US11741668B2
Some implementations relate to methods, systems, and computer-readable media to generate text tags for games. In some implementations, a computer-implemented method to generate a 3D mesh for an object using a trained machine learning model includes providing a two-dimensional (2D) image of the object as input to the trained machine learning model, obtaining a template three-dimensional (3D) mesh, and generating, using the trained machine learning model and based on the 2D image and the template 3D mesh, a 3D mesh for the object, wherein the 3D mesh for the object is obtained by deforming the template 3D mesh and is usable to map a texture or to generate a 3D animation of the object.
US11741660B2
A structured light 3D measurement device and method based on defocus-degree-based unwrapping. Binary fringes varying in fringe width are projected onto an object, and a corresponding fringe image is collected by a camera, and then subjected to phase demodulation to calculate a wrapped phase. The defocus degree is calculated according to modulation degrees of the binary fringes. The defocus degree is plugged into the defocusing phase function to obtain a normalized reference phase. The wrapped phase is subjected to phase unwrapping based on the normalized reference phase to obtain an absolute phase to reconstruct a 3D point cloud.
US11741659B2
Determining whether a ray intersects a 3D axis-aligned box identifies the front-facing plane of the box which intersects the ray at a position furthest along a direction of the ray. Whether the ray intersects the box is determined by whether the ray intersects the identified front-facing plane at a position that is no further along the ray than positions at which the ray intersects the back-facing planes in a subset of the dimensions. The subset of dimensions comprises the two dimensions for which the front-facing plane was not identified, but does not comprise the dimension for which the front-facing plane was identified. Whether the ray intersects the box is determined without performing a test to determine whether the ray intersects the identified front-facing plane at a position that is no further along the ray than a position at which the ray intersects the back-facing plane in the front-facing plane dimension.
US11741645B1
An electronic sports playbook and video annotation system includes a device with a memory coupled to a processor that stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to generate sports playbook content based on coordinate or image data. The processor is configured to detect an object (e.g., a player, etc.) on a surface (e.g., court image, or play image such as a static play drawing or video recording frame), detect a drawing of a path relating to the object (e.g., by user input device or with image processing, machine learning, or other heuristic techniques, etc.), and determine an action (e.g., a pass, a dribbling, a cut, a screen, a handoff, etc.) associated with the object based on at least an attribute of the object (e.g., does the player have the ball?, etc.) and detected path relating to the object.
US11741643B2
A system for generating a 4D representation of a scene in motion given a sinogram collected from the scene while in motion. The system generates, based on scene parameters, an initial 3D representation of the scene indicating linear attenuation coefficients (LACs) of voxels of the scene. The system generates, based on motion parameters, a 4D motion field indicating motion of the scene. The system generates, based on the initial 3D representation and the 4D motion field, a 4D representation of the scene that is a sequence of 3D representations having LACs. The system generates a synthesized sinogram of the scene from the generated 4D representation. The system adjusts the scene parameters and the motion parameters based on differences between the collected sinogram and the synthesized sinogram. The processing is repeated until the differences satisfy a termination criterion.
US11741638B2
Methods and devices for encoding a point cloud. A current node associated with a sub-volume is split into further sub-volumes, each further sub-volume corresponding to a child node of the current node, and, at the encoder, an occupancy pattern is determined for the current node based on occupancy status of the child nodes. A probability distribution is selected from among a plurality of probability distributions based on occupancy data for a plurality of nodes neighbouring the current node. The encoder entropy encodes the occupancy pattern based on the selected probability distribution to produce encoded data for the bitstream and updates the selected probability distribution. The decoder makes the same selection based on occupancy data for neighbouring nodes and entropy decodes the bitstream to reconstruct the occupancy pattern.
US11741634B2
A method and Video-Based Point Cloud Compression (V-PCC) decoder for synchronization of decoded frames before point cloud reconstruction is provided. A V-PCC bit-stream which includes encoded frames associated with a point cloud sequence is received. Sub-streams of the received V-PCC bit-stream are decoded by a group of video decoders of the V-PCC decoder to generate V-PCC components, such as an attribute component, a geometry component, an occupancy map component, and an atlas component. A release of the attribute component, the geometry component, the occupancy map component, and the atlas component to the reconstruction unit is delayed based on a first output delay, a second output delay, a third output delay, and a fourth output delay, respectively. The delayed release synchronizes the attribute component, the geometry component, the occupancy map component, and the atlas component with each other before the reconstruction unit reconstructs a point cloud based on the V-PCC components.
US11741630B2
There is provided a vehicle system including a sensing unit, a processing unit, a control unit and a display unit. The sensing unit is configured to capture an image frame containing an eyeball image from a predetermined distance. The processing unit is configured to calculate a pupil position of the eyeball image in the image frame and generate a drive signal corresponding to the pupil position. The control unit is configured to trigger a vehicle device associated with the pupil position according to the drive signal. The display unit is configured to show information of the vehicle device.
US11741628B2
A face orientation system of a ride that includes one or more sensors and a controller. The controller receives ride cart data from the one or more sensors indicative of a presence and position of the ride cart on the ride. Further, the controller determines the ride cart's orientation based on the ride cart's data and receives position data of a guest from the one or more sensors indicative of a position of a body, a face, or a combination thereof, of the guest. Additionally, the controller determines the face orientation, the face rotation, or a combination thereof, of the guest based on the ride cart's orientation and the position data. Finally, the controller transmits data indicative of the determined face orientation, face rotation, or a combination thereof, to a downstream controller for subsequent control based upon the determined face orientation, face rotation, or the combination thereof.
US11741616B2
Methods, devices, and systems for expression transfer are disclosed. The disclosure includes capturing a first image of a face of a person. The disclosure includes generating an avatar based on the first image of the face of the person, with the avatar approximating the first image of the face of the person. The disclosure includes transmitting the avatar to a destination device. The disclosure includes capturing a second image of the face of the person on a source device. The disclosure includes calculating expression information based on the second image of the face of the person, with the expression information approximating an expression on the face of the person as captured in the second image. The disclosure includes transmitting the expression information from the source device to the destination device. The disclosure includes animating the avatar on a display component of the destination device using the expression information.
US11741607B2
A method of calculating a bleeding site and a trajectory of a bloodstain scattered by impact includes: obtaining, by an electronic device calculating the bleeding site and the trajectory of the bloodstain scattered by impact, captured image information; analyzing the obtained captured image information, by the electronic device, and calculating a collision angle and measuring a direction angle of the bloodstain scattered by impact; calculating, by the electronic device, a coordinate value of the bleeding site by using a linear trajectory method; calculating, by the electronic device, a trajectory of a drop of blood based on the calculated coordinate value of the bleeding site by using a parabolic trajectory method considering gravity and air resistance; and displaying and outputting, by the electronic device, a linear trajectory of the drop of blood and a parabolic trajectory considering gravity and air resistance of the drop of blood on a 3D space.
US11741598B2
A computing apparatus for aiding visualization of lesions in a medical image includes a communicator and a processor. The processor is configured to receive a user input for selecting a single point in the medical image to modify a lesion mask representing a lesion area in them medical image, determine a modified lesion mask corresponding to the received user input among a plurality of pre-generated plurality of candidate lesion masks, and provide the modified lesion mask with the medical image.
US11741597B2
An inspection device includes a processor configured to acquire image information of each of a correct image and a target image as an inspection target, divide each of the correct image and the target image into blocks and perform alignment for each of the blocks by using the acquired image information, and set a region including a movement amount of the alignment as a block and detect a defect by collating the correct image and the target image for each block.
US11741592B2
Techniques for anomaly detection are described. An exemplary method includes receiving a request to create a training data set from at least one image, the request to include an indication of the at least one image and at least one indication of an operation to perform on the at least one image to generate a plurality of images from the at least one image; creating a training dataset by extracting one or more chunks from a first at least one image according to the request; and receiving one or more requests to train an anomaly detection machine learning model using the created training dataset; and training an anomaly detection machine learning model according to one or more requests using the created training data.
US11741575B2
A filter process is performed on point cloud data using a representative value of the point cloud data for each local region obtained by dividing a three-dimensional space. A two-dimensional plane image on which the point cloud data subjected to the filter process is projected is encoded, and a bitstream is generated. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an information processing apparatus, an image processing apparatus, electronic equipment, an information processing method, a program, or the like.
US11741564B2
A method for executing orders assigned to a plurality of robots operating in a warehouse, including receiving an order with a plurality of items, each item associated with an item location. The method includes defining a plurality of regions and identifying the regions which include at least one item location associated with the order received by the robot. The method also includes determining, from the regions identified, which regions which include at least one operator and assessing criteria relating to a current location of the robot and to the item locations associated with the regions having at least one operator. The method further includes selecting an item location to which the robot is to navigate from a current location based on an assessment of criteria relating to the current location of the robot and to the item locations associated with the regions in which are located at least one operator.
US11741556B2
In general, intelligent fuel dispensers are provided. In at least some implementations, an intelligent fuel dispenser can determine customer identities and/or other characteristics and provide customized fueling sessions based on the determined customer identities and/or other characteristics. In at least some implementations, the fuel dispenser includes a touchless interface allowing customers to complete fueling sessions with minimal physical contact with the fuel dispenser.
US11741555B2
A crop yield estimation method based on spatio-temporal deep learning including: obtaining regional historical crop yield data and meteorological data, preprocessing the meteorological data and the yield data to respectively obtain meteorological parameters and a detrended yield as input and output of the crop yield spatio-temporal deep learning model; constructing the spatio-temporal deep learning model for crop yield estimation, and optimizing hyperparameters; and building a training set by taking the meteorological parameters as an input and the detrended yield as output to train the model and obtain parameters of the model; for the crop yield to be estimated, feeding meteorological parameters into the trained model, and obtaining the crop yield estimation result. The model combined temporal and spatial learning to achieve better crop yield estimation accuracy and stability at large spatial scales.
US11741552B2
Systems and methods for automatic classification of loan collection actions are disclosed. An example system may include: a data collection circuit to interpret interactions among entities related to at least one transaction of a first set of loans, wherein the at least one transaction involves a first collection action of a set of payments corresponding to the first set of loans; an artificial intelligence circuit to classify the first collection action, wherein the artificial intelligence circuit is trained on the interactions corresponding to the first set of loans; and a robotic process automation circuit that is trained on the interactions and a set of loan collection outcomes corresponding to the first set of loans to implement a second loan collection action on behalf of a party to a second loan.
US11741548B1
Example methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to estimate costs of prescriptions are disclosed herein. An example computer-implemented method, executed by a processor, to estimate a cost of a prescription for a medication includes receiving, with a processor, a prescription for a medication for a patient, receiving, with the processor from an entity, a request for an estimated cost for the prescription, processing, with a machine learning model, the prescription to determine the estimated cost of the medication for the patient, and providing, with the processor, the estimated cost to the entity.
US11741547B1
A computer implemented of evaluating market participants' stock portfolios and distributing actionable environmental, social and governance (ESG) stock data over a network to multiple remote market participant terminals allowing market participants to easily rebalance their portfolios so that their investments align with their personal values or social tolerances. The method comprises receiving from multiple sources non-standardized electronic ESG data for a plurality of securities, mapping, scaling and normalizing the data to present a final impact score that the market participant can act upon.
US11741543B2
Certain embodiments provide systems, apparatus, and methods to analyze incoming data messages and create market information constructs. An example method includes receiving a data message including an instruction to initiate a market event. The example method includes evaluating the instruction to determine whether it is associated with two or more causally linked market events. The example method also includes classifying the instruction based on the evaluating as part of a sequence of causally linked market events or as a single market event. The example method includes queuing the sequence of causally linked market events. The example method further includes detecting an end of the sequence of causally linked market events. The example method includes constructing a logically reduced market data message construct descriptive of the one or more market events represented by the queued sequence of causally linked events.
US11741532B2
In various exemplary embodiments, a system and method to provide gift media is disclosed. The method includes receiving, at an interactive media component, a selection of the media item and a selection of at least one recipient for the media item from a user of a client device. A purchase transaction based on the selection of the media item and the at least one recipient is processed. Delivery of the media item to the at least one recipient is triggered.
US11741531B2
A computer-implemented system and method for generating and implementing real-time optimized savings recommendations during online purchase checkout processes. The recommendations may be in the form of personalized digital nudges designed to influence the user in a manner that furthers a savings goal.
US11741530B2
The disclosed electronic commerce cloud-based media retailing systems and methods enable customers to execute a purchase intention of a digital product before that product is officially released for distribution. The ecommerce system comprises a digital entitlement engine and is particularly suited to pre-sell entitlements to digital products such as, but not limited to, video games, computer software, movies, and other entertainment media.
US11741524B2
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 acts of: generating a feature vector for a user based, at least in part, on historical data pertaining to the user's previous transactions; generating, using a quantity prediction model of a machine learning architecture, a respective item quantity prediction for each of one or more items included in a predicted basket based, at least in part, on the feature vector for the user; and populating a respective quantity selection option for each of the one or more items included in the predicted basket based on the respective item quantity prediction generated for each of the one or more items. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.
US11741521B2
A method including providing a content catalog for items. The content catalog can include attributes for the items, values associated with the attributes, content provider identifiers of content providers that provided the values, and confidence scores for the values. The method also can include tracking source rankings for the content providers for item categories. The method additionally can include receiving a new value associated with an attribute of the attributes for an item of the items. The new value can be provided by a content provider of the content providers. The method further can include generating a priority score for the new value based on a set of input features associated with the new value and a set of score weightings associated with the set of input features. The set of input features can include (a) a source ranking of the source rankings for the content provider for an item category of the item categories associated with the item and (b) a confidence score for the new value. The method additionally can include overriding an existing value of the values in the content catalog associated with the attribute with the new value based on a comparison of the priority score for the new value exceeding a priority score for the existing value. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11741518B1
A system includes a server having a database stored thereon, an operator device, and a coordinating device communicatively coupled with the server and with the operator device, wherein the coordinating device comprises a processor and a memory, and wherein the memory is configured to store instructions thereon that, when executed by the processor, cause the coordinating device to perform various steps. The steps include receiving account data, from the server, corresponding with an account of a plurality of accounts saved to the database, receiving preference data, from the operator device, corresponding with preferences of an operator of the operator device and relating to the account data. The steps also include generating an avatar reflecting the account data in accordance with the preference data, and displaying the avatar on a display.
US11741515B2
Computer based systems and methods allow collaborative shopping for and/or designing of (e.g., customization) consumer products, such as articles of footwear, apparel, athletic equipment, etc., by plural users using different computing devices. The users' computing devices may be in communication with one another in various manners, such as over networked connections (e.g., a local area network (LAN), a wide area network (WAN), an internet connection, etc.); via peer-to-peer communications; through a common server or combination of servers that establish a communications link; etc.). The various parties may participate in an on-line or other computer communicative session to create and buy customized products. Additionally, user interfaces for providing these collaborative sessions are described.
US11741514B2
An intelligent product catalog system provides for electronic creation, management and viewing of product information using a multimedia display system. A central database repository stores the product information and provides for an unlimited number of product attributes and dynamic reconfiguration of the product information. The central database repository comprises a metadata system, a scheme system and an object model system. A plurality of applications access the central database repository, the applications being automatically adaptive to the dynamic reconfiguration of the product information. A user interface provides display, sorting and filtering of the product information including the unlimited number of product attributes.
US11741512B2
A vehicle sales matching system may include a vehicle sales lead data database, a vehicle sales information database, and a sales matching system embodied on a non-transitory computer-readable medium and communicatively connected to the vehicle sales lead data database and the vehicle sales information database. The vehicle sales lead data may include validated customer data and third-party customer data. The vehicle sales information may include sales data from vehicle dealers, data extract services, and sales data sources. The sales matching system may be configured for applying one or more matching rules for matching a vehicle sales lead from the vehicle sales lead database to a vehicle sale from the vehicle sales information database.
US11741511B2
In one aspect, the present disclosure relates to a method of generating business descriptions performed by a server, said method may include: receiving a plurality of invoices, each invoice being associated with a business of a plurality of businesses; extracting a plurality of texts from the plurality of invoices; embedding the plurality of texts to a vector space to obtain a plurality of invoice vectors; generating a plurality of clusters in the vector space, each cluster of the plurality of clusters comprising at least one invoice vector of the plurality of invoice vectors; generating a description for a cluster, the description for the cluster representing all invoice vectors assigned to the cluster; for each business of the plurality of businesses that has at least one invoice vector assigned to the cluster, associating the business with the description; and indexing the plurality of businesses within a database by the generated descriptions.
US11741509B2
A computer-implemented method includes receiving a vehicle condition query via a computer network and retrieving condition data corresponding to a vehicle from a vehicle condition database. Further, the method includes determining a condition of the vehicle based on a collective analysis of the condition data, where the condition of the vehicle includes a market value of the vehicle and an overall quality level of the vehicle, and receiving a geographic location of a computing device. Still further, the method includes generating a vehicle condition report, where the vehicle condition report includes an interactive image of a first set of one or more visual condition descriptors indicative of the condition of the vehicle. Moreover, the method includes customizing the vehicle condition report according to the climate associated with the geographic location for the computing device, and communicating the vehicle condition report to the second computing device.
US11741507B2
Systems and methods for managing display fixtures, especially display fixtures for use in marketing and promotions. Multiple software modules allow a user to design/configure a tangible display fixture by selecting components used to assemble and populate the display fixture. Once designed, the various components of the display fixture can be tagged with suitable metadata to allow for easy generation of lists of components associated with that specifically designed or configured display fixture.
US11741492B1
A workflow management system enables an entity to store information components in one or more publicly accessible databases, the information components associated with an acquisition by the acquisition entity. A unique entity identifier is associated with the information components in the databases, such that when reviewing entities access the information component via the databases and perform a similar event, a similar event object with the unique entity identifier is transmitted to the workflow management system. The information components may also be distributed by secondary entities, which may be automatically selected by the workflow management system based on historical data associated with respective secondary entities. When event objects initiated by information components stored by a secondary entity are received at the workflow management system, some or all of a maximum value increment associated with the acquisition is partitioned between the secondary entity and the acquisition entity.
US11741489B2
An embodiment for generating an electronic coupon based on user preferences is provided. The embodiment may include receiving real-time and historical data relating to one or more reward coupons. The embodiment may also include identifying a contextual situation of the user and one or more preferences of the user regarding a coupon reward type. The embodiment may further include identifying one or more vendors that match with the one or more preferences of the user. The embodiment may also include generating one or more electronic coupons and presenting the one or more generated electronic coupons to the user. The embodiment may further include in response to determining the one or more generated electronic coupons match at least one preference of the user, adding the one or more generated electronic coupons that match the at least one preference of the user to an account of the user.
US11741477B2
A computer implemented method and system, comprising: retrieving, from an electronic data storage, participation data for each of a plurality of contacts that are associated with an opportunity, the participation data including information indicating types of communication activities the contacts have participated in in respect of the opportunity and times of the participation; comparing the participation data for the plurality of contacts with historic participation data for each of a plurality of decision maker contacts for a plurality of historic opportunities, the historic participation data including information indicating types of communication activities the decision maker contacts have participated in in respect of the historic opportunities and times of the participation; and computing, based on the comparing, which of the plurality of contacts associated with the opportunity is a potential decision maker and storing information indicating the identity of the potential decision maker.
US11741474B2
A computing system for detecting a pattern of fraudulent network events in a payment card network is configured to continuously receive a plurality of scored transaction authorization requests each including a respective account number and a respective fraud score. The computing system is also configured to sort the scored transaction authorization requests into account ranges based the account number, and sort the transaction authorization requests within each of the account ranges into a fraud score range stripes based on the corresponding fraud score. The computing system is further configured to calculate, for the scored transaction authorization requests within each fraud score range stripe, a ratio of a cumulative metric for a shorter time period over a longer time period, and detect, in near real-time, a fraud event associated with one of the account ranges based on the ratio for one of the fraud score range stripes within the account range.
US11741471B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a “one-click payment” scheme for streamlining customers' online checkout experiences. According to one particular embodiment, a customer can use a computing device to be authenticated and receive a unique, one-time token to make a one-click payment during an online checkout process. The one-time token may be encrypted and directly associated with a payment account which the customer is authorized to access. The online merchant may forward a transaction request including the one-time token and purchase amount to an authorization server which would verify the token and charge the corresponding payment account.
US11741468B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, at a first server, from a privacy component on a user device, a privacy communication request including device data for the user device and server data for a second server communicating with the user device, generating a privacy communication response to be transmitted by the second server to a third server, the privacy communication response including a privacy communication string tagged to the second server and a privacy communication string record identifying the second server, transmitting, to the privacy component, the privacy communication string, receiving, from the third server, an approval request for a secure exchange associated with the privacy communication string, the approval request identifying a requesting server associated with the secure exchange, analyzing the approval request to determine whether there is a match between the requesting server and the second server, and transmitting, to the third server, a validation response.
US11741467B2
Systems and methods for validation of transaction policy compliance are provided. Code is implemented, including a transaction policy compliance check, in a form of a trusted application to be executed in a trusted execution environment (TEE). A secret is attested and provisioned to a trusted application instance in the TEE. The trusted application instance is executed on a client transaction request to generate a policy compliance result. A transaction object is generated, including the policy compliance result and a proof of the execution. The transaction object is proposed to a distributed ledger system. The policy compliance result and a proof of the execution during transaction validation in the distributed ledger system is verified.
US11741466B2
A networked computer system enables a transaction to be executed securely. An initiator sends a service request to a control server. The control server creates a transaction server for the sole purpose of execution the transaction requested by the service request. Creating the transaction server includes: selecting an IP address randomly from a pool of IP addresses and assigning the selected IP address to the transaction server; creating a DNS entry including a randomly-constructed hostname; and associating the DNS entry with the selected IP address. If the transaction server pre-exists, it is made accessible in response to receiving the service request. The control server informs the initiator of the created transaction server. The initiator engages in the transaction with the transaction server, independently of the control server. The transaction server terminates upon completion of the transaction or the expiration of a timeout period.
US11741465B2
An insight data computing system for generating a pre-chargeback record for a payment transaction between a customer and a merchant is provided. The payment transaction is authorized over a payment processing network based on transaction data submitted over the payment processing network. The transaction data is stored by the payment processing network in a historical transaction database. The insight data computing system includes an insight data interface computing device programmed to (i) receive, via an insight communication channel other than the payment processing network, an insight data message including insight data and transaction link data, (ii) store the insight data in an insight database, (iii) link the insight data to the transaction data by matching the transaction link data in the insight data to the transaction data in the historical transaction database, and (iv) generate the pre-chargeback record including the transaction data and the linked insight data.
US11741464B2
A computer-implemented method for authenticating user activity based on biometric data includes receiving a transaction request; determining that the transaction request is associated with a potentially fraudulent transaction; communicating a transaction response, the transaction response including instructions to resend the transaction request after a predetermined time period; before the predetermined time period elapses, communicating an identification confirmation request and receiving an identification confirmation response including biometric data from a computing device; after the predetermined time period elapses, receiving the resent transaction request; based on receiving the resent transaction request, determining an authorization decision based at least partially on the biometric data; and based on the resent transaction request, communicating a second transaction response including the authorization decision. A system and computer program product are also disclosed.
US11741463B2
The system may be configured to perform operations including receiving a transaction history comprising transaction information associated with a plurality of transactions for an entity; analyzing transaction information associated with a transaction of the plurality of transactions; and detecting a leakage event associated with the transaction. Detecting the leakage event may comprise determining a payment method for the transaction in response to the analyzing the transaction information; and comparing the payment method to a desired payment method, wherein the leakage event is detected in response to the payment method differing from the desired payment method.
US11741435B1
Methods, systems, and storage media for the online scheduling of sessions or appointments from within a networking platform are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: receive an image or video including a tag identifying a provider or a service of a provider; cause display of the image/video in a feed, story, or reel associated with a user of the networking platform; receive a selection of the tag; in response to the tag selection, cause display of information associated with the provider, the information including a selectable session request indicator; receive a request to engage in a session(s) with the provider (via user selection of the session request indicator); receive detail(s) associated with the engagement request; receive an indication that the request is complete; and send, via a networking-platform-specific communication application, a communication to the user informing the user of request approval or rejection, or indicating the request is pending.
US11741420B2
The present disclosure is related to object recognition and tracking using multi-camera driven machine vision. In one aspect, a method includes capturing, via a multi-camera system, a plurality of images of a user, each of the plurality of images representing the user from a unique angle; identifying, using the plurality of images, the user; detecting, throughout a facility, an item selected by the user; creating a visual model of the item to track movement of the item throughout the facility; determining, using the visual model, whether the item is selected for purchase; and detecting that the user is leaving the facility; and processing a transaction for the item when the item is selected for purchase and when the user has left the facility.
US11741419B2
A method for delivering online orders to customers via a fully unmanned system includes replenishing the pod by using inventory carriers carrying containers via a replenishment hatch, moving an inventory carrier attached to carrier base with a mobile robotic unit in a room of adequate temperature. Additionally, the method includes transferring an inventory carrier at a mini load station and loading the order containers on a delivery carrier. The method further includes transferring a delivery carrier and attaching it to a delivery hatch so that the customer, following authentication, is able to pull the drawers and pick the ordered items.
US11741418B1
Techniques for selecting a delivery method based on sensor data of an automatic replenishment device (ARD) are described. In an example, a computer system is communicatively coupled with the ARD and receives the sensor data from the ARD. The sensor data is generated by a sensor of the ARD and indicates an amount of an item that is stored by the ARD. The computer system maintains, in a profile, a consumption rate based on the sensor data. The computer system determines that the amount of the item is less than a threshold amount based on the consumption rate and, based on this amount, identifies available delivery methods for a delivery of a replacement amount of the item. The computer system selects one of the delivery methods based on the consumption rate and causes the delivery of the replacement amount of the item based on the selected delivery method.
US11741417B2
There are provided systems and methods for delivery confirmation using wireless beacons. A merchant may include a wireless beacon, such as a small token or device, inside of a package for delivery. The beacon may communicate with a user device for a user when the package is delivered to the user. The beacon may include recipient information of eligible recipients for the package. The beacon may receive identification information for the user when the user device connects to the beacon. A delivery person in possession of the package may then determine if the user is an eligible recipient for the package using the recipient information and the identification information. After delivery of the package, the user may reuse the beacon by erasing the recipient information from the beacon and storing new recipient information on the beacon. The user may then place the beacon in another package for delivery.
US11741415B2
In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for providing key performance indicator (KPI) customization in an analytic applications environment, which enables data analytics within the context of an organization's enterprise software application or data environment, or a software-as-a-service or other type of cloud or computing environment. The system supports customization derived from multiple layers which, in aggregate, can yield a customized performance metric or KPI object. In accordance with an embodiment, the system supports a user interface with icons that describe original (e.g., out-of-the-box or factory) KPIs and user-modified KPIs. When a user modifies an original KPI object to create a customized KPI, its icon is changed to visibly indicate that the user has modified the KPI. The customized KPI can be used within KPI decks, cards, dashboards, or other types of visualizations; while retaining a lineage to the original KPI object.
US11741413B2
The disclosed techniques generally relate to the use of action paths comprising sequences of steps performed by a user to efficiently perform tasks or resolve incidents. Action paths as discussed herein may be used to achieve more efficient outcomes, to train new employees, or to anticipate the future needs of a user.
US11741412B2
Techniques are described for providing clients with access to events occurring during execution of defined workflows, such as under the control of a event monitoring service that is available to multiple subscribers, such as over one or more public networks. A configurable workflow service may automatically create events when a defined workflow executes, and, provide the events to the event monitoring service, which may respond to the generated events by taking various actions, such as providing event notifications, initiating workflow instances, etc.
US11741394B2
In an information processing method of an embodiment, a computer is configured to divide observation data into training data and test data, select non-target data from the training data, select a parameter combination from a parameter set corresponding to the non-target data, classify the non-target data as clusters in a feature space of the parameter combination under clustering setting conditions, generate, for each of the clusters, a model trained to output target data included in the training data when the non-target data of the clusters is input, and reselect the parameter combination or change the clustering setting conditions such that a difference between the target data output from the model and the target data of the test data decreases.
US11741388B2
The disclosure describes aspects of using multiple species in trapped-ion nodes for quantum networking. In an aspect, a quantum networking node is described that includes multiple memory qubits, each memory qubit being based on a 171Yb+ atomic ion, and one or more communication qubits, each communication qubit being based on a 138Ba+ atomic ion. The memory and communication qubits are part of a lattice in an atomic ion trap. In another aspect, a quantum computing system having a modular optical architecture is described that includes multiple quantum networking nodes, each quantum networking node including multiple memory qubits (e.g., based on a 171Yb+ atomic ion) and one or more communication qubits (e.g., based on a 138Ba+ atomic ion). The memory and communication qubits are part of a lattice in an atomic ion trap. The system further includes a photonic entangler coupled to each of the multiple quantum networking nodes.
US11741384B2
Methods for analyzing data are disclosed. One disclosed method includes defining an intent language model for domain specific meaning behind historical enterprise data produced during operation of an enterprise; applying the historical enterprise data to build the intent language model; extracting intent element features of interest from the enterprise data to generate domain specific intent metadata; and storing the domain specific intent metadata into a database. The historical enterprise data includes findings and observations by one or more human experts in one or more service records and data associated with a problem.
US11741381B2
There is a need for more effective and efficient prediction data analysis. This need can be addressed by, for example, solutions for performing first-occurrence multi-disease prediction. In one example, a method includes determining a per-event-type loss value for each event type of a group of event types; determining a cross-event-type loss value based at least in part on each per-event-type loss value; training a multi-event-type prediction model based at least in part on the cross-event type loss value; generating a first-occurrence prediction based at least in part on the multi-event-type prediction model, wherein the first occurrence-prediction comprises a first-occurrence prediction item for each event type of the group of event types; and performing one or more prediction-based actions based at least in part on the first-occurrence prediction.
US11741379B2
Systems and methods for automated resolution of over-specification and under-specification in a knowledge graph are disclosed. In embodiments, a method includes: determining, by a computing device, that a size of an object cluster of a knowledge graph meets a threshold value indicating under-specification of a knowledge base of the knowledge graph; determining, by the computing device, sub-classes for objects of the knowledge graph; re-initializing, by the computing device, the knowledge graph based on the sub-classes to generate a refined knowledge graph, wherein the size of the object cluster is reduced in the refined knowledge graph; and generating, by the computing device, an output based on information determined from the refined knowledge graph.
US11741378B2
Expert systems and methods determine the status of an entity in relation to one or more legal provisions. The one or more legal provisions are defined by one or more rules, which are evaluated using input data from a user which comprises attribute data related to the entity. The status of the entity is determined using the one or more rules and input data and is returned to the user.
US11741376B2
A method and a system for predicting business outcomes by analyzing voice data of users are provided. The method includes generation of predictor models based on test data of test users. The test data includes historical data of the test users, voice samples of the test users, and answers provided by the test users to psychometric questions. The predictor models are then used to predict psychometric features and business outcomes based on target data of a target user. The target data includes voice samples of the target user, historical data of the target user, and answers provided by the target user to the psychometric questions.
US11741375B2
Generate, from a logical formula, a directed acyclic graph having a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges. Assign an initial embedding to each mode and edge, to one of a plurality of layers. Compute a plurality of initial node states by using feed-forward networks, and construct cross-dependent embeddings between conjecture node embeddings and premise node embeddings. Topologically sort the DAG with the initial embeddings and node states. Beginning from a lowest rank, compute layer-by-layer embedding updates for each of the plurality of layers until a root is reached. Assign the embedding update for the root node as a final embedding for the DAG. Provide the final embedding for the DAG as input to a machine learning system, and carry out the automatic theorem proving with same.
US11741374B1
An artificial intelligence engine is trained via a historical data set derived from communication events to and from mobile platforms under various environmental conditions. The artificial intelligence engine makes dynamic predictions about optimum available communications assets and settings over the entire available frequency spectrum. The artificial intelligence engine may determine and store a quality metric associated with each prediction. Such stored data is used to refine the artificial intelligence engine’s predictive algorithms. The artificial intelligence engine is trained via analysis of linear and / or nonlinear equations, including partial differential equations, associating various factors to potential communication channels.
