US11514330B2
Methods and systems are provided for a natural language processing system comprising a chatbot adapted for dialog generation. In one example, the system may include a combination of a variational autoencoder (VAE) and a generative adversarial network (GAN) for generating natural responses to input queries. The VAE may convert queries into vector embeddings that may then be used by the GAN to continuously update and improve responses provided by the chatbot.
US11514329B2
Techniques are provided for evaluating and defining the scope of data-driven deep learning models. In one embodiment, a machine-readable storage medium is provided comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, facilitate performance of operations comprising employing a machine learning model to extract first training data features included in a training data set and first target data features included in a target data set. The operations further comprise determining whether the target data set is within a defined data scope of the training data set based on analysis of correspondences between the first training data features and the first target data feature, and determining whether application of the target data set to a target neural network model developed using the training data set will generate results with an acceptable level of accuracy based on whether the target data set is within the defined data scope.
US11514325B2
A method of performing phase retrieval and holographic image reconstruction of an imaged sample includes obtaining a single hologram intensity image of the sample using an imaging device. The single hologram intensity image is back-propagated to generate a real input image and an imaginary input image of the sample with image processing software, wherein the real input image and the imaginary input image contain twin-image and/or interference-related artifacts. A trained deep neural network is provided that is executed by the image processing software using one or more processors and configured to receive the real input image and the imaginary input image of the sample and generate an output real image and an output imaginary image in which the twin-image and/or interference-related artifacts are substantially suppressed or eliminated. In some embodiments, the trained deep neural network simultaneously achieves phase-recovery and auto-focusing significantly extending the DOF of holographic image reconstruction.
US11514313B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing a data sample in response to a request for a data sample. In one aspect, a method comprises: receiving a request for a new data sample; until a candidate new data sample is generated that satisfies an acceptance criterion, performing operations comprising: generating a candidate new data sample using a generator neural network; processing the candidate new data sample using a discriminator neural network to generate an imitation score; and determining, from the imitation score, whether the candidate new data sample satisfies the acceptance criterion; and providing the candidate new data sample that satisfies the acceptance criterion in response to the received request.
US11514303B2
Synaptic resistors (synstors), and their method of manufacture and integration into exemplary circuits are provided. Synstors are configured to emulate the analog signal processing, learning, and memory functions of synapses. Circuits incorporating synstors are capable of performing signal processing and learning concurrently in parallel analog mode with speed, energy efficiency, and functions superior to computers.
US11514297B2
This patent concerns novel technology for detecting backdoors of neural network, particularly deep neural network (DNN), classifiers. The backdoors are planted by suitably poisoning the training dataset, i.e., a data-poisoning attack. Once added to input samples from a source class (or source classes), the backdoor pattern causes the decision of the neural network to change to a target class. The backdoors under consideration are small in norm so as to be imperceptible to a human, but this does not limit their location, support or manner of incorporation. There may not be components (edges, nodes) of the DNN which are dedicated to achieving the backdoor function. Moreover, the training dataset used to learn the classifier may not be available. In one embodiment of the present invention which addresses such challenges, if the classifier is poisoned then the backdoor pattern is determined through a feasible optimization process, followed by an inference process, so that both the backdoor pattern itself and the associated source class(es) and target class are determined based only on the classifier parameters and a set of clean (unpoisoned attacked) samples from the different classes (none of which may be training samples).
US11514293B2
In various examples, historical trajectory information of objects in an environment may be tracked by an ego-vehicle and encoded into a state feature. The encoded state features for each of the objects observed by the ego-vehicle may be used—e.g., by a bi-directional long short-term memory (LSTM) network—to encode a spatial feature. The encoded spatial feature and the encoded state feature for an object may be used to predict lateral and/or longitudinal maneuvers for the object, and the combination of this information may be used to determine future locations of the object. The future locations may be used by the ego-vehicle to determine a path through the environment, or may be used by a simulation system to control virtual objects—according to trajectories determined from the future locations—through a simulation environment.
US11514290B2
Disclosed is a convolutional neural network (CNN) processing apparatus and method, the apparatus configured to determine a loading space unit for at least one loading space in an input based on a height or a width for an input feature map of the input and an extent of a dimension of a kernel feature map, load target input elements corresponding to a target loading space, among the at least one loading space, from a memory and store the target input elements in an allocated input buffer having a size corresponding to the loading space unit, and perform a convolution operation between the target input elements stored in the input buffer and at least one kernel element of a kernel.
US11514286B2
A method and system for replacing a first wireless node in an IoT system includes determining, by the first wireless node, that the first wireless node needs imminent replacement. The determination may be made, for example, based on a battery of the first wireless node being below a threshold level. The first wireless node initiates a discovery protocol for a second wireless node installed in proximity to the first wireless node, the second wireless node installed to replace the first wireless node. Upon discovery of the second wireless node, the first wireless node transmits a configuration file to the second wireless node, which the second wireless node copies to a storage of the second wireless node. The second wireless node configures itself to operate as a replacement for the first wireless node in the IoT system, based at least in part on the copied configuration file.
US11514284B2
A computer-implemented method for digitization of papercraft folding for creation of a papercraft model may include monitoring, via an RFID reader, a sheet provided with an array of RFID tags. Based on the RFID reader output, the occurrence of a fold performed on the sheet is determined. The method further includes determining fold properties of the occurred fold and storing the fold properties as a fold dataset of the occurred fold.
US11514268B2
A computer-implemented method for the safe, active training of a computer-aided model for modeling time series of a physical system using Gaussian processes, including the steps of establishing a safety threshold value α; initializing by implementing safe initial curves as input values on the system, creating an initial regression model and an initial safety model; repeatedly carrying out the steps of updating the regression model; updating the safety model; determining a new curve section; implementing the determined new curve section on the physical system and measuring output variables; incorporating the new output values in the regression model and the safety model until N passes have been carried out; and outputting the regression model and the safety model.
US11514256B2
To obtain a printing inspection device that an optimum binarization threshold value in the printing inspection device that captures an image including a two-dimensional code printed by a general-purpose printer such as an ink jet printer, as a multi-level image, creates a binary image from the multi-level image with a predetermined binarization threshold value, and then performs decoding. Before a practical printing inspection is performed, a read test is performed. The read test is performed on one or more inspection samples by binarizing a multi-level image with brightness values for all gradations as a threshold value. A range (maximum value and minimum value) of readable brightness values is obtained, and then a median value between the minimum value and the maximum value is used as a binarization threshold value for a two-dimensional code image in a practical printing inspection.
US11514254B1
RFID-tagged items can be filtered based on relevance estimation or user input. A device reads digital identifiers for multiple RFID-tagged items. The device estimates and selects an item that an individual desires based on one or more metrics, then presents data about the selected item to the individual. If the device receives feedback that the selected item is not the desired item, then the device may estimate and select another item and/or present information about multiple items to allow the individual to select the desired item. When the desired item is selected, the device may perform some associated action.
US11514253B2
A computer-implemented method and system may include identifying an embedded human language string within a programming code based on a configuration file that specifies boundaries of the human language string within the programming code, communicating the identified embedded human language string for language translation from a first human language of the embedded human language string to a second human language to create a translated human language string, receiving the translated human language string, and inserting the translated human language string in the programming code to create a translated programming source code.
US11514248B2
A semantic vector generation device (100) obtains vectors of a plurality of words included in text data. The semantic vector generation device (100) extracts a word included in any group. The semantic vector generation device (100) generates a vector in accordance with the any group on the basis of a vector of the word extracted among the obtained vectors of the words. The semantic vector generation device (100) identifies a vector of a word included in an explanation of any semantics of the word extracted among the obtained vectors of the words. The semantic vector generation device (100) generates a vector in accordance with the any semantics on the basis of the vector identified and the vector generated.
US11514247B2
A method, an apparatus, a computer device and a readable medium for knowledge hierarchical extraction of a text are disclosed. The method comprises: performing word segmentation on a designated text to obtain a word list, the word list including at least one word arranged in a sequence in the designated text; analyzing part-of-speech of each word in the word list in the designated text, to obtain a part-of-speech list corresponding to the word list; predicting a SPO triple included in the designated text according to the word list, the part-of-speech list and a pre-trained knowledge hierarchical extraction model. By the technical solutions, the SPO triple included in any designated text however loose its organization and structure is may be accurately extracted based on the pre-trained knowledge hierarchical extraction model. Compared to the prior art, the efficiency and accuracy of knowledge hierarchical extraction may be effectively improved.
US11514243B1
At least some embodiments are directed to an entity classification system receives informational data associated with an entity. The informational data includes sentences associated with the entity. The entity classification system utilizes a first machine learning model to determine a first contextual meaning among words of a sentence associated with the entity based on a first word embedding technique, and determines at least one category associated with the entity based at least in part on the first contextual meaning. The entity classification system utilizes a second machine learning model to determine a second contextual meaning shared by a set of sentences based on a second embedding technique, and determines a subcategory of the category associated with the entity based at least in part on the second contextual meaning. The entity classification system generates an output including the category and subcategory associated with the entity.
US11514240B2
The present disclosure describes techniques for adding a marker to a second document, the marker corresponding to a marker in a first document. The process may include identifying a token in a first document associated with a marker based upon a location of the marker in the first document. The process may further include identifying a particular token group that the token belongs to. The particular token group may be identified from a set of token groups for the first document. A particular token group from a set of token groups for the second document is then identified for the particular token group in the first document. A location for placing the marker in the second document is identified based upon the location of the particular token group in the second document. The marker is then placed in the second document at the identified location.
US11514233B2
Embodiments of the invention utilize a feature-extraction approach and/or a matching approach in combination with a nonparametric approach to estimate the proportion of documents in each of multiple labeled categories with high accuracy. The feature-extraction approach automatically generates continuously valued text features optimized for estimating the category proportions, and the matching approach constructs a matched set that closely resembles a data set that is unobserved based on an observed set, thereby improving the degree to which the distributions of the observed and unobserved sets resemble each other.
US11514231B2
A web browser extension identifies graphic objects from images or video being presented by a web browser. Webpages related to the graphic objects are identified. Web links that facilitate navigation to the webpages are embedded over an area of the image corresponding to the identified graphic image. Where the graphic objects are identified within video, the web links are progressively embedded within graphic object boundaries of the graphic object as the graphic objects move locations during progression of the video. In this way, a user is able to interact with graphic objects of images and video to navigate to webpages related to the graphic objects. Some implementations provide a webpage redirect command at a stop point of the video so that the user can interact with graphic objects while the video is playing and without interrupting the video.
US11514230B2
A computer system having one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors is described. The computer system displays at least a portion of the respective document, and while displaying at least the portion of the respective document, receives a request for document operation labels. The document operation labels correspond to respective document operations. In response to receiving the request for document operation labels, the computer system selects a plurality of document operation labels at least in accordance with user data and user-interface data corresponding to a respective user of the computer system, and provides the plurality of document operation labels for display to the respective user.
US11514226B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for comparing selections of text to show differences between the two selections. The text may be selected from the same source or from two different sources. In one implementation, a system receives a first selection of text for comparison and places the selection in a first buffer. The system receives a second selection of text for comparison and places the second selection in a second buffer. The system compares the first buffer and the second buffer to determine differences and displays the differences. In some embodiments, the system may allow a user to choose two buffers from among a plurality of buffers for comparison.
US11514215B2
Systems and methods for a compact wall model are provided. According to one aspect, embodiments herein provide a method that comprises receiving input data related to an enclosure, the input data including solar intensity data on an exterior of a wall of the enclosure, generating, by a processor, a thermal model of a wall of the enclosure based at least in part on the input data, the wall modeled as having a plurality of layers and the thermal model including a plurality of nodes such that each layer of the plurality of layers is associated with at least one node of the plurality of nodes and each node of the plurality of nodes is thermally coupled to an adjacent node by a thermal resistance, solving, by the processor, an energy balance equation for the at least one node to determine a predicted temperature for the at least one node, and output the predicted temperature to a display device.
US11514206B2
The disclosure provides a method for planning a power distribution network, an apparatus for planning a power distribution network, and a storage medium. The method includes: establishing a model for planning the power distribution network, the model including a target function and constraints, the target function for minimizing a cost of the power distribution network when branches and nodes are installed into the power distribution network, the nodes including transformers and substations, the constraints including a power balance constraint of the power distribution network, a power constraint of the branches, a power constraint of the transformers, a radial operation constraint of the power distribution network, a fault constraint, a calculation constraint of indices of a reliability, a constraint of the indices of the reliability, and a logic constraint; and solving the model to determine whether the branches and the nodes are installed into the power distribution network.
US11514205B2
A method for an interpreter framework is described. The method includes an interpreter module of a computing system receiving a first data file that includes multiple data sections. The interpreter module identifies each of the data sections of the first data file. Each data section includes data representing a real-world entity. For each respective data section of the first data file, the interpreter module parses information about the real-world entity represented by the data included in the data section. The interpreter module generates a second data file based on the parsed information for each of the data sections. The second data file includes encoded data for rendering a digital geographic structure using information about the real-world entity.
US11514201B2
Provided are a figure display method, a sever and a recording medium which make it possible to grasp comparatively with ease when seeing an area where a new figure is displayed that the new figure is created by executing what kind of mathematical processing thereon. The figure display method includes displaying a first figure in a first area which is set on a display screen of a display device, creating a second figure by executing mathematical processing which is specified on the first figure and displaying the created second figure in the first display area, and providing a mathematical processing display area which displays information on the mathematical processing which is executed on the first figure in the first display area.
US11514194B2
Devices, methods, and systems for secure communications on a computing device. A host operating system (OS) runs on a host processor in communication with a host memory. A secure OS runs on a coprocessor in communication with a secure memory. The coprocessor receives information from an external device over a secure peer-to-peer (P2P) connection. The secure P2P connection is managed by the secure OS and is not accessible by the host OS.
US11514192B2
Data is efficiently read from a sequence without a read position being revealed. A secure reading apparatus 1 receives a secret text sequence and a secret text of a read position as input, and outputs an element at the read position of the secret text sequence. A vector creating part (12) creates a vector expressing the read position. A compression computing part (13) repeatedly generates a new secret text sequence in which an inner product of a vector based on the secret text sequence and a vector expressing the read position is set as an element. The reading part (14) outputs the new secret text sequence having the number of elements of one as the element at the read position of the secret text sequence.
US11514183B2
A data storage system may track data access operations to a memory with a distribution module and translate the tracked data access operations into at least one activity with the distribution module. The distribution module generates a decentralization strategy and then creates a first visual representation of the at least one activity and a second visual representation of the at least one activity with the distribution module. The respective visual representations are distributed to a first user and a second user with the first user and second user respectively selected by the decentralization strategy for analysis for a purpose assigned by the decentralization strategy. The distribution module grants the first user a first temporary permission to alter at least one operational policy of the memory in response to a result of the first purpose.
US11514176B1
Methods and systems for managing and/or processing a blockchain to maintain data security for confidential and/or personal data are provided. According to certain aspects, the disclosed data security techniques may enable access sharing functionality utilizing the blockchain. For example, access sharing may be utilized to file documents, share policy information, and/or comply with an audit. The data security techniques disclosed herein also enable the use of smart contracts to transfer funds associated with payment obligations and/or other forms of blockchain based payments, comply with anti-money laundering requirements, report industry data, validate interest payments and/or maintain agent sales data. Data security may be achieved through the use of public key/private key encryption techniques.
US11514174B2
An apparatus, such as a memory system (e.g., a NAND memory system), can have a controller with a first error correction code component and a memory device (e.g., a NAND memory device) coupled to the controller. The memory device can have an array of memory cells, a second error correction code component coupled to the array and configured to correct data from the array, and a cryptographic component coupled to receive the corrected data from the second error correction code component.
US11514168B2
An active attestation apparatus verifies at runtime the integrity of untrusted machine code of an embedded system residing in a memory device while it is being run/used with while slowing the processing time less than other methods. The apparatus uses an integrated circuit chip containing a microcontroller and a reprogrammable logic device, such as a field programmable gate array (FPGA), to implement software attestation at runtime and in less time than is typically possible with comparable attestation approaches, while not requiring any halt of the processor in the microcontroller. The reprogrammable logic device includes functionality to load an encrypted version of its configuration and operating code, perform a checksum computation, and communicate with a verifier. The checksum algorithm is preferably time optimized to execute computations in the reprogrammable logic device in the minimum possible time.
US11514156B2
Some embodiments provide a system that executes a web application. During operation, the system loads the web application in a web browser and loads a native code module associated with the web application into a secure runtime environment. Next, the system provides input data associated with the web application to the native code module and processes the input data using the native code module to obtain output data. Finally, the system provides the output data to the web application for use by the web application.
US11514136B2
A circuit for performing parallel convolutional computation for features and kernels of variable sizes may receive inputs of an m×n matrix of feature data, an m×n matrix of convolution data, and a (2m−1)×(2n−1) matrix of kernel data. A feature manager of the circuit may hold m rows of n data buffers storing the input feature data and rotating values between rows during one restricted convolution calculation. A kernel manager of the circuit may hold a (2m−1)×(2n−1) matrix of data buffers storing the input kernel data in the buffers and cyclically rotating values in upwards, downwards, leftwards and rightwards directions for different restricted convolution calculations. A row convolution engine of the circuit may hold m row convolution processors, each storing and updating input convolution data by multiplication-and-accumulation (MAC) operations on its input feature and kernel data rows. The circuit produces accumulated convolutional data.
US11514134B2
A method is disclosed for solving the Lagrangian dual of a constrained binary quadratic programming problem. The method comprises obtaining a constrained quadratic binary programming problem; until a convergence is detected, iteratively, performing a Lagrangian relaxation of the constrained quadratic binary programming problem to provide an unconstrained quadratic binary programming problem, providing the unconstrained quadratic binary programming problem to a quantum annealer, obtaining from the quantum annealer at least one corresponding solution, using the at least one corresponding solution to generate a new approximation for the Lagrangian dual bound; and providing a corresponding solution to the Lagrangian dual of the constrained binary quadratic programming problem after convergence.
US11514129B1
A method, computer system, and computer program product are provided for modifying a web application at runtime. A single-page web application is loaded by a web browser of a client, wherein the single-page web application exchanges data between the client and a server. An extension for the single-page web application is obtained. The extension is applied to the single-page web application, wherein applying the extension adds a new feature, or modifies an existing feature, of the single-page web application without reloading the single-page web application.
US11514128B2
A method, product, and system comprising: obtaining a webpage request from an in-app browser of an application of a user device, wherein the webpage request is configured to request a webpage or a portion thereof from a server, wherein the webpage request comprises a user-agent field; identifying that the webpage request has no valid referral information; and based on the webpage request, determining artificial referral information of the webpage request, wherein the artificial referral information indicates a referral source of the webpage request.
US11514108B2
A method comprising: enabling user definition of a search parameter; causing searching of content to find content having the search parameter and to provide the found content having the search parameter as search results; and causing rendering of the search results, using virtual reality, at different positions in a three dimensional space.
US11514107B2
Method and apparatus for obtaining audio corresponding to a plurality of images, based on semantic information and the emotion information of the plurality of images.
US11514106B2
A network device is configured to (i) play back a media item indicated by a remote playback queue provided by a cloud-based computing system, (ii) receive an indication that a playback device is available for playback, (iii) display a now playing screen including (a) information identifying the media item, and (b) an icon that indicates that the network device is not in a connected state with any other network device, (iv) receive a first input selecting the icon, (v) in response to the first input, display a list of one or more available network devices including the playback device, (vi) receive a second input selecting the playback device from the list (vii) after receiving the second input, update the list to indicate that the playback device is selected for playback of the remote playback queue, and (viii) transfer playback of the remote playback queue from the network device to the playback device.
US11514105B2
A first connection state may be entered on a computing device. While the computing device is in the first connection state, actions taken on a playlist on the computing device may be applied to the playlist and not applied to a playback queue associated with a zone. An input may be received via the computing device, indicating a selection of the zone. In response to receiving the input, a second connection state may be entered. Entering the second connection state may comprise establishing a connected state between the computing device and the one or more playback devices. While the connected state is established, one or more actions taken on the playlist on the computing device may be applied to the playlist and transmitted, in a message to the zone over a network. The one or more actions may be one or more corresponding actions applied to the playback queue.
US11514103B1
A method for receiving a first user query from a user for searching an item, forming a first filter based on the first user query, and forming a first filtered item collection is provided. The method includes predicting a new query based on the first user query and a historical query log, forming a second filter for the new query, and applying the second filter to the first filtered item collection to form a second filtered item collection. Further, associating an item score to each of a plurality of items in the first and second filtered item collections, sorting the plurality of items in the first and second filtered item collections according to the item score associated to each of the plurality of items, and providing, to a user display, an item in the plurality of items in the first or second filtered item collections according to a sorting order.
US11514102B2
Embodiments provide systems, methods, and non-transitory computer storage media for providing search result images based on associations of keywords and depth-levels of an image. In embodiments, depth-levels of an image are identified using depth-map information of the image to identify depth-segments of the image. The depth-segments are analyzed to determine keywords associated with each depth-segment based on objects, features, or content in each depth-segment. An image depth-level data structure is generated by matching keywords generated for the entire image with the keywords at each depth-level and assigning the depth-level to the keyword in the image depth-level data structure for the entire image. The image depth-level data structure may be queried for images that contain keywords and depth-level information that match the keywords and depth-level information specified in a search query.
US11514095B2
Approaches presented herein enable presenting, as an initial response to a search query from a user, a set of analytic summaries prior to initiating a document security protocol in a secured document environment. Each analytic summary represents a set or cluster of documents. A summary relevance value is calculated for each analytic summary and a document relevance value is calculated for each individual document. Analytic summaries are presented to the user while each document within each analytic summary are prioritized for a security review based on its related summary relevance value and document relevance value. Based on the priorities, a security review is initiated for the documents so that a highly relevant document within an analytic summary undergoes the security review before a less relevant document. Access to a particular document is granted to the user according to the security review of the document.
US11514093B2
Exemplary embodiments disclose a method, a computer program product, and a computer system for searching technical documents. Exemplary embodiments may include the use of lexicons to generate customized hash functions; utilizing customized hash functions to generate hashcodes of technical text in document repositories; building a database of hashcodes from the repository; utilizing the customized hash functions for generating a hashcode of a search query; and correlating the search hashcode with the hashcode database to produce search results. A computer-implemented method to search technical text includes constructing one or more base hash functions for generating hashcodes that represent semantic content of technical text and accessing one or more lexicons describing technical terminology. The method includes utilizing the one or more lexicons to create one or more customized hash functions from the one or more base hash functions to generate hashcodes that more accurately represent a semantic content of the technical terminology in the one or more lexicons compared to the base hash functions.
US11514089B2
A geospatial monitoring system may include a memory and a processor cooperating with the memory to obtain crowd-sourced mobile data (CSMD) for a geographic region, identify a plurality of geospatial sites within the geographic region based upon the CSMD, and determine a classification of each of the plurality of geospatial sites based upon the CSMD. The processor may further determine a pattern-of-life normalcy model for each of the geospatial sites based upon a respective classification, determine an abnormality in a respective pattern-of-life normalcy model at a given geospatial site based upon the CSMD, and initiate additional monitoring for the given geospatial site having the abnormality.
US11514088B2
Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for aliased data insertions/retrieval for key-value stores. In aspects, a data set comprising a primary key, one or more secondary keys (“aliases”), and data values may be received by a data storage system. The system may allocate an internal identifier to the primary key and store the internal identifier and the primary key in a first table. Each of the secondary keys may be used to create a key-value pair comprising the secondary key and the internal identifier. The key-value pair(s) may be stored in the first table with the corresponding primary key. The internal identifier and the data values may be stored in a second table. Subsequently, the primary or secondary key may be used to interrogate the first table for the internal identifier. The internal identifier may then be used to interrogate the second table for the data values.
US11514076B2
A first datastore discovers a configuration item (CI), without a persistent unique identifier in a distributed datastores environment. When the first datastore has authoritative naming rights, it determines an authoritative identification for the CI. When the first datastore has advisory naming rights, it suggests a name for the CI to a second datastore having authoritative naming rights. The second datastore determines that a pre-existing identification for the CI in the second datastore is the authoritative identification for the CI. If there is no pre-existing identification for the CI in the second data store, the second data store accepts the suggested name as the authoritative identification for the CI. When the first datastore has no naming rights for the CI, it sends the CI to a third data store having authoritative naming rights for the CI to get an authoritative identification for the CI.
US11514075B2
A method, computer program product, and computer system for triggering, by a computing device, a synchronization activity on a storage object. A request may be executed for a copy operation resulting from the synchronization activity to copy the storage object from a source to a destination when a current number of concurrent copy operations is below a maximum number of copy operations. The request for the copy operation resulting from the synchronization activity to copy the storage object from the source to the destination may be placed in a queue when the current number of concurrent copy operations is at least at the maximum number of copy operations. One or more attributes of the request in the queue may be identified. The request for the copy operation may be executed according to a replication policy based upon, at least in part, the one or more attributes of the request in the queue.
US11514073B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to generate virtual resource provisioning visualizations. An example apparatus includes a visualization generator to generate a visualization based on a comparison of first provisioning requirements from a blueprint to parameters associated with the cloud computing environment, the first provisioning requirements associated with the provisioning of the virtual resource to the cloud computing environment, a blueprint controller to adjust one or more of the first provisioning requirements to one or more second provisioning requirements in response to determining that the first provisioning requirements are not satisfied based on the visualization, and a deployment controller to deploy the virtual resource to the cloud computing environment based on the one or more second provisioning requirements.
US11514071B2
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a computer-implemented method comprising storing data in an application using an application custom data type and application custom data structure. The data is stored in a database using the application custom data type and the application custom data structure. In one embodiment, a request is sent to access the data from the application to the database. The data is retrieved from the database in response to the request in the application custom data type and the application custom data structure. In one embodiment, the data is sent from the database to a shared memory in the application custom data type and the application custom data structure and the data is retrieved by the application from the shared memory in the application custom data type and the application custom data structure.
US11514068B1
A validation system and method are provided that examine data for use in tracking and/or generating an action plan. Data is received and stored at an implementation data store from production data sources. Evaluation rules are applied to the data by a data storage system. The evaluation rules are applied by running previously created scripts of commands of the data storage system. Applying the evaluation rules to the one or more sets of the data outputs a deviation measure for at least one of the sets of the data. The deviation measure and a restricted list of defined validation decisions is presented to an analyst for the data. A selected validation decision is received, and the data is validated for use in the action plan, rejected for use in the action plan, or identified as requiring additional analysis before being validated for use in the action plan.
US11514060B2
According to one embodiment, a support system includes an editor. The editor displays a first editing region and a second editing region. A plurality of first items is arrangeable in the first editing region. A plurality of second items is arrangeable in the second editing region. A corresponding item is arrangeable in the second editing region. The corresponding item is associated with a first selected item. The first selected item is one of the plurality of first items. A first subordinate item is subordinateable to the selected first item. A second subordinate item is subordinateable to the corresponding item. The second subordinate item is different from the first subordinate item.
US11514047B2
In an embodiment, a database platform receives query instructions for a query on a database, where the query instructions include instructions for a geospatial-function join that includes a geospatial-function predicate. The database platform generates a query-execution plan based on the query instructions, including replacing the geospatial-function join with one or more interval joins that each include one or more predicates implied by the geospatial-function predicate. The database platform inserts, into the query-execution plan above the one or more interval joins, a filter operator that applies the geospatial-function predicate. The database platform obtains results of the query at least in part by executing the query-execution plan, and returns the query results in response to the query.
US11514046B2
A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for managing data. In some embodiments, this includes determining a usage level of a file, wherein the file is stored in a first storage system, moving the file to a second storage system based on the determined usage level of the file updating location information in a catalog based on the movement of the file, and performing at least a portion of a query on the file after updating location information in the catalog.
US11514042B1
Technologies are described for managing multiple cache specifications for a single view in a database environment. For example, a plurality of caches can be crated for the single view. Each of the plurality of caches can have a different cache specification. A query can then be received that operates on the single view. One of the plurality of caches can be selected for processing the query based at least in part on the cache specifications. The query can be processed using the selected cache. Results of processing the query can be output.
US11514034B2
In accordance with implementations of the present disclosure, a solution for converting a natural language query is provided. In this solution, a first natural language query and a second natural language query for one or more data tables are received, wherein semantics of the second natural language query is dependent on the first natural language query. A third natural language query for one or more data tables is generated based on the first natural language query and the second natural language query, wherein semantics of the third natural language query is identical to the semantics of the second natural language query and independent of the first natural language query. In this way, this solution can convert a context-dependent natural language query into a context-independent natural language query, thereby enabling interfacing with any semantic parsers which can convert a natural language query into a computer-executable query.
US11514029B2
A shared-nothing database system is provided in which parallelism and workload balancing are increased by assigning the rows of each table to “slices”, and storing multiple copies (“duplicas”) of each slice across the persistent storage of multiple nodes of the shared-nothing database system. When the data for a table is distributed among the nodes of a shared-nothing system in this manner, requests to read data from a particular row of the table may be handled by any node that stores a duplica of the slice to which the row is assigned. For each slice, a single duplica of the slice is designated as the “primary duplica”. All DML operations (e.g. inserts, deletes, updates, etc.) that target a particular row of the table are performed by the node that has the primary duplica of the slice to which the particular row is assigned. The changes made by the DML operations are then propagated from the primary duplica to the other duplicas (“secondary duplicas”) of the same slice.
US11514024B2
Systems and methods for shard consistency in a clustered database are described. The system identifies an addition of a first shard to a clustered database on a source storage platform. The clustered database includes at least two shards and the first shard includes a first node. The system communicates a first node agent to the first node. The node agent being is configured to execute on the first node to extract a data image and an operation log at the source storage platform and stream the data image and the operation log to the secondary storage platform. The system versions a first version of the clustered database. The versioning includes storing the data image and operation log for the first node at the second storage platform. The timestamp associated with the first shard is different than the timestamp for other shards in the clustered database.
US11514019B1
A method includes maintaining an event logging database including entries corresponding to events processed at local servers. The method includes, in response to receiving a first message from a first local server, where the first message indicates that a first event occurred, identifying a causal parent event preceding the first event. The causal parent event is a most recent event that occurred at the first local server. The method includes identifying a temporal parent event preceding the first event. The temporal parent event is a most recent event that occurred across all of the plurality of local servers. The method includes generating a new entry based on data from the first message, an identifier of a first entry recording the causal parent event, and an identifier of a second entry recording the temporal parent event. The method includes adding the new entry to the event logging database.
US11514016B2
A computer-implemented method for paging row-based data stored as an object file. The method includes receiving, from a client, a request for a set of data, wherein the set of data is included in a file, the file is stored as an object file, and the object file is stored in an object based storage system and the file includes row based data for a plurality of rows. The method also includes, generating, by a micro-service, an index of the file, wherein the index file includes a byte to row translation of a portion of the file. The method includes, storing the index in the object based storage system. The method further includes, retrieving, from the index, the set of data. The method includes, returning, to the client, the set of data.
US11514015B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to providing and using probabilistic data structures to at least reduce requests between database nodes. In various embodiments, a first database node processes a database transaction that involves writing a set of database records to an in-memory cache of the first database node. As part of processing the database transaction, the first database node may insert, in a set of probabilistic data structures, a set of database keys that correspond to the set of database records. The first database node may send, to a second database node, the set of probabilistic data structures to enable the second database node to determine whether to request, from the first database node, a database record associated with a database key.
US11514003B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for, for data compression based on a key-value store. In one aspect, a method includes generating, at a server, a current dictionary based on a plurality of key-values stored in a storage system of the server; receiving a key-value pair transmitted by a client device; and performing, at the server, data compression on a key-value in the key-value pair by using the current dictionary; and storing the key-value in the storage system of the server.
US11513995B2
A method is provided to generate a configuration descriptor for a chipset in a computing unit. The method includes determining, by one or more processors, a plurality of desired interface configurations for the chipset and for each of the one or more desired interface configurations, determining one or more ports of the chipset and corresponding platform connectors that satisfy features of the each of the one or more of the desired interface configurations based on a chipset description and a platform description. The method further includes assigning a port from among the determined one or more ports to the each of the one or more of the desired interface configurations and generating a chipset configuration descriptor based on the assigning of ports to each of the one or more desired interface configurations. In some embodiments, the chipset is initialized based on the configuration descriptor.
US11513993B2
Replaceable print material supply cartridges for printers are disclosed herein. An example replaceable print material supply cartridge includes logic circuitry that is to determine a position of the replaceable print material supply cartridge by initiating a first voltage on a data contact during a time period, monitoring a timer without reference to a clock signal at a clock contact from a serial data bus, and maintaining a first voltage on the data contact for a duration of time. After expiration of the duration, the logic circuitry is to cause the data contact to assume a second voltage, different than the first voltage, and the logic circuitry is to read data from the memory and cause transmission of a data signal via the serial data bus interface.
