported by an arm that is slidably mounted to the carriage assembly, wherein the weighted plate is removably attached to the arm such that the weighted plate can be removed from and connected to the arm without any external tools.
US11491674B2
A method where a propeller is set into locomotion relative to a medium at least partially surrounding the propeller. An actuator induces a rotation of the propeller relative to the medium and about a rotational axis of the propeller, and the propeller converts its rotational movement into locomotion relative to the medium. The aspect ratio of at least one cross-section of the propeller is three or more. Also a helical or modifiedly helical propeller for converting rotational movement of the propeller into locomotion of the propeller relative to a medium at least partially surrounding the propeller, where the aspect ratio of at least one cross section of the propeller is three or more. And a method of producing a propeller, including the step of providing a plate extending along the helical axis, where the aspect ratio of at least one cross section of the plate is three or more.
US11491669B2
A cutting apparatus cuts a workpiece by a cutting blade. The cutting apparatus includes a mount flange on which the cutting blade is mounted and a replacement apparatus that replaces the cutting blade mounted on the mount flange with the cutting blade for replacement. The replacement apparatus includes a rotating part, a first holding part that holds the cutting blade mounted on the mount flange on a front surface side, a second holding part that holds the cutting blade for replacement on a front surface side, and a nut rotation part that has a nut holding part that holds a nut for fixing the cutting blade to the mount flange and rotates the nut held by the nut holding part. The rotating part is coupled to the first holding part, the second holding part, and the nut rotation part.
US11491651B2
A robotic arm system comprising an artificial intelligence (AI) processor system, a transceiver electrically coupled to the AI processor system, and a robotic arm having an optical data communication network that communicates with the transceiver. The robotic arm further comprises a transmitter, a plurality of sensors electrically coupled to the transmitter, a receiver, and a plurality of motion actuators electrically coupled to the receiver. The optical data communication network comprises gigabit plastic optical fiber (GbPOF) having a graded-index core made of a transparent carbon-hydrogen bond-free perfluorinated polymer with dopant. In one embodiment, one GbPOF optically couples the transmitter to the transceiver and another GbPOF optically couples the transceiver to the receiver. The flexible high-data-rate GbPOF enables robotic arm control using artificial intelligence.
US11491650B2
Robotic visualization systems and methods include running and analyzing perception algorithms and models for robotic visualization systems on multiple computing platforms to obtain a successful complete an object processing request.
US11491648B2
A linear motion actuation system and method of using the same may be utilized for installing or removing a server blade within a server rack, via a linear motion assembly fastened to a server blade and configured for linear motion with the server blade; a bracket fastened to a server rack; and at least one linear motion actuator comprising: a first component secured with the linear motion assembly; and a second component movably secured with the first component and secured with the bracket. The second component is configured for at least substantially linear movement relative to first component, and the at least one linear motion actuator is configured to, upon receipt of a signal from a controller, move the second component in an at least substantially linear direction relative to the first component to move the server blade relative to the server rack.
US11491647B2
Artificial muscles are provided including a housing having an electrode region and an expandable fluid region, an electrode pair including a first electrode and a second electrode positioned in the electrode region of the housing, a dielectric fluid housed within the housing, and a stiffening member positioned between the housing and at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode. The stiffening member increases a stiffness of the housing in a direction toward the expandable fluid region from an opposite edge of the electrode region. The electrode pair is actuatable between a non-actuated state and an actuated state such that actuation from the non-actuated state to the actuated state directs the dielectric fluid into the expandable fluid region.
US11491644B2
A motorized joint unit comprises a pair of shells defining an inner cavity, the pair of shells adapted to be connected to adjacent links of an articulated mechanism. A rotor and stator in the inner cavity are actuatable to cause a relative rotation therebetween. A shaft connected to the rotor to rotate with the rotor relative to the stator. A support coupled to the shaft by a mechanism, the support being connected to one of the shells to impart a rotation of the shaft to the shell, the support defining an annular wall. One or more strain gauges are located on said annular wall of the support. A printed circuit board (PCB) is applied against the annular wall and electrically connected to the at least one strain gauge, the PCB adapted to be electrically linked to a controller.
US11491642B2
Methods are described that perform dispatched store-to-consumer logistics operations for an ordered item using a modular autonomous bot apparatus assembly and a dispatch server. A dispatch command is received from the dispatch server. The different modular components of the bot assembly are verified to be compatible with the dispatched operation and the ordered item is received in a payload area of a modular cargo storage system. The bot assembly autonomously moves from an origin location to a destination location and notifies the delivery recipient of the approach delivery. When delivery recipient authentication input is received that correlates to the authentication information, selective access is provided to the ordered item within the cargo storage system at the destination location. The bot apparatus monitors unloading, and autonomously moves back to the origin location after the ordered item is detected as removed from the cargo storage system.
US11491635B2
A sawhorse includes a modular work surface supported by a frame. The modular work surface includes a first side portion, a second side portion and a central portion. The modular work surface is configured to move between a compact configuration and an expanded configuration. In the compact configuration the first side portion and the second side portion are adjacent to one another to provide a compact worktop and the central portion is positioned beneath the compact worktop. In the expanded configuration, the first side portion and the second side portion are distal to one another and the central portion is positioned therebetween to create an expanded worktop.
US11491631B2
A gas powered tool (70) comprising a housing (73) and a soldering tool element (72) releasably coupled to the housing (73). A latching element (105) pivotally mounted on a pivot pin (106) in the housing (73) is retained in a non-latching state (FIG. 26) by an abutment element (102) which is urgeable into the housing (73) by the soldering tool element (72) when the soldering tool element (72) is coupled to the housing (73). The latching element (105) is spring biased in the direction of the arrow E from the non-latching state to a latching state (FIG. 27) for latching a switching element (89) in a first state to in turn retain an isolating valve (86), which supplies fuel gas from a reservoir (78) in the housing (73) to the soldering tool element (72), in the isolating state. On decoupling of the soldering tool element (72) from the housing (73), the abutment element (102) is spring urged outwardly and disengages the latching element (105). The latching element (105) pivots about the pivot pin from the non-latching state to the latching state engaging the switching element (89) in the first state, thereby retaining the isolating valve (86) in the isolating state isolating the soldering tool element (72) from the fuel gas in the fuel gas reservoir (78) in the housing (73).
US11491628B2
An impact tool is provided, including a working portion and a handle. The working portion includes a housing which is made of rubber and a filler. The housing defines an inner space, and the filler is stuffed with the inner space. The filler is shear thickening non-Newtonian fluid. The handle is connected with the working potion.
US11491624B2
A fastener driving tool that includes a lift mechanism for moving the driver from a driven position to a ready position. In one embodiment, the lift mechanism is mounted to a movable pivot arm, and the pivot arm is slightly rotated to allow the driver to drive a fastener; when the driver is to be lifted in a return stroke, the lifter subassembly is moved back into engagement with the driver, and multiple lifter pins contact protrusions in the driver to lift the driver from the driven position to the ready position. In another embodiment, the pivotable lifter floats along the driver, and “releases” from contact only to prevent a jam or otherwise undesirable operating condition involving the driver; otherwise, the lifter remains nested in the tool's guide body during all operating states. A solenoid-operated latch also is provided to prevent the driver from moving downward (for driving a fastener).
US11491619B2
A negator spring tool for winding a negator spring output drum around a rotational axis includes: a pair of tool handles; and a tool disk having an outer edge which is generally circular except for a cutout. The tool disk is configured to be releasably attached to the output drum. The tool disk has a drum-facing side which includes protruding teeth protruding from the drum-facing side to engage radial spokes of the output drum. The outer edge of the tool disk includes handle slots which are spaced circumferentially. The distal end of each tool handle is insertable into a handle slot to rotate the tool disk around the rotational axis. The protruding teeth of the tool disk each having a T-shaped cross section, each T-shaped protruding tooth and the drum-facing side forming an I-shaped cross section having two opposite facing cavities on two opposite sides of the I-shaped cross section.
US11491613B2
A high-torque ratchet wrench including a wrench body having a driving aperture and a handle, and a drive member is disposed in the driving aperture and an axial position-limiting mechanism is disposed between the driving aperture and the drive member to limit the relative axial displacement. The external side wall of the drive member and the internal aperture side of the driving aperture form two cylindrical drive faces nested, wherein a first cylindrical drive face is provided with a pin recess, a pin is rotatably mounted in the pin recess, a relief is disposed on the side face of pin, the pin is connected with a resilient reset member, the pin is rotated with the resilience of a resilient reset member, and a relief is driven to stand out of the pin recess and contacts a second drive face.
US11491596B2
The invention relates to an electric machine tool comprising an electric motor, a motor control unit for operating the electric motor, an input interface for entering a target specification of an operating mode of the electric motor into the motor control unit, and a motor sensor device for detecting the operating mode of the electric motor. A slave control unit is provided, which is independent from the motor control unit and communicatingly connected to the motor sensor device and the input interface and designed to compare the operating mode of the electric motor detected by the motor sensor device with the target specification entered via the input interface, and to influence the operating mode of the electric motor in case of a defined deviation of the operating mode from the target specification by means of a control device.
US11491593B2
A radiating structure assembly system includes a movable conveyor that supports fixtures. Work stations are spaced about the conveyor such that the fixtures are moved sequentially to position the fixtures at the plurality of work stations. A first work station includes a loading assembly for loading the radiating elements on the fixtures. A second work station includes a first automated vertical assembly machine for mounting a first printed circuit board to the radiating element. A third work station includes a second automated vertical assembly machine for mounting a second printed circuit board to the radiating element to create a dipole assembly. A holding device is movable with the conveyor aligns and supports the first and second printed circuit boards relative to the radiating element. A fourth work station includes an unloading assembly for removing the dipole assembly from the conveyor.
US11491592B2
A pole module for attachment to one or more adjacent pole modules to provide a pole assembly comprising two or more pole modules is disclosed here. The pole module comprises an elongated body that defines a cavity extending from a first end of the pole module to a second end of the pole module. The pole module further comprises a first installation interface for attaching the first end of the pole module to a second end of a first adjacent pole module and a second installation interface for attaching the second end of the pole module to a first end of a second adjacent pole module. The pole module further comprises a first connection interface and a second connection interface. A cabling arrangement is arranged in the cavity. The cabling arrangement comprises a plurality of cables connecting the first connection interface to the second connection interface.
US11491590B1
A battery removal apparatus for use with portable comping devices is disclosed. The battery removal apparatus can be used to remove the battery from a portable computing device. One embodiment having a heating surface 118 used to soften the adhesive 206 which bonds the battery to the housing of the device. The device is placed on the heating surface 118 and secured to the housing of the apparatus with a clamping system 116. In addition, a vacuum suction cup 130 attaches to the battery 208 of the portable computing device. The suction cup 130 and the battery 208, is then lifted out of the portable computing device using a lifting system. As a result, there is a reduction in the risk of puncturing the battery during the removal process. Other embodiments are described and shown.
US11491575B2
An electron beam melting machine and a method of operation are provided which maintains constant energy absorption within a build layer by adjusting an incident energy level to compensate for energy not absorbed by the additive powder. This unabsorbed energy is detected in the form of electron emissions, which include secondary electrons, backscattered electrons, and/or electrons which are transmitted through the build platform.
US11491569B1
Devices and methods to assist wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) are provided. A non-contact, multidirectional synchronized ultrasonic device can include multiple ultrasonic probes mounted on a nozzle of a WAAM robotic arm. The probes can include one normal probe and a plurality of lateral probes configured to rotate on a parabolic frame. The ultrasonic probe in the normal direction can act by its continual high-frequency oscillation in the arc plasma to enhance the arc push force, while the lateral probes can act on the shape of both sides of the deposit. The combined effect of the probes can generate ultrasonic waves and cavitation in the molten pool.
US11491562B2
A cutting tool may include a main body extended from a first end to a second end. The main body may be rotatable around a rotation axis. The main body may include a first cutting edge, a second cutting edge, a first flute and a second flute. The first flute may be extended from the first cutting edge toward the second end. The second flute may be extended from the second cutting edge toward the second end. The first flute may include a first hole located in the main body. The second flute may include a second hole located in the main body. The first hole may have a circular shape and the second hole may have a long narrow shape in a circumferential direction of the rotation axis in a cross section orthogonal to the rotation axis.
US11491561B2
A cutting tool having an elongate cutting head provided with a plurality of teeth and flutes in which a plurality of cooling grooves are recessed at a land region of each tooth between a cutting edge and a trailing edge. The grooves at the land do not extend to and are physically separated from the cutting edge to provide a tool optimized for cutting via radially consistent cutting edges and the promotion of heat exchange and dissipation from the rearward side/region of the teeth.
US11491558B2
The invention relates to a method for producing a roughing tool (1), particularly a circular milling tool, comprising the following steps: fitting a lateral surface of a tool base body (10) that can be rotatably driven about an axis of rotation (2) with a number of cutting element blanks (20′) that are staggered in the axial and/or peripheral direction, such that a free edge of each cutting element blank (20′) protrudes out of the lateral surface in the mounted state; inserting a microtoothing comprising a plurality of axially spaced cutting teeth (21) into the respective free edges of the cutting element blanks (20′) by a material removal method, preferably by thermal machining, particularly preferably by eroding, in the premounted state on the tool base body (10). The invention further relates to a roughing tool produced by means of such a method.
US11491556B2
The present application provides an adjustable mandrel and a fixture. The adjustable mandrel comprises an outer-diameter adjusting assembly and a height adjusting assembly, wherein the external diameter and the height of the mandrel can be adjusted according to wheels in different specifications, the wheels in different specifications are clamped, and the radial positioning of the wheel and the axial positioning of the wheel during second-step processing are realized. Two adjusting systems supplement each other, so that the structure is novel, the concept is ingenious, the universality is high, the application range is wide, and the machining cost is reduced.
US11491550B2
A cutting insert 2 includes an upper surface 6, a lower surface 7 on a side opposite to the upper surface 6, and a peripheral side surface 8 connecting the upper surface 6 and the lower surface 7. A cutting edge 61 is formed in at least a part of a first ridgeline 60 where the upper surface 6 and the peripheral side surface 8 intersect. At least one bottomed recess 10 recessed from the lower surface 7 to the upper surface 6 is formed in an outer peripheral portion of the lower surface 7. Each of the recesses 10 is formed in a substantially triangular shape having a first vertex P, a second vertex Q, and a third vertex R. The first vertex P and the second vertex Q are respectively positioned on a second ridgeline 70 where the lower surface 7 and the peripheral side surface 8 intersect. The third vertex R is positioned on the lower surface 7 and separated from the second ridgeline 70.
US11491548B2
Machine tool system that restricts parallel execution of predetermined operations by different tools
The machine tool includes modules and a control portion. Each of the modules includes a main spindle for holding a workpiece and a tool post for holding a tool. The tool is used to machine the workpiece held by the main spindle. The control portion is configured to control to restrict a parallel execution of predetermined machining for the workpiece and machining affected by the predetermined machining and to permit an execution of machining other than the restricted machining.
US11491543B2
A method for the production of a superconducting wire (20) uses a monofilament (1) having a powder core (3) that contains at least Sn and Cu, an inner tube (2), made of Nb or an alloy containing Nb, that encloses the powder core (3), and an outer tube (4) in which the inner tube (2) is arranged. The outer side of the inner tube (2) is in contact with the inner side of the outer tube (4) and the outer tube (4) is produced from Nb or from an alloy containing Nb. The outer tube is disposed in a cladding tube. The superconducting current carrying capacity of the superconducting wire is thereby improved.
US11491539B2
Methods of forming metal multipod nanostructures. The methods may include providing a mixture that includes a metal acetylacetonate, a reducing agent, and a carboxylic acid. The mixture may be contacted with microwaves to form the metal multipod nanostructures. The methods may offer control over the structure and/or morphology of the metal multipod nano structures.
US11491537B2
In a sliding gate, a flow path vertical angle a between a flow path axial direction and a vertical downstream direction in a flow path hole in each plate is 5° or more and 75° or less, and a flow path axial direction projected on sliding surface in which the flow path axial direction is projected on a sliding surface differs between the plates and is changed clockwise or counterclockwise toward a downstream side. Then, molten metal forms a turning flow in the flow path hole of the sliding gate. Furthermore, the molten metal also forms a turning flow in a ladle shroud on the downstream side of the sliding gate.
US11491536B1
A method and apparatus for providing an estimate of uniformity of wall thickness of a centrifugally cast object, such as a pipe cast from molten iron, substantially immediately after the casting process is complete. The volume of molten metal entering the mold over time is determined and correlated with casting machine position and velocity data to estimate wall thickness along the length of the pipe. Process defects can then be identified promptly and corrective action taken.
US11491517B2
The water outlet of a subsystem that includes an ultraviolet oxidation device and the water inlet of each substrate treatment device are connected to each other via a main pipe. A hydrogen peroxide removal device is installed between the ultraviolet oxidation device of the subsystem and a non-regenerative ion-exchange device. In addition, a carbon dioxide supply device is installed at the middle of a pipe that branches from the water outlet of the subsystem to reach the substrate treatment device. According to an aspect, the hydrogen peroxide removal device is filled with a platinum-group metal catalyst. Thus, ultrapure water passed through the ultraviolet oxidation device is used as a base to produce carbonated water in which the concentration of hydrogen peroxide dissolved therein is limited to 2 μg/L or less and to which carbon dioxide is added to adjust resistivity to be within the range of 0.03 to 5.0 MΩ·cm.
US11491512B2
An apparatus may include: a shaker body; a shaker screen disposed within the shaker body; and one or more air nozzles disposed within the shaker body, wherein the one or more air nozzles is positioned below the shaker screen, and wherein the one or more air nozzles is operable to deliver a pressurized stream of air to at least a portion of a bottom of the shaker screen.
US11491492B2
A separation apparatus and method for separating ore is provided. The separation apparatus (10) includes a separation chamber (12) and is configured to be utilised with a fluid pulsing mechanism (32) for operatively pulsating a fluid through ore deposited in the chamber resulting in the migration of generally lighter ore particles toward an upper region (25) of the chamber and for generally heavier particles to migrate toward a bottom region (14) of the chamber (12). The ore is deposited by means of a chute (38) in the bottom region (14) of the chamber (12) and the lighter ore particles may then be extracted from the chamber through a first chamber outlet (24) while the heavier particles may be extracted through a second chamber outlet (28).
US11491486B2
Aspects of the present disclosure describe systems, methods, and structures for acoustic wave-based separation of particulates in a fluidic flow. Illustrative systems, methods, and structures according to aspects of the present disclosure may advantageously provide for the continuous, label-free, non-invasive separation of the particulates that include—among other types—difficult-to-separate biological particulates and in particular those in blood including circulating tumor cells and micro-blood-borne particles and other subgroups of extracellular vesicles including nanoscale exosomes.
US11491485B2
The present application relates to a microfluidic system and its method for use for the separation of motile sperm from immotile sperm or motile bacteria from immotile bacteria. The system includes a housing having a first end, and a second end, with a passage connecting the first and second ends. There is an inlet at the first end of the housing for charging fluids into the passage and an outlet at the second end of said housing for discharging fluids from the passage. There are one or more corrals within the passage, each of the corrals including a closed side and a partially open side. The closed side of the corrals is closer to the first end than the partially open side, with the closed side and partially open side defining between them a confinement region suitable for retaining motile sperm or motile bacteria.