US11741363B2
A learning device executes learning of a discriminator that discriminates object data to a known class included in training data or an unknown class not included in the training data, using the training data. The learning device then generates a feature value of the unknown class, from a feature value of a plurality of layers of the discriminator, by at least a part of the training data in the layers. The learning device then executes the learning of the discriminator so that a feature value of the known class and the generated feature value of the unknown class are separated.
US11741350B2
A computer-implemented method includes receiving a neural network model for implementation using a processing element array, where the neural network model includes a convolution operation on a set of input feature maps and a set of filters. The method also includes determining, based on the neural network model, that the convolution operation utilizes less than a threshold number of rows in the processing element array for applying a set of filter elements to the set of input feature maps, where the set of filter elements includes one filter element in each filter of the set of filters. The method further includes generating, for the convolution operation and based on the neural network model, a first instruction and a second instruction for execution by respective rows in the processing element array, where the first instruction and the second instruction use different filter elements of a filter in the set of filters.
US11741348B2
Provided are a neural network circuit device, a neural network, a neural network processing method, and a neural network execution program, each of which does not require a bias. A binarized neural network circuit includes: an input part configured to allow input of an input node which allows input of input values x1-xn (xi) (binary), and input of weights w1-wn (wi) (binary); an XNOR gate circuit configured to receive the input values x1-xn and the weights w1-wn and to take XNOR logic; a sum circuit configured to sum XNOR logical values; a batch normalization circuit configured to correct a variance due to binarization, by extending a range of normalization and shifting a center thereof; and an activating function circuit configured to convert a signal B obtained by batch-normalizing a signal Y generated by taking the sum, by means of an activating function f sgn(B).
US11741336B2
Implementations set forth herein relate to generating training data, such that each instance of training data includes a corresponding instance of vision data and drivability label(s) for the instance of vision data. A drivability label can be determined using first vision data from a first vision component that is connected to the robot. The drivability label(s) can be generated by processing the first vision data using geometric and/or heuristic methods. Second vision data can be generated using a second vision component of the robot, such as a camera that is connected to the robot. The drivability labels can be correlated to the second vision data and thereafter used to train one or more machine learning models. The trained models can be shared with a robot(s) in furtherance of enabling the robot(s) to determine drivability of areas captured in vision data, which is being collected in real-time using one or more vision components.
US11741327B2
An optical assembly includes a spacer layer which is translucent or transparent; an image forming reflector which has a reflective layer being formed at least in a first region of the spacer layer; and a protective layer which is laminated over the spacer layer and the image forming reflector and the protective layer being translucent or transparent. The spacer layer is made of a polyolefin or/and a polymer containing an aryl group. The image forming reflector includes a visible image which is authenticatable. The image forming reflector has an individual information record in which a code is stored in the form of a plurality of removed linear segments. The image forming reflector has white level regions and a black level region in planar view. Each of the white level regions has the removed linear segments formed therein. The black level region is interposed between the white level regions.
US11741325B1
Example methods and systems for printing ink consumption estimation are described. In one example, a computer system may obtain printing content associated with a document that is printable using a printer. Based on the printing content, the computer system may generate an image representation of the document, wherein the image representation includes an array of multiple pixels associated with first color information from a first color space. Color conversion may be performed by converting (a) the first color information from the first color space to (b) second color information from a second color space associated with the printer. The computer system may estimate an amount of printing ink required for printing the document based on the second color information and provide the estimated amount of printing ink to a user via a user interface.
US11741320B2
A method for cross read mitigation in a monitoring station for vehicles carrying respective wireless tags having tag identifiers includes: receiving, from a first tag sensor disposed to detect wireless tag signals in a first lane of the monitoring station, a first tag read containing a tag identifier; receiving, from a second tag sensor disposed to detect further wireless tag signals in a second lane, adjacent to the first lane, of the monitoring station, a second tag read containing the tag identifier; in response to receiving the first and second tag reads, providing an updated tag detection parameter to each of the first and second tag sensors; receiving, from one of the first and second tag sensors, a third tag read containing the tag identifier; and in response to receiving the third tag read, instructing the one of the first and second tag sensors to report the tag identifier to a monitoring server.
US11741308B2
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with defining an adaptive polymorphic object agnostic conversational interaction model are described. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes separating a conversational user input query into component structural entities using a semantic processor; constructing a data query based at least on the component structural entities, metadata describing one or more of the component structural entities, a query paradigm, and a current contextual state; transmitting the data query to a data provider for execution; and presenting the data query results through a user interface.
US11741288B2
A method (of manufacturing a semiconductor device) includes, for a layout diagram stored on a non-transitory computer-readable medium, the semiconductor device being based on the layout diagram, the layout diagram including a first level of metallization (M_1st level) and a first level of interconnection (VIA_1st level) thereover corresponding to a first layer of metallization and a first layer of interconnection thereover in the semiconductor device, generating the layout diagram including: selecting a candidate pattern in the layout diagram, the candidate pattern being a first conductive pattern in the M_1st level (first M_1st pattern); determining that the candidate pattern satisfies one or more criteria; and increasing a size of the candidate pattern thereby revising the layout diagram.
US11741286B2
A method (of generating a layout diagram) includes identifying, in the layout diagram, a group of three or more cells arranged so as to exhibit two or more edge-pairs (EPs) that are edge-wise abutted relative to a first direction. The method further includes, for each of at least one but fewer than all of the three or more cells, selectively moving a given one of cells corresponding to one of the members of the corresponding EP resulting in at least a minimum gap in the first direction between the members of the corresponding EP.
US11741282B2
Systems and methods for adjusting a digital circuit design are described. For example, the method may include selecting a first path in the digital circuit design. The first path includes a plurality of gates. The method also includes generating a k-hop neighborhood graph of the first path, encoding the k-hop neighborhood graph into a state vector, and applying a machine learning model to the state vector to determine an adjustment to be made on a first gate of the plurality of gates. The method further includes changing the first gate based on the adjustment.
US11741280B2
Disclosed herein are techniques for identifying software dependencies based on functional line-of-code behavior and relation models. Techniques include accessing a first line-of-code behavior and relation model representing execution of functions of a first portion of executable code, the first portion of executable code being associated with a first symbol; detecting a change to the first portion of executable code; constructing, based on the changed first portion of executable code, a second line-of-code behavior and relation model representing execution of functions of the changed first portion of executable code; determining, based on the constructed second model, a dependency between (i) the changed first portion of executable code or the first symbol and (ii) a second symbol; and generating, based on the determined difference, a report identifying the dependency.
US11741271B1
A method of validating an electronic computer model of a building project includes: providing one or more electronic building project databases storing: (i) stakeholder information, (ii) element data; (iii) material data; (iv) specification data; (v) requirement data; (vi) procurement data and a plurality of instance data items are provided by at least one stakeholder of the first subgroup of stakeholders; generating a scope ID associated with each instance data item (c) storing the scope ID; (d) receiving a first electronic computer model including a plurality of existence objects associated with the first building project; (e) validating, the first electronic computer model (f) receiving updated data; (g) repeating step (e)-(f) until no alert is generated; (h) generating and transmitting a certification query; (j) receiving, a certification message from each stakeholder and (k) storing, in immutable form, the plurality of instance data items and respective scope ID of each instance data item.
US11741263B1
Systems and processes for improved processing of biometric data may include a hash controller including a processor, a server, and a registry. The hash controller can receive biometric information, such as a biometric scan, and apply an EGH transformation to convert the biometric information into an irreversible, unlinkable, and revocable EgHash. The EGH transformation can include blending biometric information with non-biometric information and permuting the biometric representation for additional security. The permuted biometric representation can be projected based on a randomly generated matrix and the output permuted to obtain an EgHash. The resultant EgHash can be lossy such that the EGH transform causes an irreversible loss of biometric information between the original biometric information and the EgHash. The EgHash can be compared and retrieved at speed and scale by the processor to support operations including, but not limited to, verification, identification, and database deduplication.
US11741259B2
A permutation algorithm using modular arithmetic is applied to the cells of one or more specific fields of a database or other file type. This permutation reorders the cells of the specific field(s) without altering content of any individual cell, thereby hiding relationships between cells of the permuted field(s) and the other information in the associated records. The permutation algorithm may use modular addition and modular subtraction, in either order. Different permutation algorithms may use varying numbers of parameters. To locate a specific cell in a permuted field, the parameter(s) from the permutation, an identification of the specific record associated with the cell, and an identification of the specific permuted field are applied in a modular arithmetic operation. A specific record with which a specific cell in a permuted field is associated may be obtained by an inverse modular arithmetic operation.
US11741256B2
Techniques for implementing proactive data security operations for files using an analysis of access permission levels for the files are disclosed. In some embodiments, a computer system performs operations comprising: determining that data of a file includes sensitive information based on an analysis of the data using a data classification model; determining that access to the file is open using an access classification model; and based on the determination that the data of the file includes sensitive information and the determination that the access to the file is open, causing a notification to be displayed on a computing device of a user, the notification comprising an indication that the file includes sensitive information and that access to the file is open.
US11741253B2
A technique includes, in response to an exception occurring in the execution of a process on a computer, invoking an operating system service. The operating system service is used to sanitize data that is associated with the process and is stored in a memory of the computer. The data is associated with sensitive information.
US11741251B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for instantiating and managing systems that utilize hierarchal enclaves in a cloud environment.
US11741250B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide systems and methods for providing random access to segmented and encrypted or compressed data stored in a repository. Retrieving at least a portion of a file stored in a repository can comprise storing a plurality of files in the repository. A request to retrieve at least a portion of one of the plurality of files can be received and object metadata for the requested one of the plurality of files can be obtained. A determination can be made based on the obtained metadata as to whether the requested one of the plurality of files is a multipart file. In response to determining the requested one of the plurality of files is not a multipart file, a single file retrieval process performing and in response to determining the requested one or the plurality of files is a multipart file, a multipart retrieval process can be performed.
US11741247B2
A method, apparatus and system for providing controlled access to data in a distributed computing environment include storing received data to be accessed via the distributed computing environment in at least one storage device, generating at least one integrity data structure identifying at least a storage location of at least a respective portion of the stored data, storing the generated at least one integrity data structure in a block of a blockchain, encrypting the at least one integrity data structure in the block of the blockchain, and selectively providing at least a portion of at least one decryption key for decrypting the encrypted at least one integrity data structure to enable access to the respective portion of the stored data for which the at least one integrity data structure is generated. Additionally, the stored data can be encrypted and a decryption key can be provided for decrypting the stored data.
US11741245B2
An operating system of a mobile device defines an interface for an MDM to ensure security of the device. A private personal MDM (PPMDM) instead interfaces with the operating systems and one or more enterprise MDMs (EMDM) implement security policies through the PPMDM subject to user control. Data may be flagged as associated with an EMDM based on source or location to enable deletion due to theft or disassociation with an enterprise. Blocks or threat detection according to an EMDM policy may be reported to an EMDM in a non-invasive manner.
US11741239B2
The described features of the present disclosure generally relate to one or more improved systems for recording and managing the electronic information associated with driving activities (e.g., driver log information) obtained from the one or more mobile computing platforms (ELDs) associated with one or more vehicles in a distributed ledger managed by a blockchain network. Accordingly, features of the present disclosure provide a secure and tamper-resistant way to manage driver log records for audit and compliance purposes.
US11741237B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for conducting taint analysis on inputted data from a user to a process, where based on pre-defined rules, input data may be marked as tainted. In a passive mode, logging or deletion actions may be taken on the tainted data. In an active mode, the process may be interrupted and a user prompt may be displayed each time a taint point is reached.
US11741233B2
In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, a computing device is described. The computing device includes a printed circuit assembly and a basic input/output system (BIOS) coupled to the printed circuit assembly. The BIOS includes a subsystem identifier (SSID). The computing device also includes a non-volatile memory device which includes an override flag to indicate whether an override of the SSID is enabled and a protected variable value to, when enabled, override the SSID in the BIOS.
US11741230B2
Technologies for trusted I/O attestation and verification include a computing device with a cryptographic engine and one or more I/O controllers. The computing device collects hardware attestation information associated with statically attached hardware I/O components that are associated with a trusted I/O usage protected by the cryptographic engine. The computing device verifies the hardware attestation information and securely enumerates one or more dynamically attached hardware components in response to verification. The computing device collects software attestation information for trusted software components loaded during secure enumeration. The computing device verifies the software attestation information. The computing device may collect firmware attestation information for firmware loaded in the I/O controllers and verify the firmware attestation information. The computing device may collect application attestation information for a trusted application that uses the trusted I/O usage and verify the application attestation information. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11741228B2
A system is provided for generating computing network segmentation and isolation schemes using dynamic and shifting classification of assets. In particular, the system may comprise various components that may identify and classify assets (e.g., computing devices) within a network, network topology, and vectors that may compromise one or more assets. The system may further comprise a component for mitigating and rectifying the effects of such vectors. Each asset within the network may be assigned a classification which may be dynamically modified and/or shifted by the system based on changing requirements and/or environments. In this way, the system may provide a more comprehensive way to protect the integrity and security of computing devices and/or electronic data.
US11741216B1
The disclosed technology teaches a method for revocation of user credentials for controlling user access to a private permissioned blockchain data structure or decentralized personal ledger, comprising an administrative logic configured to de-configure user private keys from keystores of respective users. The administrative logic further comprises a revocation logic configured to receive a unique identifier linked to a keystore of a particular user in response to the keystore, and the revocation logic is further configured to revoke access of the keystore based on the unique identifier.
US11741215B1
The disclosed technology teaches an implementation for leveraging self-sovereign credentials held on mobile devices to provision credentials that empower one party (“recipient” or “user”, used synonymously herein) to obtain credentialed access to information and resources on behalf of another party (“sender” or “administrator”, used synonymously herein), without either party exposing private key information to each other or to the cloud. The sender is able to revoke user credentials at any time. Parties are able to leverage commodity hardware to automatically mutually authenticate their credentials and access available relevant options and workflows.
US11741213B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods, and computer program products for providing an enhanced form of machine security through the intelligent correlation of machine identity information with user account information and providing a unique process for automated display of such information to an end user. The system allows for the end user to quickly and visually identify that the user is interacting with a legitimate system or web-form, thereby reducing instances where the user may inadvertently share sensitive information with unauthorized parties.
US11741207B2
A computer-implemented method and system for verifying the identity of a user in an identity authentication and biometric verification system which includes collecting information from the user regarding the user's identity, which is then electronically authenticated. Upon authentication, personal information regarding the verified identity of the user is retrieved from a source database which is used to verify the identity of the user, via user interaction. Upon successful verification and authentication, biometric data regarding the user is electronically collected.
US11741206B2
Secure electronic devices and methods are disclosed. A method may include: using a transceiver, a computer program capturing a current connectivity fingerprint comprising at least one current wireless network or device in a current environment for an electronic device; the computer program retrieving a home connectivity fingerprint for a home environment comprising at least one home wireless network or device that fingerprint was captured when the electronic device was in a home environment; the computer program comparing the current connectivity fingerprint to the home connectivity fingerprint; and the computer program storing the current connectivity fingerprint in response to a threshold number of the current wireless networks or devices in the current connectivity fingerprint are not present of the home connectivity fingerprint.
US11741203B1
A system for authorizing a mobile identity information controlled device includes a mobile identity information controlled device, an identity system device, and/or an enabling device. At least one digital representation of a biometric is received using a biometric reader device. Identity information is obtained from an identity system device using the at least one digital representation of the biometric. Operation of the mobile identity information controlled device is controlled using the identity information. In some examples, the operation may subsequently be deauthorized if the at least one digital representation of the biometric and/or the identity information is not reobtained.
US11741202B2
Systems and methods for authenticating identification information are disclosed. For example, an Automated Teller Machine (ATM) may comprise a user interface. The user interface may comprise a card reader. The card reader may be configured for card rotation about an axis of a bank card. The user interface may be configured to receive card rotation input from a user. The ATM may comprise at least one memory storing instructions. The ATM may comprise at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to perform operations. The operations may comprise receiving identification information from the user. The operations may comprise receiving the card rotation input. The operations may comprise extracting a card rotation sequence from the card rotation input. When the card rotation sequence is within a predetermined threshold from a stored card rotation sequence corresponding to the identification information, the operations may comprise authenticating the user for an ATM operation.
US11741201B2
A server comprises a communications module; a processor coupled with the communications module; and a memory coupled to the processor and storing processor-executable instructions which, when executed by the processor, configure the processor to send, via the communications module and to a remote computing device, a signal causing the remote computing device to display a unique code and a telephone number; monitor at least one instant messaging account associated with the telephone number for the unique code; after determining that the unique code has been received at the at least one instant messaging account associated with the displayed telephone number, determine that authentication for a particular account has been successful; and in response to determining that authentication for the particular account has been successful, initiate an authenticated session.
US11741195B2
Techniques for easy and secure deployment of a software package from a server to a customer-controlled computing device are described. In an embodiment, a deployment engine running on a server can be used to generate a unique URL for deployment of the software package. The unique URL may include a restricted use token. The restricted use token may be generated based on a combination of a random selection of one or more dictionary words, numbers, and/or symbols. The restricted token is easily readable given the combination of dictionary words, numbers, and/or symbols that make up the restricted use token. The unique URL may then be entered into a customer-controlled computing device via a curl command. The curl command will use the unique URL to generate a secure channel to the deployment engine and automatically download the software package onto the customer-controlled computing device. Upon downloading and/or installing the software package on the customer-controlled computing device, the unique URL is invalidated so that it may not be reused.
US11741189B2
A computing in memory (CIM) cell includes a memory cell circuit, a first semiconductor element, a second semiconductor element, a third semiconductor element, and a fourth semiconductor element. A first terminal of the first semiconductor element receives a bias voltage. A control terminal of the first semiconductor element is coupled to a computing word-line. A control terminal of the second semiconductor element is coupled to a first data node in the memory cell circuit. A second terminal of the third semiconductor element is adapted to receive a reference voltage. A control terminal of the third semiconductor element receives an inverted signal of the computing word-line. A first terminal of the fourth semiconductor element is coupled to a first computing bit-line. A second terminal of the fourth semiconductor element is coupled to a second computing bit-line.
US11741186B1
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for determining zone types of a webpage. The program and method provide for generating, for at least one node a first webpage, a vector including HTML content corresponding to the at least one node; providing the vector as input to a machine learning model configured to output a predicted node type based on the vector, the machine learning model having been trained with plural vectors including HTML content corresponding to plural nodes of second webpages; and determining, based on the output of the machine learning model, the predicted node type of the vector, to classify the at least one node.
US11741178B2
Provided are methods and systems related to communications between a social media service or provider (e.g., Twitter®, Facebook®) or other resource (e.g., web page) and one or more content providers. In an aspect, provided are methods comprising receiving a request for content, wherein the request comprises a user agnostic identifier, determining user information associated with the request, determining time information associated with the request, determining media content associated with the user agnostic identifier based on the time information, determining one or more access rights to the media content based on the user information, and providing access to the media content based on the one or more access rights.
US11741165B2
A building management system (BMS) includes memory devices having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by processors, cause the processors to perform operations including obtaining a BMS ontology data model defining a plurality of BMS model classes and relationships between the BMS model classes, assigning a BMS model class selected from the plurality of BMS model classes to a plurality of BMS object definitions, generating a semantic site model by classifying a plurality of BMS objects associated with a building site according to the BMS object definitions and the BMS model classes assigned thereto, and transmitting a notification using the semantic site model.
US11741164B2
The invention provides a system and method for providing ttx-based categorization services and a categorized commonplace of shared information. Currency of the contents is improved by a process called conjuring/concretizing wherein users' thoughts are rapidly infused into the Map. As a new idea is sought, a goal is created for a search. After the goal idea is found, a ttx is concretized and categorized. The needs met by such a Map are prior art searching, competitive environmental scanning, competitive analysis study repository management and reuse, innovation gap analysis indication, novelty checking, technology value prediction, investment area indication and planning, and product technology comparison and feature planning.
US11741160B1
An example method of determining a state of a key performance indicator (KPI) comprises: receiving one or more entity definitions, wherein each entity definition associates an entity with machine data pertaining to the entity; receiving a service definition for a service provided by one or more entities, the service definition including a reference to a corresponding entity definition of the entity definitions, wherein the service definition includes a respective reference for each of the one or more entities; receiving definitions of one or more KPIs, each KPI defined by a respective search query that produces a value derived from particular machine data, wherein the particular machine data is identified by the service definition, wherein each value is indicative of performance of the service at a point in time or during a period of time; deriving, by performing on the machine data a search query associated with the KPI, one or more KPI values for the KPI; selecting, among a plurality of states of the KPI, a state satisfying a condition applied to the one or more KPI values; and causing display of a visual indicator of the state of the KPI.
US11741156B2
A method for proactively creating an image product includes capturing an image of an object in a first environment by a device, storing a library of personalized products each characterized by a product type, automatically recognizing the object in the image as having a product type associated with the library of personalized products, automatically creating a design for the personalized product of the product type using personalized content, automatically displaying the design of the personalized product of the product type incorporating the selected photo in the first environment on the device, and manufacturing a physical product based on the design of the personalized product.
US11741148B2
Systems and associated methods are described for providing content recommendations. The system selects, using a multi-armed bandit solution model, a first plurality of content categories based on a reward score of each content category. The categories are displayed. When a user selects an item from the displayed categories, the system finds all categories that include the selected item, but rewards only the category with the highest score. The system selects, using the multi-armed bandit solution model, the second plurality of content categories based on the updated reward score of each content category. The categories are then displayed. The system may also repeat the steps to refine the multi-armed bandit solution model.
US11741138B2
Disclosed are methods and systems for Semantics Node functions which provide semantics support in machine-to-machine systems. In an example, a Semantic node may manage semantics resources capable of being discovered, retrieved, or validated by other devices. In another example, the Semantics Node may be discovered by other nodes, and semantics resources may be discovered with subscription mechanisms.
US11741134B2
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with migrating key-value data to a relational database. A method comprises retrieving a namespace from a key-value store and querying the key-value store for all kinds associated with the namespace. For a first kind, retrieving all entities associated with the namespace and the first kind and generating an entity list including an entry for each of the entities retrieved and the corresponding entity data. The entity list is traversed to identify each property name and associated property value. A relational database model is generated including a table based on the namespace and kind. Columns are defined in the table corresponding to each property name from the entity list. Data from each entity is then inserted into a table row and each property value from the entity is mapped to a corresponding column that is defined with the corresponding property name.
US11741128B2
A method of clustering data generated by an unknown model, the method including accessing the data, wherein the data includes a prediction target and a confidence, extracting a data group with high prediction confidence from the data, wherein the data group comprises a plurality of data cases, and where each of the data cases is described by a plurality of predictors, identifying high rank predictors of each the data cases in the data group, transforming the data group into a transformed data group including only the high rank predictors for each of the data cases, wherein the high rank predictors are ranked within each of the data cases included in the transformed data group, clustering the transformed data group to generate clusters, and profiling the clusters to extract an insight about the unknown model.
US11741127B2
A method may include generating a database table to include a first partition having a first range and a dynamic partition associated with an undefined range of a specified length. A record may be inserted into the database table. In response to one or more values of the record being outside of the first range of the first partition, a second partition having a second range of the specified length that includes the one or more values of the record may be generated. The record may be stored in the second partition. Moreover, a query on the database table may be executed by the first partition and/or the second partition of the database table. Related systems and articles of manufacture are also provided.
US11741123B2
Embodiments facilitating data exploration in a computing environment by a processor. A multidimensional dataset may be received. The multidimensional dataset may be processed according to booting operation parameters. A visualization and exploration of an interactive representation of one or more probabilistic models for each one of a set of instances using the multidimensional dataset.
US11741120B2
In accordance with an embodiment, described herein are systems and methods for providing a remote data gateway that supports peer routing for use with an analytics environment. In accordance with an embodiment, a data analytics remote data gateway server connects to on-premise data clients, via remote data gateway agents. If a remote data gateway server cannot reach a particular data client at its remote data gateway agent, then it can determine which other clients it can get requests from. To address this, the system can use a process of inverse proxy peer-to-peer routing—if a client has a request to be processed, but the server has not yet called into that client, then the client can hand off the request to a peer remote data gateway server, and the server can retrieve/process that request from that server operating as a proxy.
US11741112B2
Methods and systems for improved categorization of queries are disclosed. In one aspect, a search query is received and determined to match a pattern having an uncategorized variable placeholder portion. In response to determining the search query matches the pattern, the pattern is used to identify a first portion of the search query based on the first portion of the search query corresponding to the uncategorized variable placeholder portion of the pattern. The search query is categorized by assigning, to the search query, a category associated with the first portion of the search query. Search results are generated for the search query using the category associated with the first portion of the search query.
US11741111B2
Computing systems, computing apparatuses, computing methods, and computer program products are disclosed for machine learning ranking. An example computing method includes receiving a search query and determining a plurality of machine learning model execution engines based on the search query and a plurality of search result types. The example computing method further includes generating a plurality of subsets of search results based on the search query and the plurality of machine learning model execution engines. The example computing method further includes generating a set of search results comprising at least one search result from each of the plurality of subsets of search results.
US11741106B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, apparatus, systems, computing devices, computing entities, and/or the like for processing an inclusion of an entity for an event. In accordance with one embodiment, a method is provided that includes: determining whether a graph representation data object comprises an inbound edge connecting an entity node representing the entity with an event node representing the event; and responsive to determining the graph representation data object comprises the inbound edge, performing an action involving inclusion of the entity for the event. The inbound edge is generated via an inbound edge generator machine learning model configured to: traverse entity and/or inclusion edges of the graph representation data object to identify inclusion and entity edges connected, generate an entity score data object for the entity based at least in part on the inclusion edges, and responsive to the data object satisfying a threshold, generate the inbound edge.
US11741100B2
Methods, systems, and devices for providing matching security between data stores are described. In a database system, an operational data store may store transactional datasets and an analytical data store may store analytics datasets generated based on the transactional datasets. For these analytics datasets to efficiently inherit the security configurations of the transactional datasets, security information may be embedded in datasets retrieved from the operational data store during a data acquisition procedure. This security information may be converted into an embedded multiple-value field for storage in the analytical data store. The analytical data store may receive a query for data in a dataset, and may determine security descriptors associated with the user sending the query. The analytical data store may then filter the data based on comparing these determined security descriptors with the security information in the multiple-value field, and may transmit a query response with the filtered data.
US11741095B2
A method of generating structured relation information in an electronic device may include: classifying a first text input received by at least one application installed on the electronic device, into at least one category; extracting, from the first text input, a first entity representing a context of the first text input; generating structured relation information by associating the first entity extracted from the first text input, with a second entity extracted from at least one second text input stored in the electronic device or a server; and displaying the structured relation information on the electronic device.
US11741093B1
The system receives a request associated with a database including a query and a type associated with the database. The request is expressed in a language not native to the database. The query includes a command in the language not native to the database. The type associated with the database can include an in-memory database, a NoSQL database, or a relational database. Based on the type associated with the database, the system can create a corresponding command native to the database by translating the query to the corresponding command native to the database. The system can connect to the database, execute the corresponding command native to the database, and receive an output of the corresponding command native to the database. The system can translate the output of the corresponding command native to the database into the language not native to the database and provide the translated output to the user.
US11741090B1
A Codex system of computers linked into a neural network continuously scans and gathers information from, understands, and interacts with, an environment, an optimizer software executing software instructions based on rules of grammar and semantics searches a encyclopedia of human knowledge to transform input into a search pattern. Then the Codex monetizes and commercializes each transformed input and corresponding optimal output. An artificial intelligence interaction software, hereinafter referred to as virtual maestro, uses the search pattern and optimal output to interact and engage scripted communication with the end user.
US11741084B2
A method and system provide the ability to manage data. Property sets consisting of property set objects are created based on a schema that defines a type and a version of the objects. The property sets are organized hierarchically to form a property tree. A commit graph stores the property set objects via an append only data structure. The commit graph provides a topology of changes between states of the objects as commit nodes organized as parent commit nodes and child commit nodes. Change sets represent a change between two commit nodes. Each change set tracks changes made on the objects, and the changes specify permitted basic operations including insert, remove, or modify operations that are applied on each state to get to a next state of the objects.
US11741081B2
A control module transferring data between a shard and destination shards within a database comprising a plurality of shards, the control module: generating a first hash wheel distribution of shard allocations by applying a defined hashing function to a first integer value per shard allocation; generating a further hash wheel distribution of shard allocations by applying the defined hashing function to a further integer value per shard allocation; determining a range of hash values associated with data to be transferred between the shard and a destination shard, wherein the range of hash values, the shard and the destination shard are defined based on determining a difference between the first hash wheel distribution of shard allocations and the further hash wheel distribution of shard allocations; selecting and controlling the transfer of data associated with the determined range of hash values between the shard and the destination shard.
US11741078B1
Systems and methods are provided for efficiently maintaining a transaction sequence witness service to ensure that requests to read data provide consistent results across all storage nodes in a distributed system. When a storage node receives a request for a data object, the node may obtain—from transaction sequence witness service—the latest sequence number associated with the object. If the sequence number indicates the object has been modified in the period of time since the currently stored version was stored, the node can obtain the current version from persistent storage.
US11741073B2
Systems and methods discussed herein, based on a key-value data store including multiple-tiered sorted data structures in memory and storage, implement granularly timestamped concurrency control. The multiple-tiering of the key-value data store enables resolving the snapshot queries by returning data record(s) according to granularly timestamped snapshot lookup instead of singularly indexed snapshot lookup. Queries return a merged collection of records including updates from data structures in memory and in storage, such that a persistent storage transaction may refer to non-committed updates up to a timeframe defined by the snapshot read timestamp. This way, inconsistency is avoided that would result from merely reading data records committed in storage, without regard as to pending, non-committed updates thereto. The global timestamp further modifies the generation of the local transaction commit timestamp and the local snapshot read timestamp, so as to establish a granularly timestamped concurrency control scheme (over three levels of granularity).
US11741072B2
An interactive recommendation system is provided. The system comprises an information generation module configured to: provide a set of information contents for outputting in an information interface, wherein each of the set of information contents is associated with an information item; receive a selection of one of the set of information contents that signals the user's interest or disinterest in an information item; determine, based on a model and history data related to prior activities of the user including a plurality of selections from the set of information contents, one or more information items to be included in recommendation information for the user; provide the recommendation information for outputting in a recommendation information interface; and update, based on the history data, the set of information contents for outputting in the information interface.
US11741067B2
One example method includes creating a source FS Merkle tree having a structure that matches a topology of a source FS, and a target FS Merkle tree having a structure that matches a topology of a target FS, receiving a change to the source FS, implementing the change in the source FS, updating the source FS Merkle tree to reflect the change, replicating the change to the target FS so that, with respect to the change, the target FS is synchronized with the source FS, updating the target FS Merkle tree to reflect the change to the target FS, and comparing the source FS Merkle tree to the target FS Merkle tree.
US11741057B2
The present invention relates to a management system, a search method, and a browsing method of a unified data object using a tag object. A unified data object management system and method may efficiently access and manage the data object by storing and managing the unified data objects including a file, non-file data, or dynamic data on the basis of the tag object and then providing a search result based on the tag object when a search command is entered by a user.
US11741055B2
Disclosed are methods and systems for managing file revisions, including revisions of a document. The system may compare various file versions (e.g., revised documents having revisions to a master document from multiple users) with a reference file (e.g., a master document) to obtain the changes (e.g., revisions) in each file version. The system may present the changes from each of the users in a merge interface from which a user may selectively accept or reject the changes from any of the users to update the reference file.
US11741054B2
A method, apparatus, and system for tracking row and object database activity into block level heatmaps is provided. Database activity including reads, writes, and creates can be tracked by a database management system at the finest possible level of granularity, or the row and object level. To efficiently record the tracked database activity, a two-part structure is described for writing the activity into heatmaps. A hierarchical in-memory component may use a dynamically allocated sparse pool of bitmap blocks. Periodically, the in-memory component is persisted to a stored representation component, sharable with multiple database instances, which may include consolidated last access times and/or a history of heatmap snapshots to reflect access over time. The heatmaps may then be externalized to database users and applications to provide and support a variety of features.
US11741045B2
A staging engine of a staging server receives a request to change a production database from a client device. The staging engine of the staging server accesses one or more schemas corresponding to the production database and determines one or more migration commands based on the received request and the accessed one or more schemas. The one or more migration commands correspond to a difference between a current structure of the production database and a final structure of the production database after the production database is updated. The staging engine transmits the one or more migration commands to a migration engine, wherein the migration engine asynchronously applies changes to the production database according to the one or more migration commands.