US11513990B1
A reconfigurable server includes improved bandwidth connection to adjacent servers and allows for improved access to near-memory storage and for an improved ability to provision resources for an adjacent server. The server includes processor array and a near-memory accelerator module that includes near-memory and the near-memory accelerator module helps provide sufficient bandwidth between the processor array and near-memory. A hardware plane module can be used to provide additional bandwidth and interconnectivity between adjacent servers and/or adjacent switches.
US11513988B1
A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving, at a local node, a request to buffer data on a remote persistent cache memory system of a remote node. A target memory address within the remote persistent cache memory system may be sent from the local node via a remote procedure call (RPC). The data may be sent from the local node to the target memory address within the remote persistent cache memory system via a remote direct memory access (RDMA) command.
US11513985B2
A wireless device can achieve higher predictability for its transmissions by inserting a placeholder frame in a transmission queue before time sensitive data has been received. In addition, a contention countdown associated with the placeholder frame can start before the time sensitive data is ready for transmission. Once the data is available, the device can insert the data into the payload of the placeholder frame, thereby reducing the wait time before the data can be transmitted wirelessly. Additionally, the device can improve reliability by transmitting data using multiple subcarrier RUs in a channel. The data blocks and the duplicative data can be transmitted in parallel using the subcarrier RUs. If a subset of the subcarrier RUs are blocked because of narrowband interference, the receiving device can nonetheless recover the data blocks and reconstruct the packet from the data transported on the RUs that did not have interference.
US11513983B2
Apparatuses, methods, program products, and systems are presented for interrupt migration in connection with migration of a logical partition.
US11513979B2
Systems and devices can include a controller and a command queue to buffer incoming write requests into the device. The controller can receive, from a client across a link, a non-posted write request (e.g., a deferred memory write (DMWr) request) in a transaction layer packet (TLP) to the command queue; determine that the command queue can accept the DMWr request; identify, from the TLP, a successful completion (SC) message that indicates that the DMWr request was accepted into the command queue; and transmit, to the client across the link, the SC message that indicates that the DMWr request was accepted into the command queue. The controller can receive a second DMWr request in a second TLP; determine that the command queue is full; and transmit a memory request retry status (MRS) message to be transmitted to the client in response to the command queue being full.
US11513971B2
An address mapping method of a storage device which includes a plurality of sub-storage devices each including an over-provision area includes detecting mapping information of a received logical address from a mapping table, selecting a hash function corresponding to the received logical address depending on the mapping information, selecting any one, which is to be mapped onto the received logical address, of the plurality of sub-storage devices by using the selected hash function, and mapping the received logical address onto the over-provision area of the selected sub-storage device. The selected hash function is selected from a default hash function and a plurality of hash functions to provide a rule for selecting the any one of the plurality of sub-storage devices.
US11513963B2
A data storage device and method for application identifier handler heads-up for faster storage response are provided. In one embodiment, a data storage device is provided comprising a volatile memory, a non-volatile memory, and a controller. The controller is configured to: receive data and a logical address from a host, wherein the data is tagged with an identifier of an application on the host; store the data at a physical address in the non-volatile memory; maintain a logical-to-physical address table that comprises an entry associating the logical address, physical address, and identifier; determine that the application is subsequently reloaded on the host; and cache, in the volatile memory, a portion of the logical-to-physical address table that comprises the entry for the identifier. Other embodiments are provided.
US11513962B2
An apparatus comprises a write buffer to buffer store requests issued by the processing circuitry, prior to the store data being written to at least one cache. Draining circuitry detects a draining trigger event having potential to cause loss of state stored in the at least one cache. In response to the draining trigger event, the draining circuitry performs a draining operation to identify whether the write buffer buffers any committed store requests requiring persistence, and when the write buffer buffers at least one committed store request requiring persistence, to cause the store data associated with the at least one committed store request to be written to persistent memory. This helps to eliminate barrier instructions from software, simplifying persistent programming and improving performance.
US11513960B2
A data storage device includes a first memory device; a second memory device including a fetch region configured to store data evicted from the first memory device and a prefetch region divided into a plurality of sections; storage; and a controller configured to control the first memory device, the second memory device, and the storage. The controller may include a memory manager configured to select prefetch data having a set section size from the storage, load the selected prefetch data into the prefetch region and update the prefetch data based on a data read hit ratio of each of the plurality of sections.
US11513957B2
Methods and apparatus implementing Hardware/Software co-optimization to improve performance and energy for inter-VM communication for NFVs and other producer-consumer workloads. The apparatus include multi-core processors with multi-level cache hierarchies including and L1 and L2 cache for each core and a shared last-level cache (LLC). One or more machine-level instructions are provided for proactively demoting cachelines from lower cache levels to higher cache levels, including demoting cachelines from L1/L2 caches to an LLC. Techniques are also provided for implementing hardware/software co-optimization in multi-socket NUMA architecture system, wherein cachelines may be selectively demoted and pushed to an LLC in a remote socket. In addition, techniques are disclosure for implementing early snooping in multi-socket systems to reduce latency when accessing cachelines on remote sockets.
US11513956B2
A technique maintains availability of a non-volatile cache. The technique involves arranging a plurality of non-volatile random-access memory (NVRAM) drives into initial drive sets that form the non-volatile cache. The technique further involves detecting a failed initial drive set among the initial drive sets. The plurality of NVRAM drives now includes failed NVRAM drives that belong to the failed initial drive set and remaining non-failed NVRAM drives. The technique further involves, in response to detecting the failed initial drive set, re arranging the remaining non-failed NVRAM drives of the plurality of NVRAM drives into new drive sets that form the non-volatile cache.
US11513952B2
Methods, systems, and devices for data separation for garbage collection are described. A control component coupled to the memory array may identify a source block for a garbage collection procedure. In some cases, a first set of pages of the source block may be identified as a first type associated with a first access frequency and a second set of pages of the source block ay be identified as a second type associated with a second access frequency. Once the pages are identified as either the first type or the second type, the first set of pages may be transferred to a first destination block, and the second set of pages may be transferred to a second destination block as part of the garbage collection procedure.
US11513944B1
A system can determine a group of changed lines in a file comprising computer-executable instructions. The system can, for the respective changed lines, produce a mapping that identifies respective tests that test the respective changed lines. The system can, from the mapping and for the respective tests, determine a merge that identifies respective ones of the respective changed lines that are tested by the respective tests. The system can, from the merge and for the respective tests of the group of tests, determine respective coverage ratios that represent respective ratios between the respective ones of the respective changed lines of the group of changed lines that are tested by the respective tests and respective total changed lines in the file. The system can select an updated group of tests from the group of tests based on the respective ratios.
US11513935B2
A method for detecting an anomaly includes retrieving a log file that includes log entries, grouping the log entries into clusters of log entry types based on number of occurrences and average time interval, and discovering a sequence of the log entry types within each of the clusters. The sequence of the log entry types is based on a shortest path from a first one of the log entry types to a last one of the log entry types.
US11513930B2
Techniques include collecting current logs from distributed sources, selecting a group of the current logs that are from a related source of the distributed sources, and generating a feature vector using the group of the current logs. A current status model is created for the feature vector using the group of the current logs. One or more anomalies are determined in the group of the current logs based on a difference between the current status model and a reference status model, the reference status model being based on history logs.
US11513927B1
Techniques described herein relate to a method for performing testing operations for information handling systems. The method includes obtaining a test case from an information handling system; in response to obtaining the test case: obtaining log information associated with the test case from the information handling system; performing data preparation to generate processed subsequences using the log information; applying a plurality of prediction models to the processed subsequences and training data to generate anomalous subsequence predictions; generating ensemble anomaly scores and severity indexes associated with the processed subsequences using the anomalous subsequence predictions and the processed subsequences; making a determination that the ensemble anomaly scores and severity indexes associated with the processed subsequences result in detection of an anomalous subsequence; and in response to the determination: determining a next best test case associated with the anomalous subsequence; and initiating performance of the next best test case.
US11513923B2
A solid state drive having a drive aggregator and a plurality of component solid state drive, including a first component solid state drive and a second component solid state drive. The drive aggregator has at least one host interface, and a plurality of drive interfaces connected to the plurality of component solid state drives. The drive aggregator is configured to generate, in the second solid state drive, a copy of a dataset that is stored in the first component solid state drive. In response to a failure of the first component solid state drive, the drive aggregator is configured to substitute a function of the first component solid state drive with respect to the dataset with a corresponding function of the second component solid state drive, based on the copy of the dataset generated in the second component solid state drive.
US11513922B2
Aspects of the present disclosure enable data protection operations including differential and incremental backups by performing changed-block tracking in network or cloud computing systems with architectures that do not natively support changed-block tracking or do not expose changed-block tracking functionality to an information management system. In certain aspects, an identity of changed blocks may be obtained by using a hypervisor configured to interface with the cloud computing architecture. The identified changed blocks may be used to generate a map of the changed blocks. The maps of the changed blocks can be used by a virtual server agent to extract the changed blocks from a copy of a virtual machine disk and backed up to perform a differential or incremental backup.
US11513920B2
The described technology is generally directed towards recovering a chunk (or similar block of data) when the chunk is erasure coded into fragments, and recovery fragments need to be obtained from geographically distributed sites. The recovery fragments needed to perform recovery of a chunk are determined, and assigned to the geographically distributed sites as subtasks. Each site that receives a subtask from the requesting site obtains XOR-related fragments needed to produce the recovery fragment, performs the XOR operations on the XOR-related fragments to produce the recovery fragment, and returns the recovery fragment to the requesting site. When finished, a site receives another subtask until no subtasks remain, such that the fastest site or sites receive the most subtasks. The requesting site recovers the chunk from the received recovery fragments. The shared participation in the chunk recovery among the distributed sites provides for efficient distribution of the recovery-related resources and work.
US11513919B2
Disclosed herein are techniques for generating fractional checkpoints on a distributed file system by snapshotting subcomponents referred to as “file sets.” The techniques include capturing a present time; calculating from configured parameters a future wakeup time for a subsequent set of checkpoints from the present time; walking a database of meta file set objects to locate at least one meta file set object; calculating a retention period for a snapshot that is being created; and generating a global data-less snapshot for the meta file set object and remote data file set objects associated with the meta file set object, and then repeating the process for subsequent file set objects in the database.
US11513918B2
The present disclosure provides technical solutions related to action undo service based on cloud platform. Related operations dependent on target operations to be undone may be obtained by dependency analysis and the target operations and the related operations may be undone by time sequence so as to reduce the conflict caused by the undo operations.
US11513900B2
Snapshots of a first logical storage unit (LSU) (R1) on a first storage system (A1) may be taken while replication is inactive between A1 and a second storage system (A2), such that these outstanding snapshots are not replicated to a second replica LSU (R2) on A2. Upon replication becoming active, the outstanding snapshots may be replicated to R2 without disrupting or impairing the remote replication of write operations between R1 and R2 as part of standard remote replication. A process on A1 executing the replication of the outstanding snapshots from R1 to R2 may be a separate process than one or more processes on A1 executing standard remote replication including the replication of write operations from R1 to R2. The process may be given low priority on A1 so as to not impair performance of other operations, including standard remote replication and replicating outstanding write operations on A1.
US11513899B2
A computer-implemented method, according to one embodiment, includes: monitoring data requests that are performed on a logical volume in memory at a source location, and tracking changes that are made to data in the logical volume as a result of performing the data requests. A determination is made as to whether a preestablished amount of the data in the logical volume has been changed as a result of performing the data requests since a previous snapshot of the logical volume was captured. Moreover, in response to determining that a preestablished amount of the data in the logical volume has been changed as a result of performing the data requests since a previous snapshot of the logical volume was captured, a new snapshot of the logical volume is captured.
US11513895B1
A data storage device is disclosed comprising a non-volatile storage medium (NVSM). Problematic patterns in a block of input data are identified, and the problematic patterns are relocated from an initial location to an erasure region of the block to generate a modified block. The modified block is erasure encoded into an erasure codeword, at least part of the erasure codeword is stored in the NVSM.
US11513892B2
A system, and corresponding method, is described for correcting an uncorrectable error in a coherent system. The uncorrectable error is detecting using an error detecting code, such as parity or SECDED. The cache controller or agent calculates a set of possible addresses. The directory is queried to determine which one of the set of possible addresses is the correct address. The agent and/or cache controller is updated with the correct address or way. The invention can be implemented in any chip, system, method, or HDL code that perform protection schemes and require ECC calculation, of any kind. Embodiments of the invention enable IPs that use different protections schemes to reduce power consumption and reduce bandwidth access to more efficiently correct errors and avoid a system restart when an uncorrectable error occurs.
US11513890B1
A data storage device includes a memory device and a controller coupled to the memory device. The controller is configured to receive a read command form a host device, collect environment data of the memory device, decode data associated with the read command, determine a bit error rate (BER) of the decoded data, compare the BER to a threshold, and determine whether the data associated with the read command is to be relocated. The environment data includes temperature, number of program/erase cycles, amount of grown defects, number of past relocations and time since last data relocation. The controller is further configured to dynamically adjust the threshold based on the collected environment data and an amount of time that has passed since a last relocation of the read command data.
US11513889B2
A variety of applications can include apparatus and/or methods that provide parity data protection to data in a memory system for a limited period of time and not stored as permanent parity data in a non-volatile memory. Parity data can be accumulated in a volatile memory for data programmed via a group of access lies having a specified number of access lines in the group. A read verify can be issued to selected pages after programming finishes at the end of programming via the access lines of the group. With the programming of the data determined to be acceptable at the end of programming via the last of the access lines of the group, the parity data in the volatile memory can be discarded and accumulation can begin for a next group having a specified number of access lines. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
US11513876B2
The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for resolving data location for queries in a multi-system instance landscape. One example method includes receiving a request for data for at least one entity that includes a qualified identifier that includes a system tenant qualifier and a local identifier. The system tenant qualifier identifies a system tenant in a multi-system tenant landscape and the local identifier identifies an entity instance of an entity in the system tenant. A routing policy table configured for the multi-system tenant landscape is identified and a cell is located in the routing policy table that corresponds to the entity and the system tenant. A routing policy is determined for routing the request based on the cell. The routing policy is used to determine a target system tenant to which to route the request and the request is provided to the target system tenant.
US11513874B2
A method and an apparatus for determining a usage level of a memory device to notify a running application to perform memory reduction operations selected based on the memory usage level are described. An application calls APIs (Application Programming Interface) integrated with the application codes in the system to perform memory reduction operations. A memory usage level is determined according to a memory usage status received from the kernel of a system. A running application is associated with application priorities ranking multiple running applications statically or dynamically. Selecting memory reduction operations and notifying a running application are based on application priorities. Alternatively, a running application may determine a mode of operation to directly reduce memory usage in response to a notification for reducing memory usage without using API calls to other software.
US11513857B2
A data processing system includes a host and an accelerator. The host transmits, to the accelerator, input data together with data identification information based on a data classification criterion. The accelerator classifies the input data as any one of feature data, a parameter, and a bias based on the data identification information when the input data is received from the host, distributes the input data, performs pre-processing on the feature data, and outputs computed result data to the host or feeds the result data back so that computation processing is performed on the result data again.
US11513854B1
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for resource usage restrictions in a time-series database are disclosed. Elements of a plurality of time series are stored into one or more storage tiers of a time-series database. The time series are associated with a plurality of clients of the time-series database. Execution of tasks is initiated using one or more resources of one or more hosts. The time-series elements represent inputs to the tasks. The tasks comprise a first task and a second task. A usage of the one or more resources by the first task is determined to violate one or more resource usage restrictions. Based at least in part on the usage, one or more actions are performed to modify the execution of the first task. The one or more actions increase an amount of the one or more resources available to the second task.
US11513853B2
Methods, systems, and other embodiments for protecting a shared resource in a data processing system are described herein. In one embodiment, when responding to a request that requires use of the shared resource, determine whether a previously established sleep period for the shared resource has expired. If so, determine a health status of the shared resource based on one or more of applying an asymptotic transform to a percentage of time that a processing unit is idle and applying a linear transform to a session count for the shared resource. Then, determine whether the health status is sufficient to permit responding to the request; and if not, (i) determining an appropriate sleep period for the shared resource, (ii) initiating a sleep state for the shared resource for a period substantially equal to the determined appropriate sleep period; and (iii) exiting the sleep state and responding to the request.
US11513850B2
An apparatus includes a processor to: within a first container, and prior to its uninstantiation, execute a first instance of a routine to cause the processor to monitor for and detect a job performance request in a job queue; and within a second container, execute a second instance of the routine to cause the processor to search the job queue for a job performance request, and in response to a combination of the uninstantiation of the first container, the storage of the job performance request in the job queue and there being no indication of completion of the job flow in the job queue, perform a combination of store an indication of the job flow performance commencing in the job queue, derive an order of performance of the set of tasks of the job flow and store a first task execution request in a task queue.
US11513842B2
Systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products that can facilitate performance biased resource scheduling based on runtime performance of a certain workload type on one or more nodes 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 performance component that assigns performance points to different nodes based on execution of one or more workload types. The computer executable components can further comprise a scheduler extender component that modifies a scheduling decision to run a workload type on a node based on the performance points.
US11513834B1
Disclosed is a system and a method for creating a layered and portable multi-tenant architecture. Initially, a cloud container for a platform is created. The cloud container includes a namespace for a tenant accessing the platform. Further, a logical isolation for the namespace of the tenant is created. Subsequently, a plurality of tenants in the namespace is generated based on the logical isolation. The tenant is further allowed to access a tenant database via Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), thereby creating a layered multi-tenant architecture.
US11513831B2
Embodiments herein provide an analytics-based solution for recommending for the initial placement of one or more virtual desktop (VD) users in a multi-cloud environment and/or for the subsequent migration of one or more users in a multi-cloud environment. In one or more embodiments, a placement (initial or migratory) recommendation may be based one or more metrics related to the cloud deployment and user conditions/requirements. In one or more embodiments, a placement recommendation is based on assessing functionality requirements of a user or users and a correlation analysis with other functionality or functionalities as it relates to functionality that is available at specific cloud deployments. In one or more embodiments, the recommendation may alternatively or additionally be based upon latency analytics, in which end-to-end latency from the user to an application or applications may be considered as metric(s) in the recommendation determination.
US11513823B2
The disclosed subject matter relates to a service application that supports a client device to access a platform via a client instance. The service application enables the user to perform an operation related to management of a virtual resource. In some embodiments, the service application invokes a chat interface to place the client device in communication with a virtual agent. Via the chat interface, the service application prompts the user to select a topic, an operation, and a virtual resource to indicate a desired operation to be performed. When the service application receives the selections made by the user via the chat interface, the service application, such as the virtual agent, may access the platform to perform the desired operation.
US11513820B2
A method for resource allocation, a terminal, and a computer-readable storage medium are provided. The method includes the following. A target application sends scene information to an operating system through a data channel established with the operating system, where the scene information is indicative of a running scene of the target application. The operating system acquires a target optimization configuration file corresponding to the scene information, where the target optimization configuration file contains optimization configuration information corresponding to different running time periods in the running scene, and the optimization configuration information is indicative of a manner for system resource allocation. The operating system acquires target optimization configuration information corresponding to a current running time period from the target optimization configuration file. The operating system allocates system resources to the target application according to the target optimization configuration information.
US11513816B2
The method includes creating and sending a change request for a change to the system configuration of the hardware system by means of a first hardware component of the plurality of hardware components, receiving the change request by means of the further hardware components of the plurality of hardware components, checking the change request by means of the further hardware components for compatibility of the change request with the configuration of the particular receiving hardware component by using configuration data of the receiving hardware component, in the case that the requested change to the system configuration is compatible with the configuration of the receiving hardware component, generating and sending an approval of the change to the system configuration by means of the receiving hardware component, and in the case that an approval quorum of the hardware components that is necessary for consent is achieved, entering the requested change to the system configuration of the hardware system into the block chain, implementing the requested change to the system configuration in the hardware system.
US11513814B1
Diagnostics and boot up for AV hardware and software of a computer system of an autonomous vehicle may be performed based at least on receiving a shutdown or power off indication, then a computing state of the computer system may be suspended with the computer system entering a low-power mode. The suspended computing state can be rapidly restored without requiring a reboot and diagnostics for key-on. To ensure the integrity of the saved computing state, the computer system may exit the low-power mode, rerun the diagnostics, reload the programs, and then reenter the low-power mode. Restoring the suspended computing state may be triggered by a user inserting an ignition key, pressing a button to turn on the vehicle, opening a door to the vehicle, remotely unlocking the vehicle, remotely starting the vehicle, etc.
US11513807B1
An information handling system includes a memory subsystem and a basic/input out system (BIOS). The BIOS performs multiple trainings of the memory subsystem, and each of the trainings is performed at a different temperature. The BIOS stores multiple derating values in a derating table of the BIOS, and each of the derating values corresponds to a respective tap value at a respective temperature. During a subsequent power on self test of the information handling system, the BIOS performs a first training of the memory subsystem, and stores a first set of tap values. During a runtime of the information handling system, a memory controller determines whether a temperature of the information handling system has changed by a predetermined amount. In response to the temperature changing by the predetermined amount, the memory controller utilizes the derating values in the derating table to automatically update the tap values.
US11513794B2
According to an example implementation, a computer-readable storage medium, computer-implemented method and a system are provided to receive a first class, the first class indirectly implementing a first interface, wherein the first class extends a second class that directly implements the first interface, identify one or more directly implemented methods within the first class, determine a method signature for one or more of the directly implemented methods, estimate that the first class indirectly implements the first interface based on the method signatures for the one or more directly implemented methods, and instrument the first class based on the estimating that the first class indirectly implements the first interface.
US11513789B2
An application deployment method includes obtaining application blueprints and resource indexes of a to-be-deployed application that are allocated to a deployment apparatus, establishing n correspondences among the application blueprints, the resource indexes, and agent identifiers based on the application blueprints and the resource indexes of the to-be-deployed application, and sending a deployment command to the deployment apparatus.
US11513780B2
A computer-implemented method, non-transitory, computer-readable medium, and computer-implemented system are provided for deploying a smart contract in a blockchain network. The computer-implemented method includes: receiving, by a blockchain node in a blockchain network, a transaction for creating a smart contract, wherein the transaction comprises a machine code of the smart contract, and the machine code of the smart contract is obtained by Ahead of Time (AoT) compilation of a bytecode of the smart contract in a first trusted execution environment (TEE); determining, by the blockchain node, that the machine code of the smart contract is obtained in a trusted TEE; and in response to determining that the machine code of the smart contract is obtained by the trusted TEE, completing, by the blockchain node, a deployment of the smart contract.
US11513751B2
A production system includes a memory containing instructions, and a processor that executes the instructions to execute a quality verification process corresponding to identification information assigned to a print job, determine whether or not a condition corresponding to the identification information assigned to the print job is met, in a case it is determined that the condition is not met, execute an adjustment process for meeting the condition, and execute the print job in a case the adjustment process has been completed or in a case it is determined that the condition is met.
US11513750B2
An example of an apparatus includes a network interface to receive print data from a device, the print data associated with a first subscription service. The apparatus also includes a memory storage unit to store the print data including a database of subscription services, wherein the database of subscription services includes the first subscription service and a second subscription service. In addition, the apparatus includes a subscription manager to manage the database of subscription services. The subscription manager deducts print credit from a first subscription service account based on the print data. The apparatus includes a selection engine to select a printing device for the print data, wherein the printing device is associated with the second subscription service.
US11513747B2
In an information processing device, a computer executes a device list download process to download a device list from a storage server. The device list includes a plurality of pieces of identification information corresponding to respective ones of a plurality of management target devices. The computer executes a connection determination process to determine for each management target device whether or not the management target device identified by the piece of identification information is connected to the information processing device via the communication interface. The computer executes a content data download process to download content data from the storage server via the communication interface. The computer executes a transmission process to transmit, to the device that is determined to be connected to the information processing device in the connection determination process, the content data which is downloaded in the content data download process and corresponds to the target management device.
US11513745B2
An information processing apparatus includes circuitry configured to display a display screen. The display screen includes a first display or a second display, and a third display. The first display displays, in units of a print job, checking result information obtained by comparing a read result with reference data on an image to be formed on the recording medium. The read result is obtained by reading a recording medium having an image formed. The second display displays, among print jobs, only a print job including a page having at least one abnormality in the image formed on the recording medium based on the checking result information. The third display displays information about the page in the print job including the page having the at least one abnormality and abnormality type information indicating a type of the at least one abnormality present in the page.
US11513744B2
A printer comprising a controller to control printing operations, a 1st user interface and at least one second user interface, connection to connect the 2nd user interface with the controller and wireless connection for exchanging data between the 2nd user interface and the controller when the second user interface is not connected with the printer, the controller being programmed to: detect whether the 2nd user interface is connected or not with the printer; display a different information on at least the first user interface depending on whether the 2nd user interface is connected or not.
US11513741B2
A tape may be mounted into a tape drive. Mounting the tape into the tape drive may include loading the tape from a storage slot. The tape drive may request a first record of the tape from a tape storage subsystem. The tape drive may determine whether the first record of the tape exists in the tape storage subsystem. The tape drive may load the first record of the tape in random access memory (RAM) of the tape drive. The first record may include one or more data entries. The tape drive may append a new data entry to the first record. The first record may be transitioned to a second record upon being appended with the new data entry. The tape may be unmounted from the tape drive.
US11513736B2
A data storage device includes a memory device and a controller. The controller is configured to receive host commands, such as write commands. Upon determining that a received plurality of write commands are sequential, but includes one or more write commands that are unaligned with a memory granularity of the memory device, the one or more write commands are revised such that the one or more write commands are aligned with the memory granularity. The revised write command includes a first of the one or more write commands and a portion of a second of the one or more write commands. A beginning of the revised write command is aligned with the memory granularity and the end of the revised write command is also aligned with the memory granularity.
US11513734B2
Disclosed are devices and methods for protecting the register file of a power management integrated circuit (PMIC). In one embodiment, a device is disclosed comprising: a register file comprising a plurality of a registers, at least one register in the register file containing a write register bit (WRB); and an interface configured to receive messages from a host application, the messages including a WRB enablement signal, wherein the device is configured to enable writing to the register file in response to receiving the WRB enablement signal over the interface, write data in response to write messages while writing to the register file is enabled, and disable writing to the register file in response to receiving a stop bit over the interface.
US11513727B2
A method, computer program product, and computer system for extending, by a computing device, transaction log page-buffers for Non-Volatile Random Access Memory (NVRAM) onto a solid state drive (SSD). It may be determined whether a bandwidth limit of the NVRAM has reached a threshold bandwidth. An IO may be processed on one of the NVRAM and the SSD based upon, at least in part, whether the bandwidth limit of the NVRAM has reached the threshold bandwidth.
US11513723B2
Aspects of a storage device including a memory and a controller are provided which optimize read look ahead (RLA) performance based on zone configurations or stored metadata. The controller stores in memory information previously received from a host, including a zone configuration or other information from which metadata associated with subsequent data to be pre-fetched in RLA may be determined. When the stored information includes the zone configuration, the controller reads data from memory in response to a host command and limits pre-fetching of subsequent data from the memory based on the zone configuration. When the stored information includes metadata, the controller reads the metadata associated with subsequent data from the memory, and limits pre-fetching of the subsequent data based on the metadata. Thus, resources of the storage device that are typically used for RLA may instead be used for other operations, improving the efficiency of the storage device.
US11513722B2
A memory system includes a non-volatile memory device and a controller. The non-volatile memory device performs operations in parallel on a plurality of memory blocks. The controller determines, in response to a read request on a plane including a target memory block among the plurality of memory blocks, whether to perform a process for a partial suspension on the operations based on suspension counts of the plurality of memory blocks. The controller controls, when performing a process for the partial suspension, the non-volatile memory device to suspend the operation being performed on the target memory block and to keep performing the operations being performed on other memory blocks among the plurality of memory blocks.
US11513720B1
A method and apparatus for sustaining performance of a data storage device by predictively determining resource needs and executing processes to meet those needs before the resources are actually needed. According to certain embodiments, a controller collects commands coming from a host and provides these to a machine learning model such as a recurrent neural network (RNN). The RNN is trained using this data, and output of the trained model is used to predict future commands. As future commands are developed by the RNN, resource allocation processes such as garbage collection may be initiated prior to the actual need, during times when processing cycles in the data storage device are available. By operating the garbage collection when the device has available processing may mitigate transition to an urgent mode.
US11513719B2
A memory device comprises a memory array including memory cells, a communication interface to a host device, and a memory control unit operatively coupled to the memory array and the communication interface. The memory control unit is configured to encrypt write data received via the communication interface to produce encrypted data, program a portion of the memory cells of the memory array with the encrypted data, read the encrypted data from the portion of the memory cells in response to a memory read request, decrypt the read encrypted data to produce read decrypted data only for portions of the read encrypted data not stored in purged regions of the memory array.
US11513718B2
A method, electronic device, and computer readable medium for managing a backup system is disclosed. The method includes acquiring a state of the backup system. The backup system includes a backup server and at least one backup client terminal, the backup server using multiple threads to back up data from the at least one backup client terminal to a persistent storage device via a buffer. The method also includes determining a reward score corresponding to the state of the backup system and determining configuration information for the backup system based on the state and the reward score of the backup system. The configuration information indicating at least one of the number of the multiple threads and the size of the buffer. The number of writing threads and the size of the buffer for the persistent storage device may be dynamically adjusted based on the state of the backup system.
US11513711B2
Techniques involve creating a stripe based on a dynamic window. In particular, in response to a request to create a stripe in the storage system, a first storage device for creating the stripe is selected from multiple storage devices. A first extent in the first storage device is added to the stripe. A first storage device sequence associated with the first storage device is determined based on a size of a predetermined window, and the first storage device sequence includes the first storage device and a set of continuous storage devices adjacent to the first storage device in the multiple storage devices. At least one other storage device for creating the stripe is determined based on storage devices other than the first storage device in the first storage device sequence. The storage devices in the storage system can be used in a balanced manner as much as possible.
US11513706B2
A system enables entities to access a single platform in order to utilize electronic data storage for storing different types of information. One or more computers may operate an electronic data storage processing network that entities can access when updating information in electronic data storage. The electronic data storage processing network may operate a plurality of electronic data storage processing modules, which can include an aggregator module, a formatter module, an operator signer module, and a validator module. Based on the specific use case for which electronic data storage is utilized, recordable data that is to be added to the electronic data storage can be processed by the appropriate aggregating, formatting, signing, and validating functions provided by the electronic data storage processing modules.
US11513699B2
A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving, via a storage processor of a storage system, a write request for writing a data portion to a storage array enclosure of non-volatile memory express (NVMe) drives communicatively coupled to the storage processor, where the write request may be received from a host. The data portion may be written to a persistent memory write cache within the storage array enclosure.
US11513698B2
A system for data protection includes a computing device comprising a processor, a Hardware Root of Trust (HRoT) module and a storage device. The HRoT device is configured to: validate integrity of the computing device; authenticate the computing device to communicate with the storage device; and take over control of storage device access and behaviour whenever suspicious or unauthorized data access from local or remote computing devices is detected. The HRoT device is further configured to, in response to detecting a security risk to at least one of the computing device and the storage device, block communication of the storage device.
US11513691B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for providing parallel data transfer. In certain embodiments, a data storage device includes a non-volatile memory and a controller configured to: receive a command from a host to obtain a file stored in the non-volatile memory; determine a plurality of channels available between the host and the data storage device; dynamically divide the file into a plurality of chunks based at least in part on the plurality of channels; perform load balancing to determine a first chunk of the plurality of chunks to be sent over a first channel of the plurality of channels and at least a second chunk of the plurality of chunks to be sent over a second channel of the plurality of channels; and simultaneously transmit the first chunk over the first channel and the second chunk over the second channel.
US11513683B2
A data storage device capable of namespace re-sizing comprises a nonvolatile semiconductor storage device containing data accessed via a logical address that includes a namespace identifier and a logical block address, and a controller. The storage device can convert the namespace identifier to a base address using a first look up table. The storage device can further convert the logical block address to namespace allocation units of storage. The storage device can also determine a pointer using the base address, the namespace allocation units, and a second look up table. Further, the storage device can determine a full logical cluster address using the pointer.
US11513679B2
A method for processing a touch signal includes: detecting, through an event dispatch process, a full-screen gesture touch signal, determining whether the full-screen gesture touch signal conforms to a full-screen gesture trajectory determination rule; and sending, based on a result of the determining, the full-screen gesture touch signal or a part of events of the full-screen gesture touch signal to a gesture processing process or an application processing process.
