US11501072B1
A method, system, and computer program product is provided for tokenizing document citations. The method may include tokenizing each string of a plurality of strings into at least one citation token representing at least one citation parameter, resulting in a plurality of citation tokens, grouping the plurality of citation tokens into a plurality of token groups, each token group of the plurality of token groups including at least one citation token representing a separate citation in the at least one textual document, assigning metadata to each token group of the plurality of token groups, and generating a normalized citation for each token group of the plurality of token groups based on the metadata.
US11501070B2
An approach to induction of unknown terms into a term taxonomy graph may be provided. The approach may include analyzing a domain specific corpus to generate a term taxonomy graph using a term taxonomy graph generation model with a term knowledge base and determining which terms within the domain specific corpus are out of vocabulary (OOV) terms. The approach may also analyze the terms in the domain specific corpus with a semantic representation model to generate feature vectors of the OOV terms and terms known within the generated term taxonomy graph. The approach may determine if an OOV can be a hyponym of a term within the term taxonomy graph based on the feature vectors and insert the OOV term into the graph at the appropriate location.
US11501047B2
A non-limiting example of a computer-implemented method for error injection includes executing a pre-silicon operation on a simulated chip verifying that a plurality of latches from a timing simulation set error checkers when run against a manufacturing test suite in order to generate a cross-reference file containing latch entries in a table. It executes a first post-silicon operation on a hardware chip based on the simulated chip to determine empirically that timing latches from logic built-in self tests (“LBIST”) trigger the same error checkers set by the plurality of latches verified in the simulated chip. The method updates the cross-reference file based on the results of the determination. The method executes a second post-silicon operation on the hardware chip to improve chip frequency by working around functional checkers using the cross-reference file and updating the cross-reference file based on the results of the improving.
US11501044B1
Embodiments include herein are directed towards a method for use in an electronic design environment is provided. Embodiments may include receiving a netlist associated with an electronic design and performing genetic optimization on a portion of the netlist to identify and place one or more capacitors on a printed circuit board to minimize an impedance associated with a power plane. Embodiments may further include displaying, at a graphical user interface, a placement of the one or more capacitors, wherein the placement is based upon, at least in part, the performing.
US11501036B2
A system model creating and simulation device for a process control system obtains description files of process modules including inputs, outputs and process control devices therebetween, where each description file specifies, for the corresponding module, connection terminals in the form of inputs and outputs, the process control devices and the interconnection of process control devices between the connection terminals, analyses of the description files, having determining a connection terminal of a first process module matching a connection terminal of a second process module, determines connections between the process modules based on the analysis, having determining a connection between the matching connection terminals, selecting simulation objects corresponding to the process control devices of the process modules, interconnecting the simulation objects according to data in the description files as well as through the connections determined between the process modules for forming a simulation model, and performing simulations in the simulation model.
US11501035B2
Embodiments described herein provide verification of robotic assets for a production work cell via simulation. A production workflow for the production work cell is received from a user, and a simulation is generated based on the production workflow. The simulation of the work cell controller design is executed using performance data for the robotic assets, and a determination is made whether the robotic assets meet or exceed the design requirements of the robotic assets based on the simulation. The result of the determination is presented to the user.
US11501030B2
The present disclosure relates to the automatic generation of characterized image data. For this purpose, a visual representation of a component is computed on the basis of existent structure data for the component, wherein the surface properties of the visual representation of the component may be varied based on predefined characteristic properties. Because, in the computation of such visual representations, both the component itself and the underlying characteristic surface properties are known, this information may be used for characterizing the corresponding parts in the visual representation in order to achieve automatic characterization of the computed visual representation.
US11501028B2
An audio device includes a sound emission section which outputs a sound, and a sound reception section to which a sound is inputted. The audio device outputs an acoustic wave into the earhole of the user and authenticates the user based on echo waves created by the earhole. The audio device, when an electronic device is connected thereto, outputs to the electronic device unique authentication information acquired according to an instruction received from the electronic device.
US11501015B2
A secure machine learning system of a database system can be implemented to use secure shared data to train a machine learning model. To manage the model, a first user of the database can share data in an encrypted view with a second user of the database, and further share one or more functions of an application that accesses the data while the data is encrypted. The second user can access functions of the application and can call the functions to generate a trained machine learning model and further generate machine learning outputs (e.g., predictions) from the trained model.
US11501013B1
An anomaly detection method includes receiving, at a processor, a request including a query that references a database. A plurality of attributes is identified based on the request. The processor concurrently processes the query to identify a result, and analyzes the plurality of attributes to identify an anomaly score. When the anomaly score exceeds a first predefined threshold, a signal representing a quarantine request is sent, and a signal representing the result is not sent. When the anomaly score is between the first predefined threshold and a second predefined threshold, a signal representing a notification and a signal representing the result are sent. When the anomaly score is below the second predefined threshold, a signal representing a quarantine request is sent, and a signal representing the result is not sent.
US11501012B1
Methods and systems for sharing a network link of a file in network storage for collaboration among multiple computing devices using end-to-end encryption may involve generating a link key associated with the file stored remotely in the network storage, being accessible by a first device, and to be accessible by a second device, encrypting a session key associated with the file to generate an encrypted session key using the link key, the file being encrypted with the session key and, generating a salt associated with the file, generating a verifier associated with the file using the link key, sending a message to a server computer with an identifier associated with the file, the salt, the verifier, and the encrypted session key, creating a first link to the file with a name associated with the first device, the identifier, and the link key, and transmitting the first link to second device.
US11501007B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure leverage distributed ledger technologies to exert user-centric control over data shared with third party service providers. User access provider (UAP) devices manage user-configured permissions and metadata that control access to user data by the third party service providers. Permissions may enable service providers to access, write, and share user data with other service providers having appropriate permissions. Users may provide data to various service providers as they interact with services supported by the platform and as the data is received it may be validated and then stored on the distributed ledger. Data may be periodically synchronized across different service provider nodes responsible for maintaining the distributed ledger to ensure consistency with respect to each user's data. Additionally, users may revoke permissions, such as if the user stops using a service, and data associated with revoked permissions may be purged or deleted from the distributed ledger.
US11501000B2
A method for automatically enhancing security and fixing security vulnerabilities in the source code of a computer program in an object oriented run time environment includes evaluating the source code file of a monitored computer program. The source code file includes a plurality of class files. Each session includes two or more session segments. A security assessment on each of the plurality of class files is performed to identify one or more potential security issues associated with the plurality of class files. One or more security controls configured to address the identified potential security issues are automatically injected into a source code of one or more class files identified as having potential security issues. The automatically modified source code file of the monitored computer program is deployed to the run-time environment.
US11500997B1
In one embodiment, techniques are provided for improved security threat modeling and threat intelligence for infrastructure managed by ICSs. The techniques may leverage an existing model of an ICS created in a CAD application, add to the model security properties specifying configuration of respective electronic components of the ICS, and analyze the resulting combination, together with information from a threat database to automatically generate output such as a threat model diagram, threat model report or an interactive threat intelligence dashboard. A visualization of the output may be displayed together with, or include, a graphical rendering of the infrastructure managed to aid in its interpretation.
US11500991B2
A method and a system for providing security information about an application container for an Industrial Edge device, wherein the application container displays an application, runtime libraries and parts of an execution environment, where first information is obtained from the application or source code, second information is obtained from the application program or source code of the application, where confidentiality classes and processing classes are ascertained, and where the security information is formed by linking arising confidentiality classes to arising processing classes and the security information is associated with the application container such that specific and reliable security information about the application container or applications is generated and the security information is provided to a user or an installation system via association of the security information with the application container or the application to make information about the specific security problems or properties available before an application is used.
US11500981B2
Enforcing shadow stack violations for dynamic code. A thread is executed at a processor, which includes generating a portion of dynamic code for execution by the thread, identifying a range of memory addresses where the portion of dynamic code is loaded in memory, and initiating execution of the portion of dynamic code. Based at least on execution of the thread, an exception triggered by a mismatch between a first return address popped from a call stack corresponding to the thread and a second return address popped from a shadow stack corresponding to the thread is processed. Processing the exception includes (i) determining whether the second return address popped from the shadow stack is within the identified range of addresses, and (ii) based on having determined that the second return address is within the range of addresses, initiating a shadow stack enforcement action.
US11500970B2
A method and data processing system are provided for determining if a machine learning model has been copied. The machine learning model has a plurality of nodes, the plurality of nodes is organized as a plurality of interconnected layers, and the plurality of interconnected layers includes an input layer and an output layer. The output layer has a predetermined number of output nodes for classifying input samples into a predetermined number of categories, where each output node corresponds to a category. An additional watermarking node is added to the output layer. The model is trained to classify the input data into the predetermined number of categories and into an additional category for the additional node. The additional node may be added to another model to determine if the another model is a copy or clone of the ML model.
US11500966B2
A digital rights management system is provided that includes a receiving device for receiving an encryption key request from a client device, a first database for storing a set of supported security capabilities corresponding to client device, a second database for storing a set of required security capabilities corresponding to at least one of the encryption key and content associated with the encryption key, a content management system for establishing rules to determine the set of required security capabilities corresponding to content, and a processing device. The processing device may be configured to identify the set of supported security capabilities corresponding to the client device and identify the set of required security capabilities corresponding to the content associated with the encryption key. The content management system may be configured to configure the set of supported security capabilities and configure the set of required security capabilities.
US11500960B2
Certain aspects provide a circuit for in-memory computation. The circuit generally includes an in-memory computation array having a plurality of computation circuits, each of the computation circuits being configured to perform a dot product computation. In certain aspects, each of the computation circuits includes a memory cell, a capacitive element, a precharge transistor coupled between an output of the memory cell and the capacitive element, and a read transistor coupled between a read bit line (RBL) and the capacitive element.
US11500956B2
An information processing apparatus connected to a user terminal that receives input from a user, includes a memory; and a processor. The processor is configured to execute obtaining input information input into the user terminal; searching for response information corresponding to the input information; responding to the user terminal with a response message based on the response information corresponding to the input information; obtaining an access target to be accessed by the user terminal in order for the user terminal to receive the input of the input information by the user; and changing the search by the searching or a response by the responding based on the access target.
US11500955B2
A computing platform that enables creation and management of data records may be configured to (i) cause a client station of a user to display an initial view of an interface for selecting, from a hierarchical list of possible values for a given data field of a data record, one or more values to assign to the given data field, (ii) receive, from the client station, a first indication that the user has selected a first value from the hierarchical list to assign to the given data field, and (iii) in response to receiving the first indication, (a) identify a second set of one or more values from a second level of the hierarchical list that are related to the first value, and (b) cause the client station to display an updated view of the interface in which the recommendation pane presents the second set of one or more values.
US11500948B1
A computing system transmits a first data piece and a second data piece to an electronic device, when the electronic device is engaged in an initial web browser session on an initial web browser, for storage in an electronic device memory. The first data piece is associated with a first domain linked to the initial web browser and contains an electronic device identification. The second data piece is associated with a second domain linked to the initial web browser and contains the electronic device identification. The computing system retrieves the second data piece from the electronic device memory when the computing system is not able to retrieve the first data piece from the electronic device memory. The second data piece retrieved from the electronic device contains the electronic device identification and items of anonymous personal identification information provided by the electronic device during the initial web browser session.
US11500947B2
The present application discloses a search method and apparatus, which include specifically: after a search keyword is acquired, acquiring a search result of the search keyword with use of a fine ranking layer of a vertical search architecture if the search keyword is a keyword related to vertical search; processing a display effect of the search result with use of a business layer of the vertical search architecture to obtain a target search result; and transmitting the target search result to a display device. That is, in embodiments of the present application, a search result of a search keyword may be acquired with use of a fine ranking layer of a vertical search architecture, and 10 orders of magnitude of data can generally be searched at the fine ranking layer compared with a business layer, therefore, a more complete and accurate search result can be obtained.
US11500939B2
Technology is disclosed herein for enhanced similarity search. In an implementation, a search environment includes one or more computing hardware, software, and/or firmware components in support of enhanced similarity search. The one or more components identify a modality for a similarity search with respect to a query object. The components generate an embedding for the query object based on the modality and based on connections between the query object and neighboring nodes in a graph. The embedding for the query object provides the basis for the search for similar objects.
US11500932B2
One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving a multi-variate time-series dataset comprising a plurality of time-dependent datasets; for each of the plurality of time-dependent datasets, segmenting each of the plurality of time-dependent datasets at a transition point; clustering segments of the plurality of time-dependent datasets into clusters having similar lengths of segments; for each cluster (i) selecting a representative segment length and (ii) identifying a feature subset in that cluster; identifying, across the feature subsets, subset transition points, wherein each of the subset transition points corresponds to a change in value that meets a predetermined threshold within its corresponding feature subset; and determining, by applying a threshold test to the subset transition points, a segment length to be used in segmenting the entire multi-variate time-series dataset.
US11500928B2
A system and method, including determining, by a processor, a data type for each column of a database table; determining, by the processor and based on the determined data type for each column of the database table, an indication of a size of the database table; calculating, by the processor and based on the determined indication of the size of the database table, a start nbit size for a nbit compression process to be used on the database table; specifying, by the processor, the calculated start nbit size for the nbit compression process; and compressing the database table by executing the nbit data compression process using the specified start nbit size.
US11500923B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can be configured to determine popularity scores for a set of audio content items. The set of audio content items can be ranked based at least in part on the popularity scores, the popularity scores based at least in part on signals associated with a social networking system. A music chart can be generated based at least in part on the ranking.
US11500920B2
The present disclosure is related to visual annotations on medical images. A system may include a processor configured to process input data and identify a relationship amongst received input data in a data set. The system may also include an aggregator coupled to the processor and configured to receive processed data from the processor and aggregate data within the data set while maintaining one or more data relationships within the data set. Further, the system may include an annotation service module coupled to the aggregator and configured to generate at least one annotation that is maintained across at least a portion of the data within the data set.
US11500918B2
Electronic devices are disclosed. A first device stores items, parent categories, images, child categories and product information for each item. The first device receives a search image from a second device, determines a parent category and a child category of the search item, identifies a first database from among the databases matching the determined parent category of the search item, when the child category is determined, identifies a subset of the stored items corresponding the first database that match the search image based on at least one feature of the received search image and the determined child category of the received search image, and transmits information on the identified subset of the stored items to the external electronic device. The second device transmits the image of a first item to the first device, and receives a transmission indicating one or more second items matching the transmitted image for display.
US11500915B2
A non-transitory computer-readable medium includes computer-executable instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, may cause the at least one processor to retrieve a first training profile of a plurality of training profiles from a database, identify a plurality of index keywords in a respective training content of the first training profile, in which the respective training content includes audio data, video data, or both, and divide the first training profile into a plurality of sections based on the plurality of index keywords. Each of the plurality of sections is selectable for playback.
US11500902B2
A method in an intermediate server of initiating updates to a secondary database based on activity in a primary database includes: retrieving primary data from a primary server hosting the primary database; retrieving secondary data from a secondary server hosting the secondary database; storing a combined data set including the primary data and the secondary data; responsive to receiving a request from a client device, presenting a portion of the combined data set to the client device; receiving, from the client device, input data associated with the portion of the combined data set and updating the combined data set in the memory; determining whether to synchronize the updated combined data set with at least one of the primary server and the secondary server; and when the determination is affirmative, selecting a subset of the combined data set for transmission to at least one of the primary and secondary servers.
US11500898B2
In an example embodiment, a solution is provided that allows for intelligent demand-driven data replication. Only the data that is needed has to be replicated, and this data can be kept only as long as needed. This allows cloud-based applications to be built that integrate deeper with the existing customer landscape with the most efficient data footprint. It allows data types that could not be used before to be integrated into an application. There are additional savings due to the reduced data footprint in the database, compared to a full data replication, without giving up resilience or response time.
US11500892B1
One aspect of the invention provides a computer-implemented method of tracking favors between a plurality of parties. The method includes: receiving a submission regarding a favor performed by one or more first parties for one or more second parties; associating the favor with the one or more first parties and the one or more second parties in a database; and providing a user interface programmed to receive instructions from a plurality of users to take one or more or more actions selected from the group consisting of: searching for connections that have granted a particular type of favor in the past, searching for connections that have granted a specified quantity of a particular type of favor in the past, and displaying net flows of favors between a first organization having a plurality of parties and a second organization having a plurality of parties.
US11500884B2
A search system performs a federated search across multiple databases and generates a ranked combined list of found genealogical records. The system receives a user query with one or more specified characteristics. The system may determine expanded characteristics derived from the specified characteristics. The system searches the various databases with the characteristics retrieving records according to the characteristics. The system combines the retrieved records and ranks them using a machine learning model. The machine learning model is configured to assign a weight to the records returned from each of the genealogical databases based on the characteristics specified in the user query. The machine learning model may be trained by any combination of one or more of: a Nelder-Mead method, a coordinate ascent method, and a simulated annealing method. The ranked combined results are provided in response to the user query.
US11500882B2
A method constructs data visualization options. A user selects data fields from a data set. The process identifies a first plurality of data visualizations that use all of the user-selected data fields. For each data visualization, the process computes a score, based in part on visual patterns corresponding to statistical properties of data values of a user-selected data field. The process also identifies a second plurality of data visualizations, each using a majority of the user-selected data fields and also using a respective additional data field that is not one of the user-selected data fields. For each of the second plurality of data visualizations, the process computes a respective score, which uses data values of the respective additional data field. The process forms a recommended set of data visualizations including high-scoring data visualizations from both the first and second pluralities. The process presents the recommended data visualizations to the user.
US11500881B1
A system for an interactive political platform includes a computing device configured to produce a user signature, identify a political alignment as a function of the user signature, wherein identifying a political agreement further comprises receiving an ethical set, identifying the political alignment as a function of the ethical set and the user signature using an alignment machine-learning model, determine a representative index as a function of the user political alignment, wherein determining the representative index further comprises receiving a bureaucratic indicator, and determining the representative index as a function of the bureaucratic indicator, and transmit a notification to a user as a function of the representative index.
US11500879B2
An active layer of the index includes a first shard group, and shards in the first shard group are configured to store indexes of a part of data objects in a streaming storage system. In response to determining that the state of the first shard group meets a predetermined expansion condition, a second shard group is created in the index, and shards in the second shard group are configured to store indexes of data objects that will enter the storage system. The storage system is managed based on the shards in an active layer (where the second shard group is located) and frozen layers (where the second shard group) in the index. The number of shards in the storage system can be dynamically set to process streaming data at a relatively high speed, and it is suitable for processing streaming data that continuously enters the storage system.
US11500877B2
In an embodiment, a method for controlling a database in a streaming application includes receiving, by a compute node, data for transmission as streaming data on a network connected to the compute node and a database. The compute node then assembles a body portion of a tuple to include the data and assembles a header portion of the tuple to include a database statement that identifies a change to be made by the database to an aspect of the database in a format that is identifiable by the database. The compute node then transmits the tuple having the header portion thereof and the body portion thereof on the network as streaming data with the header and body portions of the tuple being directed to the database.
US11500873B2
Methods and systems for searching directory access groups are disclosed. A set of groups associated with a logon user is determined. The set of groups is partitioned into one or more disjoint subsets, wherein each of the disjoint subsets is represented by a data representation including a root node and one or more intermediate nodes. For each of the disjoint subsets, the disjoint subset is path compressed to flatten a structure of the data representation representing the disjoint subset. The data representation is cached to a database cache.
US11500868B2
Vertex/edge table rows are mapped to unique integer identifiers, to enable construction of in-memory representation of a graph from existing, unmodified RDBMS tables. The unique integer identifiers are based on an encoding of primary key values of the table rows. The unique integer identifiers are used as graph indexes of the in-memory representation.
US11500865B1
Multiple stage filtering may be implemented for natural language query processing pipelines. Natural language queries may be received at a natural language query processing system and processed through a query language processing pipeline. The query language processing pipeline may filter candidate linkages for a natural language query before performing further filtering of the candidate linkages in the natural language query processing pipeline as part of generating an intermediate representation used to execute the natural language query.
US11500862B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating an object graph from records of a relational database. One of the methods includes receiving a request to populate a software object with values from a plurality of tables represented in a graph, the plurality of tables stored in a relational database maintained by a database management system, each table comprising one or more respective tuples of values; generating a single query statement that, when executed by the database management system, causes the database management system to retrieve the values from the plurality of tables represented in the graph as a result set; querying the relational database using the single query statement to obtain the result set; and populating the software object with one or more values of the result set.
US11500857B2
Systems, device and techniques are disclosed for asynchronous remote call with undo data structures. A remote call associated with a database transaction in a local database may be prepared. An undo data structure for the remote call may be stored in a storage. The remote call associated with the database transaction may be transmitted to a remote computing device to be executed by the remote computing device. Performance of the database transaction may begin in the local database. The performance of the database transaction or the remote call has may be determined to have failed. The undo data structure may be transmitted to the remote computing device to be executed.
US11500848B2
A method for determining the integrity of navigation data of a control unit of an automotive vehicle, including the steps involving setting two counters to a value strictly above the maximum of the two counters, and, in a waking phase, calculating the fingerprints of the data written to the reset safe area, comparing the counters and determining the integrity of the data when the counters are the same.
US11500845B2
Disclosed are computer-implemented methods, non-transitory computer-readable media, and systems for processing blockchain transactions. An example of a computer-implemented system includes a storage subsystem including one or more storage devices that store blockchain data, and one or more processors configured to support a first thread pool and a second thread pool. The second thread pool is dedicated to the storage subsystem. The system receives M blockchain transactions and executes N blockchain transactions out of the M blockchain transactions in parallel using K threads of the first thread pool. For blockchain transactions distributed to each one of the K threads, one or more coroutines are used for each blockchain transaction so that the blockchain transactions are executed asynchronously using the coroutines. A blockchain block is generated to include the M blockchain transactions and added to a blockchain stored in the storage subsystem.
US11500843B2
Embodiments of the disclosed technologies provide solutions for automatically reading digital electronic documents that contain tables and correctly extracting table data, rows and columns from the documents with high accuracy and high throughput. Embodiments are capable of converting a table portion of a read-only document to a searchable, editable data record using text rectangle (TR)-level numerical data that indicates probabilities of TRs belonging to canonicals and at least one convolutional neural network (CNN) that processes the TR-level numerical data to produce table-level numerical data.
US11500841B2
Systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products that can facilitate encoding a tree data structure into a vector based on a set of constraints are provided. According to an embodiment, a system can comprise a memory that stores computer executable components and a processor that executes the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can comprise a constraint former that can form a set of constraints based on a first tree data structure and a vector encoder that can encode the first tree data structure into a vector based on the set of constraints.
US11500840B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products for contrasting document-embedded structured data and generating summaries thereof are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes extracting two or more tables from two or more input documents, wherein each of the two or more input documents comprises structured data and unstructured data; normalizing the two or more extracted tables using one or more alignment techniques; determining at least one of (i) one or more differences and (ii) one or more similarities across the two or more extracted tables by performing a comparison of the two or more normalized tables; deriving one or more insights from the comparison by applying at least one analytical model to the at least one of the one or more determined differences and one or more determined similarities; and outputting at least a portion of the one or more insights to at least one user.
US11500830B2
A DBMS training subsystem trains a DBMS workload-manager model with training data identifying resources used to execute previous DBMS data-access requests. The subsystem integrates each request's high-level features and compile-time operations into a vector and clusters similar vectors into templates. The requests are divided into workloads each represented by a training histogram that describes the distribution of templates associated with the workload and identifies the total amounts and types of resources consumed when executing the entire workload. The resulting knowledge is used to train the model to predict production resource requirements by: i) organizing production queries into candidate workloads; ii) deriving for each candidate a histogram similar in form and function to the training histograms; iii) using the newly derived histograms to predict each candidate's resource requirements; iv) selecting the candidate with the greatest resource requirements capable of being satisfied with available resources; and v) executing the selected workload.
US11500829B2
In a computer-implemented method for adapting time series database schema of a time series database, time series data ingested into a time series database according to a time series database schema is accessed over a time period, wherein time series data comprises a plurality of dimensions. The time series data of the time period is analyzed to determine a data shape of the time series data of the time period. It is determined whether to adapt the time series database schema based at least in part on the data shape of the time series data of the time period. In some embodiments, the time series database schema is adapted based at least in part on the data shape of the time series data of the time period. Time series data is then ingested into the time series database according to the adapted time series database schema.
US11500827B2
Systems and methods for entering and storing data. User input defining a data set is received. A data collection construct including a data entry user interface for inputting data in the data set is defined using the user input. A data storage construct including queries for retrieving the data is automatically defined based on the user input. Additional user input indicating modifications to the data set is received. The data collection construct, the data storage construct, and the queries are automatically updated based on the additional user input indicating modifications to the data set.
US11500826B2
Disclosed is a system for translating data, extracted from disparate data sources, into a homogeneous dataset to provide meaningful information. The database schema definition module defines a database schema in order to extract meaningful information pertaining to a specific use-case. The data source determination module determines one or more disparate data sources pertinent to extract the meaningful information. The data extraction module extracts heterogeneous dataset from the one or more disparate data sources. The data extraction module further passes the heterogeneous dataset to a Data-Translate Markup Language (DTML) executer to translate the heterogeneous dataset into a homogeneous dataset. The data translation module translates the heterogeneous dataset into the homogeneous dataset by using at least one data adapter. In one aspect, the heterogeneous dataset may be translated to perform data analytics on the homogeneous dataset in order to provide the meaningful information pertaining to the specific use-case.
US11500820B2
A system and method are provided for synchronizing read-only folders from a cloud-based server. Users can set permissions when sharing folders with other users. The permissions are enforced by client devices of the users downloading content of the folders from the server. A folder at a user's client from the shared domain may include locally modified content and shared content. Based on first permission assigned to a user for the folder, when an indication of a change by a second user to the folder at the server is received, the user's client propagates the change to shared content below the folder in a folder hierarchy at the user's client. To prevent local changes made by the user from being overwritten, the user's client identifies the folder containing locally-modified content as a local content folder not to be synchronized between the plurality of clients.
US11500818B2
An end-to-end data curation system and the various methods used in linking, matching, and cleaning large-scale data sources. The goal of this system is to provide scalable and efficient record deduplication. The system uses a crowd of experts to train the system. The system operator can optionally provide a set of hints to reduce the number of questions send to the experts. The system solves the problem of schema mapping and record deduplication a holistic way by unifying these problems into a unified linkage problem.
US11500815B2
Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for implementing dual relationship-based hash structures for non-volatile memory technology are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes generating a hash storage structure by: creating multiple layers of storage components, wherein a first layers comprise a first number of storage components and at least a second layer comprises at least a second number of storage components less than the first number of storage components; configuring the at least a second layer to share at least a portion of the storage components therein with at least a portion of the storage components in the first layer; partitioning each of the storage components in each of the multiple layers into multiple portions; configuring a respective status value space for each of the multiple portions of each of the storage components in the multiple layers; and implementing the hash storage structure in at least one storage system.
US11500811B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for map reduce. In some embodiments, an exemplary processing unit includes: a 2-dimensional (2D) processing element (PE) array comprising a plurality of PEs, each PE comprising a first input and a second input, the first inputs of the PEs in a linear array in a first dimension of the PE array being connected in series and the second inputs of the PEs in a linear array in a second dimension of the PE array being connected in parallel, each PE being configured to perform an operation on data from the first input or second input; and a plurality of reduce tree units, each reduce tree unit being coupled with the PEs in a linear array in the first dimension or the second dimension of the PE array and configured to perform a first reduction operation.
US11500808B1
A peripheral device includes a bus interface and circuitry. The bus interface is configured to connect to a peripheral bus for communicating with a host in accordance with a peripheral-bus specification that specifies a physical reset signal asserted by the host. The circuitry is configured to execute predefined logic that evaluates a reset condition that is indicative of imminent assertion of the physical reset signal by the host, and to perform a reset procedure in response to meeting the reset condition.
US11500807B2
A circuit apparatus includes physical layer circuits to which buses compliant with the USB standard are coupled, a processing circuit that performs an FS transfer process, a bus monitoring circuit that monitors the buses, and a bus switching circuit that turns on or off the coupling between a first bus and a second bus based on the result of the monitoring. One of the physical layer circuits includes an FS receiver, an FS driver, and a pull-up control circuit, and the other physical layer circuits includes an FS receiver and an FS driver. When FS_J is detected on the second bus, the bus monitoring circuit turns off the coupling achieved by the bus switching circuit, turns on the pull-up operation performed by the pull-up control circuit, and turns on the FS transfer process performed by the processing circuit.
US11500806B2
A system includes a fabric switch including a motherboard, a baseboard management controller (BMC), a network switch configured to transport network signals, and a PCIe switch configured to transport PCIe signals; a midplane; and a plurality of device ports. Each of the plurality of device ports is configured to connect a storage device to the motherboard of the fabric switch over the midplane and carry the network signals and the PCIe signals over the midplane. The storage device is configurable in multiple modes based a protocol established over a fabric connection between the system and the storage device.
US11500804B2
Provided are a method for transmitting a control instruction, a transmitting device and a receiving device. The method includes the follows. A first control instruction is obtained by a transmitting device. the first control instruction is encapsulated into a first protocol data stream. The first protocol data stream is superimposed, by the transmitting device through a first coupling network, on a second protocol data stream in the form of differential signal generated according to multimedia data to obtain a first signal, and the first signal is transmitted to a receiving device via a cable. The first signal is filtered by the receiving device to obtain a first protocol data stream, and the first protocol data stream is decapsulated to obtain a first signal. By adopting the disclosure, transmitting control instruction via the cable can realize controlling the target device connected to the receiving. The user experience is high.
US11500801B2
A computing apparatus includes a first processing circuit and a second processing circuit. The first processing circuit includes a programmable logic circuit. The second processing circuit includes a general purpose processor that is used to execute an application program to download a bitstream to the first processing circuit for programming the programmable logic circuit to implement a direct memory access (DMA) engine and at least one physical engine (PE). The DMA engine is used to access a first memory through a DMA manner. The at least one PE is used to read data to be processed from the first memory through the DMA engine. The first processing circuit and the second processing circuit are disposed in one chip.
US11500798B2
The disclosure provides a data transmission device. The data transmission device includes a storage medium, a processor and a communication interface. The storage medium is configured to store a plurality of applications. The processor is coupled to the storage media and configured to determine a host application among the plurality of applications, where the host application includes a software development kit (SDK) program, and executes the SDK program of the host application to request behavior data of the plurality of applications. The communication interface is coupled to the processor and is configured to transmit the behavior data to a server.
US11500795B2
A storage circuit includes a buffer coupled between the storage controller and the nonvolatile memory devices. The circuit includes one or more groups of nonvolatile memory (NVM) devices, a storage controller to control access to the NVM device, and the buffer. The buffer is coupled between the storage controller and the NVM devices. The buffer is to re-drive signals on a bus between the NVM devices and the storage controller, including synchronizing the signals to a clock signal for the signals. The circuit can include a data buffer, a command buffer, or both.
US11500790B1
A master request comprising a plurality of bits is received, each bit representing whether a host device of a plurality of host devices has issued a memory access request. The master request is divided into a plurality of slices, each respective slice containing a subset of the plurality of bits corresponding a subset of host devices. Based on the respective subsets of the plurality of bits, it is determined whether each respective slice contains at least one memory access request. A first round robin process then begins in which it is determined whether each respective slice contains a memory access request. If so, any memory access request contained in the respective slice are processed via a second round robin process before proceeding to process memory access requests of another slice. If the respective slice contains no memory access requests, processing skips to a next slice without processing the respective slice.