US11741042B2
A multichip package having a main die coupled to one or more daughter dies is provided. The main die may include embedded universal interface blocks (UIB) each of which can be used to interface with a corresponding daughter die to support high bandwidth parallel or serial communications. Each UIB may include an integrated processor subsystem and associated pattern sequencing logic to perform interface initialization and margining operations. Each UIB may perform simultaneous accesses to a daughter die across one or more channels. Each UIB may also include multiple phase-locked loop circuits for providing different clock signals to different portions of the UIB and a 2× clock phase generation logic. Each UIB may include multiple IO modules, each of which may optionally include its own duty cycle correction circuit. Each IO module may include buffer circuits, each of which may have a de-emphasis control logic for adjusting buffer drive strength.
US11741040B2
A system includes a storage device; a storage device controller; a first interface configured to connect the storage device controller to the storage device; and a second interface configured to connect the storage device controller to a host device, wherein the storage device is configured to operate in a first mode or a second mode based on a status of a signal at the second interface based on instructions received from the host device.
US11741035B2
A circuit device includes a bus, a plurality of master circuits that are coupled to the bus and are bus masters in the bus, and a plurality of slave circuits that are coupled to the plurality of master circuits via the bus and are bus slaves in the bus. Access authority to the bus slaves is set for the plurality of master circuits, and permission setting of read access or write access from the bus masters is performed for the plurality of slave circuits. The plurality of master circuits determine whether the plurality of slave circuits are accessible based on the access authority and the permission setting.
US11741030B2
A physical layer (PHY) is coupled to a serial, differential link that is to include a number of lanes. The PHY includes a transmitter and a receiver to be coupled to each lane of the number of lanes. The transmitter coupled to each lane is configured to embed a clock with data to be transmitted over the lane, and the PHY periodically issues a blocking link state (BLS) request to cause an agent to enter a BLS to hold off link layer flit transmission for a duration. The PHY utilizes the serial, differential link during the duration for a PHY associated task selected from a group including an in-band reset, an entry into low power state, and an entry into partial width state.
US11741021B2
Disclosed are various embodiments for various approaches for implementing trust domains to provide boundaries between PCIe devices connected to the same PCIe switch. A first trust identifier can be assigned to a first virtual machine hosted by the computing device. The first trust identifier can also be assigned to a first PCIe device assigned to the first virtual machine. Later, it can be determined that a second PCIe device connected to the PCIe switch is assigned a second trust identifier assigned to a second virtual machine. An Address Control Services (ACS) direct translated bit for peer-to-peer memory requests in the PCIe switch can be disabled in response to a determination that the second PCIe device is associated with the second trust identifier assigned to the second virtual machine.
US11741020B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to facilitate fully pipelined read-modify-write support in level 1 data cache using store queue and data forwarding. An example apparatus includes a first storage, a second storage, a store queue coupled to the first storage and the second storage, the store queue operable to receive a first memory operation specifying a first set of data, process the first memory operation for storing the first set of data in at least one of the first storage and the second storage, receive a second memory operation, and prior to storing the first set of data in the at least one of the first storage and the second storage, feedback the first set of data for use in the second memory operation.
US11741019B2
A method and system for allocating memory to a memory operation executed by a processor in a computer arrangement having a plurality of processors. The method includes receiving a memory operation from a processor that references an address in a shared memory, mapping the received memory operation to at least one virtual memory pool to produce a mapping result, and providing the mapping result to the processor.
US11741012B2
A system includes a plurality of host processors and a plurality of hybrid memory cube (HMC) devices configured as a distributed shared memory for the host processors. An HMC device includes a plurality of integrated circuit memory die including at least a first memory die arranged on top of a second memory die, and at least a portion of the memory of the memory die is mapped to include at least a portion of a memory coherence directory; and a logic base die including at least one memory controller configured to manage three-dimensional (3D) access to memory of the plurality of memory die by at least one second device, and logic circuitry configured to implement a memory coherence protocol for data stored in the memory of the plurality of memory die.
US11741010B2
A method of programming data to a storage device including a nonvolatile memory device includes receiving first to third barrier commands from a host, receiving first to third data corresponding to the first to third barrier commands from the host, merging the first and second barrier commands and programming the first and second data to the nonvolatile memory device sequentially based on an order of the first and second barrier commands, verifying program completion of both the first and second data, mapping in mapping information of the first and second data when the programming of the first and second data is completed, and mapping out the information of both the first and second data when the programming of at least one of the first and second data is not complete, and programming the third data to the nonvolatile memory device after the mapping in or the mapping out.
US11741006B1
A configuration mapping system and method increase the effectiveness of mapping of information from an established product line to a new product offering. In at least one embodiment, the configuration mapping system herein uses configuration mapping rules to map individual product features and entire configurations from established products to a new product offering. The configuration mapping system also provides a way to appropriately map, for example, demand and sales information for the purpose of demand estimation and sales prediction. Conventionally, mapping can be ineffective because the configuration mapping rules usually focus on one part of the product at a time, and, if applied in isolation, the impact on other parts is missed. The systems and method herein provide a way to integrate configuration mapping rules across feature parts, time periods, and product lines into a unified, holistic view, allowing for new insights.
US11741004B2
A request is received, from a mutator thread, to load a first reference to a first object from a heap memory onto a call stack of the application thread. Responsive to receiving the request, a system retrieves the first reference from the heap memory. The system executes a bitwise shift operation that (a) removes one or more bits representing the first garbage collection state and (b) generates a second reference from the first reference. Based on a particular bit, of the one or more bits removed from the first reference by the shift operation, the system determines whether to perform a set of garbage collection operations on the first reference to bring the first reference to a good state. The second reference, without any indication of any of the plurality of garbage collection states, is stored to the call stack.
US11741001B2
A computer-implemented method, system and computer program product for optimally performing stress testing against big data management systems. A set of random test queries is generated and compiled to determine the data points of the features (e.g., table type being queried) of the set of random test queries. A distance (e.g., Mahalanobis distance) is then measured between the data points of the features and the mean of a distribution of data points corresponding to each same feature of an extracted feature set. Each random test query whose distance exceeds a threshold distance is then ranked. The ranked random test queries are then executed in order of rank. Those executed random test queries which resulted in an error (e.g., system failure) are added to a log, which is used to identify those queries to perform a stress test against the big data management system.
US11741000B2
Disclosed are a method and system for verifying a resulting behavior of a graph query language. A lexical parser and a preset lexical rule are added to a BDD test framework, to construct an improved BDD test framework; a first Gherkin text in a graph query language standard is migrated to be a second Gherkin text in a graph query language; a first parsing result of the second Gherkin text is acquired from the improved BDD test framework; a first return result from a graph database is acquired, a comparison result between the first parsing result and the first return result is acquired, wherein the graph query language meets the graph query language standard if the first parsing result and the first return result are the same. The present disclosure solves the problem that the BDD test framework cannot recognize complex Gherkin texts, thereby facilitating development of graph databases.
US11740997B2
Disclosed are a method and apparatus for debugging a device. A particular embodiment of the method comprises: acquiring target running state information of a target device; constructing a running configuration template and a log collection template according to the target running state information; sending the running configuration template and the log collection template to an edge computing device, and receiving target log information sent by the edge computing device, so as to determine actual running state information; when the actual running state information is different from the target running state information, computing state difference information; and finally, modifying the running configuration template by means of the state difference information value information in order to obtain an updated running configuration template, and sending the updated running configuration template to the edge computing device.
US11740996B2
An error logging system is provided that is configured to automatically create a type introspection database from a compiled application that was written using the C programming language. During execution of the application, if there is an error, the executing application will generate an unstructured error log which is passed to an error logging system. The type introspection database enables the error logging system to parse the unstructured error log to create a corresponding structured error log. The error logging system includes generic display, search, and share functions. The display function is configured to display the name, value, and type, of every attribute in each data structure. The search function provides a way to determine if the structured error log satisfies a selection criteria specified on one or more attributes of the data. The share function enables the error logging system to export the structured error logs.
US11740992B2
A technique for generating component usage statistics involves associating components with blocks of a stream-enabled application. When the streaming application is executed, block requests may be logged by Block ID in a log. The frequency of component use may be estimated by analyzing the block request log with the block associations.
US11740991B2
A method that includes defining a functionality of a system, wherein the system includes at least a first device in a first device category and a second device in a second device category, defining a configuration of the system, determining a plurality of tasks comprised in an application, wherein the application is to be executed by the system, simulating, using a simulation environment, execution of the application in the system when the tasks comprised in the application are assigned to be executed by the first device or the second device, based on the simulation, modifying the assignment of the tasks, distributing the application to the system, and receiving data regarding the execution of the application.
US11740990B2
Automation of a process running in a first session via robotic process automation (RPA) robot(s) running in a second session is disclosed. In some aspects, a form is displayed in a user session, but one or more attended RPA robots that retrieve and/or interact with data for an application in the first session run in one or more other sessions. In this manner, the operation of the RPA robot(s) may not prevent the user from using other applications or instances when the RPA robot(s) are running, but the data modifications made or facilitated by the RPA robot(s) may be visible to the user in the first session window.
US11740988B2
Methods and systems for detecting and correcting inefficient application configurations are presented. In one embodiment, a method is provided that includes receiving, at a first computing environment, a configuration for and execution metrics of an application executed within a second computing environment; identifying, via a machine learning model, a corresponding preferred configuration and expected metrics associated with the corresponding preferred configuration; identifying a difference between at least one of the execution metrics and at least one of the expected metrics; and applying the corresponding preferred configuration to the application within the second computing environment.
US11740987B2
A system includes a memory array and control logic, operatively coupled to the memory array, to perform operations including causing, during chip initialization, a first attempt of a chip initialization process to be performed based on a first configuration. The first configuration includes a first set of control settings for reading a block of the memory array during the first attempt. The operations further include determining that the first attempt has failed, and, in response to determining that the first attempt has failed, causing an automatic chip initialization retry process to be performed. Causing the automatic chip initialization retry process to be performed includes causing a second attempt of the chip initialization process to be performed using a second configuration. The second configuration includes a second set of control settings different from the first set of control settings for reading the block during the second attempt.
US11740982B2
The present disclosure describes example service takeover methods, storage devices, and service takeover apparatuses. In one example method, when a communication fault occurs between two storage devices in a storage system, the two storage devices respectively obtain running statuses of the two storage devices. A running status can reflect current usage of one or more system resources of a particular storage device. Then, a delay duration is determined according to the running statuses, where the delay duration is a duration for which the storage device waits before sending an arbitration request to a quorum server. The two storage devices respectively send, after the delay duration, arbitration requests to the quorum server to request to take over a service. The quorum server then can select a storage device in a relatively better running status to take over a host service.
US11740971B2
A plurality of computing devices are communicatively coupled to each other via a network, and each of the plurality of computing devices comprises one or more of a plurality of storage devices. A plurality of failure resilient address spaces are distributed across the plurality of storage devices such that each of the plurality of failure resilient address spaces spans a plurality of the storage devices. Each one of the plurality of failure resilient address spaces is organized into a plurality of stripes. Each one or more stripes of the plurality of stripes is part of a respective one of a plurality of forward error correction (FEC) protection domains. Each of the plurality of stripes may comprise a plurality of storage blocks. Each block of a particular one of the plurality of stripes may reside on a different one of the plurality of storage devices.
US11740959B2
An initial level of sensing voltage is set based on one or more characteristics of the segment of the memory device. A count for operational cycles for a segment of a memory device is set. Responsive to determining that a number of operational cycles performed on the segment of the memory device has reached the set count of operational cycles, the sensing voltage is varied with respect to the initial level of sensing voltage. The sensing voltage is adjusted to a new level based on wearing of the segment of the memory device during the number of operational cycles performed on the segment of the memory device.
US11740956B2
Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems include receiving a plurality of read operations. The read operations are divided into a current set of a sequence of read operations and one or more other sets. The size of the current set is a first number of read operations. An aggressor read operation is selected from the current set. A first data integrity scan is performed on a victim of the aggressor and a first indicator of data integrity is determined based on the first data integrity scan. A scaling factor is determined using the indicator of data integrity and a number of program erase cycles for the portion of memory. The set size of read operations is adjusted to a second number of read operations using the scaling factor for a subsequent set.
US11740955B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method for providing log information, an electronic device, and a computer program product. A method for providing log information includes: determining a first set of semantic segments including fault information from multiple semantic segments into which a set of log files of a target system is divided; extracting key information specific to the target system from the first set of semantic segments; determining, based on the extracted key information, an application scenario involved in the fault information and at least one log file related to the application scenario in the set of log files; determining a second set of semantic segments including the key information from multiple semantic segments into which the at least one log file is divided; and providing the first set of semantic segments and the second set of semantic segments by highlighting the fault information and the key information in the first set of semantic segments and the second set of semantic segments. The embodiments of the present disclosure contribute to improving the efficiency of a user in locating the cause of a system fault, thereby improving user satisfaction.
US11740950B2
An application program interface (API) analyzer that determines protocols and formats to interact with a service provider or smart device. The API analyzer identifies an API endpoint or web sites for the service provider or smart device, determines a service category or device category, selects a category-specific corpus, forms a service-specific or device-specific corpus by appending information regarding the service provider or smart device to the category-specific corpus, and parses API documentation or the websites.
US11740944B2
A method and apparatus for managing processor functionality includes receiving, by the processor, data relating to one or more environmental conditions. The processor compares the data to pre-existing parameters to determine whether or not the environmental conditions are within the pre-existing parameters for normal operation. If the data are within the pre-existing parameters for normal operation, the processor is operated in a normal operation mode. If the data are outside the pre-existing parameters for normal operation, the processor operates in a second operation mode which is dynamically determined and calibrated during power-on, boot and operation.
US11740943B2
Techniques for implementing an infrastructure orchestration service are described. In some examples, a declarative provisioner of the infrastructure orchestration service receives instructions for deployment of a resource. The declarative provisioner identifies that the deployment of the resource is a long-running task stores state information corresponding to the deployment of the resource. In certain embodiments, upon identifying that the deployment of the resource is a long-running task, the declarative provisioner pauses its execution of the long-running task. Responsive to a trigger received from the infrastructure orchestration service, the declarative provisioner resumes execution of the deployment of the resource using the state information and transmits deployment information corresponding to the deployment of the resource to the infrastructure orchestration service.
US11740940B2
In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method performed by a data processing (DP) accelerator, includes receiving, at the DP accelerator, an artificial intelligence (AI) model that has been previously trained and a set of input data from a host processor; receiving, at the DP accelerator, a watermark kernel from the host processor; executing the watermark kernel within the DP accelerator on the AI model and the set of input data. The watermark kernel, when executed, is configured to: generate a new watermark by inheriting an existing watermark from a data object of the set of input data or the AI model, perform an AI inference using the AI model based on the input data to generate output data, and implant the new watermark within the output data. The DP accelerator then transmits output data having the new watermark implanted therein to the host processor.
US11740935B2
In one embodiment, a method for FPGA accelerated serverless computing comprises receiving, from a user, a definition of a serverless computing task comprising one or more functions to be executed. A task scheduler performs an initial placement of the serverless computing task to a first host determined to be a first optimal host for executing the serverless computing task. The task scheduler determines a supplemental placement of a first function to a second host determined to be a second optimal host for accelerating execution of the first function, wherein the first function is not able to accelerated by one or more FPGAs in the first host. The serverless computing task is executed on the first host and the second host according to the initial placement and the supplemental placement.
US11740924B2
Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing network experience shifting, and, in particular embodiments, using either a roaming or portable hypervisor associated with a user or a local hypervisor unassociated with the user. In some embodiments, a network node in a first network might receive, via a first network access device in a second network, a request from a user device to establish roaming network access, and might authenticate a user associated with the user device, the user being unassociated with the first network access device. Based on a determination that the user is authorized to access data, content, profiles, and/or software applications that are accessible via a second network access device, the network node might establish a secure private connection through a hypervisor or container communicatively coupled to the first network access device to provide the user with access to her data, content, profiles, and/or software applications.
US11740918B2
Log information is retrieved from a log of a container running in a virtual machine in response to a request for the log information, by accessing a virtual disk of the virtual machine, reading the log of the container from the virtual disk and preparing the requested log information from the log, and transmitting the requested log information to a virtual machine (VM) management process running in a host computer of the virtual machine for the VM management process to forward to a requestor of the log information. Alternatively, log data of the container running in the virtual machine may be streamed to the VM management process over a virtual socket communication channel that is established between the virtual machine and the VM management process.
US11740916B1
A system and method that provides customized graphical user interfaces on mobile devices based on user inputs. An exemplary method includes detecting a computing device remotely connected to a remote server over a network and having an active session of a software application running on the remote server. Moreover, the method further includes identifying and selecting one or more hotkey buttons based on the detected software application, transmitting the one or more hotkey buttons to the computing device to be displayed in a customized interface while the software application is active, detecting an activation of the one or more hotkey buttons displayed on the computing device, and executing, by the remote server, an operation for the active software application in response to the activation of the one or more hotkey button by the user.
US11740913B2
Embodiments of apparatus, systems, and methods are described for creating, arranging, and displaying data mappings between two different data schemas in a graphical user interface (GUI). The GUI allows scaling of a data schema, automatic data sorting and grouping of objects in a schema, dynamic spacing of data mappings in the GUI, and customizable data map transformations to entities of a canonical data model. The GUI can limit the display of objects and fields to those that have been mapped into entity groups. The GUI can display mapped or unmapped fields to facilitate the mapping of additional fields or objects. The GUI displays visual logic connectors between objects and entities to summarize the relationship and number of mappings between the objects and entities. Objects and entities can be expanded and collapsed to show more granular relationship information. Instance-enabled canonical entities can be created to conceptually group fields.
US11740911B2
A system includes a multidimensional array of homogenous Functional Configurable Units (FCUs), coupled using a multidimensional array of switches, and a parameter store on the device which stores parameters that tag a subarray of FCUs as unusable. Technologies are described which change the pattern of placement of configuration data, in dependence on the tagged subarray, by changing the routing through the array of switches. As a result, a multidimensional array of FCUs having unusable elements can still be used.
US11740909B2
A system including a computer storage and a processor is described. The computer storage is configured to identify a stored data as protected. The processor is configured to perform speculative execution. To perform the speculative execution, the processor is configured to determine, in response to the speculative execution of an instruction to read the stored data, whether the stored data is identified as protected. In response to a determination that the stored data attempted to be read during the speculative execution is protected, the processor is configured to disallow during the speculative execution immediate successful completion of the instruction to read the stored data.
US11740908B2
In a particular implementation, a method includes: receiving, at a computing device, first and second instructions of a plurality of instructions obtained from a memory, where the first instruction corresponds to a preceding instruction of a second instruction, and where the second instruction corresponds to a succeeding instruction of the first instruction; determining a dependency of the first and second instructions; sending the first and second instructions to an issue queue of the computing device; executing, at the computing device, the first and second instructions; and completing, at the computing device, the first and second instructions.
US11740906B2
A method and hardware system to remove the overhead caused by having stream handling instructions in nested loops. Where code contains inner loops, nested in outer loops, a compiler pass identifies qualified nested streams and generates ISA specific instructions for transferring stream information linking an inner loop stream with an outer loop stream, to hardware components of a co-designed prefetcher. The hardware components include a frontend able to decode and execute instructions for a stream linking information transfer mechanism, a stream engine unit with a streams configuration table (SCT) having a field for allowing a subordinate stream to stay pending for values from its master stream, and a stream prefetch manager with buffers for storing values of current elements of a master stream, and with a nested streams control unit for reconfiguring and iterating the streams.
US11740899B2
Methods, systems, and devices for in-memory associative processing are described. An apparatus may receive a set of instructions that indicate a first vector and a second vector as operands for a computational operation. The apparatus may select, from a set of vector mapping schemes, a vector mapping scheme for performing the computational operation using associative processing. The apparatus may write the first vector and the second vector to a set of planes each comprising an array of content-addressable memory cells based on the selected vector mapping scheme.
US11740895B2
Operations may include obtaining a repair related to correcting an error of source code of a software program, the repair including an edit to make to the source code. The operations may further include determining a change type of the edit. The operations may additionally include identifying an explanation template from a library of explanation templates based on the change type corresponding to the explanation template in the library of explanation templates. In addition, the operations may include generating a change explanation for the edit based on the explanation template. The change explanation may provide a natural language explanation of the changes made by the edit.
US11740881B2
Provided is a method for implementing compiled embedded Python. The method comprises: traversing an abstract syntax tree of Python source code to obtain semantic information about a program and generating corresponding C++ code according to said semantic information (S1); performing type annotation of the Python source code and thus generating C++ variable definitions and function definitions (S2); using a translator to translate into C++ source files the Python source code processed in the steps described above (S3); storing said C++ source files together with embedded chip-related files to form a file package, and compiling and linking said file package and generating an ASCII text file (S4). The method implements a source code translator on the basis of type annotations and static analysis, and integrates the translator into an embedded platform, enabling the editing, compiling, linking, and programming of Python source files.
US11740873B2
A computational instance may include, in database tables, representations of computing services provided by remote networks. One or more processors disposed in the computational instance may cause a computing-service-neutral cloud integration application to perform operations including: obtaining a specification related to a remote network, where the specification defines: (i) an integration point for the remote network, (ii) a pagination type associated with the integration point, and (iii) mappings between descriptions of the computing services provided by the remote network and fields of the database tables. The operations may further include requesting and receiving, via the integration point, first descriptions of the computing services; determining, from the pagination type and the integration point, a second integration point for the remote network; requesting and receiving, via the second integration point, second descriptions; and storing, in the database tables, the first descriptions and the second descriptions in accordance with the mappings.
US11740871B2
An arithmetic logic unit (ALU) including a binary, parallel adder and multiplier to perform arithmetic operations is described. The ALU includes an adder circuit coupled to a multiplexer to receive input operands that are directed to either an addition operation or a multiplication operation. During the multiplication operation, the ALU is configured to determine partial product operands based on first and second operands and provide the partial product operands to the adder circuit via the multiplexer, and the adder circuit is configured to provide an output having a value equal to a product of the first operand second operands. During an addition operation, the ALU is configured to provide the first and second operands to the adder circuit via the multiplexer, and the adder circuit is configured to provide the output having a value equal to a sum of the first and second operands.
US11740867B2
A data sorting method, apparatus and device, a storage medium, and a program product. The method includes: obtaining a data sorting and updating request, where the data sorting and updating request includes data to be updated and an update type; determining a current cursor node, according to the data sorting and updating request, from a circular doubly linked list corresponding to a binary heap storing original data and according to pointing of the current cursor node pointer; determining a node to be updated corresponding to the data to be updated in the binary heap according to the update type and the current cursor node; and performing updating and sorting operations on the original data according to the node to be updated and the data to be updated.
US11740865B2
An agent coordination device that controls sound output according to an instruction from a plurality of agents that are capable of being instructed to perform a predetermined service by speech interaction; and controls so that, in a case in which a first agent among the plurality of agents is performing one of audiobook playback or music playback as the predetermined service while a second agent among the plurality of agents is performing another of audiobook playback or music playback as the predetermined service, audiobook playback is performed with a music playback volume reduced.
US11740853B1
Systems, methods and computer-readable storage media including an interactive surface including a touchscreen and a plurality of interactive surface sensor devices, a plurality of smart headsets including a transparent display and a plurality of smart headset sensor devices, each of the smart headsets configured to be respectively worn by an individual, and a processing circuit configured to generate graphical user interfaces for each of the smart headsets. The processing circuit is further configured to provide the graphical user interfaces to each of the smart headsets. The processing circuit is further configured to receive sensor device data. The processing circuit is further configured to update, in response to receiving the sensor device data, a first graphical user interface for a first smart headset. The processing circuit is further configured to update a second graphical user interface for a second smart headset.
US11740851B2
A display method and an apparatus that relates to the field of communications technologies, to avoid a problem that a process of a currently running application cannot continue due to disconnection of a terminal when the terminal performs multi-screen display. The method includes a first terminal sending first display data to a second terminal after the first terminal connects to the second terminal, so that the second terminal displays a first interface. In this case, the first terminal displays a second interface (the second interface is different from the first interface). The first terminal disconnects from the second terminal; and after the first terminal reconnects to the second terminal, the first terminal may send second display data to the second terminal, so that the second terminal displays a third interface correlated with the first interface.
US11740840B2
Arrangement processing for arranging image data on a printing medium can differ according to a printer type, and it may not be possible to obtain the print product intended by a user. A method is provided that includes determining, at a processor configured to perform the determining, to perform processing for generating image data without appending margins in a case where the printer type is identified to be a large-format printer based on printer type information, and determining, at the processor configured to perform the determining, to perform processing for generating the image data with appended margins in a case where the printer type is identified to be a small-format printer based on the printer type information and borderless printing is identified to be executed based on print setting information.
US11740839B2
An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to display, on a display, a character string for identifying an apparatus that is connectable and an image showing the apparatus and a location at which the apparatus is installed.
US11740837B2
A processing device of a memory sub-system can monitor a plurality of received commands to identify a forced unit access command. The processing device can identify a metadata area of the memory device based on the forced unit access command. The processing device can also perform an action responsive to identifying a subsequent forced unit access command to the metadata area.
US11740835B2
Methods and systems for managing queues. The disclosed methods involve receiving, at an interface, a request to store a message in a queue, storing the message as a row in a key-value store database, extracting at least one attribute from the message; and selecting the message for processing based on the at least one extracted attribute.
US11740834B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an UFS device and an operating method thereof. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, the UFS device may collect status information of the UFS device, create an Acknowledgement and Flow Control (AFC) frame including the collected status information, and transmit the AFC frame to a host performing communication with the UFS device.
US11740826B2
A storage management computing device obtains an information lifecycle management (ILM) policy. A data protection scheme to be applied at a storage node computing device level is determined and a plurality of storage node computing devices are identified based on an application of the ILM policy to metadata received from one of the storage node computing devices and associated with an object ingested by the one of the storage node computing devices. The one of the storage node computing devices is instructed to generate one or more copies of the object or fragments of the object according to the data protection scheme and to distribute the object copies or one of the object fragments to one or more other of the storage node computing devices to be stored by at least the one or more other storage node computing devices on one or more disk storage devices.
US11740825B2
A method includes: identifying, by a first program module, a bucket having an object lifecycle management rule in a dispersed storage network; creating, by a second program module, ranges of object names included in a namespace of the bucket; determining, by a third program module and for respective objects in each of the ranges, whether the respective objects satisfy the object lifecycle management rule of the bucket; and performing, by a fourth program module and based on the determining, an action on one of the respective objects that satisfies the object lifecycle management rule, the action being defined by the object lifecycle management rule.
US11740818B2
Techniques for performing compression operations on persistently-stored data blocks during read/write commands. A method embodiment performs in-line data compression operations over data blocks referenced by a caller. The in-line data compression operations are performed during execution of a storage input-output (I/O) command, between the event of receipt of the storage I/O command and the event of returning status of the storage I/O command. The storage I/O operation is associated with at least one data group comprising one or more data blocks that are identified by the caller. Upon receipt of the storage I/O command, one or more compression rules are applied to the data blocks to determine one or more compression parameters, which compression parameters are used to form specific compression operations that are performed over at least a portion of the data group. The status pertaining to the execution of the storage I/O operation is returned to the caller.
US11740811B2
Systems and methods for making a cross-site storage solution resilient towards mediator unavailability are provided. According to one embodiment, a stretched storage system is operable to bring a mediator associated with a primary and secondary distributed storage system back into the role of an arbitrator for peered consistency groups (CGs). A mediator reseed status indicator is maintained for multiple CGs to identify when the mediator's status information for a CG is stale. When the mediator becomes available and a local CG is identified as the subject of a mediator reseed process, the master node of the primary that hosts a master copy of a dataset for the local CG performs the reseed process, including: (i) causing relationship status information for the local CG to be updated on the mediator to the current state maintained by the primary; and (ii) resetting the mediator reseed status indicator.
US11740810B2
This application discloses a mirrored memory configuration method and apparatus, and a computer storage medium, and belongs to the field of information processing technologies. The method includes the following: After a computer apparatus is started, if the computer apparatus is currently in an OS state and obtains a mirrored memory establishment request, the computer apparatus may switch from the OS state to a BIOS state through system interruption. Then the computer apparatus configures a mirroring relationship in the BIOS state, and switches to the OS state again after configuring the mirroring relationship, to reconfigure a mirrored memory.
US11740807B2
Techniques described herein relate to a method for managing data protection services for data clusters. The method includes identifying, by a mapping module of a data protection manager, a first discovery event associated with a first data cluster; in response to identifying the first discovery event: obtaining first data cluster topology information associated with the first data cluster from the first data cluster; obtaining data cluster data protection information from a data cluster data protection information repository; mapping first protection policies to the first data cluster using the first data cluster topology information and the data cluster data protection information; updating data cluster topology information protection policy mappings using the using the first data cluster topology information and the data cluster data protection information; and initiating performance of first data protection services for the first data cluster based on the first mapped protection policies.
US11740806B2
An information handling system may include a processor and a management controller communicatively coupled to the processor. The management controller may be configured to, in response to an encrypted storage resource being coupled to the information handling system: transmitting a request to at least one other management controller for an encryption key associated with the encrypted storage resource; receiving a response from the at least one other management controller, the response including the encryption key associated with the encrypted storage resource; and unlocking the encrypted storage resource with the received encryption key.
US11740805B2
A distribution statistic is generated for a data block of a memory component based on a reliability statistic for memory cells sampled in the data block. The distribution statistic is indicative of at least one of a uniformity or a non-uniformity of read disturb stress on the sampled memory cells. At least a subset of the data block is relocated to another data block of the memory component in view of the distribution statistic.
US11740802B2
A method for erasure detection in a storage cluster is provided. The method includes establishing a connection, via a network, of a storage unit to one of a plurality of storage nodes of a storage cluster and determining, for at least one page of a storage memory of the storage unit, that the at least one page is erased. The storage unit is one of a plurality of storage units configured to store user data in memory of the storage units in accordance with direction from the plurality of storage nodes. The method includes communicating from the storage unit to the one of the plurality of storage nodes that the at least one page is erased.
US11740792B2
A data storage system can use non-volatile solid state drives (SSDs) to provide backend storage. The data storage system and SSDs can implement log structured systems (LSSs) experiencing write amplification (WA). The aggregated WA of the LSSs can be minimized when the WAs of both LSSs of the system and SSDs are equal, within a specified tolerance. An amount of storage capacity which the LSS of the data storage system is allowed to use can be limited and vary based on the system's data capacity denoting the storage capacity with valid data. Pm can denote a percentage of Cs, the advertised capacity of the SSDs, storing valid data. Po can be a percentage of Cs denoting the upper bound of the system's used capacity. Po and Pm, as well as the utilization and WA of both the data storage system and SSDs, can be evaluated and adjusted adaptively and holistically.
US11740786B2
A portable device having a display, the display including a main surface area, a first curved surface area extending from a first side of the main surface area, and a second curved surface area extending from a second side of the main surface area that is opposite the first side, a sensor configured to detect a state of the portable device, and a controller configured to control the display to display a user interface (UI) on one of the first curved surface and the second curved surface based on the state detected by the sensor.
US11740782B2
A method of performing out-of-band commissioning is provided. The method may include enabling a pairing mode on a commissioning device, generating a gesture code on the commissioning device, receiving a gesture input on a node device, verifying an agreement between the gesture code and the gesture input, and commissioning the node device based on the agreement.
US11740779B2
A method of an information processing device, which includes a processor configured to control a display, includes detecting a first input of a user to a first position on the display; displaying a first visual element at the first position of the display; displaying, on the display, a second visual element from the first position to a second position of the display and performing a first display control operation in response to detecting a second input of the user from the first position to the second position; and displaying, on the display, a third visual element from the first position to a third position on the display and performing a second display control operation in response to detecting a third input of the user from the first position to the third position.
US11740777B2
Various implementations directed to price time priority queue for a multi-dimension map tile device repository are provided. In one implementation, a method may include receiving origin location data and destination location data. The method may also include generating data networks based on the optimized origin location data and the destination location data. The method may further include determining data hubs along the transmission or transit route and network, where the virtual hubs include a first virtual hub based on the origin location data and a second virtual hub based on the destination location data. The method may additionally include receiving IoT device data for the geolocation exchange units. In addition, the method may include receiving market depth data for a geolocation exchange for the geolocation exchange units based on the multi-dimension map tile repository nodal sequences.
