US11734792B2
A video decoding method comprises warping different viewpoint images into a virtual viewpoint by using depth information of an input viewpoint; determining a first weight for the pixels based on quality and depth of pixels of the warped viewpoint images; determining a second weight for the pixels based on a location relation between the pixels of the warped viewpoint images and the virtual viewpoint; determining a blending weight for the pixels based on the first weight and the second weight; blending the warped viewpoint images according to the blending weight; and synthesizing an image of the virtual viewpoint based on the blended viewpoint images.
US11734790B2
Disclosed are a method and apparatus for recognizing a landmark in a panoramic image. The method includes steps of performing projection transformation on the panoramic image so as to generate a projection image; conducting semantic segmentation on the projection image so as to determine a landmark region and a road surface region; correcting distortion in the landmark region so as to produce a corrected landmark region; and recognizing the landmark in the corrected landmark region.
US11734789B2
Systems and methods for correcting image distortion in accordance with embodiments of the invention are illustrated. One embodiment includes a method for correcting distorted images. The method includes steps for receiving a set of term coefficients associated with a lens that captured a set of one or more distorted images, and mapping each of the set of distorted images to a new target image based on the set of term coefficients.
US11734787B2
Aspects presented herein relate to methods and devices for graphics processing including an apparatus, e.g., a GPU. The apparatus may receive a plurality of primitives associated with one or more frames in a scene, a portion of the scene being associated with an upscaled sample space and/or a downscaled sample space. The apparatus may also perform a binning pass for the plurality of primitives, the binning pass being associated with an unscaled sample space, where the binning pass sorts each of the primitives into one or more bins associated with each of the one or more frames. Further, the apparatus may perform one of one or more rendering passes for each of the one or more bins. The apparatus may also rasterize each of the plurality of primitives based on at least one of the upscaled sample space or the downscaled sample space.
US11734781B2
A single-tier blockchain-based system and method for document transformation and accountability is provided. Transaction documents including document templates relating to a transfer of real property are maintained. Each template includes form elements. The form elements are each associated with a data field identifier and a data value. A data model is maintained for the transaction documents and includes the data field identifiers and the data values for the form elements. A request is received for the transaction documents. The form elements of the transaction documents are automatically populated with the data values via the data model in response to the request. Compliance checking is performed on the data values populating the form elements. A cryptographic hash of the transaction documents is committed to a blockchain copy stored by one or more network nodes in a single-tier when no errors are identified in the data values during the compliance checking.
US11734780B2
A system and a method are disclosed for optimally ranking and indexing accommodation listing information based on a set of constraints corresponding to a travel activity goal input on a client device. In an embodiment, an accommodation management system receives a travel activity goal input by a guest user on a client device with a corresponding set of constraints. Based on the constraints, the accommodation management system determines a set of geographic coordinates corresponding to the travel activity, and further identifies the set of candidate accommodation listings with accommodations within a threshold distance from the geographic coordinates. The accommodation management system filters and ranks the candidate accommodation listings based on the constraints, and sends a recommendation to the guest user for display on the client device which includes one or more of the ranked accommodation listings.
US11734779B2
Implementations of the disclosed subject matter may provide a method of retrieving a data record including historic utility bill statements of a customer, determining a historic energy usage rate of the customer based on the retrieved data record, and determining whether the customer is eligible to subscribe to a community solar energy generating system based on geographic location of the community solar energy generating system, the determined historic energy usage rate of the customer, and the customer's geographic location. The method may determine an allocation of energy produced by the community solar energy generating system when the eligible customer is enrolled in a subscription to the community solar energy generating system. The method may generate a customer data record for the user based on credits for the allocation of energy of the community solar energy generating system and receiving energy from another energy generating system.
US11734774B2
Systems and methods for crowdsourcing data collection for condition classification of bond entities are disclosed. An example system may include a crowdsourcing data collection circuit to collect information about entities involved in a set of bond transactions and a training data set of outcomes related to the entities. The example system may include a condition classifying circuit to classify a condition of a set of issuers using the information from the crowdsourcing data collection circuit and a model, where the model is trained using the training data set of outcomes related to the set of issuers. The example system may also include an automated agent circuit to perform an action related to a debt transaction in response to the classified condition of at least one issuer of the set of issuers.
US11734764B1
Various examples are directed to systems and methods for interfacing between a user and a computing device. The computing device may receive data describing a projected periodic savings amount and first expense data describing a first expense of the user. The first expense data may indicate an amount of the first expense and a first expense time when the first expense will be incurred. The computing device may display a graphical user interface at a display. The graphical user interface may comprise a savings shape having a size based at least in part on the projected periodic savings amount and a first expense shape having a size based at least in part on the first amount. The computing device may receive an instruction to place the first expense shape in the savings shape and may determine that the projected periodic savings amount is sufficient to fund the first expense at the first time. The computing device may display, at the graphical user interface, the first expense shape positioned within the savings shape.
US11734759B2
Various systems and methods are described herein for a risk check. The risk check bases a decision to allow a trading strategy to proceed on whether the order quantity for each leg of the trading strategy satisfies a certain condition. Particularly, when a trading strategy is initiated, the quantity for each of the orders to be submitted on behalf of the trading strategy, including the quantity of the initial order and any subsequent orders, is then compared to a corresponding risk value. If the order quantity for each of the orders is less than the corresponding risk value, then the trading strategy can proceed and the initial order can be sent on to the exchange. However, if the order quantity for any of the orders exceeds the risk value, then the initial order is not sent to the electronic exchange. Additionally, as described herein, quantity associated with the trading strategy is held or reserved for execution of the trading strategy regardless of the activity taken by the trader since the trading strategy was initiated. The reserved quantity can be drawn from the trading strategy until the quantity is depleted, the trading strategy has ended, or both, for example.
US11734753B2
The present invention is in the field of computer systems and processes for managing real and personal property. One aspect of the invention is directed to capturing history of a (real) property, which may include a description of the property, the personal property located on the real property, the projects and maintenance performed or to be performed on the property and their impact on the owner's tax basis in the property. Another aspect of invention allows for sharing of this history with an online community and for transferring the history (or portions thereof) on sale to a buyer.
US11734749B2
An online concierge system allows users to order items from a warehouse having multiple physical locations, allowing a user to order items at any given warehouse location. To select a warehouse location for a warehouse selected by a user, the online concierge system identifies a set of items that the user has a threshold likelihood of purchasing from prior orders by the user. For each of a set of warehouse locations, the online concierge system applies a machine-learned item availability model to each item of the identified set. From the availabilities of items of the set at each warehouse location of the set, the online concierge system selects a warehouse location. The online concierge system identifies an inventory of items from the selected warehouse location to the user for inclusion in an order.
US11734748B2
Embodiments are in the field of mobile applications and wireless processing, especially of commercial transactions, and more specifically for enhancing the user experience in restaurants even while enhancing the service delivery model efficiency of restaurants. Embodiments include a computer accessible medium for processing commercial transactions, to perform operations that comprise identifying wireless devices and determining their respective locations in a vendor service area, sending an interactive order menu to the identified wireless devices, receiving and displaying order data from the wireless devices, processing the received order data, and accepting a payment for a completed order.
US11734744B2
The present invention relates to an XR system and its control method, and more specifically, may be applied to 5G communication technology field, robot technology field, autonomous driving technology field and AI technology field. The XR system includes an XR device and a storage case that stores the XR device. The control method of the XR system includes recording and learning user experiences and providing a mate service to the user based on an image captured by a camera unit of the storage case and user information including the learned user experience.
US11734735B2
A system configured as an online marketplace with a high-speed, game-like method for determining which users obtain which products or services in the marketplace is disclosed. One implementation provides a mobile application where users swipe through a presentation of items (products, services, or money) that they can obtain. Users earn credits by giving items or money to other users. Then, they redeem these credits by getting items or money from other users. Thus, a given user alternates between being a “giver” and a “getter,” making pairs of asynchronous trades with two other users. In the selection process to choose an item to receive, users can choose any single item, but may only swipe unidirectionally, meaning that they cannot return and see or choose an item previously rejected. Aspects include a game engine and a set of rules and constraints to create a novel experience for transactional based experiences such as shopping and reservations.
US11734727B2
The embodiments disclose a method, including gathering marketing data using a digital launch platform with artificial intelligence for automatically analyzing marketing data gathered and automatically creating a marketing program for launching a new product, using application programming interface systems on the digital launch platform for interfacing across multiple social media platforms for reaching consumers regardless of their user digital device type and operating system, using at least one digital launch platform user interface for consumer/end user ordering and purchasing the new product, and delivering the new product order to the end user customer using secure delivery methods and devices electronically coupled to the digital launch platform including launch platform delivery lockers with delivery package label barcode scanning activated pass code key pads, drone captured video of home and office deliveries or mobile dispensary customer GPS location deliveries or mobile dispensary customer GPS location deliveries.
US11734722B2
A contact lens package includes a first package layer and a second package layer joined to the first package layer at an edge of the first package layer. The first package layer and the second package layer collectively define, at least in part, a cavity and a contact lens is disposed within the cavity. A visual trigger is depicted on either the first package layer or the second package layer, and the visual trigger is identifiable by a mobile device to be associated with an executable file.
US11734721B2
The present disclosure optimally determines a contact between a user and an advertisement. An advertisement contact determination system according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a communication unit configured to obtain position information of a device, and a control unit configured to determine that a user of the device has come into contact with an Out Of Home (OOH) advertisement if the OOH advertisement is included in a certain range in a traveling direction of the user based on the position information of the device. The communication unit obtains a log of a certain apparatus, and the control unit determines whether the device exists in vicinity of the certain apparatus in a certain period of time or not and, if the device exists, associates the log of the certain apparatus in the certain period of time with the device.
US11734719B2
The pull-type searching system provides an effective and efficient way to navigate deals and assist the user in identifying a deal for selection. The pull-type searching system further enables identification of one or more alternative deals to present to the user when no deals are identified for the selected search criteria. The pull-type searching system includes a method and apparatus. The method includes communicating ordered selectable search criteria, the search criteria including one or more categories, subcategories and deal types based on a user profile or available deals, or redemption goals. The method further includes receiving a selection from the search criteria and searching a deals database for results associated with the selection. Further, the method includes communicating the results associated with the selection, one or more alternative categories, or one or more alternative deals. A similar apparatus is provided.
US11734717B2
Provided are various mechanisms and processes for generating dynamic merchant similarity predictions. In one aspect, a system is configured for receiving historical datasets that include a series of merchants from historical browsing sessions generated by one or more users. The merchants are converted into corresponding vector representations for training a predictive model to output associated merchants based on a generated weighted vector space. Once sufficiently trained, data from a new browsing session may be received, which may include a target merchant. The target merchant is input into the predictive model as a vector to output one or more context merchants having vectors with the highest cosine similarity value to the target merchant vector. Selected context merchants may then be transmitted to the user device as targeted merchant suggestions in the new browsing session. The predictive models may be continuously trained using data received from subsequent browsing sessions.
US11734710B2
Methods and apparatus to identify a type of media presented by a media player are disclosed herein. Example instructions cause one or more processors to at least determine whether a user attempted to activate a user-selectable media application control presented in a user interface while a media player application presented media; determine whether the user-selectable media application control presented in the user interface was activated; and determine at least one of the media is an advertisement or the media includes an advertisement when (a) the user attempted to activate the user-selectable media application control and (b) the user-selectable media application control presented in the user interface was not activated.
US11734708B2
The present disclosure generally relates to the use of loyalty accounts, private label payment accounts, and general payment accounts using an electronic device with an electronic wallet. Various accounts are linked to the electronic device. In some examples, the electronic device is NFC-enabled. The electronic device may be used to provide loyalty account information and payment account information to a payment terminal, such as an NFC-enabled payment terminal.
US11734705B2
Various embodiments are generally directed to techniques utilizing computers to process service billing data, generate one or more groups of customers based on one or more attributes of the data, and train a recurrent neural network (RNN) to predict future bill amounts for customers. Embodiments further include techniques to predict the future bill amounts of the customers and providing an indication of the bill amounts to the customers.
US11734701B2
An approach is provided that transmit a first set survey questions to a user with each of the first set questions corresponding to a primary survey goal. Survey answers are then received from the user. A cognitive system is then used to determining an affinity level between the user and the primary survey goal. If the affinity level reaches a threshold, then a second set of questions is transmitted to the user with these questions also corresponding to the primary survey goal. However, if the first affinity level fails to reach the threshold, then the second set of questions are based on a secondary survey goal and these questions are transmitted to the user.
US11734700B2
This application relates to apparatus and methods for determining confidence levels in associated data using machine learning algorithms. In some examples, a computing device may generate training graph data where each training graph connects at least two nodes by an edge, and each node represents data. The computing device may train a machine learning algorithm based on the generated training data. The computing device may then receive linked data, which associates at least two nodes, each representing data, with each other. The computing device may generate graph data based on the linking data, to provide to the machine learning algorithm as input. The computing device may then execute the machine learning algorithm on the generated graph data to generate values for each of its edges. The values may identify, for each edge, a confidence level in the connection between the two nodes for that edge.
US11734698B2
A system and method for tiered pricing for any scarce commodity, such as petroleum products or food stuffs, may be used to ration the scarce commodity. The system and method may use a dual currency transaction system to manage the rationing. In the use case for gas or oil as the scarce commodity, the dual currency system and method and the tiered pricing may also reduce carbon emissions into the atmosphere by charging both a monetary price and a carbon price for a product or service wherein the carbon price for each purchasable item (good or service) may correspond to a number of Kg of Co2 emitted by the manufacture/sale/use of the purchasable item.
US11734693B2
Technologies for preprocessing transaction authorization records for clearing data batch file generation include a settlement processing server. The settlement processing server receives transaction authorization records corresponding to authorized transactions. The transaction authorization records are appended to an initial authorization stream. The initial authorization stream is closed and the transaction authorization records appended thereto are split into substreams. The settlement processing server preprocesses the transaction authorization records in each of the substreams. While the transaction authorization records appended to the substreams are preprocessed, the settlement processing server initializes another authorization stream and appends newly received transaction authorization records thereto. A clearing data batch file is generated based at least in part on the transaction authorization records appended to each of the substreams. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11734689B2
Various methods, apparatuses, and media for approving a first transaction related to identification information of an individual are provided. A second transaction to provide approval of the first transaction is received after the first transaction is authenticated. Secondary identification information of the individual is obtained in response to the second transaction being received, and an electronic device is identified based on the secondary identification information. A predetermined process for approving the first transaction is determined. Communication is initiated with the electronic device according to the predetermined process. The approval is provided in response to the predetermined process being completed, with the approval approving execution of the first transaction related to the identification information.
US11734686B2
Methods and systems for using block chain technology to verify transaction data are described herein. A computing platform may receive data about events related to transactions, personal or corporate information, supply chains, and other relevant information about a person or corporate entity. The event information may be received, aggregated, and processed to determine metadata about the person or corporate entity. The metadata may indicate, for example, a trustworthiness of the person or corporate entity for various purposes. Such event information and/or metadata may be stored as transactions in a block chain that may be accessible by counterparties to a potential transaction involving the person or corporate entity. The automated event processing computing platform may further use automated techniques to implement smart transactions between the person/entity and counterparty based on the trust metadata.
US11734678B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to authenticate a user with a mobile device. In one embodiment, a computing device includes a short-range radio and a secure element. The computing device reads, via the short-range radio, a portion of credential information stored in a circuit embedded in an identification document issued by an authority to a user for establishing an identity of the user. The computing device issues, to the authority, a request to store the credential information, the request specifying the portion of the credential information. In response to an approval of the request, the computing device stores the credential information in the secure element, the credential information being usable to establish the identity of the user. In some embodiments, the identification document is a passport that includes a radio-frequency identification (RFID) circuit storing the credential information, and the request specifies a passport number read from the RFID circuit.
US11734676B2
Systems, methods, and articles of manufacture to securely share data stored in a blockchain. A contactless card may receive a request to provide a data element from a device. An applet of the contactless card may encrypt the data element and a wallet address. The applet may generate a signature for the request, and transmit, to a mobile device, the signature and the encrypted data. The mobile device may transmit, to a verification service, the signature and encrypted data. The verification service may verify the signature based on a public key. A node in a blockchain may generate a block in the blockchain, the block comprising indications of the verification of the signature, the requested data element, and the wallet address. An encrypted data element corresponding to the data element may be decrypted using a public key. The device may receive the decrypted data element from the wallet address.
US11734674B2
Systems and methods are provided for receiving an encrypted payment payload from a digital wallet host, transmitting a low value token to a merchant, receiving an authorization request, requesting authorization for the transaction from an issuer financial institution using financial data from the encrypted payment payload, receiving an authorization decision from the issuer financial institution, and transmitting an authorization response to the merchant.
US11734673B2
There are provided systems and methods for a physical card having one or more location detection modules A physical payment card may include one or more components to limit card reading of card data stored to the card using a location detection chip. The location detection chip may receive power from a source when inserted to a card reader, and may then determine a location of the card, such as a coordinate location of the card or nearby detected device. The location detection chip may determine if this location or device matches authorized locations stored in a memory of the card. If it does, power may be provided to a card chip of the card. The card chip of the card reads card data from a memory of the card and may then output the card data to the card reader.
US11734672B2
A system and method is provided for generating a sensory indication on a transaction card, whereby a user is rewarded with a visual, audial, haptic, or olfactory experience. The method comprises executing a purchase transaction on the card, the transaction relating to an event, charging a power source on the card, receiving an input signal by the card, the signal indicating an output indication relevant to the event, and generating an output signal using power from the power source, based on the input signal. The card comprises a security component enabling a purchase relating to an event, a power source receiving charging energy at the time of the purchase, an input component receiving an input signal comprising information specifying a desired indication relevant to the event, an output component for generating the desired indication, one or more memories storing instructions and one or more processors executing the instructions to perform the method.
US11734670B2
A radio frequency identification (RFID) switch tag is disclosed. This RFID switch tag includes a base component having an ultra-high frequency (UHF) booster, and a detachable component having at least one UHF RFID module and a high frequency (HF) RFID module. In some embodiments, the detachable component is positioned in close proximity to the base component in a first configuration of the RFID switch tag such that the at least one UHF RFID module is sufficiently coupled to the UHF booster in the base component to form an UHF RFID system having a desired performance. The detachable component can also be separated from the base component to obtain a second configuration of the RFID switch tag, and the HF RFID module remains functional within the detached detachable component so that the detachable component can be used as a standalone HF RFID tag.
US11734663B2
A product sales data processing system includes: a sensor attached to a bulk food container of a product; and a weighing apparatus. The sensor includes: a sensor module that detects displacement of the sensor; a memory that stores a sensor ID that identifies the sensor; and a transmitter that transmits the sensor ID stored in the memory when the sensor module detects a predetermined displacement value. The weighing apparatus includes: a receiver that receives the sensor ID transmitted from the sensor; and a display that displays product information associated with the sensor ID.
US11734662B2
A method and system for conducting an online payment transaction through a point of sale device. The method includes receiving input from a user selecting an item for purchase through the point of sale device; calculating a total purchase amount for the item in response to a request from the user to purchase the item; and sending payment authorization for the total purchase amount from the point of sale device to a payment entity, in which the payment authorization is sent to the payment entity via a mobile communication device of the user. The method further includes receiving a result of the payment authorization from the payment entity through the mobile communication device; and completing the payment transaction based on the result of the payment authorization.
US11734656B1
A distributed device rating system includes a device that is configured to send, to a central authority system, a query to identify at least one other device with which to perform a transaction, where the query specifies one or more criteria associated with the transaction, receive, from the central authority system, an identification of one or more candidate devices with which to perform the transaction, receive rating information associated with the one or more candidate devices, where the rating information identifies at least one characteristic of services previously performed by the one or more candidate devices, determine whether the rating information associated with at least one candidate device of the one or more candidate devices satisfies a rating threshold, and, responsive to determining that the rating information satisfies the rating threshold, initiate, with the at least one candidate device, performance of the transaction.
US11734649B1
Systems, methods and/or computer program products for automating evaluations of code deliveries for software projects. Automated evaluations are generated by selecting software projects and dividing a project into a plurality of code blocks by analyzing the code, build file and build log. Attributes of code blocks are extracted and correlations between code blocks are calculated. Dynamic distance between code blocks is calculated by the correlation and code delivery history, to create a Dynamic General Distance Map and Dynamic User Distance Map for the code blocks. Code delivery distance indicating the code delivery behavior is generated by the Dynamic User Distance Map while the delivery assessment criteria is generated to evaluate code delivery and assess levels of risk associated with delivery of the code. High-level risk indicates that a code delivery may not follow best practices and users are alerted to pay more attention to the code delivery during review.
US11734646B2
Robots and/or a robot coordinator are provided to execute an overall task by partitioning the task into subtasks and by coalescing results and/or output of the subtasks. The robot coordinator may coordinate, control, and/or program a set of robots to operate within different sections of a site and to execute subtasks associated with different tasks that fall within their respective sections in parallel. The robot coordinator may coordinate, control, and/or program the same or different set of robots to coalesce results and/or output for subtasks for a particular task from the different sections to complete the overall task. For instance, a first set of robots may retrieve objects that are stored at storage locations within the sections in which each robot operates, and a second set of robots may rotate moveable storage apparatus across the sections so that each storage apparatus stores all objects of a particular order.
US11734637B2
A management system using behavior pattern recognition according to the present disclosure includes a user-behavior measurement unit configured to continuously detect a behavior of a user; a system server connected to the user-behavior measurement unit and configured to analyze and pattern the behavior of the user; and a manager terminal configured to receive and monitor behavior pattern information of the user generated by the system server, where the user is a worker, and the user-behavior measurement unit receives the behavior of the user from a sensor or a user terminal.
US11734633B2
A research, analysis, regulatory compliance and media platform that connects customers to finished research and analysis produced by subject matter experts is described. The platform facilitates research, investigations, and analysis by creating a single environment in which a group of distributed analysts conduct research and investigations, store and retrieve documents and other sources, collaborate, and publish findings. Consumers are able to query a published knowledge graph, surface high value relationships, and access insights captured by analyst through a customer web portal or external production environment. The platform allows analysts and customers to research and map the commercial, financial, and facilitation networks of sanctioned or other actors that may be associated with illicit activity. Customers can access visual graphs depicting relationships between sanctioned and non-sanctioned actors in order to evaluate their possible exposure to financial crime or sanctions-related risks.
US11734632B2
A research, analysis, regulatory compliance and media platform that connects customers to finished research and analysis produced by subject matter experts is described. The platform facilitates research, investigations, and analysis by creating a single environment in which a group of distributed analysts conduct research and investigations, store and retrieve documents and other sources, collaborate, and publish findings. Consumers are able to query a published knowledge graph, surface high value relationships, and access insights captured by analyst through a customer web portal or external production environment. The platform allows analysts and customers to research and map the commercial, financial, and facilitation networks of sanctioned or other actors that may be associated with illicit activity. Customers can access visual graphs depicting relationships between sanctioned and non-sanctioned actors in order to evaluate their possible exposure to financial crime or sanctions-related risks.
US11734631B2
An activity thread is displayed with display elements that represent different activities that correspond to a common identifier. The display includes filter user input mechanisms that are actuated to filter the display elements based on filter criteria.
US11734629B2
A medical scan system is operable to receive a set of labeling data corresponding to a set of medical scans from each of a set of client devices corresponding to a set of users. The set of medical scans and each set of labeling data is transmitted to an expert client device associated with an expert user, and a set of golden labeling data and a plurality of sets of correction data are received from the expert client device. A set of performance score data is generated based on the plurality of sets of correction data, and each performance score data of the set of performance score data is assigned to a corresponding one of the set of users. An updated training set that includes the set of golden labeling data is generated, and a medical scan analysis function is retrained based on the updated training set.
US11734625B2
Systems and methods for units of work based on business objectives are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: manage environment state information maintaining a collaboration environment configured to facilitate interaction by users, the environment state information defining units of work and business objectives associated with the units of work; obtain progress information, the progress information for individual business objectives conveying progress toward fulfillment of the individual business objectives; update objective records for the business objectives based on the progress information so that the progress of the business objectives is maintained by the objective records; and/or perform other operations.
US11734623B2
In an embodiment, a fleet scheduler includes a processor; and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program to be executed by the processor, the program including instructions for: gathering data representing real-world conditions; generating and maintaining predictive models based on the gathered data; and generating a master schedule for a plurality of vehicles based on the gathered data and the predictive models.
US11734622B2
A method, apparatus and device for determining production capacity boundaries are provided. In the method, related data for producing a run size of elements by a production device lot by lot is acquired and time intervals between production ending time points of adjacent lots are determined according to the related data; the determined time intervals are sorted to obtain a time interval sequence; distribution features of time intervals at two boundaries are parsed respectively to determine whether a data removing condition is satisfied; if Yes, an outlier is determined according to a mean value of the present time interval sequence, the time interval of the extraction step length where the outlier is located is removed, and whether the data removing condition is satisfied is determined; and if No, production capacity boundaries are determined according to minimum and maximum time intervals of the present time interval sequence and the run size.
US11734616B2
A method for reserving access to a shared space through use of a blockchain and smart contracts includes: storing a blockchain including a plurality of blocks, each block including a block header and one or more blockchain data values, wherein one of the one or more blockchain data values included in one of the plurality of blocks includes a smart contract including at least an identifier and one or more terms; receiving a reservation request, wherein the reservation request includes at least the identifier, a reservation time, a public key of a cryptographic key pair, and a digital signature generated using the private key of the cryptographic key pair; validating the digital signature using the public key; executing the smart contract using the public key and the reservation time; and transmitting one or more data values to an internet-enabled device as part of the execution of the smart contract.
US11734610B2
At least some embodiments are directed to an exemplary computer-based electronic activity tracking system that detects activity patterns receiving data values that represent at least one electronic activity. The exemplary electronic activity tracking system includes a detector of unsecure electronic activities that identifies electronic activity patterns performed by a user or non-person entity. The detector of unsecure electronic activities utilizes unsupervised machine learning techniques to detect the electronic activity patterns. The detected electronic activity patterns correspond to unsecure or malicious electronic activities. The electronic activity tracking system outputs notifications indicative of identified unsecure or malicious activity patterns and identifies entities associated with such unsecure or malicious activity patterns. The exemplary electronic activity tracking system implements a graphical user interface operated from a client computing device. The graphical user interface enables a user of the client computing device to perform actions upon the detection of the unsecure or malicious activity patterns.
US11734594B1
A computer monitors a state of a system. A time branch is defined for each valid value of each discrete variable. A system model is executed with observed values to update each time branch and determine a probability associated with each time branch. A discrete variable is selected, and a sequence duration value is incremented. When the incremented sequence duration value is greater than a predefined minimum sequence duration value, a probability change value is computed for the discrete variable, and, when the computed probability change value is less than or equal to a synchronization probability change value, a continuous value for each continuous variable for each time branch of the discrete variable is synchronized, and the sequence duration value for the selected discrete variable is reinitialized. The continuous value for at least one non-observed continuous variable is output.
US11734593B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable medium are provided for healthcare analysis. Data corresponding to a plurality of patients is received. The data is parsed to generate normalized data for a plurality of variables, with normalized data generated for more than one variable for each patient. A causal relationship network model is generated relating the plurality of variables based on the generated normalized data using a Bayesian network algorithm. The causal relationship network model includes variables related to a plurality of medical conditions or medical drugs. In another aspect, a selection of a medical condition or drug is received. A sub-network is determined from a causal relationship network model. The sub-network includes one or more variables associated with the selected medical condition or drug. One or more predictors for the selected medical condition or drug are identified.
US11734585B2
A post-processing method, system, and computer program product for post-hoc improvement of instance-level and group-level prediction metrics, including training a bias detector that learns to detect a sample that has an individual bias greater than a predetermined individual bias threshold value with constraints on a group bias, applying the bias detector on a run-time sample to select a biased sample in the run-time sample having a bias greater than the predetermined individual bias threshold bias value, and suggesting a de-biased prediction for the biased sample.
US11734580B2
This disclosure relates generally to methods and systems for building an intelligent analytical platform to enable a device fabrication in material science. Material engineers and design engineers may face various challenges with existing knowledge, as more time and efforts are required in finding a relevant knowledge from the existing knowledge, mainly due to the unstructured form, for fabricating new devices. The present disclosure solves the technical problem of finding the relevant knowledge out of the existing knowledge, in a structured form by building an analytical platform. The unstructured format of the existing knowledge of the fabrication process is transformed into a structured format in terms of operation sequence knowledge graphs, using a set of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning models, and a knowledge representation model of the fabrication process. The structured format of the existing knowledge is hierarchically arranged to build the analytical platform.
US11734578B2
IoT Big Data information management and control systems and methods for distributed performance monitoring and critical network fault detection comprising a combination of capabilities including: IoT data collection sensor stations receiving sensor input signals and also connected to monitor units providing communication with other monitor units and/or cloud computing resources via IoT telecommunication links, and wherein a first data collection sensor station has expert predesignated other network elements comprising other data collection sensor stations, monitor units, and/or telecommunications equipment for performance and/or fault monitoring based on criticality to said first data collection sensor station operations, thereby extending monitoring and control operations to include distributed interdependent or critical operations being monitored and analyzed throughout the IoT network, and wherein performance and/or fault monitoring signals received by said first data collection sensor station are analyzed with artificial intelligence, hierarchical expert system algorithms for generation of warning and control signals.
US11734568B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for modification (e.g., pruning, compression, quantization, etc.) of artificial neural networks based on estimations of the utility of network connections (also known as “edges”). In particular, the present disclosure provides novel techniques for estimating the utility of one or more edges of a neural network in a fashion that requires far less expenditure of resources than calculation of the actual utility. Based on these estimated edge utilities, a computing system can make intelligent decisions regarding network pruning, network quantization, or other modifications to a neural network. In particular, these modifications can reduce resource requirements associated with the neural network. By making these decisions with knowledge of and based on the utility of various edges, this reduction in resource requirements can be achieved with only a minimal, if any, degradation of network performance (e.g., prediction accuracy).
US11734563B2
A system and method for taillight signal recognition using a convolutional neural network is disclosed. An example embodiment includes: receiving a plurality of image frames from one or more image-generating devices of an autonomous vehicle; using a single-frame taillight illumination status annotation dataset and a single-frame taillight mask dataset to recognize a taillight illumination status of a proximate vehicle identified in an image frame of the plurality of image frames, the single-frame taillight illumination status annotation dataset including one or more taillight illumination status conditions of a right or left vehicle taillight signal, the single-frame taillight mask dataset including annotations to isolate a taillight region of a vehicle; and using a multi-frame taillight illumination status dataset to recognize a taillight illumination status of the proximate vehicle in multiple image frames of the plurality of image frames, the multiple image frames being in temporal succession.
US11734559B2
To provide automated categorization of structured textual content individual nodes of textual content, from a document object model encapsulation of the structured textual content, have a multidimensional vector associated with them, where the values of the various dimensions of the multidimensional vector are based on the textual content in the corresponding node, the visual features applied or associated with the textual content of the corresponding node, and positional information of the textual content of the corresponding node. The multidimensional vectors are input to a neighbor-imbuing neural network. The enhanced multidimensional vectors output by the neighbor-imbuing neural network are then be provided to a categorization neural network. The resulting output can be in the form of multidimensional vectors whose dimensionality is proportional to categories into which the structured textual content is to be categorized. A weighted merge takes into account multiple nodes that are grouped together.
US11734558B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to improving machine learning classification using both labeled and unlabeled data, including electronic transactions. A computing system may train a machine learning module using a first set of transactions (of any classifiable data) with label information that indicates designated classifications for those transactions and a second set of transactions without label information. This can allow for improved classification error rates, particularly when additional labeled data may not be present (e.g., if a transaction was disallowed, it may not be later labeled as fraudulent or not). The training process may include generating first error data based on classification results for the first set of transactions, generating second error data based on reconstruction results for both the first and second sets of transactions, and updating the machine learning module based on the first and second error data.
US11734557B2
A first image can be processed through a neural network. The first image can cause each first hidden node to assume a first state. A second image can be accessed along with a region-of-interest (ROI) for the second image. At least some of the first hidden nodes can be frozen based on the ROI. At least some of the first hidden nodes can be kept fluid based on the ROI. The second image can be processed through the neural network. The fluid first hidden nodes can assume second states. The frozen first hidden nodes can remain in the first state.