US11500789B2
An apparatus includes a bi-phase mark coded (BMC) input port configured to receive BMC signals from a universal serial bus (USB) cable. The apparatus further includes a threshold adjustment circuit configured to generate a threshold, and a comparator configured to compare an input BMC signal from the BMC input port and the threshold and based on the comparison, generate an adjusted input BMC signal. The threshold adjustment circuit is further configured to adjust the threshold based upon the input BMC signal.
US11500786B2
A method for protecting data includes encrypting information to generate a first tweak, combining a data block with the first tweak, encrypting the tweaked data block to form encrypted data, combining the encrypted data with the first tweak, and providing the combined encrypted data for storage in a memory address. Storing the combined encrypted data at the memory address generates a first stimulus different from a second stimulus generated by storing same encrypted data combined with a second tweak at the memory address. The first stimulus is generated based on the first tweak and the second stimulus is generated based on the second tweak.
US11500785B2
Disclosed are devices, systems, apparatus, circuits, methods, products, and other implementations, including a method that includes obtaining, during execution of a process associated with a particular privilege level, data content from a memory location, and determining by a hardware-based detection circuit whether the data content matches at least one of one or more token values, with the one or more token values stored in one or more pre-determined memory locations, and with access of any of the pre-determined one or more memory locations indicating a potential anomalous condition. The method further includes triggering, in response to a determination that the data content matches the at least one of the one or more token values, another process with a higher or same privilege level as the particular privilege level associated with the process, to handle occurrence of a potential system violation condition.
US11500781B2
A cache memory includes cache lines to store information. The stored information is associated with physical addresses that include first, second, and third distinct portions. The cache lines are indexed by the second portions of respective physical addresses associated with the stored information. The cache memory also includes one or more tables, each of which includes respective table entries that are indexed by the first portions of the respective physical addresses. The respective table entries in each of the one or more tables are to store indications of the second portions of respective physical addresses associated with the stored information.
US11500780B2
The subject technology provides for recovering a validity table for a data storage system. A set of logical addresses in a mapping table is partitioned into subsets of logical addresses. Each of the subsets of logical addresses is assigned to respective processor cores in the data storage system. Each of the processor cores is configured to check each logical address of the assigned subset of logical addresses in the mapping table for a valid physical address mapped to the logical address, for each valid physical address mapped to a logical address of the assigned subset of logical addresses, increment a validity count in a local validity table associated with a blockset of the non-volatile memory corresponding to the valid physical address, and update validity counts in a global validity table associated with respective blocksets of the non-volatile memory with the validity counts in the local validity table.
US11500774B2
A system and method of handling access demands in a virtual cache comprising, by a processing system, checking if a virtual cache access demand missed because of a synonym tagged in the virtual cache; in response to the virtual cache access demand missing because of a synonym tagged in the virtual cache, updating the virtual address tag in the virtual cache to a new virtual address tag; searching for additional synonyms tagged in the virtual cache; and in response to finding additional synonyms tagged in the virtual cache, updating the virtual address tag of the additional synonyms to the new virtual address tag.
US11500768B2
Provided herein may be a storage device and a method of operating the same. The storage device may include a memory device and a memory controller. The memory device may include first memory blocks and second memory blocks. The memory controller may be configured to control the memory device so that valid data stored in a victim block, among the first memory blocks, is stored in a target block, among the second memory blocks, based on a result of a comparison between an amount of valid data stored in the victim block and a reference value. Each of the first memory blocks may include memory cells each configured to store n bits, where n is a natural number of 2 or more. Each of the second memory blocks may include memory cells each configured to store m bits, where m is a natural number less than n.
US11500755B1
Techniques for database performance degradation detection and prevention are described. A statement performance monitor observes queries executed against a database engine and clusters the queries into groups of queries. The index utilization of the query groups and execution metrics are tracked over time, and a sudden change of index utilization can be detected. The change can be reported to users and/or new indexes may be automatically generated to serve affected query groups. Additionally, a statement performance monitor may be deployed to statically analyze code to identify modified queries and the resultant change of use of query indexes.
US11500752B2
A storage device is disclosed. A first storage media may store data. The first storage media may be of a first storage type and may be organized into at least two blocks. A second storage media may also store data. The second storage media may be of a second storage type different from the first type, and may also be organized into at least two blocks. A controller may manage reading data from and writing data to the first storage media and the second storage media. Metadata storage may store device-based log data for errors in the storage device. The drive-based log data may include a first log data for the first storage media and a second log data for the second storage media. An identification circuit may identify a suspect block in the at least two blocks in the first storage media and the second storage media, responsive to the device-based log data.
US11500748B1
A device, such as a system on a chip (SoC), includes a plurality of processor cores, a broadcaster module, a plurality of decoder units, and an aggregator module. The broadcaster module broadcasts a debug request from a debugger device to one or more of the plurality of processor cores via a bus, the debug request including an address specifying a logical identifier associated with a target processor core of the plurality of processor cores. The decoder units, associated with the processor cores, forward the debug request to a debug module of the respective processor core in response to detecting a match. If no match is detected, the decoder units forward the debug request to a subsequent processor core via the bus. The aggregator module forward a response message to the debugger device, the response message originating from the target processor core.
US11500743B2
Methods and systems to detect and resolve failure in a distributed database system is described herein. A first node in the distributed database system can detect an interruption in communication with at least one other node in the distributed database system. This indicates a network failure. In response to detection of this failure, the first node starts a failure resolution protocol. This invokes coordinated broadcasts of respective lists of suspicious nodes among neighbor nodes. Each node compares its own list of suspicious nodes with its neighbors' lists of suspicious nodes to determine which nodes are still directly connected to each other. Each node determines the largest group of these directly connected nodes and whether or not it is in that group. If a node isn't in that group, it fails itself to resolve the network failure.
US11500742B2
An electronic apparatus is provided. The electronic apparatus includes a storage storing error-related information of an external electronic apparatus, and a processor configured to obtain first error-related information with respect to a target time interval and second error-related information with respect to a standard time interval including the target time interval and time intervals other than the target time interval, from the storage, obtain frequency information for each number of error occurrences with respect to the target time interval based on the first error-related information and frequency information for each number of error occurrences with respect to the standard time interval based on the second error-related information, and compare the frequency information for each number of error occurrences with respect to the target time interval with the frequency information for each number of error occurrences with respect to the standard time interval to identify an error occurrence level with respect to the target time interval.
US11500741B2
A data write method and a corresponding storage system are provided. The storage system includes a first controller and a second controller, and the method includes: after receiving a first data write request, determining, by the second controller, whether a locally stored first time tag is in an expired state; when determining that the locally stored first time tag is in the expired state, reading, by the second controller, the first time tag from the first controller; and storing, by the second controller, a correspondence between the first time tag and the first data write request. According to the present invention, time consistency is ensured when a snapshot operation is performed on a logical storage area, and performance fluctuation is reduced.
US11500738B2
Tagging application resources for snapshot capability-aware discovery is described. If an application's host determines that one of an application's resource satisfies any snapshot capability rule, the application's host associates the application resource with a snapshot capable tag. The application's host outputs an identifier of the application resource and any associated snapshot capable tag to a backup server. The application's host inputs a request from the backup server to create a snapshot of the application resource associated with the snapshot capable tag and creates the snapshot of the application resource associated with the snapshot capable tag.
US11500734B2
A production host includes storage for storing backup priorities of entities and backup windows during which a system, of which the production host is a member, is predicted to have sufficient computing resources to generate a backup for an entity of the entities and a backup manager that identifies a backup generation event for the entity; in response to identifying the backup generation event: identifying an earliest potential backup window of the backup windows; making a determination that the earliest potential backup window of the backup windows is reserved for a second entity of the entities; in response to making the determination: identifying that a backup priority of the backup priorities that is associated with the entity is greater than a second backup priority of the backup priorities that is associated with the second entity; and providing the backup services to the entity during the earliest potential backup window.
US11500732B2
A system for providing data protection services for user data generated by an application, includes persistent storage for storing user data backups and a manager. The manager is programmed to identify a backup generation event for user data based on a protection policy, in response to identifying the backup generation event, obtain user data associated with the backup generation event from the application, select a calendar of calendars included in the user data, obtain user metadata associated with the calendar, and generate a user data backup using the user data and the user metadata, in which the user data backup comprises calendar events of the calendar and portions of the user metadata associated with the calendar events.
US11500729B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for preserving data using a replication and blockchain notarization. In one aspect, an exemplary method comprises, by a hardware processor, receiving, from a user, a request for a legal hold of data and criteria for controlling access to the data, creating a legal hold object and establishing an access control criteria, creating, in the cloud storage, a cloud storage space that corresponds to the created legal hold object, and defining the access control for reading from the created cloud storage space, searching, in a backup data storage of a client data system, to identify all relevant data corresponding to the created legal hold object, and storing the identified relevant data and the search queries used for the identification of the relevant data, replicating the identified relevant data in the created cloud storage space, and notarizing the replicated relevant data using a blockchain notarization service.
US11500728B2
A storage controller includes a host interface configured to perform communication with a host device, a memory interface configured to perform communication with a nonvolatile memory device, a higher-level controller, and a lower-level controller. The higher-level controller issues operations to be performed by the nonvolatile memory device based on requests transferred through the host interface. The lower-level controller includes an operation memory configured to store an operation code and operation data. The lower-level controller controls the memory interface based on the operation code and the operation data such that the nonvolatile memory device performs issued operations received from the higher-level controller. The higher-level controller performs, when an error occurs in the lower-level controller, an error restoring operation based on state information of the lower-level controller to restore the lower-level controller to a previous state corresponding to a state before the error occurs.
US11500727B2
The present disclosure generally relates to methods of operating storage devices. The storage device comprises a controller comprising first random access memory (RAM1), second random access memory (RAM2), and a storage unit divided into a plurality of zones. A first command to write data to a first zone is received, first XOR data is generated in the RAM1, and the data of the first command is written to the first zone. When a second command to write data to a second zone is received, the generated first XOR data is copied from the RAM1 to the RAM2, and second XOR data for the second zone is copied from the RAM2 to the RAM1. The second XOR data is updated with the second command, and the data of the second command is written to the second zone. The updated second XOR data is copied from the RAM1 to the RAM2.
US11500725B2
A method of data recovery for a distributed storage system is a method of recovering multiple failed nodes concurrently with the minimum feasible bandwidth when failed nodes exist in a distributed storage system. By means of selecting assistant nodes, obtaining helper data sub-blocks through computing the selected assistant nodes, then computing a repair matrix and finally multiple the repair matrix and the helper data sub-blocks, the missing data blocks are reconstructed; or the missing data blocks are reconstructed by decoding. The method is applicable to data recovery in the case of any number of failed nodes and any reasonable combinations of coding parameters. The data recovery herein can reach the theoretical lower limit of the minimum recovery bandwidth.
US11500721B2
A reading method for solid-state disk returns data and/or information depending on state information. A data unit stored in the solid-state disk comprises metadata and a plurality of sectors including at least two sectors of user data, the metadata comprising a sector state set indicating state information of each of the sectors in the data unit, and the state information comprising a valid state and an invalid state. In response to receiving a read command from a host to read at least one of the sectors in the data unit, the solid-state disk returns actual data to the host for one or more of the sectors in the valid state, and returns information indicating a read error to the host for one or more of the sectors in the invalid state, according to the sector state set stored in the metadata of the data unit.
US11500707B2
A controller for use in a memory device includes an error information generator configured to receive error information about an error occurring while a command is being processed at a protocol layer, generate command error information corresponding to the command based on the received error information, and store the generated command error information in a first storage area, and an error information manager configured to store the command error information, stored in the first storage area, in a second storage area in response to an external request.
US11500699B2
An interface module in a user space intercepts a call from a first virtual process, the call to cause communication of data from the first virtual process to a second virtual process. The interface module accesses mapping information to redirect the communication of data to the second virtual process without passing through the protocol stack of a kernel, the mapping information comprising entries each including network addresses used in identifying a respective connection between corresponding virtual processes.
US11500698B2
Example methods and apparatus to detect uninstallation of applications on mobile devices. An example apparatus includes means for detecting that an application is to be uninstalled from the mobile device. The apparatus includes means for displaying a prompt indicating whether the means for detecting is to be uninstalled when the application is to be uninstalled. The apparatus includes means for transmitting an uninstallation notification to a remote data collector when the application is to be uninstalled, the uninstallation notification to enable identification of at least one of the mobile device associated with the uninstallation or a user of the mobile device.
US11500687B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for cloud service. Fro example, an apparatus in a cloud for providing a cloud service includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry receives a request including at least first characteristics associated with a variable. In an example, the first characteristics include complete information for describing the variable. The processing circuitry generates a message including the first characteristics associated with the variable and an updated value of the variable and sends the message to a recipient.
US11500685B2
Methods and systems for providing services using mixed instance catalogs are described herein. A catalog may comprise a plurality of first virtual machines and a plurality of second virtual machines. The capacity of a first virtual machine may be larger than the capacity of a second virtual machine. Connection requests to access a service associated with the catalog may be distributed among the plurality of first virtual machines and the plurality of second virtual machines.
US11500681B2
A compute device includes one or more processors, one or more resources capable of being utilized by the one or more processors, and a platform interconnect to facilitate communication of messages between the one or more processors and the one or more resources. The compute device is to obtain class of service data for one or more workloads to be executed by the compute device. The class of service data is indicative of a capacity of one or more of the resources to be utilized in the execution of each corresponding workload. The compute device is also to execute the one or more workloads and manage the amount of traffic transmitted through the platform interconnect for each corresponding workload as a function of the class of service data as the one or more workloads are executed.
US11500668B2
Systems and methods for supporting page faults for virtual machine network accelerators. In one implementation, a processing device may receive, at a network accelerator device of a computer system, a first incoming packet from a network. The processing device may select a first buffer from a plurality of buffers associated with the network device, and may attempt to store the first incoming packet at the first buffer. Responsive to receiving a notification that the attempt to store the first incoming packet at the first buffer caused a page fault, the processing device may store the first incoming packet at a second buffer. The processing device may receive a second incoming packet, and store the second incoming packet at the first buffer. The processing device may forward, to a driver of the network accelerator device, a first identifiers of the second buffer and a second identifier of the first buffer.
US11500665B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods related to a hypervisor status register in a computer processor are described. For example, a memory coupled to the computer processor can store instructions of routines of predefined, non-hierarchical domains. The computer processor can store a value in the hypervisor status register during a power up process of the computer system. The value stored in the hypervisor status register that identifies whether or not an operating hypervisor is present in the computer system. The computer processor can configure its operations (e.g., address translation) based on the value stored in the hypervisor status register.
US11500662B2
Provided is a method for optimization of data by a networking device. The method including receiving, from a server, a data packet including data for use with an application executable in a web browser at an external device, extracting data from the data packet, identifying a type of the extracted data, performing optimization of the extracted data based on the identified type of the extracted data and generating optimized data based on the optimization, reconstructing the data packet to include the optimized data, and transmitting, to the external device, the reconstructed data packet.
US11500660B2
A system is provided for recommending guidance instructions to a user. The system includes a memory having computer readable instructions and a processor for executing the computer readable instructions. The computer readable instructions control the processor to perform operations of monitoring an ongoing task comprising at least one act performed by a user, generating image data depicting the ongoing task, and displaying the ongoing task based on the image data. The system analyzes the ongoing task and generates an augmented image. The augmented image is overlaid on the image data so that the augmented image is displayed simultaneously with the ongoing task to direct the user to progress the ongoing task.
US11500651B2
Method and system for management of a local craft terminal application executed by a network element
A method and system for managing execution of a local craft terminal application on a local computer system comprising accessing one of the plurality of remote network elements and obtaining therefrom a launcher application program configured to manage execution of the local craft terminal application on the local computer system, launching the launcher application program on the local computer system and determining, using the launcher application program, whether the local computer system contains an appropriate copy of the local craft terminal application, and if the local computer system does not contain the appropriate copy of the local craft terminal application, obtaining the appropriate copy of the local craft terminal application from the first one of the plurality of remote network elements.
US11500650B2
An FPGA upgrade method is provided, including: delivering, by a host, an upgrade instruction to an FPGA; uninstalling a PCIe driver corresponding to the FPGA to let a status of the PCIe link be changed to link down; continuously monitoring, in a first expiration time, whether the status of the PCIe link is changed to link up; and if yes, reloading the PCIe driver. The method further includes: after the FPGA receives the upgrade instruction, continuously monitoring, in a second expiration time, whether the status of the PCIe link is changed to link down, if yes, loading the configuration data from the FPGA configuration memory for upgrade; and after upgrade is completed, negotiating, by the FPGA, with the host to restore the status of the PCIe link to link up that is used for reloading the PCIe driver upon detection by the host.
US11500649B2
A coordinated initialization system includes a computing system with first and second initialization subsystems coupled to a coordinated initialization subsystem. The coordinated initialization subsystem receives first and second initialization progress information associated with respective first and second initialization subsystem operations performed by the respective first and second initialization subsystems. Using a coordinated initialization database that identifies dependences between the first and second initialization operations, the coordinated initialization subsystem determines that the first initialization progress information identifies a first initialization operation that is going to be performed by the first initialization subsystem and that is dependent on a second initialization operation that is identified by the second initialization progress information and that has not yet been performed by the second initialization subsystem and, in response, causes the first initialization subsystem to pause the first initialization subsystem operations until the second initialization operation has been performed.
US11500648B2
A method for preparing fast boot of an information handling apparatus. The information handling apparatus contains a first CPU configured to connect to a storage device storing firmware and a second CPU connected to the first CPU. The method contains the steps of: allocating a firmware region in memories associated with each one of the first and second CPUs respectively; and copying a firmware from a storage device to the firmware region of each one of the memories. By utilizing a system memory such as NVDIMM which provides higher access speed than NAND flash and also persistent data storage, one or more CPUs can be booted from firmware images in the NVDIMM much faster, thus saving the total booting time.
US11500643B2
In one embodiment, a microprocessor, comprising: a branch prediction table comprising plural entries, wherein at least a portion of the plural entries corresponds to an indirect branch type; and an indirect valid table; wherein based on an indirect branch instruction fetch, an entry corresponding to an indirect branch instruction in the branch prediction table is configured as invalid based on clearing a corresponding entry in the indirect valid table.
US11500641B2
Methods, devices and media for efficient data dependency management for in-order issue processors are described. In various embodiments described herein, methods, devices and media are disclosed that provide techniques for managing RAW data dependencies between instructions in a constrained hardware environment. The described techniques include initial wait station allocation of write instructions, followed by wait station allocation conflict resolution methods that use a greedy algorithm to optimize a cost function based on the estimated latency of a single instruction. Efficient compilation and reduced execution time may be achieved in some embodiments. Methods and devices for compiling source code are described, as well as devices for executing the compiled machine code and media for storing compiled machine code.
US11500633B2
An apparatus and method are described for efficiently processing and reassigning interrupts. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: a plurality of cores; and an interrupt controller to group interrupts into a plurality of interrupt domains, each interrupt domain to have a set of one or more interrupts assigned thereto and to map the interrupts in the set to one or more of the plurality of cores.
US11500626B2
Methods for intelligent automatic merging of source control queue items are performed by systems and apparatuses. Project changes are submitted in build requests to a gated check-in build queue requiring successful builds to commit changes to a code repository according to source control. Multiple pending build requests in the build queue are intelligently and automatically merged into a single, pending merged request based on risk factor values associated with the build requests. For merged requests successfully built, files in the build requests are committed and the build requests are removed from the queue. Merged requests unsuccessfully built are divided into equal subsets based on updated risk factor values using information from the unsuccessful build. Successful builds of subsets allow for committing of files and removal from the build queue, while unsuccessful builds are further divided and processed until single build requests are processed to identify root cause errors.
US11500608B2
Embodiments are directed to controlling playback of recordings. The recording can comprise an audio recording, audio/visual recording, voicemail message, or other recording having an audio component. According to one embodiment, a method can comprise capturing an audio recording of speech of at least one person and determining, a context for each of a plurality of portions of the audio recording based on natural language processing of the audio recording. One or more transition points between the portions of the audio recording can be identified. Each transition point can indicate a change in the determined context between the portions. A playback interface providing a representation of the audio recording and each of the identified transition points can be presented and the audio recording can be played based on input received through the playback interface.
US11500605B2
A remote screenshot method adapted to a sender and a receiver having a communicable connection with the sender, wherein the sender electrically connects to an electronic device to receive an image signal outputted by the electronic device, the receiver electrically connects to a display device to show the image signal, and the remote screenshot method comprises: sending a capturing instruction through a first communication circuit by the sender; receiving the capturing instruction through a second communication circuit by the receiver; obtaining a captured image according to the capturing instruction by the sender, wherein the captured image is associated with the image signal shown by the display device; sending the captured image to the first communication circuit through the second communication circuit by the receiver; and storing the captured image in a storage circuit by the sender.
US11500593B2
Data storage systems, devices and methods may use a switch board configured to communicate using a high-speed multi-level signaling protocol, and a midplane having one or more multi-protocol storage device connectors configured to couple the midplane to one or more storage devices, wherein the midplane may be coupled to the switch board and configured to enable the one or more storage devices to communicate with the switch board through the one or more multi-protocol storage device connectors using the high-speed multi-level signaling protocol. The midplane may be coupled to the switch board through one or more high-speed connectors. One or more re-timers may be coupled between one or more of the high-speed connectors and one or more of the multi-protocol storage device connectors. One or more cables may be used to transfer data to and from the multi-protocol storage device connectors.
US11500591B1
Methods and systems for a networked storage system are provided. One method includes transmitting, by a first node, an invalidation request to a second node to invalidate an entry of a storage location cache of the second node, the entry indicating a storage location to write data in response to a write request received by the first node; updating, by the first node, a memory structure at the first node for sending a heartbeat message to disable use of the storage location cache by the second node; and responding, by the first node, to the write request, after a response to disable the use of the storage location cache is received from the second node or a certain duration, T1, has elapsed since the heartbeat message was sent to the second node and no response was received from the second node.
US11500583B2
A storage device including: a nonvolatile memory device including a first, second and third area; and a controller to receive a first write command including a first logical block address from a host, to receive first data corresponding to the first logical block address in response to the first write command, and store the first data in the nonvolatile memory device, when the first write command includes area information, the controller stores the first data in the first area or the second area based on the area information, when the first write command does not include the area information, the controller stores the first data in the third area, each of the first area and the second area includes memory cells each storing “n” bits (n being a positive integer), and the third area includes memory cells each storing “m” bits (m being a positive integer greater than n).
US11500575B2
Methods, systems, and devices for pattern generation for multi-channel memory array are described. A device may include a memory array and a circuit for testing the memory array. The memory array may include a first set of memory cells and a second set of memory cells, the first set of memory cells coupled with a first channel and the second set of memory cells coupled with a second channel. The circuit may be coupled with the memory array and may include a pattern generator and an output response analyzer. The pattern generator may be configured to selectively output a single pattern when operating in a single-pattern mode or a plurality of patterns when operating in a multi-pattern mode. The output response analyzer configured to determine whether the memory array includes one or more errors based at least in part on a pattern output by the pattern generator.
US11500566B2
Disclosed deduplication techniques at a distributed data storage system guarantee that space reclamation will not affect deduplicated data integrity even without perfect synchronization between components. By understanding certain “behavioral” characteristics and schedule cadences of backup operations that generate backup copies received at the distributed data storage system, data blocks that are not re-written by subsequent backup copies are pro-actively aged, while promoting continued retention of data blocks that are re-written. An expiry scheme operates with block-level granularity. Each unique deduplicated data block is given an expiry timeframe based on the block's arrival time at the distributed data storage system (i.e., when a backup copy supplies the block) and further based on backup frequencies of the various virtual disks referencing a unique system-wide identifier of the block, which is based on the block's hash value. Communications between components are kept to an as-needed basis. Cloud-based and multi-cloud configurations are disclosed.
US11500560B2
One example method includes defining a configuration of SCM, receiving a stream of IOs from a client, analyzing the stream of IOs and, based on the analyzing, estimating future IO behavior of the client, and based on estimated future IO behavior of the client, reconfiguring one or more parameters of the configuration of the SCM to define an updated configuration of the SCM, and the updated configuration of the SCM enables an improvement in IO performance relative to an IO performance of the configuration of the SCM.
US11500552B2
A method for managing processing power in a storage system is provided. The method includes providing a plurality of blades, each of a first subset having a storage node and storage memory, and each of a second, differing subset having a compute-only node. The method includes distributing authorities across the plurality of blades, to a plurality of nodes including at least one compute-only node, wherein each authority has ownership of a range of user data.
US11500541B2
According to one embodiment, a memory system is connectable to a host as a type 3 compute express link (CXL) device. A controller of the memory system packs, at a CXL link layer, a response command with data (DRS) and/or a response command without data (NDR), received from an upper CXL transaction layer, into a flit including four slots, and transmits the response command to a lower CXL ARB/MUX layer, and selects, based on a remaining number of data slots of DRS packed in a first flit that has been transmitted to the CXL ARB/MUX layer, a remaining number of DRS, a remaining number of NDR, and a number of empty slots in a second flit to be transmitted subsequently to the CXL ARB/MUX layer, a format to be used in slots in a second flit.
US11500535B2
One embodiment provides a method, including: accepting, at an input surface of an electronic device, ink strokes; determining, using a processor of the electronic device, that the ink strokes include a selection indicator pair; associating, using a processor of the electronic device, the selection indicator pair with content; and selecting, using a processor of the electronic device, the content associated with the selection indicator pair. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US11500533B2
Disclosed are a mobile terminal and a control method therefor. The mobile terminal according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: a camera provided to a main body; a display unit for displaying a preview image for the photographing of the camera; and a control unit for detecting the entering into of a subject recognition mode while the preview image is being displayed, and in the subject recognition mode, analyzing objects included in the preview image so as to recognize a subject to be photographed, and applying, to the preview image, a camera effect matched with the recognized subject. In addition, while the matched camera effect is being applied to the preview image, the control unit may further provide, on the display unit, on the basis of a touch input applied to the preview image, a list of camera effects additionally applicable to the recognized subject.
US11500528B2
A method of cohorting data sets can include accessing a plurality of data sets each associated with a different target item and a plurality of test items and receiving from a user a selection of a plurality of the data sets. For each of the selected data sets, the method may include determining one or more of the test items interacting with the respective target within a threshold parameter and identifying one or more matching test items of the plurality of test items associated with interactions with each of the targets of the selected data sets. The method can include generating a graphical user interface to display a representation of the matching test items, the selected data sets, or both and receiving a filter selection for reducing a number of the matching test items to a filtered one or more test items smaller than the number of matching test items.
US11500527B2
To improve convenience when creating slides for a presentation. A presentation material creation apparatus includes a material creation unit that creates a card-shaped object in which characters or a figure can be placed on the basis of an operation of a user through a GUI (graphical user interface) and places the object on a field, and also sets an order for the multiple objects, and a material playback unit that outputs a presentation material outputting the objects in the set order. When one object is superimposed on another object by an operation of the user, the material creation unit creates an object in which the one object is placed inside the other object.
US11500524B2
A computer system obtains access to a content collection that includes a plurality of content items. For each of the content items, the computer system determines user access history and context associated with the access history. The system builds a classifier characterizing a user access pattern of the content items. The system constantly monitors in real-time environmental parameters of the user. It infers a current context of the user based on the environmental parameters. In accordance with the current context, for each of the content items, the system extracts numeric feature values, evaluates the item using the classifier, and determines a score for the item. The system identifies in real-time a subset of the content items that is most relevant to the current context. The system further generates a preferred view of the subset and causes the preferred view to be delivered to a mobile device.
US11500522B2
System and method to display PIM application content in one or more PIM application display panes of a graphical user interface (GUI), select the displayed PIM application content for which to obtain a one or more record overviews of a CRM record related to the PIM application content, receive PIM application context data related to selected PIM application content, generate the one or more record overviews of the CRM record related to the PIM application content to display in a context-specific display pane based on the received PIM application content or PIM application context data, and display the generated one or more record overviews in the context-specific display pane.
US11500519B2
A method and a system include receiving indication of a user interaction within a pre-determined time period, determining that the user interaction is a contextual triggering event based on a plurality of triggering conditions, identifying a media content item associated with the contextual triggering event, generating a first user interface including a user-selectable element representing a content transmission proposal, in response to detecting a user selection of the user-selectable element, generating a second user interface, the second user interface including the media content item and a plurality of user-selectable entity icons.
US11500507B2
This application discloses a notification display method. The method comprises: when there is a to-be-notified event, displaying, by a terminal, a notification by classification based on a notification type of the notification corresponding to the to-be-notified event; and displaying, by the terminal, in different display modes based on a priority of the notification, wherein the different display modes comprise: displaying in expanded form or displaying in collapsed form in the corresponding display pane, or the different display modes comprise: displaying in a first mode or displaying in a second mode in the corresponding display pane, and content displayed in the first mode is more than content displayed in the second mode.
US11500504B1
A touch controlling apparatus to be coupled to a touch sensor array is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a memory circuit and a controlling circuit. The memory circuit is used for recording different calibration ratios associated with different process variations. The controlling circuit is coupled to the memory circuit, and is used for calibrating or adjusting sensitivities of a plurality of cells by respectively using the different calibration ratios to calibrate or adjust sensed capacitance changes of the plurality of cells to generate and output resultant capacitance changes of the plurality of cells.
US11500501B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure are related to a touch display device, as a portion of a touch routing line is disposed on an area surrounded by a touch electrode line on an active area and is electrically connected to the touch electrode line, the touch routing line can be disposed on the active area while reducing an influence of a noise. Thus, as an additional arrangement of the touch routing line and a free adjustment of a connecting point of the touch routing line become possible without an increase of an area for arranging the touch routing line, a load by the touch routing line and a difference of a sensitivity according to positions of the touch electrode line are reduced and a performance of a touch sensing can be improved.
US11500492B2
The present invention provides a method of controlling a display panel having a sensing area and a non-sensing area. The sensing area includes a plurality of fingerprint sensing pixels, each of which is coupled to at least one control line. The non-sensing area includes a plurality of dummy pixels, each of which is coupled to at least one dummy line. The method includes steps of: applying a control signal on a first control line among the at least one control line or configuring the first control line to be floating, and applying a first anti-loading driving (ALD) signal corresponding to the control signal on a first dummy line among the at least one dummy line or configuring the first dummy line to be floating.
US11500491B2
A touch screen system includes two rectangular matrix touch panels, broken down into cells and disposed side by side forming a border between the two touch panels, each touch panel being connected to a respective touch screen board, and a data communication link between the boards, the two boards and respectively the two touch panels being configured as a master/slave configuration and to exchange respective data.
US11500489B2
This disclosure provides a flexible circuit board and a manufacturing method therefor, and a display device. The flexible circuit board includes a main body sub-circuit board and a bridge sub-circuit board; The main body sub-circuit board includes a first substrate, as well as a first bridge connection end, a second bridge connection end, a first wiring portion, and a second wiring portion disposed on the first substrate The bridge sub-circuit board includes a second substrate, as well as a third bridge connection end, a fourth bridge connection end, and a third wiring portion used for a first functional wiring, all disposed on the second substrate.