US11740767B2
Extracorporeal blood treatment systems and methods to display graphical user interfaces displaying a plurality of fluids areas, each including a flow rate, and displaying adjustment notifications proximate one or more fluid areas. For example, when a user adjusts a flow rate to a limit, one or more notifications may be displayed proximate other flow rates that may be adjusted to modify the limit.
US11740765B2
In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for providing a browser extension for exploration in an analytics environment. A data analytics environment can operate at a computer system providing access to a database or data warehouse instance. At a client device, a browser extension can be made available whereby a user can explore a table of interest at an online data content resource, such as at a web site or web page, and instruct the browser extension to import, sanitize, and begin analysis of the table within the analytics environment. The approach can be used, for example, to identify tables or other arrangements of data provided by a web site, and present options to the user to retrieve the data into the analytics environment, for further review or to create visualizations associated with the data.
US11740762B2
A display displays an equipment management screen in which icons indicating equipment devices and having a first display size are superimposed on a floor configuration diagram of a building at positions corresponding to installation sites of the equipment devices. A display information generator, upon detection of an operation of specifying display of a group to which the equipment device corresponding to the operated icon belongs, identifies all equipment devices belonging to the specified group, changes display sizes of icons corresponding to the identified equipment devices to a second display size larger than the first display size, displays operation buttons for implementing settings of the identified equipment devices at prescribed positions on the equipment management screen in a superimposed manner, and changes display sizes of icons corresponding to equipment devices not belonging to the specified group to a third display size smaller than the first display size.
US11740754B2
The present disclosure relates to an interface operation method, terminal, and storage medium. The interface operation method includes: receiving a touch operation in a target touch area of the touch display screen; acquiring an interaction area with at least one target functional element in a current interface, wherein the interaction area is an area of the touch display screen outside the target touch area; and mirroring the interaction area at the target touch area in the current interface. In the single-handed operation mode, the terminal can mirror the interaction area with at least one functional element at the target touch area.
US11740752B1
A touch controller includes sensing circuits and a processing module. The sensing circuits are operably coupled to sensors, are arranged in a geometric pattern that is in accordance with a coordinate system. When a finger is proximal to a sensor, the finger emits an identifying signal having an identifying frequency component that effects an electrical characteristic of the sensor. A corresponding sensing circuit senses the electrical characteristic of the sensor and generates a sense signal regarding the electrical characteristic. The processing module interprets the sensed signal to determine whether the electrical characteristic is affected by the identifying signal emitted by the finger. When the affect is detected, the processing module determines a coordinate location of the sensor and generates a proximal touch signal that includes the coordinate location of the sensor.
US11740751B2
A touch sensing unit includes a first electrode including a plurality of first main patterns arranged in a first direction and a first outer pattern arranged on one sides of the plurality of first main patterns, a second electrode including a plurality of second main patterns arranged in a second direction intersecting the first direction and a second outer pattern arranged on one sides of the plurality of second main patterns, a first compensation pattern extending along an edge of the first outer pattern, and a first signal wire connected to at least one of the first outer pattern and the first compensation pattern. The first compensation pattern includes a first compensation connection part protruding toward the first outer pattern and connected to the first outer pattern.
US11740732B2
An electronic device including: a display panel including a display screen to display an image; an antenna coupled to the display panel and disposed on the display screen; a touch sensor pattern separated from the antenna and disposed on the display screen; a first connecting member disposed outside the display screen of the display panel and mounted with a touch sensor driving circuit; and a second connecting member that connects the touch sensor driving circuit to the touch sensor pattern, and is at least partially more flexible than the first connecting member.
US11740729B2
A method for electronic device identifier assignment at a host computing device includes receiving a current local identifier of a separate electronic device and a full unique identifier of the separate electronic device. A host-specific identifier is assigned to the separate electronic device by, based at least in part on determining that the current local identifier of the separate electronic device is included in a set of local identifier values available for assignment, assigning the host-specific identifier to the separate electronic device with a same local identifier value as the current local identifier. Based at least in part on determining that the current local identifier of the separate electronic device is already assigned by the host computing device to a different separate electronic device, the host-specific local identifier is selected from the set of local identifier values available for assignment and assigned to the separate electronic device.
US11740728B2
A novel electronic device including a flexible display is presented. The electronic device has a flexible display including an organic light emission diodes and a plurality of columnar bodies linked together. Users can transform the shape of the electronic device into a tablet, an eBook, or a hand-held gaming device. The electronic device is configured to resize its main display area in accordance with the selected mode.
US11740718B2
An electronic device includes a display layer comprising emission areas that provide different colored light, respectively, and a non-emission area adjacent thereto. A sensor layer comprises a first sensing insulating layer, a first conductive layer, a second sensing insulating layer, and a second conductive layer and comprising mesh lines extending in first and second directions. The mesh lines comprise a first line extending in the first direction, second and third lines extending in the second direction from opposite sides of the first line, and a fourth line spaced apart from the third line in the first direction and extending in the second direction from the first line. A reinforcing pattern is disposed on inner areas defined by the first line and each of the second to fourth lines, respectively. The reinforcing pattern protrudes from portions of the first to fourth lines that define each inner area of the inner areas.
US11740714B2
A location of contact with a touch sensitive device is determined. Output signals associated with a plurality of electrodes such as formed on a single layer of the touch sensitive device are measured to identify a first electrode positioned at an approximate location of contact with the touch sensor. An output signal associated with a different electrode that is separated from the first electrode is measured to determine an undesired signal amount, such as due to deflection. An undesired single amount associated with the first electrode may be estimated based on the undesired signal amount measured at the other electrode. The signal amount measured at the first electrode is then compensated by the estimated undesired signal amount. The location of contact with the touch sensor is then determined based on the compensated signal amount.
US11740711B2
A mouse includes a main housing, a key structure, and a pressing force adjusting component. The key structure has a connecting end, a free end, and an elastic section. The connecting end is connected to the main housing, and the elastic section is located between the connecting end and the free end. The pressing force adjusting component is movably disposed on the main housing and has a limiting portion, and the limiting portion limits elastic deformation of the elastic section. A location of the pressing force adjusting component on the main housing is adapted to be changed to change a location of the limiting portion at the elastic section.
US11740703B2
An apparatus having a gesture sensor is provided. The gesture sensor includes an image sensing unit and a processing unit. The image sensing unit can capture at least a gesture image of user. The processing unit is electrically connected to the image sensing unit. The processing unit can send at least a control command according to the gesture image to operate the apparatus.
US11740696B2
A headware for computer control is presented in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure. In various embodiments, the headware includes an inner layer including a first surface and a second surface, an outer layer disposed on the first surface of the inner layer, and at least one sensor disposed on the second surface of the inner layer, and at least one sensor configured to measure electrical signals from a brain and extract meaning from the electrical signals, or communicate the electrical signals to a computing device. The headware is configured to sit at the top of a head and apply pressure to at least one side of the head.
US11740692B2
Methods, systems, and devices are disclosed for optical sensing and tracking of eye movement. In one aspect, a method for tracking the movement of an eye includes emitting a first modulated light and a second modulated light toward an eye of a user, wherein the first modulated light and the second modulated light have substantially the same modulation frequency, but the modulation phases of the two modulated lights are substantially opposite to each other; receiving at a photodetector module a returned light including at least a partial retroreflected light from the eye of the user based on the first and second modulated lights; and processing the output signal from the photodetector module to determine positional and dimensional parameters of the eye of the user based at least on the partial retroreflected light corresponding to the first and second modulated lights.
US11740688B2
A virtual space experience system capable of preventing unintentional contact between players without inhibiting a sense of immersion is provided. A virtual space image determination unit 35 of a VR system S causes an image of a virtual space to be perceived by a second player to include an image in which a first avatar corresponding to a first player moves so as to generate a gap in a correspondence relationship between coordinates of the first player and coordinates of the first avatar when a trigger event is recognized, and causes the image of the virtual space to be perceived by the second player to include an image of a second avatar corresponding to the second player and a third avatar corresponding to the first player after the recognition. An avatar coordinate determination unit 34 determines coordinates of the third avatar based on the coordinates of the first player.
US11740687B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a method for performing multimode inferencing, comprising: receiving machine learning model input data from a requestor; processing the machine learning model input data with a machine learning model using processing hardware at a first power level to generate first output data; selecting a second power level for the processing hardware based on comparing the first output data to a threshold value; processing the machine learning model input data with the machine learning model using the processing hardware at the second power level to generate second output data; and sending second output data to the requestor.
US11740686B2
The present invention relates to platform power management.
US11740683B2
Methods might include determining whether a particular die of a plurality of dies is expected to initiate a next phase of an operation, setting an expected peak current magnitude of the particular die to the present expected peak current magnitude in response to the expected peak current magnitude of the next phase being less than a present expected peak current magnitude, and setting the expected peak current magnitude of the particular die to the expected peak current magnitude of the next phase in response to the expected peak current magnitude of the next phase being greater than the present expected peak current magnitude if a sum of the expected peak current magnitude of the next phase, and expected peak current magnitudes for each die of the plurality of dies other than the particular die, is less than a particular value. Apparatus might be configured to perform similar methods.
US11740681B2
An electronic device is disclosed, including: a display, a processor, and a memory operatively connected to the processor, the memory storing instructions and a plurality of applications installed in the electronic device, wherein the instructions, which when executed, cause the processor to: identify states for each of the plurality of applications, the states each including one of an enabled state, a sleep state, or a disabled state, wherein applications in the sleep state are grouped into a first application group, and applications in the disabled state are grouped into a second application group, execute a first application to display a first field, a second field, and a third field including a selectable object via the display, and based on a first user input selecting the selectable object, re-identity the states of each of the plurality of applications to update the first application group and the second application group.
US11740675B2
A power control apparatus for an in-vehicle camera includes a temperature sensor which measures the temperature in a camera unit; a temperature data acquisition section which acquires periodically measured temperature data; a predicted temperature calculation section which calculates a temperature gradient from the acquired temperature data group and, based on the temperature gradient, calculates a future predicted camera unit temperature; a power supply section which supplies power to an image processing section; a temperature determination section which determines whether predicted temperature is within an operation guarantee temperature of camera unit component parts; and a power supply control section which, based on a determination result, issues a control command to start or stop power supply to the component parts from the power supply section, the power supply being started or stopped with appropriate timing using the predicted temperature, thereby enabling expeditious protection of the component parts when at high temperature.
US11740671B1
A system and method for remotely monitoring, measuring and controlling power to an electrically powered device is disclosed herein. The system preferably comprises an apparatus, an electrically-powered device and a controller. The apparatus preferably comprises a cord, an alternating current outlet socket, an alternating current input plug, an electro-mechanical relay, a processor and a transceiver. The system preferably uses a WiFi communication signal to transmit commands from the remote controller to the apparatus.
US11740660B2
A portable display device is provided in which two display panels are joined to each other to form a single screen when two panel housings are unfolded from a folded state. The portable display device includes at least two panel housings and display panels that are mounted on the panel housings, respectively. When the panel housings are unfolded, the display panels are joined to each other to form a single screen. The distance between the display panels when the display panels are contiguous to each other is less than 3 mm and the distance between input units or between input sensors is less than 3 mm.
US11740658B2
An electronic device housing may have upper and lower portions that are attached with a hinge. At least one portion of the housing may have a rear planar surface and peripheral sidewalls having edges. A display module may be mounted in the housing. The display module may have glass layers such as a color filter glass layer and a thin-film transistor substrate. The color filter glass layer may serve as the outermost glass layer in the display module. The edges of the display module may be aligned with the edges of the peripheral housing sidewalls to create the appearance of a borderless display for the electronic device. The display module may be provided with an opening that allows a camera or other electronic components to receive light. Traces may be provided on the underside of the thin-film transistor substrate to serve as signal paths for the electrical components.
US11740656B1
Systems and methods are described for coordinating actuation of a plurality of wearable devices of one or more wearers. The wearable devices can comprise many forms including clothing and jewelry and allow a wearer to further interact with an environment.
US11740652B2
A method for synchronizing clocks of at least two devices in a distributed network of a vehicle, comprising: establishing unencrypted communication between the at least two devices to determine a temporal difference between the clocks of the two devices, exchanging messages between the at least two devices via the unencrypted communication, ascertaining a temporal difference between the clocks of the at least two devices using the messages, establishing encrypted communication between the at least two devices to authenticate the exchange of messages, authenticating the messages that were used to ascertain the temporal difference, using the ascertained temporal difference, when the authentication of exchanged messages has been completed successfully.
US11740641B2
A platooning controller, a vehicle system including the same, and a method thereof perform control during platooning. The platooning controller includes a processor that, when an outside vehicle cuts in a platooning line, performs platooning control depending on an intention of a user to perform the platooning control and a driving situation with the cut-in vehicle that cuts in the platooning line. The platooning controller also includes a storage that stores the result of performing the platooning control performed by the processor and information about the driving situation.
US11740636B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, for an autonomous vehicle navigation maintenance system. In one aspect, an autonomous vehicle monitoring system includes a mounting surface located on an autonomous vehicle, and a thermal imaging system affixed to the mounting surface, the thermal imaging system including a thermal imaging camera, a replaceable filter, and a filter fixture configured to affix the replaceable filter to the thermal imaging camera and aligned with an optical axis of the thermal imaging camera, and where maintenance of the replaceable filter does not include re-calibrating the thermal imaging camera.
US11740619B2
Disclosed is a malfunction early-warning method for production logistics delivery equipment. After a sensor obtains past signal data, performing feature extraction and dimensionality reduction so as to obtain a feature vector; using a growing neural gas (GNG) algorithm to divide normal state data into different operation situations so as to obtain several cluster centers, and calculating the Euclidean distance between the feature vector and the cluster centers obtained from current operation data, so as to obtain a similarity trend; constructing a past memory matrix, using an improved particle swarm algorithm to optimize an LS-SVM regression model parameter, and calculating the residual value of the current state. Finally, combining the residual value and the similarity trend to obtain a risk coefficient, assessing the equipment state, and issuing an early warning for an equipment malfunction.
US11740612B2
Conventionally material selection of composite structure is performed by using discrete materials available in manufacturer's databases. Thus, tailorable nature of composite materials is not exploited to achieve superior performance. Further, conventional methods perform material selection and sizing separately and do not take into account the influence of sizing on material selection and vice versa. Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for multiscale material selection for designing of mechanical systems that incorporates tailoring of material microstructures and sizing to achieve improved solutions. The microstructure properties are obtained by using analytical and computational models for various composite materials. These models compute structure-property relations between bulk material properties and their micro-structural constituents.
US11740610B2
Embodiments of this present disclosure may include a handle disposed on an outer surface of a housing of electrical circuitry. The handle may provide access to at least a portion of the electrical circuitry. The handle may include a status indicator that emits light in response to a control signal from control circuitry. The status indicator may be disposed around the handle. The control circuitry may detect a state of the electrical protection circuitry. The control circuitry may also transmit the control signal to the status indicator based on the state. The control signal may control one or more properties of the light emitted by the status indicator, and thus indicate to an operator the state of the electrical circuitry.
US11740607B2
The present disclosure relates to monitoring a condition of an electric drive in an industrial network. A method comprises obtaining values of input parameters, state parameters, and one or more temperatures associated with one or more components, at a first time instant. The method further comprises estimating values of the state parameters at a second time instant with a first layer of a state space model of the electric drive and the values of input parameters at the first time instant. In addition, the method comprises estimating values of the one or more temperatures at a third time instant with a second layer of the model, the values estimated for the state variables and the values of the temperatures at the first time instant. A condition of the electric drive is determined from the values of the temperatures estimated for the third time instant and one or more predetermined thresholds.
US11740605B2
A movable gantry system is described. In an example, the movable gantry system is configured to interface with jigs of different types or sizes and/or with different positions of a same jig and/or to perform operations on different parts mounted in such jigs. To do so, the movable gantry system includes an end effector, a gantry, and a computing system. The end effector is mounted within the gantry and provides at least rotational movement to perform operations on a part. The gantry is movable and interfaces with a jig holding the part. Further, the gantry provides translational movement to the end effector. The computing system identifies the gantry and the part and controls the gantry and the end effector, thereby facilitating the operations on the part.
US11740600B2
A computerized method for controlling a target-motion device based on motion of a first source-motion object. The method has the steps of: capturing motion-related data at the first source-motion object, the motion-related data representing the mootion of the first source-motion object; processing, at the first source-motion object, the motion-related data by converting captured motion-related data from a first format to a second format; transmitting the processed motion-related data to a server; forwarding, by the server, the processed motion-related data to the target-motion device; and moving at least a portion of the target-motion device based on at least the processed motion-related data.
US11740594B2
A control system for an operable system such as a flow control system or temperature control system. The system operates in a control loop to regularly update a model with respect at least one optimizable input variable based on the detected variables. The model provides prediction of use of the input variables in all possible operation points or paths of the system variables which achieve an output setpoint. In some example embodiments, the control loop is performed during initial setup and subsequent operation of the one or more operable elements in the operable system. The control system is self-learning in that at least some of the initial and subsequent parameters of the system are determined automatically during runtime.
US11740593B2
Disclosed is a system, method, and computer program product that employs high dynamic range (HDR) image processing and manipulation algorithms for capturing and measuring real-time sky conditions for processing into control input signals to a building's automated fenestration (AF) system, daylight harvesting (DH) system and HVAC system. The photometer comprises a color camera and a fitted fish-eye lens to capture 360-degree, hemispherical, low dynamic range (LDR) color images of the sky. Both camera and lens are housed in a sealed enclosure protecting them from environmental elements and conditions. In some embodiments the camera and processes are controlled and implemented by a back-end computer.
US11740591B2
An electronic watch may include a housing at least partially defining an interior cavity divided into at least a first volume and a second volume, a pressure-sensing component positioned within the first volume, a speaker positioned within the first volume, a processor positioned within the second volume, a battery positioned within the second volume, and a barometric vent that allows air pressure equalization between the first volume and an external environment.
US11740587B2
Provided is a method of generating a computer-generated hologram (CGH), the method including obtaining complex data including amplitude data of object data and phase data of the object data corresponding to a spatial light modulator (SLM) plane by propagating the object data from an image plane to the SLM plane, encoding the complex data into encoded amplitude data, and generating a CGH based on the object data including the encoded amplitude data.
US11740586B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a fixing unit, a plurality of exterior covers forming an exterior of the image forming apparatus, a fan configured to suck outside air into the image forming apparatus through an air intake port, a temperature sensor configured to detect a temperature of the outside air sucked by the fan, and a partition member disposed upstream the temperature sensor and downstream the air intake port in an airflow generated by the fan, the partition member dividing an air intake path through which the outside air sucked through the air intake port passes into a first path passing through a fixing unit side and a second path passing through a temperature sensor side.
US11740585B2
A developing unit, which is attachable to and detachable from a photosensitive member unit, includes: a developing roller; a housing in which a holding space that holds toner is formed; and a pressing receiving portion that receives pressing force from a pressing member. The housing includes a first bottom portion that projects toward an outer side of the holding space, and a second bottom portion that projects toward the outer side of the holding space, in a state in use. When viewed in a direction of a rotation axis of the developing roller, at least part of the pressing receiving portion is located in a space surrounded by the first bottom portion, the second bottom portion, and a tangent line tangent to both an outer wall of the first bottom portion and an outer wall of the second bottom portion.
US11740582B2
An image forming apparatus includes a main body housing, a drawer, a drum cartridge, and a toner cartridge. The drawer includes a waste toner conveying pipe and a lock member. In a state where the toner cartridge is mounted on the drum cartridge, the drum cartridge is mounted on the drawer, the drawer is located at a drawn-out position, and the lock member is located at a lock position, the toner cartridge is detachable from the drum cartridge.
US11740564B2
A method comprises loading a wafer onto a wafer chuck of a lithography apparatus, projecting an extreme ultraviolet light through an opening of a frame structure of the lithography apparatus, onto the wafer, and introducing an airflow from an air curtain module on the wafer chuck toward the frame structure, wherein the air curtain module surrounds the wafer. The airflow forms an air curtain around the wafer, and shields the wafer from contaminants from the frame structure or a wafer stage.
US11740554B2
The present invention provides an imprint apparatus for forming a pattern in an imprint material on a substrate using an original, comprising: an image capturing unit configured to capture an image of the substrate; and a processor configured to perform, based on fine-detection marks and rough-detection marks in the image obtained by the image capturing unit, an alignment process of the original and the substrate in forming the pattern in the imprint material, and overlay inspection of the substrate and the pattern formed in the imprint material, wherein the processor is configured to change, between the alignment process and the overlay inspection, a rough-detection mark group to be used to specify positions of fine-detection marks in the image obtained by the image capturing unit.
US11740552B2
A manufacturing method includes the steps of: (a) preparing a lower layer member having a first base layer, a first protective thin film, and a first CNT thin film; (b) preparing a first upper layer member having a second base layer, a second protective thin film, and a second CNT thin film or a second upper layer member having a second base layer and a second protective thin film; (c) arranging the lower layer member above the first CNT thin film; (d) forming a group member by arranging the second CNT thin film of the first upper layer member or the second protective film of the second upper layer member to be stacked on the first CNT thin film; and € removing the second base layer from the group member.
US11740551B2
The present application relates to a method for producing a substrate which includes a step of exposing and developing a photosensitive resin composition layer formed on a surface of a substrate base layer to produce spacers. The method for producing a substrate of the present application can uniformly form spacers having a height according to a desired cell gap and can also freely control the height of the spacers.
US11740548B2
A filtration formed nanostructure pellicle film is disclosed. The filtration formed nanostructure pellicle film includes a plurality of carbon nanofibers that are intersected randomly to form an interconnected network structure in a planar orientation. The interconnected structure allows for a high minimum EUV transmission rate of at least 92%, with a thickness ranging from a lower limit of 3 nm to an upper limit of 100 nm, to allow for effective EUV lithography processing.
US11740545B2
A curved screen comprises the following layers sequentially arranged from inside to outside: a black light-absorbing layer, a microstructure array layer, and a transparent matrix layer. The microstructure array layer consists of a plurality of microstructure units. The microstructure unit is a V-shaped recess consisting of two intersecting inclined surfaces. The microstructure array layer is rotationally symmetrical with respect to a center line of the curved screen. Angles of the V-shaped recesses in respective longitudinal cross sections of the curved screen are uniquely determined according to incident angles of light rays from a projector. Also disclosed are a method of arranging microstructures in the curved screen and a projection system comprising the curved screen. The curved screen has a higher contrast, improved brightness uniformity and an enlarged field of view.
US11740538B2
A lens driving module includes a base, a frame fixedly connected to the base, and a holder configured to connect an optical lens. The holder is movable relative to the base. The lens driving module also includes a reflecting element configured to reflect light from a light incident direction to a first direction. The first direction is perpendicular to the light incident direction, and the first direction is parallel to an optical axis of the optical lens. The lens driving module further includes a first electromagnetic driving assembly configured to force the holder to move along the first direction relative to the base. The lens driving module has multiple recesses formed on the base and arranged along the first direction. The lens driving module includes multiple the rolling elements disposed on the recesses, and the holder is moved relative to the base via the rolling elements.
US11740532B2
An article, includes a layer including at least one color-rendering portion and at least one light valve; and a metal reflector portion, wherein the at least one light valve is positioned in the layer to provide reflection of incident light through the at least one light valve. A method of making an article is also disclosed.
US11740528B2
This disclosure provides spacers for smart windows. In one aspect, a window assembly includes a first substantially transparent substrate having an optically switchable device on a surface of the first substrate. The optically switchable device includes electrodes. A first electrode of the electrodes has a length about the length of a side of the optically switchable device. The window assembly further includes a second substantially transparent substrate a metal spacer between the first and the second substrates. The metal spacer has a substantially rectangular cross section, with one side of the metal spacer including a recess configured to accommodate the length of the first electrode such that there is no contact between the first electrode and the metal spacer. A primary seal material bonds the first substrate to the metal spacer and bonds the second substrate to the metal spacer.
US11740526B2
A display device includes a thin film transistor on a base substrate and a signal wiring electrically connected to the thin film transistor. The signal wiring includes a main conductive layer including copper, and a capping layer including titanium the capping layer overlapping a portion of an upper surface of the main conductive layer. The signal wiring has a taper angle in a range of about 70° to about 90°. A thickness of the capping layer is in a range of about 100 Å to about 300 Å, and a thickness of the main conductive layer is in a range of about 1,000 Å to about 20,000 Å.
US11740519B2
The display device includes data lines, first gate lines arranged in parallel with the data lines, second gate lines intersecting the first gate lines, a line contact portion in which each of the plurality of first gate lines and each of the plurality of second gate lines are in contact with each other, a non-contact portion in which each of the plurality of first gate lines and each of the plurality of second gate lines are insulated from each other in an intersection area thereof, a first pixel including a first switching element connected to a corresponding second gate line among the second gate lines, and a second pixel including a second switching element connected to the second gate line connected to the first pixel, wherein magnitude of a first capacitance of the first switching element is different from magnitude of a first capacitance of the second switching element.
US11740514B2
A display device includes a substrate, a plurality of sub-pixels and a covering layer. The substrate includes a display area and a peripheral area. The peripheral area is adjacent to the display area. The sub-pixels are disposed in the display area and arranged along a first direction. The sub-pixels have a first color, and two adjacent one of the sub-pixels have a first pixel pitch along the first direction. The covering layer is disposed in the peripheral area and has a first recess. The first recess has a first portion extended along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The first portion has a first width along the first direction. A ratio of the first width to the first pixel pitch is greater than or equal to 0.05 and less than or equal to 0.7.
US11740512B2
An object is to provide a method of manufacturing a liquid crystal layer in which an alignment film is repeatedly used and a liquid crystal compound in a liquid crystal layer can be sufficiently aligned. The method of manufacturing a liquid crystal layer includes: an alignment film forming step of forming an alignment film on a support; a liquid crystal alignment film alignment step of laminating a first liquid crystal composition including a polymerizable liquid crystal compound on the alignment film and aligning the first liquid crystal composition; a liquid crystal alignment layer forming step of polymerizing the aligned first liquid crystal composition to form a liquid crystal alignment layer; a peeling step of laminating and immobilizing a surface of the liquid crystal alignment layer opposite to the alignment film on an adherend and peeling the liquid crystal alignment layer from the alignment film at an interface between the liquid crystal alignment layer and the alignment film; a liquid crystal layer alignment step of laminating a second liquid crystal composition including a polymerizable liquid crystal compound on a surface of the liquid crystal alignment layer from which the alignment film is peeled off and aligning the second liquid crystal composition; a liquid crystal layer forming step of polymerizing the aligned second liquid crystal composition to form a liquid crystal layer; and a liquid crystal layer separation step of separating the formed liquid crystal layer from the liquid crystal alignment layer, in which the liquid crystal layer alignment step to the liquid crystal layer separation step are repeated to repeatedly prepare the liquid crystal layer.
US11740511B2
A display device is provided and includes at least one sub-pixel that is a blue sub-pixel. The sub-pixel includes a transistor and a light emitting unit electrically connected to the transistor. The sub-pixel emits an output light under an operation of the highest gray level, the output light is a final visual light of the blue sub-pixel of the display device, the output light having an output spectrum, an intensity integral of the output spectrum from 380 nm to 493 nm defines as a first intensity integral, an intensity integral of the output spectrum from 494 nm to 580 nm defines as a second intensity integral, a ratio of the first intensity integral over the second intensity integral defines as a first ratio, and the first ratio ranges from 5 to 20.
US11740509B2
A pixel array may be illuminated with backlight illumination from a backlight. The backlight may include a two-dimensional array of light-emitting diodes, with each light-emitting diode being placed in a respective cell. Different light-emitting diodes may have unique brightness magnitudes based on the content of the given display frame. Driver integrated circuits may control one or more associated light-emitting diodes to have a desired brightness level. The driver integrated circuits may be formed in an active area of the backlight. The driver integrated circuits may be arranged in groups that are daisy chained together. A digital signal (that includes information such as addressing information) may be propagated through the group of driver integrated circuits. To manage thermal performance of the backlight, the backlight may include a thermally conductive layer and/or a heat sink structure. To increase the efficiency of the backlight, the backlight may include one or more reflective layers.
US11740506B2
A wavelength conversion member suppresses peeling at an edge at cutting; and is used with a backlight unit and a liquid crystal display device. The wavelength conversion member includes a first substrate, a wavelength conversion layer, and a second substrate, in which each of the first and second substrates includes a support, a barrier layer, and an organic layer, where each of the barrier layers contains at least aluminum and phosphorus, each of the organic layers is formed of a composition containing a polymer A having a glass transition temperature of 50° C. or lower and a polymer B having an acryloyl or methacryloyl group in a molecule thereof, and the wavelength conversion layer is a layer in which at least one selected from the group consisting of a quantum dot, a phosphor particle, and a phosphor coloring agent is dispersed in a matrix made of an acrylic resin.
US11740503B2
A display screen and an electronic device are provided. The display screen includes an anti-interference film. The anti-interference film includes a plurality of light-shielding sublayers. Each of the light-shielding sublayers includes a plurality of opening portions and a plurality of light-shielding portions. An orthographic projection of light-shielding portions of one of two adjacent light-shielding sublayers on the liquid crystal display panel partially overlaps with an orthographic projection of opening portions of the other light-shielding sublayer on the liquid crystal display panel.
US11740499B2
A display device includes: a display module including a first area and a second area at least partially surrounding the first area in a plan view; an external member disposed on the display module; and an adhesive layer configured to couple the display module to the external member, wherein a coupling strength between the second area and the adhesive layer is greater than a coupling strength between the first area and the adhesive layer.
US11740488B2
A progressive spectacle lens has a front face and a rear face and a uniform substrate with a locally varying refractive index. The front face and/or the rear face of the substrate is formed as a free-form surface and carries only functional coatings, if any. The refractive index varies (a) only in a first spatial dimension and in a second spatial dimension and is constant in a third spatial dimension, a distribution of the refractive being neither point-symmetrical nor axis symmetrical, or (b) in a first spatial dimension and in a second spatial dimension and in a third spatial dimension, a distribution of the refractive index being neither point-symmetrical nor axis symmetrical, or (c) in a first spatial dimension and in a second spatial dimension and in a third spatial dimension, a distribution of the refractive index not being point-symmetrical or axis symmetrical at all.
US11740487B2
Some implementations of the disclosure are directed to modulating a number roundtrips that light travels within a cavity to modulate optical depth. In one implementation, a display system includes: a display configured to emit light corresponding to an image; a first optical component positioned in front of the display, the first optical component configured to pass the light to a field evolving cavity (FEC); and the FEC, where the FEC includes a cavity entrance and a cavity exit, the cavity entrance configured to receive the light passed by the first optical component, the FEC configured with a polarization clock that modulates a number of round trips the light travels within the FEC, between the cavity entrance and the cavity exit, by changing a polarization of the light during each round trip.
US11740485B2
Embodiments provide a lens moving apparatus including a bobbin in which a lens is mounted, a first coil and a magnet configured to electromagnetically interact with each other so as to move the bobbin, a housing configured to accommodate the bobbin therein, an elastic member including an inner frame coupled to the bobbin, an outer frame coupled to the housing, and a frame connection portion configured to connect the inner frame and the outer frame to each other, and a support member connected to the elastic member and configured to support the housing, and the outer frame includes a first coupling portion coupled to the housing, a second coupling portion coupled to the support member, the second coupling portion being spaced apart from the first coupling portion, and a single connection portion configured to connect the first coupling portion and the second coupling portion to each other.
US11740480B2
An optical system for displaying a virtual image to a viewer includes stacked integral first reflective polarizer and integral second reflective polarizer, a display, and a mirror. For substantially normally incident light: for at least one visible wavelength in a first wavelength range, the first reflective polarizer reflects at least 60% of the incident light having a first polarization state and transmits at least 60% of the incident light having an orthogonal second polarization state, and the second reflective polarizer transmits at least 60% of the incident light for each of the first and second polarization states; and for at least one infrared wavelength in a second wavelength range, the first reflective polarizer reflects at least 60% of the incident light having the first polarization state and transmits at least 60% of the incident light having the second polarization state, and the second reflective polarizer reflects at least 60% of the incident light having the second polarization state and transmits at least 20% of the light having the first polarization state.