US11734556B2
An optoelectronic computing system includes a first semiconductor die having a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) and a second semiconductor die having an electronic integrated circuit (EIC). The PIC includes optical waveguides, in which input values are encoded on respective optical signals carried by the optical waveguides. The PIC includes an optical copying distribution network having optical splitters. The PIC includes an array of optoelectronic circuitry sections, each receiving an optical wave from one of the output ports of the optical copying distribution network, and each optoelectronic circuitry section includes: at least one photodetector detecting at least one optical wave from the optoelectronic operation. The EIC includes electrical input ports receiving respective electrical values. The first semiconductor die and the second semiconductor die are electrically coupled in a controlled collapse chip connection, with the electrical output port of the PIC connected to one of the electrical input ports of the EIC.
US11734551B2
A data storage method for speech-related deep neural network (DNN) operations, characterized by comprising the following steps: 1. determining the configuration parameters by a user; 2. configuring a peripheral storage access interface; 3. configuring a multi-transmitting interface of feature storage array; 4. enabling CPU to store to-be-calculated data in a storage space between the feature storage space start address and the feature storage space end address of the peripheral storage device; 5. after data storage, enabling CPU to check the state of the peripheral storage access interface and the multi-transmitting interface of feature storage array; 6. upon receiving a transportation completion signal of the peripheral storage access interface by CPU, enabling the multi-transmitting interface of feature storage array. 7. upon receiving a transportation completion signal of the multi-transmitting interface of feature storage array by CPU, repeating step 6.
US11734548B2
The present disclosure provides an integrated circuit chip device and a related product. The integrated circuit chip device includes: a primary processing circuit and a plurality of basic processing circuits. The primary processing circuit or at least one of the plurality of basic processing circuits includes the compression mapping circuits configured to perform compression on each data of a neural network operation. The technical solution provided by the present disclosure has the advantages of a small amount of computations and low power consumption.
US11734539B2
An environmental exposure indicator includes a substrate and an environmental exposure indicator (“EEI”) material provided on the substrate that is configured to change an optical property between a creation state and an end state. The environmental exposure indicator material has a deployment state, between the creation state and the end state, at a deployment time. The environmental exposure indicator also includes calibration data based on the deployment state.
US11734537B1
A system is disclosed. The system includes at least one physical memory device to store compensation logic and one or more processors coupled with the at least one physical memory device to execute the compensation logic to generate inverse transfer functions for each of a plurality of color planes to compensate for overlapping pel forming elements of adjacent printheads based on ink deposition functions for groups of pel forming elements including non-overlapping pel forming elements and the overlapping pel forming elements, wherein the inverse transfer functions transform output digital counts and the ink deposition functions represent output ink amount versus input digital count and generate compensated halftones for each of a plurality of color planes based on the inverse transfer functions.
US11734533B1
Apparatus and methods provide an end-to-end system for claiming and sharing non-fungible tokens (“NFTs”). A machine-readable code (“MRC”) may be scanned and validated. Validating the MRC may ensure that instructions encoded in the MRC do not include malware. Validating the MRC may include validating a digital signature encoded in the scanned MRC. Validating the MRC may include locating a record stored on a distributed ledger that corresponds to the scanned MRC. After validating the instructions, processing the encoded instructions may trigger distribution of an NFT to the scanning device. The distributed NFT may be visualized on a webpage or used to gain access to a restricted venue.
US11734515B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for announcing and detecting automated conversation are disclosed. One of the methods includes initiating, over a natural language communication channel, a conversation with a communication participant using a natural language communication method that includes a dialogue of natural language communications. The communication participant is determined to be automated using a pre-defined adaptive interactive protocol that specifies natural language linguistic transformations defined in a sequence. The conversation can be transitioned to a communication method that is different form the natural language communication method in response to determining that the communication participant is automated.
US11734514B1
Documents in source natural languages are translated into target natural languages using a computer-implemented translation that is configured to operate within the domain of the subject matter of the documents that imposes specialized requirements for translation and readability. Subject matter specific documents typically include domain-specific terminology, are subject to various regulatory guidelines, and have different readability requirements depending on the intended reader. The computer-implemented translation applies machine-learning techniques that deconstruct elements of the subject matter specific document into a standard data structure and perform pre-processing steps to tokenize digitized document text to identify the correct sentence structure and syntax for the target natural language to optimize translation by, e.g., a neural machine translation engine. The text segments that are input into the neural machine translation engine are generated to be semantically meaningful in the target natural language to thereby enhance the understanding of the neural machine translation engine.
US11734508B2
Provided is a method and system for expanding to an everyday language using a word vectorization technique based on social network content. A content providing method includes collecting social network content on the Internet; expanding corresponding content information to a word set of words included in the social network content with respect to target content that is to be serviced to a client; and providing the target content to the client with respect to user information associated with the client using the word set.
US11734505B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for document branching. In some embodiments, the method includes the steps of: obtaining a branch model associated with a set of related documents, the branch model comprising one or more branches, each branch of the one or more branches comprising a branch type and one or more nodes, the one or more branches comprising a primary branch associated with a primary document, the set of related documents comprising the primary document having a first document identifier; generating a secondary branch based upon a revision of the primary document, the secondary branch associated with a secondary document of the set of related documents, the secondary document having a second document identifier; and adding the secondary branch to the branch model.
US11734497B2
A document authoring platform receives a user-selected idea type attribute of a structured document template. The platform identifies a supporting idea type attribute based on the user-selected idea type attribute and taxonomy rules for the structured document template. The platform receives a user-selected supporting idea type attribute and content of the user-selected supporting idea type attribute. The platform forms a tree structure of the structured document template based on the user-selected idea type attribute, the user-selected supporting idea type attribute, and the content of the user-selected supporting idea type attribute. A document is generated based on the tree structure.
US11734495B2
Systems and methods for integrating application components in a web application are disclosed. The method includes: executing the web application, the web application configured to display a web page element; receiving, by a library component of the web application, a request from the web application to retrieve a list of one or more application component definitions loadable by the web application; retrieving, by the library component, the list of one or more application component definitions from a manifest; receiving a request to load an application component of the one or more application components; binding, by the library component, attributes and events for each of the one or more application components from the web application; appending the application component into the web page element; and rendering the application component and the web page element using the web browser so that the application component is displayed in the web browser.
US11734483B2
A method of driving design on gate electrodes includes steps of: determining position information of a gate-on-array (GOA) device in an available drawing space according to a size design information and a resolution design information of a display panel, based on user configuration; determining target GOA design strategy information used for a current gate electrode driving design among a plurality of preset GOA design strategies; and drawing a GOA device pattern in the available drawing space of the GOA device, based on the target GOA design strategy information.
US11734478B2
A molecular dynamics system employing a spliced soft-core potential (the “MD/SSCP”) facilitates studying the arrangement of particles in an enclosure and/or near an interface. In some embodiments, the MD/SSCP initializes a three-dimensional representation containing the enclosure and the particles in a first arrangement. The MD/SSCP conducts a first simulation to transition the representation to a second arrangement, during which the particles are allowed to move through a wall of the enclosure while the SSCP is unengaged. The MD/SSCP conducts a second simulation to transition the representation to a third arrangement, during which it becomes more difficult for the particles to move through the wall of the enclosure while the SSCP is gradually engaged. The MD/SSCP conducts a third simulation to transition the representation to a fourth arrangement of the particles, during which it becomes almost impossible for the particles to move through the wall of the enclosure.
US11734477B2
A modular and scalable system configured to generate a topology platform for training, entertainment, gaming, living, working, acting, viewing, etc. The platform can have a plurality of movable columns that are extendable and retractable. In some embodiments, some of the columns can be retracted to allow users to walk on the columns while other columns can be extended to form a barrier (e.g., wall) or form an inanimate object (e.g., table). The system may be used in furniture to provide topologies for highly customized support structure designs to accommodate varying body shapes, sizes, and individual comfort levels. The system may be used to generate topologies for greenscreen film stages to provide post-production editing, compositing with actors, stuntmen, and video, etc. The platform can be configurable and re-configurable to change the objects and features of the topology and represent different or dynamic environments at any time.
US11734469B2
A method for generating an online landscape design for a property includes first entering an address for a property and then importing satellite view data of the property and a street where the property is located from global mapping databases. Next, calculating property size, topography and house size from the satellite view data using a calculator engine. Next, performing scene segmentations and analyzing existing conditions via a landscape design engine, then applying custom vision classifiers for specific landscape elements via the landscape design engine, and then analyzing foliage conditions from the satellite view data. Next, determining property landscape improvements via a scoring engine and then determining materials lists, and calculating quantities, and costs for fulfilling the property landscape improvements via the calculator engine. Next, entering user preferences for the property landscape improvements via a user interface (UI) and then generating an improved landscape design for the property based on the user's preferences and the results of the scoring engine using the landscape design engine.
US11734465B2
A method for designing a part member of a custom-made furniture includes: producing a rectangular parallelepiped part member in a rectangular parallelepiped space; setting a XY coordinate system on six faces of the rectangular parallelepiped space using a corner of a rectangle of each face as an origin and two sides of a rectangle of each face as X axis and Y axis; setting one or more predetermined rules for determining positions of one or more machinings based on lengths p and q from a corner of the rectangle and designating a XY coordinate positions of the one or more machinings as a function of p and q; altering the dimensions of the rectangular parallelepiped space of the part member; calculating the positions of the machinings after the dimensions of the rectangular space are altered in accordance with the predetermined rules; and outputting the machining specification.
US11734464B2
A secure access kiosk includes a plurality of walls interconnected to form an interior area within the secure access kiosk, a soundproofing element fixed at each wall of the plurality of walls, an electromagnetic shielding element fixed at each wall of the plurality of walls, and an information processing system security container within the interior area of the secure access kiosk. The information processing system security container houses at least one of a thin client or an ultra-thin client, and the thin client or the ultra-thin client is configured to provide a software interface and to prevent data storage or encryption to be stored at the thin client or ultra-thin client. The thin client or the ultra-thin client can include an integrated classified network interface within the interior area of the secure access kiosk.
US11734459B2
Physical Unclonable Functions, PUFs, are hardware devices designed to generate a number that is random (i.e., two identical PUFs should produce randomly different numbers from each other) and persistent (i.e., a PUF should consistently generate the same number over time). Over time, aspects of the PUF hardware may change or drift, which may ultimately cause the generated number to change, and therefore no longer be persistent. Failure to generate a persistent number may cause difficulties for other devices that rely on the persistence of the number generated by the PUF, for example as part of a cryptographic process. The present disclosure relates to monitoring over time the physical characteristics of the PUF that are used to generate its number, and thereby keep track of its reliability to generate a random number that is persistent. By monitoring PUFs in this way, it may be possible to detect in advance a PUF that is at risk of generating a number that is no longer persistent, so that pre-emptive action may be taken before the PUF actually fails.
US11734457B2
A processor that was manufactured by a manufacturer comprises privileged debug operational circuitry, a debug restriction fuse, a credential store, a credential of the manufacturer in the credential store, and debug control circuitry. The debug restriction fuse is a one-time programmable fuse. The debug control circuitry is to automatically restrict access to the privileged debug operational circuitry, based on the debug restriction fuse. The processor may also include public debug operational circuitry, a prevent-unauthorized-debug (PUD) fuse, and an undo-PUD fuse. When the PUD fuse is set and the undo-PUD fuse is clear, the debug control circuitry may respond to an attempt by a debugger to use the public debug operational circuitry by determining whether the debugger is authorized, disallowing access if the debugger is not authorized, and allowing access if the debugger is authorized. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11734456B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for authenticating photographic data. In one embodiment, a method comprises providing an image authentication application for use on a client device, the application configured to control image capture and transmission; receiving an image data file from the application at the authentication server comprising a photographic image captured by the application and metadata associated therewith; applying a watermark to the photographic image to create a watermarked image; applying date and time information to the tagged image; applying location information to the tagged image; creating a web address associated with the image data file; uploading the photographic image, the tagged image, or both to the web address; and transmitting an authenticated image file to the client device, the authenticated image file comprising one or more of: the watermarked image, the photographic image, the date and time information, geographic information, and the web address.
US11734450B1
A system and method are provided implementing user searching. The method includes receiving information from a potential user by an onboarding system including one or more attributes for attaching the user to one or more communities with similar attributes, and receiving one or more search terms from the user by a search system. A processor then performs a search based upon the received search terms and the one or more communities to which the user is attached, and a response to the search is displayed to the user on a display. A user preference to the presented response is confirmed by a preference system, and one or more communities to which the user is attached are dynamically updated, along with updating the attributes of the communities to which the user is attached in response to the user preference.
US11734446B2
A method for causing sending and receiving of an encrypted file between a sending user terminal and a receiving user terminal connected via a network to be performed in a secret state via a management server is provided. The sending user terminal encrypts an original file and then fragments the original file into a plurality of divided files, creates a plurality of combined files formed by combining a plurality of the divided files, and distributes and saves the combined files to which restoration information for opening the combines files has been added in a plurality of online storages. The receiving user terminal can open the combined files obtained from the online storages by using the restoration information received from the management server to extract the divided files included in the combined files, and can restore the original file from the divided files.
US11734438B2
An indication is received to initiate a resource discovery process of a client system. The client system includes resources to be discovered and the resource discovery process is associated with a script. A connection is made from a management server to the client system with a first level of security privileges of the client system. The client system is provided with an encapsulation program for an execution of the script. The encapsulation program is configured to determine ownership information of the script. The encapsulation program is also configured to cause the execution of the script on the client system with modified security privileges corresponding to the ownership information of the script rather than the first level of security privileges of the client system.
US11734437B2
A secure data parser is provided that may be integrated into any suitable system for securely storing and communicating data. The secure data parser parses data and then splits the data into multiple portions that are stored or communicated distinctly. Encryption of the original data, the portions of data, or both may be employed for additional security. The secure data parser may be used to protect data in motion by splitting original data into portions of data, that may be communicated using multiple communications paths.
US11734417B2
An image capture system and methods for auto-recording media data are herein disclosed. A method includes selecting an activity-specific monitor based on an activity type. The activity-specific monitor defines one or more auto-recording conditions that, when satisfied, cause the image capture system to record data. The auto-recording conditions are based on an audio profile, a video profile, a motion profile, or any combination thereof. The auto-recording conditions include one or more scene descriptions that correspond to the activity type.
US11734415B2
An embodiment integrated circuit comprises a first memory zone having a first level of access rights that is configured to store at least one first software application containing encrypted instructions, means for verifying the integrity of the first software application, an encryption/decryption means, for example a first logic circuit, that is configured to decrypt the encrypted instructions which are considered to exhibit integrity, a processing unit that is configured to execute the decrypted instructions, the first logic circuit being further configured to encrypt the data generated by the execution operation and a second means, for example a second logic circuit, that is configured to store the encrypted data in a second memory zone having a second level of access rights that is identical to the first level of access rights.
US11734413B2
An information processing device includes: an operation processor; a storage in which an initial password being an initial setting of an administrator password is prestored; a logger that logs details of operations inputted using the operation processor, in the storage as operation history information; a password entry monitor that confirms whether or not the administrator password has been entered; a password changer that changes, upon a confirmation that a password differing from the initial password has been entered, the administrator password and stores the entered password as a new administrator password; and a log presenter that presents the operation history information when the administrator password has been changed.
US11734410B2
The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for automatically controlling access and limiting functionality of a computer workstation based on which user is currently logged in. In some implementations, an overwatch application is installed on the workstations to be controlled and monitored. If an authorized, but limited, user logs in, the overwatch application can initiate a lockdown process on the workstation. In some instances, the lockdown process is managed by a dedicated lockdown application, which is initiated or notified from the overwatch application, and which can initiate a lockdown of particular applications, functionality, and allowed interactions on the workstation until the limited user has completed their task and a new user logs in.
US11734409B2
Examples of determining electronic component authenticity via electronic signal signature measurement are discussed. Reference pin identifiers corresponding to pins of a known authentic electronic component are determined. Measurement values corresponding to characteristics of pins of an electronic component are obtained, and pin identifiers based on the measurement values are generated. Accordingly, an indication that the electronic component is authentic can be provided based at least in part on a comparison of the pin identifiers and the reference pin identifiers.
US11734403B2
An electronic device and an operating method thereof are intended to perform biometric authentication based on a vibration signal, and may be configured to output at least one vibration signal to at least one touched object, receive at least one response signal for the vibration signal from the object, and perform biometric authentication on the object based on at least one of the vibration signal or the response signal. According to various embodiments, biometric authentication can be performed on the object based on a frequency response function calculated based on the vibration signal and the response signal or time-series data of the detected response signal in a time region.
US11734398B2
Systems and methods are provided for establishing personal connections in a network following secure verification of interested parties. The disclosed embodiments may involve a system comprising a memory and a processor. The disclosed embodiments may require unique sets of identification parameters of each user in order to ensure a user has been properly verified prior to use of the system.
US11734397B2
A method, computer system, and a computer program product for image protection are provided. A first device includes a computer and a first camera. The first device identifies a picture that has a hallmark. The first device transmits a message requesting authorization to have a copy of the picture. The message contains data representative of the hallmark. The first device receives a response message. The first device determines whether the response message authorizes capture of a copy of the picture.
US11734395B2
A system and method for providing a secure and auditable means for exchanging files related to 3D objects intended for replication is provided. A secure system and method to facilitate the acquisition of files (such as 3D design files) that can involve intellectual property rights management, standard of quality assurance for 3D printed objects, warranty protection for the printed object, and audit and report tools for the results of a 3D replication.
US11734386B2
A matrix processing method performed by a graphics processing unit (GPU) includes: determining a plurality of non-zero elements in a to-be-processed matrix at a processor in the GPU; generating a distribution matrix of the to-be-processed matrix at the processor, where the distribution matrix comprises identities for indicating positions of the plurality of non-zero elements in the to-be-processed matrix; obtaining a target matrix from another matrix by using the distribution matrix at a logic circuit in the processor, where the target matrix comprises a plurality of target elements from the another matrix; and performing matrix processing on the plurality of non-zero elements and the target matrix to obtain an operation result at the processor.
US11734385B2
A method for in memory computation of a neural network, the neural network having weights arranged in a matrix, includes previously storing the matrix in an associated memory device, receiving an input arranged in a vector and storing it in the memory device, and in-memory, computing an output of the network using the input and the weights.
US11734383B2
A computing device and related products are provided. The computing device is configured to perform machine learning calculations. The computing device includes an operation unit, a controller unit, and a storage unit. The storage unit includes a data input/output (I/O) unit, a register, and a cache. Technical solution provided by the present disclosure has advantages of fast calculation speed and energy saving.
US11734380B2
Systems and methods for generating a website having a decoupled composition, layout, and processing are disclosed. A method may include an event creator computer program: (1) creating an event having a plurality of attendees; (2) creating a plurality of attendee types for the plurality of attendees; (3) generating a communication template for each of the plurality of attendee types; (4) receiving an event specific welcome page for each of the plurality of attendee types; (5) receiving a website configuration file for each of the plurality of the attendee types; and (6) uploading the event specific welcome page and the website configuration file for each attendee type to a library, wherein a web site host computer program links one of the plurality of welcome pages and the website configuration file to each of the attendee types.
US11734379B1
A method for providing a dynamically adjusted search results interface includes determining a plurality of items from the electronic catalog that meet one or more relevance criteria in response to a search query. The method also includes transmitting instruction to the client device, the instructions causing the client device to display a search results page including a plurality of search results corresponding to the plurality of items. A primary search result of the plurality of search results is displayed in an expanded format and other search results of the plurality of search results are displayed in a minimized format. The method further includes detecting user navigation data with respect to the search results page, determining that the user navigation data meet one or more conditions for collapsing the primary search result from the expanded format to the minimized format, and automatically collapsing the primary search result from the expanded format to the minimized format.
US11734377B2
A tag management system can include features to assist in developing a cross-vendor profile for individual visitors to content pages of a content site. The visitors to the content site can obtain universal identifiers usable by the content site to identify the visitors. The universal identifiers can be included in the content pages by the visitor end user systems so that browser tags that may not have native access to the universal identifier can access the universal identifiers. The universal identifiers may then be provided to tag vendor systems with associated visitor data, thereby enabling the tag vendor systems to provide processed or raw data that can be compared by individual universal identifiers. Using this processed data, the content site can prepare the cross-vendor profile of individual visitors and realize insights that may be unavailable using conventional systems and methods.
US11734374B2
Systems and methods including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory storage devices storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform: determining one or more similarity scores between at least two of: a first item in a hierarchical categorization containing items; a category in the hierarchical categorization; or a topic; filtering out at least one potential match from one or more potential matches using the one or more similarity scores; ranking the one or more potential matches, as filtered, using the one or more similarity scores; re-ranking the one or more potential matches, as filtered, using additional data about at least one of: the first item in the hierarchical categorization containing the items; the category in the hierarchical categorization; or the topic; and inserting one or more hyperlinks into an anchor webpage, the one or more hyperlinks configured to navigate a user from an anchor webpage to one or more potential match webpages associated with the one or more potential matches, as filtered and re-ranked. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.
US11734370B2
Provided are a method and an apparatus for searching for and acquiring information under a computing environment. The apparatus includes: at least one input device configured to receive a first query input of a first query type and a second query input of a second query type; and a controller configured to output a query input window including a first display item corresponding to the first query input and a second display item corresponding to the second query input, to automatically switch, in response to receiving the first query input, the apparatus from a first state to receive the first query input of the first query type to a second state to receive the second query input of the second query type, and to obtain a search result according to a query based on the first query input and the second query input.
US11734364B2
A method for document similarity analysis. The method includes generating a reference document content identifier for a reference document, including identifying frequently occurring terms in reference document content, encoding each frequently occurring term in a term identifier and combining the term identifiers to form the reference document content identifier associated with the reference document. The method also includes obtaining at least one document similarity value by comparing the reference document content identifier to a set of archived document content identifiers stored in a document repository.
US11734358B2
A computing device displays an initial data visualization according to an initial visual specification that specifies a data source, visual variables, and data fields from the data source. The computing device receives a natural language command that includes a user request for information from the data source. The computing device identifies one or more keywords from the natural language command and determines, based on the keywords and one or more of (i) the data source, (ii) the visual variables, and/or (iii) the data fields of the initial visual specification, that the request indirectly specifies a first visual characteristic in the initial visual specification. The computing device generates one or more queries in accordance with the determining. The computing device executes the queries to retrieve data for a modified data visualization. The computing device generates and displays the modified data visualization.
US11734351B2
Embodiments provide for predicted data use obligation matching using data differentiators. Embodiments retrieve one or more logical data record set identifiers associated with an intended use request. For each unique logical data record set identifier of the one or more logical data record set identifiers, a cross-link relationship graph structure comprising a plurality of cross-link relationship graph nodes and a plurality of cross-link relationship graph edges is traversed. Based at least in part on a separation measure associated with each cross-link relationship of one or more cross-link relationships associated with the unique logical data record set identifier, one or more data use obligation scores are generated for the unique logical data record set identifier. An aggregated data use obligation score is generated based at least in part on aggregating the one or more data use obligation scores for each of the unique logical data record set identifiers of the one or more logical data record set identifiers associated with the intended use request. Upon determining that the aggregated data use obligation score is below a risk threshold, the intended use request may be granted.
US11734334B2
When retrieving information relating to another user of a different SNS, the CVR of an SNS can be effectively increased by displaying a social graph. According to the invention, by means of a social graph display program (API), user identifying information corresponding to user-to-user relationship information meeting predetermined conditions can be extracted by searching a database of information related to the other users of application programs A-C, in accordance with identifying information of a user A who has made a friend request. Thus the application program A displays, as candidates for the friend request, users corresponding to user identifying information returned from the social graph display program (API).
US11734329B2
A system and method for improved categorization and sentiment analysis which is fed textual data such as transcriptions or collated data from a network enabled service, or some other source, which then segments textual data into chunks, parses the data chunks, and analyzes it using a plurality of techniques and metadata gathering methods to determine the sentiment of participating individuals concerning entities mentioned in the textual data and to categorize the discussions, for the purpose of taking actions to improve business outcomes.
US11734326B2
Techniques for disambiguating which profile, of multiple profiles, is to be used to respond to a user input are described. A device located in a communal space (e.g., a hotel room or suite of rooms, conference room, hospital room, etc.) may be associated with a device profile and a user profile of a user presently occupying the communal space. When the user inputs a command to the device (either by text or speech), a system associated with the device determines the profiles (e.g., a device profile and a user profile) associated with the device. The system determines one or more policies associated with the device. The one or more policies may correspond to rules for disambiguating which profile to use to execute with respect to the user input. Using the one or more policies, the system determines which profile is to be used, and causes a speechlet component to execute using information specific to the determined profile.
US11734325B2
Methods, systems, and devices supporting detecting and processing conceptual queries are described. A device (e.g., an application server) may receive a search query from a user device. The search query may include one or more parameters. The device may tag the search query using one or more tags associated with the one or more parameters. In some examples, the one or more tags may be determined based on a neural network. The device may determine that the search query is supported as a conceptual query based on a tag of the one or more tags corresponding to a data object stored in a database. The device may then generate a database query in a query language based on the search query, retrieve a set of results for the search query using the database query in the query language, and transmit the set of results to the user device.
US11734324B2
The embodiments described herein enable the efficient storage and searching of large amounts of data to retrieve desired data with high accuracy and fast response time. The embodiments include for example parsing an input document containing input data into multiple sub-documents based on the structure of the input document and generating for each sub-document, a unique ID, pathway, and metadata. The embodiments also include storage of the ID and pathway for each sub-document in an index database and storage of the input document itself in a separate database. When a query for information from the input document is received, the ID and pathway of the sub document containing the queried information are identified and used to locate the queried information from the input document.
US11734319B2
A question answering method includes obtaining target question information; determining a candidate question and answer pair based on the target question information; calculating a confidence of answer information in the candidate question and answer pair, where the confidence is used to indicate a probability that question information in the candidate question and answer pair belongs to an answer database or an adversarial database; determining whether the confidence is less than a first preset threshold; and when the confidence is less than the first preset threshold, outputting information indicating incapable of answering.
US11734315B2
Disclosed is a system, method, and computer program product for analyzing sets of data in an efficient manner, such that analytics can be effectively performed over that data. Classification operations can be performed to generate groups of similar log records. This permits classification of the log records in a cohesive and informative manner.
US11734312B2
A behavior detection module receives a training database and applies a transformation to the attributes that improves the uniformity of the values associated with each attribute. The transformed training database is used to construct a random forest classifier (RFC). The RFC includes a plurality of decision trees and generates a classification label estimate for a data entry with a plurality of attributes. The classification label estimate is determined based on classification estimates from the plurality of decision trees. Each parent node of a decision tree is associated with a condition of a transformed attribute that directs the data entry to a corresponding child node depending on whether the condition is satisfied or not. The data entry is directed through the tree to one out of a set of leaf nodes, and a classification label associated with the leaf node.
US11734307B2
Caching systems and methods are described. In one implementation, a method identifies multiple files used to process a query and distributes each of the multiple files to a particular execution node to execute the query. Each execution node determines whether the distributed file is stored in the execution node's cache. If the execution node determines that the file is stored in the cache, it processes the query using the cached file. If the file is not stored in the cache, the execution node retrieves the file from a remote storage device, stores the file in the execution node's cache, and processes the query using the file.
US11734303B2
Example caching systems and methods are described. In one implementation, a method identifies multiple files used to process a query and distributes each of the multiple files to a particular execution node to execute the query. Each execution node determines whether the distributed file is stored in the execution node's cache. If the execution node determines that the file is stored in the cache, it processes the query using the cached file. If the file is not stored in the cache, the execution node retrieves the file from a remote storage device, stores the file in the execution node's cache, and processes the query using the file.
US11734297B1
A computer implemented method includes establishing, by a data intake and query system, a network connection between the data intake and query system and an application and infrastructure monitoring platform. The data intake and query system receives a data stream from the application and infrastructure monitoring platform. The computer implemented method further includes transforming the data stream while receiving the data stream to obtain a transformed data stream. Further, the transformed data stream is analyzed while receiving the data stream to generate analysis results, which are presented.
US11734296B2
Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing off-chain functionality for data contained in blocks of blockchain. In various embodiments, a computing system might assemble data extracted from each block of a first block(s) of a first instance of a blockchain in a generated first file(s), the assembled data being organized to mirror how the data is organized and stored in the first block(s); might store, in a secure database, the first file(s), the first file(s) being configured to be content-searchable, content-sortable, and/or content-filterable; might generate a second instance of the blockchain, which contains one or more second blocks, the one or more second blocks each containing the hash value of each corresponding first block(s), without containing the data contained in each block of the first block(s); and might store, in a distributed peer data storage system of the blockchain system, the generated second instance of the blockchain.
US11734295B2
A computer implemented system and method of performing parallel load operations during an extract, transform, load (ETL) operation. The system generates a single transaction having multiple processes, where each process loads into one target table. The processes are executed in parallel, and the system performs verification on the single transaction.
US11734283B2
A query processing system operates by determining a set of query rules, receiving a query from a requesting entity, and generating compliance data by determining whether the query complies with the set of query rules prior to an execution of the query. When the compliance data indicates the query complies with the set of query rules: generating a query result by facilitating the execution of the query against a database system; and transmitting the query result to the requesting entity. When the compliance data indicates the query does not comply with the set of query rules: foregoing facilitation of the execution of the query.
US11734277B2
An approach is provided for optimizing a database buffer pool. Based on statistics about read and write operations in a range of pages, the range of pages is determined to be a candidate for a hot read range for which locks and latches are avoided in processing operations in the hot read range. Using an on-time trigger or pre-trigger process, the hot read range is created from the range of pages by marking start and end points in the range of pages. Write operation(s) are determined to be included in the hot read range by marking an object control block. The write operation(s) are added to a write pending list. The read operations in the hot read range are performed without a latch or lock. The write operation(s) are merged from the write pending list to the range of pages and the write operation(s) are performed.
US11734276B2
Embodiments of the present application provide a method and apparatus for updating search cache, which relate to the technical field of multimedia. The method comprises: when hot content is updated, extracting a first search term corresponding to information of the hot content, and updating the first search term to a first database; when a search request is received, querying a pre-established first database according to a search term in the search request and determining whether a second search term is obtained; when the second search term is obtained and determined to be valid, querying a pre-established second database according to the second search term to obtain cache of a first search result; determining whether the cache of the first search result is valid; if yes, taking the information in the cache of the first search result as a first search request result; if no, forwarding the search request to a search engine, obtaining a second search request result and updating the second search request result into the second database. By applying embodiments of the present application, the update speed of hot content can be improved.
US11734269B2
Systems, methods, and storage media useful in a computer healthcare system to consume clinical quality language queries in a programmatic manner are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: load a CQL query from a third party; transform the CQL query to a modified structured query language query; load medical data elements from a database record store for each patient in one or more defined patient populations; execute the modified SQL query on medical data elements from the database record store for each patient in one or more defined patient populations; and load results of the modified SQL query.
US11734267B2
A server includes a controller in communication with the server and configured to receive a query related to an issue with a vehicle, retrieve information related to the query from a database that includes structured data including data related to vehicle issues and a solution to the vehicle issues, determine whether the database includes structured data including data related to the solution responsive to the query, and output information including the solution to the issue when the determination identifies that the structured data including the solution in the database or retrieve information from a website when the determination identifies that the structured data including the solution is not found in the database, wherein the controller is further configured to retrieve the information from the website by conducting a keyword search for a first set of results and filtering the information from the website utilizing an autoencoder.
US11734266B2
A system and method for customized scheduling of sources, including breaking down a source of content into at least two categories, including posts and engagements, and gathering content related to a specific source. A scheduler handles scheduling of posts and engagement for a single source and entities that are due to be crawled are sent to a scheduling queue, in which each content type for a source can have its own queue. A process points to the correct scheduler queue in order to request content to be crawled, attaches to the proper queue, processes requests, queries the social network for content, parses the response and sends any new data to be saved to the system.