US11491481B2
A diagnostic tester for analysing a body fluid includes a test tape having test zones configured to receive the body fluid. The tester further includes a chamber configured to contain the test tape and a seal. The tester further includes an opening of the chamber which is at least partially bordered by the seal. The tester further includes a face on the chamber that borders the opening, at least part of the face being formed by the seal. The tester further includes a closing leaf spring sealed onto the face, the closing leaf spring shielding the opening from an environment outside the chamber. The tester further includes an exit gap formed between the closing leaf spring and the seal through which the test tape is configured to exit the chamber.
US11491480B2
Filtration apparatuses, kits, and methods for rapid isolation of intact, viable mitochondria from tissues are described with mitochondria isolated by differential filtration through nylon mesh filters. Mitochondria can be isolated in less than 30 minutes using the filtration apparatuses, kits, and methods described.
US11491473B2
This disclosure provides for catalyst systems and processes for forming an α,β-unsaturated carboxylic acid or a salt thereof. In an aspect, the catalyst system can comprise: a transition metal precursor comprising a Group 8-11 transition metal and at least one first ligand; optionally, at least one second ligand; an olefin; carbon dioxide (CO2); a diluent; and an oxoacid anion-substituted polyaromatic resin comprising a sulfonated polyaromatic resin, a phosphonated polyaromatic resin, a sulfinated polyaromatic resin, a thiosulfonated, or a thiosulfinated polyaromatic resin, and further comprising associated metal cations. Methods of regenerating the polyaromatic resin with associated metal cations are described.
US11491467B2
Provided is a technology for efficiently manufacturing 1,3-butadiene from 1,4-butanediol or 3-buten-1-ol in a reaction condition with a high conversion rate. A catalyst for manufacturing 1,3-butadiene, contains: ytterbium oxide as an active component for generating 1,3-butadiene from 1,4-butanediol or 3-buten-1-ol. In addition, a manufacturing method of 1,3-butadiene, includes: a step of obtaining a fluid containing 1,3-butadiene by bringing at least one of 1,4-butanediol and 3-buten-1-ol into contact with the catalyst for manufacturing 1,3-butadiene.
US11491458B2
A method for producing a chemical reactor device based on a fluid flow comprises obtaining a substrate with a fluid channel defined by a channel wall, in which an ordered set of silicon pillar structures is positioned in the fluid channel and electrochemically anodising at least the silicon pillar structures to make the silicon pillar structures porous at least to a certain depth. After the anodising, the substrate and pillar structures are thermally treated, the treatment being carried out at a temperature, with a duration and in an atmosphere such that any silicon oxide layer formed has a thickness of less than 20 nm. The substrate and the pillar structures are further functionalized.
US11491456B2
A hydrogen reforming system includes: a reformer that generates first mixed gas through a reforming reaction between fuel gas and water; a transformer that is fed with the first mixed gas and generates second mixed gas from which carbon monoxide is removed by a water gas shift reaction; a pressure swing adsorption that purifies and separate hydrogen from the second mixed gas generated in the transformer; a heat exchanger that is provided between the reformer and the transformer and between the transformer and the PSA unit to control temperatures of the first mixed gas and the second mixed gas through heat exchange with water; a water feeder that communicates with the heat exchanger and supplies water to the heat exchanger; and a control value that is provided on a line through which water is discharged from the water feeder and adjusts a flow rate of water.
US11491455B2
An integrated circuit includes an interconnection structure, first and second sensing pixels over the interconnection structure, and an isolation layer over the first and second sensing pixels. Each of the first and second sensing pixels includes a bio-sensing device, a temperature-sensing device, one or more heating elements adjacent to the bio-sensing device and the temperature-sensing device, and a sensing film over the bio-sensing device. The isolation layer includes a first opening configured to expose the sensing film of the first sensing pixel without exposing the sensing film of the second sensing pixel and a second opening configured to expose the sensing film of the second sensing pixel without exposing the sensing film of the first sensing pixel.
US11491450B2
A cavitation reactor that may be obtained from a centrifugal pump is described. The reactor comprises a stator and a rotor having at least one centrifugal stage accommodated in a chamber of the stator. Two walls of the centrifugal stage define a gap therebetween, which is divided into compartments in fluid communication with the chamber of the stator at the peripheral portion of the centrifugal stage. The wall of the centrifugal stage that is next to the inlet opening of the chamber of the stator is closed at the central portion of the centrifugal stage, to thereby prevent the flow of fluid from the inlet opening to the peripheral portion of the centrifugal stage through the gap.
US11491445B2
This method, for regenerating a member used in a device that treats seawater, involves a cleaning step for removing deposits from the member. In the cleaning step, a first chemical solution containing an acid other than hydroxydicarboxylic acid and a second chemical solution containing hydrogen peroxide, a heavy metal compound and hydroxydicarboxylic acid are used.
US11491435B2
Described are methods, devices, and systems useful for removing gaseous ammonia from a gas mixture at a pressure in an ambient pressure range by allowing the ammonia to adsorb onto a solid adsorbent, as well as related systems and methods.
US11491431B2
An air filter assembly for a bicycle is disclosed. The air filter assembly includes a body having a bracket and a frame. The bracket is configured to mount to a bicycle frame. The frame defines a tapered opening having a windward side and a leeward side. The tapered opening is larger on the windward side than on the leeward side. A removable air filter cartridge is mounted within the opening of the frame such that a force acting on the air filter cartridge on the windward side tends to wedge the air filter cartridge in the opening. A foam member is attached to an outer periphery of the air filter cartridge and is disposed between the air filter cartridge and the frame. The foam member is compressible so as to hold the air filter cartridge in the opening of the frame. The foam member compresses to a greater degree on the leeward side of the opening than on the windward side of the opening. The air filter assembly is mountable to a handle bar of a bicycle.
US11491430B2
A filter unit configured to be arranged on a process apparatus for particulate removal from process air of a process apparatus includes a filter housing, a filter basket including a filter basket ring, and a filter. The filter is permeable to process air and impermeable to particles being treated. The filter basket is arranged between the filter housing and the filter, and the filter basket and the filter are fastenable to the filter housing. The filter unit includes a sealing mechanism including a sealant element. The sealing mechanism including a sealing element is arranged on the lower region of the filter housing.
US11491429B2
A nonwoven fabric, including fibers, in which the fibers have an elongational viscosity, as measured under conditions at an elongational strain rate of 2.5×102 (1/s) and a temperature of 160° C., of from 430 Pa·s to 1200 Pa·s, and a ratio of the elongational viscosity (Pa·s) to a shear viscosity (Pa·s) of the fiber, as measured under conditions at a shear strain rate of 2.5×102 (1/s) and a temperature of 160° C., is from 35 to 65.
US11491428B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a chemical liquid purification method which makes it possible to obtain a chemical liquid having excellent defect inhibition performance. Another object of the present invention is to provide a chemical liquid. The chemical liquid purification method according to an embodiment of the present invention is a chemical liquid purification method including obtaining a chemical liquid by purifying a substance to be purified containing an organic solvent, in which a content of the stabilizer in the substance to be purified with respect to the total mass of the substance to be purified is equal to or greater than 0.1 mass ppm and less than 100 mass ppm.
US11491427B2
An adaptor plug for a spin-on fluid filter, in particular for a spin-on return filter, wherein the adaptor plug comprises a plug-in end which is designed to be plugged into a cavity in a flange of a hydraulic device in a fluid tight manner and a filter end which is designed to be connected to the spin-on filter in a fluid tight, detachable manner and at least one internal fluid channel connecting said plug-in end with said filter end, wherein the adaptor plug at its filter end comprises a threaded tube or bolt on which the spin-on filter can be screwed. By this design, the use of a filter set with or without an adaptor ring between the adaptor plug and the filter is enabled. By the adaptor plug, the spin-on filter can be applied to a variety of hydraulic devices, among others, with a ¾ 16 UNF cavity.
US11491425B2
A fluid filter is mountable on a connection flange having a central stand pipe and an exchangeable filter insert. The insert has a hollow cylindrical filter material body with two end plates on its end faces and is mountable on the stand pipe. A cup-shaped screw housing of the filter can be screwed to a free end of the stand pipe, and supports a seal on a free edge thereof, via which the screw housing is sealable against a connection flange sealing surface when mounted. The filter has a first arrangement on an end face area to center the end face area to the flange. The filter insert has a second arrangement on the end face area outer periphery for centering the screw housing free edge relative to the connection flange sealing surface. The second arrangement interacts in a centering manner with the screw housing free edge when installed.
US11491421B2
A vacuum system for use with a deoxygenator system includes a housing, a movable assembly positioned within the housing, and a biasing mechanism coupling the movable assembly to the housing. The movable assembly is movable between a first position and a second position within the housing to form a low pressure area between the housing and the movable assembly. A control system including at least one pressure source is arranged in fluid communication with the low pressure area. The control system is operable to selectively communicate fluid from the at least one pressure source to the housing to form the low pressure area.
US11491419B2
A gas-liquid separator includes a fluid inlet, a shell including an inside surface enclosing an interior space, an outlet structure with fingers converging toward a longitudinal axis, and a dripper including a dripper tip. The fingers terminate at fingertips located proximate to an outside surface of the dripper. Gas exit ports are defined between adjacent fingers, and by the dripper. The gas-liquid separator defines a liquid flow path from the fluid inlet, along the inside surface, along one or more of the fingers, converging along the dripper outside surface, and to the dripper tip. The gas-liquid separator also defines a gas flow path from the fluid inlet, through the interior space, and through the gas exit ports. The gas-liquid separator may be utilized in fluid separation systems such as liquid chromatography or supercritical fluid chromatography/extraction systems.
US11491413B2
A toy brick system is provided having a plurality of bricks each of which has a post extending from first end of a body of the brick and having a socket at a second end. The post in each brick in the plurality is engageable with a socket of an adjacently place brick in a removable rotational engagement enabling curved and angled configuration of assembled structures. Engagement and disengagement from the rotational engagement can only occur at a specific engagement angle between adjacent bricks thereby maintaining the rotational engagement of adjacent bricks once engaged and rotated out of the engagement angle. The bricks are configurable in a linear fashion or with curved exterior walls for forming curved structures.
US11491407B2
A device for storing a portable electronic system includes a main body having four body sections that are separated by fold lines that are positioned along a common edge. The first body section includes a pair of wing-shaped pockets extending outward therefrom and a user belt for securing the main body horizontally around a user. The second body section includes a storage strap for receiving and engaging a portable electronic system. When the main body is in the closed position, the third and fourth body sections are folded over the portable system, and the first and second body sections are secured together. The fourth body section includes a pair of retention straps for also receiving the portable electronic system and positioning the system at a playing position when the device is in the open position.
US11491406B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program and a method for presenting a conversation interface in a messaging application to enable a plurality of participants in a conversation to exchange messages with each other. A request from a participant of the plurality of participants to view a list of gaming applications is received. In response to receiving the request, a size of a display region in which to present the list of gaming applications to the participant is determined. Based on the determined size of the display region, a presentation format is selected for displaying the list of gaming applications.
US11491400B2
This application discloses a method, an apparatus, and a device for scheduling virtual objects in a virtual environment, which relate to artificial intelligence (AI), and belong to the field of computer technologies. The method includes: obtaining frame data generated by an application program associated with the virtual environment; performing feature extraction on the frame data to obtain a state feature of a target virtual object; performing deduction on the state feature of the target virtual object according to N scheduling policies; invoking a value network prediction model to process the N subsequent state features, to obtain expected returns of executing N scheduling policies; and controlling the target virtual object to execute a scheduling policy having a highest expected return.
US11491398B2
Disclosed is a system for increasing attention ability of a user using a gameplay. The system may include a display device configured to display a moving image comprising an object, a cursor and a points counter. Further, the system may include an audio device configured to produce acoustic waves based on a sound data associated with a level. Further, the system may include an input device configured to receive a spatial input data. Further, the system may include a processing device communicatively coupled to each of the display device, the audio device and the input device. Further, the system may include a storage device communicatively coupled to the processing device. Further, the storage device may be configured to store digital data corresponding to an object, a cursor, a current cursor location, a previous cursor location, a geometric shape and the sound data in association with the multiple level indicators.
US11491391B2
A method includes. determining numbers of a cards sequentially removed from a card shooter and delivered to one or more persons during a round of a card game. The method further includes determining, based on the determined numbers of the cards and based on one or more signals received from a set of card detecting optical sensors of a group of sensors located on one or more card guide rails, whether there is an attempt to draw a card from the card shooter after the round of the card game is over. The method also includes, based a determination of that the attempt occurred, generating a signal indicating the attempt.
US11491390B1
A skateboard truck includes a metal bolt called a kingpin and a threaded fastener, called a hex nut, which when combined hold the two main components of a truck together: the baseplate, which is mounted to the bottom surface of the skateboard deck; and the turning part of the truck called the hanger, which is mounted onto the baseplate by means of the kingpin, and affixed tightly into the baseplate by means of a threaded shaft nut assembly permanently affixed within the baseplate. Two bushings placed along the shaft of the kingpin and on either side of a flange protruding from the hanger hold the hanger in place by the tightening of the kingpin into the threaded shaft nut fastener. The kingpin is oriented such that a threaded portion of the kingpin (on an end opposite a bolt head portion) is generally facing towards a bottom surface of the skateboard deck.
US11491388B2
Toe-piece for a boot on a gliding board including a chassis affixed to the gliding board; a body movable on the chassis; a sole-clamp movable on the body; a lateral release mechanism including a first elastic mechanism to return the sole clamp to engagement with the boot; a vertical retention mechanism having a second elastic mechanism arranged to continuously exert a return force on the body to bring the sole-clamp toward the lower surface of the chassis, the return force pressing the sole-clamp on the boot; at least one cam kinematically inserted between the second elastic mechanism and either the chassis or the body, the cam being shaped to modify, in relation to the chassis, the direction of the return force exerted by the second elastic mechanism on the body to attenuate a variation in the pressing force when the sole-clamp is away from the lower surface of the chassis.
US11491387B2
A protective non-helmeted single molded facemask for sports includes a frame structure formed of a polycarbonate polymer and an integrally molded rigid eye shield formed of a transparent polycarbonate polymer composition. The peripheral frame structure is structured and configured to engage a user's forehead, side and cheek facial structure and chin. An arrangement of vertical and horizontal bars in the lower portion of the face area of the facemask are structured and configured to protect the users nose and mouth from direct contact with external objects, while the rigid eye shield on the upper face area of the facemask protects the users eyes from direct impact and contact with external objects. Upper and lower straps extend from slotted openings on the sides of the facemask and are positioned and arranged to extend around the lower back of the wearer's head to secure the facemask on the wearer's head.
US11491386B2
An exercise machine (100) used to perform physical activity includes at least one control device (1) which can be actuated by the user to impart a command to the exercise machine (100). The exercise machine (100) includes at least one lighting device (2), the at least one lighting device (2) being positioned on the exercise machine (100) so as to identify the at least one control device (1) with which the exercise machine (100) is provided when the at least one lighting device (2) is lit.
US11491381B2
A swing training assembly includes a shuttle, a shuttle travel track, a tensioner, a shuttle displacement line and a shuttle pulley. The shuttle resides in the shuttle travel track and the shuttle pulley and shuttle displacement line are adapted to linearly displace the shuttle to different shuttle positions within the shuttle travel track in response to displacement forces applied to the shuttle pulley by a user pulling on the shuttle displacement line. The tensioner provides an opposing counter-force to control the rate of shuttle displacement. The swing training assembly may also include body positioning limits to maintain proper body alignment while the user pulls on the shuttle displacement line.
US11491360B2
The present disclosure relates to an inflatable structure transformable between a deflated state and an inflated state. The inflatable structure comprises a drop stitch fabric having a first layer and a second layer tethered by drop stitches. The inflatable structure is provided with, along at least a portion of an edge of the drop stitch fabric, an edge fixation line and an at least first inner fixation line at an at least first margin from the edge, the edge fixation line and the at least first inner fixation line comprising coupling means fixating the first layer to the second layer. The inflatable structure is further provided with, between the edge fixation line and the at least first inner fixation line, a non-inflatable connectable element e.g. adapted to be connectable with a detachably attachable counterpart element.
US11491353B2
Disclosed are methods of obtaining zero vergence ultrasound waves for providing sonodynamic therapy with ultrasound waves that do not converge and do not diverge. The method includes coupling a sonodynamic therapy device with an array of flat piezoelectric transducers to a skin surface. A controller is configured to generate an electrical drive signal at a frequency, modulate the drive signal, and drive the transducer with the modulated drive signal at the frequency to produce a zero vergence ultrasound wave to produce an average acoustic intensity sufficient to activate a sonosensitizer in a treatment region without damaging healthy cells in the treatment region.
US11491352B2
A high-low intensity focused ultrasound treatment apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a plurality of ultrasound sources, and a controller to control a center frequency and intensity of focused ultrasound outputted from the ultrasound sources, wherein each of the ultrasound sources includes a first ultrasound transducer to output low-intensity focused ultrasound to detect a lesion, and a second ultrasound transducer to output high-intensity focused ultrasound to ablate or remove the detected lesion. The low-intensity focused ultrasound outputted from the first transducer may be used to detect a lesion in a patient's brain by applying a stimulus to the brain, and at the same time, investigating a response, and the high-intensity focused ultrasound outputted from the second transducer may be used to ablate or remove the detected lesion by applying a thermal or mechanical stimulus to the lesion.
US11491350B2
For decision support in a medical therapy, machine learning provides a machine-learned generator for generating a prediction of outcome for therapy personalized to a patient. The outcome prediction may be used to determine dose. To assist in decision support, a regression analysis of the cohort used for machine training relates the outcome from the machine-learned generator to the dose and an actual control time (e.g., time-to-event). The dose that minimizes side effects while minimizing risk of failure to a time for any given patient is determined from the outcome for that patient and a calibration from the regression analysis.
US11491348B2
Systems and techniques may be used to estimate a real-time patient state during a radiotherapy treatment using a magnetic resonance linear accelerator (MR-Linac). For example, a method may include generating a dictionary of expanded potential patient measurements and corresponding potential patient states using a preliminary motion model. The method may include training, using a machine learning technique, a correspondence motion model relating an input patient measurement to an output patient state using the dictionary. The method may include estimating, using a processor, the patient state corresponding to a 2D MR image using the correspondence motion model. The method may include directing radiation therapy, using the MR-Linac, to a target according to the patient state.
US11491341B2
Apparatus for applying Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) to an individual, wherein the apparatus comprises: a head mount for disposition on the head of an individual; and a plurality of magnet assemblies for releasable mounting on the head mount, wherein each of the magnet assemblies comprises a permanent magnet, and at least one of (i) a movement mechanism for moving the permanent magnet and/or (ii) a magnetic shield shutter mechanism, for selectively providing a rapidly changing magnetic field capable of inducing weak electric currents in the brain of an individual so as to modify the natural electrical activity of the brain of the individual; wherein the number of magnet assemblies mounted on the head mount, their individual positioning on the head mount, and their selective provision of a rapidly changing magnetic field is selected so as to allow the spatial, strength and temporal characteristics of the magnetic field to be custom tailored for each individual, whereby to provide individual-specific TMS therapy, to assist in diagnosis or to map out brain function in neuroscience research.