US11740477B2
An electronic device according to the present invention includes: a processor; and a memory storing a program which, when executed by the processor, causes the electronic device to: detect an inclination of a display surface; receive a user operation; and perform control to display, as a display range, a portion of an image on the display surface, change a position of the display range in response to a change in the inclination of the display surface, and change the position of the display range in response to a user operation, wherein a second movement amount in which the display range moves in response to the change in the inclination of the display surface is corrected based on a first movement amount in which the display range is moved by the user operation.
US11740473B2
A headset for virtual reality imaging is provided. The headset includes a first display configured to generate multiple light beams from a central portion of a field of view in an image provided to a user, a first optical element configured to provide the light beams forming a central portion of the field of view through an eyebox of the headset that limits a volume including a pupil of the user, and a second display configured to provide a peripheral portion of the field of view for the image through the eyebox, wherein the second display includes multiple light emitting pixels arranged in a two-dimensional surface. A system and a method for using the above headset are also provided.
US11740448B2
Driving an emitter to emit pulses of electromagnetic radiation according to a jitter specification in a fluorescence imaging system is described. A system includes an emitter for emitting pulses of electromagnetic radiation and an image sensor comprising a pixel array for sensing reflected electromagnetic radiation. The system includes a driver for driving emissions by the emitter according to a jitter specification. The system is such that at least a portion of the pulses of electromagnetic radiation emitted by the emitter comprises electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength from about 770 nm to about 795 nm and/or from about 795 nm to about 815 nm.
US11740446B2
A head-mounted display may include a display system and an optical system in a housing. The display system may have a pixel array that produces light associated with images. The display system may also have a linear polarizer through which light from the pixel array passes and a quarter wave plate through which the light passes after passing through the quarter wave plate. The optical system may be a catadioptric optical system having one or more lens elements. The lens elements may include a plano-convex lens and a plano-concave lens. A partially reflective mirror may be formed on a convex surface of the plano-convex lens. A reflective polarizer may be formed on the planar surface of the plano-convex lens or the concave surface of the plano-concave lens. An additional quarter wave plate may be located between the reflective polarizer and the partially reflective mirror.
US11740440B2
An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens having negative refractive power, a fifth lens having positive refractive power, a sixth lens having a convex image-side surface, and a seventh lens, disposed sequentially from an object side. The optical imaging system satisfies −5.0
US11740429B2
A lens assembly can include: a holder; a lens module disposed at an inner side of the holder; an optical module disposed at an upper side of the lens module; and an conductive substrate electrically connected to the optical module. The conductive substrate includes: a body part disposed at an upper side of the holder; and an extension part extended from one end of the body part, and including a terminal part, the holder includes a second lateral surface formed by being recessed inwards from a portion of a first lateral surface, and at least a portion of the extension part is disposed at the second lateral surface.
US11740415B2
Disclosed are apparatus and methods for a silicon photonic (SiPh) structure comprising the integration of an electrical integrated circuit (EIC); a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) disposed on top of the EIC; two or more polymer waveguides (PWGs) disposed on top of the PIC and formed by layers of cladding polymer and core polymer; and an integration fan-out redistribution (InFO RDL) layer disposed on top of the two or more PWGs. The operation of PWGs is based on the refractive indexes of the cladding and core polymers. Inter-layer optical signals coupling is provided by edge-coupling, reflective prisms and grating coupling. A wafer-level system implements a SiPh structure die and provides inter-die signal optical interconnections among the PWGs.
US11740389B2
Provided are a low reflection structure, a display panel, a display device, and a manufacturing method of a display panel. Related is the field of display technologies. The low reflection structure includes a first lens array, a second lens array, and a light blocking layer located between the first lens array and the second lens array. The first lens array includes multiple first convex lenses. The second lens array includes multiple second convex lenses. The light blocking layer includes a light blocking part and multiple light transmitting parts. The light blocking part at least partially surrounds the multiple light transmitting parts. An image focal plane of the first convex lens and an object focal plane of the second convex lens are within a same plane. A focus of each first convex lens of the multiple first convex lenses is located within a light transmitting part of the multiple light transmitting parts.
US11740380B2
This disclosure presents an apparatus and system for lowering the cost of implementing a downhole sensor system using attachable collars. In some aspects, the attachable collar includes a transmitter component, while supporting electronics are included with a main collar, thereby reducing the cost of the attachable collar. The supporting electronics can send a transmission signal, a control signal, a synchronization clock signal, a selected transmission frequency, a sensor orientation and selection, and other instructions to the transmitter in the attachable collar. The receiver in the main collar can receive the output, as reflected by the subterranean formation, and transform the output to subterranean formation evaluation measurements. The measurements can be communicated to other systems. In some aspects, the attachable collar can include the receiver and the main collar can include the transmitter. In some aspects, additional attachable collars can be included on the drill string to increase the transmitter-receiver spacing.
US11740378B2
A method includes receiving, via a processor, a first seismic dataset generated using a first type of survey system. The method further includes receiving, via the processor, a second seismic dataset generated using a second type of survey system. The method additionally includes determining a frequency band in which to combine the first seismic dataset with the second seismic dataset to generate a combined dataset and generating a seismic image based upon the combined dataset, wherein the seismic image represents hydrocarbons in a subsurface region of the Earth or subsurface drilling hazards.
US11740370B2
Provided is a radiation detection system for improving the accuracy of a neutron beam irradiation dose for a neutron capture therapy system. The neutron capture therapy system includes a charged particle beam, a charged particle beam inlet for passing the charged particle beam, a neutron generating unit for generating the neutron beam by means of a nuclear reaction with the charged particle beam, a beam shaping assembly for adjusting flux and quality of the neutron beam, and a beam outlet adjoining to the beam shaping assembly, the radiation detection system includes a radiation detection device arranged within the beam shaper or outside the beam shaping assembly, the radiation detection device is used for real-time detection of the overflowing neutron beam by the neutron generating unit or the generated γ-ray after the nuclear reaction of the charged particle beam with the neutron generating unit.
US11740367B2
A radiation scanning system comprises a radiation detection sub-assembly, and a routing sub-assembly coupled to the radiation detection sub-assembly. The radiation detection sub-assembly comprises a first substrate electrically connected to the radiation detection sub-assembly, and a second substrate electrically connected to the first substrate. The radiation scanning system further comprises one or more radiation shields between the first substrate and the second substrate, and one or more semiconductor dice electrically connected to the second substrate on a side of the second substrate opposite the first substrate. Related radiation detector arrays radiation scanning systems are also disclosed.
US11740358B2
A method of and system for processing Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) point cloud data. The method is executable by an electronic device, communicatively coupled to a LIDAR installed on a vehicle, the LIDAR having a plurality of lasers for capturing LIDAR point cloud data. The method includes receiving a first LIDAR point cloud data captured by the LIDAR; executing a Machine Learning Algorithm (MLA) for: analyzing a first plurality of LIDAR points of the first point cloud data in relation to a response pattern of the plurality of lasers; retrieving a grid representation data of a surrounding area of the vehicle; determining if the first plurality of LIDAR points is associated with a blind spot, the blind spot preventing a detection algorithm of the electronic device to detect presence of at least one object surrounding the vehicle conditioned on the at least one object is present.
US11740354B2
Systems and methods of linearizing a signal of a light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensor are described herein. A system receives a portion of a non-linear chirp signal. The portion of the non-linear chirp signal is sampled at a sampling frequency to generate data points corresponding to the portion of the non-linear chirp signal. A profile of the non-linear chirp signal is generated based on the data points. The non-linear chirp signal is linearized based on the profile of the non-linear chirp signal.
US11740341B2
A system for ultrasound beamforming is provided, including a sampled analog beamformer, an array of ultrasound transducers, and a high voltage amplifier coupled to the sampled analog beamformer and the array of ultrasound transducers. The sampled analog beamformer includes a sampled analog filter for filtering an incoming analog signal and adding a fractional delay, and transmitting a filtered analog ultrasound signal. The array of ultrasound transducers further transmits the filtered analog ultrasound signal. The high voltage amplifier drives transducers in the array of ultrasound transducers.
US11740336B2
A light detection and ranging (LIDAR) transceiver includes optical antenna arrays and an optical switch. Some of the optical antenna arrays include a number of optical antennas and an optical splitter coupled to the optical antennas. The optical splitter may include a number of passive optical splitters. The optical splitter provides a portion of an input signal to the optical antennas. The optical switch is configured to selectively provide the input signal to at least one of the plurality of optical antenna arrays. The optical switch enables addressable field of view scanning by selectively providing the input signal to the plurality of antenna arrays, one array at a time.
US11740334B2
A combining network for an array of SPAD devices includes: synchronous sampling circuits, wherein each synchronous sampling circuit is coupled to an output of a corresponding SPAD device and is configured to generate a pulse or an edge each time an event is detected; and a summation circuit coupled to an output of each of the synchronous sampling circuits and configured to count a number of pulses or edges to generate a binary output value.
US11740330B2
A light detection and ranging system arranged to scan a scene comprises a light source arranged to output light having a first characteristic. A spatial light modulator is arranged to receive the light from the light source and output spatially-modulated light in accordance with computer-generated holograms represented thereon. A holographic controller is arranged to output a plurality of holograms to the spatial light modulator. Each hologram is arranged to form a corresponding light footprint within the scene. The holographic controller is further arranged to change the position of the light footprint within the scene. A light detector is arranged to receive light having the first characteristic from the scene and output a light response signal. The plurality of computer-generated holograms comprise a first plurality of holograms arranged to provide a first scan and a second plurality of holograms arranged to provide a second scan. In embodiments, the first plurality of holograms and second plurality of holograms are interleaved.
US11740329B2
A radar sensor for a vehicle may include: a cover configured to transmit electromagnetic waves; a measurement unit disposed at a position facing the cover, and configured to generate the electromagnetic waves to sense an object; a housing having an internal space in which the measurement unit is disposed, and including an open entrance at which the cover is installed; a shield case coupled to the measurement unit, and configured to block the electromagnetic waves generated by the measurement unit such that the electromagnetic waves are discharged to the entrance; and one or more heat conductors disposed between the measurement unit and the shield case and between the shield case and the housing, and configured to conduct heat, generated by the measurement unit, from the shield case to the housing such that the heat is discharged to the outside of the housing.
US11740326B2
A simulation system for use in testing a radar system comprises a coarse delay module, a fine delay module, and a doppler shift module. The coarse delay module is configured to receive a first stream of digital data samples that are sampled from a radar signal at a sample time period or a second stream of digital data samples that are processed by another simulation system component and delay the digital data samples by a selectable first delay time that is greater than or equal to the sample time period. The fine delay module is configured to receive the digital data samples and filter the digital data samples to represent delay by a selectable second delay time that is less than the sample time period. The doppler shift module is configured to receive the digital data samples and adjust a value of a frequency content of the fine delayed samples.
US11740324B2
The disclosure discloses a channel combining and time-division processing circuit of a dual-plane pulse Doppler radar seeker. The circuit includes a time-division control circuit configured to receive a time-division control signal, control input of an elevation difference channel signal and an azimuth difference channel signal, combine the elevation difference channel signal and the azimuth difference channel signal and output a combined difference channel signal, and a hybrid bridge circuit configured to receive a sum channel signal, combine channels for the sum channel signal and the combined difference channel signal and output signals on a combined channel. With the circuit of the disclosure, signals received from a sum channel, an azimuth difference channel and an elevation difference channel can be combined into received signals from two channels for processing with one received signal processing channel hardware omitted.
US11740320B2
Disclosed are techniques to determine a position of a user equipment (UE). In an aspect, the UE receives a plurality of positioning reference signals (PRS) from a plurality of cells. The UE determines a plurality of time of arrivals (TOA) of the plurality of PRSs, and prunes the plurality of TOAs based on the plurality of PRSs. The UE then derives a time difference of arrival (TDOA) vector from the pruned TOAs. The TDOA vector includes multiple TOA related measurements of multiple cells. The UE prunes the TOAs such that the cells represented in the TDOA vector are sufficiently geographically dispersed to determine the position of the UE at least in 2D.
US11740319B2
An apparatus for indicating a direction of a radio transmission is described. The apparatus includes at least one vector detection device including two or more antennas and an attenuating material between at least one of the antennas and a source of a radio transmission. The attenuating material is arranged to vary an amount of attenuation with an angle of the source with respect to at least one of the antennas. The apparatus is configured to generate a signal indicating a direction of the radio transmission by comparing received signal strengths from the two or more antennas.
US11740316B2
A head-mountable device can include multiple microphones for directional audio detection. The head-mountable device can also include a speaker for audio output and/or a display for visual output. The head-mountable device can be configured to provide visual outputs based on audio inputs by displaying an indicator on a display based on a location of a source of a sound. The head-mountable device can be configured to audio outputs based on audio inputs by modifying an audio output of the speaker based on a detected sound and a target characteristic. Such characteristics can be based on a direction of a gaze of the user, as detected by an eye sensor.
US11740315B2
A mobile body detection means 85: determines, in the case where a position of a first mobile body and a position of a second mobile body are approximately the same, that a mobile body is detected at the position; and determines, in the case where the position of the first mobile body and the position of the second mobile body are different and any of first reliability and second reliability exceeds a threshold, that a mobile body is detected at a position of a mobile body corresponding to the reliability exceeding the threshold.
US11740303B2
The present application provides a method of designing a high shielding gradient coil for a planar superconducting magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system and a gradient coil thereof, the method determines a shielding area according to an outer profile of a metal conductor around the position of the gradient coil in the planar superconducting MRI system, and performs partitioned shielding of a stray field. The constraint values of stray fields at different partitioned zones of the shielding area are adjusted according to the shielding requirements. The primary coils of both the transverse gradient coil and the longitudinal gradient coil optimized by the design method of the high shielding gradient coil contain a reverse coil, which generates a magnetic field that offsets leakage magnetic field of other coils, thus achieving the purpose of reducing the stray field of the gradient coil.
US11740295B2
A system and method for performing a vehicle battery test includes a battery tester having a controller programed to obtain a first battery parameter and a second battery parameter of a primary battery from a vehicle controller, compare the first battery parameter to a first threshold, compare the second battery parameter to a second threshold and perform a reserve charge test on the battery using the battery tester or generating a display indicative of high corrosion or a bad cell in response to the compare the first battery parameter and compare the second battery parameter steps being performed by the controller.
US11740293B2
A battery cell monitor circuit includes a first serial transceiver, a second serial transceiver, and a command decoder. The command decoder is configured to cause the first serial transceiver or the second serial transceiver to transmit a response to a battery monitoring command based on a response direction field included in the battery monitoring command.
US11740291B2
Included are embodiments for remotely determining a battery characteristic. Some embodiments include searching for a first wireless signal that identifies the energy storage device and, in response to receiving the first wireless signal, determining a current charge level of the energy storage device. Some embodiments include receiving a second wireless signal from the energy storage device, determining from the second wireless signal, whether the current charge level of the energy storage device reaches a predetermined threshold, and in response to determining that the current charge level of the energy storage device reaches the predetermined threshold, facilitating replacement of the battery.
US11740288B1
Scan cells of a set of scan chains may be partitioned into at least two control groups of scan cells and at least two observe groups of scan cells. Adjacent scan cells in the set of scan chains may belong to different control groups. Each observe group may include at most one scan cell from each control group, and each control group may include at most one scan cell from each observe group. The control groups and observe groups may be used to perform defect localization on the set of scan chains.
US11740285B2
According to one or more embodiments, the semiconductor integrated circuit device includes a pattern generator, a result comparator, and a control circuit. The pattern generator supplies input data to a device-under-test. The result comparator compares output data of the device-under-test with expected value data and outputs a test result signal. The control circuit controls the pattern generator and the result comparator. The device-under-test and the result comparator are commonly connected to a first clock line. The pattern generator and the control circuit are commonly connected to a second clock line different from the first clock line.
US11740281B2
An integrated circuit (IC) comprising: a margin measurement circuit configured to monitor multiple data paths of the IC and to output, at different times, different ranges of remaining margins of the multiple data paths; a workload sensor configured to output a value representing aggregate operational stress experienced by the IC over a period of time ending at each of the different times; and a processor configured to: (i) compute, based on the value output by said workload sensor, an upper bound and a lower bound of change of the remaining margin of the IC, and (ii) compute upper and lower bounds of a current remaining margin of the IC, based on (a) the upper and lower bounds of change, and (b) a remaining margin indicated by a border between two adjacent ranges outputted by the margin measurement circuit.
US11740276B2
A crack detection chip includes a chip which includes an internal region and an external region surrounding the internal region, a guard ring formed inside the chip along an edge of the chip to define the internal region and the external region, an edge wiring disposed along an edge of the internal region in the form of a closed curve and a pad which is exposed on a surface of the chip and is connected to the edge wiring. The edge wiring is connected to a Time Domain Reflectometry (TDR) module which applies an incident wave to the edge wiring through the pad, and detects a reflected wave formed in the edge wiring to detect a position of a crack.
US11740270B2
An apparatus for generating an output signal having a waveform that is repeated every period, includes a storage configured to store values corresponding to the waveform in a portion of a period of the output signal, a counter configured to generate a first index of a sample included in the output signal, a controller configured to generate at least one control signal based on the first index and the period of the output signal, and a calculation circuit configured to generate the output signal by calculating an output from the storage based on the at least one control signal.
US11740260B2
A pogo pin-free testing device for IC chip test includes a load board, a ceramic interposer disposed on the load board, and copper core balls. The ceramic interposer has first and second surfaces and connecting points, and the second surface of the ceramic interposer faces the load board. Each connecting point has through holes penetrating the first and second surfaces, and an inner sidewall surface thereof has a metallization layer. The metallization layer is extended to a portion of the first surface and a portion of the second surface. In each of the connecting points, an area of an extending portion of the metallization layer extended to the second surface is less than an area of an extending portion of the metallization layer extended to the first surface. The copper core balls are disposed between the load board and the through holes of each connecting point of the ceramic interposer.
US11740259B1
An inspection terminal provided in a test device has a main body portion including a support portion that is curved; a plate-shaped portion integrally connected to the support portion and extending in a first direction; a tip portion integrally connected to the plate-shaped portion and having a larger dimension in a second direction intersecting with the first direction than that of the plate-shaped portion in the second direction; and a slit formed from the tip portion to the plate-shaped portion so as not to reach the support portion of the inspection terminal. The tip portion of the inspection terminal has a first contact portion and a second contact portion that are separated from each other by way of via the slit, and each contact portion is brought into contact with an external terminal of a semiconductor package, and an electrical test of the semiconductor package is performed.
US11740250B2
A real-time online analysis device for substance pyrolysis, including: a pyrolyzing system (1), a capturing system (2), a testing system (3) and a controlling system (4) is disclosed. The pyrolyzing system (1), the capturing system (2) and the testing system (3) are connected with the controlling system (4). The capturing system (2) has a cooling cavity (22) and a heating cavity (23) inside. The temperature of the cooling cavity (22) ranges from room temperature to −200° C., and the temperature of the heating cavity (23) ranges from room temperature to 1000° C. A method for real-time online analysis of substance pyrolysis using the device is also disclosed. The present device can provide real-time online pyrolysis, capturing, separation and analysis of substances at a plurality of temperature points or ranges.
US11740248B2
Disclosed herein are methods in which an individual with multiple sclerosis (MS) can be classified into one of six subject groups, each subject group predictive for the patient's responsiveness to an interferon-β (IFN-β) therapy. The individual with MS can be classified according to the individual's serum marker levels, e.g., at baseline or following treatment with therapy. Depending on the classification, the individual with MS can be treated with standard therapies (e.g. IFN-β) or one or more alternative therapies with or without IFN-β.
US11740243B2
A non invasive diagnostic method of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) in a subject is provided. The method comprises the step of measuring the level of βig-h3 protein in a blood sample wherein the serum level of βig-h3 is positively correlated with the risk of having a PDAC. By following studies on 2 distinct cohorts of 20 and 104 of PDAC patients, and on PDAC mouse model, the inventors show that βig-h3 can be directly detected in the blood sample and βig-h3 is expressed very early in tumorigenesis in pancreatic neoplastic lesions. Also provided is a βig-h3 protein, for use in the treatment of PDAC. The inventors found that βig-h3 bind directly on CD8+ T cells by reducing their activation and cytotoxic properties. Furthermore, the use of neutralizing βig-h3 antibodies in PDAC mouse model reduced tumor growth by enhancing CD8+ T cell anti-tumoral response. Thus, neutralizing βig-h3 which acts as a novel immunological check-point target in PDAC therefore allows to restore beneficial anti-tumor immunity in PDAC.
US11740238B2
Disclosed herein are methods and assays for the detection and/or quantification of one or more proteins or substances of interest in a sample, such as a plant, human, insect, microorganism or mammalian sample.
US11740234B2
Various examples are directed to kits, apparatuses, and methods for determining a presence of Burkholderia pseudomallei (BP) in a biological sample. An example method includes causing a physical interaction between a biological sample from a subject and a set of first agents by exposing the biological sample to the set of first agents, the set of first agents being specific to one or more of a set of BP biomarkers associated with one or more proteins released from BP or associated with other molecules released from BP. The method further includes determining a presence of BP in the biological sample based on detected binding between one or more of the set of first agents and the one or more of the set of BP biomarkers.
US11740232B2
The present invention relates to antigen arrays and methods for the detection of immunoglobulins specific for any one of the antigens of the array in a biological sample. Specifically, the present invention relates to antigen arrays comprising groups of antigen-coated beads fixed on a solid support. Further encompassed herein are cartridges, kits and an apparatus comprising the antigen array and methods of using same.
US11740222B2
A magnetic head for a magnetic detector for detecting metal particles in a hydraulic circuit includes an axial body internally including at least one magnet, at least a first electrode defining an air gap zone located in the magnetic field created by the magnet, such that the circuit creates a particle alignment zone in the air gap, and an electrical connector for electrically connecting the electrodes. The magnet can be a diametrically magnetized magnet.
US11740219B2
A method of analyzing phenylhydrazine content in a 3-methyl-1-phenyl-2-pyrazolin-5-one active pharmaceutical ingredient includes obtaining a first measured value by measuring a phenylhydrazine content of a standard solution including phenylhydrazine or a salt thereof, a first acidic water and a first water-soluble organic solvent and having a phenylhydrazine concentration of 0.01 μg/mL to 10 μg/mL, obtaining a second measured value by measuring a phenylhydrazine content in a sample solution including a 3-methyl-1-phenyl-2-pyrazolin-5-one active pharmaceutical ingredient, a second acidic water and a second water-soluble organic solvent, and detecting a phenylhydrazine content in a 3-methyl-1-phenyl-2-pyrazolin-5-one active pharmaceutical ingredient based on the first measured value and second measured value. The first acidic water is hydrochloric acid, and/or an aqueous acetic acid solution, the first water-soluble organic solvent is acetonitrile and/or methanol, the second acidic water is hydrochloric acid, and/or an aqueous acetic acid solution, and the second water-soluble organic solvent is acetonitrile and/or methanol.
US11740211B2
The present disclosure discusses a method of separating a sample (e.g., small organic acid metabolite) including coating a flow path of a chromatographic system. The coating along the flow path is vapor deposited and prevents or severely decreases metal interactions between the metallic chromatographic system and the sample.
US11740210B2
Disclosed is a chromatography system (100) comprising: plural modules (1-25) including at least one pump and a column valve unit (8) connectable to plural chromatography columns; and a controller (600), the controller being operable to control the or each pump and the column valve to perform different chromatographic processes, including chromatography employing just one column, as well as chromatography employing two or more columns by selective valve opening in said unit. The system includes a housing (110) into which the plural modules (1-25) are interchangeably mountable in apertures of one generally vertical face of housing, the modules are adapted for selective fluidic interconnection by tubing substantially at said one face such that in use the modules and tubing occupy a generally vertically extending volume to minimize the footprint of the system.
US11740202B2
The presence of biomarkers or other analytes can be detected in the bodily fluid using Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) or Electrochemical Capacitance Spectroscopy (ECS) in devices, such as handheld point-of-care devices. The devices, as well as systems and methods, utilize using Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) or Electrochemical Capacitance Spectroscopy (EIS) in combination with an antibody or other target-capturing molecule on a working electrode. Imaginary impedance or phase shift, as well as background subtraction, also may be utilized.
US11740199B2
A gas sensing device includes chemoresistive gas sensing elements, wherein a material composition of a first chemoresistive gas sensing element is similar to a material composition of a second chemoresistive gas sensing element, wherein the first chemoresistive gas sensing element is exposed to an ambient mixture of gases so that first sensing signals depend on a concentration of a first gas and on a concentration of a second gas, wherein the gas sensing device includes a gas filter so that the second sensing signals depend on the concentration of the first gas to a lesser degree than the first sensor signals and so that the second sensing signals depend on the concentration of the second gas, and wherein the gas sensing device estimates the concentration of the first gas and/or the concentration of the second gas based on the first sensing signals and the second sensing signals.
US11740198B2
[Object] To provide a formaldehyde detecting sensor capable of constantly monitoring formaldehyde selectively and with high accuracy. [Solving Means] A formaldehyde detecting sensor according to the present invention includes: a reaction portion that contains at least a hydroxylamine salt and reacts with formaldehyde to generate an acid; and a response unit that includes an electrode carrying a carbon material, an electrical resistance value of the carbon material varying depending on the acid generated in the reaction portion, in which the hydroxylamine salt and the carbon material are separated from each other.
US11740192B2
A system and method for design and operation an acoustically driven ferromagnetic resonance (ADFMR) based sensor for measuring electromagnetic fields that includes: a power source providing an electrical signal to an ADFMR circuit, sensitive to electromagnetic fields, wherein the ADFMR circuit comprises an ADFMR device. The system detect and measure external electromagnetic (EM) fields by measuring a perturbation of the electrical signal through the ADFMR circuit due to the EM fields. The system and method may function to facilitate the design and operation of a chip-scale ADFMR device usable to measure EM fields.
US11740189B2
A method of defining at least one scan parameter for an x-ray scan of a single crystal structure, the method comprising: determining a target orientation of the structure for the scan; and defining different non-zero levels of x-ray exposure for different parts of a scan area based on either or both of the target orientation and characteristics of the structure; and, defining the scan area so that substantially all x-rays of the scan are directed to the structure in the target orientation.
US11740177B2
A point of use analyte detection and quantification system for aquatic applications is provided. Related methods are also provided.
US11740173B2
Systems for detecting, capturing, and/or measuring nanoparticles. The system may include a first vacuum chamber, where nanoparticles are formed inside a first cavity of the first vacuum. The system may also include a second vacuum chamber in fluid communication with the first vacuum chamber, a particle collection component positioned within a second cavity of the second vacuum chamber, and a particle collection medium disposed over the particle collection component. Additionally, the system may include a particle counter in fluid communication with the second vacuum chamber, and a control system operably coupled to the component. The control system may be configured to aerosolize the nanoparticles by adjusting a temperature of the component to a first temperature that establishes the medium in the solid phase, and adjusting the temperature of the component to a second temperature to transition the medium from the solid phase to a gaseous phase.
US11740171B2
An open-ended hollow coaxial cable resonator probe configured to receive an aerosol sample for analysis. A metal post shorts the resonator's inner and outer conductors. A metal plate is spaced apart from an open end of the resonator by a dielectric layer that contains the received aerosol sample. Interrogator circuitry coupled to the resonator transmits an electromagnetic wave within the resonator and generates an electric field at the open end of the resonator. The interrogator circuitry is responsive to the generated electric field for determining a resonance frequency and an impedance of the resonator when the aerosol sample is present in the dielectric layer and is configured to identify virus particles in the aerosol sample as a function of the determined resonance frequency and impedance. A portable aerosol analyzer comprises the open-ended hollow coaxial cable resonator and a mouthpiece through which a subject expels a breath sample into the open end of the resonator. Antibodies tethered to high-permittivity nanoparticles attach to pathogens selectively, resulting in enhanced sensing with molecular-level specificity.
US11740162B2
The present disclosure relates to a gel-phase patch that performs a function of assisting in staining during a staining process such as a process of coming into contact with a specimen such as blood to perform a staining function of staining the specimen, a process of fixing the specimen, or a process of forming an optimal pH at a specimen stained by a staining sample. According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a contact-type staining patch includes a staining solution that reacts with a specimen and a gel receptor provided as a gel matrix of a mesh structure in which a pore that accommodates the staining solution is formed and the mesh structure prevents the staining solution in the pore from leaking or degenerating, and having a contact surface that comes into contact with the specimen to transfer some of the staining solution to the specimen.
US11740160B2
An equipment monitoring system includes an unmanned vehicle, an alarm circuit remote from the unmanned vehicle, and a vehicle control circuit remote from the unmanned vehicle. The unmanned vehicle can include a communications circuit and a flight controller. The alarm circuit detects a failure condition of a building component and outputs an indication of the failure condition. The vehicle control circuit receives the indication of the failure condition from the alarm circuit; generates, based on the indication of the failure condition, an equipment verification signal that includes an identifier of the building component, a position of the building component, and a test of the building component to be executed; and transmits the equipment verification signal to the flight controller of the unmanned vehicle via the communications circuit of the unmanned vehicle to cause the unmanned vehicle to execute the test of the building component.
US11740156B1
A dimming tester station for testing an optical object, the optical object disposed along an axis represented by a central axis of the optical object, the dimming tester station including a motion stage for supporting the optical object, wherein the optical object is disposed between at least one camera with an entrance pupil of the at least one camera disposed in a first plane and a light emitting panel configured to emit light through a front surface disposed in a second plane, the central axis is substantially perpendicular to the first plane and the second plane, the entrance pupil of the at least one camera is disposed in an orientation facing at least a portion of the front surface, the motion stage is configured to be adjustable such that the location of the optical object from each of the first plane and the second plane is alterable.
US11740153B2
A method and an apparatus for detecting a defect in a sealed container are provided. The method includes: placing the sealed container in a pressure chamber; filling the chamber with a liquid that is saturated by a test gas such that the sealed container is fully submerged; subjecting the chamber to a pressurized volume of a gaseous mixture that includes the test gas, and then removing the sealed container from the chamber; performing a laser-based headspace analysis of the sealed container in order to measure a partial pressure of the test gas; and using a result thereof to determine whether the sealed container has the defect. The defect may be located on a body of the sealed container that is at or below a level of a product that is contained within the sealed container.
US11740150B2
In an electrostatic capacity sensor 1, first electrodes 11a to 11d are provided on a substrate 10, and an electrode support 14 has dielectric properties and elasticity and is fixed to the substrate 10. A second electrode 12 is provided in the electrode support 14 so as to face the first electrodes 11a to 11d with a distance from the first electrodes 11a to 11d. The electrostatic capacity sensor has improved durability.
US11740149B2
The measuring device comprises a sensor element with an electrical transducer for providing a primary signal dependent on the measured variable and a sensor body with a flat surface portion. The measuring device also includes a measurement and operation circuit for driving the transducer and processing the primary signals. The measurement and operation circuit comprises at least one carrier, a plurality of circuit components including at least one integrated circuit, and passive components. The carrier comprises an electrically insulating carrier body and conductor paths which extend in the carrier body or on its surface. The integrated circuit and the passive component are arranged on the carrier body surface and contacted by the conductor paths. The carrier body is fixed to the surface portion, and the transducer is electrically connected to circuit components of the measurement and operation circuit via conductor paths, the components being encapsulated with a molding compound.
US11740137B2
An integrated circuit that controls distributed temperature sensors in a semiconductor die is described. This integrated circuit may include: memory; a controller (such as a PTAT controller) coupled to the memory; temperature sensors distributed at measurement locations in the semiconductor die (such as remote locations from the controller), where a given temperature sensor includes building blocks (or components) that are common to the temperature sensors; and routing between the controller and the building blocks over an addressable bus, where signal lines for analog signals in the addressable bus are reused when communicating between the controller and different temperature sensors.