US11500486B2
A display device is provided and includes a plurality of drive electrodes; a mesh-patterned first shield electrode comprising a plurality of first openings and a first electrode portion located between the first openings adjacent to each other, an area of the first electrode portion being greater than an area of the first openings; and a first power line provided with a predetermined voltage, wherein the first openings and the first electrode portion overlap the first power line.
US11500485B2
A display device with a touch detection function is provided and includes a display area where a plurality of pixel electrodes are arranged in a matrix having a first direction and a second direction crossing the first direction above a substrate; common electrodes provided so as to face the pixel electrodes; an insulating layer between the common electrodes and the pixel electrodes; a display functional layer having an image display function of displaying an image on the display area; a plurality of pixel signal lines each coupled to the pixel electrodes, the pixel signal lines each extending in the first direction; a source selector that are coupled to the pixels through the pixel signal lines and that performs a switching operation, the source selector including a plurality of source switches; and a control device for performing image display control by applying a display drive voltage between the pixel electrodes and the common electrodes based on an image signal to exert the image display function of the display functional layer.
US11500483B2
According to an embodiment, a mousepad comprises a cover layer and an integrated keypad. The cover layer has a lateral extension and an upper surface which is usable for placement (placing, putting down) of a computer mouse. The keypad covers a part of said lateral extension. In an area not covered by the keypad there is a mouse parking area. The mousepad comprises a mouse detector associated with the mouse parking area and a corresponding control unit. The control unit is configured such that the keyboard gets activated when the mouse is inside the mouse parking area and gets deactivated when the mouse is outside the mouse parking area.
US11500477B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods that include or otherwise leverage an artificial intelligence system and/or provide user interface mechanisms particularly suited for interacting and/or interfacing with an artificial intelligence system. A computing system can include a camera, a light-emitting device, and an artificial intelligence system that comprises one or more machine-learned models. The computing system can include a processor and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media that stores instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to obtain an image of a scene captured by the camera; generate an attention output that describes at least one region of the scene that includes a subject of a processing operation performed by the artificial intelligence system; and control the light-emitting device to emit light onto or adjacent a region of the scene that includes the subject of the processing operation performed by the artificial intelligence system.
US11500473B2
The technology disclosed relates to creating user-defined interaction spaces and modalities in a three dimensional (3D) sensor space in response to control gestures. It also relates to controlling virtual cameras in the 3D sensor space using control gestures and manipulating controls of the virtual cameras through the control gestures. In particular, it relates to defining one or more spatial attributes of the interaction spaces and modalities in response to one or more gesture parameters of the control gesture. It also particularly relates to defining one or more visual parameters of a virtual camera in response to one or more gesture parameters of the control gesture.
US11500472B2
A system and method of assisting operator engagement with input devices includes a repositionable structure configured to support a physical input device, a hand detection system, and a control unit. The repositionable structure includes one or more actuators. The physical input device is configured to be operated by a hand of an operator. The control unit is configured to detect the hand of the operator using the hand detection system and in response to a trigger condition, command the one or more actuators to move the input device from a first orientation to a second orientation, wherein the second orientation is closer to a grasping orientation of the hand than the first orientation is to the grasping orientation of the hand.
US11500465B1
The disclosed haptic vibrotactile actuators on inflatable bladders may include an inflatable bladder and a flexible haptic vibrotactile actuator positioned on or in the inflatable bladder such that inflation and deflation of the inflatable bladder alters a vibrotactile sensation induced by the flexible haptic vibrotactile actuator in response to activation of the flexible haptic vibrotactile actuator. Various other related methods and systems are also disclosed.
US11500463B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for controlling electronic devices based on detected brain activity. For example, a system includes a wearable over-the-ear electronic device has a set of dry EEG sensors, a camera, a processor, and programming instructions. The programming instructions cause the processor to receive images from the camera, process the images to identify features corresponding to a known device, and receive brain-wave signals from the EEG sensors. The system compares the brain-wave signals to measure a level of brain activity. Upon detection of both (a) a feature corresponding to the known device and (b) a level of brain activity that deviates from a baseline by at least a threshold level, the system generates a command signal configured to cause the known device to actuate and transmits the command signal to a controller for the known device.
US11500460B2
Described are various embodiments of a light field device, optical aberration compensation or simulation rendering method and vision testing system using same. In one embodiment, the device comprises a digital display comprising a set of pixels; an array of light field shaping elements (LFSE) disposed relative to the set of pixels so to at least partially govern a light field emanated thereby; and a digital processor operable to: receive as input one or more higher order aberration parameters digitally defining a higher order aberration; for each given pixel, identify an adjusted image plane location corresponding thereto given a corresponding LFSE corresponding thereto and given said one or more higher order aberration parameters, and associate therewith an adjusted image value designated for the adjusted image location; and render for each said given pixel said adjusted image value associated therewith.
US11500459B2
A data processing apparatus includes processing circuitry to generate at least one of video content and audio content for a virtual reality environment, input circuitry to receive gaze data for two or more users indicative of a gaze point for each user with respect to the virtual reality environment, and selection circuitry to select at least one object in the virtual reality environment in dependence upon a number of the gaze points corresponding to the object, in which the processing circuitry is configured to adapt at least one of the video content and the audio content in response to the selection of the object.
US11500455B2
Provided are a video streaming system, and a corresponding video streaming method and video streaming apparatus. The video streaming system includes a terminal and a VR device. Application platform software and server streaming software are installed on the terminal. Client streaming software is installed on the VR device, the client streaming software is configured to send posture data to the server streaming software on the terminal, the server streaming software is configured to send the posture data to the application platform software, and the application platform software is configured to render a picture. The hardware configuration of the terminal itself is utilized for picture processing, and satisfactory pictures can be obtained on the screen of the VR device. On the other hand, the picture is rendered according to prediction positioning data/prediction posture data, thereby effectively reducing picture jitter and display delay.
US11500451B2
The present teaching relates to method, system, medium, and implementations for augmenting data via data crowd sourcing. Local data are acquired by one or more sensors deployed on a first device. Augmented data are obtained where such augmented data are generated based on the local data and remote data from at least one second device and are rendered on the first device.
US11500450B2
According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a universal serial bus (USB) controller capable of shifting to a low-power state and configured to transmit data with a predetermined pattern to a personal computer (PC) when the USB controller is recovered from the low-power state. The information processing apparatus includes a hardware logic configured to cause the USB controller to shift to the low-power state, a reading unit configured to read an image formed on a document according to a reading instruction, and a physical layer (PHY) configured to transmit, to the PC, image data on the document with the image read by the reading unit. The information processing apparatus prohibits the USB controller from shifting to the low-power state during a period in which the PHY transmits the image data to the PC.
US11500444B2
A machine-learning (ML) scheme running a software driver stack to learn user habits of entry into low power states, such as Modern Connect Standby (ModCS), and duration depending on time of day, and/or system telemetry. The ML creates a High Water Mark (HWM) number of dirty cache lines (DL) as a hint to a power agent. A power agent algorithm uses these hints and actual system's number of DL to inform the low power state entry decision (such as S0i4 vs. S0i3 entry decision) for a computing system.
US11500440B2
Examples include a computing system including a network input/output (I/O) device, the network I/O device including a microcontroller, a network controller, and a proxy mode monitor to enter a proxy mode by causing transfer of control of the network controller from a processor to the microcontroller without resetting the network controller, and to exit the proxy mode by causing transfer of control of the network controller from the microcontroller to the processor without resetting the network controller.
US11500436B2
A management controller is configured to determine a thermal resistance of a heat sink, and determine a thermal resistance curve that includes the thermal resistance. The management controller may also determine a fan speed setting corresponding with the thermal resistance, and set a speed of the fan based on the fan speed setting.
US11500434B2
An air cooling structure of computer chassis includes: a first chassis, a second chassis, a third chassis, a computer motherboard, and a cooling fan; wherein, the first chassis, the second chassis, and the third chassis are provided in turn; the computer motherboard is provided in the first chassis, a CPU is provided on the side surface of the computer motherboard towards the second chassis, a peripheral interface is provided on the side surface of the computer motherboard far away from the second chassis, a cooling hole is provided on the second chassis, the cooling fan is provided in the second chassis, a graphics card is provided in the third chassis. Because of the openness and specific function of the middle-zone cooling system, the disclosure, the cooling becomes more efficient.
US11500430B2
A data storage library system includes a data storage library, at least one environmental conditioning unit, at least one data storage drive retained within the data storage library, and at least one access door for providing access to an interior portion of the data storage library. The system also includes a library controller, wherein the library controller is configured to initiate a service mode prior to and during a service procedure performed within the data storage library, and further wherein at least one operational state within the at least one data storage drive is changed during the service mode. The change in the at least one operational state may be, for example, an increase in temperature within the at least one data storage drive, or the insertion of a data storage cartridge into the at least one data storage drive during the service mode.
US11500429B2
An expansion module for an industrial controller is configured to perform independent local processing of its input signals and to independently generate control outputs in parallel with the primary control program executed by the industrial controller. This can reduce or eliminate response latency for time-critical processes that would otherwise be present if all monitoring and control were performed by the industrial controller alone. This approach can be beneficial for configurations in which the industrial devices that are monitored and controlled via the expansion module require fast response times, as in the case of industrial safety applications.
US11500427B1
An information handling system may include a battery, a circuit board, an enclosure, and a control circuit. The circuit board may include at least one electric component, a first electrically conductive pad, and a second electrically conductive pad in proximity to the first electrically conductive pad. The enclosure may be configured to house components of the information handling system including the battery and the circuit board, and the enclosure may include a first member, a second member configured to be mechanically coupled to the first member, and a mechanical component comprising conductive material and configured to electrically short the first electrically conductive pad to the second electrically conductive pad when the first member is mechanically coupled to the second member, and cause electrical isolation of the first electrically conductive pad from the second electrically conductive pad when the first member is mechanically decoupled from the second member. The control circuit may be configured to, when the first electrically conductive pad is shorted to the second electrically conductive pad, cause the at least one electrical component to be electrically coupled to the battery and when the first electrically conductive pad is electrically isolated from the second electrically conductive pad, cause the at least one electrical component to be electrically decoupled from the battery.
US11500423B2
A display device includes: a flexible display panel having a display area and a non-display area disposed adjacent to the display area; a supporting member provided at a predetermined area of the flexible display panel adjacent to one side of the flexible display panel, wherein the non-display area of the flexible display panel contacts the supporting member and surrounds the supporting member while being bent at a bend angle, and the bend angle of the non-display area is variously adjusted by the supporting member.
US11500421B2
An apparatus can include a processor; memory accessible to the processor; a base housing; a display housing that includes a center panel and folding wings that fold over the center panel to form a recess for the base housing; and a hinge assembly that couples the display housing to the base housing.
US11500420B2
The disclosure relates to display devices and display screen modules. The display device includes a body, a display screen and a second display area. The display screen is disposed on the body, and the display screen includes a first display area and a light transmitting area. The first display area has a light exiting surface facing away from the body. The second display area is located between the display screen and a bottom surface of the body and configured to compensate for the light transmitting area, so that the light transmitting area displays image information, realizing full-screen display.
US11500417B2
An electronic cigarette and a wearable electronic device which can function together or separately are disclosed. The electronic cigarette includes a communication interface, a controller, a heat generator, and a power supply. The wearable electronic device includes a sensor, a controller, and a communication interface. The electronic cigarette and the wearable electronic device can cooperatively work. Data can be exchanged between the electronic cigarette and the wearable electronic device and each can process the received data, thereby controlling the electronic cigarette to operate in certain manners. The electronic cigarette can function with greater intelligence and with more diversity.
US11500399B2
An example system includes a processor to receive parameters of a fluid network control system. The processor can formulate an optimal control problem as proportions of server effort. The processor can also solve the optimal control problem using a robust counterpart of a separated continuous linear programming (SCLP). The processor can further adjust a parameter of the fluid network control system based on the optimal solution.
US11500397B2
A method may include obtaining current data from a sensor related to performance of a solar power generating device, and comparing the current data from the sensor to previously stored data to detect a decrease in expected power generation. The method may also include determining whether the decrease in expected power generation is designated a persistently occurring decrease, and, based on the designation of the decrease as being persistent, changing an orientation of the solar power generating device to a stowed orientation.
US11500392B2
A method includes identifying a plurality of vehicles within a geographic area; transmitting a first signal to a device of a customer, the first signal being configured to control each of the plurality of vehicles; receiving a selection of a vehicle from among the plurality of vehicles; and transmitting a second signal to the device in response to receiving the selection, the second signal modifying the first signal to be disabled from controlling the plurality of vehicles except the selected vehicle.
US11500389B2
A vehicle control device is configured to include a steering control unit. The steering control unit is configured to perform a steering control such that a vehicle passes between a first obstacle of which a position in a lateral direction is closest to the vehicle, among one or multiple obstacles existing ahead of the vehicle on a left side of the traveling direction and a second obstacle of which a position in the lateral direction is closest to the vehicle, among one or multiple obstacles existing ahead of the vehicle on a right side of the traveling direction, and if there exists a third obstacle closer to the vehicle than the first obstacle and the second obstacle, inhibit the steering control to one side where the third obstacle exists either on the left side of the traveling direction or the right side of the traveling direction.
US11500387B2
A system and method for providing multiple agents for decision making, trajectory planning, and control for autonomous vehicles are disclosed. A particular embodiment includes: partitioning a multiple agent autonomous vehicle control module for an autonomous vehicle into a plurality of subsystem agents, the plurality of subsystem agents including a deep computing vehicle control subsystem and a fast response vehicle control subsystem; receiving a task request from a vehicle subsystem; dispatching the task request to the deep computing vehicle control subsystem or the fast response vehicle control subsystem based on the content of the task request or a context of the autonomous vehicle; causing execution of the deep computing vehicle control subsystem or the fast response vehicle control subsystem by use of a data processor to produce a vehicle control output; and providing the vehicle control output to a vehicle control subsystem of the autonomous vehicle.
US11500386B2
An action plan is generated even when the own position is unknown in order to move autonomously. A route is planned for each position constituting an own-position candidate on the basis of status of surroundings. Multiple candidates of an action plan constituting multiple action candidates are generated on the basis of the planned routes. An evaluation value is set to each of the generated multiple action plan candidates. The action plan is determined using the action plan candidates in accordance with their evaluation values. This technology is applied advantageously to multi-legged robots, flying objects, and onboard systems each controlled by an onboard computer to move autonomously.
US11500385B2
A collision avoidance system may validate, reject, or replace a trajectory generated to control a vehicle. The collision avoidance system may comprise a secondary perception component that may receive sensor data, receive and/or determine a corridor associated with operation of a vehicle, classify a portion of the sensor data associated with the corridor as either ground or an object, determine a position and/or velocity of at least the nearest object, determine a threshold distance associated with the vehicle, and control the vehicle based at least in part on the position and/or velocity of the nearest object and the threshold distance.
US11500382B2
A method, a computer program with instructions, and an apparatus for configuring a control system for an at least partially autonomous transportation vehicle. Data relating to the driving situation are captured, selection criteria are then determined from the available data, two or more AI modules are selected from a library of AI modules during driving based on selection criteria, and combined execution of the selected two or more AI modules by the control system is initiated.
US11500380B2
Autonomous vehicle operational management may include traversing, by an autonomous vehicle, a vehicle transportation network. Traversing the vehicle transportation network may include operating a scenario-specific operational control evaluation module instance, wherein the scenario-specific operational control evaluation module instance is an instance of a scenario-specific operational control evaluation module, wherein the scenario-specific operational control evaluation module implements a partially observable Markov decision process. Traversing the vehicle transportation network may include receiving a candidate vehicle control action from the scenario-specific operational control evaluation module instance, and traversing a portion of the vehicle transportation network based on the candidate vehicle control action.
US11500379B2
In one embodiment, a vehicle system includes a chassis and a vehicle bed coupled to the chassis, the vehicle bed comprising an attachment system configured to fasten a detachable mission platform onto the vehicle bed. The vehicle system further includes a plurality of wheels coupled to the chassis and configured to carry the chassis over a ground. The vehicle system additionally includes a control system comprising a processor configured to determine a mission type for the detachable mission platform. The processor is additionally configured to communicate with the detachable mission platform to actuate at least one actuator of the detachable mission platform based on the mission type.
US11500378B2
Systems, apparatus and methods implemented in algorithms, software, firmware, logic, or circuitry may be configured to process data and sensory input to determine whether an object external to an autonomous vehicle (e.g., another vehicle, a pedestrian, a bicyclist, etc.) may be a potential collision threat to the autonomous vehicle. The autonomous vehicle may include a light emitter positioned external to a surface of the autonomous vehicle and being configured to implement a visual alert by emitting light from the light emitter. Data representing a light pattern may be received by the light emitter and the light emitted by the display may be indicative of the light pattern. The light pattern may be selected to gain the attention of the object (e.g., a pedestrian, a driver of a car, a bicyclists, etc.) in order to avoid the potential collision or to alert the object to the presence of the autonomous vehicle.
US11500374B2
A communications ecosystem and related methods of operation include an ecosystem safety level (ESL), a plurality of vehicles or systems, each vehicle or system having an individual safety level (ISL), a control system operable to determine whether the ISL for each vehicle or system meets or exceeds the ESL, and one or more communications links between any first vehicle or system having a first ISL that does not meet or exceed the ESL and a second vehicle or system with a second ISL that does meet or exceed the ESL such that the first vehicle or system operates at the second ISL.
US11500370B2
Example implementations involve a system for Predictive Maintenance using Generative Adversarial Networks for Failure Prediction. Through utilizing three processes concurrently and training them iteratively with data-label pairs, example implementations described herein can thereby generate a more accurate predictive maintenance model than that of the related art. Example implementations further involve shared networks so that the three processes can be trained concurrently while sharing parameters with each other.
US11500367B2
An industrial automation component includes a power source configured to harvest power from an ambient environment surrounding the industrial automation component. The industrial automation component is configured to use the power to operate. The industrial automation component also includes a control system configured to use the power to control one or more operations of the industrial automation component and a display communicatively coupled to the control system and the power source. The control system is configured to use the power the cause the display to present a visualization, and the display is configured to maintain presentation of the visualization in absence of the power.
US11500356B2
A bezel member, a control method thereof, and a bezel device are disclosed. The bezel member includes a bezel mechanism including a fixed part and a retractable part connected to the fixed part, a detecting mechanism configured to perform neighboring object presence detection for an end portion of the retractable part and generate a detection signal based on a detection result of the neighboring object presence detection, and a control mechanism configured to control the extension and retraction of the retractable part according to the detection signal.
US11500353B2
In a robot system, a data amount of operation information (log) to be transferred or recorded is reduced, thereby enabling the operation information (log) to be transferred or recorded with a low load. The system has a control unit for controlling the operation of a robot of a robot device and transfers a log regarding the robot operation to a managing terminal. While making the robot operative, the control unit generates log data regarding the robot operation and stores into a short-term storage log recording unit (temporary storage device) (log data generating step). When log transfer timing comes, a part of the log data stored in the recording unit (temporary storage device) is extracted and transferred as a log to a log storage device in accordance with the robot operation (log transferring step).
US11500344B2
A program for light commercial building system (LCBS) solutions. Solutions and other systems may incorporate lightweight alerting service, auto-adjustment of gateway poll rates based on the needs of various consuming applications, detecting loss of space comfort control in a heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system, HVAC capacity loss alerting using relative degree days and accumulated stage run time with operational equivalency checks, and HVAC alerting for loss of heat or cool capacity using delta temperature and dependent system properties. Also, incorporated may be triggering s subset of analytics by automatically inferring HVAC equipment details from controller configuration details, ensuring reliability of analytics by retaining logical continuity of HVAC equipment operational data even when controllers and other parts of the system are replaced, and an LCBS gateway with workflow and mechanisms to associate to a contractor account.
US11500343B2
A method is for controlling a home automation installation. The installation includes pieces of home automation equipment and a central control member. The method includes providing a desired operation of the installation, providing a first operation of each piece of equipment, optimizing the operation of the installation by modifying the first operation of at least one piece of equipment, to obtain a second operation of the at least one piece of equipment, and an operation of the installation according to the desired operation, and installing a virtual machine in the at least one piece of equipment. The virtual machine is able to impose the second operation on the at least one piece of equipment.
US11500342B2
Various examples of systems and methods are provided for Lyapunov control for uncertain systems. In one example, a system includes a process plant and a robust Lyapunov controller configured to control an input of the process plant. The robust Lyapunov controller includes an inner closed loop Lyapunov controller and an outer closed loop error stabilizer. In another example, a method includes monitoring a system output of a process plant; generating an estimated system control input based upon a defined output reference; generating a system control input using the estimated system control input and a compensation term; and adjusting the process plant based upon the system control input to force the system output to track the defined output reference. An inner closed loop Lyapunov controller can generate the estimated system control input and an outer closed loop error stabilizer can generate the system control input.
US11500338B2
In an aspect, a test platform for testing an embedded control system having a plurality of interconnected components is operable to: receive, at run time, configuration data for configuring a system under test (“SUT”) representing the embedded control system, the configuration data specifying: which of the components shall be simulated versus hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) components in the SUT; and an inter-component signal mapping that maps input signals to output signals of the specified simulated or HIL components of the SUT; for each of the simulated or HIL components, automatically activate, at run time, a corresponding object code portion for simulating the embedded system component in the test platform or a corresponding object code portion for facilitating communication with the HIL component connected to the test platform, respectively; and automatically map input signals of the activated object code portions to output signals of the activated code portions according to the signal mapping.
US11500336B1
An example digital to time converter includes: a first switch having a first terminal, a second terminal, and a first control terminal configured to receive a control signal. A second switch having a third terminal coupled to second terminal, a fourth terminal, and a second control terminal configured to receive a divided clock signal. A third switch having a fifth terminal coupled to the second terminal and the third terminal, a sixth terminal, and a third control terminal configured to receive an inverted version of divided clock signal. A fourth switch having a seventh terminal coupled to the second terminal, an eighth terminal, and a fourth control terminal configured to receive an inverted version of control signal. A fifth switch having a ninth terminal coupled to the eighth terminal and a fifth control terminal configured to receive the inverted divided clock signal. A capacitor coupled to the sixth terminal.
US11500330B2
Provided is an image forming apparatus including an image carrier, an exposure device, a developing device that supplies a developer to form a toner image, and a hardware processor that controls the image carrier, the exposure device, and the developing device. The image forming apparatus further includes a fume prevention plate that covers a part of an internal space of the developing device where the developing roller is disposed and the developer is stored and that prevents the developer from scattering outside from the internal space, a suction duct, and an air suction device. One end of the suction duct is connected to the internal space and another end of the suction duct is connected to the air suction device. The fume prevention plate includes a movable portion. A position of the movable portion can be changed between a first position and a second position different from the first position.
US11500328B2
A drum cartridge includes: a drum frame to which a developing cartridge is attachable; a photosensitive drum rotatable about an axis extending in a first direction; a memory having an electrical contact surface; and a resilient member positioned between the electrical contact surface and the drum frame. The resilient member is configured to expand and compress in a second direction crossing the electrical contact surface between a first state and a second state, the resilient member having a shorter length in the second state than in the first state. A distance between the drum frame and the electrical contact surface in the second direction when the resilient member is in the second state is smaller than a distance between the drum frame and the electrical contact surface in the second direction when the resilient member is in the first state.
US11500325B2
A replaceable unit for an electrophotographic image forming device includes a housing having a reservoir for holding toner. An electrical connector is positioned on a first side of the housing. The electrical connector includes an electrical contact for contacting a corresponding electrical contact in the image forming device. The electrical contact of the replaceable unit is electrically connected to processing circuitry mounted on the housing. The electrical connector is movable between a first position and a second position. The electrical contact of the replaceable unit moves outward from the first side of the housing along a side-to-side dimension of the housing when the electrical connector moves from the first position to the second position. The electrical contact of the replaceable unit faces downward when the electrical connector is in the second position permitting the corresponding electrical contact to contact the electrical contact of the replaceable unit from below.
US11500323B2
A sheet processing apparatus is configured to sandwich one or more sheet media in a two-ply sheet in which two sheets are overlaid and bonded together at a portion of the two-ply sheet. The sheet processing apparatus includes circuitry configured to control insertion processing to insert the one or more sheet media into the two-ply sheet based on a length of the two-ply sheet in a conveyance direction, a length of one of the one or more sheet media in the conveyance direction, and a number of the one or more sheet media.
US11500322B2
An image forming apparatus includes a drawer and a main body. The drawer includes a drawer-side electrical contact part and a socket. The main body includes a main body-side connector including: a main body-side electrical contact part; and a holder including a base, a panel, and an elastic member interposed between the base and the panel. The holder holds the main body-side electrical contact part to be movable in an intersection direction intersecting with an extension and contraction direction of the elastic member. When the holder contacts the socket, the panel moves relative to the base in the intersection direction together with the main body side-electrical contact part, and the main body side-electrical contact part and drawer-side electrical contact part are in contact with each other.
US11500320B2
An image forming device includes an image carrier, a transfer member, a fixing device, a conveyance member, and a controller. The transfer member forms a transfer nip that transfers an image carried on the image carrier to a recording medium. The fixing device fixes the image on the recording medium. The conveyance member is located downstream of the transfer member in a conveyance direction of the recording medium and feeds the recording medium to the fixing device. The controller variably controls position of the conveyance member.
US11500316B2
A heater holding member circulatably guides a fixing belt and holds a heater that heats the fixing belt. A stay sheet metal reinforces the heater holding member. The heater holding member has a base plate and side walls. The stay sheet metal is placed on the base plate. A side wall is erected on either side of the base plate in a short direction thereof. A pocket which keeps the stay sheet metal is formed in each side wall. The stay sheet metal has a top plate and side plates. A side plate bends and extends from either edge of the top plate in a short direction thereof. A slit is formed in each side plate such that the side plates are kept in the pockets of the heater holding member.
US11500314B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device that forms a toner image on a recording medium, a first rotator, and a second rotator that presses against the first rotator to form a nip therebetween. The first rotator conveys the recording medium bearing the toner image through the nip with a first orientation of the recording medium to fix the toner image on the recording medium to create a cleaning sheet bearing a cleaning image in a cleaning sheet creation mode. The first rotator conveys the cleaning sheet bearing the cleaning image through the nip with a second orientation of the cleaning sheet, that is different from the first orientation of the recording medium, such that the cleaning image is disposed opposite the first rotator to cause the cleaning image to remove a foreign substance from a surface of the first rotator in a cleaning mode.
US11500302B2
An image forming apparatus includes a photoconductive body, a light source, a deflector to deflect a light beam from the light source, a scanning optical system to image the deflected light beam onto the photoconductive body, a developing unit to supply developer to the photoconductive body, an optical sensor to detect the deflected light beam, a moving mechanism to move the developing unit to a first position and to a second position, and a controller configured to start driving the deflector, when the developing unit is in the second position, the light source to emit the light beam, thereby obtaining a detection signal of the light beam from the optical sensor, and after obtaining the detection signal of the light beam from the optical sensor, control the moving mechanism to move the developing unit to the first position.
US11500300B2
In a beam irradiation apparatus in which a movable body holds an object, a mark detection system detects a first mark on the movable body while moving the movable body in a first direction and changing an irradiation position of a measurement beam in the first direction, the mark detection system detects a second mark while moving the movable body in the first direction and changing the irradiation position of the measurement beam in the first direction, a controller controls a position of the movable body in a second direction intersecting the first direction during a time period between the detection of the first mark and the detection of the second mark, and the controller controls the movement of the movable body to adjust a positional relation between the object on the movable body and a processing beam, based on results of the detection of the first and second marks.
US11500297B2
A coupling arrangement including a first fitting, a second fitting, and a rotational coupler which when turned presses the first fitting against the second fitting, in which the fittings engage rotationally to inhibit relative rotation of the fittings. For example, one of the fittings may have protrusions and the other fitting may have recesses arranged to receive the protrusions.
US11500295B2
The present application relates to contact immersion lithography exposure units and methods of their use. An example contact exposure unit includes a container configured to contain a fluid material and a substrate disposed within the container. The substrate has a first surface and a second surface, and the substrate includes a photoresist material on at least the first surface. The contact exposure unit includes a photomask disposed within the container. The photomask is optically coupled to the photoresist material by way of a gap comprising the fluid material. The contact exposure unit also includes an inflatable balloon configured to be controllably inflated so as to apply a desired force to the second surface of the substrate to controllably adjust the gap between the photomask and the photoresist material.
US11500290B2
An adhesion promoter composition comprising at least one of the following compounds: (a) a cyclic compound having the formula: (b) a non-cyclic compound having the formula: wherein R1 and R2 each independently represents a non-photoactive phenyl, a photoactive phenyl or a C1-C4 alkyl; R3 represents a non-photoactive phenyl; R4 represents a photoactive phenyl; W represents Si or Ge; n represents an integer of value greater than 1; m represents an integer between 0 and 1.
US11500287B2
An ablation layer for a photosensitive resin for a relief printing plate, the ablation layer containing at least an acid-modified polymer and an infrared-absorbing agent and having a layer acid value as defined below of 2 mg KOH/g or more and 400 mg KOH/g or less, and a neutralized salt ratio as defined below of 0.9 or less, wherein the Layer acid value=(Acid value of the acid-modified polymer)×(Mass ratio of the acid-modified polymer to an entire ablation layer); and wherein the Neutralized salt ratio=(Number of moles of polymer wherein acid in the acid-modified polymer exists in neutralized salt state)/(Total number of moles of the acid-modified polymer).
US11500284B2
Organometallic radiation resist compositions are described based on tin ions with alkyl ligands. Some of the compositions have branched alkyl ligands to provide for improved patterning contrast while maintaining a high degree of solution stability. Blends of compounds with distinct alkyl ligands can provide further improvement in the patterning. High resolution patterning with a half-pitch of no more than 25 nm can be achieved with a line width roughness of no more than about 4.5 nm. Synthesis techniques have been developed that allow for the formation of alkyl tin oxide hydroxide compositions with very low metal contamination.
US11500283B2
Disclosed are mask layout correction methods and a method for fabricating semiconductor devices. The mask layout correction method comprises performing a first optical proximity correction on an initial pattern layout. The step of performing the first optical proximity correction includes providing a target pattern of the initial pattern layout with control points based on a first model, obtaining a predicted contour of the initial pattern layout by performing a simulation, and obtaining an error between the target pattern and the predicted contour from the control points. The control points include first control points on an edge of the target pattern and second control points in an inside of the target pattern. The step of obtaining the error includes acquiring first error values from the first control points, providing weights to the first error values, and acquiring second error values from the second control points.
US11500276B2
A projection device and a light source module having a light transmitting region and a non-light transmitting region, and including a base, a light-emitting element, a collimating lens, an adhesive, and a light-shielding member are provided. The light-emitting element is disposed on the base at a position corresponding to the light transmitting region for providing a light beam. The collimating lens is disposed on the base. The adhesive is disposed on the base at a position corresponding to the non-light transmitting region, and located between the collimating lens and the base to bond the collimating lens and the base. The light-shielding member is disposed in the non-light transmitting region and covers a part of the collimating lens. A projection of the light-shielding member and a projection of the adhesive on the base at least partially overlap. The light source module and the projection device have good reliability.