US11491335B2
A system for neuromodulation, at least including a timeline definition module configured to define a timeline in which neuromodulation may be provided; A timeline dividing module for dividing the timeline into a series of time slots; several neuromodulation entities, each entity being capable to claim at least one slot exclusively for providing neuromodulation.
US11491331B2
A BTE prosthetic device for use in a medical system or prosthesis comprises a connector configured to mechanically attach an auxiliary device of the system to the BTE prosthetic device. The connector is electrically connected to a transceiver of the BTE prosthetic device. The connector operates as an electromagnetic antenna for transmitting and/or receiving signals between the BTE prosthetic and other components of the medical system.
US11491327B2
A bio electrode and a method of forming the same are provided. The bio electrode comprises a first core-shell nanowire/polymer composite comprising a first core-shell nanowire and a first polymer. The method of forming a bio electrode comprises a step of forming a core-shell nanowire by carrying out epitaxial growth of a biocompatible metal on a surface of a core comprising a conductive metal.
US11491324B2
Intraoral electrical stimulation devices are disclosed. A representative device, which can be used to treat sleep apnea, includes an intraoral attachment body, a guide element carried by the attachment body and having a constrained guide path, and an electrode movably supported relative to the guide element and movable along the constrained guide path to a plurality of positions. A positioning member is coupleable to the electrode to move the electrode along the constrained guide path, and a signal generator is coupleable to the electrode to direct a stimulation signal to the electrode.
US11491316B2
A morselizer comprising (a) a hollow cylindrical structure with an inner wall and an outer wall and comprising a first end section, a second end section, and a center section extending axially between the first end section and the second end section providing a substantially axial liquid pathway therein; (b) wherein each end section comprises a axially and radially hollow luer fitting that is attachable to a structure with a complementarily sized luer fitting; and (c) one or more blades extending transversally across the inner diameter of the center section wherein (i) each blade is comprised of a plurality of ends, including a posterior end secured to at least the center wall section inner wall at a center section inner wall first position and an anterior end proximal a center section inner wall second position opposite the center section inner wall first position, with a gap positioned between the blade anterior end and the center section inner wall second position, and (ii) at least two ends comprise cutting ends.
US11491313B2
The subject guide catheter extension system with a micro-catheter delivery catheter includes an outer sheath, an inner member extending within the sheath, and a mechanism for engagement/disengagement of the inner member to/from the sheath. Several mechanisms of engagement/disengagement between the inner and outer members are provided including a friction mechanism, threaded mechanism, pull away sheath, and engagement/disengagement mechanism for pusher's handles. The sheath and the inner member are modified for different engagement/disengagement mechanisms operation. A micro-catheter delivery system provides for an improved atraumatic crossability to the treatment site in an expedited and simplified fashion. During a procedure, a guidewire along with a guide catheter are advanced to the vicinity of the treatment site within a blood vessel. Subsequent thereto, the subject guide catheter extension system is manipulated to advance the micro-catheter along the guidewire inside the guide catheter towards and beyond the site of interest. Once the micro-catheter is in place, the outer sheath slides along the micro-catheter until reaching the lesion, and then the inner member is removed from the sheath, and the sheath then is ready for passing the treatment catheter (stent/balloon) towards the lesion to be treated.
US11491311B2
A medical device control handle has a first actuation assembly and a second actuation assembly, wherein each assembly has a shaft that is axially aligned but not rotationally coupled with the other shaft. The first actuation assembly includes a first actuation member and a clutch mechanism having a friction disk for generating frictional torque in rendering the first actuation member self-holding. The first actuation member has a cam portion adapted to impart translational motion and rotational motion for disengaging the clutch mechanism upon pivotation of the first actuation member, thus allowing rotation of the first shaft to manipulate a feature of the medical device, for example, deflection. The second actuation assembly includes a second actuation member and a translating member that is responsive to rotation of the second shaft so as to manipulate another feature of the medical device. The second actuation member is also self holding.
US11491307B2
A catheter having a proximal end portion having gaps between axially adjacent portions of an element wire where an inner layer is joined to an outer layer through the gaps; and a distal end portion where the axially adjacent portions of the element wire come into contact with each other, and a cavity is provided between the inner layer and a coil body. The catheter has excellent followability to a guide wire and is capable of efficiently transmitting a pushing force and/or rotational force from an operator to the distal end of the catheter.
US11491305B2
A method for producing a catheter includes inserting a temporary mandrel into a catheter tube, followed by preshaping a FPCB in a round hollow cylindrical shape and position it on the catheter tube. Then a shrink tube is positioned around the FPCB on the outside of the catheter tube. The assembly is preheated to the point that the shrink tube has fully contracted and directly contacts and closes the FPCB around the catheter tube. Then the assembly is heated above the melting temperature of the catheter tube to reflow the catheter tube material around the FPCB inside the shrinking tube. After a resting period to allow solidification of the assembly material the mandrel is removed from the inner lumen of the re-solidified catheter tube, and finally the shrink tube is removed.
US11491303B2
Methods and devices for actuating a clearance device to clear obstructive debris from medical tubes are disclosed. More particularly, a shuttle that includes a first primary magnetic element that is adapted to magnetically engage and translate a magnetic guide within a tube is disclosed. The first primary magnetic element is aligned so that a first primary magnetic field emanating therefrom is aligned substantially perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the tube when viewed from a side of the shuttle.
US11491291B2
Described is an apparatus for oxygenation and/or CO2 clearance of a patient, comprising: a flow source or a connection for a flow source for providing a gas flow, a gas flow modulator, a controller to control the gas flow, wherein the controller is operable to: receive input relating to heart activity and/or trachea gas flow of the patient, and control the gas flow modulator to provide a varying gas flow with one or more oscillating components with a frequency or frequencies based on the heart activity and/or trachea flow of the patient.
US11491271B2
A method controls a device for extracorporeal blood gas exchange. The device has a membrane as a gas-liquid barrier between a bloodstream and a gas stream. The membrane further makes possible a passing over of the carbon dioxide content from the bloodstream into the gas stream. The device has at least one actuator. A change in a value of an operating parameter of the actuator brings about a change in a value of the carbon dioxide content that passes over from the bloodstream into the gas stream. The method further includes providing breathing gas information that indicates a carbon dioxide concentration in breathing gas and providing a control signal, which indicates a request for setting a value of the operating parameter and changing of the value of the operating parameter as a function of the carbon dioxide concentration in the breathing gas.
US11491270B2
A dialysis system includes include a home dialysis machine and a home gateway device in communication with a cloud-based application via a connected health system. The gateway device has voice recognition capabilities. A user can provide spoken information to the gateway device, and the gateway device can cause one or more actions to be performed. The gateway device may cause a dialysis function to be performed by the dialysis machine, or data to be input into the dialysis machine. The gateway device can also communicate with one or more other systems (e.g., remote systems) via the cloud-based application. In some examples, the cloud-based application can communicate with an order management system to allow the user to order medical supplies (e.g., for use with the dialysis machine) via the gateway device. The gateway device can provide two-way conversational capability (e.g., back and forth communication) between the user and the gateway device.
US11491260B2
Disclosed are various bioactive grafts and methods of making the same. In one embodiment, bone material is harvested from a donor. The harvested bone material is exposed to a lysing agent, the lysing agent configured to release growth factors and bioactive materials from cellular material of the harvested bone material. The harvested bone material is then rinsed with a rinsing agent. The pH of the harvested bone material is substantially neutralized.
US11491257B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for structures including an alloy of calcium, strontium, and magnesium.
US11491255B2
Film forming gel compositions, useful in creating conformable and flexible gel bandages, can be formulate from a film-forming polymer, a tackifier, and a volatile solvent. The film forming gels can also include antiseptics, cationic polymer coagulants, fillers, and other additives. The gel compositions form relatively thick films when dried on tissue, and can exhibit enhanced breathability to promote wound healing.
US11491254B2
An adhesive wafer for an ostomy device, the wafer comprising a skin-facing adhesive layer, a backing layer on a part of the non-skin-facing side of the adhesive layer, and a hole for accommodating a stoma. On the central portion of the wafer is located a release layer being configured to release a neutralizer. The release layer is in direct contact with the adhesive layer. The neutralizer is capable of neutralizing or at least minimizing the level of skin or adhesive aggressiveness of the output.
US11491248B2
A sterilization tray is disclosed herein. A medical instrument, such as an endoscope, may be placed into the sterilization tray, and the sterilization tray with the medical instrument disposed therein may be placed into a vacuum chamber of a sterilization system. The sterilization tray may also be used to transport the medical instrument to and from a point of care. Sterilization is performed with the instrument in the base component and the lid component disposed atop the base component. Transportation is performed with the instrument in the lid component and the base component disposed atop the lid component.
US11491247B2
The present invention relates to a method for treating cancer. This method involves providing a first agent comprising a first targeting component coupled to a first cancer therapeutic component and providing a second agent comprising a second targeting component coupled to a second cancer therapeutic component. The first and second targeting components have different biodistributions and/or pharmacokinetics. The first and second agents are administered to a subject having cancer to treat the cancer. Also disclosed is a combination therapeutic comprising the first and second agents.
US11491237B2
Provided herein are compounds, compositions, conjugates and methods for the treatment of diseases, and/or conditions such as, but not limited to, proliferative diseases. In certain embodiments, compounds, compositions, and conjugates are provided, which include cyclodextrin-based linker-payloads and protein conjugates thereof, and/or in combination with other agents. By administering these compounds, compositions, and conjugates as described herein to specific target cells, side-effects due to non-specific binding phenomena, for example, to non-target cells are reduced.
US11491229B2
A method for delivering therapeutics includes infusing a hydrogel with cannabis; and contacting the hydrogel infused with cannabis into a human which causes the controlled timed releasing of the cannabis with hydrophobic molecules to permeate through a lipid pathway.
US11491226B2
The subject invention relates to novel soluble forms of planar ring structured organic compounds including flavonoids, and their production. The invention also includes the use of these novel formulations of planar ring structured organic compounds in the preparation of formulations and products. The invention also relates to a wide variety of applications of the formulations of the invention. The subject invention includes novel soluble forms and various formulations of flavonoids. Further, the invention includes novel methods of manufacturing the flavonoid formulations. The invention also relates to a wide variety of applications of the flavonoid formulations.
US11491218B2
This invention reveals the pharmaceutical composition that includes the surface antigen (HBsAg) of the hepatitis B virus (HBV) and the antigen of the nucleocapsid (or core, HBcAg) of the same virus. The HBcAg of this composition contains messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) at a proportion of over 45% of the total amount of ribonucleic acid (RNA) in this antigen. Because of the changes in the constitution of the antigens forming it, the composition of the invention is useful for the prevention or treatment of chronic hepatitis B. It also covers the use of this pharmaceutical composition in the production of a drug for immuno-prophylaxis or immunotherapy against HBV infection, and its use to increase the immune response against an additional antigen that is co-administered with the mixture of these antigens.
US11491210B2
Provided are compositions and methods for selectively reducing the amount of antibiotic resistant and/or virulent bacteria in a mixed bacteria population, or for reducing any other type of unwanted bacteria in a mixed bacteria population. The compositions and methods involve targeting bacteria that are differentiated from other members of the population by at least one unique clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) targeted DNA sequence. The compositions and methods can be readily adapted to target any bacteria or any bacteria plasmid, or both.
US11491201B2
Composition and methods for treating brain “plaques” and/or “tangles” in a subject wherein the method comprises administration of a therapeutically effective amount of a composition comprising a black currant extract, Uncaria tomentosa extract, and an oolong tea extract.
US11491193B2
In alternative embodiments, the invention provides compositions, e.g., formulations, used for gastric, gastrointestinal and/or colonic treatments or lavage, for inducing the purgation of a gastrointestinal (GI) tract, including a colon; and methods for making and using them. In alternative embodiments, compositions and methods of the invention are used for the stabilization, amelioration, treatment and/or prevention of constipation, for the treatment of abdominal pain, particularly non-specific abdominal pain, and diarrhea, including diarrhea caused by a drug side effect, a psychological condition, a disease or a condition such as Crohn's Disease, a poison, a toxin or an infection, e.g., a toxin-mediated traveler's diarrhea, or C. difficile or the pseudo-membranous colitis associated with this infection. In alternative embodiments, the invention provides pharmaceuticals and products (articles) of manufacture for delivering these compositions and formulations to an individual. The invention also provides devices for delivering a fecal material to a patient.
US11491190B2
Visco-supplement compositions derived from a transcellular fluid, such as human amniotic fluid, human aqueous humor fluid, or human vitreous fluid are described. Also described are methods for treating inflammatory conditions of the musculoskeletal system, such as joint inflammation, and methods of lubricating a joint using the described visco-supplement compositions.
US11491189B2
Formulations of human amniotic fluid and methods of use thereof for treatment of lung disorders, and/or injuries have been developed. The formulations are suitable for topical delivery to the lung for treatment of lung disorders including chronic obstructive pulmonary disorders (COPD), asthma, emphysema, bronchiectasis, chronic bronchitis, interstitial lung disease, alpha-1 antitrypsin emphysema, as well as for treatment of acute lung injuries. Methods including administering specifically formulated, diluted sterile de-cellularized human amniotic fluids topically to the lungs, preferably as aerosol droplets, are described. In particular, the methods involving administration of the amniotic fluid formulation in the form of aerosol droplets with size between about 1.5 μm to about 5 μm, preferably from about 2.5 μm to about 3.5 μm, inclusive, using apparatus such as high-efficiency vibrating mesh nebulizers, are described. Formulations described can treat, or prevent one or more symptoms of a chronic lung disorder.
US11491186B2
The present invention provides therapeutic products with decreased fibrinolytic activity of t-PA-deficient and/or plasminogen-deficient blood products, as well as compositions, kits and methods using the same in treating bleeding associated with hereditary or acquired bleeding disorders. The invention further provides extracorporeal apparatus for blood or blood products Plasmapheresis aimed to prevent or treat bleeding disorders.
US11491184B2
Provided herein is a novel composition for oral administration and delivery of Noble gas, such as xenon or argon. Methods of treating and preventing neuronal or cardiovascular damage with such compositions are also provided.
US11491178B2
The invention relates to the chitosan polymer derivatives of formula I: and pharmaceutically acceptable salts and esters thereof, wherein Y, X1, X4, R1, R2, and n are defined in the detailed description and claims. The chitosan polymer derivatives of formula I bind to or associate with alpha-4-beta-1 (α4β1) and alpha-V-beta-3 (α Vβ3) integrin dimers and can be used in delivery formulations to deliver drugs, nucleic acids, or other therapeutic compounds to tissues or cells expressing such integrins.
US11491168B2
The present disclosure provides a pharmaceutical composition comprising a Bcl-2/Bcl-xL inhibitor, a chemotherapeutic agent, and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. The present disclosure also provides a method of treating cancer, comprising administering to a subject in need thereof a therapeutically effective amount of a Bcl-2/Bcl-xL inhibitor alone or in combination with a therapeutically effective amount of a chemotherapeutic agent. The present disclosure also provides use of a combination of a Bcl-2/Bcl-xL inhibitor and a chemotherapeutic agent in the manufacture of an anti-tumor medicament. In the present disclosure, a significantly enhanced anti-tumor effect can be achieved by administration of a Bcl-2/Bcl-xL inhibitor in combination with a chemotherapeutic agent.
US11491163B2
Provided herein is N-((4,6-dimethyl-2-oxo-1,2-dihydropyridin-3-yl)methyl)-5-(ethyl (tetrahydro-2H-pyran-4-yl)amino)-4-methyl-4′-(morpholinomethyl)-[1,1′-biphenyl]-3-carboxamide hydrobromide. Also provided herein is a particular polymorph form of this compound.
US11491162B2
A combination includes as a first active ingredient 6-fluoro-2-(4-morpholin-4-ylmethyl-phenyl)-quinoline-4-carboxylic acid (2-pyrrolidin-1-yl-ethyl)-amide or a prodrug or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and as a second active ingredient pyronaridine or a prodrug or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. Also, a combination includes three antimalarial active ingredients, namely of 6-fluoro-2-(4-morpholin-4-ylmethyl-phenyl)-quinoline-4-carboxylic acid (2-pyrrolidin-1-yl-ethyl)-amide or a prodrug or salt thereof, pyronaridine or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and artemisinin or derivatives thereof. Further, pharmaceutical compositions include such combination. The combinations and pharmaceutical compositions are useful for the treatment and/or prevention of malaria.
US11491158B2
The invention relates to N-(substituted-phenyl)-sulfonamide compounds, which are extremely useful as inhibitors of protein kinases (e.g. PERK kinase) and accordingly can be used for the treatment of cell proliferative disorders, such as cancer, or diseases associated with activated unfolded protein response pathways, such as Alzheimer's disease. The present invention also provides methods for preparing these compounds, pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds, and methods of treating diseases utilizing pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds.
US11491151B2
A stable liquid composition contained in a bottle wherein the composition comprises from about 0.001% to about 0.5% of phenylephrine hydrochloride, by weight of the stable liquid composition. The composition comprises less than about 0.1% of total aldehydes, by weight of the stable liquid composition, and has a pH from about 2 to about 6.5. The bottle comprises a material selected from polyethylene terephthalate (PET), glycol-modified polyethylene terephthalate (PETG), oriented polypropylene (OPP), polyvinylchloride (PVC), polyvinylidene chloride (PVDC), nylon, polyethylene terephthalate polyester (PETP), or combinations thereof.
US11491150B2
The disclosure relates to compounds and methods of treatment relating to nicotinic receptor antagonists. For example, the compounds and methods of treatment function block the activity of certain acetylcholine receptors and subtypes therein, and are useful treating diseases and conditions mediated by nicotinic receptor stimulation, e.g., diabetes mellitus, chronic kidney disease, acute kidney failure, and reduction of blood glucose levels.
US11491149B2
Described herein are methods of treating non-metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer using an approved drug product comprising apalutamide, enzalutamide or darolutamide. Also described here are drug products containing apalutamide enzalutamide or darolutamide, and methods of selling or offering for sale an anti-androgen drug product.
US11491145B2
The present invention provides pharmacological compounds including an effector moiety conjugated to a binding moiety that directs the effector moiety to a biological target of interest. Likewise, the present invention provides compositions, kits, and methods (e.g., therapeutic, diagnostic, and imaging) including the compounds. The compounds can be described as a protein interacting binding moiety-drug conjugate (SDC-TRAP) compounds, which include a protein interacting binding moiety and an effector moiety. For example, in certain embodiments directed to treating cancer, the SDC-TRAP can include an Hsp90 inhibitor conjugated to a cytotoxic agent as the effector moiety.
US11491143B2
The present invention relates to methods and compositions for the treatment and prophylaxis of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) in a human subject in need of such treatment, the methods comprising the pulmonary administration to the subject, preferably via inhalation of a composition comprising rapamycin or a prodrug or derivative thereof.
US11491142B2
As described below, the present invention features compositions and methods for treating brain and/or behavioral health disorders and their associated symptoms.
US11491139B2
Yes-associated protein (Yap), a downstream co-activator of the Hippo pathway, is highly expressed in the Treg cell subset, and is critical to maintain its suppressive activity. Originally discovered in Drosophila melanogaster, the Hippo signaling pathway is a major regulator of cellular growth and proliferation in mammals. Loss of Yap expression in Treg cells can lead to superior anti-tumor immune responses, and thus, Yap is an important immunotherapeutic target for cancer.
US11491137B2
Provided herein are methods of improving kidney function in a subject in need thereof.