US11734263B2
Monitoring an industrial process by building a training dataset of system data representative of status of industrial process parameters and training a custom query engine based on the training dataset. Models are generated using the custom query engine for matching query terms to the system data in response to user input representative of the system data that the user intends to access. Executing one of the models based on the input from the user generates an output retrieving the selected system data from the data tables for visualization.
US11734260B2
In some embodiments, an apparatus includes an instance of a distributed database at a first compute device configured to be included within a set of compute devices that implement the distributed database. The apparatus also includes a processor configured to define a first event linked to a first set of events. The processor is configured to receive, from a second compute device from the set of compute devices, a signal representing a second event (1) defined by the second compute device and (2) linked to a second set of events. The processor is configured to identify an order associated with a third set of events based at least one a result of a protocol. The processor is configured to store in the instance of the distributed database the order associated with the third set of events.
US11734253B2
Techniques are described for use in database and data management systems to efficiently capture and replicate changes that occur in database tables. The changes are captured in a transaction-consistent order, and in a format that may easily be searched and accessed using common relational queries.
US11734250B2
An information processing apparatus includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: control execution of synchronization processing of data written along with operations of a plurality of processes; refer to the memory in which an allowable time at an execution time of first synchronization processing performed on synchronization target data written along with operations of the plurality of processes; calculate a first data amount for which an executing time of synchronization falls within the allowable time; and perform second synchronization processing on the synchronization target data in response to a fact that a second data amount of the synchronization target data has reached the first data amount.
US11734249B2
A method and system of providing material based on a user-initiated request utilizing an electronic database includes receiving search keywords to conduct a search and accessing a first database having previously stored contact information for the particular user in an initial table record. The method includes transforming data in the fields of the record for the particular user in the initial table to generate a record in a sanitized table, accessing a second electronic database having previously stored data structures corresponding to businesses, where each data structure maps selected keyword combinations to corresponding icons, and to particular material corresponding to each keyword combination, and displaying icons associated with search results having corresponding selected keywords near associated result items on an electronic display. The method includes initiating sending of particular material corresponding to the request based on the selected icon and contact data for the user obtained from the sanitized table.
US11734248B2
In some examples, a first computing device may receive, from a second computing device, partition mapping information indicating partitions of a metadata database. The first computing device may be able to communicate with a plurality of metadata nodes, each metadata node maintaining a portion of the metadata database based on the partitioning of the metadata database to distribute the metadata database across the plurality of metadata nodes. The first computing device may determine to send a request to the metadata database based at least on key information. The first computing device may determine, based on the partition mapping information, a first metadata node of the plurality of metadata nodes indicated to maintain a partition of the metadata database corresponding to the key information. The first computing device, may send, to the first metadata node, based on the partition mapping information, a request to perform a database operation.
US11734245B1
In various embodiments, a method for maintaining and analyzing a rolling history of performance data for a computer network is described. In one embodiment, one year's data is stored, sorted by object and date. New data is appended to the end of the file each day and an index by object is stored. Using this method, data for twelve full months can be provided in object order, and data for one partial month that was added daily in date order can also be provided.
US11734243B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating a sparse mapping of a data hierarchy. In one aspect, a method includes accessing a data hierarchy of elements, receiving a list of identifiers that each identify an element in the data hierarchy; determining, from the data hierarchy and the list of identifiers, a minimum tree that includes each of the identified elements identified by the list of identifiers additional elements that are not identified by the list of identifiers, where the identified elements and the additional elements define a set of a minimum number of elements necessary to form a path in the data hierarchy that connects all of the identified elements identified by the list of identifiers, and where the elements that belong to the minimum tree are a proper subset of elements of the data hierarchy.
US11734229B2
Techniques to reduce database fragmentation are disclosed. In various embodiments, an indication is received to store an attribute value for an entity that has a row or other entry in a first database table, wherein the first database table does not have a column for the attribute. It is determined that the value corresponds to a mapped value that is associated with not having an entry in a separate, second database table configured to store the attribute. Entries are made in the second database table only for values of the attribute other than the mapped value. Application level software code is configured to associate absence of a row in the second database table with the mapped value for the attribute.
US11734227B2
A system and method for generating a submittal register for various construction projects or other items is disclosed. Among other things, the system and method include inputting the construction project specifications in a file format, such as PDF, into a web application interface to convert the specification to a text file, applying an algorithm to the text file based on a set of rules, that are iteratively revised using machine learning, to identify all required submittals, generating a final submittal register, and delivering the final submittal register.
US11734225B2
a Systems and methods are provided for matrix tiling to accelerate computing in redundant matrices. The method may include identifying unique submatrices in the matrix; loading values of elements of each unique submatrix into a respective one of the array processors; applying the vector to inputs of each of the array processors; and adding outputs of the array processors according to locations of the unique submatrices in the matrix.
US11734217B2
Embodiments herein describe using software or firmware to manage the device capability list of a PCIe device. That is, rather than relying on pure hardware to advertise the capabilities of a PCIe device, the embodiments herein permit software or firmware executing on a processor in the PCIe device to manage read and write requests associated with discovering the capabilities of the device and configuring the device.
US11734215B2
A method for identifying and pairing a signal transmitting device, including: obtaining a setting value of a master identification key; obtaining a setting value of a slave identification key; determining whether at least one of the setting values equals to an initial value; determining whether the setting value of the master identification key equals to the setting value of the slave identification key when none of the setting values equals to the initial value; and controlling the signal processing device to operate in a limited mode when the setting value of the master identification key and the setting value of the slave identification key are not equal. In the limited mode, a signal processing device does not output any signal to the signal transmitting device or ignores any signal received from a signal transmitting device, or the signal processing device only outputs a limited signal to the signal transmitting device.
US11734213B2
A process control input/output (I/O) device provides traditional I/O support with direct physical layers or interfaces associated with traditional process control communication protocols while at the same time supporting an advanced physical layer or other IP based physical layer and the communication protocols that run on top of them. In addition, the new I/O device is able to nest protocols inside of other protocols for use when protocols, such as safety protocols, require additional handshaking, confirmations, etc. Still further, the new I/O device includes hardware configurable capabilities that enable easy configuration of a process control system that uses multiple different physical layers, including those used by traditional process control protocols such as HART and FOUNDATION Fieldbus protocols, and more advanced physical layers, including those that are used by IP-based, Ethernet based, packet based and other types of advanced communication protocols.
US11734207B1
The present disclosure generally relates to utilizing a port scheduler within a data storage device controller to schedule data transfers and determine which port should be utilized for each data packet transferred. The data storage device comprises a multi-port system on a host interface. The port scheduler can consider the following factors for example: link workload, idle time for each port, link power state, throughput for each port, speed of each link, priority of data transfer, and quality of service (QoS). Based upon an analysis of one or more of the factors, the port scheduler can transfer data on a port that is not associated with the data to ensure efficient multi-port usage.
US11734205B2
A request to retrieve data from a memory device of a memory sub-system can be received from a machine learning (ML) framework executing on a host system, where the data comprises a plurality of logical partitions. A set of parallel I/O threads can be initiated to retrieve the data from the memory device, where each I/O thread of the set of parallel I/O threads retrieves a different portion of the data from a different corresponding logical partition and stores the different portion of the data in a I/O buffer of a set of I/O buffers corresponding to the set of I/O threads in parallel. The different portion of the data can be successively provided from each I/O buffer to the ML framework, where the set of parallel I/O threads is to continually retrieve the data from the memory device until all of the data from the logical partitions has been provided to the ML framework.
US11734194B2
A method is provided that includes performing, by a processor in response to a dual issue multiply instruction, multiplication of operands of the dual issue multiply instruction using multiplication units comprised in a data path of the processor and configured to operate together to determine a product of the operands, and storing, by the processor, the product in a storage location indicated by the dual issue multiply instruction.
US11734189B2
A request that specifies a logical address associated with a host-initiated operation directed at a first portion of a memory device is received. A logical to physical (L2P) table is accessed. The L2P table comprises a mapping between logical addresses and physical addresses in a second portion of the memory device. An entry in the L2P table that corresponds to the logical address is identified and is determined to point to an entry in a read cache table. Based on an entry number of the entry in the read cache table, a chunk address of a chunk from among multiple chunks of a read cache is calculated. A physical address that corresponds to the logical address specified by the request is identified by accessing the chunk of read cache. The host-initiated operation is performed at a physical location within the first portion of the memory device corresponding the physical address.
US11734188B2
A unified memory address translation system includes a translation queue module configured to receive different modes of translation requests for a real address (RA) of a physical memory. A translation cache (XLTC) interface is configured to receive successful translation results for previous requests for an RA and provide the previous successful translation result to the translation queue module. A plurality of page table entry group (PTEG) search modules are coupled to the translation queue module. A unified translation walk address generation (UTWAG) module is configured to provide a translation support for each mode of the different modes of translation request. A memory interface is coupled between the UTWAG and the physical memory.
US11734186B2
A method for preserving a media access control (MAC) address of a virtual server is provided. The method includes assigning a physical computing resource to a virtual server, assigning a physical storage memory resource to the virtual server, and assigning a physical network resource to the virtual server. The method includes assigning a virtual MAC address to the virtual server, the virtual MAC address to remain with the virtual server despite reassignment of one or more of the physical computing resource, the physical storage memory resource or the physical network resource, wherein at least one method operation is performed by a processor. A computing and storage system is also provided.
US11734180B2
A method may use memory efficiently to extend cache. A processor receives a request to write data. The size of the data in the write request is compared to a threshold. When the size of the data exceeds the threshold, the data is stored on a solid state device. Page descriptors for the data on the solid state device are stored in a metadata log, and a reference to a first page descriptor of the page descriptors in the metadata log is stored in a first hash table in memory.
US11734168B2
A storage device can be designed to reduce latency in a read operation. Such a storage device can include: a memory device including a plurality of pages that include a first page and a second page different from the first page, each page including a plurality of memory cells that are configured to store data; and a memory controller in communication with the memory device and for sequentially storing result values of a function with respect to a plurality of input values in the plurality of memory cells, and controlling the memory device to store a result value in a last area of the first page and a start area of the second page.
US11734160B2
In an example embodiment, first a system is provided that enables tests created by a second entity to run with first entity data and configurations. A test module is able to assess test results with dynamic input (e.g., rule-based assessments). Second, a system is provided to run and test these test modules on the first entity system with first entity configuration and let the first entity define the test input and interpret the test results. This is not performed on all available tests, but only on the tests that are related to the change to be implemented.
US11734159B2
Technologies are described for ranking test cases related to changes in a software code base using at least a portion of a call graph that is generated from the software code base. The at least a portion of the call graph comprises method nodes corresponding to methods in the software code base. The method nodes represent control flow relationships between the methods in the software code base. The at least a portion of the call graph also comprises test case nodes. Each test case node is connected to one or more method nodes corresponding to coverage of the one or more method nodes by the test case node. Using the at least a portion of the call graph, the test case nodes are automatically ranked. Ranking of the test case nodes is performed by evaluating various criteria associated with the at least a portion of the call graph.
US11734158B1
The present disclosure is directed to emulating physical-device input for an automated-testing framework. In particular, the methods and systems of the present disclosure may: determine a physical-device input associated with an automated-test script for an automated-testing framework comprising one or more proprietary test devices; emulate, via the automated-testing framework and at least one proprietary physical input device associated with the proprietary test device(s), the physical-device input; receive, from the proprietary test device(s) and via the automated-testing framework, data generated responsive to the emulated physical-device input; and compare the data generated responsive to the emulated physical-device input with expected data specified by the automated-test script for the automated-testing framework.
US11734153B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer-readable medium embodiments for providing the ability to automate identification of endpoints of an API for potential health checks based on machine learning and/or similarity search algorithms. The algorithms analyze an API specification according to the algorithm's training and/or search among reference APIs. Rather than having to manually generate health check tests for the web service, a test developer can interact with a test service through a web browser and provide the service an API specification. The test service then can automatically rank identified endpoints according to a ranking system as well as automate health checks by automatically preparing the health check code according to each identified endpoint.
US11734144B2
Monitoring a set of virtual users during performance testing and reporting virtual user operations data to ensure an ongoing and constant transactions per second load and providing test result data with evidence of constant transactions per second (TPS) during the test. Generating and executing performance tests under constant TPS includes restarting virtual users that are terminated during the performance tests.
US11734140B2
A method includes determining, by an analysis system, a system aspect of a system for a protection evaluation. The method further includes determining, by the analysis system, at least one evaluation perspective for use in performing the protection evaluation on the system aspect. The method further includes determining, by the analysis system, at least one evaluation viewpoint for use in performing the protection analysis on the system aspect. The method further includes obtaining, by the analysis system, protection data regarding the system aspect in accordance with the at least one evaluation perspective and the at least one evaluation viewpoint. The method further includes calculating, by the analysis system, a protection rating as a measure of protection maturity for the system aspect based on the protection data, the at least one evaluation perspective, the at least one evaluation viewpoint, and at least one evaluation rating metric.
US11734133B2
A cluster system has nodes connected by a first network, including a master node, a first node performing an IO request with respect to a first volume of a storage device capable of including a plurality of volumes through a second network, and a second node taking over processing of the first node at the time of a failure of the first node. When a failure of the first network occurs in the first node, the master node transmits a connection release instruction through the second network. When the connection release instruction is received, the storage device releases the connection between the first node and the first volume, and updates connection state management information for managing such a connection state. The first node acquires the connection state to be managed through the second network, and executes post-processing relevant to the first volume that is associated with the connection release instruction.
US11734132B2
A method, system, and computer program product for maintaining data centers obtain input data; communicate an update request associated with the input data to a node of a plurality of nodes; receive an indication that the update request failed; communicate a result request for result data associated with processing of the input data to the node of the plurality of nodes until the result data associated with processing of the input data is received; and in response to receiving the result data associated with processing of the input data from the node, process the result data.
US11734129B2
A method includes accessing, by a computing device, an event machine of an application running on a user device; determining, by the computing device, an event polling stage of the event machine is occurring; measuring, by the computing device, an event polling stage time of the event polling stage; causing, by the computing device, a thread of the application to take a snapshot of the application in response to determining the event polling stage; measuring, by the computing device, a snapshot time for the snapshot of the application; determining, by the computing device, whether the snapshot time is less than or equal to the event polling stage time; causing, by the computing device, the thread of the application to take a new snapshot in response to determining a new event polling stage; and causing, by the computing device, an alternate thread of the application to take the new snapshot.
US11734127B2
An information management cell health monitoring system is provided herein that can monitor one or more information management systems, identify any performance issues that are occurring within an information management system, and automatically, or in response to a user input, transmit an instruction to the information management system to execute a workflow to resolve the performance issue(s). For example, the information management cell health monitoring system receives operational data, secondary copy policies, and/or similar data from an information management cells via a network. The information management cell health monitoring system analyzes the received information to identify any issues. If an issue is detected, the information management cell health monitoring system retrieves workflows and determines whether any of the workflows can be used to resolve the detected issue. The information management cell health monitoring system transmits a workflow that resolves the detected issue to the information management system for execution.
US11734123B2
A method for managing a plurality of computing machines includes accessing a catalogue memory structure storing a plurality of component signatures, discovering one or more of the software components being instantiated in a software image of each computing machine according to corresponding ones of the component signatures, detecting one or more connections each being established between at least two instantiated software components of different computing machines, receiving a restore command for restoring a target recovery point selected among a plurality of recovery points, and restoring the target recovery point in response to the restore command by restoring the snapshots associated with the target recovery point on corresponding computing machines.
US11734119B2
A data replication method includes obtaining differential data information corresponding to differential data, where the differential data information includes a storage address of the differential data, and a determining value of the differential data, replicating the differential data from the primary volume to the secondary volume according to the storage address of the differential data that is located in the primary volume when the determining value is not less than a preset threshold, and taking a snapshot for the primary volume when the determining value is less than the preset threshold and replicating the differential data to the secondary volume.
US11734118B2
This software wireless device comprises framework software that installs wireless communication software; and interface service software that is provided so as to be directly managed by an OS, and that manages a user interface service and the framework software. The framework software has user interface software, domain management software, hardware management software, and hardware control software. The interface service software issues a running status monitoring request to the user interface software and the domain management software, and determines that there is an abnormality if there is no response from the user interface software or the domain management software.
US11734116B1
Provided herein are systems and methods for automating the rollout of database changes. For example, a method includes detecting a change in database code of a database resulting in a changed database code. The change in the database code includes a parameter rollout for at least one parameter setting of the database. Execution of a query associated with the change in the database code is monitored. The query uses the at least one parameter setting. A regression in the changed database code is detected based on the monitoring. Impact analysis is performed to determine a scope of impact of the regression on at least another query using the at least one parameter setting. A determination is made on whether to perform a rollback of the change in the database code or perform mitigation based on the scope of impact.
US11734108B2
A semiconductor memory apparatus may include: a memory cell array; an ECC (Error Check and Correction) circuit configured to detect an error from data read from the memory cell array in response to a read command, correct the detected error, and output an error correction signal whenever an error is corrected; and an EF (Error Flag) generator configured to enter a flag output mode when the number of times that the error correction signal is generated during a monitoring period reaches a threshold, and output the error correction signal as an error flag in the flag output mode.
US11734107B2
Various implementations described herein relate to systems and methods for performing error correction in a flash memory device by determining suggested corrections by decoding a codeword. In addition, whether a first set of the suggested corrections obtained based on a first component code of the plurality of component codes agree with a second set of the suggested corrections obtained based on a second component code of the plurality of component codes is determined. One of accepting the first set of the suggested corrections or rejecting the first set of the suggested corrections is selected based on whether the first set of the suggested corrections and the second set of the suggested corrections agree.
US11734102B1
Methods and systems for managing data processing systems are disclosed. A data processing system may include hardware and/or software components. The operation of the data processing system may depend on the operation of these components. To manage the operation of the data processing system, a system may include a data processing system manager. The data processing system manager may obtain logs for components of the data processing system reflecting the historical operation of these components and use the log to predict the future operation of the data processing system, actions that may be performed to address predicted undesirable operation of the data processing system, and/or for other purposes. Based on the predictions, the data processing system manager may take action to reduce the likelihood of the data processing system operating in an undesirable manner.
US11734101B2
Described systems and techniques determine causal associations between events that occur within an information technology landscape. Individual situations that are likely to represent active occurrences requiring a response may be identified as causal event clusters, without requiring manual tuning to determine cluster boundaries. Consequently, it is possible to identify root causes, analyze effects, predict future events, and prevent undesired outcomes, even in complicated, dispersed, interconnected systems.
US11734100B2
Various embodiments disclosed herein are related to a non-transitory computer readable storage medium. In some embodiments, the medium includes instructions stored thereon that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to receive, at a node of a cluster on an edge network, an indication that the cluster received a configuration update, compare a first parameter of a configuration state of the node to a second parameter of the configuration update, determine if the first parameter matches the second parameter, in response to determining that the first parameter matches the second parameter, apply the configuration update, and collect data in accordance with the configuration update.
US11734099B2
A method for billing server utilization based on power includes receiving power consumption data of a remote server used by a customer, deriving a power-utilization correlation between power consumption of the remote server with utilization of the remote server, determining utilization of the remote server from the power consumption data and the power-utilization correlation, preparing a bill for the customer based on the determined utilization of the remote server, and sending the bill to the customer.
US11734098B2
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores a failure cause identification program for causing a computer to execute a process including: collecting process information related to one or more processes that operate in a container environment; obtaining a derivative relationship of a process for each container on the basis of the process information; generating symbol information in which a function of each of the processes is associated with a container in which each of the processes operates according to the derivative relationship of the process for each container; generating an aggregation result in which a frequency of the function is aggregated according to the symbol information; and identifying a cause at a time of failure occurrence on the basis of the aggregation result.
US11734093B2
In a method for data placement in a storage device including one or more blocks and a controller, the method including: receiving, by the controller of the storage device, a request to write data; determining, by the controller, a data status of the data; calculating, by the controller, one or more vulnerability factors of the one or more blocks; determining, by the controller, one or more block statuses of the one or more blocks based on the one or more vulnerability factors; selecting, by the controller, a target block from the one or more blocks based on the data status and the one or more block statuses; and writing, by the controller, the data to the target block.
US11734084B2
Systems, computer-implemented methods and/or computer program products that facilitate management of resources are provided. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprises: employing, by a system operatively coupled to a processor, at least one model to predict respective token needs by a set of processing elements during execution of a workload; and exchanging, by the system, one or more tokens between a subset of the processing elements as a function of the predicted token needs.
US11734082B2
The disclosed embodiments include a method for providing a cloud computing semantic layer operation. The method can comprise receiving a description of a semantic layer operation, the description specifying performance of the semantic layer operation by the semantic layer using a first cloud operation performed on a first cloud computing platform; receiving a first resource usage indication corresponding to the first cloud operation, wherein the resource usage indication comprises a direct or indirect indication of least one of a storage amount, a compute amount, a number of transactions, a bandwidth, a number of application programming interface calls, or an application or database type associated with the first cloud operation; receiving a request that indicates performance of the semantic layer operation; providing an estimated resource usage indication; receiving confirmation of the request; and communicating with the cloud provider to perform the semantic layer operation.
US11734079B2
The present disclosure relates to a processor that includes one or more processing elements associated with one or more instruction set architectures. The processor is configured to receive a request from an application executed by a first processing element of the one or more processing elements to enable a feature associated with an instruction set architecture. Additionally, the processor is configured to enable the application to utilize the feature without a system call occurring when the feature is associated with an instruction set architecture associated with the first processing element.
US11734078B2
An accelerator deployment tool deploys multiple accelerators to multiple programmable devices, and detects when a new programmable device becomes available. When a first accelerator in a first programmable device is a better match to the new programmable device, the accelerator deployment tool automatically generates an image for the first accelerator for the new programmable device, deploys the image on the new programmable device to generate a second accelerator, changes references to the first accelerator to reference instead the second accelerator, and casts the first accelerator out of the first programmable device.
US11734070B2
A memory device may receive, from a thread, a first request to read from a location that stores a first value, and may provide, to the thread, the first value based on receiving the first request. The memory device may receive, from the thread, a second request to cause the first value to be incremented to a second value, and may determine that the first value failed to be incremented. The memory device may provide, to the thread, information indicating that the first value failed to be incremented, and may increment a counter value to generate an incremented counter value. The memory device may receive, from the thread, a third request to cause the first value to be incremented to a third value, and may attempt, when the incremented counter value fails to satisfy a threshold, to cause the first value to be incremented to the third value.
US11734065B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are disclosed for scheduling threads comprising of code blocks in a graph streaming processor (GSP) system. One system includes a scheduler for scheduling plurality of prefetch threads, main threads, invalidate threads. The plurality of prefetch threads includes prefetching data from main memory required for execution of the main threads of the next stage. The plurality of main threads includes a set of instructions operating on the graph streaming processors of GSP system. The plurality of the invalidate threads includes invalidating data location/s consumed by the plurality of the main threads of the previous stage. A portion of the scheduler is implemented in hardware.
US11734058B2
Systems and method are provided for receiving, at a virtualized management operation engine (VMOE) of a distributed system, a management task request from a client for one or more services. The management task request may be to an orchestrator of a first application server of one or more application servers of the distributed system. The first application server having the orchestrator may determine whether the management task request is valid. The first application server having the orchestrator may generate a request message based on the valid management task request. A message bus may broadcast the generated request message to one or more agents of the one or more application servers of the distributed system. The one or more agents may execute an operation based on the request message when the request message is intended for the one or more agents.
US11734054B2
In various embodiments, a function build application compiles source code to generate an executable version of a function that has a first function signature. The function build application then replaces a first data type of a first parameter included in the first function signature with a second data type to generate a second function signature for a client stub function. Subsequently, the function build application generates a remote procedure call (RPC) client that includes the client stub function. Notably, the RPC client causes the function to execute when the client stub function is invoked. Advantageously, unlike conventional techniques that require manual generation of strongly typed functions, the function build application automatically customizes the RPC client for the function.
US11734053B2
A computer implemented method manages access to resources of a cloud platform. The method includes retrieving, at a computing device of the cloud platform, context data and load policies for a requestor and an identified resource, combining, by the computing device, loaded policies with context data into a combined data structure, evaluating, by the computing device, a resource request and apply policies for requestor based on role of requestor using the combined data structure, generating, by the computing device, resource permissions for the requestor, and returning, by the computing device, resource permissions to the requestor.
US11734042B2
Providing supplemental information to a guest operating system by a hypervisor is disclosed. A hypervisor executing on a host computing device initiates a virtual machine comprising a guest kernel. The hypervisor determines an address of a shared memory area that is accessible by the guest kernel and accessible by the hypervisor. The hypervisor determines that an event has occurred for which supplemental information exists, the event corresponding to a particular event code of a plurality of different event codes. The hypervisor determines a location in the shared memory area that corresponds to the particular event code. The hypervisor inserts the supplemental information at the location in the shared memory area. The hypervisor causes an interrupt of the guest kernel.
US11734041B2
Architectures and techniques for providing persistent volume functionality are disclosed. A storage container having a virtual storage volume to be persisted across multiple applications is created. The multiple applications hosted in one or more application containers. The storage container is placed within a virtual machine object. The virtual machine object containing the storage container is stored in a computer-readable memory as a persistent virtual storage volume.
US11734039B2
Systems and methods for memory management for virtual machines. An example method may include receiving, by a hypervisor running on a host computer system, a request that no topology change notifications be delivered to a virtual machine managed by the hypervisor. The method may include then install a packet filter on a virtual network interface controller (vNIC) associated with the virtual machine. Responsive to receiving, by the packet filter, a topology change notification packet, the method may include dropping the topology change notification packet.
US11734027B2
A platform-agnostic input system can render a multiuser input board user interface element at one or more frontends to collect input from multiple users simultaneously. The platform-agnostic input system can maintain an object graph based on positions of objects added to the multiuser input board. The platform-agnostic input system can select branches of the object graph and determine which among a set of platforms in a multiplatform computing system to associate with the data associated with each node of that branch of the object graph.
US11734022B2
A method of remotely modifying a basic input/output system (BIOS) configuration setting includes steps of: transmitting, by a remote computer, a modification instruction to a cloud server; transmitting, by the cloud server to a POS system, a new configuration value of the BIOS configuration setting contained in the modification instruction; determining, by an embedded controller of the POS system, whether the new configuration value is identical to an original configuration value of the BIOS configuration setting; and by the embedded controller when a result of the determination is negative, updating the BIOS configuration setting and transmitting a response instruction to the remote computer.
US11734017B1
Example embodiments relate to scheduling and processing sensor data across multiple digital signal processing (DSP) cores. A system may include DSP cores that are virtually arranged into a first segment and a second segment, each with DSP cores arranged in a linear order. The system may process sensor data using the DSP cores and a processing pipeline. DSP cores from the first segment are configured to initiate processing a first stage sequentially based on the linear order until all DSP cores are processing portions in parallel, collate outputs to produce a first stage output, and provide a first signal to the second segment based on producing the first stage output. Responsive to receiving the first signal, DSP cores from the second segment are configured to initiate processing the second stage sequentially based on the linear order until all DSP cores are processing portions in parallel, collate outputs to produce a second stage output, and provide a second signal based on producing the second stage output. The system may provide instructions based on a combination of the first stage output and the second stage output.
US11734015B2
A cache system, having a first cache, a second cache, and a logic circuit coupled to control the first cache and the second cache according to an execution type of a processor. When an execution type of a processor is a first type indicating non-speculative execution of instructions and the first cache is configured to service commands from a command bus for accessing a memory system, the logic circuit is configured to copy a portion of content cached in the first cache to the second cache. The cache system can include a configurable data bit. The logic circuit can be coupled to control the caches according to the bit. Alternatively, the caches can include cache sets. The caches can also include registers associated with the cache sets respectively. The logic circuit can be coupled to control the cache sets according to the registers.
US11734013B2
An exception summary is provided for an invalid value detected during instruction execution. An indication that a value determined to be invalid was included in input data to a computation of one or more computations or in output data resulting from the one or more computations is obtained. The value is determined to be invalid due to one exception of a plurality of exceptions. Based on obtaining the indication that the value is determined to be invalid, a summary indicator is set. The summary indicator represents the plurality of exceptions collectively.
US11734008B1
Examples described herein relate to customization of courses of action for responding to incidents in information technology (IT) environments. An incident management service executes incident response monitoring, identification and remediation across an IT environment for one or more entities that may have their own configuration of computing assets (computing environment) within the IT environment. A course of action outlines remediation actions for responding to specific types of incidents within an IT environment. A course of action is customized for implementation within a particular computing environment associated with an entity. Customization of a course of action comprises generation and implementation of sets of instructions that are usable to tailor remedial actions for execution in computing environments of different entities. A set of instructions provides commands/calls that are specific to computing assets associated with an entity, which are usable to execute remedial actions for a specific type of incident.
US11734002B2
The present disclosure provides a counting device and counting method. The device includes a storage unit, a counting unit, and a register unit, where the storage unit may be connected to the counting unit for storing input data to be counted and storing a number of elements satisfying a given condition in the input data after counting; the register unit may be configured to store an address where input data to be counted is stored in the storage unit; and the counting unit may be connected to the register unit, and may be configured to acquire a counting instruction, read a storage address of the input data to be counted in the register unit according to the counting instruction, acquire corresponding input data to be counted in the storage unit, perform statistical counting on a number of elements in the input data to be counted that satisfy the given condition, and obtain a counting result. The counting device and the method may improve the computation efficiency by writing an algorithm of counting a number of elements that satisfy a given condition in input data into an instruction form.
US11733999B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for automatically cataloging updated Application Programming Interface (API) specifications with updated version numbers. The API specifications may have been previously published to an application exchange platform. An automatic cataloging tool installed at an API development system may identify an updated API specification committed to an API specification repository. The automatic cataloging tool may identify a base API specification that has been previously published and confirm that a change has been made. The base API specification may correspond to a particular API development branch that has been updated. The automatic cataloging tool may also apply a versioning strategy to automatically determine an updated version number for the updated API specification. The application exchange platform may then replace the previous API specification with the updated API specification and the updated version number.
US11733996B2
Systems and methods are described for intelligent software patch management. In an example, a system can receive a selection of device attributes. The system can associate a group of computing devices with attribute values that correspond to each device. The system can also create value pairs of unique pairs of values for each computing device. The system can select a set of computing devices for a deployment ring that maximizes diversity of the values or value pairs. The system can deploy the software patch to the selected devices and monitor device performance for a predetermined period of time before continuing to the next deployment ring or rolling back the update.
US11733988B2
A method and system for deploying an application from a deployment source to a device may include determining if the application is available for deployment to the device from a plurality of deployment sources, upon determining that the application is available for deployment from the plurality of deployment sources, identifying one of the plurality of deployment sources as a preferred deployment source for deploying the application; and deploying the application from the preferred deployment source to the device. Deploying the application may include installing the application, loading one or more user interface elements associated with the application and activating the application.
US11733981B2
An example apparatus comprises a transformation generator to generate a population of code variants corresponding to an input code, the population of code variants to include transformation sequences of the input code, a dependence analyzer to analyze the population of code variants for dependence vectors, a profile controller to profile the population of code variants to determine performance metrics of hardware during an execution of respective ones of the transformation sequences, and a hash code generator to generate hash codes for storing in a database, the hash codes (a) corresponding to a combination of the dependence vectors and respective performance metrics and (b) mapped to respective transformation sequences.
US11733978B2
An example system and method facilitate automatically generating a software application (e.g., a micro app) to facilitate performing a task, such as collecting information. In one embodiment, the method includes recording plural incidents filed by customers seeking assistance; detecting the filing of a new incident by a customer; using an Artificial Intelligence algorithm to process the incident, based on the plural incidents, to automatically determine additional information, and to determine one or more User Interface (UI) features for facilitating retrieving the additional information from the customer; generating a description of a UI that incorporates the one or more UI features; producing a mechanism (e.g., micro app) for providing access to the one or more UI features to the customer; receiving information from the customer, as entered via the one or more UI features; and storing the information in a database, such that the information is accessible to one or more software applications of the service technician.
US11733976B2
The objective of the present invention is to provide a software creating device and the like with which labor savings can be made when creating software. A software creating device according to the present invention creates software for controlling equipment such as a certification photograph machine. The software creating device 1 includes, for example: a storage part for storing a plurality of basic modules for executing each of a plurality of processes; and a software creating part for employing the basic modules to perform deep reinforcement learning to create, by part of a combination of the basic modules, software for consecutively performing the plurality of processes in equipment such as a certification photograph machine.