US11500268B2
A lighting device capable of suppressing an excessive temperature rise of a light emission section even when a fan is incapable of normal rotation. The light emission section emits light for illuminating an object. The fan cools the light emission section. A motor driving section drives the fan for rotation. A strobe microcomputer determines whether or not the motor driving section is abnormal, and controls a light emission interval of the light emission section in continuous light emission, based a result of the determination.
US11500248B2
A sealing structure is provided. The sealing structure includes two substrates opposite each other, each of which has a sealing region on its periphery. The sealing structure further includes a recess structure having at least one recess in the sealing region of at least one of the two substrates. The sealing structure further includes a sealing material with filler particles, which is disposed along the sealing regions to seal the two substrates, wherein a portion of the filler particles are accommodated in the at least one recess.
US11500246B2
A light source module includes a substrate, a reflective sheet, a plurality of light-emitting elements, an adhesive layer, and a frame. The reflective sheet is disposed on the substrate and has a side wall, a protrusion and a plurality of openings. The protrusion is protruded in a direction away from the substrate and has a mesh structure to define a plurality of dimming areas. The plurality of openings respectively correspond to the plurality of dimming areas. The plurality of light-emitting elements are disposed on the substrate, and the plurality of light-emitting elements are respectively disposed to pass through the plurality of openings. The adhesive layer is disposed between the substrate and the reflective sheet. The frame surrounds the reflective sheet and the plurality of light-emitting elements. The side wall of the reflective sheet is disposed on the frame. A display device of the invention is further provided.
US11500245B1
The present application discloses a backlight module and a display device. The backlight module includes a plurality of first regions and a plurality of second regions arranged adjacently; the backlight module includes a substrate, including a light-transmitting region, in which the light-transmitting region is at least partially located in the second regions; a plurality of first light-emitting elements, arranged at a side of the substrate, in which the first light-emitting elements are located in the first regions, and the first light-emitting elements emit light along a direction perpendicular to a plane where the substrate is located; a light-guiding plate, arranged at a side of the substrate away from the first light-emitting elements, in which the light-guiding plate includes a plurality of light-supplementing portions located in the second regions; and at least one second light-emitting element, arranged at a side face of the light-guiding plate.
US11500223B2
A lens module is disclosed. In the lens module, each group of shape memory alloy wires comprises two ends fixed to one of a base and a lens base, and a drive end located between the two ends, the other one of the base and the lens base is provided with a fixing member. The drive end is connected to the fixing member. The fixing member is provided with a flapper for preventing the drive end from escaping the fixing member. By adding a flapper to the fixing member, it may effectively prevent the shape memory alloy wires from escaping the fixing member. Besides, when one group of shape memory alloy wires operates, it does not result in extra stress to other groups of shape memory alloy wires, thereby prolonging service life of the shape memory alloy wires.
US11500220B2
The imaging lens consists of, in order from the object side, a front group, an aperture stop, and a rear group. The front group includes a diffractive optical element having a positive lens and a negative lens in order from the object side. A diffractive surface is provided between an object side surface of the positive lens and an image side surface of the negative lens. Assuming that a distance on an optical axis from the diffractive surface to the aperture stop in a state in which an object at infinity is in focus is Ddoe, and a focal length of the whole system in a state in which the object at infinity is in focus is f, the imaging lens satisfies Conditional Expression (1): 0.02
US11500215B2
A near-eye display device is provided, including a display light source, a rotation module and a refractive amplification component. The rotation module rotates around the rotation center axis. The rotation module is provided with a light source scanning component and a mirror group. The light source scanning component converts the light of some pixel points of the display light source into radial propagation, and then the light is emitted through the mirror group and the refractive amplification component. The light source scanning component turns the light of some pixel points of the display light source into radial propagation, so that the optical path becomes radial direction from axial direction, and increases the optical path distance without increasing the volume of the device, which is conducive to reducing the thickness and volume of the device.
US11500207B2
A head-worn see-through display includes a display panel adapted to generate image content light, a combiner adapted to reflect the image content light towards an eye of a user, wherein the combiner transmits scene light from a surrounding environment to the eye of the user, and an image expansion optic intermediate the display panel and the combiner. The image expansion optic includes a flat partially reflective and partially reflective surface (the “flat surface”), a curved partially reflective and partially reflective surface (the “curved surface”), and the flat surface adapted to reflect the image content light towards the curved surface and the curved surface adapted to reflect the image light back towards the flat surface, wherein the image light transmits through the flat surface towards the combiner.
US11500205B2
The application provides an augmented reality display device comprising a projection source module and an optical path module, the projection source module comprising a projection source (12) and a beam shaping element (14) which are integrated into a unitary piece, and the optical path module comprising a beamsplitter (20) and a reflector (60), wherein virtual image light (VL) emitted from the projection source (12) and carrying virtual image information is emitted out of the projection source module after being shaped by the beam shaping element (14), projected onto the beamsplitter (20) first, then reflected onto the reflector (60) by the beamsplitter (20), then reflected by the reflector (60), and enters a human eye (E) eventually, and scene light (AL) carrying real scene information enters the reflector (60) from an outside of the reflector (60), and is transmitted through the reflector (60) and the beamsplitter (20) into the human eye (E). The application also provides a wearable augmented reality system comprising the augmented reality display device and the projection source module for the augmented reality display device.
US11500196B2
Disclosed herein are techniques for improving structural stability and duration of light beam steering components in a LiDAR system. A galvo mirror assembly for light detection and ranging includes a top bracket including a first rotatable unit configured to rotate around an axis; a bottom bracket aligned with the top bracket and including a second rotatable unit configured to rotate around the axis; a mirror including a top end and a bottom end, where the top end of the mirror is coupled to the first rotatable unit of the top bracket and the bottom end of the mirror is coupled to the second rotatable unit of the bottom bracket, such that the mirror is rotatable around the axis; and an enhance plate extending between and non-rotatably coupled to the top bracket and the bottom bracket. The enhance plate is spaced apart from the mirror.
US11500192B2
The present invention relates to a lens curvature variation apparatus. The lens curvature variation apparatus according to an embodiment is a lens curvature variation apparatus for varying a curvature of a liquid lens which is variable based on an applied electrical signal. The lens curvature variation apparatus includes a lens driver to apply the electrical signal to the liquid lens, a sensor unit to sense the curvature of the liquid lens formed based on the electrical signal, and a controller to control the lens driver to form a target curvature of the liquid lens based on the sensed curvature, wherein the lens driver supplies the electrical signal to the liquid lens according to a switching operation of a switching element, and includes a detection element connected to one end of the switching element, wherein the sensor unit senses an electrical signal detected by the detection element. Thereby, the curvature of the lens can be sensed quickly and accurately.
US11500190B2
An oblique plane microscope includes a detection optical unit having an image sensor which has a sensor surface formed from sensor lines arranged in parallel, and a transport optical unit having an objective arranged for specimen illumination by a light sheet tilted relative to an optical axis of the transport optical unit and for imaging a specimen plane illuminated with the light sheet onto the sensor surface. An optical axis of the detection optical unit is tilted relative to the optical axis of the transport optical unit. The sensor lines each extend in an orthogonal direction with respect to the optical axis of the transport optical unit. The detection optical unit has an anamorphic magnification system. A magnification of an anamorphic magnification system of the detection optical unit, in a direction lying orthogonal to the sensor lines, is less than in a direction lying parallel to the sensor lines.
US11500185B2
A near-eye optical element includes one or more infrared light sources and an optical structure. The one or more infrared light sources emit infrared beams. The optical structure includes an optically transparent material disposed over the emission aperture(s) of the infrared light source(s). The optical structure includes one or more facets that diverge the infrared beams.
US11500179B2
A high-resolution imaging lens proofed against high-temperature instability includes a first lens with a negative power, a second lens with a negative power, a third lens with a positive power, a fourth lens with a negative power, a fifth lens with a positive power, and a sixth lens with a positive power. The first to the sixth lenses satisfy conditions of F1<0; 0.8>|F2/F6|>0.6, F2<0, F6>0; −3>F4/F5>−2, and 2.0
US11500176B2
A lens assembly may include: a first lens having positive refractive power and including a convex subject side surface; a second lens; a third lens having negative refractive power and including a subject side surface being convex toward an image secsor side in a center portion thereof, through which an optical axis passes; a fourth lens having positive or negative refractive power; and a fifth lens having positive or negative refractive power. The first lens, the second lens, the third lens, the fourth lens, and the fifth lens may be sequentially arranged from a subject to an image sensor along the optical axis. The lens assembly may satisfy a condition defined by 0.6
US11500172B2
The disclosure provides an optical module comprising a first frame, a second frame, a pillar and an optical component. The first frame has an adjustment portion, and the adjustment portion has a guiding slot. The second frame is rotatably connected to the first frame along the first axis. The pillar is connected to the second frame and is disposed through the guiding slot. The pillar is configured to be subjected to force and swing in the guiding slot to drive the second frame to rotate around the first axis. The optical component is disposed on the second frame. In addition, a projector with the optical module is also disclosed, and the rotation angle of the optical component can be accurately adjusted by the optical module.
US11500166B2
A passive optical alignment coupling between an optical connector having a first two-dimensional planar array of alignment features and a foundation having a second two-dimensional planar array of alignment features. One of the arrays is a network of orthogonally intersecting longitudinal grooves defining an array of discrete protrusions that are each in a generally pyramidal shape with a truncated top separated from one another by the orthogonally intersecting longitudinal grooves, and the other array is a network of longitudinal cylindrical protrusions. The cylindrical protrusions are received in the grooves, with protrusion surfaces of the cylindrical protrusions in contact with groove surfaces and the top of the discrete protrusions contacting the surface bound by the cylindrical protrusions. The optical connector is removably attachable to the foundation to define a demountable coupling, with the first array of alignment features against the second array of alignment features to define an elastic averaging coupling.
US11500164B2
A LC type connector assembly with a push/pull cable boot integrally formed with a protrusion that accepts an adapter release for releasing a fiber optic connector from an adapter port.
US11500159B2
A first optical waveguide layer and a second optical waveguide layer are optically connected by a resin optical waveguide composed of a resin core composed of a light-transmitting resin and a cladding composed of air surrounding the resin core. A hollow outer wall structure that houses the resin optical waveguide is provided. An enclosed space is provided inside the outer wall structure. The outer wall structure is disposed to bridge the gap between the first optical device and the second optical device.
US11500153B2
A multi-chip package assembly includes a substrate, a first semiconductor chip attached to the substrate, and a second semiconductor chip attached to the substrate, such that a portion of the second semiconductor chip overhangs an edge of the substrate. A first v-groove array for receiving a plurality of optical fibers is present within the portion of the second semiconductor chip that overhangs the edge of the substrate. An optical fiber assembly including the plurality of optical fibers is positioned and secured within the first v-groove array of the second semiconductor chip. The optical fiber assembly includes a second v-groove array configured to align the plurality of optical fibers to the first v-groove array of the second semiconductor chip. An end of each of the plurality of optical fibers is exposed for optical coupling within an optical fiber connector located at a distal end of the optical fiber assembly.
US11500149B2
An optical fiber can include a core comprising silica co-doped with nitrogen and chlorine and an outer cladding surrounding the core. In some aspects, the core can be characterized by an annealing temperature of less than or equal to about 1150° C. and/or the core can include a relative refractive index Δcore in a range of from about 0.15% to about 0.45%.
US11500145B2
An antifouling layer stack comprising a first layer element, a silicone layer, and a second layer element. The silicone layer is a light guide for UV radiation, and may include embedded UV light sources. The first layer element is situated on a first surface of the silicone layer, and the second layer element is situated on a second surface of the silicone layer. The first and second layer elements differ in composition from the silicone layer. The first layer element facilitates transmission of the UV radiation from the silicone layer to an external medium, and may provide protection and improve the structural integrity of the stack. The second layer element may also provide protection and structural integrity. The second layer element may be reflective, and may provide an adhesive surface for attaching the stack to a vessel.
US11500143B2
An optical system is presented for use in an augmented reality imaging system. The optical system comprises a light directing device, and a projecting optical device. The light directing device is configured for directing input light, including light indicative of an augmented image to be projected and input light indicative of a real image of an external scene, to propagate to an imaging plane. The projecting optical device has a fixed field of view and has a plurality of different focal parameters at different regions thereof corresponding to different vision zones within the field of view. The projecting optical device is configured to affect propagation of at least one of light indicative of the augmented image and light indicative of the real image, such that, for each of the different regions, interaction of a part of the light indicative of the augmented image and a part of the light indicative of the real image with said region of projecting optical device directs the parts of augmented image light and real image along a substantially common output propagation path, corresponding to the focal parameter of said region.
US11500128B2
The document discloses transferrable hyperbolic metamaterial particles (THMMP) that display broadband, selective, omnidirectional absorption and can be transferred to secondary substrates, allowing enhanced flexibility and selective transmission. A device having metamaterial nanostructures includes a substrate and metamaterial nanostructures engaged to the substrate to form an optical layer to interact with light incident to the optical layer to exhibit optical reflection or absorption or transmission that is substantially uniform over a spectral range of different optical wavelengths associated with materials and structural features of the metamaterial nanostructures, each metamaterial nanostructure including different material layers that are interleaved to form a multi-layer nanostructure.
US11500124B2
Systems and methods of the present disclosure are directed to reservoir simulation modeling using upon rock compaction tables derived from physical pore compressibility tests. The illustrative methods transform rock mechanics-based pore compressibility tests into compliant rock compaction tables for reservoir simulators using Dimensionless Stress to Pore Pressure Conversion, to thereby transfer geomechanical changes due to confining stress into expressions of geomechanical changes due to pore pressure.
US11500122B2
A system can calculate estimated strain data for a fracture in a geological formation at each of a plurality of selected locations detectable by a strain measurement device. The system can receive real strain data from the strain measurement device for the geological formation. The system can perform a linear inversion to determine a probable distribution of fluid volume and hydraulic fracture orientation in the geological formation based on the estimated strain data and real strain data. The system can determine adjustments for a fracturing operation based on the linear inversion.
US11500116B2
Methods and systems, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium can be used for identifying primary-wave (P-wave) and secondary-wave (S-wave) characteristics of an underground formation by separating P-wave and S-wave modes of seismic data generated by applying a seismic source to a subterranean region of a geological area. Particle motion vectors of a P-wave are parallel to a propagation vector of the P-wave, whereas particle motion vectors of an S-wave are perpendicular to a propagation vector of the S-wave. The parallel and perpendicular relationship between the motion and propagation vectors of the respective P- and S-waves provide a basis for separating P- and S-wave components from a wavefield. The separation methodology extracts P-wave components and S-wave components from the wavefield based on an estimated angle between propagation vectors and wave motion vectors for the wavefield.
US11500109B2
A computer architecture for geolocation spoofing/meaconing detection is disclosed. According to some aspects, a computer accesses an incoming geolocation positioning signal. The computer determines, using a signal characteristics calculation subsystem, geolocation positioning signal characteristics for the incoming geolocation positioning signal. The computer provides, using a geolocation positioning spoofing/meaconing detection subsystem, the geolocation positioning signal characteristics as an input vector to a neural network, wherein the neural network determines whether the incoming geolocation positioning signal is legitimate or fake. If the incoming geolocation positioning signal is determined to be fake: the computer computes, using a Bayesian inference subsystem, a likelihood and a severity of a geolocation positioning technology based attack. The computer provides, as a digital transmission, an indication of whether the incoming geolocation positioning signal is legitimate or fake.
US11500103B2
A mobile terminal including a display configured to display a rotatable graphic interface; a Time of Flight (TOF) camera configured to obtain a depth image of an object; and a controller configured to control the TOF camera to enter a rotation detection mode based on the object included the depth image, obtain a relative rotation amount of a plurality of specific points of the object included in the depth image, and rotate the graphic interface on the display based on the obtained relative rotation amount.
US11500091B2
An improved non-line-of-sight camera provides for real-time evaluation of a relay wall with respect to illuminated points and sensing areas for higher accuracy and practical field use. Gated sensing allows improved recovery of faint photon signals and higher resolution. The system allows an operator to a find virtual camera from looking around multiple corners.
US11500084B2
An object detection method includes: obtaining a first offset value and a second offset value, setting a first detection threshold value by adding the first offset value to a first reference threshold value, setting a second detection threshold value by adding the second offset value to a second reference threshold value, obtaining a detection input, and performing target detection upon the detection input according to at least the first detection threshold value and the second detection threshold value. The first offset value is different from the second offset value. The first reference threshold value is determined for detecting if at least one object with a first value of an object characteristic exists. The second reference threshold value is determined for detecting if at least one object with a second value of the object characteristic exists. The second value is different from the first value.
US11500080B2
An axis deviation detection device includes: a first detection unit that detects a first object from pickup information acquired by a camera disposed in an interior of a vehicle cabin of a vehicle; a second detection unit that detects a second object from point information acquired by a LIDAR disposed in an exterior of the vehicle cabin of the vehicle; and an axis deviation angle estimation unit that estimates an axis deviation angle of the LIDAR to the camera, and that estimates that the axis deviation angle of the LIDAR to the camera is a predetermined angle, in a case where a result of comparison between a detection result of the first detection unit and an after-rotation detection result from rotating a detection result of the second detection unit by the predetermined angle about an attachment position of the LIDAR on the vehicle satisfies a predetermined condition.
US11500067B1
Various lens designs for use in Time of Flight (ToF) sensor systems are discussed. Improvements to a ToF sensor system may be realized by, for example, incorporating a lens having particular features, such as a relatively short track length, fast lens speed (e.g., low f-number), low telecentricity, relatively flat field illumination, and fairly low cost. In some examples, such a lens of a ToF sensor system may be a lens assembly having a fixed focal length and that avoids use of lenses having aspheric surfaces so as to achieve relatively low cost.
US11500066B2
A LiDAR-integrated lamp device for a vehicle, wherein a headlamp and a LiDAR system are mounted at the same position, such that the layout may be reduced and the number of parts may be decreased by sharing and combining parts, reducing the manufacturing cost.
US11500065B2
A distance measuring device for measuring the distance to an object is provided, including a light-emitting module, a driving assembly disposed in the light-emitting module, and a light-receiving module. The light-emitting module has a housing, a light source disposed in the housing, a light grating element, and an optical path adjuster. The light source emits a measuring light through the optical path adjuster and the light grating element. The driving assembly can drive the optical path adjuster or the light grating element to move relative to the housing. The light-receiving module receives the measuring light which is reflected by the object to obtain distance information of the object.
US11500064B2
A MEMS board assembly, a LiDAR system including the same, and a method for making the same are disclosed. The exemplary MEMS board assembly includes a MEMS board having a plurality of through holes and a mount having a plurality of threaded holes. The MEMS board assembly further includes a plurality of spring-loaded posts each formed by fitting a spring into a respective post. The plurality of spring-loaded posts are fitted into the plurality of threaded holes of the mount. The MEMS board assembly also includes a plurality of screws fitting the MEMS board to the mount by reaching into the plurality of threaded holes of the mount through the plurality of through holes in the MEMS board and the plurality of spring-loaded posts. The MEMS board touches the plurality of spring-loaded posts at the plurality of through holes in the MEMS board corresponding to the plurality of threaded holes of the mount respectively.
US11500063B2
Among other things, we describe techniques for detecting objects in the environment surrounding a vehicle. A computer system is configured to receive a set of measurements from a sensor of a vehicle. The set of measurements includes a plurality of data points that represent a plurality of objects in a 3D space surrounding the vehicle. The system divides the 3D space into a plurality of pillars. The system then assigns each data point of the plurality of data points to a pillar in the plurality of pillars. The system generates a pseudo-image based on the plurality of pillars. The pseudo-image includes, for each pillar of the plurality of pillars, a corresponding feature representation of data points assigned to the pillar. The system detects the plurality of objects based on an analysis of the pseudo-image. The system then operates the vehicle based upon the detecting of the objects.
US11500057B2
Methods, apparatus and systems for wirelessly tracking keystrokes on a surface are described. In one example, a described system comprises: a transmitter configured for transmitting, using a transmit antenna, a first wireless signal through a wireless channel of a venue including the surface; a receiver configured for receiving, using a plurality of receive antennas, a second wireless signal through the wireless channel, wherein the second wireless signal comprises a reflection of the first wireless signal by at least one moving object in the venue; and a processor. The processor is configured for: obtaining, regarding each receive antenna, a time series of channel information (CI) of the wireless channel based on the second wireless signal, detecting at least one keystroke on the surface based on the time series of CI (TSCI) obtained regarding each receive antenna, determining at least one location of the at least one keystroke on the surface, and determining at least one key associated with the at least one keystroke based on the at least one location.
US11500053B2
A radiofrequency (RF) localization system can include an RF sensing component, a signal-processing module and a visualization element. A plurality of antennas mounted on a belt, or on a helmet, or at least one extendable antenna attached within a backpack could be used for the RF sensing component. The signal-processing module can receive an RF Signal-of-Interest (SOI), and can further compute localization information for the RF SOI such as line of bearing, signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), and SSID information. The visualization element can be an augmented reality (AR) visor mounted on the helmet, or AR glasses. The signal-processing module can be mounted to the helmet, visor, or glasses, as applicable. The RF sensing component, signal module and said visualization element can be worn by the user, and can cooperate to provide hands free RF localization information in an AR format to an end user.
US11500051B2
A magnetic resonance tomography system has an interference suppression transmitter and an interference suppression antenna. The interference suppression transmitter is configured to output an interference suppression signal via the interference suppression antenna as a function of a transmission interference suppression parameter determined from a patient property. In a predetermined region of an environment of the magnetic resonance tomography system, a field strength of the excitation pulse is reduced by destructive interference.
US11500050B2
A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system includes a superconducting magnet assembly with a superconducting field coil for generating a stationary uniform main magnetic field. A gradient system includes a gradient coil for generating gradient magnetic fields and a gradient amplifier which is connectable to the gradient coil for driving the gradient coil. A switch assembly is adapted for galvanically coupling the superconducting field coil to the gradient amplifier. In this way, it is possible for energizing and discharging a superconducting magnet of an MRI system in an easy and cost-efficient way.
US11500044B2
A method of enhancing the nuclear spin polarization of target molecules (10) uses a hyperpolarized source material (12) that is co-confined with the target molecules (10) in a porous molecular matrix (20). The matrix (20) may be a D4R-polysiloxane copolymer such as polyoligosiloxysilicone number two (PSS-2) that has recesses of an appropriate diameter. A source material (12), such as parahydrogen, is transferred to the matrix (20) together with the target molecules (10), and an external pressure is applied to force them into the recesses of the matrix (20). The nano-confinement of the source material (12) and target molecules (10) together enables or enhances a transfer of spin polarization from the source material (12) to the target molecules (10). When the target molecules (10) are removed from the matrix (20), the enhanced spin polarization greatly enhances the signal strength of the target molecules (10) in any subsequent magnetic resonance measurement.
US11500038B2
An example of a sensor for determining a direction of a magnetic field comprises at least one magnetoresistive sensor element for determining the direction of the magnetic field, and at least one further sensor element of another type which is suitable for determining the direction of the magnetic field.
US11500027B2
Disclosed is a method and apparatus for testing an internal short of a secondary battery by simulating the use environment situation where the secondary battery is actually used, and a secondary battery for an internal short test, which is used in the method. The method for testing an internal short of a secondary battery includes the steps of mounting a P-N junction diode in a secondary battery; charging the secondary battery; and evaluating a state of the secondary battery by considering that an internal short occurs in the secondary battery when the P-N junction diode is switched on.
US11500023B2
A battery state determination system is a battery state determination system including an in-vehicle device and a server device, the in-vehicle device includes an acquisition part acquires physical quantity data showing a physical quantity related to a state of a battery mounted in a vehicle, an observation part that observes a feature related to a state change of the battery on the basis of the physical quantity data at a plurality of different observation times, and a transmission part that transmits a plurality of pieces of feature data which expresses the feature observed each observation time to the server device, and the server device includes a reception part that receives the plurality of pieces of feature data transmitted from the in-vehicle device, and a diagnosis part that diagnoses a deterioration state of the battery on the basis of the plurality of pieces of feature data.
US11500021B2
A method can be used to test an electronic circuit. The method includes applying a test stimulus signal to the input node, collecting a sequence of N-bit digital test data at the output port. The N-bit digital test data is determined by the test stimulus signal applied to the input node. The method also includes applying N-bit to R-bit lossless compression to the N-bit digital test data to obtain R-bit compressed test data (R is less than N) and making the R-bit compressed test data available in parallel format over R output pins of the circuit.
US11500019B2
In some embodiments, a method may include an area-aware optimization for the test patterns. The method may include dividing the chip area into a grid. The grid may be based on the smallest particle size. The method may include preparing test patterns and identifying a subset of test patterns that touch all of the grid locations. The subset may include a minimum number of test patterns from the prepared test patterns which when implemented exercise the all of the grid locations. The method allows to more quickly determine chips that fail due to extrinsic defects. Once a test fails during the testing process for a chip, testing on the chip is stopped and testing begins on the next chip. Rapidly identifying chips that fail due to extrinsic failures can decrease the overall test time and identify those that will fail quickly as the chip process matures and is dominated by extrinsic failures.
US11500016B2
A circuit screening system includes a target circuit under test, a power circuit, and a clock generating circuit. The target circuit under test receives a first testing signal in a first period, and a second testing signal in a second period, and the first testing signal is different from the second testing signal. The power circuit provides a supply voltage to the target circuit under test, wherein a voltage level of the supply voltage maintains at a first voltage level in the first period, is pulled up to a second voltage level and back to the first level after the first period, and maintains at the first voltage level in a second period after the first period. The clock generating circuit provides a clock signal to the target circuit under test, wherein the clock signal has different profiles in the first period and the second period.
US11500010B2
An integrated circuit with a switched signal path and circuitry configured to determine an anticipated specification current through the signal path.
US11499975B2
[Problem] To provide a method for acquisition of data able to serve as an index for determining the likelihood that an ovarian endometriosis cyst is cancerous. [Solution] This data acquisition method for determining the likelihood that an ovarian endometriosis cyst is cancerous includes an iron concentration measurement step for measuring the iron concentration in the cystic fluid of the ovarian endometriosis cyst. This diagnostic device for diagnosing the likelihood that an ovarian endometriosis cyst is cancerous is provided, at a minimum, with an iron concentration measurement unit for measuring the iron concentration in the cystic fluid of the ovarian endometriosis cyst.
US11499972B2
A method of characterizing a glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) stem cell (GSC), comprising culturing the GSC to provide a culture, contacting a first set of aliquots of the culture with individual compounds selected from a panel of compounds, identifying two or more of the selected compounds that cause more than a threshold level of cell death in the first set of aliquots, and characterizing the GSC as suitable for treatment with one or more combinations comprising the two or more identified compounds. A panel of chemical compounds, the compounds selected by a method comprising surgically resecting the tumor, culturing a GSC derived from GBM tissue derived from a GBM tumor, contacting aliquots thereof with individual compounds selected from a panel of compounds, and identifying two or more of the selected compounds that cause more than a threshold level of cell death in the aliquots, thereby identifying the compounds.
US11499967B2
The present invention relates to a specific protein marker and to a method for identifying the statistical distribution of protein stoichiometry. Novel specific protein markers and methods for their detection are needed in order to clarify important biological questions. This objective is established by means of a specific protein marker comprising two (separate) units, of which the first unit comprises a molecule for specifically binding to a protein and at least one chemically coupled molecule for binding to the second unit, and the second unit comprises a surface-modified nanoparticle, said surface-modified nanoparticle having a surface coating comprising at least one molecule for binding to the first unit.
US11499964B2
The present invention relates generally to the field of disorders of complement activation. More specifically, the present invention provides methods and compositions useful for diagnosing and treating atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome, antiphospholipid antibody syndrome and other disorders of the alternative pathway of complement activation. In one embodiment, a method comprises the steps of (a) incubating or contacting serum obtained from a patient suspected of having atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS) with a glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored protein (GPI-AP) deficient cell line; and (b) performing a cell viability assay on the cells from step (a). In a specific embodiment, the method further comprises the step of diagnosing the patient as having aHUS based on a statistically significant increased difference of non-viable cells from the patient serum as compared to a control.
US11499957B1
An evaluation method for residual hydrocarbon of post- to over-mature marine source rocks includes the following steps: establishing a hydrocarbon generation potential evolution profile and a hydrogen index evolution profile of post- to over-mature source rocks; determining a critical condition for hydrocarbon expulsion of the source rocks, and inverting original hydrocarbon generation potential of the source rocks; inverting a critical condition for hydrocarbon generation of the source rocks; establishing a hydrocarbon generation, expulsion and retention model for the source rocks; determining a hydrocarbon generation rate, a hydrocarbon expulsion rate and a hydrocarbon retention rate of the source rocks; and calculating a hydrocarbon retention intensity and residual hydrocarbon of the source rocks. The evaluation method establishes an evaluation model for residual hydrocarbon of post- to over-mature source rocks without relying on immature to sub-mature samples.
US11499955B2
A method includes receiving, using at least one processor, first sensor data pertaining to plant-related parameters of each of multiple first plants over time. The method also includes storing the first sensor data in at least one memory. The method further includes identifying, using the at least one processor, an issue affecting at least one of the first plants. The method also includes analyzing, using the at least one processor, at least some of the stored first sensor data to generate a predictive model associated with the issue. The method further includes receiving, using the at least one processor, second sensor data pertaining to plant-related parameters of each of multiple second plants. In addition, the method includes identifying, using the at least one processor, at least one of the second plants to receive one or more interventions by applying the predictive model to the second sensor data.
US11499953B2
Provided is a method and system for extracting features from raw data for machine learning processing. Using an array of gas sensors, raw data for at least one compound of interest are extracted based upon the type of output signals. Where the output signals are amplitude-variant, mean features are extracted by chunking the raw data into slices and calculating the mean area under the curve. Where the output signals are amplitude-and-time-variant, mean-plus-slope features are extracted by taking logarithmic values of the raw data and calculating the mean area under the curve.
US11499951B2
The disclosure provides systems and methods useful for predicting or detecting a malfunction in a chromatography process in real-time. In some embodiments, the disclosure provides systems and methods for detecting an atypical profile in a process chromatogram in ion-exchange chromatography of a biologic product.
US11499948B2
Described herein are devices and methods of use thereof, the devices comprising: a sample conduit providing a path for fluid flow extending from a sample inlet to a sample outlet; a thermal housing enclosing the sample conduit, the thermal housing comprising a plurality of measurement regions; and a motorized stage translatable along the thermal housing so as to align a detector with one or more of the plurality of measurement regions. The devices can continuously flow a fluid precursor sample from the sample inlet to the sample outlet, the fluid precursor sample comprising a first precursor and a second precursor, such that the first precursor reacts with the second precursor as the fluid precursor sample continuously flows from the sample inlet to the sample outlet to form the sample before reaching the sample outlet, wherein the sample comprises a plurality of particles or an organic molecule.
US11499943B1
Disclose herein is a portable platform based on a direct digital synthesizer (DDS) is investigated for the orthogonal SAW sensor, integrating signal synthesis, gain control, phase/amplitude measurement, and data processing in a small, portable electronic system. The disclosed platform allows for simultaneous removal of non-specific binding proteins, and mixing, as well as improved incubation time.