US11491134B2
A composition for inhibiting skin cell proliferation and/or anti-inflammation is provided. The composition for inhibiting skin cell proliferation and/or anti-inflammation includes: apigenin and luteolin, wherein a weight ratio of the apigenin to the luteolin is about 1.5-25:1, or a mole ratio of the apigenin to the luteolin is about 1.5-25:1. Moreover, the apigenin and the luteolin have a synergistic effect on inhibiting skin cell proliferation and/or anti-inflammation.
US11491130B2
Disclosed are methods for inhibiting the progression of neurodegenerative disease. The methods include administering to a patient suffering from such a disease a composition comprising either deuterated linoleic acid or an ester thereof.
US11491129B2
The subject invention relates to a variety of formulations of bipolar trans carotenoids including pharmaceutical compositions for oral delivery of a bipolar trans carotenoid comprising i) a bipolar trans carotenoid, ii) a cyclodextrin, and iii) a coating. The invention also relates to preparation of such formulations and their uses.
US11491124B2
Sprayable compositions comprising a pyrethroid, a viscosity building agent, an emulsifier or surfactant, and an emollient are provided. The compositions have a viscosity that allows for delivery of the spray from a pressurized container such that the pyrethroid is administered in a consistent amount that uniformly covers the body of a subject. This obviates the need to rub the composition into the skin. In preferred embodiments, the pyrethroid is permethrin; the viscosity building agent is selected from the group consisting of carbomers, xanthan gum, or a combination thereof; the emulsifier or surfactant is selected from the group consisting of glyceryl mononstearate, PEG40 hydrogenated castor oil, cholesterol, steareth-10, steareth-20, and combinations thereof; and the emollient is selected from the group consisting of C12-C15 alkyl benzoates, diisopropyl adipate, silicon oil, mineral oil, or any combination thereof.
US11491117B2
The disclosure pertains to a compound of formula (I), one of its pharmaceutically acceptable salts, or a composition comprising thereof, for use in the prevention or treatment of glucose intolerance related conditions, insulin deficit related conditions, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and/or obesity.
US11491113B1
Described herein are synthetic progestogens, such as 6β,7β:15β,16β-Dimethylene-3-oxo-17α-pregn-4-ene-21,17-carbolactone, as well as pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same. Also described are methods of use.
US11491110B2
The invention pertains to a method for treating a neoplasm, such as colorectal cancer, using hollow silica spheres (“HSS”). It also is directed to a method for making uncalcined HSS, calcined HSS from which phenyl groups have been removed, and HSS incorporating particles of Fe3O4, as well as compositions containing HSS.
US11491102B2
The present disclosure discloses a composition for skin anti-inflammation and skin moisturizing, which contains an Artemisia extract extracted using a skin cosmetic solution as an extraction solvent as an active ingredient. Specifically, the composition according to the present disclosure, which contains the Artemisia extract obtained using an effective and safe extraction solvent, may exhibit superior skin safety and usability as well as superior anti-inflammatory and moisturizing effects. In addition, the composition according to the present disclosure, which contains the Artemisia extract extracted using the skin cosmetic solution that can be used as a cosmetic ingredient as an extraction solvent, may superbly maintain Artemisia flavor without an additional flavoring agent.
US11491101B2
The invention relates to an adhesive composition having a main fraction of synthetic tackifying resin, and a fraction of at least one macromolecular component, characterised in that said at least one macromolecular component comprises a copolymer of at least two different monomers taken from the alpha olefins and ethylene, to give the composition for strip-free hair removal mechanical or adhesive properties.
US11491099B2
An anhydrous stick composition, including deodorant active, an antiperspirant active, or a combination thereof; a carrier; a structurant; and a cyclodextrin perfume complex, comprising cyclodextrin and a perfume, wherein the perfume comprises perfume raw materials and 10% or more, by weight of the perfume, of the perfume raw materials have: a cyclodextrin complex stability constant of about 3.0 or less, a C log P of about 2.5 or less; and a weight average molecular weight of about 200 Daltons or less.
US11491094B2
Provided is a sulfate-free surfactant system which is particularly suitable for use in personal hygiene products. The sulfate-free surfactant system comprises a liquid comprising an organic phase and a solvent wherein the organic phase comprises glyceride and surfactant and the liquid comprises: 4-40 wt % glyceride wherein the glyceride is the condensation reaction product of at least 1.10 moles of a mixture of acids to no more than 2.1 moles of mixture of acids per mole of glycerin; wherein mixture of acids comprises: at least 0.275 to no more than 0.990 moles of a first acid comprising a branched acid with 16-20 aliphatic carbons; at least 0.250 to no more than 0.810 moles of a second acid comprising an alkyl acid with 9-11 carbons; and at least 0.250 to no more than 0.810 moles of a third acid comprising an alkyl acid with 7-9 carbons wherein the third acid has a lower molecular weight than the second acid; and 6-45 wt % surfactant; and wherein the liquid has a BYV of at least 50 dyn/cm2.
US11491090B2
The present invention relates to compositions of spherical microparticles composed of a wall material and at least one cavity that comprises a gas and/or a liquid, which have pores on the surface thereof, wherein the spherical microparticles have a mean particle diameter of 10-600 μm and wherein at least 80% of those microparticles, the particle diameter of which does not deviate from the mean particle diameter of the microparticles of the composition by more than 20%, each have on average at least 10 pores, the diameter of which is in the range from 1/5000 to ⅕ of the mean particle diameter, and, furthermore, the diameter of each of these pores is at least 20 nm, wherein the wall material consists of a composition comprising at least one aliphatic-aromatic polyester, and the wall material has a solubility at 25° C. of at least 50 g/l in dichloromethane, a method for the preparation thereof and also the use thereof.
US11491089B2
A reloadable microcapsule contains a microcapsule core and a microcapsule wall encapsulating the microcapsule core. The microcapsule core contains a hydrophobic core solvent and a hydrophilic core solvent, and the microcapsule wall, formed of an encapsulating polymer, is permeable to the hydrophilic core solvent. Also disclosed are methods of preparing the reloadable microcapsule and consumer products having the microcapsules.
US11491084B2
Medical devices are provided comprising a spike including proximal and distal ends, and a central axis extending from the proximal to the distal end; a valve body; a biasing body which biases the valve body; a distal tube that moves integrally with the valve body to both sides in the axial direction relative to the spike; a proximal tube fixed in the axial direction relative to the spike, the distal tube comprising a guided portion guided toward the proximal tube, and an engagement control unit which moves the guided portion toward one side in the radial direction by connection of the different medical device to the distal tube allowing the guided portion to engage with the proximal tube, and moves the guided portion toward the other side in the radial direction releasing engagement with the proximal tube when the different medical device is detached from the distal tube.
US11491081B2
A wearable stimulator device can be used to treat nausea and vomiting resulting from pregnancy, gastroparesis, virtual reality use, motion sickness, chemotherapy, and post-surgical nausea and vomiting, or other conditions by stimulating the P6 point of a user's forearm. A method of treating nausea includes monitoring one or more physiological parameters of a user via a wearable device, for example a smartwatch. Based on the one or more physiological parameters, the P6 point of the user's forearm can be stimulated for a predetermined time, for example via vibrational stimulation effected via a smartwatch or other wearable device. Data regarding the user's physiological parameters, stimulation sessions, and user-provided input regarding treatment efficacy and user symptoms can be collected and analyzed at scale to develop improved treatment regimes, for example modifying stimulation waveforms and/or timing, and identifying physiological parameters useful for predicting the onset of nausea.
US11491073B2
A rehabilitation training apparatus and a rehabilitation training system are disclosed. The rehabilitation training apparatus includes a powertrain, a pneumatic flexible actuator and a receiving portion. The powertrain is coupled to the pneumatic flexible actuator and configured to rotate upon drive of the pneumatic flexible actuator. The receiving portion is coupled to the powertrain and configured to receive a training portion and be interlocked with rotation of the powertrain.
US11491071B2
A virtual scene interactive rehabilitation training robot based on a lower limb connecting rod model and force sense information and a control method thereof are disclosed. The thigh, calf and foot of a leg of a human body are equated to a three-connecting rod series-connected mechanical arm. A human body leg gravity compensation model is constructed. The leg posture of a patient is detected by Kinect. An interaction force between a limb of the patient and a rehabilitation robot is detected by a force sensor on the rehabilitation robot. Then, a progressive rehabilitation training method is designed for the model. According to a set weight reduction ratio, the motion of the rehabilitation robot is controlled by judging plantar force data.
US11491066B2
An apparatus may include a first layer that includes a plurality of inlets and a surface feature; a second layer, where the surface feature opposes the second layer; an outlet, and a pattern defined on at least one of the first layer and the second layer, where the pattern defines a suction path from each inlet of the plurality of inlets to the outlet.
US11491065B2
A standing aid for helping a person stand up is proposed, having a frame, at least one support arm arranged movably on the frame and with handles, and a drive device coupled to the frame and to the at least one support arm in order to move the at least one support arm to a lowered and to a raised position, and having at least one padded rest configured to support the shins of the person during the movement of the at least one support arm. The padded rest is formed from a viscoelastic foam with a thickness of at least 6 cm and is dimensioned in such a way that the person's kneecaps at all times bear on the padded rest during the movement of the support arm.
US11491061B2
Provided is a transfer device capable of moving a care receiver who has difficulty in walking by himself/herself to a desired place in a comfortable posture. The transfer device is capable of moving a care receiver by a care giver. The transfer device includes: a front wheel and a rear wheel; a support body which supports an upper body of the care receiver; a leg guide portion which is brought into contact with lower leg front surfaces of the care receiver and is inclinable frontward from an approximately vertical state; and a foot placing portion on which soles of the care receiver are placed; a rear wheel advancing and retracting mechanism configured to move the rear wheel rearward in an interlocking manner with frontward inclining of the leg guide portion.
US11491057B2
Nonwoven webs/nonwoven laminates for use in absorbent articles are disclosed. The nonwoven laminate includes a first nonwoven web with continuous spunbond crimped fibers and a second web joined to the first nonwoven web. A plurality of apertures extend through at least one of the first nonwoven web or the second web. The nonwoven web includes a plurality of continuous spunbond crimped fibers wherein a plurality of apertures extend through the nonwoven web.
US11491049B2
Methods systems and apparatus are set forth herein. There is provided in one embodiment determining one or more body physiological parameter of a patient based on one or more input; and controlling a heating system for warming the patient based on a result of the determining.
US11491048B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a warming system. The warming system includes a light device having a light source configured to be positioned proximate to a patient support having a patient support surface. The light source can also be configured to generate infrared radiation. The warming system can also include a flexible sheet having a first side configured to reflect at least some of the generated infrared radiation from the light device toward a portion of the patient support surface.
US11491019B2
An implant including first and second end plates, each of which defines at least one anterior ramped surface and at least one posterior ramped surface. A posterior actuator is positioned between the first and second end plates and has guiding ramp surfaces which correspond with the posterior ramped surfaces. An anterior actuator is positioned between the first and second end plates and guiding ramp surfaces which correspond with the anterior ramped surfaces. An actuator assembly extends between the posterior actuator and the anterior actuator and is configured to selectively move the posterior actuator and the anterior actuator simultaneously, move posterior actuator independently of the anterior actuator, or move the anterior actuator independently of the posterior actuator.
US11491018B2
Methods, systems and apparatuses are disclosed including apparatuses that can be used in a total knee replacement procedure. According to one example, a tibial implant is disclosed. The tibial implant can be configured for attachment to a tibia in a knee arthroplasty and can include a baseplate having a lateral portion and a medial portion oriented relative to an anteroposterior axis and a fixation member. Each of the lateral portion and the medial portion can have a distal surface configured to interface with a resected proximal surface of a tibia. The fixation member can be coupled to and extend both distally and medially from the baseplate such that the fixation member is oriented at an acute angle relative to the distal surface of the medial portion.
US11491012B2
An orbital implant adapted for attachment to the very thin bone at the orbit rim (502), such as the zygomatic and frontal bone margin at the supero-lateral aspect (501) of the orbit (503), for the attachment of an eye prosthesis directly to distal ends of inwardly convergently orientated transdermal abutments. The orbital implant has a baseplate (100) having an orbit radius curvature and an orbit rim curvature and a plurality of microfixation apertures therethrough and the plurality of transdermal abutments are located at an inner edge of the baseplate (100).
US11491006B2
A prosthetic valve may be formed to direct flow out of the outflow orifice toward a posterior portion of a heart wall. The prosthetic valve includes an expandable frame which may be covered with a cover that is suturelessly attached to the frame. The prosthetic valve may also include an outflow orifice size which is controlled. Methods of using these devices are also disclosed.
US11491005B2
The present disclosure describes various embodiments of adjustable implants, particularly permanent breast implants, intended for implantation into a subject, particularly a human subject. In some embodiments, the adjustable implant comprises a shell including a resilient shell membrane, a first reservoir containing a fluid, e.g., a saline, a second reservoir including a resilient second-reservoir membrane, and a pump. The pump may include a first pump actuator, a first pump inlet, and a first pump outlet. The first reservoir and second reservoir may be disposed within the shell and be in fluid communication via the pump. Fluid may be transferred between the two reservoirs to change the profile of the implant.
US11490999B2
The invention is directed to a light curing device, in particular for dental restoration materials, having a light source and a control device for the light curing device, which control device is capable of switching on the light source at different levels of power. The light curing device includes an actuation element which can be used to switch on the light curing device upon actuation by the user at a reduced dosage of light for pre-curing the dental restoration material. The control device in particular signalizes the reduced dosage.
US11490990B2
Periodontal disorders such as disorders associated with a dental implant are treated with a laser where an average laser power along with other laser parameters provide particular settings for the treatment, the treatment including one or more of creating a gingival trough or flap around the implant, ablating or denaturing infected tissue via photothermolysis, lasing a pocket around the affected implant, and compressing marginal tissues against the implant.
US11490987B2
An ultrasound-detectable marker, ultrasound system, and methods for monitoring vascular flow and patency is disclosed. The ultrasound-detectable marker comprises one or more resorbable polymers, one or more non-resorbable polymers, one or more non-polymeric materials, or any combinations thereof. The ultrasound-detectable marker is adapted for placement underneath, adjacent to, or above one or more vessels at a postoperative site, such as a vascular anastomosis site. Further, the ultrasound imaging system includes certain user guiding software and/or health analysis software for use with the ultrasound-detectable marker.
US11490984B2
An improved guide for a medical needle is disclosed herein. An aligning element for aligning a needle guide, which is equipped for longitudinally guiding a medical needle, includes a connecting element for arranging the aligning element on the needle guide, and a light-guiding element for a predetermined diffusion of light. The light-guiding element only generates a predetermined light pattern relative to the diffusion of light in a pose predetermined by the geometry of the apparatus. Such an aligning element may be used in a treatment arrangement for longitudinally guiding a needle and in a method for aligning a needle guide.
US11490983B2
Disclosed is a catheterization package including catheterization-package components and a catheterization tray configured to facilitate a catheterization procedure. The catheterization-package components include a urinary catheter fluidly connected to a urine-drainage bag and a sampling-port access device configured to fluidly connect to a urine-sampling port of the urinary catheter or the urine-drainage bag for aseptic collection of one or more urine samples. The catheterization tray includes at least a first compartment, a second compartment, and a third compartment configured to hold the catheterization-package components. The first compartment is configured to hold the urinary catheter. The second compartment is connected to the first compartment by an intercompartment connection. The second compartment is configured to hold the urine-drainage bag. The third compartment is configured to hold the sampling-port access device. Step-by-step instructions are incorporated into the catheterization tray to facilitate the catheterization procedure. Also disclosed are methods for the catheterization package.
US11490974B2
A method of fixing a surgical instrument to a robot arm according to one or more embodiment may include: attaching the surgical instrument to a drive part of the robot arm via an adaptor in a state where a first engagement portion of a drive transmission member of the adaptor is set at a second initial orientation; and rotating the first engagement portion from the second initial orientation so as to engage the first engagement portion of the drive transmission member with an engagement portion of an driven member.
US11490972B2
A driver interface provided to a robot arm of a robotic surgical system according to an embodiment may include: a drive member provided corresponding to a drive transmission member provided on an adaptor; an actuator to drive the drive member to rotate; and a housing accommodating the actuator therein and including a drive member opening at a location corresponding to the drive member and a drape detection opening. The driver interface may further include a detection member movable between a protrusion position at which a part of the detection member is protruded from the drape detection opening of the housing, and a withdrawal position at which the detection member is withdrawn into the drape detection opening of the housing. The driver interface may further include a sensor configured to detect the detection member is moved to the withdrawal position as a drape is brought into contact with the detection member.
US11490968B2
A device includes a memory including instructions, and a processor that executes the instructions to determine, based on eye tracking data, that a clinician gazes at a sub-section of a display for more than a threshold amount of time during a first time period of a medical procedure, where the display displays video of the medical procedure according to a video signal. The processor executes the instructions to identify a block of the video signal that corresponds the first time period, segment a selected frame in the block of the video signal into a plurality of sub-regions, perform further processing on the plurality of sub-regions, and automatically identify an object of interest within the selected frame based on the further processing.
US11490967B2
3D image data of a skeletal portion is acquired. A location of a proximal portion of a tool is calculated and a location is derived of a distal portion of the tool with respect to the skeletal portion, with respect to the 3D image data. A display indicates the derived location. First and second 2D images of the distal portion of the tool are acquired from two different poses of a 2D imaging device with respect to the subject and registered with the 3D image data. The location of the distal portion with respect to the 3D image data of the skeletal portion is determined based on the registration and an identified location of the distal portion within the 2D x-rays. Based upon the determined location, the display updates the indicated location of the distal portion. Other embodiments are also described.
US11490958B2
Devices, systems, and methods of the present disclosure are directed to controlling distribution of electrical energy moving from an ablation electrode at a treatment site within a patient to a plurality of return electrodes on skin of the patient. Control over the distribution of electrical energy moving from the ablation electrode to the plurality of return electrodes can reduce or eliminate the need for manual intervention (e.g., repositioning the plurality of return electrodes on the skin of the patient, repositioning the patient, etc.) to achieve a suitable distribution of the electrical energy. Additionally, or alternatively, the devices, systems, and methods of the present disclosure can respond rapidly and automatically to changes in distribution of the electrical energy to reduce the likelihood and magnitude of inadvertent changes in the distribution of electrical energy over the course of a medical procedure.
US11490957B2
A method for tissue assessment includes ablating tissue at a site within a body of a living subject using an invasive probe applied to the site. At a first stage in ablation of the tissue, first measurements are made of scattered light intensities from the site at a plurality of different wavelengths. At a second stage in the ablation of the tissue, subsequent to the first stage, second measurements are made of the scattered light intensities from the site at the plurality of different wavelengths. Progress of the ablation is assessed by computing different, respective measures of change in the scattered light intensities at the different wavelengths occurring between the first and second measurements, and comparing the respective measures.
US11490954B2
A forceps includes an end effector assembly having a stop and a plurality of overmold teeth within at least one jaw member. One (or both) of the jaw members is moveable relative to the other between a spaced-apart position and an approximated position for grasping tissue therebetween. One (or both) of the jaw members includes a stop molded within an insulative housing, and an insulator plate with the overmold teeth formed from plastic. The overmold teeth extend through openings within a sealing plate and protrude past the tissue sealing surface of the sealing plate. The stop primarily controls the gap distance between opposing jaw members by bearing most of an applied load and the overmold teeth assist in controlling the gap distance by bearing the remaining applied load.