US11513671B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a split-screen display method and an apparatus, and relate to the field of terminal technologies, to display detailed information about intelligent prompt information on split screens, thereby improving user experience. The method is applied to a terminal including at least one display. The method includes: obtaining the intelligent prompt information; displaying the detailed information corresponding to the intelligent prompt information in a first display area of a first display, where the first display is one of the at least one display, and the first display area is a partial display area of the first display.
US11513668B2
An extensible user experience framework includes outputting a graphical user interface (GUI) including a persistent panel for displaying alerts of real-time communications and presenting single-click options for users to select to initiate actions in response to those alerts. A GUI is output for display at a client device. The GUI presents one or more alerts and one or more response actions for each of the one or more alerts, in which each of the alerts corresponds to different real-time communications received at the client device, and the response actions for a given alert are each selectable by a single user interaction to initiate a different action for a real-time communication associated with the given alert. An action for the real-time communication associated with the given alert is later initiated responsive to a selection of a response action for the given alert.
US11513650B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a transparent touch display device, and more particularly, to a transparent display device including a touch electrode having a low reflection structure. The touch electrode having the low reflection structure may include a mesh type sensor metal formed a plurality of openings, a sensor transmission layer on the sensor metal, and a sensor auxiliary metal on the sensor transmission layer. Part of the incident light incident on the upper surface of the sensor auxiliary metal is reflected from the upper surface of the sensor auxiliary metal, and another part of the incident light incident on the upper surface of the sensor auxiliary metal is reflected from the upper surface of the sensor metal after passing through the sensor auxiliary metal and the sensor transmission layer.
US11513649B2
According to one embodiment, a sensor device includes an electrostatic capacitive touch panel, and an input device mounted on the touch panel. The input device includes a knob rotatably disposed about a rotation axis, and a first conductor held by the knob and being in contact with the touch panel in a part of a circumference about the rotation axis.
US11513632B2
A touch display device comprises a display panel including a plurality of touch electrodes, and a plurality of touch lines; a touch sensing circuit configured to generate a digital touch sensing output signal by accumulating touch sensing signals transmitted from the plurality of touch electrodes through the plurality of touch lines; and a touch controller configured to control a amplification gain of the touch sensing circuit by extracting a plurality of single touch sensing data having touch peak values from the digital touch sensing output signal and by comparing a distance of touch peak values between adjacent single touch sensing data to a predetermined reference distance.
US11513629B2
A display device includes a plurality of pixels. A gate line extends in a first direction and is connected to each of the plurality of pixels. A common electrode is disposed above the gate line and extends across the plurality of pixels. A touch sensing unit is disposed above the common electrode and includes a plurality of driving electrodes and a plurality of sensing electrodes. A display driver drives the plurality of pixels. A first fan-out line is connected to the display driver. A touch driver drives the driving electrodes and the sensing electrodes. A second fan-out line is connected to the touch driver. A first switching element selectively connects one of the first fan-out line and the second fan-out line to the gate line.
US11513626B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure may provide a display device including a touch sensor and a manufacturing method thereof including a first touch signal line and a second touch signal line disposed on a first insulating layer, a second insulating layer disposed on the first touch signal line and the second touch signal line, a first via connected to the first touch signal line and a second via connected to the second touch signal line through a first contact hole and a second contact hole respectively included in the second insulating layer, and a common electrode disposed on the second insulating layer, wherein the first via is connected to the common electrode and the second via is not connected to the common electrode.
US11513625B2
A transparent touch display device is provided. The transparent touch display device includes a display unit and a touch electrode. The display unit includes a circuit area and a transparent area. The circuit area includes a plurality of signal lines, a plurality of pixel circuits and a plurality of light-emitting elements. The pixel circuits are electrically connected to the signal lines. The light-emitting elements are driven by the pixel circuits. The touch electrode overlaps the circuit area.
US11513617B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a display device. The display device includes: a display panel; a control circuit board; and a rotary knob assembly connected to the control circuit board. The rotary knob assembly includes a rotary rod and a rotary knob cap, the rotary rod is connected to the rotary knob cap, and the rotary knob cap is configured to drive the rotary rod to rotate. The display panel is connected to the control circuit board, the rotary knob assembly is configured for generating a signal according to an action of the rotary knob cap and transmitting the signal to the control circuit board, and the control circuit board is configured for controlling the display panel to display according to the signal.
US11513608B2
A method of controlling a user interface using an input image is provided. The method includes storing operation executing information of each of one or more gesture forms according to each of a plurality of functions, detecting a gesture form from the input image, and identifying the operation executing information mapped on the detected gesture form to execute an operation according to a function which is currently operated.
US11513599B2
A tactile stimulation providing apparatus includes a plurality of actuators and a plurality of actuator cases respectively corresponding to the plurality of actuators. Each of the actuator cases includes: a cap covering an upper portion of a corresponding actuator; and a base covering a lower portion of the actuator, the base being connected to the cap to fix the actuator.
US11513598B2
Implementations include a display assembly for a switch assembly, comprising a display assembly touch overlay plate, wherein at least a portion of the display assembly touch overlay plate is comprised of a transparent or translucent material; a display, wherein the display is disposed underneath the display assembly touch overlay plate and wherein at least a portion of the display is visible through the portion of the display assembly touch overlay plate; a display assembly first housing and a display assembly second housing, wherein the display assembly touch overlay plate is in communication with the display assembly first housing, wherein a force applied to the display assembly touch overlay plate is at least partially transmitted from the display assembly touch overlay plate to the display assembly first housing to a switch assembly through a central portion of the display assembly first housing.
US11513592B2
An endpoint system including one or more computing devices presents an object in a virtual environment (e.g., a shared virtual environment); receives gaze input corresponding to a gaze of a user of the endpoint system; calculates a gaze vector based on the gaze input; receives motion input corresponding to an action of the user; determines a path adjustment (e.g., by changing motion parameters such as trajectory and velocity) for the object based at least in part on the gaze vector and the motion input; and simulates motion of the object within the virtual environment based at least in part on the path adjustment. The object may be presented as being thrown by an avatar, with a flight path based on the path adjustment. The gaze vector may be based on head orientation information, eye tracking information, or some combination of these or other gaze information.
US11513584B2
Disclosed are techniques for saving power in a Universal Serial Bus (USB) repeater/re-timer between a USB host and a peripheral device by intercepting packets received from the host to predict the direction of data traffic to selectively turn off/on circuitry of a peripheral port used to receive packets from the peripheral device. If a host port determines that the host is sending a start-of-frame (SOF) packet, the direction of data flow is from the host to the peripheral device, and the repeater may turn off the peripheral port such as squelch circuitry. If the host port determines that the host is sending a non-SOF packet, such as an address token that precedes a host-to-peripheral-device data transfer or a peripheral-device-to-host data transfer, the direction of data flow is anticipated to be from the peripheral device to the host, and the repeater may re-enable the deactivated circuitry of the peripheral port.
US11513580B2
Example techniques related to portable playback device power management. An example implementation involves launching a power coordinator background process, the power coordinator background process having multiple client programs and establishing respective inter-process communication (IPC) mechanisms between the multiple client programs and the power coordinator background process. The implementation further involves receiving, via the established IPC mechanisms from the multiple client programs, messages indicating that the respective client program is ready to suspend, and determining that each client program of the multiple client programs is ready to suspend. The implementation further includes sending instructions to the operating system to kernel suspend. While in kernel suspend, the playback device detects a particular trigger to kernel resume and in response, performs a kernel resume.
US11513579B2
Selection and serving of content items may include receiving data indicative of a status of an energy source of a device with a request for a content item. A first received content item may be associated with a first energy consumption level and a second received content item may be associated with a second energy consumption level. The accessed content items are responsive to the request for a content item. The first energy consumption level may be higher than the second energy consumption level. The first content item or the second content item may be selected based, at least in part, on the received data indicative of the status of the energy source of the device, and data to display the selected content item may be provided to the device.
US11513542B2
A fluid control system and associated method for pulse delivery of a fluid includes a shutoff valve and a mass flow controller (MFC) upstream of the shutoff valve. The MFC includes a flow channel, a control valve to control flow of fluid in the flow channel, a flow sensor to measure flow rate in the flow channel, and a controller having a valve input from the shutoff valve indicating opening of the shutoff valve. The controller is configured to respond to the valve input to control flow of fluid through the control valve to initiate and terminate a pulse of fluid from the flow channel to the shutoff valve to control a mass of fluid delivered during the pulse of fluid. The valve input can be a pressure signal, and the MFC can include a pressure sensor to sense the pressure signal.
US11513538B1
A method for controlling an autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle for delivery of a medication package includes determining a thermal control period for the medication package. The method also includes identifying a delivery location corresponding to the medication package. The method also includes identifying at least one environmental characteristic of an environment that includes a delivery three-dimensional flight path between a starting location and the delivery location, wherein the at least one environmental characteristic indicates an actual weather value at the delivery location. The method also includes determining whether to deliver the medication package based on the thermal control period and the at least one environmental characteristic, using the unmanned aerial vehicle.
US11513534B2
A traveling vehicle controller includes a command assignment controller to detect a first-to-arrive traveling vehicle that is able to reach a destination point first among traveling vehicles, based on travel route candidates on which the traveling vehicles travel along a travel path from respective positions to reach the destination point, and assign the command to the first-to-arrive traveling vehicle. During detection of the first-to-arrive traveling vehicle, when a traveling vehicle traveling toward a branch point on the travel path is located within a range of a branch-switching impossible distance from the branch point and is scheduled to proceed toward a main way at the branch point, the command assignment controller performs pseudo-shift processing by which this traveling vehicle is determined to be located in a position downstream of the branch point and on a side of the main way.
US11513521B1
Methods and systems for autonomous vehicle recharging or refueling are disclosed. Autonomous vehicles may be automatically refueled by routing the vehicles to available fueling stations when not in operation, according to methods described herein. A fuel level within a tank of an autonomous vehicle may be monitored until it reaches a refueling threshold, at which point an on-board computer may generate a predicted use profile for the vehicle. Based upon the predicted use profile, a time and location for the vehicle to refuel the vehicle may be determined. In some embodiments, the vehicle may be controlled to automatically travel to a fueling station, refill a fuel tank, and return to its starting location in order to refuel when not in use.
US11513520B2
A method for training control software to reinforce safety constraints using visual inputs includes performing template matching for each object in an image of a reinforcement learning (RL) agent's action space using a visual template for each object wherein each object in the RL agent's action space is detected, mapping each detected object to a set of planar coordinates for each object in the RL agent's action space, determining a set of safe actions for the RL agent by applying a safety specification for the RL agent's action space to the set of variables for coordinates for each object in the RL agent's action space, outputting the set of safe actions to the RL agent for a current state of a RL procedure, and preventing the RL agent from executing an action that is unsafe, before the RL agent takes an action.
US11513517B2
The present disclosure is directed to controlling state transitions in an autonomous vehicle. In particular, a computing system can initiate the autonomous vehicle into a no-authorization state upon startup. The computing system can receive an authorization request. The computing system determines whether the authorization request includes a request to enter the first or second mode of operations, wherein the first mode of operations is associated with the autonomous vehicle being operated without a human operator and the second mode of operations is associated with the autonomous vehicle being operable by a human operator. The computing system can transition the autonomous vehicle from the no-authorization state into a standby state in response to determining the authorization request includes a request to enter the first mode of operations or into a manual-controlled state in response to determining the authorization request is a request to enter the second mode of operations.
US11513510B2
Embodiments of this application describe a motor vehicle self-driving method and a terminal device. The method may include obtaining, by a terminal device, vehicle external-environment data of a position of a motor vehicle and initial positioning precision of the motor vehicle. The method may also include determining, by the terminal device, a target driving parameter of the motor vehicle based on the vehicle external-environment data and the initial positioning precision. Furthermore, the method may include controlling, by the terminal device, the motor vehicle to drive based on the target driving parameter. In the embodiments of this application, the terminal device determines the target driving parameter of the motor vehicle based on the vehicle external-environment data and the initial positioning precision. In this way, the target driving parameter varies with the vehicle external-environment data, and further matches an external environment, thereby improving self-driving safety of the motor vehicle.
US11513509B2
A disclosed system includes a mobile application operative on a mobile device to receive user selected options for limiting drive access to a vehicle when the user is not physically present with the vehicle but wishes to allow service personnel access and limited drive functions. The disclosed system allows user selection of the options, then generates an instruction set for controlling one or more drive capabilities of the vehicle based at least in part on the user selected options. The system establishes an encrypted channel between the mobile device and a telematics control unit of the vehicle. The system controls drive capabilities of the vehicle via the encrypted channel such that the mobile application user can provide remote access for locking, unlocking, ignition, and further restrict drive functions based on time, date, distance, geo-fence options, and other criteria.
US11513483B2
A method of motor control device emulation includes receiving, via a network-enabled motor control device, a communication request corresponding to an emulated motor control device. The method further includes modifying the communication request to match an expected communication request. Additionally, the method includes providing a modified communication request to an associated hardware module within the network-enabled motor control device. Further, the expected communication request is based on the network-enabled motor control device.
US11513480B2
Disclosed are a method for automatically diagnosing and controlling an apparatus in an intelligent building and relevant device. The method includes: performing, based on historical data of working parameters of multiple apparatuses, an abnormal diagnosis on received real-time data of the working parameters; determining an abnormal apparatus; selecting a neural network predictive control model corresponding to the abnormal apparatus; selecting one piece of non-abnormal data which has a same parameter type as that of the abnormal data and is close to the current abnormal data in time as a predictive control target, and determining a predictive control data that can cause an output matching the predictive control target; and controlling the abnormal apparatus according to the predictive control data. The automatic diagnosis and automatic control of an apparatus in an intelligent building are realized, meanwhile the safe and efficient operation of all apparatuses in an intelligent building is ensured.
US11513472B2
An image forming apparatus configured to perform simplex printing and duplex printing includes a recording medium ejection device, a suction duct, a blower, and a pair of rotating members. The recording medium ejection device includes a recording medium outlet through which a recording medium is ejected outside of the image forming apparatus and a recording medium reverse port through which a part of the recording medium is ejected to reverse the recording medium in the duplex printing. The suction duct includes a suction port to suck air. The blower is disposed in the suction duct and sucks air from the recording medium ejection device to the suction port. The pair of rotating members is disposed between the suction port and at least one of the recording medium outlet and the recording medium reverse port and reverses both sides of the recording medium in the duplex printing.
US11513470B2
An image-forming apparatus includes: a toner cartridge configured to accommodate toner; a drum cartridge for use with the toner cartridge; and a controller. The drum cartridge includes a photosensitive drum, and a drum memory storing a first type information indicating a type of the drum cartridge. The controller is configured to communicate with the drum memory. The controller is configured to perform: reading the first type information from the drum memory; and changing an operation of the image-forming apparatus based on the type indicated by the first type information.
US11513469B2
Power receiving unit and process cartridge are provided. The power receiving unit of a process cartridge is detachably mounted in an image formation apparatus configured with a power output unit that is swingable. An outer circumference of the power output unit contains a recessed portion, and the power receiving unit is engaged with the power output unit to receive a driving force. The power receiving unit includes a protrusion. The protrusion is disposed inside the power receiving unit. The protrusion is engaged with the recessed portion of the power output unit to receive the driving force. When the power receiving unit moves along an axial direction thereof and is in a contact engagement with the power output unit, the protrusion abuts against a front end of the power output unit to cause the power output unit to be tilted and swung.
US11513449B2
An image forming apparatus detects a first current value and a second current value of currents flowing between an image bearing member and a developer carrying member. When a difference between the detected first current value and the detected second current value exceeds a threshold in a state in which the image bearing member and the developer carrying member are rotated and a first developing voltage is applied to the developer carrying member, a controller controls AC voltage applied to the developer carrying member.
US11513446B2
A method of applying a measurement correction includes determining an orthogonal subspace used to characterize a first principal component of the measurement and a second principal component of the measurement, and rotating the orthogonal subspace by a first angle such that the first principle component rotates to become a first factor vector and the second principle component rotates to become a second factor vector. An asymmetry vector is generated by rotating the second factor vector by a second angle, where the asymmetry vector and the first factor vector define a non-orthogonal subspace. An asymmetry contribution is determined in the measurement based on the projection of the measurement onto the first factor vector in the non-orthogonal subspace. The method also includes subtracting the asymmetry contribution from the measurement.
US11513443B1
A method of treating a surface of a reticle includes retrieving a reticle from a reticle library and transferring the reticle to a treatment device. The surface of the reticle is treated in the treatment device by irradiating the surface of the reticle with UV radiation while ozone fluid is over the surface of the reticle for a predetermined irradiation time. After the treatment, the reticle is transferred to an exposure device for lithography operation to generate a photo resist pattern on a wafer. A surface of the wafer is imaged to generate an image of the photo resist pattern on the wafer. The generated image of the photo resist pattern is analyzed to determine critical dimension uniformity (CDU) of the photo resist pattern. The predetermined irradiation time is increased if the CDU does not satisfy a threshold CDU.
US11513441B2
An EUV collector mirror for an extreme ultra violet (EUV) radiation source apparatus includes an EUV collector mirror body on which a reflective layer as a reflective surface is disposed, a heater attached to or embedded in the EUV collector mirror body and a drain structure to drain melted metal from the reflective surface of the EUV collector mirror body to a back side of the EUV collector mirror body.
US11513440B2
An optical element has an area in which a transmittance varies, includes first and second antireflection layers, and an absorption layer disposed between the first and second antireflection layers, and satisfies certain conditions.
US11513423B2
A semiconductor device comprises a substrate and a plurality of emitters disposed on the substrate. The emitter may comprise: a first conductive reflection layer having a first reflectivity; an active layer disposed on the first conductive reflection layer; an aperture layer disposed on the active layer and comprising an aperture region and a blocking region surrounding the aperture region; and a second conductive reflection layer disposed on the aperture layer and having a second reflectivity smaller than the first reflectivity. A diameter-to-pitch ratio of the aperture region of the aperture layer is 1:3 to 1:5, wherein the pitch may be defined as the distance between centers of aperture regions of aperture layers of adjacent emitters.
US11513411B2
Certain embodiments relate to optical devices and methods of fabricating optical devices that pre-treat a sub-layer to enable selective removal of the pre-treated sub-layer and overlying layers. Other embodiments pertain to methods of fabricating an optical device that apply a sacrificial material layer.
US11513410B2
The present invention is an electrochromic device which is provided with a first electrode; an electrochromic layer which is disposed on the first electrode, while containing an organic/metal hybrid polymer that contains at least an organic ligand and a metal ion to which the organic ligand is coordinated; an electrolyte layer which is disposed on the electrochromic layer; a counter electrode material layer which is disposed on the electrolyte layer and contains a conductive polymer; and a second electrode which is disposed on the counter electrode material layer. The conductive polymer may be at least one polymer that is selected from the group consisting of polypyrroles, polyanilines, polythiophenes, poly(p-phenylene)s, poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)-poly(styrene sulfonate)s (PEDOT:PSS), polyfluorenes, poly(p-phenylenevinylene)s, polythienylenevinylenes and organic/metal hybrid polymers.
US11513402B2
Auxiliary coupling layer between display panel and circuit member and display device having the same
A display device includes a display panel including a side surface; on the side surface of the display panel: a pad through which an electrical signal is provided to the display panel from outside thereof; and an auxiliary layer in a same layer as the pad and spaced apart from the pad along a thickness direction of the display panel; and a circuit member facing the side surface of the display panel and coupled to both the pad and the auxiliary layer.
US11513401B2
A liquid crystal display module and a display device are provided. An end surface of a binding terminal is combined with an end surface of an array substrate to form a contact surface. The contact surface is disposed obliquely to any side surface of the array substrate. A conductive film is fit to and electrically connected with the contact surface. By increasing area of the contact surface between the binding terminal and the first conductive film, a contact resistance can be effectively reduced. The flip-chip film is bent at least twice to reduce a damage to the flip-chip film during bending.
US11513398B2
A display panel is provided. The display panel includes: a first substrate structure and a second substrate structure. The first substrate structure has an overlapping region and two protruding regions between which the overlapping region is disposed. The second substrate structure is disposed opposite to the first substrate structure and includes a main spacer and a sub spacer. The main spacer overlaps the overlapping region of the first substrate structure. The first height difference between the overlapping region and one of the two protruding regions is greater than zero and less than the thickness of the sub spacer.
US11513392B1
A display may have a pixel array such as a liquid crystal pixel array. The pixel array may be illuminated with backlight illumination from a direct-lit backlight unit. The backlight unit may include an array of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) on a printed circuit board. The display may have a notch to accommodate an input-output component. Reflective layers may be included in the notch. The backlight may include a color conversion layer with a property that varies as a function of position. The light-emitting diodes may be covered by a slab of encapsulant with recesses in an upper surface.
US11513388B2
An optical assembly includes a first optical film and a second optical film. The first optical film includes first microstructures arranged in a chessboard arrangement based on a first direction. The second optical film includes second microstructures arranged in a chessboard arrangement based on a second direction. The angle between the first direction and the second direction is greater than or equal to 30 degrees and less than or equal to 60 degrees.
US11513383B2
An electronic device can include a housing that at least partially defines an exterior surface and an internal volume of the electronic device, and a display assembly at least partially disposed in the internal volume. The display assembly can include a transparent cover that at least partially defines the exterior surface of the electronic device, a backlight unit disposed between the cover and the housing, a frame coupling the cover to the backlight unit, a portion of the frame at least partially defining an aperture, and an electronic component disposed in the internal volume and extending through the aperture.
US11513381B2
An optical device is provided. The optical device is capable of varying transmittance, and such optical device can be used for various applications such as eyewear, for example, sunglasses or AR (augmented reality) or VR (virtual reality) eyewear, an outer wall of a building or a sunroof for a vehicle.
US11513372B2
Techniques are described for applying an edge sealant to the edge of a multi-layer optical device. In particular, embodiments provide an apparatus that performs a precision measurement of the perimeter of an eyepiece, applying the edge sealant (e.g., polymer) based on the precision-measured perimeter, and subsequently cures the edge sealant, using ultraviolet (UV) light that is directed at the edge sealant. The curing process may be performed within a short time following the application of the edge sealant, to ensure that any wicking of the edge sealant between the layers of the eyepiece is controlled to be no greater than a particular depth tolerance. In some examples, the edge sealant is applied to the optical device prevent, or at least reduce, the leakage of light from the optical device, and also to ensure and maintain the structure of the multi-layer optical device.
US11513371B2
In one embodiment, an eyeglass frame includes a lens holder, a first temple with a first end close to the lens holder and a second end, a second temple, an electrical connector and a printed circuit board. The printed circuit board with at least one electrical component can be in the first temple. The connector can be close to the first end of the first temple, facing downward, and electrically connected to the at least one electrical component. In another embodiment, an eyeglass frame includes a first printed circuit board, with at least one electrical component. The first printed circuit board can be connected to an electrical component at the frame via a second printed circuit board.
US11513366B2
Various aspects include audio eyeglasses with a frame including: a lens region; a pair of arms extending from the lens region; a hinge coupling each of the pair of arms with the lens region; and a cable extending through each hinge, where each hinge includes: a body defining a cavity accommodating the cable; and a hinge mechanism within the body, the hinge mechanism having: a spring located in the lens region, the spring including at least one lever arm extending within the cavity; and a cam member contacting the lever arm of the spring, where the cam member includes: a first contact surface for resisting kickback from the spring when the audio eyeglasses are in a fully open position, and a second, distinct contact surface for resisting kickback from the spring when the audio eyeglasses are in a fully closed position.
US11513362B2
An example optical assembly includes a display, a light source for illuminating the display, and a first diffraction type polarizing beam splitter (DT-PBS) configured to direct light from a first light director, wherein the first DT-PBS is polarization sensitive and configured to direct, based on polarization, a first portion of light towards the display.
US11513355B2
A method of pervasive memory augmentation includes receiving a request to augment a memory via a heads-up display having a field of view and generating one or more processor-readable memory cues that are connected to the memory. A cued content is generated based on the one or more processor-readable memory cues. The cued content is presented in a display space in the field of view of the heads-up display on a spaced repetition schedule.
US11513352B2
A display has an image projector projecting collimated image illumination along a projection direction, and an optical element having two major surfaces and containing partially reflective surfaces which are internal to the optical element, planar, mutually parallel and overlapping relative to the projection direction. Each ray of the collimated image illumination enters the optical element and is partially reflected by at least two of the partially reflective surfaces so as to be redirected to exit the first major surface along a viewing direction. An alternative implementation, a first reflection from one of the partially reflective surfaces redirects part of the image illumination rays so as to undergo total internal reflection at the major surfaces of the optical element. The rays are then redirected by further reflection from another of the partially reflective surfaces to exit the optical element along the viewing direction.
US11513349B2
An optical see-through (OST) near-eye display (NED) system is presented, integrating ophthalmic correction for an eye of a user, comprising a partially transmissive partially reflective lens, including an inner surface characterized by an inner surface radius of curvature exhibiting a first optical power, and an outer surface characterized by an outer surface radius of curvature exhibiting a second optical power, said partially transmissive partially reflective lens is configured to be facing said eye, and to at least partially transmit incoming light of an outward scene to said eye; and an electro-optical unit, configured to be optically coupled with said partially transmissive partially reflective lens, and including a light display configured to project a light beam image onto said inner surface, so to enable reflection of said light beam image toward said eye, said electro-optical unit is configured to be located at a glabellar region of said user.
US11513345B2
Provided is a device and method for designing a light guide plate pattern, the device including a camera configured to capture a liquid crystal display device module mounted in a curved display device, a mura position detector configured to detect a position of mura on the basis of image information and luminance information captured by the camera, a mura shape detector configured to detect shape of the mura on the basis of the image information and the luminance information captured by the camera, a dot pattern density adjuster configured to adjust a density of dot patterns of a light guide plate based on a shape for removing the mura corresponding to the shape of the mura generated in the liquid crystal display device module.
US11513340B2
A projector including a light source, a first prism, a second prism and a digital micro-mirror device (DMD) is provided. The light source emits light. The first prism includes a first surface, a second surface and a third surface which are connected to each other around the perimeter thereof, and the illumination light enters the first prism through the first surface. The second prism has a fourth surface and a fifth surface which are connected to each other, and the fourth surface faces the second surface of the first prism. The DMD faces the third surface. The illumination light sequentially passes through the first surface, is reflected by the second surface, passes through the third surface, and reaches the DMD. The DMD converts the illumination light into image light, and the image light sequentially passes through the third surface, the second surface, the fourth surface and the fifth surface. In the first prism, a first included angle between the first surface and the third surface is more than or equal to 105 degrees.
US11513334B2
A periscope lens module of a mobile terminal and the mobile terminal are disclosed. The periscope lens module includes a motor housing and a lens. The lens includes an enclosure, a first lens, and a second lens. The enclosure includes a first cylinder and a second cylinder connected to the first cylinder. At least one gap penetrating a sidewall of the first cylinder is disposed on the sidewall. The first lens is fastened in the first cylinder, and the second lens is fastened in the second cylinder.
US11513331B2
A device for outcoupling a portion of the radiation of an observation beam path of a binocular eyepiece for documentation or co-observation that is freely selectable at any time. For the outcoupling, a rotatable supporting unit, the axis of rotation of which is parallel to the axes of the observation beam paths, is arranged in the housing having the binocular eyepiece. Three optical elements are arranged on this supporting unit such that an outer and the middle optical element and, after rotation of the supporting unit, the middle and the other outer optical element are each located in one of the observation beam paths. Here, the two outer optical elements have a beam-splitting effect and outcouple a portion of the observation radiation into a common documentation beam path.
US11513329B2
A system for illuminating a microscopy specimen includes an illumination source configured to emit a light that travels along an illumination path to illuminate the microscopy specimen placed on an optical detection path of an optical microscope. The system also includes optical elements in the illumination path and configured to at least in part transform the light from the illumination source into a light sheet illuminating the microscopy specimen. The optical elements include an electronically tunable lens configured to vary a focal distance of the electronically tunable lens to dynamically vary a position of a waist of the light sheet illuminating the microscopy specimen. The optical elements include a deflector configured to vertically move the light sheet to illuminate the microscopy specimen at different horizontal planes.
US11513323B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of optical lenses and provides a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens includes, from an object side to an image side: a first lens; a second lens; a third lens; a fourth lens; a fifth lens; a sixth lens; a seventh lens; and an eighth lens. The camera optical lens satisfies following conditions: 1.95≤f1/f≤3.20; f2≤0; and 1.55≤n7≤1.70, where f denotes a focal length of the camera optical lens; f1 denotes a focal length of the first lens; f2 denotes a focal length of the second lens; and n7 denotes a refractive index of the seventh lens. The present disclosure can achieve ultra-thin, wide-angle lenses having a big aperture.
US11513318B2
An optical photographing lens assembly includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element and a fifth lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof and an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The second lens element with negative refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The third lens element has two surfaces being both aspheric. The fourth lens element with negative refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof, wherein two surfaces thereof are aspheric. The fifth lens element has an image-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof, wherein two surfaces thereof are aspheric.
US11513314B2
An optical setup, comprising one or more platforms having a plurality of fixation locations repeatedly arranged, and defining a discrete position coordinate system; and a plurality of modular optical units, each comprising an optical portion defining an optical axis fixedly attached to at least one mounting surface comprising complementary geometry to the fixation locations; wherein a releasable attachment of the plurality of modular optical units at the fixation locations defines a plurality of optical axes at least a portion of the optical axes overlapping across the discrete position coordinate system In some embodiments, the modular optical units include standard optical elements In some embodiments, the platform includes an attachment interface to an optical table and/or another platform In some embodiments, laser pulses are synchronized by fixing a discrete path length over the fixation locations In some embodiments the fixation locations are located on multiple planes in 3D space.
US11513307B2
A projection lens includes a plurality of lens units, and a diaphragm, wherein in a case where a lens unit that moves in an optical axis direction of the projection lens during focusing serves as a focus lens unit among the plurality of lens units, at least one lens included in a lens unit that is different from the focus lens unit among the plurality of lens units and is disposed more towards a reduction conjugate side than the diaphragm is configured to move in the optical axis direction when an amount of field curvature is adjusted to focus on a curved projection surface, and wherein when the amount of field curvature is adjusted, both the at least one lens and the focus lens unit move in the optical axis direction.
US11513306B2
An interchangeable lens is removably attached to a camera body including a body-side mount, an image sensor, body-side terminals and a first to fourth body-side claws. The interchangeable lens includes the lens-side mount, lens-side terminals which are in contact with body-side terminals, a first to fourth lens-side claws engaged with the first to fourth body-side claws once the interchangeable lens is attached to the camera body. The first and third lens-side claws are disposed on a third lens-side line intersecting with the first lens-side line at an optical axis with approximately 45 degrees. The first lens-side line passes through a center between opposite ends of the first lens-side claw to the optical axis. The second and fourth lens-side claws are disposed on a fourth lens-side line orthogonal to the third lens-side line at the optical axis.
US11513305B2
A fiber management tray (10) is disclosed. The fiber management tray (10) can have a body (12) including a bottom wall (14) with side walls (16) extending outwardly from the bottom wall (14). The fiber management tray (10) can include a termination region (18) that has a first side (24) and a second side (26). The termination region (18) includes a termination panel (13) that holds connectors (20). The fiber management tray (10) can include a hinge area (56) for mounting said tray (10) to a tray tower (58) and a storage basket (32) located between the termination region (18) and the hinge area (56). The storage basket (32) can include a first pocket (44) that communicates with the second side (26) of the termination region (18) and an opposite second pocket (48) that communicates with the first side (24) of the termination region (18). The fiber management tray (10) can define at least one fiber routing path on each of the first and second pockets (44, 48) of the storage basket (32). The fiber management tray (10) can define a fiber transition opening (54) for transitioning optical fibers between the second pocket (48) of the storage basket (32) and first side (24) of the termination region (18). The fiber transition opening (54) can have an access structure for allowing optical fibers to be inserted into the fiber transition opening (54).
US11513302B2
A jacket is provided to the outer circumference of a cable core, a rip cord, and a tension member. The cable core, the rip cord, and the tension member are collectively covered by the jacket. A wrapping tape is longitudinally placed on the outer circumference of a core part so as to be wound therearound. Thus, immediately after the wrapping tape is longitudinally placed and wound, a wrap part thereof is formed so as to lie substantially straight in the axial direction of an optical fiber cable. In contrast, in an optical fiber cable, the cable core is obtained by combining and intertwining the core part and the wrapping tape. Because of this configuration, the wrap part of the wrapping tape is helically disposed in the longitudinal direction.
US11513299B2
A photon detection device, configured to couple to a multicore optical fibre, the device comprising a plurality of detection regions, each detection region being arranged to align with just a single core of the multicore optical fibre when the device is coupled to the multicore optical fibre.