US11733963B2
An electronic device may comprise audio processing circuitry, pace tracking circuitry, and positioning circuitry. The pace tracking circuitry may be operable to selects a tempo of songs for playback, by the audio processing circuitry based on position data generated by the positioning circuitry, a desired tempo, and whether the songs are stored locally or network-accessible. The position data may indicate the pace of a runner during a preceding, determined time interval. The pace tracking circuitry may control the song selection and/or time stretching based on a runner profile data stored in memory of the music device. The profile data may include runner's distance-per-stride data. The electronic device may include sensors operable to function as a pedometer. The pace tracking circuitry may update the distance-per-stride data based on the position data and based on data output by the one or more sensors.
US11733957B2
A computer-implemented method, a computer system and a computer program product distribute content in a virtual meeting session. The method includes extracting a plurality of embedded graphics from a presentation. The embedded graphics are selected from a group consisting of web links, images and video data. The method also includes transmitting the plurality of embedded graphics to a participant computing device. Lastly, the method includes displaying a virtual meeting dashboard that includes the plurality of embedded graphics.
US11733947B2
An example operation method includes receiving unresolved job information about a job, requested by user identification information, from a first device, storing the unresolved job information in user data of the user identification information, receiving the user identification information from a second device, from the second device, and providing the unresolved job information stored in the user data to the second device.
US11733945B2
Rules for variable data printing operations are defined using statements having text or image variables used in an object for a document template. Statements include conditions that evaluate content or data for the variables to determine whether the resulting content or data for the object is modified. Multiple statements are used within a rule, including those with complex expressions. The rules allow the generations of variety of documents that include different and fixed content.
US11733942B2
An image forming apparatus includes an operating portion which is capable of displaying a software key and which is not provided with a hardware key; an input device which is a separate member from the operating portion, which is provided adjacent to a right side of the operating portion when the image forming apparatus is seen from a position opposing the operating portion, and which is provided with a hardware key; an IC card reader which is a separate member from the operating portion and the input device, which is provided adjacent to a right side of the input device when the image forming apparatus is seen from a position opposing the input device, and which is configured to receive user information from an IC card; and a holding member configured to integrally hold the input device and the IC reader.
US11733937B2
A support program is executable by a computer of an information processing device and supports a printer connected to the information processing device. The support program causes the computer to execute, determination processing of receiving print data corresponding to images having a plurality of pages from a general-purpose print program of an operating system and, based on the received print data, determining an arrangement order of the images according to the number of pages for one volume in a booklet printing, and composite image output control processing of transmitting the composite print data, which is made by rasterizing the composite image in which the images corresponding to the two target pages are arranged so as to fit on one surface of each sheet based on the arrangement order determined in the determination processing, from the information processing device to the printer.
US11733934B1
Systems and methods relate generally to set up for a touchless use of a printing device, as well as touchless use thereof, are disclosed. In such a method, a printer driver programmed into a host computational device is accessed to display a user interface on a display device for input of job settings displayed via the user interface. A graphical user interface image of the user interface is displayed on the display device. The input of the job settings is accepted via the graphical user interface image. A quick response (QR) code is generated by the printer driver using the job settings for contents for the QR code. The QR code is displayed on the display device. The QR code is captured with a camera of a programmed mobile device. The QR code is converted into a near field communication (NFC) message by the programmed mobile device.
US11733930B2
In order to avoid writing duplicates of blocks of data into a storage platform, any virtual disk within the storage platform may have a de-duplication feature enabled. Or, all virtual disks have this feature enabled. For virtual disks with de-duplication enabled, a unique message digest is calculated for every block of data written to that virtual disk. Upon a write, these message digests are consulted in order to determine if a particular block of data has already been written, if so, it is not written again, and if not, it is written. All de-duplication virtual disks are written to a single system virtual disk within the storage platform. De-duplication occurs over the entire storage platform and over all its virtual disks because all message digests are consulted before a write is performed for any virtual disk. A read for a de-duplication virtual desk reads from the system virtual disk.
US11733928B2
The present disclosure is directed to read sample offset most probable bit operation associated with a memory component. A processing device generates a first set of read data associated with a memory component, the first set of read data comprising a first sequence of bit values. The processing device generates a second set of read data associated with the memory component, the second set of read data comprising a second sequence of bit values. The processing device generates a third set of read data associated with the memory component, the third set of read data comprising a third sequence of bit values. A most probable bit operation is performed to compare the first sequence of bit values, the second sequence of bit values, and the third sequence of bit values to generate and store a most probable bit sequence.
US11733926B2
Systems and methods provide improved bus efficiency in read operations by a solid-state device (SSD) installed in an Information Handling System. A read operation is received that requests data stored in a die of the SSD. A command is issued to the die for use of a first read voltage in retrieving the requested data. Upon receiving confirmation that the die has retrieved the requested data, a command is issued to the die to configure a second read voltage for use in retrieving data requested by a second read operation received by the SSD. Concurrent with the die setting the second read voltage for use in retrieving the data requested in the second read operation, a command is issued to initiating transfer, by the die, of the data retrieved for the first read operation. In this manner, idle intervals in the bus used to service the die are eliminated.
US11733921B2
The present technology relates to a memory device. A memory device according to the present technology may include a plurality of planes, individual operation controllers configured to respectively control read operations on the plurality of planes, a common operation controller configured to control a program operation or an erase operation on any one of the plurality of planes, a command decoder configured to provide a read command among the plurality of commands to an individual operation controller that controls a plane that is indicated by an address that corresponds to the read command among the individual operation controllers, and configured to provide a program command or an erase command among the plurality of commands to the common operation controller, and a peripheral circuit configured to generate operation voltages that are used for the read operations, the program operation, and the erase operation.
US11733920B2
The present disclosure generally relates to data storage devices, such as solid state drives. The data storage device includes a volatile memory, a non-volatile storage unit, and a controller. The data storage device further includes a plurality of virtual functions, where at least one of the virtual functions is only accessible by the data storage device and the remainder of the virtual functions are accessible by both the data storage and a host device. At least one of the virtual functions may be dedicated to completing data storage device storage management operations.
US11733918B2
Methods and systems for processing a command from a host to a storage device are disclosed. A first controller of the storage device receives a first command from the host via a first queue. The first queue is exposed to the host. The storage device generates a second command based on the first command, and submits the second command to a second controller of the storage device via a second queue. The second command and the second queue are unexposed to the host. The second controller obtains and processes the second command from the second queue, where the processing of the second command is for accessing non-volatile storage media of the storage device. Based on a status of the second command, the first controller transmits a signal to the host for indicating completion of the first command.
US11733905B1
Methods and systems disclosed herein allow data to be transferred from a data source to a target database with little to no offline period or data corruptions. The methods and systems describe a server that generates a temporary data repository having a similar configuration as the target data repository; transmits the set of new data records from the data source to the temporary data repository; identifies dependency relationship attributes among the data records stored within the target data repository; and when the server identifies that a predetermined number of data records and their respective dependent data records are stored within the temporary data records, the server merges the set of data records and the set of new data records. The server also stores a pre/post merger record of data such that the server can revert to a previous version of data or roll forward to another version.
US11733902B2
Local memory and disaggregated memory may be identified and monitored for integrating disaggregated memory in a computing system. Candidate data may be migrated between the local memory and disaggregated memory to optimize allocation of disaggregated memory and migrated data according to a dynamic set of migration criteria.
US11733900B2
Provided are mechanisms for promptly or gradually migrating data from a read-only disk in a storage system to a replacement disk, where, during gradual migration, data is migrated when it is requested of the read-only disk.
US11733888B2
According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a nonvolatile memory and a controller electrically connected to the nonvolatile memory. The controller selects a write mode from a first mode in which data having N bits is written per one memory cell and a second mode in which data having M bits is written per one memory cell. N is equal to or larger than one. M is larger than N. The controller writes data into the nonvolatile memory in the selected write mode. The controller selects either the first mode or the second mode at least based on a total number of logical addresses mapped in a physical address space of the nonvolatile memory.
US11733884B2
A system and method for managing a reduction in capacity of a memory sub-system. An example method involving a host system: receiving, by a host system, an indication that a storage capacity of a memory sub-system is affected by a failure, wherein the memory sub-system stores data of a storage structure and comprises memory cells storing multiple bits per cell; instructing, by the host system, the memory sub-system to operate at a reduced capacity, wherein the reduced capacity reduces the quantity of bits stored per memory cell; receiving, by the host system, an indication that the memory sub-system comprises data in excess of the reduced capacity; providing, by the host system, a storage location to the memory sub-system, wherein the storage location is external to the memory sub-system; and enabling the memory sub-system to store the data of the storage structure at the storage location.
US11733883B2
A storage device comprises a controller and a plurality of nonvolatile memory devices. Maintenance conditions of the nonvolatile memory devices are monitored internally by the storage device. Upon determining that a maintenance condition is satisfied, the storage device notifies an external host. The controller may perform the maintenance operations on the plurality of nonvolatile memory devices with little disruption to the host and assure data is reliably maintained by the nonvolatile memory devices.
US11733880B2
Embodiments of methods and apparatuses for defending against speculative side-channel analysis on a computer system are disclosed. In an embodiment, a processor includes a decoder, a cache, address translation circuitry, a cache controller, and a memory controller. The decoder is to decode an instruction. The instruction is to specify a first address associated with a data object, the first address having a first memory tag. The address translation circuitry is to translate the first address to a second address, the second address to identify a memory location of the data object. The comparator is to compare the first memory tag and a second memory tag associated with the second address. The cache controller is to detect a cache miss associated with the memory location. The memory controller is to, in response to the comparator detecting a match between the first memory tag and the second memory tag and the cache controller detecting the cache miss, load the data object from the memory location into the cache. Other embodiments include encryption of memory tags together with addresses.
US11733873B2
A computer storage device having: a host interface; a controller; non-volatile storage media having memory units of different types and having different program erase budgets; and firmware. The firmware instructs the controller to: generate an address map mapping logical addresses to physical addresses of the memory units the different types; and adjust the address map based at least in part on the program erase budgets to level wear across the memory units of the different types.
US11733867B2
The inventor has conceived, and reduced to practice, a system and method for data compaction using that applies delta encoding methods to entropy encoding methods to improve data compaction of entropy encoding methods under certain conditions and when compacting data having certain characteristics. Delta encoding may be applied to entropy encoding methods to further compact data sets by reducing the number of sourceblocks included in a codebook to those most commonly encountered in data to be encoded and, where mismatches occur during encoding, using delta encoding of bit differences with existing sourceblocks in the codebook rather than adding new sourceblocks to the codebook.
US11733858B2
An image forming apparatus operable to provide at least one function is provided. The apparatus comprises an operation unit configured to accept an operation by a user via a displayed user interface; and a controller that, based on function restriction information indicating availability of each of the at least one function, displays, on the operation unit, a user interface that accepts an instruction for using a function for which usage is permitted and does not accept an instruction for using a function for which usage is restricted.
US11733842B2
A processing method includes displaying a first content, acquiring input information, and displaying a second content in response to the input information satisfying a condition. The input information satisfying the condition indicates presence of a viewer of interest.
US11733837B2
Methods and systems for unifying display of virtual resources are described herein. A virtual session between a client device and a server device may be established. During the virtual session, a user may request, via the client device, to access a uniform resource locator (URL) via a browser associated with the server device. The URL request may be redirected. For example, the client device may receive, from the server device, a request to access the URL via a different browser. The client device may determine another browser with which to access the URL, and the URL may be launched via the other browser. The client device may generate a unified display of the URL launched via the other browser and one or more other URLs.
US11733834B2
Methods, systems, and media for navigating a user interface are provided. In some embodiments, methods for navigating a user interface is provided, the method comprising: causing a user interface to be presented including media identifiers that correspond media assets; causing the media identifiers to be arranged along a first direction; causing a first media identifier at a first position to be highlighted; causing a menu element to be presented at a first menu position associated with the first media identifier; receiving an instruction from a user input device to navigate to a next element along the first direction; causing a second media identifier next to the first position to be highlighted in response to receiving the instruction; causing the menu element to be presented at a second menu position associated with the second media identifier; and inhibiting presentation of the menu element at the first menu position.
US11733833B2
Computer systems and corresponding methods are provided for computer assisted research in a network are provided that generate interface screens that include a map view of a plurality of selectable objects disposed in a nuclear arrangement in segmented rings about a first level object. The computing device is configured to receive selections of the displayed objects and expand the display to include additional segmented levels all surrounding the first level object.
US11733816B2
A display device includes a display panel and an input sensor disposed on the display panel. The input sensor includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a third electrode. The first electrode includes a first sensing pattern having a first opening defined therein. The second electrode includes a second sensing pattern having a second opening defined therein. The third electrode includes a first sub-sensing pattern disposed in the first opening of the first sensing pattern, and a second sub-sensing pattern disposed in the second opening of the second sensing pattern. The first sub-sensing pattern and the second sub-sensing pattern are electrically connected with each other. The first electrode, the second electrode, and the third electrode are insulated from one another.
US11733807B2
A display may have an array of pixels. The pixels may contain light-emitting diodes. When it is desired to use the display to operate as a light sensor, some of the light-emitting diodes may be forward biased to emit light while some of the light-emitting diodes are reversed biased to detect the emitted light after the emitted light has reflected from an external object. During light sensing operations, one or more areas of the display may be temporarily deactivated so that the light-sensing pixels may measure the reflected light. Vertical lines may serve both as data loading lines and as current sensing lines. Currents may be sensed during drive transistor current compensation and during light sensing. The vertical lines may load signals into the pixels that forward bias the light-emitting diodes to emit light when it is desired to display images for a user.
US11733803B2
For a node in which a difference between a base sensor value which is a sensor value obtained at certain time intervals and a first reference value which is a sensor value obtained when an organic EL element does not emit light in normal temperature state is greater than a threshold value, a correction value calculation circuit stores the product of a base computing value and a third reference value as a correction value in a correction value storage unit, the third reference value representing a ratio of the first reference value to a second reference value which is a sensor value obtained when the organic EL element emits light in normal temperature state, and the base computing value being obtained by providing the product of the third reference value and the base sensor value as an input value to a base computing value calculation circuit.
US11733801B2
A touch sensor panel is disclosed. The touch sensor panel includes a first layer including a plurality of electrodes of a first type that are coupled to respective traces and are configured to operate as touch sensing electrodes during a first time period. The touch sensor panel also includes a second layer including a plurality of electrodes of a second type overlapping with the respective traces of the electrodes of the first type. The electrodes of the second type are configured to operate as guard electrodes for the respective traces of the electrodes of the first type during the first time period and operate as touch sensing electrodes during a second time period.
US11733800B2
The present disclosure relates to a technology of sensing a touch. According to the present disclosure, touch sensors are driven in a time division way using multiplexers disposed on a panel and auxiliary signals, with a same phase as that of driving signals, are supplied to electrodes around a touch sensor in driving so as to reduce the introduction of noises from the neighboring electrodes.
US11733798B2
A touch sensing system is provided. The touch sensing system includes a touch panel including touch sensors arranged in a grid along row and column directions; a touch controller including at least one transmission circuit to transmit a signal to the touch sensors and at least one reception circuit to detect a signal from the touch sensors; and a switching circuit to selectively connect each of the touch sensors to the at least one transmission circuit and the at least one reception circuit in accordance with an operation mode. The switching circuit connects each of the touch sensors to the at least one reception circuit in a touch mode and connects a first portion of the touch sensors to the at least one reception circuit and a second portion of the touch sensors to the at least one transmission circuit in a proximity mode.
US11733785B2
Systems and methods provide for replacing a default glyph in text displayed by an application with a preferred glyph. A preferred glyph is selected and the character value, glyph ID and font of the preferred glyph are extracted from the preferred glyph. The character value of the preferred glyph is then mapped to the glyph ID and font, which is then stored in a priority glyph set. A user can then input text into a document normally using default glyphs of a font. If it is determined that a character value associated with a default glyph is included in the priority glyph set, the default glyph is replaced by a preferred glyph. Additionally, suggestion glyphs may be presented to a user based on, at least, the character value, glyph ID, and font of a selected glyph.
US11733774B2
The invention relates to an eye tracking arrangement that includes a camera configured to capture images of an eye at a first scanning rate, a laser velocimeter configured to capture an eye velocity of a movement of the eye by laser Doppler velocimetry at a second scanning rate and a control device configured to determine an absolute eye position based on the images, and track a gaze direction of the eye based on the absolute eye position and the eye velocity.
US11733769B2
In some embodiments, a computer system receives data representing a pose of at least a first portion of a user and causes presentation of an avatar that includes a respective avatar feature corresponding to the first portion of the user and presented having a variable display characteristic that is indicative of a certainty of the pose of the first portion of the user. In some embodiments, a computer system receives data indicating current activity of one or more users is activity of a first type and, in response, updates a representation of a user having a first appearance based on a first appearance template. The system receives second data indicating current activity of the one or more users and, in response, updates the appearance of the representation of the first user based on the current activity of the one or more users using the first or a second appearance template.
US11733765B2
Control device for a power over Ethernet system having multiple power source devices comprises plural control circuits and a signal bus connecting them. Each control device connects plural power source devices and plural port switches, which controls power supply to a port to be connected by a power consuming device. Detection circuit detects at least one power supply state combination. Control signal generator picks up a power control combination signal corresponding to a detected power supply state combination from a power supply to power control look-up-table, upon change in the power supply state and provides the power control signals to corresponding port switches.
US11733759B2
A power supply control circuit capable of achieving power saving. The power supply control circuit includes: a microcomputer that controls an operation of a control target; a power supply unit that supplies power to the microcomputer; a power switch that connects the power supply unit and the microcomputer; a bypass circuit that includes a MOSFET switch and is capable of bypassing the power switch to maintain connection between the power supply unit and the microcomputer; and a cut-off circuit that includes a MOSFET switch and is disposed between the bypass circuit and the microcomputer.
US11733756B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a battery, a power management integrated circuit (PMIC), that is electrically connected to the battery, adjusts at least part of power received from the battery, and outputs a controlled power, a processor electrically connected to the PMIC, at least one power sensor that is one of electrically connected between the battery and the PMIC and constitutes a part of the PMIC, and a control circuit electrically connected to the at least one power sensor. The control circuit acquires at least one of a current value and a power value input into the PMIC from the battery, determines whether at least one of the acquired current value and power value is greater than or equal to a threshold, and generates a first signal for controlling at least one of the PMIC and the processor, at least partially based on the determination.
US11733747B2
The technology relates generally to a distributed battery cell charging circuit that allows for battery cells to be positioned in different locations. The distributed battery charging circuit may include a first charging circuit including at least one battery cell, a second charging circuit including at least one battery cell, and a controller configured to control the charging of the at least one battery cell in the first charging circuit independently of controlling the charging of the at least one battery cell in the second charging circuit.
US11733746B2
An example apparatus to retain a computer power brick in a power brick holder includes a plate and a positioning mechanism removably attached at any of a plurality of positions on the plate. The positioning mechanism is attached at a preset position on the plate based on a size of the power brick.
US11733745B2
A port protection device includes a blocking element movement subsystem that may be coupled to a port that defines a port entrance, and a port entrance blocking element connected to the blocking element movement subsystem and defining airflow aperture(s). When the blocking element movement subsystem is coupled to the port, the blocking element movement subsystem allows the port entrance blocking element to be positioned in a port protection orientation immediately adjacent the port entrance such that airflow is restricted to entering the port via the airflow aperture(s). When the blocking element movement subsystem is coupled to the port, the blocking element movement subsystem also allows the port entrance blocking element to move from the port protection orientation to a cable connector orientation in response to engagement with a cable connector so that the cable connector may move through the port entrance to connect to the port.
US11733734B1
A head mounted display (HMD) includes a set of one or more lenses defining an optical axis, a display configured to project light through the set of the one or more lenses, a voice coil actuator coupled with the display and configured to move the display along the optical axis, and a first guide that is separate from the first voice coil actuator and coupled with the first display to guide the movement of the first display. The HMD additionally includes a set of one or more position sensors configured to determine a position of the display long the optical axis and an electronic controller configured to receive information identifying a reference position of the display along the optical axis and generate one or more electrical signals for initiating a movement of the first display toward the first reference point along the optical axis.
US11733733B2
A strap includes a base having a plate shape and detachably attached to a terminal rear surface of a portable terminal, a rotary plate attached to a base front surface of the base so as to be rotatable around a rotation axis perpendicular to the base front surface, an annular holding portion fixed to a rotary plate front surface of the rotary plate and into which a palm portion is inserted from a finger, and an adjuster portion having a foldable portion and fixed to the base rear surface of the base. The foldable portion varies a distance perpendicular to the base rear surface from the base rear surface of the base.
US11733724B2
In some embodiments, an integrated circuit device includes multiple rows of functional cells, with each row having a cell height. At least one of rows of functional cells includes at least one digital low-dropout voltage regulator (DLVR) cell with the cell height for the row. The DLVR cell includes: an input terminal, an output terminal, a voltage supply terminal, a reference voltage terminal, and one or more pairs of transistors. Each pair of transistors are arranged in cascode configuration connected between the voltage supply terminal and output terminal. The gate of one of the transistors the cascode configuration is connected to the input terminal, and the gate of the other transistor in the cascode configuration is connected to the reference voltage terminal. The four terminals each comprises a metal track in the bottom metal layer and disposed within the cell height.
US11733723B2
A heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system includes a plurality of sensors including a first sensor configured to measure an outside air temperature of outside air, a second sensor configured to measure a return air temperature of return air, and a third sensor configured to measure a mixed air temperature of mixed air. The system also includes a controller communicatively coupled to the plurality of sensors. The controller is configured to determine that data from one of the plurality of sensors is unavailable and estimate the data from the one of the plurality of sensors based on data from other sensors of the plurality of sensors.
US11733721B2
A flow rate control device 100 includes a control valve 6 provided in a flow path 1, a flow rate measurement unit 2, 3 for measuring fluid flow rate controlled by the control valve 6, and a controller 7. The controller 7 is configured so as to control the opening/closing operation of the control valve 6 to match the measurement integral flow rate based on the signal outputted from the flow rate measurement unit (Vn+Vd) to the target integral flow rate Vs.
US11733716B2
An example method involves determining an expected demand level for a first type of a plurality of types of transport tasks for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), the first type of transport tasks associated with a first payload type. Each of the UAVs is physically reconfigurable between at least a first and a second configuration corresponding to the first payload type and a second payload type, respectively. The method also involves determining based on the expected demand level for the first type of transport tasks, (i) a first number of UAVs having the first configuration and (ii) a second number of UAVs having the second configuration. The method further involves, at or near a time corresponding to the expected demand level, providing one or more UAVs to perform the transport tasks, including at least the first number of UAVs.
US11733705B2
A control unit drives a drive source to move the moving body. A detection unit detects external force applied to the moving body. A movement information deriving unit derives, based on the detected external force, a movement direction and movement speed of the moving body. The control unit drives the drive source based on the movement direction and movement speed derived by the movement information deriving unit.
US11733697B2
A controller for an autonomous motive entity which comprises a neural processor (6) and a mechanical switch (20), and the switch capable of being set to one of at least three conditions (4b;5b;11), each condition indicative of a respective mode of operation of the controller, and the controller comprising three modules which each comprise respective instructions (4e, 4a, 5a) to implement a respective mode of operation of the entity, wherein one of the three modes is that in which the entity is caused to become disabled.
US11733690B2
The disclosure describes systems and methods including a mobile device for remotely controlling the movement of a vehicle and trailer. The mobile device provides an intuitive interface for controlling the movement of the vehicle and trailer by changing the orientation of a vehicle graphic (e.g., of the vehicle and trailer) according to a position of the mobile device around a periphery of the vehicle and trailer. This allows the user to walk around the vehicle and trailer to determine a best position from which to control the vehicle and trailer depending on a given situation without losing the intuitiveness of the user interface.
US11733688B2
System and method for recognizing and forecasting anomalous sensory behavioral patterns of a machine
A system and method for recognizing and forecasting anomalous sensory behavioral patterns of a machine, including: monitoring a first set of time-stamped sensory input data related to at least one machine; determining, upon analysis of the first set of time-stamped sensory input data, a first suspicious pattern of a first anomalous sensory input behavior associated with the first set of time-stamped sensory input data; comparing the first suspicious pattern to a second pattern of a second anomalous sensory input behavior that is associated with a second set of time-stamped sensory input data, wherein the second pattern previously determined to be indicative of a machine failure; and, determining if the first suspicious pattern is correlated above a predetermined threshold with the second pattern.
US11733683B2
A cloud-based industrial data services (IDS) architecture leverage smart tags, asset models, and data service applications to facilitate secure transaction and exchange of contextualized factory data between different parties as part of a combined technology and commerce platform, or to perform provide asset owners with insights into operation of their industrial assets. The IDS platform supports a set of services that connect providers of smart industrial devices to plant floor and systems owned by the end users of these devices. The cloud-based platform allows asset providers to publish data service applications for purchase and use by end users of their assets, and allows equipment owners to control remote access to selected sets of their industrial data via the cloud platform.
US11733679B2
A master machine supporting system includes a master machine in which a speed reducer is incorporated, and a server configured to store performance data of the speed reducer in association with a speed reducer ID of each speed reducer. The server transmits performance data corresponding to the speed reducer ID in response to a performance data transmission request including the speed reducer ID. The master machine receives an input of the performance data of the speed reducer incorporated in the master machine and controls an operation of the master machine based on the input performance data.
US11733678B2
Various embodiments include a method for additive manufacturing of a building structure on using a simulation comprising: accessing a data set for the building structure describing the building structure in layers; calculating a global heat development in previous layers based a building history and heat input by an energy beam; determining a local heat development in a vicinity of the heat input; determining the process control based on the global and the local heat development; loading correction measures from a database; and assigning the correction measures locally to individual vectors of a tool path of the energy beam. At least one mass integral is calculated for individual vectors of the tool path. The measures are determined on the basis of a comparison of the calculated mass integral with mass integrals stored in the database.
US11733676B2
In an example, a method includes receiving, by at least one processor, object model data, the object model data describing at least part of an object to be generated in additive manufacturing. Pattern data is also received, wherein the pattern data describes a pattern of variable opacity intended to be formed internally to the object. Object generation instructions for generating an intermediate layer of the object comprising the pattern of variable opacity may be determined by at least one processor.
US11733672B2
A recoater collision prediction and calibration method for additive manufacturing and a system thereof are provided. The recoater collision prediction and calibration method includes the following steps: loading a printing image file to generate a simulated printing object according to the printing image file; performing a process thermal stress simulation on the simulated printing object to obtain a plurality of simulated deformation variables respectively corresponding to a plurality of prediction results of the simulated printing object in a vertical direction on each layer; obtaining an experimental collision height of an experimental printed object; selecting one of the plurality of simulated deformation variables according to the experimental collision height; calculating a recoater tolerance according to the one of the plurality of simulated deformation variables; calibrating a collision risk formula according to the recoater tolerance; and predicting a collision risk value between the simulated printing object and a recoater according to the collision risk formula.
US11733663B2
A building management system for monitoring equipment status is provided. The building management system includes a processing circuit configured to generate one or more diagnostics for a piece of building equipment based on one or more faults. The processing circuit is further configured to generate a work order based on the one or more diagnostics. The processing circuit is further configured to cause the work order to include task details for resolving the one or more faults. The task details are based on the one or more diagnostics associated with the one or more faults.
US11733659B2
An intellectual quality management method is disclosed. A heatmap risk interface is created according to the required data and the parameter configuration which are calculated using a time dependent risk priority number (RPN) equation. An intellectual audit scheduling algorithm is defined via the heatmap risk interface to automatically generate at least one audit plan. An audit program corresponding to the audit plan is performed and a plurality of problem points are selected. Intellectual root cause category recommendation is performed to the questions points. intellectual corrective actions and preventive action recommendations are performed to the problem points according to the intellectual root cause category recommendation to obtain at least one optimum corrective action and at least one preventive action. Corrective actions are performed to each audit unit according to the corrective action to solve the problem points and prevention actions are performed to each audit unit according to the preventive action.
US11733648B2
Techniques related to generating holographic images are discussed. Such techniques include application of a hybrid system including a pre-trained deep neural network and a subsequent iterative process using a suitable propagation model to generate diffraction pattern image data for a target holographic image such that the diffraction pattern image data is to generate a holographic image when implemented via a holographic display.
US11733645B2
An image forming apparatus includes: a housing; a drawer; and first and second process cartridges attachable to the drawer. The first process cartridge includes a first drum cartridge including a first photosensitive drum and a first developing cartridge including a first developing roller. When attached to the first drum cartridge, the first developing cartridge is movable between a first position where the first developing cartridge is detachable from the first drum cartridge and a second position where the first developing cartridge is not detachable from the first drum cartridge. In a state where the first and second process cartridges are attached to the drawer at positions adjacent to each other, the first developing cartridge comes into contact with the second process cartridge during movement of the first developing cartridge from the second position to the first position before the first developing cartridge reaches the first position.
US11733642B2
An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive drum, a photoreceptor housing, a developing roller, a development housing, first contact members and second contact members. The first contact members are provided in end portions of the photoreceptor housing in an axial direction of the photosensitive drum. The second contact members are provided in end portions of the development housing in the axial direction, and come into contact with the first contact members by a force in which the development housing is pushed toward the photoreceptor housing. A position of at least one of the first contact member and the second contact member which come contact with each other can be adjusted in a direction in which the first contact member and the second contact member come close to each other or separate away from each other.
US11733640B2
Disclosed is a drawing apparatus including: a base member; and a drawing member that is attached so as to be capable of being drawn and pressed in a reciprocating direction with respect to the base member, wherein the base member has a couple application mechanism that applies a couple for correcting skewing of the drawing member with respect to the reciprocating direction to the drawing member as a reaction of a force by which the drawing member is pressed, and wherein the couple application mechanism is configured so that a distance between action lines of two forces generating the couple becomes large as a pressing amount of the drawing member with respect to the base member increases.
US11733628B2
The fixing device includes a heating roller and a pressure roller. The heating roller has a rotating member, a heating member, and a support member. The heating member has a heater, a first terminal, and a second terminal. The heater generates heat by energization. The first terminal is connected to one end of the heater. The second terminal is connected to the other end of the heater. The first terminal protrudes from one end of the rotating member in the longitudinal direction of the rotating member and is hooked on a hook provided on the support member so as to be movable along the longitudinal direction. The second terminal protrudes from the other end of the rotating member in the longitudinal direction and is fixed to the support member so as not to be movable along the longitudinal direction.
US11733624B2
A belt device includes a belt device main body, a first unit, and a second unit. The first unit includes a belt and a support to support the belt. The first unit is configured to detachably attached to the belt device main body. The second unit includes a tensioner abutting the belt. The second unit is configured to be positioned at an operating position at which the tensioner applies tension to the belt when the first unit is attached to the belt device main body and positioned at a releasing position at which the tensioner releases the tension applied to the belt when the first unit is detached from the belt device main body.
US11733622B2
An imaging system includes a belt roller extending in an axial direction, an endless belt to rotate about the belt roller, a steering roller located inside the endless belt and extending in the axial direction, a steering roller actuator located at an end portion of the belt roller in the axial direction to contact the endless belt, and a support. The steering roller actuator is displaceable in the axial direction in response to a shifting of the endless belt so as to tilt the steering roller with respect to the axial direction. The support supports the endless belt in a gap formed between the belt roller and the steering roller actuator when the steering roller actuator is displaced in the axial direction.
US11733620B2
A print material cartridge may include a hopper to maintain an amount of print material therein; and an atmospheric pressure seal to seal the hopper from atmosphere; wherein a pressure within the hopper and sealed by the atmospheric pressure seal is lower than atmosphere.
US11733619B2
Printed matter is provided which includes a recording medium, a colored layer overlying the recording medium, and an infrared-absorbing-pigment-containing layer overlying the recording medium and underlying the colored layer. The colored layer contains a colorant. The infrared-absorbing-pigment-containing layer contains an infrared absorbing pigment having an average diameter of from 120 to 250 nm in the infrared-absorbing-pigment-containing layer.