US11490946B2
A vapor ablation handpiece for assisting a physician perform vapor ablation with a vapor ablation catheter includes a vapor generating element arranged in a coil shape. A mandrel seated in the body of the handpiece affixes the vapor generating element in the coiled arrangement. A voltage difference is supplied across the length of the vapor generating element when activated, causing the vapor generating element to heat liquid therein converting the liquid to vapor. The heated condensable vapor is delivered to a target tissue through the catheter.
US11490945B2
An apparatus for cooling tissues which are treated with an energy-based device, such as a laser, is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a spray nozzle which generates an atomized liquid spray for the treatment area, wherein the atomized liquid spray is based on a mixture of liquid and gas. Further, the spray nozzle comprises at least one liquid outlet which ejects a liquid, and at least one gas outlet which ejects a gas stream. Besides, the apparatus for cooling comprises at least one delivery means for delivering pressurized gas to the spray nozzle; and a pumping means for the liquid, wherein the pumping means is configured to operate in pulses.
US11490941B2
One aspect relates to a device for providing a bone cement from two starting components, having a hollow cylinder-shaped first container, in which a monomer liquid as first starting component can be stored, a hollow cylinder-shaped second container comprising a container wall, a first internal space, and a second internal space, whereby a bone cement powder as second starting component can be stored in the first internal space, and whereby the monomer liquid can be conveyed into the second internal space, a fluid-conducting conveying means arranged between the first internal space and the second internal space, whereby the first container and the second container are axially connected to each other.
US11490935B2
Implantable fixation devices for rejoining opposed portions of a separated bone. The devices include plates that may be affixed to a rib and realign separated portions of the rib or other body part. The devices may also include various locking mechanisms that receive a cable that may be used to realign and bring together separated portions of a bone or other body part. The devices may further include plates that may be affixed to a sternum and realign separated portions of the sternum or other body part.
US11490932B2
This disclosure presents a polyaxial pedicle screw system. The system may comprise one or more of a screw body, a screw insert, a head component, a bushing, and/or other components. The screw body may have a major diameter. The screw insert may comprise a spherical head having a head diameter. The head component may have an axial bore forming an interior surface which defines a bore diameter of the axial bore. The interior surface may define a narrowest part of the bore diameter of the axial bore at a first end of the head component. The head diameter of the spherical head of the screw insert and/or the major diameter of the screw body may be larger than the narrowest part of bore diameter of the axial bore.
US11490928B2
A gynecological device that corrects a vaginal opening that is large or stretched out without requiring surgery. The stretchable gynecological device includes a main body having a front surface, a rear surface, a first end, a second end, a first edge, a second edge, and an adhesive on the rear surface of the main body. The gynecological device also includes at least two arms having a front surface, a rear surface, a first end, a second end, a first edge and a second edge that extend outwardly from the second edge of the main body. An adhesive is on the rear surface of the arms. To apply the gynecological device, the arms are firmly pressed down to the vaginal vestibule bilaterally, the main body is then pulled up above the clitoral hood and then applied and pressed down across the lower abdomen towards the anterior superior iliac spines.
US11490923B2
Disclosed herein is a device for disrupting material in a body vessel and a method for making such a device. The device includes a plurality of arms disposed circumferentially about an axis. Each arm includes two blades; one sharper, and one blunter. The sharper blades are all oriented in the same direction, clockwise or counterclockwise, such that when the device is rotated in a first direction, the sharper blades engage the material, and in the other, the duller blades engage the material.
US11490916B2
A knife assembly for use with a surgical instrument includes a knife having proximal and distal ends, the proximal end including an aperture defined therein having a series of spaced apart fins extending thereacross. A knife drive rod is included and is configured to operably engage the fins to secure the knife drive rod to the knife. A retention mechanism is operably disposed at a distal end of the knife drive rod and is configured to secure the knife drive rod in engagement between the fins.
US11490908B2
The device disclosed herein is used to the remove a thrombus from the vasculature. It includes an aspiration catheter and a thrombus retrieval device that extends through the lumen of the aspiration catheter. An expandable braided assembly extends over a distal region of the retrieval device, and an activation wire extends through the lumen of the retrieval device to attach to and control the expansion of the braided assembly. Applying tension to the activation wire causes the braided assembly to expand to a diameter of the practitioner's choosing. For example, the practitioner may apply a first level of tension to the activation wire to deploy the braided assembly to a first diameter and then later change the diameter by applying a different level of tension. The expanded braided assembly contacts the thrombus and is pulled proximally toward the aspiration catheter to assist in thrombus removal.
US11490903B2
Orthopedic systems and methods for installing an implant and/or boring a bone bicortically. The system may include a drill having a proximal boring portion configured to bore a larger hole in a bone more efficiently when the drill rotates in a first direction compared to an opposite second direction, and a distal boring portion configured to bore a smaller hole in the bone more efficiently when the drill rotates in the second direction. The implant may be configured to be implanted at least partially in the bone, such that a first region of the implant is located in the larger hole and a second region of the implant is located in the smaller hole. In an exemplary method, the larger hole and the smaller hole may be bored in the bone's near cortex and far cortex, respectively, by a shaft and a nose of the drill rotated in opposite directions.
US11490893B2
A surgical stapler has a tool assembly including an anvil and a staple cartridge having a series of staples which are supported and configured to be rotatably ejected from the staple cartridge into the anvil to suture tissue. In embodiments, the surgical stapler includes a cartridge that supports a plurality of rotatable pushers. Each pusher supports a curved, substantially U-shaped staple having a single tissue penetrating distal leg portion and a proximal leg portion. The pusher is rotatable to drive the distal leg portion into an anvil to deform the staple into a substantially D-shaped configuration.
US11490882B2
Some devices for atraumatic retraction of tissue include a transcatheter deployable mesh hammock that is well-suited for laparoscopic, endoscopic, and robotic surgeries. Methods for atraumatic retraction of tissue include wrapping a mesh material around the tissue in a cradle-like fashion. In some embodiments, magnetic coupling of the proximal and distal ends of the mesh material can provide tissue containment and retractor securement to facilitate tissue retraction.
US11490867B2
The present invention relates to a device (1) for fractional flow reserve determination. The device (1) comprises a model generator (10) configured to generate a three-dimensional model (3DM) of a portion of an imaged vascular vessel tree (VVT) surrounding a stenosed vessel segment (SVS), based on a partial segmentation of the imaged vascular vessel tree (VVT). Further, the device comprises an image processor (20) configured to calculate a blood flow (Q) through the stenosed vessel segment (SVS) based on an analysis of a time-series of X-ray images of the vascular vessel tree (VVT). Still further, the device comprises a fractional-flow-reserve determiner (30) configured to determine a fractional flow reserve (FFR) based on the three-dimensional model (3DM) and the calculated blood flow.
US11490862B2
A method for determining the average usage of an analyte monitoring system may include the step of calculating one or more analyte measurements of a host during a first period of time. The method may include the step of calculating a duration of time that the host uses the analyte monitoring system during the first period of time. The method may include the step of calculating an average time that the host uses the analyte monitoring system during a second period of time or a percentage of the first period of time that the host uses the analyte monitoring system, in which the average time or the percentage is calculated based on at least the calculated duration. The method may include the step of generating and displaying a report indicating the average time or the percentage.
US11490856B2
A method for analyzing neuropharmacology of a drug, including the steps of providing a set of brain activity maps representing changes of a brain activity of a living species under an influence of a plurality of known drugs each consisting of a known chemical structure; clustering the set of brain activity maps to form a plurality of functional classifiers; and classifying a brain activity map associated with a chemical compound using the functional classifiers so as to predict a neuropharmacology of the chemical compound.
US11490854B2
The present application discloses a method and a device for analyzing the water content of skin by means of a skin image. The method comprises performing skin feature analysis on an acquired skin image, and obtaining the water content of skin on the basis of the skin features, wherein the skin features comprise a glossiness level and a smoothness level. The present invention clearly shows a reduction in implementation costs when compared to the prior art. The invention also achieves rapid testing.
US11490844B2
A catheter for measuring pressure in the urinary tract of a patient includes a catheter body having a proximal and distal end. A plurality of lumens is formed in the catheter body, and an adaptor is coupled to the proximal end of the catheter body. The adaptor includes a port for each lumen. A first pressure sensor, typically including a balloon, is fluidically coupled to a first lumen and is configured and positioned to measure pressure in a urethra of the patient. A second pressure sensor, also typically including a balloon, is fluidically coupled to a second lumen and is configured and positioned on the catheter body to measure pressure in a bladder of the patient. An expandable retention member, which may be coupled to a third lumen, is positioned on the catheter body between the first and second expandable pressure sensors so that the catheter body may be retained at a selected location in the urinary tract to properly position the fluid pressure sensors in the bladder and urethra, respectively.
US11490839B2
A funnel-shaped extension attachment is provided for a blood collection device. The attachment provides a larger area for collecting a fingertip blood sample from a patient than the collection device itself would otherwise provide. The funnel is preferably easily removable from the collection device after the blood sample is taken. Optional trenches running down one or more corners of the attachment may be used to encourage pulling blood drops from the finger tip through capillary action. A tube may also provide another location to encourage pulling blood drops from the finger tip through capillary action. The funnel attachment may be mated with the collection device at a point of manufacture, or separately shipped and installed over the collection device at a point of use.
US11490834B2
A patient support apparatus, such as a bed, cot, stretcher, etc., for supporting a patient includes an exit detection system with multiple user-selectable modes of operation that each have different sensitivity levels for triggering an exit alert. The exit detection system also includes one or more non-user selectable modes of operation that are automatically implemented in response to a triggering action. For example, a transition mode may be automatically implemented when the user attempts to switch from a first user-selectable mode to a different user selectable mode, or a motion mode may be automatically implemented when movement of one or more components of the patient support apparatus occurs. In the transition mode, the exit detection system may use a least restrictive sensitivity level. In the motion mode, the exit detection system may inhibit exit alerts and/or change the criteria for issuing the exit alert.
US11490832B2
An instrument for establishing orientation of a pelvic prosthesis comprises a hub, a first arm attached to and extending from the hub, and a second arm attached to and extending from the hub. The first and second arms define a nominal plane of the apparatus, and may extend from the hub at an angle relative to each other. Distances between the first and second legs and between the first and third legs are adjustable. The first, second, and third legs have tips, and the tips of the first, second, and third legs define a plane having a predefined geometric relationship to the nominal plane of the apparatus.
US11490830B2
Method and systems provide a tool to quantify sensory maps of the brain. Cortical surfaces are conformally mapped to a topological disk where local geometry structures are well preserved. Retinotopy data are smoothed on the disk domain to generate a curve that best fits the retinotopy data and eliminates noisy outliers. A Beltrami coefficient map is obtained, which provides an intrinsic conformality measure that is sensitive to local changes on the surface of interest. The Beltrami coefficient map represents a function where the input domain is locations in the visual field and the output is a complex distortion measure at these locations. This function is also invertible. Given the boundaries and the Beltrami map of a flattened cortical region, a corresponding visual field can be reconstructed. The Beltrami coefficient map allows visualization and comparison of retinotopic map properties across subjects in the common visual field space.
US11490822B2
An apparatus for estimating bio-information includes a pulse wave sensor configured to measure a pulse wave signal from an object, for a predetermined period of time, a processor configured to extract DC components of the pulse wave signal measured for the predetermined period of time, normalize the extracted DC components, based on at least one of the extracted DC components of the pulse wave signal measured at a time when a reference force is applied by the object to the pulse wave sensor, and estimate the bio-information, based on the normalized DC components.
US11490818B2
The disclosed embodiments relate to multimodal imaging system, comprising: a fiber-coupled fluorescence imaging system, which operates based on ultra-violet (UV) excitation light; and a fiber-coupled optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging system. The multimodal imaging system also includes a fiber optic interface comprising a single optical fiber, which facilitates light delivery to a sample-of-interest and collection of returned optical signals for both the fluorescence imaging system and the OCT imaging system. During operation of the system, the single optical fiber carries both UV light and coherent infrared light through two concentric light-guiding regions, thereby facilitating generation of precisely co-registered optical data from the fluorescence imaging system and the OCT imaging system.
US11490815B2
Described herein are methods and systems for extracting or determining subject motion from multi-channel electrical coupling in imaging of the subject, in particular in magnetic resonance (MR) imaging of the subject. The motion can be of a region of interest of the subject (such as an organ or specific tissue). Changes in the position of the subject and the subjects organs can be monitored by measuring how external coils, such as RF coils, couple to the subject and to one another and change the scattering of the RF coils, for example scattering of RF pulses transmitted by the coils. Changes in position influence this coupling and the scattering and can be detrimental to the quality of the imaging The present methods and systems address and overcome this problem.
US11490813B2
A computer implemented method, system and device are provided. The method transmits an energizing signal from an external antenna, coupled to a local external device (LED), to an implanted antenna of a passive implanted medical device (PIMD). The energizing signal is transmitted while the external antenna is at first and second positions. The method receives, at the external antenna, first and second energy transfer characteristic (ETC) values associated with the first and second positions, respectively. The method is under control of one or more processors configured with program instructions. The method analyzes the first and second ETC values to determine a difference therebetween. The method provides an energy transfer level (ETL) indicator based on the difference between the first and second ETC values. The ETL indicator provides feedback regarding a degree of energy transfer associated with at least one of the first and second positions.
US11490812B2
Systems and methods may include a first monitoring device positioned at a first location to monitor a monitored environment; and a second monitoring device positioned at a second location to monitor the monitored environment, wherein the first and second monitoring devices calibrate each other based on respective fiducial markers; wherein the first and second monitoring devices each comprise a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory storing a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform the operations of: detecting presence of the individual in the monitored environment; determining whether the condition of interest of the individual exceeds a determined threshold; based on the condition of interest of the individual exceeding the determined threshold, transmitting the condition of interest to a remote server to determine at least one of a social distancing breach and an identification of another person whom the individual contacted.
US11490801B2
An extremely small diameter endoscope includes comprises: an endoscope body having a distal end nozzle; an imaging unit disposed in the endoscope body and adapted for capturing an image; an endoscope insertion part having a proximal end portion and a projection end portion, the proximal end portion connected to the imaging unit, the endoscope insertion part passing through the distal end nozzle, the projection end portion to be positioned in a root canal of a tooth or in a periodontal pocket; and endoscope insertion part insertion means adapted for inserting the endoscope insertion part into an observation portion in the root canal of the tooth or in the periodontal pocket with an end portion of the distal end nozzle kept abutted against a surrounding portion of the observation portion.
US11490800B2
The present invention is a Laparoscopic Eye Cleaner that can be used intra-abdominally. This laparoscopic instrument will save time and money. The instrument is a handle connected to a flat, thin stem and made of plastic or stainless steel with a soft absorbable tip. It only takes two fingers to use it. The tip that cleans the eye of the lens without the need for the laparoscope having to be removed.
US11490790B2
The present embodiments provide systems and methods suitable for delivering an agent including a plurality of particles to a target site. In example embodiments, a system suitable for delivering an agent to a target site includes a catheter having a first wall defining a lumen sized for delivery of the agent to the target site. The catheter has a distal end terminating with a primary opening of the lumen, an opposing proximal end, and a longitudinal axis extending between the distal end and the proximal end. At least one secondary opening is formed at the distal end, wherein the secondary opening is configured to allow fluid to flow through the secondary opening to create a steady flow of fluid at an angle with respect to the longitudinal axis and prevent the plurality of particles from flowing through the secondary opening.
US11490779B2
A dishwasher may utilize a multi-level dishwasher rack that in some instances may be reconfigurable into different configurations to optimize the rack for different types and/or combinations of utensils. A movable divider may be used in some instances to selectively expose a deep portion of a rack, and a drawer may be used in some instances to provide access utensils stored underneath a divider. A movable portion of a bottom of a rack may also be used in some instances to provide different support surfaces in the rack at different elevations. A tubular spray element or another rotatable spray tube may also be positioned relative to a multi-level dishwasher rack in some instances to facilitate concentrated washing of different facing surfaces of different utensils stored in the rack.
US11490777B2
A mop cleaning device includes an outer bucket, a water pump, a big cavity and a small cavity, wherein the big cavity and the small cavity are used for storing liquid, and the water volume of the big cavity is greater than that of the small cavity; the big cavity communicates with the small cavity, a valve for controlling communication of the big cavity and the small cavity is arranged between the big cavity and the small cavity, the water pump communicates with the small cavity and pumps water from the small cavity, and the outer bucket is provided with a support abutting against a mop head of a mop; and when the mop is cleaned, the valve is controlled to close a water passage between the big cavity and the small cavity, and the water pump pumps water from the small cavity to the mop to fulfill cleaning.
US11490761B1
A cooking system is provided. The cooking system includes a housing, a lid, a heating element, a vent tube, and a piston. The housing has a hollow interior. The lid is movable relative to the housing, where the lid and housing cooperate to form a cooking chamber. The heating element is mounted within the lid. The vent tube is arranged within the lid and extends between the cooking chamber and an external environment. The vent tube includes an inlet channel, an outlet channel, and a central channel arranged between the inlet and outlet channel. A piston is arranged within the central channel and configured to alternate between a venting and a non-venting position such that a low-moisture fluid is drawn through the inlet channel into the cooking chamber from the external environment, and a high-moisture fluid is evacuated through the outlet channel into the external environment from the cooking chamber.
US11490760B2
The invention concerns a system of: —a beverage preparation apparatus, wherein said apparatus comprises a mainframe (1) supporting a diluent supply (4), at least two container areas (11) with identification means reader device (13), at least two dissolution chamber areas (12), with identification means reader (14), and a user interface (16), and—a multiplicity of containers (2), with identification means (23) identifying the nature of the soluble beverage ingredient the container is designed to store, and—a multiplicity of dissolution chambers (3) with identification means (34) identifying the nature of the soluble beverage ingredient the dissolution chamber is designed to dissolve, wherein the apparatus comprises a control system (18) configured for comparing, for each pair of a container housed in a container area and a dissolution chamber housed in the chamber area positioned under the container area and receiving the soluble beverage ingredient from said container, the identification means (34) of the dissolution chamber and the identification means (23) of the container.
US11490758B2
An electric kettle may include a body configured to form a space in which fluid, such as water is contained, a heating module provided inside of the body to heat fluid, and a base on which a lower surface of the body is seated and which supplies power to the heating module in a state in which the body is seated. The base may include a connector which is exposed through a side surface of the base and to which a power cable for receiving external power may be connected, and a connector mounting portion formed along a circumference of the connector and protruding further outward than a side surface of the base and a front surface of the connector so as to block fluid or foreign matter from flowing into the connector.
US11490754B2
A system for securely depositing an item includes: a deposit box with a door configured to provide selective access to an interior space in the deposit box; a lock mechanism configured to attach to the deposit box to selectively block the door from opening; a first proximity sensor operatively connected to the lock mechanism to operate the lock mechanism to block the door or allow the door to open; a second proximity sensor configured to be attached to at least one of: a delivery person and a piece of delivery equipment; a third proximity sensor; and a first transmitter operatively connected to the lock mechanism and configured to transmit a signal indicative of operating information regarding the lock mechanism, and wherein the deposit box is at least 18 inches wide and 24 inches long.