US11499924B2
Methods and systems for determining one or more characteristics of light in an optical system are provided. One system includes first detector(s) configured to detect light having one or more wavelengths shorter than 190 nm emitted from a light source at one or more first angles mutually exclusive of one or more second angles at which the light is collected from the light source by an optical system for illumination of a specimen and to generate first output responsive to the light detected by the first detector(s). In addition, the system includes a control subsystem configured for determining one or more characteristics of the light at one or more planes in the optical system based on the first output.
US11499923B2
Photonic errors in a photonic integrated circuit can be imaged using an on-chip light source integrated in a photonic layer of the circuit. The on-chip light source can generate light at wavelengths that propagates through one or more substrate layers to an image sensor sensitive to the wavelength range. The on-chip light source can be tunable and provide different power settings that can be utilized to detect different types of optical errors in the photonic integrated circuit.
US11499919B2
A method for determining sucrose concentration in honey. The method includes preparing a sample of honey, stimulating the sample by emitting a first laser beam on the sample in a first stimulation direction, detecting a fluorescence spectrum from a first fluorescence emission emitted from the sample in a first detection direction, detecting a first pair of fluorescence peaks and a second pair of peak wavelengths in the fluorescence spectrum, and determining a sucrose concentration based on one of the first pair and the second pair utilizing a database. The database includes a plurality of predetermined sucrose concentrations associated with the first pair or the second pair.
US11499907B2
Systems and methods are provided for counting particles in a fluid flow. In an aspect, coordinates of particles are obtained from video data of particles in a fluid, the video data made up of a sequence of image frames. The particle positions are linked in each pair of consecutive image frames of the video data. The linked particle positions are used to calculate particle trajectories through sequential image frames of the video data, and the particles are counted based on the particle trajectory. In another aspect, the particle positions within each image frame are transformed to estimated positions within a common coordinate frame. The estimated particle positions of a particle are grouped into a cluster center, and the particle count is calculated based on the cluster centers.
US11499903B2
A device for monitoring a bioreactor is configured for in-situ analysis, e.g., by NIR, without the need for withdrawing a sample into a sample cell or into an ex-situ arrangement. The device can be inserted into a port of the bioreactor and provides a sample detection region defined by an optical element such as a lens and a photodetector. The electrical signal obtained from a photodetector that is part of the device can be directed to an analyzer via a detachable electrical connection.
US11499902B2
A force sensing probe (100) for sensing snap-in and/or pull-off force of a liquid droplet (111) brought into and/or separated from contact with a hydrophobic sample surface (151), respectively, comprises: a sensing tip (101); a sensor element (102) connected to the sensing tip, capable of sensing sub-micronewton forces acting on the sensing tip in a measurement direction; and a droplet holding plate (104) having a first main surface (105) and a hydrophilic second main surface (106) connected via a peripheral edge surface (107), and being attached via the first main surface to the sensing tip (101) perpendicularly relative to the measurement direction for receiving and holding a liquid droplet (111) as attached to the second main surface; the droplet holding plate comprising an electrically conductive surface layer (115), the first and the second main surfaces and the peripheral edge surface being defined by the surface layer.
US11499899B2
The invention relates to a wear component of a milling machine, to a milling machine equipped with such a wear component, and to a method for determining the wear on a wear component. The wear component has associated with it at least one contactlessly readable electronic component for determining the wear on the wear component. Provision is made according to the present invention that at least one sensor is connected to at least one contactlessly readable electronic component for the transfer of data; that the contactlessly readable electronic component is embodied to receive measured data of the sensor and furnish them for contactless reading; and that at least one measurement portion of the sensor is guided, along at least one wear direction to be monitored, into a wear region or along the wear region of the wear component. The invention makes possible a better milling result as a result of optimized maintenance.
US11499898B2
Disclosed are an anisotropic mechanical expansion (anisotropic Poisson's ratio) substrate and a crack-based pressure sensor using the same. The substrate having an anisotropic Poisson's ratio includes a first layer having linear concave and convex patterns arranged in parallel to each other on a surface thereof; and a second layer having linear convex and concave patterns respectively engaged with the linear concave and convex patterns of the first layer on a surface thereof, wherein the first layer and the second layer are stacked with each other so that the linear convex and concave patterns of the second layer are respectively engaged with the linear concave and convex patterns of the first layer, wherein an elastic modulus of the first layer is different from an elastic modulus of the second layer.
US11499896B2
A sample probe for sorptive sampling comprises an elongate body having a longitudinal axis defined along its length and a radial axis extending transverse to the longitudinal axis. A sorbent element formed of a sorbent material is secured to the body. The elongate body has an outer surface and a recess located along the length of the body that extends radially into the outer surface. The sorbent element is at least partially received within the recess of the body which mechanically locks the sorbent element to the body to prevent relative longitudinal movement of the sorbent element relative to the body.
US11499892B2
A computer-implemented method, a system, and at least one computer-readable storage device are provided. A measured value related to operation of a device is periodically received for each respective reporting period. If the measured value indicates unhealthy operation of the device, a distance of the measured value from a predetermined abnormal threshold is determined and stored in a data store. Based on the determined distance, a number of most recent reporting periods included in a window is determined. All stored distances determined from measured values received before the window of the most recent reporting periods are deleted from the data store. An occurrence of a device failure is determined based on the stored distances in the data store after the deleting. In response to determining the occurrence of the device failure, an action is performed.
US11499885B2
The invention concerns the field of container closure integrity (CCI) and the testing of CCI and relates to a device and a method for providing a displacement of a rubber stopper for leakage testing of a connection between the rubber stopper and a corresponding drug container which can be used for storing drugs under sterile conditions and which is closed by said rubber stopper.
US11499884B2
A device includes a sensor die, an electrical coupling, a substrate, a liquid detection unit, and a housing unit. The sensor die is coupled to the substrate via the electrical coupling. The liquid detection unit electrically is coupled to the sensor die. The housing unit and the substrate are configured to house the sensor die, the liquid detection unit, and the electrical coupling. The housing unit comprises an opening that exposes the sensor die to an environment external to the housing unit. The liquid detection unit detects presence of liquid within an interior environment of the housing unit. In some embodiments, the device further includes a gel filled within the interior environment of the housing unit covering the sensor die and the substrate. The gel, e.g., silicone, fluoro silicone, etc., is configured to protect the sensor die, the electrical coupling, and the substrate from exposure to the liquid.
US11499878B2
A strain body of a force sensor according to the present invention includes a tilting structure disposed between a force receiving body and a support body, a force-receiving-body-side deformable body connecting the force receiving body and the tilting structure, and a support-body-side deformable body connecting the tilting structure and the support body. The tilting structure includes a first tilting body that extends in a second direction orthogonal to a first direction and that is elastically deformable by the action of force in the first direction.
US11499877B2
A strain gauge includes a flexible substrate; and resistors each formed of a Cr composite film. The resistors include a first resistor and a second resistor that are formed on one side of the substrate, and include a third resistor and a fourth resistor that are formed on another side of the substrate. The first resistor, the second resistor, the third resistor, and the fourth resistor constitute a Wheatstone bridge circuit.
US11499873B2
A method for determining a temperature of an object includes contacting the object with a first electrical conductor. A difference in electronegativity between the object and the first electrical conductor is greater than a predetermined value. The method also includes contacting the object or a substrate on which the object is positioned with a second electrical conductor. A difference in electronegativity between the object or the substrate and the second electrical conductor is less than the predetermined value. The method also includes connecting the first and second electrical conductors together. The method also includes measuring the temperature of the object using the first and second electrical conductors. The first and second electrical conductors form at least a portion of a thermocouple.
US11499870B2
An imaging spectropolarimeter for examining targets with polarized light, the spectropolarimeter including a light source adapted to produce polarized light directed at a target. Embodiments also include a three-camera camera system defining a three-camera camera axis with a first camera unit comprising a first analyzer set at 0°, a lens and a first multi-pixel sensor, a second camera unit comprising a second analyzer set at 45°, a lens and a second multi-pixel sensor, and a third camera unit comprising a third analyzer set at 90°, a lens and a third multi-pixel sensor. At least two beam splitters adapted to direct a portion of polarized light reflected from the target to each of the first, second and third camera units. Preferred systems include a processor adapted to produce polarimetric images of the target utilizing intensity information collected by the multi-pixel sensors.
US11499861B2
A radar module for level and/or limit level monitoring in plant automation, comprising a radar signal source that generates and transmit a radar signal, the radar signal source having a surface facing a filling material, a radar signal conductor that receives, conducts and emits the radar signal, the radar signal conductor being mounted on the surface of the radar signal source, and a potting compound that at least partially covers the surface of the radar signal source and at least partially covers the radar signal conductor.
US11499856B2
Systems and methods for predicting, detecting, and/or mitigating a pipe freeze are provided. A system for analyzing water in a plumbing system includes a sensor that is configured to measure pressure within a pipe in the plumbing system as a function of time, and a processor that is configured to determine a state of water within the pipe by analyzing the pressure within the pipe as a function of time. The state of the water includes a prediction that the water within the pipe will freeze and/or a determination that the water within the pipe has frozen. The sensor is arranged at a first location within the plumbing system that is remote from a second location within the plumbing system that corresponds to the state of the water.
US11499854B2
Provided is a physical quantity detection device capable of improving noise performance of a flow rate detection unit as compared with the related art. The physical quantity detection device 20 includes a plate-like chip package 208 that is arranged to protrude from the flow path of the measurement target gas and has a width W along the flow direction of the measurement target gas. The chip package 208 includes a flow rate detection unit 205, an accelerating flow path 208c, a measurement surface 208a, a non-measurement surface 208b, and a separation flow portion 208d. The cross sectional area of the accelerating flow path 208c is reduced, and the flow rate detection unit 205 is arranged. The separation flow portion 208d partitions the second sub-passage 234b into a measurement flow path facing the measurement surface 208a and a non-measurement flow path facing the non-measurement surface 208b. In the width direction Dw of the chip package 208, the end portion 208ce of the accelerating flow path 208c and the end portion 208de of the separation flow portion 208d are separated from each other.
US11499851B2
Methods and systems for sensor fusion as a service include receiving a sensor fusion intent descriptive of desired data from a specified environment; determining candidate sensors present in the specified environment that may be used to obtain at least a portion of the desired data; and transforming the sensor fusion intent into a sensor fusion manifest by selecting a plurality of the candidate sensors to obtain respective output data, and by defining at least one action to fuse the respective output data into the desired data, wherein the sensor fusion manifest includes an identification of the selected candidate sensors and the at least one action to fuse the respective output data from the selected candidate sensors into the desired data.
US11499844B2
A proximity sensor having improved environmental compensation performance and an environmental compensation method in the proximity sensor are disclosed. The environmental compensation method and the proximity sensor advantageously reduce processing time, algorithm operation time, and power consumption by previously setting sensing values before sensing of sensors unlike a typical method in which compensation is carried out by multiplying factors obtained through software. Further, the environmental compensation method and the proximity sensor have an advantage of accurate compensation not only for linearly varying environmental factors but also non-linearly varying environmental factors.
US11499843B2
A target configured to be used with a position sensor for sensing a position of the target is described. The target includes at least one elongated conductive loop structure for allowing eddy currents to flow therein and configured to affect a magnetic field received from the position sensor in a preferred direction along the at least one elongated conductive loop structure.
US11499840B2
An accelerator position sensor according to the present invention is held inside a throttle grip of a vehicle rotationally operated by a driver. The accelerator position sensor includes: a magnet extended along a rotation axis of the throttle grip and configured to rotate in conjunction with the throttle grip; a magnetic detection unit arranged so as to face a predetermined face of the magnet; and a magnetic body arranged so as to face another face that is different from the predetermined face of the magnet. On the predetermined face and the other face of the magnet, respectively, mutually different numbers of magnetic poles are magnetized along a rotation direction of the magnet.
US11499825B2
Embodiments of the present invention are related to a slope detection system including a sensor with a user midsection clip, an accelerometer, a gyroscope, a short-range communication module, and a portable computing device with display and processor. The processor may include a calibration engine, a slope detection engine, a sensitivity gauge, a conversion engine, and a slope direction calculator. The calibration engine may be structured to initialize sensor data based on sensor midsection positioning relative to level ground and user movement. The slope detection engine may be structured to calculate slope relative to sensor calibration. The sensitivity gauge may be structured as a user adjustable offset of slope calculation. The conversion engine may be a user adjustable control made to calculate displayed slope in degrees or percentage. Lastly, the slope direction calculator may be structured to determine a left or right slope for display.
US11499823B2
A method for producing a measuring head housing for an integrated measuring system of a linear bearing of a profile rail guide includes providing a cover blank of a flat material with an adhesive layer and bending the cover blank to form a cover. A cover for a measuring head housing and a measuring head housing are also disclosed.
US11499821B2
A gauge inspection jig for performing an inspection easily and accurately in a reverse posture with a contact point facing upward when a gauge is inspected. The gauge inspection jig includes a body portion and a coupling portion. The body portion holds a member mounted to a body portion of the gauge. This holds the gauge in the reverse posture. The coupling portion is coupled to the body portion. The coupling portion is couplable to a distal end of a measurement spindle disposed on a gauge inspector to be movable in a measurement axis direction.
US11499819B2
A shape measurement method includes: acquiring first data of a change of a distance between a first probe and a calibration measurement object and acquiring second data of a change of a distance between a second probe and the calibration measurement object while moving the calibration measurement object in a first direction, the calibration measurement object being rotationally symmetric around an axis parallel to the first direction, the first probe and the second probe being arranged in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction; estimating an error of the movement included in the first data based on the first and second data; acquiring third data of a change of a distance between the first probe and a measurement object while moving the measurement object relative to the first probe in the first direction; and correcting the third data by using the error.
US11499818B2
Example embodiments include an optical assembly for an optical interrogation system having a single core or a multicore sensing fiber, a measurement fiber to couple light into the sensing fiber, and a reference fiber arranged with the measurement fiber as part of an optical interferometer. A beam splitter combines light from the sensing fiber and with light from the reference fiber. A polarization beam splitting prism separates the combined light into first polarized light and second polarized light that is orthogonal to the first polarized light. The optical assembly can substantially reduce the size, complexity, or cost associated with the traditional optical components in an optical interrogation system that it replaces. Other example optical assemblies are described. Embodiments describe optical interrogation systems using the example optical assemblies.
US11499812B2
Systems and methods are provided for detecting an enclosure alignment anomaly. Pressure data of a set period can be obtained from one or more piezoelectric sensors. The one or more piezoelectric sensors are installed in between an enclosure and a fixture of an autonomous vehicle. The pressure data of the set period can be processed over a period of time. One or more trends can be identified based on the processed pressure data.
US11499809B2
A tape measure including an elongate tape blade is shown. The tape measure includes a protective bumper that extends below the tape opening. The bumper is shaped to allow the tape hook to pivot during drop or impact to reduce the impact force experienced by the tape hook.
US11499799B2
A pistol mount assembly includes a clip body, a retaining body, a latch assembly and a locking cylinder. The clip body secures the retaining body to a person or object. The retaining body is optionally removable from the clip body and includes the latch assembly and the locking cylinder. At least one of the latch assembly and the locking cylinder pass within a trigger guard area of the firearm. The space between the trigger guard and the trigger is filled thereby preventing misfire. One or more latches or locking bolts are used to selectively overlap the trigger guard and/or trigger to prevent translation of the firearm off the retaining body. A two-tiered readiness function is realized through the pistol mount assembly. The assembly uses no holster but maintains effective securement of the firearm and is easily pulled at time of emergency.
US11499795B2
The present folding stock adapter can be used with many types of military-type assault rifles that typically comprise a receiver extension, buffer and action spring. The present folding stock adapter can be used to add a folding capability to a standard stock allowing it to fold against a rifle's receiver when the weapon is not in use, thus reducing the overall length of the weapon. This reduction in length can facilitate its maneuverability, storage and transport in cramped quarters. The present device can also allow for the quick unfolding of the stock in order to allow the weapon to function and fire normally.
US11499794B2
An adjustable stock system for a firearm can include a buttstock slider configured to be slidably attached to the firearm for moving relative to the firearm between a collapsed position and at least one extended position. The buttstock slider can include a plurality of buttstock grooves defined therein. The system can include a lower stock assembly that is configured to mount to a firearm and a latch assembly disposed within the lower stock assembly. The latch assembly is configured to be moveable between a latched position where the buttstock slider cannot slide relative to the firearm and an unlatched position where the buttstock slider is free to slide relative to the firearm. The latch assembly can include at least one latch tooth configured to mate with the plurality of buttstock slider grooves when the latch assembly is in the latched position. The latch assembly is biased to the latched position. The system includes an actuator assembly configured to move the latch assembly between the latched position and the unlatched position.
US11499792B1
A projectile launching device includes self-timing without cam lean. The projectile launching device preferably includes a rail, a riser, two energy storing components, (such as two limbs), two cams, a launch string, and at least two cables. The ends of the launch string are attached to the two cams. Opposing ends of first and second cables are coupled to the first and second cams. A mid-segment of the first and second cables are slidably engaged with the first and second cable pulleys, respectively. The two cams are preferably built as mirror images of each other at a centerline of the rail. The two cams include a launch string track, having identical, but mirrored, upper and lower cable tracks. A stop is formed on each cam to prevent the cam from being able to rotate in a direction opposite the direction of drawing, when the bow is at rest.
US11499789B2
Provided are a novel heat utilization system and heat generating device that utilize an inexpensive, clean, and safe heat energy source. A heat utilization system 10 includes a heat-generating element 14 configured to generate heat by occluding and discharging hydrogen, a sealed container 15 having a first chamber 21 and a second chamber 22 partitioned by the heat-generating element 14, and a temperature adjustment unit 16 configured to adjust a temperature of the heat-generating element 14. The first chamber 21 and the second chamber 22 have different hydrogen pressures. The heat-generating element 14 includes a support element 61 made of at least one of a porous body, a hydrogen permeable film, and a proton conductor, and a multilayer film 62 supported by the support element 61. The multilayer film 62 has a first layer 71 made of a hydrogen storage metal or a hydrogen storage alloy and having a thickness of less than 1000 nm and a second layer 72 made of a hydrogen a hydrogen storage metal different from that of the first layer, a hydrogen storage alloy different from that of the first layer, or ceramics and having a thickness of less than 1000 nm.
US11499781B2
A concentrate burner provided over a reaction shaft of a copper smelting furnace, is characterized by comprising: a raw material supply portion that supplies a starting material into the reaction shaft, the starting material including copper concentrate; and an additive supply portion that is provided separately from the raw material supply portion and supplies solid additive to the starting material.
US11499775B2
Described herein are methods and systems for liquefying natural gas using an open-loop natural gas refrigeration cycle; coil wound heat exchanger units suitable for cooling one or more feed streams, such as for example one or more natural gas feed streams, via indirect heat exchange with a gaseous refrigerant; and methods and systems for removing heavy components from a natural gas prior to liquefying the natural gas using an open-loop natural gas refrigeration cycle.
US11499766B2
An electronic expansion valve, a heat exchange system, and a control for controlling an electronic expansion valve. The electronic expansion valve includes: a valve body; a first temperature sensor configured to detect an evaporator temperature Teva; a second temperature sensor configured to detect a compressor inlet temperature Tsuc; a third temperature sensor configured to detect a compressor outlet temperature Tdis; a fourth temperature sensor configured to detect a condenser temperature Tcon; and a controller, which is associated with the first temperature sensor, the second temperature sensor, the third temperature sensor and the fourth temperature sensor, and which adjusts an opening degree of the valve body based on temperature signals from the first temperature sensor, the second temperature sensor, the third temperature sensor and the fourth temperature sensor.
US11499762B2
A heat exchanger exchanges heat between refrigerant flowing inside and air flowing outside. The heat exchanger includes: an upstream-side flat tube; downstream-side flat tubes on a downstream side of the upstream-side flat tube in a direction of air flow; and a space formation member that defines a distribution space in which the refrigerant coming out of the upstream-side flat tube is distributed to the downstream-side flat tubes.
US11499755B2
A transportation refrigeration unit (TRU) system is provided and includes a damper assembly configured to direct air flows through first or second pathways and an evaporator disposed in the first pathway, a coil element surrounded by phase change material (PCM) and disposed in the second pathway and a routing assembly configured to direct refrigerant through the evaporator or the coil element. With the PCM pre-cooled, the damper and routing assemblies are controllable to respectively direct the air flows through the first pathway and the refrigerant through the evaporator when first conditions are met and to respectively direct the air flows through the second pathway when second conditions are met.
US11499751B2
To facilitate a wall-mounted installation of multi-unit water heaters in a location with limited clear wall space, spacer brackets may be installed on the wall to extend a mounting surface away from a plane of the wall. A mounting bracket may be attached to the mounting surface of the spacer brackets. To reduce installation time and costs, a plurality of water heaters may be affixed to a frame prior to installation. A hot water, cold water, and fuel supply manifolds may be coupled to each hot water outlet, cold water inlet, and fuel supply inlet, respectively, of the plurality of water heaters. The mounting bracket comprises a mounting shelf configured to receive the frame, thereby securing the multi-unit water heater system to the wall. The multi-unit water heating system, the spacer brackets, and the mounting bracket may be provided as a kit.
US11499750B2
Provided is a gas furnace including a primary heat exchanger and a secondary heat exchanger through which a combustion gas produced by the combustion of a fuel gas flows. The gas furnace includes: a coupling box serving as an intermediary to connect the primary heat exchanger and the secondary heat exchanger; a collect box connected to the secondary heat exchanger, for letting in the combustion gas passed through the secondary heat exchanger; an inducer connected to the collect box, for inducing a flow of the combustion gas; and a bypass pipe connected to one side of the coupling box and including a bypass pipe for guiding the combustion gas passed through the primary heat exchanger to a hot water supply tank for supplying hot water to an indoor space.
US11499749B2
Provided is a heating blower, comprising an air duct, a motor and a wind wheel arranged in the air duct, and a heating device arranged at a first air outlet of the air duct; the wind wheel is fixed to a rotating shaft of the motor; the heating device comprises a housing, an electric heater and a moving assembly; the housing is sleeved on the first air outlet, forming an inner chamber, which comprises a first area facing directly to the first air outlet and a second area not facing directly to the first air outlet; the electric heater is arranged on the moving assembly, and moves between the first area and the second area along with the moving assembly, so that an airflow blown from the first air outlet switches between a state of passing the electric heater and a state of not passing the electric heater, and is blown out from a second air outlet provided at the housing.
US11499747B2
A water heater can include a baffle and a slab heat exchanger with at least two rows of heat exchanger tubes, each row comprising a plurality of heat exchanger tubes. At least one of the heat exchanger tubes comprises a tube and a plurality of fins on the exterior of the tube circumscribing the tube, wherein the outer edge of each fin of the plurality of fins is bent at least at the same three areas of each fin such that the bends form at least three flat or concave areas running along the length of the heat exchanger tube.
US11499746B2
A modular manifold for a tankless water heater includes a first cavity member having a first opening, a second opening, and a base wall; a second cavity member coupled to the first cavity member, the second cavity member having a first opening, a second opening, and a base wall; a first cover plate coupled to either the first cavity member or the second cavity member; and a second cover plate coupled to either the first cavity member or the second cavity member, wherein two openings in the first and second openings are covered by the first and second cover plates, respectively, and wherein the base walls of the first and second cavity members, the first and second cover plates, and the two openings in the first and second openings not covered by the first and second cover plates define a fluid flow path in the modular manifold.
US11499744B2
The present disclosure includes an HVAC system that includes a plurality of dampers each corresponding to one building zone of a plurality of building zones, a plurality of sensors each corresponding to the one of the plurality of building zones, and a control board communicatively coupled with the plurality of dampers and sensors. The control board includes a plurality of status light sources, each corresponding to one damper the plurality of dampers, a plurality of communication light sources each corresponding to one sensor of the plurality of sensors, and a microcontroller programmed to control operation of equipment in the HVAC system. The microcontroller is configured to perform “a hardware test mode” to facilitate diagnosis of the plurality of dampers by causing the plurality of status light sources to sequentially execute a first light scheme or a second light scheme in response to instructions to the plurality of dampers.
US11499742B2
There is provided a door mechanism comprising a door and a door closure mechanism for moving the door between a first, open, position and second, closed position. The door closure mechanism comprises a drive motor coupled to a drive screw, the drive screw having a first, right handed thread portion and a second, left handed thread portion, a first drive nut threadedly engaged with the first thread portion, a second drive nut threadedly engaged with the second thread portion, a first drive linkage pivotally coupled to the first drive nut at one end and to the door at a second, opposed end, and a second drive linkage pivotally coupled to the second drive nut at one end and to the door at a second, opposed end.
US11499740B2
An air-conditioning management apparatus includes: a storage unit that stores a schedule including a set time and a set temperature; a communication processing unit that communicates with the air-conditioning apparatus and receives operation status information including a heat medium temperature; and a controller that performs a schedule control to control the air-conditioning apparatus according to the schedule. The schedule control includes an optimal start-up control to control the air-conditioning apparatus such that an indoor space temperature reaches the set temperature at the set time, by starting an operation of the air-conditioning apparatus before the set time. The controller performs a preheating control or a precooling control to control the heat source unit such that before the optimal start-up control is started, the heat medium temperature included in the operation status information obtained from the air-conditioning apparatus falls within a target range including a previously set target heat medium temperature.
US11499731B2
A forced air handling system includes an automated monitoring system. A method of operating the automated monitoring system includes initiating a calibration mode of operation via a controller. A plurality of dampers may then close via the controller. Once closed, a duct in communication with the plurality of dampers may be pressurized. A first air flow measuring exiting each one of the plurality of dampers may be obtained by a flow sensor. The duct is then depressurized and a second airflow measurement is taken, via the controller, exiting each one of the plurality of dampers. The controller calculates a statistical difference between the first and second airflow measurements.
US11499727B2
An air conditioning apparatus includes a heat exchange device that connects an outdoor unit to an indoor unit and that includes a heat exchanger configured to perform heat exchange between refrigerant and water. The heat exchanger reduces an amount of refrigerant used to perform a cooling operation or a heating operation.
US11499708B2
A ventilation fan includes a fan module provided in a housing attached to an opening in a ceiling, a grille support mounted under the ceiling to correspond to the opening, a lighting module having base and an LED element provided in the base and configured to project light axial and radially, a plurality of columns connecting the grill support and the base to define an inlet facing radially, and a function module provided in a holding opening of the base.
US11499706B2
Aspects of the present invention generally relate to an apparatus that combines a light source, a speaker, and other electrical components in a single unit to produce lighting and sound effects. The apparatus may be sized and configured for use in a number of applications. Further, the apparatus may have a number of operating states that may include light and sound effects that correspond with one another.
US11499703B1
A decorative light strand having a power distribution modality in which a high voltage wire feeds a power wire which provides a supply voltage to light engines in an effective operational voltage range. The high voltage wire interfaces with the power wire through longitudinally distributed DC voltage regulators that step down a higher voltage to the operational voltage of a number of light engines. An equilibrium voltage is thus achieved such that all light engines are similarly powered. The decorative light elements may be light-emitting diode (LED) light engines with a chip-controlled red-green-blue (RGB) interface, which controls user perceived effects, such as on/off frequency, color, intensity, and color temperature of each light engine at any given time, thus achieving a wide variety of decorative effects. The decorative light strand includes a distribution wire and DC voltage regulator which enables long-strand lights of indiscriminate lengths for custom installations.
US11499701B1
A ceiling fan blade cover is provided. The device includes a flexible body and a lighting element. The flexible body includes a closed end and an open end. The open end defines an opening. The flexible body is designed to cover an individual ceiling fan blade. An attaching member is disposed on the flexible body. A fastener encircles the opening. The fastener secures the ceiling fan blade cover to the ceiling fan blade. In one embodiment, the fastener is an elastic band. In another embodiment, the fastener is an adjustable string with a slidable toggle. The lighting element includes a securing member that connects to the attaching member. The securing member secures the lighting element to the flexible body. The lighting element includes a transceiver which is operably connected to a controller. The controller may alter the color, pulsation, and intensity of illumination from the lighting element.
US11499696B2
A light emitting module including a substrate, a light emitting device disposed on the substrate, and a lens disposed above the light emitting device to disperse light, the lens including a light incident portion through which light emitted from the light emitting device enters the lens and a light exit portion through which the light exits the lens, in which each of the light incident portion and the light exit portion has a major axis and a minor axis in plan view, the major axis of the light incident portion is disposed at a right angle with respect to the major axis of the light exit portion, the lens includes a plurality of legs formed on a lower surface of the lens to support the lens, and at least one of the legs includes a leg protrusion protruding downwards from a lower surface thereof.
US11499695B2
An optical member includes: a body portion having a first upper surface, and a second upper surface that is located above the first upper surface and surrounds the first upper surface in a plan view; a phosphor member disposed on the first upper surface; and a hold-down portion configured to secure the phosphor member such that the phosphor member is interposed between the hold-down portion and the body portion.
US11499693B2
An encapsulated LED switch that incorporates a MOSFET power drivers, high current transistors, or other suitable power drivers in a PCB that attaches to the LED switch such that a low power LED switch controls the output of a high-power driver. The selected power driver PCB can be adapted to different load requirements by making simple changes. The PCB's can be interchanged to provide for a predetermined output power required for a particular application. In addition, the wire gauge size of the wires attached to the MOSFET power driver PCB can also be varied to match intended load requirements. For applications in which the LED switch is used in hostile environments, such as marine applications, the LED switch and its associated power driver PCB are encapsulated to protect the circuitry from environmental factors such as high humidity, salt water, etc.
US11499690B2
A lighting and/or signaling device comprising a container body which delimits a containment seat that houses a first luminous source adapted to emit a first luminous beam, and a second luminous source adapted to emit a second luminous beam. The containment seat adapted to be at least partially crossed by the luminous beams produced by said luminous sources, so as to transmit the luminous beams outside the containment seat. The containment seat is divided into a first compartment which houses the first luminous source and into a second compartment which houses the second luminous source. The lenticular body comprises a first transmission portion, facing the first compartment that transmits, at least partially, towards the outside the first luminous beam, a second transmission portion facing the second compartment that transmits, at least partially, towards the outside the second luminous beam. An opaque portion, is interposed between the first and second transmission portions so as to conceal the view of the first and second luminous sources.
US11499682B2
A light-emitting diode (LED) tube lamp comprising a tube, end caps with contact pins and located on both ends of the tube, a first rectifying circuit and a second rectifying circuit and a filtering circuit that are coupled with the contact pins on the two end caps respectively, and a switch circuitry that is located between the rectifying circuits and the filtering circuit characterized in that the switch circuitry is capable of detecting whether the LED tube lamp is correctly installed on a lamp socket so as to reduce the risk of electric shock.
US11499671B2
A bracket for hanging an item on a wall is disclosed. The bracket has one or more bracket apertures which are used to mount the bracket to the hanging item. The hanging item could be an item like a picture or a shelf. The bracket has a mounting aperture which is used to mount the hanging item on a nail or a screw. Adjacent to the mounting aperture is a pinhole having a set screw. To use the bracket the user unthreads the set screw from the pinhole opening. The user places the hanging item in its desired location on the wall and pushes the item against the wall so that the set screw marks a spot on the wall where the user should place a nail or a screw for hanging the item.