US11513295B2
An optical coupling structure, an optical coupling system and a method for preparing the optical coupling structure are provided. The method includes: step S101: preparing a base substrate; step S102: forming a lithium niobate optical waveguide on the base substrate; step S103: forming a silicon dioxide core layer enclosing the lithium niobate optical waveguide on peripheral walls of the lithium niobate optical waveguide; step S104: forming a silicon dioxide cladding layer enclosing the silicon dioxide core layer on peripheral walls of the silicon dioxide core layer. The optical coupling structure alleviates a technical problem of low coupling efficiency between the lithium niobate optical waveguide and the single-mode optical fiber in the related art, and achieves a technical effect of improving the coupling efficiency between the lithium niobate optical waveguide and the single-mode optical fiber.
US11513288B2
In integrated optical structures (e.g., silicon-to-silicon-nitride mode converters) implemented in semiconductor-on-insulator substrates, wire waveguides whose sidewalls substantially consist of portions coinciding with crystallographic planes and do not extend laterally beyond the top surface of the wire waveguide may provide benefits in performance and/or manufacturing needs. Such wire waveguides may be manufactured, e.g., using a dry-etch of the semiconductor device layer down to the insulator layer to form a wire waveguide with exposed sidewalls, followed by a smoothing crystallographic wet etch.
US11513286B2
Structures for an optical power splitter/combiner and methods of forming a structure for an optical power splitter/combiner. A first waveguide core is positioned adjacent to a second waveguide core. The first waveguide core includes a first end surface and a first tapered section that tapers toward the first end surface. The second waveguide core includes a second end surface and a second tapered section that tapers toward the second end surface. A third waveguide core is positioned in a different level than the first waveguide core and the second waveguide core. The third waveguide core includes a third end surface and a third tapered section that tapers toward the third end surface. The third tapered section includes a portion laterally positioned between the first tapered section of the first waveguide core and the second tapered section of the second waveguide core.
US11513281B2
A light source structure, a backlight module and a display are provided. The light source structure includes a substrate and plural light source groups. The light source groups are arranged on the substrate, in which each of the light source groups includes plural light-emitting units, and there is a first distance between any two adjacent light-emitting units in each of the light source groups, and there is a second distance between two closest light-emitting units that are respectively in any two adjacent light source groups. The second distance is smaller than the first distance.
US11513260B2
There are provided a protective film for display, a production method thereof, and a stretchable display apparatus. The protective film for display comprises: particles of a transparent resin, and a matrix of a transparent elastomer having an elastic modulus lower than that of the transparent resin, wherein the particles of the transparent resin are distributed in the matrix of the transparent elastomer, and when the protective film for display is stretched to reach a critical elongation, a craze occurs in the protective film for display.
US11513254B2
Methods, systems, devices, and products for well logging. Methods include conveying a logging tool in the borehole on a carrier; obtaining a borehole image over at least one interval of borehole depth from well logging measurements with a downhole imaging instrument; obtaining acoustic information representative of acoustic reflections from a far-field region of the formation; obtaining quantitative borehole fluid information indicative of properties of a formation fluid in a near-field region of the borehole; generating a borehole connectivity fracture model of the formation in dependence upon the borehole image, the quantitative borehole fluid information, and the acoustic information. Methods may include identifying near-field fractures from the borehole image, and/or identifying far-field fractures from the acoustic information. Methods may include generating a fracture interpretation correlating the near-field fractures with the far-field fractures, and generating the borehole connectivity fracture model of the formation in dependence upon the fracture interpretation.
US11513252B2
A method for improving a performance of a metal detector, including: determining positions of a sensor head of the metal detector with respect to a coordinate system as the sensor head is moved on top of a ground; processing a receive signal received by the sensor head to produce a substantially ground balanced signal that is substantially insensitive to signals due to the ground; and actively controlling the step of processing based on one or more of the determined positions as the metal detector is moved on top of the ground; wherein, during a continuous use of the metal detector, the determined positions are processed to control, without any instruction or indication from an operator of the metal detector to do so, the step of processing the receive signal to produce the substantially ground balanced signal.
US11513251B2
The present disclosure describes techniques for detecting foreign objects. In some aspects, an apparatus for detecting objects is provided. The apparatus includes a plurality of sense circuits, each of the plurality of sense circuits including a primary sense coil having a first terminal and a second terminal, a secondary sense coil having a first terminal and a second terminal, and a capacitor having a first terminal and a second terminal. The first terminal of the capacitor is electrically connected to the second terminals of each of the primary sense coil and the secondary sense coil. The apparatus further includes a driver circuit electrically connected to the first terminal of the primary sense coil of each of the plurality of sense circuits. The apparatus further includes a measurement circuit electrically connected to the first terminal of the secondary sense coil of each of the plurality of sense circuits.
US11513246B1
A geophone, and method for distributing geophones around a seismic data source are described. The geophone includes a housing, a spike provided on a bottom surface of the housing, a sensor configured to sense seismic data; a processor configured to process the seismic data, a transceiver configured to transmit the processed seismic data and receive radio frequency (RF) signals wirelessly; and a power device. The power device is coupled to the sensor, the processor and the transceiver. The power device is configured to harvest energy from an environment where the geophone is located. The power device includes a solar cell provided on a top surface of the housing, a piezoelectric system provided on an edge of the housing adjacent to the top surface, and a thermoelectric generator provided on a bottom surface of the housing and a surface of the spike.
US11513243B2
In the scatter estimation method of the present invention, Step S1 (first TOF projection data generation) and Step S4 (non-TOF scatter estimation algorithm) are performed, and Step S2 (second TOF projection data generation) and Step S3 (calculation of TOF direction distribution ratio) are performed, and Step S5 (calculation of TOF scatter projection data) is performed. A distribution ratio is obtained from the second TOF projection data measured in a scattered radiation energy window (low energy window). Since the target of distribution is non-TOF scatter projection data in a reconstruction data energy window (standard energy window), post-distribution TOF scatter projection data is obtained as approximate TOF scatter projection data in the reconstruction data energy window (standard energy window), and scatter estimation can be accurately performed.
US11513238B2
A particle detection device of an embodiment includes: a detector including a plurality of superconducting strips, and detecting a particle generated from a particle generation source; a conversion mechanism including a plurality of channels provided for the respective superconducting strips, and converting an analog signal from a corresponding one of the superconducting strips into a digital signal; an aggregation mechanism including a circuit which receives an output from the conversion mechanism; a first temperature maintaining portion maintaining a first temperature equal to or lower than a superconducting transition temperature; a first low-temperature container housing the first temperature maintaining portion; and a vacuum container housing the conversion mechanism and the first low-temperature container, and including an opening, the detector being housed in the first low-temperature container, and being connected to the first temperature maintaining portion, and the conversion mechanism being maintained at a temperature not lower than the first temperature.
US11513236B2
A positioning device measures a position of a vehicle by including a controller. The controller provides (i) a first positioning system to obtain a first positioning result having a first accuracy by performing positioning using a signal from a GNSS satellite and (ii) a second positioning system to obtain a second positioning result having a second accuracy higher than the first accuracy, by using acquired vehicle-related information, instead of or in addition to the first positioning result. The controller selects, as a selected positioning system to obtain a selected positioning result, either (i) the first positioning system or (ii) the second positioning system. In response to determining that the second accuracy of the second positioning result is lower than the first accuracy of the first positioning result, the controller is configured to switch the selected positioning system to select the first positioning system.
US11513229B2
Techniques of measuring vibrations from an object surface using LIDAR includes grouping beams having similar vibration velocity values over a specified time window and replace outlier vibration velocity values with a vibration velocity value based on the similar vibration velocity values over the specified time window. Advantageously, replacing outlier vibration velocity values with a value based on vibration velocity values of similar beams results in a more accurate profile of the vibration velocity field over the surface.
US11513221B2
A distance measurement processing device according to an embodiment includes an information acquisition circuit and a reliability-degree generation circuit. The information acquisition circuit acquires a two-dimensional distance image having a measured distance as a pixel value and signal information concerning a signal value corresponding to the measured distance image. The reliability-degree generation circuit sets, for each of the pixels of the two-dimensional distance image, each of the pixels as a center pixel and generates a reliability degree based on information concerning the pixels having distance values equal to or smaller than a predetermined value from a distance value of the center pixel among the pixels contiguous within a predetermined range from the center pixel and a signal value corresponding to the center pixel.
US11513219B2
Provided are an optical modulating device and a system including the optical modulating device. The optical modulating device includes a substrate, and a phase modulator formed on the substrate and including a Fabry-Perot cavity. The Fabry-Perot cavity of the phase modulator includes a first reflective layer, a second reflective layer, and a tunable core formed between the first reflective layer and the second reflective layer, wherein the tunable core is formed of a semiconductor material and is configured to modulate a phase of light corresponding to modulation of a refractive index of the tunable core according to electrical control.
US11513217B2
An underwater detection apparatus is provided which includes a transmission transducer, a reception transducer, and a motor. The transmission transducer transmits a transmission wave within a given fan-shaped transmission space, the fan-shaped transmission space having a first transmission width in a given first plane and a second transmission width in a second plane perpendicular to the first plane. The reception transducer receives, as a reception wave, a reflection wave of the transmission wave within a given fan-shaped reception space, the fan-shaped reception space having a first reception width in the first plane and a second reception width in the second plane, the second reception width being wider than the second transmission width, and in the second plane, the fan-shaped transmission space being within the fan-shaped reception space. The motor rotates the fan-shaped transmission space and the fan-shaped reception space.
US11513214B2
Examples disclosed herein relate to radar systems to coordinate detection of objects external to the vehicle and distractions within the vehicle. A method of environmental detection with a radar system includes detecting an object in an external environment of a vehicle with the radar system positioned on the vehicle. The method includes determining a distraction metric from measurements of user activity obtained within the vehicle with the radar system. The method includes adjusting one or more detection parameters of the radar system based at least on the detected object and the distraction metric. Other examples disclosed herein relate to a radar sensing unit for a vehicle that includes an internal distraction sensor, an external object detection sensor, a coordination sensor and a central controller for internal and external environmental detection.
US11513212B2
The invention relates to a method and a motor vehicle comprising a sensor assembly for a 360° detection of the motor vehicle surroundings. The sensor assembly has multiple sensors of the same type, wherein each of the multiple sensors has a specified detection region and the sensors are distributed around the exterior of the motor vehicle such that the detection regions collectively provide a complete detection zone which covers the surroundings in a complete angle about the motor vehicle at a specified distance from the motor vehicle. The sensors are each designed to detect the surroundings in their respective detection region as respective sensor data in respective successive synchronized time increments. The sensor assembly has a pre-processing mechanism which fuses the sensor data of each of the sensors in order to generate a three-dimensional image of the surroundings for a respective identical time increment and provides same in a common database.
US11513203B2
An operating method for an ultrasound transceiver device, where the ultrasound transceiver device is alternately and, in particular alternatingly operated in a transmit mode and in a receive mode; subsequently to a transmit mode and/or prior to a receive mode, the ultrasound transceiver device is actively damped by the action of a sequence of counter control pulses; a phase position and/or a damping energy are/is iteratively determined or adapted via a training by a measure of the damping success at least temporarily assuming or approaching an at least locally optimal value.
US11513199B2
The invention pertains to a system for determining a distance, comprising: a light source for projecting a pattern of discrete spots of laser light towards the object in a sequence of pulses; a detector comprising picture elements, for detecting light representing the pattern as reflected by the object in synchronization with the sequence of pulses; and processing means to calculate the distance to the object as a function of exposure values generated by said picture elements. The picture elements generate exposure values by accumulating a first amount of electrical charge representing a first amount of light reflected during a first time window and a second electrical charge representating a second amount of light reflected during a second time window. The system projects and detects for at least two consecutive sequences of pulses, each being operated with a different duration of said first time window and said second time window.
US11513195B2
A solid-state LIDAR system includes a plurality of lasers, each generating an optical beam having a FOV when energized. A plurality of detectors is positioned in an optical path of the optical beams generated by the plurality of lasers. A FOV of at least one of the plurality of optical beams generated by the plurality of lasers overlaps a FOV of at least two of the plurality of detectors. A controller is configured to generate bias signals at a plurality of laser control outputs that energize a selected group of the plurality of lasers in a predetermined time sequence and is configured to detect a predetermined sequence of detector signals generated by the plurality of detectors.
US11513191B2
A system includes a target illumination laser (TIL) configured to illuminate an airborne target with a TIL beam. The system also includes a beacon illuminator (BIL) configured to transmit a spot of illumination to an expected location on the target, wherein the spot of illumination is more focused than the TIL beam. The system also includes a camera configured to receive an image of the spot reflected off the target. The system also includes a controller configured to determine an actual location of the spot on the target based on the received image. The controller is also configured to estimate a spot motion by correlating the actual location of the spot on the target with the expected location on the target. The controller is also configured to predict uplink jitter of a high energy laser (HEL) beam generated by a HEL based on the BIL spot motion, the uplink jitter caused by atmospheric optical turbulence.
US11513178B2
The invention relates to an MRI apparatus and a method of MRI involving the acquisition of a first and a second MRI image with mutually different orientations between the BO magnetic field and the object to be investigated. For instance, when imaging structures such as a tendon, due to the magic angle effect, this results in a change in image contrast. According to the invention, a coregistration can be performed between the first and the second MRI image. Moreover, the orientation of a structure within the object can be determined on the basis of the different orientations and the image intensity in the first and the second MRI image. The invention further discloses an apparatus for carrying out the method and a method of shimming the BO magnetic field of the apparatus.
US11513174B2
According to one embodiment, a magnetic sensor includes a first magnetic element, a conductive member including a first corresponding portion, an element current circuit configured to supply an element current to the first magnetic element, and a first current circuit configured to supply a first current to the first corresponding portion. The first corresponding portion is along the first magnetic element. The first current includes an alternating current component. The first current includes a first duration of a first current value of a first polarity, a first pulse duration of a first pulse current value of the first polarity, a second duration of a second current value of a second polarity, and a second pulse duration of a second pulse current value of the second polarity. The second polarity is different from the first polarity.
US11513170B2
Apparatus and associated methods relate to measuring position and displacement of a 2D surface magnet array of at least three adjacent magnetic north and south tracks with an acute angle versus its motion displacement relative to a magnetic field sensor (e.g., magnetic sensing probe). In an illustrative example, the geometry of the 2D surface magnet array may be planar with adjacent and alternating north and south pole regions. In some embodiments, the 2D surface magnet array geometry may take the form of (1) an axial cylindrical helical multipole magnet array having individually magnetized layers that are oriented in helical shape, or (2) a radial disk spiral multipole magnet array with at least three adjacent north and south tracks oriented as a spiral shape.
US11513169B2
Disclosed is a magnetometer architecture that couples one or more coils to a magnetic yoke to allow the reset of the magnetic yoke and one or more magnetic field sensors simultaneously after, for example, exposure to a large stray magnetic field. Also, disclosed is a magnetometer architecture that integrates separate magnetic pole pieces offset from the yoke that are each wound by a reset coil to allow reset of the one or more magnetic field sensors.
US11513164B2
A method and system for estimating a battery pack balance state of a new energy vehicle are provided. The method includes: acquiring an actual cell voltage difference measured for a battery pack of a new energy vehicle, and acquiring one or more operation condition parameters for an operation condition under which the actual cell voltage difference is measured, wherein the actual cell voltage difference is the difference between the maximum and minimum battery cell voltages within the battery pack; determining an expected cell voltage difference according to a model based on the one or more operation condition parameters; determining a compensated cell voltage difference according to the actual cell voltage difference and the expected cell voltage difference; and estimating a battery pack balance state of the new energy vehicle according to the compensated cell voltage difference.
US11513157B2
Measuring circuits including switched capacitors, and related systems, methods, and devices are disclosed. A measurement circuit includes a flying capacitor, a grounded capacitor, a first switch, a second switch, a third switch, and a fourth switch. The first switch is configured to selectively electrically connect an electrochemical cell cathode node to a first terminal of the flying capacitor. The second switch is configured to selectively electrically connect an electrochemical cell anode node to a second terminal of the flying capacitor. The third switch is configured to selectively electrically connect the first terminal of the flying capacitor to a third terminal of the grounded capacitor. The fourth switch is configured to electrically connect the second terminal of the flying capacitor to a fourth terminal of the grounded capacitor. The fourth terminal is electrically connected to the reference voltage potential node.
US11513152B2
Provided is a testing method including: disposing a wafer on a working platform of a testing device; and moving a circuit board of the testing device relative to the working platform by a movement assembly of the testing device so as to allow at least two testing ports of the circuit board to test two chips of the wafer, respectively. Further, the two testing ports have different testing functions. Therefore, during the wafer testing process, a single testing device can perform multiple testing operations.
US11513142B2
Provided are a live detection method and apparatus for a high-voltage switch cabinet. The live detection apparatus for a high-voltage switch cabinet includes a robot body and a back-end server. The robot body includes a host module, a power module, a detection module and a motion module. The power module is electrically connected to the host module and the motion module. The host module is communicably connected to the motion module and the detection module. The detection module includes a visible light camera, an infrared thermal imager, an non-contacting ultrasonic sensor and an ultrahigh-frequency sensor. The motion module includes a horizontal motion module, a vertical motion module and a rotating motion module. The horizontal motion module includes a motor-driven carrier and a laser navigation system. The vertical motion module is secured to the motor-driven carrier.
US11513141B2
A method can use a current sensor that can include a magnetic flux concentrator along with first and second magnetic field sensing elements disposed proximate to the magnetic flux concentrator, wherein the magnetic flux concentrator is operable to influence a direction of first and second magnetic fields at the first and second magnetic field sensing elements, respectively, the first and second magnetic fields resulting from an electrical current passing through a conductor, the first and second magnetic field sensing elements operable to generate first and second signals, respectively, in response to the first and second magnetic fields, respectively, wherein the current sensor can also include a differencing circuit operable to subtract the first and second signals to generate a difference signal related to the electrical current.
US11513136B2
In one embodiment, a method includes determining, by a controller, a first wind pressure associated with a first port of a first probe, determining, by the controller, a second wind pressure associated with a second port of the first probe, and determining, by the controller, a reference wind pressure associated with an end portion of the first probe. The method also includes calculating, by the controller, a first reference differential using the first wind pressure and the reference wind pressure, calculating, by the controller, a first rotational differential using the first wind pressure and the second wind pressure, and calculating, by the controller, an angular coefficient using the first reference differential and the first rotational differential. The method further includes calculating, by the controller, a wind velocity using the first reference differential and the angular coefficient. The wind velocity represents a wind velocity relative to a vehicle.
US11513125B2
The invention described herein relates to methods of monitoring genotoxic stress in a test subject, specifically by detecting the expression level of microvesicle-associated H2AX from a biological sample.
US11513124B2
According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method of screening a prostate cancer patient by optical image analysis of a circulating tumor cell marker and a prostate-specific membrane antigen.
US11513117B2
A system for detecting a target material in a sample. The system includes a sensor, a light source, an image-capturing device, two linear-crossed polarizers including a first polarizer and a second polarizer, and a processing unit. The sensor is configured to place the sample thereon and includes a fabric impregnated with liquid crystals (LCs). The light source is configured to transmit a beam of light through a path passing from the first polarizer, the sensor, and the second polarizer. The image-capturing device is configured to capture an image of a surface of the second polarizer. The image contains a pattern formed by orientations of LCs corresponding to the sample. The processing unit is configured to detect a presence of the target material in the sample by analyzing the captured image.
US11513110B2
Drill bit wear can be quantified through an analysis of chemical reactions that occur during drilling. A detector measures the molar composition of a dissolved gas sample. From the molar composition, the moles of hydrogen, ethylene, and propylene in the dissolved gas sample are determined. A thermal cracking reaction and a thermal decomposition reaction determine moles of hydrogen produced during drill bit wear based on the moles of ethylene and propylene. The moles of hydrogen produced is subtracted from the total moles of hydrogen to determine moles of hydrogen produced by metal oxidation. A metal-water reaction determines the moles of metal that have been oxidized. This can be converted into mass or volume of metal loss to quantify drill bit wear.
US11513106B2
Apparatus (1000) and method for automatically detecting odorant substances based on use of nematodes that includes a mechanical selection unit (100) configured to select nematodes in adult stage from an initial nematode population obtaining an intermediate nematode population, a nematode optical selection unit (200) configured to select from the intermediate population a final population of nematodes in adult stage and to select nematodes in young adult stage from nematodes in egg producing adult stage to be sent to a measurement unit (300) configured to detect the response of nematodes of the final population to a stimulus of an odorant substance, the mechanical selection unit (100) being connected to the optical selection unit (200) by a connection channel with an at least three way branch and the optical selection unit (200) being connected to the measurement unit (300) by a loading microchannel.
US11513104B2
Methods for classification of hydrocarbon mixtures that include performing two-dimensional gas chromatography on a hydrocarbon mixture to obtain a chromatogram using a two-dimensional gas chromatograph equipped with a flame ionization detector, a reversed phase column configuration with a primary mid-polar or polar column and a secondary non-polar column, and a standard mixture. Classification is performed in which groups of hydrocarbons are identified and labeled based on peaks associated with the standard mixture, after which a quantification process is performed.
US11513103B2
A portable gas analysis device having a separating column and a detector. The separating column is composed as a multi-capillary unit from parallel individual capillaries and, depending on the length, is bent into a compact shape, preferably even wound into multiple turns. A thermally conductive casing and a thermal stabilizing device are provided for the multi-capillary unit. The thermal stabilizing device comprises a temperature sensor, a heating element and control electronics. The casing protects the sensitive multi-capillary unit from mechanical actions; it acts as a protective space. The temperature-controlled casing also forms a space in which uniform and controlled conditions prevail and which in particular is isolated from the temperature and humidity of the environment, allowing reliable measurements outside a laboratory environment, in the field. This double effect of the casing for the capillaries in conjunction with the compact dimensions forms the true essence of the invention.
US11513092B2
The invention is directed to a gas sensor that includes a hotplate, a support structure, a gas selective filter, and circuitry. The support structure is configured to define a cavity. The gas selective filter is held by the support structure and spans the cavity. Various components are connected to the circuitry, and may include a temperature sensor element, a gas sensing element, and a heater. The temperature sensor element is configured to sense a temperature Tf of the filter. The gas sensing element is sensitive to a target gas in the cavity. The heater is in thermal communication with the gas sensing element. The circuitry is configured to operate the sensing element, estimate a temperature Tf of the filter, and regulate the heater. The circuitry regulates an extent to which power is supplied to the heater based on the estimated temperature Tf of the filter.
US11513080B2
An inspection system for an additive manufacturing machine can include a housing configured to be mounted to an internal construction of the additive manufacturing machine, wherein the housing defines a laser inlet configured to allow a laser beam from a laser of the additive manufacturing machine to enter into the housing, wherein the housing defines a laser outlet configured to allow the laser beam to exit from the housing and to allow reflected light to enter into the housing. One or more detectors is disposed within the housing and configured to receive the reflected light. The system includes one or more optical elements configured to allow the laser beam to pass through the housing from the laser inlet to the laser outlet toward a build area of the additive manufacturing machine and to direct reflected light from the laser outlet to the one or more detectors within the housing.
US11513075B2
An observation device is an observation device observing an observation target and includes: an emission light source that generates emission light; a projection light source that generates projection light; a scanning mirror that scans the emission light and the projection light toward the observation target along the same optical path; a light guide optical system that guides detection target light generated in the observation target in accordance with emission of the emission light without it passing through the scanning mirror; an optical detector that detects the detection target light guided by the light guide optical system; and a control unit that controls an intensity of the projection light on the basis of a result of the detection of the detection target light.
US11513074B2
Detection system for detecting at least one extracellular vesicle in a microfluid, including a broadband light source, collimating and focusing optics, a spectrophotometer, a microfluid apparatus and an active sensing element positioned inside the microfluid apparatus, the active sensing element including a substrate, a thin metal layer deposited on the substrate and a dielectric waveguide layer deposited on the metal layer, the light source generating at least one incident beam of light in the near infrared region, the metal layer and the waveguide layer each include a plurality of waveguides, the collimating optics collimates the incident beam of light on the substrate via the coupler, the focusing optics receives at least one reflection of the incident beam of light and provides the reflection to the spectrophotometer, the active sensing element causes surface plasmon waves in the microfluid when the microfluid is injected into the microfluid apparatus and the spectrophotometer detects resonance wavelength shifts in the reflection according to the surface plasmon waves thereby detecting the presence of the extracellular vesicle in the microfluid.
US11513072B2
A real-time ablation sensor uses an optical detector, such as a spectrometer or radiometer, to detect ablation of a material, for example by detecting a signal indicative of ablation of the material, which may be an engineered material. The optical detector may detect reflected light, either from the material being ablated, or from products of the ablation, such as in the vicinity of the material being ablated. A light source may be used to provide light that is reflected by the material and/or the ablation products, with the reflected light received by the detector. The light may be of a selected wavelength or wavelengths, with the selection made in combination with the selection/configuration of the material to be ablated, and/or the selection/configuration of the optical detector.
US11513064B2
Systems, devices, and methods for detecting agrochemicals in environments associated with agricultural equipment are described. Certain agrochemicals that are formulated for being detected using the systems, devices, and methods disclosed herein are also described. The devices, systems, and methods disclosed herein are generally configured to use spectral characteristics to detect agrochemicals in an environment associated with agricultural equipment. The spectral characteristics can be analyzed in various ways to provide different types of information about the agrochemicals and/or the environment.
US11513060B2
In order to provide an absorption analyzer capable of directly measuring an analysis target gas flowing into or produced in a vessel such as a chamber and preventing a measurement error due to moisture condensation, the absorption analyzer is adapted to include: a light emission module that is attached covering a first opening of the vessel into which the analysis target gas flows or in which the analysis target gas is produced and emits light into the vessel; and a light detection module that detects the light emitted from the light emission module and passing through the vessel. In addition, the light emission module is adapted to include: a base flange that is attached around the first opening on an outer surface of the vessel; a window material whose outer surface is tilted at a predetermined angle; a seal member; and a pressing body.
US11513058B2
Aspects of the present disclosure include methods for modulating an intensity profile of a laser beam. Methods according to certain embodiments include irradiating an acousto-optic device with a laser to generate an output laser beam having a plurality of angularly deflected laser beams, capturing an image of the output laser beam, determining an intensity profile of the output laser beam along a horizontal axis from the captured image and adjusting one or more parameters of a waveform inputted into the acousto-optic device in response to the determined intensity profile to generate an output laser beam having a modulated intensity profile. Systems having a laser, an acousto-optic device, an imaging sensor and a waveform generator as well as non-transitory computer readable storage medium with instructions for practicing the subject methods are also described.
US11513050B2
A particulate matter sensor including a light source, a photodetector, and a particle filter. The light source and the photodetector are arranged in the same plane as the particle filter. Integrated particulate matter sensors are operable to detect particulate matter by measuring an optical characteristic of a filter.
US11513046B2
Systems and methods for assessing flowability of a multiphase fluid are provided. The method includes agitating a sample of the multiphase fluid contained in a container while controlling an agitation force applied to the sample; pouring the sample, after it has been agitated, into a viscosity cup having an opening at its upper end and an orifice at its lower end and thereby causing the multiphase fluid to flow out of the viscosity cup through the orifice; weighing an amount of the multiphase fluid that has flowed through the orifice and into a receiving vessel over a period of time; and assessing flowability of the multiphase fluid sample using the weight of the multiphase fluid sample in the receiving vessel as a function of time.
US11513032B2
Provided is a system for real-time condition diagnosis of a bearing module including a self-power generation module installed in an outer ring of a bearing to generate electricity using vibration generated from a micro whirling motion of the bearing, a behavior detection unit installed in the bearing to detect behavior information of the bearing in real time, a wireless transmission module connected to the behavior detection unit to transmit the real-time detected behavior information of the bearing to an external device, and a condition diagnosis unit that receives the behavior information of the bearing transmitted from the wireless transmission module and diagnoses condition of the bearing in real time, wherein the real-time behavior information of the behavior detection unit installed in the bearing is transmitted through the electricity obtained by the self-power generation module.
US11513031B2
Conformance testing of a rebuilt motor includes disposing a motor under test in a motor test stand, coupling a plurality of sensors to the motor under test including a first vibrational sensor to the motor under test; a first temperature sensor to the motor under test; a first rotational speed sensor to the motor under test. A set of test parameters are received comprising parameters for a conformance test, the test parameters including a vibrational sensor parameter, a temperature sensor parameter, and a rotational speed parameter. A motor under test is placed in an on-state and a processing device receives sensor data simultaneously from the sensors, determines that the rotational speed satisfies the rotational speed parameter, and stores time sampled sensor data received from the plurality of sensors relative to a time zero corresponding to a time when the rotational speed satisfies the rotational speed.
US11513026B1
A water leak detection assembly for a toilet includes a housing and a flow sensor. The housing is mountable externally or internally to a tank of a toilet. The flow sensor is positionable in-line with a fill line that is engaged to the tank and detects a flow of water from the fill line into the tank. A microprocessor is engaged to and positioned in the housing and is operationally engaged to the flow sensor. The flow sensor is positioned to signal the microprocessor of the flow of water. Programming code positioned on the microprocessor enables the microprocessor to distinguish between signals from the flow sensor corresponding to a normal flow of water required for flushing the toilet and a leak of water from the tank into a bowl of the toilet. The microprocessor is positioned to selectively actuate an alert module to notify a user of the leak.
US11513023B2
An apparatus for collecting liquid leaks, the apparatus comprising a tub, at least one boot for sealing a pipe passing through the tub for preventing leakage of the tub from water leakage collected in the tub from either a fluid reservoir disposed above the tub or leakage dripping along the pipe.
US11513021B2
A physical quantity measuring device includes a cylindrical case, a cap member, and a sealing member. The cap member covers a circumferential portion of a through-hole of the cylindrical case, while the sealing member provides a seal between the through-hole and the cap member. The cap member is pivotally supported by an attachment target portion of a lid member so that the cap member is rotatable between a first orientation and a second orientation. A cap member engagement portion is insertable into an engagement-portion insertion hole in the first orientation and is engageable with the attachment target portion in the second orientation. A linear member of the sealing member is located, in the first orientation, in a region in a rotation direction from the first orientation to the second orientation. The linear member prevents loss of the cap member and is replaceable, together with the seal member, if damaged.
US11513011B2
A storage device stores a first mapping that receives, as an input, first input variables including a previously estimated value for a fuel temperature variable, a pump variable on a state of a fuel pump, a first engine variable on a state of an engine, and an outside air temperature variable on an outside air temperature, and outputs the fuel temperature variable. Further, an execution device is configured to acquire the first input variables and estimate the fuel temperature variable by applying the acquired first input variables to the first mapping. Therefore, it is possible to estimate the fuel temperature variable by applying the first input variables to the first mapping even without providing a temperature sensor.
US11513010B2
This application relates to methods and apparatus for temperature monitoring for integrated circuits, and in particular to temperature monitoring using a locked-loop circuits, e.g. FLLs, PLLs or DLLs. According to embodiments a locked-loop circuit includes a controlled signal timing module, wherein the timing properties of an output signal (SOUT, SFB) are dependent on a value of a control signal and on temperature. A controller compares a feedback signal (SFB) output from the timing module to a reference signal (SREF) and generates a control signal (SC) to maintain a desired timing relationship. A temperature monitor monitors temperature based on the value of the control signal. For FLLs and PLLs the signal timing module may be a controlled oscillator.
US11513007B2
A notification control device for controlling notification based on subject information is disclosed. The subject information including temperature image data, which indicates temperature of a subject captured within a predetermined capturing range, is received. A predetermined destination of notification information, which represents a state of the subject based on the subject information, is notified. A process of notifying the notification information to the predetermined destination is stopped depending on whether or not the subject information includes predetermined identification information.
US11513004B2
Embodiments are disclosed for terahertz spectroscopy and imaging in dynamic environments. In an embodiment, a transmitter of an electronic device emits a continuous electromagnetic (EM) wave in the terahertz (THz) frequency band into a dynamic environment that includes a transmission medium that changes over time. A receiver of the electronic device, receives an EM wave reflected off an object in the environment and determines a spectral response of the reflected EM wave. The spectral response includes absorption spectra at a frequency in the THz frequency band that is indicative of a known target transmission medium. The absorption spectra of the target transmission medium and a path length of the reflected EM wave signal are used to obtain the concentration level of the target transmission medium from a reference library of known concentration levels.
US11512990B2
An electronic utility gas meter using MEMS thermal time-of-flight flow sensor to meter gas custody transfer mass flowrate and an additional MEMS gas sensor to measure the combustion gas composition for the correlations to the acquisition of gas high heat value simultaneously is disclosed in the present invention. The meter is designed for the applications in the city utility gas consumption in compliance with the current tariff while metering the true thermal value of the delivered gases for future upgrades. Data safety, remote data communication, and other features with state-of-the-art electronics are also included in the design.