US11490752B2
A device to easily mount and hold hockey sticks to a vertical structure, such as a wall. One embodiment includes a vulcanized rubber or EPDM body portion that can be attached to a wall. The body portion has a front recess that receives the shaft of a hockey stick and grips and holds the stick in place. The device can accommodate standard hockey stick shaft widths, and enables easy insertion and removal of hockey sticks.
US11490749B2
A nested tableware set includes: a) first and second bowls having a base and container portion that terminates at an open rim, and b) a plate interposed between the first and second bowls. Each plate has: 1) a base terminating at a side wall that extends upwardly and terminates at a side wall rim, 2) a base wall extending vertically downwardly from the base, 3) a first annular surface extending horizontally away from an upper end of the base wall, and 4) a second annular surface extending horizontally away from and vertically above the first annular surface. The first annular surface and the base wall together define a first shelf for seating the first bowl, and the second annular surface defines a second shelf for seating another plate. The base and side wall together define a third shelf for seating the second bowl.
US11490744B2
A system for displaying a plurality of objects is provided. The system includes at least one display case which houses the plurality of objects such that each of the plurality of objects is visible from outside of the at least one display case; a lighting system; an electronic display; and a control system which causes each of said plurality of objects to be successively displayed on the electronic display, and which manipulates the lighting system such that, while each of the plurality of objects is being displayed on the electronic display, the object being displayed is simultaneously highlighted in the at least one display case by the lighting system.
US11490737B2
A computer cockpit including a cockpit body, a driving module, a sensing module and a controlling module. The cockpit body includes a seat, a backrest and a display interface all movably disposed on the cockpit body. The display interface and the backrest are respectively located at two opposite sides of the seat. The driving module and the sensing module are disposed to the cockpit body, and the sensing module is configured to provide sensing data. The sensing data includes a seat pressure sensing value and a backrest pressure sensing value. The controlling module is electrically connected to the driving module and the sensing module, and configured to send an adjusting command according to the sensing data. The driving module is configured to receive the adjusting command to synchronously rotate the seat, the backrest and the display interface to a working angle and reduce a difference between the backrest pressure sensing value and the seat pressure sensing value.
US11490732B2
A stairlift chair has a hand control displaceable in a fore/aft direction. Other aspects include a hand control which is mounted at a point beneath the armrest and a fabric covering which is applied to the armrests and the backrest support.
US11490715B2
A flexible garment bag for use during travel is disclosed. The bag includes an elongated and flexible tubular body. The elongated and flexible tubular body includes a storage area. The bag further includes dual closure devices. The dual closure devices mount at each end of the elongated and flexible tubular body. The dual closure devices includes a buckle mechanism. The bag further includes a detachable strap. The storage area stores one or more items such as clothing articles. The detachable strap removably mounts to the buckle mechanism for configuring the bag suitable for wearing over cross body, around waist and over the shoulder. The bag folds upon removing one or more items. Bag includes secondary bag connected to elongated and flexible tubular body for storing smaller items.
US11490713B2
A collapsible cup has a tubular body having an upper end and a lower end, centered on an axis, and formed with a plurality of helicoidal ridge formations spaced angularly around the tubular body and each extending between the ends of the body. A floor of greater rigidity than the body closes the lower end of the body. A ring reinforces the upper end of the body. The body and ridges are formed of an elastically deformable synthetic resin such opposite angular twisting of the upper and lower ends axially compresses together the upper and lower ends and moves upper end down close to the lower end.
US11490711B2
There is provided a cosmetic vessel. The cosmetic vessel includes an airless pump configured to discharge cosmetics accommodated therein by using a piston that rises in a cylinder, a discharge plate provided at one side of the airless pump and having at least one discharge hole, and a guide unit provided between the airless pump and the discharge plate. A lower end of the guide unit is combined with the piston and rises or falls in a state of being integrated with the piston.
US11490710B2
The lipstick container includes: a case 3 that has a cylindrical shape and includes a protrusion 21 formed to protrude from the inside thereof; a protective tube 5 rotatably mounted on an upper portion of the case 3; inner containers 7a and 7b that are rotatably disposed on an inner surface of the case 3 and in which the protrusion 21 of the case 3 is coupled to grooves thereof formed in an vertical direction to rotate together when the case 3 rotates and that includes first and second containers 7a and 7b; a screw shaft 9 disposed at an inner side of the case 3 so as to be movable up and down; raising/lowering parts 11a and 11b which are screwed between the inner containers 7a and 7b and the screw shaft 9 to selectively raise or lower the screw shaft 9.
US11490705B2
A safe container comprises a first receptacle configured to receive a grooming product and a biometric lock configured to selectively open the first receptacle to a designated user. The grooming product may include a shaver and/or razor blade cartridges. The biometric lock may include a fingerprint reader.
US11490699B2
An article for providing shade includes a sunshade and a slip-on mounting base. The sunshade includes a shield, a set of ribs connected to the shield, and a plurality of support arms connected to the shield. The slip-on mounting base includes a body that defines a cavity and an opening. The body is configured to slip on the back portion of an item of outdoor furniture into the cavity through the opening. The body is stretchable and is configured to stretch to receive the back portion of different items of outdoor furniture with different sizes. The slip-on mounting base includes a plurality of receptacles attached to the body. Each receptacle includes an opening to receive a support arm of the sunshade. Each receptacle holds the corresponding support arm such that the shield, when unfolded, covers at least a portion of the back portion of the item of outdoor furniture.
US11490692B2
An article of footwear includes a sole, an upper, and a reconfigurable fastening system. The upper is coupled to the sole and includes medial and lateral quarters. Disposed on the medial and lateral quarters are a plurality of eyelets. Each of the eyelets includes a pair of openings disposed in the upper. The plurality of eyelets further includes at least one elongate member threaded through the pair of openings of each eyelet. The elongate member includes a series of first, or unexposed, portions that are disposed on an inner surface of the upper, and a series of second, or exposed, portions that are disposed on the outer surface of the upper. As fastener or lacing may be selectively threaded through an eyelet of the plurality of eyelets, where the fastener may be threaded between the second portion of the elongate member and the outer surface of the upper.
US11490686B2
A method of manufacturing an article includes forming a fluid-filled bladder element from polymeric material. The method further includes securing an overlay to the polymeric material. At least one portion of the overlay is substantially transparent, and an image on one of the fluid-filled bladder element and the overlay is aligned with and exposed to view through the at least one portion of the overlay that is substantially transparent. The fluid-filled bladder element is assembled in the article so that a first portion of the fluid-filled bladder element and the image are exposed to view, and a second portion of the fluid-filled bladder element is blocked from view by the article. An article includes the fluid-filled bladder element with the image, and with the overlay secured to the fluid-filled bladder element.
US11490678B2
An equestrian boot cover for protecting against the elements and extending the life of an equestrian riding boot comprising a cover body and a neck extending the height of the equestrian riding boot for forming a snug fit against the outer surface of the equestrian riding boot and including a spur aperture for allowing passage of the spur from about the equestrian boot cover.
US11490671B2
A combustion-resistant branch assembly for an artificial tree, the branch assembly including a first branch portion including a first rod having a main portion intermediate a first end portion and a second end portion; a first group of sub-branches attached to the first branch portion, each sub-branch of the first group of sub-branches including a member having a first end portion; and a first winding, including a combustion-resistant strand, wrapped about the first end portion of the first rod of the first branch portion and the first end portion of each sub-branch of the first group of sub-branches, thereby attaching the first group of sub-branches to the first branch portion.
US11490669B1
The disclosed lockable beams for haptics applications may include a rib structure including a plurality of ribs, a linking structure connecting the ribs to each other, a tendon extending along the rib structure, a tensioner coupled to the tendon for applying tension to the tendon, and a locking mechanism configured to, when engaged, impede relative movement between the tendon and the rib structure in a manner that impedes bending of the lockable beam. Various other methods, systems, and devices are also disclosed.
US11490659B2
An aerosol-generating system is provided, including: a liquid storage portion including a container to hold a liquid aerosol-forming substrate and defining an opening at an end thereof; a heater assembly extending across the opening along a plane transverse to a longitudinal axis of the storage portion and including electrically conductive filaments having a substantially flat orientation; a capillary material between the storage portion and the assembly; and conductive contacts in electrical contact with contacts of the assembly, the storage portion being at a first side of the assembly, and first and second portions of a first airflow channel at a second side of the assembly, the first portion to direct air from outside the system in a direction towards a surface of the capillary material, and the second portion to direct air from the outside in a direction away from the surface before such air enters the first portion.
US11490657B2
An axially rotating electric heating device for extracting tobacco includes a heating cavity outer shell, a heating cavity inner shell, and a heating assembly. The heating assembly includes a heating cavity that accommodates a smoking product and a heating element located in a cigarette heating cavity. The heating cavity is surrounded by the heating cavity inner shell; the heating element is inserted into the smoking product so as to heat the smoking product. The heating cavity inner shell is located at the front end of the heating assembly; the heating cavity outer shell and the heating cavity inner shell form an integral body; the heating cavity may rotate relative to the axis of the heating element to separate the smoking product from the heating element, thereby facilitating the extraction of the smoking product after smoking is finished.
US11490646B2
The present disclosure discloses a machine and a method for peeling skin from un-peeled objects that mainly includes at least one controller, an object: handling unit, an agitating: and heating unit and a peeling and separating unit. The agitating and heating unit includes an agitator and a heater. The agitator receives un-peeled objects and hot abrasive particles. During agitation, un-peeled objects and hot abrasive particles tumble with each other thereby loosing bond between skin and objects and provide objects with loosely bonded skin. The heater heats the abrasive particles and then permits, flow within the agitator by use of abrasive conveyor. Objects with loosely bonded skin are then provided in the peeling and separation unit for peeling and separating skin from un-peeled objects and provide peeled objects in a controlled manner.
US11490642B2
Frying is performed in two stages so as to dip a retainer in frying oil at a prescribed dipping ratio and then to dip the whole of the retainer in the frying oil, and in addition, flow rates of the frying oil supplied from an upstream side and a downstream side of a frying oil tank and a surface level of the frying oil are controlled. Therefore, a noodle lump can be prevented from peeling off and floating from the bottom of the retainer before fixing the shape of the noodle lump due to a pressure applied by the frying oil so as not to impair the shape of the noodle lump, and as a result, frying efficiency or production efficiency can be improved. Besides, a noodle lump that has a very small number of coarse or dense portions in a distribution of noodle strings can be stably produced.
US11490640B2
A suspendable feed block system for animals has a feed block formed of a hardened mass of feed supplement material in block form, wherein the feed supplement material provides a source of magnesium. The feed block is molded around and encases a feed block support. The support has an elongated flexible element including a plurality of protuberances located intermittently along a length of the element. At least one end of the elongated flexible element protrudes from the feed block and is fastenable to a separate suspending component. A method of manufacturing the suspendable feed block system for animals is also provided. A mold can be used for forming the feed block with the support suspended or encased therein, and the mold can be biodegradable, edible, or both.
US11490637B2
The present invention relates to a frozen soft-serve confection dispensing machine where the soft serve confection is a flavored frozen soft-serve confection having a base selected from ice creams, frozen yogurts, sorbets and gelatos. The dispensing machine comprises one or more base hoppers, each base hopper being linked to a dedicated detachable base cartridge, a dedicated plurality of detachable flavour cartridges containing a flavour mix and a dedicated mixing chamber and storage slot associated with each detachable flavour cartridge. The detachable base cartridge and plurality of flavour cartridges are connected to one of the base hoppers. Control means are provided to enable a user to select a flavour mix from one of the dedicated flavour cartridges, and to cause the base and selected flavour mix to be mixed in the dedicated mixing chamber and then storing and refrigerating the mixture of the base and flavour mix in the storage slots to form a mixed frozen soft-serve confection for dispensing.
US11490636B2
Systems and methods have demonstrated the capability of rapidly cooling the contents of pods containing the ingredients for food and drinks.
US11490632B2
A liquid edible dip that includes a first lactose-based composition, a second lactose-based composition, at least one spice, and a cucumber extract based bitter-blocking agent that can block the bitter tastes present in certain edible foods. The cucumber extract based bitter-blocking agent can modify, reduce, or block the bitter taste present in some edible foods. The first lactose-based composition may be a strained yogurt and the second lactose-based composition may be an evaporated milk powder.
US11490621B2
Disclosed is a method for controlling a biofilm, for removing a formed biofilm and/or for controlling a growth of microorganisms, preferably bacteria, in an aqueous environment of an industrial manufacturing process including cellulosic fibre material. In the method, a composition including a compound selected from a group consisting of 3-[(4-methylphenyl)sulphonyl]-2-propenenitrile and 4-amino-N-2-thiazolyl-benzenesulphonamide is administered to the aqueous environment of the process.
US11490620B2
Compounds of formula (I), as defined herein, to processes for preparing them, to pesticidal, in particular insecticidal, acaricidal, molluscicidal and nematicidal compositions comprising them and to methods of using them to combat and control pests such as insect, acarine, molluse and nematode pests.
US11490611B2
The present invention features an elegantly-mounted pinwheel comprising alternating holographic red and silver non-metallic tape-like material. The pinwheel uses connector bolts and hexagonal coupling nuts to be mounted or positioned directly onto various components of a power pole or utility pole system such as bushings, fuse cutouts, regulators, reclosures, lightning arresters, or underground primary dips. The invention will deter animals such as birds and squirrels from scaling or landing on the power pole or utility pole system when the invention is properly mounted. The invention takes advantage of the alternating colors of the pinwheel to scare the animals. The present invention requires no housing, rotors, drums, or support plates. The invention does not rely on sound, and it requires no electricity or motor. The stainless steel hex standoff coupling nut comes preferably in ⅜″ and can be ordered in different sizes to accommodate the device.
US11490602B2
A breeding method for improving reproductive performance of a chicken specialized dam line includes the steps of forming an F1 generation group, forming a breeding group, screening a breeding group, forming an F2 generation group, and continuously breeding to an Fn generation group. The method includes raising in small-scale groups and natural mating for systematic selection and breeding, which effectively reduces the generation interval and has the features of easy operation and fast genetic progress, not only ensuring animal welfare, but also effectively improving production performance.
US11490597B2
A system comprising a first transmitter for transmitting a first signal at a first frequency and a second transmitter for transmitting a second signal at a second frequency. The system includes a collar unit comprising a filter for receiving a combined signal, wherein the combined signal comprises the first signal and the second signal, wherein the filter includes a first antenna for detecting the first signal and a second antenna for detecting the second signal. The collar unit includes at least one signal analysis component configured to analyze the first signal and the second signal. The collar unit is configured to instruct a stimulus delivery unit to deliver a stimulus to the animal when the first signal voltage falls below a first value and the second signal voltage exceeds a second value.
US11490590B2
A portable pet canteen having a flexible bladder with peripheral edges and defining a footprint, an upper wall of the bladder defining an upper mouth, and a cavity being formed within the bladder. A rigid inner scaffold is secured to the upper mouth of the bladder and extends into the cavity. The inner scaffold has a height defined by side walls, the side walls having apertures for passage of water. An upper lid secures to an upper edge of the rigid inner scaffold such as with mating threads to form a closure such that the portable pet canteen is watertight. Water may be retained within the bladder until such time as the upper lid is removed and the canteen placed on the ground for the pet to drink from within the inner scaffold which provides a relatively wide opening. The canteen may be placed within a flexible outer cover for protection, which can also have various handles or straps for ease of transportation.
US11490583B1
A novel maize variety designated X15P099 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X15P099 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X15P099 through backcrossing or genetic transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are described. Maize variety X15P099, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X15P099 are provided. Methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X15P099 and methods of using maize variety X15P099 are disclosed.
US11490569B2
A pulley assembly is provided for mounting on a rotatable shaft of an agricultural harvester and is operable in a high-speed configuration or a low-speed configuration. The pulley assembly comprises a high-speed pulley with a high-speed running surface for receiving a drive belt when the pulley assembly is in the high-speed configuration and a low-speed pulley with a low-speed running surface for receiving a drive belt when the pulley assembly is in the low-speed configuration. The pulley assembly has three sets of teeth extending from surfaces of the two pulleys. In the low-speed configuration, the running surfaces of the low-speed pulley and high-speed pulley are axially aligned and the first set of teeth and the second set of teeth are engaged. In the high-speed configuration, the running surface of the high-speed pulley is exposed for receiving the drive belt.
US11490565B2
A cutter blade for a mower includes a blade base part, a cutting part positioned further outward radially than the blade base part, a descending part formed between the blade base part and the cutting part, and a curved part formed so as to curve upward from the cutting part. The descending part and the curved part have an intersection part at which an end of the descending part in the counter-rotating direction and a radially inner end of the curved part intersect.
US11490559B2
Steering and roll control systems to counteract yaw and/or roll forces during operation of a vehicle having first and second wheeled members coupled together by an articulating joint mechanism that is configured to pivot in a yaw direction and/or a roll direction. The steering assistance systems include a biasing unit configured to apply a counteracting force to bias the first and second wheeled members toward a straight-line arrangement thereof. The roll control systems include an additional biasing unit configured to apply a counteracting force to bias the first and second wheeled members toward a level alignment arrangement of the vehicle.
US11497148B2
A cooling device includes a cooling assembly which includes a cold plate extending in a first direction, a pump and a tank on one side of the cold plate in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and a partition extending in the first direction and covering the cold plate on one side in the second direction. The cold plate and the partition define a first refrigerant flow path through which a refrigerant flows. The pump includes a pump chamber in which an impeller is housed, the impeller moving the refrigerant. The tank includes a tank chamber in which the refrigerant flows. The pump chamber and the tank chamber communicate with each other through a first tank hole portion. The partition includes a first hole portion through which the first refrigerant flow path and the tank chamber communicate. The first tank hole portion is provided on one side in the first direction with respect to the first hole portion.
US11497128B2
A device is described for ensuring the installation of a component at the designated installation location of said component in a system, made up of two parts, the first part of the device being attached to the component, and the second part of the device being attached to the system to which the component will be attached, and, during installation of the component into the system at the designated installation location of said component, the first part of the device and the second part of the device interlock precisely and enable assembly, in that the first part of the device and the second part of the device interact exclusively mechanically and exclusively enable the ensuring of the installation of the component at the designated installation location of the component in the system. When installing the component at a non-designated installation location on the system, the interaction of the first part of the device and the second part of the device, which form a poka-yoke system with each other, prevents installation.
US11497118B2
A method of fabricating a printed circuit assembly includes providing a flexible-hybrid circuit having a base and at least one side panel. The at least one side panel is hingedly connected to the base. The method further includes disposing a support structure on the flexible-hybrid circuit. The support structure includes a base, which is disposed on the base of the flexible-hybrid circuit, and at least one side that corresponds to the at least one side panel of the flexible-hybrid circuit. The method further includes folding the at least one side panel of the flexible-hybrid circuit so that the at least one side panel is disposed co-planar with the at least one side of the support structure to create a printed circuit assembly.
US11497109B2
An extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light concentrating apparatus including a main body having a concave inner portion and configured to rotate, a tin generator configured to generate tin drops and spray the tin drops, a tin catcher configured to process the sprayed tin drops, a protective cover configured to block the tin drops from falling into the main body, and a rotation guide configured to rotate the main body may be provided.
US11497107B2
The invention discloses X-ray machine ray tube heat dissipation device which comprises a heat dissipation pool and an X-ray machine ray tube arranged in the heat dissipation pool, wherein the heat dissipation pool is provided with a water inlet and a water outlet, and the water outlet of the heat dissipation pool is communicated with the water inlet of water tank.