US11733617B2
An apparatus for receiving input radiation and broadening a frequency range of the input radiation to provide broadband output radiation. The apparatus includes a chamber, a fiber, a gas generating apparatus, and a radical generating apparatus. The fiber includes a hollow core configured to guide radiation propagating through the fiber, the hollow core in fluid communication with the chamber. The gas generating apparatus is configured to provide a gas within the chamber. The radical generating apparatus is configured to provide free radicals within the chamber to reduce contaminants in the gas. The apparatus may be included in a radiation source.
US11733612B2
A substrate processing apparatus includes light source configured to irradiate a substrate having thereon a resist film made of a resist material for EUV lithography with light including vacuum ultraviolet light before an exposure process, and a light amount suppressing member provided in an optical path of the light from the light source and configured to suppress an amount of the light reaching a surface of the substrate such that the light becomes weak light as a whole in an irradiation region, wherein the light including the vacuum ultraviolet light contains a continuous spectral component of at least a portion of a band contained in a wavelength of 10 nm to 200 nm.
US11733608B2
A resist composition comprising a base polymer and a quencher containing an onium salt of iodized benzene ring-containing fluorosulfonamide offers a high sensitivity and minimal LWR or improved CDU, independent of whether it is of positive or negative tone.
US11733573B2
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a switching element disposed in a display area including a pixel, a color filter layer including a first color filter of a first color and a second color filter of a second color different from the first color and a conductive layer connected to the switching element via a contact hole penetrating the color filter layer. The conductive layer is in contact with the first color filter and the second color filter in the contact hole.
US11733569B2
According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display apparatus includes a display region including a plurality of display pixels arrayed in a matrix, an array substrate including a plurality of first electrodes which are arrayed in a matrix, second electrodes which are arranged on the same layer as a layer of the first electrodes and connect the first electrodes to each. other, and third electrodes which are arrayed in a matrix on the first electrodes and the second electrodes, a countersubstrate which is arranged to face the array substrate, and a liquid crystal layer which is interposed between the array substrate and the countersubstrate.
US11733566B2
A curved liquid crystal panel includes a first substrate curved in a first direction; a second substrate curved in a first direction and facing the first substrate; a liquid crystal sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate; a first seal that adheres the first substrate and the second substrate to each other and that seals the liquid crystal; and a second seal surrounding a periphery of the first seal. A force of the second seal that adheres the first substrate and the second substrate to each other is weaker than a force of the first seal that adheres the first substrate and the second substrate to each other.
US11733561B2
The present disclosure pertains to a color filter for a display device, which has at least one color filter element for generating a predefined color in response to incident light, wherein the at least one color filter element includes a Perovskite material.
US11733558B1
A curved optic structure includes an optic film, a polarizer and a liquid crystal compensation film. The optic film includes a light incident side and a light exit side. The optic film has a curved surface on the light exit side. The polarizer is conformally attached on the curved surface. The liquid crystal compensation film is disposed at the light exit side of the optic film. The polarizer is located between the optic film and the liquid crystal compensation film. The liquid crystal compensation film includes a liquid crystal layer and a power supply. The liquid crystal layer includes a plurality of liquid crystals inside. The power supply is connected to a first side surface and an opposite second side surface of the liquid crystal layer.
US11733556B2
A privacy-mode backlight includes a light guide configured to guide light having a predetermined collimation factor orthogonal to a length of the light guide and a plurality of scattering line elements arranged along the light guide length. Scattering line elements of the scattering line element plurality are configured to scatter out through an emission surface of the light guide a portion of the guided light as emitted light having an illumination beamwidth in the orthogonal direction determined by the collimation factor. The privacy-mode backlight further includes a directional optical diffuser configured to provide directional diffusion of the emitted light in a direction corresponding to the light guide length. The directional diffusion may provide uniform illumination in the light guide length direction. A privacy display further includes an array of light valves configured to modulate the emitted light to provide a private image.
US11733553B2
Optical waveguides may include a substrate and a silicon based optical waveguide supported on the substrate. The silicon based optical waveguide may include a central ridge portion and a plurality of spaced apart wing portions connected through connecting portions. The number of wing portions may be greater than two. The central ridge portion may have a central ridge lateral width extent greater than a lateral width extent of at least one of the wing portions. Optical waveguides may include a substrate, a silicon based optical waveguide supported on the substrate, and a concentrator supported on the substrate and positioned within a lateral width extent of the silicon based optical waveguide and outside of a height extent of the silicon based optical waveguide. The optical waveguides may be included as part of an optical modulator.
US11733542B2
A wearable ophthalmic device is disclosed. The device may include a head-mounted light field display configured to generate a physical light field comprising a beam of light. The head-mounted light field display may direct the beam of light into a user's eye, thereby producing a retinal reflex. The device may also include a head-mounted photodetector array configured to receive the retinal reflex and to generate numerical image data. The device may also include a light field processor configured to control the light field display, to analyze the retinal reflex using the numerical image data, and to determine an optical prescription for the user's eye based on the analysis of the retinal reflex.
US11733536B1
A periodic optimization method for a diffractive optical element includes converting coordinates of individual target spots of a target spot array into angular spectrum coordinates, selecting an initial period, calculating diffraction orders of individual target spots, rounding the diffraction order, calculating the coordinates of actual projection spots by using the rounded diffraction orders, calculating evaluation indicator of period optimization, adjusting the period, and repeating the steps, and comparing the evaluation indicators to determine an optimal period for the diffractive optical element. With the periodic optimization method, an actual spot array is made to match a target spot array to the greatest possible extent with a small amount of calculations, thereby improving the design quality and accuracy of a diffractive optical element.
US11733525B2
A method, system, apparatus, and/or device that may include a first optic located a first distance from an optical receiver, the first optic being adapted to: receive environment content from a location in front of the first optic relative to the optical receiver; and alter a focal vergence of the environment content. The method, system, apparatus, and/or device may include a display located a second distance from the optical receiver, the display being is adapted to: receive the environment content from the first optic; and deliver the environment content and display content to a second optic. The method, system, apparatus, and/or device may include the second optic located a third distance from the optical receiver, the second optic being is adapted to: receive the environment content and the display content from the display; alter the focal vergence of the environment content; and alter a focal vergence of the display content.
US11733522B2
A system is disclosed that display configured to transmit a signal that includes a first light configured as a display image and a second light configured as a reference image. The system also includes a beam splitter, a selectively transmissive mirror and a sensor configured to detect the second light. The beam splitter is configured to receive the signal from the display and reflect the signal to the selectively transmissive mirror. The selectively transmissive mirror is configured to receive the reflected signal, transmit the second light toward a sensor, and reflect the first light, wherein the first light is configured with a first bandwidth, wherein the second light is configured with a second bandwidth. The system further includes a corrector lens configured to receive the first light and transmit the first light to an exit pupil.
US11733506B2
A user-wearable fluorescence based visualization system comprising a multi-light lamp assembly that provides for the selected output of light using multiple light emitting sources, wherein the outputted light may be tailored to generate response wavelength by the interaction of the emitted light and a tissue illuminated by the emitted light, through the process of fluorescence, and a viewing system that allows a practitioner view the fluorescent light generated by the tissue, and distinguish between healthy and diseased tissues.
US11733499B2
An optical system (ZL(1)) comprises a plurality of lens groups including a first focusing lens group (G2) and a second focusing lens group (G4) that are disposed side by side on an optical axis, and the second focusing lens group (G4) is disposed at a position closer to an image surface than the first focusing lens group (G2). The first focusing lens group (G2) has positive refractive power, and moves toward an object along the optical axis from focusing on an infinite-distance object to focusing on a short-distance object. The second focusing lens group (G4) moves toward the image surface along the optical axis from focusing on the infinite-distance object to focusing on the short-distance object. The optical system (ZL(1)) satisfies the following conditional expression. −020<βF1/βF2<0.50 where βF1 is the lateral magnification of the first focusing lens group at the time of focusing on the infinite-distance object, and βF2 is the lateral magnification of the second focusing lens group at the time of focusing on the infinite-distance object.
US11733497B2
An athermalized Short-Wave InfraRed (SWIR) telephoto lens for a tracking camera having, in order, from a remote object to an image plane an aperture stop, a first optical element having a first element first surface radius of 23.21 mm, a first element second surface radius of 46.25 mm, a second optical element having a second element first surface radius of 22.72 mm, a second element second surface radius of 45.58 mm, a third optical element having a third element first surface radius of −56.85 mm, a third element second surface radius of 16.65 mm, where the lens is corrected over a spectral waveband of 1.5 μm to 1.6 μm from −10 C to +65 C, has a length from the first element to the camera of 88 mm, has a telephoto ratio of 0.367, has an F# of 24, and has a focal length of 240 mm.
US11733493B2
The present invention provides a camera optical lens, including, from an object side to an image side, a first lens having a positive refractive power, a second lens having a negative refractive power, a third lens having a positive refractive power, a fourth lens having a positive refractive power, and a fifth lens having a negative refractive power. The camera optical lens satisfies: −2.00≤f2/f≤−1.25; —1.50≤f4/f5≤−0.80; 1.50≤d6/d8≤3.00; −1.50≤(R1+R2)/(R1−R2)≤−1.00; and 6.00≤R9/R10≤15.00. The camera optical lens has excellent optical performance while meeting the design requirements of a large aperture, a wide angle, and ultra-thinness.
US11733492B2
A camera optical lens is provided, including from an object side to an image side: a first lens having positive refractive power; a second lens having positive refractive power; a third lens having positive refractive power; a fourth lens having negative refractive power; a fifth lens having negative refractive power; a sixth lens having positive refractive power; and a seventh lens having negative refractive power. The camera optical lens satisfies following conditions: 1.50≤f2/f≤5 0.00; −9.50≤(R9+R10)/(R9−R10)≤−1.20; −2.00≤f7/f≤−0.60, where f denotes focal length of the camera optical lens; f2 denotes focal length of the second lens; f7 denotes focal length of the seventh lens; R9 denotes central curvature radius of object side surface of the fifth lens; and R10 denotes central curvature radius of image side surface of the fifth lens. The above camera optical lens may meet design requirements for large aperture, wide angle and ultra-thinness, while maintaining good imaging quality.
US11733490B2
An optical system includes a first lens including a negative refractive power and a convex object-side surface, a second lens, and a third lens including a negative refractive power and a convex object-side surface. The optical system also includes a fourth lens, a fifth lens including a negative refractive power, and a sixth lens including a negative refractive power and comprising an inflection point on an image-side surface thereof. The first to sixth lenses are sequentially disposed from an object toward an imaging plane.
US11733489B2
A five-piece infrared single wavelength lens system includes, in order from the object side to the image side: a first lens element with a negative refractive power, a stop, a second lens element with a positive refractive power, a third lens element with a negative refractive power, a fourth lens element with a positive refractive power, and a fifth lens element with a negative refractive power, where a radius of curvature of an object-side surface of the third lens element is R5, a central thickness of the third lens element along an optical axis is CT3, and they satisfy the relation: 5
US11733488B2
The present disclosure discloses an optical imaging lens assembly including, sequentially from an object side to an image side along an optical axis, a first lens having refractive power; a second lens having refractive power with a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface; a third lens having refractive power; a fourth lens having negative refractive power; a fifth lens having negative refractive power with a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface; and a sixth lens having refractive power with a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface. A distance TTL along the optical axis from an object-side surface of the first lens to an imaging plane of the optical imaging lens assembly and a total effective focal length f of the optical imaging lens assembly satisfy: TTL/f<1.
US11733481B2
A camera optical lens includes, from an object side to an image side: a first lens having a positive refractive power, a second lens having a negative refractive power, a third lens having a negative refractive power, a fourth lens and a fifth lens having a positive refractive power. The camera optical lens satisfies conditions of 0.30≤f1/f≤0.50, −4.00≤f3/f≤−1.20, 2.00≤d6/d7≤8.00, and 3.00≤R9/R10≤10.00. Here f denotes a focal length of the camera optical lens, f1 denotes a focal length of the first lens, f3 denotes a focal length of the third lens, d6 denotes an on-axis distance from an image-side surface of the third lens to an object-side surface of the fourth lens, d7 denotes an on-axis thickness of the fourth lens. The camera optical lens of the present disclosure has excellent optical performances, and meanwhile can meet design requirements of a large aperture, a wide angle and ultra-thin.
US11733476B2
An optical imaging lens, sequentially including at least one lens element and an optical ring element from an object side to an image side along an optical axis, is provided. The optical ring element is located on a side of the lens element closest to the image side and facing the image side, and has an object-side bearing surface facing the object side and in contact with the closest lens element. The object-side bearing surface has an object-side outer periphery and an object-side inner periphery, and the object-side inner periphery is located between the optical axis and the object-side outer periphery. The object-side bearing surface has at least one groove, and the at least one groove extends to the object-side inner periphery along a radial direction.
US11733469B2
To provide a planar lightwave circuit capable of being optically connected to a semiconductor optical element or an optical wiring component in a simple, precise, and stable manner without an increase in circuit footprint or the number of fabrication steps or a deterioration of characteristics. By arranging a dummy optical waveguide having a mirror function in the vicinity of an input/output waveguide of an optical functional circuit forming the planar lightwave circuit, a semiconductor optical element or an optical wiring component can be easily aligned with and fixed to the optical functional circuit by monitoring the reflection light intensity from the dummy optical waveguide. When the optical functional circuit has a plurality of input/output waveguides to be optically connected, each input/output waveguide can be identified if the dummy optical waveguides having the mirror function have different reflection properties (such as reflectance, width, position, or reflection wavelength).
US11733466B2
A new fiber optic connector provides a smaller form factor by including two ferrule assemblies in a housing. The housing accepts a push-pull mechanism that allows for insertion and removal from a carrier as well as an adapter. The push-pull mechanism may also include a flexure member to return the push-pull mechanism. Polarity of the fiber optic connector may also be selected by use of the push-pull mechanism.
US11733460B2
The invention relates to devices and methods for polarization splitting, where a first optical coupler having at least one input port which receives an input light beam, and at least two output ports at which said light beam, is split into at least a first and a second arms at a first end of said arms. At least one total internal reflection mirror is coupled to the second arm for inducing polarization-dependent phase shifts to the light beam propagating in the second arm, and a polarization-dependent phase difference between the second and the first arm. A second optical coupler having input ports is coupled to the second and opposite ends of the arms. The second coupler has at least one first output port at which light is coupled from said arms, so that the polarization-dependent phase shift of the at least one total internal reflection mirror causes polarization-dependent coupling of light from said input port to said output port.
US11733452B2
A terahertz polarization beam splitter based on a two-core negative curvature fiber is provided, which relates to the technical field of optical fiber communication. The polarization beam splitter includes: a base circular tube and core separation structures. Multiple large cladding tubes are internally tangent and connected to an inner wall of the base circular tube and arranged at equal intervals along a circumference of the inner wall of the base circular tube, and the multiple large cladding tubes are symmetrically distributed on the inner wall of the base circular tube. Embedded circular tubes are internally tangent and connected to inner walls of the multiple large cladding tubes respectively. The core separation structures are two in number.
US11733449B2
A coupled-core multicore optical fiber has a plurality of cores that are doped with alkali metals or chlorine to achieve low attenuation and a large effective area. The cores may be embedded in a common cladding region that may be fluorine doped. The cores may also be doped with chlorine, either with the alkali metals described above or without the alkali metals.
US11733448B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for manufacturing energy relays for energy directing systems and Transverse Anderson Localization. Systems and methods include providing first and second component engineered structures with first and second sets of engineered properties and forming a medium using the first component engineered structure and the second component engineered structure. The forming step includes randomizing a first engineered property in a first orientation of the medium resulting in a first variability of that engineered property in that plane, and the values of the second engineered property allowing for a variation of the first engineered property in a second orientation of the medium, where the variation of the first engineered property in the second orientation is less than the variation of the first engineered property in the first orientation.
US11733447B2
A transparent optical device (100) is provided, comprising a lightguide medium (101) configured for light propagation, and an at least one optically functional layer (10) comprising at least one optically functional feature pattern (11) formed in a light-transmitting carrier medium (11 1) by a plurality of embedded features provided as optically functional internal cavities (12), wherein said at least one feature pattern (11) is configured to perform an incident light control function and at least a light outcoupling function, whereby stray light is minimized and optical transparency of the device (100) is established.
US11733435B2
Provided are a polarizing plate protective film including a resin and a coloring agent having an absorption maximum wavelength in a range of 560 to 620 nm or 460 to 520 nm in an amount of 0.1 parts by mass or more with respect to 100 parts by mass of the resin, in which a film thickness is 1 to 18 μm, and a moisture content is 0.5% by mass or less, a polarizing plate in which the protective film is used, and a liquid crystal display device in which the polarizing plate is used.
US11733433B2
The present disclosure provides a protective film for a substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, a substrate and a manufacturing method of a display panel. The substrate includes a plurality of panel regions correspondingly forming a plurality of display panels. Each of the panel regions has a first region corresponding to a bending region of the display panels. The protective film includes a entire film layer and a hollow portion, the size of the entire film layer matches the size of the substrate, and the hollow portion is for exposing the first region in each of the panel regions when the protective film is attached to the substrate.
US11733432B1
An article including a durable, optically transparent, and superhydrophobic coating is described. In one aspect, the present disclosure provides a coating comprising a layer of aerogel disposed interstitially between spaced features extending in a direction perpendicular to a major surface of the coating, the spaced features having an average height of between 200-5000 nm and an average spacing of between 10-2000 nm, and comprising at least 75 wt. % of one or more of crystalline or amorphous silicon, an inorganic oxide, a polymer, crystalline or amorphous carbon, a carbide, or a nitride.
US11733428B2
There is disclosed a self-powered apparatus for measuring precipitation, comprising: a housing; a display unit including one or more display lights capable of displaying an amount of precipitation, wherein the display lights are formed on at least one of outer surfaces of the housing; a water collecting vessel, having a funnel-shaped space to which the precipitation is introduced and gathered at a vertex part of the funnel-shaped space; a cup module, having an accommodating space for accommodating the precipitation dropped from the vertex part of the funnel-shaped space of the water collecting vessel; an electric signaling unit; a guiding module; a self-powered generator; and a final drainage opening, formed at a lower part of the housing.
US11733426B1
The present disclosure provides a multi-scale three-dimensional (3D) engineering geological model construction system and method. A regional geological model of a target region, a site geological model of each engineering site, and a drilling geological model of each drilling well are constructed. The geological model of each drilling well is superimposed to the site geological model of the corresponding engineering site in the way of step-by-step superimposition, and the site geological model of each engineering site fused with the drilling geological model is superimposed to the regional geological model of the target region. Thus, multi-scale geological model fusion of drilling well, engineering site, and regional mountain is realized. The final multi-scale 3D engineering geological fusion model can provide multi-scale refined geological information for geological suitability evaluation of major geological engineering, so as to ensure accuracy of geological suitability evaluation and site selection of major geological engineering.
US11733424B2
Systems, devices, and methods are disclosed for identifying subsurface features as a function of position in a subsurface volume of interest. A computer-implemented method may include obtaining training subsurface data and corresponding training subsurface feature data; obtaining an initial subsurface feature model including tiers of elements; generating a conditioned subsurface feature model by training the initial subsurface feature model using the training subsurface data and the corresponding training subsurface feature data; and storing the conditioned subsurface feature model in the non-transient electronic storage.
US11733422B2
The present disclosure provides a portable terahertz security inspection apparatus, including: a carrying body; a terahertz emitting device arranged on the carrying body, wherein the terahertz emitting device includes a terahertz signal source and an emitting unit connected to the terahertz signal source and configured to emit a terahertz wave; a terahertz detector arranged on the carrying body and configured to receive the terahertz wave reflected from an inspected object; a data acquisition and processing system arranged on the carrying body and connected to the terahertz detector, wherein the data acquisition and processing system is configured to receive a scan data for the inspected object from the terahertz detector and generate a terahertz image; and a display device connected to the data acquisition and processing system and configured to receive and display the terahertz image from the data acquisition and processing system. The portable terahertz security inspection apparatus does not need to be equipped with a mechanical scanning system, so that a volume and a weight of the terahertz security inspection apparatus may be greatly reduced, and a security inspector may move the terahertz security inspection apparatus manually to perform scanning of the imaging area.
US11733421B2
A method for wireline or logging-while-drilling systems that uses pulsed neutron sources coupled to multiple dual-function radiation detectors of neutrons and gamma rays, as well as a non-transitory computer readable memory device that can distinguish using pulse shape discrimination techniques the neutrons from the gamma rays in order to measure thermal neutron time-decay signals and thermal neutron capture gamma ray time-decay signals that are later further process using the non-transitory computer readable memory device to obtain a borehole sigma and formation sigma that are not affected by near-wellbore environments.
US11733412B2
The present invention provides a method and device for determining an excitation point of a seismic source. The method includes: determining, according to a selected medium type, a distribution region corresponding to the selected medium type in a three-dimensional surface model corresponding to a preset surface range, where a preset position of the excitation point of the seismic source is located in the preset surface range, and a first mapping position corresponding to the preset position of the excitation point of the seismic source is located in the three-dimensional surface model; determining a second mapping position in the three-dimensional surface model according to the first mapping position and the determined distribution region; and determining, according to the second mapping position, a target position of the excitation point of the seismic source corresponding to the second mapping position in the preset surface range.
US11733404B2
An is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a two-dimensional perovskite having a polaronic emission Stokes' shifted by at least 50 nm to minimise loss due to re-absorption.
US11733400B2
According to an embodiment, a radiation detector includes: a substrate; multiple control lines; multiple data lines; multiple detecting parts detecting radiation including thin film transistors; a control circuit switching between ON and OFF-states of the transistor; a signal detection circuit reading image data when the transistor is in the ON-state; and an incident radiation detecting part determining an incidence start time of the radiation based on a value of the image data read when the transistor is in the ON-state. When the incident radiation detecting part determines that radiation incidence has started, the signal detection circuit performs a first reading process of further reading image data when the transistor is in the ON-state. The control circuit performs an image storage process of setting all of the transistors to the OFF-state after the first reading process.
US11733397B2
A method or system can include or be configured to receive a set of satellite observations, receiving sensor data, determining a position estimate and associated positioning error for a rover based on the set of satellite observations and the sensor data, determine a protection level associated with the position estimate based on a set of potential faults, and optionally provide an alert when the positioning error exceeds the protection level.
US11733394B2
A device measures positions of a plurality of objects. The device comprises a memory arranged to store positioning data for a plurality of objects having mutual constant positions, an input interface arranged to obtain measurement data of relative positions for at least a subset of the plurality of objects, and a processor arranged to calculate an adapted measurement position for at least one of the objects of the subset of the plurality of objects by correlating the measured relative positions for the at least a subset of the plurality of objects with the acquired positioning data. The adapted measurement position is based on the positioning data. Corresponding method and computer program are also disclosed.
US11733387B2
Disclosed herein are examples of ladar systems and methods where data about a plurality of ladar returns from prior ladar pulse shots gets stored in a spatial index that associates ladar return data with corresponding locations in a coordinate space to which the ladar return data pertain. This spatial index can then be accessed by a processor to retrieve ladar return data for locations in the coordinate space that are near a range point to be targeted by the ladar system with a new ladar pulse shot. This nearby prior ladar return data can then be analyzed by the ladar system to help define a control parameter for use by the ladar receiver with respect to the new ladar pulse shot.
US11733386B2
Object detection in a scene is based on lidar data and radar data of the scene. The lidar data and the radar data are transformed to a common coordinate system. Different radar point clusters are extracted from the radar data. Different lidar point clusters are extracted from the lidar data and each lidar point cluster is associated with a target object. A target object's velocity is estimated based on the movement of the respective lidar point cluster between consecutive lidar images. The estimated target object's velocity is compared with velocity information of a corresponding radar point cluster to identify corresponding radar and lidar point clusters.
US11733384B2
A system and a method determines a traveling time for a light pulse between a light pulse source and a pixel of a light sensor array based on a “Find Frequent Items in a Data Steam” technique. In one embodiment, raw timestamp data output from a pixel as a data stream may be temporarily stored, processed twice and then discarded to provide an exact determination of a traveling time estimate. In another embodiment, the raw timestamp data is processed once and discarded to provide an approximate determination of a traveling time estimate. The traveling time estimate may be updated during processing and the most-frequently occurring timestamp is available when processing the data stream is complete. There is no need to keep the raw data in a memory, thereby reducing the memory requirement associated with determining the traveling time of a light pulse.
US11733380B2
A method, apparatus and system for locating external apparatus mounted to a tubular in a wellbore. The identification of apparatus, such as cable clamps, enables other tools in the string to operate more precisely. A computer model is used to locate the apparatus from acoustic images, which images are acquired using a downhole device having an acoustic sensor or acoustic array. The model may be a classifier, which may be machine trained to classify whether an apparatus is present, its location and its orientation. Automating this locating enables very long wellbores to be processed quickly.
US11733377B2
In an ultrasonic detection system that uses frequency-modulation or phase-modulation coding to distinguish emitted bursts from multiple transducers, a receiver associated with a transducer uses peak search, peak buffer, and peak rank stages in one or more receiver signal processing paths to identify valid received ultrasonic signal envelope peaks in correlator outputs. The peak rank stage can support different modes respectively designed to handle one code, two or more codes, or two or more codes with support for Doppler frequency shift detection. Valid peak information (e.g., amplitude and time) can be reported to a central controller and/or stored locally in a fusion stage to generate more intelligent information for targets or obstacles using peaks from multiple bursts.
US11733371B2
The present disclosure provides a radar apparatus including: an antenna including a first transmitting antenna, a second transmitting antenna, and a receiving antenna; a transmitter including a first modulator for generating a first transmission signal having an inverted phase of a source signal and transmitting the first transmission signal through the first transmitting antenna, and a second modulator for generating a second transmission signal having a shifted phase of the source signal and transmitting the second transmission signal through the second transmitting antenna; a receiver for receiving a reflection signal of the first transmission signal and the second transmission signal reflected from the object through the receiving antenna; and a controller for obtaining information for the object based on the reflection signal. According to the present disclosure, it is possible to efficiently detect the object using the antenna having a simple structure.
US11733362B2
A distance-measuring apparatus includes an optical window incorporating a first polarizing filter that polarizes reference light and a second polarizing filter that polarizes incident light in a direction inclined at 90 degrees relative to a polarization direction of the first polarizing filter.
US11733360B2
A time of flight (ToF) system comprises three photoemitters, a photosensor, and a controller. The first photoemitter transmits light onto objects at first height, the second photoemitter onto objects at second, lower height, and the third photoemitter onto objects at third, lowest height. The controller causes one of the photoemitters to transmit modulated light and the photosensor to receive reflections from the scene. The controller determines a depth map for the corresponding height based on phase differences between the transmitted and reflected light. In some examples, the ToF system is included in an autonomous robot's navigation system. The navigation system identifies overhanging objects at the robot's top from the depth map at the first height, obstacles in the navigation route from the depth map at the second height, and cliffs and drop-offs in the ground surface in front of the robot from the depth map at the third height.
US11733350B2
There is provided an object identification apparatus for identifying a stationary object and a moving object. The object identification apparatus includes a phase difference calculator that calculates phase difference information between a transmission signal and a reception signal obtained by reflecting, by surfaces of the moving object and the stationary object in a space, the transmission signal emitted to the space and receiving the reflected transmission signal, a distance calculator that calculates distance information using the phase difference information, a distance information separator that separates the distance information into moving object distance information as distance information about the moving object and stationary object distance information as distance information about the stationary object, and an identifier that identifies the stationary object and the moving object based on the stationary object distance information and the moving object distance information.
US11733349B2
A method of selecting and optimizing a countermeasure for application against a novel, ambiguous, or unresponsive radar threat includes selecting a candidate countermeasure and an initial parameter set and varying at least one of the parameters while the effectiveness of the candidate countermeasure against the radar threat is assessed, for example by a human observer. Embodiments include repeating the process with additional candidate countermeasures. For an unresponsive radar threat, a previously effective countermeasure can be selected as the candidate countermeasure. For an ambiguous radar threat, at least one countermeasure previously verified as effective against a partially matching known threat can be selected as the candidate countermeasure. Correlated parameters can be simultaneously varied. An optimization surface and trajectory formed by a plurality of correlated parameters can be identified by machine intelligence, used to guide the parameter variations, and/or stored for use against the same or similar threats in the future.
US11733344B2
An interference source hunting method of hunting for an interference source of electromagnetic waves while moving between multiple measurement points, includes the steps of acquiring strength information of electromagnetic waves, estimating a distance from the measurement point to the location of the interference source, based on the strength information, calculating a first presence probability that the interference source is present at each position, based on whether a distance from the measurement point to the position is within the distance, updating second presence probabilities acquired in hunting in the past, based on the first presence probabilities, determining a position obtained by moving, by a predetermined distance, the measurement point toward a position with the second presence probability higher than the second presence probability at the measurement point, as a new measurement point, and determining, in a case where a size of an area in which each of the second presence probabilities is greater than or equal to a predetermined value is less than a predetermined value, that the location of the interference source is within the area.
US11733341B2
A split architecture is disclosed for determining the location of a wireless device in a heterogeneous wireless communications environment. A detector within the device or another component of the environment receives signals including parameters for a localization signal of the device. The parameters describe known in advance signals within the signals. Additional metadata including each frame start of the signals and assistance data and auxiliary information are also received. The known in advance signals are detected based on the parameters of the localization signal. Samples extracted from the known in advance signals are then processed and compressed and sent with other collect data to a locate server remote from the detector. The location server uses that information as well as similar information about the environment to calculate the location of the device, as well as perform tracking and navigation of the device, and report such results to the environment.
US11733334B2
A method of magnetic resonance (MR) imaging includes a phantom that is inexpensive to produce and enables simple, practical and fast assessment of image sharpness, in particular for checking image quality of MR imaging with spiral acquisition. The method includes subjecting a phantom, which comprises a volume filled with a bulk of granules of solid material surrounded by a liquid, to an imaging sequence, acquiring MR signals from the phantom, reconstructing an MR image from the acquired MR signals, and deriving a measure of the local image sharpness in two or more different image regions from the MR image, wherein each image region is a representation of a part of the phantom volume.
US11733326B2
A reconfigurable metamaterial is used to enhance the reception field of a radio frequency (“RF”) coil for use in magnetic resonance imaging (“MRI”). In general, the metamaterial can be a metasurface, which may be flexible, having a periodic array of resonators. Each resonator in the periodic array can be defined as a unit cell of the metamaterial and/or metasurface. The unit cells include a first conductor and a second conductor separated by an insulator layer. The first conductor can be a solid conductor and the second conductor can be a conductive fluid (e.g., a liquid metal, a liquid metal alloy) contained within a microfluidic channel. Varying the volume of conductive fluid in each unit cell adjust the signal enhancement ratio of the metamaterial.
US11733312B2
In some examples, a device can be used for measuring the impedance of a first battery cell. The device includes a first analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and a second ADC. The device also includes a multiplexer configured to connect the first ADC to the first battery cell in a first instance and to connect the second ADC to a current sensor in the first instance. The current sensor is configured to sense current through the first battery cell. The multiplexer is also configured to connect the first ADC to the current sensor in a second instance and to connect the second ADC to the first battery cell in the second instance or in a third instance.
US11733311B2
A method of screening a battery for failure mechanisms is provided. The method may include activating an electrochemical cell. Within 5 minutes to two hours of activating the cell, the open circuit voltage of the cell is measured over a period of time to determine a voltage versus time function. The cell is then screened for the presence of a failure mechanism by checking the voltage versus time function for a failure criteria.
US11733303B2
Various embodiments of the present invention relate to a method for detecting and controlling a battery status by using a sensor, and an electronic device using the same, the electronic device comprising: a housing; an accommodation part arranged inside the housing and including at least one gas sensor; a battery arranged inside the housing; a memory for storing information, acquired by the at least one gas sensor, on gas leaked from the battery and operation control information of the electronic device; and a processor electrically connected to the memory, wherein the processor is configured to acquire a detection signal of gas leaked from the battery by using the at least one gas sensor, and control the operation of at least a part of the electronic device and/or charging characteristics of the battery when the acquired gas detection signal exceeds a predetermined threshold value, so as to detect, in real time, a gas leakage of the battery occurring because of the exposure of the electronic device to high temperature or heat generation and control the battery status, thereby preventing safety accidents caused by the battery. Other various embodiments in addition to the disclosed various embodiments in the present invention are possible.