US11512979B2
Disclosed is a sensor device for a towing vehicle coupling or as a component of a towing vehicle coupling, in particular a fifth-wheel coupling, with which a trailer vehicle can be coupled to a towing vehicle wherein the towing vehicle coupling has a coupling element for detachably coupling to a coupling counter element, in particular a fifth-wheel king pin, wherein the coupling element is/can be secured to the towing vehicle and the coupling counter element is/can be secured to the trailer vehicle, and in the coupled state forming a joint, they can rotate relative to one another about at least one joint rotational axis, wherein the sensor device has a follower, mounted on a bearing body such that it can rotate about a follower rotational axis, for detecting a rotation of the coupling counter element relative to the coupling element about the at least one joint rotational axis wherein the follower can rotate about the follower rotational axis by rotationally following the coupling counter element in a rotation about the at least one joint rotational axis, and the sensor device has at least one sensor for detecting a respective rotational position of the follower relative to the bearing body in relation to the follower rotational axis. The follower is arranged outside a bearing region of the joint, in which the coupling element and the coupling counter element are engaged with one another in a bearing manner, and the at least one sensor is arranged inside the follower and/or the follower forms a protective housing for the at least one sensor.
US11512958B2
An angular rate sensor includes an annular resonator. The resonator includes an annular base material made of a first material, and an annular first low thermal conductor made of a second material having a lower thermal conductivity than the first material, the first low thermal conductor being sandwiched between an annular first region and an annular second region on an inner side of the first region in the base material over substantially an entire circumference of the resonator.
US11512943B2
An optical system and method are presented for use in measurements on an upper surface of a layered sample when located in a measurement plane. The optical system is configured as a normal-incidence system having an illumination channel and a collection channel, and comprises an objective lens unit and a light propagation affecting device. The objective lens unit is accommodated in the illumination and collection channels, thereby defining a common optical path for propagation of illuminating light from the illumination channel toward an illuminating region in the measurement plane and for propagation of light returned from measurement plane to the collection channel. The light propagation affecting device comprises an apertured structure located in at least one of the illumination and collection channels, and configured to provide angular obscuration of light propagation path for blocking angular segments associated with light propagation from regions outside the illuminated region.
US11512939B2
A single-chip two-axis magnetoresistive angle sensor comprises a substrate located in an X-Y plane, a push-pull X-axis magnetoresistive angle sensor and a push-pull Y-axis magnetoresistive angle sensor located on the substrate. The push-pull X-axis magnetoresistive angle sensor comprises an X push arm and an X pull arm. The push-pull Y-axis magnetoresistive angle sensor comprises a Y push arm and a Y pull arm. Each of the X push, X pull, Y push arm, and Y pull arms comprises at least one magnetoresistive angle sensing array unit. The magnetic field sensing directions of the magnetoresistive angle sensing array units of the X push, X pull, Y push, and Y pull arms are along +X, −X, +Y and −Y directions respectively. Each magnetoresistive sensing unit comprises a TMR or GMR spin-valve having the same magnetic multi-layer film structure. A magnetization direction of an anti-ferromagnetic layer is set into a desired orientation through the use of a laser controlled magnetic annealing, and a magnetic field attenuation layer can be deposited in the surface of the magnetoresistance angle sensing unit.
US11512935B2
A cartridge with an expanding bullet that has advantageous terminal effects over an extended range. The expanding bullet including a bullet body including a metal jacket extending from a tail portion to a nose portion and surrounding an interior solid core and defining a forward opening and interior cavity. A tip has an exterior surface substantially flush with an exterior surface of the metal jacket. The tip has a main portion forward of the opening and a tip retention portion that at least partially fills the interior cavity. In certain embodiments the tip retention portion includes one or more fluid entry facilitation means such as a fracture regions configured to, upon impact of the bullet with a target, fracture or deform to expose one or more fluid pathways into the interior cavity and to a forward facing interior surface for initiating expansion of the expanding bullet.
US11512927B2
A multi-mission munition adapter for an aircraft may be configured to attach to a hardpoint and hold a plurality of munitions, such as missiles and bombs. A top of the multi-mission munition adapter may have suspension lugs configured to attach to a hardpoint on an aircraft. Sides of the multi-mission munition adapter may have one or more launcher attachment fittings configured to attach missile launchers. A bottom of the multi-mission munition adapter may have one or more munitions ejector hangers configured to attach air-to-ground munitions ejectors. The adapter may comprise an electrical system that permits an aircraft to communicate with and/or power all functions of the bomb rack, missile launchers, and the weapons employed.
US11512921B1
A crossbow includes a frame, where the frame is provided with an arrow track for placing an arrow; the crossbow includes at least one limb; the limb includes a fixed end and a movable end; the movable end is moved toward the fixed end under pressure, such that two sections bent in opposite directions are formed on the limb to make the limb wave-shaped; the movable end is moved in a reverse direction to make the limb restored; and a primary string of the crossbow is directly or indirectly connected to the movable end of the limb. The limb of the crossbow can generate large elastic potential energy and can reduce the kinetic energy consumed by translation, and avoids the problem of different strokes between multiple limbs. The crossbow prevents the winding wheels from translating to consume the kinetic energy, such that the arrow can gain sufficient kinetic energy.
US11512919B2
Methods and apparatuses are provided that include linear motors and controllers configured to simulate haptic feedback for gaming devices and simulations systems, including gaming firearms and other peripheral devices used in various gaming environments.
US11512909B2
Heat exchanger fins and heat exchangers are disclosed. The heat exchanger fins disclosed herein comprise louvers and winglet-type vortex generators arranged to improve heat transfer efficiency.
US11512904B2
The presently claimed invention relates to a heat exchanger and a method of exchanging heat.
US11512898B2
A heating device (124) for heating particles to be freeze-dried in a rotary drum (102) of a freeze-dryer (100) is provided, the device comprising at least one radiation emitter (202) for applying radiation heat to the particles, and a tube-shaped separator (204) for separating the particles from the at least one emitter (202), The separator (202) being integrally closed at one end and separating an emitter volume (206) encompassing the at least one emitter (202) from a drum process volume (126) inside the drum (102), wherein the heating device (124) protrudes into the drum process volume (126) such that said integrally closed end of the separator (204) is arranged inside the drum (102) as a free end.
US11512883B2
An HVAC system includes a refrigerant liquid-gas separator. The liquid-gas separator is thermally coupled to electronics to transfer heat away from the electronics, and assist in vaporizing liquid refrigerant. The liquid-gas separator device includes a refrigeration section configured to couple to a refrigeration loop, and electronics thermally coupled to the refrigeration section. The refrigeration section includes: (a) a refrigerant inlet configured to receive refrigerant from the refrigeration loop; (b) a refrigerant outlet configured to release vapor refrigerant to the refrigeration loop; and (c) a cavity coupled to the refrigerant inlet and the refrigerant outlet, the cavity configured to separate liquid refrigerant from vapor refrigerant. During use of the HVAC system, heat from the electronics board is transferred to the refrigerant. The liquid-gas separator includes a check valve configured to inhibit flow of refrigerant into the liquid-gas separator device via the refrigerant outlet.
US11512872B2
Disclosed herein are connectors for a tankless water heater. The connectors can comprise a flange, an aperture extending through the flange having a first diameter, one or more slots extending through the flange, a connector portion substantially surrounding the aperture and extending outward from the flange away from the tankless water heater. The aperture can correspond to an air inlet extending into the tankless water heater, and the air inlet can have a second diameter that is larger than the aperture. To keep the flange in place, the one or more slots can correspond to one or more fastening holes in the tankless water heater. The one or more slots can be substantially parallel and on opposite sides of the aperture. The connector can be in a secured state when the one or more slots are fastened to the one or more fastening holes.
US11512867B2
A heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) system includes a heat exchanger configured to exchange heat between a refrigerant and an air flow, a blower configured to induce the air flow across the heat exchanger, and a control board configured to receive an input indicative of a presence of refrigerant external to the heat exchanger and adjust operation of the blower based on the input.
US11512865B2
Disclosed are an air outlet structure, an air outlet method for an air conditioner, and the air conditioner. The air outlet structure may include: a main air outlet channel, a main air outlet, an auxiliary air outlet and an adjusting device; the main air outlet and the auxiliary air outlet are communicated with the main air outlet channel; the adjusting device is provided between the main air outlet channel and the auxiliary air outlet as to make the main air outlet channel send out air through the main air outlet and/or the auxiliary air outlet. With the above structure, the air conditioner may have a broad air supplying scope and a uniform air speed and supply the air to an entire plane, and comfort of the air conditioner may be improved. Thus, the problem that an existing air conditioner has non-uniform air outlet effect may be effectively solved.
US11512857B2
A cooking appliance includes a main body forming a machine room; a cooking chamber arranged below the machine room; an intermediate flow path including a first suction port and formed between the machine room and the cooking chamber; and a fan configured to suction air into the intermediate flow path, wherein the machine room includes a second suction port through which air is suctioned, and an opening portion connected to the intermediate flow path, the opening portion includes a first opening portion and a second opening portion arranged at a farther distance from the fan than the first opening portion, and the second opening portion has an area larger than an area of the first opening portion.
US11512853B2
A fuel injector includes a forward end wall and an aft end wall. The fuel injector further includes side walls that extend between the forward end wall and the aft end wall. The forward end wall, the aft end wall, and the side walls collectively define an opening for passage of air. At least one fuel injection member is disposed within the opening and extends between the end walls. A fuel circuit is defined within the fuel injector. The fuel circuit includes an inlet plenum defined within the forward end wall of the fuel injector. The fuel circuit further includes a fuel passage that extends from, and is in fluid communication with, the inlet plenum. The fuel passage is defined within the at least one fuel injection member. The fuel passage has a cross-sectional area that varies along a length of the fuel injection member.
US11512840B2
A system for providing ambient lighting includes a lighting apparatus, which includes a housing, a plurality of light emitting diodes positioned within the housing and configured to emit non-focused light to an exterior of the housing, at least one charge port formed in the housing, and a control interface integrated into the housing. The system also includes a band coupled to the housing and includes a first end, a second end, a first magnetic element, and a second magnetic element coupleable with the first magnetic element such that the band forms a loop.
US11512834B2
An optic for aisle lighting includes a portion of an optical material defined by a length and a cross-sectional profile. The cross-sectional profile is characterized by a cavity within the optical material, two upwardly-facing surfaces of the optical material on opposite sides of the cavity from one another, and downwardly-facing surfaces of the optical material. The cavity is bounded by an upward facing aperture, and at least three faces of the optical material that meet at interior angles. Light received through the upward facing aperture is separated at the interior angles, and refracted by the faces of the optical material, into separate light beams equal in number to the faces. The two upwardly-facing surfaces internally reflect the separate light beams downwardly. The downwardly-facing surfaces intercept respective portions of the separate light beams, and refract the portions as they exit the optic.
US11512831B2
The present disclosure relates to apparatus and methods for heating a lens for a light source. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to a heating unit for use in a vehicle light, methods of installation and control systems for the heating unit. For example, a heating unit according to the present disclosure includes a connector configured to maintain an electronic connection between a heating element and a control circuit by a bias force, such as a spring force. Instead of forming a fixed attachment with the heating element, the connector is pushed against the heating element to maintain connection therebetween. The non-fixed contact to the heater provides reliability, flexibility and simplicity to the heating unit.
US11512827B2
A light emitting module includes: a first light source comprising a first light emitting element configured to emit first light, and a first wavelength conversion member configured to convert a wavelength of a portion of the first light and to emit second light, such that the first light source is configured to output light that includes the first light and the second light; a first lens on which the light output from the first light source is incident; a drive unit configured to change a distance between the first lens and the first light source so as to change an amount of outgoing second light from the first lens; a second light source configured to output light having a chromaticity that is different from that of the light output from the first light source; and a second lens on which the light output from the second light source is incident.
US11512822B2
An overhead light fixture includes a driver assembly and a light-emitting assembly. The driver assembly includes a driver and a housing. The light-emitting assembly is operably connected to the driver and configured for downward emission of light from a light source of the light-emitting assembly. The light-emitting assembly is detachably secured to the driver assembly. The light fixture is configured to be mounted to a canopy sheet of an overhead canopy, with the driver assembly disposed above the canopy sheet and the light-emitting assembly disposed below the canopy sheet. The driver assembly is optionally configured so that, when the light-emitting assembly is detached from the driver assembly, the driver is removable downwardly through the base portion. A bezel is optionally disposed around a lens of the light-emitting assembly, for aesthetic reasons and/or for controlling a degree of lateral emission of light from the light fixture.
US11512817B2
A lighting system that is part of a headlight module of a motor vehicle includes an array of LED light sources that include no organic materials. Each light source includes a glass lens attached to a phosphor glass converter plate, which itself is attached to an LED die that is flip-chip mounted on a mounting substrate. The converter plate includes phosphor particles embedded in glass. Each lens is disposed laterally over a single LED die. The converter plate is attached to the LED die by a first bonding layer, and the lens is attached to the converter plate by a second bonding layer. Both bonding layers are made of a metal oxide and are thinner than the converter plate. Either each lens does not extend horizontally outside the lateral boundary of each converter plate, or the lens portions centered on each LED die are part of a unitary lens array.
US11512802B2
A sliding sleeve for axially sliding onto an expanded end of an all-plastic pipe or a plastic composite pipe, into which is slid a support body having circumferential external ribs of an connecting element is made of an elastically-deformable polymeric material. The internal surface of the sliding sleeve has an average roughness value Ra in a range starting from 1 μm to half of the average wall thickness of the sliding sleeve. In another embodiment, the inner surface of the sliding sleeve has a plurality of macroscopic irregularities, the depth of which does not exceed half of the average wall thickness of the sliding sleeve.
US11512796B2
A system for deploying a coil of spoolable pipe from a vessel includes a first tower configured to move longitudinally and transversely along a first track coupled to the vessel, a second tower configured to move longitudinally along a second track coupled to the vessel, and a coil drum assembly coupled to the first tower. The first tower is configured to insert the coil drum assembly transversely into an interior channel of the coil when the coil drum assembly is in a retracted position, the coil drum assembly is configured to support the coil when the coil drum assembly is in an extended position and rotate during deployment of the spoolable pipe, and the first tower and the second tower are configured to move the coil drum assembly vertically.
US11512795B2
A venturi valve having a valve housing that includes a narrowing section extending between a broader upstream end and a narrower valve throat followed by a broadening section downstream of the valve throat, and a valve member configured to be situated in the valve housing and movable along a valve axis in an axial direction of the valve housing. The venturi valve includes a plurality of flow influencing features positioned in a reattachment region of the valve member and/or extending inward from an inner wall of the valve housing. The plurality of flow influencing features are configured to reduce perturbations in an air flow passing through the venturi valve thereby reducing rattle from the venturi valve.
US11512790B2
The invention relates to a valve device (100) for a gaseous medium, in particular hydrogen, comprising a valve housing (6) which comprises a closing element (14) that is arranged therein and can be moved in the longitudinal axis (18). The closing element (14) interacts with a seal seat (16) in order to release and close a through-opening (22). The valve housing (6) is equipped with at least one spring element (8) which is supported against the closing element (14) and the valve housing (6). Furthermore, the at least one spring element (8) is made of a bimetal.
US11512786B2
A capacity control valve, which can efficiently discharge a liquid refrigerant and reduce the driving force of a compressor, includes: a valve main body (10) including a first communication passage (11), a second communication passage (12), a third communication passage (13) and a main valve seat (15a); a valve body (20) including an intermediate communication passage (29), a main valve part (21c) and an auxiliary valve part (23d); a solenoid (30) which drives a rod (36) having an auxiliary valve seat (26c); a first biasing member (43) which biases the main valve part (21c) in the valve closing direction thereof; and a second biasing member (37) which biases the main valve part (21c) in the valve opening direction thereof, and the rod (36) relatively moves to the valve body (20), and opens and closes the auxiliary valve part (23d).
US11512780B2
A piston and cylinder assembly structured to reduce breakaway friction (stiction) upon movement of the piston within the cylinder. The assembly includes a cylinder housing, a piston having a piston crown with a top face and one or more peripheral grooves, and an O-ring positioned on the piston in each of the one or more peripheral grooves. The piston crown incorporates one or more passageways extending from a space above the piston to a location within the peripheral groove inside of (behind) the O-ring. An increase in a volume of fluid in the chamber above the piston directs fluid through the passageways into the peripheral groove, thereby pressing the O-ring against the cylinder wall. A double acting piston embodiment uses at least two O-rings positioned within at least two grooves, each with associated fluid flow passageways into the grooves behind the O-rings.
US11512777B2
To provide a piston ring excellent in thermal setting resistance, and also excellent in side surface wear resistance even under such a high-temperature high-pressure environment as to be more than 300° C. and up to 400° C., the base metal of the piston ring is a steel containing, by mass %, C: 0.30 to 0.65%, Si: 0.80 to 1.20%, Mn: 0.20 to 0.60%, Cr: 4.50 to 5.70%, Cu: 0.01 to 0.5%, and at least one of Mo, V, W, and Co: 0.2 to 5.4%.
US11512774B2
An electric oil pump includes a motor part having a shaft; a pump part that is positioned on one side of the motor part and is driven by the motor part via the shaft and discharges oil; and a control part configured to control an operation of the motor part, wherein the motor part includes a rotor, a stator disposed to face the rotor, and a motor housing, wherein the pump part includes a pump rotor and a pump housing having a housing part, wherein the control part includes a plurality of electronic components and a board, the plurality of electronic components include a heat generating component, wherein the motor housing has a cylindrical part and a plurality of heat dissipating fins that extend from the cylindrical part, wherein the board has a first surface and a second surface, and the heat generating component is mounted on the second surface.
US11512771B2
A transfer case includes a primary shaft, a secondary shaft radially offset from the primary shaft, and a torque transfer mechanism. The primary shaft includes a central channel and an inclined fluid channel. The torque transfer mechanism is configured to selectively transfer torque from the primary shaft to the secondary shaft, and includes a primary sprocket coupled to the primary shaft for transferring torque to the secondary shaft. The inclined fluid channel is associated with the primary sprocket, and includes an outlet that axially overlaps the primary sprocket.
US11512765B2
Linear electric actuator (1) comprising a housing (10) with a reversible DC-motor (2), which through a transmission (3) can move an activation element (6) between two end positions, where an incremental position detection system is adapted to indicate the position of the spindle nut (5) during its travel on the spindle (4) and where the accuracy of the position detection system continuously is calibrated in that a magnet (15) is arranged in connection with the spindle nut (5), and at least one magnetic sensor (13,14) is arranged within the housing (10) of the actuator in a position where a proximity with the magnet (15) arranged in connection with the spindle nut (5) on its travel on the spindle (4) is achieved to establish a reference point for the position detection system.
US11512763B2
A belt-type continuously variable transmission includes: a primary pulley; a secondary pulley; a belt wound along the primary pulley and the secondary pulley; and a casing accommodating the primary pulley and the secondary pulley. Further, the belt has, in a portion being wound along the secondary pulley, a radially outside end which may be located further radially outside than an outer circumference portion of the secondary pulley, and a distance from a rotation center of the secondary pulley to an internal surface of the casing in a first direction, which is along a straight line passing through rotation centers of the primary pulley and the secondary pulley, is shorter than a distance from the rotation center of the secondary pulley to the internal surface of the casing in a second direction which is orthogonal to the first direction at the rotation center of the secondary pulley.
US11512755B2
A method of making a brake pad retention plate and a brake pad retention plate is provided. The method includes upsetting a brake pad facing surface on the retention plate to form a first set of rows having a gutter, or a negative feature such as a depression in the primary plane, in the surface of the retention plate and a tooth feature on a first side of the gutter. The surface of the retention plate is upset to form a second set of rows having a gutter and a tooth feature on the second side of the gutter. The second set of rows being a single row. The second set of rows is placed adjacent to or between the first set of rows. A mechanical press is used to deform the tooth to form a base portion and a mezzanine portion extending over a portion of the gutter.
US11512754B2
A phenol resin for a wet friction material of the invention contains a resol-type phenol resin having, in one molecule, a structural unit A which is derived from a phenol compound having one phenolic hydroxyl group and a structural unit B which is derived from a polyfunctional phenol compound having two phenolic hydroxyl groups.
US11512749B1
The brake piston pushing tool is a mechanical device. The brake piston pushing tool comprises a worm drive and a brake mechanism. The brake mechanism is a mechanical device used to slow and stop the motion of a vehicle. The brake mechanism is a well-known and documented device. The brake mechanism further comprises a caliper housing, a piston, and an anvil. The anvil attaches to the caliper housing such that a space is formed between the caliper housing and the anvil. The piston installs in the caliper housing such that the piston slides into and out of the space formed between the caliper housing and the anvil. The worm drive is a mechanical device that pushes the piston into the caliper during maintenance activities on the brake mechanism.
US11512733B2
A composite vehicle driveshaft assembly includes a composite tube and a yoke bonded to one of the ends of the tube. The yoke has an inner sleeve that is concentrically received in the end of the tube. The sleeve has an outer peripheral surface that faces the inner peripheral surface of the tube with a cavity formed therebetween. An adhesive injection passage is formed in the yoke and extends at an acute angle from an inlet that is formed in an axial surface of the yoke to an outlet that is formed in the outer peripheral surface of the sleeve and that opens into the cavity. Also disclosed is a method of bonding a yoke of such a driveshaft assembly to a composite tube.
US11512731B2
A bolt-nut (1) includes: a nut body (4) in a substantially cylindrical shape; plural nut divided bodies (4a); a cover body (5) in a substantially cylindrical shape for covering the nut body (4); a cover-side tapered portion formed on an inner wall of the cover body (5); a nut-side tapered portion (4a) formed such that an outer diameter of an outer wall of the nut body (4) is reduced toward one end portion thereof so as to correspond to the cover-side tapered portion; a spring (6) that is accommodated together with the nut body (4) in the cover body (5); and a nut (2) that includes a lid body (7) covering the other end portion of the cover body (5). A bolt screw as a ridge of the bolt and a nut screw as a ridge of the nut body (4) have unequal pitches that are different from each other.
US11512730B2
The subject disclosure relates to a water-tight sealed stud assembly for high current applications. The water-tight sealed stud assembly can include a stud, a sealing ring, a sleeve, and a body. The stud may have a stud base and a thickened portion having an annular groove. The sealing ring may be disposed in the annular groove. The sleeve may be disposed circumferentially around the stud and made of a conductive material. The body may be disposed circumferentially around the sleeve and made of a non-conductive material. Systems and methods are also provided.
US11512719B2
The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a rotary actuator that includes a housing defining a first arcuate chamber portion and comprising a first cavity, a first open end, a first seal carrier assembly defining a second arcuate chamber portion and comprising a second cavity in fluid communication with the first cavity, a first piston seal, a second open end, and a third open end opposite the second open end, a first face seal in sealing contact with the housing proximal to the first open end and the second open end, a rotary output assembly, and an arcuate-shaped first piston disposed in said housing for reciprocal movement in the first arcuate chamber portion and in the second arcuate chamber portion.
US11512715B2
A device for protection of wastewater pumps for wet accumulation chambers has a separation chamber provided with a discharge pipe for discharging wastewater into a sewerage network. A supply pipe connected to the separation chamber supplies solid particles containing wastewater into the separation chamber. A reversing valve arranged between the supply pipe and the separation chamber prevents reverse flow of wastewater into the supply pipe. A bidirectional pipe connected to the separation chamber connects the separation chamber with a pump, where the bidirectional pipe serves to supply wastewater from the separation chamber into the pump positioned in the wet accumulation chamber and for reverse flow of wastewater from the pump into the separation chamber to a discharge pipe. A solid particles separator arranged between the separation chamber and the bidirectional pipe separates solid particles contained in wastewater in the separation chamber.
US11512714B1
A silencer assembly especially designed for attachment to the exhaust port of vacuum pumps and which adapts to the pumps pressure changes to regulate the outlet flow. The silencer features a perforated housing having an inner channel which connects to the discharge port of the vacuum pump and a valve assembly having a spring-loaded ball for dynamically regulating the fluid flow through the perforated housing. Once the pressure of the flow from the pump is high enough to compress a spring by pushing on a rubber ball which acts as a valve, a channel opens inside the silencer and the air can be vented through the radially distributed perforations on the housing. As the air escapes, the noise caused by the flow is reduced.
US11512709B2
Blades (20a to 20c) of a propeller fan (10) have different circumferential pitches φ1, φ2, and φ3. The blades (20a to 20c) have different masses so that the center of gravity of the propeller fan (10) is positioned on a rotational center axis (11) of the propeller fan (10). Blade body portions (42c) of the blades (20a to 20c) have different thicknesses. In contrast, camber lines of the blades (20a to 20c) in blade cross section have the same shape, projections of the blades (20a to 20c) on a plane perpendicular to the rotational center axis (11) of the propeller fan (10) have the same shape, and leading edge portions (41a to 41c) of the blades (20a to 20c) have the same shape. As a result, a propeller fan (10) having reduced noise and vibrations can be achieved.
US11512698B2
An electric oil pump apparatus includes a housing, an electric motor, an oil pump, a shaft, a first bearing, and a second bearing. The electric motor is housed in the housing. The oil pump is provided in the housing and positioned on a first side in an axial direction with respect to the electric motor so as to be adjacent to the electric motor, and includes a pump rotational element rotatable coaxially with a motor rotor. The motor rotor and the pump rotational element are fitted to the shaft to be rotatable together with the shaft. The first bearing is disposed on the first side with respect to the pump rotational element, and supports the shaft while allowing rotation relative to the housing. The second bearing is disposed on a second side with respect to the pump rotational element, and supports the shaft while allowing rotation relative to the housing.
US11512696B2
A transfer pump. The pump is for displacing fluid and may generally include a housing; a pump including an impeller, the pump being disposed within the housing for creating suction to draw the fluid through the impeller; a motor for driving the pump; a battery operable to power the motor; and a sensor for sensing current drawn by the motor. The motor may be deactivated when the current drawn by the motor reaches a predetermined current value for a predetermined amount of time.
US11512694B2
A piston includes a piston cap, a piston rod body, and a piston head, with the piston cap being removable from the piston rod body. The piston cap includes a cap body and a connecting portion extending from the cap body and away from the piston rod body. The connecting portion includes a neck and a cap head with the cap head connected to an end of the neck disposed opposite the piston rod body. The cap head is wider than the neck. A mounting portion of the piston rod body extends into a receiving portion of the cap body to connect the piston rod body to the piston cap.
US11512692B2
A wool-like fiber member that has high permeability and low absorbability is disposed around a discharge port of a discharge pipe that is configured to discharge condensate and compressed air stored within a tank.
US11512682B2
A linear-acting electric pump unit and method for operating said unit. A linear-acting electric pump unit comprises an electromagnet and a pump unit. It is to be suitable for delivering gas/liquid mixtures. In order that it may be compactly assembled with other devices, it is to have a central inlet. The fluid delivered by the pump unit flows through the electromagnet and enters the pump unit on one side and leaves it on the other through the non-return valves, each arranged on the same centre line as the electromagnet. The pump unit can be used for delivery of gas/liquid mixtures, preferably in the sphere of combustion engines and their fuel supply systems and exhaust emission control systems.
US11512671B1
A hydrogen oxygen generator used for converting water to hydrogen and oxygen, which is mixed with fuel to a vehicle engine for improved mileage and cleaner burning fuel. The generator includes a generator housing with a water line adapter connected to a threaded water line nipple. The generator housing is adapted for mounting to a side of an engine air duct manifold. A water line, connected to a water container, provides water to the threaded water line nipple. The water line nipple includes a small orifice. When the water passes through the orifice in the generator housing, a venture effect is created and the water is converted to hydrogen gas and oxygen gas. The two gases pass now through a threaded gas nipple in the side of the generator housing, into the engine manifold, and then mixed with the engine fuel.
US11512670B2
An all-terrain vehicle (“ATV”) comprising a frame, a plurality of ground engaging members supporting the frame, a straddle seat coupled to the frame for supporting at least one rider, a powertrain assembly operably coupled to the ground engaging members, the powertrain assembly comprising an engine, a storage container coupled to the frame at a position rearward of the straddle seat, an exterior surface of the storage container including an indentation, and a fuel system fluidly coupled to the engine, the fuel system including a fuel tank, a fuel vapor line fluidly coupling the fuel tank to the engine, and an evaporation canister positioned along the fuel vapor line, wherein the evaporation canister is positioned within the indentation in an exterior surface of the storage container.
US11512668B2
A rocket motor has an electrically operated propellant initiator for a propellant grain that includes an electrode arrangement configured to concentrate an electric field at an ignition electrode for igniting an electrically operated propellant. The rocket motor includes a combustion chamber containing at least one propellant grain and an electrically operated propellant initiator operatively coupled to the propellant grain to initiate combustion of the propellant grain. The electrically operated propellant initiator includes the electrically operated propellant and at least one pair of electrodes configured to ignite the electrically operated propellant. The pair of electrodes includes a ground plane electrode and an ignition electrode. When an electrical input is applied to the electrically operated propellant initiator, the electric field is concentrated at the ignition electrode to ignite the electrically operated propellant at the location where the ignition electrode is arranged.
US11512666B2
A structure for the nacelle of an aircraft propulsion unit includes a first skin and stiffeners arranged to hold acoustic treatment modules against the first skin. Each acoustic treatment module includes a honeycomb core and a second skin, such that the honeycomb core is sandwiched between the first skin and the second skin. Such a structure allows the structural reinforcement function provided by the stiffeners to be separated from the acoustic treatment function performed by the acoustic treatment modules which are simply bearing on the first skin.
US11512657B2
A controller performs hydrolock prevention control when an engine is started. The controller determines whether a crankshaft rotates a predetermined number of times upon starting the engine without ignition of the engine. The controller performs the ignition of the engine after the crankshaft rotates a predetermined number of times.
US11512655B2
A fuel tank isolation valve (FTIV) and methods of operation are provided. The FTIV includes first and second solenoid valves with the movable valve member of one of the solenoid valves seating against a movable valve member of the other one of the solenoid valves. One of the solenoid valves may be refueling valve allowing for evacuation of fuel vapor during refueling operations as well as to allow for purging high vapor pressure within the fuel tank. One of the solenoid valves may be a proportional valve used to control the flow of fuel vapor to an intake manifold of an operating internal combustion engine as well as to reduce a vacuum generated within the fuel tank.
US11512653B2
An internal combustion engine system includes an engine with a plurality of pistons housed in respective ones of a plurality of cylinders, an air intake system to provide air to the plurality of cylinders through respective ones of a plurality of intake valves, an exhaust system to release exhaust gas from the plurality of cylinders through respective one of a plurality of exhaust valves. A valve train is provided for cylinder deactivation of a first part of the plurality of cylinders and compression release braking on a second part of the plurality of cylinders.
US11512651B2
A gas turbine engine includes a main compressor section with a downstream most location. A turbine section has a high pressure turbine. A tap line is connected to tap air from a location upstream of the downstream most location in the main compressor section. The tapped air is connected to a heat exchanger and then to a cooling compressor. The cooling compressor compresses air downstream of the heat exchanger, and is connected to deliver air into the high pressure turbine. A bypass valve is positioned downstream of the main compressor section, and upstream of the heat exchanger. The bypass valve selectively delivers air directly to the cooling compressor without passing through the heat exchanger under certain conditions.
US11512647B2
A planet-carrier cage is provided for a turbomachine speed reducer having a planetary gear set. The cage contains a central sun gear and an annular row of planet gears arranged around the sun gear axis and engaging both the sun gear and an internal gear that surrounds the cage. A periphery of the cage has axial receiving elements configured to receive axial fingers secured to a cage carrier of the speed reducer. Each receiving element is penetrated by a radial spindle that guides the rotation of a connection means, such as a swivel joint or a bearing, which is supported by the fingers. The spindles include means for projecting lubricating oil into regions in which the planet gears mesh with the internal gear.
US11512643B2
A device for securing at least one thermal protection mat to an internal fixed structure of a nacelle includes at least one removable fastening element for securing the at least one thermal protection mat to the internal fixed structure designed to be arranged between the mat and the internal fixed structure. The device includes at least one gripping element connected to the removable fastening element to project relative to the mat on the opposite side to the internal fixed structure, the removable fastening element being intended to be detached from the internal fixed structure by a pulling force exerted on the gripping element.
US11512639B2
A heat transfer system includes a heat exchanger located at least partially within a coolant flowpath. The heat exchanger defines at least in part a first flowpath and a second flowpath, the first flowpath configured to be in fluid communication with the coolant flowpath, and the second flowpath configured to receive a flow of a motive fluid. The heat transfer system further includes a throttling device that is in fluid communication with the second flowpath of the heat exchanger. The heat exchanger receives at least a portion of the flow of the motive fluid from the heat exchanger. The throttling device is also in fluid communication with the coolant flowpath at a location upstream of the heat exchanger for providing the flow of motive fluid to the coolant flowpath at the location upstream of the heat exchanger.