US11740132B2
A processing system of a mobile device acquires an image of an object of a target color, wherein the image was captured by an integrated digital camera of the mobile device, calculates a first plurality of values that describes the target color, and wherein the calculating is based on an analysis of a pixel of the image, and identifies a first candidate color from among a plurality of candidate colors, wherein each candidate color in the plurality of candidate colors is associated with a second set of values that describes the each candidate color, and wherein the second set of values describing the first candidate color matches the first set of values more closely than any second set of values associated with another candidate color of the plurality of candidate colors.
US11740127B2
A method for measuring a property of radiation from different sources such as moving particles or different spatial locations on each particle includes providing a spatial modulator common to all of the sources having a sequence of configurations, each of which configurations causes the radiation flux to pass along paths to respective modulation ports and cycling the common spatial modulator past each of the modulation ports so that the sequence of configurations is applied to each modulation port. The sequence of configurations comprises an ordered array of optical elements on a substrate. In one embodiment, the modulator is arranged in a circle around an axis of rotation of a rotating singulation disk. At least one source is a reference source which has not interacted with the source to be analyzed and the sample and reference sources are compared.
US11740125B2
The present disclosure generally pertains to an imaging apparatus for computed tomography imaging spectroscopy, which has circuitry configured to: obtain object image data being representative of light stemming from an object and being subject to an optical path and to a multiplexing process caused by a diffraction grating; and perform a spectral density reconstruction from an image of the object by inputting the obtained object image data into an spectral density reconstruction algorithm being configured to numerically solve a first equation describing the transformation of the light stemming from the object caused by the optical path into the object image based on a reduction of a dimensionality of a first function indicative of the optical path based on a symmetry of the first function, thereby reconstructing the spectral density of the object.
US11740121B2
A weight checker includes a transport unit, a weighing unit, a body, and a frame. The transport unit transports products under inspection. The weighing unit determines the weights of the products under inspection on the transport unit. The body has a screen relating to the weighing performed by the weighing unit. The frame anchors the transport unit and the weighing unit. The frame has rail members that extend in a transport direction of the transport unit. The body is independent of the transport unit and the weighing unit and is mounted to the rail members such that its position in the transport direction TD can be changed.
US11740118B2
Provided are systems and methods for line volume calibration, and measurement of fluid samples delivered to an interrogation point. In various embodiments, a known fluid volume comprising a sample line fluid and a secondary fluid is delivered to a fluid boundary sensor. The fluid boundary sensor assists in determining the position of the boundaries between the various fluids, and the positions of these boundaries are used to determine the sample line fluid volume.
US11740115B2
A measuring device for measuring flow velocity includes a measuring tube, a measuring transducer for registering a measured variable and outputting a first measured value representing the measured variable, a temperature sensor, and an electronic measuring/operating circuit. The temperature sensor has a sensor element and electrically conductive leads. Each lead is connected with the sensor element and has a first section following on the connection location. The sensor element has a maximum periphery. The first section has a separation of less than 5% of a measuring tube radius from a measuring tube wall, wherein a length of each lead in the first section is at least 25% of the maximum periphery. The leads are guided in their first section at least in certain regions along the maximum periphery, and in their first section are in certain regions in thermal contact with the measuring tube.
US11740109B2
An air data system with a digital interface includes least one air data component, a receiving system and at least one digital connection. The at least one digital connection is between the receiving system and the air data component. A method for transmitting data in an air data system with a digital interface includes measuring at least one air data parameter with at least one air data component. The method includes generating a digital signal representative of the at least one air data parameter with the at least one air data component, sending the digital signal to a receiving system, and processing the at least one air data parameter with the receiving system.
US11740105B2
A sensor device for measuring a rotational position of an element that is rotatable about an axis of rotation includes a sender member emitting a magnetic field, a first receiving member formed by a first conductor and receiving the magnetic field, and a second receiving member formed by a second conductor and receiving the magnetic field. The first receiving member and the second receiving member are arranged within an annular ring segment having a period along a circumferential direction about the axis of rotation. The first conductor and the second conductor each define a plurality of loops. A shape of each of the loops follows in the circumferential direction a base function with half the period, the shape of only some of the loops deviates from the base function by a correction function.
US11740103B2
A map creation device includes a processor, and the processor is configured to execute a program to acquire an image captured by a camera mounted in a vehicle, estimate a first position indicating a position of the vehicle and an error of the first position based on information indicating a traveling state of the vehicle, estimate a second position indicating the position of the vehicle and an error of the second position based on radio waves transmitted from artificial satellites, set position information of the vehicle preferentially using one position with a smaller error of the first position and the second position, and create a map of places in which the vehicle has traveled based on the set position information of the vehicle and the image.
US11740102B2
The present disclosure discloses a method, an apparatus, a device, and a storage medium for determining a point of interest area, and relates to the field of automatic driving. The implementation solution is that the method is applied to an electronic device, and includes: receiving a point of interest area determination request input by a first user, the point of interest area determination request including a target area coverage; and acquiring grid data of at least one block within the target area coverage in response to the point of interest area determination request; acquiring, for each block, positioning data of a second user within each preset time period and number of parent points of interest; clustering corresponding grid data according to the positioning data, the grid data and the number of the parent points of interest; determining at least one POI area in each block according to a clustering result.
US11740101B2
A method for characterizing the curvature of a road section, including: selecting, from among the points of the section, the points marking a curvature of the section; computing, for each selected point of the section contained between the second and the penultimate one, an indicator of curvature of the section at this point; identifying each bend contained in the road section, each bend including a set of successive selected points of the section; and for each bend contained in the road section, comparing the indicator of curvature of at least one of the points of the bend with a predetermined threshold. If the indicator of curvature computed for at least one of the selected points of the bend exceeds the predetermined threshold, recording, in a database, a data record including at least the set of points of the bend, and an item of data characterizing the curvature of the bend.
US11740099B2
A device is provided to extract scan lines data from images of a route, said scan line data comprising only a portion of the an image that extends along a scan line, and to store this data in memory together with respective positional data pertaining to the position of the device traveling along the route in a navigable network. This scan line and positional data can be obtained from a plurality of devices in a network and transmitted to computing apparatus, for example, for use in a production of a realistic view of a digital map.
US11740097B2
A method of managing smell sensibility according to a route of a moving object includes checking a planned travel route of the moving object, determining whether a bad-smell area is included in the planned travel route, determining whether a bad-smell level of the bad-smell area is equal to or greater than an unpleasantness level of a user of the moving object when the bad-smell area is included, and performing a suppression process for blocking introduction of a bad smell into the moving object when the bad-smell level is equal to or greater than the unpleasantness level of the user and maintaining the planned travel route when the bad-smell level is less than the unpleasantness level of the user.
US11740096B2
In some embodiments, an electronic device displays suggested routes based on the characteristics of respective vehicles. In some embodiments, an electronic device receives data for respective vehicles from a source external to the electronic device. In some embodiments, an electronic device anonymizes a vehicle identifier and determines customized suggested routes using the anonymized vehicle identifier.
US11740092B2
An apparatus carried by an individual for aiding in directing the individual to a location of a starting point for a path of travel by the individual includes a sensor for determining the individual's initial orientation at the starting point and subsequent changes of orientations during the travel; a processor coupled to the sensor for assigning one of four orthogonal (Erections to each of the orientations as experienced by the individual; a memory coupled to the processor for saving at least the orthogonal orientation of the initial orientation and the last experienced orientation; and a display for presenting at least the last experienced orientation to permit the individual to subsequently reorient himself in the direct of the original orientation. The apparatus has particular utility for firefighters to assist in orienting themselves with respect to an initial point of reference (POR) when inside a active firefighting location.
US11740087B2
A micro vibration body includes a curved surface portion, a recessed portion recessed from the curved surface portion, a bottom surface protruding portion protruding from a bottom surface of the recessed portion, and a through hole in the bottom surface protruding portion. A mounting substrate has a positioning recess, into which the bottom surface protruding portion is inserted, and electrode portions surrounding the inner frame portion. A joining member is in the positioning recess and joins the bottom surface protruding portion with the mounting substrate. The bottom surface is in contact with a region of the mounting substrate around the positioning recess. The bottom surface protruding portion has a tip end surface that is at a distance from the positioning recess. The joining member at least partially enters the through hole and is electrically connected to the conductive layer.
US11740086B2
One aspect of the invention relates to a fully automatic method for calculating the current, geo-referenced position and alignment of a terrestrial scan-surveying device in situ on the basis of a current panoramic image recorded by the surveying device and at least one stored, geo-referenced 3D scan panoramic image.
US11740085B2
Disclosed is a method and device suitable for detection of and warning against tsunamis. The device is located in the water at sea. The device includes a vessel, a sensor for measuring a physical quantity of the surrounding water, a control unit inside the vessel and operatively connected to the sensor, and a communication element including a transmitter for communicating with an external receiver that the predetermined condition relating to the physical quantity is fulfilled. The device further includes a ballast tank inside the vessel. The interior of the ballast tank is connected to the outside of the vessel. A pump pumps water from the ballast tank to outside the vessel. The overall density of the device exceeds the density of the surrounding water when the ballast tank is filled, and is less than the density of the surrounding water when the ballast tank is empty of water.
US11740073B2
A method of measuring a critical dimension (CD) includes forming a plurality of patterns in a substrate, creating first to n-th images, where n is a natural number greater than 1, for first to n-th areas in the substrate, respectively, where the first to n-th areas do not overlap with each other, where each of the first to n-th areas comprising at least some of the plurality of patterns, creating a merged image for the first to n-th images, and measuring a CD for a measurement object from the plurality of patterns using the merged image. The merged image has a higher resolution than each of the first to n-th images.
US11740059B2
A target launching machine for skeet shooting including a launching device, an accumulator device, a triggering device capable of loading the accumulator device and of releasing it to project the target and a preloader device capable of adjusting a preload of the accumulator device, wherein the preloader device includes a linear actuator and flexible transmission member connecting the linear actuator to the accumulator device.
US11740056B2
The disclosure provides a ballistic helmet and a method of assembling a ballistic helmet that includes a helmet shell and a harness connected to the helmet shell. The helmet shell includes a front portion and a rear portion. The harness includes a nape pad, a tensioner disposed on the nape pad, a plurality of securement straps, and a tension cable. The plurality of securement straps are connected to the nape pad and are configured to fasten to the rear portion of the helmet shell. The tension cable is selectively adjustable by the tensioner and is configured to fasten to the front portion of the helmet shell.
US11740054B2
A method to aim an arrow at a target, where the method includes providing a bow, an arc track attached to the bow via a mount assembly, a front sight disposed on a distal end of a sight line support and a rear sight disposed on a proximal end of the sight line support, the method further including sliding the sight line support upwardly or downwardly along the arc track until a target is visibly aligned with both the front sight and the rear sight where as sight line support slides upwardly, the sight line support rotates clockwise and as sight line support 103 slides downwardly, the sight line support rotates counterclockwise.
US11740050B2
A rifle stock has a frame, a body having a butt pad connected to the frame and operable to move within a range of length of pull positions, the frame defining a plurality of pockets, each associated with a different length of pull position, the body defining a latch passage, a latch having a nose, the latch received in the latch passage and movable between a retracted position in which the nose is clear of the pockets and movement of the body is enabled for adjusting, and an extended position in which the nose is received in a selected one of the pockets, a release lever pivotally connected to the frame and operably connected to the latch, and the release lever movable between an operating position in which the latch is in the extended position, and an adjustment position in which the latch is in the retracted position.
US11740031B1
Disclosed are thermal energy storage systems and methods that utilize metal carbonate eutectics that can undergo high temperature reversible reactions to form mixtures of metal oxides. The metal oxides undergo an exothermic reaction with carbon dioxide to form the molten metal carbonate eutectics, and the molten metal carbonate eutectics undergo an endothermic decarbonization reaction to form the metal oxides and carbon dioxide. By carrying out the reversible reactions at a temperature above the melting point of the carbonate eutectic, the systems provide high thermal conductivity and reversible stability for thermal energy storage.
US11740019B2
Provided is a loading tray assembly for housing a lyophilization container and a related system and method. The loading tray assembly includes a chassis including a contact void configured to facilitate direct contact between the attached lyophilization container and a lyophilizer shelf. The method includes securing a multi-part lyophilization container including a peelable seal on a lyophilization loading tray assembly, inputting a liquid into a non-breathable section of the lyophilization container, loading the tray assembly into a lyophilizer, freezing the liquid, applying heat energy and a vacuum, the vacuum causing an opening of the peelable seal and occluding the lyophilization container to isolate the frozen liquid.
US11740012B2
A refrigerator shelving system includes an upper shelf, suspenders, rails, and a lower shelf. The upper shelf has nests disposed along a bottom side of the upper shelf. The suspenders are rotatably secured to the upper shelf. The rails are suspended from the upper shelf via the suspenders. The lower shelf is slidably secured to the rails and has bosses extending laterally outward therefrom. Each of the bosses are configured to engage one of the nests to maintain the lower shelf in a stowed position. The lower shelf is configured to slide forward from the stowed position to an intermediate position via the rails to disengage the bosses from the nests. The lower shelf is configured to rotate downward and rearward via the suspenders to transition from the intermediate position to an operational position.
US11740011B2
The invention concerns a method for preparing a cold beverage with an apparatus (1) for mixing and storing a beverage, said apparatus comprising: —a container body (2), comprising a floor (21) and a sidewall (22) extending upwardly and longitudinally from the floor to an upper edge (221), —a removable and rotatable mixing device (23) positioned within the container body, —a motor (3) cooperating with the mixing device (23) through the floor of the container body in order to rotate the mixing device, wherein the method comprises the step of: —providing a mixing device (23), a part of said mixing device being covered with ice, —positioning said mixing device in the container body (2) in order to cooperate with the motor, —introducing at least one beverage liquid in the container body, —actuating the motor (3) to rotate the mixing device in the at least one beverage liquid.
US11740006B2
A latching assembly for a refrigerator appliance having inner and outer doors includes a catch and a latch. The latch is operable to engage the catch. As a result of such engagement, the inner and outer doors are latched together when the latch is engaged with the catch. The latching assembly also includes a trigger connected to the latch. The trigger is movable within a plane perpendicular to the vertical direction from a first position to a secondary position. The latch moves within the plane perpendicular to the vertical direction when the trigger moves to the secondary position. As a result, the latch is disengaged from the catch by moving the trigger within the plane perpendicular to the vertical direction to the secondary position.
US11739996B2
A system for controlling or optimizing the performance of a vapor compression system by modifying the actuator commands via an output interface, that realizes thermofluid property functions and their derivatives as spline functions which are represented in a coordinate system that is aligned with a fluid saturation curve. The system includes an interface configured to receive measurement data from sensors, a memory configured to store thermofluid property data and computer-executable programs including a B-spline method, and a processor for performing the computer-implemented method. The processor is configured to take as input two thermofluid property variables, and compute a coordinate transformation in which one axis of the coordinates is aligned with the liquid and vapor saturation curves. In the saturation-curve aligned coordinates, a spline function represents the thermofluid property function, with coefficients and knots stored in memory. The spline function is constructed in a manner such that derivatives of the thermofluid property function may be discontinuous across the saturation curve.
US11739995B2
A refrigeration cycle device includes a heat source, a first use unit, a second use unit, a first connection flow path, and a second connection flow path. The heat source has a compressor and a heat-source side heat exchanger. The first use unit is separated from the heat source unit and has a first use-side heat exchanger. The second use unit is separated from the heat source unit and has a second use-side heat exchanger. The first connection flow path connects the heat source unit to the first and the second use units and causes a first refrigerant to flow. The second connection flow path connects the heat source unit to the first and the second use units and causes a second refrigerant to flow. A specific enthalpy of the second refrigerant is smaller than a specific enthalpy of the first refrigerant.
US11739992B2
The air conditioning system with solar-powered subcooling system includes a main cooling system having an evaporator, a compressor, a condenser, and an expansion valve configured to operate in a conventional vapor compression refrigerant cycle. The subcooling system includes a compressor, a condenser, and an expansion valve, the compressor being powered by at least one rechargeable battery connected to a photovoltaic solar panel. The main system and the subcooling system are linked by a heat exchanger having a primary coil in the main system between the condenser and the expansion valve and a secondary coil in the subcooling system disposed between the expansion valve and the compressor. The main system and the subcooling system may use the same type of refrigerant, or different refrigerant types. The additional cooling provided to the refrigerant in the main system by subcooling increases the efficiency of the air conditioning system.
US11739985B2
The present invention provides a solar absorber incorporated bilayer foam solar evaporator for seawater and wastewater purification including a plurality of solar absorbers partially incorporated into a porous polymer framework and partially forming a thermal insulation layer proximal to solar irradiation. In particular, low-cost commercially available B4C powders are embedded into a porous polymer foam in a one-pot method to form a scaffold of boron carbide bilayer foam (BCBF) with good hydrophilic wettability, heat-shielding, and solar-thermal conversion. The boron carbide bilayer foam (BCBF) of the present invention enables a high cost-performance seawater desalination and wastewater purification at a high evaporation rate of 2.8 kg/m2/h with 93% solar evaporation efficiency under 1 sun illumination (or 1 kW/m2). The present invention thereby provides an excellent and cost-effective solar evaporator tool for industrial-level water purification. Following the present method to prepare the BCBF solar evaporator, the fabrication cost can be as low as 3.6 $/m2.
US11739983B1
A method is provided for controlling combustion in a modulating gas furnace. The method includes receiving an indication of a firing rate setpoint for a burner assembly, and applying the firing rate setpoint to first and second continuous functions that map the firing rate setpoint to air-to-fuel ratio and combustion system pressure setpoints. A variable-speed draft inducer blower is set to drive to a combustion system pressure setpoint, and the modulating gas valve is controlled during combustion in the combustion system. In this regard, a combustion system pressure measurement is obtained and applied to an inverse of the first continuous function that outputs an adjusted firing rate for the combustion system pressure measurement. The adjusted firing rate is applied to a third continuous function that maps the firing rate to gas valve position, and outputs a gas valve position to which the modulating gas valve is set.
US11739978B2
An intake hood system for a heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) unit includes an intake hood having an inlet configured to receive an air flow into the intake hood, a first support configured to engage a first end of an air filter, and a second support configured to engage a second end of the air filter, where the first support is configured to align with a boundary of the inlet. The intake hood system also includes a lock bar configured to couple to the intake hood while abutting the first support and the second support to secure the air filter within the intake hood.
US11739976B2
An air conditioner includes a discharge blade configured to move between a guide position at which a direction of air blown from a blower fan and discharged to an outlet is controlled, and a closing position at which the outlet is closed, wherein the discharge blade includes a plurality of blade holes through which the air is discharged through the discharge blade at the closing position, wherein the discharge blade moves between the guide position and the closing position and controls an air flow from the blower fan to a discharge plate or the outlet. Through this configuration, an air flow discharged to the outside of the housing can be controlled by operation of the discharge blade.
US11739967B1
A system generates performance data, including supply air temperature and supply air dew point temperature, of an air conditioning device when provided with parameters of the air conditioning device, such as specifications of individual components of the air conditioning device. The system automatically modulates operating parameters for the simulated air conditioning device in order to achieve set point conditions and subsequently provides suggested operating parameters for the air conditioning device to enable the air conditioning device to achieve a set point temperature, a set point relative humidity, and/or a set point dew point temperature at one or more part-load conditions. In one embodiment, the system automatically calibrates the air conditioning device to operate the device to achieve user-defined setpoints.
US11739956B2
An air conditioning apparatus is provided that may include an outdoor unit including a compressor and an outdoor heat exchanger and through which a refrigerant is circulated, an indoor unit through which a fluid, such as water is circulated, and at least one heat exchange device including a heat exchanger in which the refrigerant and the fluid are heat-exchanged with each other. The at least one heat exchange device may include a high-pressure guide tube that extends from a high-pressure gas tube of the outdoor unit so as to be connected to a first side of the heat exchanger, a low-pressure guide tube that extends from a low-pressure gas tube of the outdoor unit so as to be combined with the high-pressure guide tube, a liquid guide tube that extends from a liquid tube of the outdoor unit so as to be connected to a second side of the heat exchanger, and a solenoid valve installed in the high-pressure guide tube or the low-pressure guide tube to perform an opening and closing operation so as to allow the refrigerant to flow in a first direction. The high-pressure gas tube and the low-pressure gas tube may be connected to each other by a single gas tube, and when the indoor unit performs a cooling operation or a heating operation, flow of refrigerant in the first direction may be blocked in a state in which power is applied to the solenoid valve.
US11739954B2
A window air conditioner includes a casing including a receiving groove formed at an outer peripheral wall of the casing. The receiving groove has an open top, an open left side, and an open right side. The casing is divided into an indoor part and an outdoor part by the receiving groove. The window air conditioner further includes an indoor heat exchanger and an indoor fan arranged in the indoor part, and an outdoor heat exchanger and an outdoor fan arranged in the outdoor part.
US11739949B2
A steam generator is provided. The steam generator may include a steam chamber, a steam heater to supply heat into the steam chamber, a water supply, through which water to generate steam may be supplied into the steam chamber, one or more interference members disposed in the steam chamber to interfere with a flow of the water introduced through the water supply, and at least one discharge to discharge the steam generated in the steam chamber. The one or more interference members may be disposed under the at least one discharge and above the water supply.
US11739931B2
A heat exchanger (10) to provide heat exchange between fluids (24, 25), such as in a solar power plant (1), may include a first and second pipe connectors (13, 14), and a pipe bundle (17) extending between the first and second pipe connectors, with pipes (17a-17n) of the pipe bundle configured to guide a second fluid (25). The pipe bundle may be connected to the first and second pipe connectors at pipe connection points (16) so the inside of the pipes (17a-17n) is in fluid communication with cavities (15) of those connectors. The pipes may be arranged adjacent each other and extending together between the pipe connectors in a meandering manner providing a plurality of crests (20a, 20b) on the pipes between the pipe connectors, so that crests of the pipes are arranged to extend into recesses provided by one or more crests on other pipes of the pipe bundle.
US11739926B1
The invention provides a lamp that includes a power connection part and an illumination part. The power connection part includes a transparent casing, a wire component and a power supply component, where a mounting channel is formed in the transparent casing and includes a first end part and a second end part communicating with the first end part; the first end part and the second end part both penetrate through the transparent casing; and the wire component is inserted in the mounting channel, an accommodating space is arranged in the wire component, the power supply component is arranged in the accommodating space, and a port penetrating through the second end part of the transparent casing is located in the accommodating space. The illumination part comprises a heat dissipation base and a light-emitting component, where the wire component is fixed on the heat dissipation base, the heat dissipation base is mounted on the transparent casing, and a mounting space is formed between the heat dissipation base and the transparent casing; the light-emitting component is embedded on the heat dissipation base, located in the mounting space and outside the wire component, and is electrically connected with the power supply component; and light emitted by the light-emitting component is emitted to the outside of the lamp through the transparent casing, so that a lamp post of the lamp cannot be seen.
US11739921B2
A modular lighting device may mounted into architectural finished surfaces such as ceilings, walls and floors. The device comprising an adjustable mounting mechanism that allows the lighting device to be fitted to various sized openings in a surface. One version of the modular lighting device includes a plate for receiving a lamp fitting, three mounting brackets, and a locking ring for restraining the mounting brackets to the plate, wherein the modular lightning device is configured such that it can be fitted to different sized openings via radial adjustment of the mounting brackets.
US11739920B2
A light clamp apparatus includes a clamp configured to affix the light clamp apparatus to an object. The light clamp apparatus also includes a light assembly configured to removably attach to the clamp at least at two different positions on the clamp, the light assembly including a magnet, whereby the light assembly is removably attachable to a surface comprising a ferromagnetic metal. The clamp includes a slide bar comprising a first end and a second end, a first jaw coupled to the first end, and a body slidably receiving the slide bar having a second jaw opposing the first jaw. The clamp further includes a drive assembly for moving the slide bar in a first direction.
US11739916B2
A lighting apparatus includes a fixing unit, a lamp body, a base housing and multiple elastic units. The fixing unit has a central hole. The lamp body includes an inner semi-sphere housing, a rotation shaft and a light source. The base housing includes an external semi-sphere housing and a rotation connector. The rotation shaft is coupled to the rotation connector for the lamp body to rotate with respect to the base housing along a first rotation axis of the rotation shaft. The multiple elastic units are attached to the base housing. The multiple elastic units are elastically attached to the central hole for the base housing to rotate with respect to the fixing unit along a second axis. There is a tilt angle between the first rotation axis and the second rotation axis.
US11739914B2
The present disclosure provides a photography lamp. The photography lamp includes a housing, an ejector rod, and a bracket. The housing includes a front housing and a mid-frame, an accessory slot is arranged on a side of the front housing, the bracket is arranged on another side of the front housing away from the accessory slot and slidably connected to the front housing; the bracket includes a connecting rod and a pushing rod connected at an included angle. The space occupied by the bracket is reduced, and the structure of the photography lamp is more compact and smaller.
US11739911B1
A projection device includes a first projection assembly. The first projection assembly includes a first light source assembly, a first lens, a driving device, and a light-transmitting lampshade. The first light source assembly includes a first light source configured to generate projection light. The first lens is arranged on a light path of the first light source. A plurality of first irregular plano-convex lenses are arranged on a light exit side of the first lens. The driving device is connected to the first lens. The driving device is configured to drive the first lens to rotate. The light-transmitting lampshade is arranged on the light path of the first light source and is arranged behind the first lens. The projection light generated by the first light source sequentially passes through the first lens and the light-transmitting lampshade and emits externally.
US11739907B2
The present invention relates to a light emitting device comprising one or more LED light sources and one or more diffusely transmissive covers. The one or more diffusely transmissive covers extend over the one or more LED light sources to form one or more combinations of an LED light source and a diffusely transmissive cover. For each combination of an LED light source and a diffusely transmissive cover (i) the diffusely transmissive cover is dome-shaped with a vertical cross-section having a closed convex shape and a horizontal cross-section having a polygonal shape, (ii) the diffusely transmissive cover has a width (w) projected in a horizontal plane parallel to a bottom of the diffusely transmissive cover, (iii) the LED light source has a distance (d) to any neighboring LED light source. The width (w) and the distance (d) are perpendicular to each other, and the ratio of the width (w) and the distance (d) is constant.
US11739906B2
A vehicle lamp module, a vehicle lamp and a vehicle. The vehicle lamp module comprises a circuit board, at least one reflector and light shields in one-to-one correspondence with the reflectors. Each of the light shields comprises a plurality of light shield positioning plugs, and the circuit board comprises light shield positioning sockets corresponding to the light shield positioning plugs, thereby realizing direct positioning of the light shields and the circuit board. The light shields and the reflector are respectively and directly positioned with the circuit board, such that accurate and good positioning among vehicle lamp optical element systems consisting of the circuit board, the light shields and the reflectors is realized, and position errors caused by indirect positioning among optical elements due to the fact that a radiator is used as a positioning piece are avoided, ensuring light form effect, and improving the module performance.
US11739900B1
A vehicle lamp having a switching structure for low-beam and high-beam headlights is provided. The vehicle lamp includes a heat dissipating device, an LED light source, an electromagnet, a reflector, a lens unit, a light-shaping plate, a driving rod, and an adjustment rod. The LED light source and the electromagnet are disposed on the heat dissipating device, and the light-shaping plate is rotatably disposed above the electromagnet. The driving rod is disposed between the electromagnet and the light-shaping plate. The electromagnet drives the driving rod to synchronously drive the light-shaping plate to be moved to a first position or a second position. The adjustment rod is disposed on the heat dissipating device, one end of the adjustment rod abuts against the light-shaping plate, and another end of the adjustment rod is exposed from the heat dissipating device.
US11739898B2
An optical article for illuminating building interiors including a reflective grid panel, an LED light source positioned above the reflective grid panel and configured to illuminate the reflective grid panel at incidence angles ranging from a minimum angle of 0° to a maximum angle of at least 45°, a light diffusing sheet of an optically transmissive dielectric material approximately coextensive with and oriented generally parallel to the reflective grid panel, and a pair of reflective side walls flanking a space between the reflective grid panel and the light diffusing sheet. The reflective grid panel incorporates a plurality of parallel longitudinal walls and a plurality of parallel transverse walls joining the walls and defining a plurality of rectangular openings configured to transmit light. Each of the parallel transverse walls extends transversely with respect to a plane of the reflective panel and is configured to diffusely reflect a portion of the light being transmitted through the plurality of rectangular openings.
US11739884B2
The present disclosure relates to a light-emitting diode, LED, filament (110). According to an embodiment, the LED filament comprises an elongated substrate (111) and a plurality of light-emitting diodes, LEDs, (112) which are mechanically coupled to the substrate. According to an embodiment, the LED filament further comprises an at least in part light-transmissive encapsulation (114) which encapsulate the plurality of LEDs and at least partially encapsulates the substrate, and a plurality of at least partially light-reflective particles (115) which are arranged on an outer surface of the encapsulation.
US11739880B2
A concentric, multi-layer laminated wrap for protection of plastic pipes including up to 60-minute fire endurance, low flame spread, low smoke, and toxic products of combustion. The laminated wrap can withstand temperatures up to 2000° F. for up to a period of 60 minutes. The concentric laminated wrap includes an inner support layer that provides strength, an intermediate fire protective coating layer that provides fire, heat, and high temperature protection, and an outer top coating layer that provides resistance to abrasion, impact, and environmental factors including water, salt water, hydrocarbons, chemicals, and gases. The protection to plastic pipes and pipe appliances is provided by the fire protective coating layer that is applied directly to the pipe or as a layer in the laminated wrap around the pipe. The present invention is disclosed for fire, heat, and high temperature protection of pipes, including linear pipes and pipe appliances such as flanges, couplings, valves, joints, tees, and bends.
US11739876B2
A method of creating a weld between a liner of a section of lined pipe and an electrofusion fitting. The fitting comprises at least one heating element, which is suitably disposed on or in an outer surface of the electrofusion fitting and is electrically isolated from an inner surface of the fitting. The method comprises locating an end of the electrofusion fitting within an end of the section of lined pipe, locating an induction coil within a bore of the electrofusion fitting in the vicinity of the at least one heating element, and supplying electrical power to the induction coil to energise the at least one heating element by electromagnetic induction.
US11739859B2
In a valve actuating device (1), a bi-stable mechanism (13), by which an auxiliary valve (7) of a pressure-actuatable main valve (2) can be controlled, is set up in such a way that at least one stop point for an open position of the main valve (2) can be adjusted by a rotational movement of a valve element (10) in order to adjust a manual operating element (11) for the auxiliary valve (7).
US11739851B2
A diverter valve for an appliance having water containing filamentous materials such as hair or string provides a low turbulence conduit (48) interconnecting an inlet (18) and multiple outlets (22a) reducing dead space and opportunities for filamentous materials to catch or collect. The conduit may be contained in a rotating spool (40) within a watertight housing (34) allowing simplified gasketing augmented by an ability to turn on and off waterflow separately, for example, with the valve or pump.
US11739847B2
The invention relates to a vacuum process system for an evacuable vacuum process volume, a vacuum valve, a peripheral unit having a closed-loop and open-loop control unit. The vacuum valve includes a valve seat, with a valve opening and a first sealing surface; a valve closure, with a second sealing surface and a drive unit coupled to the valve closure. The valve closure can be varied to provide different valve opening states. The closed-loop and open-loop control unit can perform multiple execution of a process cycle with control of the peripheral unit at least in part to execute a control cycle providing a deliberate variation or setting of the valve opening state by controlling the drive unit on the basis of a currently determined controlled variable for a process parameter and on the basis of a target variable and can be performed with a certain temporal relation.
US11739846B2
A device including a valve array which is adapted to allow and block a fluid flow, wherein the valve array includes: a fluid channel; a valve seating; and a closing body, for example a rotationally symmetrical or spherical closing body, which is arranged in the fluid channel. The valve array is configured to allow a fluid flow when the closing body is lifted off the valve seating, and to prevent a fluid flow when the closing body rests against the valve seating. The valve seating is formed by a valve seating body, for example an annular valve seating body, which is arranged in or on the fluid channel.
US11739845B2
An apparatus has: a first member; a shaft rotatable relative to the first member about an axis; and a seal system. The seal system has: a seal carried by the first member and having a seal face; a seal carrier; a seat carried by the shaft and having a seat face in sliding sealing engagement with the seal face; and one or more springs biasing the seal carrier relative to the first member so as to bias the seal face against the seat face. The seal carrier has: an axially-extending wall having an inner diameter (ID) surface; and a radially-extending wall having a first surface. The seal carrier axially-extending wall ID surface has a radially inwardly open groove having a first sidewall and a second sidewall and a base. A wave-form split ring contacts the first sidewall and biases the seal into engagement with the radial wall first surface.