US11497106B2
The present disclosure relates to a road lighting management system, which includes: a smart lighting management cloud platform, lamp poles, lamps installed on the lamp poles, controllers installed in the lamps, and a mobile terminal; in which one lamp or more lamps are installed on each of the lamp poles; the lamps are in one-to-one correspondence with the controllers; the controllers are respectively connected with the lamps and the smart lighting management cloud platform, and the controllers are configured to control the lamps; the mobile terminal is connected with the smart lighting management cloud platform; and both the mobile terminal and the smart lighting management cloud platform are configured for asset management, and control commands are sent by the mobile terminal to the controllers in the lamps according to an instruction of a user.
US11497105B2
Described herein is method for setting up a network of luminaires and their subsequent operation. A plurality of luminaires are located on a street (24, 29), and each luminaire comprises a control module (23, 28). The method for setting up the network comprises, for each control module, scanning the environment and providing environmental information to a central server, which, allocates the control modules and their associated luminaires into groups (A, B). A group controller (23′, 28′, 31, 32) is allocated for each group which has long-distance communication with the server and short-distance communication with control modules within its group. Each group controller and control modules within the group form a network which can operate autonomously or under the control of the server. Some of the control modules may include sensors (S1, S2) which provide signals indicative of changes in the environment allowing the network to adapt its operation in accordance with those changes.
US11497104B2
A load control system for controlling at least one electrical load may comprise a plurality of control devices and a sensor external to at least one of the control devices. The sensor may be configured to sense a condition of a space in which the control devices are installed. The at least one electrical load may be controlled in response to the condition sensed by the sensor. The control devices may include respective illuminated portions. The control devices may adjust the intensity of the respective illuminated portions in response to the condition sensed by the sensor. If multiple sensors are included in the load control system to sense the condition, the control devices may adjust the intensity of their respective illuminated portions by aggregating the condition sensed by each sensor.
US11497096B2
A source driver includes at least one data input terminal, a plurality of data output terminals, at least two control terminals and a plurality of source driving circuits. Each source driving circuit is connected to a data input terminal of the at least one data input terminal, a data output terminal of the plurality of data output terminals and the at least two control terminals. The source driving circuit is configured such that: the source driving circuit converts a format of a data signal from the data input terminal; and in response to one of different control signals that is received by all the at least two control terminals, the source driving circuit has a corresponding different output impedance, and transmits the converted data signal to the data output terminal.
US11497093B2
A high-power light system includes a lamp for producing light within a designated wavelength range, a chiller for maintaining the lamp below a defined temperature threshold, and a control module for regulating operation of both the lamp and the chiller. The lamp includes a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) arranged into independently-operable modules. In use, the control module selectively overdrives the LEDs to yield high-power light within the designated wavelength range. To prevent overheating within the lamp, the control module restricts the lamp to a pulse-based operational cycle, whereby each period of LED activation is of limited duration and is immediately followed by a period of deactivation at least three times as long in duration as the period of activation. Additionally, one or more temperature sensors are disposed within the lamp and enable the control module to temporarily suspend LED activation when measured temperature levels exceed the defined threshold.
US11497085B2
A Fe—Cr alloy having a chemical composition with increased Si and Al contents, in which the chemical composition satisfies the following formula (1) in terms of the Si content, Al content, and Cr content: 14.0≤% Si+1.15×% Al+0.35×% Cr (1).
US11497076B2
A service processing method, a service processing apparatus, and a communications system are provided. The service processing method includes: receiving, by an access network device, from a core network device, a bearer setup request message of a voice over Long Term Evolution (VoLTE) service; and rejecting, by the access network device, the bearer setup request message when determining that LTE network signal quality of a terminal of the VoLTE service cannot satisfy the VoLTE service.
US11497075B2
Provided are an electronic device, a body-worn type device, a communication system, a communication controlling method and a storage medium which make it possible to appropriately perform necessary data communication while more reducing power consumption of the body-worn type device. The electronic device includes a transceiver which performs communication via short-range wireless communication, a memory which stores identification data on each electronic device which is communicable with the body-worn type device via the transceiver, and a processor which, in a case where communication connection is established between any one of the electronic devices which are contained in the identification data and the body-worn type device, operates to perform data transmission and reception between its own device and the body-worn type device via another electronic device that the communication connection with the body-worn type device is established.
US11497074B2
One innovative aspect of the subject matter described in this disclosure may be implemented in a method for wireless communication. The method may be performed, for example, by a first multi-link device (MLD), that includes a first station (STA) and a second STA, to generate and provide block acknowledgment (BA) status reports for Medium Access Control (MAC) Protocol Data Units (MPDUs) transmitted by the first STA of the first MLD and the second STA of the first MLD. Another innovative aspect of the subject matter described in this disclosure may be implemented in a method for wireless communication. The method may be performed, for example, by a logical entity of a first MLD to receive and process a BA status report.
US11497060B2
Various examples and schemes pertaining to multiplexing, addressing and HARQ for MsgB in two-step RACH in mobile communications are described. An apparatus implemented in a user equipment (UE) transmits to a network node of a wireless network a first message containing a preamble index and data. In response, the apparatus receives from the network node a second message containing a random access response (RAR) and contention resolution information. The second message is addressed to either a cell radio network temporary identifier (C-RNTI) of the UE or a random access radio network temporary identifier (RA-RNTI).
US11497059B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for transmitting data, including: sensing, by a first device, a scheduling assignment (SA) of another device; measuring a received power of the other device, and measuring a total received energy of a subframe/subband; determining a received power reference value and a total received energy reference value of the other device according to the SA; selecting resources; and transmitting data using the selected resources. According to the method of the present disclosure, the performance of the method which avoids collision based on SA is improved, and measurement accuracy of the total received energy of the subband is increased. Thus, resource selection/re-selection can be performed better. As such, interferences between devices can be avoided effectively.
US11497057B2
A first on-board terminal for radio communication in a radio network. The first on-board terminal is designed to retransmit first data via the radio channel after the expiration of a second time period, which begins after the end of the previous transmission of the first data, if the radio channel is not occupied after the expiration of a first time period.
US11497053B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may receive a set of indicators indicating that a first transmission is scheduled for concurrent transmission with a second transmission, wherein the user equipment is not configured to transmit the first transmission and the second transmission concurrently. The user equipment may select one of the first transmission or the second transmission for transmission based at least in part on a characteristic of at least one of the first transmission or the second transmission identified using the set of indicators. The user equipment may transmit the selected one of the first transmission or the second transmission based at least in part on selecting the one of the first transmission or the second transmission. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11497052B1
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some examples, a random access occasion may overlap in time with a synchronization signal block resource, where the random access occasion and the synchronization signal block resource have a same index. In some such examples, a base station may transmit, to a user equipment (UE), an indicator of a mapping of the random access occasion to an uplink beam that is associated with a synchronization signal block resource with a different index than the random access occasion. The UE may transmit, to the base station, a random access preamble over the random access occasion using the uplink beam.
US11497039B2
A transmission device includes: a communication circuit configured to wirelessly communicate with a reception device, by using a plurality of wireless services including a first wireless service having a first priority and a second wireless service having a second priority that is a priority lower than the first priority; and a processing circuit configured to perform, in accordance with a first information element, allocating of an uplink radio resource to transmission data of the first wireless service, the allocating of the uplink radio resource being performed in a situation, the situation being a situation that a medium access control—protocol data unit (MAC-PDU) has been generated or can be generated in response to allocating the uplink radio resource to a transmission data of the second wireless service, the first information element indicating a value configured to control logical channel prioritization (LCP) procedure.
US11497032B2
A channel and signal transmission method and communication device are provided. The channel and signal transmission method applied to a communication device at a sending end includes: when transmitting at least two data transmission resources, send the data transmission resources, according to at least one of QCL information of the data transmission resources and a preset rule, where a data transmission resource includes at least one of a signal and a channel.
US11497031B2
A master station device connected to a secondary station device through a fronthaul includes a first base station signal processor having a first functional split configuration relating to a plurality of base station functional units for a first service type, and a second base station signal processor having a second functional split configuration relating to the plurality of base station functional units for a second service type.
US11497019B2
Methods and apparatuses for adaptive subcarrier spacing in wireless communication networks are described. For example, the described aspects include transmitting, from the UE to a network entity, a first PRACH transmission with a first subcarrier spacing; determining, by the UE, that the first PRACH transmission to the network entity is not successful; and transmitting, from the UE, a second PRACH transmission with a second subcarrier spacing in response to determining that the first PRACH transmission is not successful, wherein the first subcarrier spacing is different from the second subcarrier spacing.
US11497018B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine a first hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process identifier set associated with a first configured scheduling process and may determine a second HARQ process identifier set associated with a second configured scheduling process. The UE may assign an HARQ process identifier, included in the first HARQ process identifier set, to a process instance associated with the first configured scheduling process and may assign an HARQ process identifier, included in the second HARQ process identifier set, to a process instance associated with the second configured scheduling process. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11497010B2
Aspects are provided which allow a base station to dynamically select or indicate an active CORESET associated with a search space or set of PDCCH candidates. The base station selects, for at least one UE, an active CORESET associated with a search space for a period of time. The base station transmits a dynamic indication of the active CORESET associated with the search space to the at least one UE. A UE receives the dynamic indication of the active CORESET associated with the search space for the period of time. The UE then monitors for a downlink control channel during the period of time based on the dynamic indication of the active CORESET.
US11497009B2
A frequency domain resource allocation method includes receiving frequency domain resource configuration information sent by a base station, where the frequency domain resource configuration information is used to indicate frequency domain resources configured for the user equipment UE, and the frequency domain resources include at least one available frequency domain resource segment and at least one unavailable frequency domain resource segment; and receiving frequency domain resource indication information sent by the base station, where the frequency domain resource indication information is used to indicate a frequency domain resource that is in the at least one available frequency domain resource segment and that is used by the UE to transmit data.
US11497006B2
The present disclosure proposes various methods for improving coverage. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, when an unavailable resource exists in a resource set configured for repeated transmission of a physical uplink channel, the UE may determine a resource capable of actually performing repeated transmission of a physical uplink channel within the resource set. According to another embodiment of th present disclosure, when the terminal receives the TPC command within the resource corresponding to the DMRS bundle, the terminal may perform power control based on the TPC command after the resource.
US11496994B2
A first communications device obtains a first resource and a second resource; the first communications device sends first control information and first data to at least one communications device in a group on the first resource, where the first communications device and the at least one communications device in the group belong to a first communications device group, and the first communications device and the at least one communications device in the group each have a group identifier of the first communications device group; and the first communications device receives acknowledgement information from a second communications device on the second resource, where the second communications device is the at least one communications device in the group.
US11496990B2
Techniques are provided for positioning of a mobile device in a wireless network using directional positioning reference signals (PRS), also referred to as PRS beamforming. In an example method, a plurality of directional PRSs are generated for at least one cell for a base station, such that each of the plurality of directional PRSs comprises at least one signal characteristic and a direction of transmission, either or both of which may be distinct or unique. The plurality of directional PRSs is transmitted within the at least one cell, such that each of the plurality of directional PRSs is transmitted in the direction of transmission. A mobile device may acquire and measure at least one of the directional PRSs which may be identified using the associated signal characteristic. The measurement may be used to assist position methods such as OTDOA and ECID and to mitigate multipath.
US11496988B2
A wireless entity, such as a user equipment (UE) or transmission reception point (TRP), receives and processes aggregated positioning reference signals (PRS) to increase the effective PRS bandwidth, thereby increasing positioning accuracy, such as time of arrival measurements. An aggregated PRS includes one or more PRS components that are transmitted from a same transmitting entity. Each PRS component may be, e.g., a separate PRS resource associated with a contiguous frequency-domain bandwidth or may be, e.g., a plurality of frequency-domain bandwidths spanned by a single PRS resource. PRS components of an aggregated PRS that are unpunctured, e.g., do not collide with higher priority signals, are aligned in time domain, and are configured with common constraints are processed jointly assuming that the PRS components are transmitted from a same antenna port, thereby increasing the effective PRS bandwidth.
US11496983B2
A technique for reducing interference on conducted RF links involves a determination of active wireless channels in an electronic device. For example, the device can determine whether there are any active cellular, WiFi, and/or Bluetooth channels. If so, any active channels can be removed from a list of possible channels that can be used for generating the RF signals for the conducted RF link. If any idle channels remain available, one or more may be selected for use for the conducted RF link. Those idle channels having a higher offset from any active channels may be given a greater weight in the selection since they should be less likely to be subject to interference. If not, one of the least crowded active channels may be selected for use for the conducted RF link.
US11496978B2
Disclosed herein are a gateway-signaling method for frequency/timing offsets and an apparatus for the same. An apparatus for transmitting a broadcast signal according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a frequency/timing decision unit for determining a center frequency to which a frequency offset is applied using a carrier offset, which is identified using a timing and a management packet transmitted through a Studio-to-Transmitter Link (STL); and an RF signal generation unit for generating an RF signal to be transmitted, which corresponds to the center frequency.
US11496957B2
A mobile network operator (MNO) base station, e.g., an eNB, instructs a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) user equipment (UE) to monitor to detect signals from base stations in its MVNO network and to report back the results. If the UE reports to the MNO base station, that it has detected signals from base stations, e.g. CBSDs, in its MVNO, the MNO base station applies one or more rules included in a stored Service Profile Identifier, corresponding to the UE, the applying of the one or more rules causes the MNO base station to disconnect or deny service to the UE. Alternatively, when it is determined that the UE did not detect a signal from a base station, e.g. a CBSD, in its MVNO, then the MNO base station provides communications service to the UE.
US11496950B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to the communications field, and provide a method for determining a parameter set of a cell, a method for sending a parameter set of a cell, a device, and a system, so that a terminal can identify a parameter set of a cell in 5G NR supporting a plurality of parameter sets of the cell. The solutions provided in the embodiments of the present invention include: determining, by a base station, feature information of an identification signal based on a parameter set of a cell, wherein the parameter set of the cell comprises a subcarrier spacing; and sending the identification signal to a terminal based on the feature information of the identification signal.
US11496947B2
A method for accessing a local network includes: subscribing, by a network device, to service area change information of user equipment, where the service area change information of the user equipment indicates that the user equipment enters or leaves a service area of the local network; receiving, by the network device, the service area change information of the user equipment; and performing, based on the received service area change information, policy control for the user equipment accessing or leaving the local network. In this way, access to the local network is accurately controlled, and is not affected by wireless network planning and adjustment, which greatly enhances user experience in use of the local network.
US11496946B2
Embodiments of this application provide a transmission path switching method and apparatus. When a transmission path is switched, a currently used data transmission path is not directly switched from a first transmission path to a second transmission path after the second transmission path is configured, but after it is further determined that a first condition is met, the currently used data transmission path is switched from the first transmission path to the second transmission path, to avoid data interruption in a process of switching a data transmission path of an application from the first transmission path to the second transmission path. This improves use smoothness of the application.
US11496944B2
A method for evaluation of UE route selection policy (URSP) rules is proposed. URSP is used by a UE to determine if a detected application can be associated to an established PDU session, can be offloaded to non-3GPP access outside a PDU session, or can trigger the establishment of a new PDU session. The UE first finds a non-default URSP rule with a matching traffic descriptor to the application. Then, the UE selects a route selection descriptor including a preferred access type from a list of RSDs of the non-default URSP rule. After that, the UE matches or establishes a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) session for the application by ignoring the preferred access type or using the preferred access type.
US11496941B2
A network control method for handover in a mobile time-sensitive network (TSN) communication system is provided. The network control method includes: communicating of a user terminal within a wireless communication range of a first AP with an end system through the first AP; determining whether to handover to a second AP by determining communication strength between the user terminal and the first AP; requesting handover to a controller when the handover to the second AP is determined; reconfiguring a TSN communication operation after the handover, determining handover timing, and generating a handover command by a controller; transmitting the handover command to the first AP, the user terminal, and the second AP; and applying the reconfigured TSN communication operation to the second AP and the user terminal at the handover timing.
US11496939B2
Systems and methods provide automated generation of neighbor frequency lists for configuration of frequency objects for wireless stations. A computing device selects a target sector carrier of a wireless station of multiple wireless stations in a radio access network and identifies, based on distances from the wireless station, neighboring sector carriers of the target sector carrier. The computing device filters the neighboring sector carriers based on an azimuth of the target sector carrier to form a filtered set of neighboring sector carriers. The computing device calculates a probability of neighboring frequencies for the target sector carrier based on locations of the filtered set of neighboring sector carriers and generates, based on the calculating, a neighbor frequency list for the target sector carrier. The neighbor frequency list is used to configure frequency objects, for the target sector carrier, that ensure seamless handovers within the radio access network.
US11496927B2
An infrastructure equipment of a wireless communications network is configured to act as a first relay node by determining an allocation of a first set of communications resources by the infrastructure equipment acting as a first relay node for another infrastructure equipment acting as a second relay node, the communications resources for transmitting uplink data from a first communications device to an infrastructure equipment connected to a core network part of the wireless communications network acting as a donor node, the allocation of the first set of communications resources for the other infrastructure equipment acting as the second relay node being based upon a donor set of communications resources allocated by the donor node for communicating the uplink data from the first communications device to the donor node via the infrastructure equipment acting as the first relay node.
US11496926B2
In an 802.11be wireless system, data units are generated for transmission by configuring a transmitting device to process encoding parameters, including a first encoding parameter NSD and a second encoding parameter NSD,short, to select a padding boundary from pre-defined padding boundaries in the last symbol that will most closely include the number of information bits NEXCESS in the last symbol and to append padding bits to the number of information bits NEXCESS to fill up to the selected padding boundary in the last symbol, thereby generating pre-encoded data bits which are encoded for data transmission, where at least the first encoding parameter NSD is specified for an aggregated resource unit size that is allowed under the 802.11be protocol as a sum of NSD values for at two other resource units.
US11496918B2
The disclosed method tests performance of a wireless telecommunication network. The method obtains from the network a network trace including packets exchanged among devices associated with the network. The method identifies packets within the network trace that match properties specified by the first and second tables, and obtains a call flow by chronologically mapping the identified packets, using the timestamps of the packets. The method determines whether a packet associated with the call flow matches the properties specified by the third table by comparing an IE value contained in the packet to the IE value included in the third table. Based on the determining, the method creates a call flow validation results report indicating whether the call flow satisfied the properties specified in the multiple tables. The call flow validation results report can indicate whether the network has passed the test, and/or whether the wireless network has any problematic components.
US11496916B2
There is provided a measurement apparatus capable of easily and definitely designating a desired measurement target when measuring communication in IEEE 802.11ax. There is provided a control unit that selectably displays a plurality of resource unit display graphic forms which are graphic forms illustrating resource units arranged in a frequency bandwidth of a channel on a display unit, selects a resource unit which is the measurement target by selecting at least one resource unit display graphic form of the plurality of resource unit display graphic forms, and varies a display of the resource unit display graphic form between an unselected state, a selected state, and a state before selection different from each other, in a case where communication in accordance with a standard of IEEE 802.11ax is measured.