US11499669B2
A support structure supports a component mounted on a mounting surface of a structure by pressing the component to the mounting surface side and includes a first support tool and a second support tool used so that the component is pressed to the mounting surface side and supported and a fixing portion provided on the structure and fixing the first support tool and the second support tool. The first support tool and the second support tool are fixed to the same fixing portion.
US11499666B2
Embodiments described herein relate to a precision dynamic leveling mechanism for repeatedly positioning the pedestal within a process. The precision dynamic leveling mechanism includes bearing assemblies. Bearing assemblies having inner races forced against a pedestal assembly carrier and outer races forced against a guide adaptor provide nominal clearance between the inner races and outer races to allow the inner races and the outer races to slide on each other with minimal or no radial motion.
US11499664B2
A masking plug is provided for masking a hole in a part during a finishing operation. The masking plug includes an elongated shaft a first end terminating at a terminal surface and a second end. An outer surface of the shaft has external threads adjacent the first end thereof adapted for receipt in the hole. An enlarged body has a first end operatively connected to the shaft and a second operatively connected to a head. The diameter of the body is greater than the diameter of the shaft. The head has a polygonal configuration and is adapted for forming a mating relationship with a tool. The terminal surface of the shaft includes a hollow cavity formed therein which is configured to urge the outer surface of shaft radially outward in response to a pressure buildup in the cavity during the finishing operation so as to maintain the shaft in hole.
US11499657B2
A clamping system for connecting a first tube and a second tube, the clamping system including a collar which includes a belt able to be clamped around clamping surfaces of the first and second tubes, the belt has a first and a second flank between which an internal recess able to receive the clamping surfaces is delimited. The collar carries at least one retaining loop disposed outside the belt. The loop has a first end fastened to the collar and a second end which is free and which is located on the outer side of the first flank. The loop is able to adopt a position of active retaining configuration in which its second end protrudes towards the axis of the collar relative to the edge of the first flank, and to be deformed relative to this active configuration so that the second end is moved radially outwardly.
US11499654B2
Flexible pipe body, a flexible pipe and a method of manufacturing pipe body are disclosed. The flexible pipe body comprises a tensile armour layer and a supporting layer radially outside, or radially inside, and in an abutting relationship with the tensile armour layer. The supporting layer comprises a helically wound constraining tape element and a helically wound electrically conductive tape element.
US11499652B2
A valve assembly is provided, the valve assembly includes a shaft, the shaft comprising a sight through-hole; and a flow through-hole. The valve assembly further comprises a shaft position mechanism, the shaft position mechanism comprising a driving means configured to provide movement to the shaft, and at least one diode and at least one corresponding sensor. The valve assembly further includes at least one flow path from at least one fluid inlet to at least one fluid outlet, wherein the shaft is configured to move across the at least one flow path so as to allow flow therethrough in a first position, and to block the at least one flow path in a second position.
US11499651B2
A valve without position indicating switches. Positions of the valve are detected from current magnitude measurements and current profile analytics. The current profile may be learned initially and relearned and adapted at each operation. The valve may be opened and closed by a driver that is actuated by an electrical current to control the opening and closing of the valve. The current may be regulated by a controller to open and close the valve appropriately.
US11499636B2
A shaft seal assembly is configured for sealing, for example, a reciprocating axial-movement shaft. The shaft seal assembly includes an annular elastomeric seal body having at least one first sealing surface configured to sealing engage a shaft. A lubricant reservoir body includes a second sealing surface and comprises a polymer matrix having a porous structure containing micro-pores, wherein the micro-pores are filled with lubricating oil.
US11499629B2
Provided is a control device for a continuously variable transmission, which is capable of effectively preventing occurrence of surge pressure due to a stroke of a driven pulley being stopped by abutment. The control device for the continuously variable transmission includes a pressure regulating valve regulating an oil pressure of oil supplied from an oil supply source to a cylinder chamber of the driven pulley, a control valve controlling the pressure regulating valve, and a control part controlling the control valve. If the control part determines that a gear ratio of the continuously variable transmission is maximum, as a first condition, when an instructed oil pressure of the control valve for the pressure regulating valve is larger than an oil pressure of oil supplied from the pressure regulating valve to the driven pulley, a control for lowering the instructed oil pressure is performed.
US11499624B2
A gas turbine engine according to an example of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a propulsor section including a propulsor supported on a propulsor shaft, a turbine section including a turbine shaft, and an epicyclic gear train interconnecting the propulsor shaft and the turbine shaft. The epicyclic gear train includes a sun gear coupled to the turbine shaft, intermediary gears arranged circumferentially about and meshing with the sun gear, a carrier supporting the intermediary gears, and a ring gear including first and second portions each having an inner periphery with teeth intermeshing with the intermediate gears. The first and second portions have axially opposed faces abutting one another at a radial interface and respective flanges extending along the radial interface radially outward from the teeth. The first and second portions define a trough axially between and separating the teeth of the first portion from the teeth of the second portion. The first and second portions include facing recesses that form an internal annular cavity along the radial interface.
US11499619B2
A cam follower is provided. The cam follower includes a polycrystalline diamond element, including an engagement surface. The engagement surface of the polycrystalline diamond element is positioned on the cam follower for sliding engagement with an opposing engagement surface of a cam. The cam includes at least some of a diamond reactive material.
US11499617B2
An electronically locking differential assembly constructed in accordance to the present disclosure includes a differential casing, a first and second side gear, a lock actuation assembly and a lock detect mechanism. The lock actuation mechanism selectively moves between a locked state where the side gears are fixed for concurrent rotation and an unlocked state where the side gears rotate relative to each other. The lock detect mechanism detects whether the lock actuation mechanism is in the locked, unlocked state, and an intermediate position between the locked and unlocked state; then provides feedback to the driver on the state of the lock actuation mechanism.
US11499614B2
A tilger for a rotating body includes an annular body movably coupled to a rotatable portion of the rotating body. The tilger includes a spring interposed between the first annular body and the rotatable portion. Rotation of the rotatable portion relative to the annular body is to compress and decompress the spring. The tilger includes a ring positioned on an outer surface of the annular body and configured to expand as a rotational speed of the ring increases to decrease a total inertia of the annular body and the ring applied to the spring.
US11499611B2
An improved steering shaft assembly is provided. The steering shaft assembly further includes an output shaft that is rotatable with respect to the input shaft. The output shaft includes a rotary valve portion and a longitudinal portion. The steering shaft assembly further includes a torsion bar coupled to the input shaft and coupled to the output shaft distal from the input shaft. The steering shaft assembly further includes a mid-coupler extending around about the longitudinal portion of the output shaft and adapted to cooperate with the rotary valve portion of the output shaft. The steering shaft assembly further includes a screw mechanism extending about the longitudinal portion of the output shaft and adapted to cooperate with the mid-coupler. The screw mechanism is adapted to move laterally relative to the output shaft to maintain transfer of power from between output shaft and the screw mechanism despite misalignments therebetween.
US11499610B2
A motor stop mechanism for a motor including an output shaft includes a motor mounting surface to which the motor is attachable and a threaded drive shaft fixed to and rotatable with the motor output shaft. A trunnion threaded on the threaded drive shaft is displaceable between a retracted position and an extended position by forward and reverse rotation of the threaded drive shaft. A housing surrounds the threaded drive shaft and the trunnion, and a stop limit fixed to the housing defines the extended position of the trunnion. In use, when the trunnion reaches the stop limit, the motor is stopped.
US11499606B2
The invention relates to a roller for a chain which is constructed by a shell roller part and a core roller part, wherein the shell roller part comprises a first outer cylinder, a first inner cylinder which is positioned concentrically inside the first outer cylinder, and a bottom which is positioned at and connected to one end of the first inner cylinder and the first outer cylinder; and wherein the bottom is stretched from the first inner cylinder to the first outer cylinder; wherein the core roller part comprises a second outer cylinder, a second inner cylinder which is positioned concentrically inside the second outer cylinder, and a top which is positioned at and connected to one end of the second inner cylinder and the second outer cylinder; and wherein the top is stretched from the second inner cylinder to the second outer cylinder; wherein the core roller part is positioned concentrically in the space surrounded by the first inner cylinder, the first outer cylinder and the bottom.
US11499602B2
A torque transmitting device that can be rotatably mounted about an axis of rotation includes a series damper having a first damper unit, a second damper unit and a coupling unit. The first damper unit has a damper output side and the second damper unit has a damper input side. The coupling unit is arranged between the damper output side of the first damper unit and the damper input side of the second damper unit. The coupling unit has a first coupling part and a second coupling part, wherein the first coupling part and the second coupling part are arranged axially offset in relation to one another. The first coupling part connects the damper output side of the first damper unit to the second coupling part. The second coupling part connects the first coupling part to the damper input side of the second damper unit.
US11499595B2
A sealed actuator with internal clutching assembly including an output shaft, output detent ring, moving detent ring, and a wave spring, which is fit inside a sealed housing. The moving detent ring is able to move axially to the output shaft and the output detent ring is able to rotate on the output shaft. Intermeshing ramped teeth of these rings are held together by a wave spring and allow the output shaft to rotate and transmit torque of a motor through a main gear operably coupled to an output gear mounted on the output shaft to the outside of the housing. During predetermined high loads, the output and moving detent rings ramped teeth create an axial force that overcomes the load from the wave spring, which allows moving detent ring to disengage and output shaft to rotate freely to help prevent damage to the actuator.
US11499593B2
Various clutch adjusting assemblies for incorporating in drain cleaning machines are described. The assemblies enable adjustment or setting of a clutch in a drain cleaning machine without the use of tools.
US11499562B1
A waste gate assembly for a turbocharger includes a valve member formed by a valve shaft and an arm attached to an end of the shaft, the arm defining a through bore, an inner surface of the through bore defining an arm groove therein. A poppet for the valve has a pin whose outer surface defines a pin groove. A generally polygonal retaining ring of elastically deformable wire is installed partially in the arm groove and partially in the pin groove to retain the poppet on the pin, thereby attaching the poppet to the arm of the valve member. An anti-rotation feature prevents relative rotation of the poppet about the pin axis. Vertices of the retaining ring are in the arm groove, while sides of the retaining ring are in the pin groove. Once the retaining ring is pre-installed in the arm groove of the arm, the arm can be assembled to the poppet by a push-to-connect process.
US11499557B2
A welding system is provided that includes an engine, a compressor coupled to the engine, and a regulator coupled to the compressor and located on a control panel. Another welding system is provided that includes an engine, a compressor coupled to the engine and a monitor circuit configured to monitor the duration of operation of the compressor by monitoring engagement of the clutch. A pressure gauge configured to be coupled to a compressor is also provided.
US11499531B2
In a method, impulse response information indicative of an impulse response is determined based on an impulse introduced into a lightning conductor and characterized by an electromagnetic wave. The impulse response information representing at least a waveform and a travel time determined after the introduction of the impulse based on reflection thereof. Evaluation information is specified based on the determined impulse response information. The impulse response information is analyzed at least with respect to the represented waveform and travel time of the introduced and reflected electromagnetic wave. The evaluation information is indicative of whether or not the lightning conductor is functional. The determined evaluation information is output. Also disclosed are a device for practicing this method, a rotor blade for a wind turbine that includes at least one lightning conductor and a device for practicing the method, and a system with one or more devices for practicing the method.
US11499523B2
A system (24) and method are described herein for manufacturing a wind turbine blade (22) proximate to the final installation site of a wind turbine (10). The system (24) includes a creel (72) of feeders (74) configured to apply strengthening elements (62) onto a plurality of shell core sections (26) coupled together and fed through the creel (72). The shell core sections (26) include an external surface (56) with a plurality of external grooves (58) recessed into the external surface (56) such that the strengthening elements (62) are laid into the external grooves (58). The system (24) also includes a deposition station (78) configured to apply an outer surface material layer (82) in fluid form to cover the external surface (56) and the plurality of strengthening elements (62). A curing station (86) heats and consolidates the shell core sections (26), the strengthening elements (62), and the outer surface material layer (82) together into a final consolidated part, with the outer surface material layer (82) defining an external profile of the blade (22) following curing.
US11499516B2
Methods and systems are provided for selectively inhibiting a stop-start controller of a vehicle based on a predicted anxiety of a driver of the vehicle on a road segment that includes one or more road attributes associated with increased levels of anxiety. In one example, selectively inhibiting a stop-start controller of a vehicle based on a predicted anxiety of a driver of the vehicle includes determining a driver classification for a driver operating the vehicle; predicting an anxiety level of the driver at an upcoming traffic condition, based on the driver classification; and selectively inhibiting an upcoming engine idle-stop event based on the predicted anxiety level of the driver.
US11499514B2
A high pressure pump includes a housing with a chamber formed inside and a flow control valve and a discharge check valve installed in the chamber; a piston installed to operate up and down in an assembly hall formed in the housing to compress fuel in the chamber to a high pressure; a cylinder forming a gap between an inner circumferential surface and the piston and guiding reciprocation of the piston; and a support member seated on a stepped surface of the housing to surround an outside of the cylinder and configured to elastically support the housing and the cylinder, thereby reducing friction while preventing fuel leakage between the piston and the cylinder.
US11499508B2
A system and method operate by, while an engine is operating, automatically determining whether the engine is in a designated state for EGR cooler cleaning. The EGR cooler is operably coupled to the engine to receive hot EGR from an exhaust of the engine and to provide cooled EGR to an intake of the engine. The system and method also include, responsive to the engine not being in the designated state, automatically preventing a water pump system from introducing a cleaning liquid into a gas inlet of the EGR cooler.
US11499505B2
A flight test system uses a flight termination destruct charge that is configured to overpressurize a pressure vessel in a rocket motor to terminate thrust. The flight termination destruct charge is an electroexplosive detonator arranged on a final burn surface of a propellant contained in the pressure chamber. In a multi-pulse rocket motor, one of the pulses is ignited by the activation of the detonator. The activated detonator is configured to ignite the propellant grain without venting of the gas resulting from the burning of the propellant. Due to the burning of the propellant, the surface area in the pressure vessel is increased which causes increased pressure in the pressure vessel until a critical pressure is reached. When the critical pressure is reached, the rocket motor casing structural capabilities are exceeded. The overpressurized rocket motor casing then ruptures and thrust of the rocket motor is terminated.
US11499500B2
A component comprises a mounting surface to male with another component, a seal channel extending into the mounting surface, and retention tabs extending into the seal channel at or below the mounting surface, wherein the retention tabs are spaced from each other about a perimeter of the seal channel. A method for manufacturing a component comprises producing a component with a seal channel in a flat mate face and mounds of material adjacent the seal channel that extend away from the flat mate face, and deforming the mounds of material to form retention tabs extending into the seal channel.
US11499497B1
An engine assembly for a vehicle includes an engine and a turbocharger operatively connected thereto. A controller is configured to, based on at least one performance parameter associated with the vehicle, execute a pre-acceleration control sequence including: delaying ignition within the engine's cylinders to increase a temperature of exhaust gas discharged to the turbocharger and reduce a torque of the engine; deactivating at least one cylinder in a predetermined pattern to reduce the torque of the engine; actuating a throttle valve to increase air flow to the engine to (i) increase the torque of the engine, and (ii) increase a volume of exhaust gas discharged to the turbocharger; and increasing a volume of fuel injected by the fuel injectors into the cylinders so as to increase the torque of the engine thereby compensating at least in part reduction of the torque of the engine.
US11499495B2
A method is disclosed of controlling operation of a fuel injector in response to measuring a quantity of fuel injected by the fuel injector from a fuel accumulator to an engine cylinder during operation of a fuel pump that delivers fuel to the accumulator, comprising: determining an average pressure of the fuel accumulator during a first time period before a fuel injection event; predicting a mass of fuel delivered to the fuel accumulator during a pumping event (Qpump); determining an average pressure of the fuel accumulator during a second time period after the fuel injection event; estimating a leakage of fuel; computing the injected fuel quantity by adding the average pressure during the first time period to Qpump, and subtracting the average pressure during the second time period and the leakage; and using the computed injected fuel quantity to control operation of the fuel injector.
US11499482B2
A planetary gear train speed reduction gear planetary carrier (130) assembly and an elastically deformable annular member (160), for a turbine engine, in particular for an aircraft. The planetary carrier (130) has a general annular shape about an axis X. The annular member (160) extends about the axis X, and is fixed to the planetary carrier and configured to be fixed to a stator element (162) of the turbine engine ensuring a flexible connection between the planetary carrier and the stator element. The planetary carrier carries a series of protruding teeth (180) extending substantially radially outwards with respect to the axis X. Each of these teeth has first opposite side faces (180a, 180b) extending into planes passing through the axis X capable of engaging by abutment in the circumferential direction with the stator element. A vibration absorption system is inserted between the first faces and the stator element.
US11499480B2
A combustor cap assembly, combustor and related method are disclosed. The combustor cap assembly includes: an impingement plate defining a plurality of impingement cooling holes with a first side of the impingement plate in fluid communication with a cooling air plenum. The assembly also includes a combustor cap plate coupled to the impingement plate, such that an impingement air plenum is defined between a second side of the impingement plate and the combustor cap plate. Tubes extend from at least a portion of the plurality of impingement cooling holes at the second side of the impingement plate and extend partially towards the combustor cap plate through the impingement air plenum. The plurality of impingement cooling holes provides for fluid communication between the cooling air plenum and the impingement air plenum through the tubes.
US11499476B2
A gas turbine engine includes a buffer system that communicates a buffer supply air to a portion of the gas turbine engine. The buffer system includes a first bleed air supply having a first pressure, a second bleed air supply having a second pressure that is greater than the first pressure, and a valve that selects between the first bleed air supply and the second bleed air supply to communicate the buffer supply air to the portion of the gas turbine engine.
US11499473B2
A compressor for an intake section of an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle includes an electric motor which has a stator and a rotor where the rotor is drivable by the stator and is rotatable about an axis of rotation relative to the stator. An impeller is drivable by the rotor to compress air which is flowable through the intake section and which is to be supplied to a combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine. The rotor is a brushless external rotor such that at least one length region of the stator is disposed in at least one length region of the rotor.
US11499469B2
Apparatus for controlling engine cooling of a vehicle, a system having the same and a method thereof
An engine cooling control apparatus, a system including the same, and a method thereof provide an engine cooling control apparatus including a processor configured to calculate a required fan rotation speed for controlling a cooling fan based on proportional integral (PI) control and a storage configured to store data acquired by the processor and an algorithm for driving the processor. The processor classifies a plurality of control regions depending on a coolant temperature and adjusts and outputs the required fan rotation speed for each of the control regions.
US11499461B2
An after treatment system (ATS) for a vehicle includes, fluidly connected in series, an inlet, a urea mixer and an outlet. The inlet is fluidly connected to an output of an engine of the vehicle and the outlet is fluidly connected to an outlet tube of the vehicle. The urea mixer is provided with a dosing module, an inner element and an outer element. The inner element is configured such that a first flow of exhaust gas flow flowing from the inlet into the urea mixer flows into an first volume defined by the inner element. The outer element is configured such that a second flow flows in a volume defined between inner element and outer element, wherein the first and second flows rejoin together in a mixing chamber fluidly connected to the volume and to the first volume downstream with respect inner and outer elements.
US11499457B1
An exhaust aftertreatment device includes a catalyst assembly having an electrically conductive carrier matrix and first and second electrodes. The first and second electrodes have terminals attached on opposing sides of the catalyst assembly to be electrically connected to each other through the carrier matrix and configured to generate heat. A first elongate heat sink extends axially along the first electrode and is configured to absorb a portion of the heat to mitigate formation of hotspots.
US11499449B2
A gas turbine module includes a gas turbine that has a gas turbine rotor and a turbine shell; an inlet plenum that is connected to an inlet of the gas turbine; an exhaust plenum that is connected to an exhaust of the gas turbine; an enclosure that covers the gas turbine; and a common base on which the gas turbine, the inlet plenum, the exhaust plenum, and the enclosure are mounted. When moving the gas turbine, the gas turbine module is moved together.
US11499443B2
A gas turbine engine includes a ceramic wall for bounding an engine core gas path. The ceramic wall has a ceramic wall first side that faces the engine core gas path and a ceramic wall second side that faces away from the engine core gas path. There is a metallic wall adjacent the ceramic wall second side. The metallic wall has a metallic wall first side that faces the ceramic wall and a metallic wall second side that faces away from the ceramic wall. The metallic wall and the ceramic wall are spaced apart such that there is a channel there between. There is a seal on the ceramic wall second side, and the metallic wall has at least one cooling hole adjacent the seal for emitting cooling air to cool the seal.
US11499439B2
A double flow turbojet including: a low pressure compressor; a series of casings downstream of this low pressure compressor to delimit a primary flow path for circulating a primary stream, and including an upstream edge delimiting an inlet opening; a high pressure compressor in the primary flow path; a shroud surrounding the series of casings to delimit a flow path for circulating an intermediate stream, and having an upstream edge delimiting a circular inlet opening situated upstream of the high pressure compressor; a secondary flow path casing surrounding the shroud to delimit a secondary flow path for circulating a secondary stream; an exhaust casing including radial arms collecting the air coming from the intermediate flow path.
US11499438B2
A turbine vane, a turbine, and a gas turbine capable of reducing thermal stress are provided. The turbine vane may include an airfoil including a leading edge and a trailing edge, an inner shroud disposed at one end of the airfoil to support the airfoil, an outer shroud disposed at the other end of the airfoil to support the airfoil and configured to face the inner shroud, a first cooling passage and a second cooling passage configured to extend in a height direction thereof, and a first passage bending part configured to connect the first cooling passage and the second cooling passage, and the first passage bending part is positioned inside the inner shroud or the outer shroud.
US11499435B2
A stator vane includes a blade body, an outer shroud, and an impingement plate. The outer shroud includes a recess. The impingement plate forms a cavity inside the recess. A communication hole is provided in the impingement plate and the outer shroud. In the impingement plate, a plurality of through holes through which an outer space and a cavity communicate with each other are formed. A second region in which an opening ratio is large and a first region in which an opening ratio is small exist in a surface of the impingement plate.
US11499434B2
In one embodiment, an airfoil includes an airfoil body portion, an airfoil tip portion disposed radially outward of the airfoil body portion, an airfoil root portion, and a plurality of radial cooling passages extending through the airfoil body portion from the root portion to the tip airfoil portion. The airfoil body portion and the airfoil tip portion are joined at a braze interface or a weld interface. The airfoil tip portion includes at least one manifold fluidly connecting at least one radial cooling passage to at least one other radial cooling passage.
US11499430B2
A turbine rotor blade includes: a root portion fixed to a rotor shaft; and an airfoil portion including a pressure surface, a suction surface, and a top surface connecting the pressure surface and the suction surface, with a cooling passage formed inside the airfoil portion. The top surface of the turbine rotor blade includes a leading edge region located on the leading edge side and formed parallel to the rotor shaft, and a trailing edge region adjacent to the leading edge region. The trailing edge region has an inclined surface inclined radially inward toward a trailing edge.
US11499428B2
A rotor balancing method for a gas turbine having a rotor with a first correction plane and a second correction plane, wherein a first balancing weight is attached to the first correction plane. The method includes performing a first influence run wherein first balancing weight remains fitted for the subsequent second influence run; fitting a first calibration weight to the second correction plane using a reference influence vector; performing a second influence run; removing the first calibration weight from the rotor and calculating an influence vector of the second correction plane using a first set of vibration measurements and a second set of vibration measurements taken during the first influence run and the second influence run, respectively; and carrying out balancing of the rotor by fitting a final balancing weight to the first correction plane and a second balancing weight to the second correction plane using the calculated influence vectors.
US11499420B2
Methods and systems for generating pulses in drilling fluid are described. The methods include driving rotation of a rotor relative to a stator of a pulser assembly in an oscillatory manner. The oscillatory manner includes rotating an obstructing element from a middle position to a first blocking angle position and rotating the obstructing element from the first blocking angle position to a second blocking angle position such that selective obstruction occurs. Rotation of the at least one obstructing element selectively obstructs a stator flow passage when drilling fluid is flowing through the drill string to generate a pressure pulse in the drilling fluid and the oscillatory manner is an oscillation of the obstructing element between the first blocking angle position and the second blocking angle position such that a single oscillation is between two obstructed states of the stator flow passage.
US11499408B1
Methods and systems for treating a subterranean formation. An example method performs a wellbore operation with a first treatment fluid, removes a flammable gaseous hydrocarbon from a well penetrating the subterranean formation; wherein the well is disposed on a wellsite, introduces the flammable gaseous hydrocarbon into a gas-to-liquid reactor located on the wellsite to produce an oleaginous liquid, produces a second treatment fluid comprising the oleaginous liquid at the wellsite, and introduces the second treatment fluid into the well.
US11499391B2
A dissolvable untethered object for use inside a well fluid includes an internal cavity and a fluid entry point. The internal cavity contains a gas. The fluid entry point is closed and selectively openable so that the internal cavity can be filled with the well fluid flowing through the fluid entry point. A dissolving rate of the dissolvable untethered object is modified after contact of the well fluid inside the internal cavity with the dissolvable untethered object.
US11499385B2
A releasable locking assembly including a housing, a body defining a longitudinally extending flow bore having a first end and a second end disposed within the housing, a window defined through a radial wall of the body, a locking segment having an outer convex surface of a first radius defined by distance from a first axis, and an inner concave surface of a second radius defined by distance from a second axis different than the first axis, the locking segment disposed at least in part in the window, and a support member disposed within the body and moveable between a position where the support member drives the locking segment into engagement with the housing and a position where the support member unsupports the locking segment with regard to engagement with the housing.
US11499380B2
This disclosure includes riser-component assemblies and methods of assembling the same that are suitable for managed pressure drilling (MPD) systems. For example, this disclosure includes integrated flow spool and isolation tool riser components that can be permanently coupled together and that can be configured to pass through a rotary table or other rig equipment.
US11499378B2
The force modulation system for a drill bit includes a cutter, a blade cap, a cap retention device, and a first force member. The cutter or cutters fit in the blade cap, and the blade cap fits to the drill bit. The cap retention device exerts a cap retention force in a first direction. The first force member exerts a first force in a second direction. The cutting profile of the force modulation system is now variable in more than one direction so as to avoid excessive forces from more than one direction for each cutter on the blade cap. There can also be a second force member to exert a second force in the first direction for more variability of the cutting profile in the first direction and a third force member to exert a third force in an opposite second direction.
US11499377B2
The force modulation system for a drill bit includes a cutter, a holder, a holder retention device, and a first force member. The cutter fits in the holder, and the holder fits in the drill bit. The holder retention device exerts a holder retention force in a first direction. The first force member exerts a first force in a second direction. The second direction is angled offset to the first direction so as that the cutting profile of the force modulation system is now variable in the second direction, according to the first force. There can also be a second force member to exert a second force in the first direction for more variability of the cutting profile in the first direction. The second force member can be made integral with the first force member.
US11499376B2
A drilling system having retractable wings and method of using same. The system includes at least one wing, which can extend from the system once it engages in a casing and abuts against an abutment ring at the bottom end of the casing. When the system starts drilling a hole into the ground, the casing is installed down the hole. In one configuration, the at least one wing is at least partially retracted into the drilling system and locked in this position. In another configuration, the at least one wing extends from the drilling system and locks into an extended position. The system can be connected to a down-the-hole hammer, a top-hammer drilling rod, or any other suitable rock drilling tool/apparatus, and can be used with a single and a dual rotary drilling tool/apparatus.
US11499371B2
The invention relates to a ladder stabiliser that obviates the existing requirement for a leaning ladder to be physically secured to a building and/or “footed” near the ground by a second person. The stabiliser comprises a base (12) for supporting, in use, both feet of a ladder (100); and upstanding walls (14, 16, 18, 20) defining an open-topped three-dimensional space for accommodating, and at least partially enclosing, the lower distal ends of a ladder (100) at a predetermined optimum angle of inclination. At least one wall (14, 16, 18, 20) extends above the height of the lowermost rung of an inclined ladder (100). A pivotable wall (18) is openable to allow the ladder (100) to be inserted and removed from the stabiliser. The stabiliser may be provided with removable ballast weights (30), and adjustable clamps (36).
US11499359B2
A household appliance includes a housing, a door pivotably connected to the housing, a cable having one end connected to the door, a motor, and a cable drum onto which the cable can be unwound at least in partial and from which the cable can be unwound at least in part. The cable and the motor interact such that the door pivots when winding the cable onto the cable drum or when the cable unwinds from the cable drum.
US11499345B2
A luggage includes a case member having an opening; a front cover connected to the case member to open and close the opening of the case member; a lock member connected to the case member, wherein the lock member has a hook portion, and the hook portion has a bore; a lock base connected to the front cover; a latch movably connected to the lock base; a spring having opposite ends urging the latch and the lock base; and a lever member pivoted lock base and associated with the latch. The latch engages the bore of the hook portion to lock the front cover with the case member, and the lever is turned to move the latch and disengage the latch with the bore of the hook portion of the lock member to unlock the front cover with the case member.
US11499343B2
A door lock apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention is mounted in a door and moves a deadbolt to a locked position or a released position as a motor is driven. The door lock apparatus may include a main gear rotated by the motor, a damping clutch part engaged and rotated by rotation of the main gear, a shaft which is engaged and rotated by rotation of the damping clutch part and moves the deadbolt as the shaft is rotated, and a knob which is manually operable by a user and is connected to the shaft. An emergency rotation operation of the shaft may be enabled by disengaging the main gear and the damping clutch part through the knob.
US11499340B1
A key system of a lock having a high peaking difficulty when picking is tried by a picking tool, includes three or more rectangular holes formed between pin holes of an inner case to insert rectangular pins, where each of the rectangular pin includes a side bar insertion groove and a fake groove formed to be spaced apart from the side bar insertion groove at an interval to raise the degree of picking difficulty. A quadrangular pin is inserted into the rectangular hole located in the middle among the rectangular holes formed in the inner case to be inserted into the hole formed in an outer case. The side on which the quadrangular pin is located has an escape groove to accommodate the quadrangular pin.
US11499338B2
A fence structure cover assembly is described herein and improves the appearance and function of preexisting fencing. The cover assembly is an interlocking system of fence panels and posts that fits and interlocks over and around preexisting fences and is formed of multiple panels that are provided with aesthetically pleasing indicia and/or textures. The upper and lower protruding panels contain at their ends tongue and groove type locking mechanism to secure the panels at their ends while the first and second panels are further securable via predrilled thru holes to secure the panels together. The first and second panels are mateable and can come in different sizes where a short width may be required.
US11499336B2
A security fence includes a pair of posts and a plurality of rails supported by the pair of posts and disposed vertically spaced apart. Each rail includes a bottom wall and an upper wall, each defining a plurality of spaced apart openings. A plurality of pickets are horizontally spaced apart along the plurality of rails, each picket extends through a respective bottom opening and a respective upper opening of each rail. A slide lock bar is disposed within at least one of the plurality of rails and is supported by the bottom wall of the one of the plurality of rails. The slide lock bar traverses the plurality of pickets and is received by a notch in each picket. Engagement of the slide lock bar with the notches enables angular displacement of each picket with respect to each rail.