US11739840B2
To provide a piston ring for an internal combustion engine, particularly a second compression ring, which has excellent wear resistance and can achieve both lower fuel consumption and efficient combustion. The above-described problem is solved by a piston ring (1) for an internal combustion engine formed so as to have a tapered shape by a peripheral surface (14) that gradually projects outward from a top to a bottom, and a radial cross-sectional shape of a Napier ring. The peripheral surface (14) is constituted by an outer edge end portion (14b) that has a non-tapered shape and comes into sliding contact, as a peripheral sliding surface, with a mating material, an outer peripheral tapered part (14a) formed at a predetermined taper angle (α) above the outer edge end portion (14b), a curved surface part (14c) having a diameter that gradually decreases inward from the outer edge end portion (14b) to a lower end in an axial direction, and a lower end portion (14d) forming a section of the curved surface part (14c). A distance (d2) between a position (A) of the outer edge end portion (14b) and a position (C) of the lower end portion (14d) in a ring axial direction is within a range of 0.001 mm to 0.05 mm, and a contact width (d1) of the outer edge end portion (14b) in the ring axial direction is within a range of 0.01 mm to 0.3 mm.
US11739831B2
A dial-type shifting control apparatus of vehicles may include a dial bezel and an upper cover integrated into a single body to be rotated together when a dial is rotated, obviating formation of an operation gap between the dial bezel and the upper cover to prevent foreign substances from entering through the operation gap, and a button guide disposed under an upper cover attenuates an impact occurring when a P-gear button is returned, and thus to prevent noise, caused by striking of the upper cover when the P-gear button is returned, from being transmitted to the interior of a vehicle.
US11739826B2
An insert for supplying a fluid within a drive shaft, the insert extending along an axis of rotation and comprising an insert wall having a rigid inner insert wall portion and an elastically deformable outer insert wall portion a reservoir defined by the insert wall for storing a fluid, a nozzle positioned at the first end of the insert wall, and wherein the elastically deformable outer insert wall portion is configured to move between an expanded state, when the fluid is supplied to the reservoir, and an unexpanded state, when rotation of the insert and supply of fluid to the reservoir are ceased, and movement of the elastically deformable outer insert wall portion to the unexpanded state forces the fluid to be discharged through the nozzle.
US11739824B1
In a waterproof case, a contact surface of a specific member that is a case main body or a cover is a surface extending along a predetermined oblique direction inclined relative to a perpendicular plane orthogonal to a die pull-out direction. The specific member includes a circumferential projection that projects from the contact surface in the die pull-out direction, is arranged circumferentially along the contact surface, and presses a sealing member. The circumferential projection includes an outer peripheral side surface and an inner peripheral side surface. In the first region, the circumferential projection has a tapered section in which the outer peripheral side surface is inclined relative to the die pull-out direction. In the second region, the circumferential projection has a tapered section in which the inner peripheral side surface is inclined relative to the die pull-out direction.
US11739823B2
A sprocket for engagement with a drive chain has a plurality of teeth extending radially from a periphery of the sprocket, including a first and a second group of teeth; the teeth of the first group and the second group are alternately arranged so that each tooth of the first group is followed by a tooth of the second group, and vice versa; each tooth of the first group having a first maximum width, each tooth of the second group having a second maximum width which is larger than the first maximum width; each tooth of the second group has a protrusion on at least one lateral face of the tooth; the outer lateral face of the protrusion extends over a first portion of the lateral face of each tooth of the second group, the length being 50% of the length of the respective tooth or less.
US11739822B2
A transmission with a differential locking unit which comprises an input shaft (10), first and second output shafts (11, 12), and first and second planetary gear sets (P1, P2). Torque introduced, via the input shaft (10), is converted and distributed to the two output shafts (11, 12) in a defined ratio, and development of a sum torque is prevented. The differential locking unit comprises an epicyclic gearing (P3) as well as a switching element (B 1). The epicyclic gearing (P3) has at least three connection shafts (3), a first connection shaft (WI) is rotationally fixed to a linking shaft (3), a second connection shaft (W2) is rotationally fixed to the second element (E21) of the first planetary gear set (PI), which is rotationally fixed to the first output shaft (11). A third connection shaft (W3) can be secured to a rotationally fixed component (GG) by the switching element (B 1).
US11739818B2
A powertrain for an electric vehicle includes: a planetary gear including a first rotating element, a second rotating element, and a third rotating element, where the first rotating element is connected to a first shaft, the second rotating element is connected to a second shaft, and the third rotating element is connected to a third shaft; a first motor supplying power to the first shaft at all times; and a second motor selectively supplying power to the first shaft and the second shaft. The third shaft is fixedly connected to a transmission housing, and any two shafts among the first, second and third shafts restrain each other.
US11739815B2
A gear assembly including: a drive gear adapted to be connected to an output shaft of an electric motor and being rotatable around a transmission axis; a planetary gear assembly including at least one sun gear, two or more planetary gear members rotatably supported on a carrier about respective planetary gear axes and meshing with the at least one sun gear and optionally a ring gear, an input stage connected to the drive gear, and an output stage adapted to be connected to a drive member for rotation of the drive member about the transmission axis; a clutch member adapted for slippingly connecting the ring gear with the carrier or with the drive member; and a brake member adapted for fixedly engaging a part of the planetary gear assembly with a locking part of the gear assembly.
US11739813B2
A planetary reduction gear using a helical gear is configured such that a rear-stage sun gear is rotatably supported by a device housing via a radial bearing on one side in the direction of a center axis, and is rotatably supported by a rear-stage planetary carrier via a thrust bearing on the other side. The rear-stage planetary carrier is rotatably supported by the device housing via a rear-stage carrier bearing. A preload is applied to the thrust bearing by a preload mechanism mounted to the rear-stage planetary carrier. Displacement of the rear-stage sun gear caused by a thrust force generated due to engagement with a rear-stage planetary gear can be suppressed, and an angle error between input rotation and output rotation can be suppressed.
US11739799B2
A coupling arrangement is provided and includes a first component, a second component, a press-on element, and an actuating unit, such that the second component can be displaced from a first position to a second position. The actuating unit includes an actuator and a lever rotatably mounted in the second component about an axis of rotation perpendicular to a longitudinal axis and having a contact surface to contact a fixed mating surface. The contact surface and/or the mating surface has a convex curvature, and the actuator and the lever cooperate such that the movement of the actuator along the longitudinal axis is converted into movement of the lever on the mating surface, and such that the second component is displaced along the longitudinal axis in the second position.
US11739798B2
The disclosure relates to a claw coupling for interlockingly connecting a first rotatable component to a second rotatable component, wherein a sliding sleeve is non-rotatably and axially slidably arranged on the first rotatable component and a coupling body is non-rotatably arranged on the second rotatable component, the sliding sleeve being axially movable for interlocking connection to the coupling body in order to connect the first component to the second component, at least one spring-loaded shifting ring being movably mounted, non-rotatably and axially relative to the sliding sleeve, on the sliding sleeve, and a damping chamber, formed in dependence on the relative motion, is provided in order to delay the axial motion. The disclosure further relates to an electrical drive axle of a vehicle having at least the claw coupling. In addition, the disclosure relates to a method for interlockingly connecting the first rotatable component to the second rotatable component via a claw coupling.
US11739791B2
A ball joint and a dust cover in which a stable sealing function can be provided even when a space for disposing the dust cover is small are provided. The dust cover includes a deformable body portion, a fixed portion which is provided on one end side of the body portion and is fixed to a socket, and a seal portion provided on the other end side of the body portion. The seal portion has a main seal part which is provided to be slidable relative to a spherical portion side flange and an opposite side flange while sandwiched therebetween. The maximum length of the main seal part in a central axis direction in a state in which no external force is applied thereto is longer than a distance between opposing surfaces of the spherical portion side flange and the opposite side flange, where the central axis direction is a direction in which a central axis of the dust cover extends in a state in which no external force is applied thereto.
US11739783B2
A fastener includes a shank having a first end and a second end defining a length. The fastener includes a thread provided on the shank, the thread including a first region adjacent to the first end and a second region between the first region and a head at the second end, the thread includes a leading edge and a trailing edge, each edge forming an angle with a surface of the shank, the leading edge forming a non-normal angle with the surface of the shank and the trailing edge forming an angle about normal to the surface of the shank. The fastener may include an arcuate detent region in the shank between respective turns of the thread, the detent region having a length, the length decreasing from the first end toward the second end between the respective turns. The fastener may include a plurality of flutes positioned along a length of the shank.
US11739781B2
A cap for a temporary fastener comprises a hollow, cup-shaped body and an inwardly tapered neck. The hollow body fits over a workpiece-engaging portion of the temporary fastener, and the neck extends from the hollow body. The tapered neck terminates in a hollow tip that is sized and configured to fit over aligned holes in the joined workpieces and to contact a minimal surface area of the outermost workpiece to reduce surface damage to the workpieces such that any damage will be removed when the holes are countersunk in the normal course of assembly.
US11739777B2
A method of assembly includes forming a first member to include a plurality of elastically deformable locating protrusions extending outward from an exterior surface of the first member. A locating protrusion is an elongate member having an arcuate portion, a first linear leg portion extending from a first arc end, and a second leg portion extending from a second arc end. The method additionally includes forming a second member to include a plurality of elastically deformable compression features. The locating protrusions are inserted in press fit engagement with the plurality of compression features such that the first member and the second member are secured relative to each other and the average of the elastic deformation between all of the plurality of locating protrusions and all of the plurality of compression features precisely aligns the first member relative to the second member.
US11739772B2
A redundant valve manifold system includes at least two automatic valves coupled to one another and at least two automatic isolation valves each corresponding to one of the at least two automatic valves. Each of at least two automatic isolation valves is operatively coupled to one of the at least two automatic valves and isolates the one of the at least two automatic valves when the one of the at least two automatic valves is removed from the system to deliver media to an outlet.
US11739768B2
A fan includes a frame member, a fan body, a surrounding plate and a housing unit. The frame member surrounds an axis and defines an accommodating space in which the fan body is disposed. The fan body is rotatable about the axis. The surrounding plate surrounds the frame member and is formed with at least one plate hole extending in a transverse direction transverse to an axial direction of the axis therethrough. The housing unit surrounds the surrounding plate and has a plurality of housing holes extending in the axial direction of the axis therethrough. The housing unit and the surrounding plate cooperatively define a surrounding space therebetween that is surrounded by the housing holes.
US11739750B2
An internal gear pump comprising: a ring with internal teeth delimiting a cavity and a gear disposed in the cavity, the gear comprising external teeth cooperating with the internal teeth to drive the ring in rotation, remarkable in that it comprises a pinion disposed in the cavity and driving the gear in rotation. The pinion cooperates with the external toothing of the gear. In an alternative embodiment, the gear comprises an internal toothing which cooperates with the pinion.
US11739733B2
New down-wind horizontal axis turbine (DWHAT) systems or apparatus and methods for making and using same, wherein the DWHAT systems or apparatus include a base structure, a tower assembly or a derrick assembly anchored to the base structure, a drive assembly, a sail assembly, and a generator assembly, wherein the sails of the sail assembly are configured to catch wind downwind of the apparatuses or systems and wherein the drive assembly converts horizontal rotation of the horizontal shaft into vertical rotation of the vertical shaft that turns the generator generating electrical power that is transmitted to a power grid.
US11739732B2
An off-shore wind turbine system is assembled using a platform or jack-up vessel, and a first base anchored to the seafloor at a bade assembly off-shore location. A buoyant tower is attached to the first base. A crane provided on the platform or jack-up vessel is used to lift blades and blades, which are then coupled to a turbine held in a nacelle provided at the top of the buoyant tower. The buoyant tower, the nacelle, and the blades are detached from the first base. The buoyant tower, the nacelle, and the blades are towed to a wind farm and connected to a second base provided in the wind farm. The buoyant tower, the nacelle, and the blades are further stabilized using mooring lines spanning between the buoyant towers and other bases provided in the wind farm. The first base and/or the second base include anti-rotation features.
US11739723B1
Implementations of a system for interrupting ignition may include a first spark plug terminal coupled with a first internal contact, the first internal contact extending into a housing; a second spark plug terminal coupled with a second internal contact, the second internal contact extending into the housing; a contactor biased against the first internal contact and the second internal contact; a plunger coupled with a solenoid coupled within the housing; a battery coupled with the solenoid; and a temperature sensor coupled with the battery and the solenoid.
US11739714B2
Electrical propulsion systems and related methods are generally described. In some embodiments, an electrical propulsion system may include an electrically-actuated valve to selectively permit flow of propellant from a reservoir tank to a thruster. The valve may physically isolate the propellant from the thruster when inactivated, exhibiting a non-wetting surface which may inhibit propellant from passing through the valve towards the thrusters. In some embodiments, a valve may be activated through application of a voltage potential to the valve relative to the propellant, which may change the wettability of the valve, permitting propellant to wet and subsequently pass through the valve. The voltage potential may be adjusted to vary the wettability of the valve, resulting in the valve effectively regulating propellant flow rate. The valve may include a conductive layer, a dielectric or insulating layer, and a non-wetting layer to enhance the non-wetting behavior of the valve.
US11739713B2
Disclosed is a method of repairing a rear cone segment erosion coating including removing a portion of an existing fluoroelastomer coating from a rear cone segment to form a repair area; forming a cured replacement erosion coating corresponding to the repair area, wherein the cured replacement erosion coating has a layer of fluoroelastomer and a layer of fibrous reinforcement; preparing the repair area and the cured replacement erosion coating for adhesion; locating the prepared cured replacement erosion coating on the prepared repair area; and adhering the prepared cured replacement erosion coating to the prepared repair area. Also disclosed is a cured replacement erosion coating and a repaired inlet nose cone.
US11739710B2
Aspects of the present invention relate to a controller (104) and method (400) for controlling operation of an internal combustion engine (101). The controller (104) is configured to: receive a first request signal indicative of a request to stop fuel being supplied to the engine (101), and cause an intake valve (301) of a cylinder (103) of the internal combustion engine (101) to remain closed during the current revolution of the internal combustion engine (101) and revolutions of the internal combustion engine (101) immediately following the current revolution of the internal combustion engine (101) in dependence on at least one of: the intake valve (301) being closed at the time of receiving the first request signal; or a next opening of the intake valve having not been scheduled. The controller (104) is also configured to cause injection of fuel into the cylinder (103) and subsequently cause the intake valve (301) to remain closed during revolutions of the internal combustion engine (101) immediately following a next closing of the intake valve (301), in dependence on at least one of: the intake valve (301) being open at the time of receiving the first request signal; and a next opening of the intake valve (301) having already been scheduled at the time of receiving the first request signal and said next opening of the intake valve (301) is to be performed.
US11739702B2
A residual gas ignitor for use in igniting a fuel-air mixture within a main combustion chamber of an engine. The residual gas ignitor includes at least one inlet/outlet port, a residual gas ignitor chamber for receiving a combustion gas from the main combustion chamber, an ignitor valve for opening and closing the at least one inlet/outlet port, an actuator for actuating the ignitor valve to open and close the at least one inlet/outlet port, a valve guide for keeping the ignitor valve in a correct orientation within the residual gas ignitor, a preload spring for being in compression when the actuator disposes the ignitor valve into the closed position, and a heating element for maintaining or increasing a temperature of the combustion gas while the combustion gas is in the residual gas ignitor chamber. The residual gas ignitor may be used in engines for initiating combustion of fuel-air mixtures.
US11739700B2
An aircraft propulsion system includes a hydrocarbon fuel store, a hydrogen fuel store, an engine system capable of producing thrust by combusting hydrocarbon fuel and/or combusting or oxidising hydrogen fuel, a conveying system to convey hydrocarbon and hydrogen fuel from the fuel stores to the engine system and a control system to control the respective flow rates of the fuel within the conveying system. The control system adapts the fractions of the total fuel energy flow rate to the engine system represented by the hydrocarbon and hydrogen fuel energy flow rates in order to reduce climate warming impact caused by at least one of carbon dioxide, water vapour and condensation trails and/or increase climate cooling impact caused by condensation trails produced by the aircraft propulsion system compared to a dual-fuel propulsion system in which a reserve of hydrocarbon fuel is entirely combusted before any of a reserve of hydrogen fuel.
US11739691B2
A combustion engine component is disclosed. The combustion engine component comprises a body that includes a first surface in operative thermal communication with a hot combustion gas, and a second surface in operative fluid communication with a cooling fluid. Also, as disclosed in greater detail below, the second surface includes a first surface contour feature configured to increase a contact angle of a liquid on the second surface.
US11739690B2
A turbine engine has: a compressor; a combustor; a turbine, a gas flowpath passing consecutively through the compressor, combustor, and turbine; and inlet member along the gas flowpath upstream of the compressor. The inlet member includes the unitarily-formed single piece combination of: a three dimensional (3D) lattice portion; and a nose cap body surrounding the lattice portion.
US11739682B2
A split-cycle internal combustion engine is provided with an engine block and an expansion section having a plurality of expansion cylinders and a rotating drive shaft, which is supported by a first portion of the engine block and is operated by the expansion cylinders; the engine is further provided with a compression section having a volumetric compressor with a rotating driven shaft, which is supported by a second portion of the engine block and is distinct and spaced apart from the rotating drive shaft; the volumetric compressor has at least one compression cylinder extending along an axis, which is inclined relative to the axes of the expansion cylinders so as to form an angle.
US11739671B2
A method of providing a heating cycle for an after-treatment system is described. The method comprises initiating a pre-charge cycle of a DCDC converter and determining a temperature of the after-treatment system. In response to determining the temperature of the after-treatment system is below a threshold temperature and the pre-charge is complete, the method further comprises operating a solid-state switch to electrically connect a high voltage power source to a heating element to of the after-treatment system, and heating the after-treatment system with the heating element until the after-treatment system reaches the threshold temperature.
US11739667B2
An engine valve actuating apparatus includes a housing that contains an activation piston bore and an actuation piston bore. The activation piston is disposed in the activation piston bore and configured to actuate an engine valve. The actuation piston includes at least one side surface that is in sliding contact with the inner surface of the actuation piston bore so that the actuation piston can slide within the actuation piston bore. The actuation piston also has a guide mechanism, which guides the first and second links to move in a plane between the first position and the second position. At least a part of the guide mechanism is below at least a part of the at least one side surface of the actuation piston.
US11739661B2
A turbine engine strut stage extends through a gaspath upstream of a guide vane stage. A carbon seal system seals a bearing compartment and has: a carbon seal mounted to the case and a seal runner on the spool; and a seal carrier carrying the carbon seal. The engine passes buffer air along a buffer air supply path internally through one or more first struts of the stage of struts. The engine drains oil along an oil drain path internally through one or more second struts of the stage of struts.
US11739657B2
A method of manufacturing a substrate (16) with a ceramic thermal barrier coating (28, 32). The interface between layers of the coating contains an engineered surface roughness (12, 24) to enhance the mechanical integrity of the bond there between. The surface roughness is formed in a surface of a mold (10,20) and is infused by a subsequently cast layer of material (16, 28). The substrate may be partially sintered (76) prior to application of the coating layer(s) and the coated substrate and coating layer(s) may be co-sintered to form a fully coherent strain-free interlayer.
US11739654B2
A compressor according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a rotor configured to rotate with respect to a stator, the stator having an abradable portion. At least one labyrinth seal is between the rotor and the stator, wherein the labyrinth seal comprises a plurality of teeth extending from the rotor toward the abradable portion.
US11739651B2
A nozzle ring for a radial turbine includes a disc-shaped main body having a central opening for passing a shaft therethrough. Additionally, the nozzle ring includes guide vanes disposed circumferentially in a radially outer portion on a first surface of the main body. Two or more bores are provided in a radially inner portion of the main body. Further, a groove is provided in the first surface of the main body, the groove connecting at least two of the two or more bores.
US11739646B1
A ball for a ball-chute in a turbine component, the turbine component, and a method of using the ball, are provided. A ball may include a ball body made of a pre-sintered preform (PSP) material. The ball body has an opening defined therethrough having a first cross-sectional area. A hollow member is fixed within the opening defined through the ball body. The hollow member has a second cross-sectional area smaller than the first cross-sectional area of the opening, and is made of a material having a melt temperature higher than a melt temperature of the PSP material. The method includes positioning the ball and brazing the ball in place. The hollow member maintains fluid communication through the ball after the brazing, and allows customized metering of the coolant flow therethrough.
US11739640B2
A hose for use with a blower and an underground vault. The hose surviving an explosion initiated inside the underground vault. The hose is blast-resistant, arc-flash-resistant, and fire-resistant. A first end of the hose is connectable to the blower and configured to receive fresh air from the blower when connected thereto. The hose conducts the fresh air to a second end of the hose. The second end is positionable inside the underground vault wherein the fresh air provides sufficient breathable air to any personnel present in the underground vault.
US11739639B2
A composite support structure, a construction system, and a method, the composite support structure includes a plurality of arc plate rings that are longitudinally arranged along a roadway. A concrete fill steel tube support is arranged on an inner side or an outer side of each arc plate ring. The arc plate ring is formed by splicing a plurality of arc plates. Each concrete fill steel tube support is formed by splicing a plurality of steel pipe sections. The arc plate rings and the concrete fill steel tube supports are capable of jointly supporting walls of the roadway. The support structure has high bearing capability, high construction efficiency of a construction system, and low labor intensity.
US11739628B2
Methods of determining the integrity of a well are provided. The methods include mixing conductive materials into a fluid, introducing the fluid into the well, and allowing the conductive materials to coat a surface of a subsurface formation, thereby forming an electrically conductive data conduit coating. The methods further include transmitting data through the electrically conductive data conduit coating to determine the integrity of the well.
US11739621B2
System, methods, and devices for simultaneously fracturing a target formation and an adjacent secondary formation are disclosed. The simultaneous fracturing operations interfere with each other to form in-situ dynamic barriers. The in-situ barriers prevent acid from the fracturing treatment in the target formation from invading the secondary formation and, in some instances, sealing formation rock at the location of the in-situ barrier to prevent or reduce water movement from the secondary formation into the primary formation.
US11739619B2
An electric submersible pump (ESP) electric motor. The ESP electric motor comprises a housing; a stator retained within the housing; a drive shaft; and an at least one rotor mechanically coupled to the drive shaft and located concentric with and inside of the stator, wherein an inside surface of the stator defines a groove extending from an upper end to a lower end of the stator, an outside surface of the at least one rotor defines a groove extending from an upper end to a lower end of the at least one rotor, an inside surface of the at least one rotor defines a groove extending from an upper end to a lower end of the at least one rotor, or an outside surface of the drive shaft defines a groove extending from below an male splines at an upper end to a lower end of the drive shaft.
US11739616B1
A downhole tool includes a housing configured to couple to a downhole conveyance; a laser tool positioned in the housing and configured to transmit a laser beam sufficient to form a tunnel in a subterranean formation; a chamber positioned in the housing and configured to enclose a shaped members that include at least two laser reflective surfaces; and a perforating head coupled to the housing. The perforating head includes an optical pathway formed to receive the laser beam from the laser tool and output the laser beam toward the subterranean formation through an outlet of the perforating head; and at least one conduit separate from the optical pathway and configured to receive the shaped members from the chamber and output the shaped members through the outlet of the perforating head.
US11739614B2
A method of preventive well maintenance with pumping equipment in the well for well rehabilitation using CO2 with varying lengths of producing intervals utilizing varying methods to deliver cleaning energy and varying porosity of aquifers to determine varying quantities of energy over the entire well structure.
US11739594B2
The disclosure is related to methods for testing and/or validating drill pipe and threaded and coupled connectors for use in subsea intervention system riser applications (open-water and through-riser). The methods are novel applications for testing and/or validating drill pipe and threaded and coupled connections that conform to Annex E of API 17G.
US11739588B2
Provided herein is a security door system having a door that includes a door frame comprising elongate door frame members, each having a first holding channel formed therein, and a clamping portion spaced from the first holding channel. The door further includes a mesh covering an opening enclosed by the frame. In addition to the above, the security door system includes a wall frame comprising elongate wall frame members operably coupled to the door frame by one or more hinge members, the hinge members facilitating pivotable movement of the door between open and closed positions and one or a plurality of security members configured to prevent or inhibit levering of the door relative to the wall frame.
US11739586B2
A door assembly includes a doorframe, an insulated glazing unit (IGU), door skins, and a gas passageway. The IGU includes a substantially sealed IGU cavity and a hole communicating with the IGU cavity. The door skins are secured to opposite sides of the doorframe and have openings between which the IGU is provided. The gas passageway provides gas communication between the IGU cavity and the atmosphere outside of the door assembly. The gas passageway contains a gas passage conduit that includes a first end communicating with the IGU cavity through the hole and a second end communicating with atmosphere outside of the door assembly. The gas passageway may contain a gas passage conduit having a first end communicating with the IGU cavity through the first hole and a second end communicating with an air pocket, and a channel connects the air pocket with atmosphere outside of the door assembly.
US11739581B2
A window regulator includes a carrier plate to support a window glass of a vehicle, a guide rail along an ascending/descending direction of the window glass to slidably support the carrier plate, a wire to pull the carrier plate, a driving portion arranged at one end of the guide rail in the ascending/descending direction to drive the wire, and a turnaround portion arranged at an other end of the guide rail in the ascending/descending direction to turn the wire around. The wire arranged between the turnaround portion and the carrier plate is positioned shifted from the guide rail. The wire arranged between the driving portion and the turnaround portion is positioned on the guide rail to push and contact the guide rail.
US11739580B2
A hinge arrangement having a first hinge part and having a second hinge part, which are connected to one another such that they can pivot, a first hinge pin being formed on the first hinge part, on which a first hinge sleeve is pivotably mounted, which forms a first sliding bearing with the first hinge pin, a dimensionally stable support part being connected to the first hinge sleeve. A first axial protrusion is formed on a first axial end face of the first hinge pin, which engages in an arcuate first groove of the first hinge sleeve, wherein a circumferential first side wall of the first groove together with the first axial end face and an inner side of an end cover fixed at the end of the first hinge sleeve delimits a working space which is filled with a damping fluid for damping a relative movement of the first axial protrusion with respect to the first groove.
US11739576B2
A magnetic latch for fastening a closure member to a support. The magnetic latch comprises a latch bolt assembly having: an elongated frame (32); a latch bolt moveable between a latching position and a retracted position; a latch bolt operating mechanism having a driving part (36) which is moveable between a rest position and an actuated position; and a locking mechanism to lock the driving part in its rest position. The locking mechanism comprises: a key actuated cylinder (51) having a rotary driving bit (52) and a locking member (54, 59, 61) mounted on the frame and moveable between an unlocking position in which the driving part is moveable, and a locking position in which, when the driving part is in its rest position, it locks the driving part in its rest position, the rotary driving bit being arranged to engage the locking member.
US11739569B2
An isolation system for an electric motor of an actuatable mechanism is provided. The system includes a primary motor driving circuit and a secondary motor driving circuit each coupled to the electric motor. The secondary motor driving circuit is coupled to an external motor controller configured to provide a secondary driving signal to the secondary motor driving circuit. A primary controller is coupled to the primary motor driving circuit and configured to monitor the secondary driving signal and control the primary motor driving circuit. An isolation logic unit is coupled to the primary and secondary motor driving circuits and the primary controller and the external motor controller. The isolation logic unit is configured to isolate the primary motor driving circuit from the secondary motor driving circuit in response to the external motor controller providing the secondary driving signal to the secondary motor driving circuit.
US11739562B2
An exemplary clutch mechanism includes a casing, first and second hubs rotatably mounted to the casing, an electrically-actuated drive assembly mounted within the casing, and a clutching lug movably mounted within the casing. The lug has an engaged position in which the lug couples the hubs for joint rotation and a disengaged position in which the hubs are rotationally decoupled. The drive assembly is operable to drive the lug between the engaged and disengaged positions to couple and decouple the hubs. The clutch mechanism is modular and self-contained within the casing such that the mechanism can be installed to each of a plurality of different lockset products without opening the casing.
US11739559B2
There is disclosed an exit trim that permits simplified changing of the handing of a lever handle between a left hand and a right hand orientation. The handing orientation of the lever handle can be repositioned without disassembling the exit trim or removing components positioned within the exit trim.
US11739550B2
A water treatment insert for a pool skimmer system includes a chemical treatment portion separated from a mechanical filtration portion. The treatment device includes an upper portion and a lower portion. The upper section can include a vertical wall or walls, which should be substantially watertight so that substantially all the water entering the pool skimmer flows through the upper portion, and then into the lower section. The entire device is preferably received in the filter basket receiving section of a conventional pool skimmer, in place of the conventional filter basket. One of the upper and lower sections provides mechanical filtration and the other chemical treatment, to enhance the water treatment function of the skimmer.
US11739548B2
A structural support system for a spa can include: a vertical support comprising a first portion and a second portion and a first side and a second side, wherein the first portion is comprised of a plurality of shaped openings being open on the first side and wherein the second portion is comprised of a plurality of shaped openings being open on the second side; a channel bracket, the channel bracket comprising a shaped boss on a first side and a first groove formed in a second side, wherein channel bracket further comprises a second groove formed in a third side, the third side being opposite the second side; and a spa panel retention member, the spa panel retention member comprising a projection to mate in the first groove of the channel bracket.
US11739545B2
A formwork system (100) includes a rebate board (105) having a generally L shaped profile in end view, the rebate board (105) having a first arm (110) and a second arm (120), the first and second arms (120) being angled at about 90 degrees relative to each other, the second arm (120) being securable to an upper portion of a formwork bottom board (200). The system (100) includes a brace (400) having a first engagement formation (410) configured to engage with the first arm (110), and a second engagement formation (435) configured to engage with a peg (220) or other fixed member.
US11739539B2
A floor board including a decorative surface layer applied to a substrate, where the substrate has MDF or HDF material at a side edge thereof, where the side edge is treated both with an impregnation agent and/or a sealing agent based on a superabsorbing material. Also a method for manufacturing such floor boards.
US11739503B2
A hydraulic excavator is provided which makes it possible to allow an operator to surely recognize an alarm that notifies the operator of non-wearing of a seatbelt even when a work is performed in a situation in which a moving object is present around the machine. A controller outputs, when a moving object is detected and wearing of a seatbelt is detected by a seatbelt detection device, a first alarm through a notification device, outputs, when the moving object is not detected and non-wearing of the seatbelt is detected by the seatbelt detection device, a second alarm through the notification device, and outputs, when the moving object is detected and non-wearing of the seatbelt is detected by the seatbelt detection device, the second alarm preferentially over the first alarm through the notification device.
US11739500B2
A machine control system controls operation of any one of a plurality of interchangeable power sources mounted on a machine. The machine includes an undercarriage supporting ground engagement members that propel the machine and an upper structure rotatably supported on the undercarriage. The upper structure includes a swing frame that supports an operator cab, an interchangeable power source, hydraulic components, and electrical components. A processor processes inputs, outputs and operating characteristics specific to each of the plurality of power sources, and standardizes the power output by each of the power sources to provide a normalized, consistent control and operation of systems of the machine regardless of which of the power sources is mounted on the machine.
US11739497B2
An amphibious platform vehicle-vessel to support and to move hydraulically operated and controlled earth-moving and lifting equipment, such as excavators and cranes, on solid ground, semi-solid or marshy ground, shallow water, and deeper water. The modular units can be transported to a worksite on separate trailers and assembled and reconfigured on site. Two compartmented pontoon units are mounted to an adaptive cross member that can accommodate different types of moving-lifting equipment through different mounting flanges, and to auxiliary cross members. Propulsion is provided through amphibious cleats on drive chains in chain tracks driven by dual-motor driving drums and over a tension-adjusting passive chain roller, surrounding a sealed pontoon shell internally reinforced with bulkhead partitions, beam shell-bottom stiffeners, and pressed-angle shell-bottom stiffeners. An extendable auxiliary float can be extended outward from each compartmented pontoon for increased stability in floating operations.