US11512635B2
At a well site, equipment will need a power source, such as a gas turbine, to operate. As the gas turbine operates, wasted energy in the form of heat is produced as a result of the efficiency of the gas turbine. With regards to the present disclosure, the heat may be used for operations and treatments at the well site. An embodiment of the present disclosure is a heat recovery system, comprising a gas turbine; a first heat exchanger, wherein the first heat exchanger is a finned-tube heat exchanger; and a second heat exchanger, wherein the second heat exchanger is a tube and shell heat exchanger, wherein the first heat exchanger is disposed in the flow path of an exhaust stream of the gas turbine, wherein the first heat exchanger is fluidly coupled to the second heat exchanger.
US11512631B2
A fan section for a gas turbine engine according to an example of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a fan rotor having fan blades, and a plurality of fan exit guide vanes positioned downstream of the fan rotor. The fan rotor is configured to be driven through a gear reduction. A ratio of a number of fan exit guide vanes to a number of fan blades is defined. The fan exit guide vanes are provided with optimized sweep and optimized lean.
US11512625B2
A precombustion chamber engine comprises: a cylinder head defining a main combustion chamber together with a cylinder liner and a piston top surface; a precombustion chamber cap mounted on the cylinder head by inserting a distal end portion of the precombustion chamber cap into an insertion hole formed in the cylinder head; a precombustion chamber holder disposed inside the cylinder head; and a precombustion chamber cap holding member fixed to the precombustion chamber holder and configured to suspend and support the precombustion chamber cap. The precombustion chamber cap includes a reduced diameter portion with a diameter decreasing from a proximal end portion of the precombustion chamber cap to an intermediate portion that has a smaller diameter than the proximal end portion. The precombustion chamber cap holding member is configured to lock the reduced diameter portion and to have a gap between the precombustion chamber cap holding member and the proximal end portion when the precombustion chamber cap holding member suspends and supports the precombustion chamber cap.
US11512599B1
An apparatus and method for an engine component for a turbine engine having a working airflow separated into a cooling airflow and a combustion airflow. The engine component including a wall defining an interior and having an outer surface. A tip wall spanning first and second sides of the wall to close the interior. A tip rail extending from the tip wall and having an inner tip rail surface, which in combination with the tip wall, at least partially bounds a region defining a plenum. A rim formed in at least one of the outer surface and inner tip rail surface.
US11512595B1
A turbine blade for a gas turbine engine has an airfoil including leading and trailing edges joined by spaced-apart pressure and suction sides to provide an external airfoil surface extending from a platform in a spanwise direction to a tip. The external airfoil surface is formed in substantial conformance with multiple cross-sectional profiles of the airfoil defined by a set of Cartesian coordinates set forth in Table 1, the Cartesian coordinates provided by an axial coordinate scaled by a local axial chord, a circumferential coordinate scaled by a local axial chord, and a span location.
US11512592B2
A machine for generating energy by exploiting the flow of a fluid. The machine includes a first fixed or static component part or stator which defines a first cylindrical inner surface and a second outer surface. The machine further includes a second component part or rotor configured to be rotated and accommodated in the inner space confined by the first cylindrical inner surface. The first fixed or static component part or stator is configured to introduce a fluid into the inner space confined by the first inner surface through the second outer surface and first inner surface of the stator, such that the interaction between the flow of fluid introduced into the inner space and the second component part or rotor results in the second component part or rotor being rotated.
US11512591B2
The invention relates to a device (1) for producing a hollow-cylindrical concrete lining (50) on shaft walls (100) of vertical shafts (101), having at least one shuttering element (2) which is radially spaced from the shaft wall (100) and forms a concrete shuttering, a supporting ring (3) at the lower end of the shuttering element (2), and a sealing assembly (4) in the region of the supporting ring (3) to seal the concrete shuttering relative to the shaft wall (100), wherein the sealing assembly (4) is formed by a plurality of drawers (5, 5a, 5b) which can be extended radially against the shaft wall (100).
US11512587B2
A system includes a sensor carrier and an integrated data recorder. The sensor carrier includes an outer sub body and an inner sub body. The inner sub body is coupled to the outer sub body by a support leg. The inner sub body includes a recess formed therein. The sensor carrier includes a flow path defined as the space between the outer sub body, the inner sub body, and the support leg. The integrated data recorder is positioned within the recess of the inner sub body such that the integrated data recorder is substantially at the centerline of the sensor carrier. The integrated data recorder includes a sensor package including one or more drilling dynamics sensors, a processor, a memory module, and an electrical energy source.
US11512586B2
A logging-while-drilling (LWD) tool for use within a formation. The LWD tool may include a transmitter, a receiver, and an acoustic isolator. The transmitter may be operable to transmit an acoustic signal into the formation. The receiver may be operable to receive an acoustic response from the formation. The acoustic isolator may be positioned longitudinally between the transmitter and the receiver to reduce a transfer of acoustic energy between the transmitter and the receiver through the LWD tool. The acoustic isolator may include annular chambers formed in a body of the acoustic isolator and positioned along a longitudinal axis of the acoustic isolator.
US11512585B2
A ranging system and method to determine a relative distance and direction of a target borehole relative to a second borehole using a ranging tool that can make ranging measurements while the ranging tool is not rotating. An array of button electrodes included in the ranging tool can be fired in a sequential fashion so as to simulate rotation of one or more button electrodes, without the ranging tool rotating. The array of button electrodes can also be fired in a sequential fashion so as to simulate rotational and/or longitudinal movement of the ranging tool.
US11512572B2
Methods of stimulating a hydrocarbon well are disclosed herein. The hydrocarbon well includes a wellbore that extends within a subterranean formation and a tubular that extends within the wellbore and defines a tubular conduit. The methods include retaining a sealing structure within the tubular conduit and, during the retaining, stimulating a zone of the subterranean formation. Subsequent to the stimulating, the methods include fluidly isolating the zone of the subterranean formation from the uphole region by at least partially sealing the plurality of perforations. Subsequent to the fluidly isolating, the methods include moving the sealing structure in a downhole direction within the tubular conduit. The methods also include repeating the retaining, the stimulating, the fluidly isolating, and the moving a plurality of times to stimulate a plurality of corresponding zones of the subterranean formation.
US11512569B2
Embodiments of a power provision system of the present invention generally include a transformer, a drive assembly, a motor control center, rectifiers, circuit breakers, and a cooling system, all of which are enclosed in a cabinet that is divided into a plurality of compartments that house various components and that is adapted and configured to be skid mounted on a trailer. In one embodiment, high voltage power is supplied to the power provision system, wherein it is stepped down to lower voltages by the transformer and the lower voltage power is utilized to drive a fracking pump motor via the drive assembly, as well as auxiliary equipment, such as the cooling system, via the motor control center. Embodiments of a method of using the power provision system are also provided.
US11512567B2
A hydraulic energy transfer system including an isobaric pressure exchanger (IPX) configured to exchange pressure between a first fluid and a second fluid. The IPX includes a channel formed by the IPX. The IPX is designed to direct the first fluid to a first opening of the channel and the second fluid to a second opening of the channel. The IPX further includes a barrier disposed within the channel. The barrier is designed to reduce mixing of the first fluid and the second fluid while exchanging pressure between the first fluid and the second fluid within the channel.
US11512566B2
Apparatuses and methods for extracting gas from a reservoir including a well bore having a large cross sectional area which may be determined by dividing a target flow rate of the reservoir by an actual sustained flow rate and multiplying a result by a flow path area for the actual sustained flow rate. A method of converting a well of a low pressure gas reservoir is further provided.
US11512561B2
A junction for use in a multilateral completion system is presented. The junction comprises a metal sealant applicable to a lateral component of the multilateral completion system. The metal sealant is expanding in response to hydrolysis and after activation forms a seal and an anchor with a well casing or tubing of the multilateral completion system. The metal sealant is expanding in response to one of an alkaline earth metal hydrolysis and a transition metal hydrolysis. More specifically, the metal sealant is expanding in response to one of magnesium hydrolysis, aluminum hydrolysis, calcium hydrolysis, and calcium oxide hydrolysis.
US11512559B2
A toe valve (1) comprising; a housing (200) having an interior and exterior; a sliding sleeve (8); a counter mechanism (2) comprising a cylinder, a ratchet piston (11, 27) with first and second ends, and a ratchet shaft (14, 28) connected to the second end; a trigger assembly (3) comprising a trigger housing, and a release piston (19), wherein the trigger assembly (3) is arranged between the counter mechanism (2) and the sliding sleeve (8), and wherein the release piston (19) is configured to activate the sliding sleeve (8), and the ratchet shaft (14, 28) is configured to activate the release piston (19), wherein the toe valve (1) further comprises; a closed chamber (15) enclosing the ratchet shaft (14, 28) and defined at least partly by the cylinder comprising a chamber fluid with a chamber pressure (P2); an inlet pressure port (6) configured to be in communication with a wellbore fluid with a wellbore pressure (P1), and wherein the first end of the ratchet piston (11, 27) is in fluid communication with the inlet pressure port (6), wherein the ratchet piston (11, 27) is configured to move towards the trigger assembly (3) to a new position and compress the chamber fluid when the wellbore pressure (P1) is larger than the chamber pressure (P2); a retaining mechanism (29) configured to retain the ratchet shaft (14, 28) in the new position; and a valve mechanism interconnecting the first and second ends of the ratchet piston (11, 27) and configured for equalizing the pressure across the ratchet piston (11, 27).
US11512558B2
A downhole device and method to trigger, shift, and/or operate a downhole device of a drilling string in a wellbore is disclosed. At a high level, the disclosed device causes a portion of drilling fluids to bypass the drill bit and into the annulus. The bypass may be triggered upon certain conditions related to the rotation speeds of the drill string or other conditions such as the pressure of the drilling fluids. For example, the drill string may be rotated in some protocol of operation (e.g., stop at certain rpm, and/or stop at certain other rpm) to describe a recognizable series of signals to an accelerometer and/or microprocessor that will communicate to pumps or valves to operate or pause/stop operations.
US11512538B2
A tubular connection includes a first joint of casing having an integral box end with an internal female wedge threaded zone having wedge threads disposed on a portion of the integral box end, and a second joint of casing having an integral pin end with an external male wedge threaded zone having wedge threads disposed on a portion of the integral pin end. The external male wedge threads engage with the internal female wedge threads. The second joint of casing has an internal diameter D1, and also includes an internal annular recess with an internal diameter D2. D2 is greater than D1, and the annular recess is disposed longitudinally along an inner surface of the second joint of casing. The annular recess is positioned radially adjacent to a portion of the external male threads disposed on a lower portion of the pin end.
US11512537B2
Displacements for use in forming at least a portion of a bit body of an earth-boring rotary drill bit may comprise a machineable material portion configured to form an integral machineable material portion of the bit body. Such displacements may optionally also include a sacrificial material portion. Bit bodies resulting from the use of such displacements may comprise a main body comprised of a particle-matrix composite material and a plurality of integral machineable material portions. Earth-boring rotary drill bits may include such bit bodies. Methods of manufacturing such bit bodies, and methods of manufacturing earth-boring rotary drill bits utilizing displacements are also disclosed.
US11512534B2
A system for tracking and guiding a downhole tool underground along a desired borepath. GPS measurements are taken by a GPS unit at desired waypoints on the ground surface that overlays the desired borepath. A planned route for the downhole tool to follow underground is generated from the GPS measurements of the waypoints. A tracker is used to track the location of the downhole tool underground while drilling a borepath. GPS measurements of a series of above-ground locations that overlay the borepath created by the moving downhole tool are taken and sent to the processor. The processor checks for deviation between the GPS measurements of the above-ground locations and the planned route and provides directions to correct the borepath of the downhole tool in response to the deviation.
US11512522B2
The invention relates to a sliding security gate inside a pocket attached to an interior pre-hung hinged door. These pocket sliding security gates can be assembled inside any doorway opening of one's home for the protection of babies, toddlers, pets, and disabled elderly. On one hand, the Pre-Hung Hinged Door and Pocket Sliding Security Gate can be used as a dual functioned component that can be used in a normal setting to provide privacy; on the other hand, the Pre-Hung Hinged Door and Pocket Sliding Security Gate can be used as a half door that is assembled as a pocket sliding security gate to provide safety and security to the vulnerable population listed above. In addition, this pocket sliding security gate also has an alarm attached to the security gate so that when it opens, the alarm sounds to let the gatekeeper know that the security has been breached.
US11512520B1
A container for the storage of valuables and a service to retrieve the container is disclosed. The container is designed to contain valuables and important documents, and protect these contents during an emergency evacuation situation. The container is waterproof and can float in water. The container can also be made of a flame-resistant material. The container can emit a homing signal to facilitate the retrieval of the container in the event of an emergency situation. A container retrieval service can initiate a retrieval of the container in response to a determination that a disaster is likely to occur in the region where the container is located.
US11512516B2
A braking device for a movable door leaf comprises an electric braking motor to damp movement of the door leaf; a motor shaft coupleable with an axis of rotation of the door leaf; and a control unit to control the electric braking motor. A generator provides power to the control unit. A continuously variable transmission unit between the axis of rotation of the door leaf and either the motor shaft of the electric braking motor or the separate generator is controlled by a mechanical control such that the motor shaft of the electric braking motor and/or the separate generator, can be driven at a rotational speed independent of the rotational speed of the rotational axle of the door leaf. Also included is a door closer, having a rotatable door closer axis, coupleable with a door leaf, cooperating with a mechanical energy storage device, and a correspondingly designed braking device.
US11512514B2
A fitting for a folding door arranged on a furniture carcass has at least one first door leaf and a second door leaf connected thereto in a jointed manner. The fitting has a contact part arranged on the first or second door leaf, and the contact part is movably arranged between a contact position and a rest position on the first or second door leaf. In a closed position of the folding door, the contact part in the contact position can be brought into contact with the furniture carcass or a component of the furniture carcass and, in an open position of the folding door, the contact part in the rest position is movable in an intermediate chamber between the first and the second door leaf.
US11512498B2
A latch assembly comprising an elongated flat latch slider slidable along a first axis between a first position and a second position in relation to a main latch, wherein the latch slider is provided with a protruding lug; a lock arrangement comprising; a body moving between a locking position and an unlocking position, wherein in the locking position a portion of the body is preventing movement of the lug along a path in parallel with said first axis, and in the unlocking position the lug can be moved along said first axis; and an electrically powered device connected to the body for moving the body between the locking position and the unlocking position.
US11512493B2
A device is provided that includes a mount adapted to attach to a door above a door handle, and a spring-activated plunger coupled to the mount is adapted to move with respect to the mount. A door handle engager is coupled to a first end of the spring-activated plunger and adapted to engage the door handle. An arm rest is coupled to a second end of the spring-activated plunger and is adapted to be mounted in various ways. A base region of the arm rest is adapted to receive a first force from above that engages the spring-activated plunger. A vertical region of the arm rest is adapted to receive a second force to push the door open when the door opens away from a user. The vertical region is adapted to receive a third force to pull the door open when the door opens towards the user.
US11512491B2
Apparatus, systems, and methods for securing anchoring posts to a decking surface without the use of a metal plate or washer to redirect force from a single central fastener on an internally mounted anchor, or the use of an externally visible connector. An anchor member having a generally planar upper surface and vertical sidewalls has connection ridges extending out from those sidewalls that correspond to channels formed in the internal sidewalls of a hollow post member. Using a press, the anchor member is pressed into a secured position in the post. A plurality of attachment holes are disposed in a pattern around the anchor member, passing through the body thereof. For installation, a post with the fitted anchor is placed on a decking surface and a plurality of screws are attached to the decking surface to secure the anchor member and post thereto.
US11512469B2
A method and system for forming a post-tensioned concrete slab using a post-tensioning concrete anchor. The system may comprise a connector anchor including a bore that includes a first frustoconical portion, and the connector anchor may be adapted to bear on the post-tensioning concrete anchor. The system may also comprise a coupler comprising a connector and a coupler body that includes a second frustoconical portion that is oriented oppositely to the first frustoconical portion. The connector may have a bore therethrough and may be configured to receive the coupler body and to engage the connector anchor. A pocket-forming cap may releasably engage the post-tensioning concrete anchor; the pocket-forming cap may include a frustoconical wall, a gripping head, and a connector-receiving portion. The method may include using the system to form a second concrete section adjacent to a first concrete section before stressing the first concrete section.
US11512468B2
A truss bracing system for roof trusses is disclosed. The truss bracing system comprises of a lateral brace and a diagonal brace connected through a pivot point. Both the lateral brace and diagonal brace include a first support member and a second support member where the first support member is angled relative to, and preferably perpendicular to, the second support member. The pivot point allows the diagonal brace to rotate relative to the lateral brace. That is, the truss bracing system has a closed configuration with the diagonal brace resting adjacent and parallel to the lateral brace and an extended configuration with the diagonal brace rotated relative to the lateral brace, such that the diagonal brace is angled relative to the lateral brace. Thus, the truss bracing system provides both lateral and diagonal support to the trusses to which it is attached.
US11512459B2
The present invention provides a disposal splash guard that enables water flowing into the disposal splash guard to be directed through peripheral openings in the disposal splash guard. The disposal splash guard comprises a body and a baffle. A size of the peripheral openings is operable to direct water flowing into the disposal splash guard through the peripheral openings in the baffle. At least one of a shape of the body and a shape of the baffle is operable to direct water flowing into the disposal splash guard through the peripheral openings in the baffle. At least one of a size of the peripheral openings, a shape of the body, and a shape of the baffle is operable to direct at least ten percent of water flowing into the disposal splash guard through the peripheral openings in the baffle.
US11512452B2
A control system for a work vehicle includes a controller. The controller acquires actual topography data indicating an actual topography to be worked. The controller determines a target design topography indicating a target trajectory of a work implement of the work vehicle based on the actual topography. The controller acquires an uneven surface parameter indicating the degree of surface unevenness of the actual topography. The controller changes the target design topography according to the uneven surface parameter.
US11512449B2
An excavator or other work machine includes a tilting bucket operated by a hydraulic actuator controlled by a bucket control valve responsive to control signals including a bucket shake control signal, which causes the bucket to move repeatedly in the rack and dump directions to shake debris from the bucket in a bucket shake operation. The actuator is powered by pressure from a hydraulic pump, and a control system includes an unloader valve to relieve pressure from the supply line to unload the pump when there is no demand for power. The control system is arranged to maintain a constant pressure signal in a load sensing line, to maintain the unloader valve constantly in a closed condition, for the duration of the bucket shake operation. This may be achieved by pressurising an actuator of a quick coupler to lock the bucket to the machine.
US11512444B2
A drain assembly for being placed inground includes a first panel and a second panel spaced-apart from the first panel, a plurality of supports extending between the first panel and the second panel, a bottom or pipe extending between a bottom portion of the first panel and the second panel, and a cap extending between a top portion of the first panel and the second panel. The first panel may define a plurality of drainage apertures. A related method is also provided.
US11512442B2
An animal waste collection and transport device having a container and a handle. The container includes an opening configured to receive animal waste. The handle has a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is adapted to be grasped by the operator. The second portion has a lid and a waste scraping tool such as a shovel, hoe, or rake and is used to help move the animal waste into the container. The device includes an attachment assembly selectively movable between a first position where the container and handle are attached to each other and a second position wherein the container and handle are detached (or detachable) from each other so the scraping tool can be used to direct animal waste into the container. In the first position the waste scraping tool is positioned inside the container and the lid covers the opening in the container to seal the scraping tool and any animal waste inside the container.
US11512439B2
A system and method transports a load across an expanse between first and second locations. The first and second locations can be on land and/or water and having a base surface of ground, waterbed, and/or vessel between them. The system includes supports, ramps, and a bridge assembly. The supports mounting on the base surface and are disposed on first and second sides of the expanse. The ramps mount on adjacent ones of the supports and/or on at least one the supports and the base surface. The bridge assembly has one or more longitudinal girders configured to extend parallel to one another across the expanse. Each girder has beams being modular and being hingedly connected end-to-end. Each girder has a first end supported on a first support, has a second end supported on a second support, and has an entire length between the ends that is self-supported. The entire self-supported length supports and transfers weight of the load to the ends supported on the supports. In this way, weight from the load is not transferred to a levee or the like in the expanse.
US11512433B2
A wet laid process includes a method for making paper in which a composition containing co-refined cellulose fibers and cellulose ester fibers made into a thick stock composition in a machine chest, the thick stock is fed to a cleaning/screening zone through a device that regulates the flow rate of thick stock, the consistency of the thick stock fed to the screening/cleaning zone is reduced to form a thin stock composition; the thin stock composition is subjected to a process for cleaning the thin stock and feeding the cleaned thin stock through screens to form a cleaned and screened thin stock composition, and the cleaned and screened thin stock composition is fed to a headbox.
US11512429B2
A first refining disc (5) for a defibrator (1) for refining fibrous material, adapted to receive a flow of incoming fibrous material (7) from a feed screw (3a) through a material inlet opening (4) arranged in the first refining disc (5), is provided with at least one steam evacuating channel (21) comprising at least one steam inlet opening (22) arranged on a side of the first refining disc (5) adapted to face a second refining disc (6), and at least one steam outlet opening (23) arranged on a side of the first refining disc (5) adapted to face away from the second refining disc (6). The at least one steam outlet opening (23) is arranged centrally of the at least one steam inlet opening (22) with respect to the center of the first refining disc (5), and centrally of a position where the flow of incoming material (7) is to be received into the first refining disc (5) from the feed screw (3a), with respect to the center of the first refining disc (5).
US11512427B2
The present invention relates to the creation of thermally insulating materials derived from cellulosic materials by selectively depolymerizing the materials anatomy. Cellulosic materials may be comprised of three main biopolymers: lignin, hemicellulose, and cellulose. The present invention relates to the chemical and physical removal of lignin and hemicellulose, while leaving the cellulose unaltered to induce increased porosity within the material and the material's macrostructure matrix for use as thermal and acoustic insulation. The increased porosity will be due to the creation of closed cell voids within the cellulosic matrix. These voids will increase the thermal and acoustic insulating performance of the cellulosic materials. The selective removal of secondary biopolymers from cellulosic materials allow for isolation of other value added products that can be regenerated through fewer reactions/steps. This is a novel advantage over other similar processes that dissolve cellulose completely, making it harder to extract and isolate secondary off-stream products.
US11512421B2
A laundry treating appliance, such as a washing machine, having a cabinet defining an interior and defining an access opening. A lid can be movably mounted relative to the cabinet to selectively open or close the access opening. A tub can be located within the interior and the tub can contain a rotatably mounted drum, such as a horizontally rotatable drum, including a flexible fabric material.
US11512409B2
The present invention relates to a free-standing single crystalline diamond part and a single crystalline diamond part production method. The method includes the steps of: —providing a single crystalline diamond substrate or layer; —providing a first adhesion layer on the substrate or layer; —providing a second adhesion layer on the first adhesion layer: —providing a mask layer on the second adhesion layer; —forming at least one indentation or a plurality of indentations through the mask layer and the first and second adhesion layers to expose a portion or portions of the single crystalline diamond substrate or layer; and—etching the exposed portion or portions of the single crystalline diamond substrate or layer and etching entirely through the single crystalline diamond substrate or layer.
US11512389B2
Disclosed are an apparatus for and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device. The apparatus includes a chamber, an evaporator that evaporates an organic source to provide a source gas on a substrate in the chamber, a vacuum pump that pumps the source gas and air from the chamber, an exhaust line between the vacuum pump and the chamber, and an analyzer connected to the exhaust line. The analyzer detects a derived molecule produced from the organic source and determines a replacement time of the evaporator.
US11512388B2
There is provided a film forming apparatus, including: a processing chamber having a processing space in which a film forming process is performed on a substrate; a substrate support part configured to support the substrate inside the processing chamber; at least one sputtering particle emission part including a target and configured to emit sputtering particles to the substrate from the target; and at least one etching particle emission part configured to emit etching particles having an etching action with respect to the substrate, wherein the sputtering particles emitted from the at least one sputtering particle emission part are deposited on the substrate to form a film, and a portion of the film is etched by the etching particles emitted from the at least one etching particle emission part.
US11512378B2
A method of assessing the quality of a bond coat for bonding a ceramic coating to a metallic substrate comprises determining a thresholded summit area for the bond coat.
US11512375B2
A case hardening steel includes a chemical composition containing C: 0.10 mass % to 0.35 mass %, Si: 0.01 mass % to 0.13 mass %, Mn: 0.30 mass % to 0.80 mass %, P: 0.02 mass % or less, S: 0.03 mass % or less, Al: 0.01 mass % to 0.045 mass %, Cr: 0.5 mass % to 3.0 mass %, B: 0.0005 mass % to 0.0040 mass %, Nb: 0.003 mass % to 0.080 mass %, N: 0.0080 mass % or less, Ti as an impurity: 0.005 mass % or less, and the balance being Fe and incidental impurities, and satisfying Formulae (1) and (2): 3.0[% Si]+9.2[% Cr]+10.3[% Mn]≥10.0 (1) 3.0[% Si]+1.0[% Mn]<1.0 (2) where [% M] represents the content of element M (mass %).
US11512374B2
A duplex stainless steel and method of manufacturing the same, said steel having an amount of Cr in an extraction residue [Cr] of 0.005 to 0.050% and an amount of Nb in an extraction residue [Nb] of 0.001 to 0.080%, the [Nb]/[Cr] ratio being 0.2 or more. By slow cooling down to 800° C., then fast cooling down to 600° C., it is possible to control the precipitation of chromium nitrides and niobium nitrides, and by making the ratio [Nb]/[Cr] 0.2 or more, it is possible to raise the corrosion resistance. Further, by reducing Mn to less than 2.0% and N to 0.25% or less, then adding a trace amount of Nb, the effect of raising the critical pitting temperature CPT is obtained.
US11512371B2
Disclosed are a BCC dual phase refractory superalloy with high phase stability and a manufacturing method therefor, the alloy comprising one or more of Ti, Zr, and Hf as Group 4 transition metals, one or more of Na and Ta as Group 5 transition metals, and Al, and having a structure of a BCC phase, wherein the BCC phase is composed of a disordered BCC phase and an ordered BCC phase, and wherein the ordered BCC phase is formed by allowing Al, which is a BCC phase forming element, to be soluted in an area of the BCC phase where the contents of the Group 5 transition metals are more than those of the Group 4 transition metals, so that the present disclosure provides a BCC dual phase refractory superalloy with high phase stability, characterized in that when a BCC dual phase with the ordered BCC phase and the disordered BCC phase separated from each other is formed by aging, the aging condition is precisely controlled through the apex temperature (Tc) of the BCC phase miscibility gap, expressed by (Equation 1) below. Tc(K)=881.4+331.7*x+546.7*y+893.0*x*z (provided that, 0≤x≤1, 0≤y≤0.2, 0≤x+y≤1, and 0≤z≤1) (Equation 1)
US11512359B2
Provided is a hot rolled steel sheet comprising a predetermined composition wherein the hot rolled steel sheet comprises ferrite with an average orientation difference in the same grain of 0.5 to 5.0° in 30 to 70 vol %, the ferrite and martensite in a total of 90 vol % or more, and a balance microstructure of 10 vol % or less, has an average grain size of the ferrite of 0.5 to 5.0 μm, and has an average grain size of the martensite and the balance microstructure of 1.0 to 10 μm. Provided is a method for producing a hot rolled steel sheet comprising rolling where two or more consecutive passes of rolling including a final pass are performed under conditions of a rolling temperature: A point or more and less than Ae3 point, a strain rate: 1.0 to 50/sec, and a time between passes: within 10 seconds and where a total strain amount of all passes satisfying the conditions is 1.4 to 4.0, cooling by a 20° C./sec or more average cooling rate, and coiling the steel sheet at room temperature or more and less than 300° C.
US11512350B2
Provided are methods for biological sample processing and analysis. A method can comprise providing a substrate configured to rotate. The substrate can comprise an array having immobilized thereto a biological analyte. A solution comprising a plurality of probes may be directed, via centrifugal force, across the substrate during rotation of the substrate, to couple at least one of the plurality of probes with the biological analyte. A detector can be configured to detect a signal from the at least one probe coupled to the biological analyte, thereby analyzing the biological analyte.
US11512338B2
A medium containing (A) a chromogenic substance which develops a color when decomposed by β-glucosidase or a fluorogenic substance which develops a fluorescence when decomposed by β-glucosidase; (B) a chromogenic substance which develops a color when decomposed by phosphatidyl inositol-specific phospholipase C or a fluorogenic substance which develops a fluorescence when decomposed by phosphatidyl inositol-specific phospholipase C; and (C) a sugar that is useful for the detection of Listeria monocytogenes and/or Listeria ivanovii.
US11512337B2
The invention provides methods and systems for drug screening by segregating single cells into droplets simultaneously and providing candidate compound to the single cells to measure cellular response. Methods of the present invention combine template particles with a plurality of single cells in a tube, generate in the tube monodispersed droplets simultaneously that encapsulate a single one of the template particles and single one of the single cells, provide to the single cells one or more candidate compounds, and measure a cellular response to the one or more candidate compounds.
US11512335B2
The present application pertains inter alia to an isolated vertebrate cell suitable for recombinant expression of a polypeptide of interest, wherein the vertebrate cell is altered to impair the function of the endogenous protease matriptase and wherein the cell comprises at least one heterologous polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide of interest and wherein the polypeptide of interest is secreted by the cell. It was found that using respective vertebrate cells for producing a recombinant polypeptide of interest significantly reduces clipping of the polypeptide of interest that is secreted into the cell culture medium. Also provided are improved production and screening methods.
US11512332B2
The present disclosure provides engineered ketoreductase enzymes having improved properties as compared to a naturally occurring wild-type ketoreductase enzyme. Also provided are polynucleotides encoding the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, host cells capable of expressing the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, and methods of using the engineered ketoreductase enzymes to synthesize a variety of chiral compounds. The engineered ketoreductase polypeptides are optimized for catalyzing the conversion of N-methyl-3-keto-3-(2-thienyl)-1-propanamine to (S)—N-methyl-3-hydroxy-3-(2-thienyl)-1-propanamine.
US11512330B2
It has been found that esterification of a hydroxy-fatty acid by a lipase can be coupled with oleate hydratase (OHase) generation of that hydroxy-FA from an unsaturated FA with a cis C9-C10 double bond, e.g. oleic acid, in a single aqueous buffered reaction medium at low temperature, e.g. 30° C. A simple one-pot enzymatic method to produce fatty acid estolides from one or more triglycerides, e.g. starting from a natural plant oil, is thereby enabled in which the same lipase catalyses both the initial hydrolysis of triglyceride and the final esterification step.
US11512326B2
The present invention is directed to a delivery vector for transferring a small peptide coding sequence to a cell for expression of the small peptide coding sequence within the cell. The delivery vector comprises a secretory signal sequence; a sequence encoding a carrier protein operatively associated with the secretory signal sequence; a sequence encoding a cleavage site operatively associated with the sequence encoding a carrier protein; and a sequence encoding a small peptide operatively associated with the sequence encoding a cleavage site.
US11512317B2
Provided is a recombinant BCG employing a pMyong2 vector system to express HIV-1 p24 and a use thereof as a HIV-1 vaccine. rBCG-pMyong2-p24, which is a pMyong2 vector system, was found to induce the upregulation of HIV-1 p24 gag expression in rBCG and infected antigen-presenting cells (APC) and to induce improved p24-specific immune responses in vaccinated mice, compared to rBCG-pAL-p24 in a pAL5000 derived vector system. rBCG-pMyong2-p24 was identified to exhibit a higher p24-specific Ab production level than rSmeg-pMyong2-p24 in the same pMyong2 vector system. Therefore, the recombinant BCG employing rBCG-pMyong2-p24 to express HIV-1 p24 according to the present invention is identified to elicit enhanced immune responses to HIV-1 infection in mouse model systems and thus can be expected to be used as a prime vaccine in the heterologous prime-boost vaccination strategy against HIV-1 infection.
US11512306B2
Temporal variations in one or more characteristics measured from a cell-free DNA sample are used to estimate a gestational age of a fetus. Example characteristics include the methylation level measured from the cell-free DNA sample, size of DNA fragments measured from the cell-free DNA sample (e.g., proportion of fetal-derived DNA fragments longer than a specified size), and ending patterns of the DNA fragments align to a reference genome.