US11499334B2
An improved pole frame structure of a foldable tent includes upright poles, side cross support rod assemblies, and a top support rod unit. The top support rod unit includes a top module provided with a limiting component, top support rod assemblies, and oblique support rods. One end of each oblique support rod is connected to the respective top support rod assembly by means of a slider provided with a stopper, and the other end of the oblique support rod is pivotally connected to the respective side cross support rod assembly. The structure enhances, by means of the stopper and the limiting component, the stability of the oblique support rods supporting tent cloth, and prevents the tent cloth from being damaged by the oblique support rods.
US11499332B2
A glazed façade anchoring system to a building including a box with a connection system to the façade and connection to the building slab. The first and second connections enable relative movement between one another, when the façade moves within the gap between the rear surface of the façade and the building slab edge under the high pressure loads due to exceptional events such as explosions. The device includes one or more solid elements with dissipative components acting in compression in the inward building direction and one or more solid elements with dissipative components acting in compression in the outward building direction.
US11499330B2
A method of training a lifeguard to properly view an area of a swimming pool or body of water and recognize a swimmer/bather in distress. The method includes: positioning submersible devices or other objects on a bottom of the swimming pool or body of water according to an established grid or pattern; observing the submersible devices to make observations; analyzing the observations to evaluate the ability to see the submersible devices under varying environmental and density conditions. The observation trains the lifeguard to recognize the swimmer/bather in distress in the swimming pool or body of water to minimize the risk of the swimmer/bather drowning.
US11499320B2
An advanced siding panel that combines a traditional siding appearance with improved insulation, structural integrity, and improved thermal characteristics.
US11499316B2
Some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a roofing system. In some embodiments, the roofing system includes a first roofing material, wherein the first roofing material comprises a top surface and a bottom surface. In some embodiments, the top surface of the first roofing material comprises a nail zone with a plurality of fines. In some embodiments, the roofing system includes a second roofing material, wherein the second roofing material comprises a top surface and a bottom surface. In some embodiments, the bottom surface of the second roofing material comprises a plurality of fines. In some embodiments, the roofing system comprises and a patterned adhesive, which directly contacts at least a portion of the plurality of fines in the nail zone and at least a portion of the plurality of fines on the bottom surface of the second roofing material.
US11499311B1
The removable roof system includes a set of guy ropes (10), each of the guy ropes extending between a top anchor point (2) and a bottom anchor point (3) of a structure to be covered, a velum (1) mobile between a deployed configuration in which the velum covers the structure to be covered and a retracted configuration in which the structure to be covered is uncovered, and a set of carriages (20) to which the velum is attached, arranged so as to be moved along the guy ropes of the set of guy ropes between the top and bottom anchor points in order to cause the velum to pass between its deployed and retracted configurations and comprising for each of the guy ropes of the set of guy ropes at least one motorized carriage, at least one motorized carriage cooperating with the associated guy rope by meshing or by alternating wedging.
US11499286B1
Anchor pads are a portable foundation to support the weight of a portable structure. Anchor pads also anchor to the ground to withstand wind loads or other vertical loads on the portable structure. Anchor pads can be stacked to form larger portable foundations to support more weight or larger structures.
US11499285B1
A grout plug assembly for use in forming a pipe pile system defining at least one pile assembly inner surface portion comprises a resiliently deformable plug body defining a plug outer surface, a plug inner surface, a first plug end surface, a second plug end surface. The plug inner surface defines a plug passageway. The plug outer surface is sized and dimensioned to engage the at least one pile assembly inner surface portion of the pipe pile system during formation of the pipe pile system.
US11499274B2
The subject matter described herein includes a paving system having a backing matrix, a plurality of untreated black locust wood pavers arranged in a defined pattern relative to one another on the backing matrix, the defined pattern creating regular void spaces therebetween, a permeable medium disposed between the wood pavers and filling the void spaces, at least one solar cell embedded within at least one wood paver, one or more layers of underlayment beneath the matrix, the one or more layers of underlayment having graduated sizes or porosities, and a flexible coating displaced around the perimeter of the backing matrix.
US11499273B2
A system which creates a durable seal between adjacent horizontal panels, including those that may be curved or subject to temperature expansion and contraction or mechanical shear. The durable seal system incorporates a plurality of ribs, a flexible member between the cover plate and the ribs and may incorporate a load transfer plate to provide support to the rib from below, and/or cores of differing compressibilities.
US11499265B2
Waterproof composite fabrics comprising a textile layer and a continuous polymer layer that comprises adjoining first and second regions with different physical or visual properties, and knife-over-roll coating methods for 5 manufacturing said composite fabrics. The waterproof composite fabrics described are particularly suitable for covering medical support surfaces, for instance mattresses.
US11499263B2
A clothes treatment apparatus includes a cabinet defining a treatment chamber configured to accommodate hanging clothes and a cycle chamber configured to house machinery, the cycle chamber being positioned vertically below the treatment chamber. The clothes treatment apparatus also includes a partition plate that partitions the treatment chamber from the cycle chamber, a door configured to open and close the cabinet, a door liner disposed at an inside of the door and configured to guide condensed water generated in the treatment chamber to an upper side of the partition plate, a condensed water guide member disposed at the partition plate and configured to guide the condensed water from the door liner into the treatment chamber.
US11499254B2
A protective textile sleeve and method of construction thereof is provided. The sleeve includes a seamless, tubular braided wall having a plurality of yarns braided with one another. A plurality of the yarns are high temperature, non-heat-shrinkable yarns and a plurality of the yarns are heat-shrinkable yarns, wherein the heat-shrinkable yarns are shrinkable at a temperature that does not cause the high temperature, non-heat-shrinkable yarns to shrink. The sleeve has a first length and first thickness upon being braided, and a second length that less than the first length and a second thickness that is greater than the first thickness upon being exposed to a single heat-treat process.
US11499252B2
An apparatus with open loop yarns separator guides on each side of a main body. This body having an ergonomic shape and supported by a ring shape mount to fit on a finger.
US11499246B2
A crystal raw material loading device and a crystal growth device includes a plurality of bearing units which are arranged adjacent to each other horizontally in turn, and the multiple bearing units include a first bearing unit arranged at one end of a small plane far away from the seed crystal bearing device. Along the direction from one end of the small plane far away from the seed crystal to one end of the small plane close to the seed crystal, from the first bearing unit to the bearing unit on the side of the small plane close to the seed crystal, the height of the raw material that can be carried by each bearing unit is reduced in turn.
US11499245B2
Additive feed systems for feeding at least two different additives to silicon disposed within a crucible of an ingot puller apparatus are disclosed. The additive feed system may include first and second feed trays which are caused to vibrate to move first or second additive from a canister in which the additive is stored to another vessel in which the amount of first or second additive added to the vessel is sensed. The additive is discharged from the vessel into an additive feed tube through which the additive enters the crucible.
US11499234B2
In some embodiments, a method of forming a structure includes: forming a liquid oxide material at a low temperature by dissolving fumed nanoparticles in a liquid hydrate of a silicate or an aluminate; applying the liquid oxide material on a substrate; and at a low temperature, curing the liquid oxide material to evolve gaseous water, leaving structural silicate glass.
US11499222B2
A method of depositing a metal-containing material is disclosed. The method can include use of cyclic deposition techniques, such as cyclic chemical vapor deposition and atomic layer deposition. The metal-containing material can include intermetallic compounds. A structure including the metal-containing material and a system for forming the material are also disclosed.
US11499216B2
The invention relates to the technical field of galvanization of iron-based or iron-containing components, especially steel-based or steel-containing components (steel components), preferably for the automotive or motor vehicle industry, but also for other industrial fields of application (for example for the construction industry, the field of general mechanical engineering, the electrical engineering industry etc.), by means of hot galvanization (hot clip galvanization). More particularly, the invention relates to a method of hot galvanization (hot dip galvanization) and to a plant for this purpose, and additionally to a flux and flux bath usable in this connection and to the respective uses thereof, and additionally also to the products obtainable by the method and/or in the plant (i.e. hot galvanized iron or steel components).
US11499212B2
Complex concentrated alloys include five or more elements, at least one of which is ruthenium. Example complex concentrated alloys can include nickel and chromium, iron, ruthenium, molybdenum, and/or tungsten. Example complex concentrated alloys have single phase microstructure of face centered cubic (FCC) and can be homogenous. Example complex concentrated alloys can exhibit improved corrosion resistance.
US11499207B2
Provided is a Corson alloy having improved bending workability and also having high dimensional accuracy after press-working. A copper alloy strip which is a rolling material, the rolling material containing from 0 to 5.0% by mass of Ni or from 0 to 2.5% by mass of Co, the total amount of Ni+Co being from 0.2 to 5% by mass; from 0.2 to 1.5% by mass of Si, the balance being copper and unavoidable impurities, wherein the rolling material has a surface satisfying the relationship: 1.0≤I(200)/I0(200)≤5.0; wherein an area ratio of Cube orientation {100} <001> is from 2 to 10% in EBSD measurement of a rolling parallel cross section; and wherein a ratio: (an average crystal grain size of Cube orientation {100} <001> of the rolling parallel cross section)/(an average crystal grain size of the rolling parallel cross section) is from 0.75 to 1.5.
US11499206B2
The present disclosure relates to electrodes for biosensors. An electrode is made from a stack including (A) a layer made from ruthenium metal, a ruthenium-based alloy, nickel metal, or a nickel-based alloy; and (B) a layer made from a conductive metal or conductive metal alloy or carbon. The resulting electrode stack has physical and electrical property advantages when compared with existing pure metal electrodes.
US11499202B2
A cooling method for a workpiece includes placing entirety of the workpiece in an inner space of a recess provided on a molding surface of a lower mold, pressing or restraining the workpiece by a mold including the lower mold and an upper mold in which a protrusion corresponding to the recess of the lower mold is provided on a molding surface, supplying a liquid coolant to the inner space of the recess through a coolant supply passage provided in at least one of the lower mold and the upper mold by a pump, and discharging air in the inner space of the recess upward through an air escape passage, and cooling the workpiece by immersing the entirety of the workpiece, which has been heated, in the liquid coolant that fills the recess.
US11499199B2
Disclosed herein are methods and compositions for detecting Bordetella pertussis and Bordetella parapertussis by detecting the presence of the IS481 and IS1001 genomic insertion sequences, respectively.
US11499191B2
A technique for sequencing nucleic acids in an automated or semi-automated manner is disclosed. Sample arrays of a multitude of nucleic acid sites are processed in multiple cycles to add nucleotides to the material to be sequenced, detect the nucleotides added to sites, and to de-block the added nucleotides of blocking agents and tags used to identify the last added nucleotide. Multiple parameters of the system are monitored to enable diagnosis and correction of problems as they occur during sequencing of the samples. Quality control routines are run during sequencing to determine quality of samples, and quality of the data collected.
US11499181B2
Method of haplotype analysis. In an exemplary method, an aqueous phase containing nucleic acid may be partitioned into a plurality of discrete volumes. At least one allele sequence may be amplified in the volumes from each of a first polymorphic locus and a second polymorphic locus that exhibit sequence variation in the nucleic acid. At least one measure of co-amplification of allele sequences from both loci in the same volumes may be determined. A haplotype of the first and second loci may be selected based on the at least one measure of co-amplification.
US11499175B2
A polypeptide includes, in the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 or a similar sequence, at least one specific amino acid substitution on at least one of the 14th, 37th, 209th, 293rd, and 319th amino acid residues from the N-terminal of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1. A polynucleotide, an expression cassette, a vector, and a transformant include a base sequence encoding the amino acid sequence of the polypeptide. A method of producing the polypeptide and a method of producing 2-deoxy-scyllo-inosose are also provided.
US11499167B2
Adeno-associated virus rh.10 sequences, vectors containing same, and methods of use are provided.
US11499162B2
Provided is a plant or plant part comprising a polynucleotide encoding a mutated TriA polypeptide. The expression of said polynucleotide confers to the plant or plant part tolerance to herbicides.
US11499158B2
A method for modifying a plant includes coating a microparticle with at least one type of nucleic acid and/or at least one type of a protein, bombarding a shoot apex of a plant with the coated microparticle, growing the shoot apex bombarded with the coated microparticle to obtain a plant body, and selecting a modified plant body from the plant body. The shoot apex is selected from the group consisting of a shoot apex of an embryo of a fully mature seed, a shoot apex of a young bud, a shoot apex of a terminal bud or a lateral bud, and a shoot apex of an immature embryo.
US11499156B2
A composition for imaging a tumorous disease region includes a fluorescence- or radioactive isotope-labeled ERBB2 aptamer, wherein the ERBB2 aptamer labeled with a radioactive isotope or a fluorescent dye is used to image the tumorous disease region in vivo. The composition may include a labeled hybridized aptamer comprising an aptamer represented as formula 1 hybridized with a labeled-ODN represented as formula 2.
US11499154B2
Antisense targeting dynamin 2 and use for the treatment of centronuclear myopathies and neuropathies
The present invention concerns the use of antisense oligonucleotides (AON) capable of inhibiting expression of dynamin 2, advantageously human dynamin 2, for use in the treatment of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT) and centronuclear myopathies (CNM).
US11499152B2
The present disclosure provides compositions and methods that inhibit the activity of microRNAs, for example miR-22.
US11499150B2
Use of the surface presentation level of binders (e.g., antibodies, receptors) on cultured higher eukaryotic cells in vitro as a predictive indicator of developability characteristics, e.g., solubility, of the binders. Display libraries of higher eukaryotic cells, e.g., mammalian cells, adapted for use in screening surface-displayed binders for developability and affinity of target binding. High-throughput screening of display libraries with in-built selection for developability including binder solubility, capability to be formulated at high concentrations, low propensity for non-specific binding, and half-life. Enrichment of populations of binders for developability characteristics and/or other qualities such as target binding and affinity, by controlling cell surface presentation of binders from an inducible promoter operably linked to binder-encoding DNA.
US11499147B2
Provided are a hexuronate C4-epimerase variant with improved activity in converting D-fructose by D-tagatose of hexuronate C4-epimerase and a method for production of D-tagatose using them.
US11499145B2
A truncated and modified Serratiopeptidase or a variant thereof, and polynucleotides encoding the same. The truncated and modified Serratiopeptidase may have an amino acid sequence including amino acids 1 to 344, and amino acids 1 to 380 of SEQ ID NO: 1. The truncated and modified Serratiopeptidase may further include a first Cysteine (C) residue at a N-terminus of the truncated and modified Serratiopeptidase, substituted for at least one of Alanine 8 and Leucine 12 of SEQ ID NO: 1; and a second Cysteine residue at a C-terminus of the truncated and modified Serratiopeptidase, substituted for at least one of Valine 339 and Arginine 302 of SEQ ID NO: 1. The first and the second Cysteine residues may be adapted to form at least one disulfide bond including at least one of C8-C339, and C12-C302 disulfide bonds between the N-terminus and the C-terminus of the truncated and modified Serratiopeptidase.
US11499137B2
Described herein are methods and related compositions for inducing differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) into hemogenic endothelium with pan-myeloid potential or restricted potential, by forced expression in the hPSCs of a combination of transcription factors as described herein.
US11499136B2
The present invention provides a cell culture substrate including a polymer having a lower critical solution temperature, the substrate including one or more inorganic materials selected from a water-swellable clay mineral and silica and further including an adhesive matrix in the substrate, in which the adhesive matrix is an extracellular matrix and/or an adhesive synthetic matrix. Furthermore, the invention is to provide a cell culture substrate in which the extracellular matrix is at least one selected from laminin, fibronectin, vitronectin, cadherin, and fragments thereof, and/or the adhesive synthetic matrix is poly[2-(methacryloyloxy)ethyl dimethyl-(3-sulfopropyl) ammonium hydroxide] or an oligopeptide-supporting polymer.
US11499134B2
A method for culturing ginseng cell with high content of ginsenoside, including inducing ginseng cell line: after disinfected and sliced, ultrasonically treating old mountain ginseng, and culturing the old mountain ginseng in a culture medium; screening the ginseng cell line: choosing a variety of culture mediums and using hormones for cell separation and culture, selecting cell lines with better growth morphology and faster growth, and performing solid subculture and liquid suspension culture; optimizing conversion conditions: using acids to treat the chosen cell lines, and controlling the treatment temperature and treatment time, detecting ginsenosides Rg3 and Rh2 in the dried products, determining an optimal treatment condition according to the highest total amount; large-scale industrial production: according to the optimal treatment condition, performing the liquid suspension culture of the selected cell lines and scaling up the scale of culture to obtain large-scale industrial production of ginseng cell products.
US11499131B2
Systems and methods interconnect cell culture devices and/or fluidic devices by transferring discrete volumes of fluid between devices. A liquid-handling system collects a volume of fluid from at least one source device and deposits the fluid into at least one destination device. In some embodiments, a liquid-handling robot actuates the movement and operation of a fluid collection device in an automated manner to transfer the fluid between the at least one source device and the at least one destination device. In some cases, the at least one source device and the at least one destination device are cell culture devices. The at least one source device and the at least one destination device may be microfluidic or non-microfluidic devices. In some cases, the cell culture devices may be microfluidic cell culture devices. In further cases, the microfluidic cell culture devices may include organ-chips.
US11499128B2
An organ-on-chip apparatus includes a first fluid channel, a second fluid channel, and an interface. Respective portions of the first fluid channel and the second fluid channel may extend parallel to and adjacent each other, and the interface may be disposed between the respective portions of the first fluid channel and the second fluid channel such that fluid exchange between the first fluid channel and the second fluid channel is via the interface. The first and second fluid channels may be defined in an extracellular matrix material.
US11499125B2
Water-soluble unit dose article having a water-soluble film wherein the water-soluble film has a polymeric resin having a copolymer of polyvinylalcohol and 1-butene-3,4-diol and a second polyvinyl alcohol polymer.
US11499121B2
The present invention relates to compositions such as cleaning compositions comprising a mix of enzymes. The invention further relates, use of compositions comprising such enzymes in cleaning processes.
US11499117B2
A lubricating composition comprising a base oil and one or more additives, wherein the composition has: a sulphated ash content (according to ASTM D 874) of at least 0.4 wt % and at most 1.0 wt. %, by weight of the lubricating composition; a total base number (TBN) value (according to ASTM D 2896) of at least 4.0 mg KOH/g and at most 12 mg KOH/g; a total aromatics content contributed by the base oil in the range from 1 wt % to 30 wt %, by weight of the lubricating composition; and a sulphur content contributed by the base oil of 0.4 wt % or less, by weight of the lubricating composition; and wherein the base oil comprises a blend of (i) a first base oil which is a mineral base oil selected from an API Group I mineral base oil and an API Group II mineral base oil, and mixtures thereof, and (ii) a second base oil selected from an API Group II base oil and an API Group III base oil, preferably wherein the first base oil belongs to a different API group to that of the second base oil.
US11499116B2
A low friction coated article includes a first structure that has a first lubricated surface coated with a first polyelectrolyte coating. A second structure has a second lubricated surface with a second polyelectrolyte coating opposite the first lubricated surface. The first and second polyelectrolyte coatings include alternating layers of positively charged polyelectrolyte layers and negatively charged polyelectrolyte layers hydrated with a lubricant.
US11499113B2
A lubricating oil composition with high thermal stability, corrosion resistance, and extreme-pressure performance is provided. The present invention have been completed by finding that a lubricating oil composition containing a particular primary aliphatic polysulfide has excellent thermal stability and extreme-pressure performance. A lubricating oil composition containing a base oil and an additive agent, wherein an aliphatic polysulfide constitutes as an additive agent 1% to 10% by mass of the lubricating oil composition, and a primary aliphatic polysulfide constitutes 1% to 50% by mass of the aliphatic polysulfide.
US11499112B2
The present invention relates to a hydraulic fluid composition containing a base oil (A), an antioxidant (B) including an amine-based antioxidant (B1) and a phenol-based antioxidant (B2), and a succinimide-based compound (C), wherein the hydraulic fluid composition satisfies the following requirement (I); and is to be used for hydraulic equipment which is equipped with at least one of a wet type brake and a wet type clutch and which is selected from a construction machinery, a general industrial machinery, and a power generator, and in which a working pressure is 30 MPa or more. The hydraulic fluid composition is not only excellent in wear resistance and an effect for suppressing the sludge formation but also excellent in a braking performance or a clutch performance, even when used under a high-pressure condition. Requirement (I): A static friction coefficient (μs) after 1,000 cycles, as measured in conformity with the SAE No. 2 test described in JCMAS P 047:2004, is 0.100 to 0.162.
US11499102B2
The present invention pertains to improved processes and catalysts for aromatization. The processes generally contacting a feed stream comprising a naphtha fraction having a C6 to C8 content with a catalyst pellet composition to form aromatic hydrocarbons. The catalyst pellet composition generally comprises a plurality of cylindrical pellets each pellet comprising a Group VIII metal on a zeolite. The pellets may have (a) a plurality of holes passing through the length of the cylindrical pellets, (b) a dome-shaped top and bottom, and (c) a plurality of semi-circular grooves along the length of the exterior of the cylinder.
US11499101B2
The present invention relates to a method for the extraction of mercury from a mercury-containing hydrocarbon feed, and to the use of a hydrophilic deep eutectic solvent for the extraction of a mercury source from a hydrocarbon feed.
US11499096B2
An object of the present invention is to provide semiconductor nanoparticles having high quantum efficiency (QY) and a narrow full width at half maximum (FWHM). Semiconductor nanoparticles according to an embodiment of the present invention are semiconductor nanoparticles including at least, In, P, Zn and S, wherein the semiconductor nanoparticles include the components other than In in the following ranges: 0.50 to 0.95 for P, 0.30 to 1.00 for Zn, 0.10 to 0.50 for S, and 0 to 0.30 for halogen, in terms of molar ratio with respect to In.
US11499093B2
A rare earth complex including a rare earth ion and a ligand coordinated with the rare earth ion and having a condensed polycyclic aromatic group. The condensed polycyclic aromatic group is a residue formed by removing a hydrogen atom from a condensed polycyclic aromatic compound represented by the following formula (I) or (II):
US11499092B2
Polyacrylamide (PAM)-coated nanosand that may be a relative permeability modifier (RPM) and that is applied to treat a wellbore in a subterranean formation. The treatment may be for excess water production. The PAM-coated nanosand is PAM-hydrogel-coated nanosand. The PAM-coated nanosand os nanosand coated with PAM hydrogel. The PAM hydrogel includes crosslinked PAM in water. Application of the PAM-coated nanosand may reduce water production from the subterranean formation into the wellbore. The PAM hydrogel of the PAM-coated nanosand may expand in a water zone of the subterranean formation to restrict water flow into the wellbore. The PAM hydrogel of the PAM-coated nanosand may contract in an oil zone of the subterranean formation so not to significantly restrict crude oil flow into the wellbore.
US11499079B2
Viscoelastic icephobic surfaces of the present disclosure include organogel particle beads dispersed in an elastomer matrix. The surfaces are highly repellant to ice formation, easy and cost efficient to apply, and have long term durability for harsh outdoor applications.
US11499070B2
To provide modified colloidal silica capable of improving the stability of the polishing speed with time when used as abrasive grains in a polishing composition for polishing a polishing object that contains a material to which charged modified colloidal silica easily adheres, such as a SiN wafer, and to provide a method for producing the modified colloidal silica. Modified colloidal silica, being obtained by modifying raw colloidal silica, wherein the raw colloidal silica has a number distribution ratio of 10% or less of microparticles having a particle size of 40% or less relative to a volume average particle size based on Heywood diameter (equivalent circle diameter) as determined by image analysis using a scanning electron microscope.
US11499069B2
A (meth)acrylic copolymer of the present invention includes a constituent unit (B) derived from a polysiloxane block-containing polymerizable monomer (b) represented by Formula (b1). In Formula (b1), R30 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, a represents an integer of 2 to 5, b represents a number of 0 to 50, c represents an integer of 0 to 18, d represents a number of 1 to 1000, e represents a number of 1 to 80, R31 to R39 each represents an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, a phenyl group, a substituted phenyl group, a phenoxy group, or a substituted phenoxy group.
US11499063B2
An ink jet textile printing ink composition contains a sulfonic acid group-containing dye having a ligand coordinated to a metal atom, the ligand being represented by Formula (1) below: wherein at least one of R1 and R3 represents SO3− or SO3Y, where Y represents a hydrogen atom, an alkali metal atom, or an alkaline earth metal atom; when not representing SO3− or SO3Y, R1 and R3 represent a halogen atom or a hydrogen atom; R2 and R4 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a sulfo group, a nitro group, an aryl group, a sulfonamide group, a carboxy group, an alkyl group of 1 to 4 carbon atoms, SO2NHR5, or COOR5, where R5 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group; and X represents a metal atom.
US11499058B2
A method of coating a carbon nanotube material with a solventless coating composition is described. The resulting coating has been shown to preserve the conductivity of the conductive layer and protect the conductive layer from the effects of subsequent coating compositions. Examples are shown in which the coating formulation comprises a polyol and an isocyanate. A layer material comprising a polyurethane coating on a carbon nanotube network layer is also described.
US11499040B2
Provided is a dispersion of composite particles in an aqueous medium, wherein the composite particles comprise (I) a crosslinked polyolefin core, and (II) a full or partial shell comprising polymerized units of one of more vinyl monomers.
US11499030B2
The present invention relates to a plasticizer composition which includes a terephthalate-based plasticizer and a trimellitate-based plasticizer, selectively includes a citrate-based plasticizer, and does not contain epoxidized oil, and particularly, a plasticizer composition capable of improving physical properties including migration resistance, tensile strength, elongation rate, retention characteristics and low-temperature resistance, required for use as a plasticizer of a resin composition, by improving the problems associated with a conventional plasticizer; and a resin composition including the same.
US11499029B2
Glue slime activator compositions, kits comprising glue slime activator compositions and a glue or adhesive of appropriate functionality for crosslinking, and methods of making glue slime activator compositions are provided herein.
US11499028B2
Expandable, blowing agent-containing pellets based on high temperature thermoplastics having a glass transition temperature according to ISO 11357-2-1999 of at least 180° C., wherein the expandable, blowing agent-containing pellets comprise at least one nucleating agent and have a poured density according to DIN ISO 697:1982 in the range from 400 to 900 kg/m3 and a mass in the range from 1 to 5 mg/pellet, processes for production thereof and foam particles obtainable therefrom having a glass transition temperature according to ISO 11357-2-1999 of at least 180° C., wherein the expanded foam particles comprise at least one nucleating agent and have a poured density according to DIN ISO 697:1982 in the range from 10 to 200 kg/m3, and particle foams obtainable therefrom and the use thereof for producing components for aviation.
US11499027B2
The present invention can provide a fiber-reinforced expanded particle molded article having a reinforcing material fused and integrated with the surface of an expanded molded article, wherein the reinforcing material is a fabric or a braided product produced by weaving a linear composite material produced by melting and integrating a thermoplastic fiber comprising a low-melting component fiber and a high-melting component fiber, as two or more threads selected from the group consisting of a warp, a weft and a slant thread, the fiber-reinforced expanded particle molded article exhibiting an excellent reinforcing effect; and a method for economically producing the molded article by in-mold molding with a small number of steps.
US11499026B2
Inorganic infrared attenuation agent blends have been developed to improve the thermal insulation properties of polymeric foams such as polystyrene low density foams. The inorganic infrared attenuation agent blends can include two or more metal oxides such as silicon dioxide, manganese (IV) oxide, iron (III) oxide, magnesium oxide, bismuth (III) oxide, cobalt oxide, zirconium (IV) oxide, molybdenum (III) oxide, titanium oxide, and calcium oxide. In some preferred embodiments, the inorganic infrared attenuation agent blends can include four or more of these metal oxides.
US11499017B2
A method of preparing an aqueous dispersion of an ethylene-carboxylic acid copolymer according to exemplary embodiments of the present invention includes: mixing 30% by weight or more of an ethylene-(meth)acrylic acid copolymer, a basic compound, and water to form a mixed solution; and adding an inorganic salt compound to the mixed solution. Therefore, the aqueous dispersion of the ethylene-carboxylic acid copolymer may be effectively dispersed.
US11499014B2
Disclosed are silicon and carbon containing film forming compositions comprising a polycarbosilazane polymer or oligomer formulation that consists of silazane-bridged carbosilane monomers, the carbosilane containing at least two —SiH2— moieties, either as terminal groups (—SiH3R) or embedded in a carbosilane cyclic compound, wherein R is H, a C1-C6 linear, branched, or cyclic alkyl- group, a C1-C6 linear, branched, or cyclic alkenyl- group, or combination thereof. Also disclosed are methods of forming a silicon and carbon containing film comprising forming a solution comprising a polycarbosilazane polymer or oligomer formulation and contacting the solution with the substrate via a spin-on coating, spray coating, dip coating, or slit coating technique to form the silicon and carbon containing film.
US11499012B2
Described herein are methods for making poly(aryl ether sulfone) (“PAES”) polymers and polymer compositions including the PAES polymers. The method includes reacting a first monomer and a second monomer in a reaction mixture including a base. In some embodiments, the first monomer, second monomer and base can be selected such that halogen salts are not formed during the reacting. In some embodiments, the method can also be a solvent free process. The PAES polymer and polymer compositions can be desirable in many application settings including, but not limited to, electronic components.
US11498998B2
The present disclosure relates to a composition that includes where R1 and R2 include at least one of a hydrogen, a hydroxyl group, and/or an alkyl group, R3 and R4 include at least one of hydrogen, a hydroxyl group, an alkyl group, and/or a ketone, and 1≤n≤2000.
US11498988B2
A method for the production of functionalized partially hydrolyzed polyvinyl acetate comprising vinyl alcohol, vinylacetate and functionalized vinyl alcohol units by reacting in a melt a partially hydrolyzed polyvinyl acetate as component A with a reactive compound carrying at least one ethylenically unsaturated group and at least one reactive group reactive with hydroxyl or acetate groups as component B, in the presence of at least one stabilizer as component C and in the presence of at least one catalyst selected from the group consisting of tertiary amines and nitrogen-containing heterocycles as component D, the method comprising the steps: feeding the components into a mixing device capable of heating, melting and mixing components A, B, C and D, heating, melting and mixing components A, B, C and D in the device to give a melt and reacting components A and B in the melt.
US11498985B2
A process for the synthesis of an ethylene/butadiene copolymer is provided. The process is continuous and comprises the following steps: a. feeding at least one stirred polymerization reactor with a mixture of ethylene, butadiene, hydrocarbon-based solvent and catalytic system allowing the formation of cyclic trans-1,2-cyclohexane units in the polymer chain with a mole ratio of ethylene to the sum of the ethylene and butadiene monomers ranging from 0.5 to 0.99; the concentration of ethylene and butadiene monomers in the polymerization reaction medium being less than 15% by weight; the operating pressure of the reactor is greater than or equal to the saturated vapour pressure of the polymerization reaction medium; and the polymerization temperature is greater than 90° C.; b. recovering the ethylene/butadiene copolymer, this copolymer comprising, statistically distributed, ethylene units, butadiene units and trans-1,2-cyclohexane units, the molar fraction of ethylene units in the copolymer being greater than or equal to 50%.
US11498983B2
A polymer having a first monomer operatively connected to Rose Bengal, a second monomer, and a surfactant, wherein the surfactant is selected from the group consisting of ionic surfactants, anionic surfactants, cationic surfactants, nonionic surfactants, zwitterionic surfactants, and mixtures thereof. The Rose Bengal in polymer in an amount effective for rendering the polymer antimicrobial or antiviral upon exposure of said polymer to light; and the polymer produces singlet oxygen from air in the presence of light. A substrate have these features is also included.