US11739481B2
A pavement breaker has a housing, a hammer mechanism mounted within the housing, and at least one handle moveably mounted on the housing. The handle(s) can move in a vertical direction when the pavement breaker is orientated in its normal operation orientation. A sensor is mounted within the housing for detecting when the handle(s) is moved towards or at its uppermost position. If the sensor detects such handle position, the hammer mechanism is deactivated.
US11739479B2
A method for creping paper includes applying an adhesive composition to an outer surface of a creping cylinder (Yankee cylinder) to form an adhesive coating, contacting paper with the adhesive coating, removing the paper and adhesive coating from the creping cylinder, and determining a quality of the adhesive coating. Determining the quality of the adhesive coating may include measuring a degree of cross-linking of the adhesive polymer, a concentration of the adhesive polymer in the adhesive coating, a water content of the adhesive coating, an ash content of the adhesive coating, or combinations thereof. Determining the quality of the adhesive coating may also include determining a thickness of the adhesive coating by measuring light absorbed by the coating and calculating the thickness using Beer's Law. Systems and apparatuses for determining the quality of the adhesive coating and for creping paper are also disclosed.
US11739473B2
A clothes treatment apparatus includes a cabinet defining a treatment chamber configured to accommodate hanging clothes and a cycle chamber configured to house machinery, the cycle chamber being positioned vertically below the treatment chamber. The clothes treatment apparatus also includes a partition plate that partitions the treatment chamber from the cycle chamber, a door configured to open and close the cabinet, a door liner disposed at an inside of the door and configured to guide condensed water generated in the treatment chamber to an upper side of the partition plate, a condensed water guide member disposed at the partition plate and configured to guide the condensed water from the door liner into the treatment chamber.
US11739464B2
An artificial intelligence apparatus determines whether a washing option in a washing course according to the input of a user is changed when input of the user is received, and collect use history information when the washing option is changed. In addition, the artificial intelligence apparatus inputs the collected use history information to an option resetting model to acquire a second washing option for resetting the washing course, and resets the washing option included in the washing course according to the second washing option.
US11739463B2
A washing machine appliance includes a wash basket that is rotatably mounted within a wash tub and that defines a wash chamber for receiving a load of clothes. A camera assembly is mounted within the wash tub for taking images of the load of clothes during and/or after a wash or rinse cycle. A controller is operably coupled to the camera for obtaining and analyzing the images using a neural network image recognition process (such as an R-CNN process) to determine a whether the level of suds or bubbles exceeds a suds threshold. If there are too many suds in the wash tub, the controller may implement corrective action, e.g., by decreasing a water temperature, adding more water, or reducing the amount of detergent that is auto-dispensed in a subsequent wash cycle.
US11739459B2
Provided is a laundry treatment machine including a washing tub, a washing tub motor configured to rotate the washing tub, a drain pump configured to operate to drain the washing tub, a motor configured to operate the drain pump, a converter configured to output DC power, an inverter configured to convert the DC power, a dc terminal voltage detector configured to detect a dc terminal voltage output from the converter, and a controller configured to, when the dc terminal voltage continuously drops during a first period based on an operation of the inverter, perform control to turn off the inverter and operate the converter after the first period. Accordingly, it is possible to stably drive based on the dc terminal voltage during the operation of the drain pump.
US11739453B2
Provided is a method for preparing sewing guide patterns suitable for constructing groups of patchwork components used in quilting. A rectangular sewing guide outer perimeter exactly includes either two or four congruent instances of rectangular, right-angle triangle or isosceles triangle patchwork components. A nested series of additional sewing guide elements are placed inside the rectangle where the points of each element are placed at the midpoints of the sides of the previous element. The number of elements is selected in consideration of aesthetic objectives. Final sewing guide patterns are prepared by adding a space equal to two times a seam allowance between each of the shared sides of the contiguous instances of the patchwork components in the rectangle and added elements. The pattern is suitable for assembling a plurality of patchwork components by methods known in the art as foundation piecing. The components are released by cutting between the added spaces.
US11739446B2
A piezoelectric thread that includes a core thread; and a piezoelectric film wound around the core thread. The piezoelectric thread is constructed to generate a charge by energy imparted from outside of the piezoelectric thread.
US11739443B2
Disclosed herein include systems, methods, compositions, and kits for determining the expression of highly expressed proteins and lowly expressed proteins. In some embodiments, primers allowing generation of separate libraries for abundant AbSeq protein profiling oligonucleotides and scarce AbSeq protein profiling oligonucleotides are provided.
US11739440B2
The present disclosure provides compositions, methods, systems, and devices for polynucleotide processing and analyte characterization from a single cell. Such polynucleotide processing may be useful for a variety of applications. The compositions, methods, systems, and devices disclosed herein generally describe barcoded oligonucleotides, which can be bound to a bead, such as a gel bead, useful for characterizing one or more analytes including, for example, protein (e.g., cell surface or intracellular proteins) and chromatin (e.g., accessible chromatin).
US11739439B2
A vacuum system for silicon crystal growth includes a silicon crystal growth chamber, a first vacuum pipe, a second vacuum pipe, and an oxides container. The first vacuum pipe is coupled to the chamber and has within a first brush that is movable in a first direction for removing internal oxides. The second vacuum pipe is coupled to the first vacuum pipe for receiving the internal oxides via the first brush and has within a second brush that is movable in a second direction different from the first direction. The second brush transports the received internal oxides away from the first vacuum pipe. The oxides container is coupled to the second vacuum pipe for receiving the internal oxides via the second brush.
US11739437B2
Methods for forming single crystal silicon ingots with improved resistivity control are disclosed. The methods involve growth of a sample rod. The sample rod may have a diameter less than the diameter of the product ingot. The sample rod is cropped to form a center slab. The resistivity of the center slab may be measured directly such as by a four-point probe. The sample rod or optionally the center slab may be annealed in a thermal donor kill cycle prior to measuring the resistivity, and the annealed rod or slab is irradiated with light in order to enhance the relaxation rate and enable more rapid resistivity measurement.
US11739435B2
[Object] To provide a single-crystal fiber production equipment and a single-crystal fiber production method that do not at all require high precision control necessary for a conventional single-crystal production equipment, can very easily maintain a stable steady state for a long time, and can stably produce a long single crystal fiber having a length of several hundreds of meters or more. [Solution] The single-crystal fiber production equipment is used to produce a single crystal fiber by irradiating an upper surface of a raw material rod with a laser beam within a chamber to form a melt, immersing a seed single crystal in the melt, and pulling the seed single crystal upward. The single-crystal fiber production equipment includes: a laser light source that emits the laser beam as a collimated beam; a pulling device configured to be upward and downward movable in a vertical direction with the seed single crystal held thereby; and a flat reflector that reflects the laser beam such that the reflected laser beam is incident vertically on the upper surface of the raw material rod. The upper surface of the raw material rod is irradiated with the laser beam such that the melt has a donut-shaped temperature distribution.
US11739423B2
An atomic layer deposition apparatus for coating particles is disclosed. The atomic layer deposition apparatus includes a vacuum chamber, a shaft sealing device, and a driving unit. The driving unit is connected to and drives the vacuum chamber to rotate through the shaft sealing device. The vacuum chamber includes a reaction space for accommodating a plurality of particles, wherein the reaction space has a polygonal columnar shape or a wavy circular columnar shape. An air extraction line and an air intake line are fluidly connected to the vacuum chamber, and the air intake line is used to transport a precursor gas and a non-reactive gas to the reaction space. Through the special shape of the reaction space together with the non-reactive gas, the particles in the reaction space can be effectively stirred to form a thin film with a uniform thickness on the surface of each particle.
US11739420B2
A deposition mask includes a metal mask body in which a deposition opening is defined; and a coating layer including aluminum oxynitride, on an outer surface of the metal mask body.
US11739415B2
A target for sputtering comprises SiZrxOy wherein x is higher than 0.02 but not higher than 5, and y is higher than 0.03 but not higher than 2*(1+x), wherein the target has an XRD pattern with silicon 2-theta peak at 28.29°+/−0.3°, or a tetragonal phase ZrO2 2-theta peak at 30.05°+/−0.3°. The target has a low resistivity, below 1000 ohm·cm, preferably below 100 ohm·cm, more preferably below 10 ohm·cm, even lower than 1 ohm·cm.
US11739411B2
Disclosed are embodiments for an engineered feature formed as a part of or on a chamber component. In one embodiment, a chamber component for a processing chamber includes a component part body having unitary monolithic construction. The component part body has an outer surface. An engineered complex surface is formed on the outer surface. The engineered complex surface has a first lattice framework formed from a plurality of first interconnected laths and a plurality of first openings are bounded by three or more laths of the plurality of laths.
US11739409B2
Apparatuses and methods for producing covetic materials by exciting a hydrocarbon gas with pulse microwaves to form hydrocarbon radicals in a hot first region of a microwave reactor. Graphene nanoplatelets are formed by the nucleation, growth and assembly of the hydrocarbon radicals, and contact a metal melt introduced downstream of the hot region to produce a mixture of molten metal and graphene nanoplatelets which assemble in-flight to form covetic materials. Graphene planes are infused in the metal matrix to achieve carbon loadings of at least 60%.
US11739406B2
According to an embodiment, the aluminum sheet material for a separator of a fuel cell is used for forming a separator applied to a fuel cell stack and comprises 9-10 wt % of Mg; and the balance of Al and inevitable impurities, wherein the aluminum sheet material has cube texture and an R-cube texture formed therein. An aluminum sheet material for a separator in a fuel cell retains a thickness of 0.5 mm or less and exhibits excellent yield strength and elongation, and a manufacturing method therefor.
US11739401B2
Provided is a black heart malleable cast iron and a method for manufacturing the same which can significantly shorten the time required for graphitization, as compared with the prior art. The black heart malleable cast iron includes a matrix of ferrite and lump graphite included in the matrix, and includes at least one selected from the group consisting of (i) 0.0050% by mass or more and 0.15% by mass or less of bismuth and 0.020% by mass or more of manganese, and (ii) 0.0050% by mass or more and 1.0% by mass or less of aluminum and 0.0050% by mass or more of nitrogen. In addition, the grain size of the matrix is 8.0 or more and 10.0 or less in terms of grain size number, numerically determined by comparison between a metallographic photograph of the matrix and a standard grain size chart.
US11739399B2
A method for manufacturing a high-quality aluminum casting includes preparing an aluminum alloy raw material including Si in an amount of 9-12 wt %, melting the raw material to prepare a molten metal, adding a refiner containing Ti, B, and Sr to the molten metal, injecting the molten metal into a casting apparatus to maintain the temperature of the molten metal added with the refiner at 585-610° C., and operating the casting apparatus to cast the injected molten metal into a product having a predetermined shape.
US11739397B2
Provided is a titanium copper foil which has required high strength when used as a spring, has an improved etching property, and has decreased settling, and which can be suitably used as a conductive spring material for use in electronic device parts such as autofocus camera modules. The titanium copper foil according to the present invention contains from 1.5 to 5.0% by mass of Ti, the balance being Cu and inevitable impurities, wherein in a Ti concentration curve obtained by analyzing a cross section parallel to a rolling direction along a thickness direction by STEM-EDX, a lower concentration Ti layer having a Ti concentration less than an average value of Ti concentrations in the Ti concentration curve and a higher concentration Ti layer having a Ti concentration equal to or higher than the average value of the Ti concentrations in the Ti concentration curve are alternately present in a thickness direction, and wherein the titanium copper foil satisfies 1.0% by mass≤HH≤30% by mass, and HH/HL≥1.1, in which HH and HL are as defined in the present specification.
US11739394B2
A process for a producing crude solder product and a copper product includes the steps of providing a black copper comprising >=50% wt of copper together with >=1.0% wt of tin and/or >=1.0% wt of lead, and refining a first portion of the black copper to obtain a refined copper product together with at least one copper refining slag. The process further includes the steps of recovering a first crude solder product from the copper refining slag, thereby forming a solder refining slag in equilibrium with the first crude solder product, and contacting a different portion of the black copper with the solder refining slag thereby forming a spent slag and a lead-tin based metal, followed by separating the spent slag from the lead-tin based metal.
US11739387B2
The disclosure provides methods and compositions, e.g., kits, for identifying or authenticating a sample, e.g., a tumor model, based on the genotype of the sample at a group of SNP loci.
US11739386B2
Methods and compositions are provided for determining whether an adenocarcinoma or squamous cell carcinoma patient is likely to respond to PARP inhibitor treatment. Specifically, a method of assessing whether a patient's adenocarcinoma (AD) lung cancer subtype is terminal respiratory unit (TRU), proximal inflammatory (PI), or proximal proliferative (PP) or a patient's squamous cell carcinoma (SQ) is primitive, classical, secretory or basal is provided herein. The method entails detecting the levels of classifier biomarkers at the nucleic acid level, in an AD or SQ lung cancer sample obtained from the patient. Based in part on the levels of the classifier biomarkers, the AD lung cancer sample is classified as a TRU, PI, or PP AD sample or the SQ lung cancer sample is classified as primitive, classical, secretory or basal and a determination of whether the patient is likely to respond to PARP inhibitor treatment can be made.
US11739372B2
A method for spatially tagging nucleic acids of a biological specimen, including steps of (a) providing a solid support comprising different nucleic acid probes that are randomly located on the solid support, wherein the different nucleic acid probes each includes a barcode sequence that differs from the barcode sequence of other randomly located probes on the solid support; (b) performing a nucleic acid detection reaction on the solid support to locate the barcode sequences on the solid support; (c) contacting a biological specimen with the solid support that has the randomly located probes; (d) hybridizing the randomly located probes to target nucleic acids from portions of the biological specimen; and (e) modifying the randomly located probes that are hybridized to the target nucleic acids, thereby producing modified probes that include the barcode sequences and a target specific modification, thereby spatially tagging the nucleic acids of the biological specimen.
US11739366B2
Methods are provided for detection of a target cell type within a cell population, and compositions are provided comprising cells and an indicator that indicates the number of cells of the target cell type in the cell population. Examples are provided in which these methods are used to detect human embryonic stem cells within a differentiated cell population with exquisite sensitivity. Differentiated cells produced from embryonic stem cells can be characterized by these methods before transplantation into a recipient, thereby providing further assurance of safety.
US11739359B2
A universal template strand built with universal base analogs is used as a template for polynucleotide synthesis. The universal template strand can hybridize to any sequence of nucleotides. A new polynucleotide is synthesized by using a polymerase to extend a primer hybridized to the universal template strand. Unlike primer extension in polymerase chain reactions, base pairing with nucleotides in the template strand does not specify the sequence of the new polynucleotide. Instead, the sequence of the new polynucleotide is specified by the order of addition of protected nucleotides. After addition of a single species of protected nucleotide, the blocking group is removed and another protected nucleotide is added. The order of nucleotide addition can be varied to create any sequence. After synthesis, the polynucleotide can be dehybridized from the universal template strand. The universal template strand may then be reused to synthesize a different polynucleotide.
US11739355B2
The present disclosure describes the engineering of microbial cells for fermentative production of histamine and provides novel engineered microbial cells and cultures, as well as related histamine production methods.
US11739354B2
Disclosed are methods, compositions, proteins, nucleic acids, cells, vectors, compounds, reagents, and systems for the preparation of kavalactones, flavokavains, and kavalactone and flavokavain biosynthetic intermediates using enzymes expressed in heterologous host cells, such as microorganisms or plants, or using in vitro enzymatic reactions. This invention also provides for the expression of the enzymes by recombinant cell lines and vectors. Furthermore, the enzymes can be components of constructs such as fusion proteins. The kavalactones produced can be utilized to treat anxiety disorder, insomnia, and other psychological and neurological disorders. The flavokavains produced can be utilized to treat various cancers including colon, bladder, and breast cancers.
US11739352B1
The present disclosure relates to methods and systems of fermenting that include, after the fermentable composition has been exposed to fermentations conditions to produce biochemical, exposing at least a portion of a fermentable composition to a disruption process to disrupt at least a portion of insoluble solid component. After the fermentable composition has been exposed to a disruption process, the fermentable composition can be exposed to fermentation conditions again to product biochemical.
US11739332B2
The present invention relates to oligomeric compounds and conjugates thereof that target Proprotein Convertase Subtilisin/Kexin type 9 (PCSK9) PCSK9 mRNA in a cell, leading to reduced expression of PCSK9. Reduction of PCSK9 expression is beneficial for a range of medical disorders, such as hypercholesterolemia and related disorders.
US11739326B2
The present subject matter provides compositions, formulations and methods for preventing or reducing proliferation or migration of retinal cells or epithelial to mesenchymal transition in ocular cells or cells from other tissues.
US11739324B2
The present invention relates to the field of medicine. In particular, it relates to novel antisense oligonucleotides that may be used in the treatment, prevention and/or delay of Stargardt disease
US11739318B1
Biosensors including a nucleic acid encoding a PcaU protein, a PobR protein, a CatM protein, a PcaR protein, or a TphR protein are provided. In some examples, the biosensors include a promoter regulated by the sensed molecule operably linked to a reporter gene. The biosensors may be included in a vector or in cells including one or more of the biosensors or vectors. Modified chorismate pyruvate lyase (UbiC) and modified paraoxonase (PON1) proteins including one or more amino acid substitutions are provided. Finally, methods of selecting biocatalysts with increased activity including transforming a library of cells expressing a biosensor with one or more nucleic acids encoding one or more mutations in a gene involved in a biosynthesis pathway, determining activity of the reporter protein; and selecting a cell with increased reporter protein activity as expressing a biocatalyst with increased activity are provided.
US11739315B2
The present invention, SMASH (Short Multiply Aggregated Sequence Homologies), is a technique designed to pack multiple independent mappings into every read. Specifically, the invention relates to a composition comprising a first mixture of different chimeric genomic nucleic acid fragments, wherein each different fragment in the mixture comprises randomly ligated DNA segments, wherein each DNA segment in the fragment is a nucleic acid molecule at least 27 base pairs in length resulting from random fragmentation of a single genome. The invention also relates to methods for generating said composition and use of said composition to obtain genomic information, for example, copy number variation.
US11739309B2
The present disclosure provides RNA-guided CRISPR-Cas effector proteins, nucleic acids encoding same, and compositions comprising same. The present disclosure provides ribonucleoprotein complexes comprising: an RNA-guided CRISPR-Cas effector protein of the present disclosure; and a guide RNA. The present disclosure provides methods of modifying a target nucleic acid, using an RNA-guided CRISPR-Cas effector protein of the present disclosure and a guide RNA. The present disclosure provides methods of modulating transcription of a target nucleic acid.
US11739304B2
The present invention concerns a production bacterial cell for producing lytic phage particles or lytic phage-derived delivery vehicles, said production bacterial cell stably comprising at least one phage structural genes and at least one phage DNA packaging genes, said phage structural gene(s) and phage DNA packaging gene(s) being derived from a lytic bacteriophage, wherein the expression of at least one of said phage structural genes and/or at least one of said phage DNA packaging gene(s) in said production bacterial cell is controlled by an induction mechanism.
US11739300B2
The present invention provides compositions and methods for reprogramming somatic cells using purified RNA preparations comprising single-strand mRNA encoding an iPS cell induction factor. The purified RNA preparations are preferably substantially free of RNA contaminant molecules that: i) would activate an immune response in the somatic cells, ii) would decrease expression of the single-stranded mRNA in the somatic cells, and/or iii) active RNA sensors in the somatic cells. In certain embodiments, the purified RNA preparations are substantially free of partial mRNAs, double-stranded RNAs, un-capped RNA molecules, and/or single-stranded run-on mRNAs.
US11739299B2
The present disclosure provides methods for generating lung progenitor cells, and populations of cells made using the methods. The lung progenitors and related compositions can be used as therapeutic treatments for various pulmonary disorders or related injuries.
US11739296B2
This document provides methods and materials for expanding antigen-specific T cells (e.g., antigen-specific CD4+ T cells and/or antigen-specific CD8+ T cells) in culture. For example, methods and materials for performing a polyclonal stimulation step for a particular duration (e.g., from about 1 hour to about 48 hours) to increase the expansion of T cells having a desired antigen specificity are provided.
US11739290B2
The present disclosure provides instruments, modules and methods for improved detection of edited cells following nucleic acid-guided nuclease genome editing. The disclosure provides improved automated instruments that perform methods—including high throughput methods—for screening cells that have been subjected to editing and identifying cells that have been properly edited.
US11739289B2
An impeller is usable in a variable diameter bioreactor having multiple vessel sections of successively increasing or decreasing volume. The impeller includes an impeller blade extending along an impeller blade axis between first and second axial ends and having opposed impeller blade faces, an impeller blade leading edge, and an impeller blade trailing edge. Each of the leading and trailing edges defines a helix or spiral between the axial ends of the impeller blade. In certain arrangements, the impeller blade is one of at least two impeller blades joined together along an impeller shaft extending axially along the impeller blade axis mentioned, and the helix or spiral has a pitch approximately equal to one half of a length between the first and second axial ends.
US11739286B2
The invention provides a polymer providing soil release properties (also termed a “soil release polymer” or SRP) when incorporated in a laundry detergent composition, the polymer comprising a capped polyoxyalkylene end block connected to a polyester segment; the polyester segment comprising alternating —B1-A-B2— and —R— units; in which B1 and B2 are each independently selected from —OC(O)— and —C(O)O— groups; A is a 2,5-furanylene ring and R is a divalent alkylene radical. The polymer provides good compatibility, stability and cleaning performance when incorporated into a laundry detergent composition, preferably a liquid laundry detergent composition, comprising one or more detersive surfactants.
US11739280B2
A lubricant additive includes a monoester carboxylic acid salt (A) represented by formula (1). In formula (1), R1 represents a single bond between carbon atoms of carbonyl groups, or a divalent hydrocarbon group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and R2 represents a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 22 carbon atoms. AO represents an oxyalkylene group of one type selected from oxyalkylene groups having 2 to 4 carbon atoms, or a mixed oxyalkylene group of two or more types selected from oxyalkylene groups having 2 to 4 carbon atoms, and n is an average number of added moles of the oxyalkylene group represented by AO and is 0 to 5. M represents organic ammonium.
US11739279B2
Provided is an initial break-in lubricant composition capable of easily and economically reducing the coefficient of friction of a sliding portion. The initial break-in lubricant composition includes an organic dispersion medium and nanocarbon particles in a quantity from 0.1 to 2000 ppm by mass. The nanocarbon particles are preferably particles of one or more nanocarbon material(s) selected from the group consisting of: nanodiamonds, fullerenes, graphene oxide, nanographite, carbon nanotubes, carbon nanofilaments, onion-like carbon, diamond-like carbon, amorphous carbon, carbon black, carbon nanohorns, and carbon nanocoils.
US11739262B2
A light-emitting device includes: a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; and an activation layer located between the first electrode and the second electrode and includes an emission layer and an auxiliary layer, wherein the auxiliary layer is located between the first electrode and the emission layer and includes a block copolymer, the block copolymer includes at least one hydrophilic block and at least one hydrophobic block, and the emission layer includes a perovskite structure.
US11739259B1
A method of stimulating a hydrocarbon-bearing formation may include generating a foamed fracturing fluid having a half-life of 160 to 300 min at 77° F. The foamed fracturing fluid may comprise a fluorosurfactant, a nanoparticle, and a gas phase. The method may then include introducing the foamed fracturing fluid into a hydrocarbon-bearing formation under a pressure greater than the fracturing pressure of the hydrocarbon-bearing formation to generate fractures in the hydrocarbon-bearing formation. Another method of stimulating a hydrocarbon-bearing formation may include introducing a foaming composition into the hydrocarbon-bearing formation under a pressure greater than fracturing pressure of the hydrocarbon-bearing formation to generate fractures in the hydrocarbon-bearing formation. The foaming composition may include a fluorosurfactant, a nanoparticle, and a gas phase. The method then may include generating a foam from the foaming composition inside the hydrocarbon-bearing formation. The foam may have a half-life of 160 to 300 min at 77° F.
US11739257B2
The present invention relates to a hydraulic fracturing fluid composition comprising a homogeneous non-aqueous organic phase mixture which mixture comprises a base fluid and one or more surfactants.
US11739240B2
Methods for upcycling crosslinked sodium polyacrylate to pressure sensitive adhesives via (a) mechanochemical chain-shortening and esterification or (b) esterifying with high conversion with a Fischer esterification process are disclosed. Also disclosed is a pressure sensitive adhesive prepared by the disclosed methods and articles comprising the pressure sensitive adhesive, including, but not limited to, pressure sensitive tape, a bandage, a label, note pads, a decal, a stamp, an envelope, a sticker, packaging, automobile trim, and a film.
US11739231B2
A printing treatment liquid composition which is to be adhered to a cloth, includes: a compound including a polyvalent carbodiimide group which has a carbodiimide group equivalent of 500 g/mol or less; and an aromatic carboxylic acid and/or its salt. According to the printing treatment liquid composition described above, a content of the compound including a polyvalent carbodiimide group with respect to a total mass of the treatment liquid composition is 1.0 to 35.0 percent by mass, a content of the aromatic carboxylic acid and/or its salt with respect to the total mass of the treatment liquid composition is 0.1 to 30.0 percent by mass, and the cloth contains fibers having hydroxy groups.
US11739219B2
Disclosed is a method for producing a carbon black pigment from a microbial biomass. In certain aspects, the method involves providing a microbial biomass solution with a plurality microbial cells in an aqueous solvent; nucleating the plurality of microbial cells by adding a first soluble ion to the microbial biomass solution; initiating crystal formation in and/or on the plurality of microbial cells by adding a second soluble ion to the microbial biomass solution, forming a plurality of crystal encrusted microbial cells, where the charge of the first soluble ion is the opposite of the charge of the second soluble ion and where the crystals are formed from precipitation of the first and second ions; and performing thermal processing of the plurality of crystal encrusted microbial cells to form a charred biomass; washing the charred biomass to form a microbechar.
US11739218B2
A solid polymer blend material comprising: (i) a lignin-acrylonitrile component containing a homogeneous blend of a lignin component and an acrylonitrile-containing rubber component; and (ii) a styrene-containing thermoplastic component that is non-elastomeric; wherein components (i) and (ii) are homogeneously dispersed in the polymer blend material. Methods for producing the blend material are also described. Methods for producing objects made of the blend material by melt extrusion are also described, comprising: (a) melt blending components (i) and (ii) to form a polymer blend in which components (i) and (ii) are homogeneously blended, wherein the polymer blend exhibits a melt viscosity of no more than 2000 Pa·s at a shear rate of 100-1000 s−1 and when heated to a temperature of no more than 240° C.; and (b) forming an object made of said polymer blend material.
US11739216B2
The present disclosure describes protein-based resin compositions. In particular, the compositions employ methacrylated or acrylated protein, a strengthening agent, a plasticizer, and an initiator. The protein-based resin compositions may be used for making solid articles that are biodegradable and possess a high degree of tensile strength and water resistance. Methods of preparing the biodegradable protein-based plastic articles are also disclosed.
US11739203B2
Polyolefin resin modifiers are provided that contain a nonionic surfactant, an organic sulfonate salt, and an inorganic salt. The organic sulfonate salt can be at least one selected from the group consisting of alkylsulfonic acid alkali metal salts whose alkyl group has 6 to 22 carbon atoms, alkylarylsulfonic acid alkali metal salts whose alkyl group has 6 to 22 carbon atoms, and sulfonic aliphatic ester alkali metal salts whose alkyl group has 6 to 22 carbon atoms. The inorganic salt can be at least one selected from the group consisting of sodium sulfate, potassium sulfate, calcium sulfate, lithium sulfate, sodium chloride, potassium chloride, lithium chloride, magnesium chloride, and calcium chloride.
US11739191B2
A system for continuously treating recycled polymeric material includes a hopper configured to feed the recycled polymeric material into the system. An extruder can turn the recycled polymeric material in a molten material. In some embodiments, the extruder uses thermal fluids, electric heaters, and/or a separate heater. The molten material is depolymerized in a reactor. In some embodiments, a catalyst is used to aid in depolymerizing the material. In certain embodiments, the catalyst is contained in a permeable container. The depolymerized molten material can then be cooled via a heat exchanger. In some embodiments, multiple reactors are used. In certain embodiments, these reactors are connected in series. In some embodiments, the reactor(s) contain removable static mixer(s) and/or removable annular inserts.
US11739190B2
Expanded poly(lactide) (PLA) beads are made by pressurizing PLA beads with carbon dioxide at approximately room temperature, heating the beads under pressure to 90 to 160 C to saturate and partially crystallize the beads, and then depressurizing and cooling the beads. The PLA beads contain a blend of PLLA and PDLA in certain ratios. The beads are useful for making expanded bead foam.
US11739188B2
A method for manufacturing a photoacoustic ultrasound generator includes forming an uncured prepolymer polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) film on a substrate, spraying a solution of light-absorbing nano-particles onto a surface of the uncured PDMS film, and then permeating and diffusing the light-absorbing nano-particles into the uncured PDMS film; and curing the uncured PDMS film containing the light-absorbing nano-particles distributed therein to form a composite film of nano-particles and PDMS.
US11739186B2
The invention discloses a preparation method of highly transparent self-adhesive PBAT cling film. The raw materials include PBAT, ACR, glycerin, and glycerin fatty acid ester; the preparation methods include mixing, preparing pellets, film blowing, and film winding. In the invention, ACR is added into PBAT resin, which increases the ductility, shrinkage property and flatness of winding of PBAT cling films; glycerin can improve the extrusion stability, softness and adhesion properties of PBAT cling films; glycerin fatty acid ester can improve the anti-fog property of PBAT cling films; meanwhile, glycerin and glycerin fatty acid can play a synergistic role to further enhance the anti-fog property of PBAT cling films. The PBAT cling film prepared by the invention has superior physical property, high transparency, high adhesion property, high shrinkage property, smooth flatness of winding free of wrinkles and good air permeability.
US11739181B2
This invention relates to a new polyester which is particularly suitable for use in the manufacture of mass-produced articles characterised by excellent mechanical properties, in particular high tensile strength and tensile modulus, associated with a high barrier property against oxygen and carbon dioxide.
US11739178B2
Disclosed herein are embodiments of a nanohoop-functionalized polymer and methods of making and using the same. In particular embodiments, polymer comprises one or more nanohoops that extend from the polymer backbone. Also disclosed herein are polymerizable nanohoop monomer embodiments that can be used to make the polymer embodiments disclosed herein.
US11739174B2
Cationic cyclic amine containing polymers and copolymers as well as novel lipids have been designed and synthesized for efficient delivery of nucleic acids to cells in biological systems, specifically for in vitro cell transfection research.
US11739173B2
Crosslinked polymers and related compositions, electrochemical cells, batteries, methods and systems
Crosslinked polymers and related compositions and related compositions, electrochemical cells, batteries, methods and systems are described. The crosslinked polymers have at least one redox active monomeric moiety having a redox potential of 0.5 V to 3.0 V with reference to Li/Li+ electrode potential under standard conditions or −2.54 V to −0.04 V vs. SHE and has a carbocyclic structure and at least one carbonyl group or a carboxyl group on the carbocyclic structure. The crosslinked polymers also include at least one comonomeric moiety with at least one of the at least one redox active monomeric moiety and/or the at least one comonomeric moiety has a denticity of three to six corresponding to a three to six connected network polymer, and provide stable, high capacity organic electrode materials.
US11739172B2
The composition includes an acrylic monomer having a carboxylic acid group, an acrylic monomer having a hydroxyl group, and a compound composed of divalent segments L and at least two X groups. The divalent segments L are represented by the formula Each divalent segment L is respectively directly bonded to two secondary N atoms, two tertiary N atoms, or a secondary and a tertiary N atom. Each R1 represents an alkylene group having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and at least some of the R1 groups are —CH2—CH2—CH2—CH2—. Each X group is independently represented by the formula CH2═C(R)—C(O)—O—V-W—C(O)—. The acrylic monomer having a carboxylic acid group is present in an amount of at least 20 percent by weight, based on the total weight of acrylic-functional compounds. Articles and a method of using the composition are also described.
US11739160B2
Binding proteins comprising a pseudoFab domain including a stabilised knockout domain and a second VH/VL that form a first functional antigen binding domain are provided. Multispecific binding proteins comprising at least one pseudoFab are also provided. Multispecific binding proteins, nucleic acids encoding binding proteins and multispecific binding proteins, expression vectors, host cells, pharmaceutical composition and methods of treatment administering the binding proteins or multispecific binding proteins described herein are also provided.