US11512298B2
Glucoamylase mutant GA3 with improved specific activity and thermal stability, and its gene and application are provided, belonging to the field of gene engineering. The glucoamylase mutant GA3 of the present invention obtained by sequentially mutation at fixed points starting from wild glucoamylase processes both improved thermal stability and catalytic efficiency, and can be applied to the industries of feed, food, medicine and the like.
US11512284B2
There is provided a method of inducing differentiation of bone marrow stromal cells to neural cells or skeletal muscle cells by introduction of a Notch gene. Specifically, the invention provides a method of inducing differentiation of bone marrow stromal cells to neural cells or skeletal muscle cells in vitro, which method comprises introducing a Notch gene and/or a Notch signaling related gene into the cells, wherein the finally obtained differentiated cells are the result of cell division of the bone marrow stromal cells into which the Notch gene and/or Notch signaling related gene have been introduced. The invention also provides a method of inducing further differentiation of the differentiation-induced neural cells to dopaminergic neurons or acetylcholinergic neurons. The invention yet further provides a treatment method for neurodegenerative and skeletal muscle degenerative diseases which employs neural precursor cells, neural cells or skeletal muscle cells produced by the method of the invention.
US11512278B2
A process of growing a phototrophic biomass in a reaction zone, including a reaction mixture that is operative for effecting photosynthesis upon exposure to photosynthetically active light radiation, is provided. The reaction mixture includes phototrophic biomass that is operative for growth within the reaction zone. In one aspect, the carbon dioxide supply is modulated in response to detected process parameters. In another aspect, inputs to the reaction zone are modulated based on changes to the carbon dioxide supply. In another aspect, dilution of the carbon dioxide-comprising supply is effected. In another aspect, pressure of the carbon dioxide-comprising supply is increased. In another aspect, water is condensed from the carbon dioxide-comprising supply and recovered for re-use. In another aspect, the produced phototrophic biomass is harvested at a rate which approximates a predetermined growth rate of the phototrophic biomass.
US11512273B2
Disclosed is an apparatus for the production of tissue from cells. The apparatus comprises an elongate body having at least one circumferential groove and being operable to extend, by close-fitting relationship, centrally through at least one trough. The troughs are extending in a closed path, such that the at least one of the circumferential grooves open into an inner edge of a trough. Also disclosed is a process for production of tissue from cells, via a transitioning intermediate which transitions from the cells into the tissue.
US11512268B2
Described herein is a liquid enzyme preparation containing component (a): at least one salt according to general formula (I) (R2)3N+—(CH2)nC(R3)(R4)—(O—X)m—O—C(O)—R1A− (I) wherein n is selected from 1 to 12, m is selected from zero to 50, R1 is selected from the group consisting of methyl, ethyl, —CH(OH)—CH(OH)—COOH, CH(OH)—CH3, (E)-CH═CHCOOH, (Z)—CH═CHCOOH, —C6H5, para-HO—C6H4—, o,p-dihydroxyphenyl, and 3,4,5-triydroxyphenyl, R2 are same or different and selected from C1-C10-alkyl, phenyl, R3 and R4 are same or different and selected from hydrogen and C1-C4-alkyl, X is C2-C4-alkylen, and A− is an inorganic or organic counteranion, component (b): at least one enzyme selected from hydrolases (EC 3), and optionally component (c): at least one compound selected from enzyme stabilizers different from component (a), preservatives, and surfactants.
US11512259B2
A process for producing propylene and a low-sulfur fuel oil component, comprising the steps of: i) contacting a hydrocarbon-containing feedstock oil with a catalytic conversion catalyst for reaction under effective conditions in a catalytic conversion reactor in the absence of hydrogen to obtain a reaction product comprising propylene; ii) separating the reaction product from step i) to obtain a catalytic cracking distillate oil, and iii) subjecting the catalytic cracking distillate oil to hydrodesulfurization to obtain a low-sulfur hydrogenated distillate oil suitable for use as a fuel oil component. The process can greatly improve the propylene selectivity and propylene yield while producing more fuel oil components, significantly reduce the yield of dry gas and coke, and thus has better economic and social benefits.
US11512258B2
A treatment composition for remediating for remediating H2S and other contaminant(s) in contaminated liquids, comprising: 0.1-10.0 weight % collectively of at least one hydroxide compound; 0.01-3.0 weight % collectively of at least one organic acid selected from a group consisting of fulvic acid and humic acid; 0.01-10.0 wt % of a chelating agent; and at least 75% weight of water.
US11512257B1
An H2-rich fuel gas production plant comprising a syngas production unit can be advantageously integrated with an olefins production plant comprising a steam cracker in at least one of the following: (i) fuel gas supply and consumption; (ii) feed supply and consumption; and (iii) steam supply and consumption, to achieve considerable savings in capital and operational costs, enhanced energy efficiency, and reduced CO2 emissions, compared to operating the plants separately.
US11512252B2
A semiconductor nanocrystal particle including: a core including a first semiconductor material; and a shell disposed on the core, wherein the shell includes a second semiconductor material, wherein the shell is free of cadmium, wherein the shell has at least two branches and at least one valley portion connecting the at least two branches, and wherein the first semiconductor material is different from the second semiconductor material.
US11512248B2
Provided a method of producing a β-sialon fluorescent material having excellent emission intensity. The method includes providing a first composition containing aluminum, an oxygen atom, and a europium-containing silicon nitride, heat treating the first composition, contacting the heat-treated composition and a basic substance to obtain a second composition, and contacting the second composition resulting from contacting the heat-treated composition with the basic substance and an acidic liquid medium containing an acidic substance.
US11512244B2
An aqueous synthetic acid composition for use in oil industry activities comprises lysine and hydrogen chloride in a molar ratio ranging from 1:3 to 1:12.5, preferably from more than 1:5 to 1:8.5. The composition can also further comprise a metal iodide or iodate; an alcohol or derivative thereof. The composition demonstrates advantageous properties over known synthetic acids at temperatures above 90° C. The composition is useful in various oil and gas industry operations. Preferred embodiments of the composition provide substantial advantages in matrix acidizing by increasing the effectiveness of wormholing as compared to conventional mineral acids such as HC1.
US11512243B2
Microemulsions comprising an alkyl propoxylated sulfate surfactant and related methods, including methods of use in the treatment of subterranean formations, such as oil and condensate wells, are provided. In some embodiments, the microemulsions and/or methods of use achieve ultra-low interfacial tensions (i.e. less than or equal to 0.01 mN/m) between a wide variety of crude oils and well treatment fluids at various reservoir conditions. In some embodiments, the microemulsion comprises water, an anionic alkyl propoxylated sulfate surfactant, a solvent (e.g., a terpene solvent), and a co-solvent. In some embodiments, the microemulsion further comprises a second and/or third surfactant (e.g., a nonionic and/or an anionic surfactant).
US11512241B2
A method of treating a pipeline is performed by selecting a colloidal particle dispersion having inorganic nanoparticles with an average particle size of from 500 nm or less that exhibit properties of Brownian motion that facilitate penetration of solid deposits on interior surfaces of a pipeline. A treatment composition comprising the colloidal particle dispersion is introduced into an interior of a pipeline by at least one of (A) introducing a batch amount of the treatment composition in a selected volume into the interior of the pipeline, and (B) continuously introducing the treatment composition at a selected rate into the interior of the interior of the pipeline. The composition is allowed to act upon the surfaces and materials adhering to the surfaces of the interior of the pipeline.
US11512239B2
Disclosed are compositions comprising HCFC-243db, HCFO-1233xf, HCFC-244db and/or HFO-1234yf and at least one additional compound. For the composition comprising 1234yf, the additional compound is selected from the group consisting of HFO-1234ze, HFO-1243zf, HCFC-243db, HCFC-244db, HFC-245cb, HFC-245fa, HCFO-1233xf, HCFO-1233zd, HCFC-253fb, HCFC-234ab, HCFC-243fa, ethylene, HFC-23, CFC-13, HFC-143a, HFC-152a, HFC-236fa, HCO-1130, HCO-1130a, HFO-1336, HCFC-133a, HCFC-254fb, CHF═CHCl, HFO-1141, HCFO-1242zf, HCFO-1223xd, HCFC-233ab, HCFC-226ba, and HFC-227ca. Compositions comprising HCFC-243db, HCFO-1233xf, and/or HCFC-244db are useful in processes to make HFO-1234yf. Compositions comprising HFO-1234yf are useful, among other uses, as heat transfer compositions for use in refrigeration, air-conditioning and heat pump systems.
US11512226B2
The present invention relates to a composition for etching, comprising a first inorganic acid, a first additive represented by Chemical Formula 1, and a solvent. The composition for etching is a high-selectivity composition that can selectively remove a nitride film while minimizing the etch rate of an oxide film, and which does not have problems such as particle generation, which adversely affect the device characteristics.
US11512219B2
The present invention provides a high PVC aqueous coating composition that provides coatings with improved beading effect and good stain resistance.
US11512202B2
The present invention provides a solid color film, a preparation method thereof and a display device. The solid color film includes a transparent substrate and a solid color material dispersed in the transparent substrate, and the solid color material includes a host structure formed of cucurbituril and a guest structure supported on the host structure and formed by bonding a carboxyl group-containing rhodamine-based dye and an aminoadamantane through a chemical bond, wherein the guest structure is bonded to the host structure through the adamantane to form a host-guest structure.
US11512198B2
This disclosure pertains to novel polyvinyl chloride compositions containing polyvinyl chloride resins and copolyesters. More particularly, the present disclosure pertains to polyvinyl chloride compositions including high glass transition temperature (Tg) copolyesters to increase the Tg and the heat distortion temperature under load (HDTUL) of the polyvinyl chloride compositions.
US11512195B2
The present invention includes a method for producing a filler-resin composite including (a) preparing a filler assembly in which a plurality of fillers are assembled, (b) impregnating at least one end in the thickness direction of the filler assembly with a first polymer soluble in liquid to produce a first polymer layer, (c) impregnating a portion of the filler assembly other than the one end in the thickness direction with a second polymer insoluble to the liquid to produce a second polymer layer, and (d) dissolving the first polymer layer impregnated at at least an end in the thickness direction of the filler assembly in the liquid to remove the first polymer layer.
US11512192B2
The invention relates to a composition comprising a) a thermoplastic matrix polymer based on one or more ethylenically unsaturated polymerizable monomer(s), wherein the thermoplastic polymer is selected from the group consisting of polyolefins, polystyrene, polyacrylates, ethylene-vinylacetate copolymer, and copolymers and blends of the aforementioned, b) an inorganic flame retardant, c) a polymer based on one or more ethylenically unsaturated polymerizable monomers and having a plurality of alkoxysilane and/or acetoxysilane groups covalently linked to the polymer, wherein the ethylenically unsaturated polymerizable monomers of component c) are different or have a different composition than the ethylenically unsaturated monomer(s) of component a) and d) a clay.
US11512191B2
A thermoplastic elastomer compound includes a polyolefin elastomer blend of at least two different polyolefin elastomers, styrene-ethylene/butylene-styrene block copolymer, and plasticizer. The compound has a Melt Flow Rate (230° C., 2.16 kg) of no less than about 5 g/10 min and a Melt Flow Rate (190° C., 2.16 kg) of no less than about 1 g/10 min. Elastomeric films formed from the compound can be used in place of elastomeric films based on styrene-isoprene-styrene (SIS) block copolymers to make components of disposable hygiene articles.
US11512185B2
Provided is a rubber composition that achieves both wet performance and low loss property while delivering excellent dry handling performance. A rubber composition comprises: a rubber component; and a styrene-alkylene block copolymer, wherein a total styrene content of the styrene-alkylene block copolymer is 30 mass % or more with respect to a total mass of the styrene-alkylene block copolymer, and the rubber component contains a styrene butadiene rubber having a styrene content of 30 mass % or more.
US11512183B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a cellulose acetate composition for thermoforming with excellent biodegradability and excellent thermoformability. A cellulose acetate composition for thermoforming containing a cellulose acetate and a glycerin ester-based plasticizer, wherein the cellulose acetate has a degree of acetyl substitution of 1.4 or greater and 2.0 or less, a compositional distribution index (CDI) of 4.0 or less, and a total sulfur content of 15 mg/kg or greater and less than 150 mg/kg.
US11512181B2
The invention relates to a vehicle utilizing a LiDAR sensor system for driver assistance systems. A composition consisting of a thermoplastic material based on polycarbonate, polyester carbonate and/or polymethylmethacrylate is used here for forming a cover for the sensor against the surroundings.
US11512172B2
The present invention provides a radome substrate and a preparation method thereof. The radome substrate includes: 5 to 10 parts of polyphenylene ether resin, 70 to 85 parts of ceramic masterbatch, 10 to 15 parts of hollow microbead masterbatch, 1 to 3 parts of a compatibilizer, and 0.1 to 0.3 parts of a lubricant. The radome substrate prepared according to the method provided in the present invention has a high dielectric constant and stress cracking resistance performance.
US11512171B2
To provide a low dielectric constant siliceous film manufacturing composition capable of forming a low dielectric constant siliceous film with dispersed pores having excellent mechanical properties and stable electrical properties. [Means] The present invention provides a low dielectric constant siliceous film manufacturing composition comprising: a polysiloxane, a pore-generating material, a condensation catalyst generator, and a solvent.
US11512170B2
A method for producing a carbinol-modified organosiloxane, which comprises steps (A) to (C), is an efficient production method whereby it becomes possible to reduce the production of a by-product of the reaction for the production of a terminal-carbinol-modified organosiloxane. (A) a step of supplying the following components (a) to (c) to a tubular reactor continuously: (a) an organohydrogensiloxane represented by formula (I) (wherein R1's independently represent a monovalent hydrocarbon group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms; and m represents an integer of 0 to 500); (b) a compound represented by formula (II): R2—Z—OH (wherein R2 represents a vinyl group or an allyl group; and Z represents a bivalent hydrocarbon group); and (c) a platinum catalyst in an amount of 0.005 ppm by mass or more and less than 1.0 ppm by mass in terms of metal platinum content relative to the total amount of the components (a) to (c); (B) a step of subjecting the components (a) to (c) to a hydrosilylation reaction while allowing these components to pass through the tubular reactor; and (C) a step of removing a reaction product.
US11512165B2
Polymers and methods of making the same are described whereby the polymers generically include one or more units each of which necessarily has a 1,2,4-substituted cyclohexane group or a 1,1,2,4-substituted cyclohexane group. According to specific disclosures herein, polymers and methods of making the same are described whereby the polymers have one or more S1 units represented by the formula: wherein n is an integer equal to or higher than 1, m is 0 or 1, A is H or CH3, and wherein each of X and Y is a specifically defined group.
US11512162B2
A polymer, an organic layer composition including the polymer, and a method of forming a pattern using the organic layer composition, the polymer including a reaction product of a first compound represented by Chemical Formula 1 and a second compound represented by Chemical Formula 2: (CHO)n1—Ar1—X—Ar2—(CHO)n2 [Chemical Formula 1] wherein, in Chemical Formula 1, X is O, S, or NR, in which R is a hydrogen, or a substituted or unsubstituted C1 to C30 alkyl group, Ar1 and Ar2 are independently a substituted or unsubstituted C6 to C30 aromatic ring group, and n1 and n2 are independently an integer of 1 to 3; Ar3—(OH)m [Chemical Formula 2] wherein, in Chemical Formula 2, Ar3 is a substituted or unsubstituted C10 to C30 fused aromatic ring group in which at least two rings are fused, and m is an integer of 1 to 3.
US11512161B2
An ethylenically unsaturated polymer includes at a terminus the radical of an allylic compound that includes a functional group free of active hydrogen atoms that is bonded to the allylic C atom through a S, P, Si or Sn atom and a vinyl aromatic compound. The polymer can be used as a component of a variety of elastomeric compounds used in the production of vulcanizates.
US11512154B2
Supported chromium catalysts containing a solid oxide and 0.1 to 15 wt. % chromium, in which the solid oxide or the supported chromium catalyst has a particle size span from 0.5 to 1.4, less than 3 wt. % has a particle size greater than 100 μm, and less than 10 wt. % has a particle size less than 10 μm, can be contacted with an olefin monomer in a loop slurry reactor to produce an olefin polymer. Representative ethylene-based polymers produced using the chromium catalysts have a HLMI of 4 to 70 g/10 min, a density from 0.93 to 0.96 g/cm3, from 150 to 680 ppm solid oxide (such as silica), from 1.5 to 6.8 ppm chromium, and a film gel count of less than 15 catalyst particle gels per ft2 of 25 micron thick film and/or a gel count of less than or equal to 50 catalyst particles of greater than 100 μm per five grams of the ethylene polymer.
US11512151B2
A method for producing a modified polytetrafluoroethylene, the method including: polymerizing tetrafluoroethylene in an aqueous medium in which a polymer having units based on a fluorine-free monomer is present. The fluorine-free monomer is a monomer represented by formula (1): CH2═CR1-L-R2, where R1 is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group, L is a single bond, —CO—O—*, —O—CO—* or —O—, * is a bonding position to R2, and R2 is an alkyl group. To the total amount of tetrafluoroethylene supplied to the polymerization, a proportion of the polymer is from 0.001 to 0.050 mass %.
US11512146B2
The present disclosure relates to charge-bearing polymeric materials and methods of their use for purifying fluid samples from micropollutants, such as anionic micropollutants.
US11512139B2
The present invention provides a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR), comprising an extracellular part, at least one intracellular signaling domain, and at least one transmembrane domain, wherein the extracellular part of said CAR comprises a) at least one antigen binding domain, and b) at least one cytokine receptor activating or blocking domain. The invention also provides isolated nucleic acid molecule(s) encoding for the said CAR, a cell comprising said nucleic acid molecule(s), a cell expressing said CAR and therapeutic uses of said CAR.
US11512132B2
Provided are antibodies that specifically bind to Programmed Death-1 (PD1, Pdcd-1, or CD279) ligand (PD-L1) and inhibit PD-L1-mediated cellular signaling and activities in immune cells, antibodies binding to a set of amino acid residues required for its ligand binding, and uses of these antibodies to treat or diagnose cancer, infectious diseases or other pathological disorders modulated by PD-L1-mediated functions.
US11512130B2
The present disclosure provides isolated monoclonal antibodies that specifically bind to LAG-3 with high affinity, particularly human monoclonal antibodies. Preferably, the antibodies bind human LAG-3. In certain embodiments, the antibodies bind both human and monkey LAG-3 but do not bind mouse LAG-3. The invention provides anti-LAG-3 antibodies that can inhibit the binding of LAG-3 to MHC Class II molecules and that can stimulate antigen-specific T cell responses. Nucleic acid molecules encoding the antibodies of the invention, expression vectors, host cells and methods for expressing the antibodies of the invention are also provided. Immunoconjugates, bispecific molecules and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the antibodies of the invention are also provided. This disclosure also provides methods for detecting LAG-3, as well as methods for treating stimulating immune responses using an anti-LAG-3 antibody of the invention. Combination therapy, in which an anti-LAG-3 antibody is co-administered with at least one additional immunostimulatory antibody, is also provided.
US11512129B2
A TIGIT antibody, an antigen-binding fragment thereof, and a medical use thereof. The present invention relates to a murine antibody, a chimeric antibody, and a humanized antibody comprising a CDR region of the TIGIT antibody, and a pharmaceutical composition comprising the TIGIT antibody and the antigen-binding fragment thereof, and a use thereof as a medicament. In particular, the present invention also relates to a use of a humanized TIGIT antibody for preparing a medicament for the treatment of TIGIT-associated diseases or conditions.
US11512126B2
A non-naturally occurring chimeric polypeptide having an activity provided by a TGF-beta family member is disclosed. The chimeric polypeptide of an embodiment comprises two or more domains or fragments from parental TGF-beta proteins operably linked such that the resulting polypeptide is capable of modulating a pathway associated with a TGF-beta family member. In one embodiment, the pathway is a SMAD or DAXX pathway.
US11512125B2
Anti-alpha-synuclein antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof (e.g., scFvs) are provided. Also provided are methods of using the same in therapy.
US11512123B2
The present invention relates to a method for removing water from a compound solution and performing conjugate acid conversion. The method uses a nanometer film to perform reverse osmosis for the compound solution to remove water, and provides a conjugate acid to replace the acidic substances in the compound solution in order to obtain compound conjugate acid salts. The method of the present invention can effectively reduce the water content of the compound solution and replace the conjugate acid of the compound to form the desired compound conjugate acid salt.
US11512122B2
Provided herein are dimeric IL-7-Fc fusion proteins that include Fc domains and one or more IL-7s. Also provided herein are variant IL-7s with modifications to reduce heterogeneity and/or reduced affinity/potency. Such variant IL-7s are useful, for example, in the subject dimeric IL-7-Fc fusion proteins. The dimeric IL-7-Fc fusion proteins can be used for applications where increased IL-7 activity is useful, for example, for increasing the proliferation of lymphocyte populations in mounting an anti-tumor response in a subject in need thereof.
US11512119B2
The subject invention pertains to compositions and methods for preparing and using recombinant proteins based on the fungal Coprinus comatus Y3 protein to control plant and animal viruses and microbes, and diagnose, prevent and treat cancers. Methods are disclosed using compositions comprising recombinant Y3 proteins to diagnose, prevent and/or treat cancer diseases based on recombinant Y3 protein interaction with glycans expressed on cancer cells.
US11512117B1
The present disclosure discloses a whole avian-origin reverse genetic system, a recombinant H5N2 subtype avian influenza virus, a vaccine containing the virus, and a preparation method and application thereof. The genome of the recombinant virus is comprised of a modified HA gene derived from a highly pathogenic H5N6 subtype avian influenza virus strain, as well as PB2, PB1, PA, NP, NA, M and NS genes derived from H5N2 subtype avian influenza D7 virus strain. The recombinant virus is a recombinant H5N2 avian influenza virus rescued from the D7 virus strain as a backbone, which is an avirulent virus strain with the original immunogenicity, and can maintain a high virus titer during the chick embryo culture process. The recombinant virus fully meets the biological safety requirements and has a good application prospect.
US11512116B2
The present disclosure relates generally to bacterial delivery vehicles for use in efficient transfer of a desired payload into a target bacterial cell. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to bacterial delivery vehicles with desired host ranges based on the presence of a chimeric receptor binding protein (RBP) composed of a fusion between the N-terminal region of a RBP derived from a lambda-like bacteriophage and the C-terminal region of a different RBP.
US11512108B2
Provided is a novel method whereby an amide compound can be produced by highly stereoselectively and efficiently performing amidation between a plurality of amino acids and/or peptides. A compound of general formula (3) is synthesized by forming an amide bond between the carboxyl group on the right side of general formula (1) in a compound represented thereby and the amino group on the left side of general formula (2) in a compound represented thereby, in the presence of a Lewis acid catalyst and a silylating agent [in formulae (1), (2) and (3), each symbol has the same meaning as defined in claims].
US11512100B2
Provided is a method for preparing an epoxy compound having an alkoxysilyl group effectively by using a mild catalyst as well as an aromatic alcohol ring-opening agent. The preparation method for an epoxy compound having an alkoxysilyl group includes: performing a ring opening step by reacting an epoxy compound having an epoxide group, which is a starting material, with an aromatic alcohol ring-opening agent in the presence of a phosphine-based catalyst and an optional solvent so as to obtain an intermediate having a partially ring-opened epoxide group; and performing an alkoxysilylation step by reacting the intermediate having a partially ring-opened epoxide with isocyanate alkoxysilane.
US11512099B2
Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) usually crystallize as insoluble powders and their processing for suitable devices has been thought to be limited. Here, it is demonstrated that COFs can be mechanically pressed into shaped objects having anisotropic ordering with preferred orientation between the hk0 and 00/ crystallographic planes. Pellets prepared from bulk COF powders impregnated with LiClO4 displayed room temperature conductivity up to 0.26 mS cm−1 and stability up to 10.0 V (vs. Li+/Li0). This outcome portends use of COFs as solid-state electrolytes in batteries.
US11512079B2
Described herein are heterocycle substituted pyridine derivative antifungal agents and pharmaceutical compositions comprising said compounds. The subject compounds and compositions are useful for the treatment of fungal diseases and infections.
US11512075B2
The invention provides 20-nor-salvinorin A, an analog of the kappa-opioid agonist salvinorin A. The 20-nor-salvinorin A is an active kappa-opioid modulator and can be used for treatment of medical conditions wherein modulation of the kappa-opioid receptor is medically indicated, such as pain, pruritis, depression, or inflammation, or conditions implicating perception and consciousness. 20-nor-salvinorin A can be less additive when used in treatment compared to a mu-opioid receptor agonist, and 20-nor-salvinorin A is more stable in vivo than is parent compound salvinorin A. The invention further provides synthetic intermediates and procedures for preparation of 20-nor-salvinorin A.
US11512073B2
Disclosed is a compound of Formula I or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and pharmaceutical composition comprising the same, and use thereof in the treatment of diseases benefiting from the inhibition of autophagic flux and/or chromatin ubiquitination, especially in the treatment of breast cancer.
US11512069B2
A method of administering to a patient in need thereof or contacting with a biological sample, a compound related to Formula I-e or pharmaceutically acceptable compositions thereof, is useful to inhibit activity of TLR7/8 or a mutant thereof and/or to treat a TLR7/8-mediated disorder.
US11512064B2
The present invention relates to processes and intermediates for preparing 3-(cyanomethyl)-3-(4-{[(1R,2S)-2-phenylcyclopropyl]amino}piperidin-1-yl)azetidine-1-sulfonamide, and salts and solid forms thereof, which selectively modulate demethylase. Particular embodiments contemplate compounds and disease indications amenable to treatment by modulation of lysine specific demethylase-1 (LSD1).
US11512055B2
The present invention relates to benzimidazole derivatives of formula (I) as inhibitors of retinoid-related orphan receptor gamma (RORγ) protein, pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds, preparation methods thereof, and the use of the compounds as therapeutic agents for the treatment of RORγ-mediated diseases or disorders.
US11512052B2
A genus of dihydropyridine chemical modulators of synaptojanin is disclosed. These modulators are selective inhibitors of synaptojanin 1 and may be used to treat cognitive impairment or traumatic brain injury, including promoting regeneration in cases of traumatic brain injury, or for treating neurodegenerative disorders.
US11512039B2
The present disclosure relates to an aromatic amine derivative represented by general formula (I). The aromatic amine derivative has fluorescence emission at a short light emission wavelength, and the light-emission spectrum of the aromatic amine derivative has a narrow half-peak width, and accordingly, the material has deep-blue fluorescence emission and has a very-high light emission efficiency. An organic electroluminescent component prepared by using the aromatic amine derivative has deep-blue color coordinates, a high light emission efficiency and a long life-span.
US11512032B2
In a method, device, catalyst and a method for producing a catalyst for the catalytic conversion of a substance mixture containing glycerol to propanol in a fixed-bed reactor, substrates of the catalyst have inorganic materials and/or metal oxides. The substrates have a pore diameter at the surface of between 10 and 25 angstroms, preferably between 12 and 20 angstroms, particularly preferably 15 angstroms.
US11512030B2
A process can be used for oligomerization of isobutene by conversion of an isobutene-containing hydrocarbon stream over an acid catalyst in at least one reaction stage, where a particular ratio of recycle to feed is employed.
US11512029B1
A multipurpose fertilizer composition comprising an after incubation mixture, a moisturizing ingredient, and a ylang ylang extract ingredients; wherein, the ylang ylang extract ingredients from fresh ylang ylang flowers that can be chopped/or not shredded and soaked in a liquid such as water or solvent for a long time to extract the necessary compound components from the infused ylang ylang flowers into the liquid; wherein, the ylang ylang extract ingredients containing at least 0.05% by weight of a cinnamyl acetate. Besides, the present invention is to provide a process of manufacturing the multipurpose fertilizer composition using ingredients source material from mixing a manure ingredient with a poultry manure ingredient, and an organic waste ingredient.
US11512027B2
Luminescent concrete compositions containing cement, fine aggregates such as sand, and a phosphor such as strontium aluminate. Glow-in-the-dark concrete products made therefrom and methods of producing such concrete products are also specified. The glow-in-the-dark concrete products demonstrate good mechanical strength (e.g. compressive strength) and skid resistance. The addition of phosphorescent strontium aluminate provides luminance that persists for up to 10 hours to the concrete products.
US11512020B2
A composition for addition to a ceiling tile, flooring product, or other construction product may include microfibrillated cellulose and optionally an inorganic particulate material. The ceiling tile, flooring product, or other construction product may further include perlite, mineral wool, wood pulp, starch and other additives, where the wood pulp and other inorganic particulate materials are bonded to the microfibrillated cellulose. Methods of manufacturing the compound are also disclosed.
US11512007B2
The present invention relates to a process for preparing a rodlike magnetic ferroferric oxide (Fe3O4) material and use thereof. The preparation includes the following steps: step 1: magnetic Fe3O4 nanoparticle preparation; and step 2: self-assembly of magnetic Fe3O4@SiO2 nanoparticles into a rodlike magnetic material. When in use, the rodlike magnetic Fe3O4 material prepared by the process according to claim 1 is used in micro- and nano-motors, which can implement rotation and deflection in an external magnetic field. The present invention provides a process for preparing a rodlike magnetic Fe3O4 material. The rodlike magnetic ferroferric oxide material prepared by the process is suitable for mass production on an industrial scale, featuring identifiable direction of the magnetic moment, strong magnetism, good magnetic response, simple process, and low cost.
US11512006B2
A method for simultaneously preparing an iron oxide red pigment and an aromatic amine is provided. In the method, an aromatic nitro compound and ferrous iron are first used to prepare an iron oxide red seed crystal under the action of a catalyst, and then iron powder is used to reduce the aromatic nitro compound and generate iron oxide in situ which grows into iron oxide red with pigment performance on the seed crystal. The method provides a clean and economical way for the reduction of an aromatic nitro compound (especially those in which there are other easily-reduced substituents on an aromatic ring) to prepare an aromatic amine.
US11512001B2
A method for efficiently producing polysilicon is realized. The present invention is an invention of a method for producing polysilicon by the Siemens process, a chemical reactor being connected to a waste gas processing facility via a blocking valve provided to a waste gas pipe, the blocking valve being provided in a vicinity of a waste gas outlet of the chemical reactor, the method including the step of cooling a waste gas between the waste gas outlet of the chemical reactor and the blocking valve, with use of a cooler of an indirect cooling type.
US11511993B2
Disclosed is a method for producing phosphorus pentafluoride, including mixing and reacting phosphorus trichloride and chlorine with a large excess of anhydrous hydrogen fluoride liquid, thereby producing phosphorus pentafluoride, wherein heat of reaction generated through the production of phosphorus pentafluoride is removed with latent heat of evaporation of hydrogen fluoride. It is preferable that the anhydrous hydrogen fluoride liquid is circulated, and, in this state, phosphorus trichloride and chlorine are mixed with the anhydrous hydrogen fluoride liquid. Furthermore, it is also preferable that the anhydrous hydrogen fluoride liquid is circulated along a circulation path, or that the anhydrous hydrogen fluoride liquid is circulated through stirring in a reaction vessel.
US11511992B2
Systems and methods are provided for performing hydrocarbon reforming within a reverse flow reactor environment (or another reactor environment with flows in opposing directions) while improving management of CO2 generated during operation of the reactor. The improved management of CO2 is achieved by making one or more changes to the operation of the reverse flow reactor. The changes can include using an air separation unit to provide an oxygen source with a reduced or minimized content of nitrogen and/or operating the reactor at elevated pressure during the regeneration stage. By operating the regeneration at elevated pressure, a regeneration flue gas can be generated that is enriched in CO2 at elevated pressure. The CO2-enriched stream can include primarily water as a contaminant, which can be removed by cooling while substantially maintaining the pressure of the stream. This can facilitate subsequent recovery and use of the CO2.
US11511983B2
Provided is a liquid collecting device, which comprises a collecting container, wherein the collecting container is provided with a diversion cavity for diverting a body fluid collected; on a wall of the collecting container, at least one jacket cavity configured to store a storage liquid is provided, the jacket cavity is provided around the diversion cavity, and the jacket cavity extends along an axial direction of the diversion cavity, and a cross section of the jacket cavity is annular; and the diversion cavity has an inflow port and an outflow port, and an aperture of the inflow port is larger than that of the outflow port.
US11511973B2
There is provided a control system including: a first transmission unit configured to transmit a first command directing an operation of a crane; a second transmission unit configured to transmit a second command directing an operation of the crane; and a control device including a first reception unit configured to accept the first command and a second reception unit configured to accept the second command, in which the control device is configured to operate the crane in a case in which the first command and the second command coincide with each other.
US11511969B2
The invention relates to a method for defining a condition of an elevator car suspension means. The method includes detecting a rate of change of elongation of the elevator car suspension means in order to define the condition of the elevator car suspension means. The invention relates also to an elevator safety control unit and an elevator system performing at least partly the method.