US11733300B2
A switch status detection device includes a power source, a first resistor, a first switch, a control device, and a first capacitor. The first resistor has one end connected to the power source. The first switch is configured to switch between a connected state and a disconnected state of a first contact point, provided on a first current path between the other end of the first resistor and ground. The control device detects an on/off status of the first switch, on a basis of a voltage at the other end of the first resistor. The first capacitor has one end connected to the first contact point at a position on the first current path on a side of the first resistor with respect to the first contact point, and the other end connected to the power source or the ground.
US11733298B2
The present application provides two-port on-wafer calibration piece circuit models and a method for determining parameters. The method includes: measuring a single-port on-wafer calibration piece circuit model corresponding to a first frequency band to obtain a first S parameter; calculating, according to the first S parameter, an intrinsic capacitance value of a two-port on-wafer calibration piece circuit model corresponding to the single-port on-wafer calibration piece circuit model; measuring the two-port on-wafer calibration piece circuit model corresponding to the terahertz frequency band to obtain a second S parameter; and calculating a parasitic capacitance value and a parasitic resistance value of the two-port on-wafer calibration piece circuit model according to the second S parameter and the intrinsic capacitance value.
US11733297B1
An electronic assembly has a host wafer having a first circuit including wafer transistors and passive, non-transistor devices. Chiplets have a second circuit including at least one radio frequency (RF) transistor device. Electrical interconnects are between the chiplets and wafer. The electrical interconnects electrically connect the first circuit to the second circuits. Oscillators that have the wafer transistor, the RF transistor and the electrical interconnects produce a signal for built-in self-test circuits for testing an assembly design of the electronic assembly and speeds of the RF chiplet transistors.
US11733294B2
A package structure and a testing method are provided. The package structure includes a wiring structure, a first electronic device and a second electronic device. The wiring structure includes at least one dielectric layer, at least one conductive circuit layer in contact with the dielectric layer, and at least one test circuit structure in contact with the dielectric layer. The test circuit structure is disposed adjacent to the interconnection portion of the conductive circuit layer. The first electronic device is electrically connected to the wiring structure. The second electronic device is electrically connected to the wiring structure. The second electronic device is electrically connected to the first electronic device through the interconnection portion of the conductive circuit layer.
US11733283B2
An apparatus for detecting a condition or authenticity of one or more electronic devices includes an enclosure having an antenna integrated therewithin, a fixture mounted within a hollow interior of the enclosure, the fixture being configured to receive the one or more electronic devices and connect one or more signals to each of the one or more electronic devices and a sensor and controller assembly connected to the antenna and configured to process a signature of an emission of a radiofrequency (RF) energy from of one or more electronic devices having the one or more signals connected thereto.
US11733280B1
A new load-pull tuner system using two-probe waveguide slide screw tuners of which the probes share the same waveguide section; they are inserted diametrically at fixed depth facing each other into slots on opposite broad walls of the waveguide. An adjustable broadband attenuator made using a resistive septum is inserted between the test port and the tuning probes. The tuner does not have cumbersome adjustable vertical axes controlling the penetration of the probes and its low profile is optimized for on-wafer operations. The carriages holding the probes are moved along the waveguide using electric stepper motors or linear actuators.
US11733272B2
A submersible current sensor for sensing a current in a submerged conductor includes: a split core current transformer constructed to generate an output representative of the current carried by the conductor, the split core having a first core member, a first winding disposed about at least a portion of the first core member; a second core member; and a second winding disposed about at least a portion of the second core member; and a housing, the housing including: a first housing member constructed to house the first core member and the first winding; and a second housing member constructed to house the second core member and the second winding.
US11733268B2
A probe pin inspection mechanism a includes a base, a pair of movable bodies, a pair of movable-body elastic bodies, and a conductor. The movable bodies are supported by the base to be movable in a first direction from a first position with respect to the base, and respectively include ends and terminals electrically connected to the respective ends. The movable-body elastic bodies elastically press the movable bodies in a second direction. The conductor is supported by the base and electrically connects the terminals of the movable bodies by making contact with the terminals. The state between the terminals and the conductor is switched, according to the position of the movable bodies, between a conductive state in which the terminals and the conductor are in contact with each other and a non-conductive state in which the terminals and the conductor are separated from each other.
US11733267B2
A probe head includes an upper guide plate, a lower guide plate, and a plurality of probes. The upper guide plate includes a groove, and the upper guide plate is provided with an upper surface, a lower surface and a plurality of probe holes vertically penetrating the upper surface and the lower surface along a first direction. The groove is depressed from the upper surface, and provided with a groove bottom surface. The groove bottom surface is located between the upper surface and the lower surface. The lower guide plate is disposed on the upper guide plate. The probe is disposed in the groove. An end portion of a probe tail of the probe is located between the groove bottom surface and the upper surface. A probe card is also provided and the probe card includes a circuit board, a space transformer, and the probe head.
US11733257B2
A diagnostic analyzer includes a rotating device, a first optical reader, and a second optical reader. The rotating device includes a first darkened compartment, a second darkened compartment, and an optical path along which the first darkened compartment and the second darkened compartment travel. The first optical reader is operable to read the first darkened compartment and the second optical reader is operable to read the second darkened compartment.
US11733248B2
A method for detecting the binding of a chromatin-associated factor of interest to a sequence of chromatin DNA in a cell, including: contacting a permeabilized cell or nucleus with a specific binding agent that specifically recognizes the chromatin-associated factor of interest, wherein the specific binding agent is linked to a nuclease that is inactive or an activatable transposome; activating the nuclease or transposase, thereby excising the sequence of chromatin DNA bound to the chromatin-associated factor of interest; isolating the excised DNA; and determining the sequence of the excised DNA, thereby detecting binding of a chromatin-associated factor of interest to a sequence of chromatin DNA in the cell.
US11733245B2
Disclosed is a method for detecting aflatoxin B1 based on fluorescent copper nanoparticles, belonging to the technical fields of analytical chemistry, materials science and nano biosensing. In the disclosure, β-CD@DNA-Cu NMs are prepared by using Y-shaped DNA as a template, ascorbic acid as a reducing agent and β-CD as a fluorescence stabilizing and enhancing agent. Then, a ratiometric fluorescent probe is constructed based on the β-CD@DNA-Cu NMs. Finally, the detection of AFB1 with high sensitivity, high selectivity and high accuracy is achieved by using the fluorescent probe. According to the method of the disclosure, in linear ranges of 0.03-10 ppb and 10-18 ppb, a ratio value of I433 nm/I650 nm and a concentration of AFB1 exhibit a good linear relationship respectively, and a limit of detection is 0.012 ppb (S/N=3). Metal ions Ca2+ may be replaced with Yb3+, Y3+, Er3+ and Pt2+, which are also suitable for increasing sensitivity of AFB1 in rice.
US11733242B2
The present disclosure is directed to methods (e.g., in vitro methods) for use of nicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferase (NAMPT) as a biomarker in radiation-induced lung injury (RILI). Provided herein is an in vitro method for the diagnosis, prognosis, and/or monitoring of RILI in a human subject by providing a tissue or plasma sample from the subject and detecting the level of NAMPT therein, wherein a higher level of NAMPT in the tissue or plasma sample from the subject compared to a healthy control or a reference value is indicative for the presence of RILI in the subject. Further provided herein is a method of detecting NAMPT in a human subject by obtaining a biological sample from the subject, detecting the presence of NAMPT in the sample by contacting the sample with a capture agent that specifically binds NAMPT, and detecting binding between NAMPT and the capture agent.
US11733241B2
A resin-metal composite to be used as a marker in an immunoassay, said resin-metal composite comprising a resin particle and metal particles and having the following constitution (A) or constitution (B): (A) the average particle size of the resin-metal composite exceeding 300 nm; or (B) the average particle size of the metal particles being in the range of more than 20 nm and less than 70 nm. It is preferred that a part of the metal particles are two- or three-dimensionally distributed in the surface layer part of the resin particle, a part of the three-dimensionally distributed metal particles are partly exposed to the outside of the resin particle, and a part of the remainder particles are enclosed in the resin particle.
US11733232B2
[Problem] The objectives of the present invention are to provide a method for making an animal that has been stressed, in particular, chronically stressed, affect or develop a specific disease or symptom, and, through elucidating the process from loading stress to affection or onset of the disease or symptom, to provide a useful tool for research and development of preventing or treating methods of the disease or symptom. [Solution] The present invention relates to a method for producing a disease modeling non-human animal having cerebrovascular inflammation, the disease modeling non-human animal, a method for screening a drug using the disease modeling non-human animal, a method for determining the risk of a disease using the presence of cerebrovascular inflammation as an indicator, and a pharmaceutical for preventing and/or treating progressive multiple sclerosis or the like. The present invention enables developing pharmaceuticals for the above described diseases or the like and performing researches for elucidating their pathogenic mechanisms. The present invention also enables determining the risk of affection or onset of progressive multiple sclerosis or the like and preventing and/or treating progressive multiple sclerosis or the like.
US11733208B2
A circuit for detecting air, a related system, and a related method are provided. The circuit for detecting air includes a receiver connection and an air-detection circuit. The receiver connection is configured to provide a receiver signal. The air-detection circuit is in operative communication with the receiver connection to process the receiver signal to generate a processed signal corresponding to detected air. The air-detection circuit includes one or more active-rectifying elements configured to actively rectify the receiver signal to provide the processed signal.
US11733206B2
The present disclosure provides a method comprising providing a sample to be analysed, separating successive populations of ions from said sample in a separator, wherein said populations of ions are introduced into said separator at regular intervals, and the intervals are timed such that at least some ions in a subsequent population of ions overlap ions in a preceding population of ions, varying one or more parameters of said separator such that different populations of ions experience different separation conditions, detecting ions from said populations of ions and obtaining a convolved data set, and de¬ convolving said convolved data set using the known variance of the parameters and outputting data corresponding to the successive populations of ions.
US11733201B2
A gas sensor includes a solid electrolyte body with oxygen ion conductivity, a gas flow portion (ranging from a gas inlet port to a second inner cavity), a particular gas detector (including a main pump cell, a measurement pump cell, an auxiliary pump cell, etc.), and a control device. Prior to startup of the gas sensor, the control device sets electric power supplied to a heater such that a temperature difference between a temperature of the heater and a preset target temperature becomes zero, and determines, on the basis of the set electric power, whether temperature raising control of supplying the set electric power to the heater is to be executed.
US11733192B2
A sensor for carbon dioxide can include an amidine functional group.
US11733183B2
It is an object to provide an imaging method and system. According to an embodiment, an imaging method comprises emitting neutrons into a material, wherein the material converts at least part of the emitted neutrons into a first plurality of gamma ray photons, and wherein at least part of the emitted neutrons pass through the material. Based on the neutrons passed through the material and the gamma ray photons, at least one property of the material can be deduced. An imaging method and an imaging system are provided.
US11733182B2
Some embodiments include a radiographic inspection system, comprising: a detector; a support configured to attach the detector to a structure such that the detector is movable around the structure; a radioisotope collimator; and a collimator support arm coupling the detector to the radioisotope collimator such that the radioisotope collimator moves with the detector.
US11733177B2
Disclosed is a method for estimating twin defect density in a single-crystal sample, including: (A) etching the observed surface of a single crystal to form etch pits; (B) selecting bar-shaped etch pits caused by twin defect; (C) from the long-axis direction lengths of the etch pits caused by twin defect, estimating the twin defect density by using the following equation: twin defect density=Σkx′i/area of sample, wherein 2≤k≤3, and x′i is the long-axis direction length of an etch pit caused by the i-th twin.
US11733167B1
A surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrate and its method of formation is disclosed. The surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrate comprises a solid support, a first noble metal nanoparticles is disposed on the solid support, a porous oxide layer comprising transition metal oxide nanoparticles is disposed on the first noble metal nanoparticles and a second noble metal nanoparticles is disposed on the porous oxide layer. The porous oxide layer prevents contact between the first noble metal nanoparticles and the second noble metal nanoparticles and has a mean pore size of 2 to 30 nm.
US11733165B2
An optical sensor for determining the concentration of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in a medium incudes a light source configured to emit transmitted light having a wavelength of less than 300 nm into the medium; a detector for receiving received light, wherein the detector is configured at least for receiving received light having a wavelength of 300 nm to 400 nm, wherein the transmitted light is converted into received light by means of fluorescence in the medium as a function of the concentration of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, wherein a detector signal is generated from the received light; and a data processing unit configured to determine the concentration of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons using the detector signal, wherein the data processing unit controls the light source such that the light source emits modulated transmitted light according to a duty cycle. Methods of using the optical sensor are further disclosed.
US11733161B2
Disclosed herein is a method of determining a concentration of a subject based on fraction bound measurement. The method of determining a concentration of a subject based on fraction bound measurement may include fixing a ligand to a surface of an optical device, measuring a fraction bound of a subject to be detected based on an optical signal when the subject reacts to the ligand fixed to the surface of the optical device, and determining a relative value of a concentration of the subject based on a ratio of measured values of the fraction bounds of the subject and a reference signal.
US11733153B1
Disclosed is a method for evaluating environmental erosion of thaumasite in tunnel concrete, including: acquiring natural corrosion action parameters and environmental influence action parameters, and evaluating a natural corrosion situation based on the natural corrosion action parameters to obtain an initial evaluation result; and modifying the initial evaluation result based on the environmental influence action parameters to obtain a target evaluation result.
US11733152B2
Disclosed herein is a system to detect and characterize individual particles and cells using at least either optic or electric detection as the particle or cell flows through a microfluidic channel. The system also provides for sorting particles and cells or isolating individual particles and cells.
US11733150B2
Apparatus and methods are described for use with an output device (34), and a blood sample (12) that was drawn from a subject. A microscope system (10) acquires first and second images of the blood sample at respective times. A computer processor (28) determines whether, between acquisitions of the first and second images, there was relative motion between at least one erythrocyte within the sample and at least one entity within the sample, by comparing the first and second images to one another. At least partially in response thereto, the computer processor determines whether the entity is an extra-erythrocytic or an intra-erythrocytic entity, and generates an output on the output device, at least partially in response thereto. Other applications are also described.
US11733143B2
An external gas detecting device is provided. The external gas detecting device includes a casing, a gas detection module and an external connector. The gas detection module is disposed in the casing and detects a gas transported into the casing to generate a gas information. The external connector is connected to and disposed on the casing. The external connector is used to be connected to an external power supply so as to enable the gas detection module, and is used to transmit the gas information so as to achieve the outward transmission of the gas information.
US11733139B2
Sag propensity of a fluid can be determined by applying an oscillatory strain at an amplitude in excess of a linear region and below a yield strain of the drilling fluid. This may include use of medium amplitude oscillatory shear (MAOS), from which an elastic modulus of the fluid is determined. The elastic modulus may be determined over time, from which a time to reach maximum elastic modulus can be determined. The time to reach maximum elastic modulus is then converted or correlated to a drilling fluid sag propensity for the drilling fluid either in absolute terms or in relation to base or comparison fluids. Such an evaluation can be performed using a torsional resonance device in which the oscillatory strain is controllable so as to be maintained relatively constant during the measurement.
US11733138B1
A disclosed system determines the elevation of an emulsion phase in a vessel. The system includes more than one source-detector pairs connected to the vessel and a computing device. Each of the source-detector pairs include a radioactive source and a radiometric detector, and are positioned at an elevation measured from the bottom of the vessel. The computing device is connected to the source-detector pairs, and is configured to identify the height of an emulsion phase using an upper boundary target density and a lower boundary target density. The height of the emulsion phase is identified by obtaining density readings from at least two of the source-detector pairs, calculating an upper boundary emulsion phase elevation and calculating a lower boundary emulsion phase elevation, each calculation using the density readings, and at least one of the upper boundary target density, and the lower boundary target density.
US11733137B2
The invention discloses a slope one-way loading rutting test device, wherein the upper part of a loading frame is slidably connected with an upper cross beam of a frame through a loading frame rotating assembly, and a variable speed motor and a runner wheel are embedded in the lower part of the loading frame. The variable speed motor is in transmission connection with the runner wheel to realize one-way continuous loading of the runner wheel on a test piece. The lower part of a bearing frame is slidably connected with a lower cross beam of a frame through a bearing frame rotating assembly, a test piece mounting frame and a height adjusting device are sequentially embedded into the upper part of the bearing frame from top to bottom, and the height of the test piece mounting frame is adjusted through the height adjusting device.
US11733125B2
An automatic sensitivity adjusting analog ultrasonic sensor includes an ultrasonic transducer, and a front end adjustable gain amplifier that amplifies the received ultrasonic signal from the transducer. A processor generates a carrier signal and a heterodyning circuit combines the carrier signal and the amplified ultrasonic signal to form a modulated signal spectrum from which an audio spectrum signal is generated. The processor further monitors the amplitude level of the audio spectrum signal and executes an auto sensitivity adjustment algorithm that automatically adjusts the sensitivity (the gain) of the analog front end amplifier down if the amplitude is above a preset upper threshold or up if the amplitude is below a present lower threshold. The processor may also further monitors the amplitude level of the ultrasonic signal level directly from the front end adjustable gain amplifier and execute the auto sensitivity adjustment algorithm as required.
US11733116B2
Methods and apparatuses for indicating the presence of a threshold directional differential pressure between separated adjacent spaces. An inclined conduit contains at least one movable element that indicates whether the pressure difference between the two spaces is at least as high as a threshold pressure difference. The apparatus may include an on-board pitch indicator and a roll indicator which are used together to calibrate the apparatus and its installation. The apparatus may provide only one or more discrete number of pressure difference set points and be non-adjustable once installed. The inclined conduit may be non-rotatable relative to the baseplate, and the baseplate may be rotatable to change threshold pressure difference set points. The apparatus may provide a tamper-resistant indication of whether a threshold pressure differential is present.
US11733112B2
A method of recording measurement data for characterizing a response of a given type of device to an applied force, the given type defining devices of that type as comprising a defined arrangement of a surface and N force sensors of the device concerned, where N≥1, each force sensor configured to output a sensor signal, wherein in the defined arrangement the N force sensors are operatively coupled to a defined input region of the surface so as to sense a force applied to that input region, the method comprising: for a specimen device of the given type, performing at least one measurement procedure, each measurement procedure comprising at least one measurement operation, each measurement operation comprising applying a defined force at a corresponding location on the input region of the device concerned and recording measurement data for that device and location based on the sensor signals of the N force sensors of that device. Also disclosed are a related computer-implemented method of generating a characterization definition for devices of the given type, a computer-implemented method of generating a configuration definition for devices of the given type for a given use case defined by a use-case definition, a method of configuring a candidate device of the given type for the given use case, and a method of assessing or calibrating a candidate device of the given type.
US11733107B2
A thermistor sensor arrangement for measuring chipset temperature is provided. According to various aspects of the present disclosure, a sensor assembly is placed between a heat sink of a chipset and a PCB on which the chipset is mounted. The sensor assembly includes a thermistor sensor, an electrical connector, and a resilient pad. The thermistor sensor includes a first end having a sensing element and a second end having sensor contacts. The electrical connector has a first interface to receive the sensor contacts, a second interface through which the signals are outputted, and a bottom surface to mount to the PCB. The resilient pad has an upper surface to which the sensing element is attached and a lower surface to engage with the PCB such that when the resilient pad is compressed, spring force of the resilient pad facilitates temperature measurement by pressing the sensing element against the heat sink.
US11733099B2
A system including a processor and a memory configured to store code executed by the processor is provided. In one or more implementations, the processor is configured by the code to calibrate measurements made by color measurement devices. In one particular implementation, the processor receives a measurement dataset of one or more color values, for a sample obtained by a color measurement device. The processor is configured to convert the measurement dataset to a standard space measurement dataset using a standard space measurement model and calculate a color dataset based on the standard space measurement dataset using a color conversion model. The processor is further configured to output the calculated color dataset to at least one of a display, database or local memory store.
US11733098B2
A silicon Fourier transform spectrometer and an optical spectrum reconstruction method are disclosed. The spectrometer includes a waveguide input coupler, cascaded optical switches, unbalanced subwavelength grating (SWG) waveguide pairs, and a germanium silicon detector, where the cascaded optical switches are connected through unbalanced SWG waveguide pairs. The state of the optical switches are adjusted to digitally configure the optical path, so as to constitute a series of unbalanced Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) arrays with different optical path differences, to realize a Fourier transform spectrometer based on spatial heterodyne. The optical spectrum is reconstructed by using a compressed sensing algorithm.
US11733089B2
Aspects of the present disclosure describe an unsupervised context encoder-based fiber sensing method that detects anomalous vibrations proximate to a sensor fiber that is part of a distributed fiber optic sensing system (DFOS) such that damage to the sensor fiber by activities producing and anomalous vibrations are preventable. Advantageously, our method requires only normal data streams and a machine learning based operation is utilized to analyze the sensing data and report abnormal events related to construction or other fiber-threatening activities in real-time. Our machine learning algorithm is based on waterfall image inpainting by context encoder and is self-trained in an end-to-end manner and extended every time the DFOS sensor fiber is optically connected to a new route. Accordingly, our inventive method and system it is much easier to deploy as compared to supervised methods of the prior art.
US11733088B2
A spatial averaging method for a coherent distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) system that employs differential beating and polarization combining of signals for two locations along a length of optical sensing fiber to determine phase change in-between every location along the length of the optical sensing fiber and a moving average using polarization combining output to reduce any Rayleigh fading before phase determination.
US11733085B2
Weigh-in-motion sensors comprise a beam including a plate with a load-bearing surface, and a tube portion including a base wall and a cover and defining a cavity therebetween. A sensing package is disposed within the cavity and is under pre-load with the cover and the base wall. The sensing package comprises a piezoelectric element. The base wall includes an aperture extending from a mounting surface to the cavity. The aperture includes a fastener therein to secure the sensing package within the cavity. The fastener is sized having a cross-section dimension taken through a center axis of the fastener that is greater than that of a cross-section dimension of the piezoelectric element taken along the fastener center axis. In an example, the fastener has a cross-section dimension sized about 10 percent or greater in dimension than that of the respective cross-section dimension of the piezoelectric element.
US11733078B2
A piezoelectric cell support for an ultrasonic transducer, the support including a front face having formed thereon: a first shoulder that defines a bearing surface and a bottom of a central cavity surrounded by the bearing surface, the bearing surface being suitable for having a piezoelectric cell placed thereon; retention device(s) for holding the piezoelectric cell on the bearing surface and for positioning it angularly; and a rear face having a sloping surface that gives a top portion of the support a first thickness that is less than a second thickness of a bottom portion of the support.
US11733077B2
A measurement carrier includes a housing having an internal space, and a flow-rate measuring device located within the internal space. A bottom surface of the housing includes a first inflow hole, a second inflow hole, and an outflow hole, which provide fluid communication between the internal space and an outer space. The flow-rate measuring device may include a first flow-rate measuring sensor in fluid communication with the first inflow hole, and a second flow-rate measuring sensor in fluid communication with the second inflow hole.
US11733076B2
An airflow detection device for detecting whether an air output path is obstructed can be mounted in the air output path and includes a carrying portion, a metallic sensing portion and a metallic air plate portion that are respectively positioned on the carrying portion and have different electrode polarities, so as to detect obstruction of the air output path. The airflow detection device can be applied to products located in remote areas, mountain areas, or other places where maintenance workers cannot inspect the products frequently for the state of their dust screens or ventilation holes, and can help warn of conditions such as ventilation hole obstruction to avoid product overheating due to dust or dirt accumulation on dust screens or ventilation hole obstruction, adverse impacts on product performance, service live or stability, or system crash.
US11733064B1
Actuators for rotating an optical-path-folding-element with two, first and second, degrees of freedom in an extended rotation range around two respective rotation axes, folded cameras including such actuators and dual-cameras including a folded camera as above together with an upright camera.
US11733056B2
Systems, devices and methods are provided for decentralized charging of LMVs. At the conclusion of an active riding session, an available decentralized charging vehicle is displayed to a scooter with low battery charge, and access is provided to a charging interface of the decentralized charging vehicle so that the LMV may be coupled to the charging interface.
US11733052B2
A computing system that analyzes the network effects of avoidance areas on autonomous vehicle routing is described herein. The computing system includes a data store that comprises a set of avoidance areas through which the autonomous vehicle is prohibited from being routed. A routing system generates an initial route from a source location to a target location irrespective of avoidance areas included on the initial route. When a number of avoidance areas on the initial route exceed a predetermined threshold, one or more alternative routes are generated from the source location to the target location that respectively circumvent a corresponding identified avoidance area on the initial route. Metrics are evaluated for the one or more alternative routes and a subset of avoidance areas are outputted to desirably be removed from the set of avoidance areas.
US11733045B2
A physical quantity detection circuit including a differential amplification circuit that differentially amplifies a signal pair based on a first signal containing a first physical quantity component and a first vibration leakage component and a second signal containing a second physical quantity component having a phase opposite the phase of the first physical quantity component and a second vibration leakage component having the same phase as the phase of the first vibration leakage component, an adder circuit that adds the signal pair, a first synchronous wave-detection circuit that performs synchronous wave-detection on a signal based on an output signal from the differential amplification circuit, a second synchronous wave-detection circuit that performs synchronous wave-detection on a signal based on an output signal from the adder circuit, a physical quantity detection signal generation circuit that generates a physical quantity detection signal based on an output signal from the first synchronous wave-detection circuit, and a vibration leakage signal generation circuit that generates a vibration leakage signal based on an output signal from the second synchronous wave-detection circuit.
US11733032B2
A measurement device includes: an operation unit that receives an operation of a user; an acquisition unit that acquires depth information indicating a depth image and color information indicating a color image of an object; a controller that calculates, based on at least one of the depth information and the color information, first dimension of the object; and a display unit that displays a frame image showing a contour shape of the object to be superimposed on the color image, the contour shape being based on the first dimension. The operation unit receives a selection and an input of a change amount of the adjustment target plane by the user. The controller calculates, second dimension of the object when the adjustment target plane is moved in a normal direction based on the change amount, and changes the frame image to show a contour shape based on the second dimension.
US11733022B2
A sensor system, including: a dielectric material on a part body; and a sensor on the dielectric material, the sensor configured to provide impedance, capacitance, and resistance values and to alter one or more of the impedance, capacitance and resistance values responsive to a stress applied to the part body. Also disclosed is a method of making and a method of using the sensor system.
US11733021B2
A modular configuration for a scanning probe for a coordinate measuring machine include a stylus suspension module, a stylus position detection module, and a signal processing and control circuitry module. The stylus position detection module is configured to be assembled separately from the stylus suspension module before mounting to the stylus suspension module. The signal processing and control circuitry module is configured to be assembled separately from the stylus position detection module and the stylus suspension module before rigidly coupling to the stylus position detection module as part of assembling the scanning probe.
US11733003B2
Devices mountable to a rail having a recoil groove are provided. In one aspect a device mountable to a rail having a recoil groove has a rail positioner having a longitudinal length with a plurality of teeth arranged along an edge of the longitudinal length and a recoil groove insert extending away from the rail positioner and configured to be inserted into the recoil groove, a first body member having a first rail engagement surface and plurality of openings generally sized to receive the plurality of teeth and arranged along a length of the first body a second body member having a second rail engagement surface opposite the first body member, and a clamping structure operable to tighten and maintain a clamping force between the first body member and the second body member when the rail positioner is arranged in therein and that can be released facilitate installation and removal of the mounting to a rail.
US11733001B1
A boresighting mechanism for adjusting an armament of an aircraft. The mechanism includes a housing comprising a proximal end, a distal end, and an inner cavity. The mechanism further includes a jackscrew with a threaded portion disposed in the inner cavity and an unthreaded portion extending from the proximal end of the housing. The mechanism further includes a follower threadedly coupled to the jackscrew at a first end within the inner cavity and extending from the distal end of the housing. The follower is configured to be coupled to an adjustment feature of the armament at a second end. The mechanism further includes an adjustment knob coupled to the unthreaded portion of the jackscrew and configured to rotate the jackscrew to thereby cause linear motion of the follower. The linear motion allows for adjustment of the armament via the adjustment feature.
US11733000B2
Provided is a weapon aiming system including a riflescope and a laser rangefinder (LRF). The riflescope has at least one turret for adjusting the position of an internal reticle aimpoint. At least one encoder senses a relative position change of the turret and/or reticle. The LRF includes at least one pair of Risley prisms operable to adjustably position a LRF aimpoint to coincide with the aimpoint of the riflescope reticle. A motor is associated with each Risley prism. The system is configured such that adjusting the aimpoint of the riflescope reticle causes the encoder to send a position change signal to a controller programmed to, in response, direct the motor to reposition the prisms so that the LRF aimpoint continues to coincide with the reticle aimpoint.
US11732994B1
A system, method, and computer program product for managing a game can include: receiving, by at least one electronic computer processor, a request to establish a game; establishing the game, including: authenticating a plurality of authorized users; unlocking a plurality of unit devices to provide each of the unit devices to each of the plurality of authorized users from at least one station; and/or managing the game between the plurality of unit devices. The system can include a service provider system. The system can include a station, which can include one or more skates, configured to receive and/or removably lock and unlock a unit device via an exemplary lock and latch mechanism. The station can wirelessly communicate with the unit devices and can be in communication with the service provider system for authentication and/or electronic payment system transactions. The unit device in one embodiment is a laser tag unit device.
US11732989B2
An assembly is configured for retaining a muzzle accessory mounted on a firearm barrel or to a muzzle adapter on the barrel, where the muzzle accessory has a mount with female threads on an inside and male threads on an outside of the mount. The outside of the muzzle adapter has male threads and a bearing surface. A locking nut has inner female threads and an inside taper located proximally of the female threads. A locking ring has a tapered outside face configured to engage the inside taper of the locking nut and an inside face configured to engage the bearing surface. When assembled, the mount is threaded onto the muzzle adapter and the locking nut is threaded onto the accessory mount with the locking ring engaging the bearing surface of the muzzle adapter and the inside taper of the locking nut.
US11732983B2
A method for operating a semi-automatic firearm as a single-shot firearm comprising: installing a bolt in the firearm, wherein the bolt comprises a bolt lock safety device, wherein the bolt lock safety device extends beyond a face of the bolt when engaged preventing the firearm from automatically reloading; when the bolt lock safety device is engaged, pulling a charging handle back to cause the bolt to move rearward exposing the firearm chamber to reload a cartridge, wherein the adjustable bolt lock is simultaneously rotated by the lock pivot pin to lay flush with the bolt forcing the bolt back into forward position; and upon release of the charging handle, automatically reengaging the adjustable bolt lock via a lock return spring causing the adjustable bolt lock to extend beyond the face of the bolt.
US11732978B2
In one general aspect, a microchannel heat exchanger is disclosed. It includes a cover, a base, and thermally conductive sheets between the cover and the base that each define a series of side-by-side lanes aligned with a flow direction. The lanes each include aligned slots that define microchannel segments and are separated by cross ribs. The sheets are stacked between the base and cover so as to cause at least some of the ribs to be offset from each other and allow the microchannel segments in the same lane in adjacent sheets to communicate with each other along the flow direction to define a plurality of microchannels in the heat exchanger.
US11732968B1
An air transfer apparatus or enclosure having a heat exchanger attached to at least one side of the air transfer apparatus. The air transfer apparatus is an integral or a monolithic structure or enclosure where all internal cavities of the air transfer apparatus are formed from a single piece of material. The air transfer apparatus or enclosure includes a drain apparatus and a drain device. The drain apparatus includes a plurality of plates and the plurality of plates are positioned to make any collected fluid thereon collect in a sump of the air transfer apparatus.
US11732967B2
In one aspect, a heat exchanger system is provided that includes a cooling system and a sensor configured to detect a variable of the cooling system. The heat exchanger system includes processor circuitry configured to provide the variable and a plurality of potential operating parameters of the cooling system to a machine learning model representative of the cooling system to estimate at least one of energy consumption, water usage, and chemical usage for the potential operating parameters. The processor circuitry is further configured to determine, based at least in part on the estimated at least one of energy consumption, water usage, and chemical consumption, for the potential operating parameters, an optimal operating parameter of the cooling system to satisfy a target optimization criterion.