US11496911B2
According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a method is disclosed in a user equipment (UE) for performing downlink measurements on a plurality of cells according to a received measurement configuration. The UE receives measurement configuration information from a radio base station supporting a serving cell of a wireless communications network, the measurement configuration information including an indication of a variably sized measurement bandwidth over which measurements are to be performed on the serving cell and one or more neighbor cells. The UE performs measurements on each of the serving cell and the one or more neighbor cells over the measurement bandwidth, and reports the measurements to the network.
US11496906B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication method which fuses a 5G communication system with IoT technology to support a higher data transfer rate than a 4G system, and a system thereof. The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services such as smart homes, smart buildings, smart cars or connected cars, healthcare, digital education, retail business, security and safety services, etc., based on 5G communication technologies and IoT related technologies. More specifically, a method for operating a base station in a mobile communication system using an unlicensed band, according to the present invention, comprises the steps of: transmitting and receiving data to and from a terminal in a first cell; establishing a signal transmission timing related to a start symbol of a slot of a subframe for a second cell; occupying a resource by executing a sensing operation in a band corresponding to the second cell; and executing communication with the terminal in the occupied resource on the basis of the established signal transmission timing.
US11496895B2
Secure communication for autonomous vehicles can be increased by performing authentication steps before the nodes (e.g., vehicles, roadside equipment (RSE), base stations, etc.) are within communications range. For example, a digital certificate management system for mobile nodes, specifically for moving vehicles, can facilitate ultra fast communications between vehicles and other nodes. In some embodiments, the RSE can propagate vehicle node data (e.g., direction, speed, estimated time of arrival, etc.) to other vehicles and/or other RSEs. Consequently, this propagation of data prior to the communication between nodes can facilitate a for efficient authentication system.
US11496894B2
A method, performed by an EAP authenticator in a communication network, is disclosed. An identification of at least one EAP method supported by an EAP authentication server providing an EAP authentication service to the EAP authenticator is obtained, wherein the identification is obtained from a network entity of the communication network or from inspection of traffic through the EAP authenticator. The identification of at least one EAP method is provided to a device operable to request communication network access from the EAP authenticator. Also disclosed is a method, performed in an EAP authentication server in a communication network. A request for identification of EAP methods supported by the EAP authentication server is received, and a response to the request is sent identifying at least one EAP method supported by the EAP authentication server. An EAP authenticator, EAP authentication server and computer program are also disclosed.
US11496882B2
Methods for (i) finding/discovering the right UDM instances and (ii) ensuring the UDM instance security are provided. The method for (i), includes the steps of: (i-1) pre-provisioning of UDM instance discovery information/parameters to the UE/USIM, (i-2) sending the UDM instance discovery related parameters to a core network element, and (i-3) discovering the right UDM instance at the core network element based on the discovery parameters and related routing information either at the UDM consumer/NRF. The method for (ii) includes the steps of: (ii-1) Secured choice of parameter for UDM instance discovery (e.g. UDM instance identifier) to the core network element and (ii-2) the secured UDM instance identifier generation and management at the UDM to prevent attack on UDM instances. Also a method to identify the cleartext IMSI/SUPI is provided for the re-authentication scenario along with the relevant procedures.
US11496875B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for permitting higher transmit power at a mobile device. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed, comprising: receiving, at a base station, an emergency request from a mobile device; sending, from the base station to a neighboring base station, a high power reservation message to reserve one or more radio resource blocks at the neighboring base station for non-use; and sending, from the base station to the mobile device, a resource allocation including the one or more radio resource blocks and a power control message requesting high transmit power.
US11496873B2
A system for connecting a mobile device to a motor vehicle via a Bluetooth connection is proposed. The system comprises a processing unit for detecting a signal strength of a signal transmitted between the mobile device and the motor vehicle and for determining the position of the mobile device with respect to the motor vehicle based on the signal strength, and a connecting unit for coupling the mobile device and the motor vehicle via a Bluetooth Low Energy connection, for establishing a Bluetooth connection between the mobile device and the motor vehicle, and for coupling the mobile device to the motor vehicle via the Bluetooth connection based on the position of the mobile device and the Bluetooth Low Energy connection.
US11496860B2
Techniques are described herein for developing a fingerprint map that may be used for 3D indoor localization. In one example, a network server may leverage a building footprint from an open source database with signal measurements taken by probing user devices from signal sources such as access point (AP) devices. The network server may use the signal measurements to remotely calculate corresponding 3D positions of the AP devices in a particular building. Further, the network server may use the building footprint and the calculated 3D positions of the AP devices as references for developing the fingerprint map for 3D indoor localization.
US11496859B2
First receiving a first location in a path of a wireless device and a second location in the path, a first odometer value associated with the device corresponding to the first location, and a second odometer value associated with the device corresponding to the second location, wherein the path comprises a set of ordered locations. Determining a recommended distance between the first location and the second location. Determining a magnitude of a difference between the first odometer value and the second odometer value. Determining that the magnitude is greater than a threshold. Identifying, in response to the third determining, at least one candidate missing jurisdiction. Presenting each candidate missing jurisdiction. Second receiving a selection of each presented identified candidate missing jurisdiction. First predicting at least one node in the path in the selected jurisdiction. Second predicting a missing path including the first location, each predicted node, and the second location.
US11496854B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, computer program products, and systems. Embodiments of the present invention can map an environment comprising one or more locations having respective objects located within each of the one or more locations based on received information. Embodiments of the present invention can then dynamically determine appropriate auditory levels for the environment. Embodiments of the present invention can then adjust auditory levels of each of the one or more rooms within the environment to match the determined auditory level.
US11496844B2
A completely-in-canal hearing aid, including a housing, a receiver, a chip, a battery, a flexible circuit board and a microphone, wherein the housing includes a front section and a rear section; the receiver and the chip are located in the front section; the battery is located in the rear section; the rear section has two opposite surfaces and two opposite side surfaces; the front section has a first central axis parallel to the length of the front section; the rear section has a second central axis located between the two opposite surfaces and between the two opposite side surfaces; the first central axis and the second central axis are different straight lines. The completely-in-canal hearing aid is fine and compact in structure, reasonable and ingenious in design, diversified in function and comfortable to wear.
US11496843B2
An in-the-ear hearing device includes: a microphone configured to receive an audio signal; a signal processor configured to process the audio signal for compensating a hearing loss; a wireless communication unit being connected to the signal processor; a feeding network; a hearing device shell accommodating the microphone and the signal processor; a face plate positioned at the hearing device shell; and an antenna for electromagnetic field emission and electromagnetic field reception, the antenna coupled with the wireless communications unit, wherein the antenna has a first end, and wherein the feeding network is configured to feed the antenna via the first end of the antenna; wherein the antenna extends through the face plate at a first position; at least a part of the antenna extending from the faceplate being arch-shaped; and wherein a second end of the antenna is an electrically open end, or is coupled to a ground potential.
US11496841B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a microphone and an intelligent voice device. The microphone includes a housing, a diaphragm, a primary sound pickup component, and a secondary sound pickup component. The diaphragm is configured to output an electric signal according to a sound pressure acting on the first sound pickup surface and the second sound pickup surface. The primary sound pickup component is formed on the housing, and configured to transmit a sound wave from outside of the housing to the first sound pickup surface through a primary sound pickup channel at a first sound pressure. The secondary sound pickup component is formed on the housing, and configured to transmit the sound wave to the second sound pickup surface through a secondary sound pickup channel at a second sound pressure, the secondary sound pickup channel being different from the first sound pressure.
US11496839B2
A speaker unit is provided. The speaker unit may include a frame; a yoke elongated on the frame along a front-to-rear direction; a first magnet disposed on one side of the yoke; a first plate disposed on one side of the first magnet; a first diaphragm disposed on one side of the first plate; a first coil fixed to the first diaphragm; a second magnet disposed on the other side of the yoke; a second plate disposed on the other side of the second magnet; a second diaphragm disposed on the other side of the second plate; a substrate disposed on the frame; a microphone electrically connected to the substrate; and a second coil fixed to the second diaphragm, wherein the first magnet and the second magnet are both in contact with the yoke, the frame includes a seating portion, and the microphone is disposed in the seating portion.
US11496835B2
This disclosure provides a speaker control method and a mobile terminal. The method is performed by the mobile terminal, and the mobile terminal includes at least two speakers. The method includes obtaining a use state of the mobile terminal, and determining corresponding audio mode information based on the use state of the mobile terminal, where the audio mode information includes audio modes of the at least two speakers. The method further includes controlling each speaker to work in a corresponding audio mode in the audio mode information.
US11496824B2
The present disclosure provides a system and method for acoustic device. The acoustic output device may include an earphone core including at least one acoustic driver for outputting sound though one or more sound guiding holes set on the acoustic output apparatus; the acoustic output device may include one or more sensors configured to detect status information of a user of the acoustic output apparatus; the acoustic output device may include a controller configured to cause the at least one acoustic driver to output sound based on the detected status information of the user; the acoustic output device may further include a power source assembly configured to provide electrical power to the earphone core, the one or more sensors, and the controller; and the acoustic output device may further include a flexible circuit board configured to connect at least the earphone core and the power source assembly.
US11496821B2
A microphone apparatus for attachment to an exterior portion of a vehicle, the apparatus may include a housing maintaining a printed circuit board (PCB) and a microphone element positioned on the PCB, a sealing element arranged on one side of the housing and defining at least one housing opening, and a cover extending over the sealing element and defining a cover opening configured to align in an open state with the housing opening to enable ambient sound external to the vehicle to be transmitted to the microphone element, the cover configured to block the housing opening in a closed state to protect the microphone element.
US11496816B2
A trailer monitoring system for monitoring a trailer having at least one trailer sensor has a bridge integrator unit, configured to couple with the trailer, including a wireless data transceiver electrically coupled with a microcontroller and capable of wirelessly communicating data over a short-range wireless protocol; the bridge integrator unit receives data existing in a first messaging format that is compatible with and used by one or more trailer sensors via a short-range wireless protocol, extracts the data, encodes the data into a second messaging format that is compatible with a master control unit having a telematic data transceiver capable of cellular data communications, and transmits the data in the second messaging format from the bridge integrator unit to the master control unit via a short-range wireless protocol.
US11496813B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture (e.g., physical storage media) to credit commercial broadcasts are disclosed. Example commercial crediting apparatus disclosed herein compare first identification information and first timing information obtained from a first monitored data feed with second identification information and second timing information in a second monitored data feed to identify a first final distributor code represented in the second monitoring data feed, the first identification information and the first timing information corresponding to a first commercial represented in the first monitored data feed. Disclosed example apparatus also access data that maps a first original distributor code to the first final distributor code, identify the first commercial in lineup data based on the first original distributor code, and adjust, based on a duration of the first commercial, a duration obtained for a first media program listed in the lineup data.
US11496808B2
Method, systems, and computer-readable media are provided to facilitate content discovery based on augmented context. A first set of images of a graphical display may be acquired and analyzed to identify visual characteristics of an object represented. Attributes of the object may be identified. Specifications may be transmitted to the television receiver and/or a remote data source in order to pull matching information. A user-selectable interface element may be generated for presentation as an option to take an action relating to the object represented. A visual output of the interface element may be output as an overlay on the first set and/or a second set of images displayed by the computing device. A user selection responsive to the outputting of the visual output of the at interface element may be processed. A communication may be transmitted to the television receiver to cause the action responsive to the user selection.
US11496805B2
A video distribution method and apparatus and an electronic device, where the video distribution method includes: obtaining a popularity of each video program, wherein the popularity is a preference degree of a user group for a video program within a statistic time period; and determining, according the popularity of each video program, to distribute a video content of the video program through repeating broadcasting channels or by means of broadcasting on demand.
US11496804B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method of receiving, by a processing system including a processor, viewership data for a plurality of viewers watching a program; identifying, by the processing system, an anomalous event from the viewership data, wherein the viewership data includes data points per viewer logged on a per second basis, and wherein the processing system identifies the anomalous event using a pattern recognition algorithm; analyzing, by the processing system, the viewership data to determine a reason for the anomalous event; and providing, by the processing system, a user interface that presents a comparison of the anomalous event versus a standard and indicia for the reason for the anomalous event. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11496800B2
The system and methods described herein determine whether to override commands to modify content presentation in a multi-user content consumption environment. A media guidance application detects a first and second user consuming content. Upon receiving a command from the first user to modify the presentation of the content, the media guidance application retrieves a user profile of the second user and compares attributes in the user profile to metadata for the segment of the content. Based on the comparison, the media guidance application determines whether to override the command, for example based on a predicted interest level or importance level determined by the comparison. In response to determining to override the command, the media guidance application refrains from executing the command by canceling or delaying the command and generates a notification message to the user with a reason why the command was overridden.
US11496797B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, embodiments that include receiving video content over a communication network, and determining a point of interest in relation to a presentation of the video content via equipment utilized by a user. Further embodiments can include identifying an object in the video content according to the point of interest, and obtaining information associated with the object. Additional embodiments can include generating first augmented reality content based on the video content and the information associated with the object, and providing the first augmented reality content to a communication device. The communication device presents the first augmented reality content. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11496793B2
Methods, computer readable media, and apparatuses for switching streams in response to detecting a start trigger are presented. A program's start trigger indicating that the program is upcoming may be detected on a first stream, and in response to detecting the start trigger on the first stream, a second stream containing the program may be switched to. The program may be a video program. Segment triggers may be detected and may be used to selectively record and/or delete segments of the program according to a priority scheme. Multiple start triggers may be detected at decreasing time intervals. The existence of a recording conflict may be determined based on a program's start trigger and a user may be alerted of the recording conflict.
US11496790B2
Systems and methods for controlling a smart streaming device are disclosed herein. The smart streaming device is controlled based on a position of an ultra-wideband (UWB) device. Based on the position of the UWB device, one or more service events for the smart streaming device can be conducted. For example, a privacy mode of the smart streaming device can be enabled or disabled based on the position of the UWB device. In another example, a distance can be determined between the smart streaming device and the position of the UWB device. Based on the distance, an output configuration of the smart streaming device can be set, such as dynamically adjusting volume or text size on the smart streaming device.
US11496783B2
This patent disclosure provides various embodiments of a client-server based digital video playback system and technique. In one aspect, a process for playing internet/online videos on a user device is disclosed. This process can begin by sending a video playback request for playing an online video to the server, wherein the video playback request includes a device type and a browser type of the user device. Next, the process receives a set of video playback addresses and a set of video playback configuration files from the server, wherein the set of video playback addresses and the set of video playback configuration files are generated based on the device type and the browser type. The process subsequently selects a video playback address from the set of video playback addresses corresponding to a transcoded version of the online video that matches a device version and a browser version of the user device. The process next obtains the transcoded version of the online video from the selected video playback address, and plays the obtained video on the user device.
US11496779B2
A number of variations may include providing a computer system for networked video management, the computer system may include at least one computer having non-transitory memory for storing machine instructions that are to be executed by the computer, the machine instructions when executed by the computer implement the following web service proxy protocol: opening at least one first network connection from at least one video gateway device to at least one web service proxy application and opening at least one second network connection from the at least one video gateway device to at least one network camera on a server network; performing a scan for network cameras on the server network via the at least one gateway device and transmitting the results of the scan to the web service proxy application; and establishing at least one tunnel between the at least one network camera and the web service proxy application.
US11496767B2
Devices, systems and methods for digital video coding, which includes matrix-based intra prediction methods for video coding, are described. In a representative aspect, a method for video processing includes encoding a current video block of a video using a matrix intra prediction (MIP) mode in which a prediction block of the current video block is determined by performing, on previously coded samples of the video, a boundary downsampling operation, followed by a matrix vector multiplication operation, and selectively followed by an upsampling operation; and adding, to a coded representation of the current video block, a syntax element indicative of applicability of the MIP mode to the current video block using arithmetic coding in which a context for the syntax element is derived based on a rule.
US11496764B2
Some examples include a video encoding/decoding technique for improving compression efficiency. For instance, the technique includes selecting a prediction mode to be performed among a plurality of prediction modes including an intra-prediction mode and an inter-prediction mode. The technique further includes calculating a predictive motion vector in case an inter-prediction mode is selected as the prediction mode to be performed, and calculating a motion vector by summing the calculated predictive motion vector and a differential motion vector decoded from a coded stream, in case the inter-prediction mode is selected as the prediction mode to be performed. Further, some examples may include performing an inter-prediction process of the selected prediction mode using the calculated motion vector in case the inter-prediction mode is selected as the prediction mode to be performed.
US11496763B2
A method of video processing is provided to include: maintaining a set of tables, wherein each table includes motion candidates and each motion candidate is associated with corresponding motion information; updating a motion candidate list based on motion candidates in one or more tables using a pruning operation on the motion candidates; and performing a conversion between a first video block and a bitstream representation of a video including the first video block using the constructed motion candidate list.
US11496752B2
Coding of the last coded coefficient position is performed by basing the coding of they coordinate of the position of the last coded coefficient on knowledge of the size of the partial transform used to generate a block of coefficients from a block of video pixels. This enables a context adaptive coding of the last coded coefficient parameter to be performed much more efficiently.
US11496751B2
A method of video processing includes deriving, for a conversion between a chroma block of a video and a bitstream representation of the video, parameters of a cross-component linear model by using downsampled luma samples that are generated from N above neighboring lines of a collocated luma block of the chroma block using a downsampling filter, where N is a positive integer; and performing the conversion using a predicted chroma block generated using the cross-component linear model.
US11496748B2
A method of video decoding includes retrieving, from a coded video bitstream for a current block encoded in an intra prediction mode, a reference line index indicating a reference line from a plurality of reference lines that include a zero reference line. The method includes determining whether the current block is encoded in a non-angular intra prediction mode. The method includes, in response to the block being encoded in the non-angular intra prediction mode, determining whether the reference line index indicates a non-zero reference line from the plurality of reference lines. The method includes in response to determining that the reference line index is the non-zero reference line, (i) enabling non-angular intra prediction modes for the non-zero reference line, and (ii) decoding the current block with at least one reference sample from the non-zero reference line.
US11496745B2
A video decoder can be configured to determine that a block of video data is encoded without transforming residual data for the block; determine a quantization parameter for the block of video data; based on the determined quantization parameter, determine a range for levels of quantized residual values of the block; divide the range into k intervals, wherein k is an integer value; determine a level for a quantized residual value of the block based on the k intervals by receiving information indicating the level for the quantized residual value is within a particular interval of the k intervals, receiving information indicating a difference value that represents a difference between a reference level value for the particular interval and the level for the quantized residual value of the block, and based on the reference level value and the difference value, determining the level for the quantized residual value.
US11496744B2
A method of video processing includes determining, for a conversion between a current block of a video and a bitstream representation of the video, an operation associated with a list of motion candidates based on a condition related to a characteristic of the current block. The list of motion candidates is constructed for a coding technique or based on information from previously processed blocks of the video. The method also includes performing the conversion based on the determining.
US11496740B2
An apparatus for decoding a current block in a scan order identifies a current entropy coded transform coefficient from the current block; determines, based on the scan order and using a scan order distance table, a first scan order distance that is a difference between a first scan order location corresponding to the current entropy coded transform coefficient and a second scan order location corresponding to a first context coefficient; identifies, using the first scan order distance, a first location into a context coefficient register; identifies, at the first location of the context coefficient register, a first context coefficient value; identifies a probability distribution using at least the first context coefficient value; entropy decodes the current entropy coded transform coefficient using the probability distribution to obtain an entropy decoded current transform coefficient; and includes the entropy decoded current transform coefficient in an output video stream.