US11511963B2
A fish tape tool includes a housing and a chamber defined in the housing. A drum is configured to be inserted into the chamber of the housing. The drum contains a fish tape. The drum is rotatable relative to the housing to dispense or retract the fish tape from the housing. The drum is one of a plurality of drums that are insertable into and removable from the chamber of the housing. Each drum contains a different type of fish tape.
US11511956B2
A sheet conveyer having a sheet tray, a tray-driving mechanism, a conveyance guide, a feed roller, a separator, a conveyer, a conveyer-driving mechanism, a controller, and a sheet sensor to detect sheets on the sheet tray, is provided. The conveyer-driving mechanism includes a transmission-active portion and a transmission-passive portion. A conveying velocity to convey the sheets by the conveyer is higher than a conveying velocity to convey the sheets by the feed roller and the separator. The transmission-active portion and the transmission-passive portion are rotatable about a transmission axis. The transmission-passive portion rotates passively by being pushed by the transmission-active portion. After the sheet sensor detects absence of the sheets, and before the transmission-passive portion starts rotating passively, the controller conducts a specific action to move the sheet tray downward by controlling the tray-driving mechanism.
US11511949B2
A movable object holding system for holding a movable object including a body portion 11 and a protruding portion protruding from the body portion, comprising a hand part 40 holding a movable object, the hand part 40 comprising plural guide portions limiting movement of the movable object in a first axis direction and a second axis direction that are perpendicular to each other and a pair of positioning portions 43e limiting movement of the movable object in a third axis direction that is perpendicular to the first and second axis directions, wherein the hand part 40 holds the movable object with the protruding portion of the movable object disposed in a space surrounded by the plural guide portions and touching the pair of the positioning portions 43e and with a part of the body portion of the movable object exposed out of the hand part 40.
US11511948B2
A method, electromagnetic switch, controller and program product, when energizing an electromagnetic coil to urge a selected shoe into a diverting path downstream of the electromagnetic switch, reverse current flow during at least a portion of the time that the electromagnetic coil is energized to recover energy from the electromagnetic coil.
US11511946B2
The invention relates to a method for transferring products to or from a collecting surface within a line for the continuous processing of said products, wherein a first transit zone is fed longitudinally with products by an entry conveyor; a second transit zone supplies products longitudinally to an exit conveyor; at least one column of products is transferred, by being pushed transversely, via a transfer tool provided with members disposed on either side of each column; wherein, at the moment of transfer, each column is gripped by said members being moved toward one another, a first member being fixed, while a second member is mounted in a movable manner. The invention also relates to a transfer device for implementing such a method.
US11511940B2
A conveyor chain includes a plurality of side link assemblies and flight arm assemblies coupled together to form an elongated chain. The flight arm assemblies include a pair of opposing flight arms positioned on either side of the chain with the flight arms each including an elongated body formed with and extending from an integral base and a vertical sprocket opening formed in the integral base. The vertical sprocket opening is configured for engaging a tooth of a drive sprocket to drive the flight arm. The side link assemblies include a pair of opposing side straps positioned on either side of the chain each including a base and a pair of side strap bosses extending outwardly from the base. An articulating connector is positioned between a flight arm assembly and a side link assembly to couple the assemblies together and includes a solid piece and side surfaces having profiled surfaces therein and configured for receiving at least one of a portion of a side strap of a side link assembly or a portion of a base of a flight arm assembly for providing articulation of the assemblies.
US11511938B2
Systems and method for retaining a downspout onto a spout are disclosed. The downspout may be retained on the spout using hook and loop fasteners. In some implementations, a portion of a spout may include a first portion of a hook and loop fastener and the downspout may include a second portion of the first hook and loop faster. The first and second portions of the hook and loop faster are complimentary such that the first and second portions of the hook and loop fastener combine to interlocking secure the downspout and the spout together.
US11511936B2
A tank for bulk material storage and transport and method for producing same. In an embodiment, a tank is provided that includes a shell having a sidewall, a neck including a first collar, and a tube terminating in a second collar. A frustoconical cap may be secured to the first collar. A substantially conical cap may be secured to the second collar. A liner may be applied to the shell so that the liner substantially covers an interior surface of the sidewall, an interior surface of the neck, at least a portion of the first collar, an interior surface of the tube, and at least a portion of the second collar. Annular thickened segments may be trimmed to prepare the tank for use. The annular thickened segments may be located at an interior joint between the frustoconical cap and the first collar, and/or an interior joint between the substantially conical cap and the second collar. The trimming step may form first and second sealing surfaces of the liner adjacent respectively to the first and second collars. The first and second sealing surfaces may respectively be configured to substantially seal against a manway cover and an outlet cover. In a final, assembled preferred form, the frustoconical and substantially conical caps are replaced with the manway assembly and outlet cover, respectively sealed against the first and second sealing surfaces.
US11511934B2
Inside a tank body storing a liquid, a return filter is provided protruding downward from an upper surface of the tank body, and a substantially plate-like (plate-shaped) float is also provided that is inserted into the tank body and floats in accordance with change in a liquid surface of the liquid stored in the tank body. The float is provided with an opening larger than a diameter of a filter case, and in a plan view, the float is disposed between the tank body and the filter case.
US11511928B2
Shipping system for storing and/or transporting temperature-sensitive materials. In one embodiment, the system includes an outer box having four side walls, bottom closure flaps, and top closure flaps. A vacuum insulated panel (VIP) is detachably coupled to one of the top closure flaps and is removably covered by a cover. An insulation unit is removably positioned within the outer box, the insulation unit including a plurality of VIPs arranged to define a cavity bounded by a bottom wall and four side walls. A disposable liner is removably mounted on the insulation unit. The liner may be a thermoformed sheet and may cover the interior and top surfaces of the insulation unit. A plurality of temperature-control members and a product box may be removably positioned in the liner. Preferably, the liner is shaped so that the temperature-control members snugly fit around all sides of the product box.
US11511923B2
Cartridge packaging for nicotine delivery systems are provided. Various embodiments of cartridge packaging are described that include or use one or more perforations or perforating patterns separating the cartridges. In one embodiment, for example, a cartridge pack can include a plurality of cartridge pack cavities that are each configured to receive a vaporizer cartridge and separated by a vertical perforation region, and a void cavity separated from the plurality of cartridge pack cavities by a horizontal perforation region. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also described.
US11511922B1
A tamper evident container includes a container body having walls surrounding a cavity. The walls are composed of a non-electrically conductive material and at least one integrity sensor that is embedded in the non-electrically conductive material. A monitoring circuit is configured to monitor the tamper evident container using the at least one integrity sensor and determine a state-of-health of the tamper evident container.
US11511917B2
A device for attaching to commercial beverage container that provides for an uninhibited, full-flow of beverage which has a user-initiated trigger and valve mechanism that can be activated in a single motion with one hand and which closes automatically when the user-initiated trigger is released. The device is comprised of a housing with a drinking end and a bottle connector end, a valve that is connected to an external trigger by a spring-loaded recoil mechanism, and a safety lock to prevent accidental opening of the valve. The bottle connector end is designed to be connected to various bottle neck and thread sizes. Alternatively, the bottle connector end may be designed for a single beverage container. The device may also be comprised of a carry clip and ergonomic features for ease of carrying and holding, respectively. The device may alternatively be manufactured onto beverage containers.
US11511908B2
A packing box includes a separation line in a shipping configuration, the separation line allowing separating a separation part from the packing box to leave a display part in a display configuration. First to last panels are sequentially interconnected, and flaps are connected to the panels. The flaps cooperatively define further sides of the packing box in the shipping configuration, and adjacent flaps connected to adjacent mutually connected panels are attached to one another. The separation line extends through a single panel from a first end associated with a position between adjacent first separation and display flaps to a second end associated with a position between adjacent second separation and display flaps, the separation flaps being associated with the separation part and the display flaps being associated with the display part. The separation flaps, and the adjacent display flaps are attached to one another, respectively, in a releasable manner.
US11511904B2
To provide a sticking apparatus capable of suppressing turning-up of an end of a sticking body. A sticking apparatus extrudes a sticking body from a tip in a protruding direction of a head member while moving the tip in a protruding direction of the head member along a target range, and sticks the sticking body to the target range. Extrusion speed of the sticking body becomes smaller than movement speed of the head member from a start of sticking of the sticking body with respect to the target range to a first time point, extrusion speed of the sticking body becomes larger than movement speed of the head member from the first time point to a second time point, and extrusion speed of the sticking body becomes smaller than movement speed of the head member from the second time point to sticking completion of the sticking body with respect to the target range.
US11511902B2
The disclosure relates to a deep-drawing packaging machine with a forming station for deep-drawing trays into a film, a loading stretch for filling products into the trays, and a sealing station for sealing the trays. The deep-drawing packaging machine further comprises at least one vacuum cooling station which is disposed in a direction of transport upstream of the sealing station and which is formed for vacuum cooling the products placed into the trays along the loading stretch. The disclosure furthermore relates to a method for vacuum cooling products.
US11511892B2
The present invention provides a central shaft mechanism, which is arranged on the base of a winding machine, including a central shaft component, a central shaft is arranged in the central part of the central shaft component, the central shaft component is also provided with a bearing support structure and a plurality of first limiting structures, and the central shaft component is fixed and limited in the base of the winding machine through the first limiting structures. The central shaft mechanism of the present invention has stable position, stable and reliable operation, and can reduce the working noise and noise during operation. In addition, it can be packed separately from the base during transportation, and can be quickly installed on site, which can not only provide more stable support, but also reduce the height of the turntable of the height winding machine.
US11511864B2
A rotorcraft having an aerodynamic device arranged below a rotor, which rotor participates at least in providing lift for the rotorcraft in the air, the rotor being mounted to rotate about a first axis of rotation, the aerodynamic device having a fairing provided with at least one air inlet for enabling a stream of cool air to flow from a region that is situated outside the rotorcraft to another region that is situated inside the rotorcraft; at least at a mouth of the at least one air inlet in the fairing, the aerodynamic device has at least one moving flap that is mounted to move in rotation, the at least one moving flap having at least one degree of freedom of movement in rotation about a second axis of rotation relative to the fairing, and the at least one moving flap orienting itself automatically and passively.
US11511862B2
An aircraft seat system is disclosed, in accordance with one or more embodiments of the present disclosure. In one embodiment, the aircraft seat system includes a seat casement; a headrest portion; a seat back portion; a seat pan; and one or more armrests pivotably coupled to one or more portions of the seat casement. In another embodiment, the one or more armrests include an armrest body; a rotator link system; and a pivot link system. In another embodiment, the pivot link system may be configured to pivotably extend the armrest cap and pivotably retract the armrest cap.
US11511861B2
In an example, an overhead payload module is described. The overhead payload module comprises a ceiling assembly, an aisle floor assembly, a first payload assembly attached to the ceiling assembly and the aisle floor assembly to form a first side of the overhead payload module, and a second payload assembly attached to the ceiling assembly and the aisle floor assembly to form a second side of the overhead payload module. The first payload assembly comprises a first payload module and a first overhead stowbin module structurally integrated with the first payload module and having a first stowage area configured to receive stowbins. The second payload assembly is positioned opposite the first payload assembly to form an aisle therebetween and comprises a second payload module and a second overhead stowbin module structurally integrated with the second payload module and having a second stowage area configured to receive stowbins.
US11511859B2
A suspension lug arrangement for a store suitable for aerial deployment has an outer surface and includes at least one lug region including a lug disposed in a body of the store. The lug includes a base portion embedded within and joined to the body of the store and a head portion extending outward from the base portion to the outer surface of the store, the head portion including an outer surface aligned with an adjacent portion of the outer surface of the body. The at least one lug region further includes a well at least partially surrounding the lug, a compressible member disposed within the well, and a plug retained within the well and engaging the compressible member disposed therein.
US11511855B2
An ornithopter aircraft has a main body. A first wing frame mount and a second wing frame mount are mounted to the main body. A first wing frame is rotably mounted to a first wing frame axle on the first wing frame mount. The first wing frame is configured to rotate relative to the main body and the rotation can be powered. The first wing frame feathers are rotably mounted to the first wing frame at first feather axles and the first wing frame feather rotation can be powered. The first wing frame feathers are configured to rotate relative to the first wing frame and the first wing frame feather rotation can be powered. A second wing frame is configured to be rotably mounted to a second wing frame axle on the second wing frame mount.
US11511853B2
A method of facilitating the piloting of a hybrid rotorcraft that comprises a lift rotor and at least one propulsion rotor together with at least one engine operating in compliance with at least one rating. For at least one rating, onboard calculator determines a first power margin of the power plant that is available for the lift rotor and at least one second power margin that is available for said at least one propulsion rotor. A single indicator displays a line together with a first index pointing to said line to illustrate a current operating point of the lift rotor, and a second index pointing to said line to illustrate a current operating point of said at least one propulsion rotor. For each monitored rating, a first symbol is spaced apart from the first index by a first distance illustrating the first power margin. A second symbol is spaced apart from the second index by a second distance illustrating the second power margin.
US11511852B2
An uplock system includes a cam plate comprising a cam channel, a hook configured to rotate with respect to the cam plate, a follower rotatably coupled to the hook, wherein a portion of the follower moves within the cam channel in response to rotation of the hook, a stopper configured to engage the follower, and a first biasing member configured to bias the stopper towards the follower to stop the follower from moving within the cam channel, thereby locking the hook in a locked position.
US11511849B2
A method and system of preparing a drone for takeoff are disclosed. The drone has at least one first control member and at least one second control member that are suitable for being actuated manually by at least one person in charge of preparing the drone for takeoff. The drone also includes a navigation light and at least one anticollision light for generating various mutually different light signals in a predetermined switch-on sequence.
US11511844B2
An aircraft including a fuselage, an aircraft fuselage end cargo door, and a fuselage end cargo door mechanism. The aircraft fuselage end cargo door couples to the fuselage at a major joint line. The fuselage end cargo door mechanism including a hinge rotatably coupling an aircraft fuselage end cargo door to a fuselage, the hinge being coupled to both the aircraft fuselage end cargo door and the fuselage so that an axis of rotation of the aircraft fuselage end cargo door, defined by the hinge, relative to the fuselage is located forward of a major joint line between the aircraft fuselage end cargo door and the fuselage, wherein an uppermost portion of the major joint line comprises a joint line radius where a portion of the joint line radius formed by the aircraft fuselage end cargo door pivots within another portion of the joint line radius formed by the fuselage.
US11511836B1
A field configurable autonomous vehicle includes modular elements and attachable components. The vehicle can be assembled from these modular elements and components to meet desired mission and performance characteristics without the need to purchase specially designed vehicles for each mission. The main body of the vehicle is a spherical body.
US11511833B2
A posture control system for a hull includes a movable posture control plate. An outboard motor is attached to the hull and is movable with respect to the hull. A controller is configured or programmed to control movement of the posture control plate and movement of the outboard motor so as to control the posture of the hull.
US11511824B2
A bicycle frame includes a tube with a hollow portion. The tube has an opening that provides access to the hollow portion, and the tube also includes one or more recessed flanges adjacent to the opening. The bicycle frame also includes a cover holder configured to mount to the one or more recessed flanges adjacent to the opening in the tube. The bicycle frame further includes an in-tube storage cover that mounts to the cover holder such that at least a portion of an exterior surface of the in-tube storage cover is flush with an outer surface of the tube. The in-tube storage cover includes a lever mounted on the exterior surface of the in-tube storage cover.
US11511820B2
A footrest system for use on a snowmobile. The footrest system includes a footrest that extends from a first proximal end to a second distal end. A fender covers a proximal portion of the footrest to define a toe pocket. A snow evacuation bore passes through the proximal portion of the footrest and the fender. The snow evacuation bore is configured to pass snow out of the toe pocket and through the footrest and fender.
US11511816B1
A tailgate device includes a first panel defining first openings, and a second panel defining second openings. The tailgate device also includes a hinge coupled between first ends of the first and second panels and permitting the first and second panels to switch between an extended state and a folded state, and a sleeve receiving uppermost portions of the first ends of the first and second panels and aligned with the hinge to lock the first and second panels in the extended state. The tailgate device also includes a first retention device coupled to a second end of the first panel and to be coupled to a first side portion of a truck bed of a vehicle, and a second retention device coupled to a second end of the second panel and to be coupled to a second side portion of the truck bed of the vehicle.
US11511810B2
Provided is a method for assembling a vehicle roof structure capable of suppressing occurrence of distortion of a roof panel. The method includes an application portion forming step, a roof panel disposing step, a roof panel mechanically fixing step, and a mastic adhesive curing step. In the application portion forming step, a plurality of application portions is formed such that among the plurality of application portions, a central application portion disposed at a center of a cross member in a vehicle width direction has a length that is shorter than a length of an end-side application portion disposed on opposite sides of the center in the vehicle width direction.
US11511807B2
An electric vehicle, including, a user compartment and a front section including a portion of a vehicle chassis, a crash absorbing member located in the front section and connected to the portion of the vehicle chassis, the crash absorbing member including a first extruded profile, preferably an aluminum profile, having a main extension direction in a transverse direction (y) of the vehicle, whereby the extrusion direction of the first extruded profile extends substantially in the transverse direction (y) of the vehicle, and wherein further the first extruded profile includes at least two cells (C1, C2) being defined by outer walls and at least one intermediate wall separating the at least two cells (C1, C2), wherein the at least one intermediate wall has a main extension direction in the transverse direction (y) and a second extension direction which extends substantially in a vertical direction (z).
US11511801B2
The systems and methods disclosed herein are configured to determine if a trailer backup assist system is needed to assist a driver with a procedure to backup a trailer that is connected to a vehicle. The estimation of need for assistance may be determined by an assistance model. If assistance is needed, the systems and methods provide an input to initiate a process to enable the trailer backup assist system.
US11511798B2
A hydraulic steering unit includes a pressure port connected to a main flow path and a tank port connected to a tank flow path, and a working port arrangement having left and right working flow paths. A first bridge arrangement has first left and first right orifices connected to the main flow path and to first left or first right connecting points, respectively, each connecting point associated respectively with the left or right working flow paths, and second left and second right orifices connected to the tank flow path and to the first left or first right connecting points, respectively. A second bridge arrangement has a similar orifice arrangement connected to second left or second right connecting points. The first and second bridge arrangements have different steering characteristics. Selection means for connecting one of the bridge arrangements between the pressure port and the working port arrangement are provided.
US11511797B2
A configurable diagnostic data monitor that captures diagnostic data of a motor control system is provided. Triggers, and records generated using the triggers, are configurable using, for example, different parameters or logical operators. Triggers buffer data that can be made part of a record when a trigger condition is met. Memory used by a trigger and memory usage for records is monitored and notifications generated indicating memory required for a trigger. Configuration of a trigger can involve customized priority relative to other triggers, adjustable data parameters, a persistence parameter, and configurable saved data capture for rate and duration.
US11511795B2
Technical solutions are described for attenuating dither noise in a steering system. An example method includes computing a torque command based on an input torque, and generating a current command corresponding to the torque command. Further, the method includes determining an adjustment parameter based on a plurality of steering system signals. Further, the method includes reducing dither noise of the steering system by dynamically modifying a controller parameter value using the adjustment parameter. Further, the method includes generating a voltage command using the current command and the modified controller parameter value, the voltage command used to generate torque by a motor.
US11511787B2
A steering column may include a casing pipe disposed longitudinally movably in a casing unit, a steering spindle rotatably supported about a longitudinal axis in the casing pipe, and a clamping device configurable in a fixing position for securing the casing unit relative to the casing pipe. The clamping device may have an engagement element supported on the casing pipe, having an upper side parallel to the longitudinal axis, and having lateral edge sides. The clamping device may have a locking element supported in the longitudinal direction on the casing unit and that can be moved to adjust the fixing position in a normal direction of the upper side against the engagement element. Positive-locking elements on the locking and engagement elements are engageable to produce a positive-locking connection in the longitudinal direction, at least some of which are disposed on an edge side of the engagement element.
US11511763B2
An electronic control device including a sensor fusion processing unit that integrates a plurality of pieces of sensor information having been input from a plurality of sensors. The electronic control device further including a behavior prediction processing unit that obtains a future value in which a future behavior of a target object is predicted based on joint information integrated by the sensor fusion processing unit. The electronic control device further including a comparison unit that compares a future value predicted by the behavior prediction processing unit with output information of each sensor of the sensor fusion processing unit at a predicted time.
US11511761B2
A vehicle control system includes a first actuator that is configured to perform at least any of driving, braking, or steering of a host vehicle, a first controller that is configured to perform traveling control of the host vehicle by controlling the first actuator, a second actuator that is configured to perform at least any of driving, braking, or steering of the host vehicle, a second controller that is configured to perform traveling control of the host vehicle by controlling the second actuator, and a communication line that is interposed between the first controller and the second controller. The first controller is configured to determine whether an operating state of the first actuator satisfies a predetermined condition, and limit, in a case where it is determined that the operating state of the first actuator satisfies the predetermined condition, control of the first actuator as compared to a case where it is determined that the predetermined condition is not satisfied, and transmits a predetermined signal to the second controller through the communication line, and in a case where the predetermined signal is received from the first controller through the communication line, the second controller performs traveling control of the host vehicle in place of at least a portion of a function of the first controller by controlling the second actuator.
US11511753B2
An illustrative example method is for estimating a friction characteristic of a surface beneath a vehicle that has a plurality of wheels contacting the surface. The method includes determining a wheel speed of at least one of the wheels, determining a velocity of the at least one of the wheels separately from determining the wheel speed, determining a wheel slip of the at least one of the wheels based on the determined wheel speed and the determined velocity, and determining the friction characteristic based on the determined wheel slip. Determining the velocity separately from the wheel speed is accomplished using at least one detector that provides an output corresponding to a range rate, such as a RADAR or LIDAR detector.
US11511746B2
The invention relates to a method for a follower vehicle (2) following a lead vehicle, comprising—determining a position (PL) and a heading (HL) of the lead vehicle (1), —determining a position (PF) and a heading (HF) of the follower vehicle (2), —subsequently establishing a path for the follower vehicle (2) by fitting a curve (C1) to said positions (PL, PF) and said headings (HL, HF), —and controlling the follower vehicle (2) so as to move along the established path.
US11511744B2
A method of providing automated control of vehicle speed in a driver assist mode may include receiving an operator selection of the driver assist mode and a target speed, monitoring vehicle speed, and generating a propulsive torque request and a braking torque request based on a difference between the target speed and the vehicle speed. The method may further include, responsive to vehicle speed being in a selected range from zero to about three miles per hour, initiating a low speed correction to automatically provide a variable modification to the propulsive torque request or the braking torque request.
US11511738B2
A vehicle control device includes a recognizer that is configured to recognize a peripheral situation of a vehicle and a driving controller that is configured to execute automated driving for controlling a speed and steering of the vehicle on the basis of a recognition result of the recognizer. The recognizer is configured to recognize a real-time environment including a situation of a nearby vehicle or a situation of a nearby road on which the vehicle travels, and the driving controller is configured to shunt the vehicle to a shunt location to suspend the automated driving in a case where the real-time environment corresponds to a predetermined condition, and resume the automated driving in a case where the predetermined condition is resolved after the shunt.
US11511735B2
There is provided a signal processing apparatus, a signal processing method for appropriate driving control. The signal processing apparatus includes a safety determination unit that determines safety of a preceding vehicle on a basis of sensor-related information related to a sensor provided in the preceding vehicle, the sensor being relevant to a safety function, and a control signal generation unit that generates, on a basis of a result of the determination of the safety, a control signal for controlling a host vehicle.
US11511728B2
A control unit that controls a travelling state and an air conditioning state of a vehicle includes: a drive control unit performing a vehicle speed control and a power train control, the vehicle speed control selectively executing an acceleration operation where an engine mounted on the vehicle is operated and a deceleration operation where the engine is stopped to allow the vehicle to coast, the power train control selectively executing activation or deactivation of the engine; m and an air conditioning control unit that controls an air conditioning system provided in the vehicle to execute an air conditioning control. A content of control is changed for at least one of the vehicle speed control, the power train control and the air-conditioning control while the air conditioning system is operating, compared to a case where the air conditioning system is not operating.
US11511726B2
A method of distributing driving force of a four wheel drive (4WD) eco-friendly vehicle includes determining a first allowable range of driving force for each driving force based on determination of travel stability, determining a second allowable range of driving force for each driving wheel based on system limitations of at least one of the first driving source or the second driving source, determining a range of available driving force of the first driving wheel based on the first allowable range of driving force and the second allowable range of driving force, determining first target driving force of the first driving wheel in consideration of efficiency of the first driving source within the range of available driving force, and determining second target driving force of the second driving wheel based on the first target driving force and requested torque.
US11511723B2
An electric booster for a vehicle including: a disc holder accommodating a reaction disc, a screw nut rotated in conjunction with an operation of a motor, a screw bolt linearly moved in conjunction with a rotation of the screw nut, a boosting block disposed between the reaction disc and the screw bolt, and contacting a radially outer portion of the reaction disc when the screw bolt moves, a pedal rod contacting a radially central portion of the reaction disc through the screw bolt and the boosting block, a disc holder pressing hole connected to the screw bolt, and disposed to face the disc holder, and a first breakage prevention gap part formed between the disc holder and the disc holder pressing hole.
US11511721B2
An electric hollow-shaft motor having a hollow shaft which is able to be driven in rotation, and a detection device which is configured to detect the rotational position of the hollow shaft, wherein the detection device includes a magnet which is arranged on the hollow shaft, and a fixed magnetic field sensor which is arranged within the hollow shaft, wherein the magnetic field sensor is configured to detect a magnetic field generated by the magnet.
US11511719B2
An axle valve module of a compressed air brake system includes a relay valve with a control pressure input connected to a control pressure line which can be connected via a changeover valve alternately to a brake pressure line conducting an introduced brake pressure or to a reservoir pressure line conducting a reservoir pressure. ABS inlet and outlet valves are each formed as a pressure-controlled diaphragm valve with assigned pilot valve, wherein the pilot valves are configured as cyclically controllable 3/2-way magnetic switching valves, A shut-off valve is arranged in the control pressure line of the relay valve, between the changeover valve and the control pressure input of the relay valve or the branch point of a control pressure line of the ABS valves, via which shut-off valve the control pressure present at the control pressure input of the relay valve can be locked in as required.
US11511718B2
An electric-parking-brake for a utility-vehicle, including: a feed-line for brake-pressure air; a discharge-line for brake-pressure air for a pneumatic-brake-device; a first-valve and a second-valve, each being switchable between a stable-state and an activated-state in response to electrical control-signals; and a valve-device which is connected between the feed-line and the discharge-line and exhibits a control-input, the valve device being switchable between a stable-state and an activated-state in response to control signals at the control-input, the feed-line being connected to the discharge-line in the activated-state, in which the first-valve in the stable-state or in the activated-state connects the control-input of the valve-device to the discharge-line, to retain a current-state of the valve-device when the brake-pressure air is applied to the discharge-line, and in the activated or stable state connects the control-input to the second-valve. Also described are an electric parking brake system, a utility vehicle, and a related method.
US11511711B2
An electronically controllable pneumatic brake system includes a service brake control module for controlling a first and a second service brake circuit, and a trailer control module with a trailer brake pressure connection point for connection to a trailer brake pressure coupling head. The trailer control module outputs a trailer brake pressure via the trailer brake pressure connection point. Upon a malfunction of the first and/or second service brake circuit, the first service brake pressure is controlled depending on the trailer brake pressure; and the second service brake pressure is controlled depending on the trailer brake pressure specified by the trailer control module; and/or the parking brake pressure is controlled directly or depending on the trailer brake pressure specified by the trailer control module. Upon a malfunction of the trailer control module, the trailer brake pressure is controlled depending on the first service brake pressure.
US11511699B2
Disclosed is a side airbag for vehicles including a first cushion coupled to one side of a seat, the first cushion extending from the side surface of the seat in a forward-rearward direction to cover a passenger at the side of the passenger when deployed, an inflator fixed to the seat, the inflator being configured to supply gas to the first cushion, a second cushion connected to the first cushion, the second cushion being bent from the first cushion toward the passenger and extending in a lateral direction, the second cushion being deployed by the gas supplied from the first cushion, and a support tether having one end fixedly coupled to the second cushion and the other end fixedly coupled to the seat, wherein the support tether is bent so as to be slidably coupled to the first cushion between one end and the other end thereof.
US11511694B2
A vehicle includes a frame, and at least one front and rear wheel. The total number of front and rear wheels is at least three. The vehicle includes a mechanism for driving at least one of the front and rear wheels, a seat for a driver, and at least one fall prevention element to prevent, in a closed position of the fall prevention element, a driver from falling off the seat. In an open position of the fall prevention element, a driver can freely take a seat from the outer side of the vehicle via the space which, in the closed position, is occupied by the fall prevention element, or can step out of the vehicle; the fall prevention element slides between the open and closed positions.
US11511686B2
A system for implementing strobing of existing vehicle hazard lights including an interface to a vehicle wiring harness configured to receive input to an existing vehicle flasher module, and a strobing circuit that responds to an activation signal from the vehicle wiring harness that is indicative of a hazard flasher deployment event by producing an electrical output through the interface to the vehicle wiring harness that causes a strobing of existing vehicle hazard lamps.
US11511682B2
A structural component for a floor assembly of a vehicle. The structural component is formed integrally and includes at least one hinge element and a base part. The base part is configured to support the structural component on the vehicle when the structural component is installed in the vehicle. The at least one hinge element includes at least one flap element which is connected at least in regions to the base part and is configured to be pivoted relative to the base part and, in an end position, to at least partially enclose at least one predetermined construction space of the vehicle. The at least one flap element is furthermore configured in order, in the end position, to abut or to engage in a form-fitting manner against or on respective vehicle elements delimiting the at least one construction space of the vehicle.
US11511676B2
A vehicle storage system is provided having closable storage container which is slidably and removably mounted in a vehicle tailgate, the cover portion of which can serve as a work surface extension of the tailgate, and the interior of which contains reconfigurable dividing walls for separation of contents into discrete locations during both use and storage. One or more of these containers can be mounted, stacked or side by side, within an interior cavity of the tailgate or of a tailgate segment, that tailgate being lockable and removable from the vehicle. Full extension of the storage container from the tailgate interior can be achieved by a double draw slide mechanism. The tailgate end cover is enlarged for both aesthetic and supplemental support surface purposes.
US11511673B2
A console element for connection to a vehicle floor of a vehicle, having a main body having a main body base and main body side walls, and having front connectors and rear connectors that are attached in each case to an underside of the main body base and can be inserted in receptacles arranged on the vehicle floor of the vehicle by means of a horizontal movement of the main body along a joining direction, characterized in that the front connectors and the rear connectors are designed to be self-centering.
US11511672B2
A luggage board device for a vehicle is configured to adjust a height of a partition board, which is composed of a front board, an intermediate board, and a rear board, through movements of the partition board in a vertical direction, in a state in which the partition board is horizontally unfolded, be utilized as a multi-stage shelf like a step shape by rotating the front board and the rear board up and down with the intermediate board as a reference, and be utilized as a table in indoor and outdoor spaces of a luggage room.
US11511670B2
A BSM unit according to an embodiment is attached to a side surface facing the vehicle body of a visor of an outer mirror provided to a vehicle body of a vehicle. The BSM unit includes a light source; a housing configured to accommodate the light source; and a lens configured to be attached to the housing and emit light from the light source to the outside of the housing, in which at least a portion of the lens protrudes from the side surface of the visor in an out-of-plane direction of the side surface.
US11511664B2
An illumination module (1) for illuminating a region of a vehicle component (8), which includes a main body (9). The illumination module (1) includes a light source support (2) having at least one light source (3, 3′) and a housing half shell (4), which is connectable to a wall region of the main body (9) of the vehicle component (8) such that a housing defined by the housing half shell (4) of the illumination module, on the one hand, and by the wall region of the main body (9) of the vehicle component (8), on the other hand, is formed. The light source support (2) has the at least one light source received in the housing, at least in regions, and the housing includes at least one light outlet region (5, 5′), via which light emitted by the at least one light source can be decoupled from the housing.
US11511662B1
A school bus having a pedestrian lighting system includes bus entrance door lamps that illuminate an area adjacent to the entrance door of the bus. Switch logic circuitry is connected to and controls bus door entrance lamp circuitry that provides power to the bus entrance door lamps. A power cutoff noise suppression switch, which otherwise functions to turn off noise generating devices in the bus when stopping for a railroad crossing, is connected to the switch logic circuitry or to delayed deactivation timer circuitry. The power cutoff noise suppression switch and the switch logic circuitry or the delayed deactivation timer circuitry are configured so that input of the switch logic circuitry to the bus door entrance lamp circuitry is overridden, and the at least one bus entrance door lamp is turned off, when the power cutoff noise suppression switch is activated.