US11732966B2
A melter for preparing a molten medium, in particular for preparing a molten adhesive, has a housing and a melting tank formed within the housing. The melter further has a filling opening for introducing the medium to be melted. The melter further has a wall section which encircles the filling opening. The melter further has an insulating body which encircles the filling opening and covers the wall section. The insulating body is elastically deformable for use in such a melter.
US11732962B2
A system for cooling a gas with a mixed refrigerant includes a heat exchanger that receives and cools a feed of the gas so that a product is produced. The system includes a mixed refrigerant processing system having compression devices and aftercoolers as well as a low pressure accumulator and a high pressure accumulator. A cold vapor separator receives vapor from the high pressure accumulator and features a vapor outlet and a liquid outlet. Vapor from the cold vapor separator vapor outlet is cooled, expanded and directed to a primary refrigeration passage of the heat exchanger. Liquid from the liquid outlet of the cold vapor separator is subcooled, expanded and directed to the primary refrigeration passage. Liquid from the low pressure accumulator is subcooled, expanded and directed to the primary refrigeration passage. Liquid from the high pressure accumulator is subcooled, expanded and directed to the primary refrigeration passage.
US11732956B2
A refrigerator has a wiring mechanism. The refrigerator comprises a cabinet and a drawer-type door body, wherein the cabinet forms a compartment provided with an opening facing forward, and the drawer-type door body is provided with an electrical component. The wiring mechanism comprises a cable for supplying power to the electrical component, and a drag chain for accommodating part of the cable, wherein one end of the drag chain is fixed inside the compartment, and the other end of the drag chain is connected to the drawer-type door body and moves forward and backward along with the drawer-type door body, thereby preventing the cable from being deformed and damaged, and ensuring a reliable electrical connection.
US11732955B2
A drawer includes insulation defining a climate-controlled insulated interior of the drawer, and a refrigeration system. The interior of the drawer may be divided into compartments having lids, and actuators may be provided for unlocking the lids. The actuators may include solenoids, which may be disposed outside the climate-controlled interior of the drawer. The drawer may include an air inlet, an outlet, and a fan. The fan may draw air through an air flow path defined at least in part by the insulation.
US11732951B2
A refrigerator includes a body having a storage space. The body includes an inner case having the storage space, an outer case having an inside surface spaced a predetermined gap from an outside surface of the inner case to house the inner case, a vacuum space provided between the inner case and the outer case sealed to maintain a vacuum state for heat insulating between the inner case and the outer case, a supporting portion provided to contact with the outside surface of the inner case and the inside surface of the outer case to maintain a spaced state of the vacuum space, and a dewing preventive unit adjacent to the supporting portion for preventing dewing from taking place at the outer case by suppressing surface temperature drop of the outer case caused by cold conducted from the inner case to the outer case through the supporting portion.
US11732943B2
A universal controller for integration of cryogenic equipment, requiring different control mechanisms, onto a single operating platform. The universal controller may include a power supply element that is configured to simultaneously drive a plurality of cryogenic devices that have different power supply requirements and a protocol translator element that is configured to enable communication between a plurality of cryogenic devices that use different, incompatible communication protocols, wherein the protocol translator element translates communications sent by a first type of cryogenic device from a first cryogenic device communication protocol into a second cryogenic device communication protocol and translates communications sent by a second type of cryogenic device from a second cryogenic device communication protocol into the first cryogenic device communication protocol, enabling the first type of cryogenic device and the second type of cryogenic device to communicate with each other.
US11732942B2
A method of operating a chiller includes applying chiller operating data associated with the chiller as an input to one or more machine learning models, generating a boundary for a controllable chiller variable based on an output of the one or more machine learning models, and affecting operation of the chiller based on the boundary.
US11732935B2
A sorption heat pump having an evaporator containing a working fluid to evaporate the fluid to produce a gas, a sorber containing a sorption material to sorb the gas during a sorption phase, a vapor pathway connecting the evaporator and sorber, and a thermal control unit controlling the rate of vapor flow between the evaporator and sorber through the pathway, and being selectively operable to permit, stop and restart the flow of gas through the pathway. The pump may be used with a compartment storing temperature sensitive material. The evaporator may be positioned inside and the sorber outside the compartment, or the sorber may be positioned inside and the evaporator outside the compartment. The pump may be used in an apparatus including both cool and warm compartments, with an insulation layer in each. A method is disclosed for reusing the pump after the sorption material has been sorbed.
US11732928B1
A gas receiver configured to heat a working fluid is disclosed. The receiver comprises an aperture, a light absorber, and a pre-heater interposed between the aperture and light absorber. The pre-heater is transparent to visible light and opaque to infrared. The pre-heater in the preferred embodiment comprises quartz in the form of a plurality of quartz plates or quartz tubes, for example, that are oriented substantially parallel to one another. The quartz plates are separated from one another by a gap to permit air to pass into the receiver cavity, while the quartz tubes are hollow to permit air to pass therethrough. The quartz plates or tubes are configured to transmit visible light from the aperture to the light absorber, and to absorb infrared radiation passing from the light absorber toward the aperture. Since the quartz structures absorb infrared, they serve to capture blackbody radiation emitted from the absorber and use that energy to pre-heat air before it passes into the absorber.
US11732925B2
A screen cover for attaching to an open end of a conduit of a water heater is provided. The screen cover includes a first diametric portion having a first diameter and a second diametric portion having a second diameter. The first diameter is greater than the second diameter. The first and second diametric portions are coaxially aligned and configured to allow flow of air or gas therethrough. The screen cover includes a shoulder portion defined between the first diametric portion and the second diametric portion. The screen cover further includes a mesh disposed at a first opening of the first diametric portion. The mesh prevents entry of external objects into the water heater through the open end of the conduit.
US11732924B2
The present disclosure relates generally to air intake filter assemblies, and more particularly to air intake assemblies for an outdoor portion of a heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) system. In an embodiment, a filter assembly is configured to filter an airflow entering an air intake of a HVAC unit. The filter assembly includes a first layer of a first coarse mesh, a second layer of a second coarse mesh, and a fine filter disposed between the first layer and the second layer. Additionally, the fine filter includes an upper level and a lower level with respect to the airflow, and wherein the lower level facilitates accumulation of fine debris captured from the airflow entering the air intake of the HVAC unit.
US11732922B2
The invention non-direct vent (one pipe) or direct vent (two pipe) fuel fired appliance vent terminations spaced apart to accommodate the inward flow of combustion air and/or the outwardly flow of exhaust flue gas of a fuel fired appliance. The vent termination ends are capable of engaging the terminal ends of a variety of different size exhaust conduits including fitting sockets of a conduit fitting. The vent pipe termination can include in some aspects a vent pipe termination kit which may include, but not limited to; a vent termination main embodiment, mounting plate, screws, connector elements, threaded nuts, connector element cover, protection shield, intake screen, 90 degree elbows, sloped vent fitting, T fittings, wall anchors, decals or labels, escutcheon covers, insulating materials, caulking or other similar components.
US11732920B2
An air conditioning system (1) has a heater unit (3) providing a hot water flow (7) and receiving a hot water return (31) in hot water loop, a chiller unit (5) providing a cold water flow (13) and receiving a cold water return (33) in a cold water loop, one or more air to water heat exchangers (17), and one or more control valves (11), each control valve (11) associated with one of the air to water heat exchangers (17) and arranged to receive the hot water flow (7) and cold water flow (13), selectively provide the flow from a one of the hot water loop or cold water loop to the associated air to water heat exchanger (17), receive a return from the associated air to water heat exchanger (17), and selectively provide the return from the associated air to water heat exchanger (17) to the return of the one of the hot water loop or cold water loop.
US11732918B2
The disclosure provides an air conditioner capable of smoothly performing communication between an outdoor unit and indoor units using piping communication, and a piping communication method thereof. When communicating between an outdoor unit and indoor units using piping communication, a communication mode is automatically changed to a differential mode and a single mode to set the most suitable communication method for field characteristics according to a communication state, so that communication between the outdoor unit and the indoor units can be performed smoothly. This enables smooth piping communication by increasing a communication success rate even if a physical short between refrigerant pipes occurs in a multi-system air conditioner that connects a plurality of indoor units to a single outdoor unit, or even if there are more branch pipes for branching the refrigerant pipe.
US11732913B2
A media library includes a library housing, a heat-producing device, one or more storage media and an air mover assembly. The library housing can include a library interior where the library interior can include a first wall and a second wall positioned opposite the first wall. The heat-producing device can be positioned near the first wall of the library interior. The one or more storage media can be positioned in the library interior between the heat-producing device and the second wall. The air mover assembly can be is configured to move air into the library interior through the first wall and out of the library interior through the second wall. The heat-producing device can include one or more of a media drive, a power supply and a controller. The air mover assembly can move air through the heat-producing device before the air moves through the one or more storage media.
US11732894B2
A pulse detonation combustion system includes: an inlet pipe; an intake cone disposed in the inlet pipe, having an end provided with a pneumatic valve, and including an atomizing air transfer tube, a fuel transfer tube, and a conical swirl nozzle connected to the atomizing air transfer tube and the fuel transfer tube; an atomizing air intake tube connected with the atomizing air transfer tube; a fuel supply tube connected with the fuel transfer tube; a pulse detonation combustion chamber located downstream of and communicated to the inlet pipe, and provided with a spark plug mounting seat for mounting a spark plug; a gas energy distribution adjustment device located downstream of and communicated to the pulse detonation combustion chamber; and a transition section located downstream of and communicated to the gas energy distribution adjustment device.
US11732884B2
A light-emitting device includes a wiring substrate, a base member provided on the wiring substrate, a light-emitting element array that has a first side surface and a second side surface facing each other, that has a third side surface and a fourth side surface facing each other and connecting the first side surface and the second side surface, and that is provided on the base member, a drive unit that is provided on the wiring substrate at a side of the first side surface and drives the light-emitting element array, a first circuit element that is provided on the base member at the side of the first side surface, a second circuit element that is provided on the base member at a side of the second side surface and has a larger occupation area on the base member than the first circuit element, and wiring members that are provided at a side of the third side surface and at a side of the fourth side surface and extend from an upper surface electrode of the light-emitting element array toward an outer side of the light-emitting element array.
US11732879B2
A luminaire includes a core made up of a first material and an LED lighting arrangement mounted to the core. The luminaire further includes a housing made up of a second material. The second material is different from the first material. The housing including a recess in which the core is received. The housing further includes a finned part.
US11732872B2
A light-emitting system for healthy lighting, a light bar and a light fixture, wherein they are applied to the field of lighting and can emit white light with a color temperature range of 2700 K to 6500 K. A relative spectral power of the light-emitting system is set to be ϕ (λ), and a relative spectral power distribution of a solar spectral curve corresponding to the color temperature is set to be S (λ). The white light has a first characteristic waveband, and a wavelength region of the first characteristic waveband is 380-405 nm. The white light has a second characteristic waveband, and a wavelength region of the second characteristic waveband is 415-455 nm. The white light has a third characteristic waveband, and a wavelength region of the third characteristic waveband is 465-495 nm.
US11732859B2
A headlamp for a vehicle configured to generate a lighting region (3) in front of the vehicle comprises: a fixed matrix-array first light source configured to emit a high beam, a movable second light source configured to emit a low beam, a correcting mechanism configured to keep a vertical inclination of the low beam constant with respect to a reference horizontal line, when the vehicle is in motion, and a dioptric prism configured to remove at least one shadow region that may occur, in said lighting region, between the high beam and the low beam.
US11732852B2
A downlight apparatus includes a driver box, a light source, a light housing, multiple leaf springs, multiple shaft connectors and multiple pads. The light housing has a light holder and a rim. The light holder has a holder plate and a holder wall defining a holder cavity. The multiple leaf springs are placed between the driver box and the light holder. Each pad has a pad hole and a pad scraper surrounding the pad hole. The pad scraper has a protruding part engaging an electric insulation layer on a top side of the holder plate. The shaft connector sequentially passes through a spring hole of the leaf spring, the pad hole and the top plate of the light holder. The protruding part of the pad scraper scraps a portion of the electric insulation layer of the holder plate for connecting the holder plate to ground.
US11732850B2
A smart recessed light assembly for mounting into a hollow opening made in ceiling or a wall comprises a light source housing, a trim and a device mounting track. The device mounting track creates an extension to the illuminating assembly to house and power a variety of devices pertaining to smart home like an audio system, a video projection system, a surveillance system, variety of sensory systems that can measure temperature and humidity, to detect motion or hazardous situations like the case for carbon monoxide (CO). Smart recessed light may be recessed into the ceiling to give it the appearance of a continuous surface and to give it an aesthetic appeal. In addition, device mounting track has a modular cover to allow devices to be hidden behind a grid cover like the case of speaker or exposed like the case of a motion detection sensor.
US11732848B1
A flagpole lighting assembly, including an enclosure which includes a ring-shaped base having an aperture therethrough which includes a circumferential region, and a bottom aperture interior to the circumferential region, and a cover which includes a top with an aperture therethrough, an outer wall circumferentially coupled to the top, with a larger diameter than a diameter of the circumferential region of the base, protruding downwards beyond the base, a primary protrusion extending from the top such that it is flush with the outer wall and including an aperture therethrough, and a plurality of secondary protrusions extending downward from the top, each protrusion having a brace connected to the outer wall, and a ring-shaped circuit board and a plurality of output lighted strands connected to the circuit board.
US11732841B2
A suspension arm assembly including at least three horizontally aligned members relatively rotatable about each other. Each adjacent pair of members are connected to each other by a joint. At least one conduit extends along the at least three horizontally aligned members, with the at least one conduit being routed horizontally along the horizontally aligned members and not being located within a periphery of the at least three horizontally aligned members.
US11732840B2
An adjustable mounting apparatus for electronic devices is configured to be adaptable to various support structures, and to facilitate a customized mount orientation for the electronic devices through several degrees of pivot freedom. The mounting apparatus is particularly adaptable to outdoor or industrial environments in which standard support structure modalities may not be available.
US11732820B2
The described methods and systems enable a control panel for a safety valve in a safety system of a process control environment to couple to a safety loop that couples a logic solver to a valve positioner for the safety valve. The control panel may drive a loop current on the safety loop to a desired range, thereby causing the valve positioner to respond by initiating a desired function triggered by the loop current entering the desired range. The desired function may be a trip function, a reset function, or a stroke test function.
US11732819B2
A servo valve includes: a fluid transfer valve assembly comprising a supply port and a control port (PA, PB); a moveable valve spool arranged to regulate flow of fluid from the supply port to the control port in response to a control signal; and a drive means configured to axially move the valve spool relative to the fluid transfer assembly in response to the control signal to regulate the fluid flow. The drive means comprises an elongate member arranged to rotate in response to the control signal. The elongate member has a cam profile in the fluid flow path such as to vary the pressure acting on the ends of the spool as the cam profile rotates.
US11732814B2
A plug valve assembly has a valve body with an inlet and an outlet each defining a fluid passageway in fluid communication with a cavity defined within the valve body. The valve body further has a collar defining a service opening extending upward from the valve body. A plug with a spindle top and a plug body is disposed within the cavity. The plug has an opening that is operable to obstruct the fluid passageway when it is in a closed position and to connect the inlet to the outlet when it is in an open position. The spindle top of the plug has a hexagonal outer profile and a through opening and adaptable to engage with a variety of actuating devices. A threaded cap is removably engaged with the collar of the valve body and is operable to retain the plug within the valve body cavity.
US11732813B2
A dielectric insulating insert arranged to be positioned between a drive shaft and a ball shaft of a motorised ball valve assembly. The insert includes a body of dielectric material to form an insulating layer and having opposing sides from each of which extends an engagement portion having a non-circular cross-section and configured to engage, respectively, with the drive shaft and the ball shaft in torque transfer engagement.
US11732812B1
Disclosed embodiments include ball valves with an asymmetric seal and seat, to minimize seal wear. In embodiments, a seal is disposed upon a ball with a first and second section, where the first section of the seal is disposed at a different angle from the second section. A seat has a first and second section at different angles that correspond to angles of the first and second section of the seal, respectively, such that the seal fully contacts the seat when the ball is in a closed position. When the ball is rotated to an open position, the different angles of the first and second sections allow the second section of the seal to clear the first section of the seat without contact.
US11732809B2
A low-profile and small-size valve to a shut off a flow of fluid in a pipeline includes a frame, a tube, a moving part, a lever, an elastic part, a latch, and a trigger. The tube is movable with the moving part. The lever is rotatable around an axis. The elastic part can push the lever to rotate after the trigger pushes the buckle away from the lever to unlatch the lever and allow rotation. During the rotation of the lever, the lever pulls on the moving part, and the moving part pulls on the tube together to disconnect the tube from the pipe. The valve improves the convenience and efficiency of shutting off a flow of fluid. A pipeline and an immersion cooling system is also disclosed.
US11732805B2
The valve component comprises a valve member movable between an open position and a closed position. The valve component comprises a valve control mechanism including a drive member that moves the valve member. The drive member rotates the valve member between the open position and an intermediate position and linearly moves the valve member between the intermediate position and the closed position. The valve control mechanism includes a cam to drive the drive member. The cam includes a cam slot to engage the drive member. The cam slot includes a recess to receive the drive member in the closed position of the valve member so that the recess locates the drive member to resist or prevent linear movement of the valve member away from the valve closed position towards the valve intermediate position.
US11732804B2
The invention relates to a hydraulic tool mount having a bore into which a sealing piston is inserted, wherein the sealing piston comprises a pin, a seal and a head which are arranged one behind the other in an axial direction (A) and thus form a stack, wherein the seal comprises a circumferential sealing lip for abutment and sealing against an inner wall of the bore in order to achieve a first sealing effect, and the bore comprises a sealing seat which, when the sealing piston is inserted, forms a stop for the head in axial direction (A), so that, in an end position of the sealing piston, the head abuts the sealing seat and thereby closes the bore in order to achieve a second sealing effect. The invention further relates to a corresponding sealing piston.
US11732803B2
The metal seal has a middle base portion 3 of which cross-sectional configuration is laterally long rectangular, a first main convex portion 1 and a first auxiliary convex portion 11, and a second main convex portion 2 and a second auxiliary convex portion 12 respectively disposed on both ends of long sides 3A of the middle base portion 3. Ridge lines of the convex portions 1, 11, 2, and 12 form common straight lines L10 and L20 continuous to short sides of the rectangular.
US11732802B2
A sealing system for an engine comprising a single layer of sheet material, the sheet having an upper surface adapted to sealably contact a first engine component and a lower surface adapted to sealably contact a second engine component, and bead portions profiled on the gasket, where the gasket profile is optimized with varying heights and widths so as to create portions of varying stiffness adjacent to one another. The bead portions are profiled so as to be concentric with a combustion or cylinder chamber of the engine, and the bead portions include a portion of high stiffness adjacent to a portion of high recovery, the portion of high stiffness having a sharper angle protruding away from the plane comprising the single layer gasket than for the adjacent portion of high recovery. The optimized profile allows use of single layer gaskets to replace multiple layer gaskets.
US11732795B2
A drive device includes a motor, a housing, an oil passage in the housing, an oil pump in which a portion of the oil passage is provided, and a strainer inside the housing and in which a portion of the oil passage is provided. The oil passage includes an oil sump in which oil is accumulated and a suction path connecting the oil sump and the oil pump. A central axis of the oil pump extends in a direction intersecting the vertical direction. The strainer is in the suction path. The strainer includes a suction port to suction oil from the oil sump, a discharge port to discharge oil toward the oil pump, and a filter. The suction port opens downward in the vertical direction. The discharge port opens in a direction intersecting the vertical direction toward the oil pump.
US11732794B2
An axle assembly that includes a differential carrier, a bearing cap, and a lubricant reservoir. The differential carrier has a bearing support. The bearing cap is disposed on the bearing support. The lubricant reservoir is mounted on the bearing cap and is configured to capture lubricant that is splashed by the differential assembly.
US11732774B2
In an aspect a device for a driven shaft is provided that receives an input torque that varies cyclically between a peak input torque and a low input torque at a peak input torque frequency, which includes a shaft adapter, a rotary drive member, at least one isolation member, a torsional vibration damping structure including an inertia member and a elastomeric damping member, and a supplemental damping structure. The supplemental damping structure applies a supplemental damping torque to resist relative movement between the rotary drive member and the inertia member in addition to damping provided by the elastomeric damping member. A sum of torques including the supplemental damping torque limits a maximum twist between a first end of the driven shaft and a second end of the driven shaft, to below a yield point of the driven shaft.
US11732765B2
A prime mover includes a stator fixed to the housing and a rotor rotatable relative to the stator. The prime mover outputs torque by being supplied with electric power. A speed reducer reduces the torque of the prime mover and outputs the reduced torque. A rotational translation unit includes a rotation portion that rotates relative to the housing upon receiving the torque from the speed reducer, and a translation portion that moves relative to the housing in an axial direction. A clutch allows torque transmission in an engaged state, and interrupts the torque transmission in a disengaged state. A state changing unit changes the state of the clutch by receiving a force along the axial direction from the translation portion. Cogging torque generated between the rotor and the stator is set to such a magnitude that the rotor is stoppable at any rotation position relative to the stator.
US11732756B2
Casing of a bearing unit for food applications, made of polymeric material and provided internally with a spherical seat for housing the bearing unit, the casing having a reinforcement in the form of a metal ring co-moulded inside the casing and accommodated around the spherical seat of the casing.
US11732745B2
A fastener system including a nut body and a helical thread insert. The nut body having an internally threaded bore containing a plurality of bore threads, and at least one bore obstruction. The helical thread insert formed to create a plurality of internal HTI threads and a plurality of external HTI threads, with the helical thread insert received in the internally threaded bore and not occupying all of the plurality of bore threads, and having its movement limited by the bore obstruction. The helical thread insert having threads with both circular end profiles and a non-circular end profile. The non-circular end profile including at least three straight segments, and located between circular threads.
US11732743B2
A cap system for enclosing a metallic fastener assembly extending through a structure, which includes a first securement mechanism positioned about a periphery of a nut member of the metallic fastener assembly, wherein the first securement mechanism comprises a plurality of continuous grooves which extend about the periphery of the nut member. The cap system further includes a cap member which includes a sidewall having an inner surface which defines a cavity dimensioned to receive the nut member and defines a second securement mechanism complementary configured to engage the first securement mechanism positioned about the periphery of the nut member. The cap system also includes an end of the sidewall of the cap member defines an opening which provides the nut member to have access into the cavity.
US11732742B2
An anti-loosening bolt and nut assembly structure includes a bolt having a bolt head and a bolt shank, two elastic washers, and a nut. The two elastic washers are sleeved on the bolt shank. The two elastic washers are matched with the bolt head and the nut, respectively. Each elastic washer includes an annular body having an opening. A bottom of the annular body is provided with anti-slip teeth. A top of the annular body extends upward to form an anti-loosening ring. An outer inclined surface is formed on an outer side of the anti-loosening ring. The anti-loosening ring is provided with a plurality of first unidirectional teeth. The bolt head and the nut each includes a unidirectional anti-loosening device matched with the first unidirectional teeth.
US11732718B2
This invention relates to a multi-stage rotor (10). More specifically, the invention relates to a multistage rotor (10) for the compressor stage of a machine that, through a concentric configuration of its innermost (12), outermost (24) and intermediary (16) blade sets co-operative with a reverse flow convoluting ducting arrangement, provides an axially compact, lighter and more easily maintainable compressor rotor for such machine. The multi-stage rotor (10) includes innermost (30), outermost (34) and intermediary (32) duct ports comprising a radial duct spans, as measured between respective diametrically inner and outer duct walls of the duct port, being greater than respective innermost (48), outermost (54) and intermediary (50, 52) radial blade spans of the respective blade sets rotatable at least partially within such duct port. In this manner, a gap is defined between: (i) the at least one diametrical ends of the radial rotating blades ending radially short of the respective radial duct span to form free ends of the blades; and (ii) a stationary part of the respective duct the free ends of the blades sweep neared to; for generating a friction wash between such free ends of the blades and the stationary part of the respective duct.
US11732712B2
A rotary compressor may include a case, a cylinder, a roller, a vane, a main bearing and a sub bearing, and a discharge passage defined in the main bearing or the sub bearing to discharge refrigerant compressed in a compression space. The discharge passage may include at least one discharge hole formed through the main bearing or the sub bearing, and at least one discharge guide groove having a first end that communicates with the at least one discharge hole and a second end that extends from the at least one discharge hole toward a contact point between the cylinder and the roller and is recessed from one surface of the main bearing or the sub bearing forming the compression space. Accordingly, an amount of refrigerant remaining in the compression space even after a discharge stroke may be reduced.
US11732706B2
A method for operating a compressor for a compressed air system of a motor vehicle, in particular an air suspension system, wherein an operating temperature of the compressor is determined and used as a criterion for the compressor to be operated until a switch-off temperature (T) is reached, wherein a switch-on duration (t) until reaching the switch-off temperature (T) is determined, and the determined switch-on duration (t) is adjusted by a parameter (LP) dependent on the switch-off temperature (T) reached.
US11732703B2
There is provided a cryopump including a cryocooler, a cryopanel that is cooled by the cryocooler, a cryopump container that includes a container body, which accommodates the cryopanel, and a cryocooler accommodating tube of which one end is coupled to the container body and the other end is fixed to the cryocooler and into which the cryocooler is inserted, a vent valve for exhausting a fluid from the cryopump container, a first exhaust passage that includes a first exhaust port provided in the container body, is disposed outside the cryopump container, and connects the first exhaust port to the vent valve, and a second exhaust passage that includes a second exhaust port provided in the cryocooler accommodating tube, connects the second exhaust port to the vent valve, and merges with the first exhaust passage between the first exhaust port and the vent valve.
US11732700B2
An automatic bidirectional valve includes: a valve body, a central conduit that crosses the valve body and is provided with a first opening in a first end of the valve body and a second opening made in an opposite second end thereof, and a peripheral conduit made in the valve body, provided with a first opening, made in a portion of the valve body between the first and second ends, and a second opening made in the second end. A first shutter is movable between a closing position and an opening position, a first elastic element configured to generate a force adapted to maintain the first shutter in the closing position, a second shutter movable between a closing position, and an opening position, a second elastic element configured to generate a force to maintain the second shutter in the closing position, and a retaining body fixed to the valve body.
US11732697B2
Systems and methods for generating and a controller for controlling generation of geothermal power in an organic Rankine cycle (ORC) operation in the vicinity of a wellhead during hydrocarbon production to thereby supply electrical power to one or more of in-field operational equipment, a grid power structure, and an energy storage device. In an embodiment, during hydrocarbon production, a temperature of a flow of wellhead fluid from the wellhead or working fluid may be determined. If the temperature is above a vaporous phase change threshold of the working fluid, heat exchanger valves may be opened to divert flow of wellhead fluid to heat exchangers to facilitate heat transfer from the flow of wellhead fluid to working fluid through the heat exchangers, thereby to cause the working fluid to change from a liquid to vapor, the vapor to cause a generator to generate electrical power via rotation of an expander.
US11732696B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for determining reliability of one or more load sensors in a wind turbine. The method comprises measuring loads with the load sensors during operation of the wind turbine; determining in-plane moments based on the measured loads; selecting the in-plane moments with 1 p frequency; and comparing the selected in-plane moments with theoretical in-plane moments due to a mass of the blade. The method then comprises determining that the load sensors have reduced reliability if the selected in-plane moments deviate from the theoretical in-plane moments by more than a first threshold value. The present disclosure also relates to wind turbine systems incorporating load sensors and methods for on-line determination of correct functioning of load sensors mounted on a wind turbine blade.
US11732695B2
A rotor blade clamping tool includes a first and a second clamping element connected by by a clamping mechanism and each including a first and a second balancing lever being arranged pivotally about a pivot axis and having a first end flexibly connected with a corresponding first rotor blade contacting surface and a second end flexibly connected with a corresponding second rotor blade contacting surface. At least one clamping element includes a main balancing lever arranged pivotally about a main pivot axis and having a first end on which the corresponding first balancing lever is arranged pivotally and a second end on which the corresponding second balancing lever is arranged pivotally. First and second balancing levers arranged on the same main balancing lever are aligned in their longitudinal direction.
US11732692B2
Provided is a device and a method of damping front and backward movements of a tower of a wind turbine, wherein the wind turbine includes the tower and a rotor, the rotor being mounted at the top of the tower to rotate about a rotational axis in which the front and backward movements of the tower occur, and the rotor has a plurality of blades, wherein each blade has at least one corresponding active add-on member which is actuated by a corresponding actuator to alter aerodynamic properties of the blade. Each add-on member is actuated by the corresponding actuator to alter the aerodynamic properties of the blade in a manner that the rotor is configured to damp the front and backward movements of the tower of the wind turbine.
US11732681B2
An EGR device includes an inlet portion into which EGR gas is introduced, a first outlet portion, a second outlet portion, and a passage portion. The first outlet portion and the second outlet portion each conduct, to the corresponding branch passage portion, the EGR gas that has been introduced through the inlet portion. The passage portion allows gas to flow between the inlet portion and the first outlet portion and between the inlet portion and the second outlet portion. The passage portion includes: a main passage that connects the inlet portion to the first outlet portion and to the second outlet portion; and an expansion chamber that is expanded outward from the main passage. The main passage includes a connecting portion. The connecting portion is connected to the second outlet portion and extends in a first direction. The expansion chamber is expanded outward from the connecting portion.
US11732680B2
The present disclosure describes an evaporative emission control canister system that includes: one or more canisters comprising at least one vent-side particulate adsorbent volume comprising a particulate adsorbent having microscopic pores with a diameter of less than about 100 nm; macroscopic pores having a diameter of about 100-100,000 nm; and a ratio of a volume of the macroscopic pores to a volume of the microscopic pores that is greater than about 150%, and having a retentivity of about 1.0 g/dL or less. The system may further include a high butane working capacity adsorbent. The disclosure also describes a method for reducing emissions in an evaporative emission control system.
US11732671B2
A method for controlling the total injection mass per working cycle during a multiple injection operation of a fuel injector of an internal combustion engine is provided. In the method, an injection mass difference is determined from individual injection pulse to individual injection pulse, and transferred to the next individual injection pulse, in stepwise fashion. The injection mass difference remaining in the penultimate individual injection pulse is transferred to the final individual injection pulse to achieve a total injection mass with improved tolerance.
US11732665B1
In the present invention, a clogging rate is calculated using a first flow rate function when the degree of clogging of the throttle valve is in the reference state and a second flow rate function estimated based on the intake air volume. For each predetermined period, sample points, which are combinations of the second flow rate function and throttle valve position, are obtained, and the learning points are calculated by averaging a plurality of sample points for each predetermined position range. Based on the plurality of learning points, coefficients a to c of the approximate function of the second flow rate function characteristic are calculated by the least-squares method, and the clogging rate is calculated based on the second flow rate function characteristic and the first flow rate function approximated by the approximate function using the coefficients a to c.
US11732658B2
A filter assembly includes a manifold having a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet, a filter housing having a filter medium provided therein, the filter medium defining an inner filter chamber and defining an outer filter chamber between the filter medium and the filter housing, the filter housing being removably attached to the manifold. The filter assembly includes a valve assembly mounted inside the manifold, and a by-pass channel defined inside the manifold between the fluid inlet and the fluid outlet. The valve assembly includes a valve body, a by-pass valve system, and a shut off valve system. The by-pass valve system includes a by-pass valve piston having a piston body, and a by-pass valve spring arranged to move the by-pass valve piston. The shut off valve system includes a shut off valve piston, and a shut off valve spring arranged to move the shut off valve piston.
US11732648B2
A gas turbine engine includes: a casing that accommodates a compressor and the like; bearings; a main lubricator including an oil mist generator that generates oil mist by mixing oil with compressed air extracted from the compressor and a first supply passage through which the oil mist is guided to the bearings; and a starting lubricator including a second supply passage through which a gas flowing out from a gas source is guided to a connection portion of the first supply passage, the connection portion being connected to the second supply passage, and an opener that starts supply of the gas from the gas source. The main lubricator supplies the oil mist to the bearings through the first supply passage by the pressure of the compressed air extracted from the compressor. When the opener starts the supply of the gas, the starting lubricator supplies the oil mist to the bearings by the pressure of the gas flowing out from the gas source.