US11498977B2
The present invention provides a method for production of stable and highly specific heterodimeric immunoglobulin constructs, e.g., bispecific antibodies, retaining desirable properties of native IgG and lacking undesirable heavy chain-light chain mispairing, that can simultaneously bind two target molecules and are more potent in the treatment of complex diseases.
US11498976B2
The present invention relates to a viral complex comprising a viral vector capable of delivering shRNA that suppresses an expression of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) to a cell and an anti-epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM) antibody conjugated to the viral vector, a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating cancer, comprising the viral complex, and a method for treating cancer, comprising administering the viral complex or the pharmaceutical composition to a subject in which a cancer disease has occurred and overexpressing EpCAM. The anti-EpCAM antibody-AAV2/shEGFR complex provided in the present invention significantly reduces the expression level of EGFR in tumor cells overexpressing EpCAM without inducing an immune response in vivo, thereby inducing death of tumor cells, and thus, it can be widely utilized in more effective and safe cancer treatment.
US11498974B2
The present invention relates to a brain delivery protein, comprising a target binding antibody which binds to a target in a mammalian brain; two carrier moieties, each of which being capable of monovalent interaction with a protein expressed on a blood brain barrier (BBB) endothelial cell, wherein each of said carrier moieties is linked to a C-terminal end of the target binding antibody. The present invention moreover relates to use of such brain delivery proteins in therapy or diagnosis or for research of e.g. neurodegenerative disorders, and other brain diseases.
US11498967B2
Provided herein are variant CD80 polypeptides, immunomodulatory proteins comprising variant CD80 polypeptides, and nucleic acids encoding such proteins. The immunomodulatory proteins provide therapeutic utility for a variety of immunological and oncological conditions. Compositions and methods for making and using such proteins are provided.
US11498949B2
High-yield mammalian transient expression systems can include a cell culture media (particularly serum free, non-animal derived, and/or chemically defined media) for introducing macromolecules and compounds (e.g., nucleic acid molecules) into cells (e.g., eukaryotic cells). Cells containing such introduced materials can then be cultured in the cell culture media. In particular, the invention allows introduction of nucleic acid molecules (e.g., vectors) into cells (particularly mammalian cells) and expression of proteins encoded by the nucleic acid molecules in the cells. The invention obviates the need to change the cell culture medium each time a different procedure is performed with the cells (e.g., culturing cells vs. transfecting cells). The invention also relates to compositions and kits useful for culturing and transforming/transfecting cells.
US11498946B2
The present disclosure relates to a pharmaceutical composition for combination therapy for preventing or treating cancer, which contains a first pharmaceutical ingredient containing a drug conjugate wherein an anticancer agent is bound at one end of an amphiphilic peptide represented by SEQ ID NO 1 and a poloxamer; and a second pharmaceutical ingredient containing an anti-PD-L1 antibody; as active ingredients. The pharmaceutical composition significantly inhibits cancer growth in in-vivo experiments and exhibits an effect of significantly enhancing immunotherapeutic effect by activating immune cells in cancerous tissues. In particular, the pharmaceutical composition for combination therapy according to the present disclosure has superior tumor accumulation efficiency and selectivity as compared to existing anticancer agents, and is very stable with little toxicity to normal tissues other than cancerous tissues.
US11498936B2
The present invention relates to methods of forming metal-pyridine derivative complexes using pericyclic reactions with metal-1,2,4-triazine derivative complexes and a dienophile as the reactants. The reactants are bioorthogonal and the methods are particularly useful in preparing imaging agents.
US11498931B2
The present specification relates to a nitrogen-containing compound, and a color conversion film, a backlight unit and a display apparatus including the same.
US11498927B2
The present invention relates to a heterocyclic amide inhibiting RIP1 kinase and the use thereof, and specifically, to a compound of formula I, its pharmaceutically acceptable salts, stereoisomers, enantiomers, diastereomers, atropisomers, optical isomers, racemates, polymorphs, solvates or isotopically labeled compounds, a pharmaceutical composition comprising the compound, and the pharmaceutical use thereof. The compound is particularly effective for treatment of diseases or disorders mediated by RIP1 kinase.
US11498921B1
The present invention disclosed a class of pyrimidine or pyridine compounds, pharmaceutically acceptable salts, stereoisomers, prodrugs and solvates thereof, preparation method therefor and pharmaceutical compositions and pharmaceutical uses thereof. See e.g., Formula I below. The compounds can inhibit the variants of EGFR (Epidermis Growth Factor Receptor) proteinases, and therefore can inhibit the growth of a variety of tumor cells effectively. The compounds can be used to prepare antitumor drugs, used for the treatment, combined therapy or prevention of various different cancers. The compounds can overcome the drug resistance induced by the existing first-generation EGFR inhibitors such as gefitinib, erlotinib and so on. Particularly, the compounds can be used to prepare drugs for treating or preventing diseases, disturbances, disorders or conditions mediated by epidermis growth factor receptor variants (such as L858R activated mutants, Exon19 deletion activated mutants and T790M resistant mutants).
US11498909B2
The present invention provides a novel antibiotic compound represented by the following formula (I), a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, an ester thereof, a prodrug thereof, a solvate thereof, or a deuterated analog thereof, or a stereoisomer thereof. The compound of the present invention exhibits excellent antibacterial activity, especially against Gram bacteria. wherein each group is defined as in the description.
US11498908B2
The present disclosure provides crystalline forms of tetrahydro-N,N-dimethyl-2,2-diphenyl-3-furanmethanamine (A2-73), in freebase or salt forms. Also described are pharmaceutical formulations and dosage forms comprising the disclosed crystal forms, and methods of using crystalline A2-73 in dosage forms for neuroprotection including treatment of neurodegenerative and other diseases.
US11498906B1
A method of fixating carbon dioxide (CO2) to a substituted oxazolidinone. The method includes mixing a metal-organic framework (MOF), a co-catalyst, at least one para-substituted aromatic amine, and at least one epoxide to form a mixture. The method further includes contacting the mixture with a gas stream containing CO2 to react the CO2 in the gas stream with the epoxide and para-substituted aromatic amine to form a substituted oxazolidinone mixture. The MOF is a UiO-66-X MOF, where X is of formula (I) wherein at least one of R1 to R4 is an allyloxy group, and R1 to R4 are independently an allyloxy group or a hydrogen.
US11498904B2
Disclosed herein is a compound of formula (I), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. Also disclosed herein are uses of a compound disclosed herein in the potential treatment or prevention of an IDO-associated disease or disorder. Also disclosed herein are compositions comprising a compound disclosed herein. Further disclosed herein are uses of a composition in the potential treatment or prevention of an IDO-associated disease or disorder.
US11498902B2
The present invention relates to an improved process for the preparation of N-(4-(6,7-dimethoxyquinolin-4-yloxy)phenyl)-N′-(4-fluorophenyl)cyclopropane-1,1-dicarboxamide compound of formula-1 which is represented by the following structural formula:
US11498896B2
The present invention relates to novel dopamine D2 receptor ligands. The invention further relates to functionally-biased dopamine D2 receptor ligands and the use of these compounds for treating or preventing central nervous system and systemic disorders associated with dysregulation of dopaminergic activity.
US11498895B2
There is provided a process and an apparatus for urea production in which preheating of raw material ammonia or heating in a medium-pressure decomposition step can be performed at a relatively low pressure while preventing decrease in an overall heat transfer coefficient. A process for urea production includes: a synthesis step of generating a urea synthesis solution; a high-pressure decomposition step of heating the urea synthesis solution to separate a gaseous mixture containing ammonia and carbon dioxide from the urea synthesis solution; a condensation step of condensing the gaseous mixture; a medium-low-pressure steam generation step of reducing a pressure of medium-pressure steam condensate obtained in the high-pressure decomposition step to a medium-low pressure to generate medium-low-pressure steam and medium-low-pressure steam condensate; and one or both of a medium-pressure decomposition step and an ammonia preheating step.
US11498893B2
Provided is a production method capable of efficiently producing a reduced coenzyme Q10 Form II crystal. A method for producing reduced coenzyme Q10 crystals comprises warming a mixture of a reduced coenzyme Q10 Form I crystal and a reduced coenzyme Q10 Form II crystal to 32° C. or higher, in the presence of 0.001 to 50 parts by weight of a solvent with respect to 100 parts by total weight of the crystals, so as to increase the content of the reduced coenzyme Q10 Form II crystal. The warming time may be 1 hour or more and less than 14 hours, and after the warming of the mixture in the presence of the solvent, drying may be performed at 45° C. or higher to remove the solvent.
US11498886B2
Embodiments of the present invention relates to two improved catalysts and associated processes that directly converts carbon dioxide and hydrogen to liquid fuels. The catalytic converter is comprised of two catalysts in series that are operated at the same pressures to directly produce synthetic liquid fuels or synthetic natural gas. The carbon conversion efficiency for CO2 to liquid fuels is greater than 45%. The fuel is distilled into a premium diesel fuels (approximately 70 volume %) and naphtha (approximately 30 volume %) which are used directly as “drop-in” fuels without requiring any further processing. Any light hydrocarbons that are present with the carbon dioxide are also converted directly to fuels. This process is directly applicable to the conversion of CO2 collected from ethanol plants, cement plants, power plants, biogas, carbon dioxide/hydrocarbon mixtures from secondary oil recovery, and other carbon dioxide/hydrocarbon streams. The catalyst system is durable, efficient and maintains a relatively constant level of fuel productivity over long periods of time without requiring re-activation or replacement.
US11498885B2
The present invention relates to novel nitrification inhibitors of formula (I), which are pyrazole propargyl ether compounds. Moreover, the invention relates to the use of compounds of formula (I) as nitrification inhibitors, i.e. for reducing nitrification, as well as agrochemical mixtures and compositions comprising the nitrification inhibitors of formula (I).
US11498872B2
In general, the present invention is directed to the use of particular phosphorus containing compounds for making a gypsum board. The phosphorus containing compound may be a phosphite or a phosphate having a certain formula. In this regard, the present invention is directed to a slurry for making a gypsum board wherein the slurry includes such phosphorus containing compound. The present invention is also directed to a method of making a gypsum board from the slurry as well as a resulting gypsum board.
US11498871B2
A process for the production of a mineral foam includes separately preparing a slurry of cement and an aqueous foam, wherein the cement slurry includes water and Portland cement as well as calcium silicate hydrate crystallization seeds; contacting the slurry of cement with the aqueous foam to obtain a slurry of foamed cement; and casting the slurry of foamed cement and leave it to set.
US11498868B2
A method of blending concrete is provided wherein there is a determination of a standard volume of water to add to a dry concrete mix to provide hydrated concrete with a desired slump value, and then calculating a substitution volume of an aqueous composition including colloidal silica to be used in place of an eliminated portion of the standard volume of the water, and mixing the substitution volume of the aqueous composition with the concrete mix.
US11498867B2
A coated article incudes a low-emissivity (low-E) coating having at least one infrared (IR) reflecting layer of or including a material such as silver or the like. The low-E coating is designed so that the coated article can realize a low U-value in combination with a high solar heat gain (g value). In the top dielectric portion of the coating above the silver, a high-low-high refractive index sequence is provided. This allows for a low U-value and a higher g value to be obtained for a given silver thickness. Coated articles herein may be used in the context of insulating glass (IG) window units, or in other suitable applications such as monolithic window applications, laminated windows, and/or the like.
US11498865B2
Embodiments are directed to glass articles which are resistant to UV photodarkening, the glass articles having a thickness ≤1.3 mm and comprise UV absorbers such as Ti, V, Mn, Fe, Cu, Ce, Ge, Mo, Cr, Co and Ni, and combinations thereof, or alternatively comprising ZnO or SnO2.
US11498862B2
An optical fiber draw system and method of operating thereof. The method includes positioning a downfeed handle for supporting an optical fiber preform within a furnace such that the downfeed handle is movable within the furnace. The method further includes operating one or more heating elements to thermally heat at least a portion of an upper muffle extension disposed within the furnace, the one or more heating elements being moveable with the downfeed handle.
US11498861B2
The invention relates to an apparatus (1) for processing a slurry containing organic components, such as biomass, having a water contents of at least 50%, comprising a heat exchanger (7) to heat the slurry and a reactor (8) to convert at least a part of the organic components in the slurry, wherein at least one of the heat exchanger (7) and the reactor (8) comprises one or more pipes (7A; 8A). At least one transport screw (15) is accommodated in the pipe (7A; 8A) or at least one of the pipes (7A; 8A).
US11498860B2
A reverse osmosis apparatus for a seawater desalination system is provided. The reverse osmosis apparatus includes: a barrel in which a plurality of reverse osmosis membrane units with a reverse osmosis membrane wrapped in each reverse osmosis membrane unit are arranged; an inflow and outflow portion provided at a first end of the barrel and connected to a seawater inlet a high salinity water outlet; a partition wall configured to partition an inner space of the inflow and outflow portion into a first stage and a second stage; and a transport space portion provided in a second end of the barrel and configured to guide water being moved from a plurality of reverse osmosis membrane units arranged in the first stage to move to a plurality of reverse osmosis membrane units arranged at the second stage, wherein part of seawater fed to the inflow and outflow portion is fed around the tubes in the barrel and insulates the plurality of reverse osmosis membrane units in the barrel from external high temperature while being moved, and flows into the transport space portion.
US11498859B2
A composition for stabilizing iron compounds in an aqueous environment, includes a polycarboxylic acid or its salt(s), at least one monomeric or polymeric phosphonate including at least one phosphonic acid group, or its salt(s), at least one corrosion inhibitor including amino groups, and 1-15 weight-% of polycitric acid or a copolymer of citric acid with polyols or glycerol, calculated as an active ingredient from a total weight of constituents in the composition, as dry.
US11498845B2
The present invention is a production method for ammonia and ammonia derivatives in a Multi-Reaction Zone Reactor. Said production method comprising the steps of: a) producing at least some section of ammonia as a result of balance reaction of ammonia by means of nitrogen and hydrogen catalyst in at least one primary reaction zone (RZ-1), b) realizing absorption by means of chemical or physical absorbents of at least some section of ammonia which is in gas form and which is produced in primary reaction zone (RZ-1) in at least one secondary reaction zone (RZ-2) which is not separated by discrete physical barriers with the primary reaction zone (RZ-1).
US11498844B2
The present invention concerns an ammonia production method comprising the steps of: providing at least one rare earth nitride material or layer in a chamber; creating a vacuum or an inert atmosphere in the chamber; and providing hydrogen H2 to react with nitrogen N released at an external surface of the at least one rare earth nitride material or layer to produce ammonia.
US11498839B2
Systems, methods and compositions to produce fine powders are described. These include forming a hypereutectic melt including a target material, a sacrificial-matrix material, and an impurity, rapidly cooling the hypereutectic melt to form a hypereutectic alloy having a first phase and a second phase, annealing the hypereutectic alloy to alter a morphology of the target material to thereby produce target particles, and removing the sacrificial matrix to thereby produce a fine powder of the target particles. The first phase is defined by the target material and the second phase is defined by the sacrificial-matrix material. The sacrificial-matrix material forms a sacrificial matrix having the target material dispersed therethrough.
US11498832B2
A stacked semiconductor structure includes a first substrate. A multilayer interconnect is disposed over the first substrate. Metal sections are disposed over the multilayer interconnect. First bonding features are over the metal sections. A second substrate has a front surface. A cavity extends from the front surface into a depth D in the second substrate. A movable structure is disposed over the front surface of the second substrate and suspending over the cavity. The movable structure includes a dielectric membrane, metal units over the dielectric membrane and a cap dielectric layer over the metal units. Second bonding features are over the cap dielectric layer and bonded to the first bonding features. The second bonding features extend through the cap dielectric layer and electrically coupled to the metal units.
US11498815B2
A crane control for a crane includes at least one operating unit operable by an operator for controlling working functions of the crane. Control signals can be input to actuators of the crane by the operating unit, and a mounting arrangement is provided for mounting the operating unit in a driving cab of the vehicle and a support arrangement connects the operating unit to the mounting arrangement. The support arrangement for the operating unit is supported limitedly moveably between at least two positions, a first position of which is in the form of a working position in which the operating unit is between a steering arrangement of the vehicle and a driving seat, and a second position of which is in the form of a storage position in which the operating unit is moved away from the steering arrangement of the vehicle.
US11498813B1
A vertical lift system includes a cable with a pair of mounting loops positioned at opposite end portions of the cable, a lift bar, and a pair of cable blocks mounted to the lift bar at opposite end portions of the lift bar. The cable is mountable to the lift bar at the pair of cable blocks. A lift block is mounted to the lift bar between the pair of cable blocks. A spreader bar is mountable to the cable. The spreader bar includes an elongated shaft and a pair of cable couplings mounted to elongated shaft at opposite end positions of the elongated shaft. The cable is extendable through the pair of cable blocks on the lift bar and the pair of cable couplings of the spreader bar such that spreader bar is positioned between the lift block and the pair of mounting loops of the cable.
US11498809B2
Disclosed is an elevator system having a first sensor in communication with an elevator in a multi-level hoistway, wherein during an emergency the elevator instructs the first sensor to sense conditions and transmit sensor data representing the sensed conditions, and the transmitted sensor data is processed to obtain an image representing an intensity of hazard conditions on at least a subset of levels serviced by the multilevel hoistway.
US11498805B2
A blockchain maintenance record system for managing maintenance records of a system, the blockchain maintenance record system including: a part identification tag configured to be located on a part; an application operable through a mobile computing device, the mobile computing device being configured to read the part identification tag, wherein the application is configured to perform operations including; determining a part identity of the part by reading the part identification tag; detecting a location of the system; organizing the part identity of the part and the location of the part into a maintenance data package receipt; and uploading the maintenance data package receipt into a blockchain network.
US11498800B1
A tape roll dispenser has a backplate, a spindle, a cutting surface, a tab, and a writing device holder. The spindle is an arcuate channel with a bottom trough that extends outwardly from the upper section of the backplate and a sidewall that is parallel to the backplate's plane. The cutting surface extends outwardly from the bottom section of the backplate, and the tab extends upwardly from a center section of the cutting surface between serrated edges at opposite sides. The writing device holder has a pair of posts connected to and extending outwardly from the external surface of the sidewall with a rod connected between the posts and alternative writing device holders can be attached to different locations on the spindle or to the backplate, the cutting surface, or the tab. The serrated edges have a longer tooth positioned between two sets of teeth.
US11498799B2
A doffing apparatus can be configured to couple to an automatically guided vehicle (AGV). The doffing apparatus can comprise at least one elongate arm, each elongate arm having a proximal end, a distal end, and a length, and at least one driver, each driver being configured to move along a respective elongate arm to move a bobbin toward the distal end of the elongate arm. The doffing apparatus can further comprise at least one alignment device. The doffing apparatus can further comprise a processor, wherein the processor is configured to: receive feedback from the at least one alignment device, provide a control signal to cause the AGV to align the elongate arm with a receptacle at a loader, and move the driver a select distance along the length of the elongate arm.
US11498786B2
Disclosed is a sheet feeding apparatus configured to be attached to an image forming apparatus. The sheet feeding apparatus includes a frame body and a locking member provided on an upper part of the frame body, the locking member being configured to be movable between a locking position where the frame body is locked to the image forming apparatus and a releasing position where the locking of the frame body is released, wherein in attaching the heating unit to an attaching position of the frame body, the locking member is configured to restrict a movement of the heating unit to the attaching position by interfering with the heating unit when the locking member is located at the releasing position and to allow a movement of the heating unit to the attaching position when the locking member is located at the locking position.
US11498784B2
An automated storage and retrieval system includes a storage array of storage locations for case units. An in-out case conveyor is capable of bi-directionally transporting case units to and from the storage array, and an in-out loaded pallet conveyor is capable of bi-directionally transporting loaded pallets towards and away from the storage array. A palletizer-depalletizer cell includes a bi-directional pallet transport system with more than one independently driven pallet transports, each with a different pallet holder independently movable relative to a cell frame. Placement of case units commissioning a pallet layer loading a pallet, and removal of case units decommissioning a pallet layer unloading another pallet are both effected at the common pallet layer interface at a predetermined level of the cell frame. The pallet transports independently index a first and a second of the different pallet holders, each independently holding the pallet loading at the common pallet layer interface.
US11498782B2
The subject matter of the invention is a palletization device (1) comprising a freely accessible multiaxial robot (3) for gripping and moving the products (2) to be palletized and, at least one station (5) arranged on the ground, for receiving the pallets (4) on which the products (2) are deposited, which device is characterized in that the at least one station (5) is designed to receive and to position-reference a stack (6) of pallets (4) one above the other. A further subject matter of the invention is a corresponding method.
US11498781B2
System comprising a clean room (50), a transport element (10) movable inside the clean room (50), and a drive element (30) of the transport element (10), which is arranged outside the clean room (50), wherein the transport element (10) is not connected to the drive element (30) and is only coupled to the drive element (30) or driven by the drive element (30) via contactless remote forces, wherein the transport element (10) is a separate element, in particular separate from the floor, ceiling, walls and/or other parts of the clean room (50), and in particular has no positive connection acting in any spatial direction to the floor, ceiling, walls and/or other parts of the clean room (50) and/or other elements. The invention also relates to a corresponding transport element (10).
US11498775B2
An apparatus and a method for the transfer of components for inhalers or vaporizers from a loading station in which the components arrive randomly oriented, toward one or more work stations, to which said components are delivered oriented according to a predetermined orientation.
US11498770B2
Data object information processing methods, apparatuses, and systems are provided. The data object information processing system includes a suspension chain conveyance subsystem. The suspension chain conveyance subsystem is deployed in an offline store including first operation regions and second operation regions. The suspension chain conveyance subsystem includes a control component and a conveying track. The conveying track is configured to connect the first operation regions and the second operation regions. The control component is configured to assign a second operation region according to the wave identifier after receiving a notification message from a first operation execution subsystem. First operation tasks of the wave correspond to the same second operation region. A conveyance instruction is sent to the conveying track according to the assignment result, for conveying the first operation container to the corresponding second operation region.
US11498765B2
Warehouse automation and methods of controlling material flow can be used to streamline order fulfillment. For example, according to some embodiments described herein, a method includes: causing a first mobile robot to engage with and transport a mobile storage unit to a robotic picking cell, causing a second mobile robot to engage with and transport an outbound container to the robotic picking cell, and causing the picking robot to transfer a sellable unit from the mobile storage unit to the outbound container.
US11498755B2
An underground storage tank maintenance system includes a system of monitors to determine pressure and humidity in the system. Inert gas may be supplied into the ullage of the tank. The inert gas may first pass through an interstitial space as between the primary storage and secondary containment, and then passed into ullage to capture contaminants on the way out of the vent to atmosphere. The system and method prevent hydrocarbons exiting to atmosphere. Humidity sensors may be set along vent to determine water contamination and trigger drying cycles. Pressure readings help identify system leaks.
US11498737B1
A container assembly for holding containers filled with different items, such as food and cocktail garnishes is disclosed. The container assembly includes a support structure to support a plurality of removable containers. The containers are closed by a cover and sealed by perimeter seals. In illustrated embodiments, the cover includes a plurality of raised or dome shaped portions to provide interior head room for content in the containers. In embodiments described, the perimeter seals are formed of a gasket layer or bands and the support structure includes a support tray and container box.
US11498736B2
A packaging device incorporating a breathable peel/reseal film and enabling a preservation process for allowing for the distribution, storage and multiple servings of a food product, particularly perishable food product(s), and initiating and controlling the transmission rates, respiration rates or deterioration of the perishable food product(s) and thereby, maintaining good internal and external food quality and normal development of flavor and aroma characteristics. The packaging device includes a plurality of atmospheric control attributes that modulates or controls the atmosphere within the packaging device as the food product(s) respire in order to promote the extended shelf-life of the food product and the maintenance of the quality and desirable marketable characteristics of the food product. The atmospheric control attributes can include perforations that may be positioned in breathable peel/reseal film portion of the package to allow the product respiration for multiple servings without substantially altering the shelf life extension properties of the packaging device.
US11498734B2
A packaged redeemable code system is disclosed. The packaged redeemable code system includes a paper insert having a front surface with a removable item, and a rear surface with redeemable code. The packaged redeemable code system further includes a paper sleeve having an interior that encloses the paper insert and conceals the redeemable code. The paper sleeve also having a ripcord configured to open an edge of the paper sleeve to provide an access point for removal of the paper insert. The paper sleeve further having a front surface with a cutout extending therethrough. The cutout aligns with and provides visual access to the removable item. The removable item is a different color than or provides contrast with the front surface of the paper sleeve. The paper sleeve further having a rear surface with an activation code that is associated with the redeemable code.
US11498732B2
A tamper evident container includes a cover with a first interlocking flange with a first tab for opening the container and a first extension joined to the first tab along a first frangible score line, a base with a second interlocking flange with a second tab for opening the container and a second extension joined to the second tab along a second frangible score line, a rim extending around a perimeter of the base, the rim having a flat portion connected to an outer wall, and a flange portion extending from the outer wall portion, wherein a position of the flat portion and the flange portion correspond to a sheet line, and wherein the first and second interlocking flanges, when securely fastened together, prevent access to the first and second tabs, and require more force to separate than to sever the first and second extensions along the frangible score lines.
US11498728B2
A closure assembly includes a top, a base, and a follower. The top includes a plurality of top teeth extending from the inner surface and arranged around a fluid orifice. The base is coupled to the top, wherein the top is moveable relative to the base. The base includes a central hub defining a cam path. The follower includes a plurality of top follower teeth engaged with the plurality of top teeth of the top and a plurality of base follower teeth disposed in the cam path of the base. The top and the follower are biased away from the base, and depressing the top relative to the base causes the follower to rotate relative to the top between an open position in which a fluid flow path is open to the fluid orifice and a closed position in which the fluid flow path is closed to the fluid orifice.
US11498723B2
An envelope may include an envelope body having a first pair of substantially parallel edges that extend in a transverse direction and a second pair of substantially parallel edges that extend in a longitudinal direction, a face, and a back defining a pouch. The envelope may include a first region of the envelope body that is partially detachable from the envelope body along a line of separation to form a base support member. The envelope may further include a second region of the envelope body that is partially detachable from the envelope body along a line of separation to form a connector support member. The connector support member engages the base support member when the base support member is partially separated from the envelope body to form an easel feature in a display position. The envelope may also be incorporated into methods for displaying an envelope body.
US11498722B2
A re-useable partitioning seal used storage containers creates a virtually airtight chambers, to preserve products therein. A disc or differently shaped layer, with flat top and bottom surfaces, is configured to fit against the interior surface of a storage container. A thin, flexible perimeter forming a gasket around the layer, and a handle attached to the layer without fissure or cavity, thereby providing and a single piece, inexpensive re-useable partitioning seal.
US11498721B2
A container has a base flange on a base, and a lid flange on a lid. When the container is in a closed position the lid flange and the base flange are in juxtaposition and one of the flange edges defines a flange support surface. A lid surface is spaced above an upper base periphery when in the closed position to define a lid volume, and the base section defines a base volume. The flange support surface extends a first distance such that when the volume of the container is loaded with a rated capacity of product and the container is placed in a standing position on a flat surface using the flange support surface and a front base corner as support elements, a center of gravity of the container generates a moment about an axis of the base corner that biases the container in the standing position.
US11498719B2
A resealable beverage can lid has a lid having a top side having a score line forming a panel having a hinge, a first rivet formed in the lid and extending outwardly from the top side of the lid, a second rivet formed in the panel and extending outwardly from the top side of the lid, the first rivet being larger than the second rivet, and a tab portion connected to the first rivet and the second rivet.
US11498716B2
A method of applying a linerless label to an article wherein a web of joined labels is die cut from a web of label material in which the adhesive is protected by a water-soluble coating which provides a cushion between an anvil and die cutting means. The water-soluble coating is at least partially removed by exposure to water in a press following die-cutting, in a label applicator, or in an off-line unit. The web of joined labels may be wound and unwound between each of the above options. The web of joined labels may be separated in a label applicator by breaking a weakened boundary between adjoining labels or by cutting at a boundary between the label and the adjoining label. The linerless label may contain anti-counterfeit means that may be subsequently identified overtly and/or covertly.
US11498714B2
Methods and apparatuses for manufacturing products having custom graphic designed are disclosed. A method may comprise printing a first order identifier graphic on a substrate material, the first order identifier graphic associated with a first order for a first set of products, printing a first set of one or more graphic designs on the material, the graphic designs associated with the first order, combining the material with one or more product components to form the first set of products, each of the products of the first set of products being associated with the first customer order and at least one of the products of the first set of products comprising the first order identifier graphic, performing a print quality inspection on the print test graphic, and after determining the print test graphic failed the print quality inspection, culling each of products associated with the first order.
US11498703B2
The invention discloses a system for hole making for an aircraft skin by normal positioning and locking. The hole-making system includes a posture adjustment part, a normal positioning and locking part and a hole-making execution part. This system solves the problems that the device in the prior art has high complexity and cumbersome positioning and does not adapt to complex curved surfaces, thereby failing to satisfy the needs of efficient hole making in different space states. In the present invention, the expansion of an outer expansion sleeve in a bottom sleeve locks a normal direction for hole making, thereby ensuring the positioning accuracy of the normal direction. An axial position is locked by the mutual cooperation of an axial positioning groove of the bottom sleeve and an axial positioning rib of the outer expansion sleeve. A hole-making auxiliary cylinder contracts to counteract part of an axial force for hole making.
US11498700B2
Flying machines may be docked during charging or other processes. A tray having multiple docking areas is configured to accommodate flying machines for transport and docking. The docking areas may, but need not, include passageways which may accommodate charging stations. For example, a storage enclosure may be configured to house one or more trays, configured to interface to corresponding charging surfaces. Protective layers and vibration dampening features may be used to soften impacts during storage and transport. A charging station may include electrical terminals, recesses, and locating features for docking a flying machine.
US11498684B2
A seat with self-stowage capability is provided. The seat includes a seat pan lever which is rotatable between stowed and open positions, a fixed seat structure and an elastic assembly. The fixed seat structure includes an annulus. The elastic assembly includes a damper and an arc-spring disposable within the annulus to permit first rotations of the seat pan lever from the stowed position to the open positions and to urge second rotations of the seat pan lever from the open positions to the stowed position.
US11498682B2
An arrangement of individual seats intended to be installed in an aeroplane cabin includes at least one module of two seats disposed opposite one another, said module having a longitudinal elongation direction, characterized in that said arrangement further comprises: a console disposed between the two seats of the module; a screen connected to each seat, each screen being mounted on a screen support; the screen supports being movable between a stowed position and a deployed operating position, in which the screen supports are positioned substantially edge-to-edge and form a partition wall between the two seats located opposite one another.
US11498677B2
The present invention discloses an unmanned aerial vehicle, including: a fuselage; a battery accommodation cavity, disposed on the fuselage; a battery pack, including at least two battery blocks and mounted inside the battery accommodation cavity; a battery circuit board, electrically connected to the battery blocks in the battery pack; and a functional module, electrically connected to the battery circuit board, the battery blocks in the battery pack supplying power to the functional module via the battery circuit board at the same time. By using the solution of the present invention, endurance of the unmanned aerial vehicle is increased.