US11732644B2
A gas turbine combined-cycle power plant can comprise a gas turbine engine, a heat recovery steam generator, a steam turbine, a fuel regasification system and a Rankine Cycle system. The gas turbine engine can comprise a compressor for generating compressed air, a combustor that can receive a fuel and the compressed air to produce combustion gas, and a turbine for receiving the combustion gas and generating exhaust gas. The heat recovery steam generator is configured to generate steam from water utilizing the exhaust gas. The steam turbine is configured to produce power from steam from the heat recovery steam generator. The fuel regasification system is configured to convert the fuel from a liquid to a gas before entering the combustor. The Organic Rankine Cycle system is configured to cool compressed air extracted from the compressor to cool the gas turbine engine, and heat liquid fuel entering the fuel regasification system.
US11732638B2
An e-charger includes a motor case that encases the motor and an outer housing that houses the motor case. The e-charger additionally includes a cooling system with passages cooperatively defined by the outer housing and the motor case. First and second longitudinal passages extend between the first and second ends of the motor, and a second longitudinal passage extends between the second and first ends of the motor. The end passage fluidly connects the first and second longitudinal passage. The cooling system is configured for directing flow of the coolant from the inlet, through the first longitudinal passage in a first longitudinal direction with respect to the axis, through the end passage, and back through the second longitudinal passage in a second longitudinal direction with respect to the axis.
US11732631B2
Subject of the invention is an exhaust gas purification system for a gasoline engine, comprising in consecutive order the following devices: ⋅ a first three-way-catalyst (TWC1), a gasoline particulate filter (GPF) and a second three-way-catalyst (TWC2), ⋅ wherein the platinum-group metal concentration (PGM) of the TWC2 is greater than the PGM of the GPF, wherein the PGM is determined in g/ft3 of the volume of the device. Also disclosed are methods in which the system is used and uses of the system.
US11732630B1
A shield for a diesel exhaust fluid injector is mounted in an opening in a side wall of an exhaust gas aftertreatment system of an internal combustion engine. The diesel exhaust fluid injector is configured to inject diesel exhaust fluid in a direction generally normal to the side wall into a mixer positioned in an exhaust gas stream. The shield includes a first portion extending axially and a second portion extending radially inwardly from the first portion.
US11732624B2
Provided is a device that uses a high-temperature exhaust gas released from an internal combustion engine to produce a fuel. The present invention relates to the fuel production device including the internal combustion engine, an electrolysis device connected to the internal combustion engine, and a hydrogenation reactor connected to the electrolysis device, wherein the electrolysis device is a device for decomposing high-temperature water vapor contained in the exhaust gas from the internal combustion engine into hydrogen and oxygen, and the hydrogenation reactor is a device for converting the hydrogen resulting from the decomposition to the fuel.
US11732623B2
A muffler includes a housing and a partition member. The housing includes a cavity, a gas inlet, and a gas outlet. The gas inlet and the gas outlet are respectively in communication with the cavity. The partition member is disposed in the housing. The partition member partitions the cavity into a resonant cavity and a muffling cavity that are isolated from each other. The resonant cavity is in communication only with the gas inlet. The muffling cavity is in communication with both the gas inlet and the gas outlet.
US11732616B2
An arrangement for storing energy, the arrangement comprising a heat-charging mass (4) and a heat-transfer channeling (3), the arrangement also comprising a heating member (11) adapted to heat up the heat-charging mass (4). The arrangement comprises a boiler belonging to a discarded combustion power plant and converted to a thermal energy storage (2) by at least partly filling the boiler with the heat-charging mass (4).
US11732607B2
Provided is a bearing structure that can support a rotary shaft with a small number of components. The bearing structure includes: a cylindrical sleeve (32) provided so as to surround the outer circumference of a rotary shaft (4) that rotates about a center axis line (CL) and configured to rotate together with the rotary shaft (4); thrust collars (34a, 34b) provided so as to abut against both ends in the center axis line (CL) direction of the cylindrical sleeve (32), respectively, having a larger diameter than the cylindrical sleeve (32), and configured to rotate together with the rotary shaft (4); and a compressor-side journal bearing (12) arranged on the outer circumference side of the cylindrical sleeve (32) and between the thrust collars (34a, 34b).
US11732601B2
A variable turbine geometry assembly includes an adjustment ring extending along and rotatable about an axis, at least one vane lever coupled to the adjustment ring, and at least one vane coupled to the at least one vane lever. The variable turbine geometry assembly also includes a biasing member coupled to the adjustment ring at a first circumferential location on the adjustment ring and coupled to the adjustment ring at a second circumferential location on the adjustment ring. The biasing member extends from the first circumferential location to the second circumferential location. The biasing member is operably in contact with the at least one vane lever between the first circumferential location and the second circumferential location to bias the at least one vane lever toward the adjustment ring and to reduce vibration between the adjustment ring and the at least one vane lever.
US11732598B2
A turbine shroud segment for use in a gas turbine engine includes a ceramic shroud segment formed to define a circumferentially extending channel that opens radially inwardly and a layer of abradable material that extends axially along a radial inner surface of the ceramic shroud segment to provide a flow path surface of the turbine shroud segment.
US11732592B2
A gas turbine engine defining an axial direction and a radial direction, and including a primary cooling circuit configured to receive a first flow of air; and a turbine rotor comprising a rotor blade, the rotor blade defining at least in part a forward wheelspace that is located forward of the rotor blade, the forward wheelspace configured to receive a second flow of air, the rotor blade further defining: a first cooling circuit internal to the rotor blade and in fluid communication with the primary cooling circuit for receiving the first flow of air from the primary cooling circuit; a second cooling circuit internal to the rotor blade and in fluid communication with the forward wheelspace for receiving a portion of the second flow of air from the forward wheelspace; and a means for drawing a portion of the second flow of air into the second cooling circuit.
US11732590B2
An apparatus is provided for a turbine engine. This turbine engine apparatus includes a turbine engine component that includes a sidewall and a cooling aperture. The cooling aperture includes an inlet, an outlet, a meter section, a diffuser section and a transition section between and fluidly coupled with the meter section and the diffuser section. The cooling aperture extends through the sidewall from the inlet to the outlet. The meter section is at the inlet. The diffuser section is at the outlet. The transition section is configured to accommodate lateral misalignment between the meter section and the diffuser section.
US11732588B2
A turbomachine includes a rotor and a stator, the stator having a plurality of profiled structures, each profiled structure being elongated in a direction of elongation in which the profiled structure has a length exposed to an airflow, and having a leading edge and/or a trailing edge, at least one of which is profiled and has, in said direction of elongation, serrations defined by a succession of peaks and troughs and having a geometric pattern transformed, over at least a part of said length exposed to the airflow, by successive scaling, via multiplicative factors, in the direction of elongation and/or transverse to the direction of elongation. The geometric pattern, as defined with reference to a radial distribution of the integral scale of the turbulence, evolves in a non-periodic manner.
US11732583B2
The present invention provides a retainer device 1 for retaining or holding an anchor rod 11 of a rock anchor, especially a self-drilling anchor, in a hole H drilled above horizontal. The retainer device 1 comprises: a body portion 2 configured to be mounted on the anchor rod 11, e.g., on an outer or external periphery of the anchor rod, and at least one locking arm or tab 6, 7 that projects from the body portion 2 in a direction transverse to a longitudinal extent of the anchor rod 11. The body portion 2 is configured to engage an abutment or shoulder on the outer or external periphery of the anchor rod to prevent its movement relative to the anchor rod 11 in use, and the at least one arm or tab 6, 7 is configured to deform so as to engage and bear against an inner wall W of the hole H when the retainer device 1 mounted on the anchor rod 11 is driven into the hole H. The invention also relates to a rock anchor system 10, comprising: at least one elongate anchor rod 11; a drill bit 12 configured for attachment to one end region 13 of the elongate anchor rod 11 for drilling the anchor rod 11 into rock strata R; and at least one retainer device 1 according to the invention described above for retaining or holding the anchor rod 11 in a hole H drilled in the rock strata R above horizontal. The invention also provides a method for installing a rock anchor.
US11732580B2
An NMR sensor is configured to make NMR measurements of a fluid and includes a housing defining a chamber. A nonmagnetic cap is deployed in the chamber and divides the chamber into first and second regions. The cap is sized and shaped to define a fluid collector in the first region. A magnet assembly is deployed in the second region and is configured to generate a static magnetic field in the fluid collector. A radio frequency (RF) coil is interposed between the magnet assembly and the cap and is configured to generate an RF magnetic field in the fluid collector. Methods include using the sensor to make NMR measurements of multi-phase fluids such as drilling fluid.
US11732578B2
A distributed acoustic system (DAS) method and system. The system may comprise an interrogator and an umbilical line comprising a first fiber optic cable and a second fiber optic cable attached at one end to the interrogator. The DAS may further include a downhole fiber attached to the umbilical line at the end opposite the interrogator and a light source disposed in the interrogator that is configured to emit a plurality of coherent light frequencies into the umbilical line and the downhole fiber. The method may include generating interferometric signals of the plurality of frequencies of backscattered light that have been received by the photo detector assembly and processing the interferometric signals with an information handling system.
US11732574B2
A location connector connects a first tubular to a second tubular, and includes a cylindrical main body extending in a longitudinal direction. An outer surface extends around a circumference of the main body, and an inner surface faces the central bore of the main body. A first connector, on a first end of the main body, is configured to attach to the first tubular. A second connector, on an opposite second end of the main body, is configured to attach to the second tubular. A female profile is provided on the inner surface, and includes a plurality of grooves for selective engagement with a discrete complementary profile comprising one or more protruding members of a downhole tool. Each of the grooves comprises a no-go shoulder that prevents movement of the tool in one direction, and each of the grooves permits clocking movement of the tool in an azimuthal direction.
US11732572B2
Techniques for determining depths of provenance of drill cuttings contained in a drilling fluid received from a wellbore. The drilling fluid contains drill cuttings of different sizes that arrive at surface at different times, and the drill cuttings originate from different formation layers at different depths along the wellbore. Such techniques may include extracting samples of drill cuttings from the drilling fluid and repeating this step as necessary to provide samples of drill cuttings that arrive at surface at different recorded times; characterizing one or more formation attributes associated with the drill cuttings; and for each formation attribute, estimating a distribution of formation attribute characterization versus depth of provenance.
US11732570B2
A drilling system includes an internal assembly comprising a chassis, a flow diverter, or both, and a strain gauge coupled to the chassis, the flow diverter, or both, in which the strain gauge is configured to output a signal associated with a strain deformation of the internal assembly. The drilling system also includes a drill collar coupled to the internal assembly, in which the internal assembly extends along the drill collar, and the drill collar encloses the internal assembly of the internal assembly such that a strain deformation of the drill collar causes the strain deformation of the internal assembly.
US11732569B2
A method for performing a maintenance operation of a well in an oil/gas field. The method includes identifying an extent of corrosion deposit of the well, predicting, using a descaling model of the oil/gas field and based on the extent of corrosion deposit, expected descaling metal loss in a tubular of the well, calculating, based on the expected descaling metal loss, a tubular burst/collapse pressure for a predicted thickness of the tubular, comparing the tubular burst/collapse pressure against a well operating pressure to generate a comparison result, and performing the maintenance operation of the well based on the comparison result.
US11732562B1
The present invention relates to clamping devices that connect to a fracking tool body and associated attached flow lines and the method of use thereof. More particularly, the present invention relates to clamping devices that connect to and stabilize a fracking tool body and associated attached flow lines that aid in locating and supporting the inlet connection allowing it to be closer to the rig floor, and consequently, making it safer to install the rest of the rig flow lines.
US11732561B1
An example hybrid power system includes a mobile platform comprising: a generator set comprising: a reciprocating engine configured to convert natural gas into rotational mechanical energy; and a generator configured to convert rotational mechanical energy sourced from the reciprocating engine into electrical energy; an electrical energy storage system (ESS) configured to store electrical energy; an electrical motor configured to convert electrical energy sourced from a combination of the generator set and the ESS into rotational mechanical energy; and a pump configured to operate using rotational mechanical energy sourced from the electrical motor.
US11732554B2
A method and apparatus for providing a universal plug in cartridge detonator capability in box-by-box perforating guns.
US11732546B1
An ultra-high expansion downhole packer includes an anchor, a primary expansion cone, and a central tube. The anchor is provided with a first tapered through-hole having a large end sleeved at a small end of the primary expansion cone. The anchor is radially expandable to anchor with an inner wall of a wellbore. The primary expansion cone is provided with a second tapered through-hole, and the second tapered through-hole has a large end sleeved at a small end of the central tube. The primary expansion cone is a radially expandable structure, and the primary expansion cone supports the anchor after an expansion. The primary expansion cone is provided between the anchor and the central tube. The primary expansion cone is first driven into the anchor to make the anchor radially expand, and then the central tube is driven into the primary expansion cone to make the anchor radially expand again.
US11732545B2
A method and apparatus according to which a backup ring is radially expanded to prevent, or at least reduce, extrusion of a sealing element. The backup ring includes an inner ring segment and an outer ring segment. The inner ring segment defines opposing first and second end portions. The outer ring segment defines opposing third and fourth end portions. The third end portion of the outer ring segment telescopically receives, and overlaps, the first end portion of the inner ring segment. Radially expanding the backup ring includes sliding the backup ring up an external tapered surface of a wedge ramp. Sliding the backup ring up the external tapered surface of the wedge ramp telescopes the first end portion of the inner ring segment outwardly from the third end portion of the outer ring segment.
US11732543B2
A pressure control system includes a housing having a bore and a first pair of opposed rams positioned within the housing. The first pair of opposed rams is configured to move between a retracted position and an extended position relative to the bore. The pressure control system further includes a rotating control device (RCD) seal assembly, which includes a frame that is configured to couple to the first pair of opposed rams while the first pair of opposed rams are in the extended position relative to the bore, an annular seal element coupled to the frame, and a bearing assembly positioned between the annular seal element and the frame. The annular seal element is configured to seal about a tubular within the bore, and the bearing assembly is configured to enable the annular seal element to rotate relative to the frame and the first pair of opposed rams.
US11732533B2
Provided is a novel drilling apparatus for drilling into prepared ground surfaces and natural ground conditions. The apparatus includes a mast assembly, a support structure assembly flexibly coupled with the mast assembly, a plurality of drill assemblies affixed to the support structure assembly, and a frame. Also provided is a method of drilling into a ground surface, by providing a drilling apparatus having a mast assembly, a support structure assembly flexibly coupled with the mast assembly, a plurality of drill assemblies affixed to the support structure assembly, and a frame. Each of the drill assemblies include a hollow drill rod with a drill bit at one end, the bit having exterior cutting elements and interior fluid diverters. Pressurized fluid and torque is supplied to the drill rods, and by means of the mast assembly and support structure assembly the drill rods are moved downward so that using the downward and rotational force, and the pressurized fluid, the drill bits drill into the ground surface.
US11732530B2
Various embodiments of ladders and ladder components are provided. In one embodiment, a ladder includes a first rail, a second rail spaced apart from the first rail, and a plurality of rungs extending between and coupled to the first rail and the second rail. A walkthrough device may include a first component having a sleeve coupled to the first rail and a pole a pole slidably coupled to the sleeve between at least two positions including a retracted position and an extended position. In some embodiments, the sleeve may be fixedly coupled with the first rail and intended to remain attached (e.g., not intended for removal by a user). In another embodiment, the first component may be removably attached to the first rail so that a user may utilize and employ the device, and subsequently remove it, as desired.
US11732526B2
An electrochromic integrated glazing unit (IGU) comprises an electrochromic lite, a glass lite, a spacer, and a sealant. The electrochromic lite can have a first piece of carrier glass, a second piece of carrier glass, and an electrochromic device disposed between them, where the first and second pieces of carrier glass can be offset such that the first piece of carrier glass extends farther than both the second piece of carrier glass and the electrochromic device along a first edge of the electrochromic lite. A sealant can be disposed between the first piece of carrier glass and the glass lite along a first edge of the electrochromic IGU and further disposed between the second piece of carrier glass and the glass lite. An electrochromic laminated glass unit (LGU) with a similar electrochromic lite can contain one or more shear blocks disposed at a first edge of the electrochromic LGU.
US11732522B2
An automated window mechanism has a motor that moves a sliding window along a frame to open and close the window. A position sensor, such as an encoder, monitors a position of the sliding window relative to the frame. The automated window mechanism can receive an instruction to calibrate to the frame by disengaging the motor while the position sensor remains engaged. The user then manually moves the sliding window between two end points and then reengages the motor. The position sensor records the end points, and then the automated window mechanism uses the end points as limits of movement for the sliding window.
US11732521B2
An opening apparatus for a motor vehicle door, having an electric drive and an actuating means, wherein the actuating means can be adjusted by means of the drive and wherein the motor vehicle door can be opened by means of the actuating means and at least one sensor for detecting the actuating movement (S), wherein continuous detection of the actuating movement (S) can be rendered possible by means of the sensor.
US11732519B2
A safety device (200) is provided for a movable barrier system ((100). The safety device comprises a position sensor (210) mountable, in use, to or adjacent a barrier (110). A target (220) is mountable to the other of the barrier, such that movement of the barrier causes relative movement between the position sensor and the target. A controller (240) can communicate with the position sensor. The position sensor can detect movement of the target relative to the position sensor and output a signal to the controller. The controller can receive the output signal from the position sensor, determine one or more signal characteristics from the output signal, and compare the one or more determined signal characteristics with one or more predetermined signal characteristics to determine if the relative movement between the target and the position sensor is within a predefined range. A movement detection method is also provided.
US11732518B2
A refrigerator door assembly includes a refrigerator door that has a recess and an alignment mechanism that includes a door hinge. A plate is fixedly attached to the door hinge and positioned at least partially within the recess of the refrigerator door. The plate includes an orienting member configured to extend along an axis of rotation of the door hinge and away from a body of the plate. The refrigerator door is movably positionable between at least a first position and a second position relative to the plate to permit adjustment of a location of the refrigerator door relative to the door hinge. The recess includes a track that slides against the plate in a linear path between the first and second positions of the refrigerator door.
US11732512B2
A storage system that includes storage bins and a locking system. The locking system includes an actuation lever, pins that engage with the storage bins, and an elongated link that extends between and connects the actuation lever to the pins. The locking system is selectively movable between a locked position with the actuation lever in a first position and the pins engaged with the storage bins to prevent the storage bins from moving from the closed position, and an unlocked position with the actuation lever in a second position and the pins disengaged from the storage bins to allow the storage bins to move between the open and closed positions.
US11732510B2
An electronic article surveillance tag with a locking member having a clutch mechanism including a plunger member formed from a non-ferromagnetic material. The tag further includes a tag body member and a releasably engageable pin portion of a connecting member, the pin portion extending along a first axis. The clutch mechanism is movable parallel to the first axis between a first position that engages the pin portion to define a locked state and a second position corresponding to an unlocked state that allows pin portion detachment. The tag further includes an unlocking member slidably engaged with the tag body member and clutch mechanism and moveable along a second axis perpendicular to the first axis between a locked position and an unlocked position. Additionally, the tag may include an actuator connected to the unlocking member and configured to move the unlocking member from the locked position to the unlocked position.
US11732499B2
A guide device (10) is disclosed for constructing a wire or cable fence. The device (10) is arranged for contact with, and movement along, strands of pretensioned wire or cable (64) which form the fence wires. The guide device (10) has a number of rotatable members (16) on a generally horizontal axis of rotation, which are each arranged in use to support one of the strands (64) at a respective, pre-determined elevation above surrounding ground (8). A plurality of fence posts (66) having through-holes (68) that are arranged for receipt of the respective strand(s) (64) can then be caused to slide along the strands (64) in use without contacting the surrounding ground (8), and be spaced apart along those strands (64) to form the posts of the fence.
US11732496B1
A shelter system is shown and described. A hub for a shelter system is shown and described. A frame for a shelter system is shown and described. In one embodiment, the shelter system includes a frame and cover. The shelter may include a hub system. The frame may be collapsible. The cover is configured to fit with the frame. The hub may include a receiver slot, a receiver sleeve and an attachment projection. The result is a shelter system with reduced set up time, effort and requirements and improved strength and ease of use. The inventions may also be considered a shelter kit and/or a shelter and hub method.
US11732493B2
An urban transformation and construction method is disclosed that creates a tropical style swimming lagoon at vacant and/or abandoned sites. The transformation includes demolishing at least part of the vacant or abandoned site, excavating material from within the site; forming a basin for a large water body having a surface area of at least 3,000 m2, and constructing water containment walls on a first section of the basin to form a waterfront perimeter. The shape of the waterfront perimeter is mainly curved, the basin has a maximum width of 300 meters, and the bottom is covered with a non-permeable material. A sloped access area is constructed in a second section of the basin to form a beach. A barrier is constructed to control access into the area including the beach. At least one recreational facility is constructed including restaurants, bars, kiosks, stores, and/or cafes about the waterfront perimeter.
US11732491B2
The present invention provides a portable device for injecting repair material, the portable device comprising: a chassis frame; tanks storing source materials; pumping means pumping the source materials; an injection nozzle mixing the source materials and injecting repair material into cracks; source material supplying means including: operating blocks connected to the pumping means; supplying pipes connected to the operating blocks and supplied with the source materials; transferring pipes connected to the operating blocks and transferring the source materials into the injection nozzle, and a pressure controller connected to the transferring pipe and controlling the source materials, wherein check valves for preventing backflow are installed inside the transferring pipes, wherein by adjusting another check valve connected to the pressure controller, an amount of the repair material for injection is controlled.
US11732485B2
An adjustable support for supporting a raised floor above a ground surface through a post is described herein. The adjustable support generally includes a base threadably engaged to a post engagement structure, where rotation of the post engagement structure relative to the base brings the post engagement structure into supportive contact with the bottom end of the post. The base includes a large diameter bottom plate that is able to distribute the load of the raised floor over a large ground area to prevent unacceptable compaction of the soil that would cause sinking. Buttress threads are configured to bear the load of the raised floor and enable the adjustable supports to be permanently installed. Because the adjustable support is made of a polymer material, it resists rotting and deterioration.
US11732482B2
A rail panel includes a top rail defining a plurality of fastener receiving holes and a plurality of top cable holes. The rail panel includes a bottom rail defining a plurality of bottom cable holes and a plurality of clip receiving holes. The rail panel includes a plurality of vertical cables extending from the top rail to the bottom rail. The rail panel includes a plurality of threaded swage fittings, each coupled to a respective top end of one of the plurality of vertical cables, and a plurality of clip receiving swage fittings, each coupled to a respective bottom end of one of the plurality of vertical cables, and a plurality of clips, each received by a respective clip receiving swage fitting.
US11732481B2
A cantilever stair assembly for installation in segments or sections includes a stair tread module including a stair tread plate having a tread hole. An embedded stair tread is inserted into and fixed within the tread hole. The stair tread module may include a first inner wall stair tread support and a second inner wall stair tread support for mounting to opposite sides of a vertical support member. Each of the first and second inner wall stair tread supports has a first plate with a plurality of support-member-engagement holes therethrough and a second plate perpendicular to the first plate and having a plurality of stair-tread-plate-engagement holes therethrough. The stair tread plate is secured to at least one of the plurality of stair-tread-plate-engagement holes of each of the first and second inner wall stair tread supports.
US11732477B1
A high strength, low density modular columnar structure. In the preferred embodiment, each module is a prism or cuboid having three or four vertical rectangular sides which meet in the module corners. The module ends perpendicular to the sides are the module faces. At least one face has a brace panel. The brace panels and the face are preferably the same shape, but off-set. A plurality of preferably triangular brace arms extends to the module corners. Each brace panel is preferably provided with a centrally located aperture. The lower face of each module is preferably provided with a lip, while the upper face is configured to receive the lip. A cylindrical column extends vertically through the center of each module, and a plurality of struts extends radially from each column. A stack of modules may be secured with a bolt run through the module apertures, an adhesive, or simply gravity.
US11732474B1
A wall system for a building (such as an exterior façade for a building) may include a frame structure configured for attachment to the building. The frame structure may include a plurality of horizontal frame elements, a plurality of vertical frame elements, and an energy distribution system including an elongated conductive bar at least partially positionable within at least one of the horizontal frame elements or at least one of the vertical frame elements. The system may include one or more access elements positionable to engage the elongated conductive bar to receive electricity or a data signal from the elongated conductive bar. The frame structure may support infills that connect to the elongated conductive bar and use or produce electricity.
US11732472B2
Disclosed is a form work system (100) that comprises first (102a) and second (102b) building formwork components that are connected by a building formwork connector (104) The connector (104) comprises a moveable portion (128) that is moveable from a closed position to an open position. In the closed position, one or more sidewalls of the connector (104) define a cavity (144) for receipt of cementitious material. The cavity (144) of the connector (104) is located with respect to cavities (110) of the first (102a) and second (102b) formwork components. In the open position, access is provided to the cavity (144) of the connector (104).
US11732452B2
The invention relates to a cistern, in particular an in-wall cistern, for a toilet or urinal, with a drain valve which has a closure body which can be lifted from a closed position into a flushing position. The closure body is designed as an overflow pipe and has a seal which rests tightly on a valve seat in the closed position, with at least one water intake line, with a valve assembly for letting in drinking water present in the water intake line, with a water discharge line for discharging the drinking water let in by the valve assembly, and with a controller which generates a control signal for actuating the valve assembly as a function of a sensor signal and/or when a predefined time interval has been exceeded.
US11732434B2
A high-rise building settling reinforcing and lifting correcting construction method, comprising: drilling holes vertically downward around a foundation slab of a building, forming multiple curtain wall holes sunk into foundation soil at intervals; injecting slurry into the curtain wall holes, slurry ranges meshing and overlapping with each other, forming a curtain wall, the curtain wall enclosing foundation soil under the foundation slab of the building, separating foundation soil inside and outside the range of the building; providing multiple vertical reinforcement slurry injection holes on the foundation slab and injecting slurry, fully reinforcing soil near the foundation slab, forming a reinforcement body; drilling a hole downward, forming a lifting hole, pressure-injecting slurry into a bottom part of the lifting hole, the foundation soil is continuously filled and compressed, creating a lifting force, and the building gradually rising to a determined lift height.
US11732433B1
A riser section having a generally tapered, e.g., frustoconical wall, the riser section having a first connector assembly at one end of the riser section and a second connector assembly at the other end of the riser section.
US11732428B2
A system for construction of double U and single U steel composite structure for bridges and methods thereof are disclosed. The system comprising: a base slab (1), a plurality of top and bottom U shaped beams (2, 8) made of I section, exterior top and bottom slabs (3, 9), a bottom deck slab (4), foot path (5) and kerb (6). In precast scheme U shaped bottom beams (2) are placed at about 2 m interval and exterior slab and bottom deck slab are casted. Top U beams are casted in inverted position. Base slab is provided and bottom U system is placed and top U system is provided over bottom U system forming a full frame vierendeel type composite as a self-straining unit. Earth filling compaction to be done. The approaches are made of single U section and being extended with I beam and RCC slab. Cast in situ scheme is done similar.
US11732427B2
A holder (1) for fixing a cylindrical spray can (2). The holder (1) comprises a holding unit (3) for fixing the spray can (2) with a first mechanical interface (4) for connecting a GNSS receiver (5) or prism to the holding unit (3). The holding unit (3) is adapted to hold the spray can (2) such that the GNSS receiver (5) or prism and the spray can (2) are arranged coaxially to each other. The holding unit (3) comprises a second mechanical interface (6) for releasably connecting the holder (1) to a frame (7) of a surveying cart (8).
US11732426B2
A method of removing cutting bits from a milling work machine includes engaging a cutting bit connected to a rotary drum of the machine with a bit removal tool, actuating the bit removal tool to disconnect the bit from the machine, sensing a plurality of characteristics of removing the bit from the machine, and determining that the bit has been disconnected from the machine based on the sensed characteristics.
US11732423B2
A spring anchor assembly for fastening track rail includes a spring anchor having a hook end, a tail end, and a middle section. An insulator is fitted upon the spring anchor and includes a plurality of rib walls extending fore and aft between a first outer insulator wall and a second outer insulator wall. The outer insulator walls form downward depending wall sections extending, respectively, from termination locations of the rib walls to the lower peripheral edges. A channel is formed between the wall sections and receives the middle section, contacted by the plurality of rib walls at the termination locations. The insulator insulates the spring anchor to limit leaking electrical currents from the track rail to ground.
US11732422B2
Articles, for example multi-ply fibrous structure-containing articles such as multi-ply sanitary tissue products, containing two or more fibrous structure plies, and more particularly to multi-ply articles containing two or more fibrous structure plies having a plurality of fibrous elements wherein the articles exhibit improved bulk and absorbent properties compared to known articles and methods for making same, are provided.
US11732420B2
A fibrous structure may include a plurality of wetformed knuckles or pillows, where the plurality of wet-formed knuckles or pillows may be arranged in a pattern organized in an X-Y coordinate plane, where the wet-formed knuckles or pillows of the pattern may form a plurality of rows oriented in an X-direction and a plurality of rows oriented in a Y-direction, and the plurality of rows in the X-direction may be curved in a repeating wave pattern, where the repeating wave pattern may have an amplitude and a wavelength, and wherein the amplitude may be between about 0.75 mm and about 3.0 mm, and the wavelength may be between about 25.0 mm and about 125.0 mm.
US11732418B2
The composite structure includes a fiber-containing layer, such as a fiberboard layer or other layer having fibers from natural and/or synthetic sources, and a mineral-containing layer covering the fiber-containing layer. The fiber-containing layer and mineral-containing layer can be shaped, sized and manufactured such that the composite structure formed therefrom is capable of being machined to form a storage article. The composite structure has advantages in that it can improve whiteness, opacity, ink adhesion, materials reduction, barrier properties, recyclability, and printability. The composite can reduce polymer mass requirements for heat seal, barrier, and fiber adhesion. Further improvements include economics, pliability, and flexibility that is increased over the pliability of the fiber-containing layer alone.
US11732416B2
A method of making a molded paper web. The method includes forming a nascent web from an aqueous solution of papermaking fibers, moving a dewatered web on a transfer surface, and applying a vacuum at a molding zone defined between the transfer surface and a molding roll. The molding roll includes a permeable patterned surface on an exterior of the molding roll. The method also includes transferring the dewatered web from the transfer surface to the permeable patterned surface at the molding zone. The vacuum is applied during the transferring of the dewatered web, and the papermaking fibers of the dewatered web are (i) redistributed on the permeable patterned surface and (ii) drawn into a plurality of recess of the permeable patterned surface, in order to form the molded paper web.
US11732415B2
A fiber body forming apparatus including an accumulating unit that has a release unit that releases a material containing a fiber and that has an accumulating member on which the material released from the discharging unit accumulates, a sheet substrate supply unit that supplies a sheet substrate to a position vertically below the release unit, and a control unit that controls operation of the accumulating unit and the sheet substrate supply unit, in which the control unit controls the operation of the accumulating unit and the sheet substrate supply unit to selectively execute a first mode for causing the material to accumulate on the accumulating member and the second mode for supplying the sheet substrate to the position vertically below the release unit and causing the material to accumulate on the sheet substrate.
US11732413B2
A method of making deflection members is disclosed. The deflection members are 3D objects that include cross-linkable polymers and are printed directly onto permeable materials utilizing at least two different printer settings.
US11732409B2
According to various embodiments, a method of forming an image on a fabric and the resulting fabric is disclosed. The method includes providing a printable media including a carrier layer having a first surface comprising a first area and a second surface opposite the first surface. The method includes providing a fabric layer having a third surface and a fourth surface opposite the third surface, the third surface includes a second area. The fabric layer is secured to the carrier layer by the adhesive bonding a first portion of the fourth surface to the first surface. The method includes applying a toner to a first portion of the third surface of the fabric layer. The toner includes antimicrobial nanoparticles on an outer surface of the toner. The method includes fusing the toner to the first portion of the third surface of the fabric layer.
US11732403B2
Provided herein are methods for preparing metal coated textile substrate by ultrasonic irradiation deposition processes and products thereof.
